The Charlie Kirk Show - Malicious Mayors in Maryland with Senator Josh Hawley

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00:00:00.000 Today, the Charlie Kirk Show Senator Josh Hawley joins us, and we talk about some rather disgusting news about a mayor in Maryland.

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00:01:10.000 We're going to start with a story that is pretty disgusting, I'll be honest, but it needs to be covered and talked about.

00:01:16.000 We're not going to spend too much time on it, but it needs to be talked about.

00:01:21.000 Democrat mayor in Maryland arrested on 56 child pornography-related charges.

00:01:27.000 The mayor of College Park, Maryland, Patrick Wojan, was arrested Thursday on 56 child pornography possession and distribution charges.

00:01:36.000 He's a gay activist, 47-year-old, gay activist, Democrat, faces 40 counts of possession.

00:01:41.000 It's hard to even read this, I'll be honest. 0.99

00:01:43.000 It's so disgusting.

00:01:44.000 It's vomit-inducing, but it's real.

00:01:47.000 So if you don't have the stomach for this, then I apologize.

00:01:50.000 Possession of exploitive child material and 16 counts of distribution of exploitive child material.

00:01:55.000 A press release from the Prince George County Police Department said.

00:01:58.000 Now, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children were first alerted that the department had a social media account operating within the county was distributing, quote, suspected child pornography on February 17th, according to PGPD.

00:02:12.000 And law enforcement deserves credit for working quickly and arresting a rather high-profile Democrat, someone that is, and we'll talk about this in a second, someone that is off, was awfully popular with Buttigieg and that whole cabal.

00:02:29.000 Regular guest at the White House, all that.

00:02:32.000 And by the way, just so we're clear, at least 13 mayors in the last couple of years have been arrested on child sex crimes since 2021.

00:02:39.000 That's really strange, isn't it?

00:02:41.000 So he resigned as mayor of College Park, Maryland.

00:02:45.000 College Park, Maryland is where the University of Maryland is.

00:02:50.000 Now, why this story is noteworthy is that this is not just some random person.

00:02:56.000 This seems to be a buddy-buddy with Mayor Pete, one of Mayor Pete's best friends.

00:03:04.000 Has Mayor Pete spoke out against this?

00:03:06.000 I haven't seen anything.

00:03:07.000 This is a close confidant, it seems.

00:03:10.000 Multiple pictures.

00:03:11.000 In fact, they said it was a mentor-mentee relationship.

00:03:17.000 Multiple times that they're photographed together.

00:03:21.000 Now, I am going to push back against some of the rush to judgment where no way can we possibly do guilt by association.

00:03:29.000 Did Pete Budigej know about this?

00:03:31.000 Was he aware of this?

00:03:32.000 I doubt it, to be honest.

00:03:35.000 I don't want to even speculate on that, but it does warrant an answer, which is, hey, this is someone that you were mentoring.

00:03:42.000 Is this okay?

00:03:43.000 And I think one of the reasons also this story deserves some attention is that it is part of a theme that we have highlighted on this program about the three types of people and the three types of people.

00:03:57.000 There are only three types of people in this particular categorization and what a society does to either elevate and protect those three types of people or really silence them.

00:04:07.000 There are infants.

00:04:08.000 Infants, the type of people that this former mayor of College Park, unfortunately, was exploiting.

00:04:14.000 There are the protectors of infants.

00:04:17.000 That's all of us that believe that this is wrong and these people need to be put in prison and maybe even more than that.

00:04:22.000 And then there are predators.

00:04:24.000 So human history shows us that you will always have infants and you will always have predators.

00:04:31.000 There is no guarantee that you will have the protectors of infants.

00:04:36.000 That's the question.

00:04:38.000 The question is: do you have people that are neither infant nor predator, but they're in the middle?

00:04:43.000 They're the normal, regular people.

00:04:45.000 Do they have the courage?

00:04:46.000 Do they have the conviction?

00:04:48.000 Do they have the clarity of moral thought to do the right thing?

00:04:53.000 And, you know, this particular mayor who has now been arrested was an up-and-coming, you know, star in the gay Democrat mayor community.

00:05:05.000 In 2019, a picture of him with Pete Budigej saying, just two mayors grabbing a beer together.

00:05:12.000 Now, without getting into the graphic details of the indictment, which I do not encourage you to read, I had to stop reading it.

00:05:17.000 I X'd out.

