The Charlie Kirk Show - April 14, 2021


CNN Propagandists EXPOSED + The Not-That-Bad Biden Move I Actually Agree With


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CNN is now exposed. And Biden did something that was not terrible and awful. That's right, right? So you're going to have to listen to find out what that is. Thanks to Gretchen from California, Gretchen and Pamela from Alabama, and Stephen from Hawaii for supporting us monthly. It really helps us reach millions of young people every single month.

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00:00:27.000 Hey everybody, CNN is now exposed.
00:00:29.000 And Biden did something that was not terrible and awful.
00:00:33.000 That's right.
00:00:34.000 Biden did something that was not terrible.
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00:02:34.000 Election interference.
00:02:36.000 What is it?
00:02:38.000 It's a statement that is used quite often, but what actually is election interference?
00:02:45.000 Information is power, we are told.
00:02:48.000 We know that to be true.
00:02:50.000 When people consume information, they make choices.
00:02:53.000 Information is easily spread and also easily spread incorrectly.
00:03:02.000 We've been lectured by the left on misinformation and disinformation for years.
00:03:07.000 We've been lectured about the threat of disinformation from people that run message boards on websites I can't even find and somehow they're a threat to our republic.
00:03:17.000 What if I told you that a network that is mostly in airports, but also in 90 million homes is actually a functioning Democrat super PAC?
00:03:29.000 No, we knew this to be true.
00:03:30.000 All you have to do is turn on CNN to know that they've become incredibly dishonest.
00:03:37.000 In fact, they've become activistic.
00:03:40.000 They have become no different than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's political action committee.
00:03:49.000 Now, what I never anticipated, though, and what I never expected was that we would actually hear them admit this.
00:03:56.000 I never thought there would actually be tape of someone at the highest levels of a news network in our country admit that the information that they are publishing is actually seeking for a desired political outcome.
00:04:15.000 It is seeking a desired political outcome.
00:04:18.000 That the people that are running these news networks, that again, it's in 90 million homes, that their stated objective is to try to defeat Republicans and defeat Donald Trump.
00:04:30.000 Now, if you asked CNN this, they would deny it.
00:04:32.000 They'd say that they're a straight news network.
00:04:35.000 But a very talented and courageous man, James O'Keefe, he just keeps hitting grand slam after grand slam.
00:04:43.000 James O'Keefe does not get credit for the work that he does.
00:04:47.000 If James O'Keefe worked for the New York Times and was exposing Republicans or conservatives, he would have more awards than Ronan Farrow.
00:04:57.000 He uses undercover journalism as a way to expose the true intentions of the most powerful corporations in our country.
00:05:08.000 James O'Keeffe has been a frequent guest on our podcast.
00:05:11.000 James O'Keefe exposed ABC News for covering up the Epstein story.
00:05:16.000 James O'Keefe exposed many different apparatus of voter practices in our country.
00:05:23.000 James O'Keefe exposed how postal workers were backdating ballots in Pennsylvania.
00:05:28.000 James O'Keefe exposed Acorn.
00:05:31.000 Now, James O'Keefe might be the most hated man from the American left.
00:05:37.000 And that's saying something besides Donald Trump.
00:05:40.000 The only issue that James O'Keefe has, the only issue, is that none of the networks cover his exposés.
00:05:47.000 That no one in the mainstream power structure gives him the distribution he deserves.
00:05:54.000 So that's why we're talking about it today.
00:05:56.000 So now James O'Keefe will be on radio stations across the country in one of the top podcasts.
00:06:00.000 And yes, on our live stream.
00:06:03.000 So James O'Keefe and his team sat down with the technical director of CNN.
00:06:09.000 And this video is so alarming on a variety of different levels.
00:06:14.000 I'm going to let you listen to it for yourself.
00:06:16.000 But the essence of the video is that the technical director for CNN admitted that their goal was to publish propaganda.
00:06:26.000 I kid you not.
00:06:26.000 He uses that word.
00:06:28.000 And to get Trump out.
00:06:31.000 Play tape.
00:06:32.000 Look what we did.
00:06:33.000 We got Trump out.
00:06:35.000 I am 100% going to say it.
00:06:37.000 And I believe it, that if it wasn't for CNN, I don't know that Trump would have gotten voted out.
