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00:01:30.000 Joining us now is Senator Josh Hawley, one of the good guys in D.C. He's doing an excellent job.

00:01:35.000 Senator, thank you for taking the time.

00:01:36.000 Senator, your reaction to Donald Trump's decisive 30-plus point win yesterday in the great state of Iowa.

00:01:43.000 Hey, thank you for having me, Charlie.

00:01:44.000 It's always great to be with you.

00:01:45.000 You know, I would just say that if anybody thinks that this is a surprise, they have not been paying attention for the last, I mean, three years.

00:01:53.000 I mean, I don't know what it's been.

00:01:54.000 Listen, Donald Trump is the leader of the party.

00:01:57.000 I've been saying this for literally years.

00:01:59.000 He was going to win this nomination.

00:02:00.000 Now it is totally and completely clear that he's going to win the nomination.

00:02:03.000 But here's the other thing that strikes me, Charlie.

00:02:05.000 This really shows you the transformation of the Republican Party.

00:02:09.000 And the D.C. Republicans do not understand this.

00:02:12.000 They don't get it.

00:02:13.000 If you look at who is voting for Donald Trump and coming out to these caucuses, and I'm sure all the other primaries, it is working-class voters.

00:02:20.000 Look who voted for the other, for his opponents, Mickey Haley and the rest.

00:02:25.000 Those are the folks who are the college-educated or advanced degrees, earn much more money.

00:02:33.000 I mean, the folks who are, frankly, more of the elite.

00:02:35.000 If you look at workaday voters, they are voting for Trump.

00:02:39.000 That's our base now, Charlie.

00:02:40.000 And the D.C. Republicans need to wake up and get it through their head.

00:02:45.000 This is who we are as a party.

00:02:47.000 Yeah, and it's the people that shower before work and after work. 0.99

00:02:51.000 And Senator, Iowa used to be a battleground state.

00:02:54.000 You know Iowa well.

00:02:55.000 It's not far from the great state of Missouri.

00:02:57.000 Right.

00:02:58.000 It's right next door in shared values and shared worldview.

00:03:01.000 The one area of Iowa, though, it's not dissimilar from Missouri, but it is the Mississippi River Corridor.

00:03:08.000 This used to be, if it's on the eastern part of the state, we have a graphic up.

00:03:12.000 This used to be traditionally old school union Democrat.

00:03:15.000 These are folks that are in the muscular trades, especially in the quad cities.

00:03:20.000 It's where John Deere is headquartered, a lot of tractors, a lot of folks that are in the agrarian type business.

00:03:27.000 That Mississippi River corridor used to be reliably blue, and Obama won it and Trump flipped it.

00:03:32.000 I'm sure it's similar trends you've seen in Missouri.

00:03:35.000 And it seems as if that is a trend that is staying.

00:03:38.000 However, Senator, I don't know if D.C. Republicans like this.

00:03:42.000 Can you talk about how D.C. Republicans are not exactly thrilled about their newfound constituency?

00:03:48.000 Oh, yeah, they're not thrilled at all.

00:03:50.000 In fact, I think they're embarrassed by it.

00:03:52.000 And if you look at the policies of the D.C. Republicans, it's the same old thing for the last 30 or 40 years that has threatened to put us in permanent minority status.

00:04:01.000 And here are the policies.

00:04:03.000 It is giveaways to giant corporations that ship our jobs overseas, tax breaks to these corporations that would rather hire Chinese workers and pay them slave wages than hire American workers and pay them honest wages.

00:04:16.000 It is bowing down to the woke corporations who now are forcing their social agenda.

00:04:21.000 on this country after they have sold us out economically.

00:04:24.000 You know, that has been, sadly, much of the Republican Party, at least the Republican establishment for 30, 40 years.

00:04:30.000 Trump challenged that in 2016, and that's why he became the nominee.

00:04:34.000 And that's why he is going to not only be the nominee, that's why he's going to be president again in the space of about 10 months of 11 months.

00:04:41.000 And I think the Republican Party needs to wake up to this because we are now a working class party, and that's who we should be, Charlie.

00:04:49.000 I mean, this is where the working people of this country are the heart of this country.

00:04:53.000 They built this country, and the only kind of Republican Party worth having is a Republican Party of working people.

00:05:00.000 And that's a great segue.

00:05:01.000 So, Senator, there's been a fair amount of chatter, and I got pretty aggressive on social media.

00:05:06.000 I'm glad that I did. 0.91

00:05:08.000 And Senator Lankford responded saying, oh, it's a bunch of lies and nonsense.

00:05:11.000 But it turns out it wasn't.

00:05:14.000 So can you separate fact from fiction from what seems to be an awful, an insulting, and honestly almost a trolling immigration deal that is, and I put deal in quotes between Lankford and Schumer.

00:05:26.000 And this is as Fox News reported it.

00:05:28.000 And I want to, if there's anything that is not correct here, Senator, please correct me on air.

00:05:33.000 I want the stickler for the truth here.

