The Charlie Kirk Show - July 18, 2022


How Conservatives Can Defeat Big Government Socialism with Speaker Newt Gingrich and Michele Tafoya


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Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, Newt Gingrich joins us about his new book, Defeating Big Government Socialism, and Michelle Tofoya joins us to talk about why she left NBC's Sunday Night Football sideline reporter job in 2018.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show, Newt Gingrich joins us about his new book, Defeating Big Government Socialism.
00:00:06.000 And then Michelle Tafoya joins us. 0.54
00:00:08.000 You might remember her on Sunday Night Football.
00:00:10.000 Great episode.
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00:01:30.000 With us right now is somebody that I I think I watched for over a decade, my entire life, on sunday night football and I think any.
00:01:39.000 I think she was somewhere before sunday night football and with us is Michelle Tofoya, host of Sideline Sanity podcast and formerly with Nbc's sunday night football sideline reporter.
00:01:51.000 Michelle, welcome to the Charlie Kirk show.
00:01:53.000 Thank you for having me.
00:01:55.000 I appreciate it, of course, and so tell us about your story.
00:01:58.000 You were canceled in some way, shape or form.
00:02:01.000 I think it'd be really curious for our audience to learn about it.
00:02:04.000 Well, you know what I really wasn't, and some people are under the assumption that I was fired from NBC, or let go, or we.
00:02:12.000 No, I had given my notice to NBC back in 2018 because I wanted to start a podcast believe it or not, a lot of people can't believe that because the gig on sunday night football was amazing.
00:02:24.000 Plus, I got to cover the Olympics.
00:02:26.000 It was all incredible, but I didn't feel like I was using my voice in the way that I wanted to be using my voice.
00:02:33.000 It was a very limiting job for someone like me who has a lot to say.
00:02:38.000 And so uh, while I gave my notice in 2018, 2019 was supposed to be my final year.
00:02:45.000 Then they said, could you just get us through the Super Bowl in a couple?
00:02:48.000 So I stayed the extra covet year and then the following season to get them through this Los Angeles Super Bowl as, as they put it, and it was a joy, but in the meantime yeah, I I couldn't express a lot of the things I wanted to express, because I didn't want to bring any controversy to the network or to the show and unfortunately, sometimes the most innocuous things can bring controversy.
00:03:11.000 So they were very careful Careful, and I respected that and that's why I stepped away.
00:03:15.000 So I want to talk to you about kind of the erosion in trust in media.
00:03:19.000 You've been part of media, obviously.
00:03:21.000 I want to play cut 212.
00:03:24.000 This is NBC's Katie Tour admitting that no one trusts them anymore and wondering out loud whether or not they're doing more harm than good.
00:03:30.000 I'd love your reaction.
00:03:31.000 Play cut 212.
00:03:33.000 There was just a Gallup poll out today that shows that the trust in media and newspapers and television is hitting an all-time low.
00:03:41.000 People don't trust us.
00:03:42.000 They don't believe us.
00:03:43.000 And it makes me wonder if this job as I'm currently doing it is effective, but if it's doing more harm than good.
00:03:56.000 I don't have a good answer for that.
00:03:58.000 Michelle, your reaction.
00:04:01.000 Well, I respect her for asking the question because a lot of journalists won't even ask themselves that question.
00:04:06.000 What am I doing here?
00:04:07.000 Am I doing the right job the right way, et cetera, et cetera?
00:04:10.000 I watch White House press conferences very often and get so frustrated because I don't think these journalists, and I almost put those little air quotes because they're not doing their jobs the way that they should.
00:04:25.000 So often there's no pushback on the questions.
00:04:27.000 There's just, it's very, it's as though they're there, they're honored to be there.
00:04:32.000 They think that it is an honor to be there.
00:04:34.000 And I suppose that it is an honor to be a White House correspondent, but do the job, ask the tough questions.
00:04:40.000 And we just aren't seeing a lot of that.
00:04:41.000 And then I think, too, there's just been this erosion given the way that the media has really shown its bias.
00:04:49.000 I don't think there's any arguing that.
00:04:52.000 And, you know, everyone comes back with, well, Fox News, this and Newsmax that.
00:04:57.000 Well, yes, I think there had to be some sort of an answer to the very left-leaning mainstream media, if you will, legacy media, whatever you'd like to call it.
00:05:07.000 And so Roger Ailes, I think, very brilliantly decided, let's go this other direction.
