The Charlie Kirk Show - January 25, 2024


Come and Cut It - Texas Holds the Line


Episode Stats


Length

35 minutes

Words per minute

169.58101

Word count

6,071

Sentence count

509

Harmful content

Misogyny

6

sentences flagged

Toxicity

16

sentences flagged

Hate speech

8

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

Greg Abbott is holding the line in a very crafty way. The Supreme Court ruled that the Border Patrol is allowed to cut the razor wire on the southern border of Texas. The Biden administration was hoping that Texas Governor Greg Abbott would back down and allow them to do just that.

Transcript

Transcripts from "The Charlie Kirk Show" are sourced from the Knowledge Fight Interactive Search Tool. Explore them interactively here.
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Toxicity classifications generated with s-nlp/roberta_toxicity_classifier .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody, today at the Charlie Kirk Show, Greg Abbott surprises us.
00:00:03.000 He is holding the line in a very crafty way.
00:00:06.000 Listen to this episode.
00:00:06.000 It's very important.
00:00:08.000 Email us as alwaysfreedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:10.000 Get involved at TurningPointUSA at tpusa.com.
00:00:13.000 That's tpusa.com.
00:00:14.000 Start a high school or college chapter at the most important organization of the country, Turning Point USA.
00:00:19.000 Email us as alwaysfreedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:22.000 That is freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:26.000 And become a member to support this program.
00:00:28.000 members.charliekirk.com.
00:00:30.000 That is members.charlikirk.com.
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 campus.
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, his 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.
00:01:06.000 That's why we are here.
00:01:09.000 Noble Gold Investments is the official gold sponsor of the Charlie Kirk Show, a company that specializes in gold IRAs and physical delivery of precious metals.
00:01:19.000 Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments at noblegoldinvestments.com.
00:01:26.000 That is noblegoldinvestments.com.
00:01:28.000 It's where I buy all of my gold.
00:01:30.000 Go to noblegoldinvestments.com.
00:01:34.000 He's proven me wrong, and I am thrilled.
00:01:37.000 So far, so far, earlier this week, we very bluntly and clearly said, I don't know if Greg Abbott has what it takes to continue to secure the southern border of Texas.
00:01:47.000 And to be clear, Governor Abbott is being very, very crafty.
00:01:50.000 The U.S. Supreme Court in spirit, not necessarily in the text, said that Texas, securing the border, that Border Patrol can come in and cut the wire.
00:02:00.000 But Governor Abbott is thinking like a very effective lawyer, looking for loopholes and weaknesses.
00:02:09.000 The Supreme Court technically did not order saying that Texas can't do anything.
00:02:14.000 It just says that the Border Patrol can go and cut the wire.
00:02:18.000 And they gave the Biden administration permission to do something.
00:02:21.000 That's totally different.
00:02:22.000 So the Biden administration was hoping that Greg Abbott wouldn't actually read this decision and would just basically vacate from the border.
00:02:32.000 Now, I want to just get down to the technical essence here.
00:02:35.000 Border Patrol is allowed to go cut razor wire and never said that Texas is not allowed to add more razor wire or add more National Guard troops or continue to do what they're doing.
00:02:46.000 Those are two separate things.
00:02:47.000 It was a two-sentence statement and it still is pending the Fifth Circuit Court.
00:02:53.000 And Greg Abbott is seizing on this.
00:02:56.000 He is seizing on it to his great credit.
00:02:59.000 He very easily could have backed off, but he read the decision.
00:03:02.000 He said, this is a little murky.
00:03:03.000 It's a little uncertain.
00:03:05.000 And the Biden administration currently is blinking.
00:03:10.000 They are blinking because of Donald Trump.
00:03:13.000 They're blinking because of this next election.
00:03:15.000 And Greg Abbott is calling their bluff.
00:03:17.000 Here's what Greg Abbott has done: he's adding more wire.
00:03:22.000 He's adding more reinforcements on the border.
00:03:24.000 He's adding more people, National Guardsmen, saying that we have the right to repel invasion.
00:03:29.000 Now, he's a lawyer.
00:03:30.000 He knows what he's doing here.
00:03:32.000 And he's playing with fire.
00:03:33.000 It's a little bit risky.
00:03:35.000 He's not outright defying the Supreme Court, but he's certainly pushing back against the essence and the spirit of what the Supreme Court has been issuing.
00:03:45.000 The Biden administration, though, is blinking because we're in an election year.
00:03:51.000 And Mayorkas and Joe Biden say, oh boy, do we really want footage of Border Patrol cutting razor wire and allowing illegals to come in?
00:04:02.000 They already have that.
