00:00:58.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:02.000These countries are Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, which I never quite understood, United Kingdom, and the United States.
00:02:30.000These are 30 independent member countries.
00:02:33.000And there is what is called Article 6, Article 5 or Article 6 of NATO, which is the mutual defense clause of NATO, which is an attack on one, is an attack on all.
00:02:46.000Now, when I talk to senators, not Senator Hawley, but several of them on and off camera, one of their arguments of why we must get involved in Ukraine is that we must prevent Vladimir Putin from being able to border a NATO country.
00:03:01.000Of course, unfortunately, they have not really understood geography because there is a portion of Russian-controlled territory that already borders Poland called Kalingrad Oblast.
00:03:13.000So that entire talking point means nothing.
00:03:17.000And yet, today, or yesterday, I think it happened just momentarily, recently I should say, the United States Senate has approved of a vote 95 to 1, we just spoke to Hawley about this, expanding NATO, adding Sweden and Finland to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
00:03:42.000So NATO, in many ways, is a failed project.
00:04:02.000If we're honest with our relationship with Russia over the last 100 years, you cannot win a world war if you do not have help from the Russians.
00:04:12.000If we're serious about hedging against the Chinese Communist Party threat in the 21st century, if we're serious about crushing the Belt and Road Initiative, we need Russia to be at best neutral or maybe on our side.
00:04:28.000What we have done is we have empowered the Chinese Communist Party to grow closer to Russia as we continue in this silly, nonsensical proxy war of which we've already sent $56 billion to Ukraine.
00:04:43.000You know something that really bothers me that I can't get a good answer to?
00:04:47.000Why is it that we are able to send money and arms every week or so to Ukraine without congressional authorization?
00:04:59.000It seems as if we could just keep on releasing this money to Ukraine.
00:05:03.000And I have asked lawmaker after lawmaker: what does success in Ukraine look like?
00:05:11.000I do not want kind of an abstraction as an answer.
00:05:16.000No, no, what does the latitude and longitude of victory look like?
00:05:22.000Now, the true victims are, of course, the Ukrainian people.
00:05:26.000Now, may I say in a rather sick and twisted and ironic way that if actually you wanted what was best for the Ukrainian people, you would try to actually end the war, not continue the war.
00:05:39.000That more suffering continues to happen the more arms that we send there.
00:05:42.000And we have no accounting whatsoever of where those weapons are going.
00:05:46.000So the United States Senate, of a vote of 95 to 1, Senator Hawley being the only objector, have now decided to expand NATO.
00:05:58.000I'm sure some senators understand this, but zero understanding of how Russia views NATO and the expansion of NATO.
00:06:09.000So if you actually wanted to weaken Vladimir Putin, you would be doing the opposite of what we're doing.
00:06:14.000You know that the ruble is more, is a stronger currency than it has been in the last couple of years since the invasion.
00:06:20.000The petrodollar is stronger than ever before.
00:06:23.000Putin's popularity is higher than ever before.
00:06:26.000And they have more resolve domestically in Russia than ever before.
00:06:29.000We have strengthened Vladimir Putin by doing everything we've done in Ukraine.
00:06:34.000And we were early warnings against this.
00:06:37.000But you see, we were promised false promises.
00:06:41.000We were promised, I should say, false actions by the American leadership class that if we get involved in Ukraine, we can easily deter Vladimir Putin.
00:06:52.000Even though the eastern part of Ukraine, they want to be under Russian control.
00:06:58.000They speak Russian, they're ethnically Russian, and they do not want to be tied to the Zelensky government.
00:07:04.000So with $56 billion sent and spent on this, more than the combined GDP of North Dakota, what do we have to show for that?
00:07:14.000How is that in the best interest of a nation that is suffering from drug addiction, a suicide epidemic, a porous southern border, double-digit inflation, cost of living crisis, wokeism in our military, and CRT in our schools?
00:07:28.000How has that $56 billion benefited the homeland?
