The Charlie Kirk Show - April 08, 2022


Ok, Groomer…


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Sen. Mike Lee (R-FL) joins us to talk about what is in a groomer, and why we should all be worried about it. He also talks about the growing number of young people identifying as LGBTQ and why it s a big deal.

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00:00:00.000 Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, Senator Mike Lee joins us.
00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody.
00:00:03.000 And also, what is in a groomer anyway?
00:00:05.000 Okay, groomer.
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00:01:47.000 So what is in a groomer anyway?
00:01:49.000 Well, a groomer is someone who is sexually exploiting a child, exposing them to things that they should not expose them to.
00:01:56.000 They build a relationship, trust, and emotional connection with a child or young person, and then they manipulate that, otherwise known as our public school system.
00:02:04.000 This is not controversial.
00:02:05.000 It's very mainline belief that our public schools are actively engaged in grooming.
00:02:10.000 Grooming is the deliberate act of bringing a child into a sexual, political, or racial ideology, practice culture lifestyle without the knowledge or consent of his or her parent for the aim of isolating them from their family so the external party can abuse and manipulate them. 0.58
00:02:23.000 That's worthy of memorizing.
00:02:24.000 That's, of course, what's happening in our public schools.
00:02:27.000 It is at direct odds against the biblical commandment to honor the parents, honor your mother and father so they may live long in the land of which you are in.
00:02:33.000 Only commandment that involves your nation and involves a promise.
00:02:37.000 Now, so the entire Democrat Party is defending wildly gross policies of potentially decriminalizing pedophilia, normalizing grooming, getting really upset because in Florida, Ron DeSantis has signed into law a bill that pushes back against teachers being able to sexualize children.
00:03:04.000 And so let's take a step back.
00:03:06.000 Is there any evidence that young people are, let's say, identifying differently than generations before them?
00:03:19.000 And if so, what is causing that?
00:03:21.000 And should we care?
00:03:22.000 Is it a big deal?
00:03:27.000 40% of United States Gen Zers and 30% of young Christians are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer.
00:03:38.000 One in six Gen Z adults are LGBT.
00:03:42.000 And a record number of U.S. adults identify as LGBTQ.
00:03:46.000 Gen Z is driving the increase.
00:03:48.000 A Gallup poll found that 7.1% of U.S. adults self-identify as LGBTQ.
00:03:54.000 But as many as 40% of United States young people are gay.
00:04:00.000 40%. 0.55
00:04:04.000 So we've called this accurately the gayest generation in history. 1.00
00:04:10.000 Something is driving this.
00:04:13.000 No one really wants to talk about it.
00:04:18.000 Is it the way it naturally is?
00:04:21.000 Is 40% of the population naturally lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender?
00:04:26.000 Or is something else happening?
00:04:27.000 Now, based on your emails, we get a lot of emails, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:04:31.000 Parents are saying it's the cool thing to be gay nowadays.
00:04:36.000 I didn't grow up in that world, so I can't comment on that either way.
00:04:40.000 I can't imagine a world where being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender is cool, but that's what people are saying.
00:04:45.000 That it's the socially acceptable thing.
00:04:47.000 In fact, it's the desirable thing to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer.
00:04:56.000 So 40% of young people are gay.
00:05:00.000 And by the way, I didn't believe this until I opened up my email with you guys. 0.72
00:05:03.000 I said, email me.
00:05:04.000 Do you think this is true? 0.62
00:05:05.000 We got tons of emails from you across the country saying, oh, yeah, I'd say at least, we got emails from parents saying, yes, half of my eight-year-old's public school class is gay.
00:05:14.000 Can you send me that teacher one you sent, Connor?
00:05:16.000 I can't find that article.
00:05:17.000 I've been trying to find it.
00:05:20.000 As we see more Gen Z become adults, we may see that number go up.
00:05:23.000 Now, I don't need to belabor this point, but how exactly are we going to continue to have children if 40% of young people are gay? 0.99
00:05:31.000 Does anyone want to talk about that?
00:05:32.000 Nope, of course not.
00:05:35.000 I do find it interesting.
00:05:36.000 That's a whole separate issue.