00:04:03.000 But now that 12% of the American people approve Joe Biden's handling of the border, Greg Abbott is basically begging for the optics of Joe Biden to bring in the federal government.
00:04:16.000 Greg Abbott is being rather prudent here.
00:04:18.000 He's not escalating this all at once.
00:04:20.000 It's a little here, a little here.
00:04:22.000 You force Biden to be the one acting in a crazy, irrational manner.
00:04:26.000 You want to be the cooler head in the room.
00:04:29.000 You want to be the more reasonable person.
00:04:32.000 The Supreme Court gave Biden permission to do something.
00:04:35.000 The Supreme Court said, go ahead, Biden, you can go in and cut razor wire.
00:04:40.000 But Biden hasn't done it.
00:04:42.000 We're here on Thursday, and Biden hasn't deployed federal agents to go cut razor wire.
00:04:48.000 Why is that?
00:04:49.000 The Supreme Court did not explicitly say that Texas has no right to defend and protect itself.
00:04:55.000 And so Greg Abbott is, he's playing both sides of this.
00:04:58.000 The Democrats are the ones that are overreaching.
00:05:01.000 The Democrats are now the ones that are talking irrationally.
00:05:04.000 And Greg Abbott, he is surprising me.
00:05:07.000 I expected, I will fully acknowledge when I'm wrong.
00:05:11.000 I expected full and complete surrender from Greg Abbott.
00:05:15.000 I did not expect this sort of weaving and dodging and craftiness.
00:05:20.000 I kind of like it.
00:05:23.000 He's protecting our constitutional system, and yet he's also saying that there's nothing that prohibits Texas from putting up new wire.
00:05:32.000 He's begging Biden to give Donald Trump a campaign ad of the federal government coming in and cutting wire.
00:05:39.000 And he's basically sidestepping the essence of the Supreme Court saying, no, no, no, no, we're still in charge.
00:05:44.000 Texas can do this.
00:05:46.000 The bad guys are openly comparing this to how Eisenhower nationalized the Arkansas Guard during school desegregation.
00:05:55.000 And the key difference is that Eisenhower stepped in to protect the rights of black students.
00:06:00.000 Biden would be stepping in to enable an invasion by foreigners. 0.75
00:06:04.000 And I've been very, very critical of Greg Abbott, but he surprised me.
00:06:08.000 We have not seen the capitulation that I thought I'd see these last couple of days.
00:06:13.000 Now, has this stopped the invasion?
00:06:15.000 Is he doing enough yet?
00:06:16.000 No.
00:06:18.000 But something is changing, everybody.
00:06:20.000 Something is changing.
00:06:21.000 This is a different tone.
00:06:22.000 This is a different rhetoric.
00:06:24.000 This is a different approach than what we have seen from the traditional Republican establishment.
00:06:31.000 And I do put Greg Abbott in the establishment.
00:06:35.000 Something has changed.
00:06:37.000 There has been a profound attitude shift.
00:06:41.000 Play cut 141, please.
00:06:43.000 Texas is doing is just very simple.
00:06:46.000 And that is because the Biden administration has really truly abdicated its responsibility to secure the border and enforce the laws.
00:06:56.000 Texas very simply is securing the border.
00:06:59.000 And so we put up the razor wire that we're talking about, Bill, and we put up all these barricades that actually have denied illegal entry.
00:07:07.000 And as you pointed out also in that screen, there are criminals coming across our border.
00:07:11.000 Texas has a right as a state to stop criminals from coming into our state.
00:07:19.000 And Joe Biden actually does have an option here.
00:07:22.000 Joe Biden's option is to enforce the laws of the United States and stop this illegal entry.
00:07:28.000 I got to give him credit.
00:07:30.000 That's a great argument.
00:07:31.000 He's putting the burden of unreasonable behavior on Biden.
00:07:35.000 He's putting the law and the moral argument in one.
00:07:38.000 And he's right.
00:07:39.000 There is a clause that says that you can repel invasion.
00:07:44.000 And he's also not defying what the Supreme Court said.
00:07:47.000 Because look, we all know where this leads us.
00:07:49.000 This is why we, this is exactly why we played around with this the other day.
00:07:55.000 And this is exactly why the other day we said, boy, we do not take the idea of defying the Supreme Court lightly.
00:08:05.000 But it's two sentences.
00:08:07.000 It says, if the federal government actually wants to come and start cutting razor wire, you can do it.
00:08:13.000 Mind you, what's important, and I missed this the other day and I want to correct the record.
00:08:18.000 It didn't say that you must cut the razor wire.
00:08:20.000 I missed it.
00:08:21.000 I'll be honest.
00:08:22.000 I've reread it.
00:08:23.000 In the spirit of all of it, having reread the decision, it felt as if the Supreme Court was saying you must remove the razor wire.
00:08:31.000 No, it said if the federal government chooses to remove the razor wire, it can.
00:08:37.000 That's still an insane decision, honestly.
00:08:40.000 But it's a big difference.
00:08:42.000 It doesn't say you can't have the razor wire there.
00:08:46.000 It says that there is federal supremacy over that.
