The Charlie Kirk Show - How Can Speaker Johnson Succeed?

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00:00:00.000 What are the four legislative priorities for Speaker Johnson?

00:00:04.000 We have been awfully spicy towards Speaker Johnson, but it's time to make the past the past and cheer him on and encourage him.

00:00:11.000 Four major legislative priorities ahead for Speaker Johnson.

00:00:14.000 We detail them and we put together a plan.

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00:01:37.000 Many of you probably remember been awfully spicy towards Speaker Johnson, and honestly, he deserved it.

00:01:44.000 He never should have capitulated in the fall.

00:01:47.000 He never should have surrendered in December, kicked the ball on 702, kind of the shaky knee syndrome.

00:01:55.000 In the last couple of weeks, we're starting to see some signs of life.

00:01:59.000 Is it possible that Speaker Johnson is getting his sea legs?

00:02:03.000 Now, whether that's true or not, we'll see.

00:02:07.000 But we need Speaker Johnson.

00:02:10.000 You got to play with the team that you have.

00:02:12.000 And the team that we have right now is showing some signs that they want to fight.

00:02:18.000 We have to become Speaker Johnson's biggest cheerleader.

00:02:22.000 Now, he's disappointed us on plenty of things, but there are three, if not four, major legislative items that are ahead of Speaker Johnson in the next 60 days.

00:02:34.000 And we cannot afford to lose all four.

00:02:37.000 The first, of course, is the border.

00:02:38.000 The border remains wide open.

00:02:40.000 Nothing has been done on the border.

00:02:41.000 However, I will say to Speaker Johnson's credit, Alejandro Mayorkis, the traitor to the United States, who should go to Gitmo for what he has done to this country, has now impeached.

00:02:53.000 First cabinet secretary impeached in quite some time.

00:02:56.000 That's a victory for Speaker Johnson.

00:02:58.000 The ability to get all those moderate Republicans to impeach Mayorkas, now it's possible the Senate doesn't even do a trial.

00:03:04.000 I bet Chuck Schumer just goes straight to an acquittal vote, but still, it was the right move to do.

00:03:10.000 It was the right thing to do.

00:03:12.000 It failed last week.

00:03:13.000 Speaker Johnson got his math together. 1.00

00:03:16.000 Now, last evening we saw, and we're going to cover this later in the hour, how stupid House Republicans can be. 0.99

00:03:25.000 Speaker Johnson voted correctly on this when they just kicked out George Santos. 1.00

00:03:29.000 Well, we lost a seat last night.

00:03:31.000 We're going to talk about how and why that happened.

00:03:34.000 So the first is the border.

00:03:36.000 The second of which is we have this CR expiring on March 1st.

00:03:40.000 That's right.

00:03:40.000 Remember, we pounded the table and we pounded the table.

00:03:44.000 Just remember to go back and how this happened.

00:03:46.000 In the fall, they punted to November.

00:03:48.000 In November, they punted to January.

00:03:51.000 And in January, they punted to March.

00:03:54.000 Well, in two weeks, everybody, it's March.

00:03:57.000 Are they going to do another continuing resolution?

00:04:00.000 Is it time to shut down the government?

00:04:01.000 Is it time to draw a line in the sand?

00:04:03.000 That's number two.

00:04:05.000 Number three is the Ukraine funding fight.

00:04:10.000 Speaker Johnson has been saying the right thing here.

00:04:14.000 We went into great detail yesterday how a majority of Republican senators said, nope, we're not going to do this.

00:04:20.000 We are not going to fund Ukraine.

00:04:23.000 We're not going to continue the bloodbath and the slaughter while our own country is collapsing.

00:04:29.000 We're done.

00:04:30.000 Speaker Johnson has been talking a good game in this regard.

00:04:33.000 Play Cut 69, please.

00:04:39.000 You want to fund Ukraine?

00:04:41.000 National security begins with border security.

00:04:44.000 We have said that all along.

00:04:46.000 That has been my comment since late October.

00:04:48.000 Here's my comment today.

00:04:50.000 That's a lot different than how Paul Ryan would have answered.

00:04:52.000 Understand this.

00:04:54.000 If you had Paul Ryan or John Boehner, this bill would have already been on the floor and Ukraine would have already received their funding.

