The Charlie Kirk Show - No Notes! Obama(doesn't)Care and Day Two of ACB's Senate Confirmation

00:00:00.000 Thank you for listening to this podcast one production.

00:00:02.000 Now available on Apple Podcasts, Podcast 1, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts.

00:00:08.000 Hey, everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, Amy Coney Barrett, day two.

00:00:13.000 Also, Obamacare explained and so much more.

00:00:15.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:00:18.000 Please consider supporting our program at charliekirk.com slash support at charliekirk.com slash support.

00:00:27.000 If this episode or this podcast has impacted your life in any way, please consider supporting us at charliekirk.com slash support.

00:00:36.000 That is your way to help us make sure millions of more students hear the truth that we talk about on this podcast.

00:00:44.000 If you want to win a signed copy of the MAGA doctrine, type in Charlie Kirk show to your podcast provider and hit subscribe.

00:00:48.000 Give us a five-star review, screenshot it, and email it to us at freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:00:53.000 Amy Coney Barrett, day two.

00:00:56.000 We have the incident analysis that you guys want.

00:00:58.000 Buckle up, everybody.

00:00:59.000 Here we go.

00:01:00.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:01:02.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:01:04.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:01:08.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:01:11.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:01:12.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:01:13.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.

00:01:21.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

00:01:30.000 That's why we are here.

00:01:33.000 Hey, everybody.

00:01:34.000 Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show, radio stations across the country.

00:01:37.000 Also streaming live on Facebook and YouTube.

00:01:40.000 CharlieKirk.com.

00:01:42.000 Check it out and check out our podcast.

00:01:44.000 Two new podcasts out this morning.

00:01:47.000 Charlie Kirk Show podcast.

00:01:48.000 Make sure to download it.

00:01:51.000 Right now, it looks as if the Senate has taken a break.

00:01:54.000 The Senate Judiciary Committee chaired by Senator Lindsey Graham in the potential nomination fight for judge soon to be Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

00:02:06.000 The Democrats are having a very difficult time attacking ACB.

00:02:12.000 Amy Coney Barrett, out of all of President Trump's Supreme Court nominees, has navigated the landscape of difficult questions, of backlash, of almost a venomous posture from the left better than anyone else.

00:02:30.000 She has been direct, factual, and she has had no notes whatsoever.

00:02:38.000 In fact, I want to play tape of this.

00:02:40.000 It's pretty incredible.

00:02:41.000 Amy Coney Barrett almost taking the senators to Constitutional 101 school, and she was asked about whether or not she was using notes or what notes she was using.

00:02:53.000 I don't know if we have sound from this or not, but I want to show the picture up on the live stream.

00:02:58.000 No notes.

00:02:59.000 Amy Coney Barrett going through the Constitution 101 class.

00:03:04.000 Amy Coney Barrett was, of course, pressed on Roe versus Wade.

00:03:08.000 Let's go to cut one.

00:03:10.000 This is her response on the decision of Roe versus Wade.

00:03:13.000 Play tape.

00:03:15.000 I think on that question, you know, I'm going to invoke Justice Kagan's description, which I think is perfectly put.

00:03:23.000 When she was in her confirmation hearing, she said that she was not going to grade precedent or give it a thumbs up or a thumbs down.

00:03:29.000 And I think in an area where precedent continues to be pressed and litigated, as is true of Casey, it would be particularly, it would actually be wrong and a violation of the canons for me to do that as a sitting judge.

00:03:43.000 Invoking Justice Kagan, who of course was nominated by President Barack Obama when Joe Biden was vice president as well, and of course, just glided through the U.S. Senate with almost no issues whatsoever.

00:03:59.000 Invoking Justice Kagan is a stroke of political genius by Judge Amy Coney Barrett.

00:04:06.000 Now, mind you, they are trying to trap Amy Coney Barrett on this issue of Roe versus Wade.

00:04:10.000 Now, Roe versus Wade was a decision that nationalized abortion.

00:04:15.000 Now, prior to Roe versus Wade, there were several states across the country that had outlawed abortion.

00:04:23.000 The problem with Roe versus Wade is not even the issue of abortion.

00:04:27.000 Abortion does stop a beating heart, and abortion does terminate a human life.

00:04:32.000 The Roe versus Wade overturned the state mandates.

00:04:35.000 People did not vote for this.

00:04:36.000 It was one of the most undemocratic decisions in the history of the Supreme Court.

00:04:42.000 It basically nationalized the slaughter of innocent life.

00:04:45.000 It was a 7-2 decision. 0.50

00:04:47.000 It was done by the Burger Court.

00:04:49.000 The Warren Court prior to the Burger Court really set the landscape and set the framing for Roe versus Wade.

00:04:56.000 And what's happened since Roe versus Wade?

00:04:59.000 60 million plus abortions in our country.

00:05:03.000 It was a 7-2 decision.

00:05:06.000 And the decision actually involved the case of a woman named Norma McCorvey.

00:05:12.000 She used the pseudonym, of course, Jane Roe, who in 1969 became pregnant with her third child.

00:05:19.000 She wanted an abortion. 0.96

00:05:20.000 She lived in Texas where abortion was illegal and eventually sued her local district attorney, Henry Wade. 0.75

00:05:29.000 This all kind of came under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.

00:05:34.000 And any sort of honest observer can look back to Roe versus Wade and can, first of all, see how it was an overreach of the courts.

00:05:42.000 It was making policy.

00:05:43.000 If you don't like abortion, then go petition your government, run for office, and implement it through the laws and the correct channels. 0.98

00:05:52.000 Don't use the courts to make America in your image.

00:05:56.000 Amy Coney Barrett handled that beautifully and perfectly. 0.97

00:05:59.000 Amy Coney Barrett said this again in the second answer about what she will do on the court.

00:06:04.000 She says, I cannot pre-commit.

00:06:06.000 This is exactly the right answer she should give cut to.

00:06:10.000 Senator, I completely understand why you are asking the question, but again, I can't pre-commit or say, yes, I'm going in with some agenda because I'm not.

00:06:22.000 I don't have any agenda.

00:06:24.000 I have no agenda to try to overrule Casey.

00:06:27.000 I have an agenda to stick to the rule of law and decide cases as they come.

00:06:33.000 And when she's talking about Casey, by the way, she's talking about a specific decision of Planned Parenthood versus Casey.

00:06:40.000 It was a 1992 Supreme Court decision that revised and modified its legal rulings in Roe versus Wade.

00:06:47.000 In Casey, the court upheld that Roe's holding that the woman's right to choose to have an abortion is constitutionally protected, but it abandoned the trimester framework in favor of basically a fetal viability.

00:07:02.000 So there is kind of some nuance there, but the activist abortionists, they are so focused on this issue of can we terminate innocent life.

00:07:11.000 It's almost an obsession.

00:07:12.000 It's a, if you want to know the religion of the left, if you want to know the core dogma, you hear that, Diane Feinstein?

00:07:21.000 Dogma, because the dogma lives loudly within you.

00:07:25.000 Diane Feinstein, of course, attacked Amy Coney Barrett in her hearings to become a federal judge, saying the dogma lives loudly inside of you because Amy Coney Barrett is a practicing and devout Catholic.

00:07:38.000 But the dogma lives strongly with Einstein, who believes firmly that abortion is not just a constitutionally protected right, but it should be the forefront of the questioning against a judge.

00:07:54.000 Diane Feinstein, who of course had a Chinese driver for 25 years, never misses an opportunity to say something nice about the Chinese Communist Party or peddle their sort of talking points to turn our country against each other. 0.57

00:08:06.000 Diane Feinstein is the ultimate kind of mob boss leader, similar to Nancy Pelosi.

00:08:14.000 We unpacked that in our podcast last week. 1.00

00:08:16.000 But Diane Feinstein just basically peddles whatever narrative is provided in front of her. 1.00

00:08:22.000 Cut number six, then Diane Feinstein realizes she's losing on the Roe versus Wade abortion issue, and she immediately goes to racial discrimination in the workforce. 1.00

00:08:33.000 Play tape.

