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00:02:01.000I come in here, I see his chair, I see Gigi's, you know, beautiful presents for her dad and his hat and his book.
00:02:10.000Yeah, and it actually brings me comfort.
00:02:12.000So I get, like, I try and relate to that as we have guests in the studio, and I know it can be overwhelming, but it's kind of just beautiful just to see all these reminders of him, too.
00:02:21.000It is, and I tell you, the work has to continue.
00:03:18.000I was building the Texas Public Policy Foundation in Texas.
00:03:22.000Really, kind of the first of its kind idea that I didn't even know what a think tank was.
00:03:27.000But what I knew is I'd been Rick Perry's policy director and general counsel in my late 20s.
00:03:32.000And what I knew is that every day, all day, I would get lobbyist after lobbyist after lobbyist in conservative Texas.
00:03:38.000And it was never about doing what was right.
00:03:40.000It was never about we're cutting taxes because it's for freedom or we're not going to regulate because we want to return power to the people.
00:03:58.000And someone came to me with this idea of the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
00:04:03.000And I think because I had been on the inside, I fully understood, I couldn't have articulated it then, but I fully understood the opportunity to go in and to really make a difference in my state and just representing freedom.
00:04:17.000So I said, okay, so kind of that's where it started.
00:04:19.000So when Charlie came on the scene, I don't know, however many years later 10, maybe 15, he, of course, I think somehow ended up in Texas to raise money for this new concept from this new kid.
00:04:32.000And so, all the people that he would go to and he'd get the meetings, I don't know how, but he'd get the meetings, and then they would tell him, Go talk to Brooke.
00:04:40.000Like, she's kind of a little bit ahead of you and go talk to Brooke.
00:04:43.000And you're wanting to build this thing.
00:04:45.000She's now built this pretty massive thing in Texas, but we want to see kind of how y'all can work together, what she thinks, et cetera.
00:04:53.000Was it 18, 19 year old Charlie building Turning Point, coming to Texas, sitting down?
00:04:58.000And then, of course, we became really, really good friends.
00:05:00.000I remember talking to him about you, and the way he would talk about you was always so like, The big sister thing, it really is apt because I remember it was always like there was a level of comfort when it came to Brooke.
00:05:36.000$300,000 contract educating on food justice for queer and transgender farmers in San Francisco.
00:05:43.000A similar contract we canceled in New York, again, educating transgender and queer farmers on food justice and food equality.
00:05:51.000I'm not even sure what that means, but apparently the last administration wanted to put our taxpayer dollars towards that.
00:05:58.000We canceled a $600,000 contract out of Louisiana that was studying the menstrual cycles of transgender men, a $600,000 contract.
00:06:07.000We canceled another contract out of a university in the middle of the country that focused on getting more diversity, equity, and inclusion into our pest management industry.0.97
00:06:31.000I looked that up and it's so funny because it just captures the moment so well where I guess the actual study was like, we're going to see how feminine hygiene products, whether some are healthy or unhealthy, But then, of course, it was happening in peak woke.0.79
00:06:45.000So they had to go, and especially for the trans men who need to use these.0.62
00:06:49.000You had to throw this into every single grant application and just got to vaporize.
00:06:54.000You just have to say, that stuff doesn't work.0.99
00:06:55.000When you're saying it out loud, it's the most obnoxious, obscene, absurd, ridiculous.0.99
00:07:02.000Like you just said those sentences.0.99
00:07:13.000So take this cabinet meeting and send it back.
00:07:15.000To 1975, and see if anyone can tell what you're talking about.
00:07:18.000This is obscene stuff, and I'm I'm I mean, I'm proud of you and the job you're doing, but I'm also really embarrassed for you that you had to say that right.1.00
00:07:26.000Well, like you're a professional, dignified woman, and I'm talking about queer, BIPOC, transgender mice, and men and pest control.0.96
00:07:34.000And Mr. President, to the president of the United States in the cabinet room, it was so bad, y'all.0.98
00:07:39.000And just last week, we just got a court ruling down.
00:07:42.000Um, USDA under the Biden USDA actually.
00:07:47.000Prioritized grants and loans based on the color of your skin, how DEI you were, illegal, illegal, illegal, canceling all of that.
00:07:57.000It just is, and I feel like we're still just at the tip of the spear.
00:07:59.000I mean, the SNAP fraud, the food security fraud.
00:08:01.000Okay, Ross, this is what I'm going to get into here because I have a list here of these fraud initiatives that you're leading.
00:10:38.000And I want to make sure people are taking note of it.
00:10:41.000And that is, you have this, the Great American Cotton Plan, which people do not respect how big our cotton industry is and how under assault it is.
00:10:56.000Well, first of all, what I realized a year and a half ago when I very unexpectedly ended up in this job, this was not on my bingo card, was not expecting it.
00:11:04.000The president made an announcement and off to the races we went.
00:11:11.000I studied agriculture in college at Texas AM, but I had been doing really all policy in all those years and building policy organizations alongside Charlie.
