The Charlie Kirk Show - Mar-A-Lago Readies For War

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, 10 Charlie Kirk Show.

00:00:01.000 Reflections from an amazing weekend at Mar-a-Lago.

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00:00:41.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:42.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:00:44.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:48.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:51.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:52.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:53.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.

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00:01:26.000 The reason I was off on Friday is we were preparing.

00:01:30.000 We were in preparation for a major weekend.

00:01:32.000 No, not AmericaFest.

00:01:33.000 AmericaFest is this Saturday, but we have two major weekends in a row and one we just concluded.

00:01:40.000 This last weekend, we host our annual fundraising event, our gala at Mar-a-Lago.

00:01:45.000 At Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action, many of you know, we're doing more work than any organization out there.

00:01:52.000 Hundreds of people on staff.

00:01:53.000 In fact, over 350 people now on staff.

00:01:55.000 We have TP USA Faith, Blexit, our high school program, our college program, Turning Point Academy.

00:02:02.000 We have the biggest names in the movement, reaching more people on social media and online than any other nonprofit out there, the most viral organization out there in the conservative movement.

00:02:13.000 And so we bring together our top donors.

00:02:16.000 Now, mind you, we are so incredibly thankful.

00:02:18.000 We have 300,000 donors at Turning Point USA.

00:02:23.000 Think about that.

00:02:23.000 300,000 people that give us money, one of the largest small dollar donor armies in the country.

00:02:31.000 But this is the top donors to our organization.

00:02:34.000 And we've done this now for six years, gathering them at Mar-a-Lago.

00:02:39.000 And it's always such a powerful and moving event.

00:02:42.000 So we start, and I was just preparing on Friday for it because it's an all-day, literally a marathon.

00:02:48.000 It starts on Saturday.

00:02:50.000 I start with a two and a half hour presentation where I go through all the different departments presenting to our what we call investors at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action, going through everything that we're doing and then meetings all day and then our gala, which is incredible.

00:03:04.000 And I'm just left with an overwhelming sense of gratitude.

00:03:07.000 It was without a doubt one of the most difficult economic financial environments to put on a fundraiser of this magnitude.

00:03:16.000 A lot of people came to us and said, Charlie, I had the worst year that I've ever had.

00:03:20.000 Interest rates are crushing me.

00:03:21.000 It's really hard to make money right now.

00:03:25.000 And despite that, I'm just blown away, blown away by how our donors at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action stepped up and stepped up in a remarkable way.

00:03:38.000 There were a couple people that came up and a couple opportunities to match donations.

00:03:44.000 And what I was, I have a couple takeaways and understand that this room, this group of people, they're very, many of them are very comfortable financially.

00:03:54.000 Some of them would get looped in if you didn't, people that know better as being kind of part of the American elites.

00:03:59.000 But what, and it struck me as I saw, you know, the commitments of support pouring in for Turning Point USA and our incredibly important work that this counterrevolution, this movement, transcends income and wealth.

00:04:18.000 There were people that were there that might be worth hundreds of millions of dollars, that have the same urgency, the same worldview as many of you.

00:04:31.000 This is no longer just, oh, you know, the elites are against us.

00:04:35.000 This is if you love the country.

00:04:37.000 And I got to tell you, everybody, you know, we hear, oh, you know, the donor class versus this.

00:04:44.000 I can tell you, we had 850 major donors and they see things the way you do.

00:04:50.000 When one of our donors came up and he said, hey, I'm going to give a big number if we can match it in this room to support ballot chasing and turning point action.

00:04:58.000 He said, and by the way, don't give money to the RNC.

00:05:01.000 The whole room does a standing ovation.

00:05:04.000 Whole room, standing ovation.

00:05:06.000 And then he says, by the way, Donald Trump is the only candidate that we should support.

00:05:11.000 Roaring applause.

00:05:13.000 They won't report that in the New York Times.

00:05:16.000 They won't report that in the Wall Street Journal.

00:05:18.000 And I'm left with such hope and energy.

00:05:21.000 Can we show some of the pictures, Ryan, just from the Mar-a-Lago gala?

00:05:25.000 And there is an urgency, a focus.