00:05:35.000 But it seems as if the deal that is being negotiated would increase green cards and would allow 5,000 illegals into the country every single day.

00:05:45.000 So they're acknowledging they could get it down from 12,000 to 5,000, but not 5,001 or 4,999.

00:05:52.000 Senator, what are the specifics here?

00:05:56.000 Is this close to the parameters that you're hearing in the Senate?

00:05:59.000 Well, I have no idea what the specifics are because Charlie, none of us have, and I mean, none of us have been able to see a lick of text.

00:06:06.000 I mean, nothing, which I think is by design.

00:06:09.000 And listen, I'll just say that James Langford, who's a friend, I think James has been given an impossible job here by, frankly, Mitch McConnell.

00:06:15.000 He's been told to go and negotiate something where he has no leeway to negotiate.

00:06:19.000 And really, I mean, who's driving this bus is the White House and Chuck Schumer.

00:06:23.000 And the border, they want the border open.

00:06:26.000 They love the border open.

00:06:27.000 That's their whole policy.

00:06:29.000 And we were just talking about working people. 0.93

00:06:31.000 I mean, is it going to be good for the working people of this country to flood the labor force in this country with more cheap labor, particularly illegal cheap labor?

00:06:40.000 I mean, is that really going to be good for wages in this country? 0.77

00:06:42.000 Of course not.

00:06:43.000 That's one of the reasons wages have been flat for 30 years is because there is too much cheap labor, too much, too many workers, many of them illegal, who are driving down the wages of hardworking Americans.

00:06:56.000 I mean, this has got to stop.

00:06:58.000 And I certainly am not going to vote for something that increases the amount of cheap labor in the country.

00:07:04.000 Yeah, and I don't, you know, Senator, there's so many different stories that I could talk about.

00:07:08.000 But just here personally, you know, I had dealing with some family calamity stuff of people in the hospital. 0.96

00:07:14.000 And I go to the hospital and they're saying, yeah, we've never seen it so packed before because there's illegals that are filling up the hospital and they have to treat them. 0.78

00:07:22.000 Native born Americans are being made to wait in line for emergency medical services, Senator.

00:07:27.000 And I saw it firsthand.

00:07:28.000 I couldn't believe it.

00:07:29.000 It took my breath away. 1.00

00:07:30.000 These are people from the third world. 1.00

00:07:31.000 They're from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.

00:07:33.000 And by the way, native-born Americans that have been here for 70 years and 80 years and paid their taxes that have U.S. passports sometimes get de-emphasized.

00:07:41.000 And I don't want to be inhumane.

00:07:42.000 You know, some of these illegals, they have things.

00:07:43.000 By the way, they come and they all, you know, they have RSV or they're dying and all this, but hold on. 1.00

00:07:47.000 They shouldn't be here. 0.99

00:07:48.000 The whole system should be set up to prioritize the American worker.

00:07:53.000 I want to emphasize one part of this, Senator, of this deal. 0.72

00:07:56.000 If this is true, they say we'll allow 5,000 illegals into the country every day.

00:08:00.000 Aren't they acknowledging they could get to zero if they wanted to? 0.96

00:08:04.000 Well, absolutely.

00:08:05.000 And Joe Biden could get down to zero if he wanted to.

00:08:07.000 We all know that the way to do it is to enforce the law.

00:08:10.000 And this is why it makes me a little nervous, Charlie, every time the Democrats start saying, well, you know, we have an immigration law problem and we need to overhaul the immigration system.

00:08:18.000 Frankly, no, we don't.

00:08:19.000 We need to enforce the laws that are on the books.

00:08:22.000 Donald Trump had illegal immigration at near all-time lows.

00:08:26.000 Because he enforced the law, because he put in place the remain in Mexico policy, which is a simple common sense policy.

00:08:26.000 How?

00:08:33.000 If you want to cross over and claim asylum in the United States, you're welcome to apply, but you've got to remain in Mexico or a safe third country while your asylum claims are being processed.

00:08:43.000 You can't just come here, cross the border illegally, claim asylum, and then go who knows where and never show up again in court.

00:08:49.000 Like he put a stop to that.

00:08:51.000 That is what Joe Biden could do.

00:08:53.000 He doesn't want to do it because he wants the border open.

00:08:57.000 And I frankly think the only way we get the border closed and our laws enforced is if we change the president.

00:09:03.000 We have to.

00:09:04.000 And so, Senator, what do you a lot?

00:09:06.000 Some of your colleagues are now endorsing Trump.

00:09:08.000 It seems as if there is momentum there.

00:09:11.000 Can you speak to that, Senator Barrasso, Senator Rubio?

00:09:14.000 It seems as if there is a reality setting in to your Senate colleagues that maybe a year or two ago, they would think it's unthinkable.

00:09:20.000 Now it seems inevitable that Donald Trump's going to be the nominee.

00:09:23.000 It seems as if the momentum is really in Donald Trump's favor amongst your colleagues.

00:09:28.000 I think that people are realizing he is going to be the nominee.

00:09:31.000 He is very likely to be the next president of the United States.

