The Charlie Kirk Show - Chaos at the Capitol

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00:01:51.000 Hey, everybody, we are back.

00:01:52.000 The Senate looks to be in recess, and it looks like the House is also kind of taking a little bit of a break.

00:01:58.000 There's some sort of disturbance right now.

00:02:00.000 A disturbance in the force?

00:02:01.000 Yeah, is this the bomb threat that was talked about?

00:02:04.000 I'm not sure.

00:02:05.000 We are seeing video clips that some folks have breached the Capitol's security parameters, which we do not support and we completely denounce and we think it's reprehensible.

00:02:16.000 I'm not sure what's going on here, though.

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00:02:28.000 Let's go back and see if we can hear anything from this kerfuffle on the House floor.

00:02:34.000 Representative Gosar was speaking.

00:02:36.000 They just cut him off.

00:02:37.000 There was some disruption that just happened.

00:02:39.000 I'm trying to figure out what's happening.

00:02:40.000 Yeah, they just cut him off.

00:02:42.000 Some people are saying there are bomb threats outside or people are storming the building.

00:02:46.000 We heard reports of bomb threats in the Capitol, in the Cannon office specifically, and they were escorting people out earlier.

00:02:55.000 I'm not sure what has happened with that.

00:02:57.000 So we're going to give you a bunch of people.

00:02:58.000 So both chambers seem to have recessed.

00:03:00.000 We're talking about possibly breaching of this, which obviously we do not support.

00:03:05.000 But when the left breaches the Capitol steps and all of that, then we're going to keep doing.

00:03:13.000 Sorry, I just said I was in the left does it.

00:03:15.000 They don't get in trouble at all.

00:03:16.000 So, Andrew, what are you looking at and what are we seeing here?

00:03:19.000 Yeah, so these protesters have breached the U.S. Capitol.

00:03:22.000 There's multiple videos that are coming up.

00:03:24.000 I'm not going to use the left's words.

00:03:25.000 If you're breaching the U.S. Capitol physically and violently, you're not a protester, okay?

00:03:29.000 And by the way, we don't even know if these people are conservatives or Trump supporters or what we don't know who these people are.

00:03:35.000 Okay, so before anyone starts to assign political blame on this entire situation.

00:03:40.000 Yeah, I mean, this, listen, if you guys are with people there, if you're in communication with folks there, tell them to stop this.

00:03:49.000 You know, this is they've, I guess they've breached security barriers.

00:03:52.000 There's been some confrontations with the security, the federal law enforcement that's surrounding the Capitol building.

00:04:00.000 I don't know that that's what's affecting this interruption with Representative Gosar right now.

00:04:06.000 But again, you know, this is not who we are.

00:04:10.000 This is not what the conservatives do.

00:04:14.000 This is often what we see on the left, and we all condemn it.

00:04:17.000 We have to be consistent.

00:04:18.000 We condemn this too.

00:04:20.000 I understand everybody's anger.

00:04:21.000 This is honestly what happens when you don't deal with objections that are fair, that are honest about the integrity of our elections.

00:04:30.000 So, on the one hand, I understand where people's passions are coming from.

00:04:33.000 On the other hand, this is unacceptable.

00:04:35.000 So, you know, there's some people saying, you know, revolution in process, not a drill.

00:04:41.000 You know, I don't know that I'm, I don't know what's going on.

00:04:44.000 Well, I'm doing it.

00:04:44.000 It's a small.

00:04:45.000 Whatever it is, I don't support it.

00:04:46.000 And what did Donald Trump Jr. tweet?

00:04:48.000 He said, this is wrong, and this is not who we are.

00:04:50.000 Be peaceful and use your First Amendment rights, but don't start acting like the other side.

00:04:55.000 Amen.

00:04:55.000 Yes, and amen.

00:04:58.000 Guys, get the heck out of there if you're in there.

00:05:00.000 By all means, get back out.

00:05:01.000 Stop acting like Antifa.

00:05:03.000 Yeah.

00:05:04.000 This is what the left does.

00:05:05.000 So it looks as if the Senate and the House, they look a little bit confused, quite honestly.

00:05:10.000 Just looks like the entire thing has gone.

00:05:13.000 The Senate stands in recess subject to the call of the chair.

00:05:16.000 What are we reading, Isabel, happening in real time?

00:05:18.000 We're hearing that there's some evacuations of several buildings up on Capitol Hill.

00:05:22.000 I'm not sure if that includes a lockdown of the Capitol building, where our members of the House and Senate currently are debating on the floor.

00:05:28.000 So still to be determined on that.

00:05:30.000 But it appears that a barrier outside has been torn down by protesters.

00:05:34.000 Fireworks are reported to be going off outside of the Capitol building.

00:05:37.000 If you're in the area, we've highly encouraged you guys to get the heck out of there.

00:05:41.000 This is not a great place to be, and it's certainly not representative of what we believe in as conservatives.

00:05:46.000 Not at all.

00:05:47.000 So we're going to keep on monitoring this as the House and the Senate.

00:05:51.000 I don't know.

00:05:52.000 I think this is directly correlated to some of the kerfuffle that's happening.

00:05:56.000 Yeah, I mean, I'm assuming that the chair is called a recess directly because the Capitol building has been breached by these folks.

00:06:05.000 Yeah.

00:06:05.000 So, and I frankly, I don't even associate it with this.

00:06:07.000 I understand, like I said, I understand the anger, and I think this is unfortunately what happens when you don't.

00:06:13.000 We warned against this.

00:06:15.000 When you don't allow the courts, when the courts don't take the case, when you've got the whole nation involved, when you've got multiple states suing other states, and they still don't take the case at the Supreme Court, a lot of this stuff could have been avoided.

00:06:28.000 But regardless of that, I just pray at this point no one gets seriously hurt or injured.

00:06:33.000 That has to be done.

00:06:34.000 We're also hearing from our team that Vice President Pence has been evacuated from the Capitol building at this point.

00:06:39.000 So it likely is correlated to a security breach there at the Capitol building.

00:06:44.000 Well, we're going to continue to monitor this and look at this.

00:06:48.000 And so as things continue to come in, what triggered all of this was the counting of the Arizona election results, which was being done thoughtfully and correctly.

00:06:59.000 And some people that have a different view on how to, I don't know.

00:07:05.000 They don't handle things correctly, resort to physical means, which is unfortunately not a thing.

00:07:12.000 Andrew, what's the update?

00:07:13.000 All right.

00:07:13.000 So.

00:07:14.000 And we're doing this live and we have sources on the ground.

00:07:16.000 So bear with us.

00:07:18.000 But apparently they found bombs at the RNC headquarters.

00:07:22.000 Pence, Vice President Pence, has been evacuated from the Capitol building.

00:07:26.000 And U.S. House and Senate sessions have ended.

00:07:29.000 It's ended.

00:07:29.000 Floors are being evacuated.

00:07:31.000 The live streams from those spaces have been terminated.

00:07:35.000 So I think it's safe to say, sum it up in a nutshell, all hell is breaking loose in D.C. today.

00:07:42.000 Which we do not support.

00:07:43.000 We do not support.

00:07:44.000 This is not how we behave.

00:07:46.000 But nevertheless, those are the ups.

00:07:47.000 And look, we don't know who these people are.

00:07:49.000 It could be Antifa being disguised as somebody else.

00:07:51.000 It could be people that call themselves Trump supporters but have never been given that label.

00:07:55.000 It's kind of this self-professed thing.

00:07:56.000 So we don't know who this is, but whoever it is, cut it out, stop it.

00:08:00.000 And if you are resorting to violence and you're doing this, you should be arrested for it.

00:08:05.000 It's that simple.

00:08:05.000 100%.

00:08:06.000 Lock them up.

00:08:07.000 It's that simple.

00:08:09.000 Unlike the left, we're not going to be shy in denouncing.

00:08:13.000 So we do have some people on the ground that are going to call in in real time.

00:08:16.000 And it looks like we are monitoring this in live.

00:08:21.000 What are we looking at, Isabel?

00:08:22.000 So it appears that that moment of confusion that we weren't really sure what happened a few minutes ago when we had a few people gaveled out in both the House and the Senate, that was because of the protesters breaching the Capitol.

00:08:33.000 Security entered the room and encouraged everyone to stay sheltered in place there in the Capitol building.

00:08:39.000 To my knowledge, the only person that's been evacuated from the Capitol has been Vice President Pence.

00:08:43.000 Everyone else is sort of in a shelter-in-place situation.

00:08:46.000 But several other buildings on Capitol Hill, mostly office buildings for our senators and representatives, have been evacuated.

00:08:52.000 Yeah.

00:08:53.000 This is warning about this, though.

00:08:56.000 I mean, you know, people, again, you can say two things and hold two truths at the same time and both can be true.

00:09:02.000 That's not allowed today.

00:09:03.000 You must only have one opinion.

00:09:05.000 This is wrong.

00:09:06.000 At the same time, all this anger has been bubbling up for a long time because people are not getting listened to.

00:09:12.000 There's one side in this country that owns 95% of the media and the airwaves.

00:09:17.000 And they haven't given any coverage to legitimate claims of voter fraud.

00:09:23.000 They always preface anything that anybody ever says with debunked conspiracies, that there's no proof, no, nothing.

00:09:32.000 So we do have some interesting video here of what's going on at the Capitol building.

00:09:36.000 Do we want to cut to this?

00:09:37.000 This is live or is this live?

00:09:41.000 Let's cut live to this, but let's keep our audio going so we can talk over it.

00:09:45.000 Tell me when it's on the screen.

00:09:47.000 It's a lot of people.

00:09:48.000 It's on the screen, okay.

00:09:50.000 So this looks to be a live shot of President Trump's supporters that have taken to the Capitol, which is, that's a lot of people.

00:09:59.000 It's a lot of people.

00:10:00.000 That's crazy.

00:10:02.000 And so I pray this remains peaceful and that every single person there has some sort of self-control to not act like violent terroristic leftists.

00:10:17.000 And look, we have been warning against this in a couple different ways.

00:10:20.000 When you see the fraud, you see the irregularities, you see everything that is happening, and you see James Comey, you see all these people that go against the president, no one gets arrested.

00:10:30.000 All of a sudden, people lose faith in that beautiful country and they lose faith in their government.

00:10:34.000 And we have been warning against this, not supporting it, right?

00:10:38.000 I don't support any of this, to be perfectly honest.

00:10:40.000 The National Guard is going to come in now.

00:10:42.000 Muriel Bowser is getting the D.C. National Guard in place.

00:10:48.000 Unclear at this moment where they are, but.

00:10:50.000 Can we enlarge the video, please, to the full screen or make it a little bit larger?

00:10:55.000 I want to give credit.

00:10:56.000 Whose feed is this?

00:10:57.000 I want to give credit.

00:10:59.000 Okay, I want to thank Global News for this feed.

00:11:01.000 We never want to take a feed without attribution, so thank you for that.

00:11:06.000 This is outside of the United States Congress, and it looks like it's happening.

00:11:12.000 It looks relatively peaceful right now, but it does look like Trump supporters have physically taken the plaza.

00:11:20.000 Is that right?

00:11:20.000 Yeah, it looks like they're, I mean, if I had to interpret what they probably feel this is, it's the people taking their house back, their building back.

00:11:30.000 Again, I can't endorse any of this.

00:11:34.000 But this is the fewer people feel.

00:11:40.000 And I've been hearing rumblings about this from some of my friends in the intelligence community.

00:11:44.000 Frankly, I didn't listen.

00:11:46.000 They were saying that we're hearing that people are really upset and this could boil over any time now.

00:11:53.000 And I think that's we're seeing this.

00:11:56.000 I will echo your point.

00:11:57.000 It looks largely peaceful.

00:11:58.000 Obviously, they've broken laws to this point.

00:12:02.000 And it looks, I've been told that the House might be back in session.

00:12:05.000 So this young man with a lot of energy is screaming about Mike Pence.

00:12:11.000 So we can now put this in the box.

00:12:13.000 Is the House not back in session?

00:12:15.000 Okay.

00:12:15.000 Yeah, let's go ahead and mute this.

00:12:17.000 Yeah, we can mute this gentleman who has a lot of spirit.

00:12:21.000 Let's put it that way.

00:12:24.000 And so there's a lot of information coming in here in real time.

00:12:28.000 So we're analyzing and processing.

00:12:30.000 What did the president just tweet, Andrew?

00:12:34.000 Mike Pence, this is a quote: Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our Constitution, giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify.

00:12:48.000 USA demands the truth.

00:12:51.000 And so a lot of people are saying, you know, you're not addressing what's going on at the Capitol.

00:12:56.000 Well, we have.

00:12:57.000 And so that's, yeah, we can only do what we can do.

00:12:59.000 That's right.

00:13:00.000 And so we are now monitoring this.

00:13:04.000 I mean, you can see here that looks like about 5,000 to 6,000 people.

00:13:08.000 Some people have said that they have overtaken the barricades.

00:13:14.000 I can't wait for the media to call this a mostly peaceful takeover of the U.S. Congress.

00:13:19.000 I say that half-kiddingly because that is not going to be the way they frame it.

00:13:24.000 But all kidding aside, let's make sure that everything remains very peaceful.

00:13:30.000 Now, we're looking in the bottom third here.

00:13:32.000 It looks as if Trump supporters are now walking through the same sort of processional that U.S. Congress and U.S. Senate members.

00:13:40.000 I mean, listen, is this bad?

00:13:42.000 It's, you know, it's potentially extremely bad.

00:13:45.000 Look, violence is bad.

00:13:47.000 Here's why.

00:13:47.000 As soon as violence occurs, then it is a physical, it is a physical combat situation, and nothing good happens to that situation.

00:13:56.000 What makes us different as human beings is our capacity to reason, have dialogue, and to be able to use facts and not have to go to just physical armed combat.

00:14:06.000 So, no, I do not support that.

00:14:08.000 Yeah, no, but it looks like people are.

00:14:10.000 There's no way we can support this, but I will say I think it looks like an Occupy kind of situation, right?

00:14:15.000 Where they're taking the ground.

00:14:17.000 It doesn't look like they're trying to.

00:14:20.000 And look, let me be very clear.

00:14:22.000 If people are simply walking into Congress and they are staging a peaceful protest, then fine.

00:14:27.000 But I do not support the trampling of barricades or the assault of police officers.

00:14:33.000 I think that's a fair take, right?

00:14:34.000 Hearing reports.

00:14:35.000 So the House is back in session.

00:14:37.000 We're seeing that.

00:14:38.000 Some people are saying the House is.

00:14:39.000 I don't see that, though.

00:14:40.000 I don't think that's correct.

00:14:41.000 I think they're saying that the House is back in session because Trump supporters are back in the House.

00:14:45.000 I think that's why they're saying that.

00:14:46.000 It might be.

00:14:47.000 Let me see.

00:14:48.000 So, so far, this looks very peaceful.

00:14:51.000 Again, we're trying to be you know, we're trying to be very specific in how we're describing this.

00:14:57.000 Because we do, if someone starts get very violent and all this, however, we have seen Democrats during the immigration fights, during the Kavanaugh fights, and other, and other, they have done many things like this where they peacefully go and occupy physical space.

00:15:13.000 Yeah, I mean, listen, it's a tricky tightrope that we have to walk here, just from even just the language that we choose.

00:15:23.000 So, again, understanding there is a massive amount of anger out there, and I think this is the manifestation of it, and this is the proof of it.

00:15:31.000 And to pay no heed to this either would be wrong.

00:15:35.000 Now, is it justifying confrontations with federal law enforcement?

00:15:39.000 Absolutely not.

00:15:40.000 Is it justifying breaking laws?

00:15:43.000 No, absolutely not.

00:15:45.000 I'm just saying that, of course, what did they expect when they constantly shut us up?

00:15:52.000 Well, I think we saw a lot of this as a culmination of people's inability to not have interaction with one another last year.

00:15:59.000 That's right.

00:15:59.000 That's good.

00:16:00.000 These lockdowns, these lockdowns are a huge part of it, and you kick people off social media.

00:16:05.000 Sorry, finish your point as well.

00:16:07.000 It's a good point.

00:16:07.000 I just think this speaks so much to human nature in general.

00:16:10.000 You know, you can't lock an entire country down or an entire state down and expect that there will be no ramifications for that decision and not expect a change in human beings.

00:16:20.000 Insofar this is a patriotic display, so be it.

00:16:23.000 I support it.

00:16:24.000 I have to say that.

00:16:25.000 But if you are breaching barricades and going through prohibited areas and disobeying law enforcement, no.

00:16:31.000 That is not something I support.

00:16:32.000 But I will say this, that this is because the FBI did not arrest the people that staged the coup against our president.

00:16:38.000 This is because of the fake impeachment.

00:16:40.000 This is because of people that are able to commit crimes and do nothing.

00:16:44.000 With impunity.

00:16:46.000 And big tech is able to censor people.

00:16:48.000 This is because of the election fraud.

00:16:49.000 There's this pent-up anger that ends up manifesting nothing gets done.

00:16:54.000 And we don't support that.

00:16:55.000 We try to be the, we're trying to calm people down always.

00:16:59.000 We were actually talking last night about we were gaming out what this next two years could look like, what the next four years could work, could look like.

00:17:06.000 And, you know, Charlie, stop me if I'm talking out of school here, but the, you know, the idea of a dissolution of this country is not out of the realm of possibility.

00:17:18.000 And I know that sounds crazy, but what we were talking about is more of could there be a peaceful sort of decoupling, right?

00:17:26.000 That is one of the things that people have talked about.

00:17:28.000 And I'm not suggesting it.

00:17:29.000 I'm not advocating it.

00:17:30.000 It was something that we're just playing out in sort of gaming it out in the next couple of years, four years, five years, if something doesn't change.

00:17:39.000 What this is showing is that people are actually willing to get physical, at least to some level.

00:17:46.000 It doesn't look violent.

00:17:48.000 I mean, let's not be hyperventilating about what we see here.

00:17:51.000 At the same time, it is an escalation, certainly, of what people have been willing to do. 0.92

00:17:56.000 We have warned against this, that if you tell people, as Senator Cruz said, to go jump in a lake and tell them they're stupid, there is not a massive bridge between shutting up an entire 74 million person body and some of those people not being able to take it anymore. 0.96

00:18:13.000 I'm not one of those people. 0.96

00:18:16.000 But it's built into human nature not to allow an injustice to go on in front of you.

00:18:24.000 It's not.

00:18:25.000 And so, but this, you don't want to know who you want to know who's responsible for this?

00:18:29.000 Our leaders that have failed these people for the last 40 years. 1.00

00:18:32.000 They've declared these stupid endless wars. 1.00

00:18:34.000 They've pandered to corporate interests. 1.00

00:18:36.000 They have lied to their leaders.

00:18:39.000 And so.

00:18:39.000 When you have millions of people chanting locker up for obvious crimes and nothing's ever done.

00:18:47.000 As a matter of fact, Peter Strzok is the one that gets to interrogate her and let her off the hook.

00:18:53.000 Yep.

00:18:54.000 They entrapped Michael Flynn.

00:18:56.000 When it took a party to get rid of it.

00:18:58.000 That's exactly right.

00:18:59.000 All of this stuff has a cascading cumulative effect.

00:19:02.000 Yeah.

00:19:02.000 And so it's like, again, conservatives shouldn't be doing this.

00:19:05.000 But at the same time, if you drive any people group to their brink, if you're going to assume that there's not a certain small, and I think it's a small percentage at this point, but a percentage of those people that are ready for all-out physical conflict, maybe even taking this to a violent altercation level, then you would be naive to assume that there's not that part of this population.

00:19:29.000 Now, are we endorsing it again?

00:19:30.000 Again, no.

00:19:31.000 And let's be very specific with what we're looking at here.

00:19:33.000 A lot of the media is going to say this is an armed insurrection.

00:19:37.000 No.

00:19:37.000 A coup.

00:19:38.000 This is no different than the protesters that came in, the people that were doing sit-ins during the amnesty debates, the people that were doing the Kavanaugh demonstrations.

00:19:49.000 Look at what happened with the BLM riots.

00:19:51.000 Whole cities were burned down. 1.00

00:19:52.000 Look at what happened with Chaz or CHOP. 1.00

00:19:54.000 They occupied entire city blocks, and they're doing it.

00:19:58.000 How many 50, 60 nights of setting the federal courthouses on fire in Portland?

00:20:04.000 I mean, let's, again, let's not hyperventilate about what we're seeing here.

00:20:09.000 This is an escalation.

00:20:11.000 Obviously, we don't want to see confrontations with federal law enforcement at our nation's capital.

00:20:17.000 But at the same time, and look, I wouldn't be surprised if these are Antifa people in MAGA hats.

00:20:22.000 I'm not kidding.

00:20:23.000 This is an asymmetrical psyops tactic.

00:20:26.000 If we find that out, of course, we're going to look at their voter registration records of these people.

00:20:31.000 There's no proof of that.

00:20:32.000 I'm saying it could be.

00:20:33.000 I said that.

00:20:34.000 I think a lot of this anger that we're talking about, too, isn't just a single moment of passion.

00:20:38.000 Everybody's saying, let's go march to the Capitol building.

00:20:40.000 I think this is a very big culmination of the last four years, people becoming more awakened to the fact that media, social media, in many cases, politicians are actively working against the will of the people and the passions and the things that drive the will of the people behind that.

00:20:56.000 And so this isn't just a spur of the moment decision to have a big splash of 15 minutes of fame on TV.

00:21:02.000 A lot of this is very deeply rooted anger and frustration in the way our country has been run for the last several decades.

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00:22:27.000 Let's read a couple updates here.

00:22:29.000 Congressman Mo Brooks has said the following.

00:22:33.000 House recessed until order and safety can be reassured.

00:22:35.000 Rumor, Antifa fascists, and backwards MAGA hats.

00:22:38.000 Time will tell what the truth is.

00:22:40.000 So I'm not just throwing that out there.

00:22:41.000 That's a congressman.

00:22:42.000 Capitol police announcement, capital breach, lockdown.