00:05:18.000 It was so disgusting.

00:05:20.000 I don't even want to talk about some of the details of it.

00:05:22.000 Without going too deep into it, though, the alleged indictment shows that this was not some one-off thing. 0.97

00:05:29.000 This was a sophisticated, multi-device effort that was being run in a clandestine fashion by this sicko, the gay Democrat Patrick Wozen. 0.99

00:05:42.000 And so there's a theme here. 0.98

00:05:47.000 And all of us, obviously, everybody, everybody who hears this immediately says, okay, that's wrong.

00:05:52.000 But let me ask a pointed question.

00:05:56.000 What if I told you that there are other forms of child exploitation that are happening under the guise of gender-affirming clinics?

00:06:05.000 So this story gets everybody upset, and it should.

00:06:09.000 Okay, even Democrats, they're not defending it, nor should they.

00:06:12.000 And it's so outside of the pale.

00:06:15.000 But they will defend this.

00:06:16.000 In 2017, there's a picture of how many pediatric gender clinics there were in 2007.

00:06:22.000 I'm sorry, 2007, not 2017.

00:06:24.000 In 2007, there were two.

00:06:27.000 There was one in Virginia, and there was one, it looks like, in Boston.

00:06:31.000 You look at the picture now in 2022.

00:06:33.000 Look at how many pediatric gender clinics there are in America today.

00:06:38.000 Looks at least well over 100, easily well over 100, from all across the country.

00:06:42.000 One in Montana, one in Idaho, all over California, all over Florida, all over Texas.

00:06:48.000 What happened?

00:06:51.000 In 15 years, we went from a place where there were only two places in America to get your breasts chopped off, to get hysterectomies, to get Lupron administered, or to get other incredibly aggressive chemical castration drugs and castration methods administered to you, procedures, thank you.

00:07:14.000 And now it's widespread and it's everywhere.

00:07:16.000 Part of it is the social media contagion that continues via TikTok and other means.

00:07:23.000 Part of it is a money grab, as we learned as Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt came out and they said that there's an actual monetary incentive to do this.

00:07:35.000 And that's because of the great exposure work of Matt Walsh, who deserves just infinite amounts of credit.

00:07:42.000 And now, remember, you need these treatments for life.

00:07:44.000 So once you cut off a girl's breasts at age 11, which is happening far too often, I don't know the exact numbers.

00:07:51.000 It's at least in the thousands, but we can get the exact numbers.

00:07:56.000 Are now a pharmaceutical annuity patient for life because you're not anymore what your DNA or your biology dictates.

00:08:05.000 So you have to keep on intervening with drugs and then you have to intervene with antidepressants and then you have to intervene with other medication because you might gain weight because you're and it starts these cascade of pharmaceutical interventions.

00:08:19.000 And so while this story, Democrat mayor arrested, is disgusting and awful.

00:08:23.000 Child exploitation, who would do such a thing?

00:08:25.000 We have to ask ourselves the question: are we allowing other forms of child exploitation to happen in our state and in our community?

00:08:34.000 It's a 15,000% increase in gender-affirming clinical care.

00:08:41.000 Went from two clinics to now well over 300 across the country.

00:08:48.000 This is for minors, everybody.

00:08:51.000 This is pediatric gender clinics, pediatric gender clinics.

00:08:57.000 The total medical bill for gender surgery per year in the United States comes to just over 1.3 billion.

00:09:04.000 The pharmaceutical bills, though, are in the tens of billions, and they see this as one of the growth opportunities.

00:09:09.000 The pharmaceutical companies are basically telling their shareholders that one of the ways that they are going to be able to grow as a company is to exploit children.

00:09:20.000 I'll never forget when I got in a debate with a left-wing Marxist, and they told me 10 years ago, and I thought they were wrong, eight years ago.

00:09:28.000 They said, Charlie, what happens when companies start to go after children just for profit?

00:09:34.000 And I said, ah, the market would correct it.

00:09:36.000 No, that left-winger actually had a point.

00:09:39.000 Will the market correct this?

00:09:40.000 No, no, the market is driving this.

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00:12:22.000 Okay, I want to play this piece of tape here from a school board member in Arizona.

00:12:26.000 Do we know what school board it is?

00:12:28.000 Her name is quite something.

00:12:28.000 I want to get that.

00:12:32.000 Her name is Tamilia Valenzuela.

