The Charlie Kirk Show - February 14, 2023


Chinese EMPs and the Humiliation of WaPo with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna and Sen. Ron Johnson


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Ana Paulina Luna joins us to talk about her experience in law enforcement, her experience with the media, and her experience as a member of Congress. She also discusses the recent Washington Post hit job on her, and how she fought back.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show, email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:05.000 Ana Paulina Luna joins us and Senator Ron Johnson for a variety of topics, including are we prepared for an EMP to be deployed on the homeland?
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00:00:26.000 We go.
00:00:27.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:28.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
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00:00:37.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:38.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:39.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:48.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:01:12.000 The young rising stars of the conservative movement are receiving some pretty harsh and unfair treatment by the activist press.
00:01:20.000 The activist press knows if they could take out some of the up-and-coming faces and voices.
00:01:26.000 They try to do this with Madison Cawthorne, and unfortunately, in a lot of ways, they were successful.
00:01:31.000 Madison Cawthorne certainly would tell you that he would make some different decisions, but he was treated terribly by the media and the establishment Republicans, and they tried to get rid of him.
00:01:40.000 Now, they are using the Madison Cawthorne playbook to try to go after many different people.
00:01:46.000 I hope James O'Keefe ends up being okay through the entire saga of Project Veritas.
00:01:52.000 We're keeping our eyes very closely on that.
00:01:54.000 And I have not seen or heard a single thing that necessitates the departure of James O'Keefe from Project Veritas.
00:02:00.000 Improvements, adjustments, disciplinarian meetings, fine, whatever.
00:02:06.000 He's got to stay.
00:02:08.000 And this plays into a theme that we saw manifest in a story in the Washington Post of a total hit job, a drive-by shooting of the truth against Ana Paulina Luna, who is terrific and is one of the most effective, articulate, and important voices in Congress right now.
00:02:27.000 Of course, the Washington Post would go after her with a long, allegedly biographical story, which was completely dishonest.
00:02:34.000 They would never do such a thing against Elon Omar, looking into whether or not Elon Omar falsified immigration documents because of something she may or may not have done to her brother.
00:02:45.000 But some people just did something, right?
00:02:46.000 Elon Omar has her defense with her relations with her brother.
00:02:50.000 Or how about Rashida Tlaib and the fact that she hates Jews or Eric Swawal, who slept with a Chinese Communist Party spy repeatedly and then gave her a job in his office.
00:03:00.000 But none of that would get you an in-depth biographical hit job of the Washington Post.
00:03:06.000 But Ana Paulina Luna does because she is the youngest ever Hispanic Latina elected, Latina woman elected to U.S. Congress, and she joins us now. 0.59
00:03:17.000 Ana, welcome to the program.
00:03:18.000 Very happy to be back, Charlie.
00:03:21.000 Respond to the Washington Post story. 0.98
00:03:24.000 Well, first and foremost, I knew immediately that I had to go kill shot with receipts.
00:03:28.000 And so the first big allegation and flaw that they made is that they claimed that I was a registered Democrat in the state of Washington, of which I pointed out that Washington hasn't declared parties for registration since 2004.
00:03:41.000 So that was their first retraction.
00:03:43.000 And then the second retraction was they actually completely ignored the fact that during a break-in that I was at in Missouri State back in two, I think it was 2007, 2000-ish timeframe.
00:03:56.000 They left me out of it altogether.
00:03:58.000 Said that I wasn't annotated on the police report.
00:04:00.000 There were multiple different incidences.
00:04:01.000 It was on 7-6, 2010.
00:04:03.000 And ultimately, as a result of that, multiple of my coworkers ended up coming forward and going on record to various outlets like Time Magazine, People Magazine, and also to Fox News to say, Anna didn't make up this story.
00:04:16.000 This Brittany Brooks person has made allegations that she owns a ghost gun. 0.90
00:04:19.000 I mean, it was so absurd.
00:04:22.000 But, you know, in understanding what I'm doing with the media and understanding that you have to be aggressive, you have to confront with the facts.
00:04:29.000 One of the most horrifying things is that they claimed that I made up the fact that my dad was incarcerated.
00:04:34.000 And I paid $1.50.
00:04:35.000 I went online and I did a public record search and I found all of my dad's charges, misdemeanors, felonies.
00:04:41.000 And to say that I would make something like that up, why would they say that? 0.96
00:04:45.000 It's because they don't want young Hispanics to be reputable.