00:05:29.000 And these are just some of the snapshots from this last week.

00:05:31.000 And by the way, our team did such an amazing job putting on the event, the details, the hospitality.

00:05:37.000 It was world class.

00:05:38.000 Not to mention just the cup.

00:05:40.000 Literally, tonight setup begins for America Fest, where we have, we're going to break records.

00:05:45.000 Whatever we have, we're going to break all of our records this weekend.

00:05:48.000 The generosity from the Turning Point USA Faithful is amazing.

00:05:53.000 But I want to just tell you one story.

00:05:54.000 You know, somebody would stand up and they say, Charlie, I love what Turning Point is doing and Turning Point Action.

00:06:00.000 I generously pledge $250,000.

00:06:03.000 And the room would applaud.

00:06:04.000 And then one young lady, you know, gets up and she says, you know, I really don't have very much money, but I'm going to pledge $2,000.

00:06:14.000 And somebody says, I'm going to pledge $100.

00:06:17.000 Every single dollar counts.

00:06:22.000 Every single dollar counts.

00:06:27.000 This movement is of people of all different backgrounds of all different stripes.

00:06:33.000 People that have a fair amount of money and people that have a fair amount of energy and passion.

00:06:39.000 Grassroots across the board.

00:06:42.000 And I can tell you that going into 2024, I was left with hope.

00:06:51.000 We raised a record number at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action.

00:06:54.000 We are going to be able to hire at Turning Point Action, our first wave of ballot chasers.

00:06:58.000 Praise God.

00:06:59.000 We're going to be updating all of you throughout the year, by the way.

00:07:01.000 We're very transparent about this.

00:07:03.000 We're going to be showing you pictures and videos, the ballot chasers that we are hiring in Arizona and Wisconsin.

00:07:08.000 Hopefully we'll be able to add on to Georgia.

00:07:10.000 And I, you know, there were donors that would come up to me, and I felt as if I was talking to just a grassroots activist.

00:07:19.000 And they said, Charlie, what can we do?

00:07:23.000 In fact, you know what I heard more than anything else is they said, Charlie, you know, Turning Point gives us a vehicle, a vehicle that shows us that our resources, our money, is moving the dial.

00:07:38.000 And we're starting to see this momentum churn and churn and churn.

00:07:44.000 And having raised a record number from this, and our team did such an amazing job.

00:07:51.000 You know, I know donors there and many might be watching right now.

00:07:55.000 And I just want to express my gratitude that gave sacrificially, that gave above and beyond.

00:08:01.000 In fact, one donor came up.

00:08:02.000 They said, Charlie, I'm going to sell $100,000 in stock that I didn't plan to give away, but we have to do more.

00:08:08.000 We got to pour more into the movement.

00:08:12.000 And at Turning Point, we show our results.

00:08:14.000 We show the chapters.

00:08:15.000 We show the impact.

00:08:15.000 We show the minds changed.

00:08:17.000 We show what we're doing at Turning Point Action.

00:08:19.000 We show all this.

00:08:20.000 And I'd like to think that we earn it by showing the results and showing the progress that we've been able to put forward.

00:08:28.000 And together we want to win.

00:08:31.000 And I made a promise and I made a pledge.

00:08:32.000 And you will all hold me accountable.

00:08:35.000 This.

00:08:35.000 I said, no one's going to work harder.

00:08:37.000 No one is going to work harder than Turning Point Action and Turning Point USA, myself, Charlie Kirk, going into this next year.

00:08:46.000 And it's time for all of us to do more.

00:08:48.000 I know some of you might be watching, but Charlie, you know, I can only give $50.

00:08:53.000 Maybe for $50, that might be when the scriptures that for the widow's might who gives $50, that might be actually giving more than somebody else.

00:09:02.000 Everything.

00:09:02.000 By the way, it's not just about money.

00:09:04.000 You give your energy.

00:09:04.000 You come to Amfest.

00:09:06.000 You create a prayer team.

00:09:08.000 But I want all of you in the grassroots to know this, and this is the takeaway, is that sometimes it feels like since we become the working class movement, that you say, where all the elites are against us.

