The Charlie Kirk Show - Inauguration Day: How Senator Manchin Just Became President Manchin

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00:01:12.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:02:13.000 We're on Monday now, so we have a bunch of breakouts.

00:02:15.000 And then coming in just about an hour and a half, we have James O'Keefe restarting general session, our Salem Radio Network colleague, Dr. Sebastian Gork.

00:02:22.000 I heard Dennis Prager give a phenomenal speech yesterday.

00:02:24.000 I heard that too.

00:02:25.000 I wasn't able to catch it.

00:02:26.000 Is right, Connor?

00:02:27.000 People told me it was unbelievable.

00:02:28.000 Tucker Carlson and I kicked off the event.

00:02:31.000 Jesse Waters is today.

00:02:32.000 We also have an amazing panel that we're going to post on our Charlie Kirk Show podcast.

00:02:38.000 We have a couple of things where I'm not even involved in directly.

00:02:41.000 I'm involved, obviously, but we're just going to post, and I'm going to do an intro.

00:02:44.000 The Election Integrity Panel, I think, is one of them with Biggs, Gosar, and Kyle Becker.

00:02:50.000 Yeah, and well, there was also the Arizona Election Integrity Panels.

00:02:54.000 Alex Marlowe, who's going to be joining Charlie for the second half of this hour, was, I mean, you know, he was phenomenal.

00:03:03.000 Just approached it like a journalist, asked a bunch of questions that we all thought about, right?

00:03:08.000 So if you guys are curious what happened in Arizona with the audit and where they're going from going from now into the future, you're going to want to check that out as well.

00:03:17.000 Yeah, and we also had a phenomenal conversation with James Lindsay and Alex Marlowe that we are going to post on the Charlie Kirk Show podcast that you guys can find on the Charlie Kirk Show podcast feed around critical race theory, wokeism, diversity, equity, inclusion.

00:03:31.000 Pretty amazing.

00:03:32.000 It was one of the most substantive conversations. 0.88

00:03:35.000 And James Lindsay said, queer theory is the gateway to hell.

00:03:40.000 I was like, you're the liberal on this panel?

00:03:42.000 It was pretty amazing.

00:03:44.000 We also have today.

00:03:46.000 We should explain what queer theory is, though, just for those listening.

00:03:50.000 It's sort of like the dissolution of standards and of the essence of what humans actually are.

00:03:58.000 Right.

00:03:59.000 So, anyways, it's just, I thought I'd put that disclaimer out there.

00:04:03.000 Well, yeah, I think that's important.

00:04:05.000 So, then we also have Congresswoman Lauren Boebert. 0.95

00:04:09.000 We also had a very interesting conversation.

00:04:11.000 Is it Congressman or Congresswoman?

00:04:13.000 I like Congresswoman and Congressman.

00:04:14.000 I think gender rules matter. 1.00

00:04:15.000 Me too.

00:04:16.000 Congresswoman Kat Kamek.

00:04:18.000 We also have a very special guest later today, Kyle Rittenhouse, which we're excited about.

00:04:22.000 Jack Pesobic.

00:04:24.000 Allegedly.

00:04:26.000 And then we have Jack Pesobic and then Ted Cruz.

00:04:29.000 And then tomorrow, it continues at a half day.

00:04:31.000 Jack Hibbs opening us up.

00:04:33.000 And we have Jack Hibbs from Calvary Chapel, Chino Hills.

00:04:39.000 And then, let me see here.

00:04:41.000 We also have Brandon Tatum, Congressman Madison Cawthorne, and Kaylee McEnany.

00:04:47.000 So it's been a pretty incredible conference, wouldn't you say, Andrew?

00:04:51.000 Man, like I said, I started this off saying, I mean, how many have we done together now at these conferences?

00:04:56.000 I don't even know.

00:04:57.000 You've been around for about four years, so at least 16 majors.

00:05:00.000 About four majors a year, right?

00:05:02.000 We have women's, we have SAS.

00:05:05.000 Well, there's also Young Latino Leadership Summits.

00:05:08.000 The high school SAS run, and then the winter.

00:05:10.000 So at least 15 majors.

00:05:11.000 I mean, yeah.

00:05:12.000 When I mean by major, I mean multi-day CNN, New York Times, everyone wants in like huge pressure.

00:05:18.000 You go to bed at 1 a.m.

00:05:18.000 You're up at 5 a.m.

00:05:19.000 Plus all of the on the on the action side, turning point action with the Trump rally in 2020.

00:05:25.000 The one that's 2020.

00:05:26.000 2021.

00:05:27.000 Yeah.

00:05:27.000 I mean, and this, this by far is the most special.

00:05:27.000 Yep.

