00:00:00.000Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, we go through the impeachment fallout, Congresswoman Liz Cheney's attempt to divide the Republican Party and so much more.
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00:02:06.000The president of the United States has been impeached twice.
00:02:09.000He was impeached in a House of Representatives vote.
00:02:13.000The quickest impeachment in the history of impeachment.
00:02:16.000A story started to come out last evening that was showing that President Trump had to be basically held back by his aides not to go defend himself on the House floor.
00:02:27.000And so the president has been impeached.
00:02:30.000And there are 10 Republicans who voted for impeachment.
00:02:47.000And if we'd prosecuted BLM and Antifa rioters across the country with the same determination these last six months, this incident may not have happened at all.
00:02:58.000And go to Cut 93, which is the best cut, where Representative McClintock on the House floor says, if we impeached every politician who gave a fiery speech, this Capitol would be deserted.
00:03:27.000They did this in less than 24 hours, Isabel.
00:03:29.000Yeah, it was really within a span of two hours once they started debate and then finally wrapped up with voting.
00:03:34.000It's probably the fastest debate we've ever seen on even the idea of removing a president, let alone following through with it.
00:03:41.000So Liz Cheney, who is a congresswoman from Wyoming, who does not agree with the president or his supporters on trade, on immigration, on challenging entrenched corporate interests, and definitely does not agree on foreign policy, she came out very forcefully saying that she was going to support impeachment.
00:04:03.000Now, in the coming segments, I'm going to play some flashback clips to what the media used to think about the Cheneys.
00:04:11.000Now, if you think the media hates Donald Trump, Dick Cheney was Donald Trump before Donald Trump as far as how much the media hated a figure in American politics.
00:04:23.000It's hard to put into words the venom and the hatred that the Cheney family and specifically Dick Cheney received for years.
00:04:33.000Now, maybe this is part of Liz Cheney trying to remake the Cheney brand, trying to say, forget about Halliburton.
00:04:40.000You know, let's talk about impeachment.
00:04:43.000But if you go back into some of the sound in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, the way the media talked about Dick Cheney, I thought was reprehensible then and today.
00:04:56.000But now Liz Cheney is being lauded and is being just celebrated by that very same media.
00:05:03.000So Liz Cheney came out, a congresswoman from Wyoming, and she said that this is the worst betrayal of an oath of office.
00:05:12.000We'll get the exact quote, but it was pretty aggressive language, wasn't it, Isabel?
00:05:15.000Like the worst thing a president has ever done in the history of the country.
00:05:20.000So she probably thought in her massive, like her own self-created image that she was going to bring dozens of people alongside of her, maybe 100 people, so that she could run for Speaker of the House.
00:05:52.000I'm sure you can get all the names, Isabel, and list them off.
00:05:55.000Now, this kind of drive-through sham impeachment should have been rejected by every single member.
00:06:03.000Now, that's not to say if you hold the opinion that the president shouldn't have given that speech or you think he should have done things differently.
00:06:11.000None of those necessarily, in any way whatsoever, are impeachable offenses.
00:07:00.000Important is to just recognize we just had a violent mob assault the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to prevent us from carrying out our constitutional duty.
00:07:12.000And there's no question that the president formed the mob, the president decided the mob.
00:08:00.000Well, it came from English common law.
00:08:03.000The idea of the presumption of innocence and being able to have charges brought against you, cross-examination of witnesses, the submission of evidence.
00:08:38.000Now, we know that there were hundreds of people already congregating on the eastern side of the Capitol building before the president even arrived at the Washington Monument two miles away.
00:08:52.000We know that the president said, please be patriotic and peaceful.
00:08:56.000Now, you might have the opinion of Governor Mike Huckabee, where he said, I think the president could have chose his words a lot more care much more carefully.
00:09:04.000That's different than what Congresswoman Liz Cheney is saying.
00:09:08.000And as we read from former Washington, D.C. Attorney General Shapiro, everyone is still responsible for their own actions.
