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00:01:34.000So, according to reporter McCabe, James O'Keefe has just tendered his resignation to his former team and board members from Project Veritas.
00:01:48.000And so, it seems as if James O'Keefe is no longer at Project Veritas.
00:01:59.000There's a lot that will be learned from this.
00:02:02.000Again, I do not want to violate any confidentiality that I have.
00:02:07.000I mean, it's not a contractual thing, it's just a trust thing because I've been on the phone all weekend getting calls and talking to people about this.
00:02:13.000But here's what I can share with you: I can share with you based on everything that I've learned.
00:02:18.000I have not come across a piece of information that I believe would warrant James O'Keefe's departure or treatment the way he's being treated at Project Veritas.
00:02:28.000Are there things that James could do differently?
00:02:30.000Of course, obviously, there's things I could do differently.
00:02:33.000But James O'Keefe is a hero of the movement.
00:02:36.000And you better believe I've asked questions and asked questions and asked questions.
00:02:40.000And some of it is just kind of silly, subjective management stuff.
00:02:45.000Oh, James is mean, or James is tough to work for.
00:03:09.000If there's something else that I will learn in addition to all of that sort of sentiment, then whatever, so be it.
00:03:16.000Project Veritas, the board of directors, seems to have just released a statement.
00:03:24.000Here's what I could say: this is a very disappointing development, okay?
00:03:28.000And it's disappointing for a variety of different reasons.
00:03:31.000It's disappointing that James O'Keefe labored for quite some time to build an organization over 10 years that got shots on target, not just puff, not just vapor, not just talk, but actual shots on target on Pfizer, on the CDC, on the FDA.
00:03:53.000Got actual wins, W's in the category for the fight for liberty.
00:03:58.000Again, it's a little bit cruel to say this, but he metaphorically collected scalps.
00:04:03.000I say metaphorically because the apparatchiks take everything I say literally, metaphorically, okay?
00:04:09.000He was able to put points on the board.
00:04:11.000So he has the biggest story in the history of Project Veritas Pfizer.
00:04:17.000Four days later, there's an emergency board meeting called and they remove James O'Keefe.
00:04:22.000Now, if any of you in this audience are interested in this, I encourage you to contact Project Veritas if you've given money, if you're a fan, or if you're a supporter, and express your frustration if you feel moved to do this.
00:04:38.000And I will say again: if I am missing something, please enlighten and educate me.
00:04:43.000I say that to anybody involved in this situation.
00:04:47.000However, saying that James O'Keefe is difficult to work for, you are giving Pfizer, you are giving the bad guys a massive victory here.
00:04:58.000And to just kind of put O'Keeffe out and to now he has to go start his own thing or whatever, it really is a shame.
00:05:45.000There's a reason why we gave James O'Keefe center stage at America Fest and Turning Point USA repeatedly because he's a hero.
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00:06:48.000In today's high technology world, there is no prize for second place.
00:08:39.000That's really look when you're dealing with somebody as impactful, as effective, as hardworking as James O'Keefe, the standard and/or the bar to remove such an individual needs to be high.
00:09:01.000It'd be one thing if O'Keefe was just running Project Veritas and they weren't getting wins.
00:09:06.000The most successful story in Project Veritas history was the Pfizer story.
00:09:14.000And four days later, an emergency board meeting was called, and all the stuff starts to come.
00:09:18.000Now, maybe those two things are unrelated, but that might not be it.
00:09:24.000James looks like Jack Poseobic has his sources well sourced.
00:09:28.000It's actually James O'Keefe was removed as CEO of Project Veritas.
00:09:34.000Let me just say, Jack Poseobic has very good sources.
00:09:38.000This is a shame, and I'm not going to lay off of this.
00:09:41.000We're not going to spend the whole show talking about this, but I encourage you, the audience, you, the grassroots, to support James in whatever he's doing and to take a moment and get mad about this because we have way too many demons,
00:10:03.000too many enemies, too many bad guys to fight, to allow complaints about James's tone, or he was mean, or he was harsh, his eccentricities to allow us to put James O'Keefe into exile and/or remove him.
00:10:31.000I say this as somebody who runs a nonprofit, who has grown a nonprofit over a decade.
00:11:26.000He'll probably start his own deal or something.
00:11:28.000But to build something as powerful and as impactful as Project Veritas and then be taken out just like that, really disappointing in more ways than one.
00:11:40.000I'd like your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:11:43.000I know many of you have supported Project Veritas and you're saying we're communicating to the organization about this.
00:11:52.000Someone says, Charlie, what is happening?
