The Charlie Kirk Show - Drones in Ukraine… And in Congress?

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show, we go through the latest in Ukraine and Russia.

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00:00:06.000 I sure don't.

00:00:07.000 Not with all the involvement of America abroad.

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00:01:14.000 There was a close call that happened thousands and thousands of miles away from here.

00:01:20.000 It's a close call between an unmanned American aircraft and a Russian fighter jet.

00:01:25.000 What transpired in the last couple of days, we're still getting clarity on.

00:01:30.000 We have B-roll of the drone being hit.

00:01:33.000 But the immediate reaction that I think all rational patriots have is: are we really thinking out the potential escalating steps that could happen here?

00:01:44.000 This is happening in an area where most Americans cannot identify on a map.

00:01:49.000 And as soon as I saw this story, this is the way that I've been trained to look at these news stories.

00:01:54.000 The first thing I said, I asked myself, do we have military drones over the southern border right now?

00:01:59.000 Maybe we do.

00:02:00.000 And if we do, then terrific.

00:02:01.000 Great.

00:02:02.000 That's excellent.

00:02:03.000 But do we have military reconnaissance programs going on to track the cartels trafficking fentanyl and illegals and guns into our country?

00:02:12.000 We are now over a year into this awful, brutal, cruel, inhumane war on both sides just continually killing each other in eastern Ukraine.

00:02:26.000 And we as Americans have been the primary financiers.

00:02:29.000 We have been the primary pushers of the escalating of this conflict, not trying to broker peace.

00:02:36.000 When was the last time you heard anybody in leadership in America say, we demand peace?

00:02:43.000 Get to the table.

00:02:45.000 Start negotiating.

00:02:46.000 What are the terms of peace?

00:02:48.000 We don't hear that at all because Ukraine represents the next chapter in a failed neoliberal project.

00:02:55.000 Russia is the perfect enemy for many people in Washington, D.C. 0.89

00:02:59.000 And we've been very clear.

00:03:00.000 I'm no fan of Vladimir Putin.

00:03:01.000 I'm no fan of Russia. 0.98

00:03:02.000 There's plenty of things about Russia that I find to be reprehensible and disgusting.

00:03:07.000 At the same time, I'm not a cheerleader for Zelensky or Ukraine either.

00:03:11.000 Sometimes two bad actors can go to war against each other.

00:03:15.000 And war is awful.

00:03:17.000 It is the worst thing human beings do.

00:03:20.000 But the current regime in Washington, D.C. has been enthusiastic about escalating the conflict.

00:03:26.000 War is dangerous.

00:03:27.000 It's unpredictable.

00:03:29.000 It doesn't go the way you expect.

00:03:31.000 And this is one of the reasons why the neoliberals and the neoconservatives are so wrong on this.

00:03:38.000 They think they're playing a game of risk or Call of Duty as a video game.

00:03:43.000 Like, oh, yeah, you invade here, you conquer this.

00:03:45.000 It's messy.

00:03:46.000 It's logistically very difficult.

00:03:49.000 It's the law of unattended consequences.

00:03:51.000 It can go longer than you can expect.

00:03:53.000 We should do everything we possibly can to avoid war.

00:03:57.000 But our current government seems to be wanting to tumble us towards that quicker and quicker.

00:04:03.000 And it's not just our government.

00:04:05.000 I am repulsed by how the Republican Party is in harmony with the Biden regime on this.

00:04:11.000 The Democrat Party is now the party of war.

00:04:14.000 The idea of the Democrats being against the Iraq war and foreign imperialism, the American Democrat Party is fully on board with what is going on in Ukraine.

00:04:25.000 The $200 billion spent, the money laundering that's probably occurring, the weapons that are just flooding that entire region.

00:04:32.000 The American Democrat Party used to have anti-war elements and they have been eliminated.

00:04:37.000 So now the voice of anti-war, not an anti-war, because that sounds really hippie.

00:04:42.000 How about this?

00:04:42.000 How about the voice of pro-America lives in a portion of the Republican Party?

00:04:49.000 It lives on programs like this on War Room on Tucker Carlson.

00:04:52.000 And you, the voters, are overwhelmingly disgusted by what you are seeing.

00:04:58.000 You see your own beloved country invaded.