00:22:45.000 Do not leave the chamber is what he has said.

00:22:48.000 And then he said, tear gas dispersed in Capitol Rotunda.

00:22:51.000 Congressman ordered to grab masks under chairs in case have to leave in haste.

00:22:57.000 Meanwhile, D.C. Mayor Bowser has declared a 6 p.m. curfew.

00:23:04.000 I've seen that guy, I feel like, at some of his rallies.

00:23:11.000 And now here we have President Trump has said, tweeted, please support our Capitol Police and law enforcement.

00:23:17.000 They are truly on our side of our country.

00:23:20.000 Stay peaceful, is what President Trump has said.

00:23:22.000 Good.

00:23:22.000 Which is what we said.

00:23:23.000 Very good.

00:23:24.000 Senator Tom Cotton has said, this violence is unacceptable and needs to be met with full force of law.

00:23:29.000 God bless the Capitol Police who are keeping us safe.

00:23:33.000 We have seen a couple, I think, barricades breached and a couple other things that are happening.

00:23:40.000 And so, but we do, look, I don't want to rush to judgment.

00:23:43.000 I wouldn't put it past the tactics of Antifa to change their paraphernalia or their physical aesthetic.

00:23:50.000 Here's why I say that, though, is because this is not how Trump supporters don't act in a physical way.

00:23:55.000 We have no track record of this at all whatsoever.

00:23:58.000 I'm talking real Trump supporters in this.

00:24:00.000 Yeah, now this forever, I hate to say it, but it pulls that argument away from us.

00:24:07.000 At least it doesn't really, but it's going to be used.

00:24:11.000 It's going to be used time and time again.

00:24:13.000 So, and listen, I, for one, will be prepared to tell them all about the BLM and the Antifa protests that turned violent and burned down cities and city blocks.

00:24:23.000 But now it's going to be a back and forth because they've got this footage to use.

00:24:27.000 So, there is now tear gas in the Capitol Rotunda.

00:24:30.000 The National Guard has been mobilized.

00:24:32.000 I am sad to see this, to be honest with you.

00:24:35.000 It's not.

00:24:36.000 We are better than this.

00:24:37.000 And our leaders and our rulers, unfortunately, are going to get away with it because the anger is quite honestly directed at their betrayal of their promise to the Constitution and our people.

00:24:50.000 Really, it is.

00:24:50.000 This is what, look, you can only insult and poke people in the eye for so long until they're going to burst.

00:25:00.000 And once that burst happens, you can't predict it.

00:25:03.000 You don't know it.

00:25:04.000 We saw this.

00:25:04.000 We've seen this all throughout human history.

00:25:06.000 And that is why dialogue and discussion is so important.

00:25:09.000 So what happens?

00:25:10.000 Oh, you can't see people.

00:25:11.000 You can't go to church.

00:25:12.000 You can have total lockdowns.

00:25:13.000 You can't tweet about it.

00:25:14.000 So you have all this.

00:25:15.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:25:15.000 So you have all this combustible energy.

00:25:17.000 Then you can't tweet about it.

00:25:18.000 You can't talk about it.

00:25:19.000 And what's the one pressure release valve that we have?

00:25:22.000 We've talked about this a lot.

00:25:23.000 An election.

00:25:24.000 We have said that the pressure release valve that our founders gave us was an election.

00:25:29.000 Oh, I'm sorry, your election was fraudulent, allegedly, or else they're going to take down our stream.

00:25:33.000 They believe the election was fraudulent because I do want to continue to talk to our tens of thousands of people.

00:25:39.000 And as soon as you question that, then all of a sudden you're called awful names, accept the results at all costs.

00:25:46.000 All of that betrayal then manifests itself.

00:25:49.000 And I'm not, it's a predictable outcome.

00:25:52.000 In fact, the left wanted this.

00:25:54.000 No, that's exactly right.

00:25:56.000 That's the point I was going to make.

00:25:57.000 The left wants this violent, well, and again, I haven't seen it.

00:26:02.000 There's some pushing and shoving I've seen with the Capitol Police.

00:26:06.000 I haven't seen it get more violent than that, so I'm going to hold off on some of my adjectives here.

00:26:11.000 But they want to see a violent reaction.

00:26:13.000 They want to be able to claim the moral high ground.

00:26:16.000 That you are as deplorable as they describe you as.

00:26:20.000 And so, yeah, don't give them the moral high ground.

00:26:24.000 Obviously, you know, I think there's a chorus of people saying it's time for this to stop.

00:26:30.000 And we would join that chorus.

00:26:32.000 But at the same time, you're crazy if you didn't think that this was somewhat expected.

00:26:36.000 Here is why physical violence, in my opinion, is never the answer.

00:26:39.000 This is the Malcolm X versus the Martin Luther King Jr. perspective, is because as soon as you resort to physical violence, there's no way to mitigate that difference until one person surrenders or they're no longer capable of being able to live.

00:26:57.000 I mean, that's how physical violence ends.

00:26:58.000 It's brutal.

00:26:59.000 It's awful.

00:27:00.000 That's how human beings used to settle differences for thousands of years.

00:27:03.000 What made the Western civilization different and the Constitutional Republic, which we're fighting for today, which is the great irony of it, is you solve your differences with arguments, with persuasion, right?

00:27:12.000 So human beings, according to Aristotle, are the speaking beings.

00:27:16.000 So there's only two ways to govern people.

00:27:18.000 The two ways to govern people are by speaking persuasion.

00:27:21.000 We talk about this all the time on our podcast, or by force.

00:27:24.000 Well, they've been governing by force the last couple years.

00:27:27.000 They have.

00:27:27.000 They're going to force us off social media.

00:27:30.000 They're governing by force by not allowing you to ask certain questions, by going after Trump supporters.

00:27:37.000 They've seized control of the main institutions of influence.

00:27:40.000 And I don't just mean our governmental institutions.

00:27:43.000 Actually, those have been government has been the one place where conservatives have consistently had a hand in things.

00:27:51.000 But aside from that, the universities, Hollywood, the news media, overwhelmingly all controlled by the left.

00:27:59.000 And as they've done that, over the past, let's say 40, 50, 60 years, they have exerted increasing control across the population.

00:28:11.000 And this is what they do.

00:28:11.000 They slowly turn up the heat and they slowly flex their grip.

00:28:16.000 And meanwhile, there's half the country, I would call it traditional America, that is getting disenfranchised by that.

00:28:24.000 And that is the bullying.

00:28:26.000 One sec, I'm sorry, Isabel.

00:28:28.000 They say people are smashing glass in the doors to the House chamber.

00:28:30.000 Police have guns drawn and aimed at the door.

00:28:34.000 Matt Fuller, this is not verified, says they've shot into the chamber.

00:28:37.000 So we don't know about that.

00:28:40.000 Both the House and Senate chambers are being evacuated.

00:28:42.000 Yes.

00:28:43.000 And so this is a sad day to see this go this way.

00:28:50.000 And this is what John Nolte has said, which is a provocative take, sort of.

00:28:56.000 Look what happens after the media and Democrats tell us over and over for four years that violence and undermining elections is acceptable.

00:29:03.000 You can't make rules for just one side.

00:29:04.000 The media and the Democrats built this, and someone responded, and I agree with her.

00:29:08.000 I don't agree with it, but you are absolutely correct.

00:29:11.000 And so this just then from Jake Sherman, quote, there's an armed standoff at the House front door.

00:29:17.000 Police officers have their guns drawn at someone who is trying to reach the front door.

00:29:21.000 I am going to take all of this with a grain of salt, meaning whatever I want to see video evidence behind this idea.

00:29:29.000 I think their idea of an armed standoff might be different than mine.

00:29:32.000 They've cried wolf on that before.

00:29:35.000 So it'll be very interesting once this gets cleared up.

00:29:41.000 And so, you know, once this gets cleared up, it'll be interesting to see if the Senate continues to debate.

00:29:49.000 So what are we looking at, Andrew or Isabel?

00:29:52.000 You know, it's unclear when they're going to reconvene.

00:29:55.000 If they are today, I know, you know, constitutionally and legally speaking, they have the capacity to have this debate for several days.

00:30:01.000 There's really no specific timeline before inauguration day that they would have to finish things up.

00:30:06.000 So if things have to be prolonged quite a bit for a few hours or for the rest of the day, that's certainly possible under the legal standing that we do have.

00:30:15.000 So here we are looking at this.

00:30:17.000 It looks like a tweet from Matt Fuller that says they're shooting into the chamber.

00:30:21.000 Looks like they're barring the chamber doors with furniture.

00:30:27.000 Yes.

00:30:28.000 So that's a crazy site.

00:30:30.000 Looks a lot like Lehmiz on Broadway if you guys.

00:30:34.000 Yeah, I mean, we're seeing a lot of that across the conversation is that a lot of people are saying, I never thought I'd see this in America.

00:30:41.000 I think some of that stuff is overblown, though.

00:30:44.000 I genuinely do.

00:30:45.000 I mean, I think, am I proud of this moment?

00:30:48.000 No.

00:30:48.000 Obviously, as a country, you'd hope that we would have resolved these conflicts before we get to this point.

00:30:55.000 That being said, we have a pretty crazy history, and things have happened that are much crazier than this.

00:31:02.000 Nevertheless, this is a shocking sight.

00:31:04.000 I mean, it really is.

00:31:05.000 And I think that's their intention.

00:31:07.000 These people want to send a message that they haven't been listened to, that they feel disenfranchised.

00:31:12.000 They feel screwed over by the system and by the institutions.

00:31:15.000 And they're not going to take it anymore.

00:31:17.000 And they're making a big demonstration.

00:31:18.000 You know, I have to believe this was pre-planned and that these people knew what they were doing.

00:31:24.000 Or, I mean, it's possible this was just a spontaneous combustion.

00:31:30.000 Maybe it was a bit of both.

00:31:32.000 This is a shocking site.

00:31:33.000 I mean, if anybody's been to the Capitol building, you know, this space is a pretty large space, and it's pretty well protected.

00:31:41.000 But they've been completely overwhelmed, it looks like the Capitol police.

00:31:44.000 Looks like it's starting to clear out a little bit.

00:31:46.000 Well, that's two different stairwells out a little bit.

00:31:49.000 There's two different stairwells there to two different entrances, different wings of the Capitol building.

00:31:53.000 On one wing, it's less crammed.

00:31:56.000 On the other one, it's lots of flags, shoulder to shoulder.

00:32:00.000 It's pretty packed.

00:32:01.000 So people are saying on the ground that this place, it's kind of nuts.

00:32:07.000 It does look like there's a lot of just people that are peacefully just standing there and exercising their First Amendment rights.

00:32:16.000 And so emergency alert Mayor Bowser issues a citywide curfew for D.C. for Wednesday, January 6th, starting at 6 p.m. until Thursday, January 7th.

00:32:25.000 And so there is a curfew that's been put in place.

00:32:29.000 And so there is a looks like the barring of the doors has happened there.

00:32:35.000 And we're going to continue to monitor this as it happens in real time.

00:32:43.000 Stunned, to say the least, that a lot of this has come to this.

00:32:47.000 So this is what, again, this is what happens when you call half the country reprehensible and deplorable and all this. 1.00

00:32:54.000 And stupid, frankly. 1.00

00:32:55.000 And stupid, and you have no standing, and you underestimate how people feel about certain situations. 1.00

00:33:03.000 And so we have a couple people on the ground that we're going to try to get on the phone here as we monitor this. 1.00

00:33:08.000 And unfortunately, a lot of this, a lot of these issues here could have been prevented.

00:33:15.000 It could have been prevented if the House would have actually allowed investigations and debate into this over the last couple of months since early November.

00:33:26.000 You guys can email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:33:29.000 And if you want to support us, go to charliekirk.com slash support.

00:33:36.000 Jayden has asked us, Charlie, these liberals are posing as Trump supporters.

00:33:40.000 How do we prove it?

00:33:41.000 We don't know.

00:33:42.000 Some people are emailing us saying they disagree with my position on violence.

00:33:47.000 Well, that's fine.

00:33:48.000 I just have a very simple question.

00:33:50.000 Once you resort to violence, can you tell me exactly your plan to make it stop?

00:33:55.000 And that's the whole point of violence: you kind of lose all of your faculties, and quite honestly, you then with it lose any sort of binds that tie you together.

00:34:06.000 And that has always been what has differentiated the idea of Western civilization and a constitutional republic from the third world, quite honestly.

00:34:18.000 Isabel, what's your analysis on all of this?

00:34:20.000 You know, it's hard for me to be surprised by some sort of manifestation of the frustration that we've been seeing over the last year, frankly, four years, but particularly in the last 12 months.

00:34:30.000 Because when you couple the left's intense sphere of influence culturally and through government agencies with the fact that people have been isolated from everything they know, they're forbidden from going to their jobs, they're forbidden from going to school, they can't gather with their friends and family members, they're not even supposed to look people in their full face anymore because we have to cover up half of our face all the time.

00:34:50.000 You see a very rapid degradation of society as we know it, and human nature starts to come out.

00:34:55.000 People need community, people need a venue to share their frustration and to share the things that they're feeling about our free country.

00:35:03.000 When you take that away, no longer do we live in a free country, and that's the sound of the future.

00:35:06.000 That's right.

00:35:06.000 And so, in some ways, people need to have their concerns heard.

00:35:10.000 They need to be platformed.

00:35:11.000 And remember, Lauren Boebert was screaming.

00:35:13.000 I was like, well, that's the energy of the entire movement, right?

00:35:15.000 It does look like this crowd is thinning out a little bit.

00:35:19.000 It does look like some of the people that are there are, you know, kind of you know, and look, they're, I'm going to be honest right now.

00:35:26.000 Here's what's going to happen: some of these people are getting excited, and that's fine, whatever.

00:35:31.000 Some of these people are going to maybe regret some of the actions they're doing.

00:35:34.000 Unlike the left, they're not going to get parking tickets.

00:35:37.000 They're going to try every single one of these people with terrorism charges.

00:35:40.000 Oh, yeah.

00:35:41.000 I'm not supporting it.

00:35:42.000 I'm telling you right now, that's what's going to happen.

00:35:44.000 Unlike BLM and all these other people where they get parking tickets and released out of prison, they're going to throw the FBI and the DOJ on every single one of these people.

00:35:51.000 Am I wrong?

00:35:51.000 No, you're absolutely right.

00:35:52.000 And that's wrong.

00:35:53.000 I don't support that.

00:35:54.000 Well, it's not accountability for breaking the laws, but it should work both ways.

00:36:00.000 And I think that's the fact that they're going to have the books thrown at them when we know if we're broken, you should enforce the law.

00:36:06.000 The point is they're going to use federal terrorism statutes, and this is not terrorism.

00:36:11.000 Which leads to an extreme double standard.

00:36:13.000 Of course.

00:36:13.000 That's exactly right.

00:36:14.000 That's right.

00:36:15.000 So I think we have somebody on the ground here that we are going to try to bring into here.

00:36:22.000 Andrew, what are you looking at?

00:36:24.000 I mean, that's looking at the sort of fallout of different reactions across.

00:36:30.000 There was one report of shots fired inside the House chamber.

00:36:35.000 Can't confirm or deny.

00:36:38.000 That's a pretty big deal.

00:36:41.000 I'm seeing different accounts that we're following.

00:36:46.000 There's a HuffPost got a reporter on the ground saying I heard an officer say shots fired.

00:36:53.000 That was two minutes ago.

00:36:55.000 So if that's happening, obviously that's a big deal.

00:36:58.000 And it's, again, another massive escalation.

00:37:02.000 I think we already mentioned that the National Guard is being called to Capitol Hill to support the Capitol police here.

00:37:08.000 And, you know, what are you going to do?

00:37:12.000 So we've got multiple people reporting about shots fired at the House, which is pretty crazy.

00:37:17.000 So what's probably going to happen is they're going to get this cleared up and then eventually Congress will resume meeting.

00:37:24.000 And my guess is that the future states after Arizona, this is going to kind of take some of the wind out of the sales quite a bit.

00:37:33.000 Yeah.

00:37:35.000 This is one guy that's in the chamber.

00:37:38.000 He's actually at the dais yelling, Trump won that election.

00:37:42.000 So they have gotten all the way into the dais, inside the chamber.

00:37:47.000 This is video proof that that's actually happened.

00:37:50.000 So you have these.

00:37:51.000 He doesn't look like a Trump.

00:37:52.000 I'm just going to be honest.

00:37:53.000 If you're wearing all black, does that look like a Trump supporter?

00:37:56.000 That looks like how Antifa looks.

00:37:58.000 I mean, it could be.

00:37:59.000 I mean, it's cold. 1.00

00:38:01.000 All black?

00:38:02.000 He's not wearing a mask.

00:38:03.000 Have you ever seen a Trump supporter wear all black?

00:38:05.000 No, he has a mask underneath his neck.

00:38:07.000 He's got a lot of money.

00:38:07.000 Look, the thing is, we don't know.

00:38:08.000 We don't know what's going on.

00:38:10.000 We see clips of short videos.

00:38:12.000 We see individuals.

00:38:12.000 Some people are saying, well, Charlie, you're wearing all black.

00:38:15.000 I'm talking about like the entire storming the Capitol building, okay?

00:38:20.000 I'm talking about this.

00:38:22.000 Apples and oranges.

00:38:23.000 I'm talking about this entire paraphernalia thing he's got going on, right?

00:38:27.000 He's got kind of like the biker gang look.

00:38:29.000 What does Congressman Madison Cawthorne say?

00:38:31.000 Our friend, Madison Cawthorne, so excited to see him become a congressman this week, by the way.

00:38:35.000 That's so exciting.

00:38:37.000 He says, I am fighting a battle for our Constitution on the House floor with other patriots.

00:38:41.000 This battle is on the House floor and not in the streets of D.C.

00:38:43.000 I think that's very well said.

00:38:45.000 We have a legal structure to deal with the ramifications of this election, assuming enough people are willing to be bold and speak up within that structure.

00:38:52.000 So hopefully we can get back to a return to that.

00:38:55.000 My hope is that whatever potential violence may be happening on Capitol Hill dwindles out very quickly.

00:39:00.000 If you are a part of that, we are urging you to stop being a part of that.

00:39:04.000 That's not speaking to who we are and what we believe in.

00:39:07.000 But hopefully we can get this resolved here.

00:39:09.000 Well, Elijah Schaefer, I hope he has a very good attorney.

00:39:14.000 So Elijah Schaefer has tweeted, breaking, I am inside Nancy Pelosi's office with thousands of revolutionaries who have stormed the building.

00:39:20.000 To put that into perspective, how quickly staff evacuated, emails are still on screen alongside a federal alert warning members of the current revolution.

00:39:29.000 Okay, this is not a revolution, okay?

00:39:32.000 Stop it. 0.67

00:39:32.000 Stop it with this language. 0.67

00:39:34.000 Do I have to say that?

00:39:35.000 Okay, these are very, you have to be very careful using that word, okay?

00:39:39.000 If you have any understanding of what that word actually means historically, just I don't know if he's doing that sarcastically or not.

00:39:45.000 Is he doing that sarcastically, Connor?

00:39:47.000 No, he's this is that's the word.

00:39:49.000 That's the word he's used.

00:39:50.000 He's used it multiple times.

00:39:51.000 You're not Roba Spear, okay?

00:39:52.000 Stop it.

00:39:53.000 This guy with the raccoon hat with the horns.

00:39:59.000 I've seen this guy.

00:40:01.000 I'm telling you, I've seen this guy at Trump rallies.

00:40:04.000 I have.

00:40:05.000 So I call that anecdotal verification.

00:40:09.000 He looks, you know, he's talking.

00:40:12.000 He's got his flag.

00:40:13.000 He's quite the character.

00:40:15.000 He's memorable.

00:40:16.000 Aaron Davis has said a source tells me the Department of Defense has just denied a request by D.C. officials to deploy the National Guard to the U.S. Capitol.

00:40:25.000 That should put probably a factual nuance on here that it's not nearly as, I don't want to say chaotic as they might make it.

00:40:34.000 I mean, I'm trying to avoid hyperventilating language here on purpose because it's exactly what the left would want everybody to do.

00:40:42.000 And listen, all I'm seeing is people occupying the space.

00:40:45.000 I've heard reports of shots fired.

00:40:48.000 Can neither confirm nor deny that.

00:40:49.000 There are multiple reports inside the capital.

00:40:52.000 Obviously, that is at a whole other level.

00:40:56.000 So, yeah, we'll see.

00:40:58.000 Again, yeah, it's just difficult for us to tell exactly who's perpetrating any potential violence.

00:41:03.000 We don't know so much.

00:41:04.000 We're getting a lot of mixed emails here at freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:41:07.000 We have some inside sources here in the Capitol building.

00:41:10.000 One person has texted me saying that looking outside the window, most of the people are just peacefully protesting and out there.

00:41:19.000 So, Isabel, you have something?

00:41:21.000 We'll see what happens here in the next few minutes.

00:41:23.000 I am curious to know if this report of shots fired had anything to do with the fire reports fireworks.

00:41:30.000 And there was a lot of fire.

00:41:31.000 Yeah, let's get her on the line, Connor.

00:41:33.000 Can we get her to FaceTime us?

00:41:35.000 No?

00:41:36.000 Phone call.

00:41:37.000 So we have some people on the ground that are giving us live results.

00:41:40.000 Is she in Congress or is she outside?

00:41:42.000 Okay, I hope she's not in some sort of...

00:41:44.000 Who are we talking about here?

00:41:45.000 Ashley is going to be calling in here from the front lines, which is so, I mean, look, it looks like kind of an Occupy thing.

00:41:55.000 And of course, the left completely supported Occupy Wall Street, right, and Occupy whatever.

00:42:01.000 It seems, and it is the people's house, but insofar that people are going into offices and looking at emails and smashing windows and barricades, I will not put my support behind any such physical retaliation.

00:42:14.000 I think Eli would say he's just following the crowd and reporting to provide video footage.

00:42:20.000 I'm just reading his tweets.

