The Charlie Kirk Show - Chaos at the DNC?

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00:01:26.000 Joining us now is William J. Kelly, who is Mr. Chicago.

00:01:31.000 I go to him for all things Chicago.

00:01:33.000 Monitoring the protests and the lockdown of the city of Chicago.

00:01:37.000 William, welcome back to the program.

00:01:38.000 What is your take on what is happening right now in Chicago?

00:01:42.000 You're also the editor-in-chief of the City News Bureau.

00:01:45.000 Give us the latest on the ground.

00:01:46.000 Well, God bless you, brother.

00:01:48.000 First of all, thank you for the Charlie Kirk Bounce Bump here.

00:01:52.000 Since our last show, I've been named Editor-in-Chief of the City News Bureau, so I'm good news, bad news all over the place today, this week.

00:02:02.000 Last night, we were out with the CPD, essentially, for the protest, the first And I got a chance to talk to the superintendent of police, Larry Snelling, who by all accounts is a great guy.

00:02:18.000 He's been great to me, and we can talk about that another time.

00:02:22.000 He's a phenomenal guy, but here's the problem, Charlie.

00:02:25.000 There's always a problem in Chicago, you gotta know.

00:02:29.000 He's a political appointee.

00:02:31.000 He serves at the leisure of the mayor, Mayor Johnson, who has more in common with the protesters So I've heard, obviously we're covering the mayor, we're following him very closely.

00:02:48.000 He says that he is in constant communication with the leaders of the protests.

00:02:54.000 He knows them, he's got their cell phone numbers.

00:02:57.000 He's cutting deals with them.

00:03:00.000 And so I asked, Superintendent Snelling, and I'll be posting this at William J. Kelly on AXN, as soon as we're done, Charlie, okay?

00:03:11.000 I got one thing at a time.

00:03:14.000 And I asked him, I said, look, does this deal that the mayor of the city of Chicago is coming with protesters, okay, who have come here to protest the DNC, does that involve a stand-down order?

00:03:29.000 And Superintendent Snelling would not answer that question, Charlie.

00:03:34.000 So can you give us more details into this kind of buddy-buddy relationship that you're kind of articulating here?

00:03:42.000 I saw some of the protests, the Hamas protests, they're not yet in the number or the scale that we were told.

00:03:48.000 I drove by them, there was maybe a couple thousand people, but tomorrow I'm told it's going to heat up and heat up and heat up.

00:03:54.000 Tell us more William J. Kelly.

00:03:55.000 Well, you know, Charlie, in all seriousness, you know, and I'm not a Chicago basher.

00:04:00.000 I was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago.

00:04:02.000 I love Chicago with all my heart.

00:04:03.000 I want to, for the record, okay?

00:04:07.000 It breaks my heart to see what's happening here.

00:04:09.000 A Democrat judge, an Obama appointee, Do we have a lowest common denominator here?

00:04:21.000 I think it's all Democrat, right?

00:04:24.000 So here's the deal though, okay?

00:04:28.000 It appears to me, okay, as somebody who's been following dirty, dirty Chicago corrupt politician deals, you know, as a reporter, just to be clear, my entire life. 0.98

00:04:41.000 I can tell you right now, this smells of a dirty, dirty Democrat deal. 0.80

00:04:45.000 It sounds to me like Mayor Johnson has cut a deal with the protesters, okay? 0.71

00:04:52.000 And I even asked Superintendent Snelling yesterday, and like I said, I've got it on camera.

00:04:58.000 You know, if I don't have it on camera, Charlie, I think you know this probably better than anybody.

00:05:02.000 If it's not on camera, you know, you gotta have it on camera, otherwise nobody would believe it, right?

00:05:09.000 If for no other reason than to protect yourself, Superintendent Snelling, who I love, said that I asked him, will the mayor throw you under the bus if anything goes south?

00:05:20.000 Uh, is there a stand down order?

00:05:22.000 He wouldn't answer.

