The Charlie Kirk Show - February 24, 2021


FINALLY—Some Good Election Integrity News From Georgia


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Your pressure is working. The Georgia Senate has approved an election reform bill that would make changes to the election process in response to the massive amount of absentee ballots cast in the 2018 mid-term election. This is great news, and I encourage every young person to get involved.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, finally some good news.
00:00:02.000 When it comes to election integrity, we are on top of the case of what's happening in Georgia.
00:00:06.000 That's right, good news.
00:00:07.000 Things are getting reformed and your pressure is working.
00:00:11.000 We are on top of it more than any other program, any other podcast.
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00:00:49.000 Things are moving in the right direction.
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00:02:35.000 I have some good news to share.
00:02:38.000 We're not there yet, but we're making progress.
00:02:42.000 There are some good things happening in the country, and you deserve the credit.
00:02:47.000 Those of you that listen to this program, that support this program, that get behind this program, those of you that are engaged and active and aware of what's happening in the country, you deserve credit.
00:02:59.000 Because right now, as we are doing this broadcast, the Georgia Senate has officially approved an election reform package, including absentee ballot signature match overhaul.
00:03:10.000 Now, this is not a perfect bill.
00:03:12.000 I have read the proposed piece of legislation.
00:03:15.000 But there are some phenomenal and real improvements within this proposed piece of legislation.
00:03:24.000 So the Georgia Senate has approved four measures Tuesday that make changes to the election process as a result to November's presidential election.
00:03:35.000 One of the bills that was proposed passed 37 to 18.
00:03:39.000 Now, mind you, I was a skeptic before I read this bill.
00:03:45.000 I said, oh, they're just probably just going to the motions.
00:03:48.000 There's some legitimately important components and positive components to this bill.
00:03:57.000 So, to set the baseline, we know that there was a record number of absentee ballots in Georgia.
00:04:04.000 Some say because of the China virus, but I would say that it was because of the political opportunists that use the China virus as a way to increase the amount of absentee ballots that were sent out.
00:04:23.000 So, no excuse absentee balloting in Georgia was up by 7%, more than 300,000 ballots, no excuse absentee balloting.
00:04:41.000 Records show that Georgians who voted with absentee ballots in the 2018 election was a fraction of that.
00:04:50.000 It was 1.3 million in 2020.
00:04:55.000 So, in 2018, when Brian Kemp got elected governor, 284,000 people in Georgia voted with an absentee ballot.
00:05:04.000 In 2020, 1.3 million.
00:05:08.000 1 million new absentee ballots that were used for counted votes.
00:05:13.000 Let me be clear.
00:05:14.000 This is not ballots that were sent out, these are counted votes.
00:05:18.000 So, you go from 284,000 to 1.3 million, and you're trying to tell me that every single ballot is counted perfectly and signature is verified properly.
00:05:30.000 No way.
00:05:32.000 The Georgia Senate realizes this, and it's because of you.
00:05:36.000 The Georgia Senate is hearing our outrage, our focus, and the pressure that we are putting on.
00:05:42.000 And we can't give up.
00:05:43.000 This is just past the Senate.
00:05:44.000 It's going to the House.
00:05:46.000 However, it's Senate Bill 67.
00:05:48.000 And for those of you watching around the country, those of you listening on radio, those of you listening on podcasts, I encourage all of you to rise up and email legislators in Georgia and give them positive encouragement.
00:06:03.000 Because here's what the bill says: it would require absentee ballot voters to put their driver's license or state-issued identification number on the ballot or include a photocopy of an accepted form of identification with their ballot request form instead of a signature.
00:06:20.000 Now, in an ideal world, this is why I said it's not perfect.
00:06:23.000 I would just try to get rid of absentee balloting unless you can prove that you need it.
00:06:27.000 That would be my ideal.
00:06:28.000 I'd rather demand people go vote in person.
00:06:31.000 You can expand the amount of time that they can vote, but voting in person is the most secure way of voting.
00:06:38.000 But in this new age of widespread absentee balloting and potentially H.R. 1 being passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate and signed by the President, Joe Biden, the states need to institute their own reforms on how absentee ballots must be counted.