00:08:49.000 Again, that is a little bit murkier legally than I want to get into because a state should be able to say to the federal government, we're being invaded.
00:08:58.000 Stop getting in the way of us doing our job.
00:09:00.000 That's essentially what the struggle is there.
00:09:02.000 However, Biden has yet to call the bluff.
00:09:05.000 Biden has the Supreme Court green lighting the elimination of the razor wire.
00:09:11.000 Why hasn't Biden done it?
00:09:13.000 This is the question that needs to be repeated.
00:09:16.000 Biden, why haven't you removed the wire?
00:09:21.000 You have it right here.
00:09:22.000 The Supreme Court told you you could do it, Biden.
00:09:24.000 Why haven't you done it, Biden?
00:09:26.000 Why haven't you done it?
00:09:27.000 I thought you hated the wire.
00:09:28.000 You sued to get rid of the wire.
00:09:30.000 Why haven't you done it?
00:09:30.000 Now, Biden says, well, maybe tomorrow I want every citizen journalist out there, and I hope we have cameras live streaming Joe Biden deploying.
00:09:39.000 And you know what?
00:09:40.000 As soon as they cut the wire, 30 minutes later, Texas should go put up more because the Supreme Court didn't say you can't do that.
00:09:47.000 So the Texas agents can watch it and just say, okay, thanks, Border Patrol.
00:09:53.000 Thanks.
00:09:54.000 And then they'll leave and they'll put more up.
00:09:56.000 Say, you got to come back tomorrow every single day.
00:09:59.000 Make Joe Biden deploy his federal agents every day, every single day, every single day, every single day.
00:10:08.000 Biden says, tomorrow you sued for this.
00:10:10.000 And I want that whole thing on film.
00:10:12.000 And Abbott has gamed this out to his credit to a certain extent.
00:10:17.000 And he's also forcing the issue.
00:10:19.000 He's coming across as reasonable.
00:10:21.000 He's coming across as a concerned governor.
00:10:24.000 I don't know if I would have saw this out of Governor Abbott a couple years ago.
00:10:28.000 I think Abbott would have said, let's just wait for the Fifth Circuit to settle it.
00:10:31.000 I'm impressed.
00:10:33.000 Mostly I'm surprised.
00:10:35.000 And I hope we see more of it.
00:10:38.000 Hey, everybody.
00:10:39.000 I know interest rates are not what they were a couple years ago, but I want to give you my perspective.
00:10:43.000 Did you know in 1971, the interest rate for a mortgage was 7.33%?
00:10:48.000 If you waited for the interest rate to go down, you would not have purchased a home until 1993.
00:10:54.000 Renting for 22 years while you waited.
00:10:56.000 In the meantime, the value of real estate quadrupled.
00:10:59.000 Don't wait to buy real estate.
00:11:00.000 Marry the house, not the rate.
00:11:02.000 You could always refinance everybody.
00:11:03.000 Take advantage of the slower market now and you can, again, refinance when rates go down.
00:11:09.000 Once rates start dropping, the frenzy will start all over again.
00:11:13.000 My friends, Andrew Del Rey and Todd of Akian are amazing, and they recently helped me with a purchase, and they could help you too.
00:11:19.000 They've been amazing to work with.
00:11:20.000 I can't say enough good things about Andrew Del Rey and Todd of Akian.
00:11:25.000 888 888 1172 or go to andrewandtodd.com.
00:11:28.000 That's Andrewandtodd.com.
00:11:29.000 Look, if you are Gen Z or millennial, leave a little bit of money put aside, it might be the best opportunity to go to AndrewandTodd.com and buy a home.
00:11:38.000 Get in the market.
00:11:38.000 Once you're in the buyer's game, you must never leave the buyer game.
00:11:41.000 And again, I encourage you guys to check it out right now.
00:11:44.000 Interest rates, they're signaling that they're going to go down, but don't wait.
00:11:49.000 The price of real estate very well might continue to go up.
00:11:51.000 Go to andrewandtodd.com, andrewandtodd.com.
00:11:57.000 So we'll see.
00:11:58.000 Will Biden deploy federal agents to go cut razor wire?
00:12:02.000 And let's be clear, Abbott needs to keep on doing more, keep on doing more.
00:12:06.000 But this has been a process, everybody.
00:12:09.000 Understand that Abbott comes from a good old boy network of Bush establishment Republicanism.
00:12:15.000 That the open border is just kind of, you know, that's just a far-right wing issue.
00:12:20.000 No, no, no.
00:12:20.000 Hold on.
00:12:21.000 There's something changing here.
00:12:22.000 And you guys deserve, this audience deserves a lot of credit.
00:12:26.000 Greg Abbott, Glenn Young, who are center right.
00:12:32.000 They do well on most issues, but let's be honest, they're much more establishment in Chamber of Commerce than we are.
00:12:37.000 They're talking a great game on this.
00:12:40.000 We have moved the Overton window and this show and Bannon's show and Jack Pesobic's show have played a big role.
00:12:50.000 And I will, I have this hypothesis that is getting, I think, being proven correct every single day, which is with the liberation of Twitter, you're going to see bolder action and more eyes opened.
00:13:08.000 And let me prove it to you.
00:13:10.000 Now, whether Greg Abbott wrote this or not is irrelevant.
