The Charlie Kirk Show - Halting a Dem Gun Grab with Brian Festa and Rep. Dan Bishop

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, it's Andrew Charlie Kirk Show.

00:00:01.000 Congressman Dan Bishop joins the program.

00:00:04.000 We discuss the latest with the 930 deadline looming.

00:00:06.000 And Brian Festa to talk about the New Mexico governor and why I disagree with Brian Kemp using an emergency declaration to lower taxes.

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00:00:26.000 Buckle up, everybody, here we go.

00:00:28.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:10.000 To my surprise, and I mean that, overwhelming support for our idea, freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:01:18.000 And for those of you that are just tuning in, what is the idea?

00:01:20.000 The idea is that the Senate and the presidency is not controlled by Republicans.

00:01:25.000 We need to defund Jack Smith.

00:01:28.000 We cannot allow them to interfere with the election.

00:01:32.000 Joe Biden will likely pardon his son Hunter anyway while he is president.

00:01:37.000 And if you have a hierarchy of what matters the most, winning the 2024 election matters the most.

00:01:45.000 And therefore, defunding Jack Smith is critical.

00:01:49.000 And then you could also call the bluff.

00:01:52.000 Think about this.

00:01:54.000 You could say, okay, no money for Jack Smith and no money for the babysitter that Hunter Biden has until after the election.

00:02:01.000 Just put a pause on it, suspend it.

00:02:04.000 Ideally, we just defund Jack Smith, obviously, ideally, but we don't control the Senate.

00:02:09.000 That's awful.

00:02:10.000 It's too bad.

00:02:11.000 We don't control the White House.

00:02:12.000 But think about how interesting that would be to have Chuck Schumer come out against this idea.

00:02:18.000 But, well, Chuck, it's no money to investigate Hunter Biden because that would actually, Joe Biden would sign that.

00:02:28.000 And it would also be no money into his political opponent.

00:02:32.000 I'm not saying it's an amazing idea, but it very well might be necessary given that right now Republicans do not seem like they'll be able to defund Jack Smith.

00:02:46.000 Joining us now is Congressman Bishop.

00:02:48.000 Congressman, thank you for taking the time.

00:02:50.000 Boy, you have a couple eventful weeks coming up, Congressman Bishop.

00:02:54.000 Walk our audience through what are the big demands that your team is making coming before 9:30, the priorities for your colleagues, Congressman Bishop.

00:03:06.000 Well, Charlie, thank you for having me on.

00:03:07.000 And I'm on the telephone because we're running around like chickens with heads cut off trying to see if we can get, frankly, compensate for the absence of planning and leadership within our own conference to do something appropriately bold to the circumstances.

00:03:23.000 What I caught the last few minutes of your supposition or hypothetical about what we could do, I think there are a number of things.

00:03:32.000 You know, we struck a basic deal in January that we were going to see material reduction in the scope and expenditure for the woke bureaucracy, the weaponized bureaucracy, in exchange for continuing to allow defense spending to rise a relatively small amount.

00:03:51.000 And the appropriations bills haven't yet materialized at the target that was agreed to.

00:03:56.000 We got a lot of, so we're trying to hash that out.

00:03:59.000 There are people who are talking about even now a proposition for something bold to change on the border in the terms of the border chaos we face.

00:04:09.000 I personally am drawn to, I believe, something, one of the things I've been in distress about as the appropriations bills have come forward is, you know, it's just sort of like business as usual with the Department of Justice.

00:04:20.000 That's weaponized.

00:04:22.000 The FBI, the DOJ decision-making, now that you talk about it where the potential, you know, appearances of potential corruption are as strong as they can be.

00:04:32.000 Yeah, I mean, the indictments in the election matter are a four-square attack on the First Amendment.

00:04:41.000 You may love or hate Trump or any of the people associated with him, but that's what they are.

00:04:41.000 That's what they are.

00:04:48.000 And it is in the power of the Congress, in my view, to defund us.

00:04:51.000 Congress has to decide what gets funded.

00:04:54.000 So I don't know the answer yet, but the challenge for the Republican Conference is to be bold enough to do something.

00:05:03.000 And, you know, McCarthy has to walk into Chuck Schumer's office and say, look, Chuck, read me any way you want to.

00:05:12.000 We're not moving a bill forward to spend anything unless this item, these items are there.

00:05:18.000 And I'm waiting to see, you know, I'm seeing here.

