Why won't the Senate get off their tail and confirm all of Trump's nominees? Well, I walk through some ideas, including a radical one that involves air conditioning, maggotism, and the terrible shooting that happened in New York. I connect all the dots, including my viral New York tweet.
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00:01:40.000There's a lot of news happening and the terrible shooting that happened late last night in New York City.
00:01:44.000We are going to dive into that in just a moment, but we want to dive right into a very important news story.
00:01:51.000Why is the Senate failing to confirm Trump's nominees?
00:01:55.000Now, of course, Democrats are largely to blame for this, but Republicans can do more.
00:01:59.000Joining us now is a great man, someone who made time to come on the program, and I was guest hosting on Fox and Friends weekend, and I greatly appreciate it.
00:02:06.000Senator Mark Wayne Mullen from Oklahoma.
00:02:52.000Thun said at this at the beginning of his leadership of the Senate, he said, the Democrats can either work with us and we can do it the easy way or we can do it the hard way, which is why we've been in D.C. voting on the floor more consecutive days than any time in the last 10 years, and we've cast more votes than any Senate in the last 35 years.
00:03:16.000But to say this, to put it also in context, out of 108 confirmations, the Democrats have filibustered 107 of them.
00:03:26.000That has never happened in the history of the President of the United States with his nominees, ever.
00:03:33.000And I spoke to the President in length about this this weekend.
00:03:44.000And the fastest we can get these nominees done is roughly three and a half hours.
00:03:48.000And that's if the Democrats, they don't have, they don't use any privileged motions or a motion to discharge or a privileged motion to recess.
00:04:02.000All those muddy it up every time they do that.
00:04:05.000And so, and then at the same time, we have 55 nominees that have come out of committee and with bipartisan support.
00:04:13.000Now, there isn't any reason why we can't you see those, which when I say you see a unanimous consent without even taking a vote, but because the Democrats are gumming the system up, it is it's put us at a serious disadvantage.
00:04:27.000So we are pushing as hard as we can underneath the circumstances, and we're dealing with really a time in the Senate that the Senate has never seen on nominees.
00:04:37.000I was literally before I got on your show talking to a Democrat about having a package because they don't want to be here in August.
00:04:46.000We as Republicans are willing to do whatever it takes.
00:04:49.000And so they are actually talking now about negotiating a package on a certain number of bipartisan nominees.
00:04:57.000And I dealt with it all weekend long, dealing with my Democrat colleagues, dealing with the White House, dealing with the president, and dealing with Leonard Thune.
00:05:32.000But the reason why I think this is getting so many people animated, myself included, is that it's now time for us to not take the kind of procedural high road or break tradition.
00:05:42.000But I'm not even talking about breaking tradition.
00:05:44.000Senator, you hit on this, and I think this is the only way that we need to proceed, which is, listen, the Democrats, we know what they don't want.
00:05:52.000And in a negotiation, when you know breaking points, you can easily get to what you want.
00:05:56.000If you announced right now that you are going to have 18 to 20-hour voter ramas all August, Senator, wouldn't you agree by day three, the Democrats will be broken and they will basically give you guys what you want?
00:06:11.000Is that a plan that is being considered?
00:06:14.000Because the Democrats, they're not going to work all August, Senator.
00:06:18.000Well, so this is the dynamics behind this too.
00:06:20.000Keep in mind, Darren of Bodarama, we have to have a corn call.
00:06:25.000Their owner requires one Democrat to be here.
00:06:27.000So every Republican would have to be here, One Democrat.
00:06:30.000So they could do this forever because they could just have one Republican that Chris Murphy basically lives in the Capitol because he's auditioning for president.
00:06:38.000He would just stay here and rotate people in and out.
00:06:42.000So there's a way that they can work around that.
00:06:44.000They don't, I mean, what do they care if they miss a nominee vote?
00:06:47.000But the problem is if they were to call quorum call anytime during that time and we couldn't produce 51 votes, which we have older members, that recess appointment, the recess, they could put us into recess for an indefinite amount of time.
