The Charlie Kirk Show - October 16, 2023


Colleges that Shield Predators with Kalen D'Almeida and Rep. Jeff Van Drew


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The Arizona State University is lying about Turning Point USA. Also, the speaker mess continues and it s not getting any better. Join us as we take a look at what happened at ASU and how they handled it.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, thank Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:01.000 Arizona State University is lying about Turning Point USA.
00:00:05.000 Also, the speaker mess continues.
00:00:07.000 It's like a Chinese fire, Joe.
00:00:09.000 We keep on saying that, and it's not getting better.
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00:00:34.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:35.000 Here we go.
00:00:36.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:38.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
00:00:40.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:44.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:47.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:48.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:49.000 His spirit is love of this country.
00:00:51.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:57.000 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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00:01:18.000 It was quite in a weekend.
00:01:19.000 I got to tell you, you know, being called an anti-Semite all throughout social media.
00:01:24.000 And then we have this other incident story that occurred at Arizona State University.
00:01:28.000 Just so you know, at Turning Point USA, we're doing so much.
00:01:31.000 We have this amazing journalist investigative reporting team, Frontlines, and Kaylin does a great job of running it. 0.66
00:01:38.000 Kaylin, welcome.
00:01:39.000 Thank you.
00:01:40.000 Thanks for having me.
00:01:40.000 So, Kaylin, while I'm dealing with all that, you know, all of a sudden I'm seeing all these stories that are coming up.
00:01:45.000 And Michael Crowe from Arizona State University condemns Turning Point USA.
00:01:49.000 And I'm like, oh, what's going on here?
00:01:51.000 And first of all, I just love the work that Frontlines does.
00:01:54.000 And as soon as I read it, I said, there's someone's lying about.
00:01:56.000 I just knew it.
00:01:56.000 My gut instinct, right?
00:01:57.000 Because you guys do a great job.
00:01:59.000 And so essentially, you and your team went to go act as journalists, a member of the press, to go ask a current professor, Professor Boyles, who's a sponsor of Drag Queen Story Hour, right?
00:02:13.000 Some questions.
00:02:15.000 And from there, things got a little bit unpredictable.
00:02:19.000 Tell us about it.
00:02:20.000 Right.
00:02:21.000 So, well, Professor Boyles, he made the Professor Watchlist.
00:02:26.000 It's a great resource for parents, for students to know who is teaching on their campuses. 0.92
00:02:33.000 And so we found Professor Boyles' profile and we learned: okay, this is somebody who thinks that drag is a myth, that it's a myth that it harms children, which is ridiculous. 0.92
00:02:49.000 Yeah. 0.81
00:02:49.000 I mean, it's perverse. 0.81
00:02:51.000 Exactly.
00:02:52.000 And they call it that because we don't know what harm is going to come of it yet.
00:02:57.000 We don't know yet.
00:02:58.000 But everyone who has a brain in their head kind of can see down the road and see where that leads. 0.97
00:03:03.000 Then, two, he thinks that books like All Boys Are Not Blue, which has very graphic demonstration of gay sex between minors in it. 0.52
00:03:14.000 He thinks that should be in public libraries on the screen, right?
00:03:17.000 Yeah, got it.
00:03:18.000 That should be in public libraries, he thinks. 0.95
00:03:19.000 So you went to go ask him questions about his publicly stated beliefs, including a now taken down substack where he was talking about him having sex with or somebody having sex with minors.
00:03:33.000 Yeah, I'm gonna try to get the facts right here. 0.59
00:03:34.000 Yeah, so the story that he wrote on his substack was about a minor who eventually has sex with adults.
00:03:43.000 And he took down that from the internet.
00:03:46.000 Yes.
00:03:46.000 Okay.
00:03:46.000 So you guys then do what you do best at Frontlines.
00:03:50.000 You decided to go ask him questions as a journalist, a member of the press, constitutionally protected speech.
00:03:56.000 And basically, you guys follow him, ask questions.
00:03:59.000 He gets angry.
00:04:00.000 He lunges at one of you in an act of self-defense.
00:04:05.000 Was it you or somebody else who then intercepted him?
00:04:09.000 And now he is accusing you of assault.
00:04:12.000 Is that a fair way?
00:04:12.000 Because we'll show the videos.
00:04:14.000 Yeah.
00:04:14.000 And this is totally baseless, by the way.
00:04:16.000 We'll show you the videos.
00:04:17.000 This is a guy who's a sick puppy who didn't like that questions were being asked.
