The Charlie Kirk Show - How They Ruined California

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, how did they ruin California?

00:00:03.000 One of the great tragedies of our country we explore regarding Gavin Newsom's 2028 presidential ambitions.

00:00:09.000 Secondly, we also have Senator Roger Marshall to talk about the latest in the U.S. Senate and more.

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00:01:26.000 Okay, so we are here.

00:01:28.000 There's lots to cover today, lots of news ongoing.

00:01:30.000 I want to remind you guys that the inauguration is in seven days.

00:01:35.000 In seven days, we have the inauguration of the 47th President of the United States, the first time since Grover Cleveland that a president will serve non-consecutive terms.

00:01:47.000 It's just remarkable.

00:01:48.000 And all of you in this audience who worked so hard, who chased ballots, Who registered voters, this is a victory for all of you.

00:01:58.000 This is a victory for everybody in the audience that decided to go pick up your shovel and put your working boots on and get out in the trenches, get out in the streets, and make it happen.

00:02:09.000 We have many things to discuss today.

00:02:12.000 And I just want to reflect on the improbable odds of how our movement was able to overcome what seemed to be The most formidable of all challenges.

00:02:25.000 Taking back the nation. 0.66

00:02:27.000 Taking back the country from a group of people who hate it.

00:02:32.000 A group of people who have contempt for it.

00:02:35.000 The challenge in front of this new administration, and they are going to hit the ground running, I can tell you from my short conversations with the president, I was able to see the president yesterday, actually on Friday as well, this is a motivated team that is ready.

00:02:51.000 To dive right in.

00:02:53.000 That wants to dive right in.

00:02:58.000 We have a once in many generations opportunity, once in many lifetimes opportunity to execute on the border, to drill baby drill, to unleash the American economy.

00:03:10.000 We have extraordinary potential in this country.

00:03:15.000 Over the top type of potential.

00:03:17.000 And it will only be realized, it will only be Actualized.

00:03:23.000 If this administration continues to stay on that narrow path of fulfilling the mandate.

00:03:30.000 And look at the roster of changemakers that we have so far across the board.

00:03:36.000 Bobby Kennedy at HHS. Kash Patel at the FBI. Tulsi Gabbard at the Director of National Intelligence.

00:03:42.000 Changemaker after changemaker. 0.99

00:03:44.000 To be able.

00:03:46.000 To fulfill this once in a multiple generations mandate.

00:03:51.000 And the bad guys are hoping that we squander it.

00:03:54.000 The bad guys are hoping that this opportunity is blown away, is fumbled, is not embraced.

00:04:02.000 But that is where all of you come in.

00:04:04.000 Is that just in seven days when President Biden is actually exactly, you know what's amazing?

00:04:10.000 Exactly, we are six days, 23 hours and 55 minutes away.

00:04:13.000 Literally in exactly seven days.

00:04:15.000 President Donald Trump says, so help me God, in exactly seven days.

00:04:21.000 The prep work that the president has put in and the transition team has just been phenomenal.

00:04:26.000 It's been across the board.

00:04:27.000 And then it is right in.

00:04:29.000 Executive orders, configuring agencies, solving some of the most intractable problems that are in front of us.

00:04:36.000 It's not going to be easy, but the ascendant political voice is that of the people, not of the political ruling class.

00:04:43.000 You are in the room.

00:04:44.000 President Trump has brought you into the room in a record way.

00:04:49.000 We must stay disciplined and humble, motivated and hungry throughout this entire process.

00:04:56.000 In seven days, President Donald Trump will make history.

00:05:02.000 In seven days, those of you that dedicated your entire life, your whole being, your energy, everything that you possibly can to This movement will be fulfilled.

00:05:15.000 And it is not the ending, but it is the beginning.

00:05:19.000 The beginning of a new dawn of America.

00:05:21.000 In seven days, President Donald Trump will say, so help me God.

00:05:27.000 That will say, we are taking back this country from the people that have done such remarkable and intractable damage to it.

00:05:35.000 A great example of somebody who has done such damage to this country and is a Contrast to the ascendant political ideology, which is the people, is what we've seen in California with Gavin Newsom.

00:05:50.000 Gavin Newsom, remember when Democrats in California called a special session just to protect illegal immigrants from accountability?

00:05:59.000 That is Gavin Newsom.

00:06:01.000 Gavin Newsom wants to be president.

00:06:03.000 He is more ambitious than Lucifer.