00:11:51.000So today in Arizona, we announced as part of that the Great American Cotton Plan for really the first cotton plant we planted in 1607 in a Virginia settlement.
00:12:02.000Our American revolutionaries wore cotton when George Washington was battling the Brits.
00:12:08.000This goes back to the very beginning and even before the beginning of our country.
00:12:11.000But what has happened over the last, we'll say, decade or so, is the foreign fake synthetic material has become so prolific and so cheap that we have been moving away from great American cotton for years.
00:12:26.000And then Joe Biden, of course, took his eye off the ball.
00:12:29.000Do you realize under Joe Biden's watch, we lost our market in soybeans, we lost our market in corn, we lost our market in beef, and then they took over?
00:12:36.000We used to be the greatest exporter in the world of cotton.
00:12:42.000This is national security level implications.
00:12:45.000This isn't just good for the farmers, and we want good cotton.
00:12:48.000If we begin to rely on these other countries for food, for fiber, for fuel, we lose our country.
00:12:53.000So today we announced a big, big plan to take it back.
00:12:55.000And it's part of the MAHA movement, too.
00:12:57.000I was going to say, so hold on, hold on.
00:13:01.000Alex Clark knew you were coming on, and she said, ask if this means, and we have this graph, the USDA is finally promoting natural fibers over petroleum based synthetics.
00:13:11.000So she took note of this from the MAHA standpoint.
00:13:13.000She said, Ask if this means the FDA might look into the laws about what chemicals are allowed in clothes that haven't been updated since 1940.
00:13:21.000She's saying the laws about what chemicals we put in our clothes haven't been updated since the 40s.
00:14:16.000So, is this, but this could actually help cotton farmers, presumably, right?
00:14:20.000So, if you start banning some of these petroleum based synthetics, if they're bad for people, this would open up market space for cotton farmers.
00:15:03.000The only way we make America healthy again is by putting real food, which comes from real farmers, back at the center of every conversation, of every policy decision.
00:15:17.000Just let that soak in every day on just 16 nutrition programs school lunches, the SNAP program, the WIC program, et cetera.
00:15:24.000Imagine the market moving power just in that alone, right?
00:15:27.000The dietary guidelines, yes, we want people eating real food.
00:15:30.000We want to open the aperture for young farmers to get in and grow lettuce and sell to the local school.
00:15:35.000But the opportunity to really change the trajectory of the nation under the health, you know, putting farmers and real food back into the center of every piece of policymaking changes the game forever for our country.
00:15:49.000We've all been told to eat fruits and vegetables forever, but nobody really explained why.
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00:17:26.000So, this issue of glyphosate, to the extent that it overlaps with you, there's been the allegations, they vary, but it's basically like the admin has given, you know, a legal blank check, essentially, the immunity or something, or working towards this for the glyphosate and chemical manufacturers at the expense of kind of what Maha wants.
00:17:48.000And Kennedy, Secretary Kennedy's come out against glyphosate.
00:18:25.000It is decades, whether right or wrong, it is decades of use that has underscored, underwritten, and provided America's farmers and ranchers to become the breadbasket for the world.
00:18:39.000So if you are to just pull the rug tomorrow and say, sorry, no more glyphosate, right or wrong, again, EPA has now for decades approved it, said it's not harmful if used correctly.
00:19:30.000So you can't believe the technology that's out there today.
00:19:34.000There are drones that can do one fly over a say a 500 acre field of corn and can within half a second send the information back to the farmer and back to the tractor and say, Oh, actually, where a crop protectant or a pesticide may be necessary is in this one corner on row 57 at cornstalk six.
00:19:56.000And so instead of just blasting the whole field, you can go in and really focus on where it's needed, whether it's glyphosate, something organic or not.
00:20:05.000That's how it's always been, I believe, like even with the A lot of the glyphosate harms, it's because people are using it at home and they're really overdoing it.
00:21:21.000I believe that there should be a more concerted effort from the federal government to implement tech and robotics to pick crops so that we don't have to have so many seasonal workers, so we don't have to have illegal immigrants coming over the border and transforming our country, which, by the way, is not just a crop problem or a food price problem.0.92
00:21:41.000It's a DMV problem, a school's problem, a hospital problem.0.99
00:21:49.000So, what can you tell me about how you guys are focused at the USDA to address the robotics issue?
00:21:56.000Is there a moonshot that we can get where we help with the capital expenditures to implement robotics or to train up farmers, local farmers, even big ag, on how to implement this technology more successfully?
00:22:09.000Yeah, there are a couple of different things.
00:22:11.000First of all, The USDA is a massive behemoth of an agency.
00:22:17.000A lot of it is food stamps and the welfare programs, but a lot of it is land grant research investments and into these sorts of opportunities.
00:22:27.000But as in all things, the private sector, this is where a lot of the guys in Silicon Valley have now pivoted to agriculture.
00:22:36.000And the idea that we can do what you're talking about, we're already seeing it in the dairy industry.
00:22:40.000If you were to go on, MVP Dairy is one of my favorites.