00:13:13.000 He tweeted it on twitter.com and he says, quote, my statement on Texas, Texas's constitutional right to self-defense.
00:13:24.000 I'm going to read parts of it.
00:13:25.000 It has been viewed on Twitter 37 million times.
00:13:31.000 37 million views on twitter.com.
00:13:36.000 When Jack Dorsey was running Twitter, we would not get, it would be maybe viewed 800,000 times.
00:13:41.000 A liberated social media platform is moving public perception on core issues.
00:13:48.000 We are starting to win on the border in public opinion, thanks to Elon Musk liberating our ability to speak.
00:13:58.000 Let me read this from Governor Greg Abbott.
00:14:00.000 And Greg Abbott, by the way, it's a feedback loop.
00:14:03.000 It's as much as you receive is as much as you give.
00:14:05.000 So Governor Greg Abbott's team, I guarantee you, they're communication managers.
00:14:10.000 I know some of them in their office.
00:14:12.000 They're far more moderate than I am.
00:14:14.000 But what do they do multiple times a day?
00:14:16.000 Governor Greg Abbott's communications director opens up Twitter on the way to work.
00:14:21.000 Their interns are looking through Twitter.
00:14:23.000 They are consuming information from this program, from Jack Pesobic, from Matt Walsh.
00:14:29.000 They're consuming information from Dan Bongino, and then they relay it back to Governor Abbott.
00:14:33.000 And Governor Abbott says, well, where is the average conservative on this?
00:14:37.000 And they say, well, honestly, like, I've never seen such chatter and rancor and demand to secure the border.
00:14:42.000 So then Governor Abbott sees the vibe and he parallels and mirrors the vibe that you guys are communicating.
00:14:49.000 Because this letter from Governor Abbott is, it is a step up above anything I have seen him say or do.
00:14:58.000 Now, part of it, to be perfectly honest, is because the crisis is worse than ever.
00:15:02.000 Let's not get too ahead of ourselves.
00:15:04.000 Let's not get so enthusiastic.
00:15:06.000 The crisis is so bad, it necessitates this.
00:15:10.000 Is Governor Abbott doing enough?
00:15:12.000 No.
00:15:13.000 Is he doing better?
00:15:14.000 Oh, yes.
00:15:16.000 Let me read this letter.
00:15:17.000 It's an extraordinary letter by Governor Abbott.
00:15:20.000 And it was written yesterday, viewed 37 million times.
00:15:25.000 The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the states.
00:15:28.000 Correct.
00:15:29.000 The executive branch in the United States has a constitutional duty to enforce federal laws protecting states, including immigration laws on the books right now, Governor Abbott writes.
00:15:38.000 President Biden has refused to enforce those laws and has even violated them.
00:15:43.000 The result is that he has smashed records for illegal immigration.
00:15:47.000 Despite having been put on notice in a series of letters, let me pause here.
00:15:51.000 Let me tell you why I like Greg Abbott saying this.
00:15:54.000 He's putting the ball in Biden's court.
00:15:57.000 So it's an independent-minded person.
00:15:59.000 They read this and they want to side with who is more reasonable.
00:16:03.000 They don't want the person that is overreacting.
00:16:05.000 They don't want the person that is emotional.
00:16:08.000 And so Governor Abbott says, Despite having been put on notice in a series of letters, one of which I delivered to him by hand, President Biden has ignored Texas's demand that he perform his constitutional duties.
00:16:22.000 So basically, Governor Abbott is reminding you and reminding the person that is reading this that might not be into politics.
00:16:30.000 Wow, he delivered a letter by hand to the president and still being ignored.
00:16:34.000 He is coming across as the more reasonable person in this dispute.
00:16:38.000 He writes, President Biden has violated his oath to faithfully execute immigration laws enacted by Congress.
00:16:44.000 Instead of prosecuting immigrants for the federal crime of illegal entry, Biden has sent his lawyers in the federal courts to sue Texas for taking action to secure the border.
00:16:52.000 True.
00:16:53.000 And by the way, Ken Paxton deserves a lot of credit here as well.
00:16:56.000 A lot of credit.
00:16:58.000 And Paxton being liberated is a big part of this.
00:17:01.000 Biden has instructed his agencies to ignore federal statutes that mandate the detention of illegal immigrants.
00:17:06.000 The effect is to illegally allow them on mosque parole into the United States. 0.99
00:17:11.000 And I'm going to keep going into this letter because it isn't as much about Abbott as it is you being the tip of the spear, leading public opinion and him mirroring it back to you.
00:17:26.000 Okay, Kirk fans, I need you to stop and pay attention to this.
00:17:30.000 If you deal with exhaustion, brain fog, mood swings, or food cravings, if you're constantly getting sick or simply lack the zeal you used to have in life, then I have some news for you.
00:17:39.000 While back, I found a liquid supplement called Strong Cell, and it changed my health in a very profound way.
00:17:44.000 I take it every single day.
00:17:47.000 Look, I knew I had to partner with them.