00:04:22.000 He started to lunge. 0.68
00:04:23.000 There was a response to that.
00:04:25.000 And now ASU and the media is defending this professor, accusing our organization of something totally, as you would probably anticipate.
00:04:34.000 They're saying, oh, it's anti-LGBTQ.
00:04:36.000 Let's, this is a huge story.
00:04:37.000 It's happening in Arizona.
00:04:38.000 And this is the playbook, right?
00:04:40.000 If you go as a journalist and try to pursue the truth, they get angry.
00:04:46.000 And, you know, Kaelin, this is the old NFL football rule, right?
00:04:49.000 College football.
00:04:50.000 The second guy gets the flag, right?
00:04:52.000 And so the media says, oh, you know, you're, hold on a second.
00:04:55.000 He lashed out first.
00:04:56.000 Let's play cut 20.
00:04:57.000 You guys be the, you guys be the jury.
00:04:58.000 Play cut 20.
00:04:59.000 Hey there, David.
00:05:00.000 How you doing?
00:05:01.000 Hey, how you doing?
00:05:02.000 Good, good, good.
00:05:03.000 Hey, I just was wondering if I could ask you a couple questions.
00:05:05.000 Why not?
00:05:06.000 How long you've been attracted to minors?
00:05:08.000 How long you fantasized about minors having sex with adults and why you write about it in children's books?
00:05:14.000 What are you going to tell me?
00:05:15.000 Nothing?
00:05:16.000 Why do you feel like children need to be exposed to draft?
00:05:19.000 Why is that something that children should be exposed to? 0.98
00:05:22.000 And why do you feel that drag queens benefit from children being present at drag shows where they shake their genitals and their fake breasts? 1.00
00:05:30.000 Also, I was taking a look at your sub stack, and it seems like you really, really hate Americans. 0.99
00:05:35.000 And it's funny because you would like to see a different America exist where little boys are sodomized by people like you, right? 0.99
00:05:44.000 Hey. 0.97
00:05:45.000 Okay, so, and then we have some view from top.
00:05:48.000 So here you are, free protected speech.
00:05:50.000 He then lunges, right?
00:05:52.000 And then the camera goes away.
00:05:54.000 We have another piece of camera angle, though, and you're asking questions, asking questions, all legitimate questions.
00:06:00.000 You were asking the question, then what happened?
00:06:02.000 Right.
00:06:03.000 So I'm asking the questions, and then he sort of shuffles behind me and he takes five to seven steps toward the cameraman and is swiping.
00:06:15.000 So he's swiping.
00:06:16.000 And until a second swipe, I didn't move at all, but I perceived him to be throwing punches at my cameraman.
00:06:26.000 And I didn't move until maybe a second punch or a second swipe, which is what I perceive.
00:06:33.000 So I he attacked our crew.
00:06:35.000 And you guys, so you see the video here.
00:06:35.000 Yeah.
00:06:37.000 Now, here's how dishonest the media is, everybody.
00:06:39.000 Thankfully, there's cameras here from above.
00:06:42.000 Inside higher ed, Arizona State instructor followed, injured by turning point crew.
00:06:46.000 Lie.
00:06:47.000 Arizona Central, ASU police investigating after queer instruction, instructor assaulted in Tempe.
00:06:52.000 Lie.
00:06:53.000 ASU president responds.
00:06:55.000 So Michael Crowe, the head of ASU, the head of ASU, let's go there.
00:06:59.000 This professor came after the cameraman first, and the media is lying about this incident.
00:07:05.000 They are lying as if we hunted him down in the streets, as if we were trying to, you know, assault him.
00:07:11.000 He lunged at us and out of self-defense, we have the video to show it.
00:07:15.000 Out of self-defense, you say, no, no, no, no.
00:07:18.000 We're not, this is totally justified.
00:07:20.000 And then you asked if he was okay.
00:07:22.000 Yes.
00:07:22.000 And if he needed anything.
00:07:24.000 Yeah.
00:07:24.000 I said, oh, wow.
00:07:25.000 I'm sorry.
00:07:26.000 I didn't mean for that to happen, right?
00:07:27.000 Because he tumbled onto the floor and I was surprised.
00:07:30.000 I go, I'm, you know, I'm sorry.
00:07:33.000 And yeah, I mean, the fact of the matter is that if he didn't do that, if he didn't go after our cameraman, I wouldn't have touched him.
00:07:43.000 Yep.
00:07:44.000 And so here is, you know, local 12 news.
