The Charlie Kirk Show - Hello Kash Patel, Goodbye Mitch McConnell

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, Kash Patel is now FBI Director.

00:00:02.000 What does that mean?

00:00:04.000 Also, I recap my campus stop.

00:00:07.000 Oh, it is a really promising development that you're going to want to hear.

00:00:10.000 That and so much more.

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00:01:25.000 We are back in mission control here in Phoenix, Arizona.

00:01:28.000 We had a phenomenal campus visit yesterday at the University of South Florida, which is traditionally a very liberal school.

00:01:37.000 We had over 2,000 students attend over the course of two and a half hours.

00:01:42.000 I took questions.

00:01:42.000 We had some disagreements, and we had a phenomenal time.

00:01:47.000 We're going to be posting a lot of those clips there as we were there.

00:01:51.000 On the front lines...

00:01:53.000 We were throwing out these hats, by the way, these white 47 hats we were throwing out, which people can get at charliekirkstore.com.

00:02:01.000 Look at those crowds there.

00:02:03.000 Before we get into the urgent breaking news here, this is an off-election year.

00:02:07.000 There is no call to action of, you know, go vote for this.

00:02:11.000 And the energy is greater today than it was on Election Day.

00:02:15.000 It was confirmation that the next generation is truly leading the charge of this great realignment.

00:02:23.000 As we have mentioned, Gen Z is the most favorable pro-Trump generation other than Gen X. And as we've mentioned, baby boomers are increasingly becoming more Democrat. 0.59

00:02:34.000 Young people are moving to the right. 1.00

00:02:36.000 Young people are moving towards traditional, conservative, common sense American values.

00:02:43.000 And what was striking, we had four or five questions from people in the audience that were liberal in nature, and you'll see those clips.

00:02:52.000 But there was no widespread protesting.

00:02:54.000 There was no spark.

00:02:56.000 There was no opposition.

00:02:57.000 There was no chanting.

00:03:00.000 There was no Antifa.

00:03:02.000 We have largely vanquished the opposition.

00:03:06.000 It's not going to stay that way.

00:03:07.000 They will regather.

00:03:08.000 They will regroup.

00:03:09.000 They will reorganize.

00:03:11.000 But now is the time.

00:03:12.000 To accelerate and to make permanent the gains that we showed during this last election.

00:03:20.000 To make it a permanent realignment.

00:03:23.000 So yesterday was just further confirmation to solidify the gains.

00:03:27.000 So we were throwing out these beautiful white 47 hats, which you guys can also get.

00:03:33.000 And the kids love them, by the way.

00:03:35.000 Oh, they love them.

00:03:36.000 Because they're part of something greater than themselves.

00:03:40.000 They're part of...

00:03:41.000 A movement of patriotic purpose.

00:03:45.000 It's my new way of describing why kids are getting involved here.

00:03:49.000 It's a patriotic purpose.

00:03:51.000 It gives them a purpose to fight for their nation.

00:03:53.000 And as we anticipated, we got a lot of questions on Doge.

00:03:57.000 And I want to give credit to Daisy and Ryan and Blake and the whole team.

00:04:02.000 When we kind of had our prep meeting, I said, guys, what am I going to hear on campus?

00:04:06.000 They said, you guys are going to get a lot of Doge questions.

00:04:08.000 And we were ready.

00:04:09.000 And you're going to love these campus interactions where these kids were like, they shouldn't cut that.

00:04:14.000 And I had all this, oh really?

00:04:15.000 You shouldn't cut the $20 million that we spent on a Sesame Street movie in Iraq?

00:04:21.000 They had no idea the amount of waste of your money going to unnecessary government programs.

00:04:27.000 Yesterday was yet another promising development in the fight to save the republic.

00:04:32.000 Another promising development.

00:04:34.000 One of the biggest wins so far for the Trump administration.

00:04:38.000 My friend, And friend of this show, and I think he's joined the show well over 30 or 40 times, Kash Patel is the new director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

00:04:51.000 The FBI has largely become the secret police of the Democrat Party in the deep state.

00:04:55.000 The FBI was going after moms and dads and infiltrating Catholic masses.

00:05:00.000 It was going after school board moms. 1.00

00:05:02.000 The FBI became an intelligence operation.

00:05:06.000 Largely after 9-11.

00:05:08.000 Not a law enforcement operation.