00:42:21.000 I don't know what he's, I don't want to imply.

00:42:24.000 I'm just saying I hope he has a good lawyer because they're going to come after everyone who's there right now.

00:42:28.000 I would tell you, there's not a whole heck of a lot of sympathy across the zeitgeist right now for these folks.

00:42:39.000 I see you guys in our chats defending everybody here.

00:42:43.000 Some of you are defending, I should say.

00:42:45.000 Well, I think the proper blame needs to be placed on our leaders that have betrayed the American people for so long and have created, have basically denied any form of a pressure release valve in our country.

00:42:57.000 I think that's absolutely right.

00:42:58.000 And I keep using the word abdicated when it comes to our courts.

00:43:01.000 Our leaders have abdicated their responsibility.

00:43:06.000 What else has happened is we've been silenced.

00:43:10.000 And I think this idea that dialogue is no longer protected in this country, freedom of speech is no longer protected.

00:43:16.000 It's sort of like First Amendment name only as well. 0.69

00:43:19.000 But in all practice, Finos and Rhinos.

00:43:25.000 But in all seriousness, I mean, when you give away so much power to these corporations that then become more powerful than your federal government in certain aspects, and they control more of the information that we share, and then they exert that control in a censorial way, I mean, don't be surprised when these release valves get released.

00:43:44.000 Again, not condoning it, but I'm also understanding.

00:43:47.000 But just from a historical, this is a predictable outcome.

00:43:50.000 It is.

00:43:51.000 And this is what happens when also you lose both those Georgia Senate runoff races.

00:43:56.000 People feel their country's completely gone.

00:43:58.000 And I was trying to explain this to a member of Congress the other day.

00:44:02.000 I say, you know, if you go after someone's wife, they're going to come after you.

00:44:07.000 You go after someone's country and you don't give them an explanation and it feels stolen and it feels just fraudulent.

00:44:13.000 How do you think people are going to react?

00:44:15.000 And they say, well, people should know better than that.

00:44:17.000 Like, no, no, you don't understand human behavior.

00:44:20.000 That the bridge between decent society and absolute chaos is a very fragile line that we live in.

00:44:29.000 And you know what keeps that line?

00:44:31.000 Do you know what prevents us from going into situations like this?

00:44:34.000 One thing: freedom of speech.

00:44:36.000 They have destroyed freedom of speech at every corner.

00:44:38.000 You're not allowed to wear a MAGA hat in the streets.

00:44:40.000 You're not allowed to tell your neighbors.

00:44:41.000 You're not allowed to talk about it.

00:44:42.000 You talk about voter irregularity.

00:44:44.000 They have the accountability project.

00:44:46.000 They go after Josh Hawley's home.

00:44:48.000 By the way, the fact they didn't arrest any of the people that went to Josh Hawley's home, yet they are going to charge every one of these people for federal terrorism charges.

00:44:58.000 That's exactly right.

00:44:59.000 Just to go to show. 1.00

00:45:00.000 Let's bring Ashley on. 1.00

00:45:01.000 Ashley, are you live on the ground?

00:45:02.000 What are you seeing and what are you hearing?

00:45:05.000 I am, Charlie.

00:45:06.000 I've never seen anything like this.

00:45:08.000 There are people scaling the walls, storming the steps.

00:45:11.000 There are people of all colors, ages from all over the country storming this Capitol building right now.

00:45:18.000 So tell us kind of what's happening.

00:45:21.000 Are they physically going through barricades?

00:45:23.000 Are they smashing windows?

00:45:24.000 We're hearing all sorts of different reports.

00:45:25.000 What are you hearing?

00:45:28.000 They're going through the barricades.

00:45:31.000 There are windows broken in the Capitol building.

00:45:33.000 There are multiple breaches on the doors in the Capitol building.

00:45:36.000 Every square inch of this Capitol building basically is being either scaled or broken into, breached.

00:45:42.000 And there is a holdup in the chambers.

00:45:46.000 How big of a crowd is this?

00:45:47.000 And do you think it's the majority of the crowd that's participating in this?

00:45:50.000 And, you know, how big are we talking here?

00:45:56.000 It's huge.

00:45:57.000 You know, you go to the Capitol building and you turn around, and there's people as far as the eye can see, huge crowds.

00:46:03.000 Again, I've never seen anything like this, but most of these people are just waving flags and standing peacefully outside.

00:46:09.000 And then there are the ones at the building that are scaling the walls and trying to...

00:46:13.000 There are some aggravators who are trying to get more people to scale the walls.

00:46:17.000 But for the most part, the biggest mass of people is peaceful outside.

00:46:22.000 Andrew?

00:46:23.000 Yeah, we've been hearing, Ashley, reports of shots fired.

00:46:28.000 Have you heard people talking about that on the ground?

00:46:30.000 What's the update there?

00:46:32.000 Yes, and there was a red flare that went up as well.

00:46:36.000 The mayor just issued a curfew for 6 p.m., and this is going to be strictly enforced.

00:46:42.000 They are storming the floor.

00:46:45.000 So you've been hearing people chatting about that?

00:46:47.000 Shots fired.

00:46:48.000 You've been hearing.

00:46:49.000 So do you think it was confusion that it was actually a flare?

00:46:53.000 Okay.

00:46:54.000 No, the flare was separate.

00:46:56.000 The flare was separate.

00:46:58.000 Okay, so you are hearing chatter of shots fired.

00:47:00.000 We're seeing reports on that online, but then we're seeing people say it was potentially fireworks, that it wasn't that.

00:47:09.000 Ashley, what do you think about that?

00:47:10.000 It could be fireworks inside.

00:47:13.000 Go ahead.

00:47:14.000 It could be fireworks inside.

00:47:16.000 I'm not sure exactly in the building, but outside there was a flare that went up, and there are people scaling the building and going through the doors.

00:47:24.000 Ashley, what are you hearing from people on the ground?

00:47:26.000 What's the general sentiment of the people who've gathered outside the Capitol?

00:47:32.000 The general sentiment is that most of these people are shocked that this is happening in the first place.

00:47:38.000 And a lot of people are just very discontent with what's going on in the country.

00:47:44.000 But most of these people are not.

00:47:45.000 They have no intentions of scaling these walls and going into the Capitol building.

00:47:49.000 But it's just a lot of people who don't know what to do with their frustrations of this election.

00:47:56.000 Yeah, we are seeing lots of images of confrontations happening here.

00:48:01.000 So Ashley, kind of, can you just give us an idea of how the rally was?

00:48:05.000 What was the spirit there?

00:48:07.000 How many people?

00:48:08.000 Yeah, and also kind of who's kind of driving this entire thing.

00:48:12.000 Are there any people that are really kind of calling for this kind of storming of the Capitol?

00:48:16.000 We're trying to get some idea here.

00:48:20.000 There's random aggregators.

00:48:22.000 I don't know that it was anybody from these organized events.

00:48:25.000 As you know, there were multiple coalitions that put on the march this morning, which was incredible, very energized.

00:48:31.000 There were people who are still very hopeful for this country.

00:48:34.000 Kind music playing, everybody happy and lively.

00:48:37.000 And you still kind of see that spirit even outside of the Capitol building a little bit, except as you get closer to it.

00:48:43.000 But for the most part, these people are happy.

00:48:46.000 Most of the people away from directly in front of the Capitol building don't even know that this is going on.

00:48:52.000 Yeah.

00:48:53.000 Well, Ashley, stay on it.

00:48:54.000 Please call back as things continue to develop.

00:48:57.000 Ashley St. Clair, what's your social media so people can follow you?

00:49:01.000 It's at St. Clair Ashley on Twitter and Real Ashley St. Clair on Instagram.

00:49:05.000 Yeah, so keep following that for live updates.

00:49:07.000 Thank you, Ashley.

00:49:08.000 Appreciate it.

00:49:09.000 Yeah, stay safe.

00:49:10.000 Thanks, Ashley.

00:49:11.000 Thanks, Ashley.

00:49:12.000 So, Andrew, what are we seeing?

00:49:14.000 I mean, we're just seeing agitators breaking windows in the Capitol building.

00:49:21.000 Andy knows been putting out some great video.

00:49:23.000 I recommend people follow his feed on Twitter.

00:49:32.000 Again, me personally, I'm not going to hyperventilate yet.

00:49:35.000 Obviously, I don't agree with what's going on. 0.99

00:49:37.000 I want people to knock this crap off. 0.99

00:49:40.000 I agree with the sentiment. 0.99

00:49:42.000 I disagree with any physical violence is always wrong.

00:49:47.000 You know, these people breaking down windows into the Capitol building, going in.

00:49:52.000 Again, but it's an expression of the angst that's been building up for years now, but especially since November 3rd.

00:50:00.000 You know, I remember that moment, and we had to deal with it on this show directly when YouTube basically said, oh, December 14th, that's our deadline.

00:50:12.000 And we're going to turn off any feeds that now talk about voter fraud.

00:50:16.000 I mean, think about that.

00:50:18.000 This is the, you know, YouTube is not only a massive video site, the number one video site in the world, it's also the second largest search site in the world.

00:50:27.000 People don't realize that.

00:50:30.000 There is so much content on YouTube.

00:50:33.000 It's a way a lot of people get their content.

00:50:34.000 It's a way a lot of people get their news, their analysis.

00:50:37.000 We certainly put out a lot of content on YouTube.

00:50:39.000 YouTube said on December 14th, you can't do that anymore.

00:50:43.000 Which, again, you are monetizing our First Amendment.

00:50:47.000 You are monetizing our speech.

00:50:48.000 You are monetizing our content.

00:50:50.000 And yeah, we are sharing in that platform in the benefit.

00:50:54.000 But it's a profound moment that happened on December 14th.

00:50:58.000 And we had to adjust our strategy just to be able to keep bringing you content every day.

00:51:04.000 But we shouldn't have had to.

00:51:05.000 I mean, frankly, we shouldn't have had to, and it was a travesty.

00:51:07.000 And it's degrading to even have to sort of work around such laws.

00:51:12.000 I mean, we're starting to put all of our content up on Rumble as well because of certain things, and they're going to start streaming soon.

00:51:18.000 So hopefully that becomes a viable competitor, and we're certainly there to help support it.

00:51:22.000 But nevertheless, those types of things are profound.

00:51:26.000 Those types of changes in our society are profound, and they're happening at breakneck speed.

00:51:31.000 And I think human beings are not designed to adapt and change to societal changes this fast.

00:51:37.000 And this is what you're seeing this convulsive moment happen.

00:51:40.000 So you guys can email us your thoughts of what you're seeing, what you're hearing.

00:51:43.000 And I want to know if you agree or disagree with what's happening here, because a lot of people are emailing us, cheering this on, which I'm surprised about.

00:51:50.000 But email us, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:51:52.000 What's your analysis of all of this?

00:51:54.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:51:56.000 Can we play this tape here?

00:51:58.000 It's about 10 seconds long of what's happening on the Senate floor in real time.

00:52:01.000 Play tape.

00:52:14.000 Quite a scene.

00:52:18.000 Who are you with?

00:52:26.000 Got it.

00:52:26.000 Thank you.

00:52:27.000 So it just looks like people wearing MAGA hats have gone.

00:52:30.000 That looks like the Senate floor.

00:52:31.000 It doesn't look like that many seats here.

00:52:33.000 Now, we are going to be joined momentarily with Congressman Madison Cawthorne, who's there right now.

00:52:39.000 He can kind of give us an update.

00:52:40.000 He's also objecting to the results.

00:52:42.000 Youngest member ever elected to the House of Representatives.

00:52:46.000 Congress and Madison Cawthorne is going to tell us what's really going on in the Capitol right now as it happens.

00:52:52.000 We're hearing from a lot of you, and we understand that there's a lot of, let's just say, tensions are going high.

00:52:59.000 What are you seeing, Isabel?

00:53:01.000 Yeah, the Viking man has assumed the death.

00:53:02.000 The Viking has assumed the dais.

00:53:04.000 Is this our raccoon hat, friend?

00:53:06.000 This is exciting stuff.

00:53:07.000 MAGA Viking.

00:53:08.000 MAGA Viking.

00:53:09.000 A lot of this, I think, is just a culmination of not having an outlet and not having a venue to express frustrations of how dramatically the world has changed in the last 12 months.

00:53:19.000 Not only do we see an assault on free speech online, but also we're prevented from literally gathering with one another one-on-one to talk about our frustration now because of COVID-19 regulations, not being able to go to work, not being able to go to school, not having friends and family over for holidays or gatherings on weekends.

00:53:35.000 So we've completely bottled up every individual's frustration without an outlet for it to be released.

00:53:41.000 So naturally, speaking to human behavior, we're going to see frustrations rise.

00:53:45.000 We're going to see tension culminate in something like this.

00:53:48.000 Not to say violence is ever okay.

00:53:50.000 We should absolutely all be collectively condemning any violence that may or may not be happening at the Capitol building today.

00:53:56.000 But people need an opportunity to speak their mind.

00:53:58.000 And frankly, that is the value that our country was founded on, that each individual has a role to play in society and that they have something to say when it comes to where our culture should be moving forward.

00:54:09.000 The predominant emails that we've been getting, freedom at charliekirk.com is not supporting this.

00:54:14.000 They are saying that it's mostly Antifa.

00:54:17.000 There are some people that are saying that they support the violence and you're entitled to that opinion.

00:54:26.000 But that is not a viewpoint that I have at all whatsoever.

00:54:30.000 Let's get this photo up on the stream.

00:54:32.000 It looks like federal law enforcement with guns drawn through the...

00:54:37.000 That's absolutely in the chamber itself.

00:54:38.000 So they're breaking windows into the chamber.

00:54:40.000 Yeah, breaking windows into the chamber.

00:54:42.000 It looks like they had their guns drawn.

00:54:44.000 We're getting lots of feedback here, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:54:47.000 And if you want to support, how long have we been here?

00:54:49.000 We've been here for four hours already, four or five.

00:54:51.000 We're going to go all day.

00:54:52.000 I did not expect this.

00:54:54.000 I could tell you that much.

00:54:55.000 You guys can give us a little bit of support at charliekirk.com slash support.

00:54:59.000 Do we have that on the live stream?

00:55:00.000 Are we showing that?

00:55:02.000 Connor?

00:55:03.000 Yeah.

00:55:04.000 It looks like guns are drawn on the people that are trying to get in.

00:55:07.000 Look at that.

00:55:09.000 Look at this.

00:55:10.000 Let's see if, guys, can we get this video up?

00:55:12.000 There's actually a video of an individual being pulled out on a stretcher from the Capitol building.

00:55:18.000 So that's not good.

00:55:23.000 Looks as if shots may have, in fact, been fired.

00:55:30.000 Yeah, it looks like people are getting very, very hurt, covered in blood, in bad shape.

00:55:34.000 So we'll, yeah, that is.

00:55:42.000 Apologies for the MSNBC here.

00:55:48.000 Right here, you're going to see this person coming in a stretcher right here.

00:56:06.000 Wow.

00:56:13.000 Is this a clip?

00:56:15.000 Yeah, it was a clip.

00:56:16.000 Go ahead and cut it off, guys.

00:56:17.000 Yeah.

00:56:18.000 So we have a source inside said Capitol Police shot an unarmed woman in front of him.

00:56:24.000 And so I guess that is it. 0.58

00:56:25.000 So let's see if BLM Incorporated cares about the shooting of an unarmed person.

00:56:31.000 Again, this is all just kind of hearsay.

00:56:34.000 And so continue to email us your thoughts.

00:56:36.000 Do you support this?

00:56:37.000 Are you behind this freedom at charliekirk.com?

00:56:40.000 The 99% of you that are emailing us and are saying right now that this is not what Trump supporters do.

00:56:47.000 They think violence is wrong.

00:56:48.000 This is not the way to go about it.

00:56:50.000 There are some outliers that are saying, I support this.

00:56:53.000 The revolution has begun.

00:56:55.000 And obviously, you have a right to that opinion.

00:56:57.000 I will not share that opinion, though.

00:56:59.000 And so that's that.

00:57:01.000 So we have Congressman Madison Cawthorne on the line.

00:57:03.000 Is that right?

00:57:05.000 Yep.

00:57:05.000 There we go.

00:57:06.000 Charlie, it's Madison.

00:57:07.000 How are you?

00:57:08.000 Congressman, I wish this was under better circumstances.

00:57:12.000 First of all, are you safe?

00:57:14.000 Charlie, I'm safe.

00:57:15.000 Yes, as you know, I believe in the Second Amendment as well as a lot of other members.

00:57:19.000 So we are armed.

00:57:20.000 We're in a safe location.

00:57:21.000 Can't disclose where.

00:57:23.000 But we are safe.

00:57:26.000 If you don't mind, I'll break down what happened in the House ward.

00:57:29.000 Yeah.

00:57:29.000 Yeah, please do, Madison.

00:57:30.000 The floor is yours.

00:57:33.000 You know, there were some incredible constitutional scholars, Mike Johnson, making a case about contesting this election based on constitutional merits.

00:57:42.000 You know, this is the normal process.

00:57:44.000 Many elections have been contested over the years, very normal circumstances.

00:57:48.000 Then we started hearing a ruckus outside.

00:57:50.000 We saw that the Capitol Police was getting a little restless.

00:57:53.000 You could tell just using situational awareness.

00:57:57.000 And then they came and said they started locking the doors to the House chamber and said, hey, we're going to keep you all here.

00:58:02.000 There's some people who have broke through the first few lines of security, and they are now on the House steps, which leads directly into the Capitol building.

00:58:10.000 After that point, we then had somebody come in.

00:58:14.000 They told us to prepare to put on our hazmat suits and escape hoods, which because they started firing tear gas to try and disperse this crowd that had made it into the Capitol Rotunda, the beautiful iconic image everybody knows.

00:58:29.000 And then some people made it into Statuary Hall, which is literally just on the other side of the door of the House chamber.

00:58:36.000 And this is a very rowdy crowd, very intent on violence, chanting that they wanted to stop the steal.

00:58:43.000 But Charlie, if it's coming from me, I believe that this was agitators strategically placed inside of this group.

00:58:50.000 You can call them Antifa.

00:58:51.000 You can call them people paid by the Democratic machine.

00:58:54.000 But to make the Trump campaign, the Trump movement look bad and to make this look like it was a violent outrage when really the battle was being fought by people like myself and other great patriots who were standing up against the establishment, standing up against this tyranny that we see in our country.

00:59:11.000 And then we were evacuated completely and moved very fast.

00:59:15.000 I've got to give a big shout out to Congressman Richard Hudson, Congressman Ted Budd.

00:59:20.000 They did an incredible job of assisting me down the stairways, assisting me through the waste.

00:59:23.000 So those two men are heroes, and I really do appreciate them.

00:59:27.000 The Capitol Police is trying to get everything under control.

00:59:29.000 There is an armed standoff currently.

00:59:31.000 Many shots have been fired.

00:59:33.000 It's very dangerous.

00:59:34.000 But Charlie, if you don't mind, I would really like to pontificate on why this happened.

00:59:39.000 I'm sure you've got an idea.

00:59:40.000 Go ahead, Congressman.

00:59:41.000 Wait, can I stop you just for one second?

00:59:43.000 You're saying you personally have heard multiple shots?

00:59:46.000 Because of the partisan divide that we have in this country, because of the national parties on either side, and that's Republican and Democrat.

00:59:54.000 These people who are trying to divide America so that they can garner power for themselves.

00:59:59.000 You see what this harvest, what we are reaping that has been sowed for the last several decades.

01:00:06.000 Charlie, I think that's why you started Turning Point USA.

01:00:08.000 That's why I ran for Congress.

01:00:10.000 It was to make America look like America again, look like a country where we can have an honest discourse of difficult ideas to have without having to resort to violence.

01:00:19.000 If we continue going down this path of debauchery, of tyranny and corruption that the Democrats are taking us down, then my friend, I'll tell you, we're going to see bloodshed in our country very soon.

01:00:28.000 And that is something that I just am sickened to think about.

01:00:32.000 I agree.

01:00:33.000 And, Madison, I agree with your analysis on this.

01:00:35.000 And when the Supreme Court doesn't take up decisions, when state legislatures don't take up decisions, when we're kicked off of social media and you insult half the country, an awful result of that is violence.

01:00:46.000 Andrew, you had a question.

01:00:47.000 I'm sorry.

01:00:48.000 There was a delay.

01:00:48.000 Yep.

01:00:48.000 Madison, can you hear me?

01:00:50.000 Just double-checking that the mic is working.

01:00:53.000 Great.

01:00:53.000 Yeah, so you're saying you personally have heard multiple shots fired.

01:01:01.000 Yes, we have heard shots.

01:01:03.000 Got it.

01:01:04.000 Are you hearing anything specifically on that?

01:01:05.000 Is that coming from the people that have broken into the Capitol building, or is that the Capitol Police?

01:01:15.000 I do not have an answer on that.

01:01:17.000 I know that Tyrion has been fired and dispersed, and some rubber bullets have been fired by Capitol Police.

01:01:23.000 But I don't know if the protesters are armed or where the fire is coming from.

01:01:29.000 It's just terrible.

01:01:30.000 And so, Congressman, to your best, I love calling you Congressman, by the way, the youngest ever elected Congressman in American history.

01:01:38.000 And Madison, I do have to say, thanks to you and Lowe and Laura and Boebert, you guys are armed now, right?

01:01:44.000 That's a new thing.

01:01:47.000 Yes, indeed.

01:01:48.000 Yes, indeed.

01:01:48.000 So, you know, obviously having the wheelchair, I'm able to carry multiple weapons at one time.

01:01:52.000 So, you know, everyone around me is armed.

01:01:54.000 And, you know, I think an armed society is a polite society.

01:01:57.000 So I feel very safe.

01:01:58.000 We don't have any high nerves here.

01:02:00.000 Everybody's very, very calm, very sober-minded.

01:02:03.000 So, Congressman, I do want to ask, though, are all your other members that you know of safe?

01:02:08.000 Is there anyone that is currently not in a position of that?