00:07:46.000 ASU president goes on offensive against Turning Point USA in case of professors' harassment.
00:07:52.000 Michael Crowe says, this confrontation is kind of outrageous conduct you would expect to see from bullies in a high school cafeteria.
00:07:58.000 Hold on a second.
00:07:59.000 So you're perfectly fine with a professor fantasizing about minor sex and doing drag queens for kids, but yet journalists come and ask him questions and a minor scuffle occurs because of your professor and the whole media, Kaelin, is now trying to paint this into something that it's not.
00:08:18.000 It's maddening.
00:08:19.000 Right, right.
00:08:20.000 And, you know, I think actually NBC ran a piece and they had to retract it because it was full of lies.
00:08:24.000 It's full of lies.
00:08:25.000 Yeah.
00:08:25.000 And so this is just the same playbook, right?
00:08:28.000 You go and try to ask questions, right?
00:08:31.000 And let's just play that one tape, the one from above, just so everyone clears.
00:08:35.000 Thankfully, we have this one, this video.
00:08:36.000 It totally vindicates you.
00:08:37.000 Yeah.
00:08:38.000 Can we have that one from above, please?
00:08:39.000 So here it is.
00:08:40.000 You guys can be seen in a picture coming.
00:08:43.000 We'll kind of narrate over this.
00:08:44.000 So what's happening at this point here?
00:08:46.000 You guys are asking questions, right?
00:08:47.000 Yeah.
00:08:48.000 So we're just walking behind the tree line, and then he decides to become visible.
00:08:53.000 Right.
00:08:53.000 He cuts behind the tree.
00:08:54.000 So the professor's in white.
00:08:56.000 Look, he lunges, lunges, and you had a self-defense intercept and he falls down.
00:09:01.000 Correct?
00:09:01.000 Right.
00:09:02.000 He lunged first.
00:09:03.000 You see there?
00:09:04.000 He didn't think that there would be cameras.
00:09:06.000 So then he goes on social media.
00:09:08.000 He goes on social media.
00:09:09.000 By the way, he's in a dress.
00:09:11.000 He goes on social media and acts as if he was like a victim of a hate crime.
00:09:14.000 It was like a Jussie Smollette thing.
00:09:16.000 Right, exactly.
00:09:16.000 That's exactly what it looked like.
00:09:18.000 He tried to Jussie Smollette this thing.
00:09:20.000 And let me do, I could say this.
00:09:21.000 You could remain quiet.
00:09:22.000 I highly doubt all of the marks on his face were just from that incident.
00:09:25.000 I'm just going to say that.
00:09:26.000 It's very weird.
00:09:27.000 And he has this selfie where he's like, I was hunted down by these right-wing fascists because I'm on a professor watch list while he's in a dress lying about it.
00:09:38.000 The media picks up the entire thing because they hate Turning Point USA.
00:09:43.000 The only question I have is, did he claim that you guys were saying this is MAGA country before you did that?
00:09:51.000 I wouldn't be surprised if he did claim that.
00:09:54.000 Kaelin, you're doing a great job.
00:09:55.000 This is constitutionally protected speech.
00:09:58.000 You know, they're trying to come after Turning Point USA through every possible way.
00:10:01.000 It only strengthens our resolve.
00:10:03.000 It makes us more committed to the fight.
00:10:05.000 But just so you guys understand, this is the largest land campus in the country, ASU, who employs this person and is now trying to make it seem that Turning Point USA assaulted and hunted him down.
00:10:18.000 We stand with Kalen asking the right questions.
00:10:21.000 We're not going to stop.
00:10:22.000 And this was all done in self-defense.
00:10:25.000 Kaelin, God bless you.
00:10:26.000 And by the way, Kalen has the most successful video in Turning Point USA history.
00:10:30.000 72 million views of Kalen confronting a trans person.
00:10:38.000 You're a great reporter.
00:10:40.000 That's what Kalen is.
00:10:40.000 He's a reporter.
00:10:41.000 He's a journalist.
00:10:42.000 You do a great job.
00:10:43.000 Good job, Kalen.
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00:11:47.000 So last week, we spent a fair amount of time talking about how there are likely, and almost assuredly, sleeper cells in the interior of the United States.
00:11:55.000 Who you let into your country is what your country becomes. 1.00
00:11:58.000 And we've seen this time and time again.
00:12:01.000 If you import the third world, your country will look more and more like the third world. 1.00
00:12:06.000 If you bring in people that do not share a Western viewpoint specifically of Islam, some of them might assimilate, or you get entire communities like the Somali community in Minneapolis and Elon Omar.
