00:00:00.000Hey everybody, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
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00:00:04.000We dissect Robert Hurr's truly remarkable report.
00:00:09.000It's a special counsel calling Joe Biden an elderly grandpa who can't remember anything and therefore was not going to be charged with mishandling of classified documents.
00:00:19.000We unpack everything, including for Joe Biden, the late night press conference, train wreck, disaster, the left's reaction.
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00:01:39.000I am also joined in studio by Blake Neff, another one of our producers and resident historian, which will come into play later, Blake, when we get into the Tucker-Putin exchange, because there's a lot.
00:01:52.000If you guys haven't watched it yet, you don't understand.
00:01:55.000But there was a 30-minute history lesson from Putin directs to Tucker last night.
00:03:06.000I'm sure many have heard details here and there, but this is a it to your point, it was worse than getting charged in many ways.
00:03:14.000This is a special counsel investigating Joe Biden's handling of classified documents that were found both in his house in Delaware and in his office, I believe, at Pennsylvania, UPenn, right, if I'm not mistaken.
00:03:27.000And essentially, what they concluded, right, Blake, is that he is a kindly old grandpa that can't remember anything and he's well-intentioned, so we're not going to charge him.
00:03:38.000And I mean, I mean, that's a damning thing.
00:03:42.000They essentially said that he is not fit to stand trial.
00:04:10.000His lawyers admit we found classified documents in Biden's offices.
00:04:16.000And Sameric Garland just has a special counsel and he'll just investigate all of this.
00:04:22.000And so it'll look fair because we'll have a special counsel for Trump, special counsel for Biden.
00:04:28.000And we all know about how Jack Smith has gone, all the different charges he's brought, but there was no real attention on this other report.
00:04:38.000And yeah, as you say, it describes that Biden, you know, they say that he deliberately retained documents that had classified information on them, which is illegal.
00:04:51.000Or, well, I guess with the Trump case, we don't want to say it is illegal.
00:04:54.000It's being litigated, what's allowed here.
00:04:57.000But he says we can't bring charges on this because it would just be unlikely to convict.
00:05:04.000One, he said Biden is already over 80.
00:05:08.000He'll be in his mid-80s by the time any jury would bother to give a verdict on this.
00:05:14.000And so he'll be really feeble in that regard.
00:05:17.000There's no point in prosecuting someone that old, that decrepit.
00:05:20.000And then he puts a lot of emphasis on Biden's memory.
00:05:24.000He says Biden's memory is already so far gone, it will be very easy for a jury to be sympathetic and think this guy did not willfully break the law.
00:05:36.000He did not have enough mental capacity that we are beyond a reasonable doubt confident he had the mensrea to do this.
00:05:44.000I have the report here that I'm reading.
00:05:47.000And this is a direct quote from the report on page 208.
00:05:52.000In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden's memory was worse.
00:05:56.000He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended, quote, if it was 2013, when did I stop being vice president?
00:06:09.000And on the second day, he forgot in the interview when his term began.
00:06:19.000He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Bo died.
00:06:25.000And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him.
00:06:32.000Among other things, he mistakenly said he, quote, had a real difference of opinion with General Carl Eikenberry when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally who Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama.
00:06:47.000So he's misremembering when he was vice president, when he started being vice president, when his son died, and he can't even remember the details about the Afghanistan dispute.
00:08:06.000But ahead of it, because of how damning this report was, a lot of us were texting each other back and forth going, is he going to announce that he's stepping down and that he's going to get out of the way?
00:08:15.000He realizes he's not the man he once was.
00:08:22.000A confrontation between family members when they go to their elderly grandpa or whatever and say, hey, it's time to go into supervised care, grandpa.
00:08:40.000You know, I'm normally not one of the conspiracy guys.
00:08:45.000But what's I think of is, you know, the show House of Cards?
00:08:50.000So the original British version of House of Cards, there's a prime minister, instead of a president, there's a prime minister and the villain, the Frank Underwood of Britain, different name.
00:09:01.000And so this prime minister is facing a scandal and he eggs him on into giving an interview that he then sets up so that it will destroy his career.
00:09:10.000And I could just totally imagine someone in the White House actually thinks it's time for Biden to go.