00:06:05.000 This guy wants to be president more than anybody we've ever seen before.

00:06:09.000 Democrats spent $18 billion on illegals, who pay $8.5 billion in taxes, and only $3 billion on forest management.

00:06:21.000 In one week, President Donald Trump will say, so help me God, and one of the reasons why he won is people like Gavin Newsom that have been running the country into the gutter, have been running the country over a cliff, and now entire neighborhoods have completely vanished and disappeared in California.

00:06:38.000 Remember this story.

00:06:40.000 Gavin Newsom in California reaches $50 million to Trump-proof the state.

00:06:46.000 This is right here.

00:06:47.000 This is as of today.

00:06:48.000 So while their state burns and people don't have homes, what is the priority of Gavin Newsom to Trump-proof California?

00:06:57.000 California Democrats have reached a $50 million agreement to shore up state and local legal defenses against the incoming Trump administration just a week ahead of the president-elect's inauguration, Politico writes.

00:07:08.000 Half the money would go to fending off any mass deportation plan the new president might enact in his administration.

00:07:15.000 Now, time out.

00:07:17.000 So they're spending money to try to thwart federal law enforcement.

00:07:22.000 The move, the first of its kind in the nation that positions California to lead a second term resistance against Donald Trump, comes as Republicans bash state Democrat lawmakers for focusing on the highly partisan issue, even as the southern part of the state suffers from historically devastating fires.

00:07:41.000 So wait a second.

00:07:43.000 They're going to pay money to make sure the federal government can't do its job. 1.00

00:07:50.000 How is this any different?

00:07:51.000 I want someone to prove me wrong.

00:07:53.000 Any different than southern states that were resisting the federal government that led to the Little Rock Nine and the militarization of the National Guard?

00:08:04.000 And the desegregation of schools.

00:08:07.000 How is this any different than Gavin Newsom saying we are going to thwart federal supremacy when it comes to immigration law?

00:08:17.000 Democrats want to lock in their state's decline and failure, and Gavin Newsom better be careful.

00:08:21.000 This very well might be against a lot of laws that say we are not going to, we're going to pay money to actively make sure the federal government can't do what the voters want to do.

00:08:32.000 California is in a state of mind right now, where effectively they're saying, don't you dare try and help save us.

00:08:39.000 Don't you dare try and help us.

00:08:42.000 Meanwhile, we spent over $200 billion to Ukraine, but California is Trump-proofing their state.

00:08:50.000 This sanctuary state stuff should have forced the standoff long ago, and this is coming.

00:08:56.000 You better believe it.

00:08:57.000 Look, we're going to be able to do mass deportations in Miami and Orlando.

00:09:01.000 In Columbia, South Carolina, in Augusta, Georgia.

00:09:04.000 But as soon as the mass deportations start coming for Sacramento, California, it's going to be very interesting.

00:09:10.000 Who's in charge of immigration policy?

00:09:13.000 The states are not in charge of federal immigration policy, period.

00:09:18.000 Politico continues, the deal includes $25 million Newsom has proposed for the State Department of Justice to fight federal government in court shortly after Trump's re-election in November.

00:09:30.000 Plus $25 million more proposed by state Senate leaders to defend immigrants against deportation, detention, and wage theft.

00:09:38.000 The $25 million proposed by the Senate would fund grants for legal nonprofits and immigration support centers.

00:09:45.000 Senate Budget Chair Scott Wiener, sound familiar?

00:09:49.000 This guy never goes away.

00:09:51.000 That freak never disappears.

00:09:53.000 He is behind nearly every creepy, bad, treasonous, awful idea in the state of California.

00:09:59.000 Quote, this funding agreement cements California's readiness to serve as a bulwark against Trump's extremist agenda.

00:10:07.000 Floor votes on the so-called special session package could come as soon as this week.

00:10:13.000 This would give Gavin Newsom time to sign the deal before Trump's inauguration on January the 20th and shift focus away from the session's partisan feud to how Democrats are responding to the unfolding disaster in Los Angeles.

00:10:23.000 So just so you understand this, for all of you watching California or understand California politics, as Los Angeles is burning to a crisp...

00:10:32.000 The priority of California lawmakers is to create a $50 million fund to prevent President Trump from getting rid of cartel members and getting rid of illegal migrants.

00:10:48.000 Representatives for the governor's office and legislative leaders did not respond to requests for comment as the deal was expected to be announced as early as Monday, today.

