The Charlie Kirk Show - Debunking the Case Against Kyle Rittenhouse with Jack Posobiec

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00:03:05.000 Jack, there's a lot I want to talk to you about.

00:03:07.000 Good to see you.

00:03:09.000 But 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.

00:03:21.000 A lot of our listeners don't have a lot of understanding.

00:03:24.000 They're not really aware of what's happening.

00:03:26.000 This is not being covered as much as the Floyd saga.

00:03:29.000 Let's start from the beginning.

00:03:31.000 What happened?

00:03:32.000 Who is Kyle Rittenhouse?

00:03:34.000 What is he charged with?

00:03:35.000 Just start from the beginning and then we'll work through the current.

00:03:38.000 Yeah, sure.

00:03:39.000 No, thanks, Charlie.

00:03:40.000 And I appreciate the intro there.

00:03:42.000 So what happened with Kyle Rittenhouse?

00:03:43.000 You have to go back to the summer of rage of 2020.

00:03:47.000 Floyd of Paloozo, right?

00:03:49.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:03:50.000 That was peppered throughout with these ubiquitous protests during the day and then riots, looting, arson at night.

00:03:58.000 And in one of the cities, actually a small city called Kenosha, Wisconsin.

00:04:02.000 It's about an hour north of Chicago, about an hour south of Milwaukee, right in between.

00:04:07.000 Following 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.

00:04:28.000 They were, again, as I mentioned, from Milwaukee and Chicago.

00:04:31.000 This is in between them.

00:04:33.000 And so on night three of this, you've got people that are scared out of their minds in the community.

00:04:38.000 You'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.

00:04:50.000 That's how bad it got in the village of Kenosha that night by night three.

00:04:54.000 So Kyle Rittenhouse was at the time 17 years old.

00:04:58.000 He 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.

00:05:06.000 Kyle works as a lifeguard in Kenosha.

00:05:09.000 He had also been around there earlier that day scrubbing off graffiti from the walls, right?

00:05:15.000 By 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.

00:05:28.000 Well, as the night continues, the night continues, Kyle's there.

00:05:31.000 He's trying to offer medical aid to people on both sides, by the way, running around saying, does anyone need medical?

00:05:37.000 Does anyone need this?

00:05:38.000 He does have an AR-15 style rifle in order to defend himself.

00:05:43.000 But for the most part of the night, he's not carrying that.

00:05:45.000 He'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.

00:05:55.000 So at one point, he hears about a car lot that's going off.

00:05:58.000 This is a business that has multiple lots around town.

00:06:01.000 So he's running to go put out the fire while carrying a fire extinguisher.

00:06:05.000 Multiple members of this mob see him, target him, and begin chasing him through the street and then through the parking lot.

00:06:14.000 And at one point, we just saw an HD footage today for the very first time.

00:06:19.000 One of the assailants actually reaches for his gun after cornering Kyle in between a group of parked cars.

00:06:26.000 And at that point, Kyle takes steps to defend himself.

00:06:29.000 The mob then begins chasing Kyle Rittenhouse down the street, kicking him in the head after he stumbles.

00:06:35.000 Another one slamming a skateboard into the back of his head.

00:06:38.000 And another one approaching him with a raised, and we now know loaded Glock handgun.

00:06:44.000 Kyle again took steps to defend himself.

00:06:47.000 Now, in that situation, two of the people, including the first one I mentioned, were killed.

00:06:53.000 This 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.

00:07:07.000 And so Kyle is now on trial.

00:07:09.000 Here we are, 14 months later.

00:07:11.000 Kyle is on trial for murder and reckless endangerment.

00:07:15.000 But the media and President Biden have painted this kid as a white supremacist.

00:07:20.000 They've painted him as a vigilante.

00:07:21.000 They've painted him as every horrible name under the sun without actually looking at the video evidence that we have of that fateful night.

00:07:29.000 Well, but let me ask you, I never understood this.

00:07:32.000 And quite honestly, we did a Kyle Rittenhouse story six months ago talking about how I don't understand how these charges came to be.

00:07:40.000 What?

00:07:40.000 Is he charged with first-degree murder?

00:07:43.000 That's right.

00:07:43.000 Two counts.