00:17:49.000 I did the research.
00:17:49.000 Google and look up online what happens when you mix NADH with CoQ10 and marine collagen.
00:17:56.000 It's simple.
00:17:57.000 Every area of your body has cells.
00:17:59.000 So if your cells are healthier, then you will also be healthier.
00:18:02.000 You don't have to take my word for it.
00:18:03.000 Listen to one of these testimonials.
00:18:05.000 After taking Strong Cell for six weeks, I found improvement in many areas: less shoulder pain, improved mental clarity, increased natural energy, and so much more.
00:18:12.000 I'm thankful that Charlie Kirk recommended this to his listeners.
00:18:15.000 Rebecca says, I absolutely love Strong Cell.
00:18:18.000 At first, I didn't think it would make much of a difference for my chronic fatigue, depression, and anxiety, but I thought I'd give it a chance.
00:18:23.000 I've tried to find depression meds for 10 years, and since you Strong Cell, I'm feeling better than I ever have on depression medication.
00:18:31.000 Customer for life, thank you, Charlie Kirk, for recommending this product.
00:18:34.000 So there it is.
00:18:35.000 You've heard from me directly and some of the users who have seen their lives changed by Strong Cell.
00:18:40.000 I personally recommend taking it every day for at least 30 days.
00:18:43.000 I take it every day before I go on the air, and it's helped me in more ways than I can even name.
00:18:48.000 Each of our bodies is very different.
00:18:49.000 So I would recommend you give the supplement at least two to three months to see the changes in your body.
00:18:54.000 Go to strongcell.com and learn more for yourself.
00:18:57.000 That's strongcell.com forward slash Charlie.
00:19:00.000 And don't forget to use discount code Charlie at checkout to get your special 20% discount for Kirk listeners.
00:19:05.000 Or you can call 888-596-0155 to order over the phone.
00:19:11.000 That is 888-596-0155 or visit strongcell.com forward slash Charlie.
00:19:21.000 Let's go with this letter here.
00:19:22.000 Continues: By wasting taxpayer dollars to tear open Texas's border security infrastructure, Biden has enticed illegal immigrants away from the 28 legal ports of entry along this state's southern border, bridges where nobody drowns, and into dangerous waters of the Rio Grande.
00:19:40.000 Greg Abbott continues, Biden's lawless border policies, more than 6 million illegals have crossed into our southern border in just the last three years.
00:19:49.000 6 million that we know of.
00:19:52.000 That is more than the population of 33 different states in this country.
00:19:57.000 This illegal refusal to protect states has inflicted unprecedented harm on the people all across the United States.
00:20:05.000 From James Madison to Alexander Hamilton and other visionaries who wrote the U.S. Constitution, they foresaw that states should not left to be to the mercy of a lawless president who does nothing to stop external threats like cartels smuggling millions of illegals across the border.
00:20:21.000 Let me pause here.
00:20:22.000 It's very smart what Abbott is doing here.
00:20:25.000 He is pointing to the founders.
00:20:28.000 He's pointing to the framers.
00:20:31.000 He's getting back to first principles.
00:20:33.000 He's getting back to the core and fundamental contract that keeps us a republic.
00:20:39.000 It's very well written.
00:20:40.000 It's very well written, Governor Abbott.
00:20:42.000 He says, quote, this is why the framers included both Article 4, Section 4, which promises that the federal government shall protect each state against invasion.
00:20:53.000 And Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3, which acknowledges the state's sovereign interest in protecting their borders.
00:21:00.000 Arizona of the United States, 567 U.S. 387419-2012, Scalia dissenting.
00:21:07.000 That's interesting.
00:21:08.000 Scalia dissented on that?
00:21:09.000 You know what?
00:21:10.000 That's right.
00:21:10.000 That was one of his worst decisions.
00:21:11.000 Blake, can you get that's a separate?
00:21:13.000 I want to talk about that.
00:21:15.000 The failure of the Biden regime to fulfill the duties from Article 4 has triggered Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3, which reserves to this state the right of self-defense.
00:21:28.000 For these reasons, I've already declared an invasion under Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3, to invoke Texas's constitutional authority to defend and protect itself.
00:21:40.000 That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary.
00:21:46.000 The Texas National Guard, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and other Texas personnel are acting on that authority, as well as state law to secure the Texas border.
00:21:57.000 Now, mind you, Governor Abbott kind of ignores the U.S. Supreme Court in this letter, which is part of the brilliance.
00:22:03.000 He doesn't defy it, but he doesn't go after the Supreme Court.
00:22:07.000 He doesn't say that they were wrong.
00:22:08.000 He just kind of says that the government's breaking the contract and he sidesteps it because the Supreme Court decision was hardly this robust, thou shall not, you shall.