00:05:02.000 And then you see your leaders send money abroad to go secure other people's borders while yours, 5,000 people a day, pour into our country.

00:05:11.000 And a piece of criticism I get is, oh, Charlie, those are separate things.

00:05:15.000 No, they're not.

00:05:16.000 You have to make decisions on priorities and hierarchies in life.

00:05:20.000 It's a very simple thing.

00:05:22.000 This matters more than that.

00:05:24.000 And America's border should matter more than foreign adventures abroad, period. 0.64

00:05:29.000 If you can't do that, then do not do the other thing.

00:05:32.000 Securing our border is considered to be racist and bigoted, but securing Ukraine's border is considered to be the Winston-Churchillian cause of the 21st century.

00:05:42.000 And Congress and Republicans have been just shredding the Constitution by doing this.

00:05:48.000 But I think there's finally, finally, some signs that people are pushing back on the uniparty totalitarian dogma that we must send unlimited money, unlimited arms, and not question at all.

00:06:04.000 And there are some very simple questions.

00:06:06.000 We've asked some of these questions.

00:06:07.000 Tucker has asked some of these questions, but I have some different kind of twists on them.

00:06:11.000 And this is a simple one.

00:06:12.000 And anyone is welcome to email this program with a dissenting point of view, a contrarian point of view.

00:06:17.000 Do you feel safer right now in America because we've now spent $200 billion in Ukraine in a proxy war against Russia?

00:06:28.000 Do you feel safer?

00:06:31.000 Do you feel as if our homeland is more secure?

00:06:34.000 Is our country financially stronger?

00:06:37.000 Have we looked after our own citizens?

00:06:40.000 I'm going to play a piece of tape from Mark Milley saying that this collision between the fighter jet and the drone is not an act of war.

00:06:48.000 Play Cut 73.

00:06:50.000 As far as an act of war goes, I'm not going to go there.

00:06:53.000 Incidents happen and clearly we do not seek armed conflict with Russia.

00:07:00.000 And I believe that at this point, we should investigate this incident and move on from there.

00:07:07.000 But we will continue to exercise our rights in international airspace.

00:07:10.000 If we had an honest American journalist corps, do you know what their first question would be or their criticism?

00:07:16.000 Well, Millie, if you're not seeking armed conflict with Russia, then why are you involved in armed conflict with Russia?

00:07:22.000 We're already involved.

00:07:24.000 We're supplying them weapons.

00:07:26.000 We're giving them technology, support.

00:07:30.000 We are involved in an armed conflict with Russia.

00:07:34.000 And let me ask a question.

00:07:35.000 Why do we have drones anywhere near Ukraine?

00:07:39.000 Why?

00:07:40.000 It's very simple, like a very simple question.

00:07:42.000 Why do we have drones even near Ukraine?

00:07:44.000 Who approved that?

00:07:45.000 Did Congress go through the process of saying, okay, here's the War Powers Act.

00:07:49.000 Now you're allowed to fly drones near Ukraine?

00:07:53.000 Has that ever been approved?

00:07:55.000 Empire after empire overextends themselves while the homeland decays.

00:08:01.000 And Mark Milley will say, well, it's for surveillance and it's for intelligence.

00:08:06.000 I would love some surveillance and intelligence to try to prevent the flow of fentanyl into America.

00:08:11.000 And this is exactly why the conservative movement is now fueled by a simple moral claim.

00:08:20.000 Take care of our country first before foreign countries. 1.00

00:08:24.000 For believing that, they call you a Putin puppet. 0.95

00:08:27.000 They call you a traitor. 0.88

00:08:28.000 They call you loyal to the Kremlin.

00:08:30.000 When in reality, we're loyal to our own nation.

00:08:34.000 The philosophy behind America First is that if we do not make urgent action to solve the homeland, then we're going to be nothing more than a colony posing as a country.

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00:09:28.000 Yeah, I get a couple angry.

00:09:29.000 People are upset.

00:09:30.000 I'd say actually, generally, the consensus is people like it when I say it's Lady Graham.

00:09:36.000 I'm sorry, if you're going to try to stumble us into World War III, I'm going to take a little shot at you.

00:09:41.000 Some people said, Charlie, it's not right to call a U.S. senator by a bad name.

