00:00:47.000His 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.
00:00:56.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:24.000A lot of this parliamentarian stuff, I don't even quite track, but it was symbolic because it was done as a message of outrage against the debt ceiling vote.
00:01:34.000As you know, Charlie, in January, there was an agreement with Speaker McCarthy that allowed him to ascend to that position, and that agreement has been violated.
00:01:43.000He had an obligation not to put any legislation on the floor that did not return our spending to 2022 levels in exchange for raising the debt limit.
00:02:08.000We can't just have a violation of that agreement and proceed as if nothing happened.
00:02:12.000We have to reconstitute the power-sharing agreement between Kevin McCarthy and House Conservatives.
00:02:19.000And until we reconstitute that agreement, it's my suspicion that we're not going to simply allow him to play out failure theater on the floor of the House of Representatives.
00:02:36.000Is this going to pour into maybe you calling for a leadership change?
00:02:40.000Walk us through some of the inside baseball here.
00:02:42.000I don't want to vacate, and I don't want to placate.
00:02:46.000I see no reason to turn Speaker McCarthy into a martyr for the establishment.
00:02:52.000I really want Speaker McCarthy to be the most successful House Speaker in American history, but we're not going to get there by making repeated $4 trillion mistakes.
00:03:14.000It was his idea to take spending off the table before the election.
00:03:18.000In addition to that being a sellout of the American people, it is one of the dumbest tactical political moves one could imagine because we're winning on the issue of spending.
00:03:26.000People see that government spending is causing inflation.
00:03:30.000And so if we could re-ripen that issue and go take another bite out of Joe Biden before the election, that would be wise.
00:03:36.000Kevin McCarthy exceeded the authority that he was given.
00:03:39.000He viewed the Limit, Save, Grow Act as a permission slip to freelance, and we must now correct that misassessment.
00:03:58.000The bottom line is Kevin McCarthy has to have a coalition with someone to be able to operate the floor.
00:04:05.000And that coalition either is with House Conservatives, which it was during the first five months of his speakership, or that coalition is with Hakeem Jeffries, as it was on the debt limit.
00:04:16.000And our message to Kevin McCarthy is that he has to be monogamous with one coalition or the other.
00:04:22.000He can't put House conservatives on his arm and parade us around for five months and then go jump in the back seat with Hakeem Jeffries when he wants to do a $4 trillion debt limit deal, expecting he'll be welcomed back home by House Conservatives.
00:04:35.000So if he's going to have a monogamous coalition with Hakeem Jeffries, then let's lay that bare before the country and let's see how well that goes for him.
00:04:43.000It didn't allow him to get a vote on a matter he wanted to take a vote on yesterday, but we're not going to be the entity in this relationship that watches him go and engage in a dallions with Jeffries and then welcome him back with open arms.
00:05:18.000What is the ask to remedy this speed bump?
00:05:22.000Well, what we have done so far is we have presented to Speaker McCarthy the violation of the core element of the agreement that allowed him to become Speaker.
00:05:32.000And we've asked him how he plans to remedy his violation.
00:05:36.000So far, his answers to us have been insufficient and inadequate.
00:05:41.000And so, you know, I'm not speaking for anyone but myself here, but I do think that we're going to have to revisit how House conservatives are represented on committees, how matters proceed to the floor, and what the doctrine is whenever Kevin McCarthy wants to go buy Democrat votes with earmark money over the farm bill or the national defense bill or any other measure that might come to the House.
00:06:59.000Yeah, in the original deal, there was a requirement for a vote on term limits.
00:07:05.000We haven't had that vote on term limits.
00:07:07.000In that original deal, there was a demand for a vote on a balanced budget.
00:07:10.000We haven't had a vote on a balanced budget.
00:07:12.000And so we have to have stronger enforcement to ensure that the things that are in writing that Kevin McCarthy agreed to actually come true and they don't just exist on a paper in someone's drawer.
00:07:23.000Now, you mentioned the pistol brace bill.
00:07:27.000But because Andrew Clyde voted with me on the debt limit procedural matter, the vote was pulled from this week as an act of punishment and retaliation.
00:07:37.000This leadership team is so small and so petty that they would punish tens of millions of gun owners, many of whom are disabled veterans who use shooting braces in order to make a political point and to keep power.
00:07:54.000And so if anyone thinks that they're going to push around House conservatives by threatening our bills or hurting our constituents, they've got another thing coming.
00:08:02.000I am also concerned that as you and I are having this discussion right now, the leadership is deciding whether or not to punish House conservatives by canceling the upcoming oversight hearing to hold Christopher Wray in contempt.
00:08:14.000So if the way to punish us is to help the FBI, I think that is an escalation of conflict within the Republican caucus, not a move back toward the unity that you and I and Speaker McCarthy all celebrated for quite some time before it was violated.
