The Charlie Kirk Show - December 15, 2022


Marcus Aurelius's Advice for Midterm Setbacks with Byron Donalds and Lauren Boebert


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In this episode, Charlie Kirk delivers a monologue about how your feelings are irrelevant and it s what you do that matters. And Byron and Lauren Bobert join the show to talk about the lame duck bill that s being pushed by the ruling class.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, Tana Charlie Kirk.
00:00:01.000 Shari, I open with a monologue about your feelings being irrelevant.
00:00:04.000 It's what you do that matters.
00:00:05.000 Kind of pushing back against some of the cynicism we see in our land.
00:00:10.000 And then I have Byron Donalds and Lauren Boebert on the program.
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00:00:30.000 Here we go.
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00:01:16.000 We got Byron Donalds and Lauren Bobert joining this hour.
00:01:19.000 All about the speakers race, the drama there, and this ridiculous, lame duck bill that is being pushed.
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00:01:47.000 There's a lot to learn.
00:01:49.000 There's a lot to do.
00:01:52.000 I can see your emails and see your sentiment.
00:01:54.000 There's a fair amount of cynicism, a fair amount of disdain for the ruling class.
00:02:05.000 And I understand all of that.
00:02:08.000 But you cannot allow that to prevent you from acting, from doing the right thing.
00:02:20.000 In life, your feelings are actually largely irrelevant to your actions.
00:02:28.000 It's one of the reasons why you should not follow your heart.
00:02:32.000 Instead, you should do what is correct.
00:02:34.000 Your feelings are fine.
00:02:36.000 I totally understand it.
00:02:38.000 In fact, I agree with a lot of it.
00:02:40.000 Charlie, I'm angry.
00:02:41.000 Same.
00:02:42.000 Charlie, I'm depressed.
00:02:43.000 I was.
00:02:44.000 Not anymore.
00:02:45.000 Charlie, I'm broken, tired, disgusted.
00:02:50.000 Okay.
00:02:51.000 So then the question is: then, what do you do?
00:02:54.000 Do you choose then to act morally?
00:02:59.000 Do you then behave in a way that will make the country freer or less free?
00:03:05.000 Feelings are totally important.
00:03:07.000 I get it.
00:03:07.000 It's how God made us.
00:03:09.000 But if you just follow your feelings, you follow your heart, as it says in Jeremiah, you will not end up with a freer and better country.
00:03:22.000 You must focus on what we can control.
00:03:27.000 There's a great quote from one of my favorite thinkers.
00:03:31.000 Actually, I have a bust of him in my office.
00:03:35.000 Next week, we're going to talk a lot about philosophy and religion because it's kind of the end of the year and near Christmas, and we'll see how the news cycle is.
00:03:42.000 Actually, yeah, it's next week.
00:03:43.000 We're going to do a lot of that.
00:03:44.000 Once Amfest closes, get your tickets, Amfest now.
00:03:47.000 But one of my favorite thinkers is Marcus Aurelius, one of the great men ever to live.
00:03:53.000 He was the most powerful man on the planet when he was probably the last of the great Roman emperors.
00:04:02.000 He had a pretty awful son, Commodus, which is portrayed rather dramatically and somewhat accurately in the movie Gladiator.
00:04:09.000 Anyway, Marcus Aurelius wrote a series of private journals that he never anticipated would be published or publicized.
00:04:17.000 In fact, he would probably be shocked to hear that, and probably a little bit humiliated, that these are now, it's one of the most powerful books ever written called Meditations.
00:04:25.000 Anyway, Marcus Aurelius, being the most powerful man in the world, could invade a country at a whim, actually had to deal with a big plague.
00:04:37.000 He was one of the most articulate and powerful Stoics, Seneca being another and many others.
00:04:43.000 But Aurelius had a belief that you must choose not to be harmed.
