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00:00:56.000A little bit happening in the news cycle today.
00:00:58.000House Democrats are introducing officially articles of impeachment into the House of Representatives.
00:01:06.000I'm going to start with a story from the New York Times.
00:01:10.000And it's actually a pretty good investigation.
00:01:12.000I have to give credit where credit's due.
00:01:14.000When the New York Times really decides to get into something, just imagine if the New York Times decided to investigate Peter Strzok or Lisa Page or any of that.
00:02:01.000The most interesting part of the entire piece is how it starts.
00:02:05.000At 11.50 a.m., the east side of the Capitol already had people congregating.
00:02:13.000At 11.50, well before the President of the United States ever took the stage, well before the president gave any sort of remarks, there were already people that were congregating on the east side of the Capitol.
00:02:28.000So that is not the West side where a lot of the imagery was coming from.
00:02:32.000So it's actually a really helpful picture from the New York Times.
00:02:36.000It's a little bit oversimplified because it acts as if all this stuff was happening simultaneously.
00:02:42.000But you look at the east side, which is on the right side.
00:02:46.000And if you just look at the orientation of the map with North being up, the kind of area that is in yellow on the right side, people were already lining up there well before the president started speaking.
00:03:00.000So there were groups here that were, to be honest, it looks like those groups were more in the agitator category.
00:03:07.000These people were not necessarily attendees of the rally, the speech, which was happening two miles to the west.
00:03:15.000And so as we talked about yesterday, this entire unfortunate event necessitates nuance and it necessitates detail and facts.
00:03:28.000And trying to loop everyone that went into the president's speech at the Washington Monument and the ellipse into people that were already there before the speech even concluded is just not right.
00:03:43.000So then it goes late, goes on into the article to show that at 1154, the president of the United States arrived at the ellipse, the Washington Monument, to give his remarks at 12.15 to 12.50.
00:05:12.000And so that is at both the DNC and the RNC building.
00:05:15.000However, that took a fair amount of planning and time.
00:05:20.000That sort of weakens the argument that this was all inspired by President Trump and his remarks and incitement, that someone, through an evil way of, you know, evil nature would create pipe bombs and plant them at both major party headquarters.
00:05:36.000This also goes to show this was not necessarily partisan in nature, that this was more, this was an instigator or someone that quite honestly wanted to watch the world burn.
00:05:48.000And let me be very clear, putting pipe bombs in a political party's building is an act of terrorism.
00:05:57.000I don't, I'm not going to mince words with that, okay?
00:06:00.000And so then the New York Times admits, not admits, they report, at 1253, the first barriers were breached.
00:06:08.000And now, by the way, I know some of you are saying, Charlie, why are you using the New York Times?
00:06:12.000They actually did a really thorough job here.
00:06:14.000They have, and I think it actually proves a deeper point that is truthful, but it also runs against the very narrative that the New York Times is running with.
00:06:23.000And so at the northwest side of the Capitol, you started to see some people get a little bit angry with Capitol police.
00:06:29.000And we see this video here of barricades starting to get pushed back.
00:06:34.000Then it says, what's super interesting, though, is that on the east side, those were the ones that did the majority of the instigating.
00:06:43.000Now, I have no evidence in front of me to support this, but I have reason to believe that some people on the east side of the Capitol that was there before any of the people from the ellipse arrived repositioned themselves to the west side of the Capitol, that these instigators that were there for something to go down on the Capitol.
00:07:04.000I know this is something that is really hard for some people to recognize or realize, but there are some people in this world that quite honestly want to fight.
00:07:15.000And those people were trying to do everything they possibly could to try and penetrate either the west or the east side of the Capitol.
00:07:22.000The west side of the Capitol was then, there is riot gear that started to arrive.
00:07:28.000It says this, at this time, the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, begins the proceedings to certify the Electoral College count at a joint session of Congress.
00:07:38.000And then this is where the New York Times calls it, Trump's call to action.
00:07:43.000But it kind of shows, though, if the New York Times was going to make this argument as if this was his major call to action at 112, then why is it they're showing video in that very same article here that the west side of the Capitol already had people and agitators that were spraying things at the police, that this conflict was already beginning?
00:08:08.000At 150 on the west side of the Capitol, groups started to congregate.
00:08:13.000And then on the east side was the first real assault that we are able to pinpoint.
00:08:19.000And I say that the east side, by the way, is not in marching proximity or distance from the ellipse.
00:08:26.000Now, I'm sure some people could have walked that way.
00:08:28.000However, from the ellipse or the monument where the president gave his remarks, most of those people went to the west side.
00:08:35.000Now, as some of our listeners have emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com, there were a lot of constitutional legal events that were planned outside of the Capitol.
00:08:50.000The Capitol is where a lot of these other events were occurring.