00:07:33.000In fact, it's benefited Vladimir Putin.
00:07:36.000The way that now NATO expansion will be twisted for the Russian people is: see, look at the West invading us by adding more countries like Sweden and Finland.
00:07:51.000You will now have more Russian support for conflicts like this.
00:07:56.000This strengthens the hand of Vladimir Putin.
00:07:59.000It makes you wonder, maybe that's exactly what the war industry in Washington, D.C. wants.
00:08:03.000These proxy wars can be very profitable and very lucrative.
00:08:06.000Not once do I hear from our politicians: hey, can we get to a place of peace or broker a settlement here?
00:08:13.000Why is it that the lobby in Washington, D.C. isn't talking about peace talks, but nonstop, we're talking about the continuation of a very confusing, murky, non-defined conflict 5,000 miles away.
00:08:32.000And so the United States Senate has decided to expand NATO.
00:08:35.000This does not benefit the best interests of America.
00:08:37.000Just so you understand, if now an errant missile goes from a military base outside of St. Petersburg and now lands in the country of Finland, you and your son or your daughter or your grandson, your granddaughter, because we now draft women, which is insane, might be drafted into a full-scale war against Russia.
00:08:59.000Did your senator think that through before they voted for that?
00:09:02.000And they say, well, this is here to deter Vladimir Putin.
00:09:08.000You see, Vladimir Putin actually is a fan of this because now he gets to go back to his Russian nationalists and say, see, the West will not leave us alone.
00:09:18.000The West is marching onward, as Lindsey Graham said.
00:09:21.000Let's get that tape again, Connor, where Lindsey Graham said it's time to play offense.
00:09:26.000I want you to imagine if China or Russia started to gobble up a Russian NATO equivalent in our hemisphere, and all of a sudden Mexico decided to become a member state of, quote-unquote, the theoretical Russian NATO.
00:09:48.000We would have people enlisting in the military.
00:09:51.000Whomever the domestic leader would use that as a sign of, see, they're coming towards us.
00:09:56.000Now we need to have more commitment to war.
00:10:00.000Washington, D.C. does not have a heart for peace or to broker a settlement here.
00:10:05.000It's almost as if they want to continue it.
00:10:06.000Some people say, well, Charlie, the only way we could broker peace is to smash Vladimir Putin.
00:10:11.000Then you have to be willing to have 400,000 men and women die in battle and deploy 3 million troops to push him back roughly 1,000 miles to the current border of Ukraine.
00:10:25.000If the answer is no, and it should be no, by the way, then this entire thing is a false construct brought to you by an abstraction-focused Republican Party that can't answer simple questions about Ukraine.
00:11:00.000You rarely see this kind of focus and commitment.
00:11:03.000They recently shared with me that they are doubling down and want to literally double their total number of happy customers in the next year.
00:11:11.000If you're struggling with back pain, neck pain, shoulder, hip, or knee pain, even general muscle aches and pain, then I'm suggesting you order their three-week quick start, still discounted, only $19.95.
00:12:38.000However, I do think that there are more people in Republican circles that are not as pro-life as they might espouse publicly.
00:12:48.000That's not to say that they're totally pro-choice, but I actually think that, and I think it goes both ways, by the way.
00:12:54.000I think that there's some people that say they're 100% pro-choice that are actually more pro-life than not.
00:13:01.000And this is only just from private conversations and from talks with people that some people start to get very, very nervous and they say, well, Charlie, what about this circumstance?
00:13:14.000And so that's not to say that it's a pro-choice political party or anything, but I do think we have to lean in and do a much better job of explaining what does it actually mean to be pro-life.
00:13:27.000And so I think there was a combination of things here.
00:13:34.000Churches that did not do their job adequately based on people in Kansas.
00:13:39.000But I think that there is a private and soon to be realized, whether or not I'm correct or not, let's just say a little bit of a hedge in some Republican circles that might not necessarily be on board for the pro-life cause as much as it might seem.
