00:00:00.000Hey everybody, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:01.000This is Andrew Colvett, executive producer of this fine show, filling in behind the microphone before Charlie, who is on a much needed break.
00:00:09.000He's on assignment, but never fear, the show must go on.
00:00:38.000We talk about their paid for and bought for propaganda campaigns that are existing and operating within the United States right now.
00:00:45.000And we also talk about how the U.S. government is currently ramping up its COVID response ahead of 2024 and what it means for that important election.
00:01:17.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:26.000Nobody reported it, not because they were squeamish about sex or drugs, but because the Obama campaign said anyone who reports on this gets no access to the Obama campaign.
00:04:10.000I think the headline, everybody's fixating on the Obama piece.
00:04:13.000But explain what he said there and how that jives with your own experience.
00:04:18.000So you don't even need to go all the way to Tucker Carlson to understand this because Ben Rhodes, who was the deputy national security advisor to Barack Obama, actually explained this once in an interview.
00:04:51.000But he said, what we would do then is hold a Skype call with like 20 journalists, and every single one of them was like some 20-something that didn't have any experience in reporting or any experience in the real world other than hanging out on a campaign bus, which is something that journalists do when they're kind of getting their feet wet.
00:05:12.000It's a tradition in politics, especially in presidential years.
00:05:16.000You go to Iowa, you go to New Hampshire, you hang out on the bus.
00:05:19.000So they didn't know any, they were not Iran experts.
00:05:26.000And so he actually said, you can tell them whatever you want and they will write down whatever it is.
00:05:33.000This, by the way, and Tucker goes on to explain later in the same interview with Adam Carolla there, that this trickles all the way up to top CNN anchors like Wolf Blitzer because they end up getting their quote unquote, you know, off the record sources, exclusive national security source.
00:05:52.000An exclusive national security source means that there's someone from the Intel agency that has decided they want a narrative to come out on CNN or on MSNBC or whatever it is.
00:06:06.000And by the way, the same thing happens on Fox News because they'll walk over and say, we want this narrative out.
00:06:11.000So you can say three Intel sources, four Intel sources, whatever it is, or Intel sources have told CNN that there were no soldiers killed in Afghanistan or that it's perfectly safe for Joe Biden to pull out, whatever it is, anything like this.
00:06:26.000Or if you remember the actual, they don't even talk about this.
00:06:28.000It happened two years ago when Fox News falsely reported that it was Jen Griffin who that the terrorists that attacked Abbey Gate were later taken out in a drone strike.
00:06:41.000It ended up being some Afghan aid worker.
00:06:42.000So what I mean to say is this can all be spread around, but we're talking about how the sausage is made with access journalism.
00:06:48.000So what Tucker is talking about here is a specific incident with Barack Obama as pertains to his campaign, as pertains to his entire White House, which really set the stage for what we see in terms of access journalism.
00:07:03.000Now, it started during the Bush years.
00:07:05.000And yes, there have been persistent stories about Barack Obama and his, shall we say, sex life while he was in college.
00:07:16.000I think safe to say experimentation, I think is the right word, gender fluidity, maybe.
00:07:21.000But these stories have been out there and it's been ex-girlfriends, people who claimed that they were ex-boyfriends, letters that he wrote that have been authenticated, and yet none of it was able to get reported outside of like at the time, the burgeoning, it was kind of nascent, but the blogosphere was just getting going.
00:07:44.000James O'Peef, Project Veritas was just getting started in the same period.
00:07:47.000So you would see stories there, but it wasn't yet at the same maturity now that we see with social media.
00:07:53.000So these narratives never really broke out of those little silos.
00:07:58.000Yeah, I think it's safe to say, Jack, I think that's a good point.
00:08:01.000I think today's media landscape with Real America's Voice, conservative radio, shows like yours, the Charlie Kirk show, this narrative would have gotten out there a lot in a lot more force.
00:08:46.000I have sources within the New York Times, the Washington Post complaining to me, complaining to me, Jack, that if they write one untoward comment about the Biden administration, one speculative question, they will be cut off.
00:09:02.000I mean, when I tell you that the frustration within the media community is spreading and it's real about the Biden admin, I think we don't know how that's going to play out in 2024.
00:09:15.000We don't know how it's going to play out if Biden can't run or chooses not to run or if they're going to force him out.
00:09:20.000But this is a frustration that is deep seated within the access journalism community.
00:09:29.000No one's ever going to give Trump credit for this, but his administration was actually one of the most open administrations ever in the history of the United States when it comes to press access.
00:13:19.000Yeah, so I actually threw out on Twitter yesterday just one tweet, a one-line tweet.
