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00:01:09.000All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:02:15.000The way that those screenshots got to Candace is via Joe Kent.
00:02:22.000Andrew Colvett, Andrew was in the chat group as well.
00:02:26.000He was one of the nine people in the group.
00:02:28.000And he admitted, at first, be perfectly honest, at first he was denying it.
00:02:32.000We didn't know how Candace got them, but then he admitted on the air on his show that he had given these text messages and he gave them to, he said that on the show that he gave them to someone in the government.
00:02:45.000He told us that, that he gave them to someone in the government.
00:02:48.000Joe Kent was someone that we knew that there was a relationship there between Charlie and Andrew and Joe.
00:02:56.000We knew that when Charlie would visit Washington, D.C., he would talk to Joe.
00:03:00.000We kind of verified that the messages had been given by Andrew to Joe Kent and that Joe Kent had been the one to pass them on to Candace.
00:03:29.000We think that's keeping in the spirit of Charlie's spirit.
00:03:32.000And the way we choose to do things is we try and be responsible.
00:03:36.000So yes, in a spirit of looking at every lead, turning over every stone, we wanted everybody that needed to know to know anything that we knew.
00:03:45.000I mean, and by the way, we've been accused of not being interested in the truth.
00:03:49.000Just to remind people what this is referring to, this is after Charlie's murder, there were text messages from a private group chat that were made public and were used to, frankly, kick off the big conspiracy theory that we've run into over and over again, which is that Israel or the Jews had Charlie murdered.
00:07:16.000But those are the facts because there's been a lot of noise made about this in the past, whether, you know, in the recent week about allegations of leaking and things like that.
00:07:27.000I don't know anything other than that piece of the puzzle, okay?
00:10:13.000I would say that if they carry through with that, it'll end that problem, that conflict.
00:10:20.000And I think it'll end it very, very substantially.
00:10:23.000It's very funny to me because you realize we have both combatants in this conflict have messaging strategies that do make it difficult to tell what's going on because Trump, he's always ready to make a deal.
00:10:35.000But as part of his deal making, he's always presenting maximum toughness.
00:10:42.000Also, I'm ready to blow up everything in Iran tomorrow if they don't give me what I want.
00:10:46.000And then on the flip side, we know that Iran is a regime full of zealots and radicals.
00:10:51.000So they've always had to present maximum hostility when we know that they're actually more accommodating.
00:10:57.000Remember last summer, they're all like, tomorrow is a day that will be remembered for a thousand years, and then they shoot a bottle rocket that blows up in the desert because they don't want to aggravate us anymore.
00:11:06.000And so that could easily be happening here where they are negotiating, but they have to deny it.
00:11:12.000Well, so here he alludes to this basically, his negotiating tactic was we're going to blow up all your infrastructure.
00:11:32.000Tomorrow morning, sometime, their time, we were expected to blow up their largest electric generating plants that cost over $10 billion to build.
00:12:45.000So I do want to just put a note of caution here.
00:12:48.000So I was talking with a bunch of folks that are pretty well versed in what's going on in Iran right now.
00:12:54.000There was a strike by Iranian missiles near a nuclear reactor in Israel.
00:13:02.000The thought was that this is a warning shot because, listen, even if you get rid of the nukes in Iran and they create a nuclear fallout situation in Israel, that's bad.
00:13:14.000And it's an escalation that nobody wants, or at least any sane person doesn't want.
00:13:20.000So that's one thing you have to be just cautious of.
00:13:24.000That this thing can, this is why we've always warned about regime change.
00:13:27.000This is why we've always been circumspect when it comes to foreign interventions in general, but especially in Iran, because this thing can get out of hand very, very, very quickly.
00:13:39.000But that's something we need to keep an eye on: is that that missile got through the Iron Dome, landed next to a nuclear site in Israel.
00:13:46.000Secondly, there are some indications and reason to believe that this could be true, is that in the early days of this conflict, Iran shot off a bunch of its 1990s, like its old stock.
00:13:58.000And we were shooting off $2 to $4 million missiles to go intercept those.
00:14:03.000And the thought is that they might have missiles now that are the good ones, the more advanced weapons.
00:14:12.000We've burnt through a lot of our defensive supply, those really expensive Patriot missiles.
