On this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, Charlie talks about Lee Zeldin's assassination attempt in New York City, and why it's insane that a sitting Congressman would be targeted by a crazed lunatic on the street.
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00:01:11.000I do want to just, before we get into Lee, I just want to say if you're listening anywhere across the country and you're hearing that ambient noise in the background, if you're not able to watch this live, you are at the premiere event in the conservative movement.
00:01:25.000This is the center of the conservative universe this weekend.
00:01:45.000Listen, the fact that we're here, the fact that this is this beautiful, the fact that it's this large, we have over 5,000 students from high school and colleges across the country here in Tampa, Florida.
00:01:55.000And I just want to say again, this is in spite of Bidenflation.
00:01:59.000This is in spite of airfare that has gone through the roof.
00:02:02.000This is in spite of all the challenges we're facing.
00:02:04.000This is so wild is that, you know, so back in early June, our tickets were trending fine.
00:02:49.000And a 43-year-old David G. Jacobonis walked across the stage, stopped in front of Zeldon, and appeared to thrust a weapon towards Zeldin's neck.
00:02:57.000Now, if you haven't seen a picture of this weapon, it's one of those things you almost put on like a keychain, and you put your fingers through it, and your whole point is to stab and puncture somebody's skin.
00:04:07.000This is that insane that a sitting congressman is, there's an attempted assassination, and his attacker is out on the street the next day because of these lax laws in states like New York and California.
00:04:20.000And by the way, you tweeted about this.
00:04:22.000Joe Rogan got into all this controversy this week because he said, he basically said you could get away with murder in L.A. if you shoot homeless people because they don't prosecute violent crime.
00:04:32.000Now all the Los Angeles Times is saying, well, Joe Rogan was advocating for shooting homeless people.
00:05:03.000So it says, according to a statement later released by Monroe County Sheriff's Department, Jack Obonis was charged with attempted assault in the second degree.
00:05:14.000And just as Zelda in the second degree, not attempted murder.
00:05:33.000You know, we followed Jack Poseobic, War Room, filling in for War Room, and has become famous for saying, get out of cities.
00:05:40.000Well, this happened in the country, and it's still a.
00:05:42.000I mean, you really wonder that if someone went up to a Kathy Hochle rally with a knife, do you think they would have been charged by second-degree assault?
00:08:14.000Look, we talk about current events a lot on this show, but there's other things that are in life that are bigger than current events, bigger things.
00:08:20.000We try to do some shows every so often on these things.
00:08:23.000But look, what am I talking about when I say that?
00:08:26.000Right and wrong, prayer and the Bible or heaven and hell.
00:08:29.000So look, the great C.S. Lewis, who's one of the most amazing minds ever to exist, was a master at addressing these questions.
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00:10:29.000I mean, what they would call lower crimes or, you know, smaller property crimes, they don't even enforce right now, right?
00:10:39.000But they were saying that if you go and take property from a homeless person that's made an encampment on the side of your street in your neighborhood, if you do anything to that person, they'll come get you.
00:11:02.000Like, you can, there were laws protecting homeless encampments.
00:11:05.000There was laws protecting, you know, if they put like a broke down sort of car that they were living on their street, they had more rights than you did as a homeowner on that street.
00:12:34.000Fox News is reporting signs that the administration awarded a $172 million grant to a George Soros-linked organization, which exists to, quote, help young border crossers avoid deportation.
00:12:47.000Now, why is some foreign-born billionaire allowed to change our country fundamentally?
00:12:56.000This organization is called the Vera Institute for Justice, and it stands to gain a billion dollars in federal money by the end of the contract just to subvert our laws.
00:13:04.000Now, the catch is that no one verifies when the people crossing the border are actually minors.
00:13:10.000So, let me make sure I understand this correctly.
00:13:11.000Taxpayer money is going to be augmenting a George Soros funding organization to bring foreign nationals into America.
00:13:17.000Yeah, this is the untold story of the border sagas, right?
00:13:27.000When you hear the left use fluffy words like, we're a civil rights organization, that's probably code for you get a phone call and you go out and ride on the streets when you don't like.
00:13:39.000Get out of jail for no accountability.
00:13:40.000They're not about civil rights, by the way.
00:13:41.000They were silent when James O. Keith's apartment got raided.
00:13:52.000The federal government is awarding these groups that are gaming our immigration system that are helping illegal immigrants cross our border and navigate once they get on this side, right?
00:14:10.000On the other side of that border in Mexico, you got NGOs like Soros-Link Vera Institute of Justice telling them, throw your idea away, and we'll let you in for free and we'll buy you a plane ticket to D.C. or New York, which now, by the way, the mayor of D.C., Eric Adams, is asking for more federal money to deal with his own surge of illegal immigrants.
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00:16:45.000And so this really is my journey from coming from a Democrat household where my mom believed those lies that put us in poverty and kept us there, put us in breadlines waiting for government cheese.