01:02:12.000 And do you see that maybe there are other, is it all violent or are there some people that are being peaceful?

01:02:18.000 You know, what is the makeup here?

01:02:20.000 Because I'm hearing that there might be a couple dozen agitators, but generally, you know, this is a peaceful demonstration outside.

01:02:27.000 You know what?

01:02:28.000 I will say I can't really speak to the latter half of that.

01:02:32.000 The Capitol Police was very heads up, and I was so focused on the constitutional argument we were making on the House floor that we were evacuating very quickly.

01:02:41.000 And so I did not see the protester myself, but I'll tell you, after reviewing video footage that we've been sent from Capitol Police and we're seeing on Twitter or Instagram, you can tell that a lot of these people in here are, there's just a violent, you know, I call them, you know, a dirty dozen, dirty couple dozen. 0.86

01:02:57.000 But what is going on is disgusting. 0.89

01:03:00.000 It's impermissible.

01:03:01.000 Nobody who believes in law and order should be doing this.

01:03:05.000 You know, we're going through the legal mechanisms to stop this steal, to stop this election fraud.

01:03:11.000 And so, you know, I urge everyone for peace.

01:03:14.000 I urge everyone to be sober-minded about this.

01:03:17.000 This is a very serious thing that we're dealing with right now.

01:03:19.000 Yeah.

01:03:19.000 Well, there's also reports of a woman being shot that has come in, which is something none of us wanted to see.

01:03:27.000 At least that is what the video footage and our sources are saying, which is just terrible.

01:03:32.000 And looks like guns have been drawn on the House floor.

01:03:35.000 There is images of that that are now making its way over there.

01:03:39.000 They've rolled furniture into the doorways, barricading.

01:03:43.000 Yeah, well, Charlie, I just got to say, man, hurry up and get done with Turning Point USA because I need you in Congress, brother.

01:03:50.000 I need some reinforcements.

01:03:52.000 This is because of the partisan infighting because of the two major establishments.

01:03:56.000 And we've got to stop career politicians. 0.94

01:03:58.000 It's disgusting.

01:03:59.000 Yeah, Congressman, can you talk about that a little bit more if you have a second?

01:04:02.000 Can you talk about what you've learned?

01:04:03.000 You're 25 years old.

01:04:04.000 You're a congressman.

01:04:05.000 You ran for office as a renegade, and now you are rightfully placing the blame of all this outrage and all of this anger at the political parties.

01:04:14.000 Can you talk about that, please?

01:04:15.000 Like, why is it, especially the Republicans, why are all these people so angry?

01:04:21.000 Build that out for us.

01:04:24.000 You know what?

01:04:25.000 You wouldn't see this much anger in the country if people felt like they were being fairly represented.

01:04:31.000 You know, Washington, D.C., because in the Constitution, it's not really even supposed to be a city.

01:04:36.000 It's just supposed to be a place where we come to litigate and to pass laws.

01:04:42.000 But you see, so they don't have a representative.

01:04:45.000 So you see that on their license plate, they have the classic line, no taxation without representation.

01:04:51.000 And you hear this all over the place.

01:04:53.000 You hear this from our founding fathers.

01:04:54.000 When you are not being adequately represented, it creates frustration and agitation within the populace.

01:05:00.000 And that's what I believe is going on in the Republican Party right now.

01:05:03.000 There is a contingent of what I would say patriots.

01:05:06.000 The overwhelming majority of Republicans are what I would call patriots.

01:05:10.000 But unfortunately, because of the way this partisan two-party system has been set up, there's some people who've been playing the power games.

01:05:16.000 And you know, my story is an anomaly.

01:05:20.000 Normally, you have to be part of the establishment to be able to get elected.

01:05:23.000 And so you have these establishment pawns who are being elected who are not adequately representing the American people.

01:05:30.000 And because of that, you see this frustration and fury that has been building up for the last several decades.

01:05:36.000 And so, you know, the people are hungry for fighters.

01:05:38.000 The people are hungry for people who are going to stand up.

01:05:41.000 People feel like their election has been stolen from them.

01:05:43.000 They feel like there has been so much fraud.

01:05:45.000 They feel like the Constitution was violated.

01:05:48.000 It's very, very clear in Article 1, Section 2, Clause 2 of the Constitution that only state legislatures can determine the manner and the means by which we are supposed to elect our national electors who elect the president.

01:06:01.000 And when you see that being violated by just city clerks or by these Democrats who unilaterally, whether it's a governor or secretary of state, who unilaterally make decisions to circumvent the state legislatures, you can see that the American people are hungry to have politicians who are going to stand up and fight for them.

01:06:20.000 And so then when they look to the Republican Party, when I am literally last night up until about 11 p.m. having to roam the halls of the Senate office building trying to find a senator to stand up with the gall to actually stand up to this election fraud, the American people are frustrated.

01:06:35.000 So, if we had people who actually represented what Americans were feeling, you would not see this frustration and fury within the American populace.

01:06:41.000 Yeah, the amen, Madison.

01:06:42.000 So, can you end on that note?

01:06:44.000 You were rolling around yesterday, people were saying, you know, with your titanium spine, literally and metaphorically, trying to get a senator to help agree to that.

01:06:55.000 You're 25 years old, Madison.

01:06:57.000 You know, we're basically the same age.

01:06:59.000 Just a couple years separate us.

01:07:01.000 You're fighting for this country more than people that have been there for a couple of decades.

01:07:04.000 Tell us your experience yesterday, and how does that manifest into some of this nonsense that we're seeing right now?

01:07:12.000 You know, I'll tell you, there are great leaders.

01:07:15.000 Him and I don't always see eye to eye, but Jim Jordan is someone who stood up courageously.

01:07:19.000 Andy Biggs, someone who stands up courageously, Lauren Boebert, Brian McDonald's.

01:07:24.000 But save the courageous few, people like Mike Johnson, who I greatly look up to, save those courageous few.

01:07:29.000 People in Congress, I would say, have a notable lack of courage.

01:07:34.000 And that's what my comms people will tell me to say: is say that they have a deficit of courage.

01:07:39.000 But I'll say it more plainly: that there is cowardice within the Constitution within the institution of the Congress.

01:07:47.000 And so, my experience here is that there is a lot of laziness, there is a lot of cowardice.

01:07:52.000 And what we need to do is we need to have people who are going to come here.

01:07:55.000 You know, we are about to, this is one of the most important days in our nation's history, what's going on today, January 6th.

01:08:01.000 And the fact that I was the last person in all of Congress to be at my office is ridiculous.

01:08:07.000 We should have all been working through the night, burning the candle on both ends, trying to make sure that we had a sound constitutional argument for this rather than just spewing conspiracy theories. 0.98

01:08:15.000 It's pathetic. 0.99

01:08:17.000 It's unbelievable. 0.99

01:08:18.000 Congressman, please stay safe.

01:08:20.000 I know you will.

01:08:21.000 And you don't know who is there and what their motives are.

01:08:25.000 And we don't support any of that nonsense or that violence.

01:08:29.000 What we're seeing, people are now hospitalized.

01:08:31.000 People are in the critical condition.

01:08:34.000 It's very bad.

01:08:35.000 And so, Congressman, thank you, though, for taking principled stands and for finding the real reason why this is all happening.

01:08:43.000 So, thank you.

01:08:44.000 We appreciate this, Madison.

01:08:46.000 It's an honor, brother.

01:08:47.000 Talk to you soon.

01:08:48.000 See you soon.

01:08:48.000 Thank you.

01:08:49.000 Thank you.

01:08:50.000 Andrew, what are we looking at?

01:08:52.000 And by the way, just a shout out to Congressman Madison Cawthorne.

01:08:55.000 He's doing a wonderful job for our country.

01:08:57.000 I'm glad he's safe.

01:08:58.000 And he's also, he has the right analysis that this is a betrayal of our leaders of why people are so angry in both parties.

01:09:06.000 He is analyzing this correctly.

01:09:07.000 No, it's 100% correct.

01:09:09.000 Yeah, and just a quick note on that: that, you know, obviously it looks like the vast majority of these folks are relatively peaceful.

01:09:18.000 They're just standing, occupying the steps.

01:09:20.000 But there are now reports that one woman, we showed the clip just a second ago, getting wheeled out on a stretcher.

01:09:27.000 It does look like she is in critical condition.

01:09:31.000 Not sure what the context obviously was of that, but she's been shot in the chest, critical condition.

01:09:37.000 And I think, you know, what's interesting about this, we talk about the crazy history of America, that a lot of times we tend to sanitize and whitewash.

01:09:45.000 You know, I think the last time, though, that the Capitol building was breached was probably, I mean, and please, audience, fact-check me on this, is 1812, the War of 1812.

01:09:56.000 So this is, well, look, I just want to be very honest with everyone watching here.

01:10:01.000 Some people are emailing us.

01:10:02.000 Most people, 99%, are saying they don't like the violence.

01:10:04.000 They don't like this.

01:10:05.000 The 1% of people that are emailing this, do you think this is really, this is like the lefts, this is their highlight reel they're going to use against us for the rest of our life?

01:10:14.000 And it just, this is going to, it just moves back years of work we have tried to do about how we are the ones that resort to speech and not physical violence.

01:10:25.000 And people say, well, it's time to take our country back.

01:10:27.000 Well, then you're calling for an all-out civil war if that's what you're calling for.

01:10:31.000 And no, that is not, that is not what we support here on this program at all whatsoever.

01:10:35.000 Well, and again, that's the vast minority of people, but I just feel a great need to say that.

01:10:40.000 There's a lot of blame that could be placed in a lot of places here, but I will say that this is what happens when you, you know, the elites in Washington, especially left of center, gave a wink and a nod when there was serious violence, BLM, Antifa raging in the streets, and there was a complete lack of condemnation.

01:11:01.000 I will tell you that across right-wing media sphere, there's almost complete and utter condemnation from everybody of any of the violence, of any breaking of laws.

01:11:11.000 So we did not see that same kind of condemnation across the board.

01:11:15.000 Let's look at some footage here of this is the window getting broken.

01:11:21.000 Yeah.

01:11:21.000 So it disappears.

01:11:22.000 People start to be breaching the Capitol building by breaking down some windows.

01:11:28.000 And there is a live stream of some people in Pelosi's office right now.

01:11:31.000 So let's try to find that live stream if we can cut to that.

01:11:34.000 Okay, these are some people cutting windows and all this, breaking down windows, play tape.

01:11:43.000 That's the U.S. Capitol. 0.99

01:11:44.000 All right, cut this crap out. 0.99

01:12:10.000 I want you to imagine for a second, just to be philosophically consistent, if this was Black Lives Matter, do you think that we would be denouncing this right now? 0.99

01:12:19.000 I mean, seriously, if this was BLM Incorporated and they were knocking down windows, do you think we'd be calling for their arrests, knocking down windows and all that? 0.69

01:12:27.000 I mean, that's just ridiculous to me.

01:12:29.000 Some people are in Nancy Pelosi's office.

01:12:31.000 What are the people, what are some of the other pundits saying?

01:12:34.000 Are we on an island here or am I living in some form of a you know?

01:12:38.000 No, I mean, New York Post is talking about shots fired.

01:12:41.000 We're hearing CNN's reporting that the woman is in critical condition after being shot.

01:12:47.000 You know, I think, you know, the basic call right now is stop calling them protesters, call them domestic terrorists.

01:12:54.000 Look, all these people are going to be tried under terrorist charges.

01:12:56.000 And again, the left won't.

01:12:57.000 I'm sorry, Isabel.

01:12:58.000 It's okay.

01:12:59.000 We've just heard from the President of the United States again as well, asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful.

01:13:05.000 His tweet says, no violence.

01:13:06.000 Remember, we are the party of law and order, respect the law, and are great men and women in blue.

01:13:11.000 Thank you.

01:13:12.000 And so, look, people are saying, and I get the sentiment.

01:13:15.000 And look, someone said, you know, they just messaged me.

01:13:18.000 They said, well, BLM wasn't arrested.

01:13:21.000 You're right.

01:13:21.000 But we know how this works, okay?

01:13:23.000 That's the point.

01:13:25.000 That you're all going to get arrested and you're all going to be tried for federal terrorism charges and you might go to Guantanamo and obey.

01:13:30.000 I'm not kidding.

01:13:31.000 And the difference level is that everybody on the right is joining them.

01:13:34.000 And people say, well, that warrants a civil war.

01:13:36.000 Like, okay, then explain to me the strategic plan of exactly how that works, okay?

01:13:41.000 Tell me how many of your family members you're willing to go send into a civil war of this country.

01:13:45.000 Seriously.

01:13:46.000 And they're like, well, I'm willing to do it.

01:13:47.000 Well, okay, that's a much bigger conversation that I completely reject.

01:13:53.000 Let's put it that way.

01:13:54.000 What I am thinking this is all headed towards is a national divorce, which is a completely different thing, which is where...

01:14:01.000 Oh, yeah, where 10 or 12 Republican states get together and they say.

01:14:04.000 Well, they just say, we're going to peacefully separate.

01:14:04.000 Jesusland.

01:14:07.000 Well, actually, there's a way to do the opposite of that as well.

01:14:09.000 If you look at the framework for the Convention of States idea to call another constitutional convention, theoretically, you could also expel a state that you feel no longer falls into the culture of the United States of America.

01:14:20.000 So I think there's multiple avenues for that to become within the realm of possibility here in the next few months and years.

01:14:26.000 And look, again, I want to say why is this happening?

01:14:29.000 Why is this all happening?

01:14:30.000 Happening because normal people, because people that love their country, the pressure release valves that were built for them no longer work.

01:14:40.000 The elections no longer work.

01:14:42.000 Free speech no longer works.

01:14:43.000 Freedom of speech is how you are able to express your disagreements.

01:14:47.000 Freedom of speech is how you are able to speak, just be able to voice not just your opinions, but get things off of your chest, right?

01:14:55.000 When all of that disappears, people manifest that into violence.

01:14:58.000 We have said this so many times, right?

01:14:59.000 There are two ways to govern people: through speech, rationale, and persuasion, or by force.

01:15:05.000 And as soon as you go to force, it does not end well.

01:15:08.000 It doesn't end well for you or for your country or your civilization or for the Constitution or for anyone.

01:15:12.000 What are you looking at, Andrew?

01:15:14.000 Yeah, I know.

01:15:15.000 I mean, basically, the same, you know, a lot of people are calling for the president to get on the, you know, get in, get on TV, get in front of the camera and condemn this.

01:15:25.000 He's issued a couple of tweets already saying keep everybody safe, support the Capitol Police.

01:15:32.000 You know, I think that it's naive to think that he's not going to shoulder a significant amount of the ire that is flung after, you know, in the hours that follow here, he's going to receive a lot of that.

01:15:47.000 But at the same time, you know, precedent would say that we were able to keep safe in one of these.

01:15:54.000 We were able to keep things orderly, especially all protests on the right have always been pretty orderly.

01:16:01.000 Well, that's why this is an outlier, which very well could be agitators infiltrating and people trying to use the emotions that you guys know that they know is out there and try to manifest that into something that's not.

01:16:13.000 Remember, the agitators on the left, they're very good at what they do.

01:16:17.000 They know what they are doing.

01:16:18.000 Yeah, I mean, we haven't, okay, to be fair, we haven't seen that reported.

01:16:21.000 And once we do, it's all speculation.

01:16:23.000 It's all speculation.

01:16:24.000 But I'm saying this is not consistent with any of the behavior we've seen from Trump supporters.

01:16:31.000 I want you guys to email me what you're thinking.

01:16:33.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

01:16:37.000 What's your opinion on this?

01:16:38.000 What is your perspective?

01:16:39.000 Please email us in real time, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:16:42.000 And again, the one thing that's going to frustrate me, though, and it's probably going to frustrate a lot of people in our audience, is that the media spin on this, again, you're not hearing anybody condone this.

01:16:50.000 You're hearing condemnation.

01:16:52.000 There's no place for violence.

01:16:53.000 There's no place for breaking the law and really putting our law enforcement in harm's way.

01:16:59.000 Not cool, not a good thing at all.

01:17:01.000 But two points off that.

01:17:04.000 One, it's going to really tick me off when I see the media spin on this.

01:17:08.000 It's already done.

01:17:09.000 It's cemented.

01:17:10.000 It's what did Will Chamberlain say?

01:17:14.000 That this is like Charlottesville times 100 negative for the conservative movement.

01:17:19.000 This is going to put the conservative movement back.

01:17:22.000 I am now going to have years of work when I go to college campuses persuading people that we're the people of speech and of tolerance and trying to hear the other side.

01:17:29.000 Don't continue, Andrew.

01:17:31.000 That's one thing.

01:17:32.000 But I mean, I will tell you that when BLM and when Antifa were rioting and burning, all we heard was mostly peaceful protests, mostly peaceful protests, mostly peaceful protests.

01:17:44.000 These were peaceful people.

01:17:46.000 I mean, we could build you a montage a mile long about mostly peaceful protests.

01:17:52.000 There will be no such grounds given to people on the right that are doing this. 0.98

01:18:00.000 They will be hung and quartered. 0.97

01:18:04.000 The book is going to be thrown at them. 0.98

01:18:05.000 So this tape is going to be played back for years.

01:18:08.000 And so let me just be very clear.

01:18:10.000 And I know this is a conversation people like to have.

01:18:12.000 People say, well, how is this different than our revolution?

01:18:14.000 Okay, if you're now saying we want an armed rebellion revolution, then go say that.

01:18:19.000 I'm not supporting that.

01:18:22.000 I don't think we're there as a country.

01:18:24.000 I don't.

01:18:24.000 I just have to say that, okay?

01:18:26.000 A lot of people are emailing us freedom at charliekirk.com saying they're going to go take up arms.

01:18:30.000 I'm telling you right now, you're going to lose, okay? 1.00

01:18:33.000 And it's a stupid idea, and that's not where we are in our country. 1.00

01:18:36.000 And there's a lot of anger. 1.00

01:18:38.000 There's a lot of people that have that.

01:18:40.000 You have to use the mechanisms that are there in front of you.

01:18:43.000 If not, you go try to barter a peaceful separation.

01:18:47.000 But this stuff, I'm telling you, is this exactly what the left has wanted for a long time.

01:18:53.000 You could not have written a better gift to them.

01:18:56.000 This will now, this will justify their power grab.

01:18:58.000 This will justify mass surveillance.

01:19:00.000 This will justify all of this stuff.

01:19:02.000 For those of you that are emailing us freedom at charliekirk.com that are supporting it and saying that they are now prepping for a civil war.

01:19:08.000 I denounce that completely.

01:19:09.000 Andrew, this media spin on what's happening is already done.

01:19:12.000 I mean, frankly, the word terrorists is the number one trending word on Twitter right now.

01:19:16.000 You're seeing the editor at large for our friends over at Media Matters literally tweeting four minutes ago, Josh Hawley, Senator Josh Hawley, is a terrorist.

01:19:24.000 Let's be clear about that.

01:19:26.000 So this has already broken up.

01:19:27.000 Well, media managers can go pound Sam.

01:19:29.000 Of course, I'm going to agree on that.

01:19:31.000 But the reality is the cat's out of the bag here.

01:19:33.000 I think we're going to be able to do it.

01:19:34.000 No, yeah, the narrative writes itself.

01:19:36.000 I mean, you don't have to be a communications whiz to understand what's already going on.

01:19:41.000 Look, this is from a source that I really trust.

01:19:43.000 As I'm watching it continue to unfold, I'm pretty sure that Antifa infiltrated the Patriot groups today and as part of the color revolution script, where their goal is to get us into a civil war.

01:19:52.000 I really don't think the Patriots would incite the violence that you're seeing right now.

01:19:56.000 That's from a source that I really trust.

01:19:58.000 And so I'd say I believe that 50%.

01:20:01.000 I do believe that there could be agitators that are whooping everybody up.

01:20:05.000 Look at this.

01:20:05.000 These people are wearing gas masks.

01:20:07.000 Because of the tear gas.

01:20:09.000 Yep, because of the tear gas.

01:20:10.000 That's what Madison was telling us about.

01:20:14.000 And so Mike Cernovich has said this: quote, Antifa always counter-protests Trump's event, yet they didn't today.

01:20:20.000 Their absence is the dog that didn't bark.

01:20:22.000 Maybe instead they started to dress up or not.

01:20:25.000 That's a very compelling argument, isn't it?

01:20:27.000 That's the most compelling argument.

01:20:28.000 And look, the other argument is this: there is no track record of Trump supporters doing this.

01:20:33.000 None.

01:20:33.000 We have never seen this.

01:20:34.000 Instead, we've seen the opposite of Trump's supporters being pummeled and being attacked and all of it.

01:20:39.000 And then you might have some people that are on the edges that all of a sudden, you know.

01:20:45.000 And the vast majority are literally just standing there with flags waving, taking back the house for the first time.

01:20:50.000 Well, can we just have a little bit of levity?

01:20:52.000 Please, Kyle Khashuv has tweeted out: Pelosi's schedulers have an entire section dedicated for her hair appointments because people have just assumed control of Pelosi's computer.

01:21:03.000 I guess it's the people's house, right?

01:21:05.000 So here we are.

01:21:07.000 That track record, though, of a lack of violence on the conservative side of thinking is so important.

01:21:12.000 I can't think of how many events each of us have attended.

01:21:15.000 The protests against Brett Kavanaugh, Trump support rallies, March for Life, March for Our Lives.

01:21:20.000 I mean, we could go on and on and on and on.

01:21:22.000 And that lack of a counterprotest from the left is so clearly missing here that it certainly begs the question: where are they?

01:21:31.000 That's exactly right.

01:21:32.000 And so there is no, I saw Antifa, it's going down, none of it, right?

01:21:38.000 So we'd heard conflicting reports about the National Guard.

01:21:41.000 It looks like it will be activated.

01:21:44.000 About 1,100 guardsmen are going to be on duty.

01:21:48.000 And this comes after the breach of the Capitol.

01:21:51.000 So, I mean, I would have assumed there wouldn't have been, but now it looks like it's for sure.