00:05:13.000 And as you've seen, there is just as big an audience for a different point of view.
00:05:21.000 So, you know, and I respect the job that Fox News does with its journalists, too.
00:05:26.000 I'm not just talking about its opinions, its opinion editors and writers and anchors, but it's news.
00:05:33.000 But yes, we've been misinformed multiple times.
00:05:37.000 And then we found out about it.
00:05:38.000 And by the way, no one takes accountability after we discovered they've misinformed us or blocked information from us.
00:05:44.000 And when you don't take accountability, you lose credibility.
00:05:48.000 So yes, it's going on.
00:05:50.000 Absolutely.
00:05:51.000 Did you, how did you see this kind of censorship regime impact what you did at NBC?
00:05:57.000 I mean, NBC has been, I mean, I'm not a fan, obviously, at all, but sports has become very political.
00:06:05.000 And this has kind of infected what's happened there.
00:06:08.000 What can you tell our audience about how that impacted kind of what you saw at NBC?
00:06:15.000 Well, fortunately, in the world of sports, even though, yes, it did become more political, you didn't have quote unquote censorship.
00:06:24.000 We, at Sunday Night Football, at any rate, we wanted to simply document what was going on in the game.
00:06:31.000 And very oftentimes, that meant, starting with Colin Kaepernick, the kneeling, that whole anthem era, we covered the national anthem in a totally different way because we were looking for, okay, who is kneeling?
00:06:45.000 And that became the story.
00:06:47.000 Or how are people supporting the kneelers or who's not kneeling?
00:06:51.000 It was just a very big part of the story.
00:06:54.000 So I didn't see really censorship in that regard.
00:06:58.000 What I will say, and I was very fortunate to work at NBC Sports.
00:07:03.000 And I think you have to separate NBC Sports from the rest of NBC.
00:07:08.000 They're all their own entities, and certainly Sunday Night Football was its own little gem.
00:07:15.000 And we just wanted to document things and get things right.
00:07:19.000 At the same time, in 2018, when I wanted to start a podcast, I sent my demo episode to some folks at NBC Sports and said, this is the kind of thing I want to do.
00:07:29.000 And they just said, can we please ask you to wait until you leave NBC?
00:07:34.000 Because, you know, we don't want to bring any kind of shade onto Sunday night football.
00:07:39.000 I agreed to that.
00:07:40.000 I could have left right then and there.
00:07:42.000 I did not.
00:07:43.000 I'm very loyal to the people who brought me on there.
00:07:47.000 It's a family at NBC Sports that's unique.
00:07:50.000 And so, but they didn't want my opinions verbalized very widely.
00:07:57.000 And so then when I went on the view in November or October, November of my last season of Sunday Night Football, they allowed me to do that.
00:08:06.000 We all knew it was my final season of Sunday Night Football.
00:08:10.000 So they said, you know what?
00:08:11.000 If you were going to be with us another few years, we would not let you do this appearance.
00:08:15.000 But because you're wrapping up, we're going to let you do it.
00:08:19.000 I did two days on the view and I was told that's it.
00:08:21.000 You're not doing anymore.
00:08:23.000 They just thought that my comments were, I guess, too on the edge of controversy, things about Colin Kaepernick, et cetera.
00:08:32.000 And so, you know what?
00:08:33.000 Again, I honored that because I just respect the people that I work for.
00:08:40.000 I understood what they were trying to accomplish, that they didn't want to bring any of this to that product.
00:08:46.000 I think their most valuable entity and NBC in total right now is Sunday Night Football.
00:08:51.000 So I agreed to that.
00:08:55.000 So NCAA faces backlash after biological male Leo Thomas, Leah Thomas, nominated for Woman of the Year.
00:09:02.000 I won't even say Leah Thomas.
00:09:04.000 I should say Thomas nominated for Woman of the Year Award.
00:09:06.000 Your thoughts?
00:09:08.000 Well, they're going to face a lot of backlash and then they're going to face the politically correct folks who say, yes, she's a woman. 1.00
00:09:14.000 She deserves to be nominated.
00:09:17.000 You know, look, I've had a lot of conversations with Olympic swimmers.
00:09:22.000 I'm not going to name names because these were off-the-record conversations.
00:09:26.000 They're furious.
00:09:27.000 They think this is outrageous that Leah Thomas so quickly was able to get into the pool and compete alongside women.
00:09:36.000 It isn't fair.