00:09:34.000 But really, we need to go even a step further than that, Charlie.

00:09:37.000 It shouldn't just be like, okay, well, you know, I guess we'll acquiesce in this to the voters.

00:09:40.000 They need to listen to what voters are trying to tell them because it is about the entire outlook of the Republican Party.

00:09:48.000 Voters are saying we don't want yesterday's Republican Party.

00:09:51.000 We don't want the globalists.

00:09:53.000 We don't want the free traders who give our jobs away.

00:09:56.000 We don't want open borders.

00:09:57.000 They're saying no to all of that.

00:09:59.000 They're saying yes to rebuilding America. 0.86

00:10:01.000 They're saying yes to working people, right?

00:10:04.000 They're saying yes to getting an economy where you can raise a family on one wage, on a good working wage.

00:10:10.000 That's what they want.

00:10:11.000 And unless the Republican Party becomes that party, we're not going to win.

00:10:15.000 I mean, and that's what Trump shows.

00:10:17.000 I think that's the message that Republicans need to wake up and hear.

00:10:20.000 Senator, you're doing an excellent job.

00:10:21.000 Thank you for fighting for the people of Missouri.

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00:10:30.000 And so, Senator, thank you so much.

00:10:32.000 We have your back.

00:10:32.000 You're welcome anytime.

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00:12:03.000 I want to just elaborate on this.

00:12:05.000 Senator Lankford, and I like Senator Holly, and I know this every time we book a senator, and this is not a criticism.

00:12:11.000 They're all colleagues, they're very close together, and they have to be.

00:12:14.000 They got to work on big stuff.

00:12:15.000 I totally get it.

00:12:16.000 And Senator Hawley was very polite.

00:12:18.000 They're always polite.

00:12:18.000 Senator Lee is polite.

00:12:19.000 Senator Paul.

00:12:20.000 They have this club of the Senate.

00:12:22.000 And I think it's actually probably a good thing where they don't insult each other publicly.

00:12:26.000 I totally get it.

00:12:27.000 But I'm not a senator.

00:12:28.000 So Senator Lankford is a real trickster.

00:12:28.000 So here we go.

00:12:31.000 And this guy's been deployed by the turtle to go negotiate with Chuck Yushumer.

00:12:36.000 Now, this is the alleged leak framework of the deal.

00:12:39.000 Now, Senator Lankford says that this is not totally true.

00:12:42.000 And he says that, oh, you know, it takes a lie that goes around the world before, you know, the truth has time to put its pants on, you know, that quote that you've heard.

00:12:50.000 And so then we responded, okay, well, what's the truth, Senator Lankford?

00:12:53.000 Can you tell us?

00:12:54.000 Radio silence.

00:12:55.000 Radio silence.

00:12:56.000 Senator Hawley hasn't even seen this deal.

00:12:59.000 So here is the current parameter that is being reported.

00:13:03.000 And if it's not true, Senator Lankford, then publish the text.

00:13:08.000 So Chuck Yushumer and Senator Lankford, who is, and one thing that really bothers me about Senator Lankford is he's been deployed by the turtle for what reason?

00:13:18.000 Why would the turtle choose Senator Lankford?

00:13:22.000 Because he just won re-election and he's six years out from any check and balance from the people.

00:13:27.000 And he's from the reddest of red states.

00:13:30.000 So it's just take advantage of the most conservative state, the most comfortable place that is far away from any sort of election consequence.

00:13:39.000 This is strategic.

00:13:41.000 So Chuck U. Schumer is negotiating with the turtled select the turtle selection.

00:13:46.000 And the turtle doesn't want to negotiate it because the turtle has to go up for reelection soon.

00:13:51.000 And so he doesn't want any sort of, he wants the most amount of time because he thinks you forget. 1.00

00:13:56.000 He thinks you're stupid. 1.00

00:13:57.000 Senator Lankford effectively has tenure. 1.00

00:14:00.000 Do you know when Senator Lankford's term ends?

00:14:04.000 January of 2029.

00:14:07.000 That's the next time Senator Lankford is up.

00:14:09.000 Senator Lankford was endorsed by Trump.

00:14:11.000 President Trump never should have endorsed him.

00:14:13.000 We did everything we could to prevent that from happening and we failed. 0.96

00:14:15.000 But all those rats got in there and they said, oh, you know, you have to, you know, endorse it. 0.76

00:14:20.000 It just really, really upset me. 0.88

00:14:21.000 It just really upset me.

00:14:24.000 And anyway, so Senator Lankford wins.

00:14:26.000 In the reddest, Oklahoma is the most conservative state in the country.

00:14:30.000 Okay.

00:14:30.000 Most counties, every single county voted for Trump.

00:14:32.000 Every single county voted for Trump.

00:14:35.000 Trump won by like 70%.

00:14:36.000 He like had 70 or 80 points. 0.67

00:14:38.000 It is the reddest state. 0.99

00:14:39.000 It's not even close. 1.00

00:14:40.000 And so isn't it interesting that the reddest states have the squishiest people? 0.99

00:14:45.000 Of course, because they take advantage of their voters.