00:04:48.000 And if you look at the slant of the entire article, they say that I'm not Hispanic enough, even though they cite where my grandparents immigrated from.
00:04:55.000 But, you know, a lot of what they do, it's character assassination.
00:04:58.000 And if you don't have spine for it, you can fold.
00:05:00.000 But I think that we launched a full frontal assault and we'll look forward to more retraction soon.
00:05:05.000 Yeah.
00:05:05.000 And so can you just talk a little bit about why, why they are doing this?
00:05:11.000 Your vision.
00:05:12.000 Go ahead.
00:05:13.000 Yeah.
00:05:13.000 Yeah, Charlie.
00:05:14.000 I'm actually one of, and it's really started with turning point.
00:05:18.000 I became one of the biggest conservative activists for Hispanic Americans in the country.
00:05:23.000 And I am now one of the first Mexican-American women elected to Congress from the state of Florida.
00:05:29.000 I'm the first minority woman elected to flip my seat from blue to red.
00:05:34.000 And it's because of the fact that I'm not engaging in their group think you see, it would be a lot easier for me, according to these people, to claim that I am a man or to claim that I'm cisgender. 0.91
00:05:43.000 Yeah, that's exactly right.
00:05:44.000 That is exactly right.
00:05:45.000 Yes. 0.99
00:05:46.000 Because of the fact that I'm owning my Hispanic heritage, because I'm saying that I'm conservative, I'm all of a sudden the boogeyman. 0.99
00:05:46.000 Exactly. 0.99
00:05:52.000 And the sexist attacks that were launched by liberal men over this, it's just, it's absurd.
00:05:58.000 But I'm really glad that they did it the way that they did because honestly, there's a silver lining in the cloud.
00:06:03.000 And had they not done that, People Magazine wouldn't have reached out to do profile piece and talk to my mom and understand our story.
00:06:09.000 Time magazine wouldn't have bothered to do that.
00:06:12.000 And so I think that this is just going to show that you can try to attack people, but the facts will always speak for themselves.
00:06:18.000 And I'm an Air Force veteran.
00:06:20.000 I'm going to continue fighting for this country and I'm going to take on the Washington Post.
00:06:24.000 And you should.
00:06:25.000 And it was, I mean, what they do is a drive-by shooting of the truth, as I said before, as the great Russian Limbaugh would call them. 0.97
00:06:33.000 The drive-bys for a reason.
00:06:36.000 You know, but Ana, I want to, you know, build this out because, you know, you're a young, articulate voice, and the media goes after the young leaders in the conservative movement harsher than anybody else.
00:06:49.000 Look, they went after George Santos.
00:06:51.000 That guy is, he's got his own about a problem, you know, let's just say, garden variety of problems.
00:06:58.000 They tried to use that playbook against you, but the issue is you're an honest person and they tried to imply that you're not a conservative.
00:07:05.000 Well, honestly, I can help with that.
00:07:08.000 You are a conservative.
00:07:09.000 In fact, Ryan on our team, who's been doing a great job running our YouTube, if you go to our YouTube channel, Ana, you'll remember this.
00:07:16.000 Some of the most viral videos we've been reposting is Ana Paulina next to me at Portland State University.
00:07:22.000 That's right.
00:07:23.000 You're trying to tell me that Ana Paulina is not a true conservative. 0.91
00:07:26.000 We went with a coffee table outdoors in downtown Portland and talked to commies all day long.
00:07:32.000 You're a conservative.
00:07:33.000 The Washington Post is trying to make it seem that you're not.
00:07:36.000 I mean, it's kind of interesting because even let's just say Play Devil's Advocate, if you even listen to their narrative, their narrative would be that I was a liberal who's true and conservative and then they're hitting me for being a liberal, which makes no sense.
00:07:49.000 So it's like they hate themselves and they just don't know where they're at.
00:07:51.000 They're having an identity crisis right now because we're winning when it comes to ideas.
00:07:55.000 But you know, everything that I did with House Oversight, with some of these investigations, Charlie, part of that training was from when I was going on all those campus tours and debating and arguing with college kids on ideas and being able to confront that and get to the truth.
00:08:09.000 And so you'll see more of that.
00:08:10.000 You know, the difference between me and most members of Congress, and the reason I think that I'm just so matter of fact about it and willing to fight is because I don't look at this like a career job.
00:08:20.000 I don't want it to be a career job.
00:08:21.000 So I'm willing to make the necessary changes because I frankly don't care.