00:12:20.000 Now, we were attacked by the media, attacked for being fear-mongering, for being baseless.
00:12:25.000 But oh, look, the FBI director Christopher Wray just happens to now stumble upon this exact fact.
00:12:33.000 Listen to this: play cut two.
00:12:35.000 In this heightened environment, there's no question we're seeing an increase in reported threats, and we've got to be on the lookout, especially for loan actors who may take inspiration from recent events to commit violence of their own.
00:12:52.000 Wait, hold on a second.
00:12:53.000 I thought that right-wing MAGA terrorism was the greatest threat to the American homeland.
00:12:58.000 Are you now just trying to move the window a little bit?
00:13:00.000 Are you trying to save your tail, Christopher Wray, because you're worried that, I don't know, some Muslim that waltzed across the border with an AK-47 tattoo?
00:13:11.000 Did we ever put that picture up, by the way?
00:13:13.000 Might actually be a loneman, lone gunman sleeper cell or a lone actor?
00:13:18.000 It's a serious question.
00:13:20.000 You see, the United States is collapsing in real time.
00:13:26.000 We know that.
00:13:27.000 It's a civilizational type question.
00:13:30.000 Is Christopher Wray demanding for the border to be closed?
00:13:33.000 This should just drive every single person in this country to be so incensed at your leaders.
00:13:41.000 Incensed.
00:13:43.000 We obviously see increased Muslim terrorist chatter in this country, and we don't have a border. 0.51
00:13:49.000 We do not have a border.
00:13:51.000 Welcoming millions and millions and millions.
00:13:54.000 The border situation looks more and more by the day like calculated treason.
00:14:02.000 More and more.
00:14:04.000 We do not have any semblance of sovereignty left.
00:14:08.000 And so then Christopher Wray comes out and he says, Oh, yeah, by the way, we're monitoring threats about the homeland.
00:14:15.000 The same people that told us that white supremacy and right-wing domestic terror is the biggest threat to the American homeland.
00:14:25.000 Now, I can't help but imagine that Christopher Wray's own FBI right now probably, and this is just a guess, it's speculation, probably has more infiltration efforts and surveillance efforts against MAGA groups than Muslim groups.
00:14:42.000 That's a serious question.
00:14:44.000 Is our own government surveilling Muslim groups or MAGA groups more?
00:14:49.000 Of course, it's MAGA groups.
00:14:51.000 Of course.
00:14:53.000 And by the way, if this war creates refugees, where will they go?
00:14:57.000 The answer is right now, it doesn't matter.
00:14:59.000 Even if we make Egypt or Iran or Saudi Arabia take Gaza refugees, the secret is out. 0.94
00:15:03.000 They could fly them to Nicaragua, buy them a bus ticket to Mexicali, give them a script, say this, and you get into America and Biden will let them in.
00:15:12.000 So we have to be very clear.
00:15:14.000 Before Israel invades Gaza, and they should, and they should go after Hamas, the American government, aka the House of Representatives, is why I wish we had a speaker of the House.
00:15:26.000 We need to have some very clear expectations set.
00:15:30.000 Number one, no Gaza refugees. 1.00
00:15:32.000 Number two, secure the border, or else the Gaza refugees will fly to Nicaragua, go to Mexicali, and they'll end up in Houston. 1.00
00:15:40.000 It just adds another step.
00:15:42.000 130 countries are, people from 130 countries are entering the United States.
00:15:47.000 So we need to be very specific and clear.
00:15:50.000 Are we taking in Gaza refugees?
00:15:53.000 Why are there not humanitarian corridors built?
00:15:56.000 Are American troops going to be involved?
00:15:58.000 By the way, where are the American hostages?
00:16:01.000 If I were to be very honest, this government just kind of seems as if these hostages are just going to die.
00:16:07.000 That's the tone I'm getting from this government.
00:16:10.000 It is a very laxadaisical, dare I say, indifferent tone towards American hostages being taken.
00:16:19.000 And that frightens me for anyone that is now traveling internationally.
00:16:24.000 Are you?
00:16:25.000 Hold on a second.
00:16:26.000 So America funds the Palestinian Authority, at least Trump cut it off.
00:16:32.000 I think Biden renewed it.
00:16:33.000 Can you get that, Blake? 0.98
00:16:35.000 8% of the Palestinian Authority budget is to pay for families to kill Jews. 0.98
00:16:41.000 It's called the pay-for-slate policy.