00:22:43.000I think they have, I don't know, a lot.0.69
00:23:48.000I voted Trump three times and I want to be supportive of my culture, but I can't afford the local, at least not everybody, for, Harvest season.1.00
00:23:58.000I can't afford all Americans or whatever break the bank.0.99
00:24:01.000I need to get some of these seasonal workers.1.00
00:24:33.000So that seems to be, and I'm not talking about big ag, although big ag should be the first one that is forced to adopt this stuff or at least incentivized strongly.
00:25:26.000But the investment, first of all, deregulating, which would allow our private sector, these Silicon Valley guys, David Freeberg and others, who are all in on agriculture.
00:25:36.000And they see that as the next big frontier on how to fix that.0.69
00:25:39.000While at the same time making sure USDA, instead of spending money on transgender men, you know, the menstrual cycles, which you talked about at the top of our conversation, we're now spending money and investing on this sort of investment.0.64
00:25:51.000It would be great if Congress wanted to lean in.0.71
00:25:54.000And, you know, we're shrinking government.
00:25:55.000I think our federal government is now the same size as it was.
00:25:59.000We're not afraid to spend money if the ROI means that we don't have the need for 10 million illegals the next time a Democrat takes office.1.00
00:26:09.000Half of this is if the farms don't need the labor, they're going to come over the border and yeah, they'll get restaurant work, they'll get hospitality work.
00:26:16.000Again, this is all assuming a Democrat's a novice, but the farms won't need them.
00:26:20.000And that cuts off a huge, huge incentive.
00:26:22.000And we already see that happening with other jobs they would fill that we brought in hundreds of thousands of truck drivers and now we're right on clearly on the brink of having a ton of self driving vehicles.
00:27:18.000Smithfield, they purchased, which was the largest pork company in America, in the world, but in America, that basically controls about a fifth of our pork in America, now owned by the Chinese.
00:27:30.000Brazil, with our meat processing, we have a beef price issue today in America, but part of that is because only four companies control about 85% of the processing of our beef.
00:28:36.000Beef has not, because we're at a cattle herd low of 75 years, primarily because the left waged war on ranchers and cattlemen, saying it caused climate change.
00:28:46.000Climate change took away grazing allotments, et cetera.
00:29:42.000So that's what we're really working to do.
00:29:44.000The flip side, and this is good news for the long term, tough for the short term, is with Make America Healthy Again, everyone's eating more beef and they're willing to pay for it.
00:30:14.000We, two months ago, said you can no longer sell in America, but you can't say you're a product of the USA unless you're born, sold, raised, harvested, processed here.
00:30:25.000Whereas others, if it was one of the five, they could stick on a USA.
00:30:28.000So, we're incentivizing our ranchers to build their herds every year.
00:30:32.000So, you're going after fraud, you're encouraging Maha, we're getting rid of synthetics, we're promoting cotton.
00:30:38.000Well, we're not getting rid of synthetics, we're creating a marketplace where cotton wins.
00:30:58.000So, the lawfare piece of this is real.
00:31:01.000Obviously, the weaponization of government, we've all seen it.
00:31:04.000Charlie, you guys, I, the president, certainly more than anyone.
00:31:07.000But what a lot of people don't know is that our farmers and ranchers with the Democrats at every level, federal, state, local, have been under assault, whether it's using eminent domain to take.
00:31:18.000There was a 175 year old farm in New Jersey, sixth generation Andy Henry.
00:31:22.000The city of, I think it was Cranberry, New Jersey, tried to take their land, take it after trying to buy it, and they said no to try to take their land to build affordable housing.
00:31:31.000This is a 175 year old farm before the Civil War.
00:31:42.000There is a ranch I just posted about a couple of days ago, the Casey Murph Ranch here in Arizona, where the state of Arizona is trying to take, to put solar panels on.
00:31:53.000Not try to buy, not try to say, can we work with you, but to take his ranch, his sixth generation ranch, to put solar panels on.
00:33:30.000And I just can't imagine what it must have been like day one where you opened the hood at USDA and saw the woke and the corruption and the fraud and the waste.
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00:36:47.000All right, it's time for Mark Halperin to join the show.
00:36:50.000He's the editor-in-chief of Two-Way TV and next up on the Megyn Kelly Network.
00:36:57.000We have reports now that President Trump has been rushed to the Situation Room.
00:37:01.000I don't know if that's just headlines trying to get clicks, but he is in the Situation Room reviewing the peace terms and the framework of a potential peace deal with Iran.
00:37:13.000First question is Are you hopeful this can actually get done?
00:37:17.000And if it can, what are the implications?
00:37:20.000I'm hopeful in the sense that I hope it happens.1.00
00:37:22.000I'm skeptical in the sense that it's hard for me to see the deal that the president just outlined on Truth Social being agreed to by the Iranians.0.99
00:37:30.000I've thought for a while that the words coming out of their mouth in a piece of paper saying they're giving up their nuclear program would be a bridge too far for them under the current circumstances where they don't seem cowed.
00:37:43.000And I would caution people that if the president does say, I met with my team, we're signing the deal.
