Today on the Charlie Kirk Show: The John Durham Hearing underwhelms. We explore this from multiple angles. And we also ask the question, do you trust your institutions? And if the answer is no, that is significant.
00:01:18.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:26.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:35.000As the great one Mark Levin said, there is no law when it comes to being on the right versus the left.
00:02:40.000It's not even a double standard of justice.
00:02:43.000There's a multi-tiered standard of justice that if you have the right politics, you could basically do whatever you want.
00:02:49.000Look at Hunter Biden's plea deal this week versus Donald Trump's 37-count indictment.
00:02:54.000What I think animates the conservative base that is misunderstood by the media, intentionally misunderstood, is that there is a yearning for justice.
00:03:13.000We do not trust major portions of our government.
00:03:18.000And that power is abused for political purposes.
00:03:22.000Peter Strzokstroke Smirk, Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, and James Comey had a plan.
00:03:29.000Now, mind you, the plan was a little bit sloppy.
00:03:32.000It was the built-in assumption that Hillary Clinton was going to win the presidency.
00:03:36.000Hillary Clinton was going to easily become president.
00:03:39.000And in that text message that just tells you so much, Lisa Page wrote to her adulterous lover, Peter Strzzok, Trump is not going to become president, is he?
00:04:45.000There's no way we could actually have a president totally close the border, change our immigration to respect and represent middle-class Americans, put true tariffs on China, rebuild the industrial base in the country.
00:04:59.000And the way they slowed down the Trump presidency, the way they distracted him from terrifying Jeff Sessions to intimidating so many conservatives was through this Russia thing.
00:05:12.000And then Bob Mueller came out of nowhere to go do his duty with Andrew Weissman as the top attack dog of the Mueller investigation.
00:05:22.000The special counsel never should have been approved by the Republican Congress, but it all started back when Peter Strzzok said, no, we won't let that happen.
00:05:32.000Yes, Donald Trump became president, but he was never able to fully govern as a president because of the Mueller investigation, the Russia lies, Adam Schiff, and we have some Adam Schiff news to share this hour.
00:05:44.000But it's very obvious as the evidence started to emerge that the law enforcement agencies broke the law, but at the very least, they broke the public trust.
00:05:56.000And you in the grassroots, ordinary Americans, plumbers, carpenters, teachers, grandparents, entrepreneurs, truck drivers, you see very clearly that if you break the law, if you don't pay your taxes, if you lie to the FBI, you're going to go to jail, especially if your politics are on the right.
00:06:16.000And one of the biggest complaints in the conservative movement, which is a legitimate complaint, is why does the FBI never get held accountable?
00:06:29.000Not with a book report that we call the Durham Report, not with some sort of largely boring congressional hearing, and we'll play some pieces of tape from it.
00:06:40.000Why is it the very people who are tasked with enforcing the law when they act like criminals, are they never held accountable?
00:07:14.000So they get rewarded for what they do.
00:07:18.000They get rewarded for weaponizing the government and going after political opponents and dissidents.
00:07:24.000John Durham mentioned this in his hearing yesterday, Play Cut 56.
00:07:29.000Several of the relevant FISA applications issued in the CrossFire investigation omitted references to what was clearly relevant and highly exculpatory information that should have been disclosed to the FISA court.
00:07:45.000Multiple FBI personnel who signed or assisted in preparing renewal applications for that same FISA warren acknowledged that they did not believe that the target, Mr. Page, was a threat to national security, much less a knowing agent of a foreign power, which is what the law requires.
00:08:03.000It appears from our investigation that the FBI leadership dismissed those concerns.
00:08:09.000Now, there's a lot of detail in Durham's report, and some of it is very helpful to make the case against the administrative state.
00:08:17.000But let's be honest, we are going to keep believing that the administrative state and the shadow government is against us until we see people like Peter Strzok treated in the same fashion as Lieutenant General Michael Flynn.
00:08:32.000Remember Michael Flynn, he was a member of the government.
00:08:34.000Within days, he was entrapped by Peter Strzok.
00:08:51.000You had Peter Strzok walk into the home of the executive branch days into the presidency.
00:08:57.000I think it was like 10 days into the presidency.
