The Charlie Kirk Show - December 02, 2023


Newsom vs DeSantis + Matt Gaetz Calls Out the GOP...Again


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Charlie and Matt are joined by Kurt Schlichter and Matt Gates to discuss the latest in the DeSantis vs. Newsom debate, and why California should not be allowed to have sex with minors in college.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today's Charlie Kirk Show.
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00:00:38.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:40.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:42.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
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00:00:49.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:50.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:51.000 His spirit, his love of this country.
00:00:52.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
00:00:58.000 Turning point USA. 0.65
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00:01:20.000 Joining us now is Kurt Schlichter.
00:01:22.000 Kurt, welcome to the program.
00:01:23.000 I was laughing in our kind of pre-chat here.
00:01:26.000 I didn't watch this debate last night of DeSantis v. Newsome.
00:01:31.000 Did you watch the debate last night?
00:01:35.000 It's one of the least viral things I've seen in quite some time.
00:01:39.000 I didn't watch it, not because I dislike Ron DeSantis.
00:01:43.000 In fact, I like Ron DeSantis.
00:01:45.000 It's because I have, you know, a traumatic stress disorder from actually living in California. 1.00
00:01:52.000 I don't need to see that hair-jailed, mutant, lying, scumbag communist one more second of my life. 1.00
00:01:59.000 I got a hobo living on my lawn. 1.00
00:02:02.000 I don't need this.
00:02:03.000 I know how bad California is.
00:02:07.000 Gavin Newsom is trying to tell us everything is wonderful.
00:02:10.000 To DeSantis' credit, he showed and he didn't tell.
00:02:12.000 And this is Cut 135.
00:02:15.000 An app where they plot the human feces that are found on the streets of San Francisco.
00:02:21.000 And you see how almost the whole thing is covered because that is what has happened in one of the previous greatest cities this country's ever had.
00:02:29.000 Human feces is now a fact of life, except when a communist dictator comes to town. 0.60
00:02:35.000 Then they cleaned up the streets.
00:02:36.000 They lined the streets with Chinese flags.
00:02:38.000 They didn't put American flags there.
00:02:40.000 They cleaned everything up.
00:02:41.000 So they're willing to do it for a communist dictator, but they're not willing to do it for their own pieces.
00:02:47.000 That's pretty strong from Governor DeSantis.
00:02:49.000 That's pretty strong.
00:02:50.000 And it's pretty true. 0.91
00:02:52.000 Look, I grew up in San Mateo, California.
00:02:54.000 It's about 20, 10, 15 miles south of San Francisco.
00:02:57.000 So I went there a lot as a kid.
00:03:00.000 And I remember a very different San Francisco.
00:03:02.000 I just watched the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the one where you have Donald Sutherland at the end going, ah!
00:03:11.000 And it shows San Francisco.
00:03:13.000 And Charlie, it's a beautiful city.
00:03:16.000 A lovely city.
00:03:17.000 That's the city I remember.
00:03:18.000 And now it's a festival of hobo droppings.
00:03:22.000 And that's not, that's not an exaggeration.
00:03:25.000 That's absolutely true. 0.66
00:03:28.000 How can you, how can you, how can you argue that you want to impose a model on the rest of the country that has, you know, junkies, losers, and derelicts dropping trowel on the sidewalk and the cops just going, ah, that's cool. 0.73
00:03:46.000 Let's go. 0.63
00:03:47.000 By the way, we're seeing all these clips for the first time.
00:03:49.000 Let's play cut 136.
00:03:51.000 In California, if you're a parent in Iowa or New Hampshire or South Carolina, your minor child can go to California without your knowledge or without your consent and get hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and a sex change operation, all without you knowing or consenting.
00:04:10.000 How in the heck is that honoring parents' rights when you're bringing people from out of state to go around their parents' backs and getting life-altering surgeries?
00:04:20.000 That is radical.
