The Charlie Kirk Show - James Lankford Helps Democrats Hold America Hostage

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00:01:34.000 Joining us now is Citizen Kane from citizenfreepress.com.

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00:01:43.000 Kane, big, big week.

00:01:45.000 Big takeaways from Iowa.

00:01:47.000 Walk us through it, Kane.

00:01:48.000 You've been covering it really well.

00:01:50.000 Well, big takeaway is Purdue stomp the Hoosiers.

00:01:54.000 I snuck away.

00:01:55.000 Oh, wait, hold on.

00:01:55.000 Do you have to get a Peacock login for that?

00:01:59.000 I would never pay Peacock.

00:02:00.000 I would never pay NBC.

00:02:02.000 No, I snuck over to Assembly Hall and caught the first half of the game.

00:02:05.000 The old-fashioned way. 0.56

00:02:06.000 I wanted to watch it, but this NBC racket called Peacock, they don't even air it on.

00:02:11.000 You have to get a Peacock thing.

00:02:12.000 I think it is so sick what they're doing.

00:02:14.000 Anyway, they put basketball on there now.

00:02:16.000 Anyway, sorry, Kane, please continue.

00:02:18.000 Yeah, it's the third IU game that's been on Peacock.

00:02:21.000 Neither my dad tried to purchase it.

00:02:24.000 He's such a diehard fan.

00:02:25.000 He's gone to every game for 40 years.

00:02:27.000 He tried to purchase it.

00:02:28.000 He couldn't even make it work.

00:02:29.000 No, it was awful what they did.

00:02:32.000 Yeah, it was awful what they did with the playoffs.

00:02:34.000 You know, what a fantastic.

00:02:35.000 It turns out the Kansas City, Miami game was frozen and it looked like dolphin tacklers.

00:02:40.000 I saw highlights.

00:02:41.000 They didn't want to meet the frozen turf, but that's horrible that they put that game on Peacock.

00:02:47.000 And so anyway, back to Iowa.

00:02:50.000 It was frozen in Iowa like it was in Indiana.

00:02:53.000 I think Trump did good numbers.

00:02:54.000 And I actually thought, you know, I put a post up.

00:02:58.000 It was from Axios.

00:02:59.000 They had the temperature for the last five, last five caucuses, and it was by far the coldest.

00:03:06.000 Yet the turnout, you know, everyone's saying, oh, turnout was low, turnout was low.

00:03:09.000 Well, it was actually about 2008, 2012 level turnout.

00:03:13.000 So it wasn't awful.

00:03:14.000 It just wasn't equal to 2016.

00:03:17.000 I think Trump shut up the naysayers, earning 51%.

00:03:22.000 And if you drop the VEX 8% out, that would have put Trump at 60.

00:03:28.000 So I think that's a very solid showing.

00:03:31.000 And I'll wrap it up with, I'm sure you've seen, I've got the headline on CFP, but Drudge is going with that American research group there at New Hampshire polling, showing Trump and Nikki Haley tied at 40-40.

00:03:45.000 So I don't believe that for a minute, but I thought I would throw that to you.

00:03:49.000 The only positive of that, Kane, is that it keeps Nikki Haley further away from Trump's orbit, right?

00:03:55.000 And I want to talk to you about that. 0.95

00:03:56.000 What would CFP Nation?

00:03:58.000 You run one of the most powerful media companies on the right.

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00:04:06.000 How would your audience react if Trump selected Nikki Haley as VP?

00:04:11.000 They would lose their mind.

00:04:13.000 There's no part of the MAGA base.

00:04:15.000 And CFP is definitely an America First MAGA website.

00:04:19.000 There is no part of the base that supports Nikki Haley.

00:04:22.000 He wouldn't find support even among 5% of this, you know, this America First base.

00:04:28.000 Trump has to know.

00:04:29.000 He hinted, as I'm sure you're aware, he hinted last week at the Fox News town hall that he had already made his decision on who his vice president will be.

00:04:39.000 But of course, he didn't say who that is.

00:04:41.000 I firmly believe it will not be Nikki Haley, but the actual America First Base would lose their mind.