00:10:57.000 Republicans have agitated for a special session focused solely on fires.

00:11:01.000 And Newsom told Pod Save America over the weekend he's happy to do whatever moves the needle forward.

00:11:07.000 What does it even mean, moves the needle forward?

00:11:09.000 When asked about calling such a special session, he said he and legislative leaders were going to discuss whether that was necessary.

00:11:17.000 I mean, can we just remark on how Politico has just become a press release service for radical Democrats?

00:11:24.000 I mean, there's no questioning.

00:11:26.000 There's no fear.

00:11:26.000 This is just disgusting, naked, partisan garbage from Politico.

00:11:31.000 Newsom and legislators representing Los Angeles have also been in Southern California since the fires escalated.

00:11:37.000 But that has not neutralized GOP critics.

00:11:41.000 At a time when California should be laser-focused on responding to the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, Democrats' lawmakers' priority is creating a $50 million fund.

00:11:52.000 Wiener continues, Senate Democrats are particularly proud to provide funding for providers of legal aid services, which we know our communities need best and are best positioned to defend and scale the millions of individuals and families that will be impacted by the incoming administration's extremist agenda.

00:12:11.000 Trump warned us in 2018, he warned Newsom to amend their policies.

00:12:16.000 By the way, can East Palestine or North Carolina Get some of this Marshall Plan money that Gavin Newsom is talking about?

00:12:25.000 Why do taxpayers outside of California have to subsidize Democrats' incompetence and potentially criminal negligence?

00:12:33.000 If we had any sort of a fair justice system still in this country, Gavin Newsom would be in federal prison.

00:12:38.000 If we had any sort of fair composition here, Gavin Newsom would pay a very, very heavy and significant price for not just the negligence, The blocking of federal law enforcement.

00:12:53.000 The blocking of...

00:12:55.000 The equivalent would be this.

00:12:56.000 Prove me wrong.

00:12:57.000 What if a governor of Alabama told his local officials, do not hand over January 6th protesters to the FBI? In fact, we are going to create a fund to make sure that January 6th protesters are not handed over to the FBI. The world would explode, and they'd call him a traitor and a threat to democracy.

00:13:20.000 But Gavin Newsom has more of a priority to foreigners that have invaded our land and broke into our country than to the people that have their homes completely eliminated. 0.99

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00:14:35.000 And isn't it a tragedy?

00:14:37.000 Find me an objectively more beautiful state than California.

00:14:41.000 I don't think it exists.

00:14:43.000 There are beautiful parts of Montana.

00:14:46.000 There are beautiful parts of Alaska and Hawaii.

00:14:48.000 But all of those kind of have downsides.

00:14:50.000 If you live in Orange County, outside of June Gloom, there is not a lot of downside there.

00:14:56.000 It is as beautiful and as pristine as it gets.

00:14:59.000 My theory when it comes to California is how far can you push a people?

00:15:06.000 While the weather's really good.

00:15:08.000 And the answer is you can actually push them really far.

00:15:11.000 We always joke around, you know, what is the importance of weather when it comes to lifestyle?

00:15:15.000 It's actually a lot.

00:15:16.000 Sunlight and weather plays a lot into the human psyche.

00:15:19.000 Turns out that you could turn your state into a seismic hellhole.

00:15:26.000 Taxpayer-funded abortions, gender reassignment surgery, illegals everywhere, critical race theory in the schools, terrible economy, high inflation, and people will still live there. 0.98

00:15:36.000 Now, California does have a declining population.

00:15:40.000 It does have people that are leaving for my home state of Arizona.

00:15:45.000 However, it's remarkable the power that living in Santa Barbara has on some people.

00:15:54.000 Turning it into just the communist dystopian hellscape.

00:15:56.000 I always joke around with producer Andrew.

00:15:58.000 I said, so what is the breaking point?

00:15:59.000 You know, when they can medically kidnap your kids?

00:16:02.000 And I... I actually see it from his perspective and Sonia Friend's perspective.

00:16:07.000 When California is good, it's the best place on the planet.

00:16:12.000 There's some moments where you say, what am I doing here?

00:16:14.000 It cost me $95 to fill up my car with a tank of gas, and I just spent $700 at a local grocery store, and I can't afford rent.

00:16:23.000 Then you're driving down Pacific Coast Highway at 3 p.m.

00:16:27.000 on a Sunday afternoon with the windows down, and you say, I'll pay anything.

00:16:33.000 Take my money.