00:04:22.000 That is an assault on parents' rights.
00:04:25.000 You know what?
00:04:26.000 Is that Gavin's response?
00:04:27.000 These kids just want to live?
00:04:29.000 Well, look, look, I'm only a simple country trial lawyer, but I kind of understand bad arguments. 1.00
00:04:38.000 The coins is not, your child will die unless you saw off her healthy breasts or cut off his healthy penis and testicles and then carve a bizarre mutant version of a vagina into the body of the child. 1.00
00:04:56.000 Let's say the worst. 1.00
00:04:58.000 That is what he is supporting.
00:05:01.000 And that is outright evil.
00:05:03.000 What a disgrace to my glorious state.
00:05:06.000 Let's play cut 137.
00:05:08.000 We continue.
00:05:08.000 We're all seeing this for the first time: 137.
00:05:11.000 How does paying $7 a gallon gas help working people?
00:05:16.000 That doesn't help working people at all.
00:05:17.000 How does paying an 8% sales tax help working people?
00:05:22.000 That doesn't help working people at all.
00:05:24.000 They have the highest taxes in the nation.
00:05:26.000 People flee to be able to save money to get out of California.
00:05:30.000 And you have working class people that move to these other states.
00:05:33.000 Their dollars go much further.
00:05:35.000 So I want to try to get Newsom's response to some of this.
00:05:38.000 He claims that more Californians, his response.
00:05:43.000 Charlie, before you go on, it's something important.
00:05:47.000 Last night, I docu signed the purchase of a house in Texas.
00:05:52.000 Wow.
00:05:53.000 So you're leaving.
00:05:54.000 I'm going to split my time.
00:05:57.000 I still have attachments to California and I don't retreat.
00:06:01.000 It wouldn't do me any good anyway because I'm still going to get stuck for California taxes.
00:06:06.000 But the point is, when I went to Texas, it was like, not another California.
00:06:11.000 I was like, no, no, no, I'm not a communist.
00:06:16.000 Let's play cut 138.
00:06:18.000 Not for you to decide.
00:06:19.000 It's for the parents to decide.
00:06:21.000 You know, and the parents do not want to survive.
00:06:24.000 Going to these other things.
00:06:25.000 Let me follow up.
00:06:27.000 Let me stay on a follow-up.
00:06:28.000 Let's turn to the issue of education.
00:06:30.000 Decency and humanity.
00:06:31.000 And decency of taking.
00:06:34.000 I don't even know what they're talking.
00:06:36.000 It's indecision.
00:06:37.000 Decency and humanity of mutilating children.
00:06:42.000 If that's decency and humanity, I am an unrepentant monster because the mutilation of children, besides being a crime, is a sin. 0.75
00:06:55.000 And it is despicable and disgusting.
00:06:58.000 And, you know, people are going to look back on this age the same way we look back on Caligula marrying a horse or Elagabulus, pretty much doing the same thing that the San Francisco Democrats are doing. 0.57
00:07:12.000 The same way that we look back as Caligula.
00:07:16.000 Refresh our audience on Roman history.
00:07:19.000 Caligula and Elagabulus were two unbelievable monsters. 0.99
00:07:23.000 Caligula was a lunatic pervert, allegedly married a horse. 0.99
00:07:29.000 Elagabulus was a, let's just say he was pretty much a moderate Democrat. 0.99
00:07:36.000 He would like to mutilate children, created his own personal religion, and was totally incompetent, as was Caligula in actually governing. 0.95
00:07:49.000 So basically, like I said, San Francisco kind of moderate Democrat.
00:07:54.000 Just kind of mainstream, middle of the line.
00:07:57.000 Mainstreaming it.
00:07:58.000 The one thing I will say is I didn't see much viral chatter here.
00:08:01.000 Newsom is slippery.
00:08:03.000 He's a really bad guy.