00:37:47.000Even if Iran says they're signing the deal too, although it would be a big step for them to acknowledge a commitment to get rid of the nuclear program, it's going to be hard to get that done, particularly when one of the first items in the deal is opening up the strait, which is great for the American economy and the American driver, but also takes that economic pressure off Iran.
00:38:07.000So I'm skeptical that the deal actually will be agreed to by both sides, but if that happens, we're all going to have to watch to see whether Iran will continue to negotiate the terms and the specifics on nuclear in good faith.
00:39:03.000It's not that the hardliners are gone.
00:39:05.000And the other thing is that they actually are willing, for the first time, talking about concessions on nuclear, talking about, okay, we'll stop.
00:39:13.000And we'll create a plan for you guys to actually get the dust, right?
00:39:16.000Well, but I feel like we've been around the block on this a few times where it's the moderate rebels, the moderate extremists.
00:39:22.000We've seen that in Syria, we've seen that in Libya.
00:39:25.000Certainly, Mark, I think you've probably been around the block on hopes in the Middle East a few times, and you might have some experience on how that tends to pan out.
00:39:34.000Well, historically, in the Middle East generally, as you suggest, Blake, and specifically Iran, it hasn't worked out great.
00:39:40.000But I think one of the encouraging things in the way the president has framed the deal, and we'll see in the actual document if that's the case, if Iran is not getting financial concessions up front, they're not getting any sort of unfreezing of assets, they're not getting sanctions taken off, they're simply being allowed to trade oil.
00:39:58.000Which probably would involve some sanctions being taken off, but specifically for that purpose, then I think the pressure can remain on them.
00:40:06.000And the president and some of his advisors have dreamed from the beginning that the way to solve this is to get Iran into the community of nations to cross what, for a time, they were calling the Golden Bridge.0.88
00:40:16.000So you're right to be skeptical about the Middle East.0.81
00:40:20.000We're all right to be skeptical about Iran, but this is the president who struck the deal between Israel and Gaza.0.68
00:40:27.000That deal's been stalled out, but.0.62
00:40:29.000Between that and the Abraham Accords, he's been made more forward progress in the region than any of his recent predecessors.0.69
00:40:35.000And so maybe this will be a deal that the Iranians can be coaxed into.0.94
00:40:39.000And maybe if the so called moderates are ascended, there can be the kind of economic connection that really is the key for a lot of folks to say you can never deal with Iran in good faith as long as the religious extremists are in charge.0.61
00:40:54.000But maybe this can change things if their economy is offered kind of a tie up with the U.S.
00:41:00.000Well, let's talk incentives here then, Mark, because a lot of times deals get done when the incentives align, all right?
00:41:05.000So, Iran's got these wells that if they have to shut them off because they run out of storage, you might not ever be able to turn them back on, right?
00:41:12.000Okay, that's a huge incentive, even if you're a hardliner and even if you sort of don't care about your own people, that is something to consider.
00:41:21.000So, they're incentivized to at least open the straight back up.
00:41:25.000Whether or not they'll actually play ball in the nuclear, we don't know, all right?
00:41:28.000And that's the one thing I'm a little bit skeptical with this deal is like, okay, why don't you let us have the nuclear, then we'll open the straight.
00:41:33.000I kind of want the The points reverse.
00:41:36.000Secondly, though, politically here at home, we have to be realistic about the political incentives.
00:41:42.000If we get gas under $3 on average across the country again, heading into November, that's a huge boon to the president and to the economy.
00:41:57.000It's like he's got to be a realist about this.
00:41:59.000Are you hearing that he's as concerned about that as maybe I am or you might be?
00:42:03.000No, I mean, the order of operations is exactly what you said.
00:42:08.000But not only for the reasons you said, which is getting the nuclear done, some people think will take many months and some people think will take years.
00:42:16.000Okay, that's a much different timetable than the president needs to be on both politically and economically for reopening the strait.
00:42:23.000So, this is why you're going to hear skepticism, including from some neocons and from some independent analysts, which is to say opening the strait has benefits for both sides.
00:42:32.000There's been a paradox that I think held up a deal.
00:42:35.000Both sides want the strait open long term, but short term, opening the strait.
00:42:41.000Iran gives up its leverage over the president regarding gas prices in the midterms.
00:42:46.000And the president gives up leverage over Iran for what you said, which is now the pressure on them to not have to shut down their oil facilities and do permanent damage goes away.
00:42:56.000So, this is a sign of trust, a sign of good faith.
00:42:59.000Of course, even if they agree to it, one drone or one attack on one ship can make a big difference.
00:43:05.000There's lots of questions in the oil industry and the shipping industry about even if they agree today, how soon insurers and captains can get moving again to move ships through and how soon that'll impact prices.
00:43:17.000But The nuclear piece is just very complicated.
00:43:20.000And that's assuming that Iran is operating in some level of good faith, which the vice president said last night, they are operating currently in good faith.
00:43:45.000I'm not trying to be glass half full, rose colored glasses.
00:43:48.000I'm simply saying politically, Getting this deal done makes all the sense in the world if it can be done, right?