00:09:17.000And he thinks we have to get him out there.
00:09:38.000Well, as you might know in the audience, that when people start losing mental acuity, when they start becoming senile, like Joe Biden apparently is, you also lose control of your emotions, your impulse control.
00:09:57.000He even, after delivering his statement, which was bad enough, where he seemingly forgot where Bo Biden's rosary was from, and he kind of paused and he might have gotten away with it after that moment.
00:10:11.000He then takes questions, which he never does.
00:10:14.000And then he's walking off and then he comes back on when he's getting shouted another question and then makes the gaffe about the president of Mexico being the president of Egypt.
00:10:24.000So it was lack of discipline, impulse control, forgetful again, misquoting foreign leaders.
00:10:32.000I mean, it had all the hallmarks of just a train wreck, and it was hard to watch, and it was embarrassing for our nation.
00:10:40.000I really want to get some of these clips because they are just an unmitigated disaster for the Biden administration.
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00:11:53.000Blake, let's play some of this tape from this, you know, old man shouts at the room.
00:11:58.000And I think it was actually, you know, all joking aside, I mean, there's got to be a very, very real discussion about the 25th Amendment happening in certain quarters of the Democrat Party.
00:12:10.000But this was Joe Biden's attempt to sort of thwart that discussion, right?
00:12:17.000He wanted to go out and sound forceful, command the room, and it was anything but.
00:12:23.000So I'm just going to start with this clip of him yelling and pointing at a reporter who's questioning him about his mental acuity.
00:13:09.000It is what I do think conservatives can make a mistake on is if they do argue that Biden is just 100% out of it all the time, you know, needs electrical shocks just to walk one foot in front of the other.
00:13:24.000And it's really much more, and this is how it really is with old people who are losing it a bit, is they can seem great for an hour, a couple hours, the better part of a day, but then there's a period where they're just totally lost.
00:13:43.000You know, they walk off with your shopping cart when they pass you in the aisle at the supermarket, as a friend of mine told me the other day.
00:13:49.000And, you know, that's fine if you're just a normal person, but this is the president of the United States.
00:13:55.000And as we'll see in the next clip here, you can transition in a moment to the guy who just can't even remember what decade it is or what country he's talking about.
00:14:11.000The conduct of the response in Gaza, in the Gaza Strip, has been over the top.
00:14:27.000I think that as you know, initially, the president of Mexico, Cece, did not want to open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in.
00:15:13.000And I think a lot of that is that it was a question not about what he'd been prepped to go out and talk about before this press conference.
00:15:20.000It's just something he did to try to show that he still has it.
00:15:23.000And as it turns out, he doesn't have it.
00:15:26.000Well, and can you imagine being his press team in that moment, right?
00:15:30.000They usually don't put him in the public eye until around 10 or 11 in the morning.
00:15:38.000So, I mean, he's really got, to your earlier point, he's really got like a four to six hour window where they will use him in public, uh, in public events or to speak to the press.
00:15:54.000And he had just attempted to leave the podium and walk off.
00:15:58.000And then he got goaded by the media to come back, which was the really, the really, I mean, I was watching it live going, like, don't come back.
00:16:11.000I just, in that moment, I got emotionally wrapped up in the fact that I did not want to see him attempt to do something, you know, spontaneous because it always ends in disaster for him.
00:16:22.000And he, you know, sure enough, he comes back and you could see him pause.
00:16:25.000It was almost like you could see him losing his train of thought.
00:16:28.000It's like a movie scene, the movie scene.
00:16:30.000His staff will be watching on a TV camera triumphant, the musical play, and then suddenly he'll pause, the camera zooms in, and they just, no, no, don't do it.
00:16:46.000It's telling to me how it's like a dam broke.
00:16:48.000And a lot of people in the press, a lot of people in the Democratic Party who were saying, who have just ignored this topic studiously for a long time, don't talk about it, don't give Trump ammo, they're really panicking.
00:17:08.000We had last month saving babies with pre-born by providing ultrasounds.
00:17:12.000And we're doing again this year what we did last year.
00:17:14.000We're going to stand for life because remaining silent in the face of the most radically pro-death administration is not an option.
00:17:19.000As Sir Edmund Burke said, the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing, and we're not going to do nothing.