00:09:20.000Incitement is a very, very high legal bar to hit.
00:09:26.000If we were to go through every single member of Congress that talks in heavy and charged language, there would be incitement calls all over the place.
00:09:36.000What about Alexandria Casio-Cortez that talks at BLM Incorporated rallies, and after that they go loot and riot?
00:09:45.000So, Congresswoman Liz Cheney, I agree with you.
00:09:56.000Another characteristic of a mob is I only have one opinion.
00:10:04.000No one can convince me of this, and I don't keep an open mind.
00:10:07.000Now, I'm not trying to tell Congresswoman Liz Cheney or the people that voted for impeachment to keep an open mind about the events of the Capitol.
00:10:14.000Instead, think independently about, am I really prepared in the span of one week, no representation, no witnesses at all whatsoever, to all of a sudden use the highest level of constitutional power granted to you to impeach and remove a president of the United States.
00:10:53.000However, if all of a sudden we are going to say we're not going to let the mob win and then you're going to start acting in your own form of a mob, then what exactly are we doing here?
00:11:06.000I want to keep going through this because these arguments need to be confronted.
00:11:10.000And without a proper defense, that is not an impeachment.
00:12:34.000By impeaching the president during his final week in office, Congress will not succeed in discrediting Trump among Republican voters.
00:12:42.000In fact, it will enhance Donald Trump among Republican voters, obviously.
00:12:48.000And so here's the argument: instead of allowing President Trump to serve out his term, only further platforming him and his voters does the exact opposite than what I think a lot of people are actually trying to do here.
00:13:05.000And not as if I'm trying to give Democrats advice, but if they're really trying to make Trump go away, they did the opposite of what they should have actually done yesterday.
00:13:14.000And so Congresswoman Liz Cheney led the charge yesterday to impeach President Donald Trump.
00:13:22.000She was, at least from the Republican side.
00:13:29.000Two-thirds of Republicans voted to object to the counting of the Electoral College votes.
00:13:39.00093% of House Republicans voted against impeachment yesterday.
00:13:43.000And the interesting thing is that 64% of all polled Republicans, according to an Axios Ipsus poll, says that they support President Trump's recent behavior.
00:13:57.000Only 17% of Republicans polled said that they think that he should be removed from office.
00:14:07.000The speeches on the House floor were rushed and were this wasn't an impeachment.
00:14:15.000A show trial is a tactic that was used by the Soviet Union as a way to make it seem as if they had some form of justice, but the end result was already basically well in, not just well in mind, but it's already there.
00:14:33.000The president was not even given an opportunity to have counsel have an opportunity to represent himself.
00:14:40.000Now, the other impeachment trial that President Trump went through, the impeachment process, last year, they wanted it to go on as long as possible to try to get as much TV time, to try to get as much air and exposure.
00:14:58.000And the Democrats are torn on whether or not they should send the impeachment articles to the Senate, whether or not they should focus on President when President Biden becomes President Biden, his agenda, or whatever he wants to do to the world, or focus on impeachment.
00:15:19.000Congressman Louis Gohmert and Cut 83 said something that really upset a lot of people.
00:15:34.000I just don't even know why there aren't more uprisings all over the country, and maybe there will be.
00:15:42.000Or sadly, the domestic enemies of our voting system and honoring our Constitution are right at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with their allies in Congress of the United States.
00:16:14.000And so now the state of affairs as it is right now is a Republican Party that actually isn't as nearly fractured as I think Liz Cheney wanted to be or thought it would be.
00:16:32.000For all intents and purposes, this is the lowest moment of President Trump's presidency.
00:16:37.000It is also the last moments of his presidency.
00:16:42.000And when they had the most amount of media cover imaginable, when they had the most amount to be paraded in the New York Times, The Washington Post, how many Republicans turned their back on President Trump's voters?
00:16:58.000And forget President Trump for a moment.
