The Charlie Kirk Show - November 01, 2022


How the DHS Became the KGB with Senator Ted Cruz


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Ted Cruz joins Charlie to talk about his new book, "Midterm Chances," and why the midterms are the most important election on November 5th. Charlie also talks about the Department of Homeland Security spying on us on social media and our ability to speak our minds online.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today in the Charlie Kirk show, Department of Homeland Security leaks.
00:00:03.000 Pretty remarkable.
00:00:04.000 Back-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.
00:00:14.000 It's a remarkable expansion of the United States security state.
00:00:18.000 We have Senator Ted Cruz joining us as well about his new book and midterm chances.
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00:01:35.000 There was a massive story that, quite honestly, we should have covered yesterday, and we're going to lead with it.
00:01:43.000 It is a story that should be dominating the entire news cycle.
00:01:47.000 It's a story that, thanks to the Intercept, we have learned some incredibly consequential information about the Department of Homeland Security.
00:01:57.000 So let's just kind of first set our terms.
00:01:59.000 What is the Department of Homeland Security?
00:02:01.000 DHS is a branch of government that was founded after 9-11, I believe completely unnecessarily.
00:02:09.000 DHS was duplicative in some ways.
00:02:12.000 TSA is under DHS.
00:02:13.000 Border 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.
00:02:25.000 So 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.
00:02:32.000 Not the Pelosi story, not even the polling story.
00:02:36.000 This right here should make the midterms even more important than ever before.
00:02:42.000 So 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.
00:03:02.000 So 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.
00:03:11.000 No, this is the permanent domestic surveillance industrial complex.
00:03:16.000 You see, DHS has now pivoted to a new self-appointed mission.
00:03:20.000 Congress never gave them this mission.
00:03:22.000 We never voted on it.
00:03:23.000 This is the fourth branch of government just gone awry.
00:03:26.000 Their self-appointed mission of fighting toxic narratives online, assisted by the FBI.
00:03:32.000 Now, 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.
00:03:46.000 That's right.
00:03:46.000 The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have been actively holding meetings with media companies, DHS, FBI hosting meetings with media companies.
00:04:03.000 What are they doing?
00:04:04.000 These are monthly censorship meetings.
00:04:08.000 Now, the strategy for these meetings first started with trying to stop anti-vax misinformation.
00:04:16.000 But now their meetings have now expanded to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, racial justice.
00:04:22.000 That's right.
00:04:23.000 If you say that America's not systemically racist, the government is probably working with a social media company to shut you up.
00:04:30.000 The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the nature of U.S. support to Ukraine.
00:04:36.000 An 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.
00:04:50.000 Their job involves penetrating online chat rooms and discussions to disrupt them.
00:04:55.000 Now, 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.
00:05:05.000 But even though the board was shut down, its mission continues through other pernicious avenues.
00:05:13.000 Immigration, custom enforcement, border patrol, secret service, they now all have their own anti-disinformation components.
00:05:21.000 The government, using your taxpayer dollars without congressional oversight, without congressional consent, on a daily basis, is no longer focused on ISIS or Al-Qaeda.
00:05:32.000 No, they're using the terror apparatus that was built post-9-11 to go after you.
00:05:38.000 MAGA supporters, America First, conservatives, freedom lovers.
00:05:44.000 This entire apparatus is for shredding the First Amendment, policing speech, and they are inserting and intervening into the distribution of information.
00:05:57.000 How is this legal?
00:05:59.000 And the answer is: it really isn't.
00:06:02.000 Somebody has got to sue under First Amendment claims.
00:06:05.000 By 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.
00:06:15.000 So, 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.
00:06:28.000 CSIA now has evolved their mission to protecting government-backed narratives.
00:06:34.000 If 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.
00:06:50.000 Jeffrey Hale, the director of the Election Security Initiative, recommended using third-party nonprofits as clearinghouses for information to avoid the appearance of government propaganda.
00:07:04.000 This should be the number one news story.
00:07:06.000 New York Times, nowhere to be found.
00:07:09.000 Wall Street Journal, nowhere to be found.
00:07:13.000 And 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. 0.98
00:07:28.000 Quote, 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.
00:07:39.000 Demlo, 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.
00:07:47.000 Agent Demlo played a direct role in pressuring Facebook to suppress the Hunter Biden story.
