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00:02:18.000So a question I have is: how can you incite something that is pre-planned?
00:02:26.000The entire argument that the House impeachment managers and the Senate are going to be making to the senators is that Donald Trump incited this was spontaneous, but the Washington Post's own words say that this looks less and less like a spontaneous mob, while there were elements of that, and more and more like a pre-planned attack.
00:02:50.000In fact, Greg Jarrett has a phenomenal piece on foxnews.com this morning that shows that this planning went all the way back as far as November.
00:03:03.000In fact, in the New York Times or even the Washington Post's own piece yesterday, they were trying to make the case against Donald Trump, and they showed a text message from one of the defendants who has been indicted where he said himself that he wanted to storm the Capitol the day after Christmas.
00:03:21.000So unless Donald Trump was in touch with this guy after Christmas, then he had nothing to do with this.
00:03:28.000Mark Meadows went on Fox News and said that Donald Trump repeatedly offered help at the Capitol and it was denied.
00:03:38.000And I'm going to be very honest with you guys.
00:03:40.000I cannot believe we're doing this again.
00:03:43.000I can't believe we're going through this impeachment circus again.
00:03:48.000This is Mark Meadows saying that help was offered, but it was not taken.
00:03:54.000Help was offered multiple times, not just in January, but throughout the summer with the D.C. mayor saying that the president stood by, willing to offer National Guard assistance, other assistance, and often, in fact, every time was rebuked and said, no, we can go it alone.
00:04:13.000The president was very vocal in making sure that we had plenty of National Guard, plenty of additional support, because he supports the rule of law, he supports our law enforcement, and offered additional help.
00:04:27.000Now, the media is doing their best to try and add drama and intrigue to this, but I think 80% of Americans see this for what it is: a rash political revenge campaign gone wrong.
00:04:44.000Liz Cheney is one of the Republicans that sponsored and voted for impeachment in the House of Representatives.
00:04:50.000She doubled down on that claim over the weekend.
00:04:55.000But what's really on trial here is not Donald Trump.
00:05:00.000The Constitution and our justice system is on trial right now.
00:05:07.000Our norms, the tradition that we have in our country, justice is supposed to be blind.
00:06:12.000The New York Times, with this never-ending piece about how the Democrats are now the defenders of the Constitution.
00:06:20.000Chris Hayes comes out in a piece in either The Atlantic or Vox, I get them confused all the time, saying that the Republicans really are engaging in an assault on democracy.
00:07:17.000But the way a trial is supposed to work with a fair judge overseeing it, not a liberal Democrat senator, Patrick Leahy, what state is Leahy from?
00:07:40.000You see, the Democrats are saying right now, for those of us that are willing to read between the lines, for those of us that see what's actually happening here, the Democrats are saying this is the way the justice system is going to be run if you don't behave.
00:07:56.000If you don't do what you're told, or if you don't act in the controlled opposition behavioral pattern, this is what's going to happen to you.
00:08:08.000We're going to run our justice system with judges that are activists, like Patrick Leahy.
00:08:15.000We're going to run our justice system where we can indict and convict you in less than 24 hours.
00:08:22.000We're going to run our justice system blaming you for the actions of other people.
00:08:30.000And of course, the Democrats would never want to be held accountable for the actions that they themselves did, the incitement that they engaged in.
00:08:39.000How did Kamala Harris not engage in incitement by bailing out rioters from the Minnesota Freedom Fund?
00:08:47.000How is that not the subsidizing of incitement?
00:08:51.000Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Maxine Waters, all engaged in fiery language that could be viewed as incitement.
00:09:12.000Everyone uses it, both sides, and they use it equally.
00:09:16.000The threshold for incitement is not even close to what was reached.
00:09:20.000And I hope that Trump's defense team in their opening statement, yes, goes against the constitutional argument, but also says, did you know at 1249 p.m., according to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, people that did not attend the rally started to penetrate the first police barricades.
00:09:41.000Before Trump said anything, before he even finished his speech, there was already activity against police.
00:09:49.000If this was just a mob gone wrong, there would not be people with gas masks and walkie-talkies saying that I know the configuration of the building.
00:10:00.000They wouldn't be changing clothes in the trees, which is what they were doing very suspiciously.
00:10:07.000And yes, there were elements of people that did storm the Capitol that attended the president's speech.
00:12:23.000Now, if there was a fair and impartial judge like John Roberts, I'm not saying John Roberts would be fair and impartial, but at least he'd be a judge, not a Democrat senator from Vermont.