01:21:58.000 Yes, Kayleigh McEnany is reporting this saying the National Guard is on the way along with other federal protective services.

01:22:05.000 And anyone who has done this or who has played into this, they will be arrested, and they're not going to get parking tickets.

01:22:13.000 I could tell you that much.

01:22:14.000 So someone says right here, Charlie, you guys are wrong and weak in this.

01:22:18.000 This is Patriots that are over dialogue, over being stepped on.

01:22:22.000 They are fighting a righteous fight.

01:22:23.000 Some wars are worth fighting.

01:22:24.000 Some wars are worth righteous. 1.00

01:22:25.000 Okay, Larissa Enriquez, then go die right now and go shoot at police officers. 1.00

01:22:30.000 I mean, that is the dumbest take I could possibly imagine. 1.00

01:22:33.000 That's where this ends. 0.99

01:22:34.000 And if you're calling for a massive insurrection, then you are saying that your fellow countrymen are enemies.

01:22:39.000 That's what you're saying.

01:22:41.000 And that is the wrong take that is rooted in emotion and not in rationale, right, Andrew?

01:22:47.000 Yeah, I mean, 100%.

01:22:48.000 And you've got to also understand that these protesters are disgracing all of us right now.

01:22:54.000 Every moral high ground, every piece of argument is now going to be contested.

01:23:00.000 They're going to play this video back.

01:23:01.000 And you've got to understand, they hold all the levers, except for we the people.

01:23:06.000 And they are going to use this as propaganda now for the next 20, 30 years that shows that right-wing violence and right-wing extremism.

01:23:15.000 So this puts us all back.

01:23:17.000 This does not represent all Trump supporters, and yet they will use it to tar and feather all of us.

01:23:24.000 From sources I am hearing and seeing outside of some of the emails that I'm getting that are calling for a civil war, which I'm going to just continue to just kind of swat down because I just feel a moral obligation to do that.

01:23:34.000 It seems like the predominant viewpoint right now is that this was left-wing, potentially left-wing agitators that infiltrated into this.

01:23:43.000 So the gunshot, how does that make any sense?

01:23:50.000 I mean, if you're in with a bunch of protesters that are your people, why would you be shooting at each other?

01:23:57.000 Who shot who?

01:23:58.000 Was this a Capitol police officer that shot one of the people going inside?

01:24:04.000 We don't have any clarity on who shot who and where that came from.

01:24:08.000 So definitely going to remain a bit skeptical about that story.

01:24:13.000 We do know that she is shot.

01:24:14.000 We saw footage of a woman getting wheeled out on a stretcher.

01:24:19.000 So we know that this is real.

01:24:20.000 This isn't made up.

01:24:21.000 But nevertheless, maybe this story that's playing out is not so simple.

01:24:26.000 Maybe it's not so clean cut.

01:24:27.000 Maybe to Cernovich's point, the fact that they were not counter-protesting day is the dog that didn't bark.

01:24:34.000 It is the proof that there's something else afoul here.

01:24:38.000 Well, I think it's clear for anyone watching this isn't a simple situation that's happening right now.

01:24:42.000 We're seeing very short, isolated clips of video.

01:24:45.000 We're seeing still images from people trying to scale the Capitol building.

01:24:49.000 But we don't know who these people are.

01:24:51.000 Just because you're wearing a red hat does not mean you voted a certain way or you believe a certain thing.

01:24:55.000 So we have to be very cautious until we get some sort of confirmation.

01:24:59.000 Yes, it's being reported that Capitol Police shot someone trying to breach the building.

01:25:03.000 That's right.

01:25:04.000 That's right.

01:25:06.000 So email us your questions as it's happening in real-time freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:25:10.000 I would not be surprised that this is a psyops operation from left-wing agitators that are playing off of the understandable frustration from Trump supporters, got them worked up, and then people act and work emotionally.

01:25:24.000 I would not be surprised by that.

01:25:25.000 We're going to look for more evidence of that, and my reasoning is twofold.

01:25:28.000 Number one, no counter-protest, as Mike Cernovich has mentioned, from Antifa all day today.

01:25:34.000 And number two, I would also say that this is very uncharacteristic of Trump supporters.

01:25:43.000 I mean, how many Trump rallies have we been to?

01:25:45.000 We've never seen prologue anyone work.

01:25:47.000 This is crazy.

01:25:48.000 If past is prologue, you know, you think about the night of the RNC, the final night, where you had Senator Rand Paul getting accosted in the streets.

01:25:58.000 This is the type of behavior that we've come to expect from left and right.

01:26:03.000 This does not fit.

01:26:04.000 It really doesn't fit the fact patterns here.

01:26:07.000 So I think as we've been saying, let's reserve judgment.

01:26:11.000 We don't like this, but at the same time, we don't know who it is.

01:26:15.000 We don't know who these people are.

01:26:17.000 That has yet to be determined.

01:26:19.000 So I happen to think that a very viable theory is that there were agitators.

01:26:24.000 They whooped people into a frenzy and they started storming.

01:26:29.000 Were those people that were real Trump supporters or were those infiltrators?

01:26:34.000 We don't know.

01:26:35.000 I'm going to withhold judgment because to Charlie's point, it does not fit the fact pattern.

01:26:39.000 I have said this, though, and this only goes and shows my argument.

01:26:43.000 And some of you that are very angry emailing us freedom at CharlieKirk.com, they'll at least agree at this, which this only goes to show that we are headed for a national divorce very soon.

01:26:52.000 There is nothing that there's very little that unites someone from Kansas than someone from San Francisco.

01:26:58.000 And so, what do you do about that?

01:27:01.000 It's very, you start, I think, I'm not saying I support this.

01:27:04.000 I'm just saying this is going to happen, where certain states are going to say, we don't want to live in the same country as you.

01:27:08.000 We're going to break away.

01:27:09.000 We've been talking about this for quite some time, and this only goes to show that we are, you know, we are headed in that direction, unfortunately, very, very soon.

01:27:19.000 And it's because our leaders have done such a terrible job governing our country.

01:27:23.000 Jack Pisovic said, CNN will be playing these clips back for the next 10 years.

01:27:27.000 Try 20.

01:27:29.000 Yeah, try the rest of our lifetime, honestly.

01:27:32.000 I think we've already seen a lot of sentiment before today and the events of today, too, about this idea of a national divorce.

01:27:38.000 There have been several prominent people talking about it.

01:27:41.000 You've seen ideas for it repeatedly introduced in the state legislature in Texas, at least.

01:27:46.000 But I think after the events of today, that's certainly going to become a national conversation that we'll be hearing a lot more about.

01:27:52.000 Yeah.

01:27:52.000 Yes.

01:27:53.000 I mean, I see a lot of frustration that mirrors my own about just knowing how this is going to be reported.

01:28:00.000 You can have, I mean, just a ballpark estimate.

01:28:04.000 How many BLM and Antifa riots were we exposed to?

01:28:09.000 Do they never have to be a moment?

01:28:09.000 I remember being afraid in my home because there was a riot down the street.

01:28:15.000 And we were being told there were reports that Antifa was going to be, and BLM were going to be coming for us in the suburbs, and they were going to bring it to everybody's neighborhoods.

01:28:25.000 You know, there was legitimate in June, remember back, it was legitimately a terrifying moment in the country.

01:28:33.000 We don't hear anything about that.

01:28:34.000 You never hear about that.

01:28:36.000 You don't hear anything about it.

01:28:38.000 In fact, sometimes that's actively even celebrated by prominent individuals on the streets.

01:28:42.000 Exactly.

01:28:43.000 What you hear is actually you hear that it was mostly peaceful protesters again and again and again, mostly peaceful protesters.

01:28:52.000 This will not happen here because we don't control media because the right does not control the media.

01:28:56.000 The left controls the media.

01:28:58.000 And we may not like that.

01:28:59.000 We may not like the rules of engagement, but that's just the way it is.

01:29:02.000 And so, you know, again to my friend Jack, it's going to be 20 years, not 10, maybe 30.

01:29:09.000 Yeah, go ahead, Joe.

01:29:10.000 So, no, it's just some people are asking Charlie, what do you mean of this divorce?

01:29:14.000 I mean, it's no different than a divorce like any other.

01:29:18.000 And I'm sorry, I just got an email here that I want to pull up here.

01:29:24.000 Somehow, there is CNN playing around here somewhere.

01:29:26.000 I don't know where that all is.

01:29:27.000 I think it's fine.

01:29:28.000 It's not coming through our mics, so it's good. 0.53

01:29:30.000 So a national divorce would be no different than a marital divorce, where you come through and you say, We want to separate.

01:29:41.000 Here are the terms of separation.

01:29:42.000 And that's coming.

01:29:44.000 So some people are just now starting to watch.

01:29:47.000 Let's do a recap.

01:29:48.000 So it started with the roll call.

01:29:49.000 A lot of people are emailing us, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:29:52.000 They're like, how on earth did we get here?

01:29:54.000 Andrew, take us through how we got here, and then I'll build out the national divorce argument more.

01:29:58.000 I mean, what have we been doing?

01:30:00.000 Two weeks building up to this date, January 6th, where we're counting the electors.

01:30:04.000 Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2000 called January 6th the date of ultimate significance when it came to selecting the president.

01:30:12.000 So we heard all these dates being thrown out, December 14th, whatever, safe harbor.

01:30:16.000 No, it's January 6th.

01:30:17.000 This is a big day.

01:30:19.000 There was a lot of debate about what the vice president's powers constitutionally are.

01:30:25.000 We found out during the president's speech this morning, he rallied a bunch of people right in front of the White House, hundreds of thousands of people listening to him speak.

01:30:34.000 He was rallying him there.

01:30:35.000 While he was speaking, the vice president issued a statement that said he had searched the Constitution, he had studied history, and decided that he did not have the constitutional power to unilaterally reject or accept votes.

01:30:50.000 His role, in other words, was mostly ceremonial, but he would allow for the objections to be heard in a reasonable manner.

01:30:56.000 So here we are: Alabama, Alaska go by, no con contest.

01:31:02.000 We get to Arizona.

01:31:04.000 Again, this is alphabetical order, and this is at a joint session of the House and the Senate.

01:31:08.000 Get to Arizona.

01:31:11.000 Objections were raised by Representative Paul Goser, who has sat in this very chair that I'm sitting in, actually.

01:31:18.000 He raised an objection, and Vice President Pence, who's the president of the Senate, asked who from the Senate will join him.

01:31:26.000 Up stands Senator Cruz.

01:31:29.000 So we have Cruz, we have Gosser, and we have 60 other members of the House that join Representative Gosser in challenging Arizona's election results and the electors.

01:31:41.000 So we get the standing ovation.

01:31:43.000 The two chambers break in for a two-hour debate.

01:31:47.000 So we had the House goes to the House, basically stays there because that's where they do the joint session.

01:31:52.000 And then the Senate walked over to the Senate chamber to begin debate.

01:31:57.000 And we heard from Jim Jordan.

01:31:58.000 We heard from Andy Biggs.

01:32:00.000 We heard from Ted Cruz.

01:32:03.000 We heard from, and right when we were hearing from actually Andy Biggs, or no, it was Gosser was speaking.

01:32:12.000 There was an interruption.

01:32:14.000 It looked like certain police officials came in.

01:32:17.000 They stopped the proceedings.

01:32:19.000 The chair stopped the proceedings.

01:32:21.000 And there was some confusion.

01:32:24.000 We were hearing reports of a bomb threat.

01:32:26.000 We were also hearing that protesters, call them domestic terrorists, if you want, rule breakers, lawbreakers, had stormed and breached the outer perimeter of the Capitol building.

01:32:40.000 There had been apparently three sets of barricades.

01:32:43.000 They had stormed them all, breached them all.

01:32:45.000 And we were starting to get reports of conflict with the Capitol police, pushing, shoving, batons drawn.

01:32:53.000 Then it started getting even more intense.

01:32:55.000 They breached the building itself.

01:32:58.000 And they were, according to Madison Cawthorne, who we just had on, they got into the actual outside the chamber.

01:33:04.000 At that point, they escorted everybody, all of the representatives, out to an undisclosed location.

01:33:10.000 They even made some of them wear hazmat suits because they were trying to disperse the crowds with tear gas.

01:33:17.000 Pretty chaotic situation.

01:33:19.000 A woman has been shot in the chest.

01:33:21.000 That's confusing.

01:33:22.000 Why, if all of these people are supposedly Trump supporters, why are they shooting at each other?

01:33:27.000 That's very unclear.

01:33:29.000 Maybe give some credence to the idea that there are conflicting factions within these people that have stormed the Capitol, potentially even Antifa themselves.

01:33:38.000 A lot of chaos, a lot of confusion.

01:33:40.000 But by and large, there is condemnation for the actions that are happening.

01:33:45.000 A lot of you are emailing us saying that you understand the frustration.

01:33:49.000 We certainly do.

01:33:50.000 I think there is a very valid place for a conversation about where this is bubbling up and where this is coming from.

01:33:55.000 But at the same time, we don't know who these people are.

01:33:58.000 So let's not jump to conclusions.

01:33:59.000 Let's not hyperventilate.

01:34:00.000 This is usually not what the right does.

01:34:02.000 This is what the left does.

01:34:04.000 So we're all, you know, color us all surprised.

01:34:07.000 We wanted to have a constitutional debate about the election results and about the integrity of our elections.

01:34:14.000 Meanwhile, this broke up.

01:34:16.000 The president, I think it's worth saying, has issued at least three tweets that I've seen condemning the violence and standing in solidarity with the Capitol police.

01:34:25.000 I think that's where we're at, certainly.

01:34:27.000 Some people are calling for him to get on TV and do it in person.

01:34:31.000 If that holds symbolic significance, I think that's a fair point.

01:34:35.000 Perhaps he will do that.

01:34:36.000 But it's, yeah, chaos.

01:34:38.000 So a lot of people are asking freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:34:41.000 Charlie, what do you mean by national divorce?

01:34:43.000 Look, it would be...

01:34:44.000 I'm not saying I support this, but I'm saying that this is not anything that is necessarily unprecedented in civilizational terms, where you have 10 or 12 states that say to the other 30 states, look, we're going to govern ourselves.

01:34:56.000 And it just becomes kind of like a Canada-U.S. relationship where you're not enemies.

01:35:01.000 It's just kind of, we're going to do our own tax policy, our own policy on certain issues.

01:35:05.000 I'm not saying I support it.

01:35:06.000 I think that that would be a great gift to China and a great gift to a lot of what we've been able to do as a beautiful country.

01:35:12.000 But the kind of the ties that keep us together, they're vanishing very quickly.

01:35:19.000 And so you're not going to support violence.

01:35:21.000 Of course not.

01:35:22.000 I'm denouncing it.

01:35:23.000 I've been doing that for the last couple hours.

01:35:25.000 There's a lot of people that are emailing me, freedomatcharlykirk.com, that are calling for violence.

01:35:30.000 There's people that have emailed me right now and said that they're getting their weapons and they're going in the streets.

01:35:34.000 I don't support that.

01:35:36.000 We don't support that here, right?

01:35:38.000 And we've said that in a variety of different ways.

01:35:40.000 And so, look, the long and short of it is this, is that the reason this is all happening is because you have to have a country that is unified on shared history.

01:35:50.000 We no longer have that.

01:35:51.000 They say it's founded in 1619 and we're racist, bigoted, homophobic, colonialist that has a share value system.

01:35:57.000 They now say ah, men and ah woman, they've got ridden, got you know got rid of God and also has a shared culture.

01:36:03.000 They've gotten rid of that as well.

01:36:04.000 When you remove those things, what actually ties you together except maybe a unified currency, right?

01:36:11.000 And so, yeah, the geography is the only thing at that point that then does that.

01:36:17.000 There is a woman in critical condition after being shot in the chest and per Noah Gray, who said that no other details were provided.

01:36:26.000 Sergeant of Arms says they expect to take about half an hour or so to clear the Capitol.

01:36:30.000 They have the protesters contained to one area and they're working on getting them out, is what I'm being told.

01:36:36.000 Mike Cernovich has tweeted out today was the Democrats 9-11.

01:36:41.000 This crisis won't go to waste. 0.90

01:36:42.000 He's right.

01:36:43.000 They are going to use this as an excuse to surveil, to audit, to target every Trump supporter, every single one out there.

01:36:50.000 And so this is where we are.

01:36:52.000 And so, and some people are saying, Charlie, they're emailing us freedom at charliekirk.com, that things are not as easy with that potential national divorce idea.

01:37:02.000 I'm not saying it's easy.

01:37:02.000 I'm saying that the country's separating and fracturing very quickly.

01:37:07.000 But I actually am of the belief right now that more people are of agreement to actually want to have constitutional civil ways to actually end our differences than this.

01:37:23.000 And so what are we looking at, Andrew?

01:37:25.000 I'm just, there's a conversation going on specifically about this guy.

01:37:29.000 So there's an image from somewhere within the Capitol of the Let's get this up on the screen.

01:37:34.000 The MAGA, the MAGA Viking here.

01:37:36.000 I'll send, we'll get this one second.

01:37:40.000 I'll share this with all of you.

01:37:43.000 So there's a conversation kind of ongoing about the tattoo on this gentleman's hand that looks like a hammer and sickle.

01:37:52.000 So specifically.

01:37:54.000 Well, here's the good news is that I know someone that has facial recognition technology.

01:37:59.000 And the ones that aren't wearing masks, I would like to find out if these are actually Trump supporters.

01:38:03.000 But go ahead.

01:38:04.000 Yeah, I mean, I'm just seeing multiple people now starting to openly question this.

01:38:09.000 You know, Ann Coulter, she's actually been on the show before.

01:38:14.000 We love Ann.

01:38:14.000 This group, especially, the short one, looks like Antifa.

01:38:18.000 And she's showing this image.

01:38:21.000 I have to agree.

01:38:24.000 I got to avoid judging any book by its cover here, right?

01:38:27.000 A little bit.

01:38:28.000 But I mean, if you're going to just do a little bit of just this is logic here, I got to agree with it.

01:38:38.000 Like, these folks kind of do look like Antifa, like, in Trump gear.

01:38:42.000 I'm not saying I have any proof.

01:38:43.000 I'm not saying I have any proof.

01:38:45.000 I'm not saying that that's what I think.

01:38:46.000 I'm just, I'm playing this out.

01:38:49.000 There's a lot of incoming information.

01:38:50.000 We'll see what's ultimately proven out.

01:38:53.000 But these two images side by side, I have to say, I mean, that does look like a hammer and sickle.

01:39:00.000 Like a hammer and sickle.

01:39:01.000 Well, what we've been talking about, too, is that the pattern of behavior just doesn't line up.

01:39:04.000 There's zero history of this type of behavior that we've seen at any even very large event in favor of the president in the last few years.

01:39:13.000 Meanwhile, even just this week, we saw very extreme behavior at the home of Senator Josh Hawley from Antifa right there in Washington, D.C.

01:39:19.000 So I'm hesitant to place blame on Trump supporters, as many people have been doing, all of our blue check mark friends on social media and on cable news, but we just don't know.

01:39:31.000 We have to wait.

01:39:32.000 We have to reserve judgment until we know what we don't know.

01:39:35.000 Justin, Mike Pence has unfollowed Donald Trump on Twitter.

01:39:38.000 Okay.

01:39:39.000 And also, Justin, a pipe bomb has just been found and safely detonated at the Republican National Committee.

01:39:45.000 So whomever is doing this is I'm not exactly sure.

01:39:50.000 Someone just emailed us in freedom at charliekirk.com, and they've also supported us at charliekirk.com/slash support.

01:39:57.000 Thank you.

01:39:58.000 This is a very good point.

01:40:00.000 If you wanted to disrupt the proceedings, what better plan than to cause chaos?

01:40:03.000 I fully believe this is Antifa posing as Trump supporters that started this attack, praying that they are exposed and the truth be known as soon as possible.

01:40:11.000 It seems that is a predominant viewpoint amongst a lot of people we're talking to, that there's something here that isn't right.

01:40:16.000 Right.

01:40:17.000 Something's not adding up.

01:40:18.000 And I think we're all ready to reserve some judgment until we know what is missing here.

01:40:24.000 Andrew, you're responding to Sean King, which is always a dangerous thing to do on Twitter.

01:40:31.000 True.

01:40:32.000 So we're continuing to monitor this situation.

01:40:35.000 It looks like there are people that are outside of the Congress, outside of the House and the Senate that are just waving flags and that are just kind of watching the situation.

01:40:45.000 And it seems as if there is an additional, you see that in the bottom left-hand of your screen right there, the hammer and sickle kind of imagery there, which very well might be a leftist infiltration into that.

01:40:58.000 Interesting side by side, who knows?

01:41:02.000 Who knows at this point?

01:41:03.000 I mean, it could be some other symbol.

01:41:06.000 I'm not an expert on far-right or far-left symbology, but I will tell you, that does look like a hammer and sickle.

01:41:14.000 Pretty clearly the red switch.

01:41:15.000 Could be.

01:41:16.000 I'm also seeing reports of some far right national tattoos.

01:41:21.000 I don't know.

01:41:21.000 Yeah, I mean, again, we're not experts on imagery or symbolism or tattoos here.

01:41:29.000 So can we get that video that I sent in?

01:41:32.000 Connor, was there any basis to that of some people that were saying?

01:41:38.000 And so also, any of you guys tell me when's the last time any Trump supporter ever attacked the police?

01:41:43.000 I mean, they are applauded more than anything else at Trump rallies.

01:41:47.000 I mean, what is law and order?

01:41:53.000 You know, that is not something that we have necessarily ever seen, right?

01:41:59.000 No.

01:42:00.000 The heck? 0.87

01:42:00.000 What is that? 0.87

01:42:02.000 It's just a tweet from Eric Erickson.

01:42:04.000 Shoot the protesters, waive the rules, impeach, waive the rules, convict, waive the rules, deny the ability to run for election again.

01:42:12.000 I'm not sure what the heck that means, but Eric Erickson is allegedly a conservative from Georgia who has had the opportunity. 0.96

01:42:19.000 He actually hosted the vice president once at one of his events.