00:16:44.000 You're trying to tell me we have no leverage to get these hostages back?
00:16:48.000 Since Biden is so close to Iran, why does he call Iran and say, we demand our American citizens back?
00:16:54.000 Why is no one talking about the fact that American hostages right now are probably being raped, tortured, if not already murdered by Hamas? 0.59
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00:18:06.000 Joining us now is Congressman Jeff Van Drew.
00:18:09.000 Congressman, thank you so much for joining us here.
00:18:12.000 It's a little bit frustrating, I got to be honest, looking at this from afar.
00:18:16.000 We've lost a couple weeks.
00:18:18.000 We need a speaker of the house.
00:18:19.000 What is the latest?
00:18:20.000 Give us some inside baseball of who you believe is going to be speaker of the house, please.
00:18:25.000 Well, Jim Jordan is surging forward.
00:18:27.000 I've had the good fortune to work with him on the Judiciary Committee.
00:18:31.000 He's the chairman, and I've been really knee-deep with him, actually neck deep on all the issues.
00:18:39.000 He's focused.
00:18:40.000 He's energetic.
00:18:41.000 He's moving people that were somewhat concerned whether they should vote for him or not.
00:18:46.000 He's moving them over to the right side.
00:18:49.000 And I think we're going to see, and I'm hopeful we're going to see a speaker very soon.
00:18:54.000 I very much support him.
00:18:55.000 Let me tell you why, if I can, if I may, for just a minute.
00:18:58.000 Yeah, please.
00:19:00.000 We got time.
00:19:00.000 Take your time.
00:19:01.000 He's the chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
00:19:04.000 So the fact that we know about the FBI and how they misused FISA, which for those that are listening, that they understand that FISA is a way for the FBI and agencies to dig into your personal life.
00:19:19.000 It was originally done for 9-11 to make sure that we weeded out any bad actors should be used very sparingly.
00:19:27.000 They can dig into your bank accounts, into your personal life, into your family.
00:19:32.000 It was misused 250,000 times by this FBI and this FBI director.
00:19:38.000 That's wrong.
00:19:39.000 Jim Jordan is the one leading that committee with us that brought it out.
00:19:44.000 What else did he do?
00:19:45.000 We found out that the FBI was going to actually embed undercover agents.
00:19:51.000 It's hard to believe, but it's actual fact.
00:19:54.000 We have proof, and now they have finally apologized for it into our Roman Catholic churches.
00:20:00.000 Originally, they said it was only going to be in certain churches, and it only came out of the Virginia field office.
00:20:08.000 Now we found out that it's across the country again due to Jim Jordan and the good work that he's done.
00:20:15.000 Jim Jordan has worked in so many areas over so many issues, finding out about the Attorney General who's been in charge of all this, what he's done, the corruption, really bringing to highlight the Grishan report, which Durham actually brought out what the truth was about Russian collusion.
00:20:40.000 And we found out from John Durham that there was no Russian collusion.
00:20:44.000 And the FBI, again, was misusing, misusing a source that was a corrupt source, a bad actor, an international agent, and paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars of your tax dollars.
00:21:00.000 So this is bad stuff.
00:21:02.000 All that we know, all that's happened with the Biden administration, so much of it has been discovered by the leadership of Jim Jordan.
00:21:12.000 So, Congressman, I have two very simple questions.
00:21:14.000 Well, they're not simple.
00:21:15.000 They're short questions.
00:21:16.000 They're not simple.
00:21:18.000 How many holdouts are there and who are they?
00:21:22.000 Please help us understand.
00:21:23.000 Well, you know, I've been really careful with this because there are some intense negotiations going on.
00:21:30.000 I've called some people myself.
00:21:33.000 I know that some people have moved over.
00:21:36.000 I don't want to name names because I don't want to upset the Apple card at all here.
00:21:40.000 This is a very delicate situation, and we have to be very careful about what we do.
00:21:46.000 So I don't, you know, Jim's really working hard on this as we speak, working hard over the weekend.
00:21:52.000 Others have to.
00:21:54.000 We've all made phone calls.
00:21:56.000 We're trying to get the support that we need.
00:21:58.000 So it is a different group, I believe.
00:22:01.000 I will say this than those who were initially against Kevin McCarthy.
00:22:07.000 But understand this.
00:22:08.000 Some folks think or have been led to believe, which is not true, that Jim didn't support Kevin McCarthy.
00:22:16.000 Jim wants to see us move forward.
00:22:18.000 He supported Kevin.