00:07:44.000 How is that possible?

00:07:45.000 It's an altercation.

00:07:46.000 I 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.

00:07:55.000 Yeah.

00:07:55.000 So you're right, actually.

00:07:56.000 That would be what you're talking about would potentially be either voluntary manslaughter.

00:08:02.000 Yeah, that's what I never understood about this.

00:08:04.000 Or second degree murder because it was more indiscriminate.

00:08:07.000 What 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.

00:08:20.000 Now, 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.

00:08:29.000 They did not present a single shred of evidence that Kyle Rittenhouse showed up with intent to hurt anyone.

00:08:37.000 Well, 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.

00:08:48.000 You're trying to tell me no one looked at this.

00:08:50.000 They say, wait a second. 0.66

00:08:51.000 You'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? 0.99

00:09:01.000 He was like a child pedophile or something. 0.97

00:09:03.000 Is that right? 1.00

00:09:04.000 Multiple account child rapists.

00:09:06.000 And 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. 0.54

00:09:14.000 This is not Gandhi, okay?

00:09:16.000 Let's just.

00:09:17.000 What 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.

00:09:26.000 And we're told that he's been on and off antipsychotic medication, including Seroquil.

00:09:32.000 If anybody knows anyone who's been on that spectrum or takes that type of medication, this is very, very powerful medication.

00:09:38.000 And I think he killed him, right?

00:09:40.000 He's dead.

00:09:40.000 Is that right?

00:09:41.000 He's dead, yes.

00:09:42.000 Okay.

00:09:43.000 So, but throughout this whole process, I've failed to understand how this could possibly be presented in premeditated terms.

00:09:51.000 And I thought to myself, maybe they have text messages of Kyle saying something with intent.

00:09:56.000 Maybe they have, there's no such evidence, right?

00:09:59.000 So 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.

00:10:13.000 He didn't allow it.

00:10:14.000 And then the prosecutor said to not look at the phone of Grozkrutz.

00:10:20.000 But then when they went to Kyle Rittenhouse, Kyle said, oh, sure.

00:10:23.000 Do you need my password?

00:10:24.000 Here you go.

00:10:25.000 And immediately let the detectives look into his phone.

00:10:29.000 And yet they charged him with first degree murder.

00:10:32.000 So where does the trial stand now?

00:10:35.000 So 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.

00:10:46.000 In fact, the medical examiner, the ME, just brought up there and said, look, this guy had powder burns on his hand from the gunshot.

00:10:53.000 If 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.

00:10:59.000 Your hand must be very close to the barrel.

00:11:02.000 They then said, well, could his hand have been trying to squat the rifle away?

00:11:06.000 Could he have been trying to do something like this?

00:11:08.000 The medical examiner responded to the prosecutors again.

00:11:11.000 Well, actually, he was so close that he had his hand stretched out like Superman going towards the rifle.

00:11:18.000 We, of course, can see this in HD footage.

00:11:20.000 We also hear his intent from Richie McGinnis.

00:11:23.000 It'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.

00:11:30.000 He lunged and he screamed F you at Kyle Rittenhouse and went for the gun.

00:11:35.000 And he was standing 10 feet away.

00:11:37.000 A better eyewitness, you're never going to find for this situation.

00:11:40.000 So 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.

00:12:05.000 At that point, Kyle fired.

00:12:07.000 So Kyle was not acting indiscriminately.

00:12:09.000 He was responding to threats.

00:12:11.000 The prosecution's case has completely fallen apart and they rested with the judge.

00:12:17.000 Well, I hope they acquit.

00:12:19.000 And then I hope Kyle Rittenhouse sues in civil court for all the nonsense that they put him through afterwards.

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00:14:52.000 Let's play that one clip from the trial, Cut 44.

00:14:56.000 With your arms up in the air, he never fired, right?

00:15:01.000 Correct.

00:15:02.000 It wasn't until you pointed your gun at him, advanced on him, with your gun, now your hands down, pointed at him, that he fired, right?

00:15:12.000 Correct.

00:15:13.000 That's the whole, that's the ball game right there, isn't it, Jack?

00:15:17.000 I mean, it really does feel like a scene out of, you know, Matlock or something, some kind of legal draw, Lincoln lawyer, you know.