00:05:31.000 It's been, it's, it's been weirdly smooth.

00:05:34.000 I think we're finally figuring out how to do this.

00:05:36.000 Exactly.

00:05:37.000 Knocking on wood, everybody.

00:05:39.000 But it's phenomenal.

00:05:40.000 And by the way, the headlines from some of the coverage that we've been seeing, I think people are taken aback, Charlie, at the focus that people like you and Tucker, but a lot of the other speakers have put on social issues.

00:05:53.000 Well, yeah, and they call it social issues. 0.65

00:05:55.000 And I think they do that to try, I don't know what their motivation is, social issues.

00:06:03.000 What really is family-focused issues and parent-focused issues, right?

00:06:07.000 I mean, this is not a matter of social versus fiscal.

00:06:10.000 I think it's bad for the family that you have runaway inflation.

00:06:13.000 I think it's bad for the family that you have borders wide open, right?

00:06:18.000 I think it's a family-focused agenda and a parent-first agenda.

00:06:23.000 And I think it's really exciting.

00:06:25.000 Okay, so we do want to get to some news.

00:06:26.000 And everyone, you can email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:06:29.000 By the way, there's over 10,000 people here, folks.

00:06:32.000 I mean, it's a massive.

00:06:33.000 Well, we have 10,000 tickets sold.

00:06:34.000 We always want to be precise.

00:06:36.000 The room can fit about 8,000, and every seat is full, and we have overflow.

00:06:39.000 So the final count was well over 10,000 tickets.

00:06:44.000 That being said, you can still come and people come in and out so that you can find out.

00:06:44.000 But unbelievable.

00:06:48.000 Yeah, there's flow.

00:06:49.000 I mean, there's some people who left because they only came for a couple of days.

00:06:52.000 Yeah, so definitely still opportunities, especially if you're local or want to catch a speaker today or tomorrow.

00:06:58.000 I mean, we're ending the whole thing with Kaylee McEnany.

00:07:00.000 I mean, like, you know, she's anchoring.

00:07:02.000 Tomorrow is an epic day.

00:07:03.000 So we have Jack Hibbs, Brandon Tatum, Madison Cawthorne, Kaylee, and then I'm going to close it out.

00:07:09.000 So we stacked the half day.

00:07:11.000 I think it's pretty cool.

00:07:12.000 And Fox has been amazing, by the way.

00:07:14.000 Fox Nation has been really, really great, a terrific partner.

00:07:18.000 Okay, so Andrew, over the weekend, it seems like President Joe Manchin decided to thwart the entire legislative agenda.

00:07:25.000 I mean, the non-octogenarian.

00:07:26.000 I don't even actually know what his age is.

00:07:28.000 I think he's super old, right, Connor?

00:07:28.000 I think he's about 79.

00:07:31.000 Joe Manchin is?

00:07:32.000 Yeah, true.

00:07:33.000 Now we have to say that.

00:07:34.000 He's super old.

00:07:35.000 I mean, I don't want to.

00:07:37.000 74.

00:07:38.000 Well, listen.

00:07:38.000 All right.

00:07:39.000 Again, that's not super old for all the listeners out there.

00:07:41.000 Don't get offended.

00:07:42.000 But Joe Manchin looks about 55.

00:07:44.000 Yeah, he looks a lot.

00:07:45.000 He looks like 58, 60.

00:07:46.000 That's what I'm saying.

00:07:46.000 He's a lot more spry.

00:07:47.000 And I think this is a really fascinating story because, you know, I'm just here to watch it.

00:07:53.000 I'm just here.

00:07:54.000 I'm here for it.

00:07:55.000 You know, The drama in the ranks of the Democrat Party took, I mean, went to another level.

00:08:02.000 I mean, we've been predicting this Democrat Civil War for a long time, and remarkably, they've stayed relatively together, mainly because Pelosi's a tyrant.

00:08:10.000 We have to remember, though, that Biden got the stimulus package passed early in the spring, which was just kind of like, okay, whatever.

00:08:17.000 Then the infrastructure, and now you have Build Back Better that got eliminated.

00:08:21.000 But we have a much more cynical take, which we think Build Back Better was dead on arrival for quite some time.

00:08:26.000 And all of this melodrama is trying to point towards the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.

00:08:30.000 That's really what they want to get after, right?

00:08:34.000 Is the John Lewis Voting Rights Act?

00:08:35.000 Yeah, 100%.

00:08:36.000 I mean, you covered this extensively, but it's a for people who don't know, it's a backdoor, it's an end-around, basically criminalizing anytime a state wants to enforce election integrity or signature verify.

00:08:48.000 They're just going to call it racist. 0.50

00:08:50.000 Then the Fed's going to say you can't have that law and they get what they want anyway.