00:12:35.000 It's quite a name, I got to tell you.

00:12:37.000 So Tamilia Valenzauela is on the governing board of the Washington Elementary School District, and she has some very strong opinions.

00:12:48.000 And so the Washington Elementary School District is right in Northwest Phoenix, right near Glendale and right near Peoria.

00:12:57.000 This is an extraordinary piece of tape.

00:12:59.000 She first describes herself as bilingual, disabled.

00:13:04.000 All right, this is a new one.

00:13:06.000 I got to be honest.

00:13:08.000 I am pretty up to date on all the new labels of the left.

00:13:13.000 Neurodivergent?

00:13:16.000 Anybody?

00:13:18.000 That's a new one. 1.00

00:13:20.000 She's a neurodivergent, queer black Latina. 1.00

00:13:25.000 Oh, is that another way of saying she has ADHD or Autistic? 0.96

00:13:29.000 I've never heard that word used in that way.

00:13:32.000 Okay.

00:13:33.000 Well, I wish the best for her. 0.83

00:13:35.000 So she's bilingual, disabled, neurodivergent, queer black Latina. 0.99

00:13:40.000 That's her title, right? 1.00

00:13:40.000 Oppression Olympics. 1.00

00:13:41.000 Look at me.

00:13:42.000 Look at all these different things I have.

00:13:42.000 Look at my medals.

00:13:44.000 And there's other labels too that I think I might give her after the tape.

00:13:48.000 So effectively, the Washington Elementary School District in Phoenix, which serves students in Phoenix and Glendale areas, had an ongoing contract with Arizona Christian University, ACU, great school, for five years, enabling their students, their student teachers, to be placed in its schools for field experience.

00:14:07.000 The contract opened up opportunities for recruitment and hiring.

00:14:11.000 On February 23rd, the board agreed on a motion to dissolve the partnership with the Christian University.

00:14:16.000 They did not immediately respond to a question, request for comment on whether they have a bias against Christian beliefs.

00:14:22.000 But listen to her.

00:14:23.000 Again, this is Tamilia Valenzauela, who is the bilingual, disabled, neurodivergent, queer black Latina who is serving on your school board in suburban Phoenix. 0.99

00:14:35.000 Play cut 114. 1.00

00:14:36.000 Oh, by the way, she wears cat ears.

00:14:37.000 Play cut 114.

00:14:38.000 Part of their values is influence, engage, and transform the culture with truth by promoting the biblically informed values that are foundational to Western civilization.

00:14:53.000 I want to know how bringing people from an institution that is ingrained in their values that will very directly impact three of your board members who are a part of the LGBTQ community.

00:15:16.000 Are we only performing performative solidarity or are we going to dig deep and actually look at the partnerships that we're doing?

00:15:28.000 It's so interesting.

00:15:30.000 So here's this school board member who is doing everything they possibly can to say, hey, the biblical values of Arizona Christian University are a threat to the students of this local school district.

00:15:47.000 By all other measures, this partnership was working.

00:15:51.000 The board agreed to a motion to dissolve the partnership with the Christian University.

00:15:56.000 They did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 0.94

00:15:59.000 And by the way, the buried lead of this is that 60% of this school board is LGBT, is gay.

00:16:08.000 The question is: do Christians run for school boards as much as the LGBT community does?

00:16:13.000 No, as I said yesterday, which is groomers can't reproduce, so instead they recruit. 0.97

00:16:20.000 So they go serve on school boards and they go do drag queens and they do all this other sort of disgusting, nauseating stuff. 1.00

00:16:29.000 The people of Phoenix shouldn't put up with this.

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00:17:54.000 Senator Josh Hawley is with us.

00:17:56.000 There are so many different stories to cover.

00:17:58.000 Senator, welcome back to the program and thank you again for taking the time.

00:18:01.000 I want to play cut 117 and then I'll let you riff so the audience can see you in action.

00:18:06.000 Let's play cut 117, please.

00:18:08.000 So give me an answer.

00:18:10.000 The FBI does not agree with your description.

00:18:12.000 I'm not asking about the FBI.

00:18:13.000 You are the Attorney General.

00:18:15.000 Give me your answer.

00:18:16.000 Do you think that it was objectively reasonable and they followed your guidelines in sending 20 to 30 armed agents to terrorize these people?

00:18:25.000 Yes or no?