00:05:01.000 Just the fact that we're getting a pause is a very positive sign from Speaker Johnson.

00:05:09.000 So that's the third fight.

00:05:11.000 And the fourth fight, which is getting almost no coverage, but we can't forget this because it ties in this bombshell story from John Brennan, who's a traitor to the United States as well.

00:05:22.000 And I don't use that word traitor lightly.

00:05:24.000 It just so happens we have a lot of them in our government.

00:05:27.000 Where they spied on Trump and 26 Trump allies.

00:05:30.000 It's an extraordinary story.

00:05:32.000 And it involves this FISA and 702 reauthorization.

00:05:38.000 That is coming up in the spring.

00:05:39.000 So for all of you keeping score at home, Speaker Johnson has a historic, monumental opportunity in front of him with the narrowest House majority in recent memory.

00:05:51.000 Let's go through the list.

00:05:52.000 It is the border.

00:05:54.000 It is the CRs.

00:05:57.000 It is Ukraine and foreign funding.

00:05:59.000 And it is 702.

00:06:01.000 Now, let's make sure we manage expectations.

00:06:05.000 It'll be nearly impossible to win all four of those fights.

00:06:09.000 So we have to prioritize.

00:06:11.000 What does success look like?

00:06:13.000 Remember, you got Chuck Yu Schumer and you have Joe Biden, but you still have leverage.

00:06:19.000 They still need you.

00:06:21.000 And at this point, again, I was awfully spicy towards Speaker Johnson because he deserved it.

00:06:28.000 But now I'm looking around.

00:06:29.000 I'm seeing a guy who impeached my orcas.

00:06:32.000 I see a guy who's talking a good game.

00:06:34.000 And let's start to support him, pray for him, and say, hey, Speaker Johnson, lead us into victory here.

00:06:39.000 What does victory look like?

00:06:41.000 Well, let's start with the border.

00:06:44.000 We have to get some sort of not an immigration deal, but a border deal.

00:06:49.000 Senator Murphy, the CIA senator from the state of Connecticut, he's on an outrage tour.

00:06:54.000 He tweeted out last evening.

00:06:55.000 I'm on an outrage tour telling the people of Connecticut: okay, first of all, it takes like 25 minutes to drive across Connecticut.

00:07:02.000 So the idea that you're on tour, like maybe if you were a senator from California, but I mean, let's calm down, pal.

00:07:08.000 I'm on tour.

00:07:10.000 Okay, there's not exactly that difficult.

00:07:15.000 If you're from Florida, you could be on tour.

00:07:17.000 Senator Murphy says he's outraged that Republicans killed the border deal.

00:07:20.000 It was not a border deal.

00:07:22.000 It was an immigration amnesty bill, disguised as a border deal.

00:07:27.000 Fixing the flood at the border does not require some pseudo-amnesty for the 10 million people already let in.

00:07:34.000 It requires exactly one thing: saying stop and stopping it.

00:07:37.000 So, Speaker Johnson, you're going to have to articulate what does success look like on the border on the continuing resolution.

00:07:44.000 We need spending cuts.

00:07:45.000 Recent news says that we're going to hit $54 trillion in debt in a decade.

00:07:49.000 We're going to hit that even quicker.

00:07:51.000 We're going to hit that a lot quicker.

00:07:52.000 We are a debtor nation.

00:07:54.000 We are borrowing $1.5 trillion a year.

00:07:56.000 Why are we at war?

00:07:59.000 Sort of.

00:07:59.000 We're at war with Russia and we don't want to acknowledge it.

00:08:02.000 We're being invaded on our southern border.

00:08:04.000 This is an unsustainable spending path that both parties are responsible for.

00:08:09.000 We need to stop it immediately.

00:08:11.000 It is generational theft.

00:08:13.000 We need to be consistent and principled when it comes to how we are leveraging our nation's future when it comes to our reckless spending policies.

00:08:24.000 And then the third is Ukraine.

00:08:26.000 Now, there's a lot of warmongers and a lot of war hawks.

00:08:29.000 If Speaker Johnson can maybe splice and dice, call the bluff.

00:08:35.000 If I was Speaker Johnson, here's what I would do.