00:08:32.000So let's get to some other news here, Matt.
00:08:34.000You're on House Judiciary Committee, and I'm sure you have some awareness.
00:08:38.000There's so many of these stories that are coming out.
00:08:40.000Bribery allegations, you know, Hunter Biden, this, it's all over the place.
00:08:45.000And the House is really on the case to try to get the goods so that we can actually start to get this crime syndicate that's running the White House right now to be held accountable.
00:08:55.000So Matt, where does this whistleblower stuff?
00:08:57.000We had Ana Paulina come on and they said the FBI is worried about a hitman's going to come after one-eyed.
00:09:01.000What are you here and what are you seeing, Matt?
00:09:33.000If you had people at the FBI who were taking any derogatory information about the Bidens and downgrading it and labeling it Russian disinformation, then that is election interference happening in the highest echelons of our law enforcement and our national security state.
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00:12:12.000I'm sure Mike Pence's voter is very excited about that announcement.
00:12:17.000Didn't see a big crowd there with him, and it bears some resemblance to the Chris Christie announcement we saw recently, which seemed to be attended about as thoroughly as a regularly sized homeowners association meeting.
00:12:30.000But in a way, Mike Pence and Chris Christie are victims in the political-industrial complex because some consultant somewhere has convinced Mike Pence and Chris Christie that they might be president one day.
00:12:43.000I know it sounds crazy, but that consultant will get rich, win or lose, based on the existence of a campaign.
00:12:51.000But I don't see much of a lane for these folks.
00:12:54.000I mean, if Chris Christie had run in 2012, he might have won the presidency, but he missed his moment.
00:13:30.000Francis Suarez, the kind of Republican who endorsed Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump and the kind of Republican who endorsed Andrew Gillum over Ron DeSantis.
00:14:46.000In the case of Barack Obama and Bill Clinton and the aforementioned Mike Pence and Joe Biden, you find documents that probably shouldn't be in the possession of these individuals.
00:14:58.000But only with Trump does this emerge in some sort of criminal prosecution, only with Trump.
00:15:04.000And it's that type of double standard that fuels his political movement and his political prospects.
00:15:10.000So I think he's like the incredible Hulk.
00:15:12.000The more you shoot at him, the tougher and stronger and more effective he gets.
00:15:16.000But it certainly says something far more dangerous about this justice system that in too many ways at the federal level has become the enforcement wing of the political left.
00:15:26.000And it's why I'm so mad we underwrote $4 trillion in debt to continue funding the whole thing.
00:15:32.000If you're really mad about the FBI and the DOJ and the weaponized government, you should be voting with me in the United States Congress against the different things that gaslight their ability to continue to grow exponentially.
00:15:45.000So we use the power of the subpoena pretty effectively under Speaker McCarthy's leadership, and he is owed credit for that, but we don't use the power of the purse effectively, and that's where I'm trying to stiffen the spine of some of my Republican colleagues.
00:15:59.000Matt Gates, you might have a career in cable television if you ever want to get out of Congress.
00:16:03.000In the meantime, please keep fighting.
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00:17:19.000Okay, joining us now is Libby Emmons, editor-in-chief of the Postmillennial and Human Events.
00:17:44.000There's a large Armenian population as well.
00:17:47.000I talked to one mom who was filming inside the school board meeting and a dad who was actually outside watching what was going on.
00:17:55.000He told me that Antifa-type people showed up.
00:17:59.000They sided and segregated themselves with the proponents of LGBTQ curriculum in schools and then broke off and went to confront a group of Armenian men who were in a parking lot right nearby.
00:18:14.000At that point, from what I understand, one of the Antifa guys threw a punch at one of the Armenian men and a scuffle broke out.
00:18:24.000Now, we want everyone to remain peaceful, but it sounds as if this whole thing was in self-defense of Antifa.
00:18:32.000And there also has been substantial backlash against the Armenian community there, in part because so many Armenians have been opposed to LGBTQ indoctrination in schools.
00:18:46.000But it's not just the Armenian community.
00:18:48.000Hispanic parents who I've spoken to are equally opposed.
00:18:52.000Christian parents, they don't want this stuff being pushed on their kids.
00:18:56.000They want their kids to get a proper education and to not be indoctrinated.
00:19:00.000And this has been going on for well over a year that the school board has been directly opposed to parents and refusing to hear parents' concerns about all of this pride indoctrination.
00:19:13.000And this is from elementary schools all the way through high schools in the school district.
00:19:17.000I am optimistic about one element of the story.
00:19:20.000It's the oldest Christian country in the world.
00:19:22.000Most people don't know that, and they're being terrorized by the Turks, and this is just terrible.
00:19:27.000But a wrinkle to this is that ethnic populations in America, Armenians, Venezuelans, people that have anchors to the countries they came from.
00:19:39.000saying they're not American, they're American, but they certainly have tied roots to where they came from.