00:04:52.000 He even said that the obstacle is the way, that what might be preventing you from getting what you want actually might end up being the most helpful, beneficial, and the blessing that you've been looking for.
00:05:07.000 I understand the sentiment.
00:05:08.000 In fact, I have one right here.
00:05:09.000 Charlie, I'm not voting anymore.
00:05:11.000 I'm finished voting.
00:05:11.000 Let the Democrats have the country.
00:05:13.000 Okay. 0.94
00:05:14.000 And by the way, some of you say, well, Charlie, these are trolls.
00:05:16.000 No, some of these people are actually people that financially support Turning Point USA, that are supporters of the Charlie Kirk show.
00:05:24.000 Some of these people I actually know.
00:05:29.000 Charlie, you can't say lose hope.
00:05:32.000 The problem is the problem, you can't say we lose hope.
00:05:35.000 The problem is we vote and Republicans for the House and they turn around and screw us.
00:05:39.000 Okay, I understand.
00:05:41.000 But then the question is, what do you do about it?
00:05:44.000 Do you disengage from the system?
00:05:45.000 Do you embrace an attitude of cynicism?
00:05:55.000 I think in life we allow our feelings and allow our emotions to drive us far too much.
00:06:01.000 It's normal.
00:06:02.000 It's understandable.
00:06:05.000 But we do have agency and free will to make a decision when things don't go our way.
00:06:14.000 It is easy, it is tempting to disengage from the process when things do not go the way you want them to go.
00:06:26.000 This is why I think the emphasis on behavior is so critical.
00:06:32.000 I'm much more interested in what you do and how you act.
00:06:36.000 If you have all of the feelings of cynicism and all of this and you're still fighting and you're still voting and you're still organizing and you're running for office and you're donating, then terrific, you're not allowing yourself to be dominated by a feeling.
00:06:53.000 Feelings are very tricky.
00:06:56.000 And in fact, I think that in the current state, it's very simple.
00:07:01.000 If we quit, they win.
00:07:05.000 And so the question needs to be: what is the path forward for the grassroots for you, the everyday citizen?
00:07:20.000 Despite all of the nonsense and that Ben Carson story and the changing of all this definitions of woman, all this garbage, we still live in a tremendously beautiful country.
00:07:34.000 And what a time to be alive, to be able to organize and make a difference in that.
00:07:42.000 It's not even a question of whether or not I'm going to fight.
00:07:50.000 You know, someone says here, Charlie, you're no different than the mainstream media.
00:07:54.000 It's just a wine fest offering no solutions.
00:07:57.000 Actually, I have offered solutions.
00:07:58.000 The first solution is to not give up.
00:08:02.000 That's the first solution.
00:08:04.000 They are blitz-krieguing the conservative movement.
00:08:07.000 They are bombarding you.
00:08:09.000 They are trying to metaphorically waterboard you to tap out and to surrender and to give up.
00:08:18.000 Someone says, well, Charlie, do you think we're going to win?
00:08:21.000 I have no idea.
00:08:23.000 That's actually not an important question.
00:08:26.000 The more important question is, what are you doing?
00:08:29.000 And someone says here, well, Charlie, I'm burned out and I'm done and I'm tired.
00:08:32.000 I'm burned out too.
00:08:35.000 Last year, I traveled 320 days across the country.
00:08:38.000 I'm not saying feel sorry for me.
00:08:39.000 I have a very blessed life.
00:08:40.000 I have a dream job like you couldn't imagine.
00:08:42.000 Turning points doing such a beautiful job.
00:08:44.000 It's amazing, but look, you get burned out.
00:08:46.000 It's life.
00:08:48.000 But we got an event to host.
00:08:49.000 We got thousands of students' lives to change.
00:08:53.000 We got things that we got to focus on here.
00:08:55.000 We got chapters to start, campus tours to execute.
00:08:59.000 We got TPUSA faith things to do.
00:09:01.000 We got pastors to train up.