00:09:40.000 So I think this is just an additional sort of slap in the face to women who have been competing and working their butts off to compete against one another in this classification for their entire lives, being denied a spot on a team, being denied a spot at NCAAs, being denied a spot on the podium.
00:10:01.000 And now this, I'm just, I'm a little flabbergasted.
00:10:08.000 Yeah, well, that's where we're at.
00:10:11.000 NCAA faces backlash, trying to make a man, woman of the year. 0.89
00:10:15.000 There you go.
00:10:16.000 And Marina, Martina Navitrilova, I never could pronounce that right.
00:10:20.000 Spoke out.
00:10:21.000 Navitalo, yeah.
00:10:22.000 Yeah, spoke against her.
00:10:23.000 Yeah, she did.
00:10:24.000 She did.
00:10:24.000 And yet, and so then people yell at her.
00:10:26.000 So I commend her for continuing to speak out.
00:10:29.000 That's what they do.
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00:12:08.000 Michelle, I want to talk to you about this story in Minneapolis involving Andrew Teckel Sundberg.
00:12:17.000 In the day following the death of Andrew Teckel Sundberg after an hours-long standoff in an apartment building in the Seward neighborhood of Minneapolis, a newly released search warrant says snipers from the Minneapolis Police Department fired the fatal rounds that killed him.
00:12:29.000 And then it seems as if BLM comes in response to try to gin up all this controversy.
00:12:35.000 Walk us through this story, please.
00:12:37.000 I'll tell you what I do know, and I certainly haven't reported on it, but I do live here in the area.
00:12:42.000 So this young man was in an apartment and began to shoot bullets through the wall of his apartment, allegedly.
00:12:50.000 I'm just going to say allegedly for now.
00:12:52.000 The woman whose apartment was receiving the incoming bullets called 911, which if you might remember back in 2020, a Minneapolis city councilwoman called 911, being able to call 911, coming from a place of privilege.
00:13:10.000 She was part of the DFUN movement.
00:13:12.000 Anyhow, back to this story.
00:13:14.000 The woman in the apartment calls 911. 0.84
00:13:17.000 The police come.
00:13:18.000 They try to extricate her and her two small children from this situation without getting them hurt any further.
00:13:25.000 The police take then some oncoming bullet fire.
00:13:32.000 So what ends up happening following that is a six-hour standoff.
00:13:37.000 The parents of this young man, by the way, they were adoptive parents, come and text with him, phone with him, send him videos, according to all the reporting, and try to talk him down from what they're calling a mental health situation.
00:13:52.000 And I frankly would argue that most kind of these sort of shootings result from a mental health situation.
00:13:59.000 Anyway, they try to talk him down.
00:14:02.000 Nothing's working.
00:14:03.000 This standoff goes on for six hours.
00:14:05.000 SWAT comes in and sniper fire is used to take this man out.
00:14:10.000 At this point, we don't know what in that moment made the SWAT officers decide that this was the only way out of the situation.
00:14:18.000 But that's what they decided.
00:14:20.000 And the young man was killed.
00:14:22.000 Now, what is trying to be made of this story is that this is, again, another example of police officers shooting a black man.
00:14:32.000 But this was not an unarmed black man.
00:14:35.000 So these Black Lives Matters protesters show up in front of the apartment building to mourn his passing.
00:14:43.000 But that's not all they were doing.
00:14:45.000 The woman who was the victim in all of this, whose apartment was being shot into, showed up and said, look, George Floyd wasn't armed.
00:14:53.000 Breonna Taylor wasn't armed.
00:14:55.000 This guy was armed and he was shooting bullets into my apartment while I was trying to feed dinner to my two black children.
00:15:04.000 And they were kind of like, oh, she's having a moment.
00:15:07.000 Let's let her grieve.
00:15:09.000 Sounds like I want to play the tape of that really quick, just to add confidence to that.
00:15:13.000 All right, Play Cut 210.
00:15:14.000 We do.
00:15:14.000 210.
00:15:18.000 Breonna Tyler was not ours.
00:15:20.000 This man intentionally tried to kill us.
00:15:22.000 For three years, I lived here and none of you guys knocked at that man's door to see if he was okay.
00:15:29.000 Not at all.
00:15:31.000 He played loud music every day to cope with his mindset.
00:15:38.000 There's bullets casings in the hallway.
00:15:41.000 The shot went through my door to the pillar to the kitchen.
00:15:45.000 I was cooking food for my kids.