00:43:56.000And the caution that you're mentioning, Mark, here about we're not sure if the chain of command is being followed strictly in a centralized way in Iran.
00:44:07.000You could have factions that are controlling different parts of the IRGC or the Revolutionary Guard, right?
00:44:13.000And they could spring an attack on one of these vessels completely outside of the chain of command that has been established in this framework.
00:44:27.000One is these ships aren't going to just go through, they're going to need to be safe.0.74
00:44:33.000And just saying the blockade's off and Iran is going to let free passage go doesn't help the insurers get insurance in place, doesn't reassure the captains and crews, and doesn't keep a rogue element in Iran from striking.0.51
00:44:47.000And we don't know what would happen in that instance.
00:44:49.000The other thing is if the deal is anything like what the president said on Truth Social, Good for him because this exceeds my expectations from a few hours ago about what the best possible deal would be for him and for the United States politically and geopolitically to get the process going because the status quo was untenable for the president.
00:45:10.000It was untenable politically and geopolitically, diplomatically.
00:45:33.000I know we've only got a minute and a half left.
00:45:34.000We could take it on the other side if you need to.
00:45:36.000Well, I think another topic that's been taking up a lot of attention in Washington and online, but we haven't talked about it much on this show, and it's causing a rift between the president and Republicans in Congress, is this effort to get an anti weaponization fund going via the courts.
00:45:53.000Obviously, we know President Trump faced a lot of legal attacks.
00:45:56.000A lot of his allies faced a lot of legal attacks, and they've tried to.
00:46:00.000Engineer this, I think it's about $1.7, $1.8 billion fund for people who say that they have been the target of weaponized lawfare from the DOJ in the past.
00:46:16.000Republicans are pretty skeptical, obviously.
00:46:17.000Democrats are saying it's completely beyond the pale.
00:46:22.000As of this moment, a federal judge is holding it up.
00:46:25.000But I thought maybe going on the other side, Mark, if you have thoughts on the overall situation of him attempting to get this, is it as unprecedented as it looks?
00:46:35.000And is it going to be the sort of thing that becomes a distraction over the course of this summer?
00:46:41.000Like your excellent summary and narrative of the situation left that one key fact, which is it's not just Democrats who object to this.
00:46:48.000A lot of Republicans object to it too, including Republican senators who are now holding up the president's desired reconciliation package to fund homeland security because they don't want any part of this.
00:46:59.000And sometimes in an election year with an unpopular president, the president's poll numbers are currently not good.
00:47:06.000You see objections that are based on politics.
00:47:08.000And there's no doubt that Republican senators in the Maine.
00:47:10.000Think the politics of this are bad, but they also don't like the substance of it for the reason you suggested.
00:47:15.000This is not normal, what was done here.
00:47:17.000It would take a while to explain all the reasons it's not normal.
00:47:20.000Have presidents controlled money before and doled it out to their cronies?
00:47:25.000But the nature of how this came about and the nature of what it is is politically toxic.
00:47:31.000Again, not in the view of Democrats only, not in the view of reporters, but in the view of a lot of Republicans.
00:47:36.000And so, whatever the disposition of it is in the courts, and as you said, a district court judge has held it up, there'll certainly be appeals.
00:47:44.000I don't believe this thing will ever happen in anything like the form it's in.
00:47:48.000I believe Republican senators are going to make the president either significantly change it or kill it.
00:47:56.000I'm sort of convinced there's not a whole lot of significance here, but I do find it interesting that Jill Biden is now trying to set the record straight on the infamous debate night.
00:48:07.000You know, she gets up on stage and said, You answered all the questions, Joe, which was probably untrue.
00:48:15.000But She's now admitting that she was worried.
00:48:37.000I think the biggest thing that was revealed is the Bidens don't have C SPAN, because if they did, Jill Biden would have seen this.
00:48:44.000I find this whole thing really troubling.
00:48:46.000It's a fun story, and I know I predicted you guys would ask me about it.
00:48:50.000Because it's fun and it's interesting, but they're two fundamental things.
00:48:53.000Jill Biden's job is to protect her family, protect her husband.
00:48:57.000So her lying about this, I just chalk it up to whatever.
00:49:00.000But it's troubling that she had an opportunity not to respond in the heat of the moment, but to write a book, to think about what she wanted history to think her view of this was.
00:49:11.000And obviously, she didn't think her husband was on drugs or having a stroke, or she would have done something differently on the night of the debate.
00:49:17.000So I find that all just kind of annoying.
00:49:20.000What I continue to be more troubled by is.
00:49:23.000The dominant media's reaction to this is, oh my goodness, look what Jill Biden is saying.
00:49:28.000And then say, well, it doesn't make sense because right after the debate, she said he did such a good job.
00:49:32.000No, the reaction should be, you know what?
00:49:34.000Now's time for us to come clean on the role we played in the cover up.
00:49:38.000Because anyone who looked at that night and was surprised, or as Jill Biden said, oh my God, he must be having a stroke.
00:49:45.000If that was the product of a stroke, then the guy had strokes on a regular basis for seven years.