00:09:03.000 We got Turning Point Academy to scale and keep going.
00:09:05.000 We got way too much on my plate to just say, well, you know, I feel rather tired.
00:09:13.000 And I understand the feeling.
00:09:14.000 I'm not telling you to lie to yourself.
00:09:17.000 I'm not saying for you to go into a pattern of, I'm actually really happy.
00:09:21.000 No, that's not what I'm saying.
00:09:22.000 I'm saying how do you act?
00:09:24.000 That's the difference.
00:09:29.000 Feelings, voice to friends, emotions, perfectly legitimate.
00:09:38.000 However, if you allow that to then take over, to domineer your behavior, to surrender and to give up, then you're acting immorally, in my calculation.
00:09:53.000 And we're going to keep on talking about what you can actually do.
00:09:58.000 And for those of you that are Christians, the most simple yet courageous thing that you can do every day is to speak truth to your friends, to your family, to yourself.
00:10:09.000 Do not lie.
00:10:10.000 And if you believe in truth, then by definition, you cannot give up.
00:10:15.000 You are not allowed to give up if you believe in truth.
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00:11:25.000 Byron Donalds is with us.
00:11:26.000 Byron, welcome to the program.
00:11:28.000 I think you're coming to AmericaFest.
00:11:29.000 Is that right?
00:11:30.000 I will be there.
00:11:31.000 Yep, you got me.
00:11:32.000 I'll be in there Sunday.
00:11:35.000 I think that's what they told me.
00:11:36.000 It's great.
00:11:36.000 Well, you do a wonderful job.
00:11:38.000 We're really thrilled and thankful you're making the time, AmFest.com.
00:11:42.000 So, Byron, a lot happening.
00:11:44.000 Let's just start with the outrageous, this bill, this Uniparty bill that is just being approved.
00:11:50.000 It seems at the top levels.
00:11:51.000 What do you know about it?
00:11:52.000 Nine months of $1.7 trillion.
00:11:55.000 The floor is yours.
00:11:56.000 I think it's completely outrageous.
00:11:58.000 Senate Republicans that are going for this deal, frankly, are selling us up a creek.
00:12:02.000 And look, I don't really use that word too often, but it's true. 1.00
00:12:07.000 We just had an election.
00:12:08.000 They're agreeing to nine months of funding.
00:12:10.000 This is the Biden administration's agenda going into September of next year when the voters were very clear about divided government.
00:12:18.000 If there's anything we could learn from 2022, is that they don't really trust any party.
00:12:22.000 And so they want divided government at a minimum.
00:12:25.000 So for them to agree to this in the Senate to me is outrageous.
00:12:28.000 We shouldn't be doing it.
00:12:29.000 More Ukraine funding with no accountability.
00:12:32.000 They want more COVID funding when there's still about half a trillion, excuse me, of unspent COVID dollars that have been appropriated makes zero sense.
00:12:42.000 So I'm opposed to it.
00:12:44.000 I know many House Republicans are opposed to it.
00:12:46.000 Every House Republican should be opposed to it.
00:12:48.000 But this is a concoction of the Senate dynamics where they think it's okay to brush the spending under the rug because they don't want to take the political hit for having to actually, you know, negotiate spending in January or February, which is the responsibility of Congress.
00:13:05.000 Actually, it's the first responsibility.
00:13:07.000 I mean, Byron, you're a grassroots guy.
00:13:09.000 You vote really well and you understand the base.
00:13:14.000 I mean, people are so fired up.
00:13:15.000 This demoralizes our most passionate voters, donors, and activists when the Unit Party acts this way.
00:13:24.000 And so the House is a purely majoritarian deal.
00:13:26.000 I mean, it seems like the Democrats are just going to shove this through, unfortunately.
00:13:31.000 But the Senate is TBD.
00:13:33.000 We had Senator Rick Scott, who seemed pretty fired up about this.
00:13:37.000 Is there a chance to block this?