00:07:53.000 And 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?
00:08:03.000 What stories are they suppressing as votes are being cast?
00:08:06.000 What stories are they suppressing seven days out from an election?
00:08:10.000 This is as close to the KGB of anything that we have lived through ever.
00:08:14.000 It is blatantly illegal, it's anti-First Amendment, and they have found a way for our beautiful Constitution to be shredded by these people.
00:08:22.000 Now, Facebook has now developed an online portal for requesting material that should be throttled or suppressed or taken down from Facebook or Instagram.
00:08:33.000 Using the portal requires a government or law enforcement email, and as of yesterday, the portal was still alive.
00:08:39.000 Let me just kind of put this in layman terms if you might not be tracking what I'm saying.
00:08:43.000 Essentially, this: the government has a special website that they can log into and they can request to Facebook: Hey, can you censor this story?
00:08:57.000 It's basically a hotline.
00:08:59.000 Let me put it this way: it's like 1-800 censorship.
00:09:01.000 The 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.
00:09:12.000 Now, this is how this all works in tandem.
00:09:15.000 And I'm going to build a part to the story here that I think people are missing.
00:09:18.000 There's some context here that is incredibly important.
00:09:22.000 On one hand, the Federal Trade Commission is going after Facebook, threatening to break them up.
00:09:27.000 On the other hand, the Department of Justice is going to Facebook asking for favors.
00:09:31.000 And you better believe that those two things are working in harmony.
00:09:36.000 Facebook is worried that they're going to be broken up by the FTC.
00:09:40.000 So, they're trying to win points with the regime where Facebook says, Sure, we'll censor your stuff.
00:09:46.000 Just do a wink and the nod to the FTC to make sure we don't get breaking up.
00:09:49.000 Oh, what do you know?
00:09:50.000 The FTC ruled recently that Facebook doesn't have to get broken up.
00:09:54.000 All this stuff works together.
00:09:56.000 If Facebook would have taken a stand against the government, then maybe the FTC would have ruled differently.
00:10:00.000 Do you see how all this stuff works in collusion together?
00:10:04.000 It really makes you wonder how much we would control if it wasn't for the censorship.
00:10:13.000 If they can't shut you up, they lose everything.
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00:12:01.000 This DHS story is remarkable.
00:12:04.000 Somebody said, Charlie, we knew this all along.
00:12:06.000 No, we really didn't, actually.
00:12:09.000 We did not know the depth and the complexity and how blatant they are.
00:12:16.000 So look, here's the big takeaway.
00:12:19.000 We created a vast national security bureaucracy, and they're always going to try to justify their existence.
00:12:28.000 So 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.
00:12:43.000 The problem is, what happens when you have a supply and demand problem with terrorists?
00:12:48.000 Well, then you have to go find new terrorists.
00:12:51.000 If 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.
00:13:00.000 And those terrorists just happen to be right-wingers.
00:13:04.000 So terrorism has faded in the traditional sense.
00:13:07.000 And thanks to left-wing politics, we aren't allowed to care about our border.
00:13:12.000 So they've turned on the easiest target imaginable.
00:13:16.000 DHS, 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?
00:13:30.000 Policing free speech, monitoring speech, spying on the public, and targeting internal American dissidents is the new focus of this regime.
00:13:42.000 So the only fix to this is admitting and acknowledging we made a mistake when we passed the Patriot Act.
00:13:48.000 We made a mistake when we put the DHS into power.
00:13:52.000 We need to tear down these organizations quickly because we never needed them in the first place.
00:13:58.000 Defund or abolish these internal espionage organizations and pass laws making it a criminal offense to spy on Americans without a warrant.
00:14:07.000 And it's even worse than spying, dare I say.
00:14:10.000 This is throttling and restricting and suffocating and suppressing and repressing the distribution of information.
00:14:22.000 And by the way, this is why we're so clear about the left being the party of domestic violent extremists.
00:14:28.000 They 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.
00:14:45.000 We've said this before, and Tucker Carlson has said the same thing.
00:14:48.000 These people in power know they cannot continue to exist without censorship.
00:14:56.000 A fair and free marketplace of ideas is a direct threat to everything that they do.
00:15:05.000 Facebook has a special login, a hotline, you could say.
00:15:11.000 They have backdoor, FBI has backdoor access to Facebook.
