00:00:55.000His 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.
00:01:03.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:02.000But it seems to be a very nonpartisan group.
00:03:05.000It doesn't seem to be as if this is a partisan.
00:03:08.000So what the National Bureau for Economic Research came out and said is they ranked what states did best in response to the Fauci virus.
00:03:16.000The National Bureau of Economic Research is an American private nonprofit research organization tied to the MIT in Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute for Technology in Harvard.
00:03:26.000So this is as nonpartisan as it's going to get.
00:05:58.000But they say that South Dakota did the second best.
00:06:00.000Ron DeSantis in Florida was the sixth best despite having multiple urban populations.
00:06:07.000Orlando, Tampa, Miami, being the three biggest urban areas in Florida.
00:06:15.000Not to mention Florida having a disproportionately elderly population.
00:06:20.000And yet, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, as we take a step back, everything that we were warning about on this program, lockdown's not working, mask mandates not working, vaccine mandates not working, are now the numbers do not lie.
00:06:35.000And coming in at the 46th worst state response, Illinois.
00:06:39.000Illinois was the 46th worst state response.
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00:12:42.000And then the last little one is Putin.
00:12:44.000If you were even to blame Putin for it, even though the rocket ship starts to take off well before Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, Putin price hike.
00:13:45.000Many corporations aren't doing that, by the way.
00:13:48.000And if your employer is not giving an 8% or 9% or 10% raise in that regard year over year, we did that at Turning Point USA for a reason because you're going to get actively poorer.
00:14:01.000And you're going to get actively poor if that's happening, where it's like, wow, year over year, I'm earning less money.
00:14:08.000Even though I'm earning the same or a little bit more, things are costing more.
00:14:20.000Now, one of the reasons you have to believe the Democrats thought they could get away with this is they thought no one would wake up to actually want to fix our elections.
00:14:30.000A pretty extraordinary announcement came out today, which is a great announcement for the security of our elections and the integrity of our elections.
00:14:40.000Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have said they will not give another $400 million for this next aid of elections.
00:14:50.000The nonprofit that distributed most of the $350 million in donations from Zuckerberg to election officers in 2020 said Monday that it won't disperse similar donations this year after backlash from conservative suspicions that the contributions tilted the outcome of the presidential race towards Biden.
00:15:07.000This tells me a couple different things.
00:15:09.000Number one, it shows that the backlash that Zuckerberg has received has really bothered him, and it should bother him.
00:15:20.000But what I do know is that Zuckerberg is not exactly excited about further alienating half the country.
00:15:27.000By the way, on Facebook and Instagram, it's conservative content that performs way better than left-wing content if it wasn't for all the algorithm changes and all the games and the thumb on the scale that Facebook plays.
00:15:44.000Instead, the Institute for Technology and Civic Life is launching a different program, dubbed the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence.
00:15:51.000The 80 million five-year effort is intended to create a network for the nation's thousands of local officials who can apply for aid to improve their technology and processes.
00:16:01.000It's way smaller, way longer-term, and way less controversial, still not great.
00:16:07.000Unfortunately, years of underinvestment means that many local departments offer have limited capacity training, whatever.
00:16:15.000But here's the kicker: the 2020 effort by Zuckerberg amid the COVID-19 pandemic fueled conservative anger.
00:16:24.000And distrust of the presidential election outcome.
00:16:27.000At least eight GOP-controlled states passed laws banning private donations.
00:16:31.000Suspicion that contributions routinely referred to as Zuckerbucks helped Biden a Democrat has become a staple among those who believe former President Trump's election lies.
00:16:48.000Would love to talk to you about the election lies.
00:16:51.000I'll show you a video of a mule after mule after mule after a mule.
00:16:55.000You could show me if that's okay, of where you see people at three o'clock in the morning coming out with 10 ballots, taking pictures of the ballots with latex gloves on, going up to the ballot drop boxes, stuffing them in there, taking the latex gloves off and getting back in the car and taking pictures of the ballot so they get paid.
00:17:09.000With us right now is the head of a phenomenal organization, one of the most important organizations in America, Judicial Watch, which is fighting for the country, fighting for citizens' basic rights and rooting out corruption wherever it rears its ugly head.
00:17:42.000Let's start with what was called the Whitmer kidnapping case.
00:17:48.000This is something that I believe was direct election interference.
00:17:52.000Every single one of the defendants got off.
00:17:55.000What do we know about this and why is it important?
00:17:58.000Well, what we know is that there were more FBI informants involved in the plot, it looks like, than the number of actual defendants in the purported plot.
00:18:08.000We also know that a jury in Michigan was convinced that there was no there there and that they were convinced there was entrapment by the FBI for at least two of the defendants who were let off entirely, acquitted, and two others, their charges resulted in a hung jury.
00:18:27.000So it's a historic rejection of the FBI and the Justice Department's willingness to engage in entrapment, as you point out, in order to score political points against their political opponents, namely people perceived to be Trump supporters.