00:07:03.000So there's because of the ridiculous rules that the Senate has, and it's mind-blowing what we have to deal with.
00:07:10.000We always have to be cautious on how we're moving.
00:07:13.000But I will tell you, I'll repeat this, Charlie.
00:07:16.000Leader Thun has said this, we will do whatever it takes.
00:07:20.000So we're planning on pushing forward and staying here in August as long as we can put 51 votes on the floor.
00:07:29.000And because we have to have that, it takes all 51 of us Republicans.
00:07:32.000It can't take 49 of us because there's four that could bail and put us in a bad situation.
00:07:37.000Remember, the only time JD can cast a vote is if it's breaking a tie.
00:07:41.000So we have to have at least 50 here at all times.
00:07:45.000But we feel very confident that the Democrats will cave and they will start working on a package because this is a debate we had just a second ago, Charlie.
00:07:54.000I mean, I won't mention the Democrats' name, but on the elevator ride down here to my little hideaway, which is a cave.
00:08:04.000But to honor my way down here, I said, listen, you guys talk about the temperature being high and how much your constituents just despise Trump and you guys have to fight.
00:08:14.000The temperature could not have been any higher than it was in 21 when Biden was in office.
00:10:02.000But by Labor Day, we want a clean roster.
00:10:04.000At the very least, we want to see it where Trump's imperative critical nominees are not just in a waiting place.
00:10:13.000Okay, Senator, you wanted to chime in there, please.
00:10:15.000So yes, you're 100% correct on this, and it did create some issues.
00:10:19.000But to go nuclear on this and try to clear the slate, we have 1 roughly 80 nominees that have been reported to the floor.
00:10:28.000If we stayed in every single day and used all the floor time available, the most we could probably get done is about three a day, if that's possible.
00:10:36.000I don't even think that's even possible to get done.
00:10:38.000I think it's more realistic because three and a half, it takes three and a half hours per one.
00:11:03.000This is just something we've talked about.
00:11:06.000Is essentially ending the debate time on all bipartisan nominees.
00:11:12.000So if they get reported out of committee with bipartisan, even if it's one Democrat that votes for them, that that would eliminate the two hours because no one can say that two hour debate or 30 hour debate has ever changed anybody's vote on the nominee.
00:11:27.000By the time it comes to the floor, we already know where the votes are at.
00:13:06.000And I want you to tell your colleagues: guys, we're not talking about going nuclear to pass a tax bill, okay?
00:13:11.000This is nuclear for personnel, and a president deserves to have his people.
00:13:14.000So, therefore, the question is always: well, what if the Democrats use it against us?
00:13:17.000Well, if the Democrats want nuclear to get their people and one day that they have a presidency, they're kind of entitled to their people because that's the whole point of an election, okay?
00:13:25.000And so, this is not that this is not like a tradition that's being broken that's going to destroy us in the future.
00:13:31.000This is not all of a sudden that this is a tradition that we're breaking that one day they can pass the Green New Deal with 50 votes.
00:13:36.000That's not what we're talking about, okay?
00:13:38.000This, they're the ones that are breaking tradition, filibustering every single nominee.
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00:15:22.000Just to summarize what I was saying, though, with Senator Mark Rayne Mullen, is that at every corner and every single turn, it seems as if we are the ones that are polite and that we are procedural and we are guarding tradition.
00:15:34.000The Democrats, they don't care about any tradition.
00:15:36.000Now, we should be traditionalists because we're conservatives in our DNA.
00:15:43.000I think that is a proper posture to have towards politics.
00:15:48.000Just overthrowing the table and constantly playing into a French or Russian revolution mindset, that is not who we are.
00:15:55.000Edmund Burke wrote in the Reflections on the French Revolution about this, that we as conservatives must be prudent and we must be intentional anytime we are going to change laws or customs.
00:16:09.000But what we're talking about here is that Democrats have actually broken from tradition and that we are globbing on to tradition.
00:17:26.000The founders didn't have air conditioning when they wrote the Declaration of Independence.