00:13:40.000 You got to have 10, you have to have 10 Republicans to say, I'm against this, right?
00:13:46.000 The Republicans in the Senate should all stick together.
00:13:49.000 There's nothing wrong with negotiating spending in February or January.
00:13:54.000 We should be doing that.
00:13:55.000 I think it's possible.
00:13:56.000 But if 10 Republican senators agree to it, this thing's over.
00:14:00.000 That's the reality up here on Capitol Hill.
00:14:03.000 It's so broken and backwards.
00:14:04.000 So, Byron, we have there's a lot, let's say, fired up opinions in our audience about what's going to be happening on 1.3 for the Speaker of the House vote.
00:14:16.000 I have a concern that I have voiced repeatedly that if we do not get our act together, the Unit Party very well might get their own speaker and sneak this through.
00:14:25.000 Who are you supporting for Speaker of the House and why?
00:14:28.000 Well, first and foremost, I'm going to vote for Kevin.
00:14:31.000 I think that when it comes down to getting the things done that we need to get done, he's the leader in the clubhouse.
00:14:36.000 He's the guy that has the vast majority of the votes.
00:14:39.000 But secondarily and more important, I think this has got to be clear as well.
00:14:42.000 There are things in my view that Kevin needs to do.
00:14:45.000 From my view, a lot of this is scar tissue from the John Boehner time and the Paul Ryan time.
00:14:51.000 And so there are members who do remember a time when all the promises of open promise, of open process came, but when it actually came time to do the work, none of it materialized.
00:15:02.000 And so there are members who are conservative members.
00:15:04.000 They are American first members.
00:15:06.000 They want to see major changes into the way business is done here on Capitol Hill.
00:15:10.000 I want to see that as well.
00:15:11.000 I just think that we're in a situation where we cannot give them a foothold at all.
00:15:16.000 The investigations do have to start on January 4th, and then you go from there.
00:15:20.000 So some of the people in our audience are saying, well, this is just another Paul Ryan and John Boehner 2.0.
00:15:27.000 You're saying that that's actually not the case.
00:15:29.000 We're going to get real subpoenas, real oversight.
00:15:31.000 We're going to get real results.
00:15:33.000 Minute remaining, Byron.
00:15:35.000 I think the subpoenas and all that stuff is going to happen.
00:15:38.000 My concern is when you come up to the next budget deal or a debt ceiling deal, what does that look like?
00:15:43.000 The last part is Congress does not function.
00:15:47.000 And so it is going to be the responsibility of the speaker to give authority back to the members so this place actually works and functions properly.
00:15:56.000 What I've seen for two years, everything comes out of the speaker's office.
00:15:59.000 Your member of Congress is not a legislator.
00:16:01.000 They essentially come and push buttons when the speaker calls you to the floor.
00:16:05.000 That is not the way Washington is supposed to work.
00:16:08.000 And so for the concerns about uniparties, everything being in the hands of the speaker is what promotes that.
00:16:14.000 And so I don't care who the speaker is.
00:16:16.000 You got to give power back to the members.
00:16:18.000 Members should have a lot more say in the process.
00:16:20.000 That would actually help to break up the cabal that is Washington, D.C.
00:16:23.000 And to Kevin's credit, he is a hell no on the omnibus.
00:16:28.000 So that's that, that's that's pleasing.
00:16:30.000 Byron, I'll see you in a couple days at AmericaFest.
00:16:32.000 Light it up.
00:16:33.000 Thanks, man.
00:16:34.000 All right.
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00:18:22.000 Congresswoman Lauren Bobert joins us in just a moment.
00:18:26.000 She's also speaking at AmericaFest.
00:18:28.000 You can see a little theme.
00:18:30.000 If you're a fighter and you love America, you will be in Phoenix, Arizona this Saturday.
00:18:36.000 Lauren Bobert joins us right now.
00:18:38.000 She'll be at AmericaFestAMFest.com.