00:05:23.000 Uh, that tells me that there is a, uh, that there's some kind of dirty deal going on here between the mayor of the city of Chicago and the protesters, the Antifa, the people, you know, last night when we were out there, uh, covering their kickoff, protest rally march yesterday. You know, as you know,

00:05:44.000 Charlie, when the Antifa starts putting their masks on, that's when you might want to start walking

00:05:50.000 towards the police line because that means that they have ID'd you. So help me

00:05:55.000 understand, what kind of values getting exchanged here?

00:06:00.000 What would the protesters get in exchange?

00:06:02.000 No arrests for vandalism, for example?

00:06:04.000 This is a dirty deal.

00:06:05.000 Tell us more.

00:06:06.000 Well, here's my, you know, here's the really scary thing, and it should send a chill up.

00:06:12.000 Everyone's fine.

00:06:14.000 If the Democrats can cut a deal with the protesters to not I don't know how many people remember 2020, you know?

00:06:24.000 It seems like everybody forgot.

00:06:25.000 I don't know.

00:06:26.000 the fire, the carnage that they were originally planning to escalate, then that means that

00:06:33.000 they can cut a deal to flip the switch and turn on those protesters.

00:06:41.000 You know, I don't know how many people remember 2020, you know, it seems like everybody forgot.

00:06:46.000 I don't know, I haven't forgotten.

00:06:48.000 And so, you know, if we see these protests, then I have a feeling that Superintendent

00:06:55.000 Snelling, who maybe this is the first time anyone, you know, around the country has heard

00:07:00.000 this gentleman's name, but wonderful guy by all accounts, and I love him, he will be thrown

00:07:05.000 under the bus.

00:07:06.000 Okay, guaranteed.

00:07:07.000 It's literally Mayor of the City of Chicago 101.

00:07:11.000 It's like the first page of the mayoral handbook is Throw superintendent of police under bus, okay?

00:07:19.000 So this is, this is, this is like, I don't know, the worst case scenario.

00:07:26.000 And then the even worse case scenario is that the Democrats are in complete control of the protesters.

00:07:33.000 They can flip them on, they can flip them off.

00:07:37.000 This is amazing.

00:07:38.000 And so to look at this kind of collusion and this dirty deal is quite remarkable.

00:07:44.000 So, and let's dive deeper into this.

00:07:46.000 How could this potentially get out of control, William J. Kelly?

00:07:49.000 How could this potentially get out of hand for Mayor Johnson, the Democrat Party?

00:07:53.000 Because there's only so many, what you're kind of getting at though, is that they're dealing with almost the organizers who then can control the shock troops.

00:08:00.000 Tell us more.

00:08:01.000 Well, you know, I mean, Historically speaking, traditionally speaking, and I almost don't want to go into tradition here because events are moving so quickly.

00:08:12.000 I'm trying to stay out ahead of it.

00:08:13.000 But, you know, traditionally, as you know, a presidential nominee gets a bump out of a convention.

00:08:20.000 Donald Trump, I believe, got a bump out of the RNC.

00:08:23.000 It was a perfectly good convention.

00:08:24.000 There was nothing embarrassing or wrong that occurred.

00:08:29.000 Obviously, Kamala Harris, the mainstream media, don't get me wrong, wants nothing more than to just carry her through to the general election. 1.00

00:08:46.000 The only thing that could possibly go wrong would be if the city of Chicago, if we have broken windows, if we have fire, if we have blood.

00:08:59.000 What is the deal?

00:09:01.000 What is the deal that has been cut?

00:09:05.000 I'm sure you've seen, as you've driven through the city of Chicago, there are boarded up windows.

00:09:13.000 I remember the politicians, Johnson, Pritzker, they said that the DNC was going to be good for business.

00:09:22.000 Nothing says good for business like boarded up windows, right Charlie?

00:09:27.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:09:28.000 And I just have to say, what a contrast from Milwaukee.

00:09:31.000 Milwaukee, there was not a single business boarded up.

00:09:33.000 It was like a street party.

00:09:35.000 Right, Andrew?

00:09:35.000 It was just like, it was a extravaganza.

00:09:38.000 It was a four-day open-air street party.

00:09:40.000 And it just, it feels a lot different here in Chicago.

00:09:45.000 I can tell you that.