00:08:35.000 Please explain what factors must be present for a policy based on race to violate Brown v. the board's prohibition of separate but equal.

00:08:47.000 Well, let me ask you, as a person, do you have a general belief?

00:08:53.000 As a person, I have a general belief that racism is abhorrent.

00:08:57.000 That racism is what?

00:08:59.000 Abhorrent. 1.00

00:09:01.000 I know that's a very big word for Diane Feinstein, but abhorrent means that she finds it evil, unacceptable, no tolerance for it at all whatsoever. 1.00

00:09:13.000 And so Diane Feinstein is trying her best to trip up Amy Coney Barrett.

00:09:19.000 And you can almost see a sense of defeat in the way that the Democrats have been handling this.

00:09:24.000 They recognize and realize that if they mishandle this hearing, it could be a massive political boost for them.

00:09:35.000 That it could be a huge political boost for the Republicans, I should say.

00:09:43.000 It could be a massive political hurt or hit to them. 1.00

00:09:47.000 And so Diane Feinstein tries the racial discrimination aspect of it.

00:09:53.000 And it's interesting.

00:09:54.000 Segregation is finding its way back into our country.

00:09:57.000 We have black-only dormitories on many university campuses across the country. 0.98

00:10:01.000 They're pushing for black-only math classes.

00:10:04.000 Diane Feinstein doesn't mention that in the state of California, they are, again, doing black-only learning centers. 0.77

00:10:12.000 But Amy Coney Barrett's answer here was terrific.

00:10:14.000 Despite what they're throwing at her, no matter what kind of attempts they are making to try to destroy her, Amy Coney Barrett is holding the line beautifully.

00:10:22.000 And the Democrats know this.

00:10:24.000 The Democrats know that they're not going to be able to pack the court.

00:10:27.000 And we unpacked that in our previous discussion yesterday, where we are talking about how the Democrats do not have the votes to be able to pack the court.

00:10:37.000 And they know that this court in this certain sequence of politics is going to be a solidly conservative court.

00:10:50.000 I want to talk to you guys about Good Ranchers.

00:10:52.000 You heard me talk about them before.

00:10:54.000 Their meat is terrific.

00:10:55.000 They get delivered to you for free if you order at goodranchers.com.

00:10:59.000 Good Ranchers began with the standard of bringing top-quality, 100% American-born, raised, and harvested meat to families across America.

00:11:06.000 This vision was instilled into them from their grandparents that owned community grocery stores and believed in trust, charity, and family values.

00:11:12.000 Goodranchers.com partners directly with only American ranches from across the United States to bring the highest quality meat straight to your door.

00:11:19.000 Don't waste your money on cheap cuts or overseas beef.

00:11:23.000 Buy American at goodranchers.com.

00:11:26.000 Skip the grocery line.

00:11:27.000 It's 100% American beef, chicken, and more.

00:11:30.000 Support Americans, farmers, and support the American economy.

00:11:32.000 Goodranchers.com delivers your favorite meals right to your front door.

00:11:36.000 Perfect for grilling out or dinners at home.

00:11:38.000 Go to goodranchers.com to view all their American beef and chicken packages.

00:11:42.000 Use the promo code Charlie to save $20 off your purchase.

00:11:45.000 That's goodranchers.com.

00:11:47.000 That's goodranchers.com.

00:11:48.000 Promo code Charlie and save $20 for a limited time only.

00:11:51.000 Goodranchers.com, promo code Charlie.

00:11:53.000 Goodranchers.com, promo code Charlie. 0.88

00:11:58.000 Senator Leahy asks Amy Coney Barrett if she would recuse herself from any election dispute.

00:12:06.000 Play tape.

00:12:08.000 Would you, to protect confidence in both you and the court, would you commit to recuse yourself from any dispute that arises out of the 2020 presidential election?

00:12:21.000 I have had no conversation with the president or any of his staff on how I might rule in that case.

00:12:28.000 It would be a gross violation of judicial independence for me to make any such commitment.

00:12:34.000 So Senator Leahy is insinuating that Amy Coney Barrett is not in a position to rule on a potentially contested election because she was nominated by President Trump.

00:12:46.000 He would also make the argument for Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.

00:12:48.000 However, Senator Leahy, would you ask Justice Sotomayor or Justice Kagan to not rule on this election?

00:12:59.000 Because it was Vice President Biden that actually was the one that was vice president when they were nominated and confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

00:13:09.000 And it was Vice President Biden who was the head of the Senate as the Vice President of the United States.

00:13:15.000 Would you say that Breyer, that Justice Breyer shouldn't rule on this election, Senator Leahy?

00:13:22.000 Because it was Justice Breyer who Joe Biden voted for when he was up in the U.S. Senate.

00:13:30.000 Joe Biden voted for him as a member of the Senate.

00:13:33.000 Didn't just nominate him.

00:13:35.000 He went through advise and consent.

00:13:37.000 And in fact, we can get a fact check on this.

00:13:40.000 I would venture a guess just based on the committees that Joe Biden sat on that Breyer very well might have been in the committee that Joe Biden was chairing or Joe Biden was a voting member of that committee.

00:13:53.000 So Senator Leahy is trying to make a false connection here, a false insinuation that Amy Coney Barrett cannot be a federal Supreme Court justice and rule if she dare be nominated by a president who's involved in the election, even though the other person, the former Vice President Joe Biden, voted for, oversaw, knew, and has relationships with all of the Democrats who also sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.

00:14:22.000 Amy Coney Barrett was asked about Donald Trump's ability to delay the general election.

00:14:28.000 This is cut 12.

00:14:30.000 Let's hear what she has to say about this right here.

00:14:34.000 Play tape.

00:14:36.000 Well, Senator, if that question ever came before me, I would need to hear arguments from the litigants and read briefs and consult with my law clerks and talk to my colleagues and go through the opinion writing process.

00:14:50.000 So, you know, if I give off-the-cuff answers, then I would be basically a legal pundit.

00:14:56.000 And I don't think we want judges to be legal pundits.

00:14:59.000 I think we want judges to approach cases thoughtfully and with an open mind.

00:15:04.000 And so this is the perfect answer.

00:15:06.000 You can see Diane Feinstein is shifting her notes around.

00:15:08.000 She couldn't get her on Roe versus Wade. 0.88

00:15:10.000 She couldn't get her on a return to the Jim Crow era.

00:15:14.000 So Trump delaying the election. 0.94

00:15:14.000 She couldn't get her. 0.94

00:15:16.000 This is another conspiracy theory by the left. 0.99

00:15:18.000 It's actually the Democrats that are delaying the election.

00:15:22.000 It's the Democrats that are the ones that want to extend the period that mail-in voting can be processed.

00:15:30.000 In Pennsylvania, ballots that are received up to 10 days after the election will be counted.

00:15:36.000 Voter registration deadlines have been kicked now another week in the state of Arizona.

00:15:41.000 We are going up right up against the election.

00:15:44.000 We are less than a month away.

00:15:45.000 In fact, we are 20-something days away from the most important elections in 1860.

00:15:51.000 And yet, they still think that Donald Trump's going to try to delay the election as if he has some sort of supreme power to do it, as if he would even do that or want to do that.

00:16:02.000 And Amy Coney Barrett is taking all of America back to a constitutional course, the greatest political document ever written in the history of the world, one that protects natural rights, one that understands that government does not administer our rights, but God does.

00:16:17.000 And for Democrats, this can be a very difficult thing to have to sit through because she is basically shredding and obliterating their entire worldview calmly, directly, and factually.

00:16:29.000 Because everything she's talking about is having judges not act as if they're activists, that judges should not seek celebrity, that judges should not be legal pundits. 0.86

00:16:39.000 See, Democrats look at all things as institutions to make the superstructure in their image.

00:16:45.000 That's why they look at Congress that way.

00:16:47.000 They want to pack the courts, judges that way, Hollywood, media, you name it.

00:16:52.000 That's why they are so bothered by justices like Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh.