00:22:19.000 And this is a theme that we're seeing from this Supreme Court, which is that the media will take the essence of a decision when in reality the decision doesn't say this.
00:22:29.000 And this particular court tends to be rather more murky than people will ever give it credit for.
00:22:35.000 And I'll give you an example on the abortion decision.
00:22:39.000 If you go to a rank and file American, you say, hey, what did the Supreme Court say on abortion?
00:22:45.000 They'll say, well, the Supreme Court said abortion can be illegal. 1.00
00:22:50.000 While that's technically true, it actually just said that the states will determine abortion policy.
00:22:55.000 It sent it back to the states.
00:22:56.000 So there's a lot of agency and there's a lot of state sovereignty that this particular court has decided on.
00:23:06.000 To continue on this, Greg Abbott is exploiting this temporary weakness to build a consensus.
00:23:13.000 And what is happening, and this is exactly what we recommended on our program and recommended on social media, and you guys were the ones really pushing this forward and you deserve the credit for this, is now other red state governors are voicing support for Greg Abbott.
00:23:28.000 People that otherwise would not have been in the ballgame.
00:23:34.000 Sarah Huckabee Sanders in Arkansas, Glenn Yunken in Virginia are voicing support and sending National Guard.
00:23:43.000 Now, the left, as the left does, they say it's time to nationalize the National Guard.
00:23:49.000 You have Joaquin Castro.
00:23:52.000 You have Robert Francis O'Rourke, the fake Hispanic Irishman who has run for the Senate and run for the governor, who can't win a race. 0.79
00:24:00.000 Say it's time to nationalize the Guard.
00:24:02.000 Time to nationalize the Guard.
00:24:05.000 So I want to just play this B-roll.
00:24:07.000 Can we play Cut 117, please?
00:24:09.000 And this is Greg Abbott's brilliance.
00:24:11.000 And Ken Paxton deserves credit here.
00:24:13.000 Dan Patrick deserves credit here.
00:24:15.000 Now, understand, they try to take out Ken Paxton.
00:24:18.000 They try to divide the Texas Republican ruling class.
00:24:22.000 Democrat operatives pumped in money to try to take out Paxton, separate Abbott from Paxton.
00:24:27.000 And Abbott and Paxton are far from friends, but they are in harmony right now.
00:24:32.000 Now, what you're seeing here is the adding of more razor wire in Eagle Pass.
00:24:37.000 The Supreme Court never said you can't do this.
00:24:40.000 So Greg Abbott is going to now, I'm sorry, Joe Biden is now going to have to send in, send in more people to go cut the razor wire.
00:24:52.000 The pressure is on Joe Biden now.
00:24:55.000 The pressure is on Joe Biden of what he is going to do.
00:24:59.000 And he very well might send in agents to go cut the razor wire tomorrow.
00:25:05.000 But boy, those optics.
00:25:08.000 And by the way, the border is changing every portion of American politics.
00:25:13.000 In 2020, COVID was the number one issue by far.
00:25:18.000 The border is the number one winning issue.
00:25:21.000 This transcends income levels.
00:25:23.000 This transcends geography.
00:25:25.000 And the Democrats are not certain how to deal with this.
00:25:30.000 In some way, in some form or fashion, the seat of the equivalent benefit is Greg Abbott using the Supreme Court issue to still put them on defense.
00:25:39.000 And he's being very even-handed in this.
00:25:42.000 Again, I am not an Abbott apologist.
00:25:44.000 I have been very, very critical of Greg Abbott.
00:25:48.000 But what he's doing is he's building consensus, basically saying we have a moral, a traditional, and a historical, and a constitutional duty to defend our state from a foreign invasion.
00:26:02.000 And Joe Biden is left with very few good options here because his political support is deteriorating and crumbling.
00:26:13.000 I want to play this piece of tape here: Cut 126.
00:26:15.000 This is impacting Mitch McConnell.
00:26:17.000 Mitch McConnell is realizing that the border is the number one issue in the country.
00:26:23.000 Play cut 126.
00:26:25.000 Past few minutes, Jake Sherman with Punch Bowl News had this about a McConnell meeting with Republican senators.
00:26:31.000 Senator McConnell told a closed meeting of Senate Republicans today that the politics of the border has flipped and cast doubt on linking Ukraine and the border.
00:26:43.000 It quotes us him saying, when we started this, the border united us and Ukraine divided us.
00:26:48.000 The politics on this have changed, he told his GOP colleagues.
00:26:51.000 He said he referred to Donald Trump as the nominee.
00:26:54.000 We don't want to do anything to undermine him, and he wants to campaign and center it on immigration.
00:27:01.000 So, quote, we're in a quandary.
00:27:03.000 Now, what on earth is McConnell?
00:27:05.000 A quandary?
00:27:06.000 As if it's some sort of quandary that the border is some sort of burden, but it is changing the politics across the board.
00:27:14.000 So, Joaquin Castro, remember where he said that demographics will turn Texas blue?