00:04:48.000 You would have people who would not, I think it would actually keep people from the polls, keep part of his base from voting if he chose Nikki Haley.

00:04:58.000 Yeah, it just, I would love to see that be completely and totally dismissed altogether.

00:05:04.000 I mean, I think you would lose 10 to 15% across the board, 10 to 15% across the board.

00:05:08.000 Tyler and I were saying on our chat on election night, we in good faith, we don't know if we could do our ballot chasing thing.

00:05:14.000 I don't know in good faith if I could work and vote for Nikki Haley being, I say that as someone who loves Trump, but she is, she is worse than George W. Bush.

00:05:23.000 It's that demoralizing.

00:05:25.000 It's that demoralizing to the base.

00:05:27.000 Someone like you, someone like, you know, the hundreds of thousands who read CFP every day.

00:05:33.000 That's how much it bothers people.

00:05:35.000 It bothers Tucker Carlson.

00:05:36.000 You remember him from your anfest.

00:05:38.000 Let's get that conflict, guys.

00:05:39.000 It's really great.

00:05:40.000 Yeah, keep going, Kane.

00:05:41.000 Yeah, just like a month ago, Tucker said he would actively campaign against a ticket that had Nikki Haley on it and President Trump.

00:05:50.000 And I think he's heard the message.

00:05:52.000 You know, he's heard it from his son.

00:05:53.000 I, like you, wish he would completely disavow it.

00:05:56.000 That's all.

00:05:57.000 You know, there's a way to be polite to Nikki and that, and the voters who support her.

00:06:04.000 And I think Trump could have threaded that needle at the Fox News Town Hall and sort of disavowed it and let people know.

00:06:11.000 But I'm holding out.

00:06:13.000 I have faith that it will not be her.

00:06:15.000 I have strong faith.

00:06:16.000 What I hear on my site is the Vake, Ben Carson, and some people are still pushing DeSantis.

00:06:25.000 But it's really Ben Carson and Vivek are the two names I hear the most.

00:06:29.000 And so any of these other names, Sarah Huckabee, Sanders, you know, any of those being floated out?

00:06:29.000 Yeah.

00:06:34.000 But so you think Vivek and Ben Carson are the two frontrunners right now?

00:06:39.000 It's so hard to read these tea leaves, Charlie, as you know, and that's what we try to do.

00:06:43.000 But Trump certainly seems very, very happy with Vivek.

00:06:47.000 And when you look at his rhetorical, I mean, he and Kerry Lake are the two greatest communicators in American politics, bar none, either side right now.

00:06:56.000 And to be able to add someone like that to your ticket has to be appealing to Trump.

00:07:00.000 And he was very careful.

00:07:02.000 He never criticized the Vake until the last two or three days when he was upset about those t-shirts.

00:07:07.000 But Vivek sort of quickly bent the knee.

00:07:10.000 He dropped out right after the race.

00:07:11.000 As I think, you know, ultimately, I think Nikki and Ronnie should have dropped out as well.

00:07:17.000 But of course, that's not going to happen with all the money behind them.

00:07:20.000 But those other names, Sarah Huckabee, people like her.

00:07:23.000 It wouldn't hurt his candidacy, but I don't think it would really motivate people.

00:07:27.000 You hear Elise Stefanik as well.

00:07:30.000 Same, that's, I have the same reaction to Elise Stefanik, like, eh, meh, you know, decent choice.

00:07:35.000 Christy Noam, sort of the same thing.

00:07:40.000 So, yeah, so the, so it's, there's going to be some suspense and that'll, you know, hopefully Trump won't make us wait until the convention in July.

00:07:48.000 No, I think actually the sooner the better, raise money, put other things together.

00:07:52.000 So, so, Kane, let's talk about the curious case of Ron DeSantis.

00:07:55.000 You're a sports guy.

00:07:56.000 So, the Philadelphia Eagles lost by 23 points on the road to the Buccaneers.

00:08:00.000 Could you imagine if the Eagles go out to the press conference after the game, they say, you know, we've earned our ticket out of Tampa Bay.