00:15:18.000 Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which is supposed to protect critical national infrastructure, has now evolved its mission.
00:15:25.000 Without congressional permission, without congressional consent, they just self-appointed this.
00:15:31.000 No one gave them the authority to do this.
00:15:36.000 So now Facebook has this back-end access that only the government is able to use.
00:15:43.000 Basically, it's a form.
00:15:46.000 Who would you like us to censor?
00:15:48.000 And only people with government email addresses are able to access that.
00:15:52.000 So 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.
00:16:05.000 And what's the criteria?
00:16:07.000 If you criticize racial justice, I do, think that there's a problem with the vaccine, we've been vocal about that. 0.56
00:16:13.000 Challenge A to Ukraine, your government now has the ability to log into the back end of a social media portal to shut you up.
00:16:24.000 How is this even remotely constitutional?
00:16:27.000 It's not.
00:16:29.000 That's a real picture of the Facebook portal.
00:16:32.000 And remember, Zuckerberg admitted this in his interview with Joe Rogan, but now this is even worse.
00:16:38.000 This is not just the FBI showing up to Facebook and asking.
00:16:43.000 This is the FBI getting back end access to the largest social media company on the planet.
00:16:50.000 It's streamlining censorship, made easy for you.
00:16:54.000 How is this not the scathing story of the day?
00:17:01.000 Hey, Charlie Kirk here.
00:17:02.000 When it comes to liberals in Congress, there's no way they would accept term limits on themselves.
00:17:07.000 And yet now they're fighting tooth and nail to impose term limits on Supreme Court justices. 0.92
00:17:11.000 Term limits for thee, but not for me. 0.96
00:17:14.000 Sounds completely hypocritical. 0.89
00:17:16.000 Of course it is. 0.94
00:17:17.000 But since when has that ever been a problem for the American left?
00:17:19.000 They do whatever they want to try to seize more power, even if it means purging the Supreme Court of its most experienced justices.
00:17:26.000 To 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.
00:17:36.000 They would then replace these new justices with a rubber stamp and their radical agenda.
00:17:40.000 Since 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.
00:17:47.000 If 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.
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00:17:59.000 With 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.
00:18:06.000 It's Senator Ted Cruz.
00:18:07.000 Senator, welcome back to the program.
00:18:09.000 I know that you have a new book.
00:18:11.000 I want to make sure we mention that and we get to that.
00:18:14.000 It 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.
00:18:22.000 But make sure you check out a copy of Senator Ted Cruz's new book, Justice Corrupted.
00:18:26.000 Senator, 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.
00:18:39.000 Senator, what is your reaction?
00:18:41.000 Well, I wish I could say I was shocked, but I'm not shocked.
00:18:45.000 We have seen this more and more with the federal government corruptly getting into bed with big tech.
00:18:52.000 We now know also that the FBI was actively urging big tech to censor the story about Hunter Biden's laptop.
00:19:01.000 And they were doing it.
00:19:02.000 The FBI told big tech that that was Russian disinformation.
00:19:07.000 That was totally false.
00:19:08.000 We now know the story about Hunter Biden's laptop was true.
00:19:12.000 It was accurate. 0.89
00:19:13.000 And big tech censored it, forced the corporate media to censor it.
00:19:19.000 And it was actively at the behest of the FBI.
00:19:22.000 And that's really what the book is all about.
00:19:24.000 It 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.
00:19:41.000 And it is a profound threat, not just to the rule of law, but to individual liberty of all of us.
00:19:49.000 And what is so interesting, Senator, about this DHS story is in the leaked documents, they kind of self-appointed themselves a role.
00:19:59.000 And 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.
00:20:08.000 And these bureaucracies, the fourth branch of government, they kind of do whatever they want.
00:20:12.000 So, Senator, I mean, you're on a lot of these committees.
00:20:14.000 You vote on a lot of these bills.
00:20:16.000 Since when did these agencies get permission or inform you that they were going to be involved directly in election meddling of information?
00:20:23.000 I mean, do they just get to chart their own path now?
00:20:25.000 This is outrageous.
00:20:26.000 Well, they haven't, and they largely defy Congress.
00:20:31.000 And if you look at the history of it, if you go back, the book Justice Corrupted starts with Richard Nixon.
00:20:37.000 And Nixon tried to do this.