00:08:26.000 If they want to come from me, I've gone through multiple elections where they ran smear campaigns similar to Madison Cawthorne. 0.99
00:08:31.000 In fact, the same Democrat super PAC that went against Madison and Lauren Boebert came after me.
00:08:37.000 They actually said that I was not a veteran and I had to drop my DD 214.
00:08:40.000 So I think the angle was they didn't think I would have the receipts because as stated by an editor at the Washington Post, Ana Luna has a story that mirrors basically all of her twist.
00:08:51.000 And the fact that they would talk about that and discredit my life.
00:08:54.000 I grew up within the welfare system.
00:08:56.000 I went to six high schools.
00:08:58.000 I saw gang shooting.
00:08:59.000 I was jumped.
00:09:00.000 I was a victim of a home invasion and I'm for the Second Amendment.
00:09:04.000 I had a father that was on drugs and I can talk to all these things to try to minimalize that.
00:09:08.000 Think about that. 1.00
00:09:09.000 I'm going to kick their butts. 1.00
00:09:11.000 I love that. 1.00
00:09:12.000 And you're such a threat that they need to try to take you out.
00:09:15.000 You don't claim victimhood.
00:09:17.000 And to add an element to what you just mentioned, in the 2022 midterms, there were a lot of expensive races.
00:09:26.000 But did you know that Ana Paulina out of 435, is it 435 or 535?
00:09:33.000 I get my, yeah, it's 435.
00:09:35.000 Yeah, it's 535 if you count the Senate.
00:09:37.000 435 house races.
00:09:39.000 Ana Paulina, number one, had the most outside money spent against her of every single race. 1.00
00:09:46.000 An out-of-state billionaire from Illinois came and spent, what was it, $17 to $22 million against you, Ana?
00:09:53.000 Yeah, it was $12 million in total from the super PAC.
00:09:58.000 Yeah, it was insane.
00:09:59.000 And that's one house race in a portion of Tampa, Florida in Pinellas and Hillsborough County right there.
00:10:08.000 And they needed to come in with $12 million and she still won because they know the threat that she represents. 0.99
00:10:15.000 I was just going to say, it's about power and control.
00:10:17.000 And they're threatened because of the fact that I'm Hispanic and we're not going to let them win on the identity politics.
00:10:21.000 We're America first and we're here to fight.
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00:11:39.000 Ana Paulina is with us.
00:11:41.000 Ana, why don't you tell us what happened at the Twitter hearing last week, which I think only encouraged the Washington Post to try to get that piece out even more?
00:11:50.000 Well, you know, the Washington Post right after that hearing, and I'll get into the specifics of that in a second, but right after they said that I was pushing some conspiracy theory, even though we had documentation and I'm literally launching this investigation with House Oversight.
00:12:03.000 So what we found is that Twitter Corporation, along with other social media entities, so like Facebook, Instagram, and I believe that also Google's potentially in their YouTube, but they were working with a division of DHS called CISA, CISA.
00:12:18.000 And ultimately, that entity was set up to monitor foreign interference and then also misinformation and disinformation boards.
00:12:26.000 So I want to remind people this was set up to work against foreign entities interfering in elections, not American people, right, in their First Amendment.
00:12:33.000 So we found in a screenshot that was actually posted to a Stanford YouTube video that Alex Damas, who's working on this program, was actually bragging that they had made such breakthroughs.
00:12:46.000 And it was Yoel Roth in a conversation with CISA, Twitter executives, and other entities, as well as state entities to remove certain postings.
00:12:56.000 And I want to flag why that's important because that's known as a joint state actor relationship and it's highly illegal.
00:13:02.000 And mind you, our tax dollars are going to these organizations that are then in turn suppressing more free speech.
00:13:08.000 And so that was what I uncovered.
00:13:10.000 It went viral.
00:13:11.000 They lied to my face, which I am going to follow up with Chairman Comer to see if we can bring charges for perjury because he lied.
00:13:18.000 He knew that this entity exists.
00:13:20.000 It was a commonly known chat board.
00:13:21.000 It was a private cloud server.
00:13:23.000 But also, too, they tried to make it something that it wasn't saying that this was normal.
00:13:27.000 It's not normal to do that.
00:13:29.000 And ultimately, we'll be following up on these investigations.
00:13:32.000 As you see, we have Maorkis coming in in the next two weeks.
00:13:35.000 And they can talk all the smack they want, Charlie, but I just, I really don't care.
00:13:39.000 I'm going to do the job and I'm going to do it right.
00:13:41.000 And then, you know, when all said and done with politics, I'm throwing my phone out the window and I'm retiring on a farm somewhere.