00:08:53.000 Totally.

00:08:54.000 And so we're going to go through exactly what this means for the state of affairs in D.C. We're going to play some tape.

00:09:00.000 We're going to go through all of that.

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00:09:57.000 This is Christmas week.

00:09:59.000 Merry Christmas to everybody.

00:10:01.000 And I know a lot of people during Christmas are going to be traveling and going to be driving and a lot of people on flights.

00:10:08.000 And so if you're looking for really exciting content, family-friendly content, the Charlie Kirk show is there.

00:10:13.000 And there is some that my Andrew, my private conversation with Tucker Carlson.

00:10:18.000 It's deep waters, is all I can say.

00:10:21.000 I mean, the thing that you realize when you hang out with Tucker, sort of, you know, when he's not on screen or something like that, is that the man spends hours deeply thinking about what really matters.

00:10:33.000 I mean, that's literally, he's devoted himself to only basically thinking about his family, his wife, his kids.

00:10:42.000 You know, he flew here in the morning and then flew back at night just so he could be back with his family.

00:10:47.000 The man is absolutely devoted to his family and he thinks about what matters, like I said.

00:10:53.000 And it's really, you just see it with how profound some of his thinking is.

00:10:57.000 And he always, he sort of says, oh, I don't have a very, you know, I'm not that smart.

00:11:01.000 And these people are much smarter than me.

00:11:03.000 And it's like, you know, you hang out with him for a little while and you're like, I don't know why you're saying, maybe that's what smart people say that you're not that smart because he's incredibly profound.

00:11:12.000 Well, so you'll be able to check out the whole conversation with Tucker Carlson on the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.

00:11:16.000 Okay, so over the weekend, let's just kind of get right into it.

00:11:19.000 Joe Manchin surprisingly went on Fox News.

00:11:23.000 It was Chris Wallace's old show.

00:11:24.000 Is that right?

00:11:25.000 Yep.

00:11:25.000 Was he still hosting it or not?

00:11:26.000 He's done.

00:11:27.000 I think he was done.

00:11:28.000 I actually, let's let's so busy at our America Fest.

00:11:32.000 I heard about it, but do we actually have the clip from Manchin?

00:11:32.000 We heard about it.

00:11:37.000 Yeah, we should do.

00:11:38.000 Okay, it's Cut 15.

00:11:38.000 Here it is.

00:11:39.000 Yes.

00:11:40.000 I think it was on Chris Wallace's show with a substitute host, and he didn't tell Joe Biden ahead of time he was doing this, and he announced he will not be voting for Build Back Better, torpedoing the bill.

00:11:51.000 Biden tried to call Joe Manchin and get him off the on the phone, did so unsuccessfully.

00:11:55.000 Play cut 15.

00:11:57.000 I can't vote for it, and I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation.

00:12:02.000 I just can't.

00:12:04.000 I've tried everything humanly possible.

00:12:06.000 I can't get there.

00:12:07.000 You're done.

00:12:08.000 This is this is a no.

00:12:12.000 This is a no.

00:12:13.000 Brett Bears, and that was Brett Baer, who's a great guy, and he's been a good friend of our show and really factual.

00:12:21.000 Zeroes in on this: hold on a second.

00:12:22.000 So you're a no.

00:12:23.000 He says, I'm a no.

00:12:25.000 And with that, Biden's legislative agenda, domestic legislative agenda, basically is in total turmoil.

00:12:31.000 Yeah, it's it's uh the memes are pretty phenomenal to see.

00:12:35.000 Uh, it seems dead now.

00:12:37.000 Okay, Politico had an interesting piece on this.

00:12:39.000 So basically, Politico, uh, the reason I read this is because there's a specific quote in it that I think a lot of our listeners are going to get a lot of enjoyment out of.

00:12:50.000 It says, a blow to Democrat Party governance.

00:12:53.000 After this year, Democrats are unlikely to control the White House and all of Congress for a long, long time.

00:12:59.000 I added that second long, but it's true.

00:13:01.000 And Politico's whole point was: is it really dead?

00:13:04.000 So, what's happening now, Schumer is that basically the White House issues this scathing statement against Manchin.

00:13:11.000 AOC, Ilhan Omar, went on a profanity-lace tirade.

00:13:15.000 And we're going to play that.

00:13:16.000 Yeah, we should.

00:13:17.000 So, AOC went after him on Morning Joe this morning.

00:13:20.000 Ilhan Omar, profanity-laced tirade.

00:13:23.000 And then the White House issues the scathing statement against him.

00:13:26.000 And now, Schumer has the gall to suggest that it's not dead, and we're going to vote on it in January and all this.

00:13:32.000 It's dead, folks.

00:13:33.000 It's dead.