00:27:18.000 He was bragging about how the great replacement will make Texas blue.
00:27:22.000 And the fake Hispanic Irishman, Robert Francis Orwork, they are now demanding that Biden federalize the Texas National Guard, comparing this to Eisenhower nationalizing the Arkansas Guard during school desegregation.
00:27:35.000 But Abbott is calling this bluff, and Biden is being taken off guard right now.
00:27:39.000 Biden expected, this is why it's so important you play hardball against these guys.
00:27:44.000 When you play strategic hardball, they don't know what to do.
00:27:47.000 Biden is left with only escalation options.
00:27:51.000 And Biden is an unpopular president who's already throwing people in jail.
00:27:56.000 Peter Navarro, by the way, just got sentenced to four months in prison for contempt of Congress.
00:28:00.000 Is Hunter Biden going to go to jail?
00:28:02.000 Is Lois Lerner going to go to jail? 1.00
00:28:04.000 Is Eric Holler going to jail?
00:28:05.000 All these people are in contempt of Congress.
00:28:07.000 So they're throwing Peter Navarro in jail.
00:28:08.000 They're trying to put Bannon in jail.
00:28:10.000 They have Douglas Mackey they're throwing in prison.
00:28:13.000 So the only options that Biden has left is escalation.
00:28:19.000 And when you escalate a conflict, you run the risk, Joe Biden, of looking like a third world tyrant dictator.
00:28:28.000 And people already are starting to think of that.
00:28:31.000 And Greg Abbott is looking reasonable.
00:28:32.000 Greg Abbott is calling the bluff, saying, why is it that we can't secure our border?
00:28:36.000 Why is it that we can't do this job ourselves?
00:28:40.000 And it is exposing that Joe Biden wants the border open.
00:28:45.000 Of course he does.
00:28:46.000 The entire American Democratic regime and party, they are co-sponsors of the great replacement of our country.
00:28:53.000 Let's go to Cut 128.
00:28:55.000 Martha McCallum, who I really like on Fox News, did an excellent job with Mr. Kirby here.
00:29:00.000 Play Cut 128.
00:29:02.000 Do we have a border?
00:29:03.000 Do we have a southern border?
00:29:05.000 Do we have a what?
00:29:06.000 Do we have a southern border?
00:29:07.000 Yes, ma'am.
00:29:08.000 Of course we do.
00:29:08.000 And how come people can flow across it every single day?
00:29:11.000 Hundreds and thousands of people over the course, 300,000 people in December.
00:29:15.000 We're working very hard to try to fix that, Martha.
00:29:18.000 That's why we need congressional action.
00:29:19.000 That's why the president asked for additional funding, more than $6 billion in the supplemental to try to get border security enhanced.
00:29:26.000 This is a complicated issue, and it's going to require a real team approach, not just from the executive branch, but from the legislative branch as well.
00:29:32.000 I love that clip.
00:29:34.000 That's Martha McCallum as a frustrated American citizen who loves her country, not an overly partisan person.
00:29:39.000 Martha's always been very, very good to me, by the way.
00:29:40.000 She's a terrific person.
00:29:41.000 She had me on the show so many times.
00:29:43.000 And she's a ticked off citizen. 0.99
00:29:45.000 She's a ticked off mom. 0.91
00:29:46.000 Like, what the heck, man? 0.73
00:29:47.000 You're coming on my show.
00:29:48.000 Do we have a border?
00:29:49.000 What a great question. 0.99
00:29:50.000 That lunatic John Kirby. 0.88
00:29:52.000 Yeah, yeah, we're working on it. 0.83
00:29:54.000 It's a national security issue.
00:29:55.000 It's 100% appropriate question, by the way.
00:29:58.000 We got these guys bragging about potentially being famous and they might be Azerbaijani terrorists.
00:30:03.000 We don't know.
00:30:04.000 We are far from a solution on the border, but the trend is our friend.
00:30:11.000 We are seeing a change in the attitude, a change in the behavior, a change in the rhetoric from people that otherwise would run to the hills.
00:30:21.000 They're leaning in, and you guys are to credit for that.
00:30:28.000 Let's play some more pieces of tape here.
00:30:30.000 And before I do, the states are going to be the ones that are going to have to solve this problem.
00:30:35.000 They're going to have to solve it.
00:30:36.000 And it's putting Joe Biden in a very difficult position.
00:30:40.000 We are seeing story after story of this.
00:30:43.000 I'm just going to highlight one.
00:30:44.000 This is a story of a Colombian who was convicted of murder, and he illegally crossed into the United States border.
00:30:51.000 He was arrested in New Jersey.
00:30:53.000 Todd Bensman, who does a great job, we've had him on the program, he made a really, really smart point.
00:30:58.000 He said the Biden administration's priority is to get as many foreigners into the country as possible as quickly as possible to not create the optics of people waiting in line.
00:31:08.000 Now, in some ways, we've been a victim of our own media success because I would actually prefer those long lines than letting them in.
00:31:18.000 Why?
00:31:18.000 Well, the reason that there used to be long lines is because they were doing DNA testing and they were doing background checks.