00:13:25.000Unlike Charlie, he's a master of the four-line, the five-line tweets.
00:13:29.000It's a one-line, old-school, 140-character Twitter tweet where I just said very simply, and I even have it right here, that they would launch America into war with Russia just to get rid of military-age males who are more likely to support Trump.
00:13:46.000Andrew, there was a new study, and we have a piece up at humanevents.com today.
00:13:51.000There was a new study that came out from the University of Queensland, Australia with the subject for more than 5,000 adults in the U.S. and the UK.
00:13:59.000It's a pre-print in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
00:14:40.000We must have empathy for them, even though they're our political allies.
00:14:44.000Well, the problem with this is that it leads to false outcomes because they are misreading the room.
00:14:51.000And so when I posted that tweet and when Tucker put his thing out saying that the left, the regime, the Uniparty, the overstate, as I call it, that is currently in power would be willing to...
00:15:02.000Now, we've been saying that they'll bring back COVID to end the election.
00:15:05.000Tucker's going a step further, I believe, saying they want war with Russia in order to declare war footing to stay in power.
00:15:14.000And then I kind of was riffing off of that and said, and not only that, but if you launch a hot war with Russia, what are they going to do?
00:15:21.000It will be military-age males who are more than likely predisposed to supporting Trump that would end up going to have to fight in any such situation.
00:15:33.000Now, when you put all of this together, the neocons got so mad.
00:15:38.000And oh, like half of neocon DC was raining down on me on Twitter yesterday, in which I was just throwing them out like Andre in a battle royale.
00:15:47.000But you've got, at the same time, the left, the liberals, they didn't say a word.
00:15:52.000They didn't say a single thing to my tweet.
00:15:54.000So it's up to 2.5 million impressions.
00:16:00.000They looked at it and they winked and said, yeah, we would do that.
00:16:03.000They're also not attacking Tucker either for what he said about getting into a hot war with Russia.
00:16:07.000Because if you look at things in Ukraine right now, they are definitely not going Zelensky's way.
00:16:12.000We just had Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer on Human Events, and he predicts that because of the failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, remember, we were told this is going to be the spring counteroffensive and it's going to launch.
00:16:22.000And now it's summer and now summer is over, going into fall.
00:16:25.000They've barely been able to take anything.
00:16:27.000Meanwhile, they're losing thousands and thousands of soldiers and they're losing NATO equipment in the field with Russia.
00:16:34.000Russia, on the other hand, hasn't even lost their superior defensive lines that they've spent all of this time building.
00:17:13.000Biden, not only the corruption involved, the belief involved, they will do anything to go and continue this fight, including up to all-out hot war.
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00:19:28.000I know that's why I never come on the Charlie Kirk show, but I'm glad to be here now because now I know that you're not just hounding me for whatever reason, but you want me to spread the gospel about the stories that I write.
00:20:18.000You know, the Department of Health and Human Services began rolling out federal contracts for COVID-19 response with start dates in September and concluding in the year of 2025.
00:20:28.000Okay, so Natalie, walk us through these.
00:20:38.000So, this is the second part of the story, sort of a chronicle that I had been keeping track of the federal government's spending database, how they're choosing to spend your hard-earned taxpayer dollars, but specifically sort of juxtaposing the narrative coming out from some alternative media outlets.
00:20:55.000It really started with Alex Jones and InfoWars talking about the potential for these lockdowns and mandates to be coming again.
00:21:01.000And of course, if you turn on the mainstream media right now, even if you look around at certain hospitals, VA centers, studios, colleges, you have started to see the rollout of these, of course, ineffective policies.
00:21:13.000So, I always like to look for the receipts because though the Biden regime is very good at lying and not telling us the truth, you can't lie on USAspending.gov, right?
00:21:25.000And what I have found really, I think, is an alarming trend for a variety of reasons.
00:21:29.000But the story that you highlighted shows contracts coming from HHS, the Department of Health and Human Services, to various vendors, various federal contractors for COVID-19 services.
00:21:42.000The HHS contract in particular is going to a pandemic response and tracking firm that specializes in surveillance.
00:21:50.000They don't really get into excessive details about why they're hiring them, why they're giving them millions of your taxpayer dollars.
00:21:58.000But I'd also urge other contracts coming from the DOD, coming from the VA, for similar use, whether it was COVID-19 equipment, COVID-19 test kits, or just enforcing COVID-19, quote, safety protocols.
00:22:12.000But what I think the most concerning part is about this story isn't even the fact that right now they're getting ready to weaponize our taxpayer dollars and purchase these contracts.