00:08:37.000 And here's my advice to him.

00:08:39.000 Introduce a new bill in the House of Representatives that is a clean Israel-only funding bill.

00:08:46.000 Get that done.

00:08:48.000 That is supported by the American people.

00:08:50.000 That will put the Democrats on defense because they don't support that.

00:08:54.000 Get that through and send it back to the Senate.

00:08:57.000 And then you could do the Pacific Islander security package, which is also part of it.

00:09:01.000 And then you got to do Taiwan, which I don't think is necessary.

00:09:04.000 And by the way, no funding for Gaza.

00:09:06.000 This is ridiculous that you're going to go fund the other side of the conflict so that Hamas can get safe harbor. 0.91

00:09:11.000 No.

00:09:12.000 The American people are vastly in support of funding and supporting Israel.

00:09:16.000 They buy American weaponry and machinery.

00:09:18.000 Fine.

00:09:18.000 Get that done.

00:09:19.000 Pass it through the House.

00:09:20.000 Need offsets, by the way.

00:09:21.000 You need offsets, cuts.

00:09:22.000 So cut some of that COVID nonsense and cut all the trans training in the military. 1.00

00:09:26.000 Do some offsets.

00:09:27.000 Send it to the Senate.

00:09:28.000 So what we have here is four major legislative battles.

00:09:33.000 Four of them.

00:09:34.000 And the slimmest House majority, I think, in the last hundred years.

00:09:39.000 I don't think that either Republicans or Democrats have been dealing with a House majority this slim.

00:09:43.000 We cannot afford to go 0 for 4.

00:09:46.000 If we go 1 for 4, it'll be disappointing, but at least we have a win.

00:09:49.000 But we have to be very clear of these four major legislative fights in front of us.

00:09:55.000 Which are the ones that are the most likely to win?

00:09:57.000 Which are the ones that we could actually work with Democrats on.

00:09:59.000 This is where Speaker Johnson can get awfully creative.

00:10:02.000 He could outmaneuver the Democrats.

00:10:04.000 On two of these issues, he actually has Democrats that will work with him.

00:10:08.000 On 702, I would dispatch a delegation to go after AOC and Rashida Talib and Elon Omar, who happen to be very anti-702 for their own civil liberty concerns, and to try to build a coalition to reform 702.

00:10:25.000 On the foreign aid stuff, they tend to not, the Democrats are against the foreign aid package as it is.

00:10:32.000 So work on that.

00:10:33.000 On the CR and the border, you're not going to get a lot of help from Democrats, but you might get help from moderate Democrats.

00:10:38.000 Got to game this all out.

00:10:39.000 The pressure is on.

00:10:41.000 And Speaker Johnson is our fighter, whether we like it or not.

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00:11:59.000 So there are four major legislative fights, as we've said.

00:12:02.000 And I want to just emphasize we have made progress on one of them.

00:12:05.000 The impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas, it took too long, should have happened months ago, but it plays offense.

00:12:11.000 Now, all of a sudden, they're worrying in the Senate, they have to distract themselves over defending what's happening on the border is excellent.

00:12:18.000 Now, whether or not it's going to, if it results in a trial, that will be a major victory.

00:12:23.000 Now, the Senate will probably end up acquitting him, almost certainly, but it will be a major PR opportunity for us to make the case to the American people, for us nonstop.

00:12:34.000 And by the way, the way these impeachment trials, if Schumer actually ends up going for a trial, which I can't imagine that he would, but there might be some technical reason.

00:12:44.000 Maybe he can't get 60 votes to do that.

00:12:47.000 I think you might need to get to 60 to go straight to a vote.

00:12:50.000 Not exactly sure.

00:12:51.000 Mitch McConnell bypassed the trial, if I'm not mistaken, on the second Trump impeachment.

00:12:57.000 However, the border issue is such a losing issue that Speaker Johnson getting with that slim majority Mayorkis impeachment through the House is a victory.

00:13:07.000 By the way, if we had more votes and we had more time in November and December, we should have impeached basically the whole cabinet.

00:13:15.000 You should have impeached Cardona, Merrick Garland, all the way through, and these pack of criminals of what they've been doing to this country.