00:16:35.000 I don't care.

00:16:36.000 And the wind is coming through and you're listening to the radio and you say, why doesn't everyone live here?

00:16:43.000 And then you pull over at a stoplight and then there's some bum defecating after he just shot up with heroin.

00:16:50.000 And you have this incredible paradoxical contradiction.

00:16:55.000 In Los Angeles, literally in Southern California, you can surf, ski, And drive a quad in the desert all in one day.

00:17:03.000 And in Los Angeles, you can also loot, shoot up with heroin, and get your gender reassigned in one day.

00:17:10.000 It's amazing.

00:17:10.000 Only in California is all of that possible.

00:17:13.000 You can go and steal $900 worth of stuff at Walgreens.

00:17:18.000 You can just go take a dump on the side of the street.

00:17:22.000 And you can get taxpayer funded benefits if you're from Nicaragua.

00:17:25.000 It's amazing.

00:17:26.000 Only in California is that possible.

00:17:28.000 And I say this with a great deal of lament.

00:17:30.000 I spend a ton of time in California.

00:17:32.000 And every time I'm landing in California, Andrew would tell you this and Mikey will tell you this.

00:17:36.000 I say the same thing.

00:17:38.000 I say, it is one of the great crimes against humanity that they ruined this slice of heaven.

00:17:43.000 And I believe it.

00:17:44.000 When you're landing into Orange County at John Wayne Airport, when you're landing into San Diego, when you're landing into Burbank or you're landing into LAX and you just see the pristine nature of what God gave America.

00:17:59.000 It goes to show how we human beings can mess up the pristine, the serenity that was once the untouched jewel of America.

00:18:09.000 And now Gavin Newsom wants to be president.

00:18:11.000 Look, I hate to break it to you, pal.

00:18:13.000 If you can't fill up a fire hydrant, you can't be president.

00:18:17.000 I don't want to hear anything about water levels or all this.

00:18:20.000 It's very sad.

00:18:20.000 Again, I'm far from like a water expert.

00:18:22.000 I'm not on some like water reclamation board.

00:18:25.000 But isn't it, if you have a surplus of water, you don't have an issue with the water?

00:18:30.000 The reservoir that was supposed to be full has been empty as of February last year, and no one even told the fire department.

00:18:39.000 And the woman they promoted and paid $750,000 a year to handle that job didn't tell anybody. 0.99

00:18:46.000 And the reservoir that is supposedly to be working was under maintenance.

00:18:50.000 Under maintenance.

00:18:52.000 California...

00:18:55.000 Is, without a doubt, one of the great test projects, one of the great petri dishes of why politics matters.

00:19:07.000 And I want all of you to remember this.

00:19:09.000 If you're a pastor, if you are a person that says, I don't like politics, if you don't care about politics, politics will care about you.

00:19:17.000 And politics can ruin a beautiful...

00:19:21.000 Gift from the heavens like California.

00:19:25.000 Objectively one of the greatest places on the planet to live.

00:19:28.000 And now it's not any longer.

00:19:29.000 It's become a raging insult to all of our senses.

00:19:33.000 It's like overwhelming.

00:19:35.000 From the bums, to the illegals, to the cartel members, to the inflation.

00:19:39.000 It's just you can't process it.

00:19:41.000 And that shows that politics does matter.

00:19:44.000 And staying on the ball does matter.

00:19:46.000 And let California be the best example.

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00:20:53.000 Joining us now is a great senator from the state of Kansas, Senator Marshall.

00:20:58.000 Senator Roger Marshall.

00:21:00.000 Senator, thank you for taking the time.

00:21:01.000 Great to see you.

00:21:02.000 Senator, our audience is wondering, what is the status of President Trump's nominees in front of the U.S. Senate and the likelihood of their confirmation?

00:21:10.000 Charlie, well, first of all, I just got to say thank you for helping us make America healthy again.

00:21:14.000 It sounds like you're promoting some good, nutritious meals there, so we're glad to hear that.

00:21:19.000 Look, the status of President Trump's nominees, I'm very, very optimistic.

00:21:23.000 And why this is so important, talking about the obvious here, is when President Trump walks in there on day number one and issues 100 executive orders, if he doesn't have people in place in his cabinet, those orders go nowhere.

00:21:36.000 So that's why we need to be expeditious as possible.

00:21:39.000 I think we're having...

00:21:40.000 12 or 13 hearings this week.