00:09:45.000 You obviously never listened to the great Rush Limbaugh.

00:09:49.000 You know what he called Chuck Schumer?

00:09:50.000 Chuck Yu Schumer.

00:09:51.000 We have these little one-liners to make the legacy of Rush continue.

00:09:54.000 Oh, what a great man.

00:09:56.000 So let's play.

00:09:57.000 I want to just play an element of this, and then I want to get into it because Ron DeSantis answering Tucker Carlson's questionnaire has been so interesting.

00:10:06.000 Again, we're Trump 2024.

00:10:08.000 We've said that, but I'm also very, very pro-DeSantis.

00:10:10.000 I love DeSantis.

00:10:12.000 He's a friend of mine.

00:10:13.000 He's a patriot.

00:10:14.000 He's a courageous fighter.

00:10:16.000 He's clear.

00:10:18.000 So DeSantis responded to Tucker Carlson's questionnaire about all the stuff on Ukraine.

00:10:23.000 And the Uniparty in D.C. is very bothered by it because DeSantis is supposed to be, for some people, the place where establishment moderates can feel comfortable.

00:10:32.000 And DeSantis is like, yeah, this is a border dispute.

00:10:34.000 We shouldn't do F-16s.

00:10:35.000 We shouldn't have offensive weapons.

00:10:37.000 It's not a good idea.

00:10:38.000 But I do want to just remind you: one of the reasons we're in the mess that we are in is because Lady Graham and John McCain and A.B. Klomichar and many of these neoliberal Republican and Democrats were poking the Russian bear for years.

00:10:55.000 Now, let me be very clear about my position.

00:10:58.000 This does not justify invading a smaller sovereign country.

00:11:04.000 Putin did a bad, immoral, evil thing to invade a smaller sovereign country.

00:11:12.000 However, you must also understand how we set the table for him to do that.

00:11:19.000 I want you to imagine if Russia or China went to Mexico with some of their equivalents of senators and gave speeches to the cartel and would say, this is the year of offense against America.

00:11:35.000 We're going to take out the American president.

00:11:37.000 How do you think we would respond to that?

00:11:40.000 The answer is the American left would probably invite them to go speak on college campuses, but that's a separate issue, meaning that it would poke the American bear. 0.99

00:11:49.000 So, Lady Graham goes to Russia and directly provokes Russia. 0.81

00:11:55.000 I mean, he goes to Ukraine and directly provokes Russia. 0.78

00:11:57.000 A sane country would respond somehow.

00:12:00.000 Right on their border, you have the strongest country in the world saying, We're going to go play offense against Russia. 0.98

00:12:05.000 And I will repeat it again: how is Vladimir Putin a serious or significant or material threat to the United States homeland in any way, shape, or form, especially while we are being invaded daily?

00:12:20.000 And our children are dying from fentanyl straight from the CCP via the cartel.

00:12:27.000 Why?

00:12:28.000 How many people?

00:12:30.000 This is an interesting question.

00:12:31.000 How many teenagers has Putin killed in America in the last five years or the Russian Federation?

00:12:39.000 I can say without any exaggeration: 50 to 75,000 teenagers have died in America the last five years because of the cartel in the Chinese Communist Party. 0.84

00:12:51.000 Washington, D.C. is really focused on the abstractions abroad.

00:12:56.000 All right, let's play Graham here in Ukraine.

00:13:00.000 69.

00:13:01.000 I'm sorry, 73, I think, is the one.

00:13:04.000 Lindsey Graham saying we got to play offense.

00:13:09.000 Did Washington, D.C. set the table for this proxy war?

00:13:12.000 And if yes, why?

00:13:14.000 Play cut 73.

00:13:16.000 Admire the fact that you will fight for your homeland.

00:13:19.000 Your fight is our fight.

00:13:20.000 2017 will be the year of offense.

00:13:23.000 All of us will go back to Washington and we will push the case against Russia.

00:13:29.000 We will push the case against Russia.

00:13:32.000 And how you expect them to react to that?

00:13:34.000 By the way, that's from 2017.

00:13:36.000 And it's only worse now.

00:13:37.000 It's like in every theater of America, every theater of the world, we have American senators going to try to turn up the temperature.