00:13:22.000 Now the Ukraine thing.

00:13:23.000 The Ukraine thing is fascinating to me.

00:13:26.000 It's fascinating because it shows the power of you, the power of this audience.

00:13:31.000 It shows how things actually change and can change.

00:13:37.000 It shows how making arguments, being persuasive, exposing the Uniparty, being relentless, quite honestly, the power of social media.

00:13:47.000 The Democrats, and I will get into this at some point.

00:13:50.000 I keep on teasing it.

00:13:51.000 The Democrats are the war party. 0.87

00:13:53.000 And there is a chance.

00:13:55.000 I'm not going to make any major bra, you know, proclamations, but if you're looking carefully on the real clear politics average, and real clear politics is a great job, if you look at the real clear politics average, this pesky RFK guy keeps on getting 12 to 14% in Battleground State polls. 0.68

00:14:12.000 And I am more and more convinced that he's pulling from Democrats more than Republicans.

00:14:17.000 And I said the opposite six months ago.

00:14:19.000 I think one of the reasons is that younger Democrats are upset and fatigued and ticked off.

00:14:28.000 The Democrats have become the war party, the corporate party, and they're just grasping for any sort of alternative.

00:14:36.000 So just think about that.

00:14:38.000 I think that the Democrats, there's a chance that this November, RFK gets on the debate stage.

00:14:45.000 I want to say that again.

00:14:46.000 There's a chance that RFK gets, if there is a debate, if there ends up being a debate, he might get on the debate stage.

00:14:52.000 And I think it's going to hurt Democrats more than Republicans.

00:14:55.000 By the way, you see a lot of anti-Kennedy chatter from the Democrat ruling class.

00:14:59.000 Super Bowl ad made them go nuts. 0.53

00:15:01.000 They went from ignoring RFK the last couple months to all of a sudden the knives are out for RFK.

00:15:06.000 It's fascinating.

00:15:07.000 Again, this is all guesswork.

00:15:10.000 It is guesswork.

00:15:12.000 Because six months ago, and I believe it was true six months ago, at the time, six months ago, in the middle of a Republican primary, I think RFK was hurting Trump more than Biden.

00:15:20.000 I'm not so sure that's the case.

00:15:21.000 And I think one of the reasons is the war funding issue.

00:15:25.000 Democrats are all on board for financing foreign wars, for the relentless slaughter of civilians, for destroying peace.

00:15:33.000 This used to be the base position of the Democrat Party.

00:15:37.000 And the only senator who decided to vote against it, because he actually understands his base and he's a true believer in this is Bernie Sanders.

00:15:45.000 Bernie Sanders voted against the foreign aid bill because I think in some ways he wants to just show the base, you know, one of us is still with you, but Elizabeth Warren and Corey Booker and all these others lockstep into war financing.

00:15:58.000 So I think that there's some opportunity.

00:16:00.000 I think there's some opportunity for Speaker Johnson.

00:16:02.000 On the border issue, you have to make it simple and clear.

00:16:06.000 You passed H.R. 2.

00:16:07.000 You have to try to put the Democrats on defense on that particular issue.

00:16:12.000 That's going to be tough.

00:16:13.000 That's going to be Schumer doesn't want to move on that because he's, oh, we already passed a border bill.

00:16:17.000 It was an immigration amnesty bill.

00:16:19.000 The continuing resolution is interesting.

00:16:22.000 We have to entertain a government shutdown.

00:16:24.000 And this is what makes me a little bit upset with Speaker Johnson.

00:16:28.000 At the same time, I'm trying to renew my aura.

00:16:32.000 I'm trying to say he's our fighter.

00:16:33.000 Let's cheer him on.

00:16:34.000 But one of the reasons why I have a little bit of spicy Tabasco attitude towards Speaker Johnson is because we're barreling towards a shutdown that should have been done last year.

00:16:48.000 It's almost as if you prolonged the inevitable.

00:16:51.000 I'm actually not excited about shutting down the government in the midst of an election year.

00:16:55.000 That's why I wanted to do the lockdown, the shutdown, not the lockdown, the shutdown in the previous year.

00:17:02.000 Anyway, we have to entertain a government shutdown.

00:17:05.000 And then we have to talk openly about the FISA reauthorization.

