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00:01:28.000Today's kind of a catch-up day, and I want to thank you for all the warm wishes you've emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com for the birth of our daughter.
00:01:35.000And we're getting some very good parenting advice.
00:01:37.000I could share some of that on our Ask Me Anything episode.
00:02:33.000So, tell our audience, just so we have a recap, what is an affidavit and what is your reaction to your name being mentioned in this affidavit?
00:02:41.000Yeah, so look, you guys know I was a national security prosecutor at DOJ for Republican and Democratic administrations, mostly Democratic.
00:02:48.000And a search warrant is a search warrant, be it for a bank robbery, a murder, or in this case, going into a president's home.
00:03:03.000They say in the affidavit under penalty of perjury that everything here is true.
00:03:08.000We have information that so-and-so is a bad person and we think they broke the law.
00:03:13.000We have probable cause, that's the standard, to tell a judge who has to authorize the invasion of the Fourth Amendment into someone's home to take things away from them because the FBI says we believe a crime's been committed.
00:03:29.000So, Peter Strzok, who struck Stroke Smirk, who should be in prison, said it's never great to see your unredacted name in a search warrant affidavit.
00:03:38.000To borrow from Eric Hirschman, quote, I'm going to give you your best free legal advice you're getting in your life.
00:03:42.000Get yourself a great effing criminal defense lawyer.
00:03:57.000The same corrupt government gangsters at the DOJ that ran Russia Gate are now back in charge at DOJ.
00:04:04.000John Carlin, Lisa Monaco, these used to be my bosses at the Department of Justice when they authorized Russia Gate are now in charge.
00:04:11.000The same FBI agents that worked for Peter Strzok, who broke the law and lied to a federal court to illegally surveill a warrant, excuse me, illegally surveill a president, his mentees are now running the counterintelligence investigation.
00:04:25.000These guys collectively know that when you issue a search warrant, you hide the person's name that is not the target of the investigation for personally identifiable reasons.
00:04:36.000That's in the FBI manuals, DOJ manuals, and everything.
00:04:40.000The DOJ fought to redact Osama bin Laden's name in a Washington Post article after 9-11, but they did not fight to redact my name, a career government official, because they wanted and needed the world to put me on blast.
00:04:58.000After the DOJ and FBI knew that I was being death threatened on a weekly basis, and the FBI was actually investigating ongoing death threats to me.
00:05:10.000They put me on blast in the single most infamous warrant in United States history.
00:05:15.000And you know the only other person's name that's not redacted there?
00:05:30.000Look, my general reaction to the affidavit is these guys are going to do everything they possibly can to run the same campaign they did with Russia Gate.
00:05:38.000They're going to use the fake news media to put out a disinformation campaign.
00:05:42.000What they want to do is make Donald Trump not run or make him so unpopular through their media disinformation campaign that voters are turned off.
00:05:53.000What they've seen in the public is a complete boomerang effect by going in and raiding the home of a president who was cooperating with DOJ and FBI.
00:06:05.000And if for some reason they choose to go down another extreme, unprecedented path and actually charge him, they might as well be handing him the 2024 presidency.
00:06:14.000Because even if he's convicted of the crimes they are alleging, Donald Trump can still lawfully be president of the United States.
00:06:22.000So you say here the documents at Mar-a-Lago marked classified are already declassified.
00:06:26.000Then what is the dispute over this, Cash?
00:06:28.000Is it true that the commander in chief, the head of the executive branch, the president of the United States, has full authority to declassify anything that he wants to declassify?
00:06:39.000If that is true, then this entire issue is insane.
00:06:45.000No, and that is the law, unless you are president, your name is President Donald Trump.
00:06:49.000As a former deputy director of national intelligence, I know the intelligence classification system and I know the bureaucratic process.
00:06:55.000And as the guy who had to put out the newness memo and jump through those hurdles to get it out, that applies to all government employees except the Office of the Presidency of the United States.
00:07:04.000Any president can declassify anything he wants.
00:07:07.000And what I've said in the past is I know Donald Trump declassified sweeping sets of documents related to Russia Gate, Hillarygate, and other national security matters that he felt were transparent.
00:07:18.000I have also said I can't say with certainty what was in Mar-a-Lago because I didn't know anything was down there until the world found out about it.
00:07:25.000And so what they're trying to do is now say Kash Patel is misleading the world by definitively saying everything at Mar-a-Lago is declassified.
00:07:33.000I've never said that, but I did say President Trump in front of me and others issued multiple declassification orders regarding whole sets of documents.