00:05:37.000 I do want to go into the fertility crisis in America. 0.97
00:05:39.000 Why are young women having such difficulty having children in America? 1.00
00:05:44.000 It's very interesting to me.
00:05:47.000 Something that we get a lot of emails about.
00:05:49.000 There's a fertility crisis in America.
00:05:51.000 No one wants to talk about it.
00:05:52.000 What could possibly be driving it?
00:05:54.000 Well, because men's testosterone levels are down, and there might be other things as well that play into that.
00:05:59.000 Birth control could play into that. 0.95
00:06:00.000 No one wants to say it out loud, but it very well could play into it.
00:06:04.000 We prescribe birth control like Skittles to young women and we act as if there might be no downside. 0.98
00:06:10.000 Maybe there is no downside.
00:06:10.000 I don't know.
00:06:11.000 Some experts totally disagree.
00:06:14.000 Look at this from a Washington Post article.
00:06:16.000 Quote, Philip Hammock, a psychology professor and director of the Sexual and Gender Diversity Laboratory at University of California, Santa Cruz, said Gallup's findings are, quote, extremely exciting and consistent with his own research about young people identifying as gay in California.
00:06:29.000 A key reason for the growth of how many people are gay, he said, is the internet. 0.98
00:06:34.000 When Hammock was coming out in the 90s, there was no YouTube, no Instagram, no easy way to research sexuality or gender outside of a library or a gay straight alliance group.
00:06:42.000 Today, teenagers have all this information at their fingertips.
00:06:44.000 Quote, the rigid lines around gender and sexuality are just opening up for everybody.
00:06:48.000 Young people are just doing it. 1.00
00:06:50.000 They're leading the revolution, and they're focusing, they're forcing scientists to take a closer look.
00:06:55.000 Do you think 40% of young people are naturally gay?
00:06:58.000 Maybe they are.
00:06:59.000 I don't think so.
00:07:01.000 Something's causing them to be at least outspoken as gay. 1.00
00:07:07.000 Texas teacher claims 20 fourth graders out of 32 identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer.
00:07:13.000 We get lots of emails like this, by the way, a lot, where they say a majority of young people are identifying as gay.
00:07:19.000 And then, you know, one person said, Charlie, so what's the big deal?
00:07:21.000 It's like the cool thing to be doing.
00:07:23.000 Okay, you think it's no big deal that an eight-year-old think they might be gay?
00:07:26.000 You don't think that might thwart their path of who they are and their place in the world?
00:07:31.000 Like, no big deal.
00:07:32.000 Actually, I think it is kind of a big deal.
00:07:34.000 A Texas teacher claims that 20 out of 32 of her fourth grade students, fourth grade students, have come out as LGBTQ.
00:07:42.000 I mean, you think about it.
00:07:43.000 If you're in fourth grade, why would you want to be straight?
00:07:45.000 Outside of the fact that it would be hopefully natural for a majority of students.
00:07:50.000 What sort of preference do you get if you're straight in America? 0.66
00:07:52.000 What sort of, do you get a special month?
00:07:54.000 Do you get a flag?
00:07:55.000 Fourth grader, they're like, they're just kind of doing the math.
00:07:57.000 They're like, wait a second.
00:07:58.000 If I come out as gay, I get like a parade.
00:08:00.000 I get like all these different names.
00:08:02.000 I get to wear these different clothes.
00:08:05.000 I get a whole month dedicated to me.
00:08:06.000 There's a whole Netflix channel dedicated to it.
00:08:09.000 Like they just do the math.
00:08:10.000 They're like, that's where all the attention is.
00:08:13.000 Why don't I go do that?
00:08:17.000 We will have, we have no idea for the coming decades the damage this will do to innocent children.
00:08:26.000 We have no idea.
00:08:28.000 No comprehension.
00:08:30.000 Texas teacher said at the independent school district in Texas, Black Shire Elementary School hosted a pride parade for elementary schools, which was dubbed a wellness walk.
00:08:41.000 It takes away the experience of celebrating pride.
00:08:43.000 I feel that it's inappropriate to call our parade a wellness walk at all.
00:08:46.000 Well, I understand that wellness walk is something that was previously in motion to promote health and fitness, and it's something we want to continue.