00:08:53.000And so this shouldn't come as a great surprise that some people wanted to march to the Capitol.
00:08:58.000However, to mix in the people that were peacefully marching to the Capitol, and you watch some of these videos, some of these people that are watching, they don't exactly strike you as, you know, like they're just kind of marching with Trump flags, smiling.
00:09:13.000But the people that are in full riot gear, that are pushing up against police, that are pushing fences back, that's a different category in itself whatsoever.
00:09:24.000And so the east side versus the west side is a very important distinction that I want to continue to build out here because that is something that, quite honestly, the media has been conveniently keeping out a lot of their coverage.
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00:11:19.000And it's really a terrible thing that they're doing for Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Jumer to continue on this path.
00:11:29.000I think it's causing tremendous danger to our country and it's causing tremendous anger.
00:11:34.000The president's speaking out against impeachment.
00:11:38.000And so it seems as if that the impeachment articles have been submitted.
00:11:43.000Yes, they sure have, and they're definitely moving forward with full force.
00:11:46.000We heard yesterday that they definitely had enough votes within the House of Representatives from the Democrat majority to impeach the president.
00:11:53.000I'm unsure the likelihood of how much that would move forward to a Senate trial, especially given the limited time President Trump has left in office.
00:12:01.000But anything could happen if the last week has taught us anything.
00:12:05.000So, based on thousands of emails that we have received at freedom at charliekirk.com, people that I know that were nearby but not involved, and us sending students to the president's speech and getting them out of there, I have come to an opinion of what really happened last week in Washington, D.C.
00:12:25.000This is also based on a new Washington Post report that has come out that shows that the Federal Bureau of Investigation went to certain what they call right-wing extremists and were trying to almost convince them not to go to Washington, D.C. next week.
00:12:42.000I believe that this was a perfect storm in the worst possible way.
00:12:48.000I think that the people that were coming for trouble, the people that were coming that were up to no good, were mostly positioned on the east side of the Capitol building.
00:12:58.000I think that is where most of the FBI's intelligence was pointing towards.
00:13:02.000I think that is where most of the information was showing.
00:13:08.000Those people might have had plans to do some things that were very, very, let's say, illegal and criminal in nature.
00:13:18.000Then, with that, those people started to push back against the fence and against the barricade.
00:13:25.000And because certain people decided then to watch March to the Capitol, I think some people regrettably got caught up in this.
00:13:33.000And so you had people that came there that posted pipe bombs and doing all these sorts of things, and other people that were, I think, on their own admission, did not wake up that morning with any sort of intention to want to storm the Capitol building.
00:13:48.000Now, that does not mean what they did was legal.
00:13:51.000I'm just saying the point is that to loop all of them into a category that there was this aforementioned plan is just not true.
00:13:59.000However, there might have been that amongst some people that were mostly positioned on the east side of the Capitol, supporters that were already at the Capitol.
00:14:08.000And the struggles at the Capitol between police and some of these agitators was already starting.
00:14:18.000The people started to congregate on the east side of the Capitol at 11.50.
00:14:23.000And if you just kind of look at how some of them are dressed, again, I'm not going to try to stereotype based on how certain people are dressed, but they are used a lot differently, let's say, than they're dressed a lot differently, if you look at this, Isabel, than just people that are going to regular Trump rallies.
00:14:41.000They are wearing looks-as-if tactical gear.
00:14:48.000They're doing symbology that is a lot different than that of what I would see, just kind of signals than I would say than a regular Trump supporter.
00:14:57.000Now, let me be clear: if any of these people were aware or involved in planting pipe bombs, then yes, the words of terrorism, insurrection, I think are all appropriate.
00:15:09.000And Isabel, can you help build that out how they are using these words almost all together?
00:15:15.000Yeah, it seems that they are placing this blanket label with the most hyperbolic language possible on all 300,000 people that were in the zip code of Washington, D.C.
00:15:25.000And we touched a little bit on that yesterday, how that's now starting to balloon out to anyone who's ever worn a red MAGA hat or posted anything in support of the president online.
00:15:34.000Insurrection is a very specific legal word talking about a violent overthrowing of the United States government to suggest that everyone who was peacefully attending a rally to hear from a politician that they supported is somehow involved in this attempt to violently overthrow the government honestly is not just misleading.
00:16:42.000You would think that they would do that.
00:16:43.000I think this is so ill-advised for Joe Biden to be coming in trying to heal the country, trying to be the president of all the people when we're going to be so divided and fighting again.
00:16:53.000And so I kind of agree with Joe Manchin here.
00:16:56.000And I mean, he's, again, he's going to be, you know, the most powerful United States senator for a variety of reasons.
00:17:03.000So there's a lot of conversation around incitement.
00:17:07.000There's a lot of conversation around: did people call for specific action that resulted in the illegal acts and the criminal acts of last week?