00:09:21.000 No, most of the elites are against you, but not all of them.

00:09:26.000 Not all of them.

00:09:27.000 No.

00:09:28.000 There are a lot of very wealthy people this last weekend, praise the Lord, that are just as concerned, they're just as frustrated, and they're just as motivated to save the country.

00:09:42.000 That should give you energy because it feels like we're outgunned, Soros, Mark Benihoff, Lorene Powell Jobs.

00:09:49.000 Now, things are changing, everybody.

00:09:51.000 This transcends wealth levels.

00:09:52.000 This transcends income levels.

00:09:54.000 This is a movement of the plumbers, the welders, the business owners, the entrepreneurs, the pastors, the rabbis. 0.62

00:10:02.000 It is about the decent versus the indecent.

00:10:05.000 And I am just left this last weekend with gratitude.

00:10:08.000 And thank you, thank you, thank you for in this very tough, hyper-inflated, high-interest rate environment.

00:10:15.000 What we were blessed with as a gift from Almighty God at Turning Point allows us to get back into the trenches, to replenish our munitional lines, metaphorically, and fight to win.

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00:12:00.000 We're getting a lot of emails here.

00:12:01.000 I just, I really am thankful.

00:12:03.000 And people are saying, Charlie, it's such surprising and good news.

00:12:07.000 And look, I want to, let me just kind of riff on this for a second.

00:12:07.000 Yeah.

00:12:11.000 I don't think we should be rejoicing that the current chair of the RNC is basically booed by 800 of the biggest donors in the movement.

00:12:20.000 It's true.

00:12:21.000 But we want an RNC chair that could scoop up money.

00:12:24.000 I am cheering for a based, grassroots, conservative, ethical, honest, and effective RNC.

00:12:31.000 When you have 800 of the biggest donors, isn't that the RNC's job is to raise money?

00:12:35.000 Wasn't that her argument?

00:12:38.000 They all, you know, she said, yeah, you know, I want to be RNC chair because I'm so well liked by donors.

00:12:44.000 In all fairness, we had probably one of the most impressive groups.

00:12:49.000 And by the way, from all parts of the country, all parts of the country.

00:12:55.000 All sorts of different industries.

00:12:58.000 And some people, by the way, that are more moderate in their beliefs, but they love turning point and they see the impact.

00:13:06.000 And they're moving more and more to a more conservative direction.

00:13:11.000 But the strength of Rana was supposed to be, I can raise all this money.

00:13:16.000 The grassroots hates me, but at least the donors like me.

00:13:20.000 Well, no, they don't.

00:13:22.000 Your fundraising totals are abysmal.

00:13:24.000 We see that in the balance sheets.

00:13:26.000 And you would think, I mean, again, it was not scripted at all, but we had this unbelievably generous man.

00:13:32.000 And I don't want to say his name because I haven't gotten his permission, but he comes up on stage.

00:13:36.000 And at the event, he says, you know, I will give a big number.

00:13:40.000 I mean, a big number if we can raise it.

00:13:43.000 He goes on and he gives this beautiful speech.

00:13:45.000 And part of his speech, I didn't know he's going to say, I said, oh, by the way, stop giving your money to the RNC because it gets wasted.

00:13:50.000 And the whole place, just standing ovation.

00:13:54.000 I was like, what is this?

00:13:55.000 Is this the war room posse or is this a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago?

00:13:59.000 And if you can't tell the difference, that is interesting, isn't it?

00:14:03.000 When you have war room posse that is saying the same things and thinking similar things as a group of 800-plus biggest donors in the conservative movement, something is changing everybody.

00:14:15.000 And there is a framing that is correct.

00:14:18.000 And we will talk about this.

00:14:19.000 There's a group of some donors that are like Nikki Haley types and they get a lot of attention on TV and they pump in a lot of money.

00:14:26.000 But I want to make sure it's very clear.

00:14:28.000 That's not all the donors.

00:14:29.000 I don't even think it's a majority of the donors anymore in the movement.

00:14:32.000 I'd say that 50 plus donors in the conservative movement are in agreement and alignment with a conservative renaissance, playing to win, sick of losing.