00:22:19.000 He supported Steve Scalise.
00:22:21.000 He wants us to move forward, but that didn't work out.
00:22:25.000 The votes weren't there.
00:22:27.000 He is the individual that can bring us all together and make this happen.
00:22:30.000 So, Congressman, I know you can't say names.
00:22:34.000 It's obviously more moderate.
00:22:35.000 That's definitely been reported.
00:22:37.000 Is it 10 people, 20 people, 30 people?
00:22:39.000 I'm only asking because I'm afraid this thing's going to drag into a third or fourth week.
00:22:44.000 We're in the middle of a Congress here.
00:22:45.000 We have a CR that's about to expire.
00:22:48.000 We have a wide open border.
00:22:49.000 You know, we're hemorrhaging money.
00:22:51.000 So is this 20 people, 30 people?
00:22:54.000 Just give us an idea of the magnitude of the resistance at this point.
00:22:57.000 Let me address one thing first.
00:23:00.000 You are right.
00:23:01.000 We have to have a speaker.
00:23:03.000 And it's important to know right now, the future of this republic relies upon the Republican Party itself.
00:23:10.000 And I wouldn't always say that.
00:23:12.000 You know, majorities come and go.
00:23:13.000 This is different.
00:23:14.000 If we want to button up our borders, and now we're worried about actually individuals coming over that are terrorists, individuals from Lebanon, Palestinians, and we've already caught some. 0.98
00:23:26.000 I mean, this is a serious issue.
00:23:28.000 Whether it's that issue, the decaying of our cities, whether it is what's happening, the wokeifying of our military, what's happening to our kids in education, and the things that we're teaching them in younger grades, all of it has to stop.
00:23:43.000 All of it has to change.
00:23:44.000 And it is this leader, again, Jim Jordan, that can do it.
00:23:48.000 I would estimate it right now at about 10, but that's changing as we speak.
00:23:53.000 Literally, today there were reports, and I'm not going to trust any individual report.
00:23:57.000 And again, I'm not going to speak about individuals, but there are reports that some that would say, never Jordan, have now moved over.
00:24:04.000 They realize the seriousness of this.
00:24:07.000 They realize the issues that are at stake.
00:24:09.000 This is about the future of the United States of America.
00:24:13.000 We need Republican leadership.
00:24:15.000 The Democrats have failed us, and we have to keep that in mind.
00:24:18.000 And it's so important that we take a different direction.
00:24:22.000 So, in closing here, Congressman, can you address that some people are talking about a coalition government with Democrats to get a Democrat speaker?
00:24:31.000 Is that a legitimate threat, you think, that some Republicans might caucus with the Democrats and we effectively lose our majority through parliamentarian means?
00:24:40.000 Shame on us if that happens.
00:24:42.000 If we can't do this, shame on us.
00:24:45.000 I believe that we can.
00:24:47.000 And I totally reject the notion of a coalition government.
00:24:52.000 We were elected under the most difficult circumstances to a majority for a reason.
00:24:57.000 Let's understand again: this president and this administration has failed us.
00:25:03.000 Let's understand that our borders are open.
00:25:06.000 Our military is being vocified.
00:25:09.000 We are spending.
00:25:10.000 Do you know that between the 22 budget and the 23 budget, the budget went up 29.8%, including paying all this interest?
00:25:18.000 Pretty soon, all we're going to be doing is paying interest charges.
00:25:22.000 We can't keep doing this.
00:25:23.000 Our kids' education, our future relies upon Republican leadership.
00:25:29.000 This is a really serious issue.
00:25:31.000 This isn't like years ago.
00:25:33.000 As I said before, majorities come and go.
00:25:35.000 Things, you know, different issues come and go.
00:25:38.000 What we have going on in Israel, a horrible, awful, terrible disaster, the terrorism that exists there. 1.00
00:25:48.000 What Israelis are going through is unspeakable.
00:25:52.000 It is the face of evil.
00:25:53.000 We have to be ready to deal with that.
00:25:55.000 And quite frankly, there's many, many other issues that I didn't even name.
00:25:59.000 We have to save and bring back our United States of America. 0.90
00:26:04.000 It's in the Republican hands.
00:26:05.000 Let me finish with this.
00:26:07.000 You know, we all see an end game.
00:26:09.000 The end game for the Republican Party is to save the United States of America that we know and love, that beacon of light, that great nation that has given so many of us so much opportunity.
00:26:21.000 The end game for the Democrats is to win and to win so that they can change the social fabric and the constitutional fabric of this great nation forever.
