00:01:13.000His 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.
00:01:21.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:15.000And I think it should, because this is the last leverage point we have against the Biden administration.
00:02:20.000And you're right, Charlie, in the sense that when you have kind of an intentional strategy on the part of leadership to force this into a corner, it's going to leave something to be desired on the execution front.
00:02:34.000I think the House conservatives are increasingly united in forcing a conversation about moving forward on bill by bill and really focusing on the woken weaponized restrictions that need to be put in place to put a vice grip around the Biden administration's activities against the American people.
00:02:56.000I think you're going to see those kinds of debates this week, and it's going to move to a good place in terms of the theatrics of the last several weeks.
00:03:04.000Yeah, and I want to make sure that we calm down the alarmism.
00:03:06.000So I received a couple emails this weekend.
00:03:08.000Charlie, I can't believe you want a government shutdown.
00:03:23.000Let's just call it a fractional government pause because it's not actually a shutdown because they all get back pay.
00:03:29.000It's basically the secret that no one wants to say is that a lot of government workers are hoping for this because they basically get a vacation.
00:03:37.000Russ, tell us what really happens because this is important.
00:03:42.000I mean, two-thirds of the federal government is on autopilot.
00:03:46.000Not a good situation, but the reality of where we are.
00:03:49.000So a third of the federal government is subject to what we call the annual appropriations process.
00:03:54.000But if you're on Social Security, there's nothing to worry about.
00:03:57.000You're going to get your check and you're going to get your check on time, Medicare.
00:04:01.000The Department of Defense is going to continue to be out there defending our country.
00:04:05.000All of the people that is in the business of securing this country are going to be similarly at their post.
00:04:12.000What this does is this says, you know, for those of you who are working on the Biden climate regulations at the EPA or the Department of Interior, sorry, you're going to have to go home.
00:04:23.000You're not going to be able to be at your desk and working.
00:04:26.000And so this is not something, there are tried and true ways, and I've managed this for President Trump to make this painless as possible, consistent with the law.
00:04:35.000We thankfully blazed a pretty good trail on that, that they're going to have a hard time playing politics with this.
00:04:43.000But in terms of the, this is not a situation where the, you know, you're going to go off a cliff and somehow you're not going to get your government benefits.
00:04:55.000Because the way I look at it, the way the stars have aligned, the universe, all of a sudden, and again, I'm not happy about this, but it just so happens the border has never been as bad as it is right now.
00:05:07.000And that's like intersecting right with this funding fight over border security.
00:05:12.000Russ, if Republicans can't get this done when there's 8,500 people illegally entering an Eagle Pass alone, I mean, it's not as if this is something that happened six months ago.
00:05:22.000This is actively occurring, then Republicans are completely worthless.
00:05:26.000Russ, so what is the ask and strategically, what is your advice for how they actually get it done?
00:05:33.000So my view is that they have had a wonderful banner, a messaging parameter called no security, no funding that allows them to be able to go at this seminal threat that we're seeing along the border and to make that a very, very important issue.
00:05:48.000I also think it allows them to deal with the weaponization at the Department of Justice.
00:05:53.000I don't think that we can leave this leverage point without doing something against the regime that is trying to steal the next election and at the same time going against half the country and considering them enemies of the state.
00:06:08.000So I think there's a lot of things that can be done.
00:06:12.000But if we don't get to the end of this process and have dealt with those two issues and then spent a lot of time trying to defund the offices doing the bad activities, I'll consider it a failure.
00:06:24.000So, but then the goal needs to be then not paperwork processors on the border, but actual border security.
00:06:44.000And there's a specific rider that needs to be put in place.
00:06:47.000And Stephen Miller has been calling this for this some time as well as Chip Roy.
00:06:51.000It needs to be illegal in the sense that you can't spend the money to be able to release someone into the border.
00:06:58.000That's the kind of thing that it's not just about changing laws that they ignore.
00:07:02.000It's about saying that a bureaucrat is going to be facing criminal charges in violation of the Anti-Deficiency Act if they ignore the appropriations law that's saying that they can't do that.