00:08:04.000 He is. 0.64
00:08:05.000 Yes. 0.98
00:08:06.000 He's a very bad person and unbelievably self-righteous in what he does and how he communicates.
00:08:13.000 And it doesn't seem as if the debate changed a lot of people's minds.
00:08:17.000 I mean, from the clips I'm watching here, it looks like Ron DeSantis won.
00:08:20.000 It's not even close.
00:08:21.000 Let's play Cut 139.
00:08:23.000 So I was talking to a fella who had made the move from California to Florida.
00:08:27.000 And he was telling me that Florida is much better governed, safer, better budget, lower taxes, all this stuff.
00:08:33.000 And he's really happy with the quality of life.
00:08:35.000 And then he paused and he said, you know, by the way, I'm Gavin Newsom's father-in-law.
00:08:40.000 So we do count Gavin's in-laws as some of the people that have fled California and come to the state of Florida.
00:08:46.000 That's pretty good.
00:08:48.000 I got to be honest.
00:08:49.000 That's some sharp stuff.
00:08:52.000 That's a nice stroke to the kidneys.
00:08:56.000 It's a straight shot to use a Kevin McCarthy congressional.
00:09:01.000 By the way, that's Tom Siebel, I think he's talking about, if I'm not mistaken.
00:09:05.000 I could be.
00:09:06.000 Yes.
00:09:07.000 And, you know, Mr. Newsome is quite the piece of work.
00:09:11.000 I don't need to be lectured about morality by a guy who, well, let's just say he seems to be marriage obligation optional.
00:09:24.000 I do find it hysterical, though, that he lost a beautiful woman to Donald Trump Jr.
00:09:32.000 But I pity him because I'm another guy who has like Donald Trump Jr., who has managed to embrace the Latin heat. 0.98
00:09:44.000 I guess, you know, Gavin's just not man enough.
00:09:48.000 Yeah, the question for Jennifer Newsom, is she okay that her husband serially cheats on her?
00:09:53.000 Is like she cool at that?
00:09:55.000 That would be a good question for her.
00:09:57.000 Look, we are Christians and people regularly fall short, but we ought to point that out and we ought not to celebrate it or ignore it.
00:10:05.000 Yeah, it's a good question for Jennifer.
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00:11:06.000 Kurt, so many stories to cover, and especially one of the ones that I want to hit right now beyond the Gavin Newsome-DeSantis debate, which really wasn't much of a debate.
00:11:18.000 Credit to DeSantis for ending that.
00:11:21.000 The drama happening in the U.S. House of Representatives right now, Kurt, we need some wins.
00:11:26.000 We just expelled Santos.
00:11:28.000 I think it's absolutely insane.
00:11:30.000 FBI.
00:11:31.000 It is insane.
00:11:32.000 Yeah, tell me your thought.
00:11:33.000 Riff on that, Kurt.
00:11:34.000 My thought is, what's the rule?
00:11:36.000 What is the rule?
00:11:38.000 And if there is a rule that if you've got accusations against you that are serious, and I'm not sure his are that serious, you are expelled.
00:11:49.000 Why is Bob Menendez still in the Senate?
00:11:52.000 Why are half the Democrats still in the House?
00:11:54.000 Why did this even get brought up for a vote?
00:11:59.000 I wouldn't have brought this to the floor.
00:12:01.000 Yeah, so fully counted.
00:12:02.000 So, time out.
00:12:02.000 Does Speaker Johnson have the ability to bring it to a vote or not?
00:12:06.000 It's fully his discretion, correct?
00:12:08.000 Well, I'm not sure.
00:12:10.000 I'll ask Matt.
00:12:11.000 I'll ask Matt Gates.
00:12:12.000 I'll ask Matt Gates.
00:12:13.000 Yeah, maybe a privileged vote where he has to bring it up.
00:12:17.000 But why had over 100 Republicans join in?
00:12:20.000 And I would have said, I don't care what Santos did because they don't care what the other side did.