00:09:00.000And Peter Strzok said, oh, yeah, Strzok here with the FBI.
00:09:03.000We just want to clear up some of your disclosure paper.
00:09:06.000And Michael Flynn says, well, do I need a lawyer here?
00:09:10.000And the answer to that, and remember the 302s, if I remember the number correctly, the 302 that Peter Strzzok filled out was incriminating.
00:09:18.000It was a targeting of a current official of the executive branch of government.
00:09:24.000And it was Michael Flynn who had to defend himself in court.
00:09:27.000It was Michael Flynn who had to go through years of criminal targeting.
00:09:33.000And the Department of Justice then admitted in the Michael Flynn case that the FBI mistakenly identified Michael Flynn in the Peter Strzzok notes.
00:09:41.000The attorneys prosecuting former White House National Security Michael Flynn were forced to admit in Tuesday letter that Lynn's legal defense that the notes mistakenly identified him.
00:09:52.000So we call this the two standard of justice, but it's even worse than that.
00:09:57.000And I'm not here to say that Durham is a bad guy or a good guy.
00:10:00.000What I am going to say, and we're going to play more pieces of tape, is that this is awfully demoralizing when it comes to one of the most important elements of a civil society.
00:10:30.000If that's the case, then one of this gang of criminals, McCabe, Strzok, Paige, Comey, or one of them should be facing criminal prosecution instead.
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00:11:48.000I'm not going to dunk on Mike Pence too much again.
00:11:50.000We already did that adequately last week, but I think it's very telling and it connects to a couple themes I want to tie together here that I don't think anybody else is going to do.
00:11:58.000Chris Hayes, who I don't consider to be overly bright, had a very interesting, actually, believe it or not, piece of television with Brandy Zedrozny from NBC News.
00:12:09.000We mentioned this yesterday, but I think it's worth repeating.
00:12:12.000He said that the political divide in America has changed, that the right in America is a low trust movement of institutions, and the left is a high trust movement of institutions.
00:12:28.000Now, mind you, that is a significant inversion.
00:12:32.000Because when I grew up, it used to be that the right was defending the Bush administration or the Patriot Act, defending the government, because as conservatives, you felt as if you did not want to overly revolutionize things.
00:12:46.000Now, isn't it interesting, though, that in the word conservative is you want to conserve, but conservatives are now the ones that don't trust the institutions.
00:12:58.000And this is one of the things I'm trying to communicate publicly on this program for all of these unknowns that are running for president.
00:13:05.000By the way, we have more people running for president.
00:13:40.000And I'm only using this as a piece of evidence to show that institutional uniparty Republicans are defending an institution that hates them.
00:13:52.000Here's Mike Pence saying, well, we either trust the Justice Department or we don't, or the system of justice.
00:14:03.000He is not reading the Republican primary electorate.
00:14:07.000We don't trust Strzok, Comey, any of these people.
00:14:11.000In fact, have you seen the Durham report?
00:14:14.000Yeah, it's an underwhelming book report in terms of prosecutions, but it's a smoking gun as far to say that, yeah, the law enforcement agencies, they're not even above the law.
00:14:27.000There is no law when it comes to them.
00:15:13.000Let's presume you're fortunate enough to take oath of office January 2025, you become the next president of the United States.
00:15:19.000Donald Trump is convicted of what I think you would agree are clearly, to a large degree, political-based charges.
00:15:27.000Would you pardon him from those federal charges?
00:15:30.000Well, first off, these are serious charges.
00:15:34.000And as I said, I can't defend what's been alleged, but the president does deserve to make his defense.
00:15:39.000And I take the pardon authority very seriously.
00:15:41.000It's an enormously important power of someone in an executive position.
00:15:46.000And I just think it's premature to have any conversation about that right now, guys.
00:15:52.000Okay, so there's another clip that actually, that's bad, but the other one is even worse that we have where Mike Penn says, well, guys, we either trust our system of justice or we don't.
00:16:03.000We don't trust the system of justice that entrapped Michael Flynn and tried to destroy his life and his family's life, that went after Steve Bannon, that went after Roger Stone, that went after Paul Manafort, where Lois Lerner was never held accountable, where these dirty cops at the top levels of the FBI, and I could keep on mentioning their names, are not held accountable.