01:42:22.000 I don't know where his head's at on that. 0.97

01:42:26.000 What I will not stand idly by and put up with is this kind of crap where conservatives feigned a little bit of being upset at BLM and Antifa, and yet before they even know if it's the right, they rail on it like it's the end of the world because it's much more fun to beat up on conservatives. 0.98

01:42:47.000 They get to get in on the game too, I guess. 0.99

01:42:50.000 I just, it makes me sick.

01:42:52.000 I reject the premise.

01:42:54.000 Listen, are we all condemning violence?

01:42:56.000 Yes.

01:42:58.000 Am I going to go out of my way to be three times as hard because it's apparently right-wing law-breaking?

01:43:05.000 No.

01:43:06.000 I'm going to wait for the facts to come in, and I'm going to condemn the fact that you're going to be able to make a general rule of thumb is I don't support when you start smashing windows at the U.S. Congress.

01:43:14.000 General rule of thumb, but I'm also not going to say, oh, waive the rules. 0.99

01:43:18.000 Let's shoot these people. 0.99

01:43:19.000 But let me be very clear. 1.00

01:43:20.000 You want me to tell you how they could have done this today and how this would not have been a problem?

01:43:27.000 Two things.

01:43:27.000 If they wanted to do the Martin Luther King doctrine, let's pretend this is not agitators.

01:43:31.000 Let's pretend this is Trump supporters, which I'm not even willing to concede, but let's pretend it is.

01:43:35.000 Then they could have done the Martin Luther King thing.

01:43:37.000 They could have blocked the street and all took the arrest.

01:43:41.000 They could have done something that is not necessarily violent, but was disruptive.

01:43:46.000 They could have, that's a Martin Luther King playbook, but you take the punishment.

01:43:50.000 You get arrested and you take the punishment.

01:43:52.000 The more pseudo-insurrectionist way to do it, I hate using that word, is you start physically taking over, smashing windows, and causing physical harm, right?

01:44:02.000 If there would have been 100,000 Trump supporters that went into Pennsylvania Avenue and sat down and then would have demanded to be arrested and they don't hurt anybody, that's called civil disobedience.

01:44:13.000 You have to be willing to be arrested for it, though.

01:44:15.000 Well, not necessarily.

01:44:16.000 The left has perfected that.

01:44:17.000 No, no, I'm saying that's a diff, that's different.

01:44:19.000 This is a completely different playbook.

01:44:22.000 When you start smashing windows and weapons start getting drawn, look, and that's where the left has been able to perfect it in a lot of different ways, right?

01:44:30.000 And so.

01:44:31.000 Well, that line has been blurred at this point.

01:44:33.000 We've seen peaceful protests refer to literally burning down churches and entire cities and smashing windows of shops.

01:44:40.000 And what do you think would have been more effective, right?

01:44:42.000 Like if all of a sudden if they would have done a sit-in, by the way, they could have entered Congress.

01:44:47.000 I believe you're usually allowed to enter Congress.

01:44:49.000 Maybe the pandemic rules might have changed it as visitors.

01:44:53.000 Yeah, but not the chamber while it's in session.

01:44:56.000 I'm not saying the gallery, but they could have easily gone in.

01:44:59.000 You weren't allowed to enter today, is what Connor was saying.

01:45:01.000 Okay.

01:45:02.000 That makes sense.

01:45:03.000 But they were allowed to enter during all the Kavanaugh stuff.

01:45:05.000 Remember all the interruptions that happened during that?

01:45:07.000 They had to barricade up, which is what it was.

01:45:08.000 The point is this, is that if you're really saying, like, let's go Martin Luther King, let's do all of that, then you need to do something.

01:45:17.000 The doctrine of civil disobedience, written by either Thoreau or Emerson, one of the two, you must choose something that does not harm another person.

01:45:25.000 That is part of the doctrine of civil disobedience, right?

01:45:27.000 And then you must be willing to accept the punishment.

01:45:30.000 Those are the two big things.

01:45:32.000 And so the Antifa were the ones that likely broke the windows.

01:45:36.000 I mean, or whomever that was.

01:45:37.000 That is not a Trump-style tactic.

01:45:39.000 But if 10,000 Trump supporters were like, you know what, we are going to sit in the street and we're going to delay traffic, but you are going to have to arrest us, that's under the doctrine of Martin Luther King civil disobedience, right?

01:45:53.000 Okay.

01:45:54.000 I just want to make that very clear.

01:45:56.000 I mean, you could further play that out.

01:45:57.000 I mean, the right is now the inheritors of Martin Luther King's legacy.

01:46:03.000 Used to be all Americans. 0.68

01:46:03.000 That's true. 0.68

01:46:04.000 But the left tried to claim it, but then the left progressed beyond the value system of Martin Luther King and stopped caring about his famous speech that says, I don't want my children to be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

01:46:17.000 The left abandoned that value.

01:46:21.000 And really, it's become the right's mantle.

01:46:23.000 So if you're on the left and you're listening to me say that and you're scoffing, it's true.

01:46:27.000 Prove me wrong.

01:46:28.000 Prove me wrong.

01:46:31.000 Jr. Day in a couple of days as well.

01:46:32.000 It's a real thing.

01:46:33.000 Right, but I'm saying, some of the people are saying, well, Charlie, what are we supposed to do with all this injustice?

01:46:37.000 Just follow the playbook.

01:46:38.000 Is it Emerson or Thoreau?

01:46:40.000 I get them to because they're both Transcendentalists, but I think it was Thoreau who wrote on civil disobedience.

01:46:46.000 And he was the first one.

01:46:50.000 He heavily inspired Martin Luther King in it, which is, again, there's ways that you can civilly disobey.

01:46:56.000 It was Thoreau.

01:46:57.000 Yeah, it was Henry David Thoreau who wrote it.

01:46:59.000 And again, the two big things are you must not hurt anyone else or destroy other people's property while you do it.

01:47:06.000 And you also lose.

01:47:07.000 The other part of civil disobedience, what people don't understand, is you lose credibility.

01:47:12.000 And people are saying, thumbs down, Charlie, you're a fake patriot.

01:47:15.000 Okay, enjoy prison.

01:47:18.000 It's so unbelievable.

01:47:20.000 Look at this.

01:47:21.000 Like, basically, what you're saying is you want full-out civil war. 0.62

01:47:24.000 And this is what the Lincoln Project is trying to do.

01:47:27.000 A bunch of shills over at the Lincoln Project.

01:47:29.000 If you want to do something to pass the time today, why don't you brigade their comment section and just tell them how awful they are.

01:47:36.000 The Lincoln Project, they've got a picture of Senator Hawley from earlier in the morning when it was peaceful protesting.

01:47:43.000 Saying, hey, here I am.

01:47:46.000 And so Lincoln Project goes, look at this picture.

01:47:48.000 Make no mistake about it.

01:47:49.000 This is exactly what Hawley, M.O. at Holly M.O., wanted to happen today.

01:47:55.000 I mean, that's unbelievable.

01:47:57.000 The Lincoln Project, they should, okay, so if you're going to kick off conservatives, I don't want anybody kicked off of social media.

01:48:05.000 I'm an absolutist, free speech, absolute.

01:48:07.000 But hey, if you're going to do it, why don't you put them on the chopsticks?

01:48:09.000 Yeah, so for the people that are peacefully now outside of Congress and they're being asked to leave, you want to know what you could do?

01:48:15.000 You sit down and you make them arrest you.

01:48:18.000 That's it.

01:48:19.000 You don't smash buildings.

01:48:21.000 That's civil disobedience.

01:48:22.000 I'm not saying you should do that.

01:48:23.000 I'm saying all of a sudden when you start to physically put yourself into a building and you put other people's potentially lives at danger, that's really big.

01:48:31.000 That's big.

01:48:32.000 Okay, so people are saying they found evidence of Antifa signs.

01:48:37.000 And so continue to email us what you're seeing, what you're hearing.

01:48:41.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com, freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

01:48:44.000 And there's a lot of footage coming.

01:48:46.000 And let's try to get some other tapes here as we have them.

01:48:50.000 There's a photo of this guy who took Nancy Pelosi's podium.

01:48:53.000 He stormed the Capitol building and all he got was that podium.

01:48:57.000 It's going to be hard to hide that on the way out.

01:49:00.000 That is probably against the law.

01:49:03.000 Okay, let's play this one right here of these people that are on scaffolding outside the U.S. Senate banging on windows.

01:49:09.000 Let's play this tape right here of, do we have that one?

01:49:13.000 It's in the chat, Connor, if we can get that one queued up right there.

01:49:17.000 So the general chatter and what a lot of you are saying, freedom at charliekirk.com, emailing us, is that this feels as if this was a psyops operation from the left.

01:49:31.000 And so this is what Carlos says.

01:49:33.000 Radical times require radical measures.

01:49:35.000 But of course, you need real men and women, not just spoken armchair radio podcast talks.

01:49:40.000 You failed the test, Charlie.

01:49:41.000 Okay, Carlos.

01:49:42.000 So because you're calling for a civil war, tell me specifically what that looks like, what you're willing to do, and kind of the sacrifices that you're willing to make and how success looks at there.

01:49:53.000 Again, I understand that frustrations are high, but I feel a moral obligation every time one of these things pops up to cross-examine and just talk down this kind of nonsense that happens.

01:50:03.000 It's just not right.

01:50:06.000 What are we seeing, Andrew?

01:50:07.000 Well, I mean, I just, it looks like it's a fact that Mike Pence has unfollowed Donald Trump on Twitter.

01:50:15.000 Has that happened?

01:50:16.000 I'm seeing it from multiple sources, yeah.

01:50:20.000 Which is a pretty telling, pretty telling of how the day has unfolded.

01:50:26.000 I'm also hearing reports that the president is refusing to issue a stronger statement or another statement.

01:50:33.000 He's issued multiple, and to be fair, he's called for peace and he supported the Capitol Police.

01:50:39.000 So I guess certain aides are asking him to issue a stronger statement, and he's saying he's not going to do it.

01:50:45.000 So that's an interesting angle as well.

01:50:47.000 I think there's a fair bit of frustration on the part of the president towards the vice president.

01:50:53.000 It sounds like there's tension there.

01:50:56.000 So that's an interesting development.

01:50:58.000 Joe Biden is going to be talking in a minute here, and he will use this as justification to increase the police state surveillance if he becomes president of the United States.

01:51:08.000 And that is what is going to happen.

01:51:12.000 Yeah, it looks like Joe Biden is addressing capital riots.

01:51:16.000 Can we get a feed for that, please?

01:51:18.000 He's saying at this hour, our democracy is to fulfill his oath and defend the Constitution and demand an end to this siege, to storm the Capitol, to smash windows, to occupy offices.

01:51:38.000 This floor of the United States Senate rummaging through desks on the Capitol, on the House of Representatives, threatening the safety of duly elected officials.

01:51:49.000 It's not protest, it's insurrection.

01:51:54.000 The world's watching.

01:51:57.000 Like so many other Americans, I am genuinely shocked and saddened that our nation, so long the beacon of light and hope for democracy, has come to such a dark moment.

01:52:14.000 Through war and strife, America's endured much, and we will endure here and we will prevail again and will prevail now.

01:52:25.000 The work of the moment and the work of the next four years must be the restoration of democracy, of decency, honor, respect, the rule of law.

01:52:38.000 Just plain, simple decency.

01:52:42.000 The renewal of politics.

01:52:44.000 It's about solving problems, looking out for one another, not stoking the flames of hate and chaos.

01:52:52.000 As I said, America is about honor, decency, respect, tolerance.

01:52:59.000 That's who we are.

01:53:01.000 That's who we've always been.

01:53:04.000 The certification Electoral College vote is supposed to be a sacred ritual which we affirm the purpose is to affirm the majesty of American democracy.

01:53:19.000 But today's reminder, a painful one, that democracy is fragile and to preserve it requires people of goodwill, leaders of the courage to stand up, who are devoted not to the pursuit of power or the personal interest pursuits of their own selfish interest at any cost, but to the common good.

01:53:51.000 Think what our children watching television is thinking.

01:53:54.000 Think what the rest of the world is looking at.

01:53:57.000 For nearly two and a half centuries, we the people, in search of a more perfect union, have kept our eyes on that common good.

01:54:09.000 America is so much better than what we've seen today.

01:54:14.000 Watching the scenes from the Capitol, I was reminded as I prepared other speeches in the past, I was reminded of the words of Abraham Lincoln in his annual message to Congress, whose work has today been interrupted by chaos.

01:54:31.000 Here's what Lincoln said.

01:54:34.000 He said, we shall nobly save or merely lose the last best hope on earth.

01:54:44.000 Went on to say, the way is plain, peaceful, generous, just a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.

01:55:02.000 The way is plain here, too.

01:55:05.000 That's who we are.

01:55:08.000 It's the way of democracy, of respect, of decency, of honor, and commitment as patriots to this nation.

01:55:23.000 Notwithstanding what I saw today, we're seeing today, I remain optimistic about the incredible opportunities.

01:55:32.000 There has never been anything we can't do when we do it together.

01:55:40.000 And this god-awful display today is bringing home to every Republican and Democrat and independent in the nation that we must step up.

01:55:52.000 This is the United States of America.

01:55:56.000 There's never, ever, ever, ever, ever been a thing we've tried to do.

01:56:01.000 Then we've done it together.

01:56:03.000 We've not been able to do it.

01:56:07.000 So, President Trump, step up.

01:56:14.000 May God bless America.

01:56:16.000 May God protect our troops and all those folks at the Capitol who are trying to preserve order.

01:56:24.000 Thank you, and I'm sorry to have kept you waiting.

01:56:30.000 Are you concerned about your inauguration, sir?

01:56:34.000 All right.

01:56:37.000 Looks like we're back on.

01:56:38.000 Yeah, the okay.

01:56:42.000 I'm sorry.

01:56:44.000 I don't mean to be Charlie will be joining us in just one second.

01:56:48.000 I don't mean to be flip, but I can't stand listening to the guy talk on a teleprompter.

01:56:53.000 I honestly didn't hear anything worth listening to.

01:56:58.000 You know, again, where were you, Joe?

01:57:00.000 Where were these speeches when BLM and Antifa were literally terrorizing our streets all summer and into the fall and lighting fire to a federal courthouse night after night after night after night?

01:57:12.000 So spare me your Pollyannish disappointment at Trump and Trump supporters.

01:57:18.000 Listen, we're all disappointed at what we're seeing here.

01:57:21.000 But I was disappointed when our country was engulfed in violence all over the summer.

01:57:25.000 So again, I don't mean to be, you know, I know we're going to get accused of whataboutism and all of this.

01:57:31.000 I just, I can't stand it.

01:57:33.000 Isabel, what's your take?

01:57:35.000 I think it just speaks to this very clear double standard we've created culturally in 2020, now moving into 2021.

01:57:41.000 We're completely okay with people literally burning down cities, shooting people they disagree with in the street because they happen to wear a certain hat.

01:57:49.000 Nobody blinks an eye.

01:57:50.000 You don't hear any condemnation from people in the media.

01:57:53.000 Did you hear the one question?

01:57:55.000 Welcome back, Charlie.

01:57:56.000 Did you hear the one question that they shouted at the vice president?

01:57:58.000 He's walking away.

01:57:59.000 Will charges be filed again?

01:58:01.000 Of course, of course they will, as they should be, because everyone should be held accountable.

01:58:05.000 But you better bet they're going to be very significant charges.

01:58:08.000 It's not going to be what we saw with parking tickets with these BLM riders.

01:58:12.000 So it's going to be very interesting to see whether or not the certification process moves forward today, how that's going to happen. 0.96

01:58:19.000 I heard reports that the Senate was going to be reconvening in a separate location.

01:58:25.000 We haven't seen if that's true yet.

01:58:28.000 In the meantime, things have been really crazy today.

01:58:31.000 There's been at least one person shot within the Capitol building today.

01:58:36.000 Things seem to be dissipating a bit.

01:58:38.000 We're hearing reports of some of these larger crowds starting to be weeded out by Capitol Police and the National Guard there in Washington, D.C.

01:58:46.000 But I think until any of that clears out, it's pretty unlikely we'll be hearing from the House or the Senate today.

01:58:52.000 Yeah, fair enough.

01:58:53.000 We'll see.

01:58:54.000 I am texting with a lot of people and trying to figure out exactly what's happening here.

01:58:58.000 And so you guys can email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com as we come in here.

01:59:06.000 And I do want to get our America's pastor here, Rob McCoy, who can, I think, give us a good message here.

01:59:13.000 So, Andrew, you've been going for about five and a half hours now.

01:59:16.000 I don't know what time is it?

01:59:18.000 Yeah, I'll gladly give my seat up for Rob.

01:59:20.000 So, yeah, we could sub you in and out.

01:59:22.000 I will play some tape here, too.

01:59:24.000 I think we have some tape here again of kind of do we have the scaffolding tape queued up, Connor?

01:59:31.000 I think we have what's happening there.

01:59:34.000 The crowd in the Capitol seems to be dissipating a little bit.

01:59:43.000 And let's all welcome Pastor Rob McCoy here.

01:59:46.000 How are we doing, Rob?

01:59:48.000 I'm doing all right.

01:59:50.000 So, just some good fresh blood into here.

01:59:53.000 And so, Rob, what do you make of all this?

01:59:56.000 Well, I was listening to Vice President Biden, and he invoked Lincoln.

02:00:02.000 And what's fascinating to me is this week, 158 years ago, this week, the Emancipation Proclamation was established by Lincoln, declaring that all persons would be free in the South.

02:00:16.000 And then last night, we watched as Georgia in the South elects two senators who declare that a child in the womb is not a person.

02:00:27.000 We're going backwards. 0.61

02:00:29.000 And God's not going to look at a nation that aborts a million babies a year, and 40% of those are black children. 0.98

02:00:36.000 I mean, that is a holocaust on the black community. 0.97

02:00:38.000 Their birth rate is flatlined. 0.86

02:00:40.000 And now the vice president invokes Lincoln, and here we are watching the Capitol after elections being stolen and spurious activity.

02:00:52.000 The American people are frustrated.

02:00:55.000 Their counselors, which is the First Amendment, we, the people, are the sovereign in the nation.

02:01:02.000 And our founders gave us counselors with the First Amendment.

02:01:05.000 The pulpits, the press, the freedom of speech, all that's being stifled.

02:01:10.000 Now, who were the players in this nefarious action on the Capitol?

02:01:15.000 We don't know.

02:01:16.000 We have no idea.

02:01:18.000 But we do know this: that the nation is in turmoil.

02:01:21.000 And so, if Vice President Biden invokes Lincoln, I shall do the same.

02:01:27.000 This was his first inaugural address.

02:01:29.000 He was despised.

02:01:30.000 The nation, before he'd even stepped into office, states had seceded from the Union.

02:01:35.000 And he said on the inaugural address, the first one, he said, We're not enemies, but friends.

02:01:41.000 We must not be enemies.

02:01:43.000 Though passion may have strained it, we must not break our bonds of affection.

02:01:48.000 The mystic cords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land will yet swell the chorus of the union when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.

02:02:02.000 Charlie, you said fascinatingly enough, and Isabel, as I've been watching you guys, you're covering this wisely.

02:02:10.000 And Charlie, you said we have a split history with the 1619 Project and watching as we no longer have a shared history.

02:02:17.000 I want to get to that, Rob.

02:02:19.000 Hold on, one sec.

02:02:20.000 I just want to get what the president has given some remarks.

02:02:23.000 Let's hear what he has to say really quick.

02:02:25.000 Sorry, Rob.

02:02:25.000 No worries.

02:02:26.000 Let's play tape.

02:02:28.000 I know you're pain.

02:02:29.000 I know you're hurt.

02:02:31.000 We had an election that was stolen from us.

02:02:35.000 It was a landslide election, and everyone knows it, especially the other side.

02:02:41.000 But you have to go home now.

02:02:43.000 We have to have peace.

02:02:45.000 We have to have law and order.

02:02:46.000 We have to respect our great people in law and order.

02:02:50.000 We don't want anybody hurt.

02:02:52.000 It's a very tough period of time.

02:02:54.000 There's never been a time like this where such a thing happened, where they could take it away from all of us, from me, from you, from our country.

02:03:04.000 This was a fraudulent election, but we can't play into the hands of these people.

02:03:11.000 We have to have peace.

02:03:13.000 So go home.

02:03:15.000 We love you.

02:03:16.000 You're very special.

02:03:17.000 You've seen what happens.

02:03:19.000 You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil.

02:03:24.000 I know how you feel.

02:03:26.000 But go home and go home in peace.

02:03:30.000 Go home and go home in peace.

02:03:31.000 Sorry, Rob, I just wanted to play that.

02:03:33.000 The president.

02:03:34.000 So we just wanted to play that as it happens.

02:03:36.000 Wow.

02:03:38.000 So you were chatting about Lincoln.

02:03:40.000 And I would also add with the president, Mr. President, peace is not the absence of conflict.

02:03:46.000 But I understand what he's asking for.

02:03:48.000 This violence right now and the confusion.

02:03:51.000 But my point was: invoking the first inaugural address, watching as Vice President Biden invoking the words of Lincoln, Lincoln gets to his second inaugural address.

02:04:02.000 He didn't have any hope of winning a second term.

02:04:05.000 And it wasn't until Sherman had split the South and gotten down to Georgia.

02:04:09.000 And when he did the Emancipation Proclamation in January of 1863, by July of 1863, you had Gettysburg.

02:04:16.000 And he just kept getting the rolls of all the dead.

02:04:19.000 2% of our nation's population died on a field of battle, 650,000.

02:04:25.000 To end the misery of slavery, 4 million slaves in 1860.

02:04:31.000 He gets to the second inaugural address that he thought he'd never give.

02:04:35.000 And he speaks to the nation and he says, on the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.

02:04:44.000 All dreaded it.

02:04:45.000 All sought to avert it.