00:18:48.000So they came into this group that were evidently saying all sorts of odd and probably inappropriate things online, but they were seen as Trump supporters and anti and those opposed to the COVID shutdowns going on there in Michigan.
00:19:04.000And the defense made the argument that, look, these guys were not in a position to do anything and the plot only advanced in a substantive way with the intervention of FBI informants and the help of FBI informants.
00:19:24.000You know, we can't take away the politics.
00:19:26.000So they had this scheme that was developed by the FBI that conveniently came to a head just shortly before the November 2020 elections.
00:19:37.000And so when those arrests were made, and the headlines were shocking.
00:19:41.000There was this horrible plot to kidnap and kill people in order to kidnap the governor of Michigan, a Democrat hero at the time.
00:19:50.000And so the Democratic politicians took advantage of it and used it as a cudgel against then-candidate Trump.
00:19:58.000And, you know, it's one of those, if but for that, maybe the numbers of the, in terms of the votes might have been different in certain states.
00:20:22.000And we're starting to see this with some of the January 6th defendants, that one in particular got off recently by a judge who said it's very clear that you were let into the Capitol by police officers.
00:20:35.000And the question is, how many other circumstances or how many other defendants should have been treated accordingly?
00:20:42.000Meaning, look, they were in places they weren't supposed to be, but there was no harm, no foul.
00:20:47.000They didn't commit violence to get there.
00:20:50.000And they were let in, as you're highlighting, by the police.
00:20:53.000And that didn't seem to stop the Justice Department from trying to put people in jail after federal prosecutions.
00:21:00.000So you can't distinguish or make a distinction, especially since you have some of the same FBI officials involved in the January 6th prosecutions as were involved in this Whitmer scam.
00:21:13.000You can't make a distinction between the FBI that would put people in jail based on an FBI plot and a fake crime with the handling of some of these or many of these January 6th prosecutions.
00:21:28.000Do you think that what happened in Michigan, because there was a weird through line between the person that was either the DA or the head FBI agent, had any connection to January 6th?
00:21:38.000I don't think there's an explicit connection, but this is a group of people who are willing to, let's put it charitably, to go up to the line, if not over it, in prosecuting certain political opponents.
00:21:55.000And for the deep state, Trump supporters are political opponents, and they've used January 6 as a pretext and an excuse to smear anyone who has concerns about election integrity, anyone who opposes pretty much any element of the Biden agenda or the radical left agenda that Biden's helping promote.
00:22:17.000So you saw that with the targeting of folks who were really unable to defend themselves because this is something they were obviously easy to target, but they were opposed to the COVID lockdowns.
00:22:32.000Oh, well, there's a useful target there.
00:22:36.000And by concocting and encouraging them to engage in this plot against Governor Whitmer.
00:22:43.000And what I think is disturbing about this is that you had the FBI informants and the evidence is strong.
00:22:49.000I mean, I'm not making this up, Charlie, and I know you're not, based on our just our own analysis.
00:22:56.000I mean, BuzzFeed News has exposed this.
00:23:00.000And, you know, BuzzFeed is no friend of conservatives, but they saw what was going on there and they've been front and center in exposing this, is that when you have the FBI encouraging criminal activity like this that otherwise wouldn't take place, you know, they give themselves pats on the back for stopping it, right?
00:23:18.000Well, you know, that's just whistling past the graveyard because it could have gone south.
00:23:24.000There could have been other criminal activity that took place because of the FBI's encouraging this plot.
00:23:33.000And we're lucky nothing serious happened as a result of the FBI's machinations here.
00:24:03.000So California has a law or had a law that required public corporations in California to set aside certain corporate board slots for people based on their ethnic status, racial status, or LGBT status.
00:24:19.000Meeting Charlie, you couldn't apply for certain board slots.
00:24:33.000It's not only at the federal level, but the California Constitution even has even broader protections and prohibitions on this sort of race-based decision-making and hiring practices.
00:24:43.000And I just can't believe we had to go to court in the year 2021, 2022 to argue why, on behalf of taxpayers in California, why it was illegal for California to require corporate boards, pick people according to their race and select people and hire people based on their race or, you know, other improper classifications for the purposes of hiring.
00:25:37.000But when you had state-ordered discrimination, really radical an approach, you know, all under the guise of diversity, right?
00:25:46.000And when you look at the arguments, it's straight out of critical theory.
00:25:50.000Yeah, so I guess my court rejected it.
00:25:52.000My question is, how does that differ then from affirmative action?
00:25:55.000Or would this actually maybe help set the precedent to reverse some affirmative action rules?
00:26:00.000Well, you know, in theory, you could have an affirmative action program.
00:26:04.000You say you look at a job qualification and you say, you know, look, we only have certain people of ethnicity, certain ethnicities or color or racial classifications applying for this job.
00:26:21.000Are we putting in requirements for the job that aren't necessary, but that unnecessarily kind of limit the number of people or the demographics of people who would apply?
00:26:31.000You know, that's legitimate affirmative action, making jobs broadly available and ensuring that you're reaching out to every qualified applicant.