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00:10:52.000 Let's go through the map here with William J. Kelly.

00:10:56.000 So let's put the map up on screen if we can, Andrew.

00:10:58.000 The protesters are just blocks away.

00:11:00.000 So William J. Kelly is the editor-in-chief of the City News Bureau.

00:11:05.000 They're doing everything they can to try to prevent a 1968-type scenario again.

00:11:10.000 How many people on a typical weekend, William Kelly, get shot in Chicago?

00:11:15.000 Oh, between 30 and 80.

00:11:17.000 Last weekend was 30 shot, 5 killed.

00:11:20.000 You know, that's a war zone by any account.

00:11:24.000 Last weekend, you had nothing but police in downtown Chicago.

00:11:31.000 Okay, so you've got 50 wards in the city of Chicago.

00:11:35.000 I asked Police Superintendent Snelling yesterday, I said, I see every single police officer in the city on Michigan Avenue tonight, what about the other 49 wards, you know?

00:11:45.000 And God bless the man, you know, it's not his fault, make no mistake about it.

00:11:50.000 It's the judges, it's the, if anything, the Sheriff of Cook County, you know, letting violent criminals repeat violent criminals out due to President, or excuse me, President Governor Pritzker's no cash bail.

00:12:08.000 And they're letting these criminals out, Charlie.

00:12:12.000 Because they want to make room for protesters.

00:12:16.000 Kim Foxx, the Cook County State's Attorney, she's currently prosecuting.

00:12:20.000 The only person I think that she's been prosecuting over the course of her entire tenure, is a gentleman who threw a big gulp at

00:12:27.000 her. Meanwhile, people who are being raped, robbed, and murdered have no justice. But for weeks

00:12:36.000 now, if not months, we've been hearing nothing but the specter of violence from left-wing

00:12:44.000 protesters, Democrat protesters.

00:12:48.000 Okay. Um, and, uh, But now all of a sudden, it seems like that has completely evaporated.

00:12:55.000 So that tells me, and by the way, this is not just me speculating.

00:13:02.000 Mayor Johnson himself, okay?

00:13:04.000 Check it out.

00:13:06.000 As I like to say to all my reporters at the City News Bureau, if your mother says she loves you, check it out.

00:13:12.000 Make sure.

00:13:13.000 Don't just believe your mom, okay?

00:13:15.000 Here's the bottom line.

00:13:19.000 Mayor Johnson himself has said that these protesters are his friends, that he himself is a protester, that that's how he became mayor of Chicago, Charlie.

00:13:29.000 So he says that he knows them.

00:13:31.000 He's got their cell phones.

00:13:32.000 He's cutting deals with them.

00:13:34.000 Okay, what are these deals?

00:13:35.000 You know, the only thing that can derail, forgive me, I don't want to, well, A lot of people are saying, okay, sources are saying that the only thing that can derail Madam President, President Kamala Harris, is a disastrous DNC.

00:13:56.000 What deals has Mayor Johnson and Governor Pritzker cut with these Well, it's obvious that there is some sort of payoff going on.

00:14:11.000 It's very obvious.

00:14:12.000 So, Governor Pritzker is going to be speaking here at the DNC, acting like Illinois has been going in the right direction.

00:14:18.000 William J. Kelly, what is the truth about Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson?

00:14:22.000 More broadly, the state of the state.

00:14:25.000 Tell us about it.

00:14:28.000 Well, again, I was born and raised in Chicago, love it with all my heart.

00:14:32.000 I have to say it because I don't want to sound like one of these Chicago bashers who says Chicago gets what it deserves.

00:14:38.000 You know, as I think you know better than anybody, for decades, I've been sounding the alarm bell to national conservative Republican leaders saying, don't just let Chicago, don't just write it off.

00:14:53.000 You know, at what point in history has any great city or great empire, let's say, just written off the major

00:15:01.000 city, just right off Athens, right off Rome. What harm could it possibly cause? Well, I

00:15:08.000 think we're seeing the harm now.

00:15:11.000 So the city of Chicago is a war zone. We haven't even recovered from the lockdown and looting

00:15:21.000 of Lightfoot.