00:14:42.000 If we would have took a straw poll, which actually would have been very interesting, we probably should do that next year.

00:14:47.000 Now, how many of you would vote for Nikki Haley?

00:14:48.000 I don't think there would be a single person.

00:14:50.000 I don't think there'd be a single person.

00:14:52.000 So it's very, very interesting.

00:14:55.000 I want to read this email here from Billy.

00:14:57.000 It's a really powerful email.

00:14:59.000 Charlie, I donate what I can from time to time, but here's what I do.

00:15:02.000 I'm a precinct captain and central committee member in Washoe County and part of the Trump caucus team.

00:15:08.000 I also donate some money that I can.

00:15:10.000 And I take my kids with me on knocking on doors.

00:15:11.000 He's, by the way, in Reno, very important.

00:15:14.000 I post sales to my kids, hoping he'll inspire people to get involved.

00:15:17.000 It needs to be a priority.

00:15:19.000 And this is how some patriots can donate back.

00:15:22.000 I totally agree, Billy.

00:15:23.000 By the way, everyone's going to do their part.

00:15:25.000 For some people that were at the gala this last weekend, you know, in their 80s and early 90s, and the Lord has blessed their business, their way of giving back is to give $50,000, $7,500, $100,000 to the effort.

00:15:37.000 For some people, it's money and resources and wealth.

00:15:39.000 For some people, it's sweat equity.

00:15:40.000 Praise the Lord, we're seeing it happening across the board.

00:15:43.000 And what I want to just energize you with is that we see the kind of clipboard and tennis shoes.

00:15:49.000 See the grittiness is that the people that have also been very blessed are stepping up like I've never seen.

00:15:56.000 Despite the hard environment, despite the tough terrain, we are seeing the urgency from all the different pockets necessary for us to win.

00:16:06.000 I did not even get a sliver of apathy, of cynicism, of, oh, what's the point?

00:16:14.000 No, it's focused determination.

00:16:17.000 The same thing, by the way, if I would have just, if I would have just went 20 miles away to a local GOP meeting in, you know, Jupiter, Florida, it's almost, I wouldn't be able to tell what room I was in.

00:16:29.000 That's amazing.

00:16:31.000 The game has changed, everybody, is that the grassroots of the party, the ethos, has really taken over the main thrust.

00:16:42.000 I love Billy's email here.

00:16:43.000 It's really great.

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00:18:12.000 Mr. Zelensky is coming back to D.C. Javier Millay is the new president or prime minister, a president of Argentina.

00:18:21.000 Here he is hugging Zelensky.

00:18:23.000 You can get a mixed bag with any sort of Argentinian crazy person, but I'm glad he won. 1.00

00:18:28.000 But Zelensky is going around to the Western world saying, hey, come on, give us money. 0.62

00:18:31.000 Give us money.

00:18:32.000 Now, neoconservatives and neoliberals, their playbook is always the same.

00:18:36.000 Baseless, fear-mongering, telling you that you have to pay more money, send more of your kids to go fight in foreign adventurous wars, or else the entire civilization will collapse.

00:18:48.000 But then you say, hey, wait a second, our civilization is collapsing.

00:18:51.000 And they say, no, no, no, no.

00:18:52.000 You should care about Ukraine more about America. 0.99

00:18:54.000 And I have an open question, and I never get an answer to it, even amongst some friends and senators.

00:18:59.000 And I just recently had a very lively conversation with a member of Congress.

00:19:02.000 I won't tell you who.

00:19:04.000 It was off the record, and I got a little bit aggressive.

00:19:07.000 I know what you say, Charlie, getting aggressive.

00:19:08.000 It doesn't fit, but I got a little aggressive.

00:19:10.000 And I said, why is Ukraine in our national interest? 0.93

00:19:13.000 And they say, well, as you well know, they're trying to reconstitute the Soviet Union.

00:19:17.000 I said, enough talking points, enough automatic programming from neoliberalism.

00:19:22.000 Tell me specifically, while our nation is wide open, our border is wide open, we have 12,000 people coming into our country every single day, why you can't lift a finger to do that, and why Ukraine and the furtherance of this no-win war of a family dispute over a border that is irrelevant to the nation of the United States is our concern.