00:13:47.000 So what is the current then oversight strategy to hold Twitter and these tech companies accountable moving forward?
00:13:58.000 Well, I think right now we're in the exploratory phase, right?
00:14:01.000 We have to get all the facts together before we can start writing the legislation.
00:14:06.000 But it is important because if Elon Musk did not purchase Twitter, we would have never known this.
00:14:12.000 You know, he removed the attorney client privilege for some of these executives that were testifying.
00:14:16.000 And he also has been fully cooperating with different members of Congress that are actually interested in pursuing why the federal government is suppressing our constitutional rights.
00:14:27.000 Like that is literally what we're trying to expose here.
00:14:30.000 And so we're going to get those facts.
00:14:32.000 And as we move forward, there's some great members, conservative members, as well as leadership that is going to be working on legislation.
00:14:39.000 But we might not be able to propose that legislation until we have a president that will actually pass it.
00:14:44.000 Because right now, as you know, Senate is Democrat controlled.
00:14:47.000 And really anything that we pass that will go after tech or China, I have a good feeling that this administration will veto.
00:14:54.000 And so we're going to get that together.
00:14:55.000 But the American people need to know the facts.
00:14:57.000 And I think that's the phase one process.
00:15:00.000 And as we continue to move forward, that, you know, sometimes is the best disinfectant as sunlight.
00:15:06.000 Talk just for briefly about the debt ceiling fight and how critical that is to try to get some meaningful reform.
00:15:12.000 Well, Charlie, I've been a huge advocate.
00:15:14.000 I still really do not want to raise the debt ceiling.
00:15:17.000 Right now, what we're actually hearing, and again, these negotiations have been going on since really the speaker fight.
00:15:23.000 As you heard, we had a promise from now Speaker McCarthy to not raise the debt ceiling over X amount and that it would actually go back to some cuts actually dating back to previous years.
00:15:36.000 And so that's what we're looking at.
00:15:37.000 We're also looking at something called rescissions, which means that money that's already been spent, or at least that's supposed to be spent, that we can actually claw that money back.
00:15:46.000 You know, what's the point of having a debt ceiling if we're going to continue to raise it?
00:15:50.000 As you saw at the State of the Union, Biden was trying to say that Republicans were tacking Medicare and Social Security.
00:15:56.000 That's not true.
00:15:57.000 But some of these programs, largely of what was pushed through in the omnibus spending bill, extremely detrimental, extremely wrong.
00:16:04.000 We shouldn't be spending that.
00:16:05.000 So we are still in negotiations.
00:16:07.000 Ana Paulina, Luna, I want to just play one last little piece of tape here.
00:16:10.000 Play cut 20 of you from the oversight hearing.
00:16:13.000 Mr. Roth.
00:16:15.000 Have you communicated with government officials ever on a platform called JIRA?
00:16:20.000 Yes or no?
00:16:22.000 Real quick answer.
00:16:23.000 We're on the clock.
00:16:23.000 Not to the best of my recollection.
00:16:24.000 Not to your recollection?
00:16:25.000 Great.
00:16:26.000 If you did in the event communicate, who would have had access to this platform?
00:16:31.000 That's the nature of my confusion.
00:16:33.000 JIRA.
00:16:33.000 Okay.
00:16:34.000 Did you ever speak to government officials on JIRA regarding taking down social media posts?
00:16:39.000 Again, not to the best of my recollection.
00:16:42.000 This guy's got serious memory problems.
00:16:44.000 15 seconds, Anna.
00:16:45.000 Yeah, he lied to my face.
00:16:47.000 It's not the first time they used a platform.
00:16:49.000 I'm looking at others and we're going to hold them accountable 100%.
00:16:52.000 We're behind you, Ana.
00:16:52.000 Very good.
00:16:53.000 Keep fighting.
00:16:54.000 They hate you for all the right reasons.
00:16:55.000 Thank you so much.
00:16:56.000 Thank you.
00:17:00.000 Look, everybody, we're nine meals away from anarchy.
00:17:03.000 You are.
00:17:04.000 Balloons flying overhead, possible EMPs, UFOs, unidentified flying objects being shot out of the sky.
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00:18:16.000 Joining us now is the great senator from the wonderful state of Wisconsin, Senator Ron Johnson.
00:18:21.000 Senator, welcome to the program.
00:18:23.000 Senator, there's been some troubling developments, it seems, of unidentified flying objects over the American homeland.
00:18:29.000 You released a statement about it over the weekend.