00:12:00.000You're basically taking James out of the infrastructure that he labored over, that he built, that he was an entrepreneurial visionary because of his idiosyncrasies or eccentricities or his dancing or theatrics.
00:14:06.000And yet, the person that he had to worry about the most were the people closest to him.
00:14:14.000Man, to just think that this could not have been resolved in private meetings, non-emotionally, without getting your heart rate up and just saying, okay, we don't like that you did this.
00:14:29.000Just using your reason, just going through this like adults, instead of having this pour into the public sphere, it's really, it's really something.
00:16:33.000Remember when they dismissed Patton because he allegedly slapped the soldier on the face?
00:16:37.000Not everyone is serious about winning wars.
00:16:41.000Look, it is time to consider a rollover of that 401k into an IRA.
00:16:47.000The investment world is completely different in 2023, and you cannot do the same thing as last year.
00:16:52.000Woke companies are aggressively implementing ESG.
00:16:56.000Interest rates are going up, and inflation is still lingering.
00:16:59.000If you have over $150,000, now is the time to move your money to a biblical responsible investing strategy with my friends at PAX Financial Group.
00:17:07.000I put my money with PAX, and guess what?
00:17:09.000It's up 12% since last year, and that's while everyone else is down.
00:19:20.000And I hate to overly dramatize this, but it is very serious to Caesar, where the people you actually had to worry about the most were not the enemies abroad, but the senators and trusted advisors.
00:19:33.000If only this happened on March 15th, it would have been really fitting.
00:19:37.000A lot of people saying, Charlie, I contacted the website.
00:19:41.000I do want to talk about this Marjorie Taylor Greene story.
00:19:43.000And I had this whole Ukraine thing that is just, it's vaporized at this point.
00:19:50.000But I had a really interesting opinion on the whole thing.
00:19:53.000And, okay, but Marjorie Taylor Greene is going viral.
00:19:56.000It's going to be the number one news story right now everywhere because of what she tweeted.
00:20:00.000She says, quote, we need a national divorce.
00:20:04.000We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government.
00:20:08.000Everyone I talk to says this, from the sick and disgusting woke culture issues being shoved on our throat to the Democrats' traitorous Americalized policies, we are done.
00:20:52.000However, I would be careful saying we need a national divorce because if we play out that analogy or that metaphor, do you know any divorces?
00:21:22.000The more I've thought this through, the more I've concluded that divorces are rarely worthwhile and you should try to find reconciliation.
00:21:33.000So I do not actually have a heart for a national divorce.
00:21:36.000We might be getting closer and closer to one, tragically.
00:21:42.000It might end up being the only solution where the country who hates each other might be able to coexist.
00:21:48.000And I totally understand what MTG is saying in the sense where when you have 90% of people that live in San Francisco that think that men can become, men can have birth, it's hard to have a country like that.
00:21:58.000What actually unifies us, literally speaking a different language, have a different history.
00:22:02.000But to get to the place where you say the situation necessitates a national divorce, depends what you mean by that.
00:22:09.000If she means a restoration of federalism, I think that's perfectly responsible.
00:22:14.000But if she means a schism similar to the Eastern Roman Empire, which eventually became Byzantium, history shows us that that can be very messy.
00:22:25.000I think we should definitely say we might be getting closer to one, but I think we should be very skeptical and apprehensive of what that actually means if it were to happen.
00:24:20.000Look, I've known James for a long time.
00:24:22.000We just shared the stage together at Judicial Watch Conference, me, him and Devin Nunes.
00:24:26.000And we share a hardcore belief that exposing corruption, not just in government, but in the private sector and the confluence of the two is something this country needs more than ever.
00:24:35.000And James has led the effort at Project Veritas to expose so much corruption, not just from Congress, not just from the executive branch, but in their partnerships with big tech, you know, just to name one in recent examples.
00:24:48.000And so I believe knowing James and his vast organization and resources, he is going to continue.
00:24:54.000It'll have a new name, but we will see that effort continue.
00:26:09.000The day prior, I had informed him in front of his colleagues that if he wasn't willing to follow my lead, he'd be shown the door.
00:26:16.000I tried to deal with it privately, but I was unsuccessful.
00:26:20.000And the disagreement boiled over publicly in a staff meeting.
00:26:24.000The next day, this individual refused to resign, so I fired him.
00:26:28.000Later that same day, that's Thursday, February 2nd, a few days after the 50 million viewed Pfizer videos, I was informed by a different officer of Project Veritas that he would go to the board in a few hours from that moment and have an emergency vote to restructure this company.
00:26:45.000Receiving an agenda in my email while I was sitting on an airplane tarmac with the doors closing, the meeting was scheduled for the moment that my plane landed in Nashville.