00:15:47.000 He's dead now, so that can't happen.
00:15:49.000 He's sitting all.
00:15:50.000 It doesn't matter.
00:15:51.000 He's sitting on his bed.
00:15:53.000 Justin and Kayman helped him when he was alive.
00:15:57.000 Now I can't get my s because all you guys want to be here.
00:16:01.000 My kids have to see you guys celebrate a man's life.
00:16:03.000 Michelle.
00:16:05.000 I mean, it says it all, right?
00:16:07.000 As furious and passionate as she is, she appears to be the sane one in this picture. 1.00
00:16:13.000 She's depicting what happened to her and her kids, and they're all talking to her like she's from outer space and idiotic and insane. 0.99
00:16:22.000 And all she wants to do is get back into her building to get her stuff. 0.99
00:16:25.000 And it's to me, it just that speech by that woman says it all. 0.80
00:16:33.000 And she's right.
00:16:35.000 They weren't there for him before all of this.
00:16:37.000 People go to the moment of the shooting and conveniently forget about everything that led up to that moment when there could have been intervention and there wasn't.
00:16:48.000 She almost died and they're mourning the criminal gunman.
00:16:51.000 That tells you everything about BLM and raising money on it, maybe to go buy more mansions fraudulently.
00:16:55.000 Michelle, thank you so much for joining us.
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00:17:01.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:17:02.000 Take care.
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00:18:07.000 Joining us right now is someone who I consider to be one of the wise, if not the wisest person in the entire conservative movement who has a phenomenal new book out, Defeating Big Government Socialism, Saving America's Future.
00:18:20.000 Buy a copy right now.
00:18:22.000 It is Newt Gingrich.
00:18:25.000 Mr. Speaker, welcome back to the program.
00:18:27.000 As always, it's great to be back with you.
00:18:29.000 And I had a chance, by the way, to be with the Patriot mobile people a few weeks ago, and they're really quite impressive.
00:18:36.000 They are.
00:18:36.000 And they're doing something very important, which is to create alternatives in kind of the parallel economy.
00:18:42.000 I actually want to ask you about that.
00:18:43.000 But first, tell us about your book.
00:18:45.000 I have an endorsement of it.
00:18:47.000 I enthusiastically endorsed it.
00:18:48.000 Why did you write it now of all times?
00:18:51.000 And we'll go from there.
00:18:53.000 Well, it was clear that the Biden approach was going to fail disastrously, that it was going to cause a lot of pain to the American people and a lot of risk to America as a country.
00:19:04.000 And that there was a danger that people would just write it off as a defect of people.
00:19:09.000 You know, that Buddha Judge isn't very smart.
00:19:12.000 Kamala Harris is weird. 0.98
00:19:14.000 Biden is cognitively challenged, et cetera.
00:19:17.000 But the truth is that the underlying problem is that their ideas are wrong.
00:19:23.000 Ronald Reagan used to say he wasn't worried by what liberals didn't know.
00:19:28.000 He was worried by what they knew that wasn't true.
00:19:31.000 And of course, you went from 1.4% inflation under Trump to over 9% inflation under Biden.
00:19:38.000 You went for more than doubling the price of gasoline since Trump left office.
00:19:43.000 You have millions of people crossing the American border, being given free cell phones by the taxpayer cell phones flown around the country by your government.
00:19:54.000 You have murderers being released on the street, and then we're shocked at the size of the crime wave.
00:20:00.000 All of these things are a function of a philosophy and attitude and approach, which is wrong.
00:20:07.000 And I think it's very important in 22 and 24 that we not just win a performance election, look how bad things are, we also win a policy and philosophy election.
00:20:19.000 Look how profoundly destructive they are.
00:20:21.000 And the purpose of defeating big government socialism was to give people a citizens' handbook, if you will, to arm them with the information to be able to win that argument.
00:20:33.000 That is so important.
00:20:35.000 And I think you hit on something very profound, which every time I see a mailer or a commercial hitting Joe Biden's lack of mental acuity or Kamala Harris's cackle, or as you said, Pete Boot.
00:20:48.000 You called one of them weird.
00:20:49.000 I couldn't help but laugh.
00:20:50.000 It's so true.
00:20:51.000 It's almost, it doesn't quite build the proper referendum on what we're actually facing, because those are interchangeable parts, right?
00:21:00.000 They'll find a younger Biden.