00:12:36.000It is intentionally submitted for emotional appeal.
00:12:41.000Someone should tell Congressman Jamie Raskin, as he just said this, but Jamie Raskin should have said, wait a second, the barrier started to get broke at 1249.
00:12:51.000People came with the intent, and you cannot incite something when people come with the intent.
00:12:57.000If Jamie Raskin was honest, which he isn't, and I do feel for him for his own personal loss and his own tragedy, I'm not attacking him because of that.
00:13:05.000However, as soon as you step up to impeach a private citizen, I'm going to have to cross-examine you.
00:13:17.000There were people that had no affiliation with Trump that breached the Capitol.
00:13:21.000There were people there that were oath keepers.
00:13:23.000There were people that were there that did not necessarily align with any sort of political affiliation.
00:13:27.000And the way that Jamie Raskin is phrasing this, as we predicted, he's trying to make this overarching argument that every single person that was at the ellipse then went to the Capitol.
00:13:38.000There were hundreds of people on the east side of the Capitol, and Jamie Raskin knows this.
00:13:41.000He's just being dishonest, that were there before the president even arrived at the ellipse, that were there with walkie-talkies, mace, gear.
00:13:48.000And how does Jamie Raskin justify the pipe bombs?
00:14:14.000You had a pre-planned event that authorities did not do what they needed to do to prevent.
00:14:19.000They did not put up the right barriers, literally.
00:14:23.000And then President Donald Trump gets blamed for that.
00:14:27.000We're already starting to see that the argument being put forth by the House impeachment managers is one with no timelines, no nuance, very, very deceiving.
00:14:40.000My advice to Trump's impeachment team is don't take this bait initially.
00:14:46.000Argue on the constitutionality of this, then get into the actual details of this.
00:14:51.000Every person is responsible for their own actions.
00:14:55.000Incitement is an incredibly difficult legal threshold to prove.
00:15:00.000You have to prove that that person came there with the intent to then mobilize a crowd to do something specific, and they mention it specifically in the speech they gave.
00:15:12.000That's the threshold to be able to prove incitement.
00:15:16.000Alan Dershowitz mentioned this in our podcast interview that we had just a couple days ago.
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00:16:59.000And part of it is Democrats are at war with human nature.
00:17:05.000They refuse to acknowledge that there is a divine order.
00:17:10.000The way God made us, He made male and female, He made light and dark, He made gravity.
00:17:16.000The Democrats always seem as if they are pushing back against the natural order, that we are made in the image of God and there are the laws of nature and nature is God.
00:17:28.000Democrats and the left, going back to almost a Rousseauian view of human nature, believe that human beings are malleable.
00:17:39.000Now, let me tell you something: one of the most important questions that people can answer when it comes to politics, when it comes to government, and it comes to philosophy, is: do you believe that people are naturally good or naturally bad or neutral?
00:17:59.000The answer to that question is incredibly instructive to how you create public policy.
00:18:07.000So, if you believe that human beings are naturally flawed by their nature, this is something that is articulated in the Bible very clearly: original sin.
00:18:17.000We are going to screw up and we're going to screw up repeatedly.
00:18:22.000We are going to lie, steal, and cheat.
00:18:25.000Then, you are going to believe that it is not government that can then improve the human condition, but instead religion, faith, family, values, and the teaching of goodness.
00:18:39.000But if you believe that human beings are good in their natural state, something that Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed in, something that Thomas Hobbes did not believe in, something that John Locke was a little bit neutral on, those are the three social contract theorists: Jean-Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Thomas Hobbes.
00:18:57.000But if you believe people are naturally good, then anything that you see that is bad around you cannot be blamed on the people, but instead blamed on the system.
00:19:06.000Revolutionize the system around us, give them more benefits, administer more checks, and that will make them better people.
00:19:13.000Then we can get back to a state of nirvana, a place of utopia.
00:19:17.000Jean-Jacques Rousseau valued the infant over the adult, the primitive over the civilized.
00:19:26.000And boy, is that instructive to how the modern left and the Democrats operate?
00:19:32.000One thing that the Chinese coronavirus and the lockdowns have taught me is that people do not want to be free.
00:20:28.000They said, bring us back to Egypt because at least we had meat there.
00:20:33.000They would have rather have been well-fed slaves than free people that had to contest for their own livelihood.