00:18:40.000 Congresswoman, welcome to the program.
00:18:42.000 Thanks so much, Charlie.
00:18:43.000 It's great to be with you today and I can't wait to see you next week.
00:18:47.000 So you're officially the winner of your race.
00:18:49.000 Tell us about it.
00:18:50.000 Yes.
00:18:51.000 So I did win the election and the recount is over.
00:18:56.000 It's such a relief for that to be done.
00:18:58.000 You know, of course, there are a lot of critics coming my way saying, well, little girl, have you learned your lesson?
00:19:04.000 But if you actually look at the 2020 election and the 2022 election, there's a lot of similarities.
00:19:10.000 I won the first election with 51% of the vote and I won this one with 51% of the vote.
00:19:15.000 The difference being there was not a third party candidate in the race to take those Democrat votes away from my opponent.
00:19:22.000 So it was much closer than any of us were anticipating, but I'm so honored to be in the House majority and here to serve my constituents in Colorado's third district.
00:19:33.000 You know, there's certainly a weightiness to being in the majority.
00:19:37.000 It requires discipline and targeted focus.
00:19:41.000 And I'm ready and prepared to lead with strength and grace.
00:19:46.000 So tell us about that.
00:19:47.000 Again, congratulations.
00:19:48.000 We're super thrilled.
00:19:49.000 The left was preemptively dancing on your political grave. 1.00
00:19:53.000 And turns out they're actually the suckers. 0.98
00:19:55.000 So tell us, 1-3, we're going into conference, or you guys are going into conference.
00:20:01.000 I know you might have some things that are not yet public.
00:20:03.000 How do you stand on the speaker's race?
00:20:05.000 Well, I have had many conversations about the speaker's race on January 3rd, as I think all of us should be having these conversations.
00:20:12.000 This isn't a position where someone is just an anointed speaker.
00:20:17.000 We have to have internal conversations about what leadership needs to look like, what it should look like, and what we're anticipating.
00:20:25.000 When it comes to January 3rd, I have been very public in saying that my hard line is the motion to vacate the chair.
00:20:32.000 This is something that we've had for nearly two centuries.
00:20:35.000 And, you know, if it worked then, it should work now. 0.93
00:20:38.000 Nancy Pelosi was the first one to set the precedence as speaker to remove vacate the chair.
00:20:44.000 We are a government all about checks and balances.
00:20:47.000 And this is the one check that we as representatives have on the House speaker.
00:20:53.000 Any member of the House of Representatives can offer up a motion to vacate.
00:20:58.000 And Nancy Pelosi took that away and said, nope, I don't want people coming and trying to vacate.
00:21:03.000 We have a very slim majority, so we're not going to do this.
00:21:06.000 And she said, only party leadership can bring that motion to vacate.
00:21:10.000 And right now, Republican leaderships are happy to keep Nancy Pelosi's status quo.
00:21:16.000 So this is my hard line.
00:21:18.000 We, as representatives, we need to be empowered to represent our constituents, and we need to be able to have a check on leadership rather than just this having a dictator just rule with an iron fist.
00:21:32.000 We have to be able to have these communications and to have that accountability.
00:21:37.000 Otherwise, any ask that we have, any promises that are made, they're simply just a wish list.
00:21:42.000 And so I suppose the motion to vacate the chair, I think, is super reasonable.
00:21:42.000 Yeah.
00:21:47.000 I guess the counter argument would be maybe it takes a threshold, 10 members, 15 or 20 members, not just that one member can pull that, right?
00:21:56.000 Would that potentially be reasonable?
00:21:58.000 Not get rid of it altogether, but say, hey, it takes 20 people or 25 people.
00:22:03.000 Because I could see AOC, let's just pretend it's Speaker Jim Jordan or Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
00:22:08.000 I could see one of these lunatics calling for a motion to vacate the chair. 0.82
00:22:12.000 And that would just, that would be super annoying for you. 0.96
00:22:14.000 They got to do a vote, right?