00:14:47.000 Competition is a good thing, everybody.

00:14:49.000 Sometimes it's good to have to win over voters and win over primaries.

00:14:53.000 And Senator Lankford takes advantage of the great people of Oklahoma.

00:14:56.000 No, I'm not going to go the step further and say that he's a fake Christian and all that. 0.91

00:15:00.000 I do have questions about how devout of a Christian he is, considering he quotes Bible verses en masse and he allows the raping of women on southern borders and he won't tell us the truth. 0.97

00:15:09.000 But I'll say this. 0.71

00:15:10.000 Look, people speak very highly about his faith and his Christianity.

00:15:13.000 Fine.

00:15:14.000 By the fruit, we will know the tree.

00:15:15.000 I want to see some fruit, Senator Lankford.

00:15:17.000 Where's the courage?

00:15:18.000 Where's the gusto?

00:15:19.000 However, I'll put that aside for a second, okay?

00:15:22.000 Senator Lankford's border quote-unquote deal, as currently reported by Foxnews.com, would increase the amount of green cards by $50,000 a year.

00:15:33.000 It would institutionalize the illegal takeover.

00:15:37.000 And this, immediate work permits to every illegal alien released from custody. 0.72

00:15:42.000 We're going to give work permits to illegals. 0.80

00:15:46.000 So we're going to reward the lawbreaking. 1.00

00:15:49.000 You can come into our schools, come into our hospitals, come into our communities.

00:15:52.000 By the way, here's a green card.

00:15:53.000 But here's the one that is the most insulting of all of it.

00:15:56.000 On top of the taxpayer-funded lawyers to help these people.

00:15:59.000 By the way, anything short of mass deportation, you shut the whole government down.

00:16:03.000 This is the one that is to you.

00:16:05.000 They are.

00:16:06.000 middle, they are, I'm not going to do this on air, but I want you to imagine, can we get a picture of someone just two middle fingers?

00:16:11.000 This is Senator Lankford.

00:16:12.000 He's just doing this to you. 0.97

00:16:14.000 He says, I hate you. 1.00

00:16:15.000 I hate you. 1.00

00:16:16.000 Hey, I hate you. 1.00

00:16:18.000 I represent Oklahoma and I hate you. 1.00

00:16:22.000 That's Senator Lankford.

00:16:23.000 Two middle fingers straight in your eyes saying, I'm here till 2029.

00:16:29.000 Nothing you can do.

00:16:30.000 Can't touch this.

00:16:31.000 He is trolling you.

00:16:32.000 He is taunting you.

00:16:34.000 That is Senator Lankford saying, oh, you think you got me?

00:16:36.000 If you're in Stillwater or Norman, Oklahoma, or Oklahoma City, what are you going to do?

00:16:41.000 Can't touch this till 2029.

00:16:43.000 Boom.

00:16:44.000 He is trolling you.

00:16:47.000 Is this part of it? 0.71

00:16:48.000 5,000 migrants per day.

00:16:51.000 They're acknowledging that they could reduce the amount of illegals from 12,000 to 5,000. 0.76

00:16:56.000 They're acknowledging it.

00:16:57.000 Like, yeah, we could bring it down.

00:16:59.000 They're saying, yeah, of course.

00:17:00.000 So this is not a board.

00:17:01.000 By the way, they're acknowledging that this could be fixed.

00:17:03.000 They're telling you it could be fixed.

00:17:05.000 They're telling you that this could be solved.

00:17:06.000 They're telling you that this can, they said, but not to zero.

00:17:10.000 We'll go to 5,000.

00:17:11.000 So the invasion will continue as planned, but only 5,000 a day, as long as we get all these other amnesty-light concessions.

00:17:19.000 Senator Lankford is flicking you off and trolling you.

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00:18:43.000 People are asking, how do we recall Senator Lankford?

00:18:46.000 Unless there's some provision in the Oklahoma Constitution, which there likely is not.

00:18:50.000 He's in till 2029.

00:18:52.000 They're not going to kick him out of the Senate with his colleagues.

00:18:54.000 And that's just the way it works.

00:18:55.000 We'll look into it, by the way.

00:18:56.000 If there is a provision to kick out Senator Lankford, we can't, I don't think there's anything on the state.

00:19:00.000 This is why that ridiculous, I think it's 17th Amendment, right?

00:19:04.000 I want to make sure I get that right.

00:19:06.000 I want to make sure I'm precise.

00:19:07.000 Is it the 17th Amendment?

00:19:09.000 I think it is.

00:19:09.000 I could double check.

00:19:10.000 Where's my handy dandy?

00:19:11.000 Constitution here.

00:19:12.000 Yeah, 17th.

00:19:14.000 You get those teens wrong.

00:19:16.000 You could have a bad clip on Twitter.

00:19:19.000 You get the teens off.

00:19:20.000 You got to get it.

00:19:21.000 You want to get that mixed up.

00:19:22.000 Okay, the 17th Amendment.