00:15:27.000 You rarely see it that cut and dry.

00:15:29.000 You don't usually see something like this in trial.

00:15:31.000 Usually it's much more, you know, it's a gray area.

00:15:33.000 Kind of vague, but this is you know, and you can actually see if you extend the clip if you don't have to.

00:15:39.000 But I think the the prosecutor, the second prosecutor, not Binger, I love.

00:15:43.000 He just goes like the star Star Wars lapel pins.

00:15:45.000 He just facepalming.

00:15:47.000 He just, he's just facepalm.

00:15:48.000 He's sitting there like what, what do we do?

00:15:51.000 But what's amazing is the prosecution didn't object at all.

00:15:56.000 Um, which is just an old procedural trick.

00:15:58.000 If you know what you're doing, to try to interrupt when you start to see a witness go in the wrong direction, you know.

00:16:03.000 Interestingly enough um, to your point, that's exactly what the prosecution did today during the me where they were discussing the situation about.

00:16:11.000 You know look, you examined this body.

00:16:12.000 He was this close.

00:16:13.000 He had the powder burns, he had soot and gunpowder all over his hands.

00:16:18.000 You know he's probably objection objection objection, of course.

00:16:20.000 No, they learned their lesson.

00:16:21.000 It's these.

00:16:23.000 These lawyers are all the same.

00:16:24.000 There's only so many tools in their toolkit.

00:16:25.000 Okay, I want to shift gears here, Jack.

00:16:27.000 And so there's this study from Arizona Christian University that says that 39 of 18 to 24 year olds identify as Lgbtq.

00:16:35.000 I didn't believe it until.

00:16:36.000 Let me read these two emails we got of some of our listeners here at Freedom, at Charliekirk.com.

00:16:41.000 Good morning, Charlie.

00:16:42.000 I was just listening to you Uh, on Radio TALK TALK Radio survey on millennials.

00:16:46.000 I live in Washington State.

00:16:47.000 My daughter was 11 and in the sixth grade.

00:16:49.000 Just yesterday, while talking about her day, she mentioned she had a lesbian girl in her class. 1.00

00:16:53.000 My husband asked a few more questions and she announced that half the kids say they are gay in her class.

00:16:59.000 Another email, Charlie.

00:17:00.000 I found that find the study very disturbing.

00:17:03.000 My 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.

00:17:11.000 This is a super Republican, affluent county in Georgia, jack.

00:17:14.000 What are we supposed to make out of this?

00:17:16.000 Well 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?

00:17:39.000 My kid is three.

00:17:40.000 He thinks he's an astronaut.

00:17:40.000 He's not.

00:17:42.000 Then the other day he thought he was a zombie because it was halloween.

00:17:45.000 Then he thought he was, you know, a skeleton.

00:17:46.000 Again and again and again.

00:17:48.000 Right, 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.

00:18:01.000 It's bad enough that we put most kids through this type of German Insane education program. 1.00

00:18:08.000 Yeah exactly um, this idea that you will be.

00:18:11.000 You know, they're obedient schools where you're taught to raise your hand because you don't have any power.

00:18:15.000 They don't teach education. 0.61

00:18:17.000 They teach, you know, can you follow a schedule and can you sit in your chair and do as you're told.

00:18:21.000 So 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.

00:18:30.000 But 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.

00:18:41.000 And 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.

00:18:50.000 It's just stunning.

00:18:52.000 And I hope people start to wake up to that.

00:18:55.000 Jack, what's your final prediction on the Kyle Rittenhouse drama?

00:19:00.000 Well, I would be surprised if he gets acquitted of all counts.

00:19:03.000 I think he should be based on the merits.

00:19:05.000 But 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.

00:19:12.000 And I have to, we worry that that is going to play a role in their decision.

00:19:16.000 That's amazing to think about, isn't it?

00:19:18.000 That the potential is holding a jury hostage.

00:19:23.000 We saw that in the Floyd case, and we're seeing that.

00:19:25.000 And somebody was caught recording this morning, by the way.

00:19:28.000 We just heard from the judge.

00:19:29.000 Somebody was caught recording the jurors as they were going in and out.