00:14:16.000So the question is, if that's true, that's obviously concerning.
00:14:22.000If they have very advanced missiles waiting to deploy once we've burned through our defensive stock, then that would be problematic.
00:14:32.000So this thing is by no means in the clear, but I would say any note, any hint, any indication of an actual legitimate ceasefire is really good.
00:14:43.000Now, I don't think this is a full ceasefire.
00:14:45.000He's saying we're not going to hit your infrastructure.
00:14:48.000We're not going to hit your energy infrastructure.
00:14:50.000But those are two things I wanted to caution the audience on.
00:14:58.000And two, if it is true that they have advanced weaponry and missiles waiting to deploy when they think that we've depleted our stock, then that would also be very bad.
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00:17:31.000I can't imagine having a job in which for the third time in six months, you have to explain to your wife or husband or kids, hey, I didn't get a paycheck today.
00:17:45.000And the kids looking at you going, well, what did you do?
00:17:49.000What did you do to not get a paycheck?
00:18:11.000You were at the very center of the floor fight in the Senate over DHS funding, trying to get that agency refunded.
00:18:21.000Obviously, we're seeing pain across the country at these TSA lines.
00:18:25.000Tell us about your experience this weekend in the Senate.
00:18:30.000Well, we obviously were exposing the hypocrisy of the Democrats because what we've discovered through the negotiation process is what they ultimately really want is no more deportations.
00:18:40.000You know, they're very proud of the fact that they let millions of people into this country legally over the Biden years, and they don't want to see us remove them.
00:18:47.000And this includes criminal aliens, murderers, rapists.
00:18:50.000You see the death of Americans as a result of these lunatics.
00:18:54.000And so what we also did is we said, hey, since we're not paying 260,000 Homeland Security employees, we should withhold our own paychecks, right?
00:19:06.000By the way, I think we should dock our pay, but I said withhold.
00:19:10.000And then when it opens, we get the money back.
00:19:13.000The Democrats blocked it, didn't engage in debate.
00:19:15.000They literally can't even make this up, said, I object, and ran out of the room and didn't come back.
00:20:48.000You know, you think about it, Senator.
00:20:50.000It was easier to get through Joe Biden's border than it is to get through a TSA line now.
00:20:56.000So, Democrats, the way that they do immigration, it's basically let everybody in at the border, zero wait times there, three hours wait time at a domestic airport.
00:22:13.000It was like basically these people hit the lottery, right?
00:22:17.000Republicans did not object to funding Border Patrol when objectively, under any measure, Border Patrol wasn't doing their job because their bosses were telling them to basically ignore immigration law.
00:22:46.000So President Trump put out a truth basically saying he's loath to make a deal, any concessions with Democrats, but he's willing to give them this $5 billion cut off of ICE funding if they'll pass the Save America Act.
00:22:59.000I think we all know that they're not going to take this, but has there been any movement?
00:23:03.000Is there any signs that this impasse is going to be corrected?
00:23:09.000Well, I'm going to do everything in my personal individual power to get DHS funded, get these people's paychecks done.
00:23:17.000So I'm obviously going to spend the rest of the day today, the rest of the week.
00:23:20.000If it means not being at home for the Easter recess, I'm absolutely going to object to us adjourning.
00:23:28.000We should not leave Washington, D.C. until we fund DHS, whatever it takes.
00:23:32.000Look, the president's the greatest deal maker of all time.
00:23:35.000He made a brilliant move last summer by fully funding ICE and Border Patrol through the entirety of his presidency.
00:23:44.000So I think the contours of a deal exist.
00:23:46.000We just need to get some rational Democrats to the table, make a deal, stop hurting Americans.
00:23:53.000How about if we just make that the guidepost?
00:23:55.000Stop hurting working Americans who are doing their job.
00:23:59.000Are there other possible schemes that could come into play if there continues if they continue to stonewall on this?
00:24:06.000The one that comes to mind, obviously they're banking on three, four-hour TSA lines, making people revolt.
00:24:13.000But for example, it's very, we actually know, in fact, it's very difficult to bring any sort of bomb on an airplane outside of your suitcase.
00:24:22.000So could we just basically say you only need to scan 20% of people who are getting on the plane?