00:49:50.000And he's a medical miracle for having lived through it.
00:49:53.000So, I mean, To me, that's just depressing to once again watch the media be like, oh, we're figuring it out now.
00:50:15.000And we should come clean, not just for moral reasons, but we really went through something incredibly dicey with that, which is we don't, who was actually the president in 2023?
00:51:33.000But it also, I go back to the media, it raises questions about the media, about the American Medical Association, about members of Congress.
00:51:42.000Say now, oh, privately, I saw how bad he was, or I had no idea.
00:51:47.000I'm sick of people being asked, Did you have any idea?
00:51:51.000Of course, they had an idea because they all have C SPAN, so unlike the Bidens.
00:51:55.000And so it's troubling about the whole system, not just that we had a commander in chief in place who obviously couldn't do the job and was inclined to run again, but about the entire society's failure to say the emperor has no clothes.
00:52:10.000You know, the emperor has no clothes is a great parable and it's often used.
00:52:14.000I can't think of a more apt moment to use it.
00:52:20.000And yet, with few exceptions, conservative media being one of them, me being another, no one would say it.
00:52:27.000Even the congressman from Minnesota, whose name I always forget, who ran for president briefly, even he pulled his punches.
00:52:36.000He wasn't totally honest about what was happening.
00:52:39.000And then you got every other member of Congress.
00:52:42.000And then only because he was a threat to the party's chances in the election down ballot.
00:52:47.000Only then did Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and others speak out, not because they said, oh my God, we're endangering the health and safety of America.
00:52:58.000No, they spoke out because, oh my God, we could lose to Donald Trump and down ballot candidates could lose too.
00:53:03.000It's just a horrible, horrible failure of accountability across the board.
00:53:08.000Well, and Mark, I will just tell you, we had Brooke Rollins in studio yesterday and we played the interview earlier.
00:53:15.000When you hear their stories, not just what we shared on the show, Because, you know, they come in and we greet them and we say, How's it going?
00:53:21.000And they're telling us, like, when we got under the hood here, the amount of fraud, mismanagement, and comp, it was like a bunch of kids running around with no, you know, teacher around.
00:53:32.000Like, I'm telling you, under the bite, and obviously some of that is filtered through a political lens.
00:53:37.000I'm biased, I admit it, but it's crazy how much fraud was going on, how much grift was going on.
00:53:44.000And listen, I get that that's always sort of baked into the cake politically, but it's shocking.
00:53:48.000And when you hear stories like this and you look back at the four years of Biden, you realize just how.
00:53:54.000You know, the country was not being run well.
00:54:38.000Pray that the right people would rise to the occasion in Iran and they would come to the fore and that the hardliners would be pushed out, the naysayers would be pushed out on both sides, by the way.
00:55:11.000Everybody's waiting, waiting to see if the ceasefire holds, waiting to see if the Strait of Hormuz reopens, waiting to see what happens next.
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01:00:06.000Yeah, I think, listen, if Lady Graham went away, that would be great.
01:00:11.000I mean, and just a note of You know, optimism and positivity, right?
01:00:15.000We have all these priorities that we want to get past that we can't because of the 60 vote threshold in the Senate.
01:00:20.000But if you think about it, and really you need about 50 plus one with JD to nuke the filibuster, but we can't get there because we don't have enough votes.
01:00:29.000But think about it Tillis is going away, probably replaced by a Democrat, so that's not super helpful, but at least he's going away.
01:01:12.000So we're keeping our eyes on those races, and.
01:01:16.000You know, what we've seen, though, another thing that we should mention is what happened in Indiana.
01:01:21.000You know, that was a state level, state senators that had gotten the way of redistricting, and we took out all the rhinos there.
01:01:27.000So it is prime rhino season, rhino hunting season, and we got to keep our eye on that.
01:01:33.000And it just, again, to encourage the audience, we're getting better and better and better, both at the House level and in the Senate level.
01:01:40.000And we would be remiss to not talk about, Tyler mentioned, we really want people to travel here in October.
01:01:45.000Do we want to go into that a little more?
01:02:15.000And you get to go be a ballot chaser for a couple weeks, a month.
01:02:18.000During election month, that we now unfortunately have.
01:02:21.000I actually remember a couple, I think it was in 2024, there was a couple who called in and they were members.
01:02:28.000They called him on AMA and they were asking Charlie a question, but they told him about how they were coming to HQ to be ballot chasers from California.
01:02:37.000And Charlie was like, You have to come to the studio.0.87
01:02:39.000It was, I think, their 20 year anniversary when they came.
01:02:42.000And so they got to come not only be ballot chasers, but they also had an amazing tour of the studio.
01:02:47.000Charlie gave them the tour of the studio.
01:02:50.000I actually had one of them, one of the ballot chasers came by yesterday that DM'd me and said, Hey, I'm going to be training for ballot chasing.
01:04:18.000But, yeah, I mean, it's an unfortunate reality of our daily life that we have to be aware of crazy people doing crazy things, whether they're motivated from bad actors online or just political disagreements.