00:14:01.000The Democrats, I think, are taking this as, hey, we now can win in the midterms.
00:14:06.000Play Cut 51, A.B. Klomachar saying that we're in the mainstream, the people are with us.
00:15:23.000Not to say I think we are a pro-life nation.
00:15:26.000I think we're a nation that deep down, a majority of people do value the life of the unborn.
00:15:32.000But I think there is a tension here, though.
00:15:36.000And I don't necessarily believe Kansas is the indicator here because this amendment was so poorly written, but it certainly is worthy of reflection of how pro-life is the conservative movement really.
00:15:50.000A little bit, somewhat minorly, majorly.
00:15:54.000And I think we have our work cut out for us.
00:15:56.000Exactly, what does it mean to defend the unborn?
00:16:02.000I could tell you right now, we received at least 50 emails in the last 24 hours that said, Charlie, I'm somewhat pro-life, love your show, love what you do.
00:16:10.000I'm a conservative, pro-MAGA, all that stuff.
00:16:13.000But I think that abortion should be legal up till six weeks, or I believe it should be legal up to nine weeks, or whatever.
00:16:18.000We're getting a lot of emails like that.
00:16:19.000And then I connect the Kansas results, albeit cushioning that the ballot referendum was very poorly written, very confusing, and all of that.
00:16:31.000I think there's a lot of people in Democrat circles that say they're for abortion all the way up to the end when in reality they know it's very wrong.
00:16:40.000Wonder if there is actually people's beliefs are much more in the middle on this.
00:16:45.000My belief is not in the middle, let's be very clear.
00:17:51.000They're coming to us when we're in the minority where we can't subpoena documents.
00:17:54.000They're just coming to us because it's so bad.
00:17:56.000The political nature of that place now is so egregious that they're willing to come to us just so we can begin to tell their story and tell the truth to the American people.
00:18:05.000And we had one come to us in the last few weeks who said that they are being pressured to label almost every case, to catalog or categorize almost every case as a domestic terrorism case, as it didn't domestic violence extremism, I think is the technical term they use.
00:18:22.000And remember, they created this office within DOJ back at the start of this year.
00:18:26.000They stood it up a few months ago, and now they're being pressured to do it.
00:18:29.000And kind of the interesting thing about it is they said one of the key people who was doing the pressuring on the good rank and file agents is this guy named Timothy Teebald, who just happens to be the same guy who the other whistleblower, a different whistleblower who went to Senator Grassley, said was the individual who was responsible for suppressing evidence about the Hunter Biden story, suppressing evidence that would have disproved the whole disinformation campaign that we got from the left in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.
00:18:57.000So that's how political this place has become.
00:19:00.000And it's why we're trying to tell the story.
00:19:01.000And as you point out, hopefully, if we get in the majority, we can do a little more about it.
00:19:05.000Yeah, so, but when asked, Christopher Ray was asked actually a really good question by Senator Tillis, of which Senator Tillis is a little bit in the doghouse on this program for multiple reasons.
00:19:13.000He actually asked a really good question.
00:19:15.000For example, he said, so who's been held accountable for Crossfire Hurricane?
00:19:19.000And then Christopher Ray kind of goes in this meandering answer of like, well, they're in our internal disciplinary program.
00:19:25.000I mean, does anyone ever get held accountable at this agency, Congressman?
00:19:30.000Only if they're Republican, only if they're getting pressured, only if they're conservative, only if they're doing their job, it seems.
00:19:36.000And I always go back to the, I'm always amazed.
00:19:40.000Remember, when it was the Clinton email investigation, that was called the mid-year exam.
00:19:45.000But when it was go after President Trump and his campaign, spy on his campaign, the name for the FBI gave that was Crossfire Hurricane.
00:19:53.000You can just see them all flexing their muscles and going crazy on that.
00:19:56.000So, yeah, it never seems to be the case where the so-called elites who are part of the system, part of the swamp, ever get held accountable.
00:20:04.000It only seems to be when it happens to be someone who may be conservative or Republican.