00:19:24.000 You get rid of the direct election of, yeah, exactly.

00:19:26.000 The direct election of senators.

00:19:28.000 I'm perfectly cool repealing that one.

00:19:30.000 The other teens, if I call for repealing of, I'll have a revolt.

00:19:33.000 So repeal the 17th Amendment. 0.64

00:19:34.000 Other ones we can leave aside.

00:19:37.000 So, we can't recall him.

00:19:40.000 He thinks he's better than you.

00:19:41.000 He does whatever he wants.

00:19:42.000 And finally, he's welcome on our show.

00:19:43.000 Senator Langford, you're welcome on our show.

00:19:44.000 We'll have a conversation.

00:19:45.000 You can explain your wonderful dealings with Chuck Hugheschumer.

00:19:48.000 You can explain your great belief in the Bible and Christianity and tell us where in the scriptures it says that we should have open borders and the raping of women and fentanyl in our communities and the overrunning of our schools and hospitals and why you lied to the voters of Oklahoma.

00:20:00.000 You can show me the scripture where it says, I shall lie when I run for election.

00:20:04.000 I'd love to hear that, Senator Langford.

00:20:05.000 You're welcome on the program anytime.

00:20:06.000 But he's untouchable.

00:20:07.000 He's one of the untouchables.

00:20:08.000 He thinks he's better than you. 0.99

00:20:09.000 He's a very weak person, obviously.

00:20:10.000 You know, people around him say he doesn't have what it takes.

00:20:13.000 And, you know, Chuck Hugh Schumer is just running over him the same way that Hakeem is running over Speaker Johnson.

00:20:18.000 These people are gutless wonders, but he's welcome on the program.

00:20:20.000 So we'll see.

00:20:21.000 We'll see what ends up happening.

00:20:22.000 All right.

00:20:23.000 We now have Sean Davis from the Federalist.

00:20:25.000 Sean, I'm hearing that the DeSantis influencer community is on life support after last evening.

00:20:31.000 Your reaction to the Iowa caucus results.

00:20:33.000 Yeah, it was a tough night for them, but not a particularly surprising one.

00:20:38.000 Everyone knew going in that this wasn't a real primary.

00:20:42.000 Trump is so far ahead in the polls that it's really just an exercise in futility at this point.

00:20:48.000 So I give Nikki Haley, Vivek, DeSantis, props.

00:20:52.000 You did your best.

00:20:54.000 Trump goes into Iowa, gets a majority in a crowded primary.

00:20:58.000 And I think we're at the point now where we should stop pretending that we actually have a primary going on and understand Trump's going to be the nominee.

00:21:06.000 If you don't like that, sorry.

00:21:07.000 It's reality.

00:21:09.000 And get to the actual general election because the longer we spend in the primary, the less time we spend as a party unified beating up Joe Biden.

00:21:16.000 So, Sean, you've been covering this really well at the Federalists.

00:21:19.000 You've been doing a great job.

00:21:20.000 Can you just comment on the amount of money spent in Iowa?

00:21:24.000 And just objectively, Donald Trump was able to make history despite all the money spent against him.

00:21:29.000 And even his team, you know, I was, you know, I called some people.

00:21:32.000 They said, boy, we'll be happy if we hit 40%.

00:21:34.000 Cracking 50%.

00:21:36.000 That's significant.

00:21:37.000 That is a heavy, heavy lift.

00:21:39.000 The kind of Trump overperforming polls strikes again.

00:21:42.000 Your thoughts, Sean Davis.

00:21:44.000 Yeah, I think there was something like, what, $200, $225 million spent in Iowa total between Haley, DeSantis, Trump.

00:21:54.000 I don't really think Trump spent all that much there.

00:21:56.000 I think Nikki Haley was the one who spent the most on advertising.

00:22:00.000 So yeah, the anti-Trump coalition spent just a button of money in Iowa, and Trump still got over 50%.

00:22:10.000 So look, I get New Hampshire's next week. 0.99

00:22:14.000 Nikki Haley is banking on Democrats voting in that open primary, putting her over the top.

00:22:19.000 It won't surprise me if she wins next week with all the Democrats voting there.

00:22:23.000 But after that, we head to South Carolina, her home state.

00:22:26.000 She's going to get crushed there and it's over.

00:22:28.000 So I just don't understand what the point is anymore in entertaining this fiction that it's a contested primary.

00:22:34.000 It's not.

00:22:35.000 We need to get to the general and we need to get to bash and Biden together.

00:22:38.000 And one of the strangest clips I've ever seen in American politics is that someone, I don't know how you get to this.

00:22:38.000 Yeah.

00:22:46.000 If you're reading a script from somebody, Nikki Haley comes up and after taking third place, she says, I can safely say tonight Iowa made this Republican Party a two-person race.

00:22:55.000 It's very bizarre.

00:22:56.000 Let's play Cut 45.

00:23:00.000 I can safely say tonight, Iowa made this Republican primary a two-person race.