00:19:45.000They don't put up with this trans stuff.
00:20:02.000And so tell us, am I hitting the mark on that, Libby?
00:20:05.000Yeah, I think you are exactly right, Charlie.
00:20:08.000And we saw this actually a couple of years ago in the UK when a group of Muslim parents took it to the school board and said, stop indoctrinating our kids with all of this LGBTQ sex ed.
00:20:20.000And the school board in that case had to cave.
00:20:23.000And it's interesting, I was tweeting about this earlier because you have the left right now at a distinct crossroads.
00:20:29.000Do they respect diversity of cultures and cultural customs or do they need to indoctrinate all the cultures of the world with LGBTQ ideology?
00:20:44.000It's actually interesting to me and sort of an odd thing where you have the left, the LGBTQ advocates, the social justice people always talking about how important it is to, well, they don't talk about it quite as much anymore, do they?
00:21:00.000But they were talking for a long time about how important it is to respect cultural differences of all the cultures of the world and how bad it was for Christians to go out there and be missionaries and to try and share the word of Jesus Christ.
00:21:14.000And now their entire mission from the organization GLISSIN to the UN to the Biden administration across the board is to go out there and force abortions and LGBTQ and gender identity on all these countries.
00:21:31.000I was at the UN Commission on the Status of Women a couple years ago in 2019, and I heard from a woman from Kenya who was complaining to the UN about how they're funding all, they're pushing all of this money in Kenya for abortions and how Kenyan women want to have children.
00:21:57.000The left wants unlimited amounts of foreigners to come to America, but they don't want the cultural imperialism of white upper east side, men can give birth.
00:22:07.000I live a miserable life, so you should too.
00:22:09.000I mean, there is a belief, it's laughed out of the room.
00:22:13.000I mean, you talk to a Syrian refugee, which really shouldn't be coming to America.
00:22:18.000But they're the ones that find this whole thing so repulsive.
00:22:21.000And again, the Armenian community, they've been, many of them have been here for multiple generations, but they are very, very clear about their love of the homeland and their connection.
00:22:33.000And so it's fitting that they're starting to push back against this.
00:22:36.000I want to play some tape here to give you a flavor of the energy on the ground, PlayCut 75.
00:22:42.000Asking little children what they sexually identify as.
00:22:46.000Children are not sexual beings, nor should they be.
00:22:50.000The sexualization of children is pedophilia.
00:22:58.000I think this is a pro-groomer man in a dress talking at the meeting, PlayCut 74, man in a dress talking about kids.
00:23:08.000Dear DU Steve School Board, I want to say thank you for your service to this community.
00:23:12.000As a father of three, having a child in the school system since 2008, I want to thank you and your predecessors for helping to create an inclusive, diversified learning environment which allows our children to thrive.
00:23:22.000When my children learn about Armenian heritage, they're not being indoctrinated.
00:23:26.000My children learn about the KKK and white nationalism, they're not being indoctrinated.
00:23:31.000Okay, so this guy's a father of three, who's obviously a neurotic freak who needs help.
00:23:36.000So Libby, you've been covering this for quite some time.
00:23:41.000I think we sat down at the Young Women's Leadership Summit last summer, talked about the transing of America, the gayest generation history.
00:23:49.000And I think we even had you on the Young Women's Leadership Summit the year before, and you'll be there again this weekend.
00:23:54.000Are you seeing progress on our side finally?
00:23:58.000Are you seeing some tangible proven pushback?
00:24:04.000And it gives me so much hope when I talk to these parents in Glendale.
00:24:08.000The clip that you just played of that fella, that pro-groomer fella, was shot by a mom who I was speaking to who was inside the school board taking footage.
00:24:19.000And this parents group and Glendale actually started working with the parents group at Satakoi Elementary.
00:24:26.000And they've been teaming up on tactics, on trying to get this stuff out of schools.
00:24:30.000And I think what really happened, and it happened in part during COVID, was this whole mess of activists started coming for our kids.
00:24:39.000And American parents are not playing around with this anymore.
00:24:54.000And I talk to parents all over the country.
00:24:57.000I started doing this during COVID about COVID lockdowns and the school closures.
00:25:01.000And parents are just entirely opposed.
00:25:04.000And they don't want anyone messing with their kids.
00:25:06.000American parents have one huge thing in common, which is that they want the best opportunities for their children.
00:25:12.000And even if they are pro-LGBTQ, that whole agenda, they are opposed to having it be the focus of education.
00:25:21.000Parents want their kids to learn math, to learn English, to learn languages and science, and be able to go out into the world fortified with information and the tools that they need to be successful adults in our society.
00:25:34.000And learning all about your gender and that you can switch pronouns when you're still in elementary school will only handicap kids.
00:25:40.000And all parents are seeing this so fully.