00:17:03.000 And that's also why they're having a very difficult time tripping up Amy Coney Barrett because she will not indulge in conjecture.

00:17:11.000 She will not entertain the hypothetical.

00:17:16.000 Here's the thing about home security companies.

00:17:18.000 Most trap you with high prices, tricky contracts, and lousy customer support.

00:17:22.000 Crime is going up in major cities.

00:17:24.000 What are you doing to protect your home from criminals?

00:17:27.000 That's why we partner with SimplySafe.

00:17:29.000 Simply Safe has everything you need to protect your home with none of the drawbacks of traditional home security.

00:17:34.000 It has an arsenal of sensors and cameras to blanket every room, window, and door tailored specifically for your home.

00:17:41.000 Professional monitoring keeps watch day and night, ready to send police, fire, and medical professionals if there is an emergency.

00:17:46.000 You can set it up in under an hour.

00:17:48.000 All of this starts for $15 a month.

00:17:50.000 And we're not the only ones that think SimplySafe is great.

00:17:53.000 U.S. News and World Report named the best overall home security system of 2019.

00:17:57.000 Try SimplySafe today at simplysafe.com/slash Charlie.

00:18:01.000 You get free shipping and a 60-day risk-free trial.

00:18:03.000 There's nothing to lose.

00:18:04.000 That's simplysafe.com/slash Charlie.

00:18:09.000 Senator Dick Durbin from my former home state of Illinois never made never misses an opportunity to make a fool of himself and insult the once great state of Illinois.

00:18:17.000 Dick Durbin has been in set has been in the U.S. Senate for as long as I can remember, probably most of my lifetime, and he has done a poor job of representing our state, always racially demagoguing, attacking people of faith, going after businesses, taxpayers, and Illinois is a complete and total disaster because of that.

00:18:39.000 And so Dick Durbin, in a very bizarre way, in the Amy Coney Barrett hearings, he blames Chicago's crime in Indiana.

00:18:48.000 I'm going to debunk this, but let's just play cut 15 of Senator Dick Durbin, who just decides to bring up the Chicago crime tragedy, which Democrats don't like talking about.

00:19:01.000 He's done nothing to fix.

00:19:03.000 In fact, just some numbers, just in 2020, there have been 573 people shot and killed in Chicago just this year.

00:19:11.000 2,797 shot and wounded, 3,370 total shot, and 628 total homicides.

00:19:19.000 A person in Chicago is shot every two hours and three minutes, and a person is murdered every 10 hours and 57 minutes.

00:19:27.000 Dick Durbin wants to bring up crime in Chicago, blames on Indiana.

00:19:30.000 Let's play tape.

00:19:31.000 I'll tell you why he's lying.

00:19:34.000 We know how it works.

00:19:35.000 Where you live, you know how it works.

00:19:37.000 There's a traffic between Chicago, northern Indiana, and Michigan going on constantly.

00:19:42.000 Gun shows are held in Gary, Indiana, and other places.

00:19:45.000 And when they're selling these firearms without background checks, unfortunately, these gangbangers and thugs fill up the trunks of their cars with firearms and head into the city of Chicago and kill everyone from infants to older people.

00:19:59.000 This has been debunked many different times.

00:20:01.000 If this was true, why is it that violent crime in Gary, Indiana, which is poorer than many neighborhoods in Chicago, which is lower income per capita than many neighborhoods in Chicago, have far less rates of violent crime despite having more gun ownership per capita than Chicago.

00:20:22.000 So what Senator Dick Durbin is trying to make the argument is that in Chicago, despite the strictest gun laws in the entire country, it is basically illegal to own a firearm in the city of Chicago.

00:20:31.000 There are zero gun stores in Chicago proper.

00:20:35.000 That's right, zero.

00:20:36.000 They don't even have firearm repair shops.

00:20:38.000 You have to go out into the suburbs of Cook County and anywhere in Cook County, the second largest county in the country, it is next to impossible to own a firearm.

00:20:45.000 I know it.

00:20:46.000 And hello to all of you listening on AM560, the answer.

00:20:46.000 I grew up there.

00:20:51.000 But in order for Senator Dick Durbin's argument to be correct, in order for that to actually have some sort of empirical backing, wouldn't the crime rates of Indiana also be out of control?

00:21:04.000 If it's true that all of a sudden these gun shows were leading to widespread regional crime and violence, why is it that Indiana has stable crimes of, stable rates of violent crime, of gang violence?

00:21:19.000 Now, they still have plenty of problems in Indianapolis.

00:21:20.000 There's nowhere nearly as bad as Chicago.

00:21:22.000 And the answer is very simple, is because in Indiana, you can legally own those firearms.

00:21:28.000 A armed citizenry is a safe country.

00:21:32.000 You take the tale of two cities, Chicago and Houston.

00:21:35.000 Houston, on average, will have about 180 gun deaths per year.

00:21:40.000 We'll get the most recent numbers.

00:21:43.000 But I just read off the Chicago crime statistics.

00:21:46.000 Why is it that Chicago has 573 people shot and killed just here in 2020?

00:21:52.000 Just in October, 23 people shot and killed.

00:21:55.000 138 people shot and wounded.

00:21:56.000 161 people total shot with 24 total homicides.

00:22:00.000 Reason number one, there has not been a Republican mayor of Chicago since 1931.

00:22:04.000 It's one-party rule.

00:22:06.000 There is one cartel that runs the city of Chicago. 0.63

00:22:09.000 And that party has intentionally made sure that the population of Chicago is illiterate, that police are not welcome in certain neighborhoods, that black fathers are not in the home, and they took away anyone that wanted to defend themselves' capacity to legally own a firearm.

00:22:26.000 So if you take away the freedom to legally own a firearm, who's still going to own a firearm?

00:22:32.000 That's right, the bad guys.

00:22:34.000 However, a bad guy is far less likely to engage in widespread public and blatant criminal activity if the citizenry is armed.

00:22:43.000 You see this in states all across the country that are open carry states, such as Texas, Houston, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada.

00:22:50.000 Yes, they still have plenty of issues at times with gang violence.

00:22:53.000 However, it is not as widespread in Chicago.

00:22:55.000 It is killing fields in Chicago that Senator Dick Durbin oversees.

00:22:59.000 He's acting as if this is just a stated fact.

00:23:01.000 They come here with these gunshell loopholes.

00:23:02.000 And first of all, the gunshell loophole has been completely debunked.

00:23:06.000 It's been debunked multiple times that according to federal law, it does take a processing background check of some sort that if you are a felon, if you have some form of a violent record, it should register in a national gun database.

00:23:22.000 It should.

00:23:22.000 And it's up to the firearm dealer to go through that.

00:23:25.000 What Senator Dick Durbin is really getting at, though, is that he wants the entire region of the Midwest to embrace the failed gun control policies of Chicago that result in hundreds of black people getting murdered every single year.

00:23:38.000 I know this is a complex argument for the anti-freedom, pro-control Democrats, but actually when you allow people to protect themselves, violent crime goes down.

00:23:48.000 When you allow police to go into neighborhoods and to do their job, then all of a sudden violent crime goes down.

00:23:53.000 And here's a question I have for Senator Dick Durbin. 0.96

00:23:55.000 Senator Dick Durbin is marching alongside BLM Incorporated. 0.52

00:23:59.000 Senator Dick Durbin, alongside Lori Lightfoot and Senator Tammy Duckworth from Illinois, were very quick to say that we should challenge police officers. 0.64

00:24:07.000 I don't know if they went as far to say that they should defund the police, but I'm sure that they were cozying up to those that wanted to defund the police and that they were allowing that to go unchallenged in the city of Chicago.

00:24:17.000 They allowed BLM Incorporated to riot, to loot, to steal from 600 black-owned businesses.

00:24:23.000 Here's my question for Senator Dick Durbin, and the Democrats cannot answer this question.

00:24:29.000 So they don't want law-abiding citizens to be able to own firearms.

00:24:35.000 He's making that very clear.

00:24:37.000 And they also don't want the police to have firearms.

00:24:40.000 Who on earth do you think should have firearms, Dick Durbin?