00:05:09.000 The FBI seemed slow and bureaucratic and indifferent towards some of the great crimes against humanity of child sex trafficking and pedophilia and illegal individuals in our communities breaking into homes in Trendelaragua and MS-13.

00:05:26.000 The FBI seemed more interested in trying to crush the conservative movement and the Republican Party, and that changed yesterday.

00:05:33.000 Kash Patel is now...

00:05:35.000 The head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

00:05:38.000 And the Democrat Party knows the significance of this.

00:05:42.000 They know the weight of Kash Patel running the FBI. They know that playtime is over.

00:05:48.000 This is Senator Peter Welch, part of the resistance, losing it over Kash Patel.

00:05:57.000 Playcut 260. Kash Patel is a crown jewel.

00:06:04.000 in this lawless rampage.

00:06:06.000 He's an instrument of Donald Trump's effort to destroy the Justice Department and the FBI so that he is absolutely and completely not only above the law but beyond the law.

00:06:21.000 Kash Patel, mark my words, will cause evil in this building behind us and Republicans who vote for him will rue that day.

00:06:31.000 Can we just get a still image of Peter Welch on screen, please?

00:06:35.000 I mean, you want to talk about someone that has no presence?

00:06:38.000 This guy looks like a retired professor from France who they just picked up on the side of the street.

00:06:45.000 Do you hate Kash Patel?

00:06:47.000 Yes!

00:06:48.000 What are your qualifications?

00:06:49.000 None, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

00:06:51.000 No, no, no.

00:06:52.000 Get the one of him with the beret on.

00:06:53.000 One of him outside the FBI building.

00:06:55.000 This is what they got.

00:06:56.000 This is what we're up against.

00:06:57.000 This is the resistance.

00:06:59.000 Brought to you by Peter Welch.

00:07:00.000 Yeah, yeah, get that image there.

00:07:03.000 I'm going to talk lacking a little presence there.

00:07:07.000 Look, I mean, you've got the octogenarian resistance.

00:07:10.000 You've got the 85-year-old strong.

00:07:13.000 You've got Dick Blumenthal.

00:07:14.000 You've got Peter Welch.

00:07:16.000 One thing the Democrats are right about is that fundamental change is coming to the FBI. Fundamental change.

00:07:24.000 Business as usual is over.

00:07:26.000 No more is the FBI going to be inverted against the American people.

00:07:30.000 This is a seismic end to lawfare.

00:07:33.000 Seismic.

00:07:33.000 We campaigned on this.

00:07:35.000 We talked about this.

00:07:37.000 And they know that all of the dirty, evil deeds that was done largely by people like Adam Schiff, and this is the most important thing.

00:07:45.000 One of the disappointing outcomes of the 2024 election is, unfortunately, Adam Schiff is a senator.

00:07:51.000 But remember this.

00:07:52.000 Adam Schiff and Kash Patel have been dueling against each other.

00:07:56.000 For well, almost a decade.

00:07:58.000 I would say over a decade.

00:07:59.000 Almost a decade.

00:08:00.000 Adam Schiff and Kash Patel are arch enemies.

00:08:03.000 Why?

00:08:04.000 Well, Adam Schiff was the one that was the driving legislative force behind Russiagate.

00:08:09.000 Adam Schiff was the one that went on TV and said that there was credible evidence that Donald Trump was a compromised Russian agent.

00:08:16.000 And Kash Patel was the staffer for Devin Nunes, former prosecutor.

00:08:20.000 Without him, we never would have known about the FISA warrant abuse, and we never would have gotten to the bottom of Russiagate.

00:08:25.000 So Adam Schiff knows who Kash Patel is because Kash Patel revealed Adam Schiff to be a pathological snake liar.

00:08:33.000 And Adam Schiff should be worried.

00:08:36.000 U.S. senators will not be exempt from this kind of racketeering operation.

00:08:40.000 Play cut 262. This is someone we cannot trust. 0.93

00:08:45.000 This is someone who lacks the character to do this job.

00:08:48.000 Someone who lacks the integrity to do this job.

00:08:50.000 And no one is a bigger or more dangerous sycophant than Kash Patel.

00:08:56.000 This political hack does not deserve to be in this building.

00:09:00.000 Our Republican colleagues, intimidated by this president and threats of primary challenges from NAGA world, may vote to confirm him.