00:15:22.000 Okay?

00:15:23.000 I think that what the real Chicagoans are really sad about tonight, today, and leading up to this convention, Is seeing the boarded up storefronts, okay?

00:15:36.000 The only business that the DNC has really boosted is the plywood business.

00:15:41.000 You know, I only wish, Charlie, I don't want to do insider trading here, but I only wish that I had maybe tipped you off to the plywood, you know, investment scheme here, because that's the only business that seems to be benefiting from the DNC, Charlie.

00:15:59.000 Well said.

00:15:59.000 William J. Kelly, let's see if the window repair business is going to need a boost later this week.

00:16:07.000 We shall see.

00:16:07.000 William J. Kelly, thank you so much.

00:16:09.000 God bless you, brother.

00:16:10.000 Thank you.

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00:17:17.000 Joining us now is the legendary Ben Berkwam, who is live from the growing protests.

00:17:22.000 They're still waking up.

00:17:23.000 It's noon, so they're still waking up.

00:17:26.000 Ben, what are you hearing and seeing on the streets here in Chicago?

00:17:28.000 We are just feet away from you.

00:17:29.000 What are you hearing?

00:17:31.000 Hey, Charlie.

00:17:32.000 Sorry, I had a little connection issue there.

00:17:35.000 I'm out here with the protesters.

00:17:36.000 We're actually with the Israelis right now.

00:17:38.000 Let me try to get this connection a little better.

00:17:40.000 Hang on one second.

00:17:41.000 So I'm going to turn the camera around here.

00:17:45.000 Okay, so Ben is still trying to get his technology figured out here.

00:17:48.000 He's on the ground here in Chicago.

00:17:51.000 It's important to understand that the context of this is the Israeli government right now is negotiating with Tony Blinken and with Hamas for a potential ceasefire.

00:18:00.000 My gut tells me that they might come to a ceasefire during the DNC to calm all this down.

00:18:04.000 And then Kamala Harris can take a victory lap here at the DNC. 1.00

00:18:10.000 So, Ben Burquam, do we have Ben now?

00:18:11.000 Is that right?

00:18:12.000 Ben, what are you hearing and seeing?

00:18:13.000 Yeah, so Charlie, we've got several thousand over here.

00:18:16.000 We're actually walking up with Savannah Hernandez and Jack Kosovic down here as well.

00:18:21.000 We've got several thousand.

00:18:22.000 Sorry about the connection issue here, but you know, when you've got this many people, it's tough.

00:18:26.000 It's tough sometimes to connect, but I want to show you on the other side of the park.

00:18:30.000 You've got probably 2,000 of the pro-Hamas leftists out here chanting, you know, the river to the sea and all the same Leftist propaganda we're used to.

00:18:40.000 But what's ironic about this, Charlie, is basically they're coming out eating their own.

00:18:43.000 They're going against Kamala Harris.

00:18:45.000 So you have this whole group that have basically aligned themselves against Kamala Harris and are out here, you know, protesting the DNC.

00:18:53.000 And they're actually they're calling for shutting down the DNC.

00:18:57.000 Make it like 1968.

00:18:58.000 What's that?

00:19:01.000 Yes, right.

00:19:02.000 There's a woman just had children being killed. 1.00

00:19:04.000 That's something else that we're not talking about is the fact that they're killing babies at the DNC.

00:19:09.000 They've got a mobile abortion unit out here as well.

00:19:12.000 So it's, it is pretty ironic.

00:19:14.000 I mean, the irony here is pretty unbelievable.

00:19:17.000 Yeah, so can you just expand on that really quick?

00:19:20.000 So they literally have a truck, Planned Parenthood does, where they've brought in a truck that is doing vasectomies on site.

00:19:27.000 I mean, Andrew, would you do a vasectomy in a truck on the side of the street?

00:19:31.000 Would any man do it?

00:19:32.000 I mean, if you've got to get a vasectomy, you've got to get a vasectomy, right?

00:19:35.000 I mean, you've got three or four kids, right?

00:19:38.000 No, no, I mean this.