00:08:06.000 And even though we lost by 23 points, you know, we really have done a great job and we're going to continue.

00:08:12.000 I have a lot of respect for Ron DeSantis as a governor of Florida.

00:08:16.000 I will say that once.

00:08:17.000 I'll say it again.

00:08:18.000 He's been an excellent governor.

00:08:19.000 And as a presidential candidate, he has been unbelievably disappointing and maddening.

00:08:25.000 Kane, talk about how the hundreds of millions of dollars, and in his case, about $120 million that we know of, I think it's even more than that.

00:08:33.000 That $120 million could have been better allocated for the general.

00:08:38.000 And what do we have to show for it?

00:08:41.000 We have a whole lot of nothing.

00:08:43.000 We have a whole lot of nothing and two candidates who have no chance extending it to New Hampshire.

00:08:49.000 You did the Eagles football analogy.

00:08:52.000 Yeah, I'm sure the Eagles owner would have loved Siriani showing up after the press conference.

00:08:57.000 We had a fantastic season.

00:08:59.000 We started 10 and one, but we're not going to talk about how we lost six out of our last seven.

00:09:04.000 I mean, it's a joke.

00:09:06.000 These people, you know, you got to it with your point at the end about the 120 million.

00:09:12.000 What that money could have done to help to help Republicans win, to help Trump win in seven swing states and in reality, about 10 swing counties.

00:09:23.000 As you and I have talked in multiple, in multiple appearances that I've made, this race is coming down to a few states and a few counties in each state and putting money on the ground, grassroots, like Turning Point did, $5 million to Scott Pressler for Wisconsin, the RNC and these billionaires and Ken Griffin and Larry Ellison from Oracle.

00:09:47.000 They, you know, all the money they wasted on Tim Scott, for heaven's sakes, and all of these other candidates, that's $100 million that could have, that could have been building the most intense growd game.

00:10:00.000 We could have done it better than Mark Zuckerberg and his and his operation and those and those vans in Wisconsin, which, by the way, during the last week, I'm sure you saw that, were announced that those were illegal, the ones that they used in racing that were paid for by Zuckerberg.

00:10:16.000 But anyway, yeah, it's $120 million that was wasted.

00:10:19.000 And I blame Rona McDaniel not getting together with these billionaires and the donors and facing the reality that Trump has had this race for three months.

00:10:29.000 It's been over for three months.

00:10:31.000 Let's stop wasting our money.

00:10:32.000 Let's hold it aside and let's use it on grassroots efforts to actually win.

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00:11:49.000 So, Kane, I want to isolate this story for you here.

00:11:52.000 And I know that our team was chatting with you.

00:11:54.000 Jack Smith is looming over the entire presidential race.

00:11:57.000 It's a sleeping giant case, though, that could upend the prosecution of Trump.

00:12:03.000 The Supreme Court has been asked to consider a case that doesn't mention the former president, but could invalidate half of the January 6th charges against him.

00:12:10.000 Kane, walk us through this.

00:12:11.000 Yeah, it's nothing, you know, to the dedicated listeners to the Charlie Kirk show, it's nothing new.

00:12:17.000 But what it is, is Matthew Graves and the January 6th prosecutors included this charge, obstruction of an official proceeding, and they included it in over 300 J6 cases.

00:12:31.000 Those 300 people are already in prison and they're serving time on that case.

00:12:37.000 Well, one of the defendants decided to take it to the Supreme Court because the whole point of this statue, this obstruction of an official proceeding, it related to paperwork.

00:12:49.000 This had to do with Enron.

00:12:51.000 This was an Enron statute created by Congress specifically for financial crimes, for destroying documents.

00:12:58.000 That's what it all evolved out of.

00:12:59.000 And somehow now it's been twisted by Matthew Graves and the J6 prosecuting team.

00:13:05.000 They've twisted it to say that attempting, you know, January 6th was an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding.

00:13:13.000 So the Supreme Court will decide this case.

00:13:16.000 It specifically doesn't have anything to do with Trump, the case that's been brought before them, except that two of the four charges that Jack Smith has filed against President Trump in the DC case, two of the four are related to that obstruction of a criminal, of an official proceeding.