00:07:41.000And it's up to the DOJ and FBI to come in and say, well, those documents were classified, but we found other stuff.
00:08:11.000I mean, I think they would have found another line of effort to go and politicize the law enforcement and intelligence community to target Donald Trump.
00:08:20.000The president, any sitting president of the United States, is the sole arbiter of classification and can definitively, sweepingly declassify anything he wants.
00:08:28.000That's the way the Constitution and our Intel community works.
00:08:33.000And what should have happened afterwards is his White House counsel's office should have come in and said, okay, here's the paperwork that shows on this day Donald Trump declassified X, Y, and Z.
00:08:44.000But whether or not that's been done, I don't think it did because I haven't seen any paperwork to that effect.
00:08:49.000But bureaucrats cannot undermine a presidential decision.
00:08:52.000And Charlie, let me just give you an example.
00:08:54.000I was the head of counterterrorism for President Trump when we took out Baghdadi, and I was in the situation room with him.
00:08:59.000When the commander-in-chief authorized the raid strike force that killed him, we didn't wait for some rube to gin up paperwork before the order was executed.
00:09:08.000It was executed the second he said it because the commander-in-chief has that authority, just like he has that authority when it comes to classified documents.
00:09:17.000And so then there's this idea of the Presidential Records Act.
00:09:20.000Does it have to run by some run through some other board or some other kind of national registration office?
00:09:27.000Is there some other bureaucratic loophole that is being missed here really quick here, Cash, 30 seconds?
00:09:33.000Yeah, no, I think what they're trying to do with NARA, and that's another reason my name's out there, because President Trump named me as representative to National Archives, is simply we've been trying to get the declassified documents out and bureaucrats at NARA referred the matter to DOJ, even though they gave Hillary Clinton a pass for the same thing.
00:09:48.000And now they are saying, oh, we don't know where anything is.
00:10:05.000I think they are going to try to indict Donald Trump, not based on facts or him doing anything wrong, just based on pure desperation of trying to stop the MAGA movement.
00:10:15.000Is there anything you think Donald Trump should do?
00:10:17.000Do you think he should announce for a second term now?
00:10:25.000I'm more of a national security law enforcement guy.
00:10:27.000It's, you know, I think it makes sense with the midterms coming up and so much going in our direction to secure the House and the Senate with great candidates, you know, like Blake Masters out there in Arizona and JD Vance and company.
00:10:40.000And so if we can take four of those five Senate seats that we had no business taking, then let's do it.
00:10:46.000And if that means Donald Trump has to wait a month before he announces, so be it.
00:10:50.000So I think it's, you know, maybe he waits till right after the midterms.
00:10:59.000And so, you know, if Republicans take back the House and the Senate, Cash, what can possibly be done to hold this fourth branch of government accountable, the unelected, unknown, unchecked branch?
00:11:09.000It just seems like there's so many different scandals, so many different things they're doing or not doing or intentionally not focusing on what is it, Cash, that they need to do going in January, more than just writing letters.
00:11:23.000I mean, I think it's time for a church and pike committee equivalent.
00:11:29.000They need a committee, whether it's select or otherwise, to run a Russia Gate-style investigation that Devin and I ran, but they need to go 10 times harder.
00:11:40.000Go get subpoenas, go get the documents, make sure the American public are shown the documents that expose the government corruption at the FBI and DOJ.
00:11:48.000And I've said this since the beginning.
00:11:49.000I think the reason the FBI went down there and raided Donald Trump's home was because they knew this political leadership that was in place that started Russia Gate knew that Devin and I only got out 60% of the Russia Gate documents during our investigation.
00:12:04.000Why do you think President Donald Trump declassified them?
00:12:06.000Because it showed their extreme levels of corruption and illegality against the sitting president of the United States and others.
00:12:12.000So they come in and sweep up under the counterintelligence investigation umbrella to prevent their disclosure.
00:12:19.000And this Congress is the only mechanism that can go in there and force the disclosure of the documents.
00:12:25.000And then they must call these people up to testify publicly, Chris Ray, Merrick Garland, John Carlin, all these people, and without time limits and without private jets waiting for them that are paid for by the government to answer hard questions as to why did you allow this investigation to occur when you knew the people and the personnel operating it had already broken the law during Russia Gate.
00:12:49.000And some of these individuals are supposedly under investigation at the FBI themselves.
00:12:53.000How is it possible that they can work on an investigation of this magnitude?