00:18:26.000 The facts I have, which are those presented by the FBI, are not consistent with your description.

00:18:31.000 We're supposed to hate long guns and assault-style weapons.

00:18:34.000 You're happy to deploy them against Catholics and innocent children. 1.00

00:18:37.000 Happy to.

00:18:38.000 And then you haul them into court and a jury acquits him in one hour.

00:18:43.000 I just suggest to you that that is a disgraceful performance by your Justice Department and a disgraceful use of resources.

00:18:52.000 Amen.

00:18:52.000 Senator Hawley, expand on that.

00:18:55.000 Well, listen, Charlie, I mean, here's the thing.

00:18:57.000 In Merrick Garland's Justice Department and in Joe Biden's America, if you want to execute somebody in the streets of this country gang style, they don't do anything.

00:19:06.000 If you want to smuggle fentanyl across the border and engage in human trafficking, they turn a blind eye.

00:19:11.000 But if you go to church or if you consider yourself a traditional Christian or a traditional Catholic or what have you, then they think that you're a terrorist and they treat you like one.

00:19:19.000 This Justice Department sent 30 SWAT agents, FBI agents, to the home of this pro-life demonstrator, a law-abiding citizen in the early morning hours to do what?

00:19:29.000 To terrorize him.

00:19:31.000 He was acquitted later by a jury of his peers in less than an hour.

00:19:35.000 That shows you the priorities of this Justice Department.

00:19:37.000 It's wrong and it needs to be exposed.

00:19:40.000 Yeah, and exposing it is so important.

00:19:41.000 And I'm sure that your staff and you are working behind the scenes to try to get more information from this DOJ.

00:19:47.000 But, you know, Senator, at least the impression I'm getting is a smugness from Merrick Garland.

00:19:52.000 No admission of taking responsibility or I don't want to say a mission of guilt, but a mission of wrongdoing or overreach.

00:19:59.000 And his answer is such a non-answer.

00:20:01.000 I don't agree with your description.

00:20:03.000 These are the facts of the facts, Senator.

00:20:05.000 They came in hard.

00:20:06.000 They came in with long guns.

00:20:09.000 And so, I mean, Senator, I'm just confused.

00:20:14.000 You know, what is it going to take for the fourth branch of government, Merrick Garland in particular, to stop this criminalization of, yes, Christians, of Catholics, of people of faith, and then not enforcing the law for the others, which I think is really important.

00:20:32.000 It's almost anarcho-tyranny, isn't it?

00:20:34.000 Yeah, it really is.

00:20:35.000 And I tell you what it will take, Charlie, will take exposure.

00:20:38.000 It will take the constant bringing of these facts into the light, which is why whenever Merrick Garland comes up on Capitol Hill, he needs to get the truth shoved into his face.

00:20:48.000 What these guys try to do is to try to hide it.

00:20:50.000 And they use the corporate media, of course, to help them, which is what you do every day exposing this.

00:20:55.000 We need exposure.

00:20:56.000 We need to say, these are the facts.

00:20:58.000 Set it out before the American people because they try to lie about it, dissemble about it.

00:21:01.000 Give you another example.

00:21:02.000 The FBI wrote a memo this year, just a few weeks ago, saying that they really ought to recruit informants, spies, in what they call traditional Catholic parishes.

00:21:13.000 Now, I have no idea what they mean by that, but those are their words.

00:21:16.000 I suspect that this means conservative.

00:21:18.000 They want to recruit spies.

00:21:19.000 Why?

00:21:19.000 Because they say, well, these people, they're right-wingers.

00:21:23.000 They could end up being domestic terrorists.

00:21:26.000 This is what is going on.

00:21:27.000 Garland tried to run away from that as quick as he could when I brought it up.

00:21:31.000 You got to drag this into the light and expose these people and show what they're doing.

00:21:37.000 And when you do that, just like Garland, he had no answer.

00:21:39.000 He couldn't answer the facts because there is no defense for what they're doing.

00:21:44.000 So, Senator, you recently had your bill pass unanimously, which it was surprising to me.

00:21:49.000 You're going to have to explain that to me because I can't imagine Democrats are excited or in full agreement to do this.

00:21:55.000 So I was a part of another bill, but the bill was to declassify all U.S. intelligence on the origins of COVID-19.

00:22:01.000 Tell us about that.

00:22:03.000 Well, listen, it's never been more important.