00:13:35.000 So if the fact that the Supreme Court decided to take it up, Politico basically admits in that article that it's not a good sign for Jack Smith, that the fact that the Supreme Court has agreed to rule on this case probably means they're going to overrule the D.C. appeals court and say that this charge is completely unrelated to January 6th.

00:14:00.000 So what is the effect that that will have?

00:14:02.000 That's what Politico focused on.

00:14:04.000 It's a timing thing.

00:14:06.000 The Supreme Court isn't going to decide on this Fisher case probably until June.

00:14:10.000 Well, Jack Smith was set to get started on March 24th.

00:14:15.000 So they sort of lay the odds on whether Judge Chutkin will postpone or sort of delay that trial until we get a hearing, or excuse me, until we get a ruling from the Supreme Court.

00:14:27.000 Because imagine if it does start in March 24th, Trump could already be convicted when the Supreme Court would rule in June that those charges need to be thrown out.

00:14:39.000 So there's a whole mess and it's just creating a whole bunch of indecision.

00:14:43.000 But the bottom line, and I'll throw it back to you, the bottom line is Politico is admitting that the Supreme Court is likely to throw out that charge.

00:14:52.000 That will help 300 J6 defendants. 1.00

00:14:55.000 It will help President Trump and it will be a very bad day for Jack Smith.

00:14:59.000 The Daily Beast, and it's the front page of citizenfreepress.com, the Daily Beast of all places has an article, quote, why we can't just shrug off the Fannie Willis scandal.

00:15:08.000 This is related to the law affair.

00:15:10.000 The DA prosecuting Trump prolonged an investigation to justify a hefty salary for a romantic partner.

00:15:16.000 That is a genuine conflict of interest that would require her dismissal by Andrew Fleischman.

00:15:21.000 This is a big, big thing.

00:15:22.000 Andrew Fleischman is a criminal offense lawyer in Atlanta, along with trial and personal injury work.

00:15:27.000 Fleischman specializes in representing the wrongfully or unfairly convicted left-winger.

00:15:31.000 Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that.

00:15:32.000 That's actually why I put those two purple headlines back at the top of CFP, because that was such an important story from last night.

00:15:41.000 What he's saying is essentially going along with what Jonathan Churley has said, which is that this behavior with this very strict laws that Georgia has on conflict of interest for judges, it's almost impossible that she will not be removed from the case.

00:15:57.000 So that's a huge admission from the left, from Fleischman, that Fannie Willis is likely to be removed.

00:16:03.000 However, he says that it is not necessarily likely that she will be charged.

00:16:08.000 And we've got, I'll throw in really quick.

00:16:11.000 Governor Kemp headed off to Davos without opening a criminal investigation into Fanny Willis. 0.93

00:16:17.000 He can fire her. 0.97

00:16:19.000 He has full ability to fire her.

00:16:21.000 He could if he wants.

00:16:22.000 Yeah.

00:16:23.000 Yes, he could.

00:16:24.000 He and he wouldn't, he wouldn't, he might get sued for it, but he would probably win.

00:16:28.000 Like he has that authority.

00:16:30.000 Boom.

00:16:30.000 Instead, he went to Davos.

00:16:32.000 He's not going to investigate her.

00:16:33.000 He's going to set up a commission that won't even be set up for two or three months to look into it.

00:16:38.000 But last, I know I only have 10 seconds.

00:16:40.000 The judge, Scott McAfee, has scheduled February 24th.

00:16:44.000 That's the hearing date for the Fannie Willett, for the Fannie Willis allegations. 0.59

00:16:49.000 So he could remove her starting on February 24th.

00:16:53.000 Kane, you're excellent.

00:16:54.000 Thanks so much, man.

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00:16:56.000 Donald Trump just might be the luckiest man alive if Big Fanny Willis has to be dismissed. 0.98

00:17:01.000 And Jack Smith, just keep praying for that man.

00:17:04.000 It's unjust what's happening to him.

00:17:06.000 He might just receive a couple breaks on the lawfare front.