00:12:26.000 Unilateral disarmament does not work.
00:12:30.000 I'd be willing to consider it if the rule was somebody who's done really bad things gets thrown out, regardless of parties.
00:12:37.000 I would take it very seriously then.
00:12:39.000 But that's evidently not the rule. 0.99
00:12:42.000 And I am done playing Calvin ball with these damn communists. 0.98
00:12:48.000 Yeah, so let's dive deeper into this, Kurt, which is if there was a gentleman's agreement, if we were dealing with people of virtue and honor where we had policy disagreements, then fine. 0.99
00:13:01.000 You guys expelled Elon because of some suspicious stuff with immigration and her brother. 0.98
00:13:06.000 We'll do this.
00:13:06.000 But there's only one side that plays the virtue signaling game.
00:13:11.000 Do we want to lose?
00:13:13.000 Kurt Schlichter.
00:13:14.000 I think some of us are afraid to win.
00:13:17.000 I think some of us are afraid to take the hard stands and do the tough things that are necessary to win.
00:13:23.000 You know, we've got, we have a society, and this isn't just in politics.
00:13:30.000 We have a society that's probably the most prosperous, secure, brand society in human history.
00:13:35.000 And we have a significant part of our population that believes that this sort of just happened, that it happened, that it just sort of came about because the arc of the universe bends towards justice.
00:13:49.000 What happened was a bunch of very hard and tough people did some very hard and tough things, including the shedding of blood, to create a society like ours.
00:14:00.000 And they must do tough things, sometimes including the shedding of blood, but also including tolerating people like what they say George Santos did.
00:14:09.000 And I don't know where he's guilty or not, to preserve it.
00:14:13.000 And if you're not willing to do tough things in a tough world, you're going to get rolled and your little island of prosperity, sanity, and some freedom is going to recede under the waters like Atlanta.
00:14:31.000 And yet, over 100 Republicans enthusiastically run into this.
00:14:35.000 Kurt, what I mean, you might see this differently than I do.
00:14:38.000 What, if anything, has this House GOP done to put wins on the board?
00:14:44.000 I don't know.
00:14:46.000 I mean, nothing.
00:14:50.000 I don't see any great change.
00:14:53.000 I was against throwing out Kevin McCarthy, not because I like Kevin McCarthy.
00:14:57.000 I don't like Kevin McCarthy.
00:14:58.000 I actively dislike Kevin McCarthy, but Kevin McCarthy was useful in that position and putting some wins on the board, not a lot, but he was in a tough position with a very narrow majority.
00:15:12.000 A majority now, one narrower, by the way.
00:15:17.000 You know, one bad accident or another Democrat shooting up a ball game changes the majority in the House, Charlie.
00:15:25.000 And we just toss this guy away because we want to be seen as nice guys.
00:15:30.000 Well, I'm not a nice guy, and I don't vote for nice guys.
00:15:35.000 And I think a lot of Republicans feel that way.
00:15:38.000 I think so.
00:15:38.000 And I think a lot of Republicans care deeply about what the New York Times says about them, what the Washington Post says about them.
00:15:44.000 I really do.
00:15:45.000 I think a lot of these Republicans, they care far more about the names that they're called or not called than anything else.
00:15:53.000 Kurt, look, I am regularly called the worst epithets on earth.
00:15:58.000 But the nice thing is, I am in a chain of command.
00:16:01.000 It doesn't, well, the haters are not above me.
00:16:04.000 I answer to the Almighty and no one else.
00:16:08.000 And my conscience is clear.
00:16:10.000 So you call me whatever you want.
00:16:12.000 Don't care.
00:16:13.000 Never have.
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00:16:28.000 Thank you, Kurt.
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00:17:43.000 Joining us now is Matt Gates, one of the few patriots in the House of Representatives.
00:17:48.000 He's holding the line and doing a great job every single day.