00:18:33.000 Walk our audience through that.
00:18:35.000 Well, Charlie, well, I think my first point I've been making about what we've been experiencing is that the administration needs to be far more open and transparent about it.
00:18:45.000 You know, we were given a briefing in secure setting last Thursday.
00:18:50.000 I really didn't learn anything that I certainly didn't read within about 15 minutes of leaving that briefing.
00:18:57.000 I don't think there's anything particularly sensitive or what should be classified in that setting.
00:19:01.000 So this is such a very bizarre thing that is happening right now.
00:19:06.000 I think it behooves the administration to be very open, very transparent.
00:19:10.000 You know, obviously there are secrets that we need to keep secret, but we're an open society.
00:19:17.000 So it's a huge advantage we have.
00:19:19.000 And unfortunately, our government agencies are clinging to information because that information's power.
00:19:25.000 So it helps them maintain power.
00:19:28.000 But this is an instance where the American public has the right to know what's happening as it comes in, as we learn more.
00:19:36.000 So that's my first point.
00:19:37.000 My second point, I have been raising the alarm or the concern about electromagnetic pulse, a high-altitude nuclear blast, geomagnetic disturbance for literally years.
00:19:49.000 As chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, Governmental Affairs, I held a number of hearings on this with world-renowned experts, people that were also highly concerned.
00:20:01.000 And there's no overall solution to this.
00:20:05.000 We can certainly do things to harden our electrical grid to minimize the damage.
00:20:09.000 But one of the things we can do preemptively is we can put in place large power transformers.
00:20:15.000 If we were to have something like the Carringting effect that occurred over 150 years ago, a huge solar storm.
00:20:22.000 And by the way, we dodged one by a few days.
00:20:25.000 I think it was in 2012.
00:20:28.000 We were very lucky.
00:20:30.000 That solar storm back in the 1800s, it fried telegraph equipment.
00:20:34.000 What do you think it would do to modern electronics?
00:20:36.000 So again, it doesn't necessarily have to be a hostile act, but a high-altitude nuclear blast, we found this through nuclear testing in the 60s, can fry electronics.
00:20:45.000 That's exactly right.
00:20:46.000 Adversary could float.
00:20:48.000 Now we know adversary could float a nuclear device over our atmosphere and knock out electronics.
00:20:55.000 And we're not prepared for it.
00:20:57.000 We have not spent the few billions, the few tens of billions of dollars to put in place backup transformers that could be readily transferred back online in the case of either GMD or an EMP.
00:21:11.000 And this was after we've appropriated a trillion dollars plus for infrastructure.
00:21:17.000 Yes, I know.
00:21:18.000 During that debate, I was certainly making that point.
00:21:20.000 Well, why don't we take a few billion?
00:21:23.000 And part of the problem here, Charlie, is nobody is taking it seriously enough to really have thought it through, you know, people that really understand the electrical grid.
00:21:32.000 And I'm not one of those people.
00:21:34.000 I'm an accountant, but we really need people that understand the electrical grid, its vulnerabilities.
00:21:40.000 How many of these large power transformers should we purchase now?
00:21:45.000 Because they're literally irreplaceable in the short term.
00:21:47.000 It could take a year or more to purchase these things.
00:21:50.000 And by that point in time, society's in total chaos.
00:21:54.000 So we're not readily, we're not prepared for these types of catastrophic events.
00:21:58.000 We just, again, we're whistling by the graveyard like we do with our debt and deficit.
00:22:03.000 Boy, do I agree, Senator?
00:22:04.000 I, you know, part of my family, my wife's family has been working on the EMP issue for a long time, and they've been telling me that this could take out our entire civilization.
00:22:14.000 And Senator, is there any infrastructure currently in place?
00:22:17.000 Is there any plan?
00:22:18.000 I mean, this is what gets me a little fired up, Senator, that we spent a lot of money in Afghanistan.
00:22:23.000 We're spending a lot of money in Ukraine.
00:22:25.000 But now with these objects flying over us, you are right.
00:22:28.000 An EMP and electromagnetic pulse, it would fry every car.
00:22:32.000 It would fry phones, devices. 0.79
00:22:34.000 I mean, it would put the entire civilization to a halt and it would create chaos.
00:22:37.000 Is there anything in place right now?
00:22:41.000 Not really.
00:22:41.000 You know, go to the utilities and say, oh, we've already hardened our grid.
00:22:44.000 But again, they don't want to spend the money, which is kind of absurd because if they spend the money, they just turn around and they charge their customers for what it costs.