00:06:56.000 So, let me say this again: Senate Bill 67, which just passed the Georgia Senate, will require when you fill out an absentee ballot, you must put your driver's license, a photocopy of your driver's license, or your driver's license identification number.
00:07:18.000 Senator Larry Walker, who introduced the bill, said the change would make the absentee ballot counting process more efficient and secure.
00:07:26.000 Quote, you can sign your name on that little digital screen, and your signature oftentimes really doesn't look like your actual signature that you do on a daily basis.
00:07:34.000 He's right.
00:07:36.000 You could run into a situation where a family member mailed in the ballot request, which is totally legal, and so the signature would be a moot point.
00:07:45.000 This is a good change.
00:07:46.000 This would, in a lot of different ways, fix the signature verification issue in Georgia.
00:07:52.000 Prove who you are and put your driver's license ID number on it.
00:07:56.000 Now, what are the Democrats saying about this?
00:07:58.000 What is their response?
00:08:00.000 What are Democrats arguing to try and kill the bill?
00:08:06.000 Because we knew they would.
00:08:08.000 By the way, Republicans have such a strong majority in Georgia.
00:08:11.000 This passed 37 to 18.
00:08:14.000 Why this was not passed back in June of 2020 is a mystery to me.
00:08:19.000 Either they were taken by surprise, Brian Kemp didn't demand it, or maybe the Democrats had a better operation than we could have imagined.
00:08:29.000 Very well, Kelly Loffler and David Perdue might have won.
00:08:32.000 But what is the Democrats' reaction to this?
00:08:35.000 Well, Senator Jen Jordan from Atlanta said she has an issue with voters mailing their personal identification information to elections offices.
00:08:43.000 She said it makes voters' information more susceptible to fraud and violates privacy.
00:08:50.000 So Jen Jordan, who I don't think is a very smart person, who is arguing against a bill to stop voter fraud, that the measure itself will encourage more fraud.
00:09:02.000 So I have a question for Jen Jordan.
00:09:06.000 And I'm going to read her quote in just a second. 1.00
00:09:07.000 Jen Jordan, who's trying to kill this good bill, it's not a perfect bill.
00:09:11.000 It's not a great bill.
00:09:12.000 I would give it a six out of 10, but it's good news in Georgia.
00:09:17.000 They're doing something.
00:09:17.000 It's passing.
00:09:18.000 It's going to the legislature.
00:09:19.000 They're not doing nothing.
00:09:20.000 They're not saying it's perfect.
00:09:22.000 There's movement.
00:09:25.000 I have a question for Jen Jordan.
00:09:29.000 State Senator Jordan, if the ballots could potentially be manipulated for personal identification and violates privacy, then are you trying to say in the 2020 election, ballots were tampered with and people's personal information or their votes were tampered with?
00:09:52.000 Do you have reason to believe this, Jen Jordan?
00:09:56.000 Is there something you should tell us about Raphael Warnock's win?
00:09:59.000 Is there something you should tell us about Joe Biden in Georgia?
00:10:03.000 Are you trying to tell me that when people mail in a ballot, it might not be totally safe and secure?
00:10:08.000 Are you trying to tell me, state senator Democrat Jen Jordan from Atlanta, that mail and balloting is open to her own word, fraud?
00:10:17.000 She continued by saying, quote, there's nothing in this bill that actually addresses the protections that would need to be in place with respect to voter and consumer identifying information.
00:10:33.000 So Jen Jordan has just made the most elaborate and detailed case that voting by mail is not secure.
00:10:39.000 That whatever you put in the mail, it could be tampered with, it could be thrown away, it could be done, it could be used, it could be manipulated.
00:10:45.000 Jen Jordan is admitting to the world that voting by mail is open for manipulation.
00:10:56.000 Another state senator, David Lucas, a Democrat from Macon, who's not a very smart person, referred to Senate Bill 67 as, quote, malarkey.
00:11:06.000 Wonder where he got that one from.
00:11:09.000 And a result of Trump's inability to accept his election loss.
00:11:13.000 Lucas says he plans to, quote, fight the bill.
00:11:16.000 Wow.