00:17:50.000 Several topics we want to cover, but the one that is about from a week ago that I want to make sure we don't forget is the Minot Air Force Base.
00:17:59.000 Matt Gates, you're on the Armed Services Committee.
00:18:02.000 Did we ever get an answer from the Air Force as to why they think Turning Point USA is untouchable for members of the military?
00:18:09.000 Yeah, just for listeners who know, people who were serving at Minot Air Force Base literally got a text message warning that if they were to attend a turning point event, that that might impair their ability to serve in the military.
00:18:23.000 And they called Turning Point an alt-right organization.
00:18:27.000 Of course, we all know Turning Point is really an explosion of positive patriotism.
00:18:32.000 It's something that gives young people an opportunity to engage in politics.
00:18:36.000 And so I have a vision to find out exactly who drafted that text message, exactly who authorized it.
00:18:43.000 And I'm going to haul them before the House Armed Services Committee.
00:18:46.000 And whatever woketopian general or colonel or whomever ordered this ought to be forced to sit in that committee room.
00:18:56.000 And you know who I want sitting next to him, Charlie?
00:18:58.000 You.
00:18:59.000 I want you sitting at that table right next to whoever made that decision and have them look at you and look at us and explain to us why they're trying to virtue signal against anything that has an embrace of patriotism and love of country because they have no problem in the military going and getting pro-socialism literature at the National Defense University.
00:19:22.000 They have no problem in embracing radical gender ideology.
00:19:27.000 But if, God forbid, somebody wants to go hear a lecture from one of the great speakers who attend a turning point event, then somehow we have to challenge their patriotism.
00:19:38.000 I know it was a week ago, but I am so hot under the collar for this because it is an effort to really signal to people.
00:19:46.000 And let's be honest, it probably wasn't going to be the entire base at Minot Air Force Base that was going to go to this turning point event.
00:19:52.000 But what they want to signal is that if you have any association with anything that might be viewed as conservative or traditionalist, that you are somehow dangerous.
00:20:02.000 And they want to do that so that people self-censor and silence and become less patriotic.
00:20:07.000 And this is our military.
00:20:09.000 So we're going to get to the bottom of this because one thing Tucker Carlson taught me is that one of the most powerful drivers of the human existence is humiliation and particularly public humiliation.
00:20:20.000 And the people who made this decision deserve to be called to the mat for it.
00:20:24.000 And you know what?
00:20:26.000 If we bring that accountability to bear, hopefully it will deter the next woke to uniform from doing anything that has this flavor. 0.61
00:20:36.000 Let me know when and where I'd be happy to testify next to our wonderful Air Force.
00:20:43.000 And it wasn't even you.
00:20:44.000 I know.
00:20:44.000 It was Tyler.
00:20:45.000 But Tyler is some sort of alt, right?
00:20:47.000 Tyler's like the most mild-mannered, kind, he's an organizer. 0.98
00:20:52.000 And it is ridiculous. 0.99
00:20:54.000 It is ridiculous. 0.98
00:20:55.000 And it's also unconstitutional. 0.82
00:20:57.000 Okay, FISA is coming up, Matt.
00:20:59.000 So the FISA renewal, it's a 12-year potential renewal.
00:21:04.000 There are some reports that Speaker Johnson is trying to slip it into the NDAA bill that they I would hope we can get a standalone vote on this.
00:21:13.000 As you well know, FISA was used to spy on Tucker Carlson, to spy on Donald Trump.
00:21:18.000 It has been abused widely on both Republicans and Democrats.
00:21:22.000 It's been a bipartisan abuse by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
00:21:25.000 They refuse to ever acknowledge or admit that getting a warrant is possible in this entire process.
00:21:31.000 The Washington Post article yesterday was vomit-inducing, where they said, oh, you know, getting a warrant would be too big of an impediment.
00:21:39.000 Matt Gates, what's going on with FISA?