00:20:40.000The Chinese coronavirus taught us the exact same thing.
00:20:44.000People said, I would rather be locked up in my home, given $1,100 every six months, rather than have to contest and be alert and aware and make my own decisions, but I'd rather have everything shut down because that makes me feel better.
00:21:48.000The more I study about human nature, the more it fascinates me when I drive to the studio every day that it's not a riot and it's not bedlam outside.
00:23:19.000What the left is committed to do and the Democrats alongside of it, and you're seeing this in its impeachment right now, is they're angry that these laws exist and they believe that if they flex enough muscle and they get enough power, then they can create heaven on earth, that a utopia can be ushered in.
00:23:39.000Now, that's not to say every Democrat believes that, but most of them do.
00:23:44.000You see, instead of acknowledging that you must have earned success in this country, instead of acknowledging that men and women have biological differences, instead of acknowledging that a nation needs borders, instead of acknowledging that this country is one unlike any other, they think they can do better.
00:24:03.000It is making me increasingly frustrated when I see Jamie Raskin use the quotes of our founding fathers out of context.
00:24:11.000But it's Saulinsky's rules for radicals, everybody.
00:24:14.000You see, I never knew Jamie Raskin would use so many racists to defend his impeachment.
00:24:21.000Did he just all of a sudden use slave owners to justify his impeachment?
00:24:25.000Why would Jamie Raskin use James Madison, the father of the Constitution, I believe the fourth president of the United States, that's right, the fourth president, father of the U.S. Constitution, who's called a racist in many schools, and they're trying to now say James Madison should not be named for elementary schools or even James Madison University?
00:24:42.000Why would Jamie Raskin use a bunch of slave owners?
00:24:46.000Use the enemy's own rules of books against them.
00:24:50.000You see, Jamie Raskin thinks he can start to make conservative and Republican senators think about impeachment if you can start to use a bunch of names, faces that matter to us.
00:25:06.000Jamie Raskin's not about to convince a bunch of AOC or Elon Omars or Rashida Talibs.
00:25:11.000If he was talking to Rashida Talaib or Elon Omar, he would instead be using Jacques Derrida and Michelle Foucault and not the founding fathers of our country.
00:25:23.000Maybe Angela Davis, maybe Herbert Marcuse.
00:25:27.000The Democrats don't believe in the very quotes they're using from the founding fathers.
00:25:30.000They're trying to put the 1619 project into our curriculum every single day.
00:25:34.000Jamie Raskin was just going through all these quotes from John Quincy Adams, who I believe was our sixth president.
00:26:03.000They see this as an opportunity to end a political movement that they're actually terrified of.
00:26:10.000What they are doing right now, what the Democrats are doing in real time, shows us that in their private meetings, in their strategy sessions, they see something in the polling.
00:26:34.000Donald Trump represents a set of ideas.
00:26:38.000Jamie Raskin and this guy right now, Joe Nagusi, I probably mispronounced that, which I'm, I think I'm an expert at mispronunciation, to be honest with you.
00:26:48.000A set of ideas that they don't like, that they know threaten their power, but they have to find a person that personifies it, and they need to put the nail in the coffin.
00:26:58.000It's like the old Roman tradition where every soldier got a chance to stab the dead general of the other army.
00:27:08.000Ajen Saki has something to say, so let's hear what that is.
00:27:11.000Does the president have a message for local school officials on dealing with these kind of disputes that are already starting to rise?
00:27:19.000Between trans girls who are competing and cis girls and a level playing field, particularly in high school sports when it leads to college scholarships.
00:27:31.000Is there any kind of messaging or clarification that the White House wants to give on the executive order?
00:27:36.000I would just say that the president's belief is that trans rights are human rights, and that's why he signed that executive order.
00:27:42.000And in terms of the determinations by universities and colleges, I would certainly defer to them.
00:27:47.000You understand how immoral this is, right?
00:28:58.000But why don't you go to Greenwich, Connecticut, and tell that to the mother who has a daughter who's been training her whole life to become a track and field champion and now has to go compete against some dude who thinks he's a woman from Hartford?
00:29:11.000That actually happened in Connecticut, by the way.
00:29:14.000Connecticut is a place where the woesters have taken over all the positions of influence.
00:29:21.000And you have women that are now forced to compete up against men.
00:29:26.000You have women's locker rooms that are now being infiltrated with men just because they say they're women.
00:29:40.000They just don't even care about what the consequences could be.