00:17:09.000 Kane, great work.

00:17:10.000 Thank you.

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00:18:15.000 Joining us now is Rosemary Jenks.

00:18:18.000 Rosemary, thank you for joining the program.

00:18:20.000 Rosemary, you were the first person to report on this alleged border deal.

00:18:26.000 Tell us the story of how you came across this information directly from Senator Lankford's office.

00:18:32.000 So Senator Lankford has obviously been doing all this negotiating behind closed doors.

00:18:36.000 He's the only Republican in the room.

00:18:38.000 And then he goes out and he briefs other Republican senators on what they've agreed to.

00:18:44.000 There is no text for this deal yet.

00:18:46.000 So I am still very hopeful that this can all be erased.

00:18:50.000 But I spoke with one of the senators he briefed and got that person's notes.

00:19:00.000 And I have a whole lot more faith in that senator than I do in Senator Lankford.

00:19:07.000 And so I went public with what was in those notes.

00:19:11.000 And I have not had any pushback.

00:19:13.000 Nobody has said directly to me, including Senator Langford, this is not in there.

00:19:19.000 This provision is not in there or that provision is not in there.

00:19:22.000 So, you know, obviously this, the graphic that Fox News did has gone all over the internet and nobody has pushed back.

00:19:31.000 So I'm very confident in the provisions that those provisions were in fact agreed to by Senator Lankford and the Democrats in the room.

00:19:40.000 And I hope that they come out.

00:19:43.000 I sincerely do.

00:19:44.000 I hope he walks away from this deal.

00:19:45.000 Yeah.

00:19:45.000 And Senator Langford hasn't denied it, but he sent out a little snarky, sarcastic tweet saying that a lie goes around the world before the truth has time to put its pants on, something of that sarcastic, snarky variation.

00:20:00.000 But he hasn't flat out denied it.

00:20:02.000 So Rosemary, let's go through the specifics.

00:20:05.000 What are the specifics?

00:20:06.000 What are the border deal?

00:20:10.000 So again, I don't know all of the contours of this.

00:20:13.000 And, you know, that would be interesting to see.

00:20:16.000 But what I have been told, the two most egregious provisions are, number one, that illegal aliens will get immediate work permits as soon as they're released from custody.

00:20:29.000 Right now, if you come into the country and say you want to claim asylum, you have to wait 180 days after you file your asylum application before you get a work permit.

00:20:38.000 This erases that and says basically on day one, you can apply for your work permit.

00:20:42.000 You get your work permit, you get released into the country.

00:20:46.000 And so this is essentially saying we're going to continue catch and release and we're going to give you an immediate work permit.

00:20:51.000 So that actually incentivizes more illegal immigration.

00:20:56.000 Of course it does.

00:20:57.000 Of course.

00:20:58.000 Yeah.

00:20:59.000 I mean, that's what they're coming for.

00:21:01.000 The other truly egregious provision is this idea of they're creating a new expulsion authority.

00:21:09.000 And it only kicks in if the seven day average of encounters at the border is 5,000 per day.

00:21:19.000 So it's okay if 4,999 illegal aliens come across that border every day, 365 days a year.

00:21:29.000 But if the seven day average goes over 5,000 per day, then an expulsion authority kicks in so that we can basically expel illegal aliens, which we should be able to do under current law anyway. 0.84

00:21:45.000 It's just insane.

00:21:46.000 It's like it's, you know, the states like California that are saying it's okay if you shoplift under $1,000 or whatever it is.

00:21:53.000 Yes.

00:21:53.000 You're essentially legalizing that limit.

00:21:56.000 You're saying it's fine to shoplift less than that.

00:21:59.000 We're doing the same thing with this plan with illegal immigration.

00:22:02.000 And it's absurd.

00:22:03.000 If you add up 5,000 times 365, it's 1.8 million over 1.8 million.

00:22:09.000 And maybe I'm reading too much into this.

00:22:10.000 This was my initial reaction, though, is that if they acknowledge they can get it down to 5,000, then they acknowledge that they can cut it in half.