00:13:00.000Yeah, and it just the Presidential Records Act is supposed to protect the president.
00:13:07.000I mean, Cash, this is so unprecedented.
00:13:09.000It's so a far reach of power for obvious political purposes.
00:13:13.000I mean, from Obama to Hillary Clinton, they're going to go and try and indict the former president of the United States when Hillary Clinton was smashing cell phones with hammers.
00:13:25.000And then you have the smugness and the arrogance of people like Peter Struckstroke Smirk and Lisa Page that are then kind of taking a victory lap around all this and Andy McCabe.
00:13:35.000Cash, this is not just two standards of justice.
00:13:39.000The one standard of justice is that if you are on the political right, we are going to throw the federal government of the United States after you wholly and completely.
00:13:48.000I want to play this piece of tape here from Lindsey Graham.
00:13:52.000I'm not really sure what to make of it.
00:13:53.000There's a couple different takes here potentially of what this means.
00:13:57.000If there's a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information after the Clinton debacle, which you presided over and did a hell of a good job, there'll be riots in the streets.
00:14:11.000I'm not, you know, hopefully that's not the way it goes.
00:14:15.000But, you know, I think what he's alluding to is that, you know, we could have this summer of riots, quote unquote, again, and they'll all be blamed on Donald Trump.
00:14:22.000And that'll be a political victory for the left because it will drive people away from the voting booths for any MAGA first candidates and also President Trump himself.
00:14:30.000But what we need to focus on is the people that are running their mouths on TV now, baselessly.
00:14:35.000Andy McCabe, who was deputy director of the FBI, and lied and broke his oath of office and the law.
00:14:39.000Peter Strzok and the Lovebirds lied and broke their oath of office and illegally surveilled a candidate for president.
00:14:44.000The mainstream media is equally as culpable, if not more, than these dirty government gangsters for executing this unlawful raid on President Trump.
00:14:52.000And they are scaring people into submission.
00:14:55.000But I will not be taking a knee on the truth because that, at the end of the day, is the only thing that matters in terms of service.
00:15:20.000Too often, we find ourselves arguing about whether or not America is great or not, or whether we should be ashamed or whether we should love America.
00:15:29.000For too many years, too many of our schools have been neglecting to teach young people about our great heritage of liberty, presenting them instead a dishonest narrative of America as a fundamentally unjust or racist country.
00:15:41.000Hillsdale College is weighing in for America, the wonderful Hillsdale College, by offering a free online course, such as The Great American Story, A Land of Hope, Constitution 101, The Meaning of a History of the Constitution.
00:15:53.000As we get closer to Constitution Day, September 17th, I encourage all of you to enroll in one of these wonderful free courses from Hillsdale.
00:15:59.000And even better, encourage your friends and family to sign up too.
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00:17:01.000I wrote about this in great detail in my book, and thank you for those of you that support us, College Scam.
00:17:06.000You guys can check it out, collegescam.com and also tpusa.com, where I put the entire college industry on trial.
00:17:14.000Now, last week, I was obviously not on Aaron, focusing on something more important.
00:17:21.000Joe Biden decreed by executive action, he doesn't have the constitutional authority to do this.
00:17:26.000He just is doing this unilaterally and totally straightforward, that he has the power to be able to forgive student loans.
00:17:35.000That some estimates show that it could cost upwards of half a trillion dollars, $500 billion, half a trillion dollars.
00:17:46.000So Joe Biden comes in, of course, to try to use one of the F's to try to control power, but both are happening simultaneously: fear and free stuff.
00:17:58.000People that are unpopular, people that do not have support of the governed, that are unwilling to try to build consensus, they will use either fear or free stuff to hold on to power.
00:18:15.000You might get audited by the 87,000 new IRS agents, the 87,000 new IRS agents that are going to have a centralized office that could be deployed against conservatives and middle-class Americans all across America.
00:18:29.000Of course, this is a vote-buying scheme for young people going into the midterms.
00:18:35.000But it also is two other things that I want to focus on.
00:18:37.000The first of which, this is a throbbing middle finger, an insult to the muscular class in our country.
00:18:46.000For those of you that are plumbers, electricians, and welders that didn't go to a four-year college, this is a direct and concerted, just unbelievably flagrant insult towards you.
00:18:58.000As if your muscular labor does not matter.
00:19:02.000How about those of you, that's the first part, that are entrepreneurs that started businesses and didn't go to a four-year college.