00:09:12.000 But as my colleagues have said, they will have to live with that vote, be accountable for that vote.

00:09:17.000 I mean, do you want to see why we're drawing 2,000 kids at a liberal campus?

00:09:21.000 This is what they have.

00:09:23.000 This is their team.

00:09:24.000 You got Da Nang Dick Blumenthal. 0.91

00:09:26.000 You got the retired professor, the beret man, Peter Welch.

00:09:31.000 And you got Adam Schiff, who very well might be a criminal.

00:09:34.000 Might be.

00:09:35.000 Elon Musk responded to our tweet saying Adam Schiff is a criminal.

00:09:39.000 He's done some very dark deeds.

00:09:41.000 The Adam Schiff-Kash Patel duel has now resulted in Kash Patel being director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

00:09:50.000 And the investigators will be investigated.

00:09:52.000 And if they did something wrong, they'll be held accountable.

00:09:55.000 The FBI has been behind almost every dark arts operation against the American people and against Donald Trump.

00:10:01.000 They are the ones that raided Mar-a-Lago.

00:10:04.000 They are the ones that illegally spied on Donald Trump's campaign.

00:10:07.000 They are the ones that were the shock and awe troops against James O'Keefe and Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro.

00:10:12.000 And now that very same organization is controlled by one of the finest patriots we have, Kash Patel.

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00:11:25.000 The Cash Patel-Adam Schiff rivalry, and I'm putting that nicely, continues.

00:11:31.000 Let's play cut 275. Adam Schiff.

00:11:34.000 Is the worst criminal in Congress in the last 250 years.

00:11:39.000 And what's broke that we're going to talk about right now is Adam Schiff met with a whistleblower.

00:11:45.000 Adam Schiff went to the podium day after day after day saying, I know nothing about this.

00:11:49.000 We're not going to discuss it.

00:11:51.000 We're going to protect it.

00:11:52.000 And then he, Adam Schiff, led the prosecution of the impeachment trial in the Senate of President Donald Trump.

00:12:00.000 Talk about someone who was conflicted out of the game because he was part of the hoax that brought Charmella in, manufactured that false accusation, and then peddled it out to the world.

00:12:12.000 And he continued, you know, not surprising, he's lied about almost everything in his life.

00:12:16.000 But now he lied just to set up a presidential impeachment.

00:12:19.000 And that's what I was talking about, these disinformation campaigns.

00:12:22.000 Understand, that lie set up a presidential impeachment.

00:12:26.000 It was a prerequisite for one of the impeachment attempts.

00:12:30.000 Against Donald Trump, where he was impeached in the House and then acquitted in the Senate.

00:12:34.000 Representative Madeline Dean has some choice words.

00:12:38.000 Play cut 257. I call upon the leaders to recognize that Kash Patel does not have the character, the integrity, the understanding and respect for the rule of law.

00:12:49.000 He doesn't have the capacity.

00:12:51.000 What he has asked for is retribution, and he has called for it over and over again against, let me see here, he wants to come after any anti-Trump conspirators.

00:13:02.000 I suppose that might even include me, since I served on the second impeachment.

00:13:11.000 The Democrats are starting to lose it because they know what a properly run FBI can be.

00:13:17.000 And it's time for us to reform it top to bottom.

00:13:21.000 There are a lot of unprosecuted crimes in this country.

00:13:24.000 The FBI should be focused on three or four things primarily.

00:13:28.000 Number one, anything to do with the Mexican drug cartels.

00:13:31.000 That's number one.

00:13:31.000 Number two, violent crime in the streets of our country.

00:13:36.000 Chicago, Houston, wherever there is federal jurisdiction in the administration of this crime, we need the FBI involved.

00:13:45.000 Liberate these cities.

00:13:46.000 Number three is any sort of international drug rings, Chinese Communist Party spies, we need to get them removed from the nation. 0.99

00:13:57.000 And then number four, and probably most importantly, out of all the different things, is we must...

00:14:04.000 Fire every FBI agent that was involved in the creation of the FBI being a surveillance operation and a lawfare machine.

00:14:16.000 Now, understand this.

00:14:17.000 Understand that the FBI has been far off course really since J. Edgar Hoover, which was around its charter.

00:14:24.000 The FBI did some very suspicious things in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.

00:14:30.000 The key issue is trust, and it's very interesting.