00:11:17.000 Never knew that he would use such insurrectionist language.
00:11:20.000 Of course, I'm being sarcastic because if he says he's going to fight the bill, I thought that's the new threshold for incitement in America.
00:11:28.000 And, quote, taxpayers will pay for the legal action he intends to take.
00:11:34.000 So basically, state senator David Lucas from Georgia, the reason he's saying don't pass the bill is because I'm going to sue the state of Georgia if you pass the bill.
00:11:44.000 Therefore, taxpayers are going to have to pay a bunch of money.
00:11:46.000 So basically, he's trying to extort the entire Georgia Senate saying, I'm going to sue all of you endlessly if you do this.
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00:13:07.000 I just want to say we get so many emails from our listeners all across the country, all across the world even, at freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:13:15.000 I encourage all of you watching on the live stream, listening on podcasting or radio, to always email us your thoughts.
00:13:21.000 I get them all here in real time.
00:13:23.000 The number one piece of feedback that we receive is: Charlie, you're making some great points.
00:13:28.000 I hope we'll win elections again.
00:13:30.000 I'm learning a lot, but all of this is a distraction unless we reform our elections.
00:13:36.000 I agree.
00:13:37.000 However, I'm not going to do that same show every single day.
00:13:41.000 I'm not going to just talk about the same things, but I am, and this is the one thing we will do, is we will be on top of the election integrity reform fight, metaphorical fight, media matters, more so than any other program.
00:14:00.000 You can look to us, you can count on us to be reading the bills, putting pressure on the lawmakers, encouraging, highlighting, and lifting up the members of these state houses that decide to use their constitutionally granted authority to positively reform our election system.
00:14:26.000 So, in Georgia, Lieutenant Governor Jeff Duncan just pushed four bills for reform.
00:14:34.000 Now, Senate Bill 67, which is the most positive of all of them, would require a dramatic overhaul with signature verification absentee ballot standards.
00:14:47.000 Lieutenant Governor Jeff Duncan called these common sense reform election common sense election reform.
00:14:53.000 Now, I would go even further than these bills.
00:14:55.000 I think they're a good starting point, and that's where you come in.
00:14:58.000 If you're listening to this and you say, What can I do?
00:15:00.000 Put focus, energy, and time in communicating with these lawmakers.
00:15:08.000 Tell them, hey, you're doing a great job.
00:15:10.000 Thank you for supporting this.
00:15:12.000 But now you need to do even more.
00:15:15.000 So, for example, Senate Bill 67 would say that you need to have a photocopy of your driver's license or your driver's license number on your ballot when you send it in.
00:15:24.000 Now, ideally, we would just reduce the number of absentee ballots.
00:15:27.000 For whatever reason, they're afraid to deal with that.
00:15:30.000 The rapid increase, the explosion of newly requested and submitted absentee ballots has to be addressed.
00:15:40.000 But if we are going to have absentee ballots at all, which we will, then this reform is necessary, and I applaud it.
00:15:51.000 Lieutenant Governor Jeff Duncan said the following: Quote, I am focused on maintaining confidence in our electoral process and making it easy to vote and difficult to cheat, Duncan said.
00:16:05.000 I am proud of this bipartisan package and the hard work of the individual bill sponsors.
00:16:11.000 I look forward to the entire package reaching the governor's desk.
00:16:16.000 There was also some other reforms that were passed, such as Senate Bill 184.
00:16:21.000 Senate Bill 40 allows election workers to open and tabulate absentee ballots before Election Day, basically preventing this months-long potential vote counting issue.
00:16:36.000 Also, Senate Bill 188, which requires counties to report the number of absentee ballot issued and returns on the number of in-person votes cast when the polls close.
00:16:47.000 So we know what we're dealing with on Election Night.
00:16:51.000 Very simple, very smart, and therefore it opens more transparency.
00:16:56.000 And finally, Senate Bill 184, which decreases the time after an election that counties can reconcile the votes from 60 days to 30 days.
00:17:11.000 The measure cleared the Senate with a 37 to 15 vote.