00:06:43.000 Our focus was to get Trump out of office, right?
00:06:46.000 Without saying it, that's what it was, right?
00:06:48.000 Trump was.
00:06:51.000 I don't know, like his hand was shaking or whatever.
00:06:54.000 He brought in like so many medical people to like all tell a story that like it was all speculation, that he was like neurologically damaged, like he was losing it.
00:07:03.000 He's unfit to, you know, whatever.
00:07:07.000 We were creating a story there that we didn't know anything about.
00:07:12.000 I think that's about the end.
00:07:14.000 That's the CNN technical director saying three things that should be the number one news story in the country.
00:07:22.000 Number one, that they basically made up this phony narrative that Donald Trump had a neurological disorder just for ratings and that it was, quote, all speculation.
00:07:31.000 We knew that was true.
00:07:32.000 They're admitting it.
00:07:34.000 Number two, that it's all propaganda.
00:07:36.000 Yeah, our networks are just a propaganda network.
00:07:38.000 You know, we used to kid around and call CNN Pravda, but now they're calling it themselves.
00:07:44.000 And number three, that the stated goal of CNN was to act like a political action committee to remove Donald Trump from office.
00:07:53.000 That a news network's goal was to interfere with our elections.
00:07:58.000 Cut 49, Project Veritas continues James O'Keefe's outfit, revealing that the use of the network is to go after whoever they want.
00:08:08.000 And right now, they want to destroy Matt Gates because he's a threat.
00:08:11.000 They actually say that Matt Gaetz is a threat here.
00:08:13.000 And I haven't weighed in on the Matt Gates stuff intentionally because I don't know what's true and what's not true.
00:08:18.000 It's one of the wildest, weirdest stories I've ever seen.
00:08:21.000 From extortion attempts to all the things that are being accused of, we're going to let the facts go where they lead us.
00:08:28.000 And that's the truth should always be our guide.
00:08:30.000 Project Veritas means truth.
00:08:33.000 However, CNN's admitting, though, no, we want to destroy him.
00:08:36.000 That's the reason I'm playing this tape, play tape.
00:08:39.000 If the agenda, say, is to like get like Matt Gates right now, like he's Republican.
00:08:47.000 He's a problem for the Democratic Party because he's so conservative.
00:08:51.000 And he could cause a lot of hiccups in passing of laws.
00:08:55.000 So it's, it would be great for the Democratic Party to get him out.
00:09:00.000 So we're going to keep running those stories to get burning him and make it so that it can't be buried.
00:09:06.000 That's propaganda.
00:09:07.000 It's helping us slip somewhere.
00:09:09.000 Let me rephrase the best I can.
00:09:12.000 He said, Matt Gates is trouble for the Democrat Party, so we need to take him out.
00:09:16.000 So that's the CNN mission statement.
00:09:18.000 The CNN mission statement is now to act like a Democrat super PAC.
00:09:23.000 Now, I think there actually might be cause for defamation lawsuits or some sort of legal action here of a mainstream media outlet where their goal is to character assassinate someone, not tell the truth, not go where the facts follow, or the facts lead you, I should say.
00:09:41.000 Instead, their stated goal is to destroy a human being because he's bad for Democrats.
00:09:48.000 Because he's a threat to the power structure.
00:09:53.000 So we know that the activist media was heading this direction.
00:09:57.000 What's so stunning about this private video is to see that they don't actually believe that they're doing honest journalism.
00:10:10.000 This is a really important point.
00:10:12.000 And so what's so telling about this video is that this guy is not telling another person privately, you know, we're doing really honest work and we're going after the facts and we think that that is going to make America a better place.
00:10:26.000 No, instead, they are now expressing that their intentions are pathological and political in nature, that they have a desired outcome to remove Republicans from leadership and power and to put Democrats in charge.
00:10:43.000 You understand how much power these people have, right?
00:10:46.000 They have the power to push notify millions of iPhones at once.
00:10:51.000 They have the power to corrupt Apple News so that 20 million people can see the same story in the same narrative.
00:10:57.000 They have the power to manipulate a network that's in 90 million homes.
00:11:02.000 It's a lot of power.
00:11:04.000 And if they're going to disguise and camouflage themselves as a media network, when in reality they are a political organization, there's got to be some recourse or some legal remedy to this.
