00:00:00.000Hey everybody, today in the Charlie Kirk show, what's going on with Kyle Rittenhouse?
00:00:03.000The latest from his trial in Wisconsin.
00:00:06.000Also, inflation, what does it mean and how does it impact your life?
00:00:09.000And Adam Schiff gets cross-examined live on The View about his lies about the Russia investigation.
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00:03:09.000But let's start with kind of how your honorable fixation has honestly made me more interested and let's say fixated on the Kyle Rittenhouse story.
00:03:21.000A lot of our listeners don't have a lot of understanding.
00:03:24.000They're not really aware of what's happening.
00:03:26.000This is not being covered as much as the Floyd saga.
00:03:50.000That was peppered throughout with these ubiquitous protests during the day and then riots, looting, arson at night.
00:03:58.000And in one of the cities, actually a small city called Kenosha, Wisconsin.
00:04:02.000It's about an hour north of Chicago, about an hour south of Milwaukee, right in between.
00:04:07.000Following the police shooting of a criminal named Jacob Blake, who charged a police officer with an extended knife, there were multiple nights of rioting, looting, and arson that descended upon this town from people who, by the way, mostly were not actually from Kenosha, Wisconsin.
00:04:28.000They were, again, as I mentioned, from Milwaukee and Chicago.
00:04:33.000And so on night three of this, you've got people that are scared out of their minds in the community.
00:04:38.000You've got people, and we heard this in jury selection, that were going into the local churches with their families to say, maybe if we go in here, we'll be safe because hopefully they won't attack a church.
00:04:50.000That's how bad it got in the village of Kenosha that night by night three.
00:04:54.000So Kyle Rittenhouse was at the time 17 years old.
00:04:58.000He lives about 15 minutes away, drove in with his friend and some others who had been asked to be there to help protect the town.
00:05:09.000He had also been around there earlier that day scrubbing off graffiti from the walls, right?
00:05:15.000By all intents and purposes, we know that this is a guy who is there, who cares about his hometown, who used this as his hometown and wants to do the right thing, doesn't like to see these roving bands of marauders coming through this.
00:05:28.000Well, as the night continues, the night continues, Kyle's there.
00:05:31.000He's trying to offer medical aid to people on both sides, by the way, running around saying, does anyone need medical?
00:05:38.000He does have an AR-15 style rifle in order to defend himself.
00:05:43.000But for the most part of the night, he's not carrying that.
00:05:45.000He's got it strapped on, but he's carrying a fire extinguisher to help put out fires at this car lot, this car dealership that has been attacked by these arsonists.
00:05:55.000So at one point, he hears about a car lot that's going off.
00:05:58.000This is a business that has multiple lots around town.
00:06:01.000So he's running to go put out the fire while carrying a fire extinguisher.
00:06:05.000Multiple members of this mob see him, target him, and begin chasing him through the street and then through the parking lot.
00:06:14.000And at one point, we just saw an HD footage today for the very first time.
00:06:19.000One of the assailants actually reaches for his gun after cornering Kyle in between a group of parked cars.
00:06:26.000And at that point, Kyle takes steps to defend himself.
00:06:29.000The mob then begins chasing Kyle Rittenhouse down the street, kicking him in the head after he stumbles.
00:06:35.000Another one slamming a skateboard into the back of his head.
00:06:38.000And another one approaching him with a raised, and we now know loaded Glock handgun.
00:06:44.000Kyle again took steps to defend himself.
00:06:47.000Now, in that situation, two of the people, including the first one I mentioned, were killed.
00:06:53.000This person who pointed the firearm at him, which was a Glock 40 caliber, had, and there's been pictures throughout the internet of this, had his bicep essentially blown apart when Kyle fired his AR-15 one round with his AR-15 at him, 223 round.
00:07:21.000They've painted him as every horrible name under the sun without actually looking at the video evidence that we have of that fateful night.
00:07:29.000Well, but let me ask you, I never understood this.
00:07:32.000And quite honestly, we did a Kyle Rittenhouse story six months ago talking about how I don't understand how these charges came to be.
00:07:46.000I mean, first degree murder is where you're like, I'm going to murder this person and go to their home with, you know, not some sort of bar fight going wrong.
00:07:56.000That would be what you're talking about would potentially be either voluntary manslaughter.
00:08:02.000Yeah, that's what I never understood about this.
00:08:04.000Or second degree murder because it was more indiscriminate.
00:08:07.000What they're saying is what the prosecution's argument is, is that Kyle Rittenhouse brought his gun because he intended to murder these BLM protesters and that he had vengeful intent.