00:05:21.000 I was just going to come walk out of a meeting where there is a proposal that's kind of coming together.

00:05:26.000 I have some questions about whether doing anything on border chaos is going to really make a substantive change if Alejandro, my orchestra, is prepared to flout the law anyway.

00:05:36.000 But that's kind of where we are.

00:05:40.000 So, Congressman, you know, we've been floating out this idea of potentially saying that we suspend all DOJ investigations into presidential candidates, including Cornell West, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, at least until after the 2024 election.

00:05:54.000 Just want to kind of have you think about that, not now and just in the days to come, because that would be an interesting way to actually call the bluff, because the defunding of Jack Smith, I think, is the most important thing.

00:06:04.000 We need a surgical strike against the deep state.

00:06:07.000 And what they're able to do to be able to slow down the Trump campaign, throw stuff at him, it's unconstitutional.

00:06:13.000 It's immoral.

00:06:15.000 So here's my fear, Congressman, and you guys have been doing a great job of holding the line: is that we are not running out of time is not necessarily the best way.

00:06:24.000 Is that usually in these moments, there's panic and that there is hysteria and we lose focus.

00:06:31.000 And so the Democrats need to know we mean business.

00:06:35.000 And the Democrats want a completely and totally wide open border.

00:06:39.000 They want blank checks for Ukraine, and they obviously want money to be able to go to Jack Smith.

00:06:44.000 So, Congressman, what tactics are you going to try to use or have our audience use during this upcoming legislative fight so that we can at least get some victories?

00:06:58.000 And are you potentially willing to shut down the government?

00:07:02.000 So there are three camps here, Charlie.

00:07:05.000 You're well aware of this.

00:07:06.000 If you look at the Senate, there are lots of Republicans that want to spend more money.

00:07:12.000 It's true in the House as well.

00:07:14.000 There is another group of Republicans that doesn't really want to, but they have always been stewed in the juices that you have to stay on the team.

00:07:22.000 No matter what the leaders of the team do, you've got to stay on the team and you've got to go.

00:07:26.000 There is another cohort here of which I'm a part, and it is not huge, but it is sizable enough.

00:07:34.000 We saw it in January that is making clear we are not going to allow business as usual to prevail.

00:07:42.000 We are not going to sign on to a clean CR.

00:07:46.000 We are not going to have any kind of a CR that extends out months and months.

00:07:53.000 So that's one.

00:07:55.000 And the other part, frankly, Charlie, is there are a number of things I think that could be done that would represent real progress for the American people that would be acceptable to me, and they're not that complicated.

00:08:06.000 It's just a question of deciding that you're going to act, finally breaking through the resistance of this place.

00:08:13.000 And that requires a mental adjustment on the part.

00:08:16.000 It happened in January.

00:08:18.000 It can happen again now, but it's going to take the same demonstration of will.

00:08:27.000 And there were doubters in January.

00:08:29.000 There were critics among so-called conservatives to ever doing anything other than just falling into line.

00:08:37.000 But I can tell you that I just walked out of the room of people that will not do that any more than they did in January.

00:08:43.000 So there's plenty of time.

00:08:44.000 It's not difficult.

00:08:45.000 It's not complicated at the end of the day.

00:08:47.000 People can complicate it endlessly, but it requires honesty.

00:08:51.000 So we're not going to be cosmetic and lie about what was done and requires will.

00:08:57.000 And it's just that simple.

00:08:59.000 So marching orders here, Dan, as we close, how can the audience help?

00:09:03.000 Where can the grassroots be the most effective as we loom towards 930?

00:09:08.000 Keep letting your congressman know that the status quo is not acceptable.

00:09:14.000 Whatever they do, whatever is going to happen, that is not the choice.

00:09:19.000 They cannot say, well, we really wanted to get something substantial changed, but we're just at the end of the day, we just couldn't do it.

00:09:25.000 That is not going to do it.

00:09:27.000 They must make robust and meaningful change.

00:09:30.000 This is the moment to do it.

00:09:32.000 No more capitulations in the moments like the debt ceiling negotiation, where when you're in divided government, it's the only way to make any kind of a step forward is to say, we are going to do this and nothing's going to get resolved until you agree.

00:09:51.000 So tell your congressman, man up.

00:09:54.000 It's time to go.

00:09:56.000 Congressman Bishop, we have your back.

00:09:57.000 Hold the line.

00:09:58.000 Thank you so much.