00:11:17.000 I am a conservative and I love my country.
00:11:19.000 In fact, I wear a shirt that literally says conservative.
00:11:21.000 I do not pretend to be an impartial news network.
00:11:24.000 Now, I do not mislead you.
00:11:25.000 We talk about facts and truth, but I also do not, like CNN, pretend to be just a purveyor of facts.
00:11:33.000 No, this is an opinion show.
00:11:35.000 I'm going to tell you what I think about things with facts and information and data.
00:11:40.000 But CNN is no different than a left-wing version of the Charlie Kirk show, except for two big differences.
00:11:47.000 Number one, they lie pathologically about the fact pattern.
00:11:50.000 Number two, they pretend to be impartial.
00:11:53.000 It's a big difference.
00:11:55.000 And I don't mind opinions.
00:11:57.000 If you're in the opinion business, then tell us clearly, Rachel Maddow is in the opinion business.
00:12:04.000 It's fine.
00:12:05.000 I don't look at her as an authority figure on giving me a fact pen.
00:12:09.000 And I haven't looked at CNN for that for quite some time.
00:12:12.000 Unfortunately, millions of people still do.
00:12:14.000 Not as much on the cable network, but their web traffic is still rather significant.
00:12:18.000 In fact, I think that it's a little bit of a distraction to look at CNN's television network.
00:12:24.000 It's somewhat irrelevant.
00:12:25.000 It's just kind of a mockery of itself, but their web traffic and their push notification, digital prowess, it influences millions of people every single day.
00:12:33.000 You cannot underestimate the influence CNN has online.
00:12:37.000 It's a very real thing.
00:12:39.000 You can go look at their, is it Alexa, the web rankings?
00:12:42.000 I might be misremembering.
00:12:44.000 It might be Alexa.
00:12:44.000 I don't think it's Alex.
00:12:45.000 I don't know.
00:12:46.000 I have the Amazon Alexa thing in my head.
00:12:48.000 There's a objective, they're a top 100 website on the planet.
00:12:51.000 Let's put it that way, CNN.com.
00:12:53.000 And so while their TV network ratings are cratering, their web traffic remains rather substantial.
00:12:59.000 Therefore, this revelation is not insignificant.
00:13:02.000 And guess what?
00:13:03.000 This guy's the technical director.
00:13:05.000 This guy oversees a lot of the digital operations.
00:13:09.000 In CUT 50, James O'Keefe describes to Sean Hannity what Project Veritas has released.
00:13:15.000 I've never seen James O'Keefe wear a tie.
00:13:16.000 It's really interesting.
00:13:17.000 Good for him.
00:13:18.000 Play tape.
00:13:19.000 You saw the tapes.
00:13:20.000 He's admitting the network is propaganda.
00:13:22.000 He says they were trying to get Trump out without admitting that's what they were doing.
00:13:26.000 And you saw me confront him about that.
00:13:27.000 I just want them to be honest.
00:13:29.000 He's not being honest.
00:13:30.000 They're deceiving.
00:13:32.000 And he says that they're helping Biden.
00:13:33.000 They're painting Biden in order to help him with his aviator shades.
00:13:39.000 So this is an extraordinary mission.
00:13:41.000 It's the number two trending story globally on Twitter, which is ironic because Jack Dorsey banned Project Veritas from Twitter.
00:13:48.000 Yet our stories trend on Twitter.
00:13:50.000 That means the truth is getting out there no matter what.
00:13:53.000 And so CNN is the 85th most trafficked.
00:13:57.000 It is Alexa.
00:13:58.000 I was right.
00:14:00.000 Website in global internet engagement, most trafficked site.
00:14:04.000 And there are 240 and Alexa.
00:14:07.000 I'm sorry, Fox.
00:14:08.000 I'm getting so much information here.
00:14:10.000 Fox is 246.
00:14:13.000 Is that right?
00:14:13.000 Am I reading that right, Connor?
00:14:14.000 So CNN is a top 100 website.
00:14:17.000 So don't underestimate the value of CNN.
00:14:20.000 The cable network is a waste of time.
00:14:22.000 No one watches that.
00:14:23.000 It's a very unserious network.
00:14:25.000 Their digital dominance is a very real thing.
