00:00:00.000I'm Alex Marlowe, editor-in-chief of Breitbart News, and I'm filling in for Charlie Kirk today.
00:00:05.000You can email Charlie, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:09.000But in this first hour, you will hear from Charlie himself.
00:00:11.000He is my guest on his own show, which is a very meta moment that is super fun.
00:00:17.000We begin, unfortunately, with some tough news for the country.
00:00:21.000This is a date that could very well live in infamy.
00:00:24.000As the end of Title 42 happens tonight, I explain what that is, what it means, and where we go from here as we open up our border even more.
00:00:33.000If you thought there was a surge before, well, you ain't seen nothing yet.
00:00:37.000Then we get into Trump's dunk-a-thon on CNN last night, which was truly a delight if you get to watch any of it.
00:00:43.000And if you've not, we will play clips for you.
00:00:45.000And he triggered all the right people with an epic performance during a town hall, and he even caught me by surprise.
00:00:51.000And I would like to think I'm an expert in things media.
00:00:54.000We get Charlie's take on that, plus Charlie's opinion on what's going on in the media space in general, particularly with regard to Tucker Carlson's move to Twitter.
00:01:04.000And as I like to say to all my children, snap into your five-point harness because here we go.
00:01:11.000Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:01:13.000Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:01:15.000I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:01:18.000Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:01:24.000His 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.
00:01:32.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:55.000I'm the editor-in-chief of Breitbart News.
00:01:57.000Very pleased to be filling in for my good friend Charlie Kirk.
00:02:00.000Just as a brief background, I've been editor-in-chief of Breitbart News going on 10 years, the first employee of Andrew Breitbart.
00:02:06.000And many years ago, when Charlie Kirk was just a high school student, he sent us an idea for a story to report on.
00:02:14.000And Joel Pollock, who's then the editor-in-chief and now is one of our senior editors at Breitbart, suggested that Charlie write it up himself.
00:02:20.000Charlie said, that sounds like a good idea.
00:02:22.000The story went viral before viral was even a thing.
00:02:25.000He was all over Fox and elsewhere reporting on it.
00:03:38.000It's a tool to remove migrants and send them back to their nation's country in the name of public health.
00:03:43.000Now, this applied during the pandemic, but shouldn't this apply all the time?
00:03:47.000Isn't this just about the best possible reason to have a border to keep people out who are perhaps unhealthy, perhaps bringing drugs, perhaps bringing disease?
00:03:57.000It in fact is one of the main functions of a border in a sane society.
00:04:01.000And it's probably why just about every country on earth has a border.
00:04:05.000In fact, we're fighting a border war right now.
00:04:07.000It just so happens to be in Ukraine against the Russians.
00:04:10.000But our own border, we're going to be letting it wide open more so than it already is.
00:05:38.000We're going to be getting that every month, if our reporting is accurate at Breitbart.
00:05:42.000Reports now are that there's 700,000 illegal aliens amassing at the border right now.
00:05:47.000So what is the customs and border protection, what's Alejandro Mayorkas and the Department of Homeland Security doing?
00:05:53.000Well, what they're doing is they've apparently created an app.
00:05:57.000Yes, you can literally have an app where you can book an appointment to, I guess, get your permisos and then wind up somewhere in the country.
00:06:04.000So obviously the wall is not being built, but we are building processing sensors.
00:06:09.000So we're having a debt ceiling debate right now, which could potentially lead to a partial shutdown of the government if the Democrats get their way.
00:06:19.000And if that happens, then they think they're going to blame Republicans for this.
00:06:22.000Do you remember the last time we had one of those?
00:06:24.000It was when President Trump was asking for $5 billion for a border wall.
00:06:27.000Now, think about how much money has been sent to Ukraine, well over nine-figure sum.
00:06:45.000And all because we would not build a wall.
00:06:47.000And think back on that when you're thinking about the absurdity of the debt ceiling debate that we're going to get is that, and the road towards a shutdown when the last shutdown took place.
00:07:15.000And the lower classes in America, the working classes, are always the ones who are hardest hit.