00:24:27.000Or could the president order something like that?
00:25:28.000We should not get paid while this is going on.
00:25:31.000And by the way, the reason they ran out of the chamber is because they didn't want the C-SPAN cameras to capture who was objecting.
00:25:38.000So they literally said, I object, and then ran out of the chamber like a little child because they didn't want the C-SPAN cameras to capture the objector on film.
00:27:35.000We could not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
00:27:38.000We have basically obliterated their Navy, their Air Force.
00:27:42.000Their ballistic missiles program is almost completely wiped out.
00:27:46.000Their ability to wreak havoc and damage America, hurt Americans, is almost over.
00:27:51.000I think at the end of the day, President Trump, by rebuilding the military in his first term, by allowing the generals, the real generals, to do their job in his second term, has shown the capabilities of the American military, unlike at any time in history.
00:28:04.000And I pray every day for the security of our soldiers that are in harm's way and pray for a very, very quick ending to this conflict.
00:28:13.000And hopefully, President Trump, God willing, gets it done.
00:28:56.000Great conversation with Senator Bernie Moreno.
00:28:59.000We want to highlight some of what he was talking about.
00:29:01.000These TSA lines are just insane across the country.
00:29:05.000It's just, it's weaponized government breakdown.
00:29:08.000As I mentioned with him, it's really dark what they're doing because Democrats have made the calculation that if they mess things up as much as possible in the country, just hurt ordinary Americans, Trump will give into what they want.
00:29:22.000And what they want is not a better military.
00:29:25.000What they want is not more law enforcement.
00:29:26.000What they want is more illegals invading the country and fewer criminals going back to where they came from.
00:29:44.000Democrats have created three-hour wait times at the airport because they don't want illegal aliens deported.
00:29:51.000They care more about foreigners living illegally in this country than they do about Americans who have every right to have their airports function properly.
00:29:59.000You don't get nice things because they want foreigners to invade this country.
00:30:44.000I learned a lot from my other family members.
00:30:46.000And like, he even, you know, he talks about his brother, even though his brother actually died of alcoholism.
00:30:50.000He still loves his brother, all of that shines through.
00:30:52.000And instead, it's this is the first line.
00:30:55.000Potential 2028 Democrat presidential candidates are introducing themselves to voters in a striking way by documenting their childhood resentments, family chaos, and fights with their parents.
00:31:07.000And what stands out to me about all of these, by the way, is they talk about three different candidates, and all three of them, I think this matters a lot, all three of them are white guys.
00:31:16.000And so Josh Shapiro, in his recent book, Where We Keep the Light, Shapiro writes that he had a happy childhood, but at points, an unhappy childhood home.
00:31:26.000And then it continues that He says his mother, Judy, could be unstable and that he and his siblings believe that, quote, if we were good, we could stop the chaos and the yelling.
00:31:41.000And then JB Pricks talks about Gavin Newsom.
00:31:44.000Gavin Newsom is even more candid in his at times fraught relationships with both parents, who he says left him caught between two worlds and fully accepted by neither.
00:31:54.000He really leans into this dyslexia thing that he's now used to pick a fight with the president.
00:31:59.000And he even says, this is crazy, he recalls being absent at times during his mother's final struggle with cancer until she left him a voicemail in 2002 telling him that he wanted that if he wanted to see her, he had to do so before Thursday because that's going to be my last day on earth.
00:32:14.000She had arranged for assisted suicide.
00:32:17.000At that point, Newsom realized he had been hiding from her and hiding from myself because he did not want to face her dying.
00:32:24.000And so he and his sister then, or he and Hillary, I'm not sure if that's his sister or spouse, but joined their mother on her, yeah, their mother, his sister, on her final day.
00:32:36.000That's the memoir that he would want potential voters to be able to.
00:32:38.000Well, JB Teresa, who is an heir to the Hyatt fortune, says that, you know, he actually has some legitimate gripes because his dad died of a heart attack, surprise, surprise, when he was seven, and then his mom died of alcoholism when he was a teenager.
00:32:55.000So, okay, but then he inherits, you know, millions, maybe billions of dollars, and we're still supposed to relate to his struggles.