00:19:40.000 They're putting men in trucks on the side of the street and giving them vasectomies? 0.99

00:19:45.000 I mean, that's a pretty intense surgery, right, Andrew?

00:19:47.000 I mean, that's not just, you know, that's not exactly just something that is easy there.

00:19:52.000 Ben, is that right?

00:19:54.000 They're doing drive-by vasectomies?

00:19:56.000 Apparently.

00:19:57.000 And think about this, Charlie. 0.96

00:19:59.000 Basically, you've got the left, these eugenics-favoring leftists, who not only want to kill babies, they want to prevent men from being able to have babies.

00:20:07.000 So they actually apparently have this mobile abortion and vasectomy unit that's driving around here at the DNC. 0.99

00:20:15.000 So you can, you know, if you had promiscuous sex, you want to kill the baby, you can do that. 0.85

00:20:19.000 Or if you're a guy and your girlfriend wants you to, you know, stop your ability to have children because you want to stop the mansplaining and toxic masculinity, you can do that out here as well. 0.98

00:20:28.000 But it really, it really, Jack, or Charlie, comes back to The irony of it all is they're eating their own at the same time.

00:20:34.000 that want to build humanity.

00:20:36.000 They believe we have to be diplomatic and they want to reduce that population.

00:20:40.000 And the more vasectomies you cause, the better, the more abortions you have, the better. 1.00

00:20:45.000 So it's just the whole thing.

00:20:46.000 It's just good versus evil on display.

00:20:49.000 But the irony of it all is they're eating their own at the same time.

00:20:53.000 So, you know, it's not, I think part of me just wants to grab some popcorn

00:20:57.000 and sit back and watch it.

00:20:58.000 So again, I'm just kind of amazed.

00:21:02.000 I mean, you see, Andrew, if we see some people walking around really around the DNC with a lot of ice packs in their crotch region, we know that they did the drive-through mobile vasectomy.

00:21:12.000 And again, if you're going to get a vasectomy, I wouldn't go in an RV.

00:21:16.000 I just, I mean, I'd probably go to some sort of expert.

00:21:19.000 It's not a joke.

00:21:20.000 They literally have this truck that's driving around and they say, mobile vasectomies, and they're giving abortions on demand too there.

00:21:28.000 I hope they're not driving while they're doing it.

00:21:32.000 That might add another wrinkle into it.

00:21:35.000 I hope they actually stop it.

00:21:36.000 That's right.

00:21:36.000 No, all of a sudden they're doing a vasectomy.

00:21:38.000 Boom! 0.99

00:21:39.000 Sorry, we hit a bump here.

00:21:41.000 You know, the roads in Chicago are no good because this has become a third world city. 1.00

00:21:44.000 Sorry man, we missed.

00:21:45.000 Snipped the wrong organ.

00:21:48.000 It's priorities.

00:21:50.000 You know, you don't spend money on roads and infrastructure.

00:21:52.000 You spend it on transgender surgeries and the rest of the leftist ideology. 0.96

00:21:57.000 The things that actually don't help society.

00:22:00.000 That's where our priorities are.

00:22:01.000 So you can't expect the roads in Chicago to be good, Charlie.

00:22:04.000 It's not like Democrats have run this city for 60 years.

00:22:08.000 So explain to me, Ben Berquam, you were at the RNC and the DNC.

00:22:12.000 So far, it's just the first day.

00:22:14.000 What are the differences between the RNC and the DNC?

00:22:17.000 Well, misery versus hope and prosperity.

00:22:20.000 I mean, the RNC was the first time in a long time that I've seen Republicans from all sides come together.

00:22:27.000 And again, it was a week after President Trump Was almost assassinated.

00:22:31.000 We're just over five weeks since that day.

00:22:34.000 We saw Republicans that came together in unity behind President Trump.

00:22:38.000 And now out here, you have more disunity than you can, you know, than I've ever seen before on the Democrat side.

00:22:44.000 What's really interesting, Charlie, is you think about how we got to where we are.

00:22:47.000 This was, you know, this was Democrats, but you can see the stage is actually somebody speaking up there right now.

00:22:54.000 This was actually launched by the Democrats under President Trump.