00:22:14.000 You got to come in.
00:22:16.000 Oh, no.
00:22:18.000 Don't make members of Congress vote.
00:22:20.000 But you know what I mean.
00:22:21.000 I mean, it would.
00:22:22.000 You know, if a Democrat were to bring up a motion to vacate, so be it.
00:22:27.000 You know, we would absolutely stick together.
00:22:30.000 You're trying to take out our speaker.
00:22:32.000 We don't think so.
00:22:33.000 This has worked for nearly two centuries.
00:22:36.000 I mean, since we've had a Congress.
00:22:39.000 And so why now?
00:22:40.000 Why are we going to follow Nancy Felosi's precedent and somehow change the definition of this?
00:22:45.000 We're already changing the definition of inflation and recession and boy and girl.
00:22:49.000 Now we're going to go to the House rules and say, oh, nope, we're going to redefine this.
00:22:54.000 It's worked for centuries.
00:22:56.000 It will work now.
00:22:58.000 So if, so without saying any specific names, I mean, let's say that we go on 1-3, and I know there's a lot of negotiations happening, and that we do not have a consensus for speaker.
00:23:12.000 Does that potentially worry you, kind of going into that conference without a pick?
00:23:17.000 Or do you think that might be a healthy kind of moment of chaos?
00:23:24.000 So we'll see what January 3rd looks like.
00:23:26.000 But, you know, I think that there are 220 other members that we can look at right here in the House of Representatives, if that's what it comes to.
00:23:35.000 There are plenty of people who are well qualified.
00:23:37.000 And then, of course, we don't even have to look in the body for a speaker.
00:23:42.000 So I think these conversations are healthy and maybe we come to an agreement before that vote on January 3rd.
00:23:49.000 But there's lots of rumors saying that a Democrat's going to be speaker.
00:23:52.000 It's not happening.
00:23:53.000 There have been plenty of us who have spoken with parliamentarians about this.
00:23:58.000 It's not happening to have a Democrat speaker.
00:24:01.000 None of us would take any steps to allow that to happen.
00:24:06.000 And so we'll see what happens on the first vote.
00:24:10.000 Maybe Kevin McCarthy sweet speaker.
00:24:12.000 Maybe we do something completely brand new and bring in someone who's not in Congress.
00:24:18.000 I don't know exactly what that looks like, but there has to be a consensus somewhere, whether it's with committee assignments and rules, vacate the chair, and how this place actually operates, or there's going to be multiple rounds of votes.
00:24:33.000 We have to fundamentally change the way Congress operates.
00:24:37.000 Charlie, you would be so frustrated if you sat in just a portion of the meetings that I am in in conference.
00:24:45.000 There are so many placeholders who are happy with the way Washington, D.C. operates.
00:24:51.000 I didn't come here for that.
00:24:52.000 I know that you hate the way Washington, D.C. is run.
00:24:56.000 And for America, so we have to have some sort of fundamental change to actually represent Americans and get work done for them.
00:25:06.000 So I want to transition here to this omnibus bill.
00:25:10.000 It is so beyond anything.
00:25:12.000 I mean, our audience is so fired up, Lauren.
00:25:15.000 They are over the top.
00:25:16.000 I mean, and this Ukraine thing.
00:25:19.000 I mean, we are being invaded.
00:25:21.000 Let me play this piece of tape here again.
00:25:23.000 I played it in the previous hour.
00:25:25.000 It's worthy of re-emphasis.
00:25:27.000 We are being invaded on the southern border.
00:25:29.000 Let's please go to cut 62.
00:25:32.000 And I want to know from somebody why Zelensky deserves more money than our southern border.
00:25:37.000 Play Cut 62.
00:25:39.000 I've never seen anything quite like this.
00:25:41.000 Border Patrol officials telling ABC News they are at capacity and have to send migrants elsewhere along the border.