00:22:19.000 So they're telling you we have complete control of the border is what they're telling you.

00:22:26.000 We just don't want to do it.

00:22:27.000 And we're not going to go down to zero or a thousand.

00:22:30.000 We'll just have the invasion kind of move along at 5,000 a day while getting mass amnesty for everybody.

00:22:39.000 Well, and if you think about this, all someone like Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of DHS, would have to do is say, hey, Mexico, could you just slow it down for a day or two? 0.58

00:22:50.000 We don't want that seven-day average to get over 5,000.

00:22:53.000 Exactly.

00:22:53.000 So just slow it down a little bit for a day or two.

00:22:56.000 But the other thing is, remember, President Trump, there was an illegal immigration surge under President Trump.

00:23:04.000 And he, because he was determined to do it, he fixed it.

00:23:08.000 He got it done under existing laws.

00:23:11.000 He set up the Remain in Mexico policy.

00:23:14.000 He had agreements, asylum agreements with Central American nations and Mexico.

00:23:19.000 He got it done.

00:23:21.000 He broke that surge.

00:23:23.000 And we had the most secure border we have had in decades when President Trump left office and President Biden came in.

00:23:30.000 So this can all be done without any new laws.

00:23:34.000 And yet here is Senator Lankford negotiating with Democrats, which never goes well on immigration.

00:23:41.000 And we're leading toward the same path that we always end up in.

00:23:45.000 Every time, so I just, additionally, I want to reiterate this, though.

00:23:51.000 Are deportations part of this deal at all?

00:23:54.000 There is.

00:23:55.000 Apparently they are doing something to make expedited removal easier.

00:24:01.000 I don't know the details on that.

00:24:03.000 So, you know, there is something there.

00:24:07.000 And, you know, I've been told that they are also changing the credible fear standard for asylum applicants.

00:24:13.000 Again, I don't know the details, but you know what?

00:24:16.000 If these two egregious provisions are in there, none of the rest of it matters because you're incentivizing illegal immigration and setting the baseline at 4,999 per day.

00:24:31.000 Can you help me understand the psychology of Senator Lankford?

00:24:36.000 I don't know him that well.

00:24:37.000 I'm immensely disappointed.

00:24:40.000 The way that we've articulated on the show is that Mitch McConnell selected a red state senator because they think that they're immune to any sort of political check and balance. 0.99

00:24:51.000 He's six years out from an election, so his term goes out till January 2029 because they think voters are stupid and they forget. 0.98

00:24:58.000 So that's why he was selected. 0.99

00:25:01.000 But he calls himself a Christian.

00:25:04.000 He talks all about biblical values.

00:25:06.000 Can you just add some context in the psychology of why he's doing something so wicked?

00:25:12.000 I am not a psychologist.

00:25:14.000 I do not know Senator Lankford.

00:25:16.000 I have been watching him.

00:25:18.000 I will say he has actually come a long way from his days in the House on immigration.

00:25:24.000 He sounded a whole lot more lenient on immigration, on illegal immigration in particular, when he was in the House.

00:25:34.000 He's taken several trips to the border, and I think that has opened his eyes to some degree.

00:25:39.000 But here's the problem.

00:25:40.000 And this happens every few years in the Senate.

00:25:43.000 It's always in the Senate, it seems.

00:25:45.000 Some member of Congress, a Republican, gets in their mind that they're smarter than everyone else and they know the solution.

00:25:53.000 And all it will take is for them to sit down with the Democrats and talk about it.

00:25:57.000 And they can come up with a compromise that will work.

00:26:02.000 It never happens.

00:26:04.000 There are always, I mean, immigration is such a complicated issue.

00:26:07.000 I've been doing this for 30 years now, and there is still more to learn every day.

00:26:13.000 But they don't see the unintended consequences of the things that they're agreeing to.

00:26:21.000 And I'll tell you, the Democrats do see them.

00:26:23.000 The Democrats and Democratic staffers run circles around Republicans when it comes to setting out immigration law because the Democratic staffers usually come from places like ALA and other law groups that have been doing this for years.

00:26:40.000 So it's just a bad thing.