00:21:41.000 We'll have more next week.

00:21:43.000 Try to get some of them teed up so when he walks in here and gets inaugurated, that he's ready to go.

00:21:49.000 I couldn't be more optimistic.

00:21:50.000 These folks, as they've come through here, every one of them, they're well-spoken.

00:21:54.000 They're great communicators.

00:21:55.000 They're accomplished.

00:21:56.000 I have every reason to believe that they're going to get across the finish line.

00:22:00.000 Don't let the legacy media fool you.

00:22:02.000 They're going to try to tear them down, take them down piece by piece, attack them personally.

00:22:07.000 But I think at the end of the day, we're going to get them across the finish line.

00:22:11.000 That is so encouraging to hear.

00:22:13.000 And I know that there's been some media narratives that Bobby Kennedy can't get the votes, that Tulsi Gabbard can't get the votes.

00:22:23.000 So, Senator, I want to lean in on one of those, which is Bobby Kennedy.

00:22:27.000 Bobby Kennedy, of course, former Democrat, ran for the presidency as a Democrat, but has been very big on Make America Healthy Again.

00:22:35.000 You are a physician, and you're known as Doc Marshall as well as Senator Marshall.

00:22:39.000 How should we think about the Bobby Kennedy nomination to lead Health and Human Services?

00:22:45.000 What a courageous individual to put himself out here.

00:22:49.000 And he's just going to get hammered by all the special interest groups.

00:22:52.000 He's going to get hammered by the big food manufacturers, the people that make the ultra-processed food, all those types of things.

00:22:58.000 But, Charlie, I think what's going to drive his nomination is the groundswell out there of people that are behind him.

00:23:06.000 Look, I think it was a sentinel moment of President Trump's campaign when he got that endorsement.

00:23:11.000 So there's a huge following out there for Bobby Kennedy.

00:23:15.000 These are the same moms that back during my campaign in 2020 that didn't want their kids to get vaccinated, that they wanted to have the choice with them and their doctors on what to do. 0.82

00:23:26.000 Those same moms, and I think a lot of it is women out there, are very concerned about the health of their children, the mental health of their children. 0.93

00:23:32.000 They're concerned about vaccines.

00:23:35.000 They're concerned about what their kids are eating as well.

00:23:37.000 So I think that's what your listeners should be focused on, is that Bobby Kennedy is locked in.

00:23:42.000 He wants to make America...

00:23:44.000 I'm going to be right there standing beside him.

00:23:46.000 We formed the Make America Healthy Again caucus, and I just couldn't be more excited.

00:23:51.000 I've been working on this for 40 years.

00:23:53.000 Bobby and I don't agree on everything, and that's okay.

00:23:55.000 My own partners in my practice and I don't agree on everything, but we have the same goal, and we're locked in to make that happen, and Bobby Kennedy is the right person for this job.

00:24:07.000 I'm thrilled to hear that, Senator.

00:24:09.000 And also, it's about time that we have a Health and Human Services Secretary that cares about the health care, not just sick care, not just trying to get people routinely on drugs.

00:24:18.000 Can you speak about that as a physician, that getting the root causes of the chronic disease epidemic, I'm sure you have many stories throughout your career that just throwing more drugs at the problem is not always the solution.

00:24:29.000 Yeah, Charlie, to your point, 60% of Americans have a chronic disease.

00:24:33.000 60%.

00:24:34.000 Unbelievable.

00:24:34.000 When I was growing up, it was sick.

00:24:36.000 So it went from 6% to 60%.

00:24:38.000 And I want you to think about this.

00:24:40.000 Your health outcomes, 70% of your health outcomes are determined by you.

00:24:45.000 It's determined by what you eat and the environment you live in.

00:24:49.000 It's the water you're drinking.

00:24:51.000 It's those ultra-processed foods.

00:24:54.000 That are killing Americans right now, as well as the toxins that they're adding to it as well.

00:24:58.000 So once you get to me...

00:25:01.000 Your healthcare providers maybe impact 10 or 20% of your health outcomes.

00:25:06.000 Genetics is about 10%.

00:25:07.000 70% is determined by what you eat and by your environment, and that's what we want to impact.

00:25:13.000 And then we'll start bringing down this incidence of chronic disease.

00:25:16.000 Think about this.

00:25:17.000 A third of our adolescents are pre-diabetic.

00:25:21.000 A third.

00:25:22.000 20% of our youth, of our children, are on a prescription drug medicine.