00:14:33.000 They'll joke in the FBI. Not joke, but the FBI is, of course, the federal bureau of investigation.

00:14:39.000 But they'll also say, what does FBI stand for?

00:14:42.000 And I believe it's fortitude, bravery, and integrity.

00:14:45.000 I can't remember what the F stands for.

00:14:46.000 Bravery and integrity, I think, are the other ones.

00:14:49.000 There has not been integrity to the FBI for quite some time.

00:14:51.000 Christopher Wray has lived above the law.

00:14:54.000 And remember who his predecessor was.

00:14:55.000 James Comey, who probably broke federal law multiple times, lying to Congress, and was...

00:15:01.000 Using the FBI, when they sent Peter Strzok's smirk, let me think about this, almost eight years, that's right, eight years to the day of this week, right around this period of time, our FBI was sending FBI agents, Peter Strzok, to go and trap Patriot Lieutenant General Michael Flynn.

00:15:18.000 And eight years later, we have Kash Patel running the FBI. We crawled out.

00:15:23.000 We crawled out of a very deep hole.

00:15:26.000 They wanted to take out our movement via a secret police.

00:15:31.000 That's what we were up against.

00:15:32.000 We were up against a taxpayer-funded secret police.

00:15:36.000 We were in the abyss.

00:15:37.000 They controlled everything.

00:15:39.000 And only a citizen, people-focused, grassroots, bottom-up reclamation project could make that happen.

00:15:47.000 And understand, the FBI, there's so much DEI, transgender nonsense. 1.00

00:15:52.000 There's a lot that Kash Patel has to rip out.

00:15:55.000 There's a lot of people that should not be agents there that are currently agents.

00:15:57.000 A lot of people that are agents there that shouldn't be agents.

00:16:01.000 So it's going to require years of removing this cancer, removing this tumor.

00:16:08.000 But eight years later, we go from the FBI, literally the FBI walking through the Trump White House uninvited and entrapping the National Security Advisor.

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00:17:25.000 Before we welcome our next guest, I just want to riff a little bit on this.

00:17:29.000 Yesterday we got the great news that Mitch McConnell...

00:17:32.000 He's not running for re-election.

00:17:34.000 Not a huge surprise.

00:17:36.000 Mitch McConnell has announced he will not be seeking re-election in 2026. Cash is in.

00:17:40.000 Mitch is out.

00:17:41.000 Now, when politicians die or leave the national stage, now that's a time to be charitable.

00:17:46.000 So we'll concede this point.

00:17:47.000 Mitch McConnell blocking Merrick Garland was a great deed.

00:17:50.000 We've got to be honest.

00:17:50.000 It was the best thing he ever did.

00:17:52.000 It possibly got Donald Trump elected.

00:17:54.000 And can you imagine Garland, the guy who just did four years of lawfare for Biden on the Supreme Court for life?

00:17:59.000 It would have been unimaginably awful.

00:18:01.000 Blocking that nomination was McConnell's doing, and we're grateful for that.

00:18:05.000 Well, we got that out of the way.

00:18:06.000 Everything else has been a pile of garbage ever since.

00:18:08.000 In his last act, he has now voted against Bobby Kennedy for HHS secretary, against Tulsi Gabbard, against Pete Hegseth.

00:18:16.000 Mitch McConnell has been a cheerleader for the endless stream of money in the Russian-Ukrainian war.

00:18:22.000 He's the old breed of maximal interventionism.

00:18:25.000 He wanted forever war in Afghanistan, forever war in Iraq.

00:18:28.000 Unlimited money for Zelensky in Ukraine.

00:18:31.000 He's a man trapped in the past, trapped in a time when American wealth and power seemed unlimited.

00:18:36.000 But that era is past, and thanks to men like Mitch McConnell, who threw our strength away on useless conflicts that hurt the country on behalf of foreign oligarchs and a narrow cabal in Washington, D.C. It was Republicans like Mitch McConnell who spent decades talking a big game about securing the border, but never actually did anything about it.

00:18:57.000 Unless it was a chance to do a backdoor amnesty for millions of illegals.

00:19:02.000 It was Republicans like McConnell who let DEI rot slowly to destroy our military until it lost wars to the Taliban and Houthi rebels.

00:19:11.000 It was Republicans like McConnell who sat around while our manufacturing base was re-domiciled away to China.