00:14:28.000 It is.
00:14:29.000 Therefore, what James O'Keefe is revealing needs to be taken seriously.
00:14:33.000 So my point is look at CNN more holistically outside of just Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer and Fredo.
00:14:40.000 That's not the entirety of their influence.
00:14:43.000 I know we get emails.
00:14:44.000 Oh, people don't watch CNN anymore, Charlie.
00:14:46.000 No, no, no.
00:14:47.000 That's not even the focal point.
00:14:50.000 The focal point, it needs to be what they do online.
00:14:53.000 Okay.
00:14:53.000 James O'Keefe then confronted Charlie Chester, the CNN director from the video.
00:15:00.000 And interestingly, he's deleted his LinkedIn page.
00:15:02.000 Cut 51.
00:15:04.000 This guy, Charlie Chester, has deleted his LinkedIn page.
00:15:08.000 They've taken down his account.
00:15:10.000 He said on LinkedIn, Sean, that he played a pivotal role in the 2020 election at CNN.
00:15:17.000 So this is, I don't know if this is an FEC violation, but the implications are staggering because Google and Twitter prefer CNN and their algorithms.
00:15:25.000 And CNN considers themselves the most trusted name in news.
00:15:28.000 But here they are admitting that they're trying to help certain political candidates and they're trying to hide that.
00:15:34.000 I don't know how that's legal.
00:15:37.000 That's going to be up for the lawyers to decide.
00:15:39.000 Some of it might be able to protect it under free speech.
00:15:42.000 Outside of the legality, I think that individuals have the right to sue here, including Donald Trump.
00:15:48.000 But more than that, I think the real question is how much longer can CNN masquerade as an impartial or fair distribution information channel in our country when in reality, they are not just an opinion network, they're an activist network.
00:16:05.000 Cut 52, James O'Keefe announces he's suing CNN for defamation.
00:16:09.000 Cut 52.
00:16:09.000 I'm announcing on your show I'm going to sue CNN for defamation.
00:16:12.000 We're already winning in the Supreme Court of New York.
00:16:14.000 We're the eighth plaintiff since 1964 to get past motion to dismiss.
00:16:18.000 I think a lot of people need to start suing the media for defamation.
00:16:21.000 It's disgraceful what they're doing.
00:16:22.000 It's disgusting. 0.60
00:16:23.000 Now they're caught.
00:16:25.000 And if Charlie Chester has not been fired, I'm pretty sure that by tomorrow, Sean, he will be.
00:16:31.000 I hope James O'Keefe has top-notch security because that man right there is hated by every single powerful person on the left because he brings truth into the public eye.
00:16:45.000 He brings what is dark to light.
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00:17:45.000 There's actually a breaking new Project Veritas video that we're going to play in its entirety.
00:17:51.000 We got an email here, and I think it comes from a really good place, but I'm going to push back a little bit, which is Amanda from Kentucky.
00:18:00.000 I appreciate the email.
00:18:02.000 Even with CNN's agenda exposed, I feel that many misinformed and moderate Democrats will refuse to hear a bully because it's already been so propagandized and brainwashed.
00:18:09.000 I agree with that partially.
00:18:11.000 But here's my question to you.
00:18:12.000 Are you doing your part to become your own social media network?
00:18:16.000 Have you texted the CNN video to at least 100 people?
00:18:20.000 Maybe text this podcast episode if you're listening on the podcast or text this link of a live stream.
00:18:26.000 Don't expect other people's minds to be changed unless you confront them with the truth.
00:18:32.000 So you should text this around, especially this next video we're going to play.
00:18:36.000 The new one, which is the breaking video from Project Veritas James O'Keefe, which fits perfectly with our flow right now as we're covering this, which is a new video that shows that CNN intentionally inflated the Chinese coronavirus statistics simply for ratings.
00:18:57.000 You'll be able to hear it for yourself as we're uploading that into our feed.
00:19:03.000 And as I'm doing this, of course, the New York Times, which is another Democrat super PAC, comes out with this headline.
00:19:08.000 The white Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Dante Wright, a black man, will be charged with second-degree manslaughter, a prosecutor said. 0.71
00:19:17.000 So they add a black man intentionally.