00:23:18.000 Tonight, tonight, I will be back in the great state of New Hampshire.

00:23:24.000 And the question before Americans is now very clear: Do you want more of the same?

00:23:35.000 Or do you want a new generation of conservative leadership?

00:23:45.000 Boy, I never knew the Lockheed Martin shareholder meeting was that enthusiastic.

00:23:49.000 They're a boisterous crowd over there.

00:23:51.000 I got to tell you, you know, at Raytheon, they really are, they got great spirit.

00:23:56.000 Sean, what are you talking about here?

00:23:57.000 Two-person race, you finished third.

00:23:59.000 Well, I think it's that neocon math that's striking again, that if you just give Zelensky a quarter of a trillion dollars, he'll beat Russia.

00:24:06.000 And that if, you know, we spend 20 years in Afghanistan, we'll win.

00:24:09.000 Like, are we really surprised that Nikki Haley got that wrong?

00:24:13.000 It's kind of what she does. 0.74

00:24:16.000 And I agree, I do want a different generation of conservative leader.

00:24:19.000 I don't want the generation that led us into, you know, two awful, disastrous, pointless wars that gave us not just Barack Obama, but gave us Joe Biden.

00:24:28.000 So yeah, I think Nikki Haley is right.

00:24:30.000 I think we don't want that stay-on-neocon GOP leadership of the past, you know, 20 years in office, which means she's disqualified.

00:24:38.000 So bye-bye, Nikki.

00:24:40.000 So I totally agree.

00:24:43.000 We need to try to end this primary before it really gets to Super Tuesday and consolidate behind Trump.

00:24:51.000 I want to play a tape here, Sean, just from a messaging standpoint.

00:24:55.000 The media, it's either they are delusional or they have a lot of data.

00:24:58.000 One of the two.

00:24:59.000 There's nothing in the middle.

00:25:00.000 Either they're delusional or they have some reason why they're fixating on this.

00:25:05.000 And when Rachel Maddow goes all in on something, I tend to listen because she's not a dummy.

00:25:10.000 She has no wisdom. 0.98

00:25:11.000 She's incredibly aggressive, but she's not a dummy.

00:25:12.000 I want you to listen to this.

00:25:14.000 She's so focused on fascism, fascism, fascism. 0.99

00:25:17.000 Play Cut 47 of the Ugly People channel. 0.70

00:25:19.000 Play Cut 47.

00:25:20.000 If we are worried about the rise of authoritarianism in this country, we are worried about potential rise of fascism in this country.

00:25:26.000 If we're worried about our democracy falling to an authoritarian and potentially fascist form of government, the leader who is trying to do that is part of that equation.

00:25:37.000 But people wanting that is a much bigger part of that equation.

00:25:40.000 But once you have radicalized one major party so that those are the preferences of the people who adhere to your party, the leaders interchangeable.

00:25:48.000 And yes, Trumpism is sometimes what we call it.

00:25:51.000 MAGA movement is probably a better way to do it.

00:25:53.000 But there is an authoritarian movement inside Republican politics that isn't being bamboozled by Trump.

00:25:59.000 They are pushing Trump to get more and more extreme because the more extreme things he says, the more they adhere to him.

00:26:07.000 All right, Sean.

00:26:08.000 So this is not a mistake.

00:26:10.000 It's not a one-off comment.

00:26:11.000 This has obviously been rehearsed.

00:26:13.000 It is being deployed.

00:26:15.000 Where is this coming from?

00:26:16.000 Help us make sense of this. 1.00

00:26:17.000 Well, first off, I loved Joy Reed's Donald Trump wig. 0.70

00:26:20.000 I thought it was a weird choice for her as much as she hates him to put the Trump wig on for his big victory in Iowa, but props to her, I guess.

00:26:29.000 Good job trying to pull off the Trump joy.

00:26:33.000 This has been happening, I think, since before the midterms, where Joe Biden gave that crazy demonic speech with the troops, like with his shock troops in the background, with the creepy red lighting.

00:26:45.000 And they're clearly all in on this fascist authoritarian thing, which I find crazy because it's not Republicans trying to put their voters' opponents in prison.

00:26:56.000 It's not Republicans trying to put their top political leaders opponent in prison.

00:27:01.000 It's not Republicans trying to shut down free speech.

00:27:04.000 It's not Republicans trying to take away your right to defend yourself.

00:27:08.000 This is all being done by the Democrats.

00:27:09.000 And for them to throw around the F word of fascism, when you have literal fascism with the state working with media outlets and with the tech oligarchy to shut down their opponents, that's actual fascism.

00:27:24.000 I just find it so completely insane.

00:27:26.000 They're projecting, but at the same time, they decided, and I don't know whether it's because they've got good polling data or when your record is as bad as Joe Biden's is, you really have nothing to do but call your opponent Hitler.

00:27:39.000 But that's clearly their strategy going in. 0.67

00:27:41.000 They're just going to call him Hitler. 0.60

00:27:43.000 And don't you wish you could go back in time and get rid of Hitler? 0.60

00:27:47.000 Well, we can't do that. 0.84

00:27:48.000 So we're just going to put him in prison in a couple of different states with a bunch of trumped up charges.