00:16:34.000And the center right of this country, despite having the term conservative, actually wants to now revolutionize in a good way the instruments of government.
00:16:44.000We do not want the FBI to continue as is.
00:18:06.000That is preparewithkirk.com, preparewithkirk.com.
00:18:12.000So I have to fact check myself that we searched, and for whatever reason, I suppose there's no official gay bars in Georgetown, which I just assumed because Washington, D.C. is one of the gayest cities in America.
00:18:30.000So, yeah, some people would call it a gay mecca.
00:19:06.000The left did something so smart, is that they've always believed in power.
00:19:11.000Now, I don't believe in power for power's sake.
00:19:14.000We're not O'Brien from 1984 and George Orwell.
00:19:17.000However, what I think is critical to understand is the idea of the perpetual revolution.
00:19:26.000Within the left, there was finally this oh moment where instead of trying to rebel against the FBI, just take over the FBI and do so by flooding the system with staffers that share your worldview.
00:19:51.000Flood the agencies with personnel that believe in all of the college campus ideas.
00:20:01.000And finally, once you get there, never stop complaining.
00:20:09.000I hate to oversimplify things, but one of the ways that the left has taken over our corporations, taken over our institutions of government, is 25, 26, 27-year-old secular, unmarried revolutionaries who went to Yale and Stanford, who are looking for purpose in their life, they get to these institutions, whether it be Wells Fargo, American Express, any one of these companies,
00:20:38.000BlackRock, and they start complaining.
00:20:42.000We don't have enough black people in this room.
00:20:44.000There are not enough gays and lesbians represented on the board.
00:20:48.000Why are we not donating money to these organizations?
00:20:55.000And so the energy of the LGBTQI plus whatever movement used to be one against challenging the system.
00:21:02.000And now, bizarrely, and very few people are noticing and mentioning this, they now not just are the system, that's people are noticing, but they're the ones that want to quote unquote conserve the status quo.
00:21:30.000And now we have to almost embrace dissident energy.
00:21:34.000And in a strange, perplexing, unprecedented turn of events, the, you call them woke activists or the gay activists or the globalist activists, whatever, they're the ones that are saying, no, the way things are actually good.
00:21:49.000It's good to have kids twerked in front of at pride parades.
00:21:53.000You're talking like a conservative, but you're trying to conserve something that is extremely nasty and insidious.
00:22:00.000Okay, so here's the connection, Mike Pence talking like an institutionalist.
00:22:07.000So what does Mike Pence and the Alphabet Mafia have in common?
00:22:11.000They both trust our system of justice.
00:22:14.000What does Mike Pence and the Wokesters have in common?
00:22:18.000They both think the DOJ is largely a good institution.
00:23:21.000We got all sorts of different controversies.
00:23:23.000Again, I find it very, very hard to believe that there's not gay bars in Georgetown.
00:23:28.000If you were to best summarize, though, what historical philosophy the Uniparty is embracing, I think it could be best summarized as American Maoism.
00:23:47.000It's exactly what Mao Zedong did when he took over China via the Chinese Communist Party.
00:23:54.000And as the CCP is actually taking more parts of America, our government is acting more and more like the CCP, far more like the Chinese Communist Party than it is a constitutional republic.
00:24:08.000So tying this back to Durham, you in the grassroots and you in the audience, you are fuming angry and mad because you hear about everything that's wrong and now you see the book report and you say, but where are the handcuffs?
00:24:25.000And you simultaneously have to then see your former president, who did an excellent job as president, President Donald Trump, get the book thrown at him.
00:24:34.000Cut 57, John Durham said the FBI was too willing to accept and use politically funded, uncorroborated opposition research such as the Steele dossier.
00:24:42.000But I have to respectfully ask, Mr. Durham, why did you not bring any charges against the Clinton campaign for this?
00:24:50.000Another aspect of our findings concerned the FBI's failure to sufficiently scrutinize information it received or to apply the same standards to allegations it received about the Clinton and Trump campaigns.
00:25:03.000As our report details, the FBI was too willing to accept and use politically funded and uncorroborated opposition research such as the Steele dossier.