00:25:26.000 We'd love to come back and talk about mental health and especially the...

00:25:30.000 The young kids, young adults under the age of 30 sometimes.

00:25:34.000 But there's a huge opportunity here for us.

00:25:37.000 So, Senator, the lineup looks like this.

00:25:40.000 Pete Hegseth, his hearings start tomorrow, it looks like.

00:25:43.000 Doug Burgum and Doug Collins, Marco Rubio then the following day, Chris DeNome, Pam Bondi, John Ratcliffe, Chris Wright, Russ Vogt, Sean Duffy.

00:25:51.000 So, Senator, walk us through the hearings.

00:25:53.000 This is a super accelerated pace, is it not, versus prior administrations?

00:25:58.000 I think so.

00:25:59.000 I think it is a super accelerated pace.

00:26:02.000 I think that's what we certainly are focused on here in the Senate, is implementing President Trump's agenda.

00:26:07.000 And it's going to start with these nominations.

00:26:09.000 And you go through that list, I think that all that list should probably sell through this.

00:26:14.000 And just to stop a second, Pete Hegseth has been a little bit controversial.

00:26:19.000 I sat down with Pete.

00:26:20.000 He's an incredible communicator.

00:26:22.000 And I'm telling you, he's going to be the best recruiter for the military we've ever seen.

00:26:27.000 My youngest son just returned from active duty in Poland the week before, and he happened to be in the office the day that Pete was coming through.

00:26:36.000 Pete grabbed him.

00:26:38.000 They sat down and talked for 10 or 15 minutes about today's Army.

00:26:41.000 They'd still be talking if I didn't say, hey, I'm the senator here.

00:26:45.000 I've got some questions for Pete as well.

00:26:48.000 Recruiting is a big darn deal right now in the military.

00:26:53.000 We need to improve the quality of the young men and women joining the military.

00:26:56.000 Military.

00:26:57.000 That goes back to my Make America Healthy again as well.

00:27:00.000 But I'm so excited for Pete.

00:27:01.000 He's going to be a game changer.

00:27:03.000 He's going to stand up to the DEI issues.

00:27:05.000 He's going to go back to those.

00:27:07.000 So where are the efficiency opportunities?

00:27:09.000 Why are we spending $100 billion, $200 billion in Ukraine?

00:27:13.000 Is that the right place to be spending the money?

00:27:14.000 So I'm super excited about him.

00:27:16.000 I think those other ones that you mentioned are, I'd say, an autopilot.

00:27:20.000 But there's some really good candidates with very minimal controversy.

00:27:24.000 Yeah, so I just want to reiterate something.

00:27:26.000 I don't think our audience quite understands how serious the recruiting crisis is in our military.

00:27:32.000 Can you just reinforce some of the numbers there and how this puts our preparedness and our national security at risk?

00:27:38.000 Yeah.

00:27:38.000 You know, I think about, I used to coach a lot of little league sports, and one thing I couldn't do was make my players faster or jump higher, at least not too much.

00:27:47.000 So there needs to be a level of talent, a physical fitness of our people entering the military.

00:27:52.000 And I say physical fitness, their mental fitness as well.

00:27:56.000 We're at all-time lows for recruiting for a lot of reasons.

00:28:00.000 I mean, I... My son, I shouldn't use my son on this example.

00:28:04.000 Many people are hesitant to join the military right now because of the DEI issues.

00:28:09.000 And then the transgender surgeries, the military paying for transgender surgeries.

00:28:14.000 Look, today's military has to go with some drastic cultural changes.

00:28:19.000 The numbers for recruiting are at an all-time low, and we just can't.

00:28:24.000 That's where it starts.

00:28:25.000 It starts there at the base.

00:28:27.000 Much like the Republican Party, it starts with the base the same way.

00:28:30.000 It starts with the base, those people that are entering the military.

00:28:34.000 So many of the recruits, I don't have the exact number in front of me, are children or grandchildren.

00:28:38.000 My son, everybody from my family, every generation from my family since the Civil War has had somebody that served.

00:28:45.000 I served, my dad served, my brother served, but many of those people are telling their children not to go to the military.

00:28:51.000 We've got to change that.

00:28:53.000 So, Senator, I want to get your thoughts on the legislative agenda and schedule.

00:28:57.000 Outside of the one-bill, two-bill debate, are there other items that you're going to be pushing for?