00:19:33.000 Which, of course, is illegal, but they will get away with it.

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00:20:49.000 So I'm going to kind of just preface all this by saying we on this show were early.

00:20:55.000 We were right.

00:20:56.000 We predicted it.

00:20:58.000 We saw it coming, which is the inflation crisis.

00:21:01.000 If 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.

00:21:19.000 This is by no way whatsoever an accident.

00:21:22.000 This is inflation by design.

00:21:25.000 This 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.

00:21:38.000 And someone who I know knows this very well is a friend of mine, a fellow Chicagoan, Steve Moore.

00:21:44.000 Steve, how are you doing?

00:21:45.000 Hey, Charlie, great to be with you.

00:21:47.000 Thanks for having me on.

00:21:48.000 You were right about inflation.

00:21:48.000 And you are spot on.

00:21:50.000 I was right on inflation.

00:21:51.000 And Joe Biden was wrong.

00:21:53.000 And so was Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.

00:21:56.000 And the new numbers that came out this morning show that we're now, the producer prices are up 8% in a year.

00:22:04.000 And Charlie, this isn't complicated.

00:22:06.000 When producer prices go up, guess what happens to consumer prices?

00:22:10.000 Yeah, they just get passed off.

00:22:12.000 8.6% increase.

00:22:14.000 So can you translate the economic language to really what that means and how significant an 8.6% increase is?

00:22:22.000 Well, 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.

00:22:31.000 And it's, it's, inflation is a, is a regressive tax.

00:22:36.000 I love when Joe Biden, if you notice, he's, I'm not going to raise tax for anyone who makes less than 400,000.

00:22:41.000 Charlie, he already has.

00:22:42.000 Yes.

00:22:43.000 Every time you go to the gas pump, you're paying what I call the Biden inflation tax.

00:22:48.000 Every time you ask me, what does this mean for real Americans?

00:22:51.000 Let's say you're making $40,000, $50,000 a year.

00:22:55.000 So you're kind of lower middle class.

00:22:57.000 You're crushed because you used to pay in maybe $100 a week for groceries.

00:23:02.000 Now you're paying $120,000, $125 a week for groceries.

00:23:06.000 Every time you go to the gas pump, you pay $18, $19 more to fill up your tank.

00:23:11.000 For millionaires and billionaires, that's not a problem.

00:23:14.000 But if you're living on a fixed income, it's a big problem.

00:23:17.000 And I've lived through this, Charlie.

00:23:19.000 As you know, I'm, I lived through the 70s.

00:23:22.000 I remember under Nixon and Ford and Carter when inflation got worse and worse and worse.

00:23:27.000 And what it did is it snowballed.

00:23:30.000 Charlie, it got worse.

00:23:31.000 It seemed every month.

00:23:32.000 And that's why when Joe Biden and Jerome Powell, the bed chairman, keep saying this is transitory.

00:23:39.000 You know, nobody believes that.

00:23:40.000 Do you believe that?

00:23:41.000 No, I'm not even close.

00:23:43.000 No, it seems as if this is going to be a structural feature of the Biden economy.

00:23:48.000 Let's go a step a level deeper.

00:23:50.000 What is causing this?

00:23:51.000 Obviously, the money printing, the quantitative easing, but also these ridiculous bills that Republicans are voting for in D.C., Steve.

00:23:59.000 I 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.

00:24:10.000 Yeah, and don't even use the word infrastructure.

00:24:12.000 It's a Green New Deal.

00:24:13.000 Yes, that's exactly right.

00:24:14.000 Right.

00:24:15.000 Only about one out of every $4 in that bill is for what, look, do Americans want the roads fixed?

00:24:20.000 Do they want to get rid of those potholes and safe bridges? 0.95

00:24:22.000 Yes, but that's not what this money is used for.

00:24:25.000 And 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.

00:24:37.000 That was going to be paid for entirely by the private sector.

00:24:40.000 I think this is a sham infrastructure bill.

00:24:42.000 It's all money for green energy projects.

00:24:45.000 It's money for Tesla.

00:24:46.000 Incidentally, Charlie, Tesla is now a $1 trillion market cap company.

00:24:53.000 $1 trillion is the value of all its stock.

