00:00:02.000As always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:04.000We have Carol Markowitz to talk about Florida versus New York.
00:00:09.000We talk about also the Washington Post's bizarre fascination with this show and Turning Point USA's attempt to try to start an online educational program, which we will get done.
00:00:59.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:06.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:52.000So I'm not going to tell you where I'm going to be, but we're going to the border tomorrow, so we'll be off tomorrow.
00:01:56.000We got a lot of problems in our country, but don't worry.
00:01:58.000The Washington Post, everybody, they're on the case.
00:02:00.000They're on the case because they wrote a multi-page article today about a thing that actually ended up not happening, but an idea that we had that almost potentially possibly could have happened around having people be able to go online for digital education.
00:02:15.000So this is what the Washington Post considers to be like breaking news.
00:02:41.000And it's an idea that we still have and we still are going to do around trying to empower parents to be able to withdraw from public schools to effectively teach their children or their grandchildren, their niece or their nephew, around basic civics, non-corrupted, uncorrupted science, I should say, American education, almost none of which is happening in our schools.
00:03:09.000Goes on to say that Charlie Kirk, the 28-year-old activist who boasts 1.7 million Twitter followers, has championed former Donald Trump's baseless claims that widespread fraud costs in the election and has scorned demands for racial justice.
00:03:37.000Here's the point: is that with all the problems in the country, why is it the Washington Post is dedicating multiple pages of an investigation into a school, an online school that didn't even happen that we were going to do?
00:03:49.000And the answer is very clear: that we are really close to the target with the work we're doing at Turning Point USA, and we are going to pull this off.
00:03:55.000Make no mistake, we're going to figure it out.
00:03:58.000We're going to figure out the best way to do online education slash homeschooling slash pod schooling and empower millions of parents that are not happy with public education.
00:04:08.000And that right there, according to the Washington Post, is a bigger threat than the border, drug overdose, and the inexplicable 40% in death increase for ages 18 to 64.
00:04:20.000But when you think about it, it actually does make sense.
00:04:23.000Once this ends up being successful, which we are going to do, and we're going to involve partners, many of which you've heard on this show, that right there is a backbreaker.
00:04:34.000It is a game changer for the people in charge of our country.
00:04:39.000If you are actually able to disrupt public education as we know it, then all of a sudden Randy Whitgarten is way less powerful.
00:04:49.000It's nothing more than a clickbaity, nonsensical article, but don't worry.
00:05:02.000Pelosi, this is an unbelievable story.
00:05:05.000Pelosi's Capitol Police tried to sneak into Republican congressmen's office, dressed as construction workers, and illegally took photos of legislative documents.
00:05:15.000Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Capitol Police are alleging to have illegally entered the office of Congressman Troy Nels, photographing confidential legislative products and grilling staff according to reports.
00:05:25.000The police, now under formal investigation, stand accused of dressing up as construction workers and attempting another entry just two days later.
00:05:33.000So, correct me if I'm wrong, didn't Nixon get impeached for lying about something very similar to this?
00:05:39.000But it wasn't even as flagrant as this.
00:05:42.000So there's so much here that needs to be investigated.
00:05:45.000Pelosi's, I guess this is the closest Pelosi you'll ever get towards loving construction workers, right?
00:05:50.000Like, yeah, go to the local Halloween store and go dress up as construction people.
00:05:55.000So this sitting member of Congress, Troy Nels from Texas, is alleging that Nancy Pelosi and Democrats have made Capitol Police go dress up in costume as construction workers to go into Capitol offices and to go take pictures of documents.
00:06:20.000Reports suggest that Capitol Police have built intelligence dossiers on those illegally investigated.
00:06:28.000The documents photographed, say Nels, quote, are protected by the speech and debate clause enshrined in the Constitution, Article 1, Section 6.
00:06:36.000Nels took to Twitter to explain the multiple incidents.
00:06:39.000Again, I'm going to read directly from his tweets because these are some pretty serious allegations.
00:06:44.000Capitol Police Intelligence Division investigated my office illegally, and one of my staff first caught them in the act.
00:06:52.000On November 20th, Capitol Police entered my office without my knowledge and photographed confidential legislative products protected by the speech and debate clause enshrined in Constitution, Article 1, Section 6.
00:07:02.000Two days later, on Monday, November 22nd, Thanksgiving Week, three intelligence officers attempted to enter my office while the house was in recess.
00:07:10.000Upon discovering a member of my staff, special agents dressed like construction workers began to question him as the contents of a photograph taken illegally two days earlier.