00:19:17.000 So we should ask ourselves, what has the reign of Mitch McConnell been like for the people of Kentucky?

00:19:21.000 Well, it's not good.

00:19:22.000 And joining us now is someone who might be running for the U.S. Senate seat.

00:19:25.000 He's getting a lot of attention and a lot of chatter.

00:19:28.000 I like what I'm seeing.

00:19:29.000 I like a lot of it.

00:19:30.000 And that is the chairman of Morris Industries and possible candidate for U.S. Senate in Kentucky, Nate Morris.

00:19:36.000 Nate, great to meet you here on the program.

00:19:39.000 Please introduce yourself to our audience.

00:19:41.000 Charlie, it's great to be with you, and I appreciate all the love on social media.

00:19:45.000 And we had a fantastic day yesterday at CPAC. I started my discussion with the news that Mitch McConnell was retiring.

00:19:52.000 And as you know, this is a big moment for Kentuckians.

00:19:56.000 Mitch McConnell has been in the Senate for nearly 40 years, and we need change.

00:20:02.000 And we have a chance for the first time in a generation to rip control back to the people that Mitch McConnell has been strangleholding, our people, his cronies, and the people around him.

00:20:15.000 And this is a chance to get it right and have a fresh start.

00:20:19.000 Obviously, I'm an outsider, Charlie.

00:20:21.000 I'm a businessman.

00:20:22.000 I'm an entrepreneur.

00:20:23.000 I've never held elected office before.

00:20:25.000 I was in one of the toughest industries in the world, which is the trash business, the Tony Soprano industry.

00:20:31.000 And I know how to fight and I know how to get tough.

00:20:34.000 And obviously, this is something that I'm taking a look at.

00:20:38.000 So let's kind of talk more about the McConnell mafia.

00:20:43.000 You have spared no punch.

00:20:46.000 You've basically pulled no punches.

00:20:48.000 And McConnell has run Kentucky for multiple decades.

00:20:52.000 How will you be profoundly different than what the McConnell-Hunta has done to Kentucky? 0.99

00:20:58.000 Well, I think first and foremost, I'm an outsider, Charlie, and I've been inspired by President Trump.

00:21:05.000 He's a business guy.

00:21:06.000 He wasn't a politician.

00:21:08.000 Obviously, I'm very close to our new vice president, J.D. Vance, very inspired by his leadership and what he's doing with the country.

00:21:16.000 And I feel like as an entrepreneur and someone that's created jobs, built a company, starting with $10,000 on a credit card, and I ended up taking that company public on the New York Stock Exchange, I've got a lot that I can bring to Washington and bring the fight to the swamp.

00:21:32.000 And that's what's compelled me to say, hey, I've got to take a look at this, and this might be the moment to do it.

00:21:39.000 What are the top issues that you think are facing the people of Kentucky that the prior leadership oligarchy has not been addressing?

00:21:46.000 Well, I think first and foremost, the border crisis, Charlie.

00:21:50.000 I mean, we've seen our borders been out of control for many years.

00:21:54.000 And politicians on both sides of the aisle failed to secure our border for decades now.

00:22:00.000 We've got to get it right.

00:22:02.000 And if we lose our border, we lose our country.

00:22:05.000 And I also think that...

00:22:07.000 The news that's coming out of Europe, the blank checks that have been going to Ukraine have got to stop.

00:22:13.000 We've got to end these senseless wars.

00:22:16.000 We've got to win through strength, but we've got to have a commitment to peace at all costs and do it the way that great diplomats have done it in the past and use our leverage, like President Trump is doing, by exerting as much leverage as a dealmaker and getting the best deal for the country.

00:22:36.000 So I want to talk more.

00:22:39.000 Let's actually play Cut280, a message that you gave at CPAC. Let's play Cut280.

00:22:43.000 Hey, Nate Morris here.

00:22:44.000 I'm standing live here at CPAC. I just heard the news that Mitch McConnell is retiring.

00:22:50.000 One of the things that we cannot have in Kentucky is another puppet for Mitch McConnell.

00:22:55.000 The candidates that are looking at this race, Andy Barr and Daniel Cameron, have refused to call out Mitch McConnell for the sabotage of President Trump's agenda.

00:23:05.000 We cannot have a Mitch McConnell puppet filling his seat.

00:23:10.000 This is a seat that belongs to the people and we need to send someone to Washington who's going to fight with President Trump.