00:26:55.000It became clear to me in that moment, I would be removed from my position at Project Veritas by the time I landed at my destination.
00:27:48.000The very next day on Friday, this is now Friday, February 3rd, a board member reached out to one of our journalists and stated, quote, you get a raise if there is a restructure without James O'Keefe at Project Veritas.
00:28:03.000I have a copy of the text message, and I'll give it to all of you.
00:28:08.000I've redacted the name of the journalist.
00:28:10.000The board member deleted the message, but not before our journalist took screenshots.
00:28:17.000Yeah, you got to be careful what you put in writing when you do that to Project Veritas.
00:28:22.000Play Cut 31, please continue from the exclusive footage that is now being made public of James O'Keefe's farewell address.
00:28:28.000On Sunday, February 5th, now that's Sunday, two days after the Friday, a board member requested my presence at his home.
00:28:36.000He informed me, quote, you had nothing to do, James, with this Pfizer story, unquote.
00:28:44.000Perplexed by this, I took out my iPad and showed him a video of myself confronting the Pfizer executive, which had 11 million views on YouTube.
00:28:53.000He responded, quote, but that was after the undercover video had already been done.
00:28:58.000So, look, we're piecing all of this together.
00:29:01.000The work that James O'Keefe did at Project Veritas impacted all of us, our whole movement.
00:29:07.000And we here remain some of the biggest fans of James O'Keefe and the work he did.
00:29:42.000There were also discussions from a few staffers with donors in the boardroom.
00:29:46.000Donors were listening to some of this, and some of these were sent directly to donors without my consent.
00:29:51.000Donors who have no knowledge of my personal life and have no business asking questions about my personal life about girls I've dated in the past.
00:30:02.000A fundraising staffer relayed, quote, concerns about my behaviors regarding videos where I, quote, literally chased a Twitter executive around New York.
00:30:11.000By acclamation from all of you in 2022, that video about the Twitter chase was one of our most successful videos.
00:30:21.000But yet, your colleagues in a boardroom were expressing concerns about it.
00:30:27.000Every board member previously communicated their love of that video, but none pushed back in that moment when the staffer criticized it.
00:30:36.000Continues on, and there's piece of evidence after piece of evidence here.
00:30:40.000James says, for the last 13 years, I've been the same man, tough, hard-charging, driven, creative, exacting, disorganized.
00:30:58.000The only thing that has changed is that we broke the biggest story in our organization's history during the last week of January in 2023 with over 50 million views.
00:31:38.000Our team is going through this really quick.
00:31:39.000I then went off the grid as requested as forced PTO, exile.
00:31:43.000Within a few days of going off the grid, I started receiving mixed calls and texts from the same board members and officers who dismissed me.
00:31:49.000They informed me, the staff, they informed the staff that they're waiting to hear from me.
00:31:53.000This is while I was commanded by a motion in a corporate board meeting to be on paid leave.
00:31:58.000Then an officer of Project Veritas took a screenshot of my red receipts of his text message and distributed that screenshot to staff saying, quote, you owe your team a response.
00:32:26.000A few days later, an officer sent an email to the board with bizarre hyperbole, an innuendo about certain expenses related to our business needs.
00:32:35.000These included, and you can't make this up, that Project Veritas paid for James O'Keefe's down payment of his wedding.
00:33:40.000And by the way, you also have to factor in.
00:33:42.000He is the principal that is also able to drive a tremendous amount of interest and value.
00:33:49.000Right after Project Veritas, right after the Pfizer clip, all of this begins to happen.
00:33:54.000The document that James O'Keefe read from continues, My dear team, I want to go back to the beginning of what I said and express how important so many of you are to me, how I believe we have a long and bright future together and share my profound appreciation for so many of you.
00:34:09.000James O'Keefe says, Yes, we've been held through hell together.
00:34:42.000Play cut 35, James O'Keefe saying he's done.
00:34:44.000So currently, I have no job at Project Veritas.
00:34:47.000I have no position here based upon what the board has done.
00:34:50.000So I'm announcing to you all that today on President's Day, I'm packing up my personal belongings.
00:34:55.000I don't have the answers to why they've been doing this or why board members were going directly to employees to collect grievances, but I'm confident that those reasons and motivations will come to light.
00:35:09.000To borrow an old expression, the public has a right to know what has happened here and why there was a concerted effort to remove me from the organization I founded the same week of our biggest story we ever had.
00:35:22.000The enemy, yes, and I mean the enemy, the prince of darkness, the deceiver, the prosecutor, Satan, otherwise known as Satan, would love nothing more than to sow discord and division and confusion in the ranks of the organization that is most effective in revealing the darkness.