00:00:30.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:39.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:28.000It is pastors learning how to take a stand to strengthen the church, to fight for liberty, to fight wokeism.
00:01:34.000We're going to be talking about that throughout the hour and mentioning it.
00:01:37.000I do want to make sure, I got to get to this Mitt Romney story, but first, this is the most pressing thing.
00:01:43.000I was in Lubbock, Texas this last weekend, and I spoke privately to a state representative who does not like Ken Paxton, and he is helping lead the charge for the impeachment and removal of Ken Paxton.
00:01:53.000And he believes that Ken Paxton might be removed as Attorney General of Texas.
00:01:57.000This is a private, very, very heated conversation that I had.
00:02:00.000And we have gone through the Ken Paxton thing in some great detail.
00:02:04.000But the impeachment proceedings are progressing in Texas.
00:02:09.000The Texas Attorney General needs 10 state senators to vote to acquit.
00:02:13.000And I've been told by insiders that it is mech and neck right now in the state of Texas, mech and mech, as close as you could possibly imagine.
00:02:23.000While the border remains wide open and millions of people are waltzing into the state of Texas, Donald Trump faces 500 years in federal prison.
00:02:29.000The federal government is criminalizing everyday MAGA patriots that the priority of the Republican Texas House of Representatives and the Senate is to remove Ken Paxton as Attorney General.
00:02:46.000Why are you removing an effective Attorney General while your country is being invaded?
00:02:50.000So we're going to put this up on screen.
00:02:52.000We're going to put this at charliekirk.com.
00:02:53.000If you are living, if you live in Texas, you need to contact these people.
00:02:57.000This is the other thing, is Ken Paxton was elected by double digits by over 4 million Texans, even after every allegation against him was made public.
00:03:04.000So the voters wanted him to be Attorney General of Texas, but then the oligarchs of the Texas House of Representatives and the Senate want to overturn that election.
00:03:13.000So it's Brian Hughes, Mays Middleton, Drew Springer, Phil King, Charles Perry, Brian Birdwell, Pete Flores, Kevin Sparks, Charles Schirtwerner, and Kelly Hancock.
00:03:24.000I could read all these phone numbers, but instead, we're going to put this on our Telegram channel.
00:03:31.000I encourage you to be respectful, polite, be direct to these lawmakers.
00:03:37.000And if they're able to remove Ken Paxton, they are basically going to tell the millions of Texans that voted for Ken Paxton that we do not care about elections.
00:03:46.000This would make the Texas House of Representatives and the Texas Senate no better than Jack Smith.
00:04:45.000Where I used to think that it was just Republican v. Democrat, and all we had to do is elect someone to trim around the edges and pass some regulatory reform.
00:04:56.000If there has been one positive of the last decade, as we realize that there's a gang, a cartel, a mafia of insiders and oligarchs that are calling the shots, that wear jerseys on both political parties, that import cheap products from other countries that destroy our industrial base, that keep our borders wide open.
00:05:14.000Mitt Romney is a cheerleader for smug Upper East Coast neoliberalism.
00:05:19.000And Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts and now senator, soon to not be senator of Utah, is the perfect representation of out-of-touch neoliberalism, exactly what MAGA and populist Trump ideas have been challenging.
00:05:36.000Mitt Romney ran in 2012 as a technocrat.
00:05:39.000If you look at it, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama disagreed on very little.
00:05:43.000Barack Obama literally took Mitt Romney's health care plan and implemented it nationwide.
00:05:48.000They agreed on almost every single foreign policy idea.
00:05:51.000In fact, Barack Obama was actually a little bit more isolationist than Mitt Romney was.
00:05:57.000Mitt Romney was the one that was telling us about Russia back in 2012 as a parrot of the intel agencies.
00:06:05.000Well, Mitt Romney speaks out, play cut 78.
00:06:08.000Republican Party that is beholden to former President Donald Trump.
00:06:11.000Well, there's no question but that the Republican Party today is in the shadow of Donald Trump.
00:06:16.000He is the leader of the greatest portion of the Republican Party.
00:06:20.000It's a populist, I believe, demagogue portion of the party.
00:06:23.000Look, I represent a small wing of the party, if you will.
00:06:26.000I call it the wise wing of the Republican Party.
00:07:07.000While you, the everyday people, you don't call the shots.
00:07:12.000Mitt Romney looks at himself as someone that has been chosen to rule.
00:07:18.000This is why they're always yielding to experts.
00:07:20.000Mitt Romney doesn't just think he's better than you.
00:07:22.000He thinks he can run your life better than you.
00:07:25.000He's the wise wing that thinks they can centrally plan everything from the failed war in Ukraine to the failed vaccine rollout to the failed Obamacare website.
00:07:35.000Mitt Romney will never take responsibility for anything.