00:23:17.000 And Kentucky is one of the reddest states in the country, is it not?

00:23:20.000 Absolutely.

00:23:22.000 President Trump has iconic status in Kentucky, and we love President Trump.

00:23:27.000 His leadership has inspired many.

00:23:29.000 But right now, Charlie, we've got a real crisis potentially in this race shaping up. 0.98

00:23:33.000 We've got two solely-owned subsidiaries of McConnell, Inc., and Andy Barr and Daniel Cameron that are looking at this race.

00:23:41.000 Daniel, as you know, just announced yesterday that he'd be getting in the race.

00:23:46.000 And that's another reason to say, as an outsider, I've got to step up potentially and do something and get involved because we cannot have McConnell, Inc.

00:23:55.000 continuing to have their grasp on Kentucky.

00:23:57.000 So yeah, I mean, there's Andy Barr who actually called me over the weekend and he wants to talk.

00:24:01.000 I don't know him very well.

00:24:02.000 I know that he lost his wife tragically and that was terrible a couple years ago.

00:24:06.000 Yes.

00:24:06.000 And then Daniel Cameron, who I've only met once or twice.

00:24:10.000 Just educate our audience because this is a very important thing.

00:24:12.000 We don't want another member of the McConnell mafia going to the Senate. 0.94

00:24:16.000 I have nothing negative to say about either one of these guys.

00:24:19.000 Andy, I'll call back, I guess.

00:24:21.000 So tell me more.

00:24:22.000 What exactly do these people stand for?

00:24:25.000 And what is disturbing about it?

00:24:27.000 And so just educate the audience on the significance of the seat.

00:24:31.000 Well, first off, they're both very nice men, both of them.

00:24:34.000 But I will say there's a stark contrast.

00:24:37.000 And someone like Daniel Cameron is the son Mitch McConnell never had.

00:24:41.000 And he has made his entire career through McConnell, Inc.

00:24:49.000 Clip that went viral a few days ago on social media, calling Mitch McConnell his mentor, is a 50-plus-year-old man calling Mitch McConnell his mentor.

00:24:58.000 So I think that the contrast of what we need today is not a rubber stamp for Mitch McConnell, not McConnell 2.0, not another 40 years of Mitch McConnell.

00:25:09.000 We've got to take a different track.

00:25:10.000 We know the direction we've been going in Kentucky with who we sent to the Senate, and this seat has not worked.

00:25:17.000 And we've seen evidence of that over the last few weeks as Mitch McConnell has done everything he can to sabotage President Trump's agenda.

00:25:26.000 That is well said.

00:25:28.000 Closing thoughts here, Nate.

00:25:29.000 I mean, you're an outsider.

00:25:30.000 You're thinking about getting into this race and understand the significance of it. 0.69

00:25:35.000 The people of Kentucky are some of the greatest.

00:25:37.000 I had an aunt there. 1.00

00:25:38.000 She actually just passed away a couple weeks ago.

00:25:40.000 It was terrible.

00:25:40.000 I actually was in Louisville a couple weeks ago.

00:25:42.000 I love the people of Kentucky.

00:25:44.000 They're wonderful patriots.

00:25:45.000 I think they deserve better.

00:25:47.000 I think they deserve better than a warmongering, sending money overseas, open border, performative Republican.

00:25:55.000 And instead, they want a true fighter.

00:25:57.000 Just talk more about what you're weighing.

00:26:00.000 And I mean, you've built a really incredible business.

00:26:02.000 And this would be a serious life change for you, would it not?

00:26:07.000 Well, Charlie, I got pretty good at...

00:26:09.000 Taking out garbage and cleaning up messes.

00:26:12.000 And I think that's probably where I'd start in Washington.

00:26:15.000 But look, I'm proud that I'm a ninth-generation Kentuckian.

00:26:19.000 I grew up in a single-parent home.

00:26:21.000 Most of my family were factory workers at the Ford plant in Kentucky.

00:26:25.000 And I bring a unique perspective.

00:26:27.000 I grew up going to union halls.

00:26:29.000 And I'm a new kind of Republican that's focused on the working class and focused on the American worker.

00:26:34.000 And that's what we need in Kentucky.

00:26:36.000 Someone that's not going to forget.

00:26:38.000 The hardworking people of our commonwealth and the jobs that they have to do and giving them more opportunity to make a better life for themselves.