00:17:10.000 And I will talk about this CIA story because it's remarkable and it ties directly into the overreaching powers of the Central Intelligence Agency, the FBI, Department of Homeland Security.

00:17:21.000 We have an opportunity to win a little on every one of the four major legislative fights.

00:17:27.000 Surrender is not an option.

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00:18:34.000 All right, so last evening, Michael Schellenberger came out with a bombshell story.

00:18:38.000 We knew some of this.

00:18:39.000 We suspected some of it.

00:18:40.000 There are some amazing details.

00:18:42.000 And it is directly connected, by the way, with this looming 702 fight.

00:18:47.000 So, Speaker Johnson, 1, 2, 3, 4, boom, boom, boom.

00:18:50.000 Border Ukraine, CR FISA, border Ukraine, CR FISA.

00:18:53.000 He has to list them, put it on the board, prioritize, communicate all four.

00:18:58.000 In fact, if I was Speaker Johnson, I would do a press conference and I would go through all four.

00:19:03.000 We have a fight on the border.

00:19:04.000 We just got Maorcus done.

00:19:05.000 A little partial win.

00:19:06.000 We got the Ukraine thing.

00:19:07.000 Here's what we're going to do.

00:19:09.000 By the way, they're talking about a discharge petition, which is effectively a way that they can get the vote without involving the speaker.

00:19:15.000 We'll talk about that too.

00:19:16.000 CR, very important.

00:19:17.000 We need spending cuts.

00:19:20.000 We need spending cuts.

00:19:22.000 And then finally, FISA.

00:19:23.000 Let's talk about FISA.

00:19:24.000 So FISA, of course, is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

00:19:28.000 It was a post-9-11 George W. Bush Dick Cheney charmer that allows the intel agencies to spy on Americans or people close to Americans illegally.

00:19:41.000 And John Brennan was one of the most enthusiastic adopters of this.

00:19:46.000 Michael Schellenberger, who's one of the guys that Elon Musk had looked through the Twitter files, has a new report from the subscribers only Substack Public that has bombshell allegations against the CIA.

00:19:57.000 Quote, multiple credible sources tell public and racket that the United States intelligence community, including the Central Intelligence Agency, illegally mobilized foreign intelligence agencies to target Trump advisors long until the summer of 2016.

00:20:11.000 Until now, the official story was that the FBI started investigating the Trump campaign because Australian intelligence officials told them a Trump aide, George Papadopoulos, had bragged to an Australian diplomat about Russia having dirt on Hillary Clinton.

00:20:26.000 If that hadn't happened, the whole collusion hunt would never have happened, the story goes.

00:20:29.000 But Schellenberger says that's not true.

00:20:32.000 According to sources close to the House Intelligence Committee, he says, it was actually the Obama-era intelligence community that asked U.S. allies to start spying on 26 different members of the Trump campaign.

00:20:44.000 Quote, a source confirmed that the intelligence community had, quote, identified them as people to bump or make contact with or manipulate.

00:20:53.000 They were targets of our own intelligence community and law enforcement, targets for collection of misinformation.

00:20:58.000 Now, the story gets super interesting.

00:21:01.000 In fact, this was leaked and was suggested by certain people at the time.

00:21:06.000 It just seemed too outrageous to be true.

00:21:09.000 Listen carefully.

00:21:10.000 According to Schellenberger, President Trump's aides, such as Kash Patel and Rick Grinnell, I'm just speculating, but these would be the type of very loyal, good people that would do this, compiled a 10-inch binder exposing some of the raw intelligence of what the CIA had done to his campaign.

00:21:29.000 Apparently, he tried to have this binder declassified at the end of his presidency, but the CIA actively blocked this from happening.

00:21:39.000 Where was the binder?

00:21:42.000 According to Schellenberger, Donald Trump took the binder to Mar-a-Lago.

00:21:48.000 According to Schellenberger, the purpose of the raid was to, of course, indict Trump, but was to get the documents back.

00:21:59.000 I remember hearing this when people said, This is about the evidence associated with Russia Gate.

00:22:07.000 And we kind of laughed at some people laughed it off.

00:22:09.000 I thought it was interesting.