00:17:20.000But let's take a step back and ask ourselves the question: has the media been covering for violent action in recent time?
00:17:41.000We've talked about the difference between civil discord and civil disobedience.
00:17:45.000We've talked about how once you go to violence, you lose public opinion and you destroy other people's stuff and you could kill people, and that is not moral.
00:17:53.000However, this article by Laura Bessett goes through piece by piece why she believes violent protests work.
00:18:02.000And you can go back to a flashback where Chris Cuomo cut three, where he says, Please show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful.
00:18:15.000Now, too many see the protests as the problem.
00:18:19.000No, the problem is what forced your fellow citizens to take to the streets.
00:18:24.000Persistent and poisonous inequities and injustice.
00:18:28.000And please show me where it says that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful.
00:18:34.000So now they're going out of their way to call it an insurrection.
00:18:39.000However, back then they said, show me where it has to show polite and peaceful.
00:18:45.000In this article where it says why violent protests work, it says, Alicia Garza, co-founder of BLM Incorporated, said, quote, it's a familiar pattern to call for peace and calm, but direct it in the wrong places.
00:18:59.000Quote, why are we having this conversation about protest and property when a man's life was extinguished before our eyes?
00:19:05.000We don't have time to finger wag at protesters about property.
00:19:20.000Now, could you imagine if I read you the following quote, which I don't know exists or not, not exactly well-versed in this segment of literature.
00:19:32.000But what if all of a sudden I said, the co-founder of Proud Boys said, quote, why are we having this conversation about protest and property?
00:19:40.000We don't have time to finger wag about protests or about property.
00:20:55.000And I also want to say, we are still waiting for more information as to why Ashley Babbitt was killed.
00:21:02.000Whether she should have gone into the Capitol Rotunda or not is a discussion for a different time.
00:21:07.000Whether that warrants a kind of street justice execution style, if it turns out that the police officer acted incorrectly, we will find out.
00:21:16.000From Vox.com, riots are destructive, dangerous, and scary, but can lead to serious social reforms.
00:21:23.000It says, quote, riots are caused by genuine anger, not solely opportunists looking to loot.
00:21:31.000Goes on to glamorize the history of rioting and looting.
00:21:37.000And it closes by saying that by not rioting and looting, their communities are far worse off.
00:21:44.000Remember this story back over the summer by Natalie Escobar?
00:21:48.000Your taxpayer funding went behind this story at National Public Radio.
00:21:53.000One author's controversial view, quote, in defense of looting.
00:21:58.000Vicki Osterweil wrote the book In Defense of Looting.
00:22:02.000Osterweil is a self-described writer, editor, and agitator.
00:22:06.000She says, quote, when I use the word looting, I mean the mass expropriation of property, mass shoplifting during a moment of an upheaval or riot.
00:22:35.000The original version of the story, which is an interview with an author, which holds strong political views and ideas, did not provide readers enough context for them to fully assess some of the controversial opinions discussed.
00:22:45.000Totally platforming one author's controversial view in defense of looting.
00:22:51.000The Vox article also said, quote, historians and experts argue that these types of riots aren't solely random acts of violence or people taking advantage of dire circumstances to steal and destroy property.
00:23:20.000Or it's our symbol of democracy or our republic.
00:23:25.000Well, then that means when BLM Incorporated injured 67 Secret Service agents over the summer to try to get into the White House and President Trump was transported to the bunker where he was met with ridicule and mockery because he had to be transported to the bunker because of the group of people that were outside.
00:23:45.000That was never called an attack on our democracy.
00:23:50.000From Time magazine, when rioting is the answer, America was founded on riots.
00:23:59.000From as far back as the days of tar and feathering British tax collectors, citizens have resisted power by fighting back, using fists when their voices weren't heard.
00:24:09.000I think we've already done a significant amount of historical clarity on that.
00:24:40.000Destroying property which can be replaced is not violence.
00:24:44.000And to put those things, to use the exact same language to describe those two things, I think really it's not moral to do that.
00:24:55.000So that's not moral to do that, to conflate rioting and looting and destruction.
00:25:00.000But the rioting, looting, and destruction is perfectly moral, according to Nicole Hannah Jones.
00:25:05.000Now, Nicole Hanna-Jones was never called to task for her quote-unquote incitement or using her freedom of speech to do that.
00:25:15.000And so we go back through this for a very specific reason because what you have here is 300,000 to 400,000 Trump supporters that went to the Washington Monument, a fraction that went to the Capitol.
00:25:30.000Now, a lot of people that were going to the Capitol did not know that they were going to intersect with people that were on the east side of the Capitol that were almost being there professionally agitating.
00:25:43.000And Isabel, you know some people that went last week.
00:25:49.000You know, demonstrating at the Capitol in a peaceful and patriotic way is part of our nation's history.