00:22:05.000 The truth is the American people deserve to know what their government has found about the origins of COVID-19.

00:22:11.000 And Charlie, what the government has known for years, let's not forget that it was two short years ago or less that if you said, oh, I think COVID has a link to a lab, I think COVID is a lab leak.

00:22:22.000 You got deplatformed.

00:22:23.000 You got shunned.

00:22:24.000 You got silenced.

00:22:25.000 The White House had a hit list of people they wanted kicked off social media, including those who said that there might be a lab leak.

00:22:31.000 Dr. Fauci, of course, was dismissing anyone who said these things.

00:22:35.000 And then it turns out our own governments, intelligence agencies, say, oh, yeah, no, we actually think there is a lab leak.

00:22:41.000 The American people deserve to know what the government knows, declassify it.

00:22:46.000 That's what my bill would do.

00:22:48.000 And I tell you, Charlie, we just put it.

00:22:49.000 I went down to the floor and I said, I am going to demand a vote on this bill.

00:22:53.000 And not a single Democrat wanted to stand up and say no because they can't say no.

00:22:58.000 How do you say no to that?

00:22:59.000 And so it passed the Senate unanimously.

00:23:02.000 It will go to the House this coming week.

00:23:04.000 And I've got every confidence the House will pass this bill this coming week and we'll send it to the president's desk.

00:23:10.000 Now, is there any way the intelligence agencies are able to work around this?

00:23:15.000 I mean, so by declassifying, does that mean that it will be available to senators or will it be public?

00:23:21.000 Can you just walk through some of the details of that?

00:23:24.000 You bet.

00:23:25.000 Yeah.

00:23:25.000 No, the idea is to make it public.

00:23:27.000 Let the Americans see.

00:23:29.000 You know, the only thing they can do is they can, of course, protect their sources.

00:23:33.000 I mean, so you don't have to name which agent or which method we collected the info from.

00:23:37.000 But frankly, nobody cares about that.

00:23:39.000 What we care about is which agencies, FBI, Department of Energy, who.

00:23:45.000 What do they assess?

00:23:46.000 What do they say are the origins?

00:23:48.000 Put the facts out there because you've had these government employees like Dr. Fauci who have been saying for years, no way, no lab connection.

00:23:56.000 You say that, you're a conspiracy theorist.

00:23:58.000 You're a threat if you say that.

00:24:00.000 And as it turns out, we now know from the FBI director, no less, that the FBI has long thought that it was a lab leak.

00:24:08.000 So let's just let the American people see the truth.

00:24:10.000 And also, we want to know EcoHealth Alliance's potential involvement, Anthony Fauci's potential involvement.

00:24:16.000 And, you know, it's interesting, Senator.

00:24:19.000 I lost access to my social media and many other people did, even suggesting that this virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

00:24:27.000 And we now know that.

00:24:28.000 I mean, it's all but a fact. 0.92

00:24:31.000 And even the Department of Energy's press release was just so ridiculous.

00:24:36.000 They said we have a low degree of certainty that it's true. 0.86

00:24:38.000 I mean, it's just such government doublespeak, right?

00:24:41.000 It's bureaucrat covering for themselves.

00:24:44.000 And so I now want to ask Senator about Ukraine and the situation there.

00:24:50.000 Seems as if the United States continues to funnel billions and billions of dollars.

00:24:54.000 Let me ask you, Senator, do we know how much money we have actually sent there or do we just have a range?

00:25:00.000 Oh, I think it's a range.

00:25:01.000 I don't know what the dollar figure is.

00:25:03.000 And here's the thing I noticed, Charlie.

00:25:04.000 I thought it was like 30 seconds ago that Janet Yellen was saying stuff like, oh, I have to take extraordinary measures or the United States is going to default on its debt.

00:25:12.000 And yet, she appears to have plenty of time and money to go over to Ukraine and literally hand them checks from the U.S. Treasury.

00:25:19.000 I mean, that's pretty extraordinary if you ask me.

00:25:22.000 Not East Palestine. 0.96

00:25:23.000 Unbelievable.

00:25:24.000 But to Kyiv.

00:25:25.000 Yeah.

00:25:25.000 Ukraine.

00:25:26.000 Exactly.

00:25:27.000 Exactly.

00:25:28.000 Which is why I say, number one, not a penny more to Ukraine.

00:25:32.000 Number two, we needed accounting for every penny that has been spent.