00:08:20.000Now, what's interesting to me is that the prosecution, just a few minutes ago before I came on the show, just rested in this case after about a week and a half of testimony.
00:08:29.000They did not present a single shred of evidence that Kyle Rittenhouse showed up with intent to hurt anyone.
00:08:37.000Well, but this is what I can't understand is that the judge, the pretrial arguments, because this is just, you have months to submit motions to dismiss.
00:08:48.000You're trying to tell me no one looked at this.
00:08:51.000You're charging a guy who got in an altercation was, by the way, the guy that Kyle Rittenhouse killed in self-defense was like a child rapist or something, right?
00:09:01.000He was like a child pedophile or something.
00:09:06.000And honestly, the I'm not saying he deserves to die because of it, but the details of that case, if anyone wants to see it, it's absolutely history.
00:09:17.000What is actually relevant, what's actually relevant to this is that he had just been released from a hospital where he was being held on a psychiatric hold.
00:09:26.000And we're told that he's been on and off antipsychotic medication, including Seroquil.
00:09:32.000If anybody knows anyone who's been on that spectrum or takes that type of medication, this is very, very powerful medication.
00:09:43.000So, but throughout this whole process, I've failed to understand how this could possibly be presented in premeditated terms.
00:09:51.000And I thought to myself, maybe they have text messages of Kyle saying something with intent.
00:09:56.000Maybe they have, there's no such evidence, right?
00:09:59.000So what's amazing is that actually to that point, Detective Adaramian, the lead detective on the case, testified yesterday that when he asked the one witness, the guy who had his arm blown off, Gage Grosskrutz, he said, I'd like to get access to your phone.
00:10:35.000So where it stands now, it's really interesting because the prosecution has not presented any evidence inconsistent with the fact that Kyle acted in self-defense.
00:10:46.000In fact, the medical examiner, the ME, just brought up there and said, look, this guy had powder burns on his hand from the gunshot.
00:10:53.000If anyone knows anything about firearms, you got to be pretty close to get powder burns on your hand if you're not the one firing the weapon.
00:10:59.000Your hand must be very close to the barrel.
00:11:02.000They then said, well, could his hand have been trying to squat the rifle away?
00:11:06.000Could he have been trying to do something like this?
00:11:08.000The medical examiner responded to the prosecutors again.
00:11:11.000Well, actually, he was so close that he had his hand stretched out like Superman going towards the rifle.
00:11:18.000We, of course, can see this in HD footage.
00:11:20.000We also hear his intent from Richie McGinnis.
00:11:23.000It's a daily call reporter who was standing just behind them recording and reporting on this for Daily Caller to say, look, I saw him.
00:11:30.000He lunged and he screamed F you at Kyle Rittenhouse and went for the gun.
00:11:37.000A better eyewitness, you're never going to find for this situation.
00:11:40.000So because the prosecution's case has completely fallen apart, no, by the way, that guy, Gage Krozkrutz, who is a member of the People's Revolutionary Movement, who's gone through chance screaming, long live the revolution, actually admitted on the stand just yesterday that Kyle did not pull the trigger until he aimed his nine or his 40 caliber Glock in Kyle's direction.
00:12:19.000And then I hope Kyle Rittenhouse sues in civil court for all the nonsense that they put him through afterwards.
00:12:26.000Did you know that if you shop at Nike, they turn around and give your hard-earned dollars to pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood and the Population Council.
00:12:36.000Did you know that Airbnb gave $500,000 to the Marxist BLM Incorporated organization?
00:12:43.000Your first vote is at the ballot box, but that isn't enough to defend our traditional Judeo-Christian values.
00:12:51.000Left-wing corporations are subverting our nation and our republic by taking money from conservative customers and giving it to radical organizations that support abortion, gun control, and critical race theory.
00:13:04.000You have another vote, a second vote at the checkout line, which is why there's a massively important organization called Second Vote that comes in.
00:15:48.000He's sitting there like what, what do we do?
00:15:51.000But what's amazing is the prosecution didn't object at all.
00:15:56.000Um, which is just an old procedural trick.
00:15:58.000If you know what you're doing, to try to interrupt when you start to see a witness go in the wrong direction, you know.
00:16:03.000Interestingly enough um, to your point, that's exactly what the prosecution did today during the me where they were discussing the situation about.
00:16:11.000You know look, you examined this body.
00:17:00.000I found that find the study very disturbing.
00:17:03.000My daughter's 17 years old and in her high school after school group, 17 out of 19 of the high school girls identify as lesbian or trans.
00:17:11.000This is a super Republican, affluent county in Georgia, jack.
00:17:14.000What are we supposed to make out of this?