00:21:02.000 They'll find a younger Kamala Harris. 1.00
00:21:04.000 What we're actually facing is an ideological battle, which in some sense is a lot more formidable than just kind of a group of charismatic politicians.
00:21:16.000 So we have to understand that we're up against something that the academics believe, the college campuses believe, big companies believe.
00:21:25.000 What is that ideology exactly, Mr. Speaker?
00:21:31.000 What are they trying to push us towards?
00:21:33.000 And why is it important that we diagnose that correctly?
00:21:37.000 I think big government socialism comes down to ultimately two really big ideas.
00:21:43.000 The first is that bureaucratic systems run by politicians make better choices, are better able for the average person.
00:21:52.000 They take your money away, but then they spend it smarter than you would.
00:21:56.000 And I think that's a genuine belief that goes back at least to the 1870s or 1880s.
00:22:03.000 Second, there has been this entire emergence of a kind of coming together of everybody who's weird in the country, all of them identifying with each other and deciding that they'll support each other's mutual weirdness.
00:22:18.000 That's exactly right.
00:22:19.000 So, you know, if you believe that third graders ought to be deeply involved in discussing transgender issues, and you believe that seven-year-old white girls should be taught that they should feel bad because of their skin color, which is pure racism, and you think that murderers should be actually favored because, after all, look how much pain they must be in if they have to kill somebody.
00:22:44.000 All of these things come together in a way which is a very, very unusual pattern.
00:22:51.000 And it's the combination of the huge bureaucratic machine that doesn't work that grinds up money, ultimately makes all of us much poorer, and transfers power to bureaucrats.
00:23:03.000 And so we cease to be citizens and we become subjects.
00:23:06.000 And then, second, it's an almost Bolshevik-like desire to destroy traditional America and replace it with a new model, left-wingism.
00:23:17.000 And they're very clear about that.
00:23:18.000 I mean, they don't hide it.
00:23:21.000 So, Mr. Speaker, something that normal people have difficulty stomaching right now is how much pain and suffering that we're living through and whether or not this is intentional.
00:23:33.000 Can you help build out how the big government socialists see all this as transitory?
00:23:38.000 Not that inflation is necessarily transitory, but the pain and the suffering will lead us through a synthesis towards some form of utopia.
00:23:48.000 Can you talk about how dangerous that is and how we're actually living through the intentional combination of the destruction of Western society to bring us towards some undefined academic experiment?
00:24:01.000 Well, look, I think it's pretty clear that they say this.
00:24:05.000 You know, if they have to punish you into leaving traditional cars, they will.
00:24:11.000 I mean, Washington, D.C. just adopted a provision against using natural gas.
00:24:16.000 Now, this is both environmentally insane and it's financially insane.
00:24:20.000 And it's going to particularly hit the poor.
00:24:23.000 The Northeastern Compact on the Environment has basically cut out all of the new pipelines, which means that heating oil in New Hampshire and in Maine is going to be much more expensive this fall.
00:24:36.000 Well, if you're in a relatively poor state like Maine, having a dramatically more expensive heating oil is a huge burden on the working families and the retired families in the state of Maine.
00:24:47.000 But it doesn't matter to these people.
00:24:49.000 They don't care how much pain they cause.
00:24:52.000 They are in the business of imposing on the rest of us the values that will make us better if only we do what they tell us.
00:25:01.000 And I think you have to see it that way.
00:25:03.000 That's exactly.
00:25:03.000 They're very clear about it.
00:25:04.000 And then, of course, when you catch them in public and the pain level gets high enough and they start thinking about the election, then all of a sudden, you know, you have Biden running off to Saudi Arabia.
00:25:13.000 But notice, he could have, you know, just dropped into Texas.
00:25:18.000 He could have visited Western Pennsylvania.
00:25:21.000 He could have gone to North Dakota.
00:25:22.000 That's exactly. 0.60
00:25:23.000 But that would have required being pro-American.
00:25:25.000 And one of the key ground rules for these people is you're not allowed to be pro-American.
00:25:31.000 Yeah, he could have visited the Balkan or the Marcellus or the Permian Basin, but Riyadh just seemed to be a nicer flight or something.
00:25:39.000 So one thing that I'm a little paranoid about, though, Mr. Speaker, and I talk about this openly on the program, is that the Democrats have some sort of plan for the midterms that we might not yet be gaming out correctly.
00:25:52.000 Because I have so much respect for our opposition and how Machiavellian they are and how they're able to use tragedy for their own purposes.