00:25:54.000It's how people make their voices heard.
00:25:56.000And we've seen that repeatedly on the left, especially in the last few years when people have protested the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, again, protesting the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, several pieces of legislation and the tax cuts and everything.
00:26:29.000And so there were some people that went to the Capitol with great intentions.
00:26:37.000We, alongside our group, Turning Point Action, alongside many other groups, just planned to be for the president's speech and kind of get out of town.
00:26:46.000And there were other people that wanted to go hear from Congresswoman Laura Boebert.
00:26:50.000And they were stunned when they actually came to the Capitol, where they got near the Capitol.
00:26:55.000And there were some people that I think regrettably got involved in pushing back barricades because the tensions were running very, very high.
00:27:04.000But there's many different pieces and parts that played into all of this.
00:27:10.000And the media is not interested at all whatsoever into trying to have any form of detail or accuracy.
00:27:18.000Now, the New York Times article here was written very carefully, as you can see, because they're probably worried against potential lawsuits.
00:27:27.000But just the essence of it, though, it does, a lot of the detail and nuance, you really have to kind of read into it, where you realize that on the east side is where a lot of those barricades were originally breached.
00:27:43.000Now, what is still unclear to me is why were all the calls for the National Guard denied?
00:27:51.000If the FBI knew about this, why were these calls to federal law enforcement rejected?
00:28:00.000Not exactly, you know, positive on that.
00:28:03.000And so there's a lot of answers that are needed here.
00:28:09.000But I think the more that this gets looked into, the more that we're going to realize that there were some people with very bad intentions, some agitators that were trying to get into this.
00:28:22.000But then the mass majority of people that were accompanying them were people that quite honestly got caught up into it and deeply and deeply regret it, as they should.
00:28:37.00049% of Americans say their top New Year's resolution is to save money in the next year.
00:29:30.000Isabel, you know what's one of the things that has been frustrating me the most, and I want to take this head on, is how people are acting as if last week was the first time ever in the history of politics the word fight was ever used.
00:30:32.000I'm not actually insinuating any of them were trying to incite violence.
00:30:36.000The term fight has been meta, it's metaphorically baked into the English political lexicon, okay, as a way to stand up for your beliefs and push back against it.
00:30:47.000So people are going back through tweets and said, you said fight for Trump.
00:31:28.000And now they say that is inciting violence.
00:31:30.000And, you know, there is a great article.
00:31:32.000I think we had it here yesterday from Shapiro, not Ben Shapiro, the former Washington Attorney General, where he said, a lot of this incitement talk is perfectly protected under the First Amendment, which is exactly right.
00:31:47.000And the issue here is that the left and the Democrats are trying to intentionally misrepresent things that have been said and were done because they see an opportunity here.
00:32:01.000And we've talked about gaslighting before, and this is what gaslighting is.
00:32:05.000Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or group convertly sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or group, making them question their own memory, perception, or judgment.
00:32:18.000And they've done this many times, Isabel.
00:32:20.000They're doing it right before our eyes today, too, by making sure that January 6th and the events that happened because of a few hundred people all of a sudden completely wash out the legacy of the last year.
00:32:33.000And, you know, I can tell you right now, I'm really upset.
00:32:37.000I'm upset that the actions of those people that went in and assaulted police officers, that went in and destroyed windows, really set back the amazing accomplishments of this president, where these last couple weeks should have been a celebration of this presidency and all that has been accomplished.
00:32:57.000We're now having to go through East Barricade and West Barricade and all this.
00:33:02.000And look, we're not complaining, but it does sadden me because this president fought so hard for so many people and was able to accomplish so much for our country.
00:33:12.000And so that's something that I think is really, really important.
00:33:16.000I'm disappointed to see all of the incredible accomplishments this administration has completed in the last four years completely disappear from our nation's memory.
00:33:24.000Obviously, we know humanity has a very short attention and memory span.
00:33:28.000So I figured some of that would happen.
00:33:30.000But I don't want people to forget about the world peace that was achieved through record-breaking peace deals and negotiations and agreements around the world through summits that were held by protecting the unborn, by protecting the gay community for the first time from the presidency.
00:33:44.000There's so much we could talk about and remember that should be celebrated, and now it won't be.
00:33:49.000Yeah, and I'm not trying to say that that is the greatest tragedy.
00:33:52.000People died last week, and I'm not just saying that only property was broken, but people died as a result of this.
00:33:58.000And that's important just to reiterate that it's a tragedy.
00:34:01.000And there's no other really way to put it.
00:34:04.000And these are police officers that have passed away because of the events that happened there.
00:34:11.000But then also to try to say, like, oh, you know, Mike Lindell said he wants to go fight for the president in Washington, D.C.
00:34:41.000Maxine Waters said, get in their face, so on and so forth.
00:34:46.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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