00:00:00.000Hey everybody, today in the Charlie Kirk Show, Senator Josh Hawley joins us and also the latest out of Maricopa County, the unacceptable nature of our elections in Arizona.
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00:01:16.000If we do not have elections we can trust, then we live in a banana republic.
00:01:22.000One of the characteristics that was well known in the Soviet Union was that it took them many days and weeks to count the ballots.
00:01:29.000They wanted to make sure the outcome of their, quote, fake elections, they didn't even have elections, they were a joke, would be in their favor.
00:01:38.000Elections need to be transparent, simple, and quick to tabulate.
00:01:43.000If we believe that elections are the transfer of power, said differently, elections are the way we, the sovereign, give permission to our leaders to act and to operate.
00:01:57.000It is an act of transfer of sovereignty temporarily, outsourcing responsibility to an elected official.
00:02:07.000If there is murkiness, if there is muddiness, if there is uneasiness about how that election is conducted, then people will not trust those in charge.
00:02:21.000What's happening in Arizona is an abject disgrace to the modern world.
00:02:28.000And this is not the first time this has happened.
00:02:30.000This is the fourth election cycle this has happened in Arizona.
00:02:34.000And every time we try to challenge the people in Arizona to fix this, Stephen Richer, the state house, the state Senate, we get condescendingly talked to as if, oh, you don't know what you're talking about.
00:02:45.000We're not going to put up with this anymore.
00:02:48.000We are now 36 hours plus of polls closing.
00:02:53.000We are now on the 38th hour, and there are still 125 to 175,000 ballots still outstanding in Maricopa County.
00:03:03.000I believe one of the reasons is because the establishment in Arizona wants to try to rob every day they can from Kerry Lake to give her the victory speech, transfer her entire operation to a general election.
00:03:19.000Now, we are about 93, 92 days away from the midterm elections.
00:03:24.000You want to hear something even crazier?
00:03:26.000We are 60 days away from early voting, 60 days away.
00:03:32.000In a governor's race, that could be anywhere between a $75 to $100 million governor's race or a Senate race that will be $150 to $175 million every day literally costs you millions of dollars.
00:03:46.000And so, if you are delaying this unnecessarily, of which there is no excuse whatsoever, with the Maricopa County supervisors and Stephen Richer and all these people in Maricopa County are doing, you are literally able to give an in-kind donation to Katie Hobbs.
00:04:02.000There's something so fundamentally wrong with someone who is running for governor of Arizona, Katie Hobbs, who also is tasked with overseeing the elections.
00:04:13.000Katie Hobbs is the Secretary of State in Arizona.
00:04:24.000They didn't need to count all of them to know that.
00:04:26.000But how is it, in what universe is it okay that the secretary of state of a state is allowed, without having to recuse herself or having to mention conflict of interest, to oversee the election of her potential opponent and then participate in the administration of the election against another opponent when she wants to be governor of the state of Arizona?
00:04:48.000I know a lot of people right now are on edge and nervous.
00:04:53.000I'm gonna differentiate the outrage, the anger that I have towards the Maricopa County supervisors and Stephen Richer, but I also want to keep you at ease and lean on me and our show and our data programming.
00:05:44.000In fact, in some precincts they had a thousand people come vote in person and 3 to 4,000 people show up with their ballot day of now.
00:05:54.000If the Maricopa County supervisors, otherwise known as the Nicaraguan division of elections, would have listened to us, all of this could have been fixed.
00:06:03.000Arizona has this incredibly backwards twisted, unacceptably complex way of counting ballots.
00:06:14.000The way you should conduct elections in America is precinct by precinct.
00:06:19.000Every precinct tabulates their votes, they send them into the local county and the county announces them.
00:06:26.000I grew up in America, and so did you, where we could have election results a couple hours after polls close.
00:06:34.000Now, even if there's no shenanigans and there's no ballots being cast aside and every signature is being perfectly vindicated and verified, it certainly doesn't help, does it?
00:06:48.000It doesn't help the amount of trust we have in the system.
00:06:54.000These are the very same institutions that lied to us about COVID, lied to us about all of the experimental gene therapies.
00:07:03.000All these institutions, and they're so smug and arrogant.
00:07:07.000When you call up the Maricopa County supervisor, of which, if you are in Arizona right now, you should be flooding the phone lines of the Maricopa County supervisors.