00:20:09.000I want to reinforce this point that you made, Congressman, and just expand on it.
00:20:12.000I'm going to read from a Fox News article of your talking about it.
00:20:17.000One whistleblower explained: because agents are not finding enough domestic violent extremism cases, they're encouraged and incentivized to reclassify cases as DVE cases, even though there is minimal circumstantial evidence to support the reclassification.
00:20:48.000No, and I like that it's sad that that word I think is appropriate, create, because at first I said they're juicing the numbers.
00:20:54.000But then, when you look at what a colleague of mine, a good friend of mine, Dan Bishop, pointed out in a hearing a week ago where he went at the so-called Whitmer kidnapping plot, they found out that there were 12 undercover or FBI informants as part of that effort.
00:21:28.000So, but what was interesting is all the informants, all the FBI agents who were involved in that, and it almost seems like in some ways they're not only juicing the numbers, but they are, in fact, doing what you just described.
00:21:38.000They're creating the numbers by having these informants go round up some people and persuade them to do something that they shouldn't do.
00:22:20.000Well, there's, I think there's just in a general sense, there's this disdain that the left that certain people have for conservatives and for us, you know, just regular people who live in the heartland that live across the country.
00:22:34.000I mean, I never forget when Pete Buttigieg a few months ago said, Well, if you don't like $4 gas, go buy an electric vehicle.
00:22:39.000Well, easy for you to say, but where I'm from, people drive pickup trucks and they work in agriculture and manufacturing and construction and landscaping and all kinds of things.
00:23:35.000They know that this massive spending, close to three-quarters of a trillion dollars over the next several years, this massive spending and the fact that it's going to raise people's taxes is only going to exacerbate the 41-year high inflation rate and the energy cost and everything else that families are dealing with now.
00:23:52.000Looks like there's also a slowdown in job creation, which is interesting because employers have told me now forever that it's tough to find people to work, but now that may be slowing a little bit as well.
00:24:06.000I've been traveling today, so I don't know if Senator Sinema has made any announcement, but let's hope it doesn't pass.
00:24:12.000So, Congressman, it seems as if, and I'd love your take on this, that Democrats are adjusting slightly.
00:24:18.000They're still as radical as ever, but I believe that they probably had an early July strategy urgent meeting with some of their more kind of slick consultants.
00:24:28.000They're talking a little bit differently.
00:24:30.000They're starting to use language like, oh, we're now going to reduce inflation.
00:24:33.000And, you know, I'm not, of course, I think they're transparently dishonest, but I think that in the polls show this, the generic is tightening slightly.
00:25:00.000You certainly don't want to be complacent.
00:25:01.000So we've got to go take our message to the American people.
00:25:04.000They can try to change, but the left that controls their party is not going to let them.
00:25:07.000Remember, it was just a few months ago in a hearing where Roe Conna, a Democrat colleague of mine, when you had the oil and gas executives from all the major companies, he went down the line and said, Will you pledge today to decrease production?
00:25:17.000Why won't you promise today that you'll decrease production?
00:25:19.000I mean, and I looked at him, I said, What do you want?
00:25:22.000So I don't think they can really change.
00:25:24.000They can try to put a different veneer and different cover on it.
00:25:28.000And you're seeing them do that, frankly, with the president.
00:25:30.000I mean, the New York Times ran a piece a couple of weeks ago that said, you know, should Joe Biden run again?
00:25:35.000When the New York Times is asking that question, that tells you how bad the Democrats are doing.
00:25:40.000So they might try to change how they message, but they are hard left.
00:25:44.000They believe in this crazy climate change and driving up the cost of energy and gas.
00:25:48.000They hate the internal combustion engine.
00:25:51.000They're intentionally doing what they're doing to the border.
00:25:53.000So I don't think they can change those things.
00:25:55.000They're going to try to have a little slightly different message.
00:25:58.000But again, you and I know the American people are smart and the American people get it.