00:29:47.000They don't care about what the backlash could possibly be.
00:29:51.000And maybe that's the unspoken truth of that story we read in the Time magazine article.
00:29:57.000We are going to govern more radical than ever before because we control how elections are done, how people communicate, and how people are organized.
00:30:10.000Therefore, we're going to do whatever we want, and you're not going to be able to stop us.
00:30:15.000What if the Democrats are basically telling us elections don't matter anymore?
00:30:20.000What if the Democrats are so prideful that they believe that they have fixed the system, that they've interfered with it so significantly that your voice might just be nothing more than a venting mechanism, not an actual system to enforce representative government?
00:30:42.000Our constitutional republic is based on the idea that we trust how we elect our leaders.
00:30:50.000If you no longer trust the way that we elect leaders in our country, then do we even have a system of government to represent us?
00:30:57.000This is why every Republican out there must take a definitive stand of how we do elections in this country, from signature verification to auditing the voter rolls.
00:31:11.000In Maricopa County, we are putting on a ton of pressure to actually find out what happened with the voting systems here in Arizona.
00:31:18.000Every state should be doing the same, every single state.
00:31:22.000And what is the Democrats' big call to action?
00:31:28.000Not worry about school closures, not worry about opioid deaths, not worry about immigration, where, by the way, the Biden administration has said they are not going to deport illegals that are rapists.
00:31:41.000But they will potentially spy on you and infiltrate you if you're a Christian.
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00:32:59.000I want to praise Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
00:33:02.000I have disagreed with him on quite a lot, but this is breaking yesterday and it didn't get as much press as I think it deserved.
00:33:08.000Texas Governor Abbott working on legislation to prevent social media platforms from canceling conservative speech.
00:33:15.000Also known as, I'm doing what Ron DeSantis did because it was really popular.
00:33:20.000However, this sort of movement from Texas is very promising.
00:33:25.000And Governor Greg Abbott deserves credit for this.
00:33:28.000In fact, we're going to send out a tweet praising these governors because they need the reinforcement and they need the encouragement that this is the right thing to do.
00:33:37.000It is the right thing to support these governors that are standing up against this social media tech tyranny.
00:33:44.000Let's play Senator Kennedy from Louisiana.
00:33:47.000President Trump, I think it would be fair to say, is unconventional.
00:33:53.000And he has said things that I've disagreed with, both in substance and the way he said them.
00:33:58.000But he does have the right to say them.
00:34:03.000It wasn't my preferred way of expressing oneself when Senator Schumer on the steps of the Supreme Court threatened Supreme Court justices.
00:34:13.000I didn't agree with Congresswoman Waters when she threatened appointees of the Trump administration.
00:34:19.000I don't think they ought to be impeached.
00:34:22.000And that's the basis of the argument is just because you disagree with how someone might have said something does not mean that they should be impeached.
00:34:30.000And so now this congressman is overseeing the impeachment proceedings from the House manager position, and he's going to keep on going on and on.
00:34:39.000Okay, let's get to some questions here.
00:34:41.000You guys can email us in real time, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:34:47.000I'm a 52-year-old grandmother who, for the first time in my life, thanks to President Trump, and great shows like yours have begun following politics.
00:34:54.000That being said, I'm still somewhat ignorant when it comes to certain topics.
00:36:36.000That is why we should push back against the foreign wars, the foreign endless wars, and the nonsense that is happening with the permanent military occupation that we have seen with the war industrial complex, basically war incorporated in our country.
00:36:53.000When you said that a republic becomes an empire, it reminds me of Star Wars at the end of the Revenge of the Sith.
00:36:58.000Really, the whole prequel trilogy leading up to the emperor took power feels similar to Joe Biden.
00:37:03.000Well, I wasn't using a Star Wars analogy.
00:37:05.000I was using a Roman history analogy when famously Julius Caesar transitioned the Roman Republic to become the Roman Empire after the three-headed Roman ruling coalition disintegrated because one guy died and then Julius Caesar declared a civil war against Pompey.
00:37:25.000And then the Roman Civil War was really began after Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon.
00:37:30.000They fought, ended up in the Middle East.
00:37:32.000Julius Caesar actually got Cleopatra involved.
00:39:28.000And so then you had Commodus, fell apart.
00:39:31.000A bunch of Roman emperors, I can't remember.
00:39:33.000The Eastern Roman Empire was founded, which was known as Byzantium.