00:08:41.000And I will say, Mitt Romney, out of all the people that say that they're too old for office, I don't doubt his capacity to serve.
00:08:50.000I do doubt his worldview and his ideas.
00:08:54.000In fact, I find them to be repulsive and reprehensible because Mitt Romney played the voters of Utah.
00:09:01.000Remember, Mitt Romney went to Bedminster to go beg Donald Trump for an endorsement to run for the Senate, gets it, and then right before he gets sworn in, he writes a Washington Post article saying that Donald Trump is not fit to serve.
00:09:14.000So he gets the endorsement, wins the election, writes an op-ed, and says Donald Trump is not fit to serve.
00:09:44.000The Republican Party is better the less Mitt Romney that we have around.
00:09:47.000However, what he reveals in this piece is something I've been telling you about, something that you guys know about, that is even worse than Mitt Romney, which is the people that lied to you.
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00:11:01.000I honestly think this is one of the most promising developments over the last decade.
00:11:07.000It's a promising development that Mitt Romney basically has to retire in shame and he believes that he is in the vast minority of the party.
00:11:14.000But remember what he said, oh, oh, we will rise again.
00:11:16.000Not if we have anything to say about it, Willard Mitt Romney.
00:11:19.000Oligarchs like you have no place in the Republican Party.
00:11:54.000Okay, yeah, you're the too good for school, too good for us, virtue signaling smug.
00:11:59.000And nothing has changed from being unpopular in high school to being unpopular in the Senate.
00:12:09.000But let's focus on one part of the piece.
00:12:12.000Throughout the piece, it talks about how Mitt Romney would privately talk to other senators.
00:12:19.000And I actually believe this part of the article, where Mitt Romney would start to confide in other senators because he would speak against Trump and speak against Trump.
00:12:28.000And other senators would say, boy, I wish I could speak out like you could, Mitt, but I'm afraid of my voters.
00:12:51.000Now, they go on to say that, oh, these senators are physically afraid of their voters and that there's going to be violence because it's nonsense.
00:14:03.000And it makes you wonder how many other people in the Senate are hiding in plain sight who really believe nothing.
00:14:15.000It goes on, and Mitt Romney said he learned when he was in the Senate that most people are just transactional.
00:14:22.000They just want to win reelection, including you, Mitt Romney, until you resign.
00:14:28.000Here's how you know Mitt Romney has completely lost any harmony with the grassroots.
00:14:37.000When you have Hillary Clinton praising you on MSNBC, you have to really take a step back and say, wow, our party has changed for the better to kick clowns like this out of our circle.
00:14:52.000You know, Joe, it's hard to imagine how much worse it's gotten from what we thought was pretty much the bottom.
00:15:00.000And I really appreciate Senator Romney being so forthright and laying out his firsthand observations and understanding of what's going on inside not just the Republicans in the Senate, but the entire Republican Party.
00:15:18.000It is something that is hard for me to really understand.
00:15:24.000You know, I was in the Senate for eight years.
00:15:26.000I served with a number of the people who are still there.
00:15:29.000I used to believe they all knew better, that they went along with the criminality of Trump and his enablers for their own reasons, but that at some point they would call halt.
00:15:42.000And now I don't recognize these people.
00:15:45.000And it's such a disservice to the country.
00:15:47.000And so we've got to, you know, keep fighting back as best we can.
00:15:51.000Mitt Romney wins praise from Hillary Clinton on MSNBC.
00:15:57.000That should tell you everything you need to know.
00:16:01.000Mitt Romney, 11 years ago, was the nominee of the Republican Party.
00:16:06.000He was supposed to be our fighter against Obama Marxism.
00:16:09.000And 11 years later, he's resigning from the Senate, winning praise from Hillary Clinton.
00:19:00.000So you have all those facts, that specific fact, those four central facts with Burisma.
00:19:05.000And then to top it all off, you have the way the Justice Department handled the investigation.
00:19:11.000That to me is why we've moved into this phase of our oversight duty.
00:19:15.000So walk us through what exactly is an impeachment inquiry and the timeline and the steps of how that might lead to a vote to impeach President Biden.
00:19:24.000It's a new designation that gives added weight, particularly when you're dealing with the courts, because the power to investigate under an impeachment inquiry is different than the normal power we have to do oversight.
00:19:37.000So the normal oversight authority rests in our legislative function.
00:19:43.000So we're doing oversight for a legislative intent.
00:19:46.000But when you're doing an impeachment inquiry, you're investigating because of something specific in the Constitution that solely resides in the House of Representatives.
00:19:57.000And so when you get into the inevitable conflict with the executive branch over documents and or individuals you may need to depose, courts have typically said, well, this is a specific function to the House, solely resides in the House regarding their impeachment power.
00:20:17.000They're more likely to side with the House on getting those documents.
00:20:20.000So we're at a point where there's going to be subpoenas and depositions that need to be done.