00:24:56.000 Can you tell me why a $1 trillion company needs federal subsidies?

00:25:00.000 Well, and even worse than that, Steve, remember, six months ago, Nancy Pelosi suspiciously bought a bunch of shares of Tesla. 0.89

00:25:07.000 Remember that?

00:25:08.000 And that's the sort of stuff that just makes people so outraged.

00:25:12.000 And they lose hope in the actual process of what's supposed to happen.

00:25:16.000 So, Steve, one of my big fears right now is a labor shortage.

00:25:20.000 What is causing that?

00:25:22.000 I've heard a lot of different people hypothesize as to the root of that.

00:25:26.000 What is your take as to why it seems that no one can find workers right now?

00:25:30.000 Well, I never actually fully answered your question about why we have the inflation.

00:25:33.000 And you did a very good job of answering it.

00:25:37.000 So, you know, inflation is really simple.

00:25:39.000 It goes back to Milton Friedman.

00:25:41.000 Remember this from Economics 100.

00:25:43.000 The economics, I mean, inflation is too many dollars chasing too few goods.

00:25:48.000 So 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.

00:25:58.000 Now, how are they paying for these trillions and trillions of dollars of spending they're doing?

00:26:03.000 Well, mostly by raising the debt.

00:26:05.000 Now, how do they pay for the debt?

00:26:07.000 Who buys the bonds?

00:26:09.000 Well, the Federal Reserve Board is buying the bonds, but how are they buying the bonds?

00:26:13.000 They're printing money.

00:26:14.000 They're just flushing money into the economy. 0.96

00:26:17.000 And 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.

00:26:29.000 And it is killing people.

00:26:30.000 It's just, it is a killer for people at the lower end of the ladder.

00:26:34.000 Now, the labor shortage, that's caused by these massive government benefits.

00:26:40.000 You know, we pay people.

00:26:41.000 My buddy, Casey Mulligan, also, you know, Chicago, and he's at the University of Chicago, the best labor economist in the country.

00:26:48.000 He estimates that there are many people who can get $75,000, $80,000, $90,000 a couple on welfare in benefits.

00:26:55.000 You don't have to pay any tax on it.

00:26:56.000 You don't have to work one hour for it.

00:26:59.000 Biden has eviscerated all of the work requirements that were passed in the mid-1990s to reform welfare.

00:27:06.000 It's like we've turned back the clock.

00:27:07.000 And we're going back to the great society programs of LBJ when we have these massive cycles of poverty and people living on welfare.

00:27:16.000 I believe in a social safety net.

00:27:18.000 I believe in giving people a hand up, but we are now giving people more money for not working than working.

00:27:24.000 That'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.

00:27:36.000 In many cases, the people sitting at home watching Netflix are making more money than they are.

00:27:40.000 Well, and what it does, and you know, economics is best summarized as kind of the analysis of incentives, right?

00:27:49.000 Which 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?

00:28:03.000 To go lay tile or to go fix, you know, to go become a plumber.

00:28:06.000 And 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.

00:28:19.000 And so talk a little bit about the supply chain crisis as well.

00:28:22.000 So we have less stuff and more dollar bills.

00:28:27.000 It's a recipe for disaster.

00:28:28.000 I 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.

00:28:36.000 I'm like, gee, where's the economic logic of that?

00:28:38.000 And then we've got, you talk about the supplies.

00:28:40.000 Don't worry about the supply chain problems because we have Pete Budijak on the job on the case.

00:28:46.000 I 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.

00:28:54.000 And now he's overseeing a trillion-dollar industry.

00:28:57.000 The guy doesn't know anything about trains, planes, and automobiles.

00:29:00.000 And he's going to rescue us from the supply chain problem.

00:29:04.000 You can't get the merchandise off the cargo ships.

00:29:07.000 You can't get truck drivers once the cargo ships are unloaded to drive the trucks to the warehouses.

00:29:13.000 You don't get the warehouse workers.

00:29:14.000 It's a catastrophe.

00:29:16.000 I mean, it's an unbelievable catastrophe.

00:29:18.000 And every single bill that Biden has passed, $7 trillion of extra spending he wants this year.

00:29:24.000 That'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.