00:21:41.000 Well, first of all, thank you for being an advocate on this because sometimes when you start talking about FISA, people's eyes glaze over.
00:21:48.000 But this is one of the most abused authorities in our national security apparatus.
00:21:52.000 And it's not, it's even worse than you described.
00:21:56.000 When the Obama inspector general went and reviewed the FBI's conduct on FISA, they were breaking the law 38 times an hour for the period that was reviewed.
00:22:08.000 And they weren't doing creepy stuff.
00:22:10.000 They were looking up information regarding their neighbors, their ex-lovers, their co-workers.
00:22:16.000 It's a complete 1984 spy state Orwellian construct that they've created.
00:22:23.000 So we have a bill, and it's bipartisan.
00:22:25.000 We worked with Jerry Nadler, Zoe Lofgren, Vermila Jayapal, people that we don't normally make common cause with, but they actually believe in a warrant requirement.
00:22:36.000 They believe in the Fourth Amendment being imposed on the FBI when they want to engage in these queries of Americans.
00:22:43.000 Like when you hear Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, you think it's people abroad, but they're turning this against our fellow Americans.
00:22:50.000 They used it against people who were around the Capitol on January 6th.
00:22:54.000 They used it against people who were involved in the George Floyd riots.
00:22:58.000 So I don't think that I'm equally aggrieved by both of those.
00:23:02.000 I think that this was something we designed to go after terrorists in Central Asian caves, not after the American people.
00:23:08.000 So we've got that bill, and we want to get it passed.
00:23:12.000 I do not believe that you are going to see Speaker Johnson put any sort of clean extension of these authorities without reforms onto our defense authorization bill.
00:23:23.000 We want to see our troops paid more.
00:23:25.000 We want to see our weapon systems in a position to be able to deter and defeat any adversary, but we should not be lashing an extension of corrupt authorities that have been misused to our defense bill.
00:23:37.000 And I can tell you that Mike Johnson has made me a commitment that that will not happen.
00:23:43.000 So here's what I think we ought to do.
00:23:45.000 I think we ought to send our bill to the Senate and then force them to either eat those reforms or watch this program expire. 0.72
00:23:52.000 And there are a lot of people who are opposed to that.
00:23:54.000 Mike Pompeo has gotten involved in lobbying against our willingness to allow it to expire.
00:24:01.000 John Radcliffe, Mr. O'Brien as well.
00:24:05.000 So these are Republicans that are really putting a lot of heat on our committee chairs and leadership to do a clean extension of FISA.
00:24:13.000 But we need a lot better than that.
00:24:15.000 We need a, if they want to do, if the government wants to search stuff, they should have to have a warrant.
00:24:21.000 This is a principle that has existed throughout our jurisprudence.
00:24:24.000 And I think it would be deeply flawed to consider this as an attachment to any other bill.
00:24:30.000 So as just a quick follow-up, Matt, and I've asked this of many senators, and I never get a straight answer.
00:24:37.000 They say that the warrantless provision has prevented terrorist attacks and led to arrests and prosecutions.
00:24:45.000 Can you point to one?
00:24:46.000 I don't believe them.
00:24:48.000 Yeah, I can't really talk about a lot of that stuff because there's classifications and there's ongoing investigations.
00:24:54.000 What I can say is that the abuses of FISA would justify its complete relegation to the dustbin of history.
00:25:05.000 Now, that's not to say we don't need tools to be able to go after foreign adversaries that would do Americans harm, but we don't have to use this system that has been so just ripe with corruption.
00:25:17.000 And you see the 10,000 plus employees at the DOJ who are able to go and query the FISA database as yet another extension of that abuse.
00:25:28.000 So I don't think that this is something that is keeping us safe.
00:25:31.000 I think it is something that is keeping the nosy FBI in your phone logs, in your emails, in your text messages without probable cause.
00:25:40.000 You know what?
00:25:40.000 If there are people out there who are doing us harm, we should go get probable cause and get a warrant.
