00:00:04.000Back-end access for law enforcement to be able to get into Facebook to stifle your speech and prevent you to be able to speak your mind online.
00:00:14.000It's a remarkable expansion of the United States security state.
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00:01:35.000There was a massive story that, quite honestly, we should have covered yesterday, and we're going to lead with it.
00:01:43.000It is a story that should be dominating the entire news cycle.
00:01:47.000It's a story that, thanks to the Intercept, we have learned some incredibly consequential information about the Department of Homeland Security.
00:01:57.000So let's just kind of first set our terms.
00:01:59.000What is the Department of Homeland Security?
00:02:01.000DHS is a branch of government that was founded after 9-11, I believe completely unnecessarily.
00:02:13.000Border Patrol is under DHS, which is another branch of government that at first was sold to us as being able to go after the terrorists, but in reality, DHS is actually here to go after us.
00:02:25.000So all of this new information that we have about Department of Homeland Security, again, this should be the number one news story in the country.
00:02:32.000Not the Pelosi story, not even the polling story.
00:02:36.000This right here should make the midterms even more important than ever before.
00:02:42.000So the Intercept, which is a rather effective website, I have to say, they used a mixture of leaked documents and materials obtained through recent lawsuits, found that the Department of Homeland Security is actively engaged in colluding with social media companies to police your speech.
00:03:02.000So now that the war on terror is over and has basically gone away, DHS doesn't close shop and fire their employees or go focus on something else.
00:03:11.000No, this is the permanent domestic surveillance industrial complex.
00:03:16.000You see, DHS has now pivoted to a new self-appointed mission.
00:03:20.000Congress never gave them this mission.
00:03:23.000This is the fourth branch of government just gone awry.
00:03:26.000Their self-appointed mission of fighting toxic narratives online, assisted by the FBI.
00:03:32.000Now, the two have been holding bi-weekly meetings without any knowledge from Congress or other people, which really makes you wonder what is Congress doing all day long with media outlets since the 2020 election.
00:03:46.000The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have been actively holding meetings with media companies, DHS, FBI hosting meetings with media companies.
00:04:23.000If you say that America's not systemically racist, the government is probably working with a social media company to shut you up.
00:04:30.000The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the nature of U.S. support to Ukraine.
00:04:36.000An FBI official described to the Intercept being reassigned this year from the Bureau's International Terrorism Division, where they worked on things like Al-Qaeda and ISIS, to the domestic terrorism division to investigate Americans.
00:04:50.000Their job involves penetrating online chat rooms and discussions to disrupt them.
00:04:55.000Now, we were always talked about the famous, we talked a lot about the famous disinformation governance board when DHS announced and then quickly shut it down.
00:05:05.000But even though the board was shut down, its mission continues through other pernicious avenues.
00:05:13.000Immigration, custom enforcement, border patrol, secret service, they now all have their own anti-disinformation components.
00:05:21.000The government, using your taxpayer dollars without congressional oversight, without congressional consent, on a daily basis, is no longer focused on ISIS or Al-Qaeda.
00:05:32.000No, they're using the terror apparatus that was built post-9-11 to go after you.
00:05:38.000MAGA supporters, America First, conservatives, freedom lovers.
00:05:44.000This entire apparatus is for shredding the First Amendment, policing speech, and they are inserting and intervening into the distribution of information.
00:06:02.000Somebody has got to sue under First Amendment claims.
00:06:05.000By the way, we covered a couple weeks ago how the Department of Homeland Security was working with third-party firms to shut up our own Twitter account.
00:06:15.000So, but according to the Intercept, the censorship work was mainly done by Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, CISA, which is supposedly there to protect critical national infrastructure.
00:06:28.000CSIA now has evolved their mission to protecting government-backed narratives.
00:06:34.000If you think that America is not systemically racist, if you don't think we should send money to Ukraine, if you all of a sudden think that there's something wrong with the entire narrative of burning down Wendy's and burning down our cities around systemic racism, then we're going to spy on you and we're going to put you in a certain bucket.
00:06:50.000Jeffrey Hale, the director of the Election Security Initiative, recommended using third-party nonprofits as clearinghouses for information to avoid the appearance of government propaganda.
00:07:04.000This should be the number one news story.
00:07:09.000Wall Street Journal, nowhere to be found.
00:07:13.000And then the woman that works for Twitter, Vijaya Gaddi, who thankfully Elon fired, met monthly with the Department of Homeland Security to discuss collaborative censorship plans.