00:22:22.000What's even more damning is on the other end is the end dates of these contracts.
00:22:27.000And in a lot of cases, those coming from HHS are set to end in 2025, but those coming from the DOD and the VA are actually set to culminate, and believe it or not, the year 2028.
00:22:40.000And why I think this is so damning, it goes back to something that you guys are always covering on the show, right?
00:22:47.000It's about weaponizing it, exploiting it, and using it to push a very nefarious social agenda that, of course, dovetails with the 2024 election.
00:22:56.000Yeah, so it's an interesting tie-in, Natalie.
00:22:58.000So 2025, obviously, this would be after the 2024 elections, right?
00:23:04.0002028 would be assuming Democrats remain in power.
00:23:07.000They're going to have these contracts in place until then, which could mean we are in for, if Democrats win and get their way, we could be in for an era of COVID tyranny that we, I think most of the general public, certainly myself, thought was basically in the rearview mirror.
00:23:28.000I think I am, but I want to get your perspective on this.
00:23:31.000Are you seeing a change in tone from the likes of Corinne Jean-Pierre or any of the other admin folks within the Biden administration that this is actually something they're ramping up to do?
00:23:44.000Do we see the signs that would indicate that your reporting is actually Part of a greater scheme.
00:23:52.000Well, from a scientific and data perspective, there's absolutely no signs that the Biden White House, the Biden regime, should be backing these measures.
00:24:01.000The week predating the sort of new rollout of the mask mandates, like I said, on the college campuses, in various studios, and sort of starting to see the mainstream media use its COVID-19 talking points again.
00:24:13.000Of the 324 COVID deaths that were recorded countrywide in that week, like I said, predating the raw of these mask mandates, just about 1.7% of those deaths actually identified COVID-19 as the primary cause of death.
00:24:29.000Even at peak pandemic levels, that percentage hovered more so around 30%.
00:24:34.000So I think if you really want to get into why they're bringing this back, I think the more important number is the really free fall that companies like Moderna and Pfizer have seen in their profits when it comes to COVID-19 products.
00:24:47.000While the CDC has come out and rather forcefully through the mainstream media and through, of course, their fact-checking apparatus, the factcheck.orgs of the world, come out and said, we're not going back into lockdowns.
00:24:59.000We're not going to reinstitute mask mandates.
00:25:02.000Anytime the CDC says something, the opposite is probably true.
00:25:05.000So that doesn't really give me any comfort.
00:25:08.000But we've already started to see Joe Biden pick up the COVID-19 booster talking points saying that people should get ready to start taking their boosters come September, which of course is just starting tomorrow.
00:25:19.000And there's been a lot of talk about how the FDA is already starting to authorize those boosters specifically for the COVID-19 products.
00:25:26.000So I think we will see a full-scale push for vaccination come from the Biden White House.
00:25:32.000I think they will be a little more cautious with their talking points and how they're going to talk about the lockdowns, potentially the mask mandates, because I think they know you can only push the American people so far.
00:25:45.000And I think, you know, we will not comply is really the prevailing sentiment of most America.
00:25:50.000And I think the Biden regime understands that.
00:25:52.000So I think they'll try to be a little more indirect in the way that they're going to implement these lockdowns.
00:25:57.000And frankly, Andrew, I think the way that we're already starting to see that comes in the way that they're very, very, very skilled with their language, with the syntax and the diction that they use.
00:26:06.000In other words, they've sort of rebranded the term lockdown, the term mandate, and now they're called safety protocols.
00:26:13.000If you read the mainstream media, you'll start to see this word pop up, but that's sort of the new remake of what a COVID-19 mandate or COVID lockdown is.
00:26:22.000It's a safety protocol, a very euphemistic term that means we got to trust the experts because only they know how to keep us safe.
00:26:42.000You know, to gauge the public's reaction to this, I mean, do they think this has any political advantage whatsoever?
00:26:49.000Are they just so neurotic they can't really help themselves?
00:26:53.000I mean, what's what could be driving this?
00:26:55.000And I mean, and I'm going to play this clip again for the audience and for you of Of Tucker saying, Hey, it's not going to be COVID, it's not going to be mass and lockdowns.
00:27:04.000Actually, it's going to be war with Ukraine.
00:27:06.000I mean, is this just floating trial balloons to see what sticks here?
00:27:11.000I think it's so in your face, and I think they think that they can get away with it.
00:27:15.000Because if you think about it, I mean, for the past years, we've really only seen now because of FOIA requests and awesome investigative reporting that the censorship industrial complex really does exist, right?