00:17:29.000There was no air conditioning in Independence Hall.
00:17:32.000So if you guys want to filibuster every single one, you guys want to go through every single one of these people, then we are going to turn this into a Swedish sweat lodge.
00:17:43.000And boy, I know, I don't know about you, but I do not want to see Dick Durbin in a Swedish sweat lodge.
00:17:49.000That alone, the visuals of Dick Durbin in a Swedish sweat lodge.
00:17:55.000Look, the point is this, is that if you're going to try to appeal to the Democrats' virtue or higher calling, they don't have a higher calling.
00:18:07.000They don't want to see the border secure.
00:18:09.000You know they don't love the United States of America.
00:18:11.000They're at war against the American Republic.
00:18:13.000There is no appealing to their higher angels.
00:19:40.000The Senate work schedule is you get in on Tuesday afternoon and you leave Thursday at lunch.
00:19:46.000How many of you in this audience would be able to feed a family, be able to pay a bill, be able to fulfill your mortgage obligation if you worked from Tuesday afternoon to Thursday at lunch?
00:19:58.000So what they need to do is announce an all-August work campaign.
00:20:03.000We're going to go every single day and we are going to go every vote and there will be no air conditioning, Democrats.
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00:22:06.000I was watching the Cubs game, just kind of enjoying a relatively light day, all things being equal, and this terrible story of the New York City shooting materialized.
00:22:19.000So here is what we know, is that a shooter drove all the way, I'm trying not to use his name, because I think it only, there's a whole philosophy I have around with it.
00:22:28.000And Ben Shapiro said that once, and I agree with him completely.
00:22:32.000And basically, don't use shooters' names only gives them more unearned notoriety.
00:22:38.000Anyway, so he drives, yeah, don't promote evil, but we'll talk about the situation.
00:22:42.000This disgusting person drove all the way from Las Vegas to New York, wasn't from there, came out with a pretty serious weapon.
00:22:50.000I don't know the exact weaponry, so I don't want to misspeak.
00:22:52.000Goes to a building, was an M4, really.
00:22:57.000Where Blackstone and the NFL is, gets, basically starts spraying fire, kills a couple people, goes up to the 33rd floor, kills an executive from Blackstone.
00:23:09.000And all of this was happening basically live on cable television as it was happening.
00:23:14.000So a couple, just to be clear, as you guys know, I hosted Fox and Friends weekend this last weekend.
00:23:21.000I was in New York, just blocks away from where this happened, walking those very same streets with my family.
00:23:28.000And so I sent out a tweet last night that was, I think, really not controversial at all.
00:23:33.000And people, they read stuff into it that has really no applicability to what I was actually saying.
00:23:40.000And so basically what I said last night, someone could pull up the tweet.
00:23:43.000I'm sure, let me try to find it here, is essentially this, that, and everyone says, Charlie Kirk torched for reaction to New York City shooting.
00:24:02.000Well, let me tell you what I mean by not belonging.
00:24:05.000When you're walking down Fifth Avenue with your wife and your two-year-old daughter, and there are homeless people tweaking out because they have overdosed on drugs, hunched over with a scarecrow look, barking, screaming at your wife and at your daughter, yeah, they don't belong in New York City.
00:24:24.000Now, of course, that does not necessarily applicable with this story of what we saw in New York City.
00:24:30.000But when that does something to you when you're walking the streets of a major city and they are yapping at your kids, you put 334, every single liberal, you know, and many alleged conservatives tried to attack me on Twitter last night.
00:25:04.000If you are on the street of New York and you're either defecating, you are overdosing on drugs, or if you are lunging and barking at, and you've all experienced this in a major metropolitan city, where the homeless person is like crunched over.
00:25:19.000They obviously have just taken some drugs and they should not be out there yelling in front of two-year-olds or three-year-olds.
00:25:27.000And people say, oh, Charlie, how do you not feel safe in New York?
00:25:30.000At another situation, there were just random people that would be going up like five feet away from Erica and I, filming us, and then homeless people lunging at us.