00:13:45.000 So now here's John Fune from South Dakota responding to Ron DeSantis.

00:13:50.000 Look at the disconnect between you, the voters, and the people you send in Washington, D.C. Can we start to get some primaries of these people?

00:13:58.000 Seriously, can we start to primary these Republicans that just ignore their voters?

00:14:03.000 They do not answer questions.

00:14:05.000 They hate you. 0.94

00:14:06.000 They're smug. 1.00

00:14:07.000 They're arrogant. 0.98

00:14:08.000 They're self-righteous. 0.98

00:14:09.000 Play cut 74.

00:14:10.000 What message does it send to Blammer Putin when one of the leading contenders, potential contenders from the Republican presidential nomination, says that this is not a vital interest for the United States to push war in Ukraine and that it's merely a territorial decision?

00:14:25.000 Well, I mean, I think that there are lots of different opinions on the U.S. involvement in Ukraine, but I think the majority opinion among Senate Republicans is that the United States has a vital national security interest there in stopping Russian aggression.

00:14:39.000 And that's certainly the view I have.

00:14:41.000 A vital national security interest. 0.99

00:14:43.000 What a clown. 0.98

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00:17:24.000 There's John Thune from South Dakota saying that it is in the vital national security interest of America.

00:17:32.000 How?

00:17:34.000 How is a border dispute thousands of miles away in the immediate and vital national security interest of America?

00:17:42.000 Now, you can make a separate argument, which is, well, we have agreements and we have treaties and we have promises.

00:17:50.000 That's a separate argument.

00:17:51.000 And that's actually a better argument.

00:17:53.000 I think it's still flawed and weak, but that's better than trying to gaslight us into acting as if this is our border.

00:18:00.000 It's not.

00:18:01.000 It's not even close to our border.

00:18:03.000 And they say, well, Vladimir Putin is going to roll through and take over Europe.

00:18:07.000 He has been unsuccessful in taking over Ukraine.

00:18:11.000 Ukraine is not part of NATO.

00:18:13.000 And George Washington warned us about having lifelong alliances.

00:18:20.000 Now, one of the reasons why Washington, D.C. is so disconnected from its voters and why you feel as if you have no voice, especially senators.

00:18:32.000 I think the House is better, is because of the 17th Amendment. 0.88

00:18:39.000 The 17th Amendment is without a doubt one of the worst ideas that ever has become a constitutional amendment in history.

00:18:50.000 I think it actually is the worst amendment to the United States Constitution.

00:18:52.000 I don't think it's close.

00:18:54.000 The 17th Amendment, which was ratified thanks to the progressive movement and Woodrow Wilson and all that nonsense in 1913, allowed voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators.

00:19:08.000 Now, this sounded like a very simple and good idea.

00:19:14.000 This sounded like it was rational.

00:19:16.000 Okay, the senators are now going to be directly responsive to voters because the way it used to work was that state legislatures used to appoint the senator through a process and they'd say, okay, here's who we like and we'll appoint them.

00:19:33.000 They also had the ability to recall them though.

00:19:36.000 So basically the senators, United States senators, the way the founding fathers designed the system, the senators had to go through a filter process.

00:19:48.000 They had to go through a vetting process of the hyper local way of government.

00:19:57.000 Senators could not just autopilot to reelection if they betrayed their party and its priorities.

00:20:04.000 So let's take the John Thune example.

00:20:07.000 I have no big complaints with John Thune except the fact he's totally wrong with Ukraine and he doesn't fight on the issues we care about and he votes for omnibus.

00:20:15.000 He seems like a sweet person.

00:20:16.000 I'm not trying to make it about him.

00:20:17.000 There's other senators that are not so sweet.

00:20:19.000 But let's take John Thune, for example, okay?

00:20:21.000 John Thune is going to soar to reelection.

00:20:24.000 Why?

00:20:25.000 Because John Thune is in Senate leadership.

00:20:27.000 John Thune is going to go raise $20 to $30 million.

00:20:30.000 You couldn't spend $20 to $30 million on television in South Dakota.

00:20:35.000 You could buy the local TV station in Rapid City for $20 million, right?

00:20:40.000 I mean, that is a full, complete blanket media operation where you could basically control the entire state with $20 or $30 million.