00:26:02.000And I think they're going to show up in a big way on November 8th.
00:26:04.000So we have, we're up against huge money.
00:26:06.000There's two schools of thought here, Congressman, that some people think that the Republican establishment only wants to win the majority by a couple seats because it empowers them.
00:26:16.000Other people say it's the opposite, that the bigger the margin actually empowers the Republican establishment.
00:26:28.000Go win the races because I'll tell you what, the most moderate Republican is much better than the hard left that control the Democrat Party.
00:26:35.000And the differences that you and I may have with some of our Republican colleagues, and we do, and we've had some fights over the years, and I understand that.
00:26:41.000But the difference between the Freedom Caucus and someone who's in the Republican conference who's not in the Freedom Caucus is minor compared to where any Republican is at and where the left that now controls the Democrat Party that's given us the open border, the record crime, the record inflation, the 41-year high inflation and $5 gas.
00:27:02.000And not to mention what the radical left is doing to your First Amendment liberties, your Second Amendment liberties, your Fourth Amendment due process rights, and every other liberty we enjoy in this country.
00:27:11.000That's why it's important you elect as many Republicans as possible.
00:28:38.000We're getting a lot of emails of people that are saying that freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:28:47.000So this one person says, Am I a fascist?
00:28:49.000Do you want to impose your beliefs on others?
00:28:51.000Well, no, I believe that every human being should be protected and their life actually has a moral obligation, the natural rights, to be protected by the state.
00:28:59.000So no, I'm not a fascist, but I do know plenty of leftists that are.
00:29:05.000We're getting a lot of emails, though, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:29:07.000Charlie, I'm pro-life, but I think that abortion is okay up to six weeks or up to eight weeks.
00:29:12.000That certainly does prove some of my suspicion on this.
00:29:15.000Sally listens to us from Florida, and she says people on the right are multifaceted.
00:29:20.000If the extreme end of the Republican Party does not realize that soon, they're going to lose the majority of their party.
00:29:24.000Believe it or not, not everyone in the Republican Party is religious, straight, and white.
00:29:30.000Whatever stereotype the left and very religious would like to paint us, I've been a Republican my whole life, and I'm accepting of other people's differences.
00:31:01.000I want to get to this one here, Play Cut 50, Amy Klobuchar, and what she thinks the Kansas result tells us, Play Cut 50.
00:31:10.000You're not going to tell women, you're not going to tell a little 10-year-old girl who got raped that she somehow's got to find her way to another state to get health care.
00:31:20.000And then when she goes there, that attorney general starts investigating the doctor who gave her her health care.
00:31:45.000And now we go to the general election.
00:31:47.000And guess what just happened in Kansas?
00:31:49.000When it's a general election, when independents are voting, when moderate Republicans are turning out, they're going to choose the mainstream.
00:31:57.000They're going to want a party that actually is willing to take on the pharmaceutical companies and stand with AARP and reduce drug prices.
00:32:04.000They're going to stand with a party that's willing to take on weapons of war in the hands of 18-year-olds.
00:32:11.000They're going to stand with a party that's willing to say to women, you don't have to go across the country just to get your reproductive health care.
00:32:19.000And they're going to stand with a party that is willing to acknowledge that our forests are burning across the country and that we need to finally do something about it and stand up and invest in clean energy.
00:32:44.000You'll stand up to the pharmaceutical companies by mandating an experimental gene therapy on the American military and kicking them out if they don't take it.
00:33:08.000But I'm not just going to keep on doing on this program like, hey, keep on doing the same thing.
00:33:12.000Let's make sure we're charting our course correctly and navigating appropriately.
00:33:18.000I personally don't believe we should waiver an inch on the life issue.
00:33:22.000But the referendum in Kansas, I would chalk up a vast majority, 80 to 90% of it, because it was poorly written and because of out-of-state money.
00:33:31.000But based on just the emails, I'm getting freedom at charliekirk.com, the conservative base has more nuance on the abortion issue, I think, than most people recognize or realize.