00:13:34.000 And even if they do scale it way back, is it really even build back better?

00:13:37.000 That's the question.

00:13:38.000 I mean, if they scale it all the way back, their child tax credits, their climate stuff, all of this, the spending that again was full of gimmicks and accounting tricks.

00:13:48.000 I mean, this thing is way more expensive than they're letting on.

00:13:51.000 And Joe Manchin, good for him.

00:13:52.000 He called their bluff.

00:13:53.000 The reality is this: the Democrat Civil War is here.

00:13:56.000 Their numbers are underwater.

00:13:57.000 And they thought the infrastructure package was going to give them a significant lift.

00:14:01.000 They thought the infrastructure package was going to get them out of the depths of bad polling and unpopularity.

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00:15:35.000 And producer Andrew's able to do that thanks to ReliefFactor.com.

00:15:37.000 So he's gone.

00:15:38.000 So with us now is Alex Marlow from Breitbart.com.

00:15:40.000 Hey, Alex, how you doing?

00:15:41.000 Charlie, I'm in pretty good shape.

00:15:42.000 And I think two or three laps in my pool, and that's it.

00:15:46.000 Swimming is really hard.

00:15:46.000 You're done.

00:15:46.000 That's a matter of time.

00:15:48.000 It's really hard.

00:15:49.000 It's really hard.

00:15:50.000 Like it's for a lot of different reasons.

00:15:52.000 It's the, but I got the, I got my three-year-old.

00:15:54.000 He's in swimming lessons now.

00:15:55.000 And so we got, we play Humpty Dumpty.

00:15:57.000 So, and that's you do Humpty Dumpty sat in a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, falls in, dunks his head.

00:16:03.000 It's fun, immersion in the water, and you're having a blast and no calorie burn for dad.

00:16:08.000 So it's really good.

00:16:10.000 The event's been great, hasn't it?

00:16:11.000 It's been incredible.

00:16:12.000 Congratulations to you.

00:16:13.000 Definitely the best ever.

00:16:14.000 And I think this is pretty much the premier conservative event now in the country.

00:16:18.000 So congrats on that.

00:16:19.000 Thank you for saying that.

00:16:20.000 Smoothly run.

00:16:21.000 But it's a, you know, I've been talking a lot about you, Charlie, because everyone is impressed with just the energy that you bring to the movement.

00:16:28.000 And it's really inspiring because you've taken a lot of crap, shall we say, from people, and you always keep going bigger and better.

00:16:35.000 So it's a great, it's a great example. 0.81

00:16:37.000 We try to be magnanimous.

00:16:38.000 And the funny thing is, I really don't think about the nonsense that people throw at me.

00:16:44.000 I forget.

00:16:45.000 But that's the message because we now know how it's clearly the haters are doing it just to try to hold people back who don't agree with them ideologically.

00:16:54.000 That's what it's all about.

00:16:55.000 Everything is political now with the left.

00:16:57.000 All the haters are purely rooted in their politics.

00:17:00.000 And you're only taking flack if you're over the target.

00:17:04.000 And that's how we felt at Breitbart.

00:17:05.000 And it's just ignoring them and moving ahead is the way to go.

00:17:08.000 And then now you guys are the biggest draw in the whole movement.

00:17:11.000 So congrats.

00:17:12.000 You could build things or destroy things.

00:17:12.000 Thank you.

00:17:13.000 So we're talking about destroying things.

00:17:15.000 Let's actually play the tape we wanted to play, which is a good form of destruction.

00:17:19.000 You see, the people that are puritanical market types, they talk about creative destruction.

00:17:24.000 And you and I love markets, but we think not all destruction is made equal, but the destruction of Build Back Better is a beautiful thing.

00:17:31.000 Yes, it sure is.

00:17:32.000 And so let's play the tape of Bernie Sanders, Elon Omar, Ayanna Presley, Corey Bush.

00:17:37.000 They're all freaking out over Joe Manchin's move.

00:17:39.000 Swear words are bleeped out for the FCC play cut 10.

00:17:42.000 But if he doesn't have the courage to do the right thing for the working families of West Virginia and America, let him vote no in front of the whole world.

00:17:50.000 We all knew that Senator Manchin couldn't be trusted.

00:17:55.000 You know, the excuses that he just made, I think, are complete.

00:18:01.000 He has continued to move the goalpost.

00:18:04.000 He has never negotiated in good faith.

00:18:06.000 And he is obstructing the president's agenda.

00:18:09.000 AJ, all I want for Christmas is a senator that has compassion for the American people and not contempt.

00:18:15.000 I'm going to be looking for the phone number to the ghost of Christmas, past, present, and future, or the email address to see if they can go and see about Scrooge on Christmas Eve.