02:04:47.000 While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war, seeking to dissolve the union and divide effects by negotiation.

02:05:02.000 Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish.

02:05:13.000 And war came, Charlie, you're getting beat up on both sides.

02:05:18.000 Well, just by, I mean, generally, it's supportive, it's just some people are calling me for a civil war.

02:05:22.000 I understand.

02:05:24.000 As a minister, and listen, I do not condone the theft.

02:05:30.000 I do not condone what's occurred in this nation and how they have destroyed so many aspects of our republic, our constitutional republic.

02:05:41.000 And I'm in California facing this, and I'm in the middle of lawsuits as they are violating the First Amendment brutally.

02:05:49.000 But I still hold to Philippians chapter 4, verses 6 and 7, be anxious in nothing, but in all things by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God.

02:06:00.000 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus.

02:06:05.000 Calm down.

02:06:07.000 You know, we need to sort this out.

02:06:10.000 There's a time for everything.

02:06:13.000 And everyone wants to take up arms.

02:06:15.000 Not everyone.

02:06:15.000 I'm saying those who are anxious about it.

02:06:20.000 Make sure that you have assessed everything.

02:06:23.000 We don't even know who's invaded the Capitol.

02:06:26.000 We don't know what's going on.

02:06:27.000 And all the words I'm getting is that this is odd.

02:06:34.000 So, folks, I would just encourage America, God has greater purposes.

02:06:41.000 We wanted this all to end last night with the opportunity of at least holding the Senate.

02:06:45.000 It didn't.

02:06:45.000 Yeah, it just got called awesome, just called the winner.

02:06:49.000 And you look at that and you're struggling because you look at Dominion and all these other things and whatever that is.

02:06:56.000 But none of this caught God by surprise.

02:07:00.000 He's not saying, oh, how the heck did that happen?

02:07:04.000 And there's purposes to the Almighty.

02:07:06.000 Lincoln understood that.

02:07:08.000 I think we need to realize that America will be great when America is good.

02:07:13.000 And when America ceases to be good, it'll cease to be great.

02:07:16.000 And right now, we have to introspectively look at our lives and look at this nation.

02:07:20.000 You can't abort a million babies a year when these inalienable rights begin with the very first one, life.

02:07:26.000 Then liberty, then the pursuit of happiness, because liberty and happiness are scarce little value without life.

02:07:31.000 America must reevaluate.

02:07:34.000 You've got Christian worship leaders with this now senator-elect who declares himself a pastor when Jesus says, I've come that they might have life. 0.54

02:07:46.000 And he declares the death of a child in the womb as acceptable to God.

02:07:50.000 Raphael Warnock, yeah.

02:07:51.000 And you have Lecrae leading a concert as a Christian worship leader. 0.99

02:07:57.000 We got this really backwards, folks. 1.00

02:08:00.000 And the church is under attack, and everything's, but God has his purposes.

02:08:06.000 You don't fix a nation with light and transient issues.

02:08:14.000 You have to really realize God rules in the affairs of men and especially nations.

02:08:20.000 And he's not going to stand idly by.

02:08:22.000 We have to really examine our lives and what's important.

02:08:25.000 And does this republic matter? 0.99

02:08:26.000 Because only immoral people can govern a republic.

02:08:29.000 I'm not calling for dominionism.

02:08:31.000 I'm not calling for a theocracy.

02:08:32.000 I'm calling for us to really reflect in our lives to a nation that was conceived in liberty by declaring that all men are created equal, endowed by their creator.

02:08:42.000 We didn't decide what denomination, but we recognize that every person is accountable to God.

02:08:49.000 And when we abandon that, we're in trouble.

02:08:51.000 Amen.

02:08:52.000 America, wake up.

02:08:53.000 So we're still trying to make sense of what Vice President Pence will do once this reconvenes.

02:09:01.000 We're hearing mixed reports, but it looks like he is not going to use the plenary power that has been trusted in him to either send it back to the state legislators or not count the votes from the states.

02:09:12.000 So this entire kind of process has been delayed, to say the least, and kind of put into uncertainty.

02:09:22.000 What's your take on the entire kind of Mike Pence thing?

02:09:25.000 Well, first of all, it seemed as though he was signaling.

02:09:28.000 And as I heard him speak at SAS, I thought, well, maybe he is going to stand.

02:09:34.000 And then, you know, when given an opportunity to do the right thing and you do the easy thing, that's not the right thing.

02:09:40.000 Mm-hmm.

02:09:41.000 And now you've disenfranchised 74 million voters who haven't had a chance to allow the evidence to be seen.

02:09:47.000 These lawsuits haven't been kicked out by lack of evidence.

02:09:49.000 No one's wanted to take them up.

02:09:52.000 And now 74 million people won't be heard.

02:09:55.000 And you're taking the easy route out and you're using the absence of history.

02:10:00.000 Well, thank God there's an absence of case study that this nation has survived for what, 244 years, although the election of 1876 was tragic.

02:10:09.000 And that's where we are revisiting this.

02:10:12.000 But I was expecting more from Vice President Pence.

02:10:15.000 And he hasn't acted yet.

02:10:16.000 He hasn't.

02:10:17.000 He's signaling.

02:10:18.000 He's signaling.

02:10:19.000 And I tell you what, Madison Cawthorne, he has a titanium spine because of the accident.

02:10:27.000 I think he was going senator to senator last night trying to persuade them.

02:10:31.000 Yeah.

02:10:32.000 And just requesting meetings, going through.

02:10:34.000 It's one thing to stand up in front of an audience of over a thousand students and make a promise.

02:10:39.000 And make a promise and then take the convenient way out.

02:10:43.000 Vice President Pence, I've prayed with you.

02:10:45.000 I've been in your presence.

02:10:46.000 I've voted for you.

02:10:47.000 I've encouraged you.

02:10:50.000 I have stood in support.

02:10:54.000 And right now, the country needs you to do the right thing.

02:10:57.000 Give 74 million people in this nation the opportunity to be heard.

02:11:02.000 Otherwise, this vote will never again count.

02:11:05.000 And you have to do the right thing.

02:11:06.000 And I would just ask you, please.

02:11:11.000 And he's the one who has to put his head on the pillow at night.

02:11:13.000 So a lot of people are asking us.

02:11:14.000 They're emailing us.

02:11:16.000 You guys can email us, freedom at charliekirk.com.

02:11:18.000 What exactly did Pence decide to do or not to do?

02:11:20.000 Isabel, can you walk us through that?

02:11:22.000 Because still very early.

02:11:23.000 We only got to Arizona before all this bedlam broke out.

02:11:25.000 I know.

02:11:26.000 So we don't know necessarily one way or another.

02:11:28.000 It'd be a long night.

02:11:29.000 What Vice President Mike Pence's path forward looks like.

02:11:32.000 I think we have to reconvene and get back together into this process in order to find out where we go from here.

02:11:37.000 Essentially, what's happening is in this joint session that is mandated on January 6th, the House of Representatives and the Senate of our Congress has convened to make sure that the votes for the Electoral College can be certified.

02:11:50.000 That all is laid out in the 12th Amendment through our process of electing a new president and vice president of the United States.

02:11:55.000 We go state by state in alphabetical order and we made it three states deep before pandemonium really broke loose and chaos ensued there at the United States Capitol with some of these protests and pretty unexpected behavior that we were not anticipating.

02:12:09.000 Essentially what happens is one member of Congress and one member of the Senate have to object simultaneously to the Electoral College results state by state if they believe that there was some sort of fraudulent behavior if it's not actually certified or went against the United States Constitution as we've heard a lot about in states like Pennsylvania not going through the state legislature and instead going through some sort of executive power in the governor's office.

02:12:32.000 Should both houses agree that some sort of fraudulent behavior took place, there are basically two directions that the vice president can use moving forward.

02:12:40.000 Either he can invalidate that entire slate of votes from a particular state or he can send it back to the state legislatures to be recertified and sort of redebated in that space.

02:12:50.000 Again, we don't know which way the vice president is leaning.

02:12:53.000 We can assume that he's leaning towards not sending anything back towards the state legislatures or invalidating any votes based on a statement he made this morning.

02:13:01.000 But again, really anything could happen after the events of the last few hours.

02:13:05.000 Yeah, and so there is a so Mike Pence has said he does not have the power vested in him as vice president to do anything but just kind of be a master of ceremonies.

02:13:15.000 That is not what precedent tells us.

02:13:18.000 Richard Nixon in 1960 did decide to count votes separately from what a state certification said.

02:13:25.000 And also he can send it down to the state legislatures, which is the direct ask of the president.

02:13:29.000 And name another time in American history where we've been in a place like this, where it would require the vice president to be more than just a ceremonial hood ornament.

02:13:39.000 Do your job.

02:13:41.000 I think, unfortunately, so many of our leaders are operating out of a sense of fear in the last few years, especially.

02:13:47.000 That's why you saw so many of these cases not be taken up through the court system in the proper venue that they should have been.

02:13:52.000 It's why you're seeing people fail to act in times of necessity.

02:13:56.000 And I think, unfortunately, we've let the left get away with so much in creating this culture of fear where we feel like we can't say what we believe in.

02:14:03.000 We can't act on our convictions.

02:14:05.000 We can't worship the God that we worship.

02:14:07.000 And all of a sudden, this idea of self-censorship has extended to our actions beyond the things that we do or do not say into things that we do or do not do at the end of the day.

02:14:15.000 And that's really disappointing for me to see.

02:14:17.000 So a lot of people are emailing us about Mike Pence, and they're saying he has a family, he has maybe a political future.

02:14:27.000 Rob, can you help unpack this a little bit?

02:14:29.000 Some people are asking about his faith.

02:14:31.000 I mean, would it be the Christian thing to do this?

02:14:33.000 Can you help unpack this?

02:14:35.000 Because, I mean, all eyes on Mike Pence, right?

02:14:38.000 So in a pluralistic society, in a constitutional republic, when you're elected to office, now Mike Pence has put his faith out there.

02:14:46.000 He declares himself a Christian.

02:14:48.000 And he's a friend of mine.

02:14:49.000 And he's a friend.

02:14:50.000 Well, I don't know him like you know him, but I have prayed with him.

02:14:53.000 I have met him on a number of occasions.

02:14:56.000 And he has declared himself to be a Christian, a follower of Jesus Christ.

02:15:01.000 He has declared himself to be pro-life.

02:15:02.000 He has declared himself to be a defender of free speech, a defender of religious liberty.

02:15:07.000 And now we're coming to a place where America's been stifled, elections been stolen, and nobody has a voice.

02:15:12.000 So free speech, and trust me, I'm already under the gun in California.

02:15:17.000 The First Amendment, the freedom of religion, we're getting pummeled out there.

02:15:21.000 We're in a lawsuit.

02:15:22.000 I'm getting fined every single week that the church is open.

02:15:25.000 So, Mr. Vice President, you declare that, and it's one thing to declare with your mouth, but if your actions do not match your words, faith without works is dead.

02:15:37.000 And I'm not questioning your Christianity in that sense, but this is the time for all good men to act.

02:15:43.000 And politicians, because I know this, I was an elected official.

02:15:46.000 I sat in the city council.

02:15:48.000 I was the mayor of the city of Thousand Oaks.

02:15:50.000 I was the mayor pro tem of the city of Thousand Oaks.

02:15:53.000 And I know that politicians seek the path of least resistance.

02:15:56.000 They're like twigs on the banks of a mighty river.

02:15:58.000 They just want to go with the flow.

02:16:00.000 But right now, your nation's calling on you.

02:16:02.000 You govern by our consent.

02:16:04.000 And you're bound by the seven articles of the Constitution.

02:16:07.000 And our First Amendment's been violated.

02:16:09.000 The seven articles of the Constitution, you have been given this mantle to act in a manner worthy of the sovereign of this nation, we the people.

02:16:19.000 And if that voice is taken and you violate the religious protections, you violate the free speech protections, you violate our ability to vote in a manner where we would trust that.

02:16:30.000 74 million people feel just cheated.

02:16:34.000 And I would just say, if that is not defended from your position and you have that ability given by our founders, it's unconscionable from my estimation.

02:16:46.000 I don't get it.

02:16:48.000 So I hold that position.

02:16:50.000 There is mounting evidence to show that Antifa very well might have been behind this.

02:16:56.000 And so we are compiling that in real time.

02:17:00.000 Isabel, what are we still trying to confirm some of this stuff?

02:17:04.000 We are.

02:17:04.000 We're hearing allegations that Antifa has been advertising to their members that they should not forget to disguise themselves as patriots or Trump supporters, wear MAGA hats, fly flags of the United States.

02:17:16.000 We're still trying to confirm that.

02:17:17.000 We're still trying to confirm that.

02:17:18.000 It has not been confirmed on our end yet, but it does speak to what we've been saying earlier: that we generally do not know who these people are.

02:17:25.000 A handful may be anarchists, a handful may be confused.

02:17:28.000 We have a number of left we don't know.

02:17:29.000 So we have to be waiting until we get some sort of confirmation from that to make any sort of determinative statement.

02:17:35.000 We have a number of congregants that are there, a kind of man on the street.

02:17:38.000 Pastor Rick Brown's there.

02:17:40.000 And the folks we're hearing from saying this had nothing to do with the folks they were with.

02:17:44.000 So they're shocked by it.

02:17:46.000 Well, it certainly doesn't follow the pattern of behavior, though.

02:17:48.000 No, I like the way you assess that.

02:17:49.000 That was great.

02:17:51.000 And interestingly enough, you know, the Antifa wasn't out there in the streets at all.

02:17:59.000 No, they weren't anywhere to be found.

02:18:02.000 Well, and it's almost like they signaled ahead.

02:18:04.000 They telegraphed it because you had the mayor saying, we're going to need the National Guard.

02:18:09.000 Like, we're expecting this, and we're going to show.

02:18:14.000 So let's play again for those people that are just coming on the stream.

02:18:17.000 We're getting lots of questions here.

02:18:18.000 I want to take some of these, freedom at charliekirk.com.

02:18:22.000 Just President Donald Trump's message to the violence, at least the barricades and the windows that were broken into.

02:18:31.000 Outside of that, I don't think we saw, I'm trying to just catalog all the violence and be very specific because there were a lot of people that just seemed like they were following the crowd and followed it.

02:18:40.000 But there were people that were bashing windows and all that nonsense.

02:18:44.000 So I just want to make sure we're specific with exactly what happened here.

02:18:48.000 Can we play President Trump's message again?

02:18:52.000 I know you're paying.

02:18:54.000 I know you're hurt.

02:18:55.000 We had an election that was stolen from us.

02:18:59.000 It was a landslide election, and everyone knows it, especially the other side.

02:19:05.000 But you have to go home now.

02:19:07.000 We have to have peace.

02:19:09.000 We have to have law and order.

02:19:11.000 We have to respect our great people in law and order.

02:19:15.000 We don't want anybody hurt.

02:19:16.000 It's a very tough period of time.

02:19:19.000 There's never been a time like this where such a thing happened, where they could take it away from all of us, from me, from you, from our country.

02:19:28.000 This was a fraudulent election, but we can't play into the hands of these people.

02:19:35.000 We have to have peace.

02:19:37.000 So go home.

02:19:39.000 We love you.

02:19:40.000 You're very special.

02:19:42.000 You've seen what happens.

02:19:43.000 You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil.

02:19:48.000 I know how you feel.

02:19:50.000 But go home and go home in peace.

02:19:54.000 Some people are, and that's the president's message.

02:19:57.000 They're complimenting you on your message, and they're saying that the vice president should be shown your message.

02:20:02.000 So that's a good compliment to you.

02:20:06.000 Well, if I operated based on compliments of others, I wouldn't have gotten very far in life.

02:20:10.000 But thank you.

02:20:11.000 I wanted to say thank you, but I wanted to make sure I played the president's message because currently Twitter is blocking that message from getting out there completely.

02:20:20.000 A lot of people are just tuning in.

02:20:21.000 There's a lot of confusion out there.

02:20:24.000 It looks as if a couple dozen people, agitators who we do not know, those could be on the left.

02:20:36.000 They could be just people that like to see things burn went into Congress and started to bash barricades and stormed in against the wishes of law enforcement.

02:20:50.000 This resulted in a confrontation with firearms and guns being drawn.

02:20:55.000 We know of two people being shot with rubber bullets.

02:20:57.000 I don't think they were shot with lethal bullets, hopefully not.

02:21:03.000 And this was all after the objection of just the state of Arizona.

02:21:07.000 We were covering that, and then this entire thing kind of went into total and complete bedlam.

02:21:12.000 And so we are waiting to see if Congress will reconvene.

02:21:17.000 Some people are saying they were real bullets.

02:21:19.000 Were they real bullets or rubber bullets?

02:21:21.000 I've seen conflicting information on that.

02:21:24.000 We know one person was shot in the neck, but we're not exactly sure exactly what's there.

02:21:28.000 So breaking right now, two pipe bombs have been found, one at a building that houses the RNC offices and one in the U.S. Capitol complex.

02:21:41.000 And so that is something we're covering very quickly.

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02:22:20.000 Isabel, what are we looking at?

02:22:21.000 So far, I'm seeing lots of chatter about articles of impeachment being drawn up for President Trump.

02:22:27.000 That's the only way to curb a potential violence according to the left so that he could not run for president again in the future.

02:22:34.000 It's an interesting take for sure.

02:22:36.000 We're hearing a lot about some ongoing violence here at the Capitol.

02:22:40.000 People are using metal barricades to try to break open Capitol doors as of about eight minutes.

02:22:45.000 Let's get that footage sent in there.

02:22:47.000 It seems as if that some people are, the numbers are minimizing, but some of the intensity seems to be increasing on the inside.

02:22:56.000 And again, we don't know who these actors are.

02:22:58.000 We can't judge what someone is wearing in these situations as a complete indicator of their beliefs, how they voted, who they're representing.

02:23:06.000 So we are anxiously awaiting any opportunity to verify who these individuals are, but won't be making any sort of determinative statement until that time.

02:23:15.000 Externally in the Capitol, it seems as if the crowds are rapidly dissipating.

02:23:20.000 That seems as if that is it.

02:23:21.000 we play this tape here, please?

02:23:46.000 That is definitely not peaceful.

02:23:51.000 And so I'm going to read a tweet here just to use the left's own book of rules against them from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

02:24:00.000 The whole point of protest, and I don't agree, I don't necessarily agree with this, but the whole point of protesting is to make people uncomfortable.

02:24:06.000 Activists take that discomfort with the status quo and advocate for concrete policy changes.

02:24:11.000 Popular support often starts small and grows.

02:24:13.000 To folks who complain, protest demands make others uncomfortable.

02:24:17.000 That's the point.

02:24:18.000 But of course, now that there is people on the other side doing it, the left has done, which I don't necessarily support, then we start to see not a lot of denunciation and calls for arrest.

02:24:29.000 In fact, a congresswoman has just called for the FBI to arrest all these people, which we have predicted.

02:24:35.000 Can we get that next tape up, please, of people that are barring the doors here?

02:24:43.000 And Elon Omar has said, quote, she is drawing up articles of impeachment tonight, says Trump should be removed from office.

02:24:52.000 That is not a surprise.

02:24:53.000 Maybe she should be the one that's impeached for all of her, let's say, misdeeds.

02:25:00.000 Okay, here we are.

02:25:00.000 They're still

02:25:32.000 trying to block them from coming in, as alarm sound outside the Capitol building.

02:26:06.000 Stop touching it.

02:26:17.000 So, Rob, you have a piece of thought on that?

02:26:20.000 Yeah, I just, I've been to Trump rallies.

02:26:22.000 I've never seen the flag desecrated like that.

02:26:24.000 It just seems just odd.

02:26:28.000 Again, we have no idea, but everything I'm watching just doesn't add up.

02:26:32.000 It's bizarre to me.

02:26:32.000 Look, there are some people that, quite honestly, sometimes just want to see chaos.

02:26:36.000 And they don't necessarily align with any sort of ideology.

02:26:39.000 They just put on the uniform of whatever might align with whatever demonstration that is.

02:26:43.000 Right.

02:26:44.000 You know, I'm getting folks, not a lot, but a handful that's saying, you know, we got to go to arms.

02:26:50.000 And that doesn't.

02:26:51.000 Why don't you talk about that, Rob?

02:26:52.000 You're a pastor, you're a patriot, you're a conservative.

02:26:55.000 I'm getting emails every other minute at freedom at charliekirk.com.

02:26:58.000 More that don't agree at this, but some people that are saying they're rolling.

02:27:04.000 Well, as a Christian, I would say, you know, take the cue from the Lord.

02:27:07.000 The measure of a man is based on the power he possesses that he doesn't use.

02:27:13.000 Remember, it wasn't nails that held Christ to the cross.

02:27:16.000 He was God.

02:27:17.000 Nails don't hold God to a cross.

02:27:19.000 It was his love.

02:27:20.000 And that's why there's a patience and why he declares, be anxious in nothing.

02:27:26.000 You want to go straight to arms.

02:27:28.000 You want to fight. 0.99

02:27:29.000 You want to shoot something. 0.98

02:27:31.000 You want to go straight to that direction.

02:27:33.000 Well, you live by the sword. 0.94

02:27:35.000 You're going to die by that sword.

02:27:36.000 He admonished Peter.

02:27:38.000 And granted, there will be times where you're going to be required.

02:27:43.000 Jesus had nothing but positive things to say about the Roman centurions.

02:27:46.000 They were men under authority. 0.69

02:27:48.000 What authority are you under?

02:27:50.000 You want to declare yourself as we the people, and yet did you agitate and force to this extent?

02:27:57.000 Our responsibility is to do everything within our power in a constitutional republic to save the union and to preserve the union.

02:28:06.000 Now, if we're cheated and violence is perpetrated on us and we're put in jail, I just think of the greatest movements in the nation have always been through peaceful protest.

02:28:17.000 But you've got a gun in your hand.

02:28:19.000 You worship the Second Amendment.

02:28:21.000 Well, don't forget about the first.

02:28:23.000 And don't forget about the fact that we're endowed by our Creator and we're accountable to that Creator.