00:07:20.000They're the ones who are families or going to get hooked on the fentanyl that's going to come through via China into Mexico up via the cartels.
00:07:27.000We are going to see the ones whose rent is going to go up.
00:07:30.000They're the ones whose jobs, their wages are going to get undercut.
00:07:36.000The only explanation is that the Democrats want to import new voters and some in the Republican establishment want to report cheaper wages so that their stock can go up just a little bit.
00:07:47.000Those are the only logical reasons or the one that maybe is the most logical of all, but is the most scary is that the people in charge right now simply don't like this country.
00:07:58.000They want it to be what it means to be an American citizen, something that is a rare and beautiful concept to be undermined at every turn.
00:08:06.000So, this is the reality that we're up against.
00:08:09.000And Maorkis has been giving press conference, press conference where he's been trying to spin what's going on and trying to act like he has it under control.
00:08:18.000Do we have the cut of him speaking to Neil Monroe?
00:08:30.000Migrants are actually ordering door dash and food deliveries on the Mexican side to get by until we take custody.
00:08:38.000Also, they believe, as the migrants you see here inside this shelter, that the U.S. is obligated to hear their asylum claims when Title 42 drops on Thursday night.
00:08:49.000Yeah, so that was the one I was looking for, but that's my bad.
00:08:51.000I blame me, not the producers on that one.
00:09:04.000We are going to see the people flood into the country, and they're going to be very well fed, apparently, because they're getting the door dashed down there.
00:09:13.000So what's gone on is that Majorkis has suggested that the border is not open.
00:09:20.000We saw a record people cross in fiscal year 2022, up 33% over 2021, which was a record then.
00:09:28.000We are now at 5x for fiscal year 22, what we saw in President Trump's last year as president, fiscal year 2020, five times.
00:09:37.000That's acceptable already to apparently the vast majority of people in Washington because they're good with those numbers.
00:09:42.000Now imagine what's going to happen when we take off this last remaining provision.
00:09:46.000They keep some sort of semblance of a secure border.
00:09:49.000So what's being told now is that Biden is going to try to limit the amount of migrants who can claim asylum.
00:09:55.000This is totally bogus because all they are going to do is just get absorbed in the country for years.
00:10:00.000And that scenario is going to play out where they're going to try to put down roots here and they're going to create a scenario where they're allowed to stay.
00:10:07.000They're going to come up with a rationale so they're allowed to stay.
00:10:09.000And who knows if we'll ever get around to processing them, if we even know they're there at all.
00:10:14.000We have this thing called sanctuary cities.
00:10:17.000We have this thing called sanctuary cities in this country where people are allowed to basically break this law and this one and only law.
00:10:25.000There's no other law in the country where there is a sanctuary city.
00:10:38.000And if you think the people in San Francisco and in Chicago and Washington, D.C. and in New York City are going to do a lot to try to get you deported, not going to happen.
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00:14:07.000Jay Johnson, who was high up Homeland Security Secretary under Barack Obama, has noted that migrants are going to be released in the country without a court date and without tracking.
00:14:20.000It is interesting to see that even Biden's getting picked on by the Obama veterans.
00:14:25.000We're seeing migrants arrive in Chicago with colds, pink eye, and believe it or not, COVID-19 still out there, the coronavirus, the Wuhan flu.
00:14:36.000So this is one of these things where you think about the border, Title 42, the logic of it.
00:14:42.000Of course, it's logical to have something that prevents people who are diseased from coming into the country.
00:14:49.000Not say everyone coming into the country is that way, but that's why you have a system where people at least have to sign the guest book before they come in.
00:15:52.000Their ratings are, you know, half a million people are watching, which is literally if you just put on a video of cats playing with balls of yarn during that slot, it would do more than half a million.
00:16:00.000I mean, that's way more interesting than whatever they're doing.
00:16:04.000He made a mockery of the host, Caitlin Collins, who was obviously an overhead on this, but she's about to become a millionaire, I'm told.
00:16:14.000I'm about to, she's going to get that Don Lamone slot, which is it's highly coveted.
00:16:19.000Everyone in media wants that Don Lamone slot.
00:16:21.000So she's going to make a lot of money off of this, I guess.