00:29:02.000 Some skinnier bills that can maybe pass the House and the Senate without getting 60 votes, or maybe getting 60 votes, maybe in regards to restraining the Chinese Communist Party?

00:29:12.000 Or what other legislative priorities do you hope the Senate majority champions in this very consequential legislative year?

00:29:19.000 Yeah, Charlie, not to circle back, but I think it's important that we organize and prioritize, that we stay locked in on this smaller legislative agenda right now.

00:29:28.000 But we can't focus just on the reconciliation bills, which you've alluded to.

00:29:32.000 We also need to take into account the government funding ends March the 14th, and we've got a debt ceiling facing us as well.

00:29:40.000 So behind all this, one of the things I'm focused on is a budget bill that would require Congress to do a real budget and then have...

00:29:48.000 We have sticks as well as carrots if they don't do it. 1.00

00:29:51.000 So one of my one-off pieces of legislation is the budget bill, but I just can't stress enough.

00:29:56.000 We need to stay locked in on President Trump's agenda.

00:29:59.000 He ran on prosperity and security.

00:30:01.000 And if you really push him, I think you'd say, look, I mostly ran on security, so let's lock in on that bill.

00:30:07.000 Let's give him the money to secure the border.

00:30:09.000 It's going to be very expensive to hunt down 400, 500,000 criminal aliens and then put them in a prison and then ship them out.

00:30:17.000 So, you know, those are some of the issues that I'm focused on.

00:30:22.000 Whatever we can do to roll back regulations, there's something called a congressional review action that we can go back and try to lock in and roll back a lot of these Biden overreach opportunities as well.

00:30:33.000 Finally, Senator, I know you were serving in the House during the first Trump administration, and then, of course, you got promoted up to the Senate.

00:30:40.000 What lessons, as we go into this final week, I'm asking this of all of our lawmaker guests, what lessons did you learn in the first administration that we can make sure not to repeat this one, to make sure that we have a successful administration?

00:30:53.000 Because the first one was terribly chaotic the first 18 months.

00:30:58.000 Any lessons, Senator?

00:30:59.000 Yeah, I think, number one, these agencies do matter.

00:31:02.000 Who's the head of them?

00:31:03.000 And I think that they need to be loyal people.

00:31:05.000 So I think that'll be a big difference as going forward as President Trump's people are loyal, that they're committed to this American First agenda.

00:31:12.000 I think the other lesson learned is, much like being a physician, one of the lessons I learned is try to look through the illness through the eyes of the patient.

00:31:19.000 In the eyes of the family, not necessarily mine.

00:31:22.000 So as I sit there and see some of the ongoing arguments in the House and the Senate, I'm trying to remind my colleagues that what Speaker Johnson has over there, the dynamics, are completely different than ours.

00:31:34.000 So try to look at it through his eyes.

00:31:36.000 We don't have any senators from New York, any senators from Illinois, California, who care about this SALT tax.

00:31:42.000 And I'll let you get into that with your listeners some other time.

00:31:45.000 But it's just not a big issue over here.

00:31:47.000 But Speaker Johnson has to We want to address that SALT tax as he goes through trying to fund border security along with making the Trump tax cuts permanent.

00:31:56.000 You know, over here on the Senate side, we want to make sure that we don't leave some of the great opportunities on the scrap table.

00:32:02.000 I would love to lower the corporate tax more.

00:32:04.000 There has to be more opportunities.

00:32:06.000 If we rush through it, we're not going to get the job done properly.

00:32:10.000 So keep in mind, I'm going to circle them back.

00:32:13.000 March 14th is when the continuing resolution ends for funding the government.

00:32:16.000 Boy, it'd be nice to have funding.

00:32:20.000 Senator, thank you so much for all your hard work, and keep fighting hard.

00:32:43.000 Thank you so much.

00:32:44.000 Really appreciate it.

00:32:45.000 See you in a couple days.

00:32:46.000 Thank you.

00:32:46.000 Looking forward to it.

00:32:49.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here.

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00:33:49.000 you Let's go to this story here.

00:33:53.000 Let's go to cut 13. The situation in front of

00:34:23.000 us right now is this potentially is the end of lawfare.

00:34:27.000 The end of the lawfare regime in its current composition and its current structure.

00:34:34.000 Lawfare is dead.

00:34:36.000 You see, the American people saw it for what it was.

00:34:40.000 It was naked political intervention trying to get a desired outcome.

00:34:46.000 And as Charlemagne says, it's pure political theater.