00:18:25.000 I'm sorry, not Scrooge, Senator Matt.

00:18:28.000 I know what you're talking about.

00:18:31.000 Alex? 1.00

00:18:32.000 It's just, it's so delightful because it's so stupid. 1.00

00:18:35.000 It's such a horrible strategy. 1.00

00:18:37.000 I've met Sander Manchin.

00:18:38.000 I think he's the only Democrat senator who's ever been on my radio program, which, by the way, is a podcast now.

00:18:42.000 Breitbart News Daily Podcast Daily.

00:18:44.000 Thank you for the free plug.

00:18:46.000 Well, you've let me plug our podcast on you.

00:18:49.000 Quite a bit, and I will in the future as well.

00:18:51.000 I think it's a big, growing ecosystem.

00:18:53.000 We want self-reinforcing growth.

00:18:55.000 But I've met Senator Manchin.

00:18:56.000 Senior Manchin is not, this is not going to change his mind.

00:18:59.000 A bunch of people ranting on left-wing talk radio and the money.

00:19:02.000 And I think it pardons his position.

00:19:04.000 Of course it does.

00:19:05.000 Of course it does.

00:19:06.000 So I love to see it.

00:19:07.000 Not only is it great fodder for talk radio, but it's also going to hurt the left-wing agenda.

00:19:12.000 But it is amazing how Biden's failures are just piling up at such a rapid rate, Charlie.

00:19:17.000 I know you were no Biden fan coming in, but it is surreal to watch every single thing.

00:19:22.000 He didn't stop the virus.

00:19:23.000 He didn't bring the unity to the country.

00:19:25.000 He bought the Afghanistan pullout, the Bidenflation, the gas prices, the border surge. 0.53

00:19:30.000 I mean, it's a every one of those could bring down a presidency.

00:19:33.000 Every one of them would be the scandal of the year for a normal president.

00:19:36.000 So let me ask you, Alex, you're really smart.

00:19:38.000 Breitbart.com.

00:19:39.000 I read it every day.

00:19:39.000 Love it.

00:19:40.000 Thank you.

00:19:41.000 Why is Biden not changing his approach or adjusting in real time?

00:19:48.000 I would say the most likely answer might be incompetence, but there's something scarier that I want to offer up, which is that he doesn't see it as a failure, that the left wing, which is in charge of this administration, is trying to destroy the country and they are trying to destroy our values.

00:20:03.000 And not to say they want to destroy it, like literally destroy it, destroy it, but erase America's founding, erase America's Judeo-Christian constitutional Declaration of Independence value system, e plurbusonum, in God we trust, liberty, First Amendment, Second Amendment, erase all that stuff and replace it with this sort of woke religion that we have now.

00:20:21.000 And all of this stuff moves us closer in that direction, the unsustainable debt.

00:20:25.000 And I'm not a debt hawk.

00:20:26.000 I'm not a deficit hawk, but it's unsustainable right now.

00:20:29.000 That we are at 30 trillion and the solution is we're going to spend 4 trillion more.

00:20:34.000 Of course, it doesn't make sense.

00:20:35.000 The gas prices are going to destroy the energy sector.

00:20:39.000 Us losing our standing on the world stage with regards to China and Russia and the oil crisis that we've got going.

00:20:45.000 All of this moves the country away from the America that you and I believe in and love and towards this sort of command and control plutocracy where an oligarchical class controls us with their woke religion.

00:21:01.000 And I think that is all happening.

00:21:03.000 Unfortunately, Biden has been a success in that regard.

00:21:06.000 Yeah, that's the true division in America is the disagreement on how to process objective reality.

00:21:16.000 This is the divide.

00:21:17.000 People say, oh, we're so divided politically.

00:21:19.000 Well, the way we used to be divided is we would both process reality the same way and have different ways to try to go about solving.

00:21:25.000 Low taxes, high-tech, whatever, right?

00:21:28.000 Now it's a wonderful success, Alex.

00:21:31.000 The border is as great as ever, and it's exactly what we want.

00:21:35.000 And so it's not a matter of even finding differences of opinion.

00:21:40.000 It's now complete differences of, well, do you even consider the same goal the same sort of America that you want to live in?

00:21:48.000 And the real question is, is this all by design?

00:21:51.000 I say yes, obviously.

00:21:53.000 We're unafraid to say that.

00:21:54.000 A lot of moderate kind of people on television say, well, you know, this is, he's so incompetent.

00:21:59.000 Okay, the people around him aren't, though.

00:22:01.000 I don't think Ron Klain is incompetent.

00:22:02.000 No, he's not.

00:22:03.000 And then Ron Klain's super smart, actually.

00:22:04.000 He is.