00:07:28.000Quote, in a March meeting, Laura Demlo, a FBI official, warned that the threat of subversive information on social media could undermine support for the U.S. government.
00:07:39.000Demlo, according to notes of discussion, attended by senior executives from Twitter and JP Morgan, stressed that, quote, we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable.
00:07:47.000Agent Demlo played a direct role in pressuring Facebook to suppress the Hunter Biden story.
00:07:53.000And so, the most important question that we need to be asking right now as we are one week out from the midterms is: what stories are they suppressing right now, as things are happening right now?
00:08:03.000What stories are they suppressing as votes are being cast?
00:08:06.000What stories are they suppressing seven days out from an election?
00:08:10.000This is as close to the KGB of anything that we have lived through ever.
00:08:14.000It is blatantly illegal, it's anti-First Amendment, and they have found a way for our beautiful Constitution to be shredded by these people.
00:08:22.000Now, Facebook has now developed an online portal for requesting material that should be throttled or suppressed or taken down from Facebook or Instagram.
00:08:33.000Using the portal requires a government or law enforcement email, and as of yesterday, the portal was still alive.
00:08:39.000Let me just kind of put this in layman terms if you might not be tracking what I'm saying.
00:08:43.000Essentially, this: the government has a special website that they can log into and they can request to Facebook: Hey, can you censor this story?
00:08:59.000Let me put it this way: it's like 1-800 censorship.
00:09:01.000The FBI calls the hotline, they say, We don't like Charlie Kirk's Instagram page, please make sure that it's either taken up, it's censored, or it's not properly distributed.
00:09:12.000Now, this is how this all works in tandem.
00:09:15.000And I'm going to build a part to the story here that I think people are missing.
00:09:18.000There's some context here that is incredibly important.
00:09:22.000On one hand, the Federal Trade Commission is going after Facebook, threatening to break them up.
00:09:27.000On the other hand, the Department of Justice is going to Facebook asking for favors.
00:09:31.000And you better believe that those two things are working in harmony.
00:09:36.000Facebook is worried that they're going to be broken up by the FTC.
00:09:40.000So, they're trying to win points with the regime where Facebook says, Sure, we'll censor your stuff.
00:09:46.000Just do a wink and the nod to the FTC to make sure we don't get breaking up.
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00:12:19.000We created a vast national security bureaucracy, and they're always going to try to justify their existence.
00:12:28.000So people like Lindsey Graham and Senator Blumenthal and Senator Murphy, that kind of uniparty defender, defense of the national security state, they're always saying, well, you know, terrorists could be around the corner.
00:12:43.000The problem is, what happens when you have a supply and demand problem with terrorists?
00:12:48.000Well, then you have to go find new terrorists.
00:12:51.000If all of a sudden America doesn't have as many terrorists as you think we do, and ISIS and Al-Qaeda are not as strong as they used to be, well, then you got to go find new terrorists.
00:13:00.000And those terrorists just happen to be right-wingers.
00:13:04.000So terrorism has faded in the traditional sense.
00:13:07.000And thanks to left-wing politics, we aren't allowed to care about our border.
00:13:12.000So they've turned on the easiest target imaginable.
00:13:16.000DHS, by the way, should be focused on the invasion of our country, 2 million people coming into America, not worried about whether or not someone is challenging that we send aid to Ukraine or wondering, hey, are we really systemically racist?
00:13:30.000Policing free speech, monitoring speech, spying on the public, and targeting internal American dissidents is the new focus of this regime.
00:13:42.000So the only fix to this is admitting and acknowledging we made a mistake when we passed the Patriot Act.
00:13:48.000We made a mistake when we put the DHS into power.
00:13:52.000We need to tear down these organizations quickly because we never needed them in the first place.
00:13:58.000Defund or abolish these internal espionage organizations and pass laws making it a criminal offense to spy on Americans without a warrant.
00:14:07.000And it's even worse than spying, dare I say.
00:14:10.000This is throttling and restricting and suffocating and suppressing and repressing the distribution of information.
00:14:22.000And by the way, this is why we're so clear about the left being the party of domestic violent extremists.
00:14:28.000They use the lie of people on the right being domestic violent extremists, white men, parents at school board meetings, pro-life advocates, as a reason to justify the government coming after political dissidents.
00:14:45.000We've said this before, and Tucker Carlson has said the same thing.
00:14:48.000These people in power know they cannot continue to exist without censorship.
00:14:56.000A fair and free marketplace of ideas is a direct threat to everything that they do.
00:15:05.000Facebook has a special login, a hotline, you could say.
00:15:11.000They have backdoor, FBI has backdoor access to Facebook.