00:19:20.000 Now, nowhere in this entire news alert from the New York Times do they say that Dante Wright was wanted for arrest. 0.96
00:19:32.000 Here's a question to ask your friends.
00:19:34.000 What was Dante Wright wanted for arrest for?
00:19:37.000 Choking a woman and robbing her.
00:19:42.000 So here's a little bit of a task that I'd love to see completed.
00:19:46.000 And I have Benny Johnson on the case.
00:19:50.000 Let's find the woman that he choked.
00:19:52.000 Let's ask her if she thinks that Dante Wright is an upright individual.
00:19:56.000 I'm not saying Dante Wright deserved to die.
00:19:58.000 I have to keep on repeating that for the sloppy activists that watch this program that try to find one sentence that they can copy-paste to try to cancel us.
00:20:07.000 Not going to happen today.
00:20:08.000 What I am saying, though, is that the description of Dante Wright matters.
00:20:16.000 He wasn't a child.
00:20:17.000 He was an adult and a father, 20 years old.
00:20:21.000 He was a gangbanger who used to throw his firearm in front of an iPhone while smoking a blunt, and he decided to resist arrest.
00:20:32.000 If Dante Wright didn't resist arrest, then he would likely, almost assuredly, 99.9999999% still be alive today.
00:20:42.000 That's a fact.
00:20:43.000 Most police killings, almost all of them, are justified.
00:20:50.000 And almost all police killings of citizens happen in the heat of the moment.
00:20:58.000 Now, for all of you Monday morning quarterbacks on your couch that have never been in the heat of the moment situation, there's a thing called adrenaline.
00:21:06.000 You ever hear of it?
00:21:07.000 It's when you try to fend for your life, and when adrenaline starts to pump in those situations, and this woman was obviously not meant for prime time, you make mistakes.
00:21:17.000 Who forced that situation?
00:21:20.000 Who created a situation where adrenaline started to flow?
00:21:24.000 Dante Wright or the police officer?
00:21:26.000 Dante Wright did because he was a criminal that tried to flee arrest.
00:21:31.000 Why?
00:21:32.000 Because the rap songs he listens to and the people in his community and the portrayal of what is good more and more in America glamorizes resisting arrest.
00:21:44.000 Okay, let's get to another non-controversial topic.
00:21:48.000 That's CNN talking about this is Charlie Chester, technical director of CNN.
00:21:54.000 This is new.
00:21:55.000 James O'Keefe just hitting dingers.
00:21:57.000 I'm telling you, this guy, I don't know how he keeps doing this.
00:22:00.000 I don't understand why these people keep on, I don't know, the way he gets this footage is actually incredible.
00:22:06.000 And people say, well, I wish more people could see this.
00:22:09.000 Have you texted it to 100 friends?
00:22:10.000 Wait till you hear this.
00:22:11.000 Charlie Chester, we're breaking it together, showing that CNN was just pumping COVID for ratings.
00:22:19.000 Play tape.
00:22:20.000 COVID gangbusters are great to readers, right?
00:22:24.000 Which is why we constantly have the death poll on the side.
00:22:26.000 Let's make it higher.
00:22:27.000 Like, why isn't it high enough, you know, today?
00:22:29.000 Like, it would make our point better if it was higher.
00:22:32.000 Fear.
00:22:33.000 Like, fear really drives me.
00:22:35.000 Fear is a thing that takes you to damage.
00:22:37.000 If it bleeds, it leads.
00:22:39.000 If it bleeds, it leads.
00:22:41.000 No, no one ever says those things out loud, but it's obvious.
00:22:46.000 What you're about to see is so shocking.
00:22:49.000 Admissions about COVID, its impact, the bias, and things that we've all suspected, but have never been able to confirm until now.
00:23:00.000 Sad news doesn't do well with ratings.
00:23:03.000 You know, like, if you can get someone in passion, that does really well with ratings.
00:23:10.000 Sad news, back-to-back-to-back, doesn't do really well unless it affects them directly.
00:23:17.000 COVID, gangbusters are great to breeders, right?
00:23:21.000 Which is why we constantly have the death poll on the side, which I have a major problem with: that we're tallying how many people die every day.
00:23:29.000 Because I've even looked at it and be like, look at it and be like, let's make it higher.
00:23:35.000 Like, why isn't it high enough, you know, today?