00:22:05.000 I think Ron Klain looks at this presidency.

00:22:07.000 I've called it on air, the kamikaze presidency, a means to the end. 0.97

00:22:12.000 It's very Machiavelli.

00:22:13.000 So you and I are on the same page.

00:22:14.000 And it is clear that they're not worrying about consistency.

00:22:18.000 You know, it's interesting, Charlie, that my talk with you yesterday at your conference, I had an example that I wanted to bring up that I did want to bring up because I didn't want to jeopardize your nonprofit status.

00:22:28.000 You can say whatever you want now.

00:22:29.000 Now I can't because Ron Regina.

00:22:31.000 I gave you that shakedown.

00:22:32.000 Stay within C3 guidelines, USA. 1.00

00:22:34.000 For all of you watching the stupid Treasury Department. 0.99

00:22:37.000 Yeah, I know, and I try to be respectful of it. 0.98

00:22:39.000 But I was thinking about how Joe Biden is now the spokesman against, he's the anti-racist spokesman, a guy who thought that busing would create a racial jungle and opposed it vigorously. 0.93

00:22:50.000 A guy who called black children roaches in 2017.

00:22:54.000 And this is now the guy who's a good person. 0.97

00:22:55.000 These are the career enders for you and I.

00:22:57.000 We wouldn't allow it to destroy a career. 0.99

00:22:59.000 Charlie, I couldn't show up at a family dinner if I called black children roaches. 0.99

00:23:03.000 And Joe Biden is president. 0.99

00:23:04.000 He just acts like the media acts like it never happened.

00:23:07.000 And now he's going to be the spokesperson for race relations. 0.78

00:23:10.000 It's so patently absurd. 0.53

00:23:12.000 It does make you think, wait a minute, they know it's absurd. 0.55

00:23:14.000 It's just they got to him.

00:23:15.000 They got to him.

00:23:16.000 I want to play more tape.

00:23:17.000 So Biden's legislative agenda to continue the deterioration and destruction of the American dollar and to achieve really the goal of Barack Hussein Obama is really kind of being played out this year.

00:23:29.000 Sure.

00:23:31.000 Barack, you could say a lot of things about Barack Obama, but I will say that Barack Obama was far more timid than Biden.

00:23:41.000 I know that sounds strange for people to hear, but Obama could have been far more radical.

00:23:46.000 Biden's showing us how radical you can actually be and how quick you can act.

00:23:50.000 Okay.

00:23:51.000 And so the fundamental transformation of America that Obama promised in 2007 while running for president, right before he, no, 2008, I'm sorry, 2008 before becoming running for president is playing out.

00:24:01.000 Okay, so let's play some tape here.

00:24:05.000 Let's play this one.

00:24:07.000 It is AOC says the idea that Manchin can't sell Build Back Better to West Virginia voters is a total farce.

00:24:15.000 Play cut eight.

00:24:17.000 The idea that Joe Manchin says he can't explain this back home to his people is a farce.

00:24:24.000 I mean, it's a farce in terms of, you know, plain democracy because I represent more or just as many or more people than Joe Manchin does.

00:24:33.000 Perhaps more.

00:24:34.000 You hear that?

00:24:35.000 She's more important than Joe Manchin because she represents a bunch of foreign nationals and super angry single 32-year-old women that went to NYU. 1.00

00:24:44.000 Is that not a perfect illustration of my point?

00:24:46.000 She doesn't like the Electoral College.

00:24:47.000 That's the attack on the Electoral College.

00:24:48.000 That's a tax.

00:24:49.000 That's to destroy the state sovereignty.

00:24:50.000 Of course.

00:24:51.000 She doesn't like state sovereignty. 0.99

00:24:52.000 She doesn't like federalism.

00:24:53.000 Charlie, of course.

00:24:53.000 It's all anti-federalism.

00:24:54.000 The whole agenda is anti-federalism with the mandate, with the energy policy, with all of these things are designed to limit the role of the states in American life.

00:25:04.000 So Joe Manchin is a Democrat in name only.

00:25:09.000 I think he's more of like a dino at this point.

00:25:11.000 And in that point, though, he is a protector of state sovereignty and states' rights.

00:25:16.000 Sure.

00:25:16.000 And he does believe in a federal project.

00:25:19.000 And so this tape right here, cut nine, shows that Joe Manchin is actually listening to his voters.

00:25:25.000 Play cut nine.

00:25:26.000 Joe Biden is currently polling at 65% disapproval in West Virginia.

00:25:30.000 That's the state that Manchin represents.

00:25:32.000 Three-quarters of people living in that state oppose the Build Back Better bill.

00:25:35.000 Add it all up.

00:25:36.000 And Manchin is simply using common sense here.