00:31:26.000 Biden was so embarrassed by the long lines that he told Majorkas, just let them all in and stop doing all this DNA testing and stop doing all these background checks.
00:31:35.000 So in some ways, we're a victim of our own media virality.
00:31:40.000 Remember those huge drone shots that the great Bill Melusian had and that we would be talking about?
00:31:46.000 Biden was so embarrassed and humiliated by them, they said the number one priority is we don't have the optics of huge lines and people congregating under the overpasses.
00:31:57.000 And so because of that, they have stopped doing the stuff that was creating the lines in the first place.
00:32:03.000 Like, hey, do you have whooping cough?
00:32:05.000 Do you have measles?
00:32:06.000 Are you a carrier of a potentially really nasty disease? 1.00
00:32:11.000 Or are you a rapist? 1.00
00:32:12.000 Are you a murderer? 1.00
00:32:12.000 Are you on the terrorist watch list? 1.00
00:32:15.000 Now, since Biden does not want the lines, because it looks bad, he just lets them all in as quickly as possible.
00:32:23.000 Hopefully their fear of bad optics will help diffuse this situation tomorrow.
00:32:28.000 So tomorrow, when Border Patrol goes to cut that razor wire, we need every single media outlet watch it, see it, have Texas watch it, say, okay, be my guest, cut the razor wire.
00:32:41.000 And then 30 minutes later, repair it and put it back up again and make those government agents work overtime and go do it again. 0.59
00:32:49.000 I love our government agents, but they don't love working overtime.
00:32:53.000 And then they'll have a shift change.
00:32:55.000 Oh, we'll get to it Monday and then come back and do it again and come back and do it again.
00:33:00.000 Cut 37, Fox reports the Colombian convicted of murder.
00:33:04.000 How many convicted murderers have waltzed into the country?
00:33:07.000 Well, we don't know because Biden is so afraid of bad optics, they no longer do background testing or DNA testing.
00:33:14.000 They're allowing whoever wants to come into the country. 1.00
00:33:18.000 Play cut 37.
00:33:26.000 This is why the border officials put so much emphasis, Dana, on gotaways.
00:33:30.000 Now, he had previously been arrested by authorities in New Jersey for simple assault and making terroristic threats.
00:33:37.000 And there was a record on him.
00:33:38.000 And in many cases, Dana, they're seeking to evade apprehension simply because they are criminals like this Colombian man you're talking about, convicted of murder in his home country, now arrested by ICE in Newark, New Jersey.
00:33:51.000 That's just one example.
00:33:53.000 Convicted murderers.
00:33:55.000 Now, we could have found, we could have flagged that person when he came to a port of entry, but Biden's directive is just get him in.
00:34:02.000 Just get him in, just get him in.
00:34:04.000 Because the lines and those drone shots of the big groups of people, they don't like.
00:34:09.000 And Americans are dying in DUIs.
00:34:12.000 They're being murdered by the illegals that come in. 1.00
00:34:16.000 And the message is out, by the way. 0.95
00:34:19.000 The message is completely out.
00:34:21.000 They think they could do whatever they want and they've taken advantage.
00:34:23.000 We have these videos of people from Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan basically threatening, say that everyone's going to know my name, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of slaves that are coming into the country. 0.74
00:34:36.000 And we use that word intentionally because they are, it is the new slave trade. 0.88
00:34:40.000 They are bought and purchased by the cartel. 0.98
00:34:42.000 Many of the children are here for sex slaves. 0.98
00:34:45.000 And the Biden administration thinks that that's a wonderful thing. 0.98
00:34:47.000 They don't do anything about it.
00:34:48.000 Hundreds of thousands of girls are purchased by these cartels, 12-year-old, 13-year-old, 14-year-old girls, rape trees on the southern border. 0.98
00:34:56.000 If you don't know about it, you got to get educated on it.
00:34:58.000 The southern border is the greatest humanitarian crisis in the modern era.
00:35:02.000 It is the moral equivalent of the North Atlantic slave trade happening in our era and our time. 0.69
00:35:07.000 And we have to be convinced by the bad guys, oh, we were such a bad country because we did slavery.
00:35:13.000 We never should have had slavery. 0.92
00:35:14.000 Slavery is repugnant. 0.82
00:35:15.000 It's evil. 0.99
00:35:16.000 It's awful.
00:35:17.000 And if you believe that, then why are you okay with the slavery happening right now in Eagle Pass and the slavery happening on the southern border?
00:35:25.000 The Democrat Party has always been the party of slavery, and it continues today as they co-sponsor the great slave trade of the southern border.
00:35:35.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:35:37.000 Email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:40.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
00:35:44.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.