00:22:10.000 I said, I need more evidence, but I totally believe it.

00:22:13.000 According to Schellenberger, is that this binder was so incriminating to the Central Intelligence Agency that they raided Donald Trump's home to get their hands on it.

00:22:27.000 Now, remember, these people will spy on you illegally unless they're stopped.

00:22:31.000 They will collude with foreign countries to maintain their power.

00:22:34.000 They will commit treason and they will say it's for your own good.

00:22:38.000 And they'll do it because they keep getting away with it.

00:22:40.000 Congress has the power to stop this. 0.59

00:22:42.000 But unfortunately, cowards in the Republican Party will never let it happen unless we draw a line in the sand. 0.88

00:22:48.000 Now, remember, the government likely shot and killed JFK. 0.91

00:22:52.000 The government has been involved in multiple decades of cover-ups of our own government poisoning the American people.

00:22:59.000 Just look at MKUltra programs and domestic spying and abuse.

00:23:03.000 Look at how our own government got involved in blocking a peace deal in Istanbul with Boris Johnson, Tony Blinken, directed by the Joe Biden regime that has now resulted in hundreds of thousands of people being massacred.

00:23:18.000 Look at how our government lied about the vaccine being safe and effective, the mRNA gene-altering shot, how people were discharged from the military because they did not want to take the mRNA gene-altering shot.

00:23:29.000 The 702 fight in front of Speaker Johnson is one of the most important.

00:23:35.000 It is one of the most significant legislative fights that Speaker Johnson has in front of him.

00:23:41.000 Border Ukraine, CR FISA.

00:23:43.000 And the FISA one is the one that in a very bizarre and unexpected way is where you could really make the most impact.

00:23:55.000 Why?

00:23:56.000 In the House, more so than the Senate, those crazy radical left-wingers that we agree on nothing, they don't like FISA because they argue that BLM and Islamists are being illegally spied on by the FBI.

00:24:17.000 They might be right, by the way.

00:24:19.000 Understand that the regime needs to quell insurgency forces on both sides of the political aisle.

00:24:26.000 They did this to the Black Panthers.

00:24:28.000 They've done this to radical socialist groups in the 60s and 70s and 80s, which is why Bernie Sanders and AOC tend to be against FISA 702, because in the folklore and in the mythology of the American socialist movement was we would have been successful if it wasn't for the FBI.

00:24:47.000 You ask any like old, go to Eugene Oregon and find some sort of like 70-year-old pot-smoking, acid-taking like socialist who is part of like Weather Underground.

00:24:59.000 Why was it that the socialist movement didn't catch fire in the 70s?

00:25:03.000 It was the FBI.

00:25:05.000 The FBI infiltrated our group and we had it all and they blew it up.

00:25:10.000 They're not totally wrong, by the way.

00:25:12.000 Jay Edgar Hoover did some awfully suspicious, terrible things to radical left-wing groups.

00:25:18.000 Understand that the regime wants invade the world, invite the world, mass migration, destabilization.

00:25:24.000 They want a one-worldness type government.

00:25:26.000 And there are two insurgency forces, one that is a huge threat to the country, the Marxist one, the populist nationalist one, which would revive us.

00:25:34.000 And they're trying to quell both of them simultaneously.

00:25:38.000 They're trying to quell both of those insurgency movements simultaneously.

00:25:43.000 And in a kind of perplexing, albeit real way, we can become partners with AOC and Rashida Talib and Elon Omar.

00:25:54.000 And you might say, but Charlie, their intentions are wrong.

00:25:57.000 This is where intentions mean nothing.

00:25:59.000 I don't care what Rashida Talib's intentions are.

00:26:03.000 Again, Elon Omar should be deported and sent back to Somalia.

00:26:07.000 We know that, okay?

00:26:09.000 That's not the point.

00:26:10.000 The point is, can we stop and reform 702?

00:26:14.000 And the answer is we could actually put up a pretty interesting bipartisan fight against this thing.

00:26:19.000 And it is necessary.

00:26:21.000 702, if it's allowed to continue, I will bet the farm on this.

00:26:28.000 702 is currently being used against this Trump campaign.

00:26:34.000 By the way, how much do you want to wager that Tucker Carlson is being spied on right now?