00:25:39.000 He's listening to his voters, Alex, and he's just saying, okay, I am a representative, an extension of citizen sovereignty.

00:25:46.000 And I really don't care what AOC is.

00:25:48.000 And I think this is exactly what we were talking about with Corey Bush and Ilhan Omar swearing at him.

00:25:54.000 Of course, it doesn't convince him, but they're fine with that too, because I do think the AOCs and Ilhan Omars and the Corey Bushes are much more comfortable being in the victim role where they're the victim of Joe Manchin.

00:26:04.000 The white man who likes coal.

00:26:06.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:26:07.000 The white coal guy.

00:26:09.000 Exactly.

00:26:09.000 The white coal man.

00:26:11.000 I bet he likes football.

00:26:12.000 I bet he likes boating.

00:26:13.000 I mean, there's all these things.

00:26:14.000 He owns a gun.

00:26:16.000 Yeah, maybe at least one.

00:26:19.000 And it's one of those things that they are more comfortable not setting the agenda there because then they actually have to own something.

00:26:25.000 They don't want to own anything.

00:26:26.000 They want to be ideological.

00:26:27.000 They want to be pundits on social media.

00:26:30.000 That's what they enjoy.

00:26:31.000 Not actually legislating.

00:26:32.000 I don't know if AOC's ever been to West Virginia.

00:26:35.000 Obviously not.

00:26:36.000 If it was her choice, West Virginia wouldn't be part of the same country she wants to live in, which does beg a bigger and broader question, actually, about are they even representing the same country at some point, right?

00:26:47.000 Yes.

00:26:48.000 And I think that is, unfortunately, the thing we have to contemplate is that is West Virginia and the Bronx, at least politically speaking, is it reconcilable at this point?

00:26:58.000 Because I'll tell you, AOC doesn't think so.

00:27:01.000 I want it to be reconcilable.

00:27:02.000 Me too.

00:27:03.000 I think a schism and a breakup would be tragic.

00:27:05.000 And I think it would be bad for the country, obviously bad for the world.

00:27:09.000 But it seems that they're getting closer and closer towards that sort of action.

00:27:15.000 But the fact that not one of these squad members, none of them will be reasonable, not one of them will come out and say, you know what?

00:27:21.000 No, they're pathological.

00:27:22.000 We get it.

00:27:23.000 We get it.

00:27:23.000 It's West Virginia.

00:27:24.000 His voters don't like it.

00:27:25.000 It's a, you know, we got 30 trillion in debt, and some people don't want to spend $4 trillion more.

00:27:29.000 Like, it's the, look, that's an issue that we have, and that's why people should vote for Democrats.

00:27:33.000 And not one of them will say that.

00:27:35.000 They just complain a random rave.

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00:28:45.000 What I want to find out is I want when Republicans take back the House of Representatives, I want every influencer and media member that received money from the CDC to promote the vaccine.

00:28:56.000 Because we don't even, we're only touching the surface of the billions of dollars that were paid to promote the vaccine.

00:29:02.000 You know what's interesting, Charlie?

00:29:03.000 I don't trust the science, but I do trust Stephen Colbert and the CAS of SNL and the cast.

00:29:09.000 There's no way that wasn't paid of Sesame Street.

00:29:11.000 I mean, like, that's who I trust for my medical information.

00:29:14.000 Yeah, that's a, hey, that's a, that's what I look for.

00:29:16.000 By the way, Charlie, we're at your event here.

00:29:18.000 James O'Keefe just rolled in like Manny Pacquiao with an entourage of 30 people.

00:29:22.000 He comes in.

00:29:23.000 He's going to run for Philippines president.

00:29:24.000 Yeah, this too.

00:29:25.000 The Welterweight champion.

00:29:26.000 Philippines presidents don't have a good track record the last 50 years.

00:29:29.000 No, not great.

00:29:30.000 Yeah, at least, you know, from our coverage of Breitbart, it doesn't look like it.

00:29:33.000 Yeah, especially in the, what was it, the 90s where that guy just vanished with all that, with like $2 trillion worth of assets, basically.

00:29:42.000 It's a good move.

00:29:43.000 What was his name?

00:29:44.000 It was a huge scandal.

00:29:46.000 It was all the gold from like the ancestral island families.

00:29:50.000 Wow.

00:29:50.000 What was that guy's name?

00:29:52.000 How do you wash that, though?

00:29:53.000 Like, if you steal all the gold, I mean, that seems hard to launder.

00:29:57.000 I bet there's some royal family that needs hard assets. 0.94

00:29:59.000 Pretty sure, Andrew, will you look up how to clean trillions of dollars worth of gold, please?

00:30:03.000 You know what it would be?

00:30:03.000 It would be like the international version of Ozark.