00:19:44.000 Why?

00:19:45.000 Well, Zelensky is in D.C. today and he's scheduled to visit the White House and speak to the Senate tomorrow.

00:19:51.000 Zelensky is looking to secure another $60 billion in military aid of your money, your money.

00:19:57.000 And that's equal to the entire budget of the Department of Energy.

00:19:59.000 It's higher than the entire Department of Justice and the FBI.

00:20:03.000 It's more than we were spending on the war in Afghanistan in the final years of that conflict.

00:20:09.000 Now, a reminder: Zelensky has given interviews where he threatens that Ukrainians will engage in violence and terrorism against the West if they don't get their money.

00:20:17.000 We haven't covered this in much detail because there's been so many other stories, but that no good pimp who is called Zelensky is coming here and saying, yes, sir, my people will riot if you don't give us money.

00:20:29.000 Lloyd Austin, in one of the biggest news stories the last couple of weeks, Department of Defense Secretary said, oh, yeah, American kids might have to go fight this war soon.

00:20:40.000 Blackmail, extortion.

00:20:43.000 Hamas is not the only organization taking hostages right now.

00:20:47.000 Zelensky is trying to take the entire U.S. Senate hostage.

00:20:51.000 He is saying that if you don't give me money, the West might be attacked.

00:20:54.000 He might say, oh, don't be surprised if all of a sudden the Louvre blows up, something like that.

00:20:59.000 The mayor Kiev, or Kiev, is it Kiev or Kiev?

00:21:02.000 I can't remember which one's the op.

00:21:04.000 I think it's Kiev, has been calling out Zelensky as an authoritarian.

00:21:09.000 The magazine did a major article a month ago where leaders in Ukraine government are saying Zelensky has become delusional, thinking Ukraine is winning when it's not.

00:21:18.000 Maybe that's why Zelensky has a bunch of trans people working for him.

00:21:22.000 Delusion runs deep in the Ukrainian government.

00:21:26.000 Quote, we're out of options.

00:21:27.000 We're not winning.

00:21:28.000 But try telling him that.

00:21:29.000 CIA is a proxy of the intel agencies.

00:21:32.000 So the conflict is that America is now being asked to send over another $60 billion.

00:21:37.000 That's $180 for every American man, woman, and child.

00:21:40.000 Of course, the Biden regime actually, if they really cared about Ukraine, a deal is on the table.

00:21:44.000 Secure the border for real.

00:21:45.000 Now, this is actually, I want to give credit where credit's due because I bash Republicans and I bash Republicans and I bash Republicans.

00:21:51.000 But because of this show and War Room and Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk opening Twitter, we have made such a point about the border.

00:22:00.000 To some, to some, to some Senate Republicans' credit, they're saying, we'll do Ukraine, but we got to get something on the border.

00:22:09.000 Now, what they want on the border is basically more paper work processors, but our argument is penetrating.

00:22:15.000 It's penetrating.

00:22:16.000 We're making progress on this.

00:22:18.000 Even the weak need types, like Lady Graham is even going out.

00:22:22.000 There was a clip last week where Lady Graham says, come on, we got to secure our own border here.

00:22:26.000 At some point, we got to do this.

00:22:28.000 So our insistence, our drumbeat about the invasion of the country is starting to penetrate.

00:22:35.000 Okay, I want to go to cut six here.

00:22:38.000 Here is Senator Chris Murphy saying that, hey, all the dominoes are going to fall.

00:22:43.000 If we don't give Zelensky a $60 billion in the next 24 to 48 hours, Russia is going to march into Ukraine. 0.76

00:22:49.000 They're already in Ukraine and they're not doing a lot of marching.

00:22:52.000 And then he's like, yeah, China is going to be given a green light.

00:22:54.000 And if this doesn't happen, if this doesn't happen, it's all Republicans' fault.

00:22:57.000 And the Western order, as we know it, will collapse.

00:23:00.000 Play cut six.

00:23:01.000 Latest Wall Street Journal poll shows a whopping 64% of people disapprove of President Biden's handling of the border.