00:08:52.000 Really takes away from the experience of celebrating pride.
00:08:55.000 So you're a fourth grader, you just start doing the math.
00:08:58.000 Like, wait a second.
00:09:00.000 This is where all the kind of attention, the focus is.
00:09:02.000 I want attention and focus.
00:09:04.000 I want extra currency.
00:09:06.000 So a majority of fourth graders in this teacher's classroom, which is perfectly consistent with national trends.
00:09:12.000 And I'm just going to ask a question.
00:09:14.000 If a majority of young people end up being gay, will that be worthy of mention from the media?
00:09:20.000 A majority.
00:09:21.000 It started as, okay, this is a small portion of the population.
00:09:27.000 Now, a big driver of this, though, is bisexuality.
00:09:27.000 And then it moves on.
00:09:32.000 Is that people that aren't either gay or lesbian, but they like both.
00:09:36.000 They like both men and women.
00:09:39.000 So what is grooming?
00:09:41.000 Something is making this happen, by the way.
00:09:43.000 This is not just, this is not the natural law.
00:09:46.000 It just isn't.
00:09:47.000 This is not the regular unfolding of events.
00:09:50.000 This is not just how things naturally shake out.
00:09:52.000 It isn't.
00:09:54.000 There's something that is grooming or sending children into these behaviors.
00:10:00.000 And on one side, you have the parents' party that's like, wait a second, the parents' party that says, hold on, like 20 out of 32 fourth graders think they're gay.
00:10:12.000 When I was in fourth grade, no one thought of any of that at all.
00:10:17.000 And now this stuff is just being just sent down.
00:10:21.000 This was not that long ago.
00:10:22.000 This is 2004.
00:10:23.000 It was 18 years ago.
00:10:24.000 The not-so-secret gay agenda being pushed by Disney.
00:10:29.000 So someone is putting this forward.
00:10:31.000 So while we have the parents' party on one side that is advocating for a non-sexualized education, that is advocating for eternal principles rooted in the natural law, non-controversial stuff.
00:10:42.000 On the other side, we have the pervert party.
00:10:45.000 So we have the parents' party and the pervert party, which is basically dividing the country. 0.92
00:10:52.000 And the pervert party, they want to go after your children. 1.00
00:10:55.000 It's their stated goal.
00:10:57.000 Why else would they want to try to destroy this bill that's happening in Florida?
00:11:01.000 What is wrong with that bill?
00:11:03.000 Can anyone come on the show and tell me?
00:11:06.000 And not everyone on the Republican side, by the way, is on board for the Parents' Party.
00:11:09.000 Spencer Cox, Mitt Romney, they are excited. 0.98
00:11:12.000 They're Republicans in Utah that get excited about the fact that your children are going to be taught about gay sex at eight years old. 0.92
00:11:20.000 There's some incredibly irrelevant people that are writing that, well, it's not really grooming.
00:11:25.000 It might be bad ideology.
00:11:27.000 Look, of course it's grooming.
00:11:28.000 Not every teacher is a groomer.
00:11:29.000 That's not what we're saying. 0.55
00:11:30.000 We're saying the practice of allowing this to happen without stopping it probably, not just probably, certainly has the output of 40% of young people being gay. 0.70
00:11:40.000 And so we look at this and we say, okay, let's play this out.
00:11:42.000 40% of young people being gay.
00:11:45.000 How are we going to have higher birth rates?
00:11:47.000 Let's just start there.
00:11:48.000 We're on the verge of a population collapse.
00:11:51.000 So, if you just take the straight population, a lot of young men really don't have their act together.
00:11:55.000 They're going to remain single. 0.99
00:11:56.000 The young women, they're not going to get married until in their 30s because you have to pursue your career, bunch of garbage. 1.00
00:12:01.000 So, just in the straight population you're dealing with, which is 60% of Gen Z, they're going to have low birth rates. 0.99
00:12:07.000 And then you got 40%, by definition, they're not going to have children because they're gay or lesbian or whatever. 0.99
00:12:14.000 And then you add abortions on top of that, free sex and birth control. 0.93
00:12:18.000 How exactly are we going to continue to survive as a civilization?
00:12:22.000 Maybe Elon Musk's warning against this was a lot more prescient than I think we realized.