00:25:36.000 The American people deserve to know every single cent that has been spent.

00:25:41.000 So I've introduced legislation that would set up a special watchdog just for Ukraine.

00:25:46.000 Don't divide it up among 20 agencies who then all point fingers at each other and say, oh, we don't know.

00:25:51.000 Give it to one person, one office.

00:25:54.000 All they do is track the Ukraine money and then report back to the public.

00:25:59.000 The American people deserve to know.

00:26:00.000 And I'll just say, Charlie, I'd love to hear the explanation as to why that shouldn't happen.

00:26:05.000 Who's going to say, no, we don't want to know how we're spending our money?

00:26:08.000 I mean, I could imagine some of the counterarguments.

00:26:11.000 Now, Senator, there has been some troubling reporting recently.

00:26:14.000 Again, it's not 100%, but the media does not seem very interested in trying to find out who actually bombed this pipeline.

00:26:23.000 Senator, is there anything you could share with our audience?

00:26:25.000 I know that you're immensely curious because if we did end up doing that, that's basically an act of war.

00:26:33.000 Well, I saw the reports on this, Charlie, and I have to say I am immensely curious, but I have to tell you, I've gotten zero answers, zero briefing.

00:26:41.000 I'm not privy to any intelligence that is not already in public.

00:26:46.000 I imagine there probably are members of Congress who sit on, for instance, the intelligence committee who are privy to things I may not be.

00:26:53.000 But here's what really strikes me is there appears to be zero interest in this on Capitol Hill.

00:26:58.000 I mean, I have some reports came out.

00:27:01.000 So can you just walk our audience through, Senator, how your colleagues don't care?

00:27:06.000 I mean, if we didn't do it, then, okay, it actually makes Russia look really bad. 0.95

00:27:11.000 Okay.

00:27:12.000 So it actually would strengthen the neoconservative argument, like, wow, Russia does, you know, bombs their own.

00:27:18.000 So they would want the truth.

00:27:20.000 But if we did it, this is not just unconstitutional.

00:27:25.000 This is one of the most reckless potential acts against a nuclear armed power.

00:27:32.000 I mean, and Congress is not even notified.

00:27:35.000 I just, and your colleagues just roll their eyes, I guess.

00:27:38.000 You know, when I've asked my colleagues who, for instance, sit on the Intelligence Committee, I've said, we didn't, you know, we didn't bomb Nord Stream 2, did we?

00:27:44.000 I mean, did we do that?

00:27:46.000 You know, oh, they just, you know, oh, Josh, that's, you know, this, don't pay any attention to that.

00:27:51.000 It goes back to Charlie, why we need to declassify intelligence.

00:27:55.000 What I've found in my short time in the Senate is these agencies and these bureaucrats, they use the intelligence tags and the intelligence shield to keep a barrier up between them and everybody else, members of Congress, but especially the public, also including the press.

00:28:10.000 And so they can do what they want to do without any accountability.

00:28:13.000 So whether we're talking about COVID or something else, my view is we need to make more of this stuff public.

00:28:18.000 We need to press for answers.

00:28:20.000 We need to let the American people see.

00:28:22.000 So frankly, these days, my view is until I know for myself, until I can actually see the reports myself, I don't trust anybody.

00:28:29.000 You know, no offense to any of the government bureaucrats out there, but I don't really trust your word.

00:28:34.000 I actually want to see the facts for myself.

00:28:36.000 Yeah, and we know that the German government, they're really upset about the Nord Stream situation.

00:28:43.000 And if it was America, there should be bipartisan outrage that a president of the United States can basically do an act of war.

00:28:51.000 And it's not an exaggeration to say that.

00:28:53.000 You bomb a critical pipeline piece of infrastructure.

00:28:55.000 That's an act of war and just kind of shrug our shoulders.

00:28:58.000 What's on your immediate legislative radar that you want our audience to be made aware of?

00:29:03.000 Action items, things that they should be focused on, debt ceiling.

00:29:07.000 What do you have for our audience?

00:29:08.000 Well, I think this next week, the priority has got to be getting the COVID origins intelligence declassified.

00:29:14.000 We've got to get that through the House.

00:29:16.000 This is the coming week to do it.

00:29:19.000 It's urgent.

00:29:20.000 We need to send that to the president's desk.

00:29:21.000 And I've got great faith in Steve Scalise and Kevin McCarthy.