00:17:25.000Your gift to pre-born will give a girl the truth about what's happening in her body so that she can make the right choice.
00:18:31.000So Mayor Garland puts a special counsel in place.
00:18:33.000Basically, he says that Joe Biden, yes, broke the law, but we're not going to charge him because he's forgetful and well-intentioned old grandpa, right?
00:18:44.000What does that mean about President Trump, Jack Smith's case?
00:18:48.000President Trump is protected by the Presidential Records Act.
00:19:22.000Actually, just from a pure political standpoint, are they actually going to run Joe Biden or are they going to get past the convention and then he's going to bow out?
00:19:30.000I mean, there are 25th Amendment is now in play.
00:19:33.000Again, we said earlier the day started with oral arguments yesterday in the Supreme Court that were based around the 14th Amendment and removing Trump from the ballot in places like Colorado, Maine, elsewhere.
00:19:45.000There's many other states that were fielding similar legal questions.
00:19:51.000And then the day ended with sort of a 25th Amendment question of whether or not you could remove Joe Biden from office.
00:19:57.000And so I want to play some of these clips here.
00:20:00.000This one is, I think, I think really telling because it gets inside the mind of Joe Biden.
00:20:07.000And we've often heard, and there's been press reports.
00:20:10.000I know Axios did a big thing on this, that Joe Biden is actually a really like angry, prone to using very colorful language.
00:20:18.000We'll just say it that way, in private.
00:20:20.000And it strikes against this kindly, well-intentioned old grandpa caricature that many, I think, are tempted to have towards him.
00:20:29.000I know Charlie last night tweeted out that we should not feel bad for this guy.
00:20:40.000This is apparently, this is CNN reporting on what was going on behind closed doors when Robert Hurr's report came out from the special counsel.
00:20:51.000We have new details this morning about President Biden's angry reaction in a private meeting after the special counsel's report exonerated him of legal wrongdoing, but then put in the report that he wouldn't be charged because he's an elderly man with memory issues.
00:21:08.000And even went on to say that he didn't remember even within several years when his son Bo died.
00:21:15.000The president was livid about this, reportedly, and in a meeting with Democrats in Virginia, lashed out saying, how could I effing forget that?
00:21:26.000The reaction at CNN in particular really stands out because so MSNBC is a left-wing news network.
00:21:35.000They cover things from the perspective of the left.
00:21:45.000They were kind of in the middle during the Obama era, shifted more and more left over time, but they really just went totally berserk about Trump, remained berserk the entire Trump presidency, are still Trump berserk now.
00:21:58.000They need to be because their ratings depend on it.
00:22:00.000And so it's just telling to me how they reacted.
00:22:04.000In the cold open, we saw Jake Tapper seeming really genuinely concerned about Biden's state.
00:22:12.000He was whoever he was speaking with, he was really grilling them about, he was mentioning Biden mistaking all those leaders.
00:22:24.000And I think I mentioned in the chat, I was like, apparently, Dan Goldman here is talking with Jake Tapper, and Jake Tapper is grilling him about his mental acuity, Joe Biden's mental acuity.
00:22:35.000The memory lapses that President Biden is described as having in this report, this is not the first time anybody's raised issues of President Biden's acuity.
00:22:45.000And in fact, twice this week, President Biden referenced European leaders, conversations he had with them in 2021 when both those European leaders had long been dead.
00:24:02.000They have an article right now, fact check.
00:24:04.000Biden makes three false claims about his handling of classified information.
00:24:08.000That came out very early this morning.
00:24:11.000There is like a real offensive from CNN.
00:24:14.000They seem to really be seizing on this.
00:24:17.000They seem genuinely accusatory towards the president in a way that we very rarely see.
00:24:24.000And this is right after the Supreme Court hearings, as we mentioned, which got all of this hype and yet went very, very badly for the left, so much that they were despairing in the morning.
00:24:35.000And then in the afternoon, they get this extra body blow.
00:24:40.000And like I said, I don't believe there's any centralized conspiracy.
00:24:44.000I don't think there's a cabal that runs the Democratic Party that would be able to replace Biden.
00:24:49.000But I think we're seeing the point where a lot of people on the left are publicly panicking about Biden's quality as a candidate.