00:17:00.000I'm talking about his voters, 10 Republicans.
00:17:04.000That goes to show that Liz Cheney's attempted effort here failed, and it failed dramatically.
00:17:16.000Well, maybe it's because Congresswoman Liz Cheney has always wanted to try and undercut and trying to delegitimize President Donald Trump and his voters on issues like trade, on immigration, and on foreign wars.
00:17:34.000And she just saw her opportunity right now to try and do that.
00:17:38.000I'm going to read from an article from CNN, which is, I think, actually really, really well done right now.
00:17:44.000It's investigators pursuing signs U.S. Capitol riot was planned by Evan Perez, CNN justice correspondent.
00:17:52.000Evidence uncovered so far, including weapons and tactics seen on surveillance video, suggests a level of planning that has led investigators to believe the attack on the U.S. Capitol was not just a protest that spiraled out of control, a federal law enforcement official says.
00:18:08.000Among the evidence the FBI is examining are indications that some participants at the Trump rally at the ellipse left the event early, perhaps to retrieve items to be used in the insult on the Capitol.
00:18:22.000So these guys came with weapons, tactics, motives, and intention well beyond someone inciting them to do something.
00:18:34.000It says here that at least some of the arrests made are already part of a strategy used in counterterrorism investigations to find even minimal charge and try to take a person of concern off the streets.
00:18:46.000That helps ease the possible threat amid concern about possible attacks on the inauguration, officials believe.
00:18:54.000And that is why they said that they arrested some people in the days leading to that.
00:18:58.000However, this article itself kind of, I mean, I'm just going to be very honest.
00:19:05.000It's scary and it is incomprehensible to me that these people would do that, whomever they are, and they should be held fully accountable to the law.
00:19:15.000If you come to Washington, D.C. with weapons and you have tactics and schematics, to me, that is just reprehensible and horrifying.
00:19:27.000And so that goes and plays against a lot of the narrative that the media is painting, where it was 100% this rally that led to what happened on the Capitol.
00:19:41.000Let's listen to Don Laman, Cut 85, where he says Trump voters are on the side of the Klansmen and other very horrible things.
00:19:58.000I am never principal people, conservative or liberal, never on the Klan side.
00:20:03.000Principal people, conservative or liberal, never on the Nazi side.
00:20:07.000Principal people who are conservative or liberal, never on the side that treats their fellow Americans as less than, that says that your fellow Americans should not exist, that says your fellow Americans should be in a concentration camp, or that sides with slavery.
00:20:26.000Well, first of all, Don Laman, it was David Duke who endorsed Joe Biden and it attacked Donald Trump for being too sympathetic to the cause of Israel.
00:20:42.000And also, it is the Democrat Party that founded the KKK, was pro-segregation, and has always cared more about people's skin color than about their character.
00:20:55.000They cared much more about immutable characteristics.
00:20:57.000However, Don Laman, let me be very clear.
00:21:00.000What you're doing here is irresponsible, reckless, and dangerous.
00:21:05.000You are looping in decent and good patriots with fringe people all into one because it makes you feel good and it proves a political point.
00:21:20.000And Isabel, we find this all the time on college campuses where all conservatives are the worst people ever.
00:21:26.000All of you guys are racist and terrible and awful.
00:21:32.000And importantly, we're hearing from Don Lamon, our friend from CNN this morning, that this behavior is treating people lesser than what we're seeing from conservatives in America.
00:21:43.000But isn't looping all conservatives in with, you know, Nazis and Hitler and Osama bin Laden, as we heard yesterday from Eric Swalwell and the party of the KKK, isn't that precisely treating half the country as lesser than by assuming that you automatically have these affiliations simply because of how you cast a ballot for president of the United States?
00:22:04.000I find the hypocrisy just stunning in this statement from a CNN anchor on live national television.
00:22:11.000And it's so ironic to me that they're always seeming to be on defense from the left when people identify the ideologies of Antifa and BLM Incorporated as coming from the left side of the aisle, but they don't hesitate one bit to loop in every conservative in America with the most radical ideology they can think of.