00:33:03.000I think this is very telling because it's so Democrat of them, where they're put in the front their traumas, their struggles.
00:33:13.000They want to be just like you, the average person, the average Joe, out there on the street.
00:33:18.000And so instead of lifting up, as Trump does, the fact that he had this wonderful, loving family that he's very proud of, they want to bring you into the, you know, break the fourth wall, as it were, of the family and tell you how awful their family members are.
00:33:58.000So they just have to say, I'm messed up, just like a bunch of you.
00:34:01.000And we also know, as we would talk about on this show, we have had this bifurcation in American life politically in terms of basically how mentally unwell you are.
00:34:12.000Democrat voters are much more likely to say that they have a diagnosed mental illness, that they are depressed, anxious.
00:34:18.000Honestly, I think a lot of them probably aren't, and they say it because they want that status.
00:34:23.000You saw this with, this is part of what fueled the trans contagion, is that kids want the attention.
00:34:40.000They want to have an anxiety, which is a really sick thing that has been implanted into the public psyche.
00:34:45.000Ironically, at the very bottom of this Axios article, and this is why it was important you brought up these were three white Democrat men, the one that stands out that could be a potential 2028 candidate for president is New Jersey Senator Corey Booker, who describes a far warmer childhood.
00:35:32.000Like, way to show up, Pritzker, who's, you know, Charlie always affectionately referred to as a guy who was born on third and thought he hit a triple.
00:35:41.000You know, he called him a Nepo baby, that he would never run for president because he can't run.
00:35:49.000Charlie had a special place in his heart for the Pritzker family because he's a Chicagoan.
00:35:54.000So he grew up around these people ruining his state and hated them, actually, loathed them, what they did to his state.
00:36:01.000And you've got Pritzker, you've got, who are the other three?
00:36:05.000You've got Gavin Newsom and you got Josh Shapiro all complaining, and yet Corey Booker coming up, coming up, rounding out the floor, saying he had a great childhood.
00:36:14.000It's just really remarkable and it's bleak because I don't think it foretells good things for your society when your top leaders, their big pitch is, I'm just as messed up as you.
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00:38:45.000Excited to welcome our next guest because he's got a personal connection that I think is important to highlight to Lieutenant Colonel Brandon Shaw, who was killed in a terrorist attack just, I believe, two weeks ago now.
00:39:48.000We were sitting at a dinner, and I happened to glance out my phone, and I saw that very picture that you're showing on the screen right now.
00:41:21.000And before I could even finish that thought, I saw the writing: the victim of the terrorist attack has been identified as Lieutenant Colonel Brandon Shaw.
00:41:34.000I was in, I can't even describe what state I was in.
00:41:39.000Some might say it was shock, but my heart was in my throat.
00:41:43.000And I remember just sitting there reading it over and over and over again.
00:41:47.000And I'd known that there had been an attack earlier in the day, but to see this picture and to know that this man that I had had the privilege of serving with for an 11-month period at the Command and General Staff College, that he was the one who has fallen, it hit in an entirely different way.
00:42:17.000And I said, I need you to go walk with me.
00:42:20.000And that began a process of just kind of mourning and thinking and struggling through that I'm still going through right now.
00:42:28.000You know, it was a small, small, small fractional percentage of what his family is going through.
00:42:35.000But he took, but he touched a lot of lives across the Army, and mine was one.
00:42:39.000Well, Dr. Spears, I want to highlight something you wrote.
00:42:42.000You said at the bottom of your letter reacting to his death, you said, the truth is America's sin of empathy-based immigration and justice policy is a betrayal to all veterans.
00:42:54.000You go on, but please build out that thought because I think a lot of us relate to it.
00:42:59.000I feel this so deeply, Andrew, and I've written on this and other forums about what I call the passive betrayal of our global war on terrorism veterans.
00:43:12.000He was approaching retirement himself.
00:43:14.000I retired roughly two years ago, and he was almost there himself, looking forward to a great life, a well-deserved rest, and spending time with his family and moving on to the next chapter.
00:43:26.000And I think back to the fact that they sent us for 20 years, Andrew, for 20 years.
00:43:31.000It was the Bush doctrine, the neocon doctrine of you fight them over there, so you won't have to fight them over here.