00:22:58.000 They launched BLM, they launched Antifa to go after their political opponents.

00:23:01.000 These are the Democrat henchmen.

00:23:03.000 And what's interesting is now they've lost control.

00:23:06.000 And so you have the Democrat establishment fighting now with the grassroots,

00:23:10.000 which really are Antifa, Hamas, illegal aliens, BLM.

00:23:14.000 And again, we're talking about irony.

00:23:17.000 Today's the day of irony.

00:23:18.000 This will be the week of irony.

00:23:20.000 The same party that doesn't want borders walled on our southern border

00:23:23.000 has a wall around their convention to keep their own people out. 0.92

00:23:27.000 I mean, it's the most amazing thing.

00:23:31.000 Again, it's hope, it's joy, it's truth, it's light, godliness on the right

00:23:36.000 versus the exact opposite, the devil on the left.

00:23:40.000 Look, this is the far-left faction, and they are so powerful that Democrats are really scared about alienating them.

00:23:46.000 So they have to placate them by picking walls over Shapiro, making sweetheart deals with this base, and just kind of keeping them off to the side.

00:23:55.000 But this is the heartbeat and the base of the Democrat Party.

00:23:58.000 I want you guys to imagine that while we were having the RNC, Andrew, imagine if there were 2,000 people on the far hinterlands of our party with, like, a bunch of militiamen with firearms.

00:24:07.000 I don't know.

00:24:08.000 Think about what the potential would be.

00:24:10.000 So Ben, do you have Savannah Hernandez near you?

00:24:13.000 I'd love to get her on the conversation, hear what she's seeing.

00:24:16.000 Savannah there?

00:24:19.000 I did.

00:24:19.000 I've got to go track her down.

00:24:20.000 We walked across to get a better signal.

00:24:22.000 I've got to run her down. 0.98

00:24:23.000 Probably have to do that over the break here real quick.

00:24:26.000 That's fine.

00:24:27.000 So, Ben, you also said there was a fair amount of pro-Israel protesters, too.

00:24:30.000 Tell us about them.

00:24:32.000 I do have them, Savannah.

00:24:33.000 I just saw them.

00:24:34.000 Oh, you found Savannah?

00:24:34.000 Hang on.

00:24:35.000 Okay, great.

00:24:36.000 I've got Savannah right here.

00:24:37.000 So, the great Ben Berquam is working the park here.

00:24:40.000 Great.

00:24:41.000 And her audio is not working.

00:24:43.000 Savannah, welcome to the program.

00:24:44.000 I have to relay the question for you.

00:24:46.000 Well, tell her first.

00:24:46.000 She does a great job.

00:24:47.000 But what is Savannah here in seeing and anticipating this week in Chicago?

00:24:51.000 So Savannah, great job, Charlie says.

00:24:53.000 What are you anticipating?

00:24:54.000 I know you've been out here for a couple of days already.

00:24:56.000 What are you anticipating seeing?

00:24:58.000 And what have you seen so far?

00:24:59.000 Sure.

00:25:00.000 So we have quite a few protesters out here.

00:25:02.000 And Charlie, I was actually out here for Frontline's Turning Point USA earlier last week because I was covering the migrant crisis.

00:25:09.000 We do have a large portion of illegal immigrants that are protesting to basically be made legal.

00:25:17.000 We know that because we are in an election year, a lot of people haven't been focusing in on election integrity, right?

00:25:22.000 Whether or not these illegal migrants will be able to vote in our elections or not. 1.00

00:25:26.000 So some of the protesters here are actively protesting to allow them to vote in our election.

00:25:31.000 You know, protesting to make them legal.

00:25:34.000 That's the inc that I'm covering because the migrant crisis here in Chicago has been really crazy actually.

00:25:41.000 We have 46,000 legal immigrants here, but that's kind of the inc that I'm taking with it 1.00

00:25:45.000 because that is, you know, mixed into this other group of hundreds of thousands of protesters right now

00:25:51.000 that are currently here to protest against it.

00:25:54.000 So guys, this can go to either one of you, Ben or Savannah.

00:25:59.000 It seems as if it's going to continue to heat up throughout the week.

