00:00:52.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:41.000So actually, I just got off of a call last night with some of my conservative colleagues that are really forcing the Congress to actually legislate, I'd say, since the first time since the 90s.
00:02:52.000And so really the architect behind this, and rightfully so, has been Representative Gates.
00:02:57.000You know, a lot of people will try to say, oh, Matt's just a bomb throw, but he's not.
00:03:01.000He's arguably one of the smartest politicians that I've met, especially when it comes to strategy.
00:03:06.000So the CR and a vote for a CR, and this has been my opinion since the beginning, would really do nothing except for continue to fund a weaponized government.
00:03:14.000And as you saw, Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer want to stick in a whole bunch of Ukraine funding and send that back over from the Senate to the House.
00:03:22.000And so what we're doing is we are dragging the conference to really help push those single subject spending bills.
00:03:30.000And what we're hearing right now, Charlie, is the group as a whole, meaning Representative Ogles, Matt Gates, Eli Crane, a lot of the other members that you saw publicly come out against this in the last few weeks, were still a known the CR.
00:03:42.000And so it's looking like we're going to be going to a shutdown.
00:03:45.000But again, just like in January with the negotiations, you know, this has been something that Congress knew this deadline was coming.
00:03:52.000It's not something that was a surprise.
00:03:54.000And so I'd say that the right thing to do is to adhere to the agreement that we had for the single subject spending bills.
00:04:01.000And, you know, if we continue, Charlie, to not do this, what'll happen is we're going to continue to go into debt and we cannot afford that as a country.
00:04:09.000So walk us through what is the impediment then?
00:04:11.000What is the establishment or leadership saying?
00:04:14.000And what are the likelihoods that we're going to reach an impasse?
00:04:19.000I think as of right now, leadership is potentially talking about still wanting to bring a vote to the floor on Friday.
00:04:27.000With a CR, it would have been the Byron Donald's version of the CR minus the Ukraine funding.
00:04:33.000But again, the group of us are saying we don't want a CR.
00:04:38.000And Congress should not govern by CRs.
00:04:40.000We need to go through these spending bills.
00:04:42.000We need to work with the appropriators and specifically determine what should be funded and what should not be funded.
00:04:49.000And so I think what's going to happen is pending that we hold out, unless leadership cuts a deal with Democrats, I think that we'll get our single subject spending bills through.
00:04:59.000But again, there's a lot of negotiations taking place right now.
00:05:02.000And I really do have to give Representative Gates credit because he's putting his money where his mouth is.
00:05:16.000And so talk about border security or Jack Smith.
00:05:18.000How are those fights going to kind of play into that?
00:05:22.000Well, border security absolutely needs to be a part of this entire discussion.
00:05:27.000As you saw in the initial CR, they had HR2 in there.
00:05:31.000The one thing that I was sad to see is that they removed E-Verify.
00:05:35.000But as you're seeing, our southern border is completely being overrun.
00:05:38.000And so no matter what we do as a Congress, that has to be our number one objective is to ensure that regardless of what the Biden administration is doing, mind you, Charlie, we have laws in place, but the Biden administration is intentionally not enforcing those laws.
00:05:53.000So we have to keep that in mind when we're negotiating this, because even if we have it in there, if we're not using the power of the purse to ensure that this administration is enforcing those policies and those positions and appointed positions are adhering to our laws of the land, then it's not going to do anything.
00:06:10.000And then the second thing is with Jack Smith and even the DOJ, you saw in the last 24 hours, and I think you had tweeted about it, that a DOJ appointee in Delaware, Leslie Wolf, was actually in charge of really hindering an investigation and leaving out political figure one, who is Joe Biden from a search warrant because of the Hunter Biden corruption case.
00:06:31.000You know, her position needs to be on the chopping block too.
00:06:35.000And so we have to make sure that we are including all of this.
00:06:38.000And as we continue to move forward, I just want to remind especially conservative voters that we are not trying to do this just to cause chaos.
00:06:48.000We are doing this to try to save the country.