00:26:01.000 What do you think their midterm plan is? 0.97
00:26:03.000 Because up until recently, you know, as per your example of the Saudi Arabian visit, it seems as if they are enthusiastically accelerating over a cliff.
00:26:12.000 Political consequences be damned, I suppose.
00:26:15.000 What's your thoughts?
00:26:16.000 Well, I think, first of all, I helped publish papers in the 1980s called the Grenada Papers.
00:26:25.000 When we liberated the island of Grenada, which spoke English, this was an island occupied largely by Africans living in the Caribbean with agriculture and tourism as their two biggest incomes.
00:26:41.000 And the communists took it over. 0.80
00:26:43.000 And as the communists tried to impose communism, everything fell apart.
00:26:47.000 It was a disaster.
00:26:49.000 So we now know because this is how we got to the Grenada Papers, because everything they wrote was in English.
00:26:55.000 So we didn't need a translator, and the State Department couldn't screw it up.
00:26:59.000 And it turns out that the leadership of the Communist Party of Grenada, when everything was failing, would meet every Tuesday afternoon for a study group.
00:27:11.000 And what they were studying was not supply-side economics.
00:27:15.000 It wasn't Milton Friedman.
00:27:17.000 It wasn't Adam Smith.
00:27:19.000 What they were studying was Stalin's writing. 0.99
00:27:22.000 Now, you have a Georgian bank robber who becomes dictator of a country that covers 13 time zones, living in Moscow in a really bad cold winter, being studied by African-descended Caribbean native folks who are looking around going, what should we do next? 0.97
00:27:41.000 Well, what does Stalin think we should do? 0.88
00:27:44.000 The reason I tell you this story is when AOC gets in a room, she doesn't have any point of reference.
00:27:52.000 I mean, Biden's different.
00:27:53.000 Biden doesn't have a point of reference because he's not sure what room he's in.
00:27:56.000 But I guarantee you that Newsom, Kamala Harris, various other people, Senator Warren, Bernie Sanders, who remember honeymooned in the Soviet Union.
00:28:09.000 I mean, just ask yourself, a guy who is born, who lives, he's born in Brooklyn, but a guy who is living in the forest of Vermont decides to go on a honeymoon.
00:28:19.000 Does he go to the Caribbean?
00:28:21.000 Does he go to the beach?
00:28:22.000 No.
00:28:23.000 He goes to the motherland, to the great forest of Russia, from the forest of Vermont.
00:28:29.000 I mean, this is a true believer.
00:28:31.000 And Bernie's a true believer.
00:28:32.000 You have to give him some credit for that.
00:28:34.000 He's a genuine, unending socialist who does not have a clue how disastrous his policies would be in the real world.
00:28:41.000 I always joke around, but I'm very serious when I'm making this joke.
00:28:44.000 I'd much rather have a corrupt politician than an ideological one.
00:28:47.000 A corrupt one I can work with, like Bill Clinton.
00:28:50.000 I mean, you worked with Bill Clinton very well.
00:28:52.000 Bill Clinton is as corrupt as it gets, but he'd do a deal because I don't think Bill Clinton is nearly as ideological as Bernie Sanders or the people controlling Joe Biden or Barack Obama, which you could say what you want about Bill Clinton, but he came to the table with you and you guys got a lot done.
00:29:06.000 Balance the budget, welfare reform, great crime bill, all these things.
00:29:10.000 So, Mr. Speaker, I want to ask you: it's not just about government power, though, that gives people anxiety.
00:29:16.000 It's also the amount of cultural and corporate power that the left has been able to assume.
00:29:22.000 You talk about this in the book, but how are we to approach Google that could arguably be just as or even more powerful than parts of our government or Disney that has control over our children's, you know, what they're consuming?
00:29:35.000 Big government socialism, is it also incorporate cultural and economic power?
00:29:41.000 Yeah, it has to.
00:29:42.000 And also, let me take those two examples.
00:29:45.000 We clearly are going to have to ultimately set some kind of rules of the road for these big internet companies.
00:29:52.000 I mean, we would not allow ATT or Verizon to have the kind of control over our communication, our conversations that these companies now exercise.
00:30:01.000 Exercise.
00:30:02.000 In terms of Disney, I think somebody ought to be filing a stockholder lawsuit.
00:30:08.000 The Disney president made a decision which has cost Disney an enormous amount of money in the collapse of its stock.
00:30:16.000 And they ought to be held accountable for that.