00:19:44.000It is a subsidy of the idea pathogens that have infected our entire society, as I talk about in the college scam, of which I put the entire college industry on trial.
00:19:54.000It's a very appropriate book right now, considering this free stuff vote buying scheme being put forward by the Biden regime.
00:20:02.000And the 10-count indictment are: number one, college universities are running a scam.
00:20:06.000College education is ridiculously overpriced.
00:20:08.000Universities have become obscenely rich at taxpayer and student expense.
00:20:13.000That's the part that no one, not say no one, but the mainstream, no one in the mainstream media has been talking about.
00:20:18.000No one in the mainstream activist press has been talking about how unbelievably corrupt these colleges are.
00:20:24.000This is a subsidy of the institution that is broken from within.
00:20:29.000If you're going to forgive student loans of reckless financial behavior, you're only going to get more reckless financial behavior.
00:20:39.000College has ruined the ability to think and reason.
00:20:41.000College indoctrinates students and repress speech.
00:20:44.000All this, of course, is with the exception of Hillsdale College.
00:20:49.000College universities breed violence and hatred.
00:20:51.000College universities have been infiltrated by subversive foreign groups.
00:20:55.000College universities have unleashed waves of woke anti-American activists.
00:20:59.000Many professors are left-wing radicals bent on indoctrinating students.
00:21:05.000All this in the book, The College Scam.
00:21:07.000So the first of which is an insult to every single one of you in the audience that have built a life without an expensive four-year diploma.
00:21:15.000But it's also an insult to the second group of people.
00:21:18.000For those of you that have built a life and responsibly went through college and took AP classes in high school, that got scholarships, that went to the less expensive college.
00:21:27.000How many of you out there decided to go to a cheaper college because you were afraid of the student loan debt?
00:21:33.000How about those of you that have been paying off your student loans the last couple of years?
00:22:28.000We run these overly inflated and bloated, reckless balance sheets.
00:22:38.000We might as well subsidize those of you that do the same.
00:22:41.000We might as well give you a massive handout for those of you that are also in massive debt.
00:22:53.000And if you were to even argue for a little student loan forgiveness, if you say college is a scam, which I agree, and students have been scammed, I think there is one form of student loan forgiveness that I would support.
00:23:04.000Seize the endowments and make the colleges pay for it themselves.
00:23:09.000In the current state of affairs, what we have is students that get scammed by college, and the taxpayer has to now bail them out.
00:25:41.000So you want COVID to be able to buy yourself votes because you're so incoherent and incompetent and you're nakedly corrupt, holding on to power like the last grasp of a despotic Roman emperor, morally parallel to Caligula, trying to do your best to not govern constitutionally, but using the multi-thousand-year-old tactic of I'm just going to buy people off.
00:27:30.000The share of young people ages 18 to 34 who identify as liberal has dropped more than any other age group by 10 points over the last five years.
00:27:40.000What we are doing on this program, and thank you for supporting us, what we are doing at Turning Point is working, everybody.
00:28:12.000Why do you think Joe Biden has to go and try to buy their votes off?
00:28:16.000Those of you that paid off your loans and didn't go to college, this is the government slapping you across the face.
00:28:22.000It's an insult to responsibility and to the virtue of hard work and living within your means.
00:28:30.000Millions of Americans are waking up to a country they don't recognize.
00:28:33.000And while they struggle to raise their families and pay the bills, the media and major corporations are telling them that they're what's wrong with America.
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00:31:10.000When they used to hear that Republicans were taking over, it was okay because it means the Uniparty would still be in power, business as usual.
00:31:18.000Now, when they hear Republicans are going to take over, that's a fire alarm for a populist nationalist movement that might institute a church and pike committee that might fire 87,000 IRS agents.
00:32:02.000The person who asked the question is Aaron Rodgers, arguably the best quarterback in the NFL.
00:32:09.000So by the way, Turning Point Pack, just so you know, is going to take that clip, if we're legally allowed to do that, and run that as an advertisement in every single battleground state.
00:32:18.000Joe Rogan and Aaron Rodgers talk about the midterms, and we're just going to put it right towards younger voters.
00:32:48.000You think that a regime that is confident in their power, that feels stability in their rule, starts unilaterally forgiving people student loan forgiveness?
00:33:01.000And let me actually correct myself because I try to be very precise with language.
00:33:08.000This is nothing more than buying votes.
00:33:11.000I don't like the word forgiveness because the word forgiveness is a beautiful word that is biblical in nature and involves a connection with the divine or someone who did something wrong.