00:26:04.000 Do you have confidence that the police presence will be able to hold back if, let's say, 100,000 protesters appear at this park?

00:26:12.000 Yeah, that's the big question.

00:26:14.000 And Savannah, I know you've been hearing the same things I've been hearing about the potential for 100,000 plus of these, you know, jihadist supporters coming out here talking about making it like 1968, making great like 68, shut it down.

00:26:26.000 And I don't know, you know, to answer the question, do the police have the, not just the manpower, but the will to do what's necessary to protect the DNC.

00:26:37.000 They're really, you know, this is an interesting situation.

00:26:40.000 Now, if this was a Trump rally and they were threatening to overthrow it,

00:26:43.000 and it's like what we saw in Berkeley and what we saw for four years under President Trump,

00:26:47.000 I think the police would probably get the stand down order.

00:26:50.000 Now it's about protecting.

00:26:51.000 There's actually already an interesting situation here.

00:26:58.000 When you had in your speech a protestor with a bat in his backpack, I actually just noticed it was put in the front line, and the police immediately confronted him with a bat.

00:27:06.000 So, it does seem like they're really starting to crack down.

00:27:09.000 You know, we had Politico put out the headline this morning that The Democrats are here, they're unified,

00:27:14.000 it's a party of no drama.

00:27:16.000 But out on the street, it's because we have thousands of police officers.

00:27:19.000 I personally have never seen this many police officers in a Democrat city before.

00:27:23.000 And I know that they've been deputizing and taking police officers from other areas,

00:27:28.000 like Milwaukee as well.

00:27:29.000 So I think they really are going to be cracking down and trying to keep the peace

00:27:33.000 because the media has been trying to push this narrative that peace is a very unified and peaceful event.

00:27:37.000 But again, what's going on on the ground right now is very different.

00:27:41.000 Yeah, so it's yet to be seen.

00:27:43.000 And just so you know, Charlie, everything I've been seeing when it comes to leftist propaganda and FIFA propaganda is they're anticipating it ramping up every day until they get to the culmination Wednesday, Thursday.

00:27:56.000 And, you know, we'll see.

00:27:57.000 I mean, pray for peace.

00:27:59.000 We're praying for peace in the Middle East.

00:28:00.000 We're praying for peace all around the world.

00:28:02.000 Pray for peace in Chicago.

00:28:03.000 Pray that these people wake up.

00:28:05.000 And stop the overthrow of this country, which we see.

00:28:08.000 And this is really my last takeaway from this.

00:28:12.000 When you look at who's out here, this is not just, they call themselves anti-fascist, it's really a combination of communist and anarchist.

00:28:20.000 And so this is a battle that's going to continue no matter who wins in November.

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00:29:53.000 You must remember, day one for her was January 2021.

00:29:56.000 That was day one for her.

00:29:59.000 That was her first day in office.

00:30:01.000 She created this mess.

00:30:02.000 She helped create the inflation, create the housing problem, create the grocery problem, create the border problem. 0.63

00:30:08.000 Oh, on day one.

00:30:09.000 You've already had your day one, Kamala Harris.

00:30:12.000 Okay, this Friday we'll be hosting President Trump in Arizona.

00:30:15.000 Listen up, everybody.

00:30:16.000 We are hosting President Trump at Desert Diamond Arena.

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00:30:30.000 Friday, we want to fill up that entire arena.

00:30:33.000 It's exactly where Kamala Harris did her event. 1.00

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00:30:38.000 It's tpaction.com slash Trump.

00:30:40.000 Okay, let's go here.

00:30:42.000 I think it's very important to play this piece of tape here.

00:30:44.000 This is Jadie Vance saying, how would Kamala Harris run in the economy be? 0.99

00:30:50.000 Play cut eight.

00:30:51.000 If you talk to insiders in the Kamala Harris campaign, they're very worried about where they are because the American people just don't buy the idea that Kamala Harris, who has been vice president for three and a half years, is somehow going to tackle the inflation crisis in a way tomorrow that she hasn't for the past 1,300 days.

00:31:10.000 Giving Kamala Harris control over inflation policy, Shannon, it's like giving Jeffrey Epstein control over human trafficking policy.