00:43:37.000You leave your families and your loved ones and your lives, and you go fight them over there because that's the trade-off we make.
00:43:42.000You won't have to fight them over here.
00:43:45.000And that's what I told myself time and time again: missed birthday after missed birthday after missed anniversary, after years of missed time with my sons growing up with me being deployed or in training for deployment.
00:43:58.000And meanwhile, we had this empathetic immigration policy that was based in: we must have empathy for these people, we must let them in.
00:44:07.000And we have a justice system that must let people off early.
00:44:11.000This terrorist who shot Brandon rightfully was supposed to be in bars through 2029.
00:44:19.000A loophole, an empathy-based application of justice that prioritized his feelings and his life circumstance over the reality of the criminal and terrorist sympathizer that he was who immigrated to this nation.
00:45:01.000I mean, I just, I don't know that I could put it better than him.
00:45:05.000It's that we basically the billion, the trillions of dollars we spent, the thousands of lives we lost on missions on missions abroad, where not only did they, frankly, I think, end in failure, but I don't even know that success was possible because they refused to define any real victory.
00:45:27.000They were just open-ended commitments.
00:45:29.000They went to Middle America and they said, step up, go abroad.
00:45:34.000By the way, we don't know how this will end in victory.
00:45:37.000A lot of us in DC are making a lot of money off of this because we have consultancies and think tanks and no skin in the game for us.
00:45:45.000And then the final betrayal and climax of it is we'll feel better if we take all of the problems we created abroad and we're going to bring them here.
00:45:53.000And again, we're not going to take the harms onto ourselves.
00:45:56.000We're going to settle them in your towns.
00:45:58.000We're going to make you pay all the externalities for the bad decisions we make.
00:46:26.000The good kind of immigration is the kind that brings the right people here who want to assimilate, who want to be productive Americans, who want to abide by our ways of life, and who want to perpetuate that.
00:46:36.000And there are a lot of people who have come in legally who have no business here, who shared nothing in the American values.
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00:49:16.000Yeah, I mean, but there will be debates, I'm sure.
00:49:18.000And Blake will be dropping some historical facts and knowledge, correcting the record on some things.
00:49:25.000So, excuse me, I want to just, there's also this other brewing controversy.
00:49:30.000All of a sudden over the weekend, I get all these email inquiries from press outlets saying, please tell us about the other tour, the Democrat tour, that got canceled.
00:49:39.000Yeah, so they're acting like we had something to do with this, which is really irritating.
00:49:44.000Yeah, so there's this other competing tour that is going on, which I didn't even know about, you know, kind of all this.
00:49:52.000I've been sort of focused on Operation Iran and all this, but this is what I've been smarting up on it, that it's called the U, the UNF America tour.
00:50:03.000There's another, you know, another group of individuals that are part of it.
00:50:06.000And originally, it was going to be that both of us were going to be holding outdoor events on ASU's campus at the same time.
00:50:15.000And so that's one of the reasons that I think that's probably one of the reasons they wanted to call me, get Blake out there, sort of say, hey, we're holding these.
00:50:30.000And then this was interesting because you were getting those media inquiries, but actually what happened last week is something that I think changed this.
00:50:39.000And that's why we weren't able to promote it the way that I had originally wanted to.
00:50:43.000We'll still be holding the event, but our outdoor permit also was not approved by ASU.
00:50:50.000So they're running around trying to say, oh, you know, turning point canceled and Erica had something to do with it because she was doing it.
00:51:37.000So anyways, this group, which is, I mean, listen, I don't even want to give them too much publicity because they're being obnoxious and rude and vulgar to get attention.
00:52:38.000And by the way, by the way, I love this because this is the left who has been championing deplatforming and cancel culture for like a decade.
00:52:47.000And now suddenly they're going, oh no, our event was.
00:52:50.000I mean, do you have any idea what it's like being conservative?
00:52:53.000Do you have any idea how Turning Point had to fight and tooth and nail and scrape and scrap what Charlie and Tyler did for so many years just to appear on campus?
00:53:03.000How many times have we had to go out there and that tables get thrown over and everything?
00:53:10.000Where all universities prefer the progressives and you have the gall to think that we have the power on enemy terrain to get your event canceled.