00:20:39.000 He tried to use DOJ and the IRS, the FBI to go after his political enemies.
00:20:45.000 By and large, the system worked.
00:20:47.000 By and large, the system resisted being politicized, and Nixon resigned in disgrace.
00:20:53.000 Well, what Nixon tried to do, Obama succeeded in doing.
00:20:58.000 And he directed the IRS to target Tea Party groups, to target conservative groups and pro-life groups and pro-Israel groups.
00:21:06.000 They went after them.
00:21:06.000 They persecuted them.
00:21:08.000 Then DOJ blocked investigations into them, defied Congress, refused to prosecute contempt of Congress.
00:21:17.000 And after eight years of deep politicization of the federal agencies, what happened is these hardcore partisans burrowed into senior career positions at the agencies.
00:21:31.000 And when Trump became president, the deep state waged war on Trump.
00:21:36.000 One 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.
00:21:48.000 This is 15 days before Trump would be sworn in as president.
00:21:52.000 And in the Oval Office, they agreed together to go after Trump, to attack him.
00:21:58.000 And for four years of the Trump presidency, these partisans tried to destroy Donald Trump personally and tried to destroy the Trump agenda.
00:22:07.000 And now, Charlie, under Joe Biden, it is metastasized.
00:22:10.000 It is out in the open.
00:22:12.000 They're not hiding it anymore.
00:22:14.000 They view the machinery of government as the stormtroopers for the DNC and their partisan agenda.
00:22:21.000 That is so well said.
00:22:22.000 The book is Justice Corrupted.
00:22:24.000 I want to encourage our entire audience to pick up a copy of that.
00:22:27.000 Senator, one of the chapters you talk about here is about the IRS coming knocking.
00:22:33.000 You 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.
00:22:43.000 With 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?
00:22:55.000 That might sound outrageous or outlandish, but I don't trust this government at all.
00:22:59.000 Talk about the expansion of the IRS and how you articulate that in your book, Justice Corrupted.
00:23:05.000 Well, 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.
00:23:21.000 And, 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.
00:23:33.000 Part of that was requiring financial institutions to report every transaction of $600 or more to the Department of the Treasury.
00:23:44.000 Every single one.
00:23:45.000 That means your rent, unless you've got a really good deal on rent, you're probably paying more than $600 a month for rent.
00:23:51.000 If that's the case, every single financial transaction, maybe your car note, heck, give the Democrats another year or two.
00:23:58.000 It might be filling up a tank of gas.
00:24:00.000 I mean, they wanted that power.
00:24:03.000 They came very close to getting it.
00:24:06.000 I 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.
00:24:19.000 I think right after that, we need to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security.
00:24:25.000 Yes.
00:24:26.000 And right after that, we need to impeach Merrick Garland for politicizing and abusing the Department of Justice and the FBI.
00:24:33.000 Yeah, I think that's so smart.
00:24:34.000 And we've said on the program, I don't think endorsing Joe Biden, I don't think that's a good use of time.
00:24:39.000 Honestly, I think it's fine with political theater, but going after the deep state, that middle band is so important, right?
00:24:46.000 I 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.
00:24:58.000 So in your book, Justice Corrupted, Senator, you also talk about January 6th.
00:25:03.000 I have not read this chapter, but it's a topic in your book.
00:25:06.000 What is the argument you make around that?
00:25:08.000 Well, this is the first inside account of January 6th that has been published from someone who was actively and deeply involved.
00:25:16.000 On 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.
00:25:26.000 I walked the readers behind what occurred that day and in the months that preceded it.
00:25:33.000 I walked the readers through the cases challenging raising allegations of voter fraud and what happened to those cases.
00:25:41.000 I 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.
00:25:50.000 And it's designed to take people behind closed doors, behind the curtains, and understand what was really going on.
00:25:58.000 And 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.
00:26:11.000 And it's hard to know the truth when the corporate media is so corrupt and so dishonest.
00:26:18.000 This 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.
00:26:44.000 There'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.
00:27:01.000 And having the facts equips you to then win the argument and persuade your friends and family.
00:27:08.000 So yesterday, Senator, there were oral arguments around affirmative action.
00:27:13.000 Wall Street Journal front page high court hears arguments on race, college admissions.
00:27:18.000 You actually talk about this in your book extensively through both Critical Race Theory in Chapter 4 and Chapter 8, Affirmative Action.