00:29:40.000 That's how much he wants to spend in one year.

00:29:43.000 It's so outrageous.

00:29:44.000 It's unfathomable.

00:29:45.000 I'd almost rather have Bernie Sanders in office because at least he admits he's a socialist.

00:29:50.000 Yeah, he owns it.

00:29:50.000 And then we could build a coalition against it.

00:29:52.000 It doesn't seem like Biden has many supporters, though.

00:29:54.000 But 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.

00:30:03.000 But it seems that inflation is the most burdensome on people that do not have assets.

00:30:09.000 Of course.

00:30:10.000 And it's the easiest.

00:30:12.000 It's not the easiest, but people that own assets, they actually can get richer in inflation curves.

00:30:17.000 If 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.

00:30:29.000 But if you are working as a welder and you have almost no assets to your name, well, then this actually is harmful to you.

00:30:37.000 So talk about that.

00:30:38.000 And then secondly, Steve, you mentioned the debt.

00:30:40.000 I'm so glad you did.

00:30:42.000 If you're a debtor nation, sometimes you want inflation because then it actually depreciates your debt level, your debt burden you have.

00:30:51.000 So talk about those two things.

00:30:53.000 Well, on the second point, it's true you can do that in the short term.

00:30:57.000 So, you know, that's what essentially what you just described is called monetizing debt.

00:31:03.000 Yes.

00:31:04.000 And you know who does that?

00:31:05.000 Zimbabwe.

00:31:06.000 Argentina or Venezuela, Zimbabwe. 0.51

00:31:08.000 Third world countries do that, right?

00:31:10.000 And we're following their lead.

00:31:13.000 And that's not a story that has a very happy ending because what happens is then nobody wants to buy your debt.

00:31:20.000 And how do you get people to buy the debt?

00:31:23.000 You have to keep raising your interest rates.

00:31:25.000 And when the interest rates go up, what does that do to the cost of the debt?

00:31:29.000 It becomes a vicious cycle.

00:31:30.000 So we're in a dangerous situation right now.

00:31:32.000 We've never seen anything like this where Biden is talking about taking our $20 trillion debt to $40 trillion. 0.96

00:31:38.000 And they believe, they believe in this idiotic concept called modern monetary theory. 0.97

00:31:44.000 It's like, you know, it's like the tooth theory. 0.98

00:31:46.000 I totally agree with you, Steve.

00:31:48.000 And some people on the right are embracing modern monetary theory.

00:31:50.000 It's insane.

00:31:52.000 It's against the laws of Newtonian physics.

00:31:55.000 One minute left, Steve.

00:31:56.000 Can you answer the first part of it?

00:31:57.000 How the rich actually benefit from inflation?

00:32:01.000 Well, they can in the short term because they own assets.

00:32:04.000 Look at the stock markets.

00:32:05.000 It's up.

00:32:06.000 But in the end of the day, everybody's hurt by an inflationary monetary policy.

00:32:10.000 It's the unkindest tax of all.

00:32:12.000 And Biden, if we keep this up, I hate to say this.

00:32:15.000 I think we're looking at $5 to $6 a gallon gasoline coming to a pump near you.

00:32:20.000 And that is going to kill middle-class workers. 1.00

00:32:24.000 Well, and, you know, if you look at corporate borrowing last year, corporate borrowing, they expanded their balance sheets by about $600 billion.

00:32:32.000 And they knew that interest rates would never get that low again.

00:32:36.000 And they borrowed while they could.

00:32:38.000 And most Americans were just barely surviving last year.

00:32:41.000 It is the unkindest tax of them all.

00:32:43.000 Steve, you're a great friend, and you do a wonderful job.

00:32:46.000 Everyone should subscribe to his committee to unleash prosperity, unleash prosperity, co-founder of that.

00:32:51.000 Steve, thanks so much for joining us.

00:32:53.000 Always good to talk to a fellow Chicago.

00:32:54.000 Talk to you soon.

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00:34:02.000 You know, Democrat politicians, they like to hide from the limelight.

00:34:06.000 They don't like to go up against, not hide from the limelight.

00:34:10.000 They like to hide from opposition journalists and people that want to ask themselves questions, ask them questions.