00:24:43.000 Who's going to go take all these guns away from the bad guys if they're there, if there's no police?

00:24:48.000 And at this moment, you kind of see the Democrats all of a sudden contradict themselves.

00:24:52.000 It's we actually want to regulate the amount of firearms in society, but we also want to get rid of the police.

00:24:57.000 I'll tell you who's going to fill that void.

00:25:00.000 When there is a power vacuum, hierarchies will still exist, and really bad people will fill those vacuums.

00:25:08.000 Mostly gang leaders, cartel leaders, and people that do not have society's best interests at heart.

00:25:15.000 And so you also go down to the root causes of crime in Chicago. 0.51

00:25:20.000 It was the destruction of black-owned businesses in South Chicago. 0.65

00:25:22.000 It was the deindustrialization movement because Senator Dick Durbin and many other people alongside him were very happy to cozy up the Chinese Communist Party where good, strong manufacturing jobs that employed millions of black people across the country were shipped overseas to Wuhan. 0.73

00:25:38.000 And instead, black people, I mean, anyone who worked in the manufacturing sector were given a little bit of severance and they were given government benefits in exchange.

00:25:51.000 Senator Dick Durbin is acting as if Amy Coney Barrett should know this because she lives in Indiana.

00:25:56.000 Indiana is abundantly more safe and peaceful, infinitely, not infinitely, but it is distinctly more safe than the city of Chicago.

00:26:10.000 It's because they allow legal ownership of firearms.

00:26:12.000 And also in Indiana, they've had much better governors and much better politics than Illinois.

00:26:18.000 Illinois is $205 billion in structural debt.

00:26:23.000 Illinois is now entertaining another tax hike.

00:26:28.000 J.B. Pritzker, the spoiled brat that runs the state of Illinois, he was born on 30, thought he hit a triple.

00:26:33.000 He's never done anything meaningful in his life.

00:26:34.000 He inherited the Pritzker family fortune and now is destroying Illinois as his new hobby.

00:26:39.000 Spent $111 million to become governor of Illinois so he could run it into the ground.

00:26:44.000 His net worth has gone up.

00:26:47.000 He's doing quite well because of the lockdowns. 0.95

00:26:49.000 His crowning achievement now is legalizing marijuana in the state of Illinois and allowing Chicago to become a scene of black-on-black crime, the likes of which our country has never seen before.

00:27:03.000 And so Senator Dick Durbin opens up a topic that I don't think Democrats actually are prepared to interface on, which is urban violence. 0.90

00:27:13.000 Democrats run all the cities in our country, absent one or two that have a very rare Republican mayor.

00:27:20.000 Democrats control these inner cities.

00:27:23.000 And the Democrats in power continue to get rich while their citizens, while the people they oversee, struggle.

00:27:34.000 There's a great quote by Sun Tzu.

00:27:36.000 Says, an evil enemy will burn his own nation to the ground just to rule over the ashes.

00:27:40.000 That is Senator Dick Durbin.

00:27:42.000 He doesn't care what happens in Chicago.

00:27:44.000 He wants the country to be completely disintegrated as long as he's in control.

00:27:48.000 Same with Nancy Pelosi, same with Senator Kamala Harris.

00:27:51.000 All they want is power.

00:27:52.000 They don't care if everything that was created before them that had meaning, that had value, that gave people dignity.

00:28:00.000 They couldn't care less if the country around them disintegrates or vanishes. 0.91

00:28:06.000 In fact, Senator Dick Durbin has done absolutely nothing to address black on black crime in the city of Chicago. 0.86

00:28:13.000 And he's acting as if Amy Coney Barrett should just know, as a matter of fact, that the gun shows are contributing to this.

00:28:18.000 It's not true.

00:28:20.000 It has been widely debunked repeatedly.

00:28:23.000 In fact, I've written multiple essays on this.

00:28:26.000 And the issue of guns hasn't exactly been on the forefront of the American zeitgeist in the last seven months.

00:28:31.000 But I will tell you that American, that there have been over 1,900,000 new gun sales just since the Chinese coronavirus lockdown in our country.

00:28:40.000 That's actually a very good sign for Donald Trump, by the way.

00:28:42.000 Very good sign.

00:28:44.000 I can't imagine that a lot of those people are going to go out of their way to go vote for Senator Kamala Harris.

00:28:52.000 The Democrats are very afraid that there will be a revolt on their hands of black Americans, Hispanics, and middle-class Americans that actually might start to challenge the Democrat power complex.

00:29:07.000 If you want to keep a citizenry down, if you want to keep a population controlled, keep them illiterate.

00:29:16.000 If you look at where the Democrats have the most amount of power, it is the most illiterate, unsafe, and fatherless populations in the country.

00:29:25.000 There has not been a Republican mayor of Atlanta since the 1800s.

00:29:32.000 And so if you dive even deeper into what is driving these cities and why this is happening, it is because the Democrat power masters are unafraid to demagogue based on race, but they do nothing to actually solve the structural problems in the inner cities of our country.

00:29:51.000 Nothing.

00:29:52.000 In fact, they actually make it worse. 1.00

00:29:54.000 Lori Lightfoot panders to the worst aspects of society. 1.00

00:29:59.000 You see clearly how Democrat policies have ruined once great American cities. 1.00

00:30:10.000 And Chicago is just one of them.

00:30:12.000 You now look at New York, you look at San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles.

00:30:19.000 These cities are crumbling underneath us.

00:31:17.000 Democrats are trying their best to attack Amy Coney Barrett. 0.97

00:31:20.000 She's doing it with no notes.

00:31:22.000 In fact, they asked her to hold up what she's been referencing throughout the hearing, and she holds up a blank piece of paper.

00:31:28.000 Joe Biden needs a teleprompter to introduce his wife.

00:31:31.000 By the way, I guess Joe Biden is running for the Senate.

00:31:34.000 I don't know if you guys heard about this.

00:31:35.000 Let's play tape.

00:31:36.000 Cut number five as our team pulls it up.

00:31:38.000 Joe Biden announces that he is running for the United States Senate.

00:31:42.000 Play tape.

00:31:44.000 You know, we have to come together.

00:31:45.000 That's why I'm running.

00:31:47.000 I'm running as a proud Democrat for the Senate.

00:31:52.000 People are voting for him.

00:31:53.000 Millions of people.

00:31:55.000 He's probably going to win the popular vote.

00:31:58.000 So, Joe Biden can't remember if he's running for the Senate or the presidency, doesn't know what day Super Tuesday is on, calls it Super Thursday, confuses his wife with his sister, forgets what president he served with, yet Amy Coney Barrett just comes up with no notes.

00:32:12.000 Why?

00:32:14.000 There's a great expression that says it very clearly: tell the truth, it's easier to remember.

00:32:22.000 For Amy Coney Barrett, this is built into her.

00:32:25.000 This is her DNA: being a textual constitutionalist.

00:32:30.000 She doesn't need notes.

00:32:31.000 She doesn't need references. 0.98

00:32:32.000 She doesn't need one-liners.

00:32:35.000 For her, this is what she's built for. 0.91

00:32:38.000 She's a fighter for liberty.

00:32:40.000 She's an admirer of the United States Constitution.

00:32:43.000 She understands the proper role of Article III in the judiciary.

00:32:48.000 And she's unafraid to stand for truth.

00:32:51.000 And as I'm saying this, Sheldon Whitehouse is doing whatever Sheldon Whitehouse does, demagoguing and lying.

00:33:00.000 I'm sure we'll have plenty of time to unpack that.

00:33:05.000 And the Democrats here are in a very interesting political position.

00:33:10.000 Senator Harris and Joe Biden have refused to really lay a glove on Amy Coney Barrett.

00:33:16.000 It'll be very interesting when Senator Harris gets an opportunity to ask Amy Coney Barrett questions because Amy Coney Barrett is actually popular in the swing states.

00:33:25.000 I call this the Republican trinity of Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Amy Coney Barrett.