00:09:59.000 Thank you, Charlie.

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00:11:48.000 Why are Republican AGs scared of their own shadow?

00:11:53.000 There's a show trial going on right now in Texas.

00:11:55.000 I've known Ken Paxton for years.

00:11:58.000 The behavior that has come to light of the alleged affairs, if true, I cannot and will not defend.

00:12:04.000 I don't think anyone is going to defend that.

00:12:08.000 Not the point.

00:12:11.000 Texas is being invaded on the southern border.

00:12:16.000 Texans had a choice to make in a recent election, both in a primary and then a general.

00:12:24.000 It was not a mystery that Ken Paxton had some, let's just say, baggage, federal investigations, all that nonsense.

00:12:31.000 So Ken Paxton was in a very heated primary because I think that we should have elections solve many of these issues, not oligarchs.

00:12:41.000 Okay.

00:12:42.000 So there was a primary.

00:12:45.000 Who did Ken Paxton run against in the primary?

00:12:48.000 Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas, ran against George P. Bush, the son of Jeb Bush, if I'm not mistaken.

00:13:02.000 The Texas Tribune last year said, quote, George P. Bush's defeat could be the end of a line of a four-generation political dynasty.

00:13:12.000 So George P. Bush ramped up.

00:13:14.000 The Bush's, they cannot resist political power.

00:13:18.000 So this is the son of John Ellis Bush, Jeb, exclamation part point.

00:13:25.000 His uncle, of course, is George W. Bush.

00:13:28.000 His grandfather, George H.W. Bush.

00:13:32.000 And this was not a very widely covered race.

00:13:34.000 We actually covered it pretty well, I have to say, but it wasn't that well, that wasn't watched that much nationally.

00:13:42.000 We had Ken come on the show a couple times.

00:13:43.000 So you had Bush v. Paxton.

00:13:46.000 And then my friend Louie Gomert comes into the race.

00:13:48.000 He really doesn't like Ken Paxton.

00:13:50.000 And I've known Louis for years.

00:13:52.000 And we just do not see this the same way.

00:13:53.000 Louis and I have been texting, and Louis wants Ken out of the way.

00:13:57.000 Louie just wrote an article basically calling for the removal of Ken Paxton.

00:14:00.000 There's a lot of personal animus here, we have to understand.

00:14:03.000 So Louie ran in, and then it forced a runoff because it kept Ken Paxton below the 50 threshold. 0.84

00:14:09.000 And then Ken Paxton won the runoff.

00:14:11.000 Ken Paxton defeated George P. Bush in the runoff.

00:14:14.000 And then Ken Paxton went on to the general election and won.

00:14:18.000 So the voters knew Ken Paxton has some issues, but he's doing more good than bad, and we want a Republican attorney general.

00:14:26.000 Okay.

00:14:27.000 Then out of left field, while Texas is being invaded, while Donald Trump is facing 500 years in federal prison, while you have local DAs that are acting in complete rogue fashion, where does the Texas legislature spend their time?

00:14:45.000 Not building a border wall, not talking about the restoration of Texan sovereignty.

00:14:53.000 No, the Texas legislature all of a sudden launches an impeachment of Republican duly elected Ken Paxton out of the blue.

00:15:05.000 You got to wonder, is that the Bush striking back?

00:15:07.000 The Bushes didn't get the AG office before, and then they strike back in this way.

00:15:12.000 And they start this show trial, and it passed the House, and now the trial is basically over in the Senate.

00:15:19.000 The vote could happen any day now, any day, to try to overturn the will of the Texas voters.

00:15:28.000 The attorney represented the quote-unquote whistleblowers is a long-term, long-time Bush ally.

00:15:34.000 Now, I won't say any names, but I was recently in Lubbock, Texas, and I met a very polite, And I think by all accounts, good man who's a state representative in Texas in the Lubbock area.

00:15:49.000 And he voted against Paxton.

00:15:53.000 And we had a, let's just say, rather heated discussion.

00:15:56.000 I think we kept it respectful, but I was very confused.

00:16:00.000 I said, why are you doing this?

00:16:02.000 I said, it's turning Texas into a laughingstock.

00:16:04.000 You guys are literally have handed your border over to the cartels.

00:16:09.000 for child sex smugglers, and you guys are settling some sort of fraternity score as if the local fraternity president made you angry.

00:16:21.000 Like this is middle school stuff.

00:16:23.000 In the middle of a war, you guys are being invaded.