00:07:14.000They're very polite when you call, by the way, but you should say, on what planet is this acceptable?
00:13:16.000By the way, we're going to get the phone number for the Maricopa County Recorder's Office.
00:13:19.000You should just ask respectfully and politely, why is it that in the third world, they get their elections results quicker than in Arizona?
00:13:33.000Every other state can get their election results together.
00:13:37.000You see, when you have elections that go over a longer period of time, it expands the opportunity for people to be able to play games with ballots, to be able to have shenanigans.
00:13:49.000When you have a shorter period of time, it lessens the opportunity for bad actors to be able to go into vote processing centers and to be able to do, unfortunately, what we know happens far too often in our elections.
00:14:03.000Now, thankfully, there's been this massive, overwhelming MAGA turnout that I personally believe will be impossible to play games with.
00:14:15.000But every day they're delaying, they're trying to make it seem as if this race is a lot closer than it actually is.
00:14:25.000This is something that's happened now all across the country, and Arizona is ground zero for that.
00:14:32.000And they're saying, well, the race is too close to call.
00:14:36.000When you see the final results, when these 125,000 ballots in Maricopa County are counted, when these other counties fully report, I actually think it's not going to be too close to call.
00:14:47.000I think it could be a 30, 40, 50,000 vote victory.
00:14:52.000They want you to think it's too close to call because what you're going to see in Arizona is the same thing are going to happen otherwise.
00:14:57.000You're going to see moderate Republicans come out and say, we can't support Kerry Lake.
00:15:04.000They're going to have Republicans for Katie Hobbs.
00:15:06.000And I guarantee you, on Monday, Arizona Republic and all these other newspapers are going to come out with fake suppression polls showing Kerry Lake down 10 points to Katie Hobbs, of which no one can answer the question, why is it that Katie Hobbs is allowed to run for governor and also oversee her own election running for governor?
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00:16:43.000There are very few people in Washington, D.C. of which I will give praise to, but this senator has just been phenomenal at every single fight, every corner, every turn.
00:17:08.000So I want to start with this tape of you with FBI Director Christopher Wray, where you ask him, why is the Federal Bureau of Investigation asking for concealed carry information?
00:17:34.000In the state of Missouri, only the sheriffs have these concealed carry records because Missouri law explicitly forbids concealed carry permit information to be turned over to state officials or to federal officials.
00:17:47.000I just want to understand why it is the FBI is now seeking from our sheriffs.
00:17:51.000And we're talking about multiple sheriffs who have come, who have contacted me, who have contacted other state officials, who have spoken to the press, saying that the FBI is now asking for the names of concealed carry permit holders in the state of Missouri.
00:18:06.000Why is that if you've not done it before?
00:18:19.000The truth is, Charlie, what it looks like to me is retaliation.
00:18:22.000Right now, the Biden administration is suing the state of Missouri over Second Amendment protections.
00:18:27.000And then all of a sudden, at about the same time, the FBI comes into Missouri and says to the sheriffs, hey, give us the list of all your concealed carry permit holders.
00:18:38.000The fact that Ray wouldn't answer any questions about it, but yet, you know, when I press him on it, Charlie, then he said, well, I mean, maybe here's why we're doing it.
00:18:45.000So he knows more than he's letting on.
00:18:48.000But either way, it's a huge invasion of privacy.
00:18:51.000And it's exactly what gun owners fear, you know, is that your records are going to get turned over, going to get used in some federal database.
00:18:58.000We have no idea what the federal government would do with these names once it got them.
00:19:01.000And frankly, I don't trust the federal government at all to keep any of this stuff private.
00:19:06.000Yeah, and just the smugness of how they answer these questions, Senator, the way we do congressional oversight is maddening for regular everyday citizens.
00:19:16.000And you guys are doing the best you can, but it's just this kind of nonstop theatrical campaign where they have many weeks to prepare and then they have all the synonyms of non-answers.
00:19:25.000I'll have to circle back or whatever they say.
00:19:28.000And then maybe a couple years later, we might find out once it's out of the news cycle.
00:20:26.000I remember a time when Democrats used to be really concerned about civil liberties and they thought the FBI was too powerful and too strong.
00:20:33.000Now many Democrats look at them as their kind of Democrat police force.