00:27:26.000 How should we think about affirmative action?
00:27:27.000 And also with your legal expertise, just kind of fill our audience in what was exactly being debated in front of the court yesterday.
00:27:35.000 So I am cautiously optimistic about the oral arguments in front of the court.
00:27:39.000 I have not listened to the arguments yet, but I intend to do so.
00:27:42.000 But I'm cautiously optimistic.
00:27:43.000 There were two cases challenging explicit racial discrimination by colleges and universities.
00:27:50.000 One was challenging the racial discrimination of a state school, University of North Carolina.
00:27:55.000 Another was challenging the racial discrimination of a private school, Harvard University.
00:28:01.000 Both of them actively discriminate based on race.
00:28:04.000 And one of the amazing things about Democrats, and the book, Justice Corrupted, walks you through the Democrats' sorry and sordid history on race.
00:28:13.000 Look, it is the Democrat Party that founded the Ku Klux Klan. 0.73
00:28:17.000 Nathan Bedford Forrest that founded the Klan was a delegate to the 1860 National Democrat Convention.
00:28:23.000 It was Democrats who wrote the Jim Crow laws. 0.80
00:28:26.000 The Jim Crow laws were designed to disenfranchise black voters to prevent them from voting Democrats out of office.
00:28:33.000 It is Democrats today who actively embrace racial discrimination.
00:28:38.000 You know, the Trump Department of Justice opened up an investigation into Yale Law School because they discriminate based on race.
00:28:45.000 And in particular, they discriminate viciously against Asian Americans.
00:28:50.000 They have essentially a reverse quota that if they did admissions based on merit, they've determined, quote, too many Asians would get in.
00:28:58.000 And so that they discriminate against Asians.
00:29:02.000 One of the first things Joe Biden did when he became president is DOJ dismissed that case and said, we're good with it.
00:29:10.000 And 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.
00:29:26.000 That's at the heart of critical race theory.
00:29:28.000 It's at the heart of what Democrats believe today.
00:29:31.000 That is well said.
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00:30:37.000 Senator, the great state of Texas, Robert Francis O'Rourke.
00:30:40.000 The question really is, how much is he going to lose by right now?
00:30:43.000 Nine points.
00:30:44.000 Nine points.
00:30:45.000 Okay, over under nine points.
00:30:47.000 And so talk about the race in Texas, though.
00:30:50.000 Do 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?
00:30:58.000 Well, that's true.
00:30:59.000 And look, there's a mix of people coming to Texas.
00:31:02.000 There are some people there in California, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and they're fed up.
00:31:07.000 They can't stand the liberals.
00:31:08.000 They can't stand the left-wing policies.
00:31:10.000 And they decide they want to get out.
00:31:11.000 And they look across the country.
00:31:12.000 They decide where do they want to go and they pick Texas.
00:31:16.000 And the data show those folks actually are more conservative than the median voter in Texas.
00:31:20.000 They show up, they buy a pickup truck and boots and a hat and a gun, and they're fantastic.
00:31:26.000 And I call those folks refugees for freedom.
00:31:30.000 We want them here in Texas.
00:31:31.000 Amen.
00:31:32.000 There is another group that worries me, and it's a company that transfers to Texas and moves all of its employees.
00:31:39.000 And those employees often, they haven't made the choice, and many of them still vote like where they came from.
00:31:44.000 We've got both.
00:31:46.000 Senator, you've been traveling a lot for the midterms.
00:31:48.000 What 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?
00:31:56.000 I know you and I are both very invested in making sure Senator Mike Lee beats Evan McMuffin McMullen.
00:32:02.000 What are the other races you're looking at?
00:32:04.000 Well, I think Mike Lee's race is critically important.
00:32:06.000 I 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.
00:32:16.000 And it is uncomfortably close.
00:32:19.000 I will say more broadly, though, I am incredibly optimistic about Election Day.
00:32:25.000 I think we're going to see a red tsunami.
00:32:27.000 I think we're going to retake both houses.
00:32:29.000 I think we could come out of the House with 30, 40, even 50 seat majority.
00:32:35.000 And I think in the Senate, my number, I think we're going to come out either with 53 or 54 Republicans in the Senate.
00:32:43.000 And so, Charlie, I've spent the last month on a 17-state national bus tour doing events.