00:06:52.000And you're seeing with the weaponization, if we don't do this correctly, we will essentially be funding a weaponized government, not just against ourselves, but against a candidate for presidential office, which is President Trump.
00:07:04.000Yeah, that really is the biggest fight in front of us.
00:07:09.000And how do you think we should proceed?
00:07:11.000So as you're seeing today, we kicked off one of the initial hearings for the impeachment inquiry from the get-go, Charlie, starting from when I saw the FBI show us redacted documentation, the FBI coming up with excuses as to why they couldn't tell us who the whistleblower were, to include the FBI having an informant that was leaking information on the open investigation into Hunter Biden to the Bidens.
00:07:35.000I have thought that this sitting president, you know, Biden is obviously guilty of public corruption based on the evidence.
00:07:41.000I still think that we need to move forward and we need to do so aggressively.
00:07:46.000However, I'm just going to be real with the listeners.
00:07:48.000The Senate will likely not pass the impeachment.
00:07:55.000But I think it's important to note that if we can at least get the trial started and we can bring information to the American public, just like what happened with Watergate, the media will inform the public as to what's happening.
00:08:07.000And I just saw a poll from Axios actually in the last 24 hours, and over half of Americans support this.
00:08:13.000And so that's important because what we're finding is people that typically might not have gotten politically involved or be paying attention now they're starting to see, hey, you know, there can't be a double standard.
00:08:23.000And, you know, they might be independents, they might be soft-leading Democrats, but they don't agree with public corruption.
00:08:28.000So then, in your caucus, do you think we'll be able to get with Republicans a house vote on impeachment before Christmas?
00:08:37.000I hope, but that's going to be up to the speaker.
00:08:40.000And I think that that's, you know, when you're hearing Representative Gates's arguments on what's happening even with the CR and defunding Jack Smith and all that, I think that it's important for the speaker to see that, you know, Americans, we have to maintain that standard of justice.
00:08:56.000And when people lose faith in the justice system, it's actually very dangerous because that's when they start to push the envelope and where you really see that deep-rooted corruption start to expand.
00:09:05.000And so I know that if the speaker is listening to this, I would ask him to do the right thing and bring that vote to the floor so that we can have due diligence and the justice that we deserve.
00:09:15.000Congresswoman Ana Paulina Luna, get back to your newborn baby.
00:09:18.000Thank you so much for making the time.
00:11:31.000But the students yesterday, it was really, it got very philosophical very quickly.
00:11:36.000And some of the questions that they were asking were very fundamental, which is, do you need a belief in a transcendent to have a free society?
00:11:47.000In fact, I was like, that's the question you guys should be mulling over in your Arizona State University philosophy course or your ethics course, which is, can you have a free society without a belief or without any sort of structure in a transcendent?
00:12:22.000They should probably have come to that conclusion already, but that's what college is all about.
00:12:27.000And again, I'm no fan of ASU and how they've been handling things and the 30-something professors that signed the letter at the Barrett Honors College saying that Dennis Prager and Charlie Kirk should not be allowed on campus, which sparked this massive free speech fight.
00:14:22.000I think it's interesting to hear different points of view of people that aren't my own, she said.
00:14:26.000It's interesting to understand where they come from.
00:14:30.000You see, that was a really important quote because here she's saying that not unreasonable, I disagree with him.
00:14:39.000That very same young lady very well might have been tricked into screaming at me at Northern Arizona University because they never even let me talk.
00:14:49.000They had a built-up prejudice and stereotype of what they thought I was or how I presented my views as some sort of shock artist.
00:14:58.000When I do believe my views are rather reasonable and justifiable.
00:15:03.000And so there she puts forward a piece of an opinion that de-radicalizes the antagonism.
00:15:10.000That right there is evidence that if you want to heal the land and remedy the rupture of America, speech is the way that we do that.
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00:17:06.000It was embarrassing and it was insulting to the candidates there.