00:20:25.000There's 13 people, the Justice Department we want to talk to.
00:20:27.000I just signed subpoenas for some of these individuals just this week.
00:20:31.000But with Chairman Comer, Chairman Smith, and our committee, that's going to inevitably happen.
00:20:35.000And so this puts you in a much stronger position with the courts because it's inherent to our constitutional duty.
00:20:42.000So I understand that there was a private meeting with committee staff in the Republican caucus as a precursor to this impeachment inquiry.
00:20:49.000Can you just give us some inside baseball, the temperature check?
00:20:52.000Where do some of the more moderate members fall on this as far as their willingness to proceed?
00:20:58.000So walk us through, just if you can, just where your colleagues are, what they're thinking, what they're saying in regards to advancing this.
00:21:06.000Well, I'm always reluctant to get into private meetings amongst members and colleagues, but I will say this.
00:21:13.000I think everyone understands that there's all kinds of evidence that warrants us moving to this stage, this impeachment inquiry stage of our investigation.
00:21:23.000And what we try to do in these meetings is just get people familiar, get our colleagues familiar with the facts because we've been working on this now for several months looking into concerns we have and just highlighting those facts and then taking questions and comments they have.
00:21:39.000I think our members understand this is part of our constitutional duty.
00:21:51.000But frankly, that shouldn't be limited to Republicans.
00:21:54.000This should be a concern of the Congress and specifically the House of Representatives, again, because that's where under our constitutional system this authority lies.
00:22:03.000So I would think the entire House is interested in the facts as we now see them, the things we have learned, and following the facts and the evidence to do our constitutional duty.
00:22:15.000So can you speak to a second how this is going to work with the strategy coming up on 930, the funding deadline, specifically Jack Smith funding, blank checks to Ukraine, the border, and some spending cuts.
00:22:28.000How does this announcement of the impeachment inquiry impact that at all?
00:22:31.000Does it make it easier to try to get some of those cuts or some of those concessions?
00:22:36.000Walk us through some of that, Congressman.
00:22:37.000Yeah, we've got a number of what's typically called policy writers, to use the jargon here on Capitol Hill, policy writers that would limit how funds can be spent in the Department of Justice that we've got to the committee that we think we're going to be in the bill that funds the Justice Department.
00:22:55.000We also know that that bill has a reduction in the amount of money of your tax dollars and your listeners' tax dollars, American people's tax dollars, that go to the Justice Department.
00:23:03.000We certainly don't want them building a new headquarters at the FBI using our tax money to do that.
00:23:07.000So those are the kind of things that we think make sense.
00:23:11.000And then how this plays out over the next few weeks, we'll see.
00:23:15.000I do anticipate that we're going to need a short-term funding bill, but I would say on that funding bill, we got to attach something that is, I think, particularly relevant to the situation we see in the country today.
00:23:25.000And I would say maybe front and center on that is this immigration issue.
00:23:31.000I mean, you had Mayor Adams say last week that you make comments last week that a sanctuary city mayor saying this is what it's doing to our city.
00:23:39.000So I think if any funding bill for any length of time should say we're going to focus on getting control of the southern border.
00:23:47.000And specifically, I would say no new migrants should be released into the country, for goodness sake, in light of particularly what we know has happened, what we've seen over the last three years in the Biden administration.
00:23:57.000And of course, in light of what Mayor Adams said last week, I think that even Democrats now understand how serious this problem is.
00:24:04.000There's also the issue of the weaponization of government.
00:24:07.000And you mentioned specifically the special counselor who's been attacking President Trump.
00:24:11.000I think that's something that we can consider as well.
00:24:13.000But yeah, on any funding bill, I think there should be one good policy area that we can win on and take the case of the American people and tell Chuck Schumer, really, you're contemplating not funding the government because you don't want to stop this influx of individuals on our southern border, as an example, that even the mayor of your hometown talked about just last week how serious this situation is.
00:24:36.000So Congressman Chad Pergram is announcing that there is kind of a little bit of a puffing of the trust going on between Speaker McCarthy and Matt Gates, where now basically Speaker McCarthy is daring Matt Gates to do the motion to vacate, basically calling the bluff.
00:24:52.000In a series of tweets, Chad Pergram tweeted out some inside baseball saying that Kevin McCarthy is daring House Conservatives saying, bring it on.
00:24:58.000So is there a deal that could be struck to avoid this?
00:25:01.000Does the impeachment curry help with that?
00:25:06.000What can you fill in here for our audience in regards to this?
00:25:09.000I hope we can come together as a conference and fund the government for some length of time while we continue to work on the appropriation bills where we can hopefully get the kind of policy writers I talked about specifically.
00:25:21.000The example we used was on the Justice Department's funding legislation to limit how they can use American tax dollars in a way that protects our liberties and freedoms.