00:16:23.000But CNN just offered her up for the slaughter in exchange for ratings.
00:16:27.000But this is going to be a fearic victory because CNN will win the night or whatever, but their brand is even somehow worse than it was going into last night.
00:16:38.000And the trick was the dichotomy of the way Trump behaved versus the way the moderator Caitlin Collins behaved.
00:17:38.000He kept saying things that were his talking points, the things that he wanted to convey to the public, but he did it in such a humorous way that the audience was cracking up while they were actually getting informed.
00:17:50.000And you saw all of the people hand-wringing afterwards that Trump was doing the election was rigged, the election was stolen stuff.
00:17:59.000Anyone who is triggered by Trump saying the 2020 election was stolen is just a, I don't want to spend any time with you.
00:18:06.000Let's put it that way, because you have no fun.
00:18:10.000We knew that Trump would take this approach if he was on his A game and he was on his A game.
00:18:16.000He just made a smoldering heap of CNN.
00:18:17.000But the thing that was most delicious about all this is to watch what remaining people who may have tuned into CNN, may have been a part of CNN, to see all of them completely melt down, to see all of them say, Jake Tapper, I'll play this clip later.
00:24:58.000And so I don't know how many people that, you know, wins over, but at least from a primary standpoint, I think it goes to show what the Republican base is demanding right now, which is we want someone who goes in blazing to go fight for the American people and is willing to even go into the most hostile environments and stand up against really difficult opposition questioning.
00:25:20.000You know, one thing that was interesting was the reaction to Trump online from the Republicans who don't want Trump to win.
00:25:27.000The DeSantis people made a really stupid move where they were criticizing Trump, where it was clearly a dunk-a-thon.
00:25:49.000And kind of were at least begrudgingly congratulatory of Trump for winning the night.
00:25:54.000Because Charlie, I said the same thing as you.
00:25:56.000And I was going back and forth to producers last night about this topic about how I thought it was kind of low upside for Trump and he was going to give CNN a big boost.
00:26:05.000And if you're going to stick it to Fox, stick it to Fox a different way.
00:26:08.000And Trump made fools out of anyone who had that opinion because he was so fun and he was so light, but also substantive.
00:26:16.000It was exactly what you want in this type of a forum.
00:26:46.000He wants to win the primary, wants to win the presidency.
00:26:48.000And I thought there was also this other really interesting part where, you know, a critique is usually, oh, Trump can't stop talking about the 2020 election.
00:26:55.000Again, they brought up the topic, okay?
00:26:57.000I thought Trump could have done better, quite honestly, talking about the legitimate issues of the 2020 election, especially Molly Hemingway's book, the now new information about the fake letter signed by the former Intel Chiefs.
00:27:09.000I thought that was a missed opportunity by Trump, where he could have said, Caitlin, didn't you just see that Tony Blinken orchestrated 50 Intel Chiefs with this email from John Brennan saying, I think this is a worthy cause, and they knew it was fraudulent?
00:27:33.000It's like, ah, that's a new little wrinkle.
00:27:35.000I haven't heard him say that before, right?
00:27:37.000Where he's basically saying, like, look, it was bad to happen in 20.
00:27:40.000Let's get motivated and let's go win in 2024.
00:27:43.000And so overall, I think what we're seeing this week with Tucker going to Twitter, with Trump going to CNN, we are seeing monumental changes in the American media landscape, like serious, monumental changes that I think are largely positive, which is organizations and pundits are now going to new platforms, changing their behavior going into 24.
00:28:04.000And for CNN, I just think it's a ratings thing.
00:28:06.000I don't think it's anything more than that.
00:28:08.000Some people are saying, oh, were they trying to help Trump?
00:28:33.000But it's interesting that one of my negatives, I think, on the night was the balance of what issues were discussed, the Eugene Carroll stuff, which is just so off the wall.
00:28:42.000Of course, if it wasn't Trump, no one would ever care about this thing from so long ago.
00:28:48.000And there was very minimal immigration talk.
00:28:51.000There was no Hunter Biden, no Biden crime family talk.
00:29:30.000They failed because they made Trump more powerful.