00:07:15.000And as a result, that will change a lot of the policies that we've been asking for.
00:07:19.000So we're looming towards this lockdown.
00:07:22.000Re-emphasize what you're saying about leadership.
00:07:24.000How has leadership basically set the table for failure?
00:07:32.000For the first time, House Republicans were governing with conservatives in their caucus, and they were achieving things that no one thought was possible to pass $5 trillion in potential cuts.
00:07:43.000At the debt limit deal, Kevin McCarthy walked away from House Conservatives and went essentially into coalition with House Democrats.
00:07:52.000At the time, he used as an excuse, he said, we'll do all this through the appropriations process.
00:07:57.000That was an excuse because they then didn't move any of the appropriations bills themselves.
00:08:02.000It's not like these bills are passed out of the House and sitting in the Senate.
00:08:06.000Instead, they've had a pileup in which we are now up against a deadline and they're asking for more time.
00:08:13.000But the problem is, is that McCarthy has never governed from the standpoint of we're going to use leverage points to save the country.
00:08:22.000Instead, he puts a cartel view on it, which is we're going to try to minimize what is necessary to get past this leverage point because otherwise it will have political risk.
00:08:33.000And I think you and I agree, like, we're not going to save the country without managing political risk.
00:09:24.000You have the DEI, you know, lesbian bureaucrats at the Department of Homeland Security or whatever that might not, you know, be going to work for a couple of days.
00:09:38.000Because the media Sunday morning, Face the Nation, CBS, all that full court press, Republicans shut down the government once midnight hits on Saturday night.
00:09:46.000So how do we get ahead of this and preemptively message it and not just be on our heels and play defense?
00:09:53.000Yeah, I mean, I think the reality is to go back to the facts.
00:10:11.000Funding will come back on when Congress reaches a deal.
00:10:15.000And I think if we can communicate facts in that vein, we will help our case and explain to the American people what's actually going on.
00:10:22.000But here's the thing that I would say: these leverage points in which there is confrontation and there is political risk are incredibly important because the only chance that we get to get the country's attention is when people who are not listening to politics are listening to their like Christian music station or whatever they're listening to, and all of a sudden they have the news update that's saying, okay, there is a government lapse.
00:10:43.000Oh, what are the terms that are being discussed?
00:10:45.000Oh, the weaponization of the Department of Justice.
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00:12:15.000Matt Walsh deserves a lot of credit from the Daily Wire.
00:12:17.000He came out with the documentary, What is a Woman?
00:12:21.000And I've been doing this for 11 years on college campuses.
00:12:25.000And when I saw the documentary, I said, man, that is a brilliant way that Matt is framing it.
00:12:30.000We're all of civilization since the beginning of the species, you know what a woman is, that only the college educated think that it's a trick question.
00:12:38.000They're unable to answer the question.
00:12:41.000So I go to college campuses, so you don't have to.
00:12:43.000Turning Point USA is the nation's largest organization, not even close.
00:14:14.000You can't answer the question with a...
00:14:18.000It's the college kids of America going hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt who think it's a trick question when you ask them what a woman is.
00:16:01.000And she was kind of flummoxed by the question.
00:16:04.000When you go down to basic vocabulary, it's amazing how they build their entire worldview on a couple of words, a couple phrases, and they can't tell you what those actually are.
00:16:21.000I hear this a lot, and it's 100% true.
00:16:24.000These people are brainwashed into a cult, which, of course, is what happens when you send your kid to college.
00:18:55.000While Targets of the world and Bud Lights of the world and the HelloFreshes of the world and the Burger Kings of the world continue to embrace progressive virtue signaling and woke behaviors over providing quality products, we're actually singing a fundamentally different tune.
00:19:09.000We're swimming in a different direction.
00:19:13.000And we're very grateful for the way in which our movement has rallied around this cause.
00:19:18.000I will say, I have never seen a political faction, conservatives, all together rally around one cohesive thing as much as I have the parallel economy.
00:19:28.000It's amazing the different stripes of conservatism that have come together to say, you know what, we can vote every day with our wallet.