00:22:29.000And if Don Laman read his own news organization's article, he would take pause and say, okay, based on what our own investigative unit has found, there are people that came there to Washington, D.C. with malevolent and awful intentions.
00:22:48.000And those people happened to find a moment when there was 300,000 peaceful people right nearby at the Washington Monument.
00:22:58.000Let's get to cut 91, MSNBC's Nicole Wallace.
00:23:04.000I mean, I just, working the White House after 9-11, everything, and again, these policies are so controversial, so it's not a perfect parallel.
00:23:12.000But every policy that was pursued was to find out what the terrorists were saying, and we listened to them.
00:23:42.000If you're a terrorist, then, okay, but the definition of a terrorist is now being looped into tens of millions of voters all across the country.
00:23:56.000We've played tape of this now being a constant drumbeat from people on the left, where they are now going to massively increase the security state.
00:24:08.000I read a really good article this morning, believe it or not, in the Los Angeles Times, where they said we cannot, we have to resist the urge to loop in some of the people that were just walking by the Capitol or the people that were at the Washington Monument or the ellipse and loop them into the people that were actually storming, that were barricades and bashing cops.
00:24:31.000And the argument they were making is as soon as you do this massive guilt by association exercise, you lose what it means to actually preserve common law and the rule of law in our country.
00:24:43.000And look, I understand that tensions are still very high.
00:24:48.000I don't think there's very much disagreement with what a lot of people are saying with what happened.
00:24:54.000I want to read a quote here from Ken Langogan.
00:25:02.000He said, I think the biggest mistake anybody is going to make is to try and rationalize what happened last week, what the president did and what the crowd did.
00:25:26.000And so he's coming out very forcibly against Republicans here.
00:25:31.000However, I will just, you know, respectfully push back and say, if you are all of a sudden going to have no nuance at all whatsoever and say every single person that was in the zip code of Washington,
00:25:44.000D.C. is equally guilty of the lunatic that planted pipe bombs or the guy that was caravening down the side of the wall or the guy with zip ties or the guy that had the 1960s helmet, then that is not the correct way to handle it.
00:26:08.000And one of our team members here just messaged me, and this is exactly right, is that the left and the Democrats, they're intentionally leaving out the nuance.
00:26:19.000And that's where our job is, to try to explain the differences and the different gradations of what happened here.
00:26:28.000And one question I do have, though, is that if there was all this chatter, public chatter leading up to what happened on January the 6th, why was the security so minimal outside of the Capitol?
00:26:41.000Why did they have barricades that you could skateboard over?
00:26:44.000Why didn't they have massive fences like they do at the Republican National Convention and the Democrat National Convention?
00:26:52.000That's going to be for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and for the National Guard to have to explain, or at least the people that are in charge of deploying the National Guard.
00:27:03.000Thomas Soule has a new piece out who's terrific.
00:27:06.000And he says here, he says, is truth irrelevant?
00:27:10.000He says this, it is amazing how many people seem to have discovered last Wednesday's riots was wrong, when many of those same people apparently had not noticed that when riots went on for weeks or even months in various cities across the country last year, for too many people, especially in the media, what is right and wrong, true or false, depends on who it hurts, helps and hurts politically.
00:27:29.000Too many people who are supposed to be reporters act as if they're combatants in the political wars.
00:28:03.000You know, I do think that several members of Congress in some of my discussions have brought up media literacy because that is a part of what happened here.
00:28:16.000And we're going to have to figure out how we reign in our media environment so that you can't just spew disinformation and misinformation.
00:28:49.000It was an instruction manual for the left.
00:28:51.000And this reminds me eerily of the Ministry of Truth from this book, from Orwell's vision of what the future might look like.
00:28:59.000You have no freedom of speech if you have no freedom of information, period.