00:26:48.000 And I'm a product of that.

00:26:49.000 I had so many people help me and I feel like there's going to come a day where I've got to give something back and help some others as well.

00:26:57.000 Nate, can't wait to see what you do.

00:26:59.000 It is time for the McConnell era to end and you seem like a great guy.

00:27:04.000 Let us know what happens and we will not tolerate A McConnell disciple, a member of that mafia, to be the U.S. senator.

00:27:11.000 We won't put up with that.

00:27:12.000 Thanks so much, Nate.

00:27:13.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:27:14.000 Look, this is very important, guys.

00:27:16.000 This is the end of an old guard.

00:27:18.000 It is the collapsing of a regime.

00:27:20.000 McConnell was doing the bidding of Biden and his foreign policy aims and ambitions for quite some time.

00:27:28.000 You've got to be fair, though.

00:27:29.000 For whatever reason, maybe it was the Holy Spirit or just McConnell showed us what he did with Merrick Garland.

00:27:36.000 You've got to be fair.

00:27:38.000 Was a cause set in motion.

00:27:40.000 That was good.

00:27:41.000 That was the best McConnell ever.

00:27:42.000 Everyone has a moment in their career that was very good.

00:27:46.000 And then from there, it was just all downhill.

00:27:48.000 It was when he peaked.

00:27:49.000 It was peak McConnell was when he decided not to fill that Supreme Court vacancy.

00:27:55.000 And from there, it's just been this collision course.

00:27:59.000 In fact, senators have told me that McConnell, even when asked, hey, Mitch, we really need your vote.

00:28:05.000 We really need your vote.

00:28:06.000 No.

00:28:07.000 He just walks out of the room.

00:28:09.000 He's become a very bitter person.

00:28:11.000 His whole life was about holding onto political power, and now he's losing that.

00:28:16.000 And he's just going to be remembered as a complete disgrace, a sellout to the people of Kentucky.

00:28:20.000 No to Pete Hegseth.

00:28:22.000 No to Tulsi.

00:28:23.000 No to Bobby Kennedy.

00:28:24.000 A terrible legacy.

00:28:25.000 And the people of Kentucky deserve a lot better.

00:28:27.000 And for those of you in Kentucky, I want to hear from you.

00:28:29.000 Who do you guys want for the U.S. Senate?

00:28:31.000 Do you guys want more of the same?

00:28:33.000 Do you want a McConnell-Junta member?

00:28:35.000 Or do we want...

00:28:36.000 A changemaker, someone that is going to actually represent the values of the phenomenal state of Kentucky, one of the greatest states of Kentucky.

00:28:43.000 I think, and Blake can fact-check me on it, Kentucky has the most, there's a term for it, like rivers or running water of any state.

00:28:55.000 It's like the most streams.

00:28:57.000 It's a beautiful state.

00:28:58.000 Kentucky's gorgeous.

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00:29:50.000 We only play this music when we talk about El Rushbo, the Doctor of Democracy.

00:29:59.000 The greatest ever.

00:30:01.000 This music is sacred.

00:30:03.000 It is holy.

00:30:03.000 We only play it when we are doing a hat tip to the trailblazer himself.

00:30:09.000 My friend Scott Hennon, I was on his program this morning, reminded me this was to the week.

00:30:14.000 I want you guys to remember this music, but I have so many memories.

00:30:17.000 It's like all coming back at me.

00:30:18.000 It's like listening to songs of your youth.

00:30:20.000 That song right there where El Rushbo would come on with a talent on loan from God with half his brain tied behind his back just to make it fair.

00:30:31.000 Four years ago, Rush Limbaugh passed away.

00:30:36.000 We were in political exile.

00:30:39.000 I'm using this as an opportunity to show you how far we have come, everybody, and how much gratitude we should express to our Lord and our Savior, to the Almighty, to the Divine Providence.

00:30:53.000 Not only did Joe Biden become president, but then we lose Rush.

00:30:58.000 Donald Trump was in exile.

00:31:01.000 Our entire movement was in darkness.

00:31:04.000 And we were without our North Star, our guiding light, the great El Rushboe. 0.98

00:31:09.000 We needed Rush during that period of time.

00:31:11.000 We were aimless.

00:31:14.000 And we as a movement weren't sure where to go.