01:04:30.000There is no doubt that the left is getting more and more violent, and the rise of assassination culture is ever present.
01:04:37.000David has asked about this incident that happened in Southern California.
01:04:42.000Where a veteran who was sort of known, it turns out, in the neighborhood for what they called the Trump House.
01:04:48.000Put lots of flags out, was very proud about his support of the president.
01:05:22.000So he was a big Lego guy and a big Star Wars guy.
01:05:25.000I don't know that there's any connection to those things.
01:05:28.000Jack was calling for a boycott of Star Wars, so he likes that fact.
01:05:31.000I don't see any necessary connection to it.
01:05:33.000But he had a long history of mental health problems.
01:05:37.000And the other thing that's interesting about this story and why I'm not jumping to conclusions, why I'm not tweeting out a storm about it, is that apparently.
01:05:44.000It's been reported that he liked the Trump house and was positive about the Trump house at some point, and that he also was more on the conservative side, at least historically.
01:05:55.000Now, the interesting part here is that he, the wife, I guess the victim's wife tried to intervene.0.65
01:06:04.000He started hurling abuse at her, shouting at her, and called her a pedophile or a pedophile protector, one of the two.0.91
01:06:12.000So that makes me think it's all some sort of like Epstein brain.0.64
01:06:18.000And a lot of these people, there's just a lot of very troubled people.
01:06:21.000And that's why we talk more generally why it's so irresponsible what a lot of leaders in this country have done.
01:06:28.000When we talked about this with ICE, for example, when if Democrats or Republicans, but if politicians go out and say our leaders are the equivalent of Nazis, ICE is the Gestapo, they're trying to do a new Holocaust, this Epstein class, they're abducting children and they're cannibalizing them, some of the insane stuff they've said, they know that they're not being literal.
01:06:54.000A lot of people know they're not being literal, but especially vulnerable individuals.
01:06:59.000Will take that a lot more literally.0.88
01:07:01.000We've seen that with the transgender motivated shooters.0.99
01:07:04.000That seems to have played a role in tragically what happened to Charlie.0.81
01:07:08.000That these people hear these things that if we don't want to mutilate kids, that means we're perpetrating a genocide.
01:07:13.000And when you say that to unstable people, they will think, well, I don't like genocide.
01:07:50.000And what changed my mind was when the Floyd riots happened in Minneapolis and the police pulled out of downtown Minneapolis and they just ditched it and they let a few blocks just get burned down.
01:08:02.000People lost their homes, lost their businesses, and the cops just didn't show up.
01:08:23.000It's not that we despise the police, it's not that we want to get rid of police, but we have to remember that the left does like to get rid of police.
01:08:29.000The left does like to create anarchy and to unleash mobs on people.
01:08:33.000And Sometimes the only person who can stand up to a mob and protect your family is yourself.
01:08:37.000Well, I will just say, we already were armed in our home, but ever since bringing home our baby, I'm like, we have to have ready for any situation.
01:08:46.000If anyone were to come into my house, I know they would not be okay.
01:10:08.000What you said, the judge did end up resigning in the, you know, there, Governor Cox and a lot of other state level leaders, I think even Mike Lee, have called for an independent investigation.
01:10:19.000But I'm being told credibly that no, we cannot overturn the current court ordered congressional redistricting map for 2026.
01:10:27.000I don't know if that's a legal issue or a timing issue.
01:10:31.000You could expect that those will get redone for 2028, though.
01:10:34.000And so it's too late for 2026 for whatever reason.
01:10:38.000I will poke some holes in that and see.
01:10:41.000Because when I saw that news come out, I instantly, candidly fired off text messages to everybody in Utah that I knew and asked, can we get this overturned?
01:10:57.000Yeah, it's probably going through the process.
01:10:59.000That's why they want to do the independent investigation, probably to come up with some findings that they could then leverage to exact some justice and accountability there.
01:11:06.000Yeah, and actually, in a state like Utah, I would have some faith that it would actually get done.
01:11:10.000Yeah, and even if we can't overturn it directly, it's possible that they'll, it seems like they're going to possibly just repopulate the Supreme Court, change their Supreme Court rules to get a new result if they can bring it before it again.
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01:13:58.000And many of those names were from yesteryear.
01:14:00.000With your experience hosting the All American Halftime Show, can you give some inside advice to those planning an event like that and keeping the artists on board?
01:14:08.000Okay, this is a really big topic right now on social media.
01:14:11.000So it looks like Martina McBride and Bret Michaels, Bret Michaels, Commodore, Morris Day, Young MC, and Martina McBride have all dropped out so far.
01:14:21.000Flo Rida and Vanilla Ice are still in.
01:14:50.000You have to work with the artists that you can work with.
01:14:53.000And I'll say it again Kid Rock has my undying support.
01:14:57.000I'm a huge fan now because he just had the guts to do it.
01:15:02.000And not many people do have the guts to do it.0.53
01:15:04.000Now, when it comes to this state fair, what really is appalling to me, to your point, is that a lot of these guys are washed up has-beens, stars from yesteryear's, and we're still getting the Run around from them.