00:16:57.000And also the abuse that I experienced from adults in my family abusing drugs and alcohol and even my mom abusing my mom physically.
00:17:07.000And throughout all of that, I still developed conservative values.
00:17:13.000I saw that I could do a better job taking care of myself than government did.
00:17:18.000I was created to be an overcomer, as we all are.
00:17:22.000I learned my identity through my relationship with Jesus, found who I am in what scripture says about me, the promises that God said about me.
00:17:31.000And this journey just shows everyone that you were not limited by your past.
00:17:35.000You're not limited by your mistakes or your upbringing.
00:17:39.000And here in America, you truly can live the American dream.
00:20:16.000They have weakened the nuclear family and undermined masculinity and even femininity.
00:20:22.000And the people who can't even define what a woman is now wants to get in the middle of defining a covenant between a man and a woman and God.
00:20:55.000So you're in the House floor and people are saying, obviously paraphrasing, I'm going to go vote for homosexual marriage because I'm afraid of television ads.
00:21:38.000We have to stand tall and remain true to our principles.
00:21:43.000That is what keeps our base with us and what is attracting Democrats to come to our party.
00:21:48.000Well, and it's also just regardless of your opinions on the issue, why are you going over the top to court the most despicable lobby in Washington, D.C., which these people, they don't care about you.
00:22:30.000After July, we are only in session 29 days for the rest of the year.
00:22:35.000Which, I mean, look, I want to be there and I want to work, but I'm actually really glad that the Democrats only have 29 days to push through their radical agenda because they are getting very aggressive with it.
00:22:44.000They have been all year because they know that their time is short.
00:22:47.000They know that they won't have the majority next year.
00:22:49.000I just hope that we have strong leadership who won't appease these same radical progressives next year when we are in the majority.
00:22:58.000Do you think that what's your view on the leadership race?
00:23:03.000No, I mean, I've been focusing on who's actually leading in the party.
00:23:08.000And I think that's members of the Freedom Caucus.
00:23:10.000I think that's members of the Second Amendment Caucus.
00:23:12.000We have been loud and out front on so many issues that the rest of the conference didn't really want to touch.
00:23:18.000And we have been exposing what the Democrats have been doing.
00:23:22.000The Disinformation Governance Board, you know, I took the lead in that, and I actually was able to get leadership on board and support us in that effort.
00:23:30.000And we were able to get Nina Jinkowicz to resign, the board to shut down.
00:27:20.000Second Amendment rights are under attack.
00:27:21.000What does that look like legislatively?
00:27:23.000Do you think there's going to be more gun control anytime soon?
00:27:25.000They're going to push through as much gun control as possible.
00:27:27.000It was really shameful that so many senators actually voted with the Democrats to pass this gun legislation.
00:27:34.000I was watching hearings in the Judiciary Committee.
00:27:37.000Cicillini, he thinks a stabilizing brace actually converts a pistol into a fully automatic weapon.
00:27:44.000You know, and so these people who are absolutely ignorant on the issue want to legislate the issue and they don't know what it is.
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00:28:23.000So, Lauren, let me tell you, let me ask you, what is going on with the seizure of farmland in our country?
00:28:29.000You know, this is just another intentional attack.
00:28:33.000If we don't have farmers, if we don't have farmland, we don't have food.
00:28:37.000You control the food, you control the people.
00:28:39.000And that's what all of this has been about.
00:28:42.000They are in a radical push to control every aspect of it, people from our educational decisions to our medical decisions, and now down to what we eat.
00:29:26.000It's more than they should have, that's for sure.
00:29:28.000Here's what I know: Bill Gates owns 2,270 acres in Colorado, which is small potatoes compared to what he owns in Nebraska, 20,000 acres, 69,000 in Louisiana, 47,000 in Arkansas, 16,000 in Mississippi.
00:29:42.000So, Bill Gates is one thing, and it's part of the great reset, I believe.
00:29:46.000But why is it that we allow the Chinese Communist Party to own this land?
00:29:50.000You know, that is something that needs to be stopped.
00:30:20.000Why is it that the conservative media is not making a bigger deal out of this?
00:30:24.000And I mean, instead of voting for gay marriage or for sending money to Ukraine, why are we not having non-stop hearings and press conferences on our most precious asset?
00:30:33.000One of the most precious assets to country is our farmland, is our fertile ability to grow food and water.
00:30:38.000It's something you know really well in Colorado.
00:30:40.000And we already have the federal government that owns too much land, in my opinion, in the West.
00:31:30.000Frivolous lawsuits that have that have stopped us from managing, from logging, from harvesting the dead timber and even cutting green the live trees that need to be thinned out in our forests.
00:31:41.000You know, President Trump, he was heckled for wanting to rake the forest.
00:31:45.000Go look at a forest floor that has not been managed.