00:34:49.000 They were never going to actually convict a former president or a forming or a sitting president.

00:34:55.000 I disagree with that, though.

00:34:56.000 I think that they were going to try to convict him.

00:34:58.000 I think that what got in the way was the American people.

00:35:01.000 What got in the way was you.

00:35:04.000 You got in the way of our plan.

00:35:08.000 You got in the way of their plan.

00:35:12.000 Lawfare is one of the more dangerous developments of a society.

00:35:19.000 By the way, Charlemagne went on to say, this is not a win.

00:35:22.000 Who cares if you call him a convicted felon?

00:35:24.000 You've still got to call him president for the next four years.

00:35:26.000 I mean, that was our line first, but yes.

00:35:30.000 Not only that, he's going to be a president with no, he owes nothing to anyone.

00:35:37.000 And the left kind of knows it.

00:35:39.000 Have you noticed how demoralized the Democrats are?

00:35:41.000 Where is their big resistance?

00:35:42.000 Here's a very interesting question.

00:35:44.000 I was just going through the inauguration schedule and...

00:35:46.000 Our team will be there broadcasting live.

00:35:48.000 Here's a very interesting question.

00:35:49.000 Blake or Andrew can find it, or maybe Ryan.

00:35:53.000 Can anyone find if there is the Pink Hat March the day after?

00:35:58.000 Remember last time in 2017 they had this ridiculous march of Madonna saying she's going to blow up the White House and there were like 500,000 people in D.C.? Does the left have anything comparable planned?

00:36:11.000 Please find.

00:36:12.000 I mean, look at all their...

00:36:13.000 Their grassroots networks, do they have a single thing planned right now?

00:36:17.000 Do they have a protest?

00:36:19.000 Do they have a big march?

00:36:20.000 They might have a couple things here or there, but where is the massive response that we saw in 2017?

00:36:25.000 The resistance has given way to the acquiescence.

00:36:28.000 And we the people got in the way.

00:36:30.000 And the left is just defeated.

00:36:32.000 That's why you have Gavin Newsom coming up.

00:36:34.000 Gavin Newsom replied to one of my tweets this weekend.

00:36:37.000 Which by the rumor is that Gavin Newsom's son very well might watch this program.

00:36:42.000 Just...

00:36:42.000 You know, very, let's just say, good sources.

00:36:45.000 It's true.

00:36:46.000 Eric Bolin's laughing.

00:36:47.000 It's true.

00:36:48.000 Gavin Newsom's replying to my tweets, agreeing with me.

00:36:51.000 Can we get the tweet up here?

00:36:52.000 Gavin Newsom is like a big Charlie Kirk fan all of a sudden.

00:36:54.000 He's saying, I agree.

00:36:56.000 This is, you know, violent criminals need to be locked up.

00:36:58.000 What are you doing here?

00:36:58.000 I could tell you.

00:36:59.000 They realize they are so off the mark of where the center of the country is.

00:37:03.000 And the non-ideological, naked political opportunists are trying to adjust in real time.

00:37:09.000 Gavin Newsom responding to tweets.

00:37:11.000 We have...

00:37:12.000 Oh, there is the People's March on January 18th?

00:37:14.000 Okay, so there is something.

00:37:15.000 But that's before the inauguration.

00:37:17.000 Oh, there's going to be a Women's March? 1.00

00:37:18.000 I have to go.

00:37:19.000 Oh my goodness.

00:37:20.000 Thank you, Blake.

00:37:21.000 This is a gift.

00:37:23.000 I have to go and interview people at the Women's March.

00:37:27.000 Will Real America's Voice provide the hats?

00:37:30.000 We're going to go into the streets.

00:37:32.000 Well, they're going into the streets.

00:37:33.000 We're going to go start interviewing people at the Women's March. 0.60

00:37:37.000 On the 18th, I could go to...

00:37:41.000 One of the inaugural balls, Women's March.

00:37:44.000 Inaugural balls, I think the Women's March will be much better content. 1.00

00:37:49.000 Now I'm looking at their website.

00:37:50.000 Our future, our fight.

00:37:51.000 We are marching forward.

00:37:53.000 Join us at the People's March, January 18th, 2025. Oh, that's going to be too good to resist.

00:37:58.000 I'm just going to come and ask questions.

00:38:00.000 We'll see how lovely the women of the left are. 1.00

00:38:05.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:38:06.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:38:08.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - January 13, 2025

How They Ruined California

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