00:16:26.000 And he said, well, corruption, corruption, corruption.

00:16:30.000 And I asked him to define that.

00:16:33.000 And our conversation, admittedly, did get cut a little bit short, but I find it to be a very weak argument.

00:16:40.000 I'm not defending Ken Paxton's personal behavior.

00:16:43.000 It's not what I'm doing.

00:16:45.000 I am defending how effective of an AG he's been.

00:16:49.000 I'm defending the will of the voters.

00:16:52.000 And most importantly, I'm defending what the heck are the priorities of the Texas legislature.

00:17:00.000 And apparently it's not securing the border, pushing back on Biden, defending everyday Americans against Leviathan.

00:17:08.000 It's going after one of our own.

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00:18:17.000 Okay, joining us now is Brian Festa, does a great job, co-founder of We the Patriots USA.

00:18:22.000 We had a great event in Boise, Idaho, not too long ago.

00:18:24.000 I really enjoyed it.

00:18:26.000 Brian, thank you for joining the program.

00:18:28.000 You guys have been playing offense against the governor of New Mexico, Michelle Lujan Grisham.

00:18:34.000 Tell us all about it.

00:18:36.000 Yeah, it's great to be here, Charlie.

00:18:37.000 And yeah, we really enjoyed having you out here in Idaho and I hope to see you again soon.

00:18:43.000 New Mexico, I can't even believe what this governor did.

00:18:48.000 Late last Friday afternoon, I got word from one of our attorneys that she had issued Governor Grisham, that is, had issued an executive order banning the carrying of any firearms anywhere in the city of Albuquerque or anywhere where the crime rate had exceeded a certain predetermined threshold, which she said constituted a public health emergency.

00:19:11.000 This is why we said it was so dangerous during the COVID years that these governors were using this public health emergency to justify all kinds of government overreach.

00:19:21.000 And so she did that.

00:19:23.000 And we sprang into action within less than 24 hours.

00:19:26.000 By Saturday evening, we had filed a federal lawsuit against the governor.

00:19:32.000 We just had a hearing yesterday and we were successful in getting a federal judge to issue a temporary restraining order against the governor's order, which was a huge victory.

00:19:45.000 Both Democrats and Republicans have come out strongly against Governor Grisham.

00:19:51.000 Her own attorney general, Raul Torres, who's a Democrat that served in the Obama Department of Justice, actually sent a letter to her.

00:20:01.000 the day before the hearing saying, I'm not going to defend you against this lawsuit in court.

00:20:05.000 My oath that I swore to uphold and defend the Constitution takes precedence over any obligation I have to defend you in court.

00:20:13.000 So I want to play some pieces of tape.

00:20:15.000 Your great work, by the way, Brian, and let's just go through it one by one.

00:20:19.000 Here is the quote and then her action.

00:20:21.000 The First and Second Amendment does not exist when I say so during an emergency.

00:20:27.000 Play cut 20.

00:20:29.000 Yeah.

00:20:30.000 But your point is valid.

00:20:31.000 You took an oath to the Constitution.

00:20:33.000 Isn't it unconstitutional to say you cannot exercise your carrying license?

00:20:39.000 With one exception.

00:20:40.000 And that is, if there's an emergency and I've declared an emergency for a temporary amount of time, I can invoke additional powers.

00:20:50.000 No constitutional right, in my view, including my oath, is intended to be absolute.

00:20:57.000 There are restrictions on free speech.

00:20:59.000 There are restrictions on my freedoms.

00:21:01.000 In this emergency, this 11-year-old and all these parents who have lost all these children, they deserve my attention to have the debate about whether or not in an emergency, we can create a safer environment.

00:21:18.000 So Brian, this is, I don't want to say unprecedented because we saw it during COVID, but this is the governor of New Mexico just saying I can wave a pen and get rid of people's rights.

00:21:29.000 Your reaction.

00:21:30.000 Yeah, apparently.

00:21:32.000 I was stunned when I first heard that myself.

00:21:35.000 She's saying her oath to uphold and defend the Constitution is not absolute.

00:21:40.000 Well, I'm sorry, Governor Grisham.

00:21:42.000 You know, I took an oath as well as an attorney, the same kind of oath to uphold and to abide by the Constitution.

00:21:48.000 And I do consider that absolute.

00:21:50.000 And so does Raul Torres.

00:21:53.000 Credit to him.

00:21:53.000 Again, the Democrat Attorney General, who said the exact same thing.