00:53:21.000That is what we call main character syndrome.
00:53:26.000Where you think everything revolves around you.
00:55:06.000And because of what he had to say, he changed the world.
00:55:08.000And as we know, a murderer had to silence him for what he was going to say.
00:55:12.000And that's why we're talking about it.
00:55:13.000And I wanted to address that as well, because to say that in, and we'll go into the story more later tonight, but that for the sort of tour that never was six months ago, you would actually help Charlie prepare for that tour with so many arguments and potential comebacks and data points.
00:55:32.000And Charlie had been going through this like training session of getting ready to go out there and kind of get in the intellectual ring.
00:56:18.000And that's what was, that's what I, I mean, I was, you guys threw me into the, threw me to the wolves talking to a bunch of homeschoolers who visited the other day.
00:58:08.000It was actually more than two hours long this morning and I was privileged to be there.
00:58:12.000I co-authored the United States' brief in this case from the Civil Rights Division.
00:58:16.000It was argued by one of our co-authors, the Solicitor General, who was an amicus supporting the lower court ruling in the Fifth Circuit.
00:58:24.000And the name of the case is Watson versus Republican National Committee.
00:58:28.000The Republican National Committee sued Mississippi over its law that allows ballots to be received and counted up to five business days after the federal election day, which is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November nationwide.
00:58:44.000Now, Andrew, as you know and your viewers know, election day now means election weeks, election months in some parts of our country.
00:59:09.000All of the justices asked questions in this case, and it was very lively.
00:59:13.000First of all, Mississippi's Solicitor General did a great job trying to defend Mississippi law.
00:59:18.000But I think Paul Clement, the former Solicitor General, he argued for the Republican National Committee, and I think he had the better of the arguments.
00:59:25.000It's the argument that we're supporting effectively.
00:59:28.000And then our Solicitor General came in and talked about some of the United States' positions on these issues.
00:59:35.000And so it's caused chaos now, and a lot of people feel uncertainty and a lack of confidence in the outcome of our elections because you see the results flip.
00:59:46.000You see certain numbers on election day.
00:59:49.000And then in some states, like California, they can keep receiving these ballots for weeks after the election.
00:59:56.000And they don't even, eight states don't even require a postmark.
00:59:59.000And the Postal Service also tells us these days they don't postmark all the mail.
01:00:03.000Hermie, just really quick, you said some states don't require a postmark.
01:00:08.000Eight states don't require a postmark.
01:00:10.000And the Postal Service itself says they no longer bother to postmark all the mail.
01:00:15.000So how do we know that these ballots were duly cast?
01:00:19.000And secondly, you know, the rest of the world we condemn for being not as efficient and as committed to Republican or democracy form of government as we are.
01:00:29.000The rest of the world has election results on Election Day itself.
01:00:33.000Even countries that we consider to be not very civilized do that.
01:00:38.000We're one of those places where we're, I think, ignoring federal law.
01:00:42.000So the statutes in question before the court go back to 1845, and there was a vigorous discussion about the history of the Civil War when there were certain unusual procedures put into place to allow proxy voting and battlefield voting and all of that.
01:00:57.000And we can always have exceptions to our laws, of course.
01:01:00.000So for example, there's a federal statute that specifically covers overseas voters, and that's one of the statutes that I administer here.
01:01:08.000So where the federal government creates certain special rules, that is not an issue.
01:01:12.000But where states are making up rules that make it looser and looser and looser, and we don't have an election day anymore, that's the problem.
01:01:18.000And so one other interesting thing to note about this argument, a case came up several times.
01:01:24.000This is Mississippi, this is not Mississippi's first trip to the court over the date of the election.
01:01:28.000In 1997, they had a case called Foster versus Love, in which they had an open primary in Mississippi.
01:01:35.000And if you won the majority in the open primary, including in a federal race, that was the end of it.
01:01:42.000And in that case, the United States Supreme Court held unanimously in 1997 that that was inconsistent with the very same federal statutes that we're talking about here.
01:01:54.000And when you're allowing ballots to keep trickling in for months and weeks afterwards, that's not appropriate.
01:02:00.000Harmie, do we have good numbers on the scale?