00:33:30.000 The more television time she can get, the more time that she can have in front of swing voters and voters of faith, the better politically. 0.94

00:33:44.000 If I were to venture a guess, Senate Democrats are going to start very disciplined, and eventually they are going to try shenanigans and antics and tactics because the only recourse they have is to baselessly, baselessly say they are going to pack the courts.

00:33:58.000 They do not have the votes.

00:34:01.000 They are not going to build their majority that decisively to be able to pack the courts.

00:34:05.000 And we will not let that happen.

00:34:06.000 There will be a grassroots revolt against Democrat senators across the country if they dare pack the courts just because we don't like that Donald Trump got elected when Hillary Clinton was supposed to win.

00:34:17.000 That's why all this is happening, by the way.

00:34:19.000 And for anyone out there that says, I don't really like Donald Trump, if you like Amy Coney Barrett, Gorsuch Kavanaugh, and 200 circuit court judges, the only reason why Amy Coney Barrett is there right now and not some young Marxist revisionist activist, why is Amy Coney Barrett going through hearings right now?

00:34:41.000 Why is Amy Coney Barrett the one that is answering questions and not Sotomayor?

00:34:47.000 Why is ACB and not AOC being sworn in for the trying to get in the Supreme Court?

00:34:53.000 It's because Donald Trump won.

00:34:55.000 We take this for granted.

00:34:58.000 And I'm visiting the country.

00:34:59.000 We're in Florida.

00:35:00.000 We were in Texas yesterday.

00:35:01.000 We're all across the country.

00:35:03.000 And I have Christian conservatives coming up to me and they say, I don't really know if I want the Trump thing.

00:35:07.000 It doesn't really matter if he loses.

00:35:09.000 That is the definition of not being thankful or understanding the incredible disruption and the gift we were given in the election of Donald Trump.

00:35:18.000 Win or lose, Donald Trump will have reshaped the judiciary in a constitutional image.

00:35:24.000 More so than any one of those other corporate Republicans ever would.

00:35:27.000 His defeat of Hillary Clinton and being able to fill the Supreme Court With constitutionalists is only because he was able to win.

00:35:40.000 And yet, some Republicans right now are going out of their way to distance themselves from Trump and trying to say, we don't need Trump.

00:35:47.000 It's the only reason this is happening, only reason that you're able to actually have a Supreme Court that will be a check against tyranny.

00:35:54.000 If Trump were to lose, God forbid, this right here, Amy Coney, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Leto, and Thomas Roberts is a write-off.

00:36:01.000 Let him go be a Democrat.

00:36:02.000 Who cares?

00:36:03.000 Let him go be an activist. 0.94

00:36:05.000 That is your firewall against tyranny.

00:36:07.000 That is your guardian.

00:36:08.000 That is your bulwark for liberty and freedom in the Constitution.

00:36:12.000 And you love Trump, you hate Trump, you're indifferent to Trump.

00:36:14.000 If you love the country, you should love the fact that Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton and ACB, not AOC, is being sworn in for the U.S. Supreme Court.

00:36:24.000 Not sworn in yet, but we'll be prayerful and be disciplined.

00:36:28.000 But she's on the way to be confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

00:36:32.000 Elections have consequences. 1.00

00:36:36.000 When running a business, HR issues can absolutely kill you.

00:36:39.000 Wrongful termination suits, minimum wage requirements, labor regulations, and more.

00:36:43.000 Are you a small business owner looking to save money on HR?

00:36:46.000 HR manager salaries are not cheap.

00:36:48.000 I can tell you from personal experience.

00:36:49.000 They're an average of $70,000 a year.

00:36:52.000 Bambi, spelled B-A-M-B-E-E, was created specifically for small business.

00:36:56.000 You can get a dedicated HR manager, craft HR policy, and maintain your compliance all for just $99 a month.

00:37:01.000 With Bambi, you can change HR from your biggest liability to your biggest strength.

00:37:05.000 Your dedicated HR manager is available by phone, email, or real-time chat.

00:37:09.000 Month to month, there are no hidden fees, cancel anytime.

00:37:11.000 You didn't start your business because you wanted to spend time on HR compliance.

00:37:15.000 Let Bambi help get your free HR audit today.

00:37:17.000 Go to bambi.com/slash Kirk right now to schedule your free HR audit.

00:37:21.000 That's bambi.com/slash kirk.

00:37:23.000 Spelled bam to the bee.com/slash kirk.

00:37:28.000 I was watching Sheldon Whitehouse go all conspiracy.

00:37:34.000 I think he should be hosting a radio program from 3 a.m. to 6 a.m.

00:37:38.000 And his entire kind of mantra is trying to hit the alleged conservative dark money out there.

00:37:47.000 Despite he never talks about the billions of dollars from labor unions, $370 million from Tom Steyer, the $18 billion from the Open Society Foundation, billion dollars from Bank of America, $400 million in PepsiCo, all going to left-wing causes, not to mention the dark money going to the Sierra Club, the dark money going to the ACLU, all that, multiple billions of dollars.

00:38:07.000 But he's just concerned that conservative business people are actually contributing to have constitutionalists in the legal system.

00:38:15.000 But for him, he's got whiteboards all over the place.

00:38:18.000 Let's play tape, and then I'm actually going to show you the kind of let's level deeper of what he's actually doing.

00:38:24.000 Do we have a tape here of Sheldon Whitehouse?

00:38:26.000 He's got all these phone boards.

00:38:27.000 He's fumbling all over himself.

00:38:28.000 Let's play tape.

00:38:30.000 Million dollars.

00:38:33.000 Somebody deserves a thank you.

00:38:36.000 So let's go on to Roe v. Wade.

00:38:41.000 Same thing.

00:38:44.000 Same thing.

00:38:48.000 The president has said that reversing Roe v. Wade will.

00:38:51.000 I think he needs some more phone boards and whiteboards.

00:38:54.000 Sheldon Whitehouse has always been the chief conspiracy theorist of the Democrat power structure.

00:38:59.000 He has always been the one that has been the most vocal.

00:39:02.000 He has always been the one that has been the most aggressive.

00:39:05.000 And by the way, what George Soros has been doing with district attorney races across the country and pushing critical race theory in our schools through this New York Times, the 1619 project, is way more deserving of deep investigative journalism, allegedly, than trying to figure out whether or not that lawyers and business people and successful philanthropists have been worried that the courts have become instruments of judicial activism.

00:39:34.000 And so, Sheldon Whitehouse, I think, is still talking and bloviating.

00:39:37.000 At least he's talking, and Amy Coney Barrett doesn't have to say anything in response to it.

00:39:40.000 He's got 922 different phone boards and throws them all over himself.

00:39:45.000 Sheldon Whitehouse actually is funded by dark money himself. 0.82

00:39:50.000 He has incredible hypocrisy when it comes to dark money.

00:39:55.000 He's trying to portray himself as a warrior against this stuff.

00:39:58.000 But since 2015, the League of Conservation Voters has been Senator Whitehouse's largest donor, contributing $187,000 of dark money.

00:40:09.000 Since the 2006 election cycle, Sheldon Whitehouse has received at least $17,000 from Tom Styre, and he attended a fundraiser from the Democrat Senatorial Committee.

00:40:18.000 Senator Whitehouse credited dark money as the reason he was able to raise so much money during his 2018 campaign.

00:40:25.000 Senator Whitehouse has actively sought donations from dark money groups, such as Demand Justice, that took the lead against Judge Kavanaugh.

00:40:33.000 And Senator Whitehouse even spoke out against dark money groups at an event hosted by groups, the Center for American Progress and the American Constitutional Society, all funded by dark money.

00:40:42.000 If you guys understand the left and you understand Democrats, they are always projecting.

00:40:46.000 They are the ones that always harbor the issues and they project them upon you.

00:40:51.000 It is an exercise in psychological projection, the likes of which is very hard to ever see as clearly as the Democrat Party.

00:40:58.000 Those are the ones that say that you're racist here.

00:41:00.000 They're the ones that want to divide you based on skin color.

00:41:02.000 They're the ones that pander to BLM Incorporated.