00:26:40.000 He's doing his tour across the world, which I just love.

00:26:44.000 He is in great form.

00:26:47.000 What he said in Abu Dhabi, the World Government Summit.

00:26:50.000 Well, he's abroad, which means he's probably communicating with foreign nationals, which gives the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act a mandate to spy on Tucker Carlson's device, that it gives other, by the way, all it takes is for him to go to Abu Dhabi and the Australian government can spy on Tucker and then they just share the data with the Americans.

00:27:08.000 It's just one step removed.

00:27:10.000 We need to reform 702 if we're going to be a free society and if we want our movement to have any chance of surviving.

00:27:17.000 You cannot have a successful political movement and have the opposition be able to read your text messages and be able to have a seat at the table during your private briefings.

00:27:26.000 It's impossible.

00:27:27.000 That's what 702 allows them to do.

00:27:30.000 The FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, they always say, well, it keeps the country safe and it prevents terrorist attacks.

00:27:35.000 Then get a warrant.

00:27:37.000 That's the issue.

00:27:38.000 The warrantless aspect is the issue.

00:27:42.000 I inherently don't distrust.

00:27:44.000 I inherently don't trust the intelligence community.

00:27:47.000 And this latest story from Schellenberger only reinforces it.

00:27:50.000 And all roads used to lead to Rome.

00:27:53.000 All roads lead to Speaker Johnson right now.

00:27:56.000 All roads go to Speaker Johnson.

00:27:59.000 And we need to cheer him on.

00:28:01.000 We need to encourage him.

00:28:02.000 We need to give him a hero's welcome if he is able to hold the line on these four issues.

00:28:07.000 And these are civilizational defining issues.

00:28:10.000 Border Ukraine CR FIS.

00:28:13.000 I don't envy him.

00:28:14.000 You're talking about taking on the cartels, taking on the war industrial machine, the big government oligopoly, and the intelligence community.

00:28:25.000 Those are some big fights, everybody.

00:28:28.000 That's why we need all of you in active gear.

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00:29:15.000 So we have to focus on this.

00:29:17.000 Last night, there was a special election, and it did not go well for Republicans.

00:29:21.000 Did not go well.

00:29:22.000 The RNC is, I mean, it's basically in this like regime change form.

00:29:27.000 Looks like we're going to get some new leadership there.

00:29:30.000 Lara Trump is going to be going there and hopefully we're going to get some.

00:29:34.000 And Chris La Savita, who's excellent, by the way, he's a smart guy, military guy, very strong from the Trump campaign.

00:29:40.000 He's going to be moving over to the RNC.

00:29:42.000 I really like what's happening there.

00:29:43.000 I like the movement.

00:29:44.000 I like the development.

00:29:45.000 And we're going to be keeping our eyes on that, of course.

00:29:47.000 And, you know, we're very honest about it, but we're starting to see some changes.

00:29:50.000 It's taking a little bit too long, but, you know, I have to wait till after South Carolina.

00:29:55.000 Like, okay, every day is a lifetime in politics right now, every single day.

00:30:00.000 And New York is just another, it's an example.

00:30:03.000 It's just a reminder what happened yesterday.

00:30:05.000 And so, look, you got to take this with a heavy grain of salt.

00:30:07.000 I don't want you to get demoralized, but it's not a great outcome.

00:30:09.000 Number one, the candidate that was running is this former Democrat, not exactly a true conservative.

00:30:16.000 And understand, the rules of politics have changed.

00:30:19.000 Special elections now favor Democrats because of mass mail and voting, mass early voting, ballot harvesting, and ballots going in every direction.

00:30:27.000 They have the machinery.

00:30:28.000 They have the technology.

00:30:29.000 They have the soft party infrastructure.

00:30:31.000 And they picked up a seat, but it's a seat that never should have been up.

00:30:35.000 And so for these Republicans, that can we get the list of the Republicans again that voted to expel Santos? 0.98

00:30:42.000 I just can't quite grasp the, I'm struggling to find a word that isn't like what a first grader would say, but I can't quite grasp how stupid, I just have to use that word. 0.98

00:30:58.000 I'm sorry. 0.97

00:30:59.000 Of the 105 Republicans that voted to expel Santos, I'm not a fan of Santos.