00:24:57.000And so we'll see them publicly try to pressure perhaps Biden to bow out in some way.
00:25:41.000But the truth is there is infighting on the left.
00:25:44.000They do a better job of keeping it under wraps, I would say.
00:25:48.000But the far progressive wing versus the blue dog Democrats, the moderate wing, and then everybody in between, they tend to kind of act in unison, but there is different factions within this.
00:26:00.000And I would say, you know, Gavin Newsom's name was trending right after this presser.
00:26:05.000Then Michelle Obama, I think, is trending now.
00:26:07.000I mean, there is definitely a move afoot to say, hey, can we put somebody else in place?
00:26:12.000I think some of the reactions from the reporters in that room were even self-interested, where they're like, can you please get out of the way?
00:26:41.000They've pulled this head-to-head, Biden to Trump, 16 times over the last couple of years.
00:26:46.000And only starting in November, and did Trump take his first lead ever.
00:26:51.000And now it's widened to about six points, which is beyond the sampling error size.
00:26:58.000So you've got real concern that not only are you having a very unpopular candidate, but he's showing mental decline that is extremely noticeable for the vast majority of the population.
00:27:10.000And you also have other candidates waiting in the wings like Gavin Newsom, who has basically said to the world, like, hey, guys, I'm ready.
00:27:21.000And so there is, but so I think these factions are playing it off of each other.
00:27:25.000And I don't, I think, yes, there is a move afoot, but what I've heard consistently is that Joe Biden is one of the most stubborn men that you have ever met.
00:27:35.000And he will not be dragged out of this.
00:27:45.000And he's doggedly going to stay in this fight.
00:27:48.000And to your point earlier, some parts of the day, he probably seems up to the task.
00:27:53.000That window, though, narrows as he goes on.
00:27:56.000And one other thing that we haven't talked about, and I haven't heard anybody mention this recently, Blake, is the fact that Joe Biden has had health problems in his brain, right?
00:28:06.000I mean, I'm going to look this up as soon as you start talking, but he's had, I believe, two surgeries, brain surgeries in his past.
00:28:16.000Yeah, he had aneurysms in the 80s, I believe.
00:31:27.000Have you put NATO in a corner where now they can't save face and get to a peace deal?
00:31:33.000We also learned that new details, at least from Putin's perspective about the peace deal that's been on the table.
00:31:41.000And, you know, putting aside some of the wild history mischaracterizations about Poland and the Nazis, I thought that it was a very substantive discussion.
00:31:53.000And I thought Tucker comported himself brilliantly.
00:31:56.000Well, it's already a legendary interview just because of the mimetic content we're getting from it.
00:32:03.000We're getting these jokes, you know, the way it's like, oh, well, you explain American history.
00:32:08.000Well, first we have to start with the, you know, the cooling of the earth after it formed four billion years ago as, you know, the stardust coalesced together.
00:32:16.000And then eventually you get multicellular life forms.
00:32:19.000The way he approaches it, it's sort of funny that that is how people are reacting to it, though, because the description, as Tyler was explaining yesterday on our stream, Putin's description of Russian history, it's not super deep if you're Russian.
00:32:34.000It's much more, you know, if you're a Russian middle schooler, how you might summarize your country's history.
00:32:40.000The way we would say, talk about Jamestown and then the Mayflower and then the Sons of Liberty leading into the American Revolution.
00:32:48.000That's a lot of the high points he's hitting.
00:32:50.000He's hitting the foundation of the Rus people that the Russians come from, the Christianization of them.
00:32:55.000Those are the two big foundational marks in Russian history.
00:32:59.000And then he jumps pretty quickly forward to stuff that's at least more relevant to Ukraine.
00:33:05.000Well, his basic pitch, though, right, is that Ukraine is a synthetic creation of global powers throughout the years, that it doesn't have a cultural core or history like the Russian people do.
00:33:21.000And really that there's a dividing line of the Napo River, which anything to the east of it has actually always been Russia.
00:34:02.000He locks himself away in his basement, and he's reading all these historical texts, and he's building up all these grievances that he already has towards the West.
00:34:10.000And he's really convinced that this 300-year historical, 300-year-old historical point proves that he's correct on this big issue.
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