00:25:48.000 Unauthorized border crossings in El Paso are now averaging more than 2,400 arrests and detainments per day.
00:25:55.000 Today, adults carrying children through the river.
00:25:58.000 This ahead of next week's possible end of Title 42, a Trump-era policy that allows for the immediate expulsion of migrants without allowing them to seek asylum.
00:26:08.000 So the border's wide open, 2,400 people a day.
00:26:11.000 And for whatever reason, we keep on sending money to Ukraine.
00:26:13.000 Your thoughts?
00:26:14.000 Right.
00:26:15.000 It's absolutely frustrating.
00:26:17.000 And I'm glad that your audience, your viewers are fired up about this issue.
00:26:21.000 We continue to send more and more tax dollars to Ukraine while we have a wide open southern border.
00:26:27.000 I talked to the border patrol agents and they said, you know, we don't even need more resources right now.
00:26:32.000 We just need the policy that allows us to do our job.
00:26:35.000 They have been stripped of the ability to actually secure the southern border and enforce our country's laws, our nation's laws.
00:26:43.000 We had a press conference yesterday calling for the impeachment of Secretary Mayorkis.
00:26:49.000 This has to be a priority.
00:26:50.000 These are high crimes and misdemeanors.
00:26:54.000 This is willful.
00:26:54.000 This is intentional.
00:26:56.000 He knows what operational security looks like and operational control.
00:27:02.000 He knows what it's like to have a secure border, and he is willfully opening it up, removing the policies.
00:27:08.000 Joe Biden is removing the policies, and they are not enforcing our nation's laws to keep our country safe.
00:27:16.000 So Secretary Mayorkis absolutely needs to be impeached.
00:27:20.000 The fentanyl that is coming into our nation is the number one killer of 18 to 45 year olds.
00:27:25.000 This is a problem.
00:27:27.000 There are known terrorists and MS-13 gang members that are pouring into our country.
00:27:33.000 5 million people have come into our country illegally since Joe Biden took office.
00:27:39.000 This is a problem.
00:27:41.000 President Trump had the border more secure than I've seen in my lifetime.
00:27:46.000 And it was completely undone.
00:27:48.000 And here we are just shoveling more and more money to Ukraine.
00:27:51.000 And now we're anticipating a $1.7 trillion omnibus bill.
00:27:57.000 And it absolutely would pass the House because there isn't a single Democrat who has shown a willingness to be financially responsible.
00:28:05.000 And they're going to continue to spend us into an economic crisis.
00:28:10.000 But, Charlie, with that omnibus bill, you need to know they need 10 Republicans to pass this through the Senate.
00:28:18.000 And I hate to say it, but I think they're going to get it.
00:28:21.000 There are $16 billion in earmarks, corrupt earmarks, riding on passing this omnibus.
00:28:30.000 And there's going to be 10 senators that care more about spending your tax dollars than they do America's future.
00:28:38.000 It's well said.
00:28:39.000 So, Congresswoman, a lot of people, I wanted to zero in on this because there is a fair amount of cynicism that is coming across the movement.
00:28:48.000 What can you give us that will be hopeful in this new Congress?
00:28:52.000 Well, first, I hope that we can stop this omnibus because that allows Nancy Pelosi to rule with a dead hand for nearly a year. 1.00
00:29:01.000 She would be in charge of these important spending items right at the end of her reign and would continue to rule in that way. 1.00
00:29:09.000 And we also have, what, 75 new freshmen who wouldn't have a say on these things.
00:29:14.000 So, first of all, we have to do everything that we can to stop these 10 Republican or rhino senators from voting for this omnibus spending package. 0.90
00:29:24.000 It's $1.7 trillion spending package.
00:29:27.000 But other than that, Charlie, the future looks so great in the House.
00:29:31.000 We are going to have investigations into Secretary Mayorkis, into Anthony Fauci, into the FBI, and their corruption and their absolute weaponization on the American people.