00:22:54.000 So I don't understand their resistance to doing this.
00:22:58.000 But again, the important thing is to recognize that it's these large power transformers that in a very severe EMP event would get destroyed.
00:23:10.000 And again, there aren't backups.
00:23:12.000 These things are, again, in the short term and immediate term, they're irreplaceable.
00:23:17.000 So for the cost of, and I, you know, fill in the blanks, is it $2 billion?
00:23:21.000 Is it $10 billion?
00:23:22.000 Is it $20 billion?
00:23:23.000 Whatever it is.
00:23:25.000 It's a manageable sum that in a trillion dollar, a thousand billion dollar year infrastructure package, we should have set aside $10, $20, $30 billion to purchase these things right now, but we haven't done it.
00:23:36.000 You put them in place and they're there.
00:23:39.000 You can switch the, you have the switch gear right there just in case something happened, you know, switch it back over to power transformers so we can get the ground running, but we're not prepared.
00:23:48.000 Yeah, the Democrats are enthusiastic about spending money on every strange program imaginable, electric vehicles to museums or the Michelle Obama walking trail or a new headquarters for the FBI.
00:24:01.000 But something that is a terrific investment, it seems as if they're not too excited about.
00:24:06.000 But Senator, I hope you stay on it because this UFO saga, this unidentified flying object kind of story should, I think, prompt some of your colleagues to act on that.
00:24:18.000 So, Senator, I want to ask you: what do you think the Chinese Communist Party would want to get out of doing this?
00:24:26.000 And also, were you ever briefed on spy balloons in the Trump years?
00:24:31.000 No, we weren't.
00:24:32.000 And again, one of the rationales for people not putting in place what we need to put in place to protect against EMP is, and most people say, well, it would require an intercontinental ballistic missile.
00:24:44.000 And there are only a few countries that have that.
00:24:46.000 You know, North Korea is certainly testing them.
00:24:48.000 We're not exactly sure where they're at.
00:24:50.000 And I've been pointing out, well, you know, Iran, you could put this on like a Scud missile offshore off of a barge and do it, but people discount that.
00:24:59.000 You could put it up in a satellite. 0.56
00:25:02.000 People discount that possibility.
00:25:04.000 Now we know you can probably put it in a high-altitude balloon and utilize something like that.
00:25:09.000 So again, we are in this massive state of denial.
00:25:14.000 And if anything good will come out of the current situation, maybe it'll open people's eyes and we'll take this threat seriously and we'll actually do something about it.
00:25:23.000 I want to play cut 21.
00:25:25.000 Play cut 21.
00:25:26.000 So a few months ago, I looked at the package insert.
00:25:29.000 I pulled it from the box of mRNA product.
00:25:32.000 And this is what it looks like.
00:25:33.000 It's blank.
00:25:35.000 Why all the theater of folding it up into a great big piece of paper like that?
00:25:40.000 Why?
00:25:41.000 Right.
00:25:41.000 So how am I to get informed consent to parents when I have, this is what I have.
00:25:46.000 I have a government that's telling me that I have to stay safe and effective.
00:25:51.000 And if I don't, my license is a threat.
00:25:54.000 How am I to give informed consent to patients?
00:25:57.000 Senator, this was a panel, I believe, that you put together.
00:26:00.000 Tell our audience about it.
00:26:02.000 Well, I put together a number of what I call events.
00:26:04.000 I'm not a chairman, so I can't hold hearings.
00:26:06.000 And of course, the Democrats in the Senate aren't holding hearings on this.
00:26:10.000 I think the House is beginning to.
00:26:12.000 But again, just like we're in a state of denial over EMP, we're also in a massive society-wide state of denial in terms of, I would say, the miserable failure of our response to COVID, including the vaccines.
00:26:27.000 I think we all hoped and prayed they'd be 100% safe, 100% effective, but they haven't been.
00:26:32.000 And because so many people push these on the American public, you know, the Biden administration mandated these experimental gene therapies, and that's what they are.
00:26:41.000 They're not traditional vaccines.
00:26:42.000 They are mRNA.
00:26:44.000 They are getting into your cells.
00:26:45.000 They're hijacking your cell to produce its own toxin, which is the spike protein.
00:26:51.000 Again, I have been connected to an eminently qualified global network of doctors, medical researchers that have had a completely different outlook on how to handle the pandemic, as well as we should have exercised far greater caution in the role of these vaccines.
00:27:05.000 I'm the champion of right to try.