00:25:33.000And I would recommend some kind of CR that does just what I talked about on the border and say, we're going to fund the government, Chuck Schumer, but we want this policy, which the entire country knows is the right policy to secure our border and stop this influx of illegal migrants coming into the country that even your Democrat mayor in New York City talked about.
00:25:56.000That's the kind of thing I think makes sense.
00:25:58.000And the American people say, yeah, that's the kind of thing we should be doing.
00:26:01.000And then when you fund it for a short period of time, then get right back to work on these bills that we're supposed to do that fund the government agency by agency.
00:26:10.000So Congressman Jordan, in kind of closing here, this is going to be a very, very eventful couple of weeks coming up.
00:26:18.000And I get the impression that Joe Biden and the White House, they're positioning almost for a government shutdown.
00:26:26.000In fact, there have been some leaks and some memos trying to already blame the Republicans if a government is shut down.
00:26:32.000At least from where our perspective is, I think there needs to be some bright lines.
00:26:36.000And Jack Smith, I think we got to go all in on the defunding of Jack Smith because he has been so completely out of control, unconstitutional, and sets a terrible precedent.
00:26:45.000So I'm sure this is still being worked out, but the border is great.
00:27:02.000Because, I mean, think of the contrast.
00:27:05.000You've got David Weiss named as the special counsel to look into the Biden business operation.
00:27:11.000David Weiss, the guy who presided over the investigation for four and a half years, the guy who allowed the defense counsel to be tipped off when a search warrant was coming, the guy who put together the plea deal that the court declined to accept because it was so ridiculous.
00:27:26.000That's the guy who gets named special counsel.
00:27:38.000So I think that issue is front and center.
00:27:40.000And of course, the immigration, border security issue is front and center, as is evident by what, again, what Mayor Adams has set up in New York, the situation there.
00:27:51.000So those are the kind of issues that you put on a bill that funds the government and you tell Chuck Schumer, really?
00:27:58.000You think it's appropriate for the Biden administration to, you're going to shut down the government because you think the Biden administration needs to be able to fund the prosecution of their opponent for the presidential election in the presidential election.
00:28:13.000And you think it's appropriate for Chuck Schumer to shut down the government because he won't accept limiting additional migrants coming into the country?
00:28:23.000Go tell that to the people in New York, Senator Schumer.
00:28:58.000What if there was an attempt to say that we will defund any current investigations into people running for president or their families until after the presidential election?
00:29:10.000That would include Joe or Hunter Biden.
00:29:12.000Now, is that an actual investigation of Hunter Biden?
00:29:14.000It's kind of a joke, honestly, the way it is right now.
00:29:18.000And this would defang Jack Smith and actually allow an election to occur.
00:29:22.000Now, the counterargument, you probably say, is Charlie, why would you defund the one opportunity we have to actually hold the Democrats accountable?
00:29:29.000Well, do you actually think that Hunter Biden is getting the full pressure, the full court press of the Department of Justice right now?
00:29:35.000Democrats would potentially go for it because they'd say, well, this would get them off our back, get them off Hunter's back, and we don't have the Senate.
00:29:46.000So this could potentially be a possible deal of the no political investigations until after the 2024 election.
00:29:54.000We already know Hunter Biden is a crook.
00:29:55.000We could still proceed with impeachment.
00:29:58.000It would just be a little bit of a delay.
00:30:00.000Now, I know you're going to be emailing me, Charlie, come on, you've got to be kidding me.
00:30:06.000So you just can't defund Jack Smith and then just move on.
00:30:09.000Plus, if you shut down the government, Jack Smith's money still continues, just so we're clear.
00:30:14.000So you'd have to carve out Jack Smith in particular.
00:30:18.000So what if you call the Democrats bluff?
00:30:21.000And you say, look, because if you read a lot of the anger that is happening right now, we are resisting this Jack Smith push based on principle.
00:30:31.000We say that an unelected Department of Justice should not be able to interfere with our elections.
00:30:42.000It's not a great deal, but it would be a much better deal than nothing.
00:30:49.000Saying, okay, we will temporarily deprive all the funding of investigations into Hunter Biden, and we'll temporarily deprive all the funding into all investigations into Trump and his family and people associated.
00:31:03.000Not saying that they will never be renewed.
00:31:06.000It's just we're going to allow an election to occur.
00:31:10.000And let's be honest, do you actually think Hunter Biden is getting thoroughly investigated right now?
00:31:14.000Do you actually, we know with all the white stuff and the corruption and the whistleblower and the interference, it's actually more for Congress's role than some technical thing of Hunter Biden didn't fill out a piece of paper for a gun registration issue.
00:33:12.000And isn't the whole goal winning in 2024 of November?
00:33:17.000If Jack Smith is in the way, put Jack Smith on ice, and then that means you might have to also put Hunter Biden on ice, which he already is on ice effectively.