00:23:37.000 Like, it would make our point better if it was higher.
00:23:40.000 And I'm like, what am I drowning for?
00:23:42.000 That's a problem that we're doing.
00:23:45.000 You know?
00:23:46.000 Like this special red phone right here.
00:23:48.000 Yeah.
00:23:48.000 And they pick it up.
00:23:49.000 And it's like the head of the network being like, there's nothing that you're doing right now that makes me want to stick.
00:23:56.000 I just want to put the numbers back up because that's the most enticing thing that we have.
00:24:03.000 So put it back up.
00:24:04.000 So like things like that are constantly talked about.
00:24:08.000 I mean, there's no such thing as unbiased news.
00:24:13.000 Any reporter I've seen.
00:24:14.000 What they're actually doing is they're telling the person what to say.
00:24:19.000 It's always like leading them in a direction before they even open their mouth.
00:24:26.000 And the only people that we will have on the air, for the most part, are people that have proven track record of taking the baby.
00:24:37.000 And by the way, I'm still trying to confirm this: that somehow, that the person who actually put this guy in this situation, they found him on Tinder.
00:24:45.000 Is that right?
00:24:46.000 Or is that an internet message board thing?
00:24:49.000 That's right.
00:24:49.000 Because I could actually, actually, I was speculating as I was watching this video.
00:24:53.000 I said, there is no way that this guy is not thinking he's on a date talking right now.
00:24:57.000 Just the way he's talking, his body position, his intensity.
00:25:02.000 This is not a job interview.
00:25:04.000 He thought he was impressing somebody, no doubt.
00:25:08.000 And boy, did he just get exposed.
00:25:10.000 Now, I want to replay this.
00:25:12.000 I'm so shocked when I'm watching this.
00:25:15.000 You're actually hearing me interpret this in real time.
00:25:18.000 Did he just say, I want to make sure I heard this correctly?
00:25:21.000 Did he just say that he was cheering for the death numbers to go up?
00:25:26.000 So here's the way I could summarize this.
00:25:28.000 CNN and their technical director wanted more people to die from the Chinese coronavirus for ratings.
00:25:36.000 That's the summary of that video.
00:25:38.000 He said the little red phone rang, which might have been Jeff Zucker, and they said, go get the death toll back on screen.
00:25:51.000 That's an admission right there from CNN that they were manipulating you and they were manipulating the country to feel more afraid about the Chinese coronavirus than necessary.
00:26:02.000 And we said this for months.
00:26:03.000 We said this is not a new piece of commentary.
00:26:06.000 What is new is the admission.
00:26:09.000 Now, I'm not a legal expert.
00:26:11.000 I'm not.
00:26:12.000 Is any of this illegal?
00:26:15.000 Is there grounds to sue?
00:26:16.000 There has to be for the manipulation of a country where the CNN technical director said COVID gangbusters with ratings.
00:26:30.000 The Chinese coronavirus, man, that was a gift to CNN.
00:26:35.000 Do you hear that?
00:26:36.000 Did you lose a loved one to COVID?
00:26:40.000 Have you been locked away for the last year?
00:26:43.000 Has your business been closed because of a lockdown?
00:26:46.000 Has your child not been able to go to school?
00:26:47.000 No, no, no, but at CNN, it's a gold rush.
00:26:50.000 It's 1849 right now at CNN, everybody, because there's blood in the streets, therefore CNN gets ratings.
00:27:00.000 And that's Charlie Chester's own admission.
00:27:05.000 And, oh boy, James O'Keefe is genius because he learned from the great Andrew Breitbart.
00:27:14.000 Do you know what I mean by this?
00:27:16.000 There's a variety of things.
00:27:17.000 Andrew Breitbart taught James O'Keefe: you never release all your footage at once.
00:27:23.000 You do a slow drip.
00:27:24.000 You build the narrative.
00:27:26.000 Make the network come out and defend Charlie Chester and then expose them even further.
00:27:33.000 This should bother even liberals in your life.
00:27:35.000 And I encourage you to share this feed if you're watching on Facebook or YouTube with your friends and say, do you see right here a piece of admission from a top level director at CNN who's saying that the only reason they had the death toll was for ratings and they were cheering for it to go up.