00:26:34.000 Yes, that's right.
00:26:36.000 Yes.
00:26:36.000 No, Congressman, and I just want to reiterate.
00:26:39.000 You were a former Democrat, and so you have a fair amount of credibility here.
00:26:42.000 Remind our audience of that.
00:26:44.000 This is not debate over taxes or just minor spending adjustments.
00:26:49.000 This is a question of are we going to remain a republic?
00:26:53.000 Are we going to continue the American tradition or abolish the Electoral College HR1 and add DC or Puerto Rico estates?
00:27:00.000 Just riff on that a little bit in closing here, Congressman.
00:27:02.000 You have a unique perspective on it.
00:27:05.000 I'm glad you brought that up because, you know, in our caucus, you know, my members ask all the time, you know, what's the difference in the Republican caucus and the Democratic caucus?
00:27:15.000 The Democratic caucus ranges from very liberal to extreme liberal.
00:27:20.000 And I don't even think it's the word liberal is appropriate.
00:27:23.000 This is not a traditional liberal.
00:27:25.000 This is the socialist.
00:27:26.000 This is a Marxist.
00:27:28.000 And the policies that they want in place, look what the people around this president have done.
00:27:34.000 He's an empty vessel.
00:27:35.000 He doesn't know really what's going on.
00:27:37.000 Look what they've done.
00:27:38.000 It's wrong.
00:27:39.000 They see the end game.
00:27:40.000 They want to change.
00:27:41.000 They want to change America forever.
00:27:44.000 And I do not.
00:27:45.000 And that's why five years ago, I left that party and I would never go back.
00:27:50.000 Congressman Van Drew, I hope you guys can sort it out.
00:27:54.000 I don't know how real this threat is because, you know, D.C., they leak stories, but it seems as if some very moderate Republicans are saying, hey, if we don't have a speaker by Wednesday, we're going to go caucus with Democrats, which would effectively, we would lose the House.
00:28:07.000 All right, Congressman.
00:28:08.000 That's unacceptable.
00:28:09.000 It is unacceptable.
00:28:10.000 And we're in the middle of Congress, guys.
00:28:12.000 Come on.
00:28:13.000 By the way, just so we're all clear.
00:28:15.000 Our audience is not persuaded by this argument, but just I was talking to moderate type voters this weekend.
00:28:21.000 They think the Republican Party is an absolute joke.
00:28:23.000 They think that you can't govern.
00:28:25.000 Why should I give you power?
00:28:27.000 Not looping you into that, Congressman.
00:28:28.000 I'm sure you're getting that kind of criticism too.
00:28:32.000 It does not exactly build faith in Republicans' ability to govern.
00:28:37.000 I hope you guys sort it out.
00:28:38.000 Congressman, thanks for your time.
00:28:39.000 Appreciate it.
00:28:39.000 Thank you.
00:28:42.000 Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here.
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00:29:46.000 In some ways, this is awfully predictable.
00:29:49.000 Last week, we talked about how the Israel issue is going to kind of come to a boiling point.
00:29:56.000 And little did we know, we were going to be front and center in our own prediction, right?
00:30:00.000 We thought we'd be watching it.
00:30:01.000 Turns out we were right in the middle of it.
00:30:03.000 Didn't go well for the people that went after us.
00:30:06.000 They got nuked and they have quieted down a lot ever since we decided to drop a Twitter thermonuclear weapon on them.
00:30:19.000 Anyway, so this speaker fight shouldn't surprise us, though.
00:30:24.000 The speaker fight in some ways is exactly where the Republican Party is at.
00:30:28.000 We are not in a healthy spot as a conservative movement.
00:30:31.000 Some of this is necessary, right?
00:30:32.000 Some of this is like taking your cough syrup to get over a sickness.
00:30:36.000 You don't like it.
00:30:37.000 You need it.
00:30:38.000 You got to get through it.
00:30:40.000 That's what part of this is.
00:30:42.000 You just have to endure it.
00:30:43.000 You got to grin and bear it.
00:30:44.000 The Democrat Party, they have never been more unified.
00:30:47.000 They rule with an iron fist.
00:30:48.000 They're Stalinists.
00:30:49.000 They're Leninists.
00:30:51.000 And there is no moving them.
00:30:53.000 They operate on fear, totalitarianism.
00:30:56.000 Even the dissenting ranks in the Democrat Party, they control them.
00:30:59.000 They say, okay, you can say a couple of things, but we're going to control you with an iron fist. 0.50
00:31:06.000 What's happening in the Republican speakership is incredibly frustrating.