00:27:07.000 I'm happy to let people with informed consent try this.
00:27:12.000 But again, in the midst of the pandemic, we were warned that a vaccine like this that's non-sterilizing could drive variations or variants.
00:27:19.000 Is that what we're seeing here?
00:27:21.000 Antibody-dependent enhancements. 0.70
00:27:23.000 I mean, there's all kinds of things that should have concerned the Fauci's and Burks and Walenskys of the world, but they didn't.
00:27:29.000 And now, of course, they're not acknowledging the vaccine injuries.
00:27:32.000 Charlie, we surpassed 34,000 deaths worldwide reporting the Veyer system.
00:27:38.000 25.5% of those are occurring on day zero, one, or two.
00:27:44.000 Concerns me.
00:27:45.000 I guess it doesn't prove cause, but it's something we ought to look into.
00:27:48.000 We literally pulled an eye drop off the market after one death.
00:27:53.000 Yep.
00:27:54.000 In 1976, the swine flu, after about 400 to 500 cases of Guillaume Beret disease, a couple of dozen deaths.
00:28:01.000 We pulled the swine flu vaccine after about 40 million doses.
00:28:04.000 And yet we've allowed this experimental gene therapy to continue to be mandated and pushed, including on our children, our toddlers who have virtually no risk of severe impact of COVID.
00:28:17.000 It is insane what we have done.
00:28:20.000 And it's even more insane how the COVID cartel, the administration, the health agencies who've been captured by Big Pharma, Big Pharma, the mainstream media, the big tech social media giants, how they have suppressed and censored other information like my events, my second opinion event in January 2022.
00:28:41.000 That event more focused on the vaccines and possible vaccine injuries that we that I held in December of last year as well.
00:28:48.000 The CDC has now officially added the COVID vaccine to routine schedule for kids and for adults, despite all of these questions and the track record.
00:29:00.000 And it's unfortunate that there hasn't been more pushback or backlash.
00:29:04.000 And you pinpoint it correctly.
00:29:07.000 It is big pharma.
00:29:08.000 Senator, in closing here, your colleagues, including Chuck Grassley, have been talking about Hunter Biden and the lack of kind of holding him accountable.
00:29:18.000 You did incredible work on this on several committees.
00:29:21.000 One minute remaining.
00:29:22.000 Do you think that we can expect any sort of justice for Hunter Biden or the Biden family anytime soon?
00:29:28.000 Not out of this Department of Justice under Merrick Garland, you know, controlled by President Biden.
00:29:34.000 But I'm very supportive of what the House is doing.
00:29:36.000 I don't know to what extent Joe Biden is compromised because of Hunter's and probably his foreign financial entanglements.
00:29:43.000 I don't know all of those entanglements, but I tell you who does, the Communist Party of China, Iran, Russia.
00:29:50.000 We have a compromised president in a very dangerous world.
00:29:53.000 The American public deserves the truth.
00:29:55.000 And I hope the House can, together with working with Chuck Brass and I, we're going to continue to investigate this.
00:30:01.000 Hopefully we can discover, uncover, and expose the truth for the American public.
00:30:08.000 Senator, thank you for your courage, especially on the vaccine issue.
00:30:12.000 It's not easy, but as a father of a young daughter, I want to thank you for what you're doing because I wish our leaders had the courage to stand up to the cartel like you do.
00:30:22.000 Thank you so much.
00:30:23.000 Thanks for what you do.
00:30:24.000 Take care.
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00:31:29.000 They want you talking about issues that don't matter.
00:31:33.000 This is one that really matters.
00:31:35.000 There, and this is not hyperbole.
00:31:37.000 This is not an exaggeration, but there is a smaller Chernobyl happening right now in America.
00:31:45.000 It could very well be a domestic Chernobyl.
00:31:48.000 That's not an exaggeration.
00:31:50.000 So, what is going on in the great state of Ohio?
00:31:52.000 Listen carefully, everybody.
00:31:54.000 10 days ago, a freight train derailed near the town of East Palestine, Ohio, right on the border with Pennsylvania.
00:32:01.000 That was bad, as several of the train cars were carrying deadly chemicals on them.
00:32:06.000 Three days later, so last Monday, work crews intentionally released the chemicals on these train cars and set them on fire, saying that if they didn't think that there was a risk of mass mash explosion occurring, the local population were all evacuated and told that they could die if they didn't leave.
00:32:21.000 This all happened with remarkably little attention from the national media.
00:32:25.000 They're more worried about whether or not Jack Smith is going to subpoena Mike Pence.