00:20:49.000 Okay, so he's probably going to win reelection.

00:20:52.000 If he gets primaried, that person will probably have no money.

00:20:55.000 And John Thune will just keep on running ads and running ads and running ads and running ads saying that he's pro-life and he's all this.

00:21:01.000 Nobody can compete with John Thune because getting 200,000 votes gets you to be a U.S. senator.

00:21:08.000 However, if John Thune had to go up for a hearing to get recertified as a senator in front of the South Dakota legislature, now we're talking.

00:21:22.000 The South Dakota legislature is super conservative.

00:21:26.000 They're doing a really good job right now.

00:21:29.000 So the South Dakota South Dakota legislature would basically say, Mr. Thune, we don't think you're representing the voters of South Dakota when it comes to Ukraine.

00:21:40.000 We don't think that you're fighting hard enough.

00:21:43.000 You're no longer a senator.

00:21:45.000 Now, the counter argument is that when you used to have this process, that the state parties kind of controlled it like a mob, but isn't that what's happening now?

00:21:54.000 D.C. has become its own mob.

00:21:55.000 It's become its own cartel.

00:21:58.000 The state legislatures are actually one of the few bright spots of glimmer of hope in America right now.

00:22:04.000 In Tennessee, they're passing the anti-medicamutilation of children bills.

00:22:08.000 In Florida, they're passing amazing anti-CRT stuff.

00:22:12.000 In Arizona, they passed great school choice legislation that was signed into law by Governor Ducey.

00:22:18.000 State legislatures are the most right-wing parts of government in America right now.

00:22:24.000 And it's so, it's almost impossible to vote out these incumbent Republican senators, especially.

00:22:31.000 But imagine if they had to be held accountable by the legislature.

00:22:36.000 That's what the founders wanted.

00:22:38.000 And this is a wonky constitutional provision or amendment that doesn't get enough attention.

00:22:44.000 America became less free and more Washington, D.C. centric as soon as we removed the state legislatures from being able to appoint and hold the United States senators accountable.

00:22:58.000 They became national celebrity figures instead of proxies and extensions of the state capitals.

00:23:06.000 Remember, the states created the federal government.

00:23:09.000 The federal government did not create the states.

00:23:11.000 So now all of a sudden you run for the U.S. Senate.

00:23:14.000 You don't have to talk to your voters in Rapid City.

00:23:18.000 You don't have to go talk to your voters in Peer.

00:23:21.000 You don't have to go talk to the wonderful people all across South Dakota.

00:23:25.000 You just go raise money from New York and California and from lobbyists, run some very neatly tailored television advertisements, and you get reelected and rinse and repeat, and the regime goes untouched.

00:23:38.000 The way the founding fathers wanted it to be, they wanted the states to have a direct voice, a direct check and balance, as it says in the Federalist Papers.

00:23:50.000 And we've lost that.

00:23:51.000 We now have these pseudo-national celebrity figures like Graham, like Romney, like some of these others that they are not held accountable in any way, shape, or form.

00:24:01.000 And the counterargument is: well, Charlie, why don't the voters do it?

00:24:05.000 Again, the reality is in America today, because of the amount of money in politics, these senators, they do a couple show votes on issues people care about, pro-life, this, that, and nothing actually gets done.

00:24:20.000 And then they just blanket the state in advertisements, destroy the Democrat opponent, and they say, okay, I guess John Thune is better than some Democrat, which is true, by the way.

00:24:28.000 I mean, I would vote for John Thune over a Democrat, obviously.

00:24:31.000 That's not the argument I'm making.

00:24:33.000 And you could primary John Thune.

00:24:35.000 You could primary some of these people that are just completely defying their voters.

00:24:41.000 And I could go through the list of all of them.

00:24:43.000 But look at how difficult it has been to launch successful incumbent Republican senatorial primaries over the last decade.

00:24:53.000 It's very, very hard.

00:24:55.000 It is hard to find a Republican incumbent senator, be able to find a good candidate to go up against them and to take them out.

00:25:03.000 It's very hard.

00:25:05.000 There's a party apparatus problem.

00:25:07.000 There's a money problem, a name ID problem.

00:25:09.000 And it shouldn't have to be difficult because the American founding fathers never wanted the system to exist the way it is.