01:02:04.000Like in a state, what percent or what number of ballots are typically coming in late?
01:02:08.000And do we have any examples where there's been a very suspiciously high number of these postmarked on election day or no postmark market all ballots?
01:02:17.000No, I don't think that this case turns on suspiciousness of the behavior or anything, but it does vary.
01:02:23.000Some states vote entirely by absentee ballot now.
01:02:27.000There's a couple of states that are more rural in character.
01:02:30.000There used to be an excuse requirement in states that's been eliminated in many states, particularly during COVID.
01:02:37.000So, in fact, one of the things that was mentioned during this oral argument is that there may have been a couple of different outliers during the Supreme Court era where this federal law was passed.
01:02:47.000And using the same kind of doctrinal analysis that the court used in the Bruin decision regarding Second Amendment rights, the argument by the Republican National Committee and the Solicitor General's office arguing our brief was that we should use that kind of textual analysis to look at what the Congress in 1854 meant when it passed this bucket of laws.
01:03:09.000And it couldn't possibly have meant that you can have absentee balloting trickling in for weeks after the election.
01:03:18.000That does not provide the finality or certainty that is required.
01:03:21.000And that's the basis for Congress to have passed these laws in the first place, creating a federal election day for federal elections.
01:03:29.000But we do see some states where it's almost all absent, where it's all absentee balloting, and then we see some states where the numbers vary.
01:03:36.000And in many jurisdictions today, after COVID, you can't even go in and cast your ballot in person where those states used to allow it.
01:03:43.000They have voting centers, and there's all kinds of problems with that.
01:03:46.000I saw that in person in Arizona, where you walk into a precinct and you print up a ballot, and maybe they had the wrong paper there, or the paper doesn't print correctly, or they haven't loaded the correct poll book, and so on and so forth.
01:03:59.000So wouldn't it be great if we could just have the finality of people voting on or near the election day, but not after the election day, and have the votes counted quickly?
01:04:10.000Well, it really does feel like there's two layers to this, as you say.
01:04:13.000There's the layer of is there actual fraud that this enables, but it's also to make people, to make this system work, people need to feel like it is working.
01:04:21.000And when you have all these little bits that just make you raise your eyebrow, a ballot can come in after election day.
01:04:41.000That makes them get more radical in how they approach policies.
01:04:44.000If you don't want us to think that there's election fraud, then stop doing a bunch of crazy stuff that leads us to believe there could be election fraud.
01:05:06.000And so, you know, you have to wonder and look at those trends and see why is that?
01:05:10.000Why is it necessary for us to have a three-week extension period for ballots to be received and counted?
01:05:19.000It doesn't seem necessary, and it does seem inconsistent with the concept of election day.
01:05:24.000So the justices were very, very, you know, engaged.
01:05:28.000You could tell where most of them were going with their questions.
01:05:32.000And it was a rarely do you see an oral argument go on for more than two hours, but literally we had the privilege of seeing three of the top advocates in the country argue this.
01:05:41.000And I think they all did a good job, but the law seems to support this.
01:05:45.000So are you thinking we could get the rare 9-0 on a case that is getting any attention?
01:05:53.000I think I can very confidently predict that.
01:05:55.000I don't believe in gambling, but I think there's definitely three justices who were skeptical of the government's position being our United States government's position and the Republican National Committee's position.
01:06:10.000And I think there were several justices who were clearly skeptical of the concept that under Mississippi law, Mississippi says the ballot is properly cast if you put it in the mail on election day, giving no reference to being accepted at the election headquarters, which is what the historical meaning was, that it be in the hands of election officials by a certain date.
01:06:37.000And so I feel like I could count some of the solid votes to support, but you never know until you see.
01:06:43.000And I think this is one of those cases where even the justices who might agree on the conclusion may have different paths to get there.
01:06:50.000Some may not want to go as far as others on this.
01:06:53.000And there was some spirited questioning as to whether there's something such as a too early deadline for early voting.
01:07:02.000I mean, that's been an issue that many people have debated.
01:07:04.000And Justice Alito asked a question about that.
01:07:07.000And I don't think you need to reach that question to agree that there should definitely be an end point to it.
01:07:13.000And that should be the federal election day set by Congress for all federal elections.