00:25:15.000So they used uncorroborated research such as the Steele dossier.
00:25:20.000Okay, but you're tap dancing around this, Mr. Durham.
00:25:23.000And you do this again where, oh, we found violation of law and policy.
00:26:17.000Or why did you not indict Struckstroke Smirk, Lisa Page, Bruce Enelio, or James Comey, Andy McCabe?
00:26:24.000A serious problem, again, this kind of goes back to the Georgetown gay bar discussion, is that major federal abuses will always be put on trial in Washington, D.C. If you want to add to the infinite list of things that we need to do, is that Congress should pass a law that you're going to have to, you get a random selection of zip codes of where you're going to have to be tried for federal abuses.
00:26:51.000You represent the whole country, yeah, you're not going to be able to be in a 95%.
00:27:26.000For one, we found troubling violations of law and policy in the conduct of highly consequential investigations directed at members of a presidential campaign and ultimately a presidential administration.
00:27:39.000To me, it matters not whether it was a Republican campaign or a Democrat campaign.
00:27:43.000It was a presidential campaign and should be of concern to any American who cares about our civil liberties, the rule of law, and the just and proportionate application of the law to all of us.
00:27:54.000Whether we're friends or we're foes, the law ought to apply to everybody in the same way.
00:28:00.000Mr. Durham, you're not a cable news pundit.
00:28:06.000If you found violations of the law, why didn't you use it?
00:28:10.000Okay, yeah, you used it on Klein Smith and Dan Chenko.
00:28:15.000But contrast John Durham with Jack Smith, who is acting like a crazy person, by the way.
00:28:20.000It's like, if the law exists, we're going grand slam, great Bambino, Babe Ruth, point in the center field, like every time.
00:28:29.000Jack Smith is, again, as I said, the eight-year-old in Little League Baseball, where he's just like, and he just collapses every single time.
00:28:36.000And yeah, I mean, one out of 100 times at bat, he will hit that grand slam.
00:28:43.000So why is John Durham, why didn't he have at least a little bit of that gusto?
00:30:06.000Matt Gates grills, Mr. Durham, play cut 85.
00:30:11.000You tried two cases, lost both of them, and then the one plea, guilty plea you got, Klein Smith, Klein Smith is back to practicing law in Washington, D.C. today.
00:30:23.000Have you ever heard of the Washington Generals?
00:31:26.000So, what are you going to do with us exactly?
00:31:29.000You control the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, you control Google, you control Facebook, you control Goldman Sachs, you control BlackRock, you control the NBA, you control the NFL, but we're still here.
00:31:44.000What are you planning to do with us exactly?
00:31:48.000And they're just going to be like, oh, we just need to keep on taking over the country and bring in more foreigners to disenfranchise ordinary people.
00:32:18.000I want to have a government that earns our trust.
00:32:24.000But after lying where COVID came from and the lockdowns and the mass and the mRNA shot and the manipulation of data and the disappearance of medical journals and whistleblowers and all that, we're done.
00:32:35.000But it really makes you wonder: what is the plan of the American left or do they not care?
00:32:42.000Steamroll, pummel them, call them terrorists.
00:32:46.000Is it kind of the California model, one-party rule, where we just terrorize the right and you put up with some of their complaints here or there and you have supermajorities at all places and all turns?
00:32:58.000Washington Examiner article, America turns right.
00:33:00.000Conservatives top liberals, 40% to 26%.
00:33:04.000So the country's philosophically and principally and politically moving more to the center right.
00:33:12.000The Democrats even think for a second, yeah, it's probably not healthy for the future of the republic and of elections and our discourse and dialogue for my grandkids if 70 million people think that our government is the 21st century equivalent of Stalin's Soviet Union.
00:33:33.000And the answer to my hypotheticals is to tally to tell totalitarians do not ask these questions.
00:33:41.000They just want to be in charge and they'll figure out what to do with you.
00:33:45.000But I just want to say it's demoralizing in a sense of I don't want to have to host an entire show talking about how the Justice Department, but I'm also not going to do happy talk, wishful thinking, Mike Pence stuff where everything is burning and you say, wow, what a beautiful day everything is.