00:12:27.000 We're on the verge of a population collapse.
00:12:29.000 We've said this many times on this program.
00:12:31.000 Instead, all the hysteria-filled apparatchiks on television say there's too many people in the world. 1.00
00:12:36.000 It's a bunch of garbage. 1.00
00:12:38.000 Too many people in the world. 1.00
00:12:40.000 Religious affiliation has gone down with young people.
00:12:44.000 It's gone down from 75% of young people identifying as Christian in 1988 to less than 50% now.
00:12:51.000 Failure of the American church.
00:12:53.000 Obviously, we've gone into that in great detail.
00:12:55.000 The self-righteous, condescending folks that are too busy writing attack pieces about me and not actually spreading the gospel.
00:13:01.000 But then here's what's really interesting: this is a Washington Post deal, I think.
00:13:06.000 Religious composition of younger millennials who say homosexuality should be accepted.
00:13:11.000 49% of Christians say it's fine.
00:13:14.000 17% of Catholics say it's fine.
00:13:17.000 Only 1% of Mormons, 1% of Orthodox Christians.
00:13:22.000 Someone's doing the grooming.
00:13:26.000 Play Cut 108.
00:13:28.000 The showrunners were super welcoming.
00:13:30.000 Meredith Roberts and our leadership over there has been so welcoming to my not-at-all secret gay agenda.
00:13:38.000 And so all that like momentum that I felt, like that sense of I don't have to be afraid to like, let's have these two characters kiss.
00:13:47.000 Let's in the background this, like I was just wherever I could, just basically adding queerness to like, if you see anything queer in the show, come around them.
00:13:56.000 But like I just was like, no one would stop me and no one was trying to stop me.
00:14:00.000 That's a Disney executive says we have the not-no-secret, say it's not so secret gay agenda.
00:14:05.000 We're adding queerness at every single corner. 0.99
00:14:07.000 No one's going to stop me.
00:14:08.000 If you see queer, it's because of me. 1.00
00:14:10.000 That's grooming. 0.92
00:14:11.000 It's immoral.
00:14:12.000 It's happening at record rates.
00:14:13.000 And the fruit is already bearing out.
00:14:15.000 This is not me like warning you that something is going to happen.
00:14:19.000 This is not me warning that there's something around the corner.
00:14:24.000 This is me telling you that it's already here.
00:14:24.000 No, no, no.
00:14:29.000 The media is, of course, reacting as you would expect. 0.99
00:14:33.000 Conservatives are smearing don't say gay opponents as pedophile groomers. 0.97
00:14:39.000 We're not smearing anything. 0.99
00:14:40.000 We just start calling you groomers because you are.
00:14:42.000 I cannot teach in Florida, LGBTQ educators, fear fallout. 1.00
00:14:45.000 Okay, leave.
00:14:47.000 Get out of Florida.
00:14:48.000 Go teach in New York or France or wherever, where you want to go groom a sixth grader about how to be a lesbian or whatever it is that they want to do. 1.00
00:14:57.000 I can't teach, really.
00:14:58.000 You can't teach unless you talk about your sexuality. 1.00
00:15:02.000 It's like that important to you? 1.00
00:15:05.000 These people are sick.
00:15:06.000 The new Red Scare, Washington Post. 0.99
00:15:09.000 The right leans into pedophilia accusations.
00:15:12.000 Well, it's not accusations.
00:15:15.000 You look at what Katanji Brown Jackson has done.
00:15:19.000 It's more than accusations, which actually is a great segue to our next guest and some breaking news.
00:15:24.000 Katanji Brown Jackson is now going to be a United States Supreme Court Justice.
00:15:28.000 No surprise there.
00:15:29.000 She is confirmed.
00:15:31.000 And we're going to have exclusive first reactions from Senator Mike Lee, the good man from Utah, unlike Spencer Cox, who got my suspicions about Spencer Cox.
00:15:42.000 That's a separate issue for another time.
00:15:45.000 And Nitt Romney.
00:15:47.000 So we got Mike Lee coming up, who is phenomenal from Utah.
00:15:50.000 I've known Mike Lee for years, and he loves liberty.
00:15:50.000 We need more people.