00:34:15.000 But it just so happens that the stars aligned in a certain way, where creepy, boogie-eyed Adam Schiff decided to go on the view.

00:34:26.000 Now, Adam Schiff did not look very well-rested in this clip.

00:34:29.000 I don't think Adam Schiff was properly staffed ahead of this, let's say, encounter.

00:34:37.000 I don't think Adam Schiff knew that one of the co-hosts for the day was none other than Morgan Ortegas.

00:34:44.000 Morgan is a friend of mine.

00:34:45.000 She worked for the State Department, and she's very smart and very good on television.

00:34:52.000 Adam 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.

00:35:04.000 Rarely do you get to see justice happen in real time.

00:35:08.000 And boy, was Adam Schiff surprised, shocked, unable to even make a stable sentence.

00:35:16.000 Adam Schiff on the View, everybody.

00:35:17.000 Enjoy Cut 64.

00:35:19.000 So I want to ask you about something that's in the news a lot right now.

00:35:23.000 You've been really prolific over the past few years being the head of the Intel Committee.

00:35:27.000 And you've defended, promoted, you even read into the congressional record the Steele dossier.

00:35:33.000 And we know last week the main source of the dossier was indicted by the FBI for lying about most of the key claims in that dossier.

00:35:40.000 Do you have any reflections on your role in promoting this to the American people?

00:35:45.000 Well, first of all, whoever lied to the FBI or lied to Christopher Steele should be prosecuted, and they are.

00:35:52.000 And unlike in the Trump administration, if they're convicted, they should go to jail, not be pardoned.

00:35:58.000 So Donald Trump pardoned Roger Stone for lying.

00:36:01.000 He pardoned Michael Flynn for lying.

00:36:03.000 If people lied to the FBI, they should go to jail.

00:36:06.000 But at the beginning of the Russian investigation, I said that any allegations should be investigated.

00:36:11.000 We couldn't have known, for example, people were lying to Christopher Steele.

00:36:14.000 So it was proper to investigate them.

00:36:17.000 And let's not forget what we learned in that investigation.

00:36:20.000 We 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.

00:36:31.000 And to be clear, he was fired halfway through the campaign.

00:36:34.000 Well, he may have been fired.

00:36:36.000 But the effort to get Russian help continued and even beyond the effort to get Russian help.

00:36:40.000 But you may have spread Russian disinformation yourself for years by promoting this.

00:36:45.000 I 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.

00:36:53.000 Well, I completely disagree with your premise.

00:36:55.000 It's one thing to say allegations should be investigated, and they were.

00:36:59.000 It'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.

00:37:07.000 But 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.

00:37:25.000 None of that is undercut.

00:37:27.000 None of that serious misconduct is in any way diminished by the fact that people lied to Christopher Steele.

00:37:32.000 No, I think just your credibility is.

00:37:34.000 Ma'am.

00:37:37.000 Boom.

00:37:38.000 Morgan Ortegas, I think, should be a full-time guest on The View.

00:37:43.000 Something tells me she will not be welcome back.

00:37:45.000 Morgan's a friend of mine.

00:37:46.000 The way she handled herself was so terrific, wasn't it?

00:37:48.000 It wasn't out of control or chaotic.

00:37:51.000 It was like a prosecutor prosecuting a case against a known liar, shill, and bad guy, Adam Schiff, co-host of The View.

00:38:00.000 Is she now a permanent co-host?

00:38:02.000 I think she was a guest, right?

00:38:03.000 Was she a guest co-host?

00:38:06.000 I don't follow the view very much.

00:38:08.000 Everybody, email us your thoughts.

00:38:09.000 It's always freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:38:12.000 And yes, for those of you that are driving in the car with children, Adam Schiff did say, he did not say insurrection.

00:38:22.000 He said something else.

00:38:23.000 I'm not going to repeat it because we're a family-friendly show.

00:38:25.000 We don't do that around here.

00:38:26.000 It wouldn't be fair.

00:38:27.000 Inciting not an insurrection, inciting something else.

00:38:36.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:38:37.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:38:40.000 And if you want to support our show, you can do so at charliekirk.com/slash support.

00:38:44.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:38:46.000 God bless.

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