00:30:18.000 When you start making uneconomic policies, you know, the same thing happened in Atlanta with the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, where Coca-Cola and Delta, two of the biggest corporations in Georgia, both of them acted against their own economic interest by siding on a totally false lie, siding with the left and demanding that the all-star game be moved, which, of course,
00:30:46.000 the Braves then responded by winning the World Series.
00:30:49.000 So in a sense, Georgians got their ball game without having to give up their honor.
00:30:54.000 Yeah, that's exactly right.
00:30:55.000 And to your example, Walt Disney sent its peak has that stock has been cut in half since they've started to go woke.
00:31:02.000 Half of their market cap.
00:31:04.000 I don't see why that should not be a litigatable circumstance.
00:31:09.000 I totally agree.
00:31:10.000 To say that this person has violated their fiduciary obligations and has put their politics and their prejudice ahead of their duty to the stockholder.
00:31:20.000 That's well said.
00:31:21.000 So, Mr. Speaker, going into the midterms, how does all of this incorporate into a political strategy and a messaging strategy?
00:31:29.000 Well, people can go to AmericanMajorityProject.com and they'll see all of our polling and all of our focus groups.
00:31:36.000 My personal prediction is that the Republicans in the House are going to be somewhere between plus 40 and plus 70, and that there's going to be a parallel swing in the Senate.
00:31:47.000 And the reason is simple.
00:31:48.000 This is going to be an American tsunami, not a red tsunami.
00:31:52.000 You're going to have Democrats, Independents, Republicans, and have Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans, all of them migrating away from the failed policies of the big government socialists.
00:32:05.000 And I think the result's going to be an astonishing election.
00:32:08.000 My advice to Republicans is simple.
00:32:10.000 Run big.
00:32:12.000 Don't run small.
00:32:13.000 Raise the big issues.
00:32:15.000 Every Democrat on the ballot is responsible for 9% inflation.
00:32:19.000 Every Democrat in the ballot is responsible for doubling the price of gasoline.
00:32:24.000 Every Democrat in the ballot is responsible for millions of people crossing the border illegally.
00:32:29.000 And every Democrat in the ballot is responsible for murderers and rapists and robbers being released from prison.
00:32:36.000 So if you make it a big issue election, we're going to win everywhere.
00:32:40.000 And it could be the biggest Republican victory since 1920, 102 years ago.
00:32:46.000 The ideology they are embracing, they're talking about a liberal world order.
00:32:46.000 I totally agree.
00:32:51.000 It's deeply unpopular with normal, everyday people. 1.00
00:32:55.000 Look at Hispanics.
00:32:56.000 I mean, you know political trends well.
00:33:00.000 Is it too early to say that Hispanics could potentially be a Republican majority demographic?
00:33:05.000 No, look, what's happened is simple. 0.77
00:33:08.000 On the performance side, if you're a Hispanic family, you can't afford the gasoline to drive to the seven stores you have to go to to find the baby formula. 0.91
00:33:17.000 You can't afford to buy dinner. 0.98
00:33:19.000 And you personally came here legally or you were born here and you resent lots of people arriving illegally who are raising the crime rate. 0.53
00:33:28.000 So all those things are going on simultaneously.
00:33:31.000 At the same time, you're probably pretty religious and you really deeply dislike the left and its anti-religious biases.
00:33:39.000 So all of those things are swirling around.
00:33:42.000 And what's happened is Republicans are trading liberal graduate educated whites for working class Hispanics, Latinos, Asian Americans. 0.69
00:33:53.000 I'll take that trade. 0.69
00:33:54.000 I'll take that trade.
00:33:56.000 If you believe in government of the people, we're on the way to winning it and they're on the way to losing it.
00:34:00.000 That's right.
00:34:01.000 They can have as many upper-middle-class, upper East Side liberal women that went to Yale, Columbia, and Dartmouth. 1.00
00:34:07.000 We'll take the Rio Grande Valley and West Phoenix, and we'll see what happens. 0.59
00:34:11.000 If you can't define what a woman is, you should be a Democrat. 1.00
00:34:15.000 Beautifully said.
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00:34:20.000 Buy a couple copies.
00:34:21.000 It is a citizen's handbook.
00:34:22.000 It's a phenomenal book.
00:34:23.000 Thank you so much, Mr. Speaker.
00:34:27.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
00:34:28.000 Email me your thoughts as always freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:34:31.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:34:32.000 God bless.
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