00:21:58.000 And to David Urias, again, appointed by Biden just recently.

00:22:03.000 He's a federal judge appointed by Biden.

00:22:05.000 And regardless of whether he's a Democrat, Republican, what he believes, he said in open court yesterday that he is bound to uphold the Second Amendment and the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Bruin just last year, which clearly stated, emphatically stated, that there is an individual right to bear arms both inside the home and outside the home.

00:22:26.000 And Charlie, what they said in that decision specifically is you can't designate certain areas, certain cities as sensitive places in order to take away the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

00:22:39.000 And that's exactly what she did here.

00:22:41.000 So it's almost like Governor Grisham saw that in the Bruen decision, circled it and said, yeah, that right there, that's what I'm going to do.

00:22:49.000 Unbelievable.

00:22:50.000 It really is.

00:22:51.000 I want to play more tape here because it's worth really examining this.

00:22:56.000 Here's a reporter asking, if someone's got a concealed carry permit in Albuquerque, walking on a public street, they're not going to get arrested.

00:23:03.000 The governor says, maybe they should.

00:23:06.000 Maybe they should.

00:23:06.000 We're just going to arrest you for exercising your constitutional rights.

00:23:12.000 I mean, play cut 31.

00:23:14.000 If someone's got a concealed carriage forbid in Albuquerque walking down a public street, they're not going to get arrested.

00:23:21.000 I can make the point that maybe they should be.

00:23:25.000 Because if you're not horrified that on any street corner in too many cities in New Mexico, there is someone with a gun sticking out of their waist or their belt.

00:23:42.000 But we won't be able to arrest all of them.

00:23:45.000 Holy moly, maybe they should be.

00:23:48.000 So I visit Albuquerque frequently at my friend Steve Smutterman's Church Legacy Church, and it's a dangerous city.

00:23:53.000 I think it actually is one of the most dangerous cities, if not the most dangerous city per capita in America.

00:23:59.000 It's completely run by the cartels.

00:24:01.000 And it's very interesting when you go to Legacy Church, you know, you have these little old ladies, five foot two, amazingly patriotic, faithful Hispanic grandmothers, and they have their little purses and they all have guns in them because they need it.

00:24:18.000 It's a very dangerous. 0.84

00:24:19.000 So the governor of New Mexico wants to go arrest a bunch of five foot two Hispanic grandmothers because they carry a firearm so that some thug doesn't try to rob them or rape them. 1.00

00:24:30.000 Your reaction, Brian? 0.98

00:24:32.000 Right. 0.96

00:24:32.000 I mean, it's completely ludicrous. 0.96

00:24:34.000 Our individual plaintiffs, so we were the lead plaintiff in this lawsuit, but our individual plaintiff, Dennis Smith, is a retired citizen of Albuquerque.

00:24:42.000 He's lived there for 40 years, frequents public spaces, public parks, and he openly admits, he's like, listen, I'm not getting any younger.

00:24:50.000 I'm not exactly fleet of foot.

00:24:51.000 I can't get away from an attacker.

00:24:54.000 And he was just saying in our press conference yesterday after the hearing that he's seen his neighborhood just deteriorate into all kinds of things.

00:25:01.000 I mean, he's got not just, you know, obviously criminals and drug cartel and illegals that are pouring over the border there, as you know, Charlie.

00:25:09.000 He said there's even wild dogs, coyotes, everything running around his neighborhood.

00:25:14.000 He said, I don't feel safe even stepping out on my front porch without my weapon.

00:25:19.000 And you're going to take away his ability to protect himself, this guy who's been, like I said, living there 40 years as a retired citizen.

00:25:26.000 And these little old ladies, like you said, at Legacy Church, you're going to take away their ability to defend themselves against some thug who's come over the border illegally, a member of the drug cartel or whatever. 1.00

00:25:39.000 And you're going to say ordinary citizens can't protect themselves.

00:25:42.000 No, you know what's happening here as well as I do.

00:25:44.000 They know that a disarmed population is a population that they can control much more easily. 1.00

00:25:50.000 They're trying to take weapons out of the hands of law-abiding citizens.

00:25:53.000 They're not doing anything to take the weapons out of the hands of the criminals.

00:25:57.000 Let's go to cut 32. 0.95

00:26:01.000 The Bernanilo, County Sheriff, saying, I take my oath seriously.

00:26:04.000 We will not enforce this.