00:25:45.000This is the crescendo of a flawed modern education model.
00:25:51.000The classical education model that our founding fathers were educated in until John Dewey and those maniacs obliterated it in the early 1900s was about we are going to create a full human being who is wise.
00:26:06.000The technical stuff can always be added on later.
00:26:09.000We scrapped that because of an industrial model in Woodrow Wilson, who actually was a college president.
00:26:15.000They said, no, we must teach you technical stuff first and foremost because wisdom is all just subjective.
00:26:22.000We're not going to study the ancients or the classics or Socrates or Plato or Aristotle or ask the questions of what is good, what is courage, what is justice, what is temperance, what is prudence, these questions that built Western society.
00:26:39.000When you do this for 50 or 60 years, one minute remaining, Libby, your thoughts.
00:26:43.000Yeah, I think that you're exactly right on that.
00:26:46.000And you even have the social emotional learning people.
00:26:48.000And I've talked to James Lindsay about this.
00:26:50.000And they come in there and they say that they need to teach empathy and socialization and all of this trash and that they don't need to teach actual knowledge or information or books because kids can find all of that on Google.
00:27:04.000They actually say that in their literature.
00:27:07.000And it behooves all parents to make sure that their kids are learning properly.
00:27:32.000Understand all of this knowledge and wisdom that has been passed on.
00:27:35.000And the LGBTQ activists in schools, the social-emotional learning people want your kids to just be flops of flesh, desire-seeking, useless creatures that are just suckling at the government handouts.
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00:28:55.000Libby Emmons is with us post-Millennium Human Events.
00:28:58.000I spent some time with David Godwin, who wrote a book of Pete Hegseth this weekend in Boise, and he gave me this document published by his organization.
00:29:16.000Is it about, A, success in college and in the job market are the primary reasons I send my kid to school?
00:29:22.000Or is it that if my child's education builds wisdom, the natural result will be success in life?
00:29:29.000Should it be education should be entertaining so that kids can enjoy their childhood?
00:29:32.000Or education is a joy unto itself for the student who is taught to love learning.
00:29:38.000Should students need up-to-date training emphasizing technology and science, be prepared for the future, or students need broad-based knowledge in the context of a Christian worldview to be prepared for an uncertain future.
00:29:47.000The whole premise of how we are doing education is wrong.
00:29:50.000And Libby, we see this with the rise of the parents' party.
00:29:54.000Modern education is largely a failed project.
00:30:13.000I think the government public education model has been a disaster.
00:30:17.000I think it's important for government to provide education for America's youth.
00:30:22.000But all that they are doing right now is trying to turn children into manageable adults who they can plug into the job market wherever they need to be.
00:30:29.000They're not trying to create critical thinking, successful adults who can live lives according to, you know, their own ideas and, you know, with wisdom and knowledge.
00:30:42.000And I think that that's really missing.
00:30:43.000I remember when I was in high school and I went to a very nice high school.
00:31:00.000I remember an independent study where I was reading Franz Kafka and then having in-depth conversations with my remarkably intelligent English teacher about it.
00:31:09.000These were college professor grade people who decided that it was important to teach high school students and prepare them.
00:31:17.000I often have said that college was far easier than high school and grad school was even easier than college.
00:31:24.000And it's because the high school education that was provided to me was absolutely exceptional.
00:31:29.000And I can look out into the landscape now and see very, very successful people in media and across our culture who graduated with me, who went to the same high school that I did.
00:31:39.000And it, I think, is really sad that this is not the kind of education that everyone gets.
00:31:44.000Part of what we had was religious education that we had every week.
00:32:20.000And I think it's also really a shame what's been done to the English canon because we don't read great books anymore.
00:32:27.000We read trendy books and they have absolutely nothing to teach us.
00:32:31.000The clarity between a modern education and a classical education can be like this.
00:32:36.000For example, a modern education is values neutral.
00:32:39.000All moral positions are relative and hence all positions must be equally treated.
00:32:44.000A classical education actually believes in idealism, that standards of right and wrong exist in all subject areas and students are taught to make judgments accordingly.
00:33:17.000You can even see this in the technical areas, how they're always changing the way math is taught.
00:33:21.000I'm sure that tons of parents can relate to me when I say that when my child brings home math curriculum, a lot of times I don't even understand the way that they're supposed to do it.
00:33:30.000It's not a traditional way and it doesn't make any sense.
00:33:34.000I think it's so important that parents are fighting back against this stuff.
00:33:38.000And I'm in favor of remaking these government schools to be actually helpful for human beings.
00:33:45.000The only problem is the government doesn't care about our children.
00:33:48.000The government just wants to indoctrinate them into whatever the latest trendy nonsense is.
00:33:53.000And it also doesn't care about the future of our nation because if they did, they would care about our kids and our kids being able to, you know, live up to the promises of our founding.
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