00:25:40.000It is not the city that it was 10 years ago.
00:25:42.000I'm very relieved that everything was fine.
00:25:52.000So many people in the city who don't belong praying for all involved.
00:25:56.000And I was glad, of course, to be there for Fox and friends, obviously.
00:25:59.000But when you have Little kids, and you are walking the streets in New York, and we had security with us.
00:26:05.000It was fine, but again, and then every third person is noticing you, which is very nice and very kind, but not all positive, I could tell you.
00:26:22.000But let's get down to the more important story here, because that's just, that's a little silly sideshow.
00:26:27.000But just to quote unquote, clarify what I was saying, who doesn't belong?
00:26:32.000The homeless mental ward types that are overdosing on drugs, lunging at people, they don't belong.
00:26:39.000Okay, so not to mention the tens of thousands of illegals at the Roosevelt Hotel, you don't belong.
00:26:45.000Or the people that have immigrated to New York City and they don't assimilate and they're breaking laws, do not belong.
00:26:52.000So yes, there's a lot of people in New York that do not belong, but you say that, it just drives the left crazy.
00:26:57.000Here's what scares me about this situation, though, the most, is that we're seeing this disturbing rise of targeted assassinations inspired by this Maggioni creep.
00:27:10.000And Maggioni has some philosophical connective tissue with Momdani, where Momdani, of course, is not calling for violence.
00:27:19.000He doesn't want to defund the police and all that.
00:27:20.000But Maggiani and Momdani, they both have a bitterness, resentment-driven view of success.
00:27:54.000So how do we view then excess success in the West?
00:27:58.000And we want to be careful that, of course, that we don't have excess and that people still have some equity in the system, but you take it for granted.
00:28:07.000Now, Maggioni and the shooter last night, they both had serious mental cases and they should, that's a whole separate topic that we should explore.
00:28:16.000But Mom Dani is the political representative of Maggioneism.
00:28:23.000Mom Dani represents, you hate the corporate types, you're not making enough money, you have resentment-driven politics, you have anger towards the system, elect me, and I will burn it all down.
00:28:40.000Now, this, we don't quite know the motive yet for this young man that did this, this evil person that went into 345 Park Avenue.
00:30:10.000It was targeted, obviously very disturbed, very murky.
00:30:13.000The whole thing is very murky because he ended up then on the floors of Blackstone 33, floors up, and kill the Blackstone executive, which is just terrible.
00:30:35.000They have a default setting to blame white people.
00:30:37.000This goes right back to the hate crime that we saw in Cincinnati of the black mob that was going after those white people.
00:30:43.000The baseline introductory thought when you are hosting a cable television show and there is breaking news is it's okay to blame a white person, even though this guy was obviously not white.
00:30:54.000I think he was like a mix of black and Asian.
00:31:51.000And that picture has been distributed to every police officer in New York City, particularly has been sent to the phones of the search teams inside that building.
00:32:50.000It's because there is a deliberate war on white people being waged by the mainstream media and our leaders.
00:32:58.000CNN saw that image and still said white.
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00:34:54.000I didn't know Uganda had a billionaire.
00:35:47.000But at its core, liberals will espouse and they will verbalize a certain political philosophy that they themselves will not live.
00:35:55.000Zonron Mamdadi wants to take away all the guns, but he'll be protected by armed guards.
00:35:59.000Zoron Mamdani wants to be able to have no one be rich, but he will go party in a private compound.
00:36:05.000Zoran Mamdani wants to say that he will send his kids to private school and be educated in private school, but he wants to shut down school choice in New York City.
00:36:15.000He wants to seize the means of production while he allows himself to have a higher standard of living.
00:37:09.000I don't want to have the successful, the entrepreneurs, and the rich have to have a compound with barbed wire and military members outside to protect you.
00:37:22.000That is how the third world, the third world has rich people, but it doesn't have a middle class and it does not allow you to have success in the open.
00:37:30.000And that's where Mangioni and Mamdani are cousins.