00:26:06.000 This gives me hope.

00:26:07.000 One of the ways that we have a check and balance against these wannabe Hitlers, this witch governor, Grisham, is non-compliance. 0.97

00:26:16.000 Having other office holders say, I'm not going to enforce it.

00:26:20.000 Remember, silence in the face of evil is evil itself.

00:26:23.000 Silence is consent.

00:26:25.000 Play cut 32.

00:26:26.000 Let me be clear.

00:26:28.000 I hold my standards high, and I do not or never will hedge on what is right.

00:26:34.000 And I take my oath seriously.

00:26:36.000 In reference to concealed carry and open carry, the Burnley County Sheriff's Office will not enforce this segment of the order.

00:26:45.000 Well, I understand the urgency.

00:26:47.000 The temporary ban challenges the foundations of our Constitution, but most importantly, it is unconstitutional.

00:26:55.000 And then continue cut 33.

00:26:58.000 The governor made it clear in her press conference.

00:27:00.000 She knew we as law enforcement did not agree with the order.

00:27:04.000 And as a result, this was solely her decision.

00:27:09.000 Other than this ban being unconstitutional, I'm a law enforcement professional.

00:27:13.000 This order will not do anything to curb gun violence other than punish law-abiding citizens from their constitutional right to self-defense.

00:27:23.000 Thank you, Founding Fathers, for being so clear with the Second Amendment.

00:27:26.000 Brian, tell us more about we, the Patriots, what you're doing, you know, the great work that you are advancing, and also just final reactions on the autocrat from New Mexico.

00:27:38.000 Well, God bless Sheriff Allen.

00:27:39.000 We need more like him, right?

00:27:41.000 Who actually understands his oath and his obligation to uphold and defend the Constitution?

00:27:46.000 Yeah, we the PatriotsUSA.org, we exist to defend the rights of ordinary Americans everywhere from coast to coast.

00:27:53.000 I know you've been doing that for many years, Charlie, as well.

00:27:57.000 So you get this.

00:27:58.000 You understand how important it is for organizations like ours to stand back and take back this country, especially in the courts.

00:28:05.000 You've talked about lawfare.

00:28:06.000 You talked about it when you were out at our conference.

00:28:08.000 The video of Charlie's talk at our conference is available on our website.

00:28:12.000 We have a conference video page.

00:28:14.000 If you go to our content at the top of the page, you'll see that.

00:28:16.000 Please subscribe to our email list so you can stay up to the date and the latest developments in this case because we do have another hearing going back to court October 3rd.

00:28:24.000 This was just a temporary restraining order.

00:28:26.000 We have to have a hearing on the preliminary injunction to see if we can have a more permanent moratorium on this executive order.

00:28:33.000 But I would encourage everyone, if you can, I know times are tough.

00:28:36.000 If you can support us to give us a donation for our legal efforts, there's a donate button right at the top.

00:28:41.000 We even have a Second Amendment legal fund because we're actually trying to build a litigation machine to fight back against all of these encroachments against our right to defend ourselves because that's really what it is.

00:28:51.000 Our rights to defend.

00:28:53.000 You know, I'm a father.

00:28:54.000 I know you are too.

00:28:55.000 You know, we need to be able to defend our families, protect our children here, and they're not going to let us do this.

00:29:01.000 It's just insane. 0.99

00:29:02.000 This woman is a witch, as you said. 0.99

00:29:04.000 I put her right up there in the category of like Gretchen Whitmer, Kathy Hochul. 0.99

00:29:08.000 I mean, she is just so over the line here and so egregious in her abuse of her authority, really her abuse of her office, that it's unconscionable. 1.00

00:29:19.000 And we need to be, we need to stand ready to defend that.

00:29:22.000 So that's why we encourage any support we can get.

00:29:24.000 And I thank you so much, Charlie, for having me on, allowing me to talk about this case and our work.

00:29:29.000 Great work, Brian.

00:29:30.000 Anytime.

00:29:31.000 You're welcome back.

00:29:32.000 Thanks so much.

00:29:35.000 If you understand how the Marxists operate, how totalitarians operate, they need an emergency.

00:29:46.000 They need a crisis.

00:29:50.000 They need to be able to declare states of emergency to give themselves more power.

00:29:57.000 And we've been very critical when governors do that, when governors put forward mask mandates, when governors say that you can't have more than two people on a boat where you can't go to school, or when presidents do it.