00:39:37.000Constantine, of course, King Constantine, geez, named it after himself, Constantinople, which ended up being the center of all Christian, Eastern Orthodox, Christian tradition, while then Rome took more of the Catholic tradition.
00:39:49.000And then I think that was like in 321.
00:39:51.000Anyway, that's enough history for today.
00:39:57.000Peter says, Hey, Charlie, do you have any updates from the Maricopa County, Arizona audit?
00:40:02.000That's why you should tune in to the Charlie Kirk show tomorrow because we have Congressman Paul Gosar coming in.
00:40:10.000Let's go here to why is the hearing deciding the constitutionality of the impeachment allowed to proceed with the prosecution as their opening statement?
00:40:21.000Typically, in a court of law, the prosecutor, I could be wrong here, but usually they have to kind of basically say who kind of called us to this meeting.
00:40:29.000It is the prosecution that usually starts.
00:40:52.000What would happen to him since he's not president right now?
00:40:55.000Would he then be able to be criminally prosecuted?
00:40:57.000Probably, but just so we're clear, this entire thing is going to get tied up in the Supreme Court win or lose.
00:41:03.000Trump is going to sue this thing, and he wants to get a full acquittal of the entire process because you can't impeach a private citizen, and the chief justice is not even here.
00:41:12.000And so, even if they were to find him guilty, the entire process is probably going to get tied up in the Supreme Court very, very soon.
00:41:56.000Tell us how the California government is hurting us so much, or is this bailout just going to rebuild the cities they let burn?
00:42:02.000The government doesn't need to spend any more money of our tax dollars at dinners, at French laundry, or freezers full of luxurious ice cream.
00:42:21.000They're going to bail out structural deficits from these cities and states, which is mostly pensions to retired teachers and retired government employees.
00:44:49.000He writes, quote, the worst governed state, Illinois, had tripled the population loss of the state with the second highest out migration between 2010 and 2020.
00:44:57.000It's contemplating another incentive for people leaving the state or for flight.
00:45:01.000On February 16th, a joint committee of the state legislature will decide whether to turn into a legal requirement the State Board of Education recommendation that until a slight rewording would mandate that all public teachers, quote, embrace and encourage progressive viewpoints and perspectives.
00:45:19.000If the board's education and policy is ratified, Illinois will become a place congenial only for parents who are comfortable consigning their children to education that is political indoctrination, audaciously announced and comprehensively enforced.
00:45:31.000If anyone is watching this in Illinois, please email us right now, freedomatcharlikirk.com.
00:45:36.000First of all, I love hearing from you guys here, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:47:56.000And it's about time that we open our schools fully.
00:47:59.000We understand how this virus operates.
00:48:02.000And it is unfair and immoral to subject an entire generation of children to a virus that will statistically not kill them at any greater risk than driving to school or other activities if they're in seventh grade.
00:48:54.000What Senator Ram Paul was saying and what he did was a vote that basically asked the entire Senate, do you think this is constitutional?
00:49:03.000Now, the vote, 55 said yes, 45 said no.
00:49:06.000But basically, it was a preview that 45 senators are going to vote in favor of acquittal because they believe that this impeachment is unconstitutional in nature.
00:49:17.000So that's the answer to that question.
00:49:19.000Quincy says, thank you so much for being a strong voice for all of us.
00:49:22.000I come to you for level-headed sound facts.
00:50:15.000And I feel for you, but do what you can because there are states that are wide open and they're robust right now, like Florida, thanks to the great governor, Ron DeSantis.
00:50:24.000Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:50:27.000Hey, Charlie, thanks for being such a great source of information.
00:50:29.000I'm a homeschool mom in Illinois, and the radical legislation being pushed for teachers is incredibly scary.
00:50:35.000I've been pushing back on it both with my voice to our leaders and on social media.
00:50:38.000The next thing coming down the line is legislation for sex ed starting in kindergarten and teaching gender theory in first and third grade.
00:51:17.000I heard on the podcast the other day, thank you for listening to our podcast, that either way this impeachment goes, it will end up in the court one side or the other.
00:51:23.000Can you please explain what you meant by that?
00:51:27.000What I meant is that the constitutionality of this will be challenged in court, regardless of all the slideshows they're showing and all this stuff.
00:51:35.000The constitutionality of this will be actually challenged in court.
00:51:39.000Whether or not this process should be allowed to be happening at all, is it constitutional?