00:07:20.000They had no authority to photograph my office, let alone investigate myself or members of my staff.
00:07:25.000So why is Capitol Police leadership maliciously investigating me as an attempt to destroy me and my character?
00:07:32.000Maybe it is because I've been a vocal critic of Speaker Pelosi in the January 6th Committee and Capitol Police leadership and their handling of January 6th, the death of Ashley Babbitt and the subsequent, quote, sham investigation.
00:07:46.000So the head of Capitol Police is a person by Yoga Nanda.
00:08:12.000Capitol Police Chief Thomas Menger confirmed the Inspector General has now opened an investigation after receiving multiple congressional inquiries into the Capitol Police tactics.
00:08:24.000Such tactics include a deep examination of the social media feeds of individuals who have not been suspected of any criminal activity.
00:08:32.000Yet there's no Inspector General report that I'm aware of that's meaningful or any sort of investigation by Capitol Police as to why Lieutenant Bird shot Ashley Babbitt in the face on January 6th.
00:08:45.000This entire story kind of honestly provokes more questions than answers.
00:09:20.000I think it's more likely that Congressman Nels, who again, I don't know, has something that Pelosi finds to be so threatening, she has to send the Capitol Police to illegally enter the office of another congressman and photographing confidential legislative products and grilling staff and dressing them like construction workers, which is like the most bizarre part of all this.
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00:13:10.000So I never really had a problem being open about my conservative beliefs.
00:13:14.000The Russian community in Brooklyn, it's not just Russians, but it's sort of shorthand.
00:13:18.000We call ourselves a Russian community, is very conservative.
00:13:22.000And so I always had sort of my community and my world in New York that was normal and sane.
00:13:31.000And it didn't bother me so much that there were so many crazy things going on around New York City because my world was very much like I wanted it to be.
00:13:42.000And the Giuliani years followed by the Mike Bloomberg years really made New York a wonderful place to live.
00:13:48.000And my husband, who's also a lifelong New Yorker, we were planning to raise our kids in Brooklyn.
00:13:54.000The long-term plan was they were going to go to college.
00:14:02.000And suddenly, my little world, while they're still sane and thinking that everything's okay, is suddenly not allowed to live how they want to live.
00:14:11.000Now, businesses close whenever the government says so.
00:14:15.000Schools close indefinitely and very few people speak up about it.
00:14:20.000Masking of children goes on indefinitely, even though, you know, as we've learned in the last few days, there's really no reason for it.
00:14:28.000I mean, obviously, you and I and lots of other people knew all along, but as Democrats have discovered in the last few days that maybe masking children was pointless and they finally are facing that fact.
00:15:00.000Can you explain the psychology of a New Yorker versus a Floridian?
00:15:04.000And I mean that in the sense of, not just from the mask mandates, but it seems what is it about New York, which I always consider to be this tough guy city.
00:15:16.000You know, we were able to persevere through 9-11.
00:15:19.000It was amazing what the city did to all of a sudden becoming this fear-filled, you know, epicenter.
00:15:26.000And then Florida, the state that you would think would be super risk-averse, where you have people that are really worried that their golf cart lights are going to go out in the villages or whatever.
00:15:45.000No, and I feel like I have the answer to that, too.
00:15:48.000I really think that what happened here in New York was that COVID and woke culture collided at the same time.
00:15:57.000It was right around the same time that cancel culture really hit its stride, we got COVID.
00:16:05.000And suddenly you were worried about saying the wrong thing and your neighbor hearing you say the wrong thing or your coworkers finding out that you think masks are pointless or any number of things.
00:16:17.000And I heard this over and over and over again.
00:16:21.000And look, for a long time, I really did understand these people.
00:16:33.000Nobody's going to come kill you, but you're afraid for to lose all your friends and to your community to hate you and all of this, because not everybody had this ex, you know, Soviet community that supports them like I had.
00:17:28.000They went to stay at their like Long Island vacation home and went, sent their kids to full-time school there.
00:17:34.000They moved to stay with family in states where the schools were open.
00:17:37.000They sent their kids to private schools when private schools finally opened and public schools didn't, but they didn't speak up for the rest of the people.
00:17:44.000And I just felt like that was so particularly wrong from these people who marched for equity and said that they really cared about, you know, the underclass and anybody who's underprivileged.
00:17:56.000And yet they did what they had to do for their kid and they kind of left everybody else behind.