00:19:34.000I think it unifies our base in a very profound way.
00:19:36.000And it allows us to not just have the power at the ballot box every two and four years.
00:19:41.000I certainly admire what you're doing fighting the election fight, Charlie, but I admire it especially because you actually believe that we can vote outside of the ballot box as well.
00:20:01.000And it talks about how there has been a response by Grassroots America to engage in freedom-loving, freedom-appreciating type companies.
00:20:11.000And so this has really kind of played out again over the weekend.
00:20:15.000Burger King, which their food is just awful and poison, says that they're no longer going to advertise on Rumble, which is another one of our favorite companies and partners.
00:21:07.000Number one is the nonprofit network that claims to be for human rights.
00:21:11.000So this is the ADL pressuring advertisers to cancel conservative hosts or creators.
00:21:17.000We've obviously seen that blow up recently.
00:21:19.000So the anti-defamation league that actually loves to defame people, which is kind of ironic.
00:21:23.000Then you've got the human rights campaign that's actually anything but a proponent of human rights.
00:21:29.000If you're a white Christian straight man, they will gladly weaponize the political and nonprofit system against you and your rights.
00:21:35.000But they claim to help marginalize quote unquote communities.
00:21:38.000So you've got those nonprofits that literally make it their sole aim to cancel those folks that they deem oppressive or hostile to their message.
00:21:48.000Then you have arguably the even more sinister institutions, which are the financial networks and systems that are built to incentivize woke behaviors, meaning the ESG and the DEI complex.
00:21:59.000You have folks, banks, financial institutions, credit institutions that will literally give financial favor to certain companies if they have a higher ESG or DEI score.
00:22:09.000So you can imagine what advertising for an enemy of the left would do to your ESG score.
00:22:16.000Oh, no, we may lose our financial access and not have quite as favorable of loan systems.
00:22:22.000So we're going to cancel the creator that we used to advertise with.
00:22:26.000It's pressure through organizations that receive a lot of donor funds that are funded by the Soros Empire and the Clinton Foundation in order to stifle voices that disagree with them.
00:22:36.000And it is a financial institutional system that is designed to reward progressive authoritarian behaviors.
00:22:43.000And obviously, Russell Brand found himself out of their good graces.
00:22:46.000So they weaponized the system against him.
00:22:49.000So you take, you know, Burger King, for example, which is a massive company.
00:22:53.000They have a holding company called like Restaurant Brands, a $20 billion company.
00:22:57.000You're trying to tell me that Burger King and their massive marketing budget, which by the way, like every other NFL game is a Burger King ad, right?
00:23:04.000I mean, so the huge volume of advertisement, you're trying to tell me that they organically woke up and they say, oh, yeah, by the way, the $50,000 of ads that we're spending on Rumble, get rid of it because of old allegations against Russell Brand.
00:23:19.000No, here's what happened is that left-wing activist groups went to Rumble, R-U-M-B-L-E.com, and they saw some of the blue chip advertisers that were there.
00:23:37.000They try to create this synthetic push to try to destroy Rumble, destroy any platforms of Russell Brand, because obviously he's speaking out against that stuff.
00:23:48.000Talk about the business directory at Public Square, Michael.
00:23:51.000Well, we are actually the safe haven in the home for advertisers that want to spend their money with the goal of attracting consumers that love the Constitution and the values that it protects.
00:24:02.000We have adopted the largest network of businesses in the world that are fundamentally against this cancel culture funded by the left.
00:24:11.000You're exactly right in what happened with Burger King in this situation.
00:24:14.000So what we've done is create the alternative.
00:24:16.000If you want a lot of restaurants and a lot of food providers and a lot of clothing companies, the watch I'm wearing now and the shoes on my feet that love the country and the Constitution and the values that it protects, that recognize the gift of liberty endowed by our creator, these unalienable rights.
00:24:30.000If you want to spend your money with companies that support those ideals, Public Square is the network.
00:24:34.000We are also now larger than the entire active base of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
00:24:38.000So for us, the Chamber of Commerce is dead.