00:25:16.000 And so I remain convinced that one of the reasons you're living in a country where the voters, you, are saying, what the heck are we doing in Ukraine?

00:25:26.000 This makes no sense.

00:25:27.000 Our border is wide open.

00:25:29.000 And you feel as if your senators don't listen to you because they don't, it's because the system, the structure that the founding fathers set up was obliterated by the 17th Amendment.

00:25:40.000 And now they're discovering other weapons that Republicans are embracing, uniparty Republicans, like ranked choice voting, making it even harder.

00:25:49.000 The founding fathers and the framers wanted a bottom-up grassroots model and system.

00:25:54.000 So I mean, I fully support the repeal of the 17th Amendment. 0.98

00:25:56.000 It's unlikely.

00:25:57.000 It's probably not going to happen.

00:25:59.000 But I would prefer the legislatures, the state legislatures, to have a direct voice, to be able to recall John Thune and say, you're not doing your job.

00:26:08.000 I know I'm probably picking on him too much, but it just so happens he was on the clip.

00:26:11.000 And again, I agree with him on a lot of stuff.

00:26:13.000 He's fine on this.

00:26:14.000 On Ukraine, he's not listening to his voters.

00:26:16.000 In fact, he's just parroting these talking points of the Washington, D.C. war machine while our country becomes poorer and our country becomes less likely to pass down a free society to the next generation.

00:26:29.000 This is a major reason why we have lost our freedoms and liberties over the last 20 or 30 years.

00:26:35.000 It is almost like a single point of failure.

00:26:38.000 You get this wrong, you get another thousand, two thousand, three thousand other things wrong.

00:26:43.000 And people say, well, Charlie, why can't we get all these other things done?

00:26:47.000 Why can't we get voter integrity and voter ID and close the border and all of that?

00:26:51.000 And it would be depressing if the voters didn't believe this.

00:26:57.000 What is infuriating is that because of shows like ours and Bannon and Tucker and Daily Wire and the new social media stuff and Turning Point Action and all the educational work that goes, what gives you hope but should be infuriating is this, is it's a two-part equation.

00:27:18.000 A plus B should equal C. Voters with good ideas should be plus representatives that listen to their voters equal good policy, right?

00:27:29.000 A plus B equals C. That's very simple political math.

00:27:32.000 We have voters that are angry, that are seeing the world the right way, that are tired of these silly foreign wars, that want to see China held accountable, that want to see us energy independent.

00:27:43.000 But the B is the actual representatives that couldn't care less about what their voters are actually saying.

00:27:50.000 It's because the structure our founding fathers gave us was put in jeopardy.

00:27:55.000 29 states have full GOP control of the legislature.

00:27:59.000 If we did not have the 17th Amendment, we would have 58 Republican senators and Chuck Yu Schumer would be the minority minority leader.

00:28:09.000 And we'd have a Senate majority leader that would be closer to Josh Hawley and not like Mitch McConnell.

00:28:14.000 The further we get away from the brilliance and the internal wisdom of the founding fathers, the less free our country becomes.

00:28:26.000 I had a question yesterday from a wonderful supporter of Turning Point USA, and she said something about Charlie.

00:28:33.000 You know, we got to stand by our military.

00:28:35.000 And I agree, we do have to stand by our veterans.

00:28:37.000 We got to stand by the active military members.

00:28:39.000 But I do not currently stand by the leadership of this military.

00:28:43.000 I have lost faith in the United States military's ability to not just fight wars, but to be rational and sane.

00:28:49.000 And that's a very tragic thing.

00:28:51.000 I do not delight in this.

00:28:52.000 I don't find joy in this.

00:28:54.000 I want to live in a country where we have the greatest military ever.

00:28:57.000 But the ideas that started in college campuses, as I have warned for a decade, I was mocked, I was ridiculed, I was scorned and ignored by the American ruling class.

00:29:11.000 When I used to be in dinners in Palm Beach or New York, and I was the kid that didn't go to college, and I told them five or six years ago, I said, guys, these ideas are going to metastasize into our military corporations.

00:29:22.000 And I remember one guy who was a military defense contractor, never gave turning point money.

00:29:25.000 He said, Charlie, the military is the greatest ever.