00:23:08.000 Does that add pressure on you, on Democrats, to get something done here?

00:23:13.000 Well, listen, I'm not paying attention to the politics here.

00:23:16.000 What I know is that the future of the world is at stake.

00:23:20.000 If we fail, if Republicans don't get reasonable in the next 24 to 48 hours, Russia is going to march into Ukraine. 0.85

00:23:29.000 China is going to be given a green light to invade Taiwan.

00:23:32.000 The world for my children is fundamentally different under that scenario.

00:23:37.000 The United States security is at risk.

00:23:39.000 So I am just beside myself.

00:23:41.000 The Republicans are playing games with the security of the world.

00:23:45.000 No, enough name-calling, Senator Murphy.

00:23:47.000 We all know you're a CIA agent.

00:23:49.000 I think you used to work for the intel agencies.

00:23:51.000 Maybe I'm wrong, but we all know that you're basically a proxy of this.

00:23:55.000 And hold on.

00:23:56.000 They claim that we're holding aid hostage.

00:23:57.000 Why don't you guys do a peace deal?

00:23:59.000 How about a ceasefire?

00:24:00.000 So let me get this straight.

00:24:01.000 The left is storming Capitol Hill, taking over universities, and running ads calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

00:24:10.000 But they won't call for a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia.

00:24:13.000 Why is that?

00:24:14.000 Why is it okay to send $60 billion to that uppity foreigner in a t-shirt, Zelensky? 1.00

00:24:20.000 But they are so angry about sending money to Israel.

00:24:22.000 What's going on here exactly?

00:24:25.000 Let's play another piece of tape.

00:24:27.000 Play cut seven.

00:24:28.000 Biden budget director Shalanda Young says by insisting Congress secure our border, quote, our sons and daughters are at risk of being part of a larger conflict. 0.99

00:24:37.000 She's obviously not a very smart person.

00:24:38.000 She reminds me of President Gay of Harvard, obviously affirmative action diversity pick, not exactly a bright person. 0.94

00:24:45.000 Play cut seven.

00:24:46.000 The one thing I do take issue with is Americans want their national security taken care of.

00:24:51.000 We agree with that.

00:24:52.000 What happens if Putin marches through Ukraine?

00:24:55.000 What's next?

00:24:56.000 NATO countries.

00:24:58.000 Our sons and daughters are at risk of being a part of a larger conflict.

00:25:03.000 And it's not just Putin, other dictators watching what Congress is doing.

00:25:08.000 What signal does that send?

00:25:10.000 So our national security is also influenced with not providing Ukraine.

00:25:14.000 So I just want to make sure you understand.

00:25:15.000 This is the Biden budget director, Shalanda Young, who's again, this is poorly reading a script.

00:25:20.000 Our sons and daughters are at a risk of being part of a laundry.

00:25:23.000 What do you mean by that exactly?

00:25:24.000 You mean that we're going to have to go send troops?

00:25:26.000 So basically, here's the argument they're going to senate Republicans with.

00:25:29.000 And honestly, Barasso and some of these guys who are neocons, they're doing a better job than I would have expected.

00:25:36.000 They're not doing a great job.

00:25:37.000 I give them a C.

00:25:38.000 I give them, you know, ABC, I give them a C. They're doing something.

00:25:42.000 They're doing enough where Chris Murphy goes on the shows and says, oh, you know, it's the end of the world as we know it.

00:25:47.000 We got to get that song.

00:25:48.000 This is the Democrats.

00:25:49.000 It's the end of the world as we know it if Zelensky doesn't get his taxpayer cash from Americans.

00:25:54.000 The whole world is collapsing.

00:25:56.000 Hey, listen, Chris Murphy.

00:25:58.000 Look what's happening on the southern border.

00:25:59.000 He doesn't care, obviously.

00:26:01.000 The Economist reports: curtailing aid to Ukraine will prolong the war and it would create risks for the West in its own backyard.

00:26:09.000 There's no way of predicting how the millions of Ukrainian refugees in European countries would react to being abandoned.

00:26:15.000 Ukrainians have behaved well and are very grateful to those who sheltered them.