00:15:18.000Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which is supposed to protect critical national infrastructure, has now evolved its mission.
00:15:25.000Without congressional permission, without congressional consent, they just self-appointed this.
00:15:31.000No one gave them the authority to do this.
00:15:36.000So now Facebook has this back-end access that only the government is able to use.
00:15:48.000And only people with government email addresses are able to access that.
00:15:52.000So if some FBI agent doesn't like the Charlie Kirk show, doesn't like tweets from Tucker Carlson, doesn't like posts from Steve Bannon, that FBI agent can now log in and say, we want this censored.
00:17:17.000But since when has that ever been a problem for the American left?
00:17:19.000They do whatever they want to try to seize more power, even if it means purging the Supreme Court of its most experienced justices.
00:17:26.000To no one's surprise, their new court purging scheme would remove long-serving, amazing justices like the super brilliant Clarence Thomas and the courageous Samuel Alito.
00:17:36.000They would then replace these new justices with a rubber stamp and their radical agenda.
00:17:40.000Since Democrats are working hard to pass court purging with term limits, we need to work even harder to stop it, or the Supreme Court, as we know it, will never be the same.
00:17:47.000If you care about the integrity of the Supreme Court and don't want to see it taken over by political hacks, go to supremecoup.com.
00:17:59.000With us right now is one of the few good senators in the U.S. Senate, and he's fighting for liberty and freedom in America every single day.
00:18:11.000I want to make sure we mention that and we get to that.
00:18:14.000It is Justice Corrupted: How the Left Weaponized Our Legal System, which actually somewhat ties together tangentially with one of the stories I want to talk about.
00:18:22.000But make sure you check out a copy of Senator Ted Cruz's new book, Justice Corrupted.
00:18:26.000Senator, yesterday it was revealed that the Department of Homeland Security has back-end access to Facebook, a portal to be able to request Facebook to censor stories they don't like around racial justice and other issues.
00:19:13.000And big tech censored it, forced the corporate media to censor it.
00:19:19.000And it was actively at the behest of the FBI.
00:19:22.000And that's really what the book is all about.
00:19:24.000It is about how Barack Obama and now Joe Biden have politicized and weaponized the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI and the IRS, and they've turned them into weapons to target their political enemies.
00:19:41.000And it is a profound threat, not just to the rule of law, but to individual liberty of all of us.
00:19:49.000And what is so interesting, Senator, about this DHS story is in the leaked documents, they kind of self-appointed themselves a role.
00:19:59.000And I mean, you are one of the more articulate, the most articulate person, I should say, on the idea of separation of powers, but also congressional oversight.
00:20:08.000And these bureaucracies, the fourth branch of government, they kind of do whatever they want.
00:20:12.000So, Senator, I mean, you're on a lot of these committees.
00:20:16.000Since when did these agencies get permission or inform you that they were going to be involved directly in election meddling of information?
00:20:23.000I mean, do they just get to chart their own path now?
00:21:08.000Then DOJ blocked investigations into them, defied Congress, refused to prosecute contempt of Congress.
00:21:17.000And after eight years of deep politicization of the federal agencies, what happened is these hardcore partisans burrowed into senior career positions at the agencies.
00:21:31.000And when Trump became president, the deep state waged war on Trump.
00:21:36.000One of the things I talk about in the book Justice Corrupted is the meeting in the Oval Office on January 5th, 2017 with Barack Obama, Joe Biden, the head of the FBI, the CIA, and the DOJ.
00:21:48.000This is 15 days before Trump would be sworn in as president.
00:21:52.000And in the Oval Office, they agreed together to go after Trump, to attack him.
00:21:58.000And for four years of the Trump presidency, these partisans tried to destroy Donald Trump personally and tried to destroy the Trump agenda.
00:22:07.000And now, Charlie, under Joe Biden, it is metastasized.
00:22:24.000I want to encourage our entire audience to pick up a copy of that.
00:22:27.000Senator, one of the chapters you talk about here is about the IRS coming knocking.
00:22:33.000You know, there's a lot of vulnerable Democrat senators right now, including Raphael Warnock and Mark Kelly, who run to the Hills every time you mention they voted for 87,000 new IRS agents.
00:22:43.000With now how we see DHS operate with back-end access to Facebook, I mean, is it inconceivable that the IRS might one day be able to get back-end access to TurboTax or to other information, warrantless ability and information?
00:22:55.000That might sound outrageous or outlandish, but I don't trust this government at all.