00:27:26.000You have these groups that are within the government, but it's also been outsourced to these sort of NGO types.
00:27:31.000We, of course, see that with the collusion with big tech.
00:27:33.000So, I think the Joe Biden types of the world, the Biden regime, is really the American ruling class, has been able to get away with lying to the American people because they have essentially a Praetorian guard, right, that is running cover for them and censoring anyone that they disagree with.
00:27:48.000When it comes to the mandates and the potential lockdowns, I mean, I really think that we need to look at these as an extension of democratic lawfare, just in the style of the impeachments and the indictments that they've weaponized against Donald Trump.
00:28:02.000I think they've realized that the indictments are backfiring.
00:28:05.000Trump, of course, had his highest ever recorded day in terms of campaign fundraising the day after his Georgia mugshot was released.
00:28:54.000They'll use racism as a supposed social ill or social crisis that we need to combat using any tactic, whether it's a lockdown or a mandate, just enough to really give them the prerequisite or the justification to what is, I think, really use the mass universal mail-in voting.
00:29:13.000I think that's one of the key ways that they've kind of rigged elections legally in a weird way, although that sounds paradoxical.
00:29:22.000But I think it's just about getting the public, you know, concerned, triggered, you know, into the COVID hysteria again, that they can launch this country and use the justification to have what is another election that is conducted really primarily vote by mail.
00:29:38.000But that, of course, comes with the guaranteed fact and Democrats know it all too well that it means it'll also be righteous fraud.
00:30:23.000In spite of all of that, the reason I think that we're not done seeing these new ideas is because, and these new attempts to derail the Trump movement is simply because the trend is our friend.
00:30:35.000In these battle states, McLaughlin poll came out today having Trump up 4941 in battleground states, which is massive if true.
00:31:11.000Well, I think when we talk about Chinese Communist Party influence operations, you know, it wasn't just COVID that I think exposed how in depth they are ingrained and embedded in this country.
00:31:23.000But I think the level, the extent to which their propaganda operation has a grip and a grasp on this country really was exposed through COVID.
00:31:31.000And what I mean by that is, you know, think about the propaganda that they were able to disseminate about the origins of COVID-19, right?
00:31:38.000The wet market, as opposed to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, I would even argue, all the way back to kind of day one of the origins of the virus, intentionally being released from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where it's just it being a natural spillover event.
00:31:52.000They have hidden, they have continued to hide the viral genomic sequences about the virus, the fact that they were engaging in gain of function research.
00:31:59.000But what I think the fundamental point is here, and what I have dedicated a lot of my previous career to in terms of the investigative reporting is that it's not just the origins of COVID that the Chinese Communist Party is running these propaganda campaigns on and spreading actual disinformation here in the United States.
00:32:15.000It's on all issues, and it really is election interference, really in its purest form.
00:32:20.000And there's actually a wonderful article today in the New York Times that's saying that Republicans, people like me and you who dare to speak out against the Chinese Communist Party and call them out for the evil regime that they are, that were actually fueled by just a desire to basically keep white people and Christianity in power in this country.
00:32:39.000I think that might hold the record for worst political take in recent history.
00:32:45.000But my point in all this is that this narrative about China being a competitor, China being an ally, China being a friend to the United States, that is a narrative, that is a talking point that the Chinese Communist Party, through their political warfare department, which is called the United Front Work Department, has spent billions, and I use the term billions of dollars getting disseminated and really trying to mainstream here in the United States.
00:33:10.000So when you hear the neoliberal talking point, right, which comes from the Biden regime basically every day about how, you know, a rising China is not a threat to the United States.
00:33:19.000It was Joe Biden who wrote an op-ed in 2011 saying that a rising China does not pose a threat to the United States.
00:33:26.000Maybe that takes the bait for best New York Times take in a long while.
00:33:32.000But it's just important to remember that a lot of the talking points that you've heard about China, they are just like so many things in this country, made in China.
00:33:41.000And there's these groups like the China-United States Exchange Foundation, the Chinese People's Association for Friendship and Foreign Contact, all these very happy, innocuous sounding names, but they have budgets from the Chinese Communist Party, specifically from the People's Liberation Army, and they are tasked to liaise and really embed themselves, not just with politicians here, but with people who work at the think tanks in Washington, D.C., academics, of course, family members of politicians,
00:34:08.000really so they can astroturf and create this narrative that a rising China is great for the United States.
00:34:14.000And that's why you've really seen such weakness coming from Joe Biden against China.
00:34:20.000They used human rights sort of as a cop out, but the issue is much deeper than that.
00:34:32.000Thanks so much for tuning in, everybody.
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