00:26:20.000 They'll not forget the generosity.

00:26:22.000 But it would not be a good story for Europe if it were to drive these people into a corner.

00:26:26.000 This guy's a mafia leader.

00:26:28.000 Nice house he got there.

00:26:29.000 Be a shame if something happened to it.

00:26:31.000 Nice Louvre.

00:26:33.000 Nice statue of David. 0.90

00:26:35.000 Be a real shame if a Ukrainian blew it up. 1.00

00:26:37.000 Paita, really nice.

00:26:40.000 How does that react to a Molotov cocktail?

00:26:42.000 That's basically what Zelensky is saying: that if you don't give me money to fight this no-win war, which is completely and totally militarily delusional, Ukraine is losing and has been losing for quite some time.

00:26:53.000 Russia is just ramping up their war effort.

00:26:57.000 Putin is still popular.

00:26:58.000 How popular, we don't know, but he's still popular in the Russian homeland.

00:27:02.000 He's advancing.

00:27:04.000 Again, the Russian view of war is completely different than the Western view of war.

00:27:08.000 Completely different.

00:27:09.000 We knew this from the beginning.

00:27:11.000 War is normative to them. 0.96

00:27:14.000 For us, we're like, oh, you know, we need to support it because it's the right cause.

00:27:18.000 We have put Ukrainians on a suicide mission. 1.00

00:27:21.000 They can't staff their ranks.

00:27:23.000 They can't supply them with morale.

00:27:25.000 And the Russians are going to roll them over. 0.99

00:27:27.000 So instead, why don't we try to put a peace deal on the table?

00:27:32.000 Because Joe Biden is pandering to the defense contractors that want another $60 billion the same way Joe Biden got the vaccine manufacturers paid.

00:27:40.000 Johnson and Johnson, Moderna, Asterit, Zeneca.

00:27:44.000 Same thing.

00:27:44.000 Joe Biden doesn't want what's best for the citizenry, best for America.

00:27:49.000 He wants to pay off the special interests and the oligarchs that want to see the Ukraine war continue.

00:27:55.000 It is not in America's best interest.

00:27:57.000 Let's play another tape here.

00:27:59.000 16, Christopher Murphy, again, Senate Republicans.

00:28:02.000 I give them a C. They're doing okay.

00:28:04.000 Play cut 16.

00:28:05.000 I think this is one of the most dangerous moments that I've ever faced in American politics, and I wish Republicans weren't holding Israel aid and aid to Ukraine hostage to the resolution of immigration reform.

00:28:16.000 Oh, who said anything about immigration reform?

00:28:18.000 Hold on a second.

00:28:19.000 Not only are you lying about the circumstance, who said anything about immigration reform, you gang of eight amnesty pushers?

00:28:25.000 Hold on.

00:28:26.000 We're talking about border security and deportations.

00:28:30.000 Okay?

00:28:31.000 I don't know what you're talking about here.

00:28:33.000 Oh, you know, we need immigration reform.

00:28:35.000 So he's even misrepresenting the ask on the table.

00:28:38.000 Is anybody in this audience support sending more money to Ukraine?

00:28:41.000 Is there a single person?

00:28:42.000 I'd love to meet you.

00:28:43.000 Email me freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:28:45.000 Give me the best argument you have.

00:28:46.000 Why another $60 billion on top of $200 billion?

00:28:49.000 Please email me freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:28:55.000 For years, we've been talking about how our nation's public schools have been captured by progressive ideologues.

00:29:01.000 They teach things that directly contradict the values of millions of Americans.

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00:30:17.000 All right, so here's some good news and some troubling news happening with this free speech stuff over the weekend.

00:30:22.000 First of all, the president of Penn resigned.

00:30:27.000 Praise God. 1.00

00:30:28.000 Liz McGill, not a very bright person. 1.00

00:30:31.000 Probably one of the worst moments in the history of congressional testimony.

00:30:35.000 Here's some just word of the wise.

00:30:36.000 If you run a company or a university and you're asked about genocide, probably not a good idea to yield to context.

00:30:43.000 She says, asked by Elise Stefanik, hey, if someone is calling for the genocide of Jews, what do you think?