00:27:57.000 So a good day at CNN was a day when a lot of Americans died.
00:28:04.000 That's what he's saying.
00:28:06.000 That they had good days at CNN.
00:28:08.000 They were cheering.
00:28:08.000 They were happy.
00:28:10.000 Ratings were going up.
00:28:11.000 They were pleased when morgues were full.
00:28:16.000 That's CNN's new position.
00:28:20.000 So now we're going to have to force CNN to explain this.
00:28:25.000 So if you're a lawmaker out there, you must demand CNN to respond.
00:28:31.000 Fox is going to cover this, I hope, and they will.
00:28:34.000 Tucker will 100% cover this tonight.
00:28:36.000 So will Sean and Laura will as well.
00:28:40.000 But this deserves a response from now Jeff Zucker himself.
00:28:44.000 Now, something we're not very good at is shareholder activism.
00:28:50.000 And there's got to be some recourse here for CNN to have to explain itself.
00:28:58.000 This is a news network, everybody.
00:29:00.000 How is this any different than Pravda, the Pullet Bureau?
00:29:05.000 He called it propaganda himself.
00:29:09.000 That they're not in the news business.
00:29:11.000 He said himself, there's no such thing as unbiased news.
00:29:13.000 There's no such thing as actually communicating honestly.
00:29:17.000 It's that it's all about manipulation.
00:29:19.000 It's about power.
00:29:22.000 CNN is a top 100 website on the planet.
00:29:24.000 They are more digitally dominant than almost any other news network in the country.
00:29:31.000 They could push notify millions of devices at a moment's notice.
00:29:37.000 If Apple was honest, they would pull CNN out of the app store after these videos, but they won't.
00:29:43.000 Instead, they're going to keep Parler blocked, but CNN there.
00:29:47.000 Which has done more damage to our republic, Parlor or CNN?
00:29:51.000 Let you guys wrestle with that one.
00:29:53.000 What if I told you Joe Biden just did something that wasn't terrible that Donald Trump started and I wish he would have completed?
00:29:59.000 I'm going to be principled.
00:30:00.000 I don't know what Joe Biden's motivations are, but I'm going to tell you something that really does frustrate me.
00:30:05.000 I don't like when some people on the conservative side say something seven months ago, and then all of a sudden they find a reason to not like it if it actually gets done.
00:30:14.000 So I'm sure Joe Biden's intentions are not great.
00:30:18.000 His malevolent, whatever.
00:30:19.000 You could draw your own conclusions.
00:30:21.000 What is good, though, is that we're ending the war in Afghanistan.
00:30:25.000 And some of the coverage from the warmongering war incorporated industry is, oh, this is going to make us less safe.
00:30:30.000 Like, please spare me your neoconservative ambitions.
00:30:35.000 Lindsey Graham goes on television saying that this is the worst thing ever.
00:30:38.000 We must perpetually occupy Afghanistan.
00:30:42.000 There is no national security reason to be perpetually at war in Afghanistan.
00:30:47.000 So let me tell you what frustrates me, that Joe Biden is now going to get political credit for ending the war that Donald Trump actually began to untangle.
00:30:55.000 That bothers me.
00:30:57.000 Donald, by the way, let me say this, though.
00:31:00.000 Donald Trump said we have to end the war in Afghanistan.
00:31:02.000 He worked towards it.
00:31:04.000 He actually reduced the level of troops in Afghanistan.
00:31:08.000 He was pushed back against his own Department of Defense, the head of the Pentagon, the Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson at the time, and other people.
00:31:15.000 And now Joe Biden announces this, and it's as if he's this wonderful peace officer.
00:31:20.000 That bothers me, and it's unfair.
00:31:23.000 And we all know that exists.
00:31:24.000 We just spent a whole show talking about CNN and how dishonest they are.
00:31:31.000 And all of a sudden, under Donald Trump, CNN like loved war.
00:31:34.000 They're like, oh, we must be in Afghanistan ever.
00:31:36.000 Now they're acting as if they want to end it.
00:31:37.000 They're totally manipulative.
00:31:39.000 We're not going to be that way.
00:31:40.000 I have done multiple programs talking about how we need to end the war in Afghanistan. 0.98
00:31:44.000 And now that it's ending, it's a good thing for the nation.