00:30:05.000 Yeah.

00:30:06.000 It'd be like the Philippine version of Ozark. 0.97

00:30:10.000 There's a new episode of Ozark coming out, or new season, I should say.

00:30:14.000 Okay, email us your thoughts, everybody.

00:30:16.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:30:18.000 There's so much we want to get to.

00:30:19.000 But let's close on the build back better thing.

00:30:21.000 So, Alex, Democrat agendas and turmoil.

00:30:24.000 Obviously, this has political consequences.

00:30:27.000 How could Republicans possibly screw this up heading into the midterms?

00:30:30.000 That's a realistic question.

00:30:31.000 Yeah, I don't think they will.

00:30:32.000 What I'm more concerned about is will they disappoint when they get in?

00:30:36.000 Because I've been asking, I've been interviewing a lot of Congress people since I've been here at AmericaFest.

00:30:40.000 And a lot of them, everyone's fired up.

00:30:42.000 Everyone's very excited, but they're divided, I think, on what to do other than investigations.

00:30:47.000 Well, I think investigations need to be the stubbornness of the beginning and end of this.

00:30:51.000 I don't think there's anything else that we can get done that's realistic.

00:30:53.000 Right, because Biden's going to have the veto pen or whoever is president at the time.

00:30:58.000 They're going to have the veto pen. 0.97

00:30:59.000 So it is about investigations, and you got to start with Fauci, I think.

00:31:03.000 You got to start with these deep staters who are treating American parents like terrorists. 0.98

00:31:07.000 I think you have, but you got to start letting the agenda be known that there will be a massive house cleaning once the Republican wins in 2024, whoever it is.

00:31:18.000 And, you know, they're going to be the frontrunner to win.

00:31:20.000 Cheap by mail and big tack or is going to try to stop that.

00:31:23.000 But it is, there needs to be a massive house cleaning in this country in Washington. 0.99

00:31:27.000 And by the way, we need to unswampify Washington by moving these bureaucracies out of the beltway. 0.97

00:31:32.000 They have to go.

00:31:32.000 They have to get out and into America right away also.

00:31:35.000 I totally agree.

00:31:36.000 And the question is, what investigations and are they willing to use subpoena power?

00:31:39.000 So that's the other question.

00:31:41.000 And they always disappoint in this regard, and they always take forever.

00:31:43.000 Where's Durham, by the way?

00:31:45.000 Where's my Durham?

00:31:46.000 Where's my Durham?

00:31:47.000 Do you know where he is?

00:31:48.000 We got some, what was that guy's name that we indicted?

00:31:52.000 Igor something.

00:31:53.000 Yeah, that's good.

00:31:54.000 It gave us some hope, but where is he?

00:31:56.000 He's been gone for a long time.

00:31:58.000 One of the great abuses of power that we've ever seen in our country's history.

00:32:01.000 Yeah, and we got how many years we have to wait for people to get held accountable.

00:32:05.000 Well, the lag time is intentional, though, because then the jury isn't as animated to try to get to guilty verdicts and people kind of forget it.

00:32:12.000 You know what I mean?

00:32:12.000 Meaning, like there's one thing where there's like the George Floyd thing, if they would have waited three years, I'm not as so sure they would be able, not to say the facts and circumstances would change, but it's just they want to try to draw things out.

00:32:25.000 Yes.

00:32:25.000 And if necessary, use Biden to pardon these people.

00:32:28.000 100%.

00:32:29.000 And the momentum and the emotions that get involved in news cycles really do propel change.

00:32:36.000 And that is we do have a country that is representative and it is the more the people are fired up, the more things do change.

00:32:44.000 So it is the left is very good at harnessing their energy.

00:32:47.000 And that's what I was complimenting you about earlier, too.

00:32:50.000 We need to harness the energy of the base and they're fired up to investigate people right now.

00:32:54.000 That's what they want to do.

00:32:55.000 One of the things we're proud of at Turning Point USA from an educational and cultural side, down a political side, is that we've been able to make the case for nationalism and conservatism and populism, all in a positive way, because those words have negative connotations.

00:33:08.000 In an aesthetically pleasing, in a magnanimous, and really kind of all-encompassing way, where people then want to be part of that, right?

00:33:16.000 It's not like the conservative movement that you grew up in with charts and graphs and, you know, talking about why Nixon wasn't.

00:33:24.000 You know, the thing that even though the backbone of what we do at Breitbart and on the Breitbart News Daily podcast is talk about the news, I'm always most heartened when people tell me they had a good time going to the front page or listening to the show every day because I think that that is what is going to give us longevity.

00:33:42.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - December 20, 2021

Inauguration Day: How Senator Manchin Just Became President Manchin

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