00:41:05.000 They are the ones that time and time again and repeatedly double and triple down when it comes to dividing people based on skin color.

00:41:14.000 And so Sheldon Whitehouse is still going on and he's drawn circles and charts.

00:41:18.000 I just love how Sheldon Whitehouse needed 50-plus phone boards to make an incomplete point, but Amy Coney Barrett comes up with no notes whatsoever.

00:41:28.000 It's really, Senator Ted Cruz just made a phenomenal point in the confirmation hearings of Amy Coney Barrett.

00:41:34.000 Do you notice that all these Democrat senators are doing the talking and Amy Coney Barrett is not?

00:41:39.000 Because there's nothing to attack. 1.00

00:41:40.000 She just believes in the Constitution.

00:41:42.000 She answers the questions very gently and directly and basically says, honestly, my role as a judge is not to conjecture.

00:41:52.000 It's not to speculate.

00:41:54.000 It's not to hypothesize.

00:41:55.000 I'll have to look at the briefings, look at the rulings, talk to my colleagues, and come to a decision.

00:42:00.000 Now, mind you, if there was an activist sitting there, like a liberal judge, the questions would be completely different.

00:42:07.000 The questions would be, since you do believe in a living constitution, what does that mean?

00:42:11.000 Textualist and originalist confirmation hearings should be kind of easy and breezy.

00:42:16.000 Whereas Kagan and Sodomayor, Breyer, and judges in that image, it's very important if they believe in a living constitution, where exactly do you draw those lines?

00:42:26.000 Where do rights come from?

00:42:28.000 What is the significance of a government?

00:42:31.000 A constitution is a structure.

00:42:33.000 It actually literally means structure.

00:42:35.000 What do you find objectionable about the U.S. Constitution?

00:42:38.000 All these questions would be asked if there was an activist judge.

00:42:42.000 Amy Coney Barrett's worldview as a judge, what she will do is very simple.

00:42:48.000 What the text says.

00:42:50.000 It's not that difficult to kind of read into it, where Sotomayor and Kagan, they rule on what they want the world to look like, not what the text actually says.

00:43:03.000 And some people, with good intentions, they say, well, why wouldn't you want the judges to make the world a better place?

00:43:09.000 First of all, it completely invalidates the legislative branch.

00:43:12.000 That's number one.

00:43:13.000 Number two, the proper role of a judge is not to insert their bias.

00:43:20.000 It is to play referee over what the law that was passed and the law of the land and whether or not it should be allowed to stand.

00:43:29.000 That's why a judge exists in the federal court system.

00:43:33.000 Same when it comes to criminal charges, due process, briefs that are filed, the capacity to be able to hear witnesses. 0.84

00:43:42.000 Judges are supposed to be able to mitigate differences.

00:43:45.000 We get the idea of judges.

00:43:48.000 There's an entire book dedicated in the Bible to judges, but the idea of fair hearing under the law is a biblical idea.

00:43:58.000 Cut 14, where Amy Coney Barrett was asked about George Floyd.

00:44:02.000 Not exactly sure what George Floyd has to do with a Supreme Court nomination hearing.

00:44:10.000 Nevertheless, that's where Democrats are going.

00:44:11.000 Let's play tape of Cut 14.

00:44:13.000 The George Floyd video.

00:44:15.000 I have.

00:44:17.000 What impact did it have on you?

00:44:21.000 Senator, as you might imagine, given that I have two black children, that was very, very personal for my family.

00:44:31.000 Jesse was with the boys on a camping trip out in South Dakota, so I was there, and my 17-year-old daughter, Vivian, who's adopted from Haiti.

00:44:42.000 All of this was erupting.

00:44:43.000 It was very difficult for her.

00:44:46.000 We wept together in my room, and then it was also difficult for my daughter, Juliet, who's 10.

00:44:52.000 I had to try to explain some of this to them.

00:44:55.000 I mean, my children, to this point in their lives, have had the benefit of growing up in a cocoon where they have not yet experienced hatred or violence.

00:45:05.000 And for Vivian, you know, to understand that there would be a risk to her brother or the son she might have one day of that kind of brutality has been an ongoing conversation.

00:45:17.000 It's a difficult one for us, like it is for Americans all over the country.

00:45:23.000 I don't think Senator Dick Durbin necessarily expected an answer like that.

00:45:28.000 And so the Democrats are now continuing a barrage of different attacks to see what sticks.

00:45:36.000 And they're being very careful because Amy Coney Barrett is very popular in the eyes of the American people.

00:45:42.000 Amy Coney Barrett has high popularity.

00:45:45.000 Amy Coney Barrett is a woman of faith, adopted two children, and the mother of five. 0.68

00:45:50.000 It's not a good look for Democrats to go out of the way here to attack her. 0.90

00:45:53.000 Instead, they're going to attack the process. 0.99

00:45:55.000 They're going to try to attack Trump and they're going to focus all on health care together.

00:46:00.000 And let me be very clear. 0.95

00:46:02.000 I hope Amy Coney Barrett rules correctly and constitutionally to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

00:46:08.000 The Affordable Care Act or Obamacare was unconstitutional from the beginning.

00:46:12.000 And in fact, if you guys just stay tuned right here, go to charliekirk.com.

00:46:16.000 Let's go back in the time machine.

00:46:18.000 We are going to build out how and why Obamacare is unconstitutional.

00:46:23.000 I got my political start fighting against Obamacare.

00:46:26.000 I got my political start in 2011, even earlier, 2010, campaigning against the Affordable Care Act.

00:46:35.000 Here's just some quick facts on Obamacare for those of you that just forget.

00:46:39.000 Number one, there's over 27 new taxes in Obamacare, medical excise tax, the individual mandate was a tax, got repealed thanks to the Trump tax cut, which is really at the heart of the entire discussion here.

00:46:49.000 We'll get to that in just a second.

00:46:51.000 But Obamacare was passed illegally.

00:46:53.000 Obamacare should have required 60 votes from the U.S. Senate, but it passed without that.

00:47:00.000 You might remember that Senator Ted Kennedy passed unexpectedly, triggering a special election in Massachusetts.

00:47:07.000 Scott Brown, Republican, ran in Massachusetts against the idea of nationalized and socialized health care, and Scott Brown won.

00:47:15.000 He later lost to Senator Elizabeth Warren, but Scott Brown won that seat based on a referendum issue on health care.

00:47:23.000 Democrats still passed it with 59 or 58 votes in the U.S. Senate.

00:47:28.000 How?

00:47:29.000 Because they were able to say that Obamacare is deficit neutral, which, according to Senate rules, can pass bills that don't borrow with less than 60 votes in the U.S. Senate.

00:47:39.000 Of course, it passed the House by Nancy Pelosi back then when she was Speaker of the House, and she said, We have to pass the bill to find out what's in it. 0.76

00:47:46.000 And we found out there was a lot of garbage in Obamacare.

00:47:49.000 In fact, it just nearly destroyed our entire American health care system. 0.86

00:47:54.000 It was quickly challenged in the courts after it was signed into law by President Barack Obama and then Vice President Joe Biden, who then turned to Obama and said, This is a big FN deal. 0.52

00:48:04.000 You might remember that clip went totally viral.

00:48:08.000 And then the court challenges began.

00:48:11.000 The most famous court challenge was just referenced by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, the National Federation of Independent Businesses versus Sebelius.

00:48:21.000 Sebelius was, of course, Kathleen Sebelius.

00:48:23.000 She was the Secretary of Health and Human Services. 1.00

00:48:26.000 She's probably best known for screwing up the Obamacare website. 1.00

00:48:30.000 That's what Kathleen Sebelius' lifelong legacy will be. 1.00

00:48:33.000 In fact, I think she's originally from Kansas, if I'm not mistaken.

00:48:36.000 And yes, that is true.

00:48:37.000 She's originally from Kansas. 0.55

00:48:38.000 She was the governor of Kansas before she became head of HHS under Obama. 0.86

00:48:43.000 And so there are a lot of lawsuits against Obamacare to try to unravel it for good reason.