00:17:16.000 Senator Bill Kousert said, quote, when these measures become law, voters will have confidence and confirmation that their vote was indeed counted and counted quickly, with county election boards required to publicly post the total number of votes received before they begin tabulating.
00:17:33.000 These are some very positive good reforms.
00:17:36.000 Every state, if you live in Pennsylvania, if you live in Michigan, if you live in Wisconsin, you live in Arizona, and if you live in Georgia, support these reforms and support even more.
00:17:45.000 And I am pleased, it's the best news I have for you in the last couple weeks, is this.
00:17:50.000 These legislators are taking the cue from you.
00:17:54.000 Don't stop.
00:17:55.000 And so one of the main reasons why there was an increase in the absentee ballot requests was because of the Chinese coronavirus.
00:18:04.000 But there was a, let's say, a perfect storm that occurred when we have the Chinese coronavirus that offered an opening for increased absentee ballot requests.
00:18:20.000 Remember, 284,000 people voted by absentee ballot in Georgia in 2018, and 1.3 million voted by absentee in 2020.
00:18:32.000 1 million more people voted doesn't include requests.
00:18:36.000 Now, Stacey Abrams never conceded to Brian Kemp in 2018, raised a bunch of money from Hollywood elites and tech liberals, hired the best lawyers imaginable in Washington,
00:18:52.000 D.C., came into Georgia and sued Brad Raufensberger, the Secretary of State of Georgia, alongside the governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, who's now up for re-election, they signed what is called a consent decree.
00:19:08.000 Now, this is very confusing.
00:19:12.000 It can be very confusing because there's another consent decree that was approved many, many years ago.
00:19:23.000 And so the real frustrating part of all of this is that there is a consent decree that was put forward in 1982.
00:19:34.000 In 1982, I'm reading from Politico.
00:19:37.000 The Democrat National Committee filed a lawsuit, charging the Republican National Committee with seeking to discourage black voters from voting through targeted mailings, warning about penalties for violating election laws and by posting armed, off-duty law enforcement officers at the polls in minority neighborhoods.
00:19:56.000 To extend the decree, the Democrat National Committee needed to show that the Republican National Committee violated the terms of the pact.
00:20:04.000 The Democrats pointed to a series of incidents from the 2016 election in which they alleged people who claimed or appeared to be working for the RNC were engaged in poll watching.
00:20:15.000 Instead, Vasquez, an Obama-appointed judge, this is back in 2018, lifted the decree, said, You're free now, RNC, to do election integrity efforts anywhere you want, especially in Georgia, in the South.
00:20:32.000 So, simultaneously, while this was happening, Stacey Abrams was running for governor against Brian Kemp, never concedes.
00:20:40.000 And the frustrating thing is because the prior consent decree that was lifted by an Obama judge actually allowed Republicans to get more involved in election integrity than ever before.
00:20:53.000 In addition, Stacey Abrams sues, sues, sues Republicans run for the Hills.
00:20:59.000 Raufensperger and Kemp, they settled.
00:21:06.000 In law, when you settle, you don't admit guilt.
00:21:10.000 You don't say that I did nothing wrong.
00:21:12.000 It's a separate agreement that is formed to end the lawsuit.
00:21:17.000 However, I would venture a guess that Brian Kemp and Rauffensperger were nervous for the fight that Stacey Abrams is bringing to Georgia's door.
00:21:26.000 Rauffensperger and Kemp were worried that Stacey Abrams, with her seeming, her seemingly unlimited pool of money, a media that adores her, and changing demographics in Georgia, Kemp and Rothensberger said, boy, I don't want to get into some sort of scandal. 1.00
00:21:46.000 Let's settle, settle with her. 1.00
00:21:47.000 What does she want? 0.99
00:21:49.000 What she wanted was relaxed signature verification standards in Georgia. 1.00
00:21:54.000 What she wanted was voter signature checks that were quite honestly outrageous.
00:22:03.000 And so Senator Lindsey Graham back in December said, quote, Stacey Abrams conned Georgia election officials, leading to a Democrat presidential win there.
00:22:14.000 This is before the Georgia runoff.
00:22:16.000 So now there's two Democrat senators in Georgia and Joe Biden won.
00:22:21.000 So this was a legal settlement that happened.