00:26:43.000 I can't, you know, I think he's got himself into a position where it's hard for him to back out, but he needs to back out.

00:26:50.000 He just needs to walk away.

00:26:51.000 And that's the other thing.

00:26:52.000 If you can't walk away from a negotiation, you've already lost.

00:26:55.000 No, it's a hostage situation then.

00:26:56.000 It's not a negotiation.

00:26:58.000 You're being held hostage by Chuck Yu Schumer.

00:27:01.000 We're going to put the phone number for Senator Lankford here.

00:27:04.000 Rosemary, you are the immigration expert.

00:27:07.000 I totally agree.

00:27:08.000 It's a very technically complicated issue.

00:27:11.000 However, I will add it's morally not that complicated when you have mass migration.

00:27:16.000 I know you'll agree at that.

00:27:17.000 The big picture morals, super simple.

00:27:20.000 The technical H-1B, you know, work visas, the tech thing of it.

00:27:26.000 There is a lot there that goes over even my head at times.

00:27:31.000 But from the big moral argument, why is it that Senate Republicans hate their voters so much?

00:27:37.000 So, this is the thing.

00:27:39.000 Every Republican, every politician has two voices coming at them: the voice of their constituents, the voters, who are generally middle class or lower class, hardworking Americans who are trying to put food on the table, and then the voices of the donor class.

00:27:55.000 And the donor class really, really, really wants their cheap labor and their cheap nannies and their cheap landscapers.

00:28:01.000 And the donor class is obviously giving money.

00:28:05.000 So, there's a competing interest there.

00:28:08.000 But the fact is that all of these millions of illegal aliens who are coming across the border and all of the millions more who would come across under Senator Langford's plan, they're not going to be hurting the elites.

00:28:21.000 They're going to be hurting average working Americans.

00:28:24.000 They're going to be increasing housing prices because there's going to be more competition.

00:28:28.000 They're going to be increasing competition for all sorts of resources.

00:28:32.000 We've already seen kids kicked out of schools to house illegal aliens. 1.00

00:28:36.000 It's insane.

00:28:37.000 And it's all targeted at poor Americans and particularly minorities.

00:28:42.000 Those are the people who are going to suffer.

00:28:44.000 It really is something.

00:28:46.000 Also, your website, really quick, for people who want to support you.

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00:29:50.000 So, Rosemary, I want you to get to just some of the policy parts of this for the uninitiated that are feeling the effects of mass migration, housing prices, crime, rape, theft, fentanyl, hospitals overrun, which is something that is just happening like you wouldn't believe.

00:30:06.000 American citizens are being put in triage for necessary medical conditions because people from Uzbekistan, people from Kazakhstan, people from Vietnam who have broken into our country without IDs, because we're such a compassionate nation, we say, sure, come on.

00:30:20.000 And they have these diseases and they come in and we treat them.

00:30:22.000 Meanwhile, Americans are left to go die. 0.62

00:30:24.000 But Rosemary, just can you just reiterate the volume of the crisis?

00:30:29.000 It's hard to put into words.

00:30:33.000 The border has never been this bad.

00:30:35.000 How many people a day that we know of are entering the country?

00:30:38.000 Well, I can tell you that in December, we hit an all-time record in our entire history as a nation, and there were more than 300,000 illegal aliens who crossed in that month alone.

00:30:51.000 Since Biden took office, it's, I think it's about 7.8 million.

00:30:58.000 I could be wrong in the point, but over 7 million.

00:31:02.000 And that doesn't include the unknown gotaways.

00:31:05.000 We've got about around 2 million known gotaways.

00:31:09.000 So people that they have evidence crossed the border and escaped without being taken into custody.

00:31:15.000 But we have no idea how many unknown gotaways there are.

00:31:19.000 And we have no idea if they're terrorists or criminals or gangbangers or, you know, whatever else.

00:31:25.000 We know that a whole lot of Chinese military-age men have come across.

00:31:29.000 We know that, well, most of the people coming across now are military age men from almost every country in the world.

00:31:38.000 It's beyond imagining the chaos that we are allowing.