00:29:44.000 We are going to hopefully get spending under control.
00:29:47.000 You were just talking about earmarks.
00:29:49.000 And Charlie, I got to say, that's another really important thing for that January 3rd speaker's vote.
00:29:54.000 We, as a conference, we tried to get rid of earmarks.
00:29:59.000 And that was something that our current leader did not stand up against.
00:30:04.000 And this is something that if there would have just been a little more pressure put on the conference, there are plenty of members who are locked up with the leader and others who acquiesce when given that opportunity to, who would have just withheld their guest vote if he would have taken a strong stand on these earmarks.
00:30:25.000 So hopefully we can get the spending under control because inflation is hurting Americans, and we have to take care of our energy production here in America and secure our southern border.
00:30:36.000 I think that there's a lot of promising things that we can get the ball rolling on here in the House and certainly put a lot of pressure on the Senate.
00:30:44.000 And maybe if Joe Biden can find his pen or read a teleprompter, then he just might go along with some of this stuff.
00:30:51.000 But we have to show the nation that Republicans deserve to be in the majority for a reason.
00:30:57.000 And we have to be able to govern as we've campaigned.
00:31:01.000 One of my frustrations before I came to Congress and currently is that too many Republicans campaign one way and govern another.
00:31:09.000 So this is our opportunity to show America, this is what we believe in.
00:31:14.000 This is what we stand for.
00:31:15.000 We are working for you.
00:31:16.000 We are fighting for you.
00:31:18.000 We are serving you and putting you first in everything that we do.
00:31:21.000 So I'm very, very optimistic about the next Congress being in this majority.
00:31:27.000 And so I'm just so pleased that we were able to squeak by and have this opportunity to lead.
00:31:36.000 Terrific.
00:31:36.000 We'll see you this weekend at America Fest, Congresswoman Lauren Bobert.
00:31:39.000 Thank you so much.
00:31:40.000 Thanks so much, Charlie.
00:31:41.000 Thank you.
00:31:42.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:31:45.000 I want to just remind you guys of this piece of tape here.
00:31:48.000 Again, I agree with Senator Kramer on a lot of different issues, and I'm only kind of resurrecting this clip for the sense that he was right.
00:31:55.000 He was telling the truth about is there a limit of how much money we might spend on Ukraine? 0.66
00:32:01.000 Play Cut 71, please.
00:32:04.000 I am not in favor of sending military aid to Ukraine, nor is a lot of our audience.
00:32:09.000 Can you tell us why you believe that's in the best interest of our country?
00:32:13.000 And also, you voted for the $40 billion of the last bill, but not the first bill.
00:32:17.000 What amount of money is too much to send to Ukraine?
00:32:20.000 Because we just did $1.7 billion more.
00:32:23.000 Where's the line?
00:32:23.000 Because we're up near $56 billion now.
00:32:26.000 Sure.
00:32:27.000 Well, I don't know that the line is a dollar amount, Charlie.
00:32:30.000 I think each request or each requirement, each demand, each circumstance requires its own discovery, if you will.
00:32:40.000 So we are now right near $100 billion sent to Ukraine, and that's fine.
00:32:46.000 We have clarity, but not agreement.
00:32:47.000 I have a lot of respect for Senator Kramer, just disagreement on that, because now we've now sent the equivalent of two North Dakota GDPs to Ukraine.
00:32:56.000 I don't feel safer because of that.
00:32:58.000 Maybe you guys do.
00:32:59.000 But while our southern border is being overrun and invaded every single day, we are being invaded by foreign powers, foreign nationals, border jumped, flowing into America. 0.99
00:33:11.000 We have a priority, it seems, to continue to finance and fund the Zelensky regime. 0.80
00:33:20.000 That is the priority of the Uniparty.
00:33:23.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:33:24.000 Email me your thoughts as always: freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:33:27.000 Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.
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