00:31:17.000 The American people are much smarter than that.

00:31:19.000 They don't buy the idea that Kamala Harris represents a fresh start.

00:31:23.000 She is more of the same.

00:31:24.000 It is doubling down on the failed policies of the Harris administration to give Kamala Harris a promotion rather than defy her, which is what I think most Americans are going to do on November. 0.98

00:31:36.000 Now, we must fire her because she's currently in office, and this is the kicker. 0.94

00:31:40.000 Congratulations to Ryan and the entire team who found this.

00:31:43.000 It's terrific.

00:31:45.000 This clip otherwise would not be covered very much.

00:31:48.000 It's White House Communications Director Ben LeBolt.

00:31:52.000 Vice President Harris has been the governing partner for every key decision that the president has made in his term in office.

00:31:58.000 Play cut to.

00:31:59.000 Vice President Harris has been the governing partner for every key decision that the president's made in his term in office.

00:32:07.000 There is no daylight.

00:32:09.000 She is in charge of what you are experiencing.

00:32:12.000 You cannot afford a summer vacation.

00:32:14.000 How bad are things?

00:32:16.000 Fox reports overall inflation up 19.4%.

00:32:22.000 8.2 million illegals encountered at the southern border and then were released by Kamala Harris.

00:32:29.000 9.6% increase in violent crime.

00:32:30.000 And as Blake astutely points out, these are misreported and underreported crime numbers.

00:32:36.000 The crime numbers are actually much higher.

00:32:37.000 Play cut three, please.

00:32:40.000 Since she came into office with President Biden, overall inflation is up 19.4%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

00:32:48.000 More than 8.1 million migrants have illegally crossed the U.S.

00:32:51.000 border, according to CBP.

00:32:53.000 And there's been a 9.6% increase in total violent crime across 66 major cities, according to the Coalition of Law, Order and Safety.

00:33:02.000 And real voters, everyday people, are starting to realize it.

00:33:05.000 You see the networks, they'll send people out to the streets and ask questions.

00:33:08.000 How do you feel?

00:33:09.000 How do you feel?

00:33:10.000 This is an Iowa voter saying, you know what?

00:33:13.000 They're too far left for me.

00:33:15.000 Play cut five.

00:33:16.000 I see Kamala and I see Wallace as being so far left that it concerns me.

00:33:23.000 I'm comfortable with Trump.

00:33:24.000 We had four years of Trump.

00:33:25.000 We know what Trump is.

00:33:27.000 I'm not voting for him to be my Valentine.

00:33:30.000 I'm not voting for him to be my best friend.

00:33:33.000 She was against Trump previously.

00:33:34.000 That's a CNN interview.

00:33:36.000 And now she is voting for Trump.

00:33:37.000 Was against and now is in favor.

00:33:40.000 A Wisconsin voter.

00:33:41.000 I'm leaning towards Trump.

00:33:43.000 Why is that?

00:33:44.000 Because Kamala Harris just copies him on his core issues.

00:33:48.000 Play cut 7.

00:33:50.000 I'm leaning towards Trump.

00:33:52.000 And why is that?

00:33:53.000 A lot of the stuff Kamala says is kind of like what Trump has said, like no taxes on tips was something that was kind of reiterated by Trump beforehand.

00:34:05.000 She's just kind of been caught up in a lot of lies.

00:34:08.000 That's exactly right.

00:34:10.000 Every day, Americans are starting to realize that she is the one responsible.

00:34:14.000 She is the incumbent.

00:34:15.000 And as an incumbent, she has to answer for the hundreds of thousands of dead people in Ukraine, the wide-open border, out-of-control prices.

00:34:23.000 She is to blame.

00:34:25.000 Do not fall for the DNC propaganda.

00:34:27.000 We are going to be here countering it every single day.

00:34:30.000 At the DNC, they're going to be lying to you and deceiving to you about what they're doing on a daily basis.

00:34:35.000 But we are here to give you the truth every single day.

00:34:37.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:34:38.000 Everybody email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - August 19, 2024

Chaos at the DNC?

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