00:29:33.000Yeah, I mean, and Caitlin Collins, Caitlin Collins just reminded me very similarly to this, you know, overly confident, over-educated 20-year-old from Wellesley or from Stanford that I go to these campuses.
00:29:46.000And she thinks she's got it all figured out because, well, I read the Presidential Records Act too, Mr. President.
00:29:51.000Like, okay, just calm down, Caitlin, right?
00:29:54.000We know that you quote unquote done your homework, even though you really haven't, right?
00:30:28.000And so, you know, that kind of archetype that Caitlin Collins represents, I've seen many, many times.
00:30:37.000And the American left is filled with them, right?
00:30:40.000Which is, you know, I, career over everything else, I am, you know, incredibly pompous.
00:30:47.000I'm very smug, extraordinarily arrogant.
00:30:51.000And, you know, there was certainly an ideological agenda there.
00:30:55.000And then you contrast that with kind of how Tucker has operated, where he says, you know, we're the sworn enemy of pomposity and groupthink.
00:31:01.000And I just want to add one thing to the Tucker thing, and we could talk more after the break here because, boy, I was chomping at the bit to comment on the Tucker thing.
00:31:09.000We are seeing a, you know, with Tucker going to Twitter, kind of this boring way of doing corporate news, which Tucker was obviously the exception to that.
00:31:20.000The same way that we saw transportation change with the advent of the assembly line, thanks to Henry Ford, we're going to see the change of American media.
00:31:28.000The same way that we saw everything change with communication with smartphones, you're living through it.
00:31:33.000In 2023, 24, 25, this short period of time, the way we do news is about to completely be disrupted.
00:31:40.000the old expensive way of cable distribution.
00:33:34.000All of a sudden, the barrier to entry for content creators and entrepreneurs in the creative space has basically gone away.
00:33:41.000So what Tucker is going to do, hopefully, in the best case scenario, is Tucker is going to be the leader in the changing of information consumption, right?
00:33:51.000Away from these just kind of boring networks, away from the same sort of conversations back and forth that mean nothing.
00:33:58.000And I mean, you look at the metrics of Tucker's tweet, 25.4 million views of his latest video, 121 million people that saw it.
00:34:21.000We've been doing it through everything.
00:34:22.000I want to see this trend continue because, Alex, if enough of us that have something to say that challenge the pre-existing orthodoxies are on these networks, on these platforms, it's harder to censor us.
00:34:43.000I'm nervous about the existential issue that Musk has to deal with over Twitter, which is trying to make it the free speech platform and a platform that's appealing to advertisers.
00:34:53.000And I know Tucker is in it for the right reasons.
00:34:56.000I don't know Tucker particularly well, but I've gotten to know him a fair bit.
00:34:59.000He's very open to communicate with people in media.
00:35:03.000He's great about promoting our stuff at Breitbart, which we've always appreciated.
00:35:07.000But I will tell you, I am very confident that he is in it to change the conversation and to change the narrative first and to make money second.
00:35:14.000That's a relatively rare thing, Charlie.
00:35:16.000A lot of people in this space want to change the world.
00:35:20.000They want to save the country, but they really care about their bottom line first.
00:35:23.000And it's such a special thing when you've got the number one guy is genuinely committed to moving the narrative along.
00:35:30.000And that's something you just don't bet against.
00:35:42.000And so if he can now trigger a migration away from these corporate networks to a place where all of a sudden you're able to challenge and examine and expose the deceit and the fraud that's happening both internationally and nationally, that's really important, right?
00:36:01.000And it's critical to the fight for a free society and for the ideas that we deeply care about.
00:36:07.000And so, you know, that's one of the most significant developments this week.
00:36:12.000I mean, obviously the Trump case and all that.
00:36:14.000But one of the big takeaways this week is with Tucker going to Twitter and saying he's going to post on Twitter that is the blue chip blue chip.
00:36:21.000The number one voice in the whole conservative movement media-wise is blazing a new trail.
00:36:26.000He's setting a new trend that the Joe Rogan model of distribution is the future and the old kind of cable box way of doing things is being retired and sunset.