00:15:53.000 He loves the Constitution, and he's been so good on the constitutional issues, vaccine mandates.
00:16:00.000 I really want to get his reaction on Katanji Brown Jackson and all of that.
00:16:06.000 Washington Post says, quote, a vote in support of Jackson is not pro-pedophile in any rational sense.
00:16:13.000 Okay.
00:16:14.000 You guys are welcome on my show to ever talk about that.
00:16:17.000 I noticed that the pro-groomers, they don't like to talk about it.
00:16:20.000 They don't like talking about how children are being groomed.
00:16:23.000 Have they been on TikTok and they've seen these hundreds, if not thousands, of videos of teachers literally coming out and talking about lesbian and gay sexual matters with five-year-olds?
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00:17:49.000 There are very few people in the United States Senate that I have a great deal of respect for, but this man has been fighting for liberty, for the Constitution, for separation of powers, consent to the governed for years.
00:18:00.000 And he's in a tough reelection bid in Utah, of all places, and he needs your help and your support.
00:18:06.000 It's Senator Mike Lee.
00:18:07.000 Senator, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:18:09.000 Thanks so much, Charlie.
00:18:10.000 It's good to be with you, as always.
00:18:11.000 So just breaking in the last couple of moments, Katanji Brown Jackson is now going to be a Supreme Court justice.
00:18:16.000 You voted no.
00:18:17.000 Give us your take.
00:18:18.000 I voted no.
00:18:19.000 Look, she's got some impressive qualifications academically and professionally. 0.90
00:18:23.000 I'm concerned about her judicial philosophy and therefore can't vote for her.
00:18:26.000 What I mean by that is she doesn't have an appropriate relationship with the role of the federal judge, which is narrow and it's supposed to focus on interpreting the law rather than making policy.
00:18:42.000 There are too many instances in which she has done the latter when her job is limited to the former.
00:18:47.000 So she was narrowly confirmed with 53 votes.
00:18:50.000 Talk more about kind of her philosophical view of what she thinks a judge needs to be, more activistic, a living or breathing constitution, kind of in the tradition of Ruth Bader Ginsburg or the Warren Court or the Burger Court, when in reality, we've kind of seen this really exciting revival of people more in the tradition of Scalia.
00:19:09.000 Talk about how she's kind of a departure, obviously, because of who nominated her, Joe Biden, and what that could mean for Liberty and for citizens watching the show.
00:19:18.000 Yeah, you know, I think she'll be to the left, not only of the Republican-appointed nominees to the Supreme Court, but I think she's probably to the left of Earl Warren, of Harry Blackman, of Stephen Breyer.
00:19:31.000 That's right.
00:19:31.000 Even Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
00:19:34.000 I think she is a liberal ideologue, a very smart liberal ideologue who's shown her colors in the past.
00:19:41.000 For instance, by enjoining Trump-era administrative decisions that were outside of her jurisdiction.
00:19:49.000 On at least two occasions, she took a Trump-era executive action and invalidated it in the absence of a valid cause of action, really in the absence of jurisdiction, and was twice reversed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, which is a very left-leaning appellate court.
00:20:10.000 She did this just like her deviations from sentencing law and sentencing guidelines in sentencing child pornography defendants, some of the most vile crimes known to humanity. 0.79
00:20:22.000 And she appeared to give them the absolute bare minimum, not just bare minimum under the law, but significantly below where the law would have set the sentence.
00:20:32.000 And so, the only thing I'll push back a little bit on, Senator, just kind of jokingly, is, I mean, she couldn't define what a woman is. 0.99
00:20:38.000 And so, for that, for me, I just do you have any reaction of that?
00:20:41.000 I mean, where are we in America where that's like a controversial question?
00:20:46.000 Yeah, you know, I almost couldn't believe my ears when I heard Senator Blackburn ask the question and when I heard her response, saying, I'm not a biologist, so I can't tell you.
00:20:59.000 And far from this being just some sort of fanciful hypothetical, this is a pretty relevant situation.
00:21:07.000 There are myriad instances in which a judge or a Supreme Court justice would have to interpret the word woman or interpret the concept of sex.
00:21:18.000 And if she can't identify, if she can't even begin to define what a woman is, that's also troubling.