00:22:24.000 Get this in March of 2020, the month the Chinese coronavirus really started to become a primary news item.
00:22:34.000 So if Kemp and Rothensperger might have just waited another couple months, do you think they would have signed that consent decree?
00:22:39.000 Probably not.
00:22:41.000 Because they would have been under pressure.
00:22:42.000 People say, wait a second, we're about to have a bunch of mail and voting.
00:22:45.000 So I'm going to make the argument to defend Kemp and Rothensberger.
00:22:53.000 I don't actually believe this argument, but I'm going to do this as devil's advocate.
00:22:58.000 I think Kemp and Rothensperger, at the best possible scenario, believed that absentee ballots would not be above their 2016 or 2018 levels because they signed this in March.
00:23:11.000 They thought that this was a nuisance.
00:23:13.000 They wanted it to go away.
00:23:14.000 They thought they would deliver Republican Senate seats and they thought they would easily deliver the state for Trump, even though they didn't like Trump, and that this annoyance from Stacey Abrams, signature verification issues, who cares?
00:23:26.000 We're going to get rid of it.
00:23:29.000 Not a big deal.
00:23:30.000 280,000 people vote by absentee.
00:23:32.000 A lot of them are Republicans.
00:23:33.000 A lot of them are old people.
00:23:35.000 Instead, what happened, Kemp and Rothensperger for wanting to dismiss something that they considered to be irrelevant, that they considered to be an annoyance, ended up being critical to the future of the Republic.
00:23:52.000 So Rothensberger and Kemp punted.
00:23:57.000 They deferred.
00:23:59.000 They said, okay, just tell the lawyers to settle. 1.00
00:24:01.000 What does she want? 1.00
00:24:01.000 She wants relaxed signature checks. 1.00
00:24:04.000 We don't really care about that. 0.55
00:24:05.000 Not a lot of people vote by mail.
00:24:07.000 When in reality, Kemp and Rothensberger, around April and May, as the virus raged and vote by mail was talked about more and more, Kemp and Rothensperger should have called the special senate, the Georgia House and Senate in June of 2020 and said, hey, guys, just so everyone knows, we signed a document back in March believing absentee ballot requests would be X, but it really looks like they're going to be Y.
00:24:37.000 We got to fix this.
00:24:40.000 Instead, Kemp and Rothensberger did something cowardly.
00:24:48.000 It's human nature to act in a cowardly fashion.
00:24:52.000 It's hard to admit you might have done something that would result in a Democrat winning.
00:25:01.000 Instead, Kemp and Rothensperger ignored the issue.
00:25:06.000 All throughout the summer, as Nancy Pelosi started to talk more and more about absentee ballots that needed to be sent to every person, as we started to see more and more stories of how Secretary of State's offices were ramping up ballot distribution, Kemp and Rothensperger kept their mouth closed.
00:25:22.000 Now, of course, the consent decree was public, but unless you are in the nitty gritty of Georgia politics, you would not have put one and two together except Kemp and Rothensberger knew what was happening and they refused to say anything.
00:25:34.000 So worst case scenarios, Kemp and Rothensperger were bought and paid for, and they didn't actually want Trump to win, Loffler to win, Purdue to win.
00:25:43.000 I think that's not as likely as this.
00:25:45.000 I refuse to blame a conspiracy on what could be blamed for cowardice. 0.63
00:25:50.000 They're weak people, Kemp and Rothensperger. 0.92
00:25:54.000 They don't really have a lot of courage.
00:25:57.000 So instead of calling a special session of the Georgia House of Representatives and the state Senate, they crossed their fingers and they said, I hope Republicans still win.
00:26:14.000 That's why we lost Georgia.
00:26:16.000 It's that simple.
00:26:18.000 If we would have had the signature verification standards that were in place before the March of 2020 Abrams consent decree that even Senator Lindsey Graham said that conned Georgia election officials, Purdue, Loffler, and Trump would have won Georgia.
00:26:32.000 The Senate would be in Republican hands and the balance of power in D.C. would look a lot different.
00:26:39.000 And this is one of the things that the Senate Bill 67 is fixing right now in Georgia, which is a positive development.