00:26:41.000What's different about this, this wasn't an affirmative action.
00:26:45.000And there's a distinction between the two.
00:26:47.000Now, sometimes affirmative actions, affirmative action programs can be effectively quotas, but you can have affirmative action programs that few would disagree with.
00:26:56.000But I would just caution, we need to move away from race-based decision-making and hiring and stop with the racial being counting that treats people as individual as members of a group and take thereby taking away their values as individuals, which of course is what the law protects and our Constitution protects.
00:27:17.000And that's what the court was concerned about.
00:27:18.000You can't play these group games while ignoring the individual rights of everyone involved.
00:27:24.000Yeah, and you led the charge in that way at Judicial Watch, and it was going to require the board seats.
00:27:38.000And it shows you have to fight everywhere, Charlie.
00:27:40.000You know, too many on our side say, well, well, California's lost.
00:27:45.000Well, no one, you know, it's America, so it's never lost.
00:27:49.000And there's always the rule of law we can rely on.
00:27:52.000And sometimes it doesn't work out the way we want it to work out.
00:27:55.000But we always have to fight for our values and fight and be vigilant on behalf of the rule of law.
00:28:01.000And right now, the left has decided that all laws against racial discrimination and other types of discrimination are on the chopping block.
00:28:10.000Now, you know, that's an attack on the Constitution, all the federal laws and state and constitutional laws against discrimination, and it would tear the country apart.
00:28:20.000So these are serious times, and we got to stand fast.
00:28:24.000I want to talk to you about two other things: John Durham and Elon Musk/slash Twitter.
00:28:29.000Elon Musk and John Durham, what on earth do they have in common?
00:28:32.000Well, you know, they're both on the wrong end of the left, you know.
00:28:37.000And under the Trump administration, special counsels, we were all supposed to fall down and worship them, right?
00:28:44.000Oh, no, John Durham, he can't be trusted, and he's going overboard and prosecuting the Clinton gang, excuse me, the Biden gang.
00:28:53.000Or I get confused sometimes as to what we're supposed to be prosecuting since they're all tied together.
00:28:58.000You know, the same thing with Elon Musk.
00:29:00.000You know, I don't know where he stands on politics.
00:29:03.000You know, my guess is he has, well, the evidence is he supports free speech, which is kind of like it ought to be the price of entry in terms of public discourse these days.
00:29:15.000But activist investors were, the left told us were the savior of the corporate world, having these activists come in and demanding accountability from corporations on issues other than the stock price.
00:29:30.000And here we have Elon Musk doing something similar with Twitter on behalf of First Amendment values by all accounts.
00:29:38.000And you would think he's Genghis Khan coming in and trying to destroy the internet.
00:29:46.000But both need to do a lot, in my view.
00:30:06.000Now, Elon Musk, you know, he's putting his money where his mouth is, you know, billions of dollars of investment in Twitter to have a say by all accounts in how Twitter is run and trying to rein in, I would hope, the abuse that Twitter continues in terms of lying about why it's censoring conservatives.
00:30:26.000And obviously, he's just censoring conservatives.
00:30:29.000So he can't act soon enough to rein in that abuse by the corporation.
00:30:35.000You know, I would have, my view is there's liability for the corporation, such as Twitter and these other big tech corporations, you know, not because of Section 230, but because of fraud.
00:30:46.000You know, they're lying about what they're doing and why they're doing it in terms of censorship.
00:30:53.000They're lying to shareholders like Elon Musk.
00:30:56.000And there needs to be accountability about it for it.
00:31:00.000So, Tom, we have about two minutes remaining.
00:31:03.000Coming up the next hour, we have the second part of our, actually, the first part of our conversation airing with Kathy Ingelbrecht and Greg Phillips all about the 2000 meal deal, Dinesh D'Souza's upcoming film.
00:31:13.000Not sure how familiar you are with that, but what can be done legally at this point to actually arrest some of these people that outwardly committed felonies and get to the bottom of what happened in these key states?
00:31:23.000Well, if the evidence warrants it, there should be prosecutions at the state level.
00:31:28.000I mean, the federal government is going to do it.
00:31:29.000The Biden administration isn't going to undermine its own election story.
00:31:35.000So you need honest state prosecutors and officials willing to pursue the leads and evidence that have been laid out there.
00:31:44.000And also eliminate these opportunities for fraud that were put in place largely in 2020 that resulted in what I consider to be a ruined election that people don't have confidence in.
00:31:58.000Half the country thinks was rigged with good reason.
00:32:02.000And we can't have disruptions like that anymore.
00:32:06.000The least we can, you know, if everyone was being honest on both sides and we would work together to make sure that we're confident that the votes are counted of eligible voters in a way that reasonably protects against fraud.
00:32:23.000One side has zero interest in doing that.
00:32:25.000In fact, they want to eliminate the few remaining bars to fraud or making it hard, making the few remaining ways to make it more difficult to engage in fraud.