00:30:51.000 She says, well, it has to, it depends on the context of what's going on here.

00:30:56.000 So like most big stories, they're good and bad potential outcomes.

00:30:59.000 Here's some good outcomes over the weekend.

00:31:00.000 This is happening in real time.

00:31:01.000 And we've been covering the story from a turning point USA student perspective.

00:31:07.000 The good outcome is this.

00:31:09.000 These colleges have been severely and significantly damaged and they command less awe and respect from the general public as incubators of future elites.

00:31:18.000 Actual Jew haters get exposed and held accountable.

00:31:21.000 That's a great thing.

00:31:22.000 The university's obscene financial dominance declines and we need to make it further decline.

00:31:29.000 Jewish Americans are waking up to the dangerous radical left-wing ideologies and the extremism that is substantially enabled by DEI and bureaucracies and affirmative action and missions.

00:31:39.000 And some Jewish donors, like Bill Ackman, regret ever donating and subsidizing Jew hatred and the decline of the West.

00:31:48.000 Donor pressure discouraging the hiring of radical faculty and the creation of these joke-politicized classes in favor of actual ideological diversity and merit.

00:31:56.000 But here's some troubling outcomes.

00:31:58.000 And I just want to make sure that we're not over-celebrating and that we see that there is a subterranean, almost invisible movement here that is really concerning.

00:32:10.000 It seems as if, as a reaction to the Jew hatred, to the calls for genocide, there very well might be a new leviathan that is put in that makes speech even harder on campus for conservatives.

00:32:28.000 We never engage in quote-unquote hate speech.

00:32:31.000 And I hate that term because it's so abused.

00:32:33.000 I hate it.

00:32:34.000 Okay.

00:32:35.000 It must be reserved.

00:32:36.000 We need a whole new term, honestly.

00:32:38.000 It's so, the ADL says I'm a hate speech guy.

00:32:41.000 So therefore, if you use the ADL's criteria, here's where we're headed if we're not careful.

00:32:49.000 It's a very good and promising thing that Harvard and Penn are squirming and losing donations.

00:32:55.000 They need to lose even more.

00:32:57.000 But as someone who runs the largest conservative campus organization in America, we fight this battle daily.

00:33:04.000 There are already too many restrictions on speech and more than enough for any motivated administrator, and we deal with it every day, to censor and silence groups like Turning Point.

00:33:14.000 It would be a super letdown and a tragedy if all of this positive energy only leads to more speech codes, more censorship, and more retaliation against freedom-loving activists.

00:33:27.000 I want to play, of all people, Fareed Zakaria, who actually captured this beautifully on CNN, play cut 29.

00:33:33.000 American universities have been neglecting a core focus on excellence in order to pursue a variety of agendas, many of them clustered around diversity and inclusion.

00:33:44.000 It started with the best of intentions.

00:33:46.000 Colleges wanted to make sure young people of all backgrounds had access to higher education and felt comfortable on campus.

00:33:54.000 But those good intentions have morphed into a dogmatic ideology and turned these universities into places where the pervasive goals are political and social engineering, not academic merit.

00:34:07.000 Now, I disagree.

00:34:07.000 I don't think that there are good intentions to put in a diversity, equity, and inclusion office, but that's a separate issue.

00:34:15.000 Play 25 as well, please.

00:34:17.000 Three university presidents came under fire this week for their vague and indecisive answers when asked whether calling for the genocide of Jews would violate their institutions' codes of conduct.

00:34:28.000 But to understand their performance, we have to understand the broad shift that has taken place at elite universities, which have gone from being centers of excellence to institutions pushing political agendas.

00:34:44.000 People sense the transformation.

00:34:46.000 As Paul Tuff has pointed out, the share of young adults who said a college degree was very important fell from 74% in 2013 to just 41% in 2019.

00:34:59.000 Praise the Lord, the fields we have been laboring in for a decade, it's starting to harvest.

00:35:06.000 Praise God.

00:35:09.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:35:11.000 Email us as alwaysfreedom at charliekirk.com.

00:35:14.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:35:15.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - December 11, 2023

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