00:27:53.000 That's what they're doing.

00:27:54.000 That's their whole strategy.

00:27:55.000 It is the most authoritarian, fascist, insanely anti-democratic strategy we have ever seen in American political history.

00:28:03.000 Sean, I want you to riff just, you know, Vivek Ramasamy has dropped out of the race.

00:28:07.000 What do you think his contribution meant to the movement, shifting the Overton window amongst kind of more the intelligentsia of the conservative movement?

00:28:16.000 How should we think about Vivek Ramaswamy's presidential run?

00:28:19.000 To me, he was the most interesting candidate in there who wasn't Trump because he was actually saying the things that we all know are true that for some reason, none of the other candidates would say.

00:28:30.000 In hindsight, Vivek was running the campaign that Ronda Sandis should have run instead of stupidly trying to take Trump head on and thinking that was going to work out well for him.

00:28:39.000 I love that Vivek was tearing down the COVID nonsense, that he was tearing down the FBI nonsense, that he called out J6 for what it was, which was not an insurrection at all.

00:28:51.000 If anything, it was a Fed surrection.

00:28:54.000 So I think he did great work talking about things that the media doesn't want anyone on the right talking about. 1.00

00:28:59.000 And I hope going forward, he will continue to do what he was doing, which is talking about issues that the establishment never wants us to talk about because it makes them look stupid and corrupt and incompetent. 0.99

00:29:10.000 So I thought he was great. 0.99

00:29:11.000 I don't want him to go away.

00:29:12.000 I hope he sticks around and keeps doing what he was doing.

00:29:15.000 Sean Davis, the Federalist is doing great.

00:29:17.000 Everyone should check it out.

00:29:18.000 Sean, thank you so much.

00:29:19.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:29:20.000 By the way, we're getting a lot of emails about Senator Lankford.

00:29:23.000 Here's how it's going to work.

00:29:24.000 Okay, Jim. 0.97

00:29:25.000 If you continue this garbage, we're going to have no choice, but I will personally go out to Oklahoma. 0.94

00:29:29.000 We'll do a series of events and rallies. 0.99

00:29:31.000 We will primary anyone associated with you.

00:29:33.000 We will make you the least popular senator in Oklahoma.

00:29:35.000 You might not be up till 2029, but MAGA remembers, Oklahoma remembers.

00:29:39.000 We're not going to put up with this.

00:29:41.000 Walk out of the room.

00:29:41.000 You've been warned.

00:29:42.000 Stop negotiating with Chuck Hughes Schumer.

00:29:47.000 Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here.

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00:30:50.000 I love Oklahoma.

00:30:51.000 Maybe I have to go visit and go do a bunch of events there and get the grassroots going.

00:30:57.000 We have a bunch of emails of people that are coming from Oklahoma.

00:30:59.000 They said, Charlie, we'd love to have you.

00:31:00.000 We'd love to have you.

00:31:01.000 We'd love to have you.

00:31:02.000 Okay, see what we got to do.

00:31:04.000 By the way, call his office, stop by his local office.

00:31:08.000 We received an email here.

00:31:11.000 Charlie, they said this.

00:31:13.000 Charlie, I heard about the Senator Lankford.

00:31:17.000 I try to stop by his office.

00:31:18.000 They won't talk to me.

00:31:20.000 They said to fill out a form.

00:31:22.000 It sounds about right in the local Oklahoma office.

00:31:25.000 It's unbelievable.

00:31:28.000 And here's the thing: the reddest states deserve better than this. 1.00

00:31:32.000 Isn't it? 0.75

00:31:33.000 Isn't it? 0.91

00:31:33.000 It's one of the tragedies of the modern American political reality: that the reddest states, the people that want what's best for the country, they don't have a party that shares their values. 0.91

00:31:43.000 There should be a non-negotiable. 0.81

00:31:45.000 By the way, if the turtle wants a deal negotiated, go send Susan Collins. 0.95

00:31:50.000 She's a moderate.

00:31:52.000 No, no, no, but she's going to be in cycle.

00:31:53.000 So he wants, he knows what he's doing.

00:31:55.000 You can say a lot about the turtle.

00:31:58.000 First of all, he's vicious. 0.82

00:31:59.000 He's a vicious man. 0.93

00:32:01.000 He is vengeful, but he's very strategic. 0.81

00:32:03.000 So he sits in the room.

00:32:04.000 This is how it works, the turtle.

00:32:06.000 And he's like, okay, this is how they hate you.

00:32:10.000 Okay.

00:32:11.000 The masses are complaining about the border.

00:32:15.000 And I'm afraid that if we don't pretend to do something on the border, then the uppity pimp in the t-shirt in Kiev won't get another $250 billion, right?

00:32:26.000 Because the number one priority for the turtle is the war between Ukraine and Russia.

00:32:30.000 He has said it before. 0.93

00:32:31.000 He'll say it again.