00:32:30.000 But some onlookers are saying that this could be one of the worst environmental disasters in American history.
00:32:35.000 After a few days, officials said the air quality readings indicated that it was safe for locals to return home.
00:32:41.000 But the locals are saying it definitely doesn't seem safe.
00:32:43.000 They're describing a pungent smell, a repugnant smell in the air that is giving them headaches.
00:32:50.000 I'm going to say this.
00:32:50.000 I'm not an expert.
00:32:52.000 I trust the government so little.
00:32:53.000 If you live in this area, everybody, and you have the means or the capacity, get the heck out of this area.
00:32:57.000 I'm telling you, my default setting now is the government is lying to you.
00:33:01.000 And I'm telling you, I think the government is lying to you.
00:33:04.000 Get the heck out of there.
00:33:06.000 The government says it's fine, but there are unverified claims circulating online that people's pets and livestock are dying in the vicinity.
00:33:12.000 Other people claim to be picking up an unusual chemical smell dozens and even hundreds of miles away.
00:33:17.000 The chemicals being burned, vinyl chloride, that just sounds pretty bad, is used in the creation of PVC pipes, and it's an extremely powerful carcinogen.
00:33:26.000 Meanwhile, one of the products, when you burn vinyl chloride, is phosphine gas. 0.55
00:33:31.000 Yeah, for you war historians out there, that was the chemical weapon used in the nastiest, dirtiest, most brutal war, World War I. That's phosphine gas. 0.82
00:33:41.000 It's literally a disallowed chemical weapon according to the Geneva Convention.
00:33:46.000 What is currently being put into the air in Ohio is no exaggeration disallowed as a chemical weapon because of the Geneva Convention.
00:33:58.000 If you put this, we bombed Syria when Bashar al-Assad used a type of this, this type of gas. 0.93
00:34:05.000 Sorry, it's phosgene gas.
00:34:10.000 Making everyone even more suspicious, a reporter with NewsNation was arrested on Wednesday when trying to cover a press conference given by Ohio Governor Mark DeWine.
00:34:18.000 What is going on here?
00:34:19.000 At a minimum, this shows little trust on our public officials.
00:34:24.000 They say it's safe to go back home.
00:34:25.000 Don't.
00:34:26.000 I'm telling you, I do not trust the government.
00:34:28.000 Please go stay at a relatives if you can't have the means, the ability to do that until we really know what the heck is going on.
00:34:33.000 But they also said that we need masks and lockdown.
00:34:35.000 They said that the mRNA shots were safe and effective.
00:34:40.000 Look, they say a lot of things.
00:34:44.000 But experts that I trust, not these kind of fake people, they're saying that this is a domestic Chernobyl.
00:34:50.000 You would think that would necessitate, I don't know, the president of the United States mentioning something or Pete Buttigieg, who is too busy talking about how he's gay and married and chest feeding his kid.
00:35:06.000 Officials are currently scooping out dead fish in the water near where the explosion took place.
00:35:11.000 How is this not the number one news story?
00:35:14.000 Well, the unidentified flying objects are also important.
00:35:17.000 But I go to CNN.com right now.
00:35:20.000 It says mauling of forces may signal problems to come for Russia.
00:35:24.000 A United 777 made a scary plunge towards the ocean shortly after takeoff.
00:35:30.000 What did the MM commercial show about Super Bowl ads today?
00:35:33.000 This is what's on the front page of CNN.com. 0.58
00:35:37.000 The use of FOS gene gas is a war crime under the Geneva Protocol.
00:35:43.000 Now our government just released a train load of it into the air in Ohio and is telling people that it's safe to return home.
00:35:55.000 I'm really upset because if this is indeed true, which all indications are pointing towards that, people are going to die because the government lied to them.
00:36:05.000 It's that simple.
00:36:06.000 You're not going to be able to inhale this lethal of chemicals.
00:36:16.000 Yeah, and you know what some of the people are saying?
00:36:17.000 Just wear a mask.
00:36:18.000 You'll be safe.
00:36:20.000 And we're almost out of time, but if you study the history of Chernobyl, you realize that it was widespread totalitarian incompetency and the lack of people, human-centric morality and pride and arrogance that led to it.
00:36:33.000 I pray that's not what's happening right now in Ohio.
00:36:37.000 I'm going to hope that our leaders step up and solve it.
00:36:42.000 But I'm skeptical.
00:36:44.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:36:45.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:36:48.000 Thank you so much for listening and God bless.
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