00:17:16.000Well Charlie, this is exactly what you saw happen in Virginia just about a week ago right, I think a week or two a week ago today, actually that because they are introducing so much of this woke agenda into schools at younger and younger ages, they are then presenting these ideas to people when they are so impressionable, right?
00:17:48.000Right, you don't want to introduce this kind of stuff, this very heavy stuff, very serious stuff, to children, especially when they are at ages like this, when they are still trying to find things out.
00:18:01.000It's bad enough that we put most kids through this type of German Insane education program.
00:18:08.000Yeah exactly um, this idea that you will be.
00:18:11.000You know, they're obedient schools where you're taught to raise your hand because you don't have any power.
00:18:17.000They teach, you know, can you follow a schedule and can you sit in your chair and do as you're told.
00:18:21.000So it's bad enough that we're forcing people through these hierarchical systems where everyone's being ranked and then stacked and constantly when you're going through puberty, when you're going through those hormonal changes in your life.
00:18:30.000But now, when you throw this stuff on top, of course, of course it's going to lead people to start incorporating that stuff into their own identities.
00:18:41.000And yeah, then you have 17 out of 19 people in an after school Group that are 17 years old say that they are lesbian or trans.
00:18:52.000And I hope people start to wake up to that.
00:18:55.000Jack, what's your final prediction on the Kyle Rittenhouse drama?
00:19:00.000Well, I would be surprised if he gets acquitted of all counts.
00:19:03.000I think he should be based on the merits.
00:19:05.000But again, you've got a situation here where the crowd, this jury is from a group of people in that town that don't want to see more rioting.
00:19:12.000And I have to, we worry that that is going to play a role in their decision.
00:19:16.000That's amazing to think about, isn't it?
00:19:18.000That the potential is holding a jury hostage.
00:19:23.000We saw that in the Floyd case, and we're seeing that.
00:19:25.000And somebody was caught recording this morning, by the way.
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00:20:58.000We saw it coming, which is the inflation crisis.
00:21:01.000If you go all the way back into the spring of 2020, a year and a half ago, we did an entire hour-long program on inflation, what it is, and why it's coming to America, and why the leaders in charge could only be, let's say, intentionally bringing us towards an inflation curve.
00:21:19.000This is by no way whatsoever an accident.
00:21:25.000This is, in my personal opinion, an attempt to try to justify mass immigration to try and give a basis to try and say we need millions more people.
00:21:38.000And someone who I know knows this very well is a friend of mine, a fellow Chicagoan, Steve Moore.
00:22:14.000So can you translate the economic language to really what that means and how significant an 8.6% increase is?
00:22:22.000Well, it means every time you go to the grocery store, every time you go to the gas pump, every time you go travel, every time you buy anything out at Walmart, things are going to be more expensive.
00:22:31.000And it's, it's, inflation is a, is a regressive tax.
00:22:36.000I love when Joe Biden, if you notice, he's, I'm not going to raise tax for anyone who makes less than 400,000.
00:23:51.000Obviously, the money printing, the quantitative easing, but also these ridiculous bills that Republicans are voting for in D.C., Steve.
00:23:59.000I mean, I cannot for the life of me understand the thought behind the infrastructure package deal while we're in the midst of a historic and unprecedented inflation cycle.
00:24:10.000Yeah, and don't even use the word infrastructure.
00:24:15.000Only about one out of every $4 in that bill is for what, look, do Americans want the roads fixed?
00:24:20.000Do they want to get rid of those potholes and safe bridges?
00:24:22.000Yes, but that's not what this money is used for.
00:24:25.000And incidentally, if they're serious about infrastructure, why is it that the first act of this president was to kill the Keystone XL pipeline, which is a vital part of our infrastructure, which costs nothing.
00:24:37.000That was going to be paid for entirely by the private sector.
00:24:40.000I think this is a sham infrastructure bill.
00:24:42.000It's all money for green energy projects.
00:25:43.000The economics, I mean, inflation is too many dollars chasing too few goods.
00:25:48.000So what we've got now is we've got the federal government just massively pouring in trillions and trillions of dollars into the economy at a time when we already have prices rising.
00:25:58.000Now, how are they paying for these trillions and trillions of dollars of spending they're doing?
00:26:14.000They're just flushing money into the economy.
00:26:17.000And that means that the dollars in your wallet, the dollars in your savings accounts, the dollar in your paycheck is it's like your paycheck is shrinking each month with this inflation.
00:27:18.000I believe in giving people a hand up, but we are now giving people more money for not working than working.
00:27:24.000That's not fair to the people listening to the show who are working, whether they're driving a truck or delivery people or working in nursing homes or nurses or doctors or people working in construction.