00:29:24.000 So that's certainly going to be pushing for that.

00:29:26.000 I also think, Charlie, in terms of China, it's time for us to withdraw the most favored nation status that we hate China.

00:29:32.000 Why do we give China special trade status?

00:29:36.000 I'm going to introduce legislation that will end their most favored nation status.

00:29:40.000 They've taken our industry.

00:29:41.000 They've taken our jobs, our technology, and we have stood by and watched it happen.

00:29:46.000 This is a wake-up call, what we're going through right now.

00:29:49.000 It is time to strengthen America.

00:29:52.000 Quit strengthening China.

00:29:54.000 And this is the time to do it.

00:29:55.000 I enthusiastically support that.

00:29:56.000 Senator, thank you for your courage and your clarity.

00:29:58.000 You're welcome back anytime.

00:29:59.000 Thank you so much.

00:30:00.000 Thanks for having me.

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00:31:15.000 I want to touch on this just in the few minutes we have remaining here on a fascinating speech that Eric Adams gave, who's been a failure as mayor of New York City.

00:31:26.000 He's been awful.

00:31:28.000 But he said something that was totally right and totally true.

00:31:32.000 And it makes you wonder how many Democrats actually share our values and that when they are given a chance to be candid and not being scripted or just pushing policy from the special interest groups, that this country actually might be far more conservative than people would ever realize.

00:31:52.000 Yes, Eric Adams is a crummy mayor.

00:31:54.000 The people behind him are terrible, the special interests, but is the body politic of America actually conservative? 0.63

00:32:01.000 I think yes.

00:32:03.000 Listen to this: Eric Adams talking off the cuff, no script, play cut 76.

00:32:12.000 We are destroying our next generation, destroying them. 1.00

00:32:19.000 And we say over and over again, we need to build a world that's better for our children.

00:32:25.000 No, we need to build children that's better for our world.

00:32:30.000 And we have to be honest about that.

00:32:33.000 And it means instilling in them some level of faith and belief.

00:32:41.000 Ingrid was so right.

00:32:44.000 Don't tell me about no separation of church and state.

00:32:47.000 State is the body.

00:32:48.000 Church is the heart.

00:32:50.000 You take the heart out of the body, the body dies.

00:32:53.000 The media went after him like crazy saying that Eric Adams went on some wild rant.

00:32:59.000 Eric Adams is still a poor mayor, but if Eric Adams started acting on these beliefs, New York City would be a much better place.

00:33:06.000 It goes to show that maybe some of these Democrats actually share our values a lot more than we might realize.

00:33:12.000 And Eric Adams hit on something that is incredibly deep, by the way, philosophically true, which is he says, stop saying we need to make a better world, but we need to make better children.

00:33:23.000 Whoa, that's a conservative argument.

00:33:26.000 The left-wing argument is we must get rid of racism and get rid of capitalism, get rid of private property, and get rid of the Constitution, get rid of the United States, and then people will be made better.

00:33:36.000 He said, no, no, no, we must make better people and they will then improve the world.

00:33:41.000 That is correct.

00:33:43.000 The challenge in front of every society is: how do you create good people?

00:33:49.000 The left is not interested in that question.

00:33:51.000 They say, how do we get rid of all these things that we hate?

00:33:54.000 That's why they want to turn kids into environmental activists, into race activists.

00:33:58.000 Here's Eric Adams continuing.

00:34:01.000 Play cut 56.

00:34:03.000 If we are bringing our best fight in the ring, we would not have homeless in this city.

00:34:15.000 We would not have a crisis of domestic violence.

00:34:18.000 We would not have children because when we took prayers out of schools, guns came into schools.

00:34:25.000 Boy, is that right.

00:34:27.000 I got to be honest.

00:34:28.000 How many Republicans have the courage to say that taking prayer out of schools was a mistake?

00:34:34.000 It was a mistake, by the way.

00:34:36.000 The prayer was a very innocent prayer.

00:34:39.000 It was an ecumenical prayer.

00:34:41.000 It wasn't even a Christian one. 0.96

00:34:42.000 Eric Adams is an awful mayor.

00:34:44.000 But maybe that can change if he actually started acting on his beliefs.

00:34:52.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:54.000 Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:34:57.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:34:58.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - March 03, 2023

Malicious Mayors in Maryland with Senator Josh Hawley

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