00:25:45.000 What's wrong with that?
00:25:47.000 Yeah, no, and I will just say it's incumbent on them to start to prove some of these fear-mongering one-liners that they put out.
00:25:56.000 They say, oh, yeah, we've prevented terrorist attacks.
00:25:58.000 Okay, name one.
00:25:59.000 Can you name a prosecution and indictment that all the, and by the way, not only name one, name one where you wouldn't have been able to get a warrant in that situation.
00:26:07.000 So that's exactly.
00:26:09.000 I think it would be, yeah, I think it would be easy for them to name instances in which law enforcement was effective at deterring some sort of bad act.
00:26:18.000 But the second prong is absolutely key.
00:26:21.000 In virtually every single one of those cases, you would be able to get a warrant.
00:26:25.000 I think in every one of those cases, you would have been able to get a warrant.
00:26:28.000 And now they're throwing up these hobgoblin, like red herring arguments.
00:26:32.000 They're saying, oh, well, if every one of these has to have a warrant, we need time.
00:26:36.000 We have to go yes.
00:26:37.000 That's called the Constitutionalized.
00:26:40.000 Yeah.
00:26:42.000 If you do not like this framework, go work for the Intel Agency of Saudi Arabia.
00:26:47.000 I'm told they're hiring.
00:26:49.000 They don't have a Fourth Amendment. 0.60
00:26:51.000 Okay?
00:26:52.000 Well, it's too hard.
00:26:53.000 And you know what?
00:26:54.000 If we're not willing to fight on this, then it is a real black eye for Republicans.
00:26:59.000 We have spent years chronicling, researching, exposing these abuses.
00:27:04.000 And if we have all these hearings and expose the abuses, and then we're not willing to cut off the authorities or the money to do it, then it's all just for show.
00:27:13.000 That this is just a big game, and we're not actually fighting the American people and their civil liberties.
00:27:18.000 So at the end of the day, don't look at the flashy lures.
00:27:22.000 It's about the authorities that these government entities have, and it's about the money you send them.
00:27:26.000 That's true at the DOJ.
00:27:28.000 That's true at the FBI.
00:27:29.000 That's true at the border.
00:27:30.000 That's true with our foreign aid and the Department of State.
00:27:33.000 That's true with Ukraine. 0.55
00:27:34.000 Follow the money and follow the authorities.
00:27:37.000 And that's where we have to really focus our effort now that we have a speaker who I think can deliver for us.
00:27:42.000 I'm just, I'm curious, any hope in the next couple of weeks to get an impeachment of Mayorkas Garland or Joe Biden?
00:27:49.000 We don't have the votes to impeach anyone.
00:27:52.000 And Marjorie Taylor Greene is actually showcasing that by forcing votes on impeachment, by filing these privileged resolutions. 0.79
00:28:00.000 And frankly, we've got a lot of these moderate members who just don't have the gumption to advance impeachment.
00:28:06.000 And here's what I'm looking forward to.
00:28:08.000 How many of the 105 people who voted to expel George Santos are going to vote against the impeachment inquiry?
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00:30:01.000 Matt, you gave a great speech on the House floor to not expel George Santos.
00:30:05.000 My question is, was this a privileged motion or did the speaker have to bring this to the floor or could he have blocked this?
00:30:13.000 A speaker had no choice.
00:30:15.000 When you move to expel a member, you have to have a vote on it if it's offered in a privileged manner.
00:30:21.000 Here, you had a privileged introduction of that desire to expel George Santos.
00:30:27.000 And so a vote was going to come either way.
00:30:29.000 This isn't on Speaker Johnson.
00:30:30.000 It's on the 100-plus Republicans who changed the precedent of the United States House of Representatives from its inception.
00:30:38.000 The only way you got kicked out of the House was being convicted of a crime or participating in the civil war.
00:30:44.000 Now, Jamal Bowman literally pled guilty to a crime, and the ethics committee did nothing.