00:27:36.000In many cases, the people sitting at home watching Netflix are making more money than they are.
00:27:40.000Well, and what it does, and you know, economics is best summarized as kind of the analysis of incentives, right?
00:27:49.000Which is that, and so when you incentivize inactivity, then you're going to have people ask themselves question, why should I go wake up at 4 a.m. to go work at Starbucks, you know, or go work at Dunkin' Donuts or whatever, right?
00:28:03.000To go lay tile or to go fix, you know, to go become a plumber.
00:28:06.000And what we're seeing, Steve, is it seems as if the two worst things you could possibly happen to an economy, which is price is going up, and then we're flirting with now interrupting production and productivity.
00:28:19.000And so talk a little bit about the supply chain crisis as well.
00:28:22.000So we have less stuff and more dollar bills.
00:28:28.000I mean, I'm just laughing because, you know, I heard Joe Biden say the other day, you know, if you're worried about inflation, pass my spending bill and my debt bill.
00:28:36.000I'm like, gee, where's the economic logic of that?
00:28:38.000And then we've got, you talk about the supplies.
00:28:40.000Don't worry about the supply chain problems because we have Pete Budijak on the job on the case.
00:28:46.000I mean, here's a guy who a year ago was the mayor of, he seems like a nice guy, but he's the mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
00:28:54.000And now he's overseeing a trillion-dollar industry.
00:28:57.000The guy doesn't know anything about trains, planes, and automobiles.
00:29:00.000And he's going to rescue us from the supply chain problem.
00:29:04.000You can't get the merchandise off the cargo ships.
00:29:07.000You can't get truck drivers once the cargo ships are unloaded to drive the trucks to the warehouses.
00:29:16.000I mean, it's an unbelievable catastrophe.
00:29:18.000And every single bill that Biden has passed, $7 trillion of extra spending he wants this year.
00:29:24.000That's more money, Charlie, than we spent in today's dollars to fund the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and the interstate highway system, and the intercontinental rail system and the moon landing.
00:29:40.000That's how much he wants to spend in one year.
00:29:50.000And then we could build a coalition against it.
00:29:52.000It doesn't seem like Biden has many supporters, though.
00:29:54.000But Steve, the thing I want to close on, which is something you mentioned, which is the other side accuses us of being the party of the rich, the few, and the well-connected.
00:30:03.000But it seems that inflation is the most burdensome on people that do not have assets.
00:30:12.000It's not the easiest, but people that own assets, they actually can get richer in inflation curves.
00:30:17.000If you own land, especially revenue-producing land, where you can, let's just say, change rates, change rent or change how much that you are charging, then you can adjust to inflation curves.
00:30:29.000But if you are working as a welder and you have almost no assets to your name, well, then this actually is harmful to you.
00:32:12.000And Biden, if we keep this up, I hate to say this.
00:32:15.000I think we're looking at $5 to $6 a gallon gasoline coming to a pump near you.
00:32:20.000And that is going to kill middle-class workers.
00:32:24.000Well, and, you know, if you look at corporate borrowing last year, corporate borrowing, they expanded their balance sheets by about $600 billion.
00:32:32.000And they knew that interest rates would never get that low again.
00:34:45.000She worked for the State Department, and she's very smart and very good on television.
00:34:52.000Adam Schiff, nearly at a loss for words, was not able to even process, understand that he would get an opposition or, let's say, difficult question.
00:35:04.000Rarely do you get to see justice happen in real time.
00:35:08.000And boy, was Adam Schiff surprised, shocked, unable to even make a stable sentence.
00:36:17.000And let's not forget what we learned in that investigation.
00:36:20.000We learned that the Trump campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was giving internal polling data, campaign polling data, to Russian intelligence while Russian intelligence was helping the Trump.
00:36:31.000And to be clear, he was fired halfway through the campaign.
00:36:36.000But the effort to get Russian help continued and even beyond the effort to get Russian help.
00:36:40.000But you may have spread Russian disinformation yourself for years by promoting this.
00:36:45.000I think that's what Republicans and what people who entrusted you as the Intel committee chair are so confused about your culpability in all of this.
00:36:53.000Well, I completely disagree with your premise.
00:36:55.000It's one thing to say allegations should be investigated, and they were.
00:36:59.000It's another to say that we should have foreseen in advance that some people were lying to Christopher Steele, which is impossible, of course, to do.
00:37:07.000But let's not use that as a smokescreen to somehow shield Donald Trump's culpability for inviting Russia to help him in the election, which they did, for trying to coerce Ukraine into helping him in the next election, which he did, into inciting an insurrection, which he did.