00:18:01.000They didn't say a word about any of it.
00:18:03.000They didn't say, okay, I am now pulling my kid from public school and sending them to private school, which a lot of people did because private schools were open.
00:18:12.000And I now support school vouchers to have everybody else be able to do the same thing as me.
00:18:19.000They just sent their kids to private school or got them a pod or a tutor or whatever and left everybody else behind.
00:18:26.000And that's not the New Yorkers I know.
00:18:28.000Like you can be left, you can be liberal, but like the New Yorkers that I knew growing up might have been on the left, but they absolutely would stand up for their neighbors.
00:18:38.000And what had shifted is that you were no longer allowed to speak up.
00:18:42.000And it's so blatant now that this cancel culture thing has seeped into everything, literally everything.
00:18:52.000Look, did you get hit with a big tax spill you were not expecting with rates still being very low and home equity being high?
00:18:59.000It's perfect time to refinance and get some cash out of your home.
00:19:02.000Look, you could go to one of these woke banks, Citibank, Chase, where they hate you, they hate the country, and they hate Christianity, or you could refinance right now all of your mortgage needs.
00:20:42.000No, I mean, I think I don't know if he's a wokey now, but he was unafraid to have more cops on the streets and he was pro-charter schools and he wanted the streets to be clean.
00:20:52.000And it was just kind of, I'm going to put New York first and we love our city.
00:20:56.000And it really is kind of, and you would, you'll definitely appreciate this.
00:21:00.000Alexander Solshenitsyn said that it's really thanks to ideology, right?
00:21:04.000I mean, it's a, and that's where I'm struggling.
00:21:07.000And maybe you can unpack this for me, or maybe not, where, okay, Park Slope, it's really nice, right near Prospect Park, you know, it's right near Brooklyn.
00:21:15.000You know, it's all the kind of stereotypical like Goldman Sachs people that take chauffeured cars, maybe the subway, not anymore, you know, to go work at the Wall Street firm, but you know, they're back by 6:30 or 7.
00:21:25.000It's that kind of like it's the suburb, but not really of, you know, um, of New York.
00:21:32.000But at what point are they all of us going to be like, yeah, we're actually living in a dystopia?
00:21:36.000Like, I mean, I get the ideologues, I get the AOCs, but someone who might just be kind of like a Hillary Clinton liberal, okay, who went to Wellesley or, you know, went to Fordham and all of a sudden their daughter gets mugged.
00:21:50.000I mean, when does the ideology ever get challenged?
00:21:54.000You, you really would think that it would get challenged at that point, but I am still on all the Park Slope boards and it really doesn't because again, the woke thing has taken over everything.
00:23:10.000And, you know, and it was also the stop Asian hate moment, right?
00:23:13.000It was we weren't supposed to talk about that China did this thing and it was being tied to these attacks on Asian Americans in this country, which believe me, as somebody who was a Russian kid growing up in the 80s, I don't approve of in America in the 80s.
00:23:27.000And I get that, you know, there's a huge division between what China did and Asian Americans in America, but how come we couldn't stand up for this Asian woman who wasn't wearing a mask because she was yelled at by these masters and these parks openers could not decide which side they should be on.
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00:28:41.000So I think everybody has their own kind of barometer for when they can't take it anymore.
00:28:47.000And I think you have to put your kids first.
00:28:50.000You have to give them the life that they were promised, which was just a normal, sane life.
00:28:55.000Little things like I mentioned this on Twitter a few days ago, but like my son's school in Florida has a book fair next week while their grandparents happen to be in town.
00:29:04.000So my mother-in-law is going to take my sons to their book fair at their school.
00:29:08.000I don't know if that happens in 2030 in New York.
00:29:24.000That's not happening in a lot of these blue areas for a really long time.
00:29:27.000So the used car salesman that barely won the election in New Jersey, who calls himself a governor, Phil Murphy, who missed his calling being a wannabe Soprano actor.
00:30:16.000I mean, the fact that he has absolutely no evidence, there's no question, but there's actually also just no data on this.
00:30:23.000Masks in school have been a complete failure.
00:30:25.000I think that we can look to a lot of European countries where they never masked kids at all to see that we did not need to be masking kids in school.
00:30:33.000I'm glad these governors are finally seeing the political writing on the wall.
00:30:39.000I'm a very even-keeled, calm person, but I'm very serious about this.
00:30:42.000We cannot let them skate on what they did to us for the last two years because they will do it again and much, much sooner than you might believe.