00:30:51.000 They ended the investigation into Jamal Bowman.
00:30:54.000 And yet, George Santos, who I think we can all agree is sort of an eccentric individual, and I don't know if he's guilty or not.
00:31:00.000 But guess what?
00:31:01.000 I'm a congressman.
00:31:02.000 I'm not the judge, the jury, the executioner.
00:31:06.000 So when we get to a posture where the swamp of Washington, D.C. gets to substitute its judgment for the judgment of voters who sent a member of Congress here, you have eroded democracy.
00:31:19.000 You have eroded the republic.
00:31:21.000 This representative system of government that we have becomes less operational when it's not the voters who get the final say.
00:31:30.000 It is so disappointing.
00:31:32.000 And again, this is not a defense of George Santos or anything he's done, but you and I both know the Democrats would never do this.
00:31:40.000 Like, ain't nothing noble about the gold that Bob Menendez is carrying around, right?
00:31:45.000 And yet they had him as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and he's still getting classified breathings after an allegation that he was taking bribes from Egypt and he had these gold bars that he didn't get from Noble Gold that he got with Arabic inscriptions on them.
00:32:01.000 And so the double standard and our willingness to self-mutilate on these things really impairs our ability to get the job done.
00:32:10.000 So let's do the math here, Charlie.
00:32:13.000 We have a four-vote majority, right?
00:32:15.000 Now we've kicked out George Santos.
00:32:17.000 We have a three-vote majority.
00:32:18.000 Congressman Bill Johnson of Ohio has taken a college university presidency.
00:32:23.000 That could knock us down to two. 0.62
00:32:25.000 And I don't really think Kevin McCarthy is sticking around long.
00:32:28.000 Every image of his office shows that he's packing things up in boxes.
00:32:32.000 So we could be down to a one-seat majority.
00:32:34.000 We got a bunch of these octogenarians in our conference.
00:32:37.000 If God forbid any of them were to cross the rainbow bridge, we would be in a situation where we could literally lose the majority because we were so eager to throw George Santos out before even being convicted.
00:32:50.000 It is not in accordance with precedent.
00:32:52.000 It is not in accordance with due process. 1.00
00:32:55.000 And it is just tactically freaking stupid. 0.99
00:32:59.000 Yeah, besides that, it was a brilliant idea. 1.00
00:33:00.000 What do they tell you?
00:33:01.000 I mean, these people are gutless wonders.
00:33:03.000 They do nothing.
00:33:04.000 Honestly, Matt, you have to do it every single day.
00:33:08.000 Why give Republicans more power if they do stuff like this?
00:33:11.000 Just because the alternative is so much worse, to be honest with you. 0.98
00:33:14.000 I mean, for all of our flaws and foibles and follies, we're at least not trying to cut the genitalia off your children like the Democrats are. 0.98
00:33:22.000 So, I mean, that's basically what we have at this point. 0.94
00:33:25.000 No, but we do try to mutilate our own Congress. 0.97
00:33:28.000 Yeah, we're mutilating ourselves. 0.91
00:33:29.000 The Democrats want to mutilate your children. 0.79
00:33:32.000 So I guess that's what we're left with right now in America.
00:33:35.000 I mean, and by the way, by the way, like, what concerns you more that George Santos misused some campaign funds for Botox and OnlyFans, or that the chairman of the ethics committee regularly trades defense stocks?
00:33:48.000 Like, that's a laugh.
00:33:51.000 What are we doing right now?
00:33:54.000 Matt Gates, everybody.
00:33:55.000 Good luck.
00:33:56.000 I wouldn't want your job.
00:33:57.000 Enjoy.
00:33:58.000 Thanks, Matt.
00:33:59.000 Keep fighting.
00:33:59.000 Thanks, Charlie.
00:34:00.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:34:02.000 Email us is always freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:34:04.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:34:05.000 God bless.
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