00:26:46.000 But what's the lesson here?
00:26:49.000 The lesson here, and it's a great lesson for life.
00:26:51.000 It's not just a good lesson for politics, is when you see a problem, when you see something that is wrong that you might be responsible for, don't hope that incident into completion.
00:27:14.000 Do not.
00:27:15.000 There's a great quote.
00:27:16.000 I use it often.
00:27:17.000 Hope is not a strategy.
00:27:20.000 Kemp and Rothensperger used hope as a primary strategy.
00:27:24.000 Instead of admitting they should have probably not signed the consent decree, or they didn't have to do that, just alerting people that they signed the consent decree and calling a special session.
00:27:33.000 Are you trying to tell me if Kemp and Rothensperger, if they would not have called the White House operator and said, Mr. President, we got a problem in Georgia.
00:27:42.000 I need you to tweet out that the Georgia Senate needs to convene.
00:27:45.000 You're trying to tell me that people would not, that those state senators and those state reps would not have come for a special session in Atlanta?
00:27:54.000 I visited with the president back in July of 2020 in the White House, and I remember talking to him about the mail-in-balloting issue, and it was a primary concern for him.
00:28:02.000 He understood this was a problem.
00:28:04.000 The question is: why was the Republican Party, why were our leaders absent on this discussion? 0.78
00:28:12.000 I did not know that Stacey Abrams signed a consent decree in March of 2020.
00:28:17.000 I did not know that.
00:28:18.000 We were focused on other things, like the Chinese coronavirus, lockdowns, the market going from nearly 30,000 on the Dow to 18,000 on the Dow.
00:28:28.000 That was probably the top news story in March 2020.
00:28:32.000 But while that entire news cycle was happening, Kemp and Rothensberger were signing documents handing over the keys to Georgia's political future to a woman who never won the Georgia governor's race, who was financed by tech elites.
00:28:48.000 It happened like that.
00:28:50.000 And it was so preventable.
00:28:54.000 It's all about leadership.
00:28:56.000 What a leader like Kemp does is around June, instead of getting nervous and hoping things will result, he should have just called Time Out and said, We got a problem, everybody.
00:29:08.000 And our problem is that we are about to have the most amount of people ever vote by mail in the history of Georgia, not just by a little bit, by the way, one million more people with this new signature stuff.
00:29:20.000 But instead, Kemp and Rothensperger, like all weak leaders, were prideful as well.
00:29:28.000 Georgia's a Republican state plus four or five points in a presidential year.
00:29:32.000 Georgia's not a battleground state.
00:29:36.000 So they had a lethal combination of pride and cowardice.
00:29:46.000 They were afraid and they were cocky.
00:29:50.000 So this bill in Georgia is aiming to fix some of it, and it's a positive development, but it's not enough.
00:29:56.000 But the biggest lesson here for all of us in your life or your political engagement is when you see a problem, address it and take responsibility for it.
00:30:05.000 Hope is not a strategy.
00:30:08.000 We'll win back those Georgia Senate seats.
00:30:10.000 We will.
00:30:11.000 And this bill will start to get us in the right direction.
00:30:13.000 Okay, this clip is too good to resist.
00:30:16.000 Kevin McCarthy and Liz Cheney.
00:30:20.000 Why Liz Cheney is still a leader in the Republican Party is beyond me.
00:30:24.000 With two very different answers.
00:30:26.000 Kevin is a funny guy.
00:30:29.000 I consider him a friend.
00:30:31.000 I don't agree with him on everything, but I think he's doing the best job that I have seen since Newt Gingrich to have all the coalitions together and give grassroots conservatives a voice.
00:30:40.000 Best since Newt Gingrich.
00:30:42.000 And he deserves credit for that.
00:30:44.000 Let's play cut 46.
00:30:47.000 Kevin McCarthy and Liz Cheney.
00:30:49.000 Just for a group believer, if you want to leadership, especially Congresswoman Cheney, do you believe President Trump should be speaking, or former President Trump should be speaking at CPAC this weekend?
00:30:57.000 Yes, he should.
00:30:58.000 Congressman Cheney?