01:15:16.000They're still telling us, oh, I can't get more.
01:15:18.000I thought this was nonpartisan and all this stuff.
01:15:21.000It's a celebration of the country, you idiots.1.00
01:15:23.000And so we shouldn't have to be prostrating ourselves as conservatives before the altar of pop culture to like throw us your crumbs, please, please, please.1.00
01:15:32.000What we should do is it should be a celebration of Americana.
01:15:35.000I don't care if the artists are famous.
01:15:48.000Honestly, there's probably a lot of criminally underrated and underappreciated people, especially, yeah, you mentioned banjo players.
01:15:54.000You can probably find a virtuoso banjo player, fiddle player, someone who, stuff that's very associated with classic America, and you can probably get them, put them up there, and they'll just kill it, and everyone will think, that was awesome, that was really cool.
01:16:07.000I don't usually see something like that versus getting these guys out.
01:16:11.000But it's been part of the struggle with the 250th anniversary, and we got put in a tough spot.
01:16:17.000One of the things that we got stuck with is they started America 250 a decade ago.
01:16:58.000I talked to my parents about what the bicentennial was like in 1976, and they said it was like it was the 4th of July all year long, just in the little touches that really stood out.
01:17:09.000My dad remembered that they painted the fire hydrants in his town, the American flag, to mark the bicentennial.
01:18:01.000I think whatever issues we have, one of the things, and Charlie was very excited about this, was that we were having the World Cup, we're having the 250th anniversary, we're having the Olympics.
01:18:10.000It's a big run of big America pageantry celebration, and it would have just been excruciating to have Kamala Harris as president for all three of those things.
01:18:20.000And we should say, just really quickly, you know, Spin Magazine seems to be the starting point for a lot of this controversy.
01:18:27.000They called it a Trump sort of aligned event or Trump backed event.
01:18:32.000To Blake's point, this is a commission that's been put together that has liberals on it, has Democrats on it, has conservatives on it, right?
01:22:00.000Erica, Kaylee McNaney, Judge Shanine, Alex Clark, Allie Bistucky, Riley Gaines, Dana Loesch, Savannah Crisley, Kristen Hawkins, so many more.
01:22:27.000And it's really being able to see the way that WLS has kind of transformed over the years.
01:22:33.000And I've been watching all of Charlie's speeches back the last couple weeks leading up to WLS and just seeing all the different topics that he covered and how the event has transformed.
01:22:48.000I was curious do you think women voters are going to hurt the Republican Party more than usual in the midterms, just with how many men I know staying home instead of voting?1.00
01:23:01.000This is a thing Charlie always said.0.94
01:23:03.000Struggled about, fought for, he pointed out women are more likely to just, they're good at checking boxes.0.99
01:23:10.000They're good at fulfilling obligations compared to men.1.00
01:23:12.000And one of those obligations is voting.
01:23:14.000So young women are more likely to vote.
01:23:16.000And we also know they're more likely to vote Democrat.
01:23:19.000In fact, as much as, hey, we've made of young men turning to the right, a lot of it is young men have moved five points to the right.
01:23:27.000And young women in some elections, they've moved 10, 15, 20, 25 points to the left.0.52
01:23:33.000If you're an unmarried young woman, they're very left wing.1.00
01:23:35.000A lot of them still vote, and it could definitely be a hazard.
01:23:39.000Well, and yeah, to Blake's point, they vote more often, more reliably, and they vote more and more left, and they've gotten more and more radical.
01:23:50.000And I think it's doubly compounded because a lot of young men, if you look between Epstein and what's happened in Iran, they're giving in to nihilism.0.63
01:23:59.000And that's part of our job here is to say, don't give in to the black pilling and the doomerism.
01:27:34.000The options, and I'm going to read all the options just for those listening, all the things that you can get involved in become a precinct leader, join a TP action coalition.
01:27:41.000So, we have like a mom's coalition, a ranchers' coalition, farmers' coalition, Hispanic coalition, all those kinds of things.
01:27:47.000You could attend a turning point action event, becoming a poll watcher, joining Younger Republicans Club, getting involved with the county GOP, knocking doors for local candidates, become a precinct, register to vote, become a precinct chair, all these things.
01:28:06.000So, you could do any of those, but probably knocking doors, it would be the box that you would check.
01:28:11.000And then we'll get you in our volunteer pipeline.
01:28:15.000And then when we're ready to get you in a hotel room and get you out, and yes, you could probably bring your, I mean, I haven't checked with Tyler yet.
01:28:46.000And just a note here I love your spirit, Rain.
01:28:50.000It's so encouraging because if you log online, sometimes you get a bunch of the Black Pill Blake types and you get the people that are, you know, the country's lost.
01:29:27.000All of these things are tremendously important because if you're building, if you're working towards something, you're part of the solution.
01:30:25.000There's been a lot of transparency on this.
01:30:27.000And we know, certainly, that the president himself is not involved in anything untoward because the Biden administration and the Obama administration had all of these files and didn't release anything and didn't charge President Trump or Donald Trump when he was not in the White House.