00:29:29.000 We're never going to have these woke ideas in the military.

00:29:32.000 I've tried to follow up with him and get his opinion, but he doesn't return my call now.

00:29:37.000 Cut 70 is Averill Haynes.

00:29:39.000 This is technically talking about the Intel community, okay?

00:29:43.000 This is technically talking about the intelligence community.

00:29:45.000 But I mean, it is a sister operation of the national security military community.

00:29:49.000 So it could be looped into one kind of broader culture.

00:29:53.000 This is an extraordinary tape.

00:29:54.000 This is Averill Haynes, who is the strange, you know, kind of sex fiend, erotica person, very strange.

00:30:01.000 She owns like erotica bookstores.

00:30:03.000 I don't even know what that is. 1.00

00:30:04.000 Director of national intelligence, never should be allowed in the position considering she owns strip clubs.

00:30:10.000 The whole thing's really bizarre.

00:30:12.000 Play cut 70 of Averill Haynes.

00:30:15.000 What are your organizations doing to improve diversity when it comes to recruiting and retaining your workforces?

00:30:20.000 I think there is no question that we have to do better on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.

00:30:26.000 And I think you'll see in our budget requests and our proposals and all of the work that we're doing that we are that we see this as an area that we need to focus more intense resources and efforts.

00:30:40.000 We need to dedicate more intense resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

00:30:49.000 That's the head of the director of national intelligence.

00:30:51.000 Not more resources about finding Chinese spies.

00:30:54.000 Not more resources about how the cartel is moving goods and trafficking children.

00:30:59.000 Not more resources into securing the homeland.

00:31:03.000 No, no, no, more resources into strengthening diversity, equity, and inclusion.

00:31:10.000 Don't you feel safer already?

00:31:12.000 When I wrote my book, The College Scam, I warned that the United States military and the intelligence community and corporations, the entire country is becoming one major college campus.

00:31:24.000 Diversity, equity, inclusion is one of the most damaging and dangerous programs that the left is pushing.

00:31:33.000 And you see it across the board.

00:31:34.000 The Air Force is recruiting right now a diversity, equity, and inclusion expert to earn $180,000 a year.

00:31:46.000 Washington, D.C. believes that racism is a bigger threat than the Chinese Communist Party.

00:31:57.000 Now, they can never define racism.

00:31:59.000 I believe that their pathological focus on racism is a conspiracy theory because they can never tell me what it is.

00:32:06.000 It's everywhere, but you can't see it, and it's in the structure, but you have to wear like super goggles and read Robin D'Angelo's book, and then you can maybe see it.

00:32:16.000 And once you see it, you can't get rid of it and you can't eradicate it because it's like original sin, but you got to apologize for it, all that it is.

00:32:21.000 But don't question it because if you do, if you're a race, if you're a racist, we'll cancel you.

00:32:25.000 But trust me, it's everywhere, even though you can't see it and I can't prove it.

00:32:28.000 But trust the science.

00:32:29.000 What?

00:32:30.000 But where is it?

00:32:31.000 What is it?

00:32:31.000 Like, what I ask you all the time: can you define racism for me?

00:32:34.000 And obviously, there are individual bigots to other people.

00:32:36.000 There's also institutional anti-white racism in America.

00:32:39.000 Just look at a college campus. 0.91

00:32:40.000 Harder for a white person to get into college and an Asian person to get into college than black kids. 0.92

00:32:43.000 That's wrong.

00:32:44.000 It shouldn't happen.

00:32:45.000 Same in hiring of practices, the federal government.

00:32:48.000 So I'll grant you that there's racism there, but diversity, equity, and inclusion is the same immoral premise of critical theory that was brought into South America and apartheid, reconfigured against white people.

00:33:02.000 And now it's not just maybe in the military.

00:33:05.000 Our entire national security apparatus is dominated by the very same ideas that I've been warning people about for a decade at Turning Point USA on college campuses.

00:33:15.000 We fund it with our taxpayer dollars.

00:33:17.000 Republicans gave billions of dollars to these universities.

00:33:20.000 And these universities have now captured the entire country with these awful ideas.

00:33:27.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:33:28.000 Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:33:31.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

00:33:37.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - March 16, 2023

Drones in Ukraine… And in Congress?

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