00:20:37.000I hate to be that blunt, but they are able to deploy them against political enemies and opposition.
00:20:43.000I want to go to this other story here, Senator, that you guys have a press release on.
00:20:47.000Senator Hawley and Senator Johnson exposed new whistleblower allegations about Biden failure to vet Afghan evacuees.
00:20:56.000Well, what we've had is a whistleblower, patriotic whistleblower, who has come forward to say there are hundreds, like over 300 Afghan refugees brought to this country who had information in the watch list, who are on the terrorist watch list and yet got into this country anyway.
00:21:12.000And for all we now know, are now out in the country, in the interior somewhere.
00:21:16.000So previously, we thought the number was about 50.
00:21:19.000What this whistleblower says is, no, it's over 300.
00:21:22.000So I asked Ray about this because the FBI is supposed to be tracking these people.
00:21:26.000He said he didn't know anything about it.
00:21:34.000So it just shows you that it is total shambles over there, this administration.
00:21:38.000But also, they don't care about the security of the American people.
00:21:41.000The other thing that this whistleblower exposed is that DHS employees have been authorized to start deleting data, biometric data from this terrorist database, start deleting it in what looks like a cover-up.
00:22:21.000Yeah, I mean, just of all the threats to our liberties, an unaccountable police force that does whatever they want, that targets moms and dads that go to school board meetings, but not foreign nationals from terrorist country of terrorism, Afghanistan, that could just be in our midst.
00:22:38.000And that's not the only, you know, whistleblower that we have on this.
00:22:42.000I know Chuck Grassley has some other stuff that's potentially coming out as well on this, but it just seems as if the FBI, the way that they answer your questions or don't answer them, there is an attitude of, I am the supreme branch of government, right?
00:22:57.000That you guys are kind of a waste of time in the legislative.
00:23:00.000And it's just, it's so constitutionally wrong because we're supposed to have these separate branches and checks and balances on them.
00:23:07.000So, Senator, I want to ask you about the NATO expansion vote.
00:23:10.000First, I want to thank you for your vote.
00:23:12.000You're the only senator to vote against expanding NATO.
00:23:22.000I mean, that ought to be what we're asking.
00:23:24.000Thought in our questions about American foreign policy: is it good for the United States and does it make us stronger?
00:23:29.000And if the answer to that is no, then why would we do it?
00:23:32.000Expanding NATO, here's what will amount to: it will amount to us spending more money in Europe, sending more troops to Europe, making more commitments in Europe.
00:23:40.000And my view is with the issues that we've got now at home and overseas with China, I mean, this is not the time to be doing more in Europe.
00:23:51.000And we should go in the opposite direction and be saying to the Europeans, listen, you really need to take first responsibility for your own continent and you need to quit freeloading on the United States.
00:24:01.000So that ought to be the message that we send, but we're sending the opposite message.
00:24:13.000That money just goes on and on and on.
00:24:15.000And I'm telling you, when China invades Taiwan and when they start dictating our terms of trade and when they won't give us market access and when they start ripping us off even more than they are now, we're going to wonder how did it get to this point.
00:24:26.000And we'll look back and say, because of decisions like this one.
00:24:28.000That's an interesting way to phrase it.
00:25:12.000If China tried to invade Taiwan, we couldn't stop it.
00:25:14.000I don't think the entire strategy should have been keeping our powder dry for a potential Taiwanese invasion, of which this entire Ukrainian proxy war conflict, it's actually made Russia wealthier and stronger.
00:25:25.000And one of the arguments against NATO expansion, which again, no one in the Senate understands, quite honestly, except you, is that this actually strengthens Putin domestically.
00:25:35.000If you talk to anyone, yeah, please, your thoughts, Senator.
00:25:40.000And here's the other thing, though, here's my nightmare, Charlie: is that as we get more and more tied down in Europe, you look at China, you look at the Communist Party there, and they say, oh, great, the United States is doing more in Europe.
00:25:52.000I mean, you know, this is why we can't fight two simultaneous wars against Russia and China under the best of circumstances.
00:25:59.000And we can't afford to have China running rampant in the Pacific and again, kicking us out and controlling our trade, controlling our economy, controlling our jobs.
00:26:10.000So I just think that the hour is really late right now in Asia.
00:26:13.000It's really late with regard to what China is trying to do in their imperialism.