00:32:33.000 It is the number one priority for the turtle.

00:32:36.000 Most important thing happening in the world, according to Senator McConnell, is Ukraine-Russia.

00:32:41.000 So the only reason, the only reason why he is deploying somebody to even try to talk about the border is that it might interfere the money flow going to Ukraine.

00:32:51.000 So McConnell looks through his roster and he says, okay, who can I deploy to quote-unquote negotiate?

00:32:56.000 By the way, Lankford is nothing more than a proxy of the turtle.

00:32:59.000 Everything Lankford is doing, he's back channeling with McConnell.

00:33:02.000 Everything.

00:33:03.000 You're trying to tell me that Lankford is making the decision on his own. 0.95

00:33:06.000 You look at him and you say, boy, that is a weak human being.

00:33:09.000 You look at Lankford, like, I wouldn't put that guy to negotiate a home loan or negotiate a home deal.

00:33:14.000 I mean, that guy, again, nice guy, Baptist minister, not exactly a wartime type guy.

00:33:20.000 You look at him, you say, geez.

00:33:21.000 And he's never really fought for anything.

00:33:23.000 He's totally lied to the voters of Oklahoma.

00:33:25.000 He's uniparty.

00:33:27.000 He's just, honestly, he doesn't represent the values of Oklahoma.

00:33:30.000 And big government, big Boeing, big Raytheon, big Lockheed Martin, big pharma, big Pfizer.

00:33:36.000 He's on board for all that stuff.

00:33:37.000 He talks good game, does nothing.

00:33:39.000 So Senator Lankford then is an attache and is connected with McConnell.

00:33:47.000 So McConnell looks through his roster and he starts with this.

00:33:50.000 Who is from the reddest state so that we could take advantage of the voters, right?

00:33:54.000 Who is from the reddest state that is loyal to me, that is the furthest away from the accountability of the voters?

00:34:01.000 And by the way, there's the Senator Lankford phone number.

00:34:03.000 And by the way, Senator Lankford, he says, oh, you know, don't let the cart before the horse.

00:34:07.000 We're still negotiating.

00:34:08.000 Okay, then why haven't you denied any of these details, man?

00:34:10.000 And by the way, this is, excuse me, I don't trust you.

00:34:14.000 I'm sorry.

00:34:14.000 I don't trust you.

00:34:15.000 I've been knifed by Johnson and knifed by, I inherently do not trust you.

00:34:20.000 You do not have the presumption of innocence.

00:34:22.000 You have the presumption of guilt.

00:34:23.000 I'm sorry, you do.

00:34:25.000 If you're in D.C. negotiating a deal with Chuck Hughes Schumer, you start from, I presume you're guilty until proven innocent.

00:34:31.000 You do not even earned it.

00:34:33.000 I do not assume that you're doing something virtuous or wonderful or courageous.

00:34:36.000 No, I assume you're selling us out until proven otherwise, especially based on the deal, the details that have been leaked.

00:34:42.000 But so McConnell, he deploys.

00:34:44.000 This is how it works.

00:34:45.000 McConnell says, okay, who's the furthest away from the voters in the reddest state possible who's loyal to me that can go and do exactly what I want to do, but I myself don't want to do this because I'm actually going to have to face the voters soon, which McConnell fears.

00:34:55.000 So he deploys Lankford into Oklahoma, from Oklahoma, into the room.

00:35:01.000 And again, he goes through all the other people that very well could have been negotiating. 0.95

00:35:05.000 Again, it's ridiculous.

00:35:07.000 And they don't want actually the border to be secure. 0.90

00:35:11.000 Of course not.

00:35:12.000 They want Ukraine to get funded.

00:35:14.000 This is all because we have stopped the funding to Ukraine.

00:35:16.000 All of it.

00:35:17.000 Again, call the senator, be polite.

00:35:20.000 Don't use any curse words.

00:35:21.000 He's still a United States senator.

00:35:22.000 Be very, very clear.

00:35:24.000 Don't let the style get in the way of the substance, okay?

00:35:27.000 Don't let them be like, oh, we're getting all these angry calls and people are rational.

00:35:30.000 Let the substance be above the style.

00:35:32.000 Be polite.

00:35:33.000 Give them no reason how you say hello.

00:35:35.000 Thank you so much.

00:35:36.000 I want to tell you, I think that you're participating in an act of treason against the people of Oklahoma.

00:35:40.000 And if you continue this, we'll make you the least popular senator in America.

00:35:43.000 Thank you so much.

00:35:44.000 Stop negotiating.

00:35:45.000 Okay.

00:35:45.000 Call the senator.

00:35:46.000 Let him know how you feel.

00:35:48.000 It's an insult.

00:35:49.000 Why do we have a Republican Party that gives Chuck Schumer what he wants?

00:35:53.000 Speaker Johnson, Senator Lankford, the Turtle, you deserve better.

00:35:57.000 That's why Trump did so well in Iowa, everybody.

00:36:01.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:36:02.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - January 16, 2024

Congress's Worst Republican Traitor?

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