00:48:49.000 It was a monstrosity.

00:48:50.000 It would change one-sixth of the American economy.

00:48:52.000 It would disrupt the way that people would get patient-provided care.

00:48:56.000 And when you look at healthcare, you have to divide it into a couple different buckets: there's price, delivery of care, and the actual quality of the care, and there's health insurance.

00:49:07.000 Obamacare did not tackle health care.

00:49:09.000 This is the biggest lie about Obamacare.

00:49:11.000 Obamacare tackled health insurance.

00:49:14.000 Big difference.

00:49:16.000 It did not tackle prices.

00:49:17.000 It didn't tackle quality.

00:49:18.000 It didn't tackle any of that stuff.

00:49:20.000 Instead, it addressed directly health insurance, whether or not people would be able to have insurance or what insurance they could have to be able to pay for health care.

00:49:32.000 What ended up as a somewhat nice-sounding argument by President Barack Obama got all muddied up throughout Congress as big pieces of legislation typically do.

00:49:44.000 I am of the opinion that Obamacare was never designed to work.

00:49:49.000 It is my opinion that Obamacare was designed to destroy the American health care system, to overwhelm the Medicaid roles.

00:49:56.000 Medicaid is health insurance for the poor, Medicare as health insurance for the elderly.

00:50:03.000 It is my belief that it was so unsustainably overwhelming that Obamacare was designed to break the American private and the private health care system so that eventually we can get single payer.

00:50:15.000 Now, you're starting to see demands and calls for that because Obamacare was so overwhelming.

00:50:20.000 But it didn't go without a fight.

00:50:22.000 Obamacare is an 800-plus-page bill signed into law, and it got challenged in every single direction by business people, small business people, little sisters of the poor, you name it.

00:50:32.000 Every direction came after Obamacare and sued it to the highest courts.

00:50:37.000 One in particular, as I mentioned, the National Federation of Independent Business versus Sebelius made it all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court.

00:50:45.000 I remember being a senior in high school watching this piece of legislation work its way up.

00:50:51.000 And I also remember posting on Facebook.

00:50:54.000 In fact, we could probably pull this up from my personal Facebook in a future episode of our program, where I predicted that Obamacare would be upheld.

00:51:03.000 Why did I say that?

00:51:05.000 Because the day before the ruling, Barack Obama posted on his campaign website, We Are Proud of Obamacare.

00:51:13.000 There was an 18-year-old at the time said, Why would Obama, the president, be posting a new website on his post on his website about how proud he is of Obamacare if the Supreme Court was about to knock it down?

00:51:25.000 And then, which surprised everyone, but not me, John Roberts came out in a 5-4 decision saying that the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare was constitutional.

00:51:38.000 Now, his reasoning in this, his justification was clumsy at best.

00:51:45.000 He said that the individual mandate, which is the heart of Obamacare, the glue that kept Obamacare together was this idea that we are going to mandate people to buy health insurance, whether you like it or not.

00:51:58.000 There's also some provisions that ended up being pretty popular, the pre-existing conditions clause, which could have been done with a couple sentences to fix the hip affordability issue in our healthcare system, and also allowing your children to stay on the health care plan until 26.

00:52:13.000 I don't actually think that's been a good idea.

00:52:15.000 I think it's actually prolonged the maturation process for young people in our country.

00:52:19.000 However, that's a different topic for a different time.

00:52:22.000 But the core of Obamacare was the individual mandate.

00:52:26.000 It was everything.

00:52:27.000 And so that's where the National Federation of Independent Businesses versus Sebelius went after.

00:52:32.000 And John Roberts argued using the Commerce Clause or the necessary and proper clause powers that it should stand.

00:52:40.000 5-4 decision saying it was a tax.

00:52:42.000 Now, that goes directly opposite to how Barack Obama described Obamacare as a tax.

00:52:48.000 Now, Mitt Romney came out to run against Barack Obama in 2012 and very clumsily and sloppily made a case against Obamacare.

00:52:57.000 Why?

00:52:58.000 Because Mitt Romney was the architect of Obamacare.

00:53:01.000 Mitt Romney did Obamacare in Massachusetts, and it was Romney care.

00:53:06.000 So when Obama said that it was your health care system, he was right.

00:53:09.000 We didn't say it back then.

00:53:11.000 It was eight years ago.

00:53:12.000 He was on our team.

00:53:13.000 He was wearing our jersey.

00:53:14.000 But Mitt Romney, he believed in it.

00:53:17.000 I mean, he believed in the Jonathan Gruber, Ezekiel Manuel, Cass-Sunstein model of government that you can kind of run government better because we're the corporate types, right?

00:53:26.000 Like we shipped a bunch of jobs overseas to China.

00:53:28.000 We know how to run corporations. 0.62

00:53:29.000 Why shouldn't we be able to run health care?

00:53:31.000 And Mitt Romney was always not trusted by the conservative base on the issue of health care, which is one of the reasons why Mitt Romney lost.

00:53:39.000 And Barack Obama was decisively re-elected in 2012.

00:53:43.000 President Trump wins surprisingly in 2016, passes the Trump tax cut.

00:53:49.000 And one of the things that got snuck into the Trump tax cut in a good way was the repealing of the individual mandate.

00:53:55.000 The repealing of the individual mandate, alongside a lot of other good things that were in that Trump tax cut, allowed people to say, if I do not want to take this certain level of insurance, I do not have to.

00:54:08.000 Huge win for young people, huge win for healthy young people.

00:54:12.000 It is a win for liberty and freedom.

00:54:15.000 So then once the individual mandate got removed, once the individual mandate got extracted from Obamacare, all of these other legal challenges are now made possible.

00:54:26.000 And that's where we get this very wonky and nuanced challenge of California versus Texas.

00:54:32.000 Now, without overly building it out, here's as simply and as plainly as I can say it.

00:54:38.000 California versus Texas is a decision that it's about severability.

00:54:43.000 And also now that the individual mandate has been pulled out, it's about the constitutionality of the rest of the law.

00:54:49.000 Because now once the individual mandate got removed, the question will remain whether or not we should throw out the rest of the bill on other constitutional means.

00:54:57.000 And so Amy Coney Barrett is being pressed by Democrat Senator, Democrat Senator on how she would rule on this.

00:55:04.000 And so I think we have tape on this.

00:55:05.000 Can we go to cut 18, please, on Amy Coney Barrett talking about Obamacare with that necessary background that we just went through.

00:55:13.000 Playtate.

00:55:16.000 When I wrote, and this was as a law professor about those decisions, I did critique the statutory interpretation of the majority opinions.

00:55:26.000 And as I've mentioned before, my description of them was consistent with the way that Chief Justice Roberts described the statutory question.

00:55:34.000 But I think that your concern is that because I critiqued the statutory reasoning that I'm hostile to the ACA, and that because I'm hostile to the ACA, that I would decide a case a particular way.

00:55:51.000 And I assure you that I am not.

00:55:54.000 That's exactly the right answer, is that as a judge, you should not be hostile to any piece of legislation.

00:56:00.000 That's our job.

00:56:01.000 We're activists.

00:56:01.000 We're not judges.

00:56:03.000 I don't know if hostile is the right term, but definitely opposed would be a good term.

00:56:08.000 And so Democrats hear the only line of reasoning and questioning that they have in this whole hearing is trying to fearmonger to people that they will lose their health care if Judge Amy Coney Barrett gets put on the United States Supreme Court.

00:56:22.000 And now, whether I can't comment on whether or not that will actually be true, I can tell you that we expanded our Medicaid roles way too dramatically under Obamacare.

00:56:32.000 I actually think it would be a good thing to get people off of the Medicaid roles and back into the private insurance markets.

00:56:36.000 That's why we need health insurance across state lines.

00:56:39.000 We need transparency in pricing when you go to a hospital.

00:56:42.000 We need more competition.

00:56:43.000 We need to challenge the hospital and pharmaceutical lobby.

00:56:46.000 We need to be able to have favored nation clause with pharmaceuticals in our country.