00:26:17.000And we are not in a position to stop it.
00:26:20.000And it's because we have been tied down in Europe and tied down on the Middle East and not focusing where we should.
00:26:26.000And so what is going to happen now domestically in Russia is Putin will, through all of his propaganda channels, he'll say, see, the West is continuing their invasion closer to our border, right?
00:26:37.000And now, but this is what I don't understand, Senator, is that for the longest period of time, everyone says, well, we can't allow Putin to take over Ukraine because it's now going to border a NATO country.
00:26:50.000And that was like the big talking point, even though it's not true because there's Colin Grud Oblast, but whatever.
00:26:59.000And so, and by the way, there is a lot of kind of overlap in culture and language with Finland and Russia.
00:27:05.000So just to make sure everyone that understands this at home, only Senator Hawley thinks that it's insane that American men and women should be drafted into a military because of a proxy war that might happen in the Finnish-Russian border.
00:27:19.000How is that the concern of the United States?
00:27:21.000While we have so many problems domestically, just really quick, Senator, isn't that the moment where we should prioritize our own needs, not potential border disputes amongst warring nations in Europe?
00:27:39.000And I think the fact that we even have to have this conversation shows you just how out of touch people in Washington, D.C. have become on both sides of the aisle.
00:27:46.000They have completely lost the focus on American security, American workers, American prosperity.
00:27:52.000And it's become all of this gauzy nation-building, new world order, liberal international system stuff.
00:27:58.000And, you know, we need to refocus and say, hold on, hold on.
00:28:01.000What is in the interests of the American people and American security?
00:28:06.00095 to 1, there was one no on NATO expansion.
00:28:11.000And again, NATO is a failed project in the modern era because it subsidizes socialism domestically in Europe.
00:28:19.000So they don't have to draft their own military.
00:28:21.000It outsources Europe's own responsibility to America, and then it could potentially get us involved in something we are not prepared in that is not in our national security interest.
00:28:33.000While what's happening in Asia, I totally agree.
00:28:53.000I mean, I guess it's just at the end of the day, they don't understand what it means to have our borders completely overrun, what it means to have the cartels control the border.
00:29:02.000Because by the way, that's what's happening here.
00:29:21.000And just on the drug piece, Charlie, I mean, one of the reasons I care a lot about this is that the drugs that are pouring across our southern border are in every single community of my state of Missouri.
00:29:31.000And unfortunately, every community across this country, we are awash in drugs in Missouri.
00:29:36.000And the reason is our border is not secure.
00:29:39.000And it seems to be as if there's this really sick connection, unfortunately, between the muscular class and people that work at their hands.
00:29:47.000They get prescribed opioids by their doctor.
00:29:50.000And then unfortunately starts them on this path of addiction that then, of course, might get supplemented or augmented by the flow of fentanyl.
00:29:59.000A normal country would say to China that you have not just infected us with the Wuhan flu, but also you've allowed millions of pounds of this lethal fentanyl into America.
00:30:12.000The issues that actually impact our citizens seem to always kind of be put to the third rail.
00:30:18.000I don't know how you voted, but I would just love your thoughts on the CHIPS Act.
00:30:26.000And the reason is, yeah, I mean, it's a total giveaway.
00:30:28.000I mean, here's the CHIPS thing is real simple.
00:30:31.000It's a whole bunch of money to corporate interests in America to keep doing what they're already doing, which is to sell us out to China.
00:30:38.000We're going to give now under this pill, we're going to give a whole bunch of tax breaks, billions of dollars in tax breaks to mega corporations who are running operations in China, and they'll get to keep doing it.
00:31:44.000Senator, really quick, your neighboring state of Kansas, they voted down a very poorly worded bill on the pro-life issue, bill, a referendum, I should say.
00:31:54.000Do you think going into the midterms, how should we talk about our pro-life ideas and values?
00:32:01.000There are some whispers from establishment circles.
00:32:03.000See, see, Kansas is going to prevent us from winning on the life issue.
00:32:09.000And the reason is the Democrats' positions are so extreme, Charlie, and so unpopular.
00:32:13.000Let's not forget what the Democrats want to do is impose on the whole country abortion on demand for full nine months up to and including the point of birth.
00:32:23.000They want to get rid of the partial birth abortion bans.