00:17:11.000But more importantly, what it showed to me, and this is the mistake that everybody keeps making on this, Charlie, is I keep saying, well, we need a debate that allows the candidates to speak.
00:17:19.000Here's the other option that I don't think people are understanding.
00:20:39.000The goal is to give primary and caucus goers and grassroots activists in the conservative movement the best information about who to vote for and who will be the strongest conservative going up against Kamala Harris.
00:20:51.000Because that's what we're really fighting about.
00:20:53.000And at the end of the day, to try to make sure that we all looked good, that was a sanctioned debate.
00:21:27.000The idea that we wasted that much time to try to look good when we weren't doing anything to further the cause of finding a Republican nominee.
00:21:35.000I mean, if I were Donald Trump, I was sitting there saying, thank God I went to Michigan.
00:22:34.000Trump actually had an audience to himself to explain why Biden's policies are bad for Michigan, bad for America.
00:22:40.000Trump won Michigan by 10,703 votes in 2016.
00:22:44.000He can do it again by peeling off more union workers that understand that he's fighting for their jobs and fighting for the future of America.
00:22:51.000Last night, it would have been a complete joke, and he made the right decision by not going there.
00:22:56.000Charlie, when your clearest and nearest competitor is 45 points, 45 to 50 points behind you, why on earth would you show up and give them a stage to do this?
00:23:06.000Look, maybe when we get closer down, but I go back to the point I made a minute ago.
00:23:22.000They've seen Donald Trump and they've made their mind up.
00:23:25.000We are three plus months out from the Iowa caucuses.
00:23:28.000And whether you look at state polls or national polls, I think the decision of most voters, and your point was made on this second ago, it grows for Donald Trump.
00:23:37.000The more people see these other guys that are like, God, I would rather get in the Trump train now.
00:24:56.000I mean, actually, a pretty good line from DeSantis, but does this get us closer, Sean, to get us to beating Joe Biden or the Democrats in November of 24?
00:25:06.000Well, in the sense that the sooner that we come up with the nominee, and right now, again, my point is I think that Trump, the more we can coalesce and begin that general election fight, the better.
00:25:17.000But I don't think we did ourselves any favors last night.
00:25:20.000I don't think this, the one thing I will say from an image standpoint, Charlie, I will say this.
00:25:24.000If you turn down the volume and look at the stage, I think it reflects well on the conservative movement and the political and the Republican Party that we had people of color there, people of success.
00:25:32.000Doug Bergham and Vivek Ramaswamy are successful business people.
00:25:36.000I like the look, but I thought that the behavior and the tone last night didn't do the party any favors.
00:27:59.000You can believe that the American dream still exists for some people, but to say that the American dream is healthy and intact, that doesn't resonate.
00:28:11.000This connects perfectly with something I want to talk about that I was almost trying out in real time with the Arizona State students yesterday who were very receptive.
00:30:01.000They have been created as Russian serfs.
00:30:03.000Home ownership is so hard to find because what we've done is we saddle them with unnecessary student loan debt, send them to schools to learn silly and stupid stuff, fill them up with really bad ideas.
00:30:16.000And we printed all this money, massive structural inflation over the last couple of years.
00:30:23.000So all of our asset prices have gone up and young people can't even pay the down payment, let alone service the loan, especially in major metropolitan areas like Dallas, Austin, Texas, Houston, Phoenix.
00:30:39.000Home prices in Phoenix have gone up 65 to 70% since COVID.
00:30:48.000The price to fill a tank of gas has doubled.
00:30:52.000And something that I hear a lot is some older people, you know, baby boomers, God bless them, say, Charlie, why don't the kids just work harder?
00:31:37.000Please, I want anyone that's talking down to these kids, like Tim Scott, who just rehearses this disgusting Chamber of Commerce talking point.
00:31:45.000Try get married and having kids in your 20s like your parents could.
00:32:33.000You are in active generational denial if you think the American Dream is alive and well.
00:32:40.000Sit down, pick 10 random kids at the University of Arizona or Arizona State University and sit down and go through their economics and financials with them.