00:31:10.000 It basically broadcasts to every swing voter across the country, we are not ready to govern.
00:31:15.000 And we're not.
00:31:16.000 That's actually true.
00:31:17.000 The Republican Party isn't ready to govern because we don't know what we stand for.
00:31:21.000 The reason this is happening is because of exactly why turning point action exists, is there is a gap the size of the Grand Canyon between Republican voters and Republican politicians.
00:31:34.000 Republican voters want a closed border, a fair department of justice, and spending cuts.
00:31:40.000 There's other things they want, but those are three major things.
00:31:43.000 And we have received none of them.
00:31:46.000 We aren't even receiving it performatively.
00:31:48.000 We just get excuses.
00:31:50.000 We get punts.
00:31:52.000 We get delays.
00:31:53.000 We get one-sided answers.
00:31:56.000 And so this is inevitable.
00:31:58.000 And until Republicans who go to D.C. care more about their voters than special interests, this is going to keep on happening.
00:32:06.000 And let me just tell you, there is a bloody Republican infighting.
00:32:14.000 I could call it a civil war.
00:32:14.000 I don't like that.
00:32:15.000 There's a better word for it.
00:32:16.000 It's overused.
00:32:17.000 There's a bloody Republican battle that is underway.
00:32:22.000 And the Israel issue is exploiting it, by the way.
00:32:25.000 Ironic, not ironically, the Israel issue is really turning some people on the right into just very, very emotional pundits, writers, overly so.
00:32:37.000 And so the Israel issue is going to expose in some ways just different philosophical and intellectual approaches to very important issues.
00:32:45.000 And it's just gotten super nasty.
00:32:47.000 Yesterday, you have Megan Kelly and Candace Owens going after it like 10 out of 10 all on the Israel issue.
00:32:52.000 And you're going to see more and more of that.
00:32:54.000 I'm telling you right now, I've been through this before.
00:32:57.000 It's like pent up anger, pent up frustration.
00:33:00.000 People are just going to be at each other's throats.
00:33:03.000 And in some ways, it's healthy to get the bad stuff out of your movement.
00:33:11.000 But the problem is that you have your voters that are 80 or 90% intellectually predisposed to an America-first nationalist populist agenda.
00:33:22.000 And then you have 80 to 90% of your office holders that aren't.
00:33:26.000 And it's just, it's a round peg through a square.
00:33:30.000 It's a square peg through a round hole problem, right?
00:33:32.000 It just doesn't fit.
00:33:35.000 You can't make it happen.
00:33:36.000 You can't make it work that way.
00:33:37.000 There's a, you could call it a disconnect.
00:33:40.000 You could call it a separation.
00:33:44.000 And the Republican primary is where we thought this would actually unfold.
00:33:48.000 And hilariously, it didn't.
00:33:50.000 Donald Trump is up 50 points.
00:33:51.000 He's raising tons of money.
00:33:53.000 The Republican primary, I mean, honestly, in the last couple of weeks, have we covered the Republican primary?
00:33:58.000 Are these people even running for office?
00:34:00.000 Expect Nikki Haye except Nikki Haley going on TV talking about finish them and Lady Graham. 1.00
00:34:04.000 Well, he's not even running saying we have to bomb Iran.
00:34:07.000 The Republican primary is basically just going through the motions.
00:34:11.000 Donald Trump is up historic numbers, historic.
00:34:14.000 But what I'm getting at is the Republican Party is not in a healthy position right now.
00:34:20.000 It's not.
00:34:21.000 Philosophically, we don't know what to believe.
00:34:23.000 We don't know our navigational compass.
00:34:25.000 The only one that could solve this is Donald Trump winning the presidency.
00:34:29.000 Him solving it could reorient it.
00:34:32.000 When Trump was president, it was so united because what he did was so popular, was so decisive.
00:34:39.000 Understand, the Republican Party is ripping itself apart like we just lost a presidential race badly, but the election is a year away.
00:34:46.000 We can't pick a speaker.
00:34:48.000 We have some of our top voices just shredding each other on social media.
00:34:51.000 I had to endure an entire weekend of being called an anti-Semite from reputable voices.
00:34:57.000 It's nasty.
00:34:58.000 It's like the English Civil War.
00:34:59.000 It's nasty, brutish, and I hope it's short because the Democrats are laughing while we're tearing ourselves apart and we are not prepared for 2024 in the slightest.
00:35:11.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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