00:31:47.000 I'm not saying Joe Biden's a good president.
00:31:48.000 I'm not even saying he's doing it for the right reasons.
00:31:50.000 What I'm saying, though, it's a good thing for America to finally withdraw from a conflict that has cost us over $1 trillion, thousands of American lives.
00:32:01.000 And I don't know what we have to show for it.
00:32:03.000 You know, I heard Brett Baer, who I have a lot of respect for on Fox News this morning, he said, well, you know, what's so great is when I visited Afghanistan, I saw that we have all these new schools built and all these new people.
00:32:14.000 Hold on a second.
00:32:15.000 Is that the mission statement of the American government?
00:32:17.000 To go build new schools in the Kandahar Valley?
00:32:21.000 Meanwhile, we have black kids in Baltimore that you can't find one black kid out of seven schools that can read at fifth grade level or do math proficiently.
00:32:30.000 Yet we're spending a trillion dollars to go build new schools in the Kandahar Valley.
00:32:34.000 I have here the United States Constitution.
00:32:37.000 Nowhere does it say that our primary concern or secondary concern or tertiary concern should be the welfare or the literacy rates of children in Afghanistan.
00:32:46.000 You know what it says in the U.S. Constitution?
00:32:48.000 We the people of the United States.
00:32:50.000 Interesting.
00:32:52.000 Not we the people of the world, not we the citizens of the planet, or we the citizens of the United States in perpetual partnership with the citizens in northern Afghanistan.
00:33:04.000 I wish them well.
00:33:05.000 I really do.
00:33:07.000 They're not going to embrace liberty anytime soon. 0.99
00:33:10.000 They're run by backwards thinking medieval Taliban governments and they're going to be for the next probably 50 years in the foreseeable future. 0.97
00:33:21.000 Now the argument is, well, Charlie, how are we going to prevent the next 9-11? 0.80
00:33:25.000 If you actually think that, first of all, that the goat herders in northern Afghanistan were the primary reason that 9-11 happened, you're wrong.
00:33:34.000 9-11 was primarily an immigration problem, okay? 0.87
00:33:37.000 That we let people into our country unscreened and unknown that hijacked airplanes, and then it was a plane security problem. 0.77
00:33:45.000 Monitoring goat herders in northern Afghanistan and trying to displace governments and build schools while our own citizens can't read and our businesses are locked down and we're borrowing $6 trillion a year is not the mission statement of the United States government. 0.75
00:33:59.000 So Joe Biden ending this war is a good thing. 0.73
00:34:02.000 Now, some people say, well, it sends a message to our allies.
00:34:04.000 Yeah, it sends a message to our allies that we're not going to nation build anymore.
00:34:07.000 That's a good thing. 1.00
00:34:08.000 Now, do I think we should keep the sanctions on Iran? 1.00
00:34:10.000 Of course I do.
00:34:11.000 Do I think Joe Biden is doing an awful thing with Iran?
00:34:13.000 Yes.
00:34:13.000 Do I think he's doing an awful thing with Israel?
00:34:15.000 Yes. 0.99
00:34:15.000 Awful with China? 0.99
00:34:16.000 Yes. 1.00
00:34:17.000 But ending the war is the right thing.
00:34:18.000 But you know why Joe Biden's doing it?
00:34:20.000 He's not doing it because it's the right thing.
00:34:21.000 He's doing it because it's popular.
00:34:23.000 That's why he's doing it.
00:34:24.000 He's doing it because he wants to be able to take a victory lap and say that he got done what Donald Trump couldn't.
00:34:29.000 And I regret, in fact, I'm a little less than happy that Donald Trump didn't actually pull the trigger altogether and pull all the troops out and be able to run on reelection saying he ended a very unpopular war.
00:34:42.000 Sun Tzu, the author of Art of War, famously said, rich nations, prosperous nations, do not fight long wars.
00:34:54.000 You want to cripple your republic?
00:34:56.000 Go worry about schools in Afghanistan when our own people can't read. 0.99
00:35:01.000 My loyalty and my allegiance is to our fellow countrymen, not the people of Afghanistan. 0.98
00:35:07.000 I wish them well. 1.00
00:35:08.000 That's not what we're here for.
00:35:09.000 We're here to govern ourselves, not them.
00:35:12.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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