00:31:17.000 The great El Rushboe, time and time again, during the times of Obama, led us through it.

00:31:24.000 During the times of the first Trump term.

00:31:27.000 Let us through it.

00:31:29.000 Let us through the impeachments.

00:31:30.000 Let us through Kavanaugh.

00:31:31.000 Rush was the fulcrum.

00:31:33.000 He was the trailblazer.

00:31:35.000 He was the trendsetter.

00:31:36.000 He was the pacemaker.

00:31:38.000 It's almost like God put all that burden of that time on the back of a new generation, focusing us to own it, to get strong.

00:31:45.000 It was on us, and it was heavy.

00:31:48.000 So I was subpoenaed by the January 6th committee.

00:31:51.000 We had lawfare coming in every possible direction.

00:31:54.000 It was dark.

00:31:55.000 And now today doesn't look as dark.

00:31:58.000 Now today we are looking around at the victory that Rush made possible.

00:32:04.000 Understand Doge, Elon, Rubio, Besson, Hegseth, Trump, JD, all follow in the footsteps of the great Rush Limbaugh.

00:32:15.000 Four years ago to this week, he passed away.

00:32:18.000 Here's just a montage of one of Rush's broadcasts.

00:32:22.000 Before I play that one, actually, it's one of my favorite.

00:32:25.000 Rush statements.

00:32:27.000 Understand, what he was saying here was so ahead of his time.

00:32:29.000 This is before woke political cragness. 0.98

00:32:31.000 He was so ahead of his time.

00:32:34.000 Play cut 279. Why?

00:32:35.000 Because I'm wearing these ribbons.

00:32:37.000 I care more than any of you about anything.

00:32:41.000 And these ribbons say so.

00:32:43.000 I want you people sitting at home and you people in the audience, look down at your lapel right now.

00:32:48.000 I want you to do this.

00:32:50.000 Put the camera back on me.

00:32:51.000 Do this.

00:32:53.000 When you look down, what do you see?

00:32:56.000 You don't see anything because you're not wearing any ribbons.

00:32:59.000 It means you're a bigot.

00:33:00.000 It means you're a racist.

00:33:02.000 It means you're a sexist.

00:33:04.000 It means you're a homophobe.

00:33:06.000 It probably means you're a white guy.

00:33:08.000 It probably means you're a European.

00:33:09.000 And you alone are responsible for all the ills of America.

00:33:12.000 But I'm not because I'm wearing these ribbons.

00:33:16.000 I care more than you.

00:33:20.000 This was 20 years ahead of the virtue signaling political correctness, bend the knee, mandatory woke stuff.

00:33:28.000 He understood the optics.

00:33:29.000 He was funny.

00:33:30.000 He was charming.

00:33:31.000 He was lighthearted.

00:33:32.000 And he was wicked smart.

00:33:34.000 He was on top of all of it early.

00:33:36.000 He saw it all with clarity across the landscape.

00:33:39.000 He wasn't crazy.

00:33:40.000 He was early.

00:33:41.000 And they tried to take him out.

00:33:42.000 Cancel culture came for Rush many times.

00:33:44.000 Remember Sandra Fluke?

00:33:45.000 They tried to take him out and Rush held the line.

00:33:48.000 Never apologized.

00:33:50.000 Montage, one of Rush's last broadcast, Play Cut 283. My point in all of this today is gratitude.

00:33:55.000 My point in everything today that I share with you about this is to say thanks and to tell everybody involved how much I love you from the bottom of a sizable and growing and still beating heart.

00:34:12.000 I wasn't expected to be alive today.

00:34:15.000 You have an expiration date.

00:34:18.000 A lot of people never get told that, and so they don't face life this way.

00:34:25.000 I've learned what love really is during this.

00:34:29.000 And his last words on radio, 285. The odds are that there are a lot of coal miners, a lot of people that voted for Biden, who had no idea what he's going to do and what's yet to come.

00:34:44.000 That's why I say...

00:34:46.000 They're going to overstep, and it isn't going to take them long, and it isn't going to be pretty when all kinds of people start to figure it out.

00:34:53.000 He saw it all.

00:34:58.000 God bless you, Rush.

00:35:00.000 We're in a much better time in America.

00:35:03.000 Thank you.

00:35:03.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:35:13.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - February 21, 2025

Hello Kash Patel, Goodbye Mitch McConnell

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