00:31:04.000 This guy obviously has got some problems.

00:31:06.000 He's got legal problems.

00:31:07.000 He's doing all sorts of weird selfie videos.

00:31:10.000 This guy's all over the place.

00:31:12.000 Okay.

00:31:13.000 So why don't you just let him stay there for another year?

00:31:16.000 He's not running again and you have an extra vote.

00:31:18.000 By the way, George Santos' voting record, because we score all the votes at turning pointaction tpaction.com, was better than most Republicans.

00:31:26.000 He voted great. 0.98

00:31:27.000 He voted like Andy Biggs, and he's this clown. 1.00

00:31:30.000 He's a clown. 0.99

00:31:32.000 So then just ignore him and say, okay, backbencher, go vote the right way. 0.99

00:31:37.000 But instead, you have this long list of self-righteous Republicans.

00:31:42.000 Let me say it again.

00:31:44.000 Self-righteous Republicans who said, today I show up to shrink the House majority.

00:31:53.000 I think that's the buried lead here.

00:31:56.000 The story that, oh, you know, this is another negative special election.

00:32:00.000 Hold on a second.

00:32:02.000 We didn't, at the time that we had to draft candidates, we didn't really have a speaker.

00:32:07.000 Our funding is way down.

00:32:08.000 We don't have an RNC.

00:32:09.000 It was almost an inevitability we were going to lose this race last night.

00:32:12.000 Okay.

00:32:13.000 We're not doing well in special elections.

00:32:15.000 We're trying to fix that.

00:32:16.000 We're trying to change that.

00:32:17.000 Hopefully, we're going to be able to turn that corner.

00:32:19.000 Help is on the way.

00:32:20.000 But time out here.

00:32:22.000 The buried lead is why did we have this election at all?

00:32:25.000 Did someone get hit by a bus?

00:32:27.000 Did someone just drop dead and we have to have a special election?

00:32:32.000 No, did someone resign?

00:32:33.000 Well, that's what's happening with McCarthy's seat.

00:32:35.000 That seat should be fine.

00:32:36.000 No.

00:32:38.000 We decide House Republicans engaged in the bizarre, perplexing action of political self-mutilation.

00:32:49.000 Why?

00:32:50.000 And I'm looking at this list of 105 Republicans.

00:32:54.000 Max Miller from Ohio.

00:32:56.000 Give me a break.

00:32:58.000 That guy's been a big disappointment.

00:32:59.000 Ryan Zinke from Montana.

00:33:01.000 I'm just going back to this list because it made you guys feel good.

00:33:06.000 Like, we're going to mutilate our own majority. 0.99

00:33:08.000 Just let the clowns serve out another year. 0.98

00:33:12.000 What are you doing? 0.94

00:33:14.000 And by the way, we had to spend millions of dollars and now in this failure of a race that could have been directed to other races, you're basically forcing the hand and giving Hakeem Jeffries a gift.

00:33:26.000 And I'll be very clear.

00:33:27.000 I've never defended Santos except his voting record.

00:33:30.000 I don't like his behavior.

00:33:31.000 I don't like his lying.

00:33:32.000 I don't like his deception.

00:33:34.000 He's going to have to face a jury of his peers if he hasn't already admitted guilt or at least done a plea deal.

00:33:39.000 Okay.

00:33:40.000 But what are you, what is the rationale?

00:33:44.000 Like Dan Crenshaw voted to get rid of him, Dwark Day, James Comer from Kentucky, Don Bacon from Nebraska.

00:33:52.000 So now you're sitting in a House Republican conference.

00:33:55.000 Do you feel good, guys, that you did this, you 105 Republicans?

00:34:01.000 We expelled Santos because our standards are so high.

00:34:05.000 Meanwhile, Elon Omar is talking about serving foreign countries.

00:34:08.000 You got Eric Swalwell sleeping with Chinese spies.

00:34:12.000 You got Rashida Talib that refuses to denounce Hamas.

00:34:16.000 And you guys mutilate your own majority.

00:34:22.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:23.000 Email us as alwaysfreedom at charliekirk.com.

00:34:26.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - February 14, 2024

How Can Speaker Johnson Succeed?

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