00:31:00.000 That's up to CPAC.
00:31:02.000 I've been clear in my views about President Trump and the extent to which Bolling exaggerates fell on January 6th.
00:31:10.000 I don't believe that he should be playing a role in the future departing for the country.
00:31:16.000 On that high note?
00:31:21.000 Good for Kevin.
00:31:22.000 And Kevin says, yes, I believe he should, because Kevin is smart.
00:31:25.000 Liz Cheney is bought.
00:31:27.000 Big difference. 1.00
00:31:28.000 I'm not saying Liz Cheney is dumb, but she's purchased by the corporations. 1.00
00:31:31.000 She is a spokesperson for every major company that does business with China. 0.99
00:31:36.000 By the way, Liz Cheney has never found a country that she does not think we should occupy, invade, or overthrow their sovereign government.
00:31:42.000 And by the way, Liz Cheney has this whole thing about how we can't end any wars.
00:31:46.000 We are going to get into that and do a future episode of the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:31:49.000 But Kevin McCarthy's smart.
00:31:50.000 He knows that there is no way to take back the House of Representatives without President Trump and his supporters.
00:31:56.000 He knows that the road to the Speaker, the House office goes through Mar-a-Lago.
00:31:59.000 He knows that.
00:32:01.000 Whether Kevin McCarthy wants that or not is irrelevant.
00:32:04.000 The fact that he's willing to admit it is a positive thing.
00:32:07.000 It really is.
00:32:07.000 And again, I think Kevin McCarthy has done the best job.
00:32:10.000 Again, I don't agree with him on everything of any person that's in leadership in the House of Representatives.
00:32:16.000 And no, Jim Jordan is not in leadership, to put together the coalitions and give a voice to grassroots conservatives since Newt Gingrich.
00:32:23.000 I think that is something that we should talk about even more.
00:32:26.000 But Liz Cheney saying, no, I don't think he should be able to speak at CPAC.
00:32:29.000 You see, if Liz Cheney had her way about the speaker's selection at CPAC, it would be Mitt Romney and former generals that invaded Iraq and executives at Halliburton.
00:32:41.000 We'll handle Liz Cheney more at a different time.
00:32:44.000 I would actually love to interview her. 0.95
00:32:46.000 I would ask Liz Cheney just a very, very simple questions.
00:32:49.000 Is there any war in American history you regret that we got engaged in?
00:32:54.000 What country do you not want to invade? 0.70
00:32:56.000 Do you ever think that the war in Afghanistan should be ended? 0.91
00:33:00.000 Do you think that the war in Iraq was a mistake?
00:33:03.000 What success did we achieve in the war in Iraq?
00:33:08.000 How much was your family paid by Halliburton?
00:33:10.000 Very simple questions that I would love to have Liz Cheney answer.
00:33:14.000 Let's get to some more sound here. 1.00
00:33:17.000 Let's go to cut 38.
00:33:18.000 AOC doing some live stream. 0.96
00:33:22.000 But the United States is running concentration camps on our southern border.
00:33:29.000 And that is exactly what they are.
00:33:33.000 They are concentration camps.
00:33:35.000 And if that doesn't bother you.
00:33:41.000 What does her shirt say?
00:33:42.000 Something the land?
00:33:45.000 Well, AOC, if the United States is running concentration camps, then who's running the camps?
00:33:52.000 And if you could...
00:33:54.000 Do you see how subtle that is?
00:33:56.000 AOC says the United States, she doesn't say the Biden administration noticed that.
00:34:00.000 Back when Trump was doing it, it was Donald Trumpist, as if he's the one that designed the camp.
00:34:05.000 By the way, they're not concentration camps.
00:34:07.000 Let's be very clear, okay?
00:34:08.000 They're detention facilities for unaccompanied minors.
00:34:10.000 And by the way, those are going up.
00:34:12.000 And Joe Biden, if you're watching this, which you're not, but if someone who could speak to him would say, what do you have to say about AOC accusing you of running concentration camps?
00:34:25.000 Once you build the guillotines, once you foment the mob, they will come for you next.
00:34:30.000 Charlie Kirk here, host of the Charlie Kirk Show.
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