01:07:38.000And so that would mean that there's an election day, which is the last day by which ballots can be received by the government.
01:07:45.000And now to be determined for the future, is there a too early date?
01:07:51.000I think there are other kind of things.
01:07:52.000I mean, you think back to 2020 when we were getting all this Hunter Biden stuff.
01:07:58.000There was already ballots being cast while that debate was being had at least by part of the population.
01:08:04.000And part of the population got it completely censored from them.
01:08:07.000But all of that stuff in the final month of the presidential election, it was like we didn't know how many people had cast their vote before they'd even heard the full information.
01:10:33.000All right, Blake, what do you got for us?
01:10:35.000We got, I mean, we were just speaking in, you know, a few segments ago about U.S. soldiers.
01:10:41.000They're playing with their lives because of what our leaders have deliberately chosen to do because they bring the world's problems here.
01:10:48.000They dump the world's problems onto our people because ultimately they hate them.
01:10:52.000They don't care about them or they actively hate them.
01:10:54.000So we have the latest of these killings, illegal immigrants who should not be here just heinously murdering innocent Americans for basically no reason.
01:11:04.000The latest one is out of Chicago, a student at Loyola University Chicago, Sheridan Gorman.
01:11:11.000She was shot and killed while walking with friends along Lake Michigan.
01:11:17.000And now they say, the authorities say her killer was in the U.S. illegally, which means specifically.
01:11:25.000I believe he came in, they say, under President Biden, you know, walks across the border, easily could have been turned around, could have been rejected.
01:11:33.000We did not need to let him in, but he followed the same process that literally millions of other people did because they saw guides on TikTok.
01:11:40.000They saw guides online that said, come to the U.S., say the right words.
01:11:44.000They'll give you a ticket somewhere in the U.S.
01:11:47.000And you get to live here until your day in court.
01:11:49.000And even if you blow off that day in court, nobody's going to hunt you down either.
01:11:53.000And so another psycho, another criminal in the U.S. murdered another innocent American.
01:11:58.000And this will not be the last story like this we're going to tell because we know there are millions of people like this guy.
01:12:25.000So keep in mind, right now, we have Americans in airports across the country waiting hours to get on planes, not because of a software malfunction, not because of a storm.
01:12:35.000They are waiting because Democrats have said, we are defunding ICE.
01:12:38.000We are refusing to fund the government, refusing to fund DHS until you guys ease up on deportations.
01:12:47.000And the people they want to keep from getting deported are people like this guy.
01:12:50.000They want people like Jose Medina Medina to stay in the United States so that they can put on masks, grab guns, go and hold up women like Sheridan, try to rob them.
01:13:01.000Their goal long term is to get amnesty for people like this.
01:13:04.000Amnesty so that they want to give this guy amnesty so that he can get citizenship.
01:13:09.000And even if he's in prison for this murder, even if he's on death row, remember, Democrats think people in prison should be able to vote.
01:13:15.000They want to be able to give him the ballot so that he can cast votes for Democrats.
01:13:19.000And they want the population for the census to get more congressional votes.
01:14:18.000I don't know if we have it, but Governor Pritzker, he went and he visited a memorial that was, you know, an impromptu memorial that was put up to Alex Purdy and Renee Goode after.
01:14:52.000And this Seattle man shot and killed an eight-month pregnant Korean-American woman and nearly killed her husband when they were driving to work.
01:14:59.000And he's been found not guilty by this is at least this guy, as far as I know, is not any illegal.
01:15:43.000Yeah, probably a government-funded NGO will go out to argue that that guy should be free again.
01:15:47.000And this is happening in left-wing jurisdictions across the U.S. Another case just like that one happened in Northern Virginia.
01:15:54.000It's genuinely frustrating because when you talk to ordinary Americans who only follow the news a bit, you have to describe what the left is doing.
01:16:04.000And what they are doing is so insane, so evil, so depraved, so messed up that they will not believe you because you sound nuts.
01:16:39.000They will think you are a gibbering madman if you say what their priority is every day, which is allowing illegal, allowing foreign, crazy, criminal gang members to come to America and kill you, and then they will move heaven and earth to keep them in the United States.
01:16:54.000Or to keep repeat offenders on the streets.