00:24:41.000We are now the replacement that is not corrupt, that's actually prioritizing the representation of America's small business interests.
00:24:49.000So whether you're a business that wants to get your voice out and connect with a group of consumers that are excited to shop with you because you have values alignment, or you're a consumer that is tired of funding the woke industrial complex and you're ready to spend your money with a business that would never lecture you about gender ideology or cancel you because of your conservative views, you can head to publicsq.com and you'll find both of those opportunities there.
00:25:12.000And so you're starting to see some anxiety across some of the corporate America types, right?
00:25:16.000Because they're worried that them becoming super PACs that also sells, you know, Democrat super PACs that also sell products and services, that it's fallen apart, that this is an unsustainable model.
00:25:27.000And we know this because of the layoffs.
00:25:30.000We know this because of a lot of their, you know, let's just say earnings are a little bit lower than their necessary projections.
00:25:38.000And look, half the country, if half the country started to shop their values, we'd be in a much different place.
00:25:44.000I mean, in Burger King, they come out and they say, you know, we have a picture here, time to be proud.
00:25:49.000They have the Pride Whopper, right, back in June.
00:25:52.000And Michael, reflecting back on the summer, I think a lot of this changed during Pride Month.
00:25:56.000I think this was one of the first Junes where corporate America realized that there was a liability, not a benefit to embracing the trans radical gay agenda.
00:26:07.000Well, and they're kind of in a sticky situation now because it's sort of a catch-22.
00:26:12.000They can't win because they've already shown their true colors.
00:26:18.000They show their true colors and now they're trying to have their cake and eat it too, come back to the middle, wherever that is.
00:26:26.000But at the same time, they're refusing to deny their past behavior.
00:26:30.000For example, with Target, when they came out and promoted tucking underwear for children in their children's section, they faced a lot of backlash, rightfully so.
00:26:39.000Moms were really frustrated and were not down to patronize that type of establishment.
00:26:43.000So they removed some of the memorabilia, some of the merchandise in certain stores that may have a certain propensity to be disgusted by that type of thing.
00:27:04.000Larry Fink, the CEO of renowned wealth management firm BlackRock, largest asset manager in the world, came out this week and said that we are redefining ESG.
00:27:14.000We don't want to use the term anymore.
00:27:31.000And so it's important for American consumers right now to be very attentive.
00:27:35.000Is the company that was virtue signaling a few months ago, are they actually changing their ways?
00:27:41.000Or are they simply trying to pull the wool over your eyes, make it look like they want to be for all people when in reality, they're refusing to deny the very actions that led to the decrease in their market cap in the first place.
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00:28:12.000When you go out to eat, are you going to go to a local small business or a restaurant that flies the trans flag or one that flies the American flag?
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00:31:20.000To those who have rushed to judgment, you have done so based on a limited set of facts framed by the prosecution to be as salacious as possible.
00:31:29.000Remember, prosecutors get it wrong sometimes.
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00:32:50.000I want to ask you about some Democratic politics.
00:32:53.000You were outspoken about George Santos, the New York congressman, and said he should resign because of all the legal issues and ethical issues he was facing.
00:33:00.000Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey, as you know, has just been indicted on bribery charges.
00:33:08.000And what do you think of his statement that it has to do with him being a Latino?
00:33:13.000Well, you know, I think it's the situation is quite unfortunate, but I do believe that it is in the best interests for Senator Menendez to resign in this moment.
00:33:23.000As you mentioned, consistency matters.
00:33:26.000It shouldn't matter whether it's a Republican or a Democrat.
00:33:29.000The clip gets cut off short because here she is.
00:33:31.000She's speaking as if, you know, she's a spoiled white girl from the Upper West Side, which she is Latina.
00:33:36.000And then she just like, all of a sudden, her dialect changes.
00:33:39.000It's one of the best parts of the quote where all of a sudden she's like, yeah, you know, I really think this is wrong.
00:33:44.000But as a Latina, it's like, wait, hold on a second.
00:33:46.000Like, why all of a sudden, like, what's with the code switching?