00:56:51.000 And if you go back in time, Barack Obama said clearly that it was not a tax, but John Roberts said it was a tax.

00:56:58.000 The quality of your health care will go up if the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare gets repealed.

00:57:03.000 More innovation, more breakthroughs.

00:57:06.000 And also, you will be in charge of your health care, not some government bureaucrat. 1.00

00:57:11.000 Jonathan Gruber, who is the architect of Obamacare, said clearly that he thought you were too stupid to make decisions. 1.00

00:57:18.000 He said it himself. 1.00

00:57:19.000 The chief architect of Obamacare is the brother of Rahm Emmanuel, who is the former chief of staff to Barack Obama and the former mayor of Chicago.

00:57:28.000 And Ezekiel Emmanuel said it very clearly that he believes the more people on government dependence, the more people on government health care, the better.

00:57:37.000 Here's Barack Obama that was lying, bold-faced lying to the American people about Obamacare being a tax playtape.

00:57:45.000 And under this mandate, the government is forcing people to spend money, fining you if you don't.

00:57:51.000 How is that not a tax?

00:57:53.000 For us to say that you've got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase.

00:58:01.000 What it's saying is that we're not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you.

00:58:08.000 And yet, Chief Justice Roberts said that it is a tax.

00:58:12.000 It absolutely is a tax.

00:58:13.000 Barack Obama said, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.

00:58:16.000 That ended up being a lie.

00:58:17.000 No new taxes, 27 medical excite, 27 different taxes.

00:58:20.000 And we can go through all the different taxes.

00:58:23.000 There is taxes on equipment.

00:58:25.000 There's taxes on purchasing.

00:58:26.000 There's taxes on all sorts of different things when it comes to health care.

00:58:29.000 Obamacare was the largest tax increase in American history.

00:58:33.000 That's right.

00:58:33.000 Obamacare was the largest tax increase in American history.

00:58:38.000 We would never have been able to dream of a time to restore to individual liberty and freedom like we do right now, thanks to Amy Coney Barrett.

00:58:46.000 She's handling these hearings phenomenally well.

00:58:48.000 The Democrats know that she's winning and they're losing.

00:58:51.000 As always, email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:58:56.000 Amy Coney Barrett continues her phenomenal hearing, and Democrats are just continuing to run endless circles trying to chart together dark money.

00:59:08.000 Amy Klobuchar is not in a blizzard currently, so that's good for her, trying to attack Amy Coney Barrett on some baseless point.

00:59:17.000 Amy Coney Barrett is gliding through these hearings wonderfully.

00:59:21.000 I don't expect anything else or less than that from her.

00:59:26.000 She's been phenomenal, articulate, and I believe will be a phenomenal Supreme Court justice.

00:59:31.000 Antonin Scalia in 2011 said he was not optimistic about the direction of the court.

00:59:36.000 Nine years later, all of a sudden we have a constitutional majority, soon to be permanent and decisive constitutional majority.

00:59:45.000 How did that happen?

00:59:47.000 It happened because Republicans started to care about winning elections, not just corporate Republican types.

00:59:57.000 But if Mitch McConnell would not have won in 2014 and Donald Trump would not have won in 16 and McConnell did not advance the majorities in 18, none of this would be happening.

01:00:06.000 The Democrats hyper-politicized the courts well before the Republicans.

01:00:11.000 They hyper-politicized the courts back in the Warren Court, back in the Burger Court.

01:00:15.000 And while the country was more conservative than it was today, you had very, very liberal activists on the court.

01:00:21.000 They saw that as their immediate entry point to make America into their left-wing image.

01:00:28.000 We, as constitutionalists or conservatives, were kind of taken back by this.

01:00:32.000 And it took us many decades to get smart about the type of judges that we need to appoint to the U.S. Supreme Court: Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito.

01:00:43.000 And over time, I think there's been some course correction.

01:00:46.000 But none of it would have been possible if President Donald Trump did not win the election.

01:00:52.000 So President Donald Trump's in a very tough reelection fight right now.

01:00:56.000 I get asked this question all the time: is he going to win?

01:01:00.000 Is he going to win?

01:01:02.000 And everyone asks for a different reason.

01:01:06.000 But some people ask for a very specific reason.

01:01:10.000 They're asking because they want permission to give up.

01:01:15.000 They ask because they want a green light to stop fighting.

01:01:20.000 Let me be very clear.

01:01:21.000 It is completely irrelevant to how hard you fight, whether he wins or loses.

01:01:26.000 And better yet, what are you doing right now to make sure that he wins?

01:01:30.000 What are you doing to knock on doors, make phone calls, chip in some money, bring friends to the polls, register voters to make sure that President Donald Trump wins re-election?

01:01:40.000 There are certain demographics right now that the president is struggling with: 60-plus voters.

01:01:46.000 He's actually doing very well with Hispanics.

01:01:48.000 He's doing better with black voters.

01:01:49.000 He's doing better with young mothers than anyone could have possibly imagined.

01:01:53.000 Of course, he has a very strong rural base.

01:01:56.000 He's going to do better with younger voters.

01:01:58.000 The one demographic that President Donald Trump is struggling with is senior citizens, is older voters. 0.92

01:02:07.000 There's many reasons for this, the virus being one of them.

01:02:10.000 I think it would help if the CNN, the conspiracy news network, would actually air the recent revelations from the World Health Organization about how lockdowns do not work and the mistakes that were made.

01:02:24.000 President Donald Trump needs your help right now.

01:02:27.000 He does.

01:02:27.000 He's being outgunned.

01:02:28.000 He's being outspent.

01:02:30.000 He's being outfled on every way you can imagine.

01:02:35.000 Think back to 2016.

01:02:36.000 You say, I didn't trust the polls in 16.

01:02:38.000 I don't trust them now.

01:02:38.000 Well, we have early voting results that are coming in that should concern you, that should motivate you to do something.

01:02:45.000 And if you just think that you could just scoff it off and do nothing, and all of a sudden President Donald Trump's going to win in November, you're wrong.

01:02:55.000 It's going to take a massive amount of human action right now because President Donald Trump has to close very strong and very hard.

01:03:04.000 And he's a great finisher when it comes to campaigns.

01:03:06.000 I wouldn't want to run up against him.

01:03:08.000 He campaigns more.

01:03:09.000 He's able to get on a message.

01:03:11.000 But there's a lot of people motivated to remove Donald Trump.

01:03:14.000 And especially the ruling class in this country, especially the elites and the elite issues in our country. 0.64

01:03:21.000 Because Amy Coney Barrett never should have been filling this seat.

01:03:24.000 That bothers them like you can't believe.

01:03:27.000 And she's only there because of President Trump.

01:03:29.000 The 200 federal judges are only there because of President Trump.

01:03:32.000 The embassy in Jerusalem is only there because of President Trump.

01:03:35.000 The Golan Heights are recognized only because of President Trump.

01:03:39.000 All of their globalist schemes, eroding our borders, destroying our sovereignty, all of that is disrupted by President Trump.

01:03:52.000 We need every single person on deck, engaged right here to help re-elect President Donald Trump.

01:04:01.000 Thank you guys so much for listening.

01:04:03.000 Check out CharlieKirk.com.

01:04:04.000 We'll be back tomorrow with more.

01:04:06.000 Check out our podcast for some exclusive interviews.

01:04:08.000 Thank you guys so much for listening.

01:04:10.000 See you tomorrow.

01:04:13.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:04:15.000 What a fun episode that was at Amy Coney Barrett.

01:04:16.000 Please consider supporting us at charliekirk.com/slash support.

01:04:20.000 That gives us the ammunition and the resources to reach millions of young people to spread the message at charliekirk.com/slash support.

01:04:28.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:04:31.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:04:34.000 If you want to get involved with Turning Point USA, where we play offense with a sense of urgency to win America's Culture War, go to tpusa.com, tpusa.com.

01:04:42.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:04:44.000 Talk to you soon.

01:04:45.000 God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - October 14, 2020

No Notes! Obama(doesn't)Care and Day Two of ACB's Senate Confirmation

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript