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00:01:09.000All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:49.000And by the way, that's what our show is always attempting to do.
00:01:52.000We want to focus on the civilizational stakes.
00:01:55.000The things that matter, the cultural things that matter, the political things that matter, the civilizational things that matter.
00:02:00.000Marco Rubio's speech at the Munich Security Conference was absolutely a barn burner.
00:02:07.000It was probably, as I said on X, the single best defense of Western civilization and an appeal to Europe to get on board with the vision that America, President Trump has put forward, that I've heard in a generation, that I think has been articulated in a generation.
00:02:26.000Yeah, it's first of all, what it matters, this is the Munich Security Conference annual event related to defense.
00:02:33.000And during the past few years, it's all been about Ukraine and such.
00:02:36.000Secretary Rubio goes and he gives a speech that's basically laying out the grand vision of what the Trump administration's attitude towards Europe is.
00:02:47.000And we'll have the clips here, but the big picture you're looking for is he's pointing out we're not hostile towards Europe.
00:02:53.000In fact, we quite literally want to mega make Europe great again.
00:02:57.000And so he's pointing out when we criticize NATO, it's always that we want NATO to be stronger.
00:03:02.000We want European countries to have better militaries so they will be better allies to us.
00:03:08.000We want to stop migration to Europe because we want European civilizations to survive just as we want our own civilization to survive.
00:03:17.000And I think the most remarkable, and he makes these historic appeals.
00:05:23.000It's not that it didn't have brutality or cruelty involved.
00:05:26.000Of course, we're talking about a people that understood that you had to use force if you were going to get what you wanted in a mean and cruel world.
00:05:34.000So I'm not saying it was all perfect, but if you look at where especially the English colonialists have went, even in Kenya, in Africa, it's one of the most stable countries in all of Africa because it was settled by English.
00:05:48.000You can look across the board, and the British colonialists had a, I would say, overwhelmingly good positive impact on the world.
00:05:57.000I don't think we got this as a clip, so I want to read it.
00:05:59.000This is a line that Secretary Rubio said.
00:06:03.000For five centuries before the end of the Second World War, the West had been expanding.
00:06:07.000It's been missionaries, its pilgrims, its soldiers, its explorers, pouring out from its shores to cross oceans, settle new continents, build vast empires extending out across the globe.
00:06:20.000But in 1945, for the first time since the age of Columbus, Europe, was contracting.
00:06:27.000Half of it lived behind an iron curtain.
00:06:30.000The great Western empires had entered into terminal decline, accelerated by godless communist revolutions and anti-colonial uprisings that would transform the world and drape the red hammer and sickle across vast swaths of the map for years to come.
00:06:45.000And he basically says it's time for us to undo that managed decline.
00:06:49.000And that's not necessarily bring back colonialism specifically, but certainly stop apologizing for it.
00:06:55.000Stop acting like it's the worst atrocity to ever happen.
00:07:00.000And he calls out mass migration and he calls out like demilitarization.
00:07:05.000Yeah, the managed decline, I thought he really honed in on it.
00:07:12.000For we in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West's managed decline.
00:07:21.000We do not seek to separate, but to revitalize an old friendship and renew the greatest civilization in human history.
00:07:29.000And then he goes on and basically says, yeah, to renew it, he talks about rearming 257.
00:07:36.000Asking member states of NATO to be stronger is not a threat to say, well, if you're not stronger, then we're going to, you know, it's to point out to everybody that it is a stronger alliance.
00:07:46.000We are collectively stronger when we are individually stronger on what our capabilities we bring.
00:08:12.000Mass migration is not, was not, is some fringe concern of little consequence.
00:08:19.000It was and continues to be a crisis which is transforming and destabilizing societies all across the West.
00:08:27.000We always say on this show that mass migration, unfettered mass migration, is the switch that, when flipped, will fix basically all the ills.
00:08:41.000They're going to be flawed regardless of where they come from.
00:08:44.000But mass migration is absolutely at the core root of so many of the problems ailing the West today, and it needs to be addressed.
00:08:55.000Candles were lit on Bondi Beach by families, by children, by people of faith to celebrate a festival of light, a festival from Bible times, one that Jesus himself celebrated.
00:09:06.000People gathered with hope, seeking unity and comfort in tradition.
00:09:09.000But instead of light, there was darkness, violence, fear, hatred showing itself at a time meant for prayer and rejoicing.
00:09:17.000Times like this remind us that even with the ceasefire in Israel, Jewish people are being targeted simply because of their faith.
00:09:24.000And times like this remind us why the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews exists, to stand in the gap, providing safety and security to God's people.
00:09:33.000The fellowship brings together Christians and Jews to be a light to suffering Jews in Israel, the former Soviet Union, or wherever the needs are greatest.
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00:10:13.000While we are prepared, if necessary, to do this alone, it is our preference and it is our hope to do this together with you, our friends here in Europe.
00:10:27.000For the United States and Europe, we belong together.
00:10:31.000We are part of one civilization, Western civilization.
00:10:36.000We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir.
00:10:56.000And I just love that he brings the word Christian in there.
00:10:59.000Little known fact, when they were doing the European Union and they were kind of establishing some of their foundational documents, there was a debate about whether or not to include Christianity in there, something that Dr. James Orr talks about.
00:11:13.000So I don't know what defines the West if it isn't our common Christian heritage.
00:11:19.000Whether or not you agree, whether or not you believe there's nothing that unites the West because there's different languages, there's different cultures, different food, different culinary traditions.
00:11:29.000What unites the West is our Christian roots.
00:11:33.000And Marco was very clear to put that in.
00:11:36.000So I don't believe the lies that this is my big point.
00:11:39.000What I loved about this and why I think it stood out is because Marco articulated a rousing speech, but a celebration of our history and our accomplishments of our values.
00:11:50.000So many people in that room have been fed a heap of lies that they're supposed to be ashamed of themselves and that we should be ashamed and we should manage our decline to let other the global south rise or whatever.
00:12:06.000And I especially think it's this is a part I particularly like actually.
00:12:10.000Rubio is, of course, Cuban heritage, Hispanic heritage.
00:12:14.000And I like that he's affirming that because as we'll see, because we'll have clips from AOC here in just a moment, there's this popular, there's actually kind of a conflict in Latin American civilization where some of them, they really buy into this like indigenous peoples movement where like everything about it was terrible and like Europe is awful and we need to like decolonize the world.
00:12:37.000And he's pointing out, no, like I am from Western civilization as well.
00:12:41.000Cuba is a part of Western civilization.
00:12:44.000Venezuela is a part of Western civilization.
00:12:46.000It's not just Europe itself and America.
00:12:49.000It's the places that Europeans went where they spread Christianity, where they spread European cultural norms, where they spread European languages and all of that.
00:12:59.000And it was really nice to see him just step up and defend that all as a good thing, which it was, because would you rather have Mexico as it is or Mexico as a nation that sacrifices human beings?
00:13:10.000Well, and AOC tries to take a swing at Secretary Rubio's address in Munich and misses 256.
00:13:19.000You are starting to see the ascent of the right, even in places like Munich.
00:13:26.000Marco Rubio's speech was a pure appeal to Western culture.
00:14:08.000That doesn't mean that we can kidnap a head of state and engage in acts of war just because the nation is below the equator.
00:14:18.000And they really, yeah, it's very funny.
00:14:24.000It's like, it's so funny that she gets wrong specifically because it goes basically as close to the equator as you can get without actually touching it.
00:14:30.000I also love, she's just a classic example.
00:14:41.000Just uses a normal American accent for everything else.
00:14:43.000If you can understand what the heck she means here, please send us an email, freedom at charliekirk.com, 286.
00:14:50.000I think what we identify is that in a rules-based order, hypocrisy is vulnerability.
00:14:58.000And so I think what we are seeking is a return to a rules-based order that eliminates the hypocrisies around when too often in the West we'd look the other way for inconvenient populations to act out these paradoxes.
00:15:17.000Don't you just, this is getting way ahead of things, but wouldn't it just be amazing to see like Rubio versus AOC on like a VP debate stage?
00:15:28.000Yeah, like presidential dumber for having listened to this.
00:15:31.000Just imagine, imagine, you know, obviously they're both kind of representatives of a certain subgroup and then just one of them just an unabashed defender of Western civilization and the other just doing it.
00:15:43.000You should feel terrible about yourself and just be invaded.
00:16:10.000Should the U.S. actually commit U.S. troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move?
00:16:18.000You know, I think that this is such a, you know, I think that this is a, of course, a very long-standing policy of the United States.
00:16:38.000And I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point.
00:16:45.000And we want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation and for that question to even arise.
00:16:58.000If you're stressed about getting out of debt, it's go time.
00:17:02.000Seriously, this is one of those moments where timing actually matters.
00:17:06.000Done with debt is one of the best I've seen at navigating debt relief.
00:18:28.000All right, without further ado, Mike Lee, Senator Mike Lee, the great senator out of the state of Utah, at a state that really struggles sometimes electing politicians, mandated it hit a gold mine with Senator Mike Lee.
00:18:42.000Senator, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:18:45.000It's an honor to be with you, as always.
00:18:47.000Well, Senator, you have been leading the charge on the Save Act, and you published an article kind of on X explaining why we need the Save America Act.
00:19:01.000And then I'm going to play you some clips of some of the detractors and what they're saying.
00:19:08.000We need the Save America Act in a nutshell because an existing federal law, the National Voter Registration Act, or NVRA, sometimes known as the Motor Voter Law, passed in 1993, allows people to register to vote in almost every state simply by going to a DMV, filling out a form, checking a box saying, yes, I'd like to register to vote, and then signing their name, saying, yes, I'm eligible to vote,
00:19:35.000meaning I'm a citizen and am otherwise legally allowed to vote.
00:19:40.000And a couple of decades after this law was enacted, in a little-known ruling, the state of Arizona versus Intertribal Council, the Supreme Court interpreted that same law as saying that states may not,
00:19:55.000under the NVRA, concluding that the states had been preempted from even inquiring into the possibility of the need to verify citizenship on the part of somebody who had applied to register to vote using an NVRA form.
00:20:10.000In other words, states may not ask for proof of citizenship in that context.
00:20:16.000Well, even since that ruling a few years ago, even since that ruling, a lot of other things have gotten worse that have made that problem really compound in the order of magnitude of a problem that it creates.
00:20:31.000Remember, in the four-year period between 2021 to 2025, we had 10 or 15 million people cross our borders unlawfully.
00:20:42.000We've now got in excess of somewhere in the range of about 30 million non-citizens residing in this country.
00:20:49.000We've got a trend over the last 25 years of more and more states issuing driver's licenses to non-citizens.
00:20:56.000About 19 states issue driver's licenses even to people who are known illegal immigrants.
00:21:04.000And so all of this means that it's more easy than ever and more likely than ever that somebody could go and apply for a driver's license, whether they mean to or not.
00:21:12.000They can check that box, sign their name at the bottom of the form, and presto, they are now registered voters in the United States.
00:21:20.000So the Save America Act was introduced to close that loophole, a loophole created by existing federal law.
00:21:27.000And, you know, look, the validity, the vitality of our constitutional republic depends on the security of our elections.
00:21:37.000Our elections cannot be secure as long as we've got that gaping loophole in there.
00:21:42.000And you say here in your write-up here, you know, it's basic common sense, completely agree.
00:21:49.000You say we require documentation proving our identity and eligibility to board planes, buy alcohol, receive welfare, cash checks, buy firearms, buy hunting and fishing licenses, pick up tickets, and participate in many political activities.
00:22:02.000You know, it is just this wild thing where we have this carve-out that seems to defy all common sense and all logic.
00:22:10.000This is a 2024 clip from Colorado Secretary of State Jenna Griswold, where she sent out 30,000 mailers to illegals telling them to register to vote.
00:22:22.000In 2022, your office sent out mailers to 30,000 non-citizens inviting them to register to vote.
00:22:29.000They, of course, are not eligible to register to vote.
00:22:32.000That same year, your office used Colorado's ballot tracking system to send messages to specific Coloradans encouraging them to vote when, in fact, they had already voted.
00:22:41.000Yeah, that seems like a foolproof system that they have over there.
00:22:45.000And then this is a colleague of yours in the Senate, sir.
00:23:38.000You do have to prove citizenship at the time of voter registration.
00:23:41.000Remember, the Save America Act requires two things.
00:23:44.000Document your citizenship at the time you register to vote.
00:23:49.000And then thereafter, having registered to vote, once you've done so on the day of voting, at the moment you vote, you're supposed to show up at the polling place with some sort of government-issued ID.
00:24:04.000Not the full documentation of your citizenship, but just some sort of government-issued photo ID to prove that you are who you say you are, to prove that you are the same person listed on that voter registration that you previously registered for.
00:24:35.000Insofar as suggesting that constitutionally protected right, like the right to vote, cannot ever be accompanied by documentation requirements.
00:24:48.000You know, you're also constitutionally protected in your right to own, possess, and guest purchase a firearm.
00:24:55.000And yet, if anyone who's ever purchased a firearm from a licensed firearms dealer knows that you've got to fill out forms, you've got to provide documentation showing who you are, and you've got to wait while they process that.
00:25:51.000So this zombie filibuster is the name that I have administered, that I've given to the process by which filibustering very often happens these days.
00:26:01.000A filibuster refers to the long-standing Senate tradition and principle backed up by Senate rules that protects open-ended, theoretically unlimited debate, subject to certain exceptions.
00:26:15.000But from the very beginning of the Republic, since the Constitution was ratified and the Senate first began its operations in the late 1700s, there have always been, there's always been an understanding that you've got to speak to filibuster.
00:26:35.000Over the last few decades, we've gotten lazy.
00:26:38.000Some of these muscles have atrophied due to non-use of those muscles.
00:26:42.000And we've gotten accustomed to the idea that you can filibuster without actually going to the Senate chamber and standing up, seeking recognition, obtaining recognition, standing up and speaking.
00:26:56.000So what we mean when we say it's time to bitch the zombie filibuster is just enforce existing Senate rules, make senators speak if they want to filibuster, and when they exhaust themselves either physically or under the Senate rules to speak, then we call the question and the question is called at a simple majority vote.
00:27:17.000They shouldn't get the chance every single time to just say, well, I don't like this and you don't have 60 votes to achieve closure without me.
00:27:27.000Voter is a vote under Rule 22 of the Senate that allows you to force debate to a close, even if a subset, a minority of senators want to continue speaking.
00:27:37.000You can force debate to a close if you could get to 60 votes.
00:27:41.000But that doesn't mean it's the only way to pass a bill.
00:27:43.000Sometimes you can get there through exhaustion.
00:28:45.000It's important to the Republican Party.
00:28:47.000Most of all, it's important to the Republic.
00:28:49.000Well, and by the way, Senator, President Trump truthed out that we will have voter ID in the midterms, whether Congress passes this bill or not.
00:28:58.000I'm not exactly sure what he means by that.
00:29:00.000I'm assuming some sort of executive order.
00:29:02.000But President Trump is taking this very seriously, and hopefully your senator is as well.
00:29:08.000And Senator Mike Lee, I totally appreciate that.
00:29:11.000Blow up their phones, melt the phones.
00:31:50.000Well, it's so great because Obama truly is this avatar of a type of person who was so predominant in America in the early 2000s, kind of this.
00:32:01.000It's funny because I want to say like white nerd, and he's not white, but he kind of spiritually.
00:32:05.000Yeah, and he's very spiritually like those people where they would, you know, they'll run the numbers and they'll say, well, actually, I mean, there's trillions and quadrillions of stars and planets.
00:32:13.000So the odds that there's no aliens anywhere in the universe.
00:33:59.000You know, that gets there's some fun Christian sci-fi out there that will dwell on the question, like, okay, if aliens exist, would we have to evangelize them?
00:34:07.000Or would God have to also do an incarnation for them?
00:34:11.000You know what's interesting is that C.S. Lewis wrestled with this.
00:34:14.000Yeah, I've been reading the space trilogy.
00:34:16.000So I read that hideous strength over Christmas.
00:34:23.000Paralandra, the plot is it's before, it's pre-space flight sci-fi, so we don't know anything about the planet.
00:34:29.000So it takes place on Venus, which we could not actually visit, it turns out.
00:34:33.000But he has Venus as a habitable planet, and the main character basically intervenes on the planet at the moment where like each planet kind of has its own creations by God.
00:34:45.000And so he arrives on the planet and it's newer.
00:34:48.000And so he basically arrives in its version of the Garden of Eden right when Satan shows up to try to make its version of Eve fall and he has to like intervene it.