00:29:04.000And we talked a little bit about this yesterday, but when you control 100% of the narrative, you have a free pass to rewrite history, to determine what's happening in the present, and obviously to guide the future as well.
00:29:16.000Also, I find it interesting that this is the same individual who once told us it is more important to be morally correct than factually right.
00:29:26.000Yet all of a sudden, facts seem to be very important to her in this age of media disinformation.
00:29:32.000And she's saying, she said very clearly, the way I heard it, you know, that First Amendment thing?
00:29:40.000That's what I heard when she said that.
00:29:41.000Look, the essence is this, is that the left, if they had the buttons to push, they would push the button to get rid of freedom of speech and dialogue.
00:29:53.000Now, thankfully, we have a Bill of Rights, so it's not that easy.
00:29:58.000But what we consider to be fact-finding and investigation, she considers to be disinformation.
00:30:08.000And interestingly enough, there's a court case I want to get into in the next segment, New York Times v. Sullivan, which is very, very important about this.
00:30:19.000A lot's on my mind, Charlie, and I'm frustrated that we've come to where we are today.
00:30:24.000I will just say our democratic institutions that were established by our founding fathers were meant to stand the test of time, but we're definitely fighting the ability to make those things stand the test of time.
00:30:35.000Impeachment has just become a total mockery of what it's supposed to be.
00:30:39.000We saw a total sham impeachment be rushed through yesterday in record time, even before any evidence came out of what happened last Wednesday.
00:30:47.000We went through a little bit of that this first hour.
00:30:50.000And obviously now we're seeing the left try to prevent individuals from having the ability to question anything.
00:30:56.000All of a sudden, questioning voter integrity means you're inciting a violent riot.
00:31:01.000If you question what's happening online, you're part of the problem.
00:31:04.000You're part of the mob and your account needs to be deleted.
00:31:07.000And it's just disheartening for me to see our lack of ability as a society to judge people as individuals.
00:31:12.000We just have to loop them in in a giant mob.
00:32:06.000So a startup company just wants to get into the social media space, and three $1 trillion companies worked in collusion and said, not so fast, my friend.
00:32:20.000Now, the reason they're using is that they were involved because of lack of moderation in the capital attack.
00:32:29.000However, reports have now come out to show that the people that did this heinous act were mostly using Twitter and Facebook and some of these other publicly traded platforms, YouTube.
00:32:43.000And so the question is, where was the blame on those tech giants for this?
00:32:48.000Instead, they saw this as an economic monopolistic opportunity.
00:32:55.000After a tragedy, these $1 trillion companies all kind of stepped up and did one mostly for Twitter because Parlor was eating into Twitter.
00:33:24.000But yeah, we read this interesting headline this morning before the show that made us really scratch our heads when it came to how it was written.
00:33:32.000Here's the headline from Yahoo News this morning.
00:33:34.000Parlor, a social media app that was used to organize the attack on the U.S. Capitol, needs to set up moderation to get back on the iPhone, Apple CEO Tim Cook says.
00:33:49.000And so it's very interesting because we have now seen a steady assault on every single social media competitor you can imagine.
00:34:00.000Rumble, Rumble.com is also struggling because they're not even being given distribution.
00:34:08.000Rumble.com is suing Google and YouTube for monopolistic practices for $2 billion.
00:34:16.000And part of what makes a free market work is competition, is the ability to be able to take risks as an entrepreneur, present a better idea, and hopefully get support behind that.
00:34:27.000What makes this pattern of behavior so incredibly dangerous is when these $1 trillion companies can have more power than the government, where we have the country of Twitter, we have the country of Google, we have the country of Amazon that lives in America and shuts them out totally and completely.
00:34:48.000In fact, that goes to show that freedom of speech is nothing more than just a esoteric idea that cannot exist on the largest platforms in this country.
00:35:01.000And to this day, the president of the United States, right today, the president of the United States cannot go on any major digital platform and have his voice be heard.
00:35:13.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.