00:30:09.000 So what happens when a Republican governor does it?

00:30:13.000 Now, let's be fair. 0.68

00:30:15.000 Brian Kemp coming out and declaring a state of emergency over inflation does not potentially infringe on your natural rights nearly as close as the lunatic from New Mexico.

00:30:27.000 It's not the same thing, but I still don't like it.

00:30:31.000 I still do not like overusing the declaration of emergency to get what you want.

00:30:41.000 So yesterday, Brian Kemp, in kind of a silly, you know, slapstick way, comes out and he says, inflation is a state of emergency.

00:30:53.000 Now, I'm not diminishing.

00:30:54.000 Many of you in Georgia are probably going to save a lot of money from this or a couple hundred bucks a year.

00:30:58.000 I'm pleased with that.

00:30:59.000 I'm talking about a principled argument.

00:31:02.000 Are we not just playing into this idea that you can somewhat arbitrarily sign a declaration of emergency when things are not going your way?

00:31:14.000 We've been very critical when Democrats do that.

00:31:17.000 Here is Brian Kemp 91 talking about that he is going to unilaterally, he has the legal authority to do this, just say inflation is an emergency, therefore no more gas taxes.

00:31:31.000 Play cut 91.

00:31:32.000 We saw this news hit during this program yesterday that you're declaring a state of emergency for Georgia because of these rising prices.

00:31:41.000 What does that allow you to do for the residents of your state?

00:31:47.000 Well, we suspended the collection of the motor fuel or gasoline or diesel fuel tax yesterday to help hardworking Georgians fight through Bidenomics. 0.69

00:31:57.000 We're trying to keep a few dollars more in people's pocket by allowing them not to pay the 31 cents a gallon for gasoline or 35 cents a gallon for diesel fuel in the great state of Georgia.

00:32:08.000 Now, so you're willing to use emergency powers.

00:32:12.000 Why don't you use emergency powers to fire Fannie Willis, Brian Kemp?

00:32:18.000 Fannie Willis is a far greater emergency to the Constitutional Republic than even inflation. 0.91

00:32:26.000 And inflation is a big problem right now, no doubt.

00:32:29.000 Fannie Willis represents a much greater threat to the constitutional order, to our traditions, to the country. 0.81

00:32:38.000 And so here's another question, Brian Kemp.

00:32:39.000 Why don't you just put the legislature together and then repeal the gas tax? 0.53

00:32:42.000 Why do you have to do this unilaterally?

00:32:44.000 Are you afraid that if you call a special session of the legislature that Fannie Willis might be brought up? 0.51

00:32:51.000 Now, this is too cute by half for me.

00:32:54.000 This is Brian Kemp, who doesn't actually call the special session when necessary to hold Fannie Willis accountable, but he's willing to do it because of gas prices.

00:33:06.000 And I'm sure some of you in Georgia are thrilled about it.

00:33:08.000 You say, you know, we're going to get more money in our pocket.

00:33:11.000 And look, I don't even think gas taxes should exist.

00:33:13.000 Let me be very clear.

00:33:14.000 And then get rid of them completely.

00:33:16.000 But then call a special session and do it to the legislature.

00:33:18.000 If there's any emergency in America right now, an actual emergency, it's not climate change.

00:33:25.000 It's not even inflation.

00:33:26.000 And that's a problem.

00:33:29.000 The emergency in America is our invasion on our southern border and out-of-control political prosecutors shredding the United States Constitution on a daily basis.

00:33:42.000 Those are some emergencies happening right now.

00:33:46.000 And instead, Brian Kemp is saying, well, I'm willing to declare an emergency when it comes to gas taxes.

00:33:56.000 I think we have to be very, very careful using emergency use authorization powers.

00:34:03.000 We are playing in their hands.

00:34:04.000 They're going to declare an emergency on climate change very soon.

00:34:10.000 I'm telling you, they're going to sign emergency over the weather.

00:34:14.000 Can't go to school.

00:34:15.000 Can't drive more than 10 miles.

00:34:18.000 Can't have certain cars.

00:34:19.000 Tyrants need emergencies.

00:34:23.000 These gimmicks, in the long run, play into the Democrats' hands.

00:34:28.000 I am not a fan.

00:34:31.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:33.000 Email us your thoughts.

00:34:34.000 As always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:34:36.000 Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.

00:34:41.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - September 14, 2023

Halting a Dem Gun Grab with Brian Festa and Rep. Dan Bishop

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