02:28:28.000 And so only a moral people can preserve a republic.

02:28:34.000 That's the best thing.

02:28:36.000 One person asked me, they say, from a Judeo-Christian worldview, from a Christian worldview, when something is stolen from you, what does the rightful mean to fight back?

02:28:47.000 That's where a lot of people feel right now.

02:28:49.000 People say, it was stolen from me.

02:28:52.000 Now my recourse, my smashing of windows, my storming of Congress is warranted because my vote was stolen.

02:28:59.000 You rise and fall before one master.

02:29:01.000 I'll tell you this.

02:29:02.000 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, as a minister, participated in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

02:29:11.000 I mean, you just can't process that.

02:29:14.000 And yet.

02:29:15.000 He didn't do that lightly.

02:29:16.000 He didn't do it lightly.

02:29:17.000 But it seems like the minute something is taken from you, you have a call to arms.

02:29:22.000 Did you show that same passion in walking precincts and making phone calls and contributing to campaigns and going to church and educating yourself and your congregations?

02:29:31.000 Did you show the same concern for all the churches that have been shuttered and closed?

02:29:35.000 Or is it just now you have this power because you have been shopping and buying all your tactical gear and you want to go to arms?

02:29:42.000 Calm down.

02:29:43.000 Calm down. 0.89

02:29:45.000 You rise and fall before one master, but if you're asking from a Judeo-Christian perspective, be anxious and nothing. 0.93

02:29:50.000 And you're going to need wisdom on this one.

02:29:54.000 And yeah, some people are saying, and here's another good question, Rob.

02:29:56.000 And again, we're just going to walk through this.

02:29:58.000 A lot of people are emailing this.

02:29:59.000 I didn't sign up to be the Bible answer man.

02:30:01.000 No, it's not the Bible.

02:30:03.000 You're a calming voice and you add a lot of wisdom, which is very good.

02:30:07.000 And so they're already drafting up that this was a domestic terror attack, all this sort of stuff.

02:30:13.000 It's typical stuff.

02:30:14.000 And the FBI, of course, is heavily, heavily involved in all this. 0.96

02:30:19.000 Yeah, that's ridiculous.

02:30:21.000 Okay, so I just got asked by our team: should we throw to the Washington, D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser? 0.78

02:30:31.000 No.

02:30:32.000 So I'd rather listen to Rob.

02:30:36.000 Thank God.

02:30:37.000 Yeah, seriously.

02:30:38.000 So the question that people say is, well, Charlie, why not?

02:30:43.000 Didn't the founders do an armed revolution?

02:30:45.000 They did.

02:30:45.000 It's time.

02:30:46.000 Didn't our, you know, some of our ancestors fight in a civil war?

02:30:49.000 Why is it not time?

02:30:49.000 It's time.

02:30:51.000 Why is that argument wrong right now?

02:30:54.000 If you look at the Declaration of Independence and the patience that they exerted, there were some that wanted to start sooner.

02:31:01.000 There were others that, and you had the Boston Massacre, and you had the Boston Tea Party.

02:31:07.000 You had folks that were patient.

02:31:08.000 They were long-suffering.

02:31:14.000 Not for light and transient causes.

02:31:16.000 And they listed those.

02:31:18.000 So you want to do a Declaration of Independence.

02:31:20.000 You want to do a revolution.

02:31:21.000 You want to go against, as the Continental Forces did against the greatest nation on the face of the earth and who possess the military and all the might, and they've been ready for this.

02:31:33.000 Well, if you're going to appear, excuse me, if you're going to appeal to heaven as our founders did, and you're going to invoke the Lord four times in the Declaration of Independence like our founders did, and you're going to pledge your lives, your fortunes, and your sacred honor like our founders did, you can't do it for light and transient causes because nobody's going to back you.

02:31:50.000 One in nine Americans fought in the Revolutionary War.

02:31:52.000 You've got to list those causes.

02:31:53.000 You've got to list the reasons why you're rebelling.

02:31:56.000 You've got to appeal to heaven.

02:31:59.000 And just because you got your tactical gear and you've been dreaming of this day, you know, you wanted to move to Montana and get your chain link fence and your canned goods, that's not the way to run it.

02:32:10.000 A republic is participatory.

02:32:12.000 It's of the people, by the people, and for the people.

02:32:14.000 When we abdicated our responsibility in that public square, and now we're watching it disintegrate because the churches never saw themselves as the ecclesia engaging in the public square to establish moral principles that would allow us to live in a manner that is liberty, equality, or excuse me, morality brings liberty, virtue.

02:32:37.000 It's the triangle freedom.

02:32:39.000 Faith, virtue, freedom, excuse me.

02:32:40.000 Faith, virtue, and freedom.

02:32:42.000 We abandoned that.

02:32:43.000 And now we're struggling.

02:32:45.000 I would just say to folks, not for light and transient causes.

02:32:49.000 Be patient.

02:32:52.000 You can always go that direction.

02:32:53.000 But once you go that direction, there's no turning back.

02:32:56.000 So look, people say, well, then what is the line?

02:32:58.000 Look, I'll be very honest with you.

02:33:03.000 We have showed that with participatory government, you can have differences in government, governance.

02:33:07.000 Look at Florida versus California.

02:33:09.000 It's a free state that respects First Amendment rights and has fair and free elections.

02:33:14.000 The other thing is this, which is do not take the, don't use that language lightly at all.

02:33:20.000 There is a ton of suffering that happens once that begins.

02:33:24.000 It's not, it's something fun to throw around, like I got my gear on and all that.

02:33:27.000 No, like, be very careful with that.

02:33:29.000 And some people are emailing us and they're saying, well, you know, people are saying that, you know, how do you know when that moment comes of that kind of tyranny?

02:33:39.000 And that's a very fair question.

02:33:41.000 It's a very good question.

02:33:42.000 It shouldn't be taken lightly.

02:33:44.000 And I will say this, that we are on the road currently in our country right now to societal dissolution.

02:33:55.000 And anyone who doesn't look at that is just not looking at it fairly.

02:33:59.000 However, I currently believe that there are still enough decent people, that the people are with us, and the left is seceding from us.

02:34:07.000 We're not seceding from them.

02:34:09.000 I truly believe that, that they're trying to secede from our country. 0.69

02:34:12.000 And I'm going to be honest with you guys. 0.95

02:34:14.000 Decades ago, my grandfather fought in World War II to prevent this kind of language from happening.

02:34:20.000 I am going to, every step of the way, denounce and exhaust every peaceable option imaginable to persuade.

02:34:28.000 And, you know, if I fail and if I fall flat on my face, then so be it.

02:34:32.000 But once that begins, I'm telling you right now, it is not a dark.

02:34:41.000 That is something that is not good.

02:34:42.000 Charlie, can you let me see really quickly?

02:34:45.000 Roberta Paulson, which was the protester shot in the neck in Washington, D.C., has now reportedly died.

02:34:50.000 So there has been a casualty from today.

02:34:54.000 Shot by Capitol Hill Police.

02:34:55.000 Shot by Capitol Hill Police.

02:34:56.000 And that wasn't a rubber bullet.

02:34:58.000 The rubber bullet would not kill her.

02:35:00.000 So that was a real bullet.

02:35:01.000 There was video footage of the event.

02:35:03.000 Of the shooting.

02:35:05.000 Can we get, can we, I don't know if YouTube will take down our stream.

02:35:11.000 So people are saying that I'm gutless, and then how would the founding fathers handle this?

02:35:15.000 Let me say one thing.

02:35:16.000 You do know that the founders appealed for 15 to 20 years peacefully trying to remedy their differences before Lexington and Concord in 74 or in 1776.

02:35:28.000 There was an entire, very long history of all this.

02:35:31.000 And if you really, really, if you're really using words like revolution and civil war at this moment, which a lot of people are, and I feel the need to address this directly, then I will be very honest.

02:35:44.000 A lot of you do not realize the sort of carnage that comes after that.

02:35:48.000 You don't.

02:35:49.000 You figure 650,000 soldiers died on a field of battle in a civil war.

02:35:55.000 That represented 2% of the nation's population at the time, what, 33 million people.

02:36:00.000 Now we're at 330 million, 360 million?

02:36:03.000 330 roughly.

02:36:04.000 330 million.

02:36:05.000 Okay, so you just multiply that.

02:36:07.000 So you're looking at 6.5 million Americans dead. 0.98

02:36:12.000 That's what you're striving for. 0.95

02:36:14.000 And in addition, any donkey can knock down a barn door. 0.97

02:36:19.000 Let's do it better. 0.99

02:36:20.000 Any jackass can knock down a barn door. 0.96

02:36:22.000 Only a carpenter can build one. 0.99

02:36:25.000 So every nation is going to revolt.

02:36:28.000 Revolutionaries, they're really good at knocking down barn doors. 0.99

02:36:31.000 So you look at the French. 0.97

02:36:32.000 They have a revolution every other month. 1.00

02:36:33.000 It's easy.

02:36:34.000 You got a gun.

02:36:35.000 Oh, and you got your tactical gear.

02:36:37.000 And you want to go knock down the barn door.

02:36:39.000 But the question is, what are you going to build when you're done?

02:36:41.000 Because revolutionaries know how to bring down governments.

02:36:44.000 They just don't know how to build them.

02:36:46.000 And to what purpose?

02:36:49.000 So appealing to heaven and being patient and long-suffering is what we're calling for right now.

02:36:56.000 Look, I'm the first to tell you that my civil rights have been violated.

02:37:01.000 Excuse me, my inalienable rights have been violated.

02:37:04.000 That of my congregations, it's cost me.

02:37:06.000 It's come at a great price.

02:37:10.000 And I'm calling for calm.

02:37:12.000 I'm calling for patience.

02:37:14.000 I'm calling that you not be anxious because that's what the scriptures declare.

02:37:17.000 And as Charlie pointed out, historically speaking, before the Revolutionary War, they appealed to a despotic king over and over and over again.

02:37:28.000 And they went into the Declaration prayerfully.

02:37:33.000 They went into it very carefully.

02:37:36.000 And as soon as they signed that, they knew it was done.

02:37:39.000 So look, it's easy to be a keyboard warrior kind of on your couch, but maybe people are really willing to sacrifice.

02:37:48.000 Maybe you are.

02:37:49.000 Maybe I don't want to imply that.

02:37:50.000 But I'm telling you right now, are you willing to lose your friends and your family?

02:37:53.000 That's what they were willing to do when they signed that document.

02:37:56.000 And I'm of the belief.

02:37:57.000 But they were willing to do it because they had something they were willing to fight for.

02:38:00.000 I'm sorry.

02:38:00.000 And to build up.

02:38:01.000 Yeah, to build up.

02:38:01.000 And to try to create for something new.

02:38:03.000 And so, look, if you want to remedy your difference, this is a very important point.

02:38:09.000 If you want to remedy differences through physical altercation, a law of nature is typically, it doesn't end well.

02:38:15.000 Just typically.

02:38:16.000 That's just a general law. 0.99

02:38:18.000 Don't be a jackass, be a carpenter. 0.98

02:38:20.000 Yeah, and what, and we still do. 0.99

02:38:23.000 We still do have. 1.00

02:38:24.000 Which is a moron. 1.00

02:38:26.000 A woman. 1.00

02:38:26.000 Yeah, exactly. 1.00

02:38:27.000 We still do have many mechanisms in our country that have, and that's why I was such a big believer in Mike Pence using those mechanisms to prevent nonsense from this.

02:38:37.000 You want more of this nonsense?

02:38:39.000 Don't stand and fight.

02:38:40.000 And it's very important that we lay responsibility.

02:38:45.000 That's why Vice President Pence is that release valve.

02:38:48.000 He's the pressure release valve for all of this.

02:38:50.000 We're calling on him.

02:38:51.000 He has a great responsibility.

02:38:54.000 So I want to warn you, this is incredibly graphic.

02:38:58.000 I hope YouTube doesn't take down our stream for this. 1.00

02:39:01.000 But this is a woman getting shot. 1.00

02:39:03.000 Is that right?

02:39:04.000 Yeah, from what I can tell, we showed a photo earlier in this live stream of guns being pointed through the window inside one of the chambers in the Capitol building.

02:39:12.000 That's what I'm guessing this bullet is coming from, is that scene that we saw earlier today.

02:39:18.000 But yeah, let's go ahead and show you.

02:39:20.000 And before I say, this is just a tragedy.

02:39:22.000 And whoever, if she was a leader or led this woman into this, there's going to be a lot of criminal investigations into this now that this has happened.

02:39:31.000 This is, you know, this is not good.

02:39:35.000 play tape.

02:39:58.000 We're an active shooter.

02:40:01.000 Yo, there's an active shooter here. 1.00

02:40:02.000 Get her down. 1.00

02:40:03.000 Get her down. 1.00

02:40:04.000 Flashlight, flashlight.

02:40:07.000 So for those of you calling for civil war, that's what you're calling for.

02:40:10.000 Just so we're clear.

02:40:11.000 You're calling for a lot more body bags.

02:40:14.000 If that's hard to watch, which it is, and you thought, and now someone's dead because someone stormed the Capitol.

02:40:21.000 I'm glad we showed that video for that reason because it's hard to watch.

02:40:24.000 You saw someone die.

02:40:27.000 And did it get you what you wanted?

02:40:30.000 No, it actually probably brought your cause back even further than you can imagine.

02:40:33.000 You know why?

02:40:34.000 The FBI and the DOJ are now going to have unchecked power to use terrorist provisions of the Patriot Act to now go after every single Trump supporter in the country.

02:40:46.000 That's what today did.

02:40:47.000 Is now the FBI is not going to have to go through a FISA court or anything of that and do that.

02:40:52.000 Rob, do you have a thought on that?

02:40:56.000 Yeah, the weaponization of government against the sovereign, we the people.

02:41:01.000 And if they continue to overstep, you know, I stepped down from office because the governor of the state of California was violating the Constitution he swore to defend.

02:41:14.000 And when I took that oath of office, I took it seriously.

02:41:17.000 I'm constrained as an elected official by those seven articles of the Constitution, those 27 amendments.

02:41:22.000 And when that governor violated that, I could not in good conscience serve on that council and then have them censure me continually.

02:41:33.000 And I would just say if government continues in that route and if they weaponize government to that extent and there's no release vowel for we the people, they're pushing Americans towards that place they don't want.

02:41:45.000 And I would encourage those in elected office that swore to defend that Constitution, including the Capitol Police and every law enforcement official, back away.

02:41:56.000 You swore to defend that Constitution.

02:41:58.000 You're bound by it.

02:41:59.000 And how can you defend something you don't know anything about?

02:42:02.000 I would ask every law enforcement official and every elected official out there, anyone in a military who has sworn to defend that Constitution, I would ask you to revisit it.

02:42:13.000 And I would ask you to look at those seven articles and then reread the 27 amendments and realize that you govern by the consent of the sovereign, we the people, and start to realize that, especially for law enforcement and military personnel, you're sheepdogs.

02:42:28.000 You're natural predators.

02:42:29.000 And sheep, you don't hurt us, but the minute you start to hurt the sheep, you're no longer a sheepdog.

02:42:36.000 You're a predator.

02:42:38.000 But you have to be under constraint by the master.

02:42:41.000 And the master is the one that's given you, as it says in Romans 13, that you are a minister of justice to execute wrath on those who would do evil.

02:42:49.000 But we carry the sword and we don't carry it in vain.

02:42:53.000 That's the Second Amendment.

02:42:55.000 And in Romans 13, we the people are the authority.

02:43:00.000 And by consent, we've allowed you to govern.

02:43:02.000 Don't screw it up.

02:43:04.000 Go back, revisit that Constitution.

02:43:06.000 Everybody wake up because if we're going to defend a republic, we need to know what we're defending. 1.00

02:43:10.000 Don't be a jackass. 0.99

02:43:11.000 Don't knock down the barn door. 1.00

02:43:13.000 Be a carpenter.

02:43:14.000 Start to rebuild this republic.

02:43:14.000 Revisit that.

02:43:16.000 Isabel, do you have an update you want to share?

02:43:20.000 Congresswoman Corey Bush, who is from the state of Missouri, has started to draft a new resolution for the House of Representatives that would allow for expulsion of Republican members of Congress who were attempting to overturn the election.

02:43:34.000 So anyone who signed on to any sort of objection to the Electoral College votes may be expelled from Congress as a result of this resolution.

02:43:46.000 Yeah, I would say of her doing that and those saying, let's go to guns. 1.00

02:43:50.000 That's what we're dealing with. 0.84

02:43:52.000 Yeah.

02:43:54.000 Extremes.

02:43:55.000 And I think we're starting to see this reality play out today in so many different facets intellectually, through Congress, through realms of legal means, through realms of violence.

02:44:04.000 We clearly are living in two very different societies, one governed by God and governed by reality, and one that's complete anarchy and chaos.

02:44:13.000 That is exactly right.

02:44:13.000 Yeah.

02:44:14.000 Continue to email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

02:44:18.000 People are saying that video was horrible.

02:44:20.000 It was horrific.

02:44:21.000 You're right.

02:44:23.000 That's the type of sequence I'm trying to avoid, just so we're clear.

02:44:26.000 I hate that.

02:44:27.000 That's a disgusting thing.

02:44:29.000 And that was preventable, okay?

02:44:32.000 And it was preventable either by the agitators or whatever.

02:44:35.000 And there are people out there, and that's why I am still of the opinion that this was a leftist infiltration that influence and infiltrate certain organizations.

02:44:45.000 And they do this just because they want to see the world burn.

02:44:48.000 We're starting to see more chaos spin out outside of D.C. as well.

02:44:48.000 Absolutely.

02:44:52.000 I'm seeing reports from the mayor of Denver, Mayor Hancock, that there's about 700 individuals downtown at the state capitol in Colorado.

02:45:00.000 I'm expecting that we'll probably be seeing a lot of that around the country as well today.

02:45:05.000 Continue to email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

02:45:08.000 I want to thank some people that are supporting us at charliekirk.com/slash support.

02:45:15.000 It really helps us out a lot.

02:45:17.000 It really does as we do this and as we try to make sense of all this.

02:45:20.000 Charlie, can I add that there isn't another organization in America?

02:45:23.000 I mean, I came out here to Phoenix on my own dime to sit with you.

02:45:27.000 There's not another organization in America that is doing what you're doing right now.

02:45:32.000 And the calm and the wisdom and the insights, people are longing for information that they can process.

02:45:37.000 And I just, I want to say thank you.

02:45:38.000 That's why my wife and I support all that you do.

02:45:41.000 Thank you.

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02:45:43.000 I want to thank Brian from Wisconsin.

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02:45:56.000 We're going to keep on doing this.

02:45:57.000 Rob, do you want to close us in prayer?

02:45:59.000 I think our nation needs it.

02:46:00.000 Yeah.

02:46:02.000 Lord, we're thankful that none of this caught you by surprise.

02:46:06.000 You're God of order, and here we're watching chaos.

02:46:10.000 But yet, Lord, you're greater than all this.

02:46:11.000 Greater is He who's in us and He's in the world.

02:46:14.000 And you call us that we call upon the name of the Lord, we will be saved.

02:46:18.000 You're a strong tower, the righteous run into you and they are saved.

02:46:21.000 Lord, I pray that this would cause folks to be shaken to their core, that they would realize that there is a God in heaven, and he is a God who rules in the affairs of men.

02:46:30.000 And we are living on his earth.

02:46:34.000 We're drinking his water, breathing his air, and eating his food, but we must live by his rules.

02:46:39.000 And so, Lord, please, I pray that this would be a wake-up call for every man and woman to evaluate their lives and say, God, have mercy on me.

02:46:48.000 Have mercy on this nation.

02:46:49.000 Awaken me to the wise restraints that make men free.

02:46:53.000 That the laws of nature, nature's God, would be applied once again to this constitutional republic, that men and women can live longer than 244 years in the most liberty any nation in the history of the world have ever experienced.

02:47:10.000 But, God, we also pray for patience, that folks wouldn't be anxious in anything, but by prayer and supplication, like we're doing now, and appealing to you, that you would guard our hearts and our minds in Christ Jesus.

02:47:24.000 We do pray for peace.

02:47:25.000 We know that you fashion hands for war, but Lord, that comes.

02:47:29.000 There's a season for everything.

02:47:30.000 But right now, you're calling us to appeal.

02:47:35.000 And, Lord, not knock down the barn door, but build it.

02:47:39.000 So, God, please, I pray that you would do an amazing work and call an awakening and a revival across the land.

02:47:44.000 And we pray for those who've been affected adversely, those who've been hurt.

02:47:48.000 We pray for protection.

02:47:50.000 And, Lord, we pray for calmer heads to prevail.

02:47:53.000 And so, we commit this to you.

02:47:54.000 And we thank you that we have a God to call to, as the founders did.

02:47:57.000 That we can appeal to you, even as the greatest empire on the face of the earth, England that had just defeated the second greatest empire, France, was coming down on this ragtag group of colonies and was going to decimate them.

02:48:12.000 But yet, when we appeal to you and we're right with you, there's no weapon fashioned against us that will stand.

02:48:18.000 So, Lord, please bring an awakening and a revival across this land.

02:48:22.000 And we ask this in your matchless mighty name.

02:48:25.000 Amen.

02:48:26.000 Thank you guys for supporting us at charliekirk.com/slash support.

02:48:30.000 We're going to keep on doing emails, seeing them in at freedom at charliekirk.com.

02:48:34.000 We know there's a lot of confusion.

02:48:35.000 There's a lot of things happening out there, and we're on top of it.

02:48:39.000 And one last thing, we are going to give away five signed copies of the MAGA doctrine.

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02:48:55.000 We're on top of this.

02:48:57.000 And I encourage all of you to keep on expressing that we need to find ways to constitutionally solve our differences.

02:49:06.000 And that's a tragedy.

02:49:08.000 Roberta Paulson died today, and she didn't have to.

02:49:11.000 And more information will come out from that.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - January 07, 2021

Chaos at the Capitol

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