00:22:59.000Talk about the expansion of the IRS and how you articulate that in your book, Justice Corrupted.
00:23:05.000Well, as you noted, the Democrats just rammed through a bill authorizing 87,000 new IRS agents, special agents who can carry guns, who can come knock down your door, and that is designed to target and harass and go after you.
00:23:21.000And, you know, when you talk about the IRS wanting visibility into your financial transactions, remember Bernie Sanders' Build Back Better plan that Joe Biden put as his number one priority.
00:23:33.000Part of that was requiring financial institutions to report every transaction of $600 or more to the Department of the Treasury.
00:24:06.000I believe when we take the majorities, and I think we're going to take both the House and the Senate a week from today, when we do that, I think one of the very first priorities needs to be defunding those 87,000 new IRS agents.
00:24:19.000I think right after that, we need to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security.
00:24:34.000And we've said on the program, I don't think endorsing Joe Biden, I don't think that's a good use of time.
00:24:39.000Honestly, I think it's fine with political theater, but going after the deep state, that middle band is so important, right?
00:24:46.000I mean, they could replace Joe Biden with anybody, but Mayorkas and Garland, you have to show the world that there is a check and balance on the deep state and in that bureaucracy.
00:24:58.000So in your book, Justice Corrupted, Senator, you also talk about January 6th.
00:25:03.000I have not read this chapter, but it's a topic in your book.
00:25:06.000What is the argument you make around that?
00:25:08.000Well, this is the first inside account of January 6th that has been published from someone who was actively and deeply involved.
00:25:16.000On January 6th, I was standing on the floor of the Senate, leading the senators in objecting to certifying the election, calling for the appointment of an election commission.
00:25:26.000I walked the readers behind what occurred that day and in the months that preceded it.
00:25:33.000I walked the readers through the cases challenging raising allegations of voter fraud and what happened to those cases.
00:25:41.000I walked the readers through President Trump calling me and asking me to personally argue the case in the U.S. Supreme Court if the court had taken the case.
00:25:50.000And it's designed to take people behind closed doors, behind the curtains, and understand what was really going on.
00:25:58.000And more broadly, that's really what this book is trying to do: for your listeners, look, all of us are engaged in conversations every day with friends, with colleagues, with family members about what's going on.
00:26:11.000And it's hard to know the truth when the corporate media is so corrupt and so dishonest.
00:26:18.000This book is designed to equip you, to give you the facts, to give you the information, so that when someone says, oh, there is no voter fraud, so when someone says, all these cases were thrown out of court, when someone says, well, it was an insurrection to overthrow the government, that you have the facts to respond on substance, with detail, when you have, as Democrats and the media are doing today, when they say, well, Republicans have angry, violent rhetoric.
00:26:44.000There's an entire chapter on the Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots across the country, on Kamala Harris bailing violent rioters out of jail, on the Democrat efforts to abolish and defunding the police, on George Soros DAs letting violent criminals go.
00:27:01.000And having the facts equips you to then win the argument and persuade your friends and family.
00:27:08.000So yesterday, Senator, there were oral arguments around affirmative action.
00:27:13.000Wall Street Journal front page high court hears arguments on race, college admissions.
00:27:18.000You actually talk about this in your book extensively through both Critical Race Theory in Chapter 4 and Chapter 8, Affirmative Action.
00:27:26.000How should we think about affirmative action?
00:27:27.000And also with your legal expertise, just kind of fill our audience in what was exactly being debated in front of the court yesterday.
00:27:35.000So I am cautiously optimistic about the oral arguments in front of the court.
00:27:39.000I have not listened to the arguments yet, but I intend to do so.
00:27:43.000There were two cases challenging explicit racial discrimination by colleges and universities.
00:27:50.000One was challenging the racial discrimination of a state school, University of North Carolina.
00:27:55.000Another was challenging the racial discrimination of a private school, Harvard University.
00:28:01.000Both of them actively discriminate based on race.
00:28:04.000And one of the amazing things about Democrats, and the book, Justice Corrupted, walks you through the Democrats' sorry and sordid history on race.
00:28:13.000Look, it is the Democrat Party that founded the Ku Klux Klan.
00:28:17.000Nathan Bedford Forrest that founded the Klan was a delegate to the 1860 National Democrat Convention.
00:28:23.000It was Democrats who wrote the Jim Crow laws.
00:28:26.000The Jim Crow laws were designed to disenfranchise black voters to prevent them from voting Democrats out of office.
00:28:33.000It is Democrats today who actively embrace racial discrimination.