00:32:50.000 I'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.
00:32:58.000 So we started in Texas, did four rallies in Texas.
00:33:01.000 One of the things I'm really excited about is the Rio Grande Valley.
00:33:04.000 I think we're going to elect three Republicans, all Latinas, all Hispanic women in the Rio Grande Valley.
00:33:11.000 That is a big deal and a generational change.
00:33:13.000 From 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.
00:33:33.000 I'm heading to Oklahoma today.
00:33:35.000 I'm heading to Michigan tomorrow, and then back to Texas for the final event of the bus tour.
00:33:40.000 And I think we've got a chance to win all across the country.
00:33:45.000 I could not be more excited.
00:33:48.000 And I think the reason is the agenda of the radical left is such a disaster.
00:33:54.000 People are ready to change the path world.
00:33:57.000 I think you're right.
00:33:57.000 And I think we're going to shock the world in certain states, including here in Arizona.
00:34:01.000 I think Blake Masters is going to pull it out.
00:34:04.000 And by the way, Arizona libertarian candidate drops out of race and endorses Blake Masters.
00:34:09.000 Senator, you've been very clear for years that we need a coalition of libertarians, conservatives, and traditional Republicans.
00:34:17.000 I'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.
00:34:25.000 Can 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?
00:34:34.000 Listen, I agree with you that we need a broad coalition.
00:34:38.000 When it comes to libertarians, I'm not a full-on libertarian.
00:34:41.000 I'm a conservative, but I'm a conservative for libertarian reasons.
00:34:45.000 And I think if you look at my voting record, I'm one of the three most libertarian senators in the Senate.
00:34:50.000 Myself, Rand Paul, and Mike Lee are pretty clearly the three most libertarian senators.
00:34:55.000 I believe, number one, in individual liberty.
00:34:57.000 I believe in small government.
00:34:58.000 I believe in small businesses.
00:35:00.000 I believe in low taxes.
00:35:01.000 I believe in low regulations.
00:35:02.000 I believe in government staying the hell out of our lives.
00:35:06.000 That means vigorously protecting free speech.
00:35:09.000 That means stopping censorship of free speech.
00:35:12.000 That means protecting the Second Amendment vigorously.
00:35:15.000 That means protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures.
00:35:18.000 You know, all the liberals cheering the FBI raiding Donald Trump's home.
00:35:23.000 That was an abuse of power.
00:35:24.000 It's what I talk about in the book, Justice Corrupted, is the left uses power to target their enemies.
00:35:31.000 I believe in civil liberties.
00:35:32.000 I believe in protecting our rights.
00:35:34.000 Government is bad.
00:35:35.000 Why do they want 87,000 new IRS agents to harass and harangue and target and go after you?
00:35:42.000 The left supports government power.
00:35:44.000 And my view is we ought to have a coalition of everyone who values liberty standing together.
00:35:51.000 By the way, I agree with you in Arizona.
00:35:53.000 I think Kerry Lake is going to win. 0.99
00:35:55.000 I think Blake Masters is going to win.
00:35:56.000 I 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.
00:36:08.000 I 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.
00:36:17.000 Because I'll tell you, Charlie, once we win the majority, that's when the fight really starts.
00:36:23.000 Because you and I both know there are going to be members of Republican leadership who are scared to fight.
00:36:29.000 And if we want the majorities to fight, we need to elect warriors who aren't scared of their own shadows.
00:36:34.000 That's right.
00:36:35.000 Justice Corrupted, How the Left Weaponized Our Legal System by Senator Ted Cruz.
00:36:40.000 Senator, thank you for all the hard work.
00:36:41.000 You don't have to be working as hard as you have been on the campaign trail this cycle.
00:36:45.000 It is noticed and it will make a difference.
00:36:47.000 Senator, hope to see you soon.
00:36:48.000 And thank you for always speaking at our turning point events.
00:36:51.000 That does really mean a lot to us.
00:36:52.000 You always step up for us.
00:36:53.000 So thank you, Senator, for your time today.
00:36:55.000 Well, you guys do an amazing job, and I appreciate you, Charlie.
00:36:58.000 And keep working to turn everyone out on Election Day.
00:37:01.000 Amen.
00:37:04.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:37:05.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:37:08.000 Thank you so much for listening.
00:37:10.000 God bless.
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