00:31:44.000 And, you know, Border Patrol agents, you have to feel so sorry for them because they took a job where they were going to protect our nation and they're not being allowed to do their job.

00:31:55.000 And it is breaking them.

00:31:57.000 The morale in the Border Patrol is in the toilet.

00:32:01.000 And, you know, they're having to go and cut fences that the Texas Department of Public Safety has put up to let illegal aliens into the United States.

00:32:12.000 It's the exact opposite of what they should be doing and they know it.

00:32:16.000 And it is just breaking these people.

00:32:19.000 This is vanityfair.com.

00:32:21.000 Thieves in the night, a vast burglary ring from Chile has been targeting wealthy U.S. households and Venezuela, by the way.

00:32:27.000 This is an untold, people might say, oh, how does this impact me?

00:32:29.000 We have never seen so many home break-ins.

00:32:31.000 It's happening in every community, upper middle class, suburban.

00:32:34.000 By the way, it's hitting everybody.

00:32:35.000 I say, oh, I don't have a rich home.

00:32:36.000 No, no, no.

00:32:37.000 They're hitting it like you wouldn't believe.

00:32:38.000 And then they get out the next day.

00:32:39.000 They get out the next day because of our bail stuff.

00:32:41.000 They don't bring weapons.

00:32:42.000 They know what they're doing, by the way.

00:32:43.000 Fake and fraudulent IDs.

00:32:45.000 It's a mafia network.

00:32:46.000 According to federal law enforcement, they believe that there are 2,000, 2,000 burglars, robbers that are hitting homes on a nightly basis.

00:32:57.000 And they've come in illegally, some legally.

00:33:00.000 And we just kind of just take it.

00:33:01.000 We say, oh, you know, that's interesting.

00:33:03.000 The whole country is being looted.

00:33:04.000 They might end up in your living room tonight.

00:33:06.000 And they say it right here, vanityfair.com, a vast mafia-style criminal ring from Chile and Venezuela robbing thousands of homes.

00:33:14.000 It's happening right now.

00:33:15.000 And by the way, if you don't believe me, go download your next door app and just go look at how people are talking about home invasions.

00:33:23.000 We're talking about the Chilean thieves is a very, very big issue right now. 1.00

00:33:28.000 And yeah, producer Andrew's family members home were just hitting Santa Barbara.

00:33:31.000 These Chilean thieves break into our country and then break into our living room. 1.00

00:33:36.000 But diversity is our strength, isn't it, Rosemary?

00:33:38.000 Yeah, well, that's what we keep being told.

00:33:41.000 You know, one of the things that we did pretty much immediately when we started the Immigration Accountability Project is start a second Twitter account that is called ICE underscore ERO Watch.

00:33:54.000 And ERO stands for Enforcement and Removal Operations, because we realized that ICE was putting out press releases, usually every day, sometimes more than once a day, about the criminal aliens that they actually have caught.

00:34:07.000 And remember, this is under an administration that does everything in its power not to apprehend criminal aliens.

00:34:14.000 But they put out these press releases and they list what the alien has been convicted of.

00:34:19.000 And it is despicable how many of these are sexual assault of a minor, rape, domestic violence.

00:34:29.000 I mean, you know, and it's every single day drip, drip, drip.

00:34:34.000 And nobody's paying attention to this. 0.93

00:34:36.000 And so we started this Twitter account just to push out these press releases so that people can see a whole list of, you know, a timeline of these scumbags who we have let in, the Biden administration has let into our country to victimize and terrorize us. 0.90

00:34:55.000 Thank you. 0.73

00:34:55.000 Excellent work. 0.73

00:34:56.000 Check out our website.

00:34:57.000 And by the way, all of you should be owning weapons, pistols, handguns, shotguns if a Chilean thief ring comes into your living room. 0.96

00:35:03.000 I hope that you will use your Second Amendment rights.

00:35:05.000 That's the only way we end this.

00:35:06.000 It's the only way we end it.

00:35:08.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:35:10.000 Email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:35:13.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:35:14.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - January 17, 2024

James Lankford Helps Democrats Hold America Hostage

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