00:28:38.000You know, the Trump Department of Justice opened up an investigation into Yale Law School because they discriminate based on race.
00:28:45.000And in particular, they discriminate viciously against Asian Americans.
00:28:50.000They have essentially a reverse quota that if they did admissions based on merit, they've determined, quote, too many Asians would get in.
00:28:58.000And so that they discriminate against Asians.
00:29:02.000One of the first things Joe Biden did when he became president is DOJ dismissed that case and said, we're good with it.
00:29:10.000And actually at the oral arguments, the Biden Justice Department argued in favor of discriminating against Asian Americans and discriminating against white students because today's Democrat Party is a party built on racial discrimination.
00:29:26.000That's at the heart of critical race theory.
00:29:28.000It's at the heart of what Democrats believe today.
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00:30:47.000And so talk about the race in Texas, though.
00:30:50.000Do you think that there might be a chance that the out-of-state liberals are going to get a little demoralized because the more they spend in Texas, actually, the margins are increasing?
00:31:46.000Senator, you've been traveling a lot for the midterms.
00:31:48.000What are the races that you're especially looking at in the last week here, not just to win Republican seats, but to win constitutional conservatives?
00:31:56.000I know you and I are both very invested in making sure Senator Mike Lee beats Evan McMuffin McMullen.
00:32:02.000What are the other races you're looking at?
00:32:04.000Well, I think Mike Lee's race is critically important.
00:32:06.000I would encourage folks listening, go to Mike Lee's website and make a contribution because the Democrats are trying to really steal that race by deceiving the voters of Utah.
00:32:19.000I will say more broadly, though, I am incredibly optimistic about Election Day.
00:32:25.000I think we're going to see a red tsunami.
00:32:27.000I think we're going to retake both houses.
00:32:29.000I think we could come out of the House with 30, 40, even 50 seat majority.
00:32:35.000And I think in the Senate, my number, I think we're going to come out either with 53 or 54 Republicans in the Senate.
00:32:43.000And so, Charlie, I've spent the last month on a 17-state national bus tour doing events.
00:32:50.000I'm not on the ballot this time around, so I'm spending all my time trying to help others, trying to help elect candidates for Senate, candidates for the House.
00:32:58.000So we started in Texas, did four rallies in Texas.
00:33:01.000One of the things I'm really excited about is the Rio Grande Valley.
00:33:04.000I think we're going to elect three Republicans, all Latinas, all Hispanic women in the Rio Grande Valley.
00:33:11.000That is a big deal and a generational change.
00:33:13.000From South Texas, we went to New Mexico, then to Arizona, then to Nevada, then to Utah, then to Kansas, then to Missouri, then to Maryland, then to Ohio, then to Iowa, then to Virginia, then to Tennessee, then to North Carolina, then to Georgia, then to Florida, then back to Texas.
00:33:57.000And I think we're going to shock the world in certain states, including here in Arizona.
00:34:01.000I think Blake Masters is going to pull it out.
00:34:04.000And by the way, Arizona libertarian candidate drops out of race and endorses Blake Masters.
00:34:09.000Senator, you've been very clear for years that we need a coalition of libertarians, conservatives, and traditional Republicans.
00:34:17.000I'm not a libertarian on a lot of issues, but I agree with them on size and scope of government and overreach of the national security apparatus and gun laws.
00:34:25.000Can you talk about that as we close out our conversation here, Senator, about how that coalition is going to need to materialize for victory a week from today?
00:34:34.000Listen, I agree with you that we need a broad coalition.
00:34:38.000When it comes to libertarians, I'm not a full-on libertarian.
00:34:41.000I'm a conservative, but I'm a conservative for libertarian reasons.
00:34:45.000And I think if you look at my voting record, I'm one of the three most libertarian senators in the Senate.
00:34:50.000Myself, Rand Paul, and Mike Lee are pretty clearly the three most libertarian senators.
00:34:55.000I believe, number one, in individual liberty.
00:35:55.000I think Blake Masters is going to win.
00:35:56.000I did rallies with both Kerry and Blake and also with Eli Crane, who's going to get elected to Congress and who's going to be a great new congressman as well, Navy SEAL, strong lover of liberty.
00:36:08.000I think we need to be supporting people who know what they believe, number one, people who can win, number two, but people who will be warriors.
00:36:17.000Because I'll tell you, Charlie, once we win the majority, that's when the fight really starts.
00:36:23.000Because you and I both know there are going to be members of Republican leadership who are scared to fight.
00:36:29.000And if we want the majorities to fight, we need to elect warriors who aren't scared of their own shadows.