00:21:24.000 I would say so.
00:21:25.000 So, talk about your race.
00:21:26.000 It's a really interesting one.
00:21:27.000 It's a conservative state.
00:21:29.000 There's a big divide in Utah.
00:21:31.000 I think you're with the voters, you're with the people.
00:21:34.000 And then there's kind of a, let's just say, a pretty bitter group of people in Utah that just don't like a great senator that fights for liberty.
00:21:42.000 Just give our national audience a little bit of a picture of what's happening in Utah politically.
00:21:48.000 Got an independent challenger coming after me, a guy named Evan McMullen.
00:21:51.000 Evan McMullen is running as an independent, and he's trying to, he's teaming up with Democrats.
00:21:58.000 He's teaming up with some very prominent Democrats in Utah, trying to convince the Democratic Party not to field a candidate to run against me.
00:22:06.000 In this instance, if he were to succeed, and he appears to be making considerable headway in doing so, he could make this a single-digit race, you know, possibly a five-point race.
00:22:18.000 But look, the bottom line is he's someone who voted for Joe Biden.
00:22:23.000 He encouraged other people to vote for Joe Biden.
00:22:25.000 He's praised Joe Biden left and right.
00:22:27.000 He criticized everything Donald Trump ever did as president.
00:22:31.000 He's called Republicans racist.
00:22:33.000 And now he wants to cobble together this group of Trump-hating Republicans with a few independents and a whole bunch of Democrats to try to defeat me.
00:22:42.000 Look, the voters of Utah aren't going to go for that at the end of the day, but he's going to make it really difficult.
00:22:46.000 And he could make this a very tight race.
00:22:48.000 One thing we also know about Evan McMullen, we know that he will not caucus with Republicans, which means that if he's elected, if he were somehow to defeat me, this could independently cost the Republican Party the opportunity to gain the majority this fall.
00:23:03.000 It's LeeForsenate.com.
00:23:04.000 I have so much respect for you, Senator.
00:23:06.000 You're so kind and nice.
00:23:07.000 I'm like, ah, he's the worst.
00:23:08.000 And you go through this very articulate of someone who is challenging you, I think, unnecessarily.
00:23:14.000 I'm telling you why he's the worst.
00:23:14.000 Talk about.
00:23:16.000 Now, this is why he's the worst.
00:23:18.000 So you mentioned the Senate.
00:23:18.000 No, I know.
00:23:19.000 You mentioned a vote for leader.
00:23:22.000 Some of our audience is pretty upset at Mitch McConnell and potentially Rick Scott making a play for leader.
00:23:27.000 Any palace intrigue there?
00:23:28.000 What side you would go on?
00:23:30.000 Anything you could play into there?
00:23:32.000 Well, look, I like both of these guys.
00:23:33.000 They're both my colleagues.
00:23:34.000 I get along with both of them.
00:23:37.000 At the end of the day, we will have a decision to make.
00:23:39.000 I hope that decision will be for majority leader.
00:23:43.000 But that is a decision that makes no sense to try to litigate now in advance of the election.
00:23:48.000 And I suspect some of the alleged palace intrigue may be exaggerated, but there's some legitimate differences of opinion over Rick Scott's plan.
00:23:59.000 I personally encourage my colleagues to come forward with plans, plans of what they would like to do, what they would like to see the Republican Party focusing on.
00:24:08.000 And I think that's a good thing.
00:24:10.000 So if we take back the Senate, which I think we will, what's the mandate, Senator?
00:24:14.000 What are you going to be spending your time on?
00:24:16.000 There's been so many injustices done that I think are worthy of investigation.
00:24:20.000 Fauci, you know, the origins of the virus, mass mandates, vaccine mandates.
00:24:25.000 What are you really going to focus on if we get the majority back, especially from an oversight capacity and from the committees you sit on?
00:24:32.000 So since you mentioned oversight, oversight is going to be a big issue from Fauci-related issues to abuses in almost every part of the executive branch of the federal government.
00:24:32.000 All right.
00:24:48.000 What's been spent, what's remained unspent, why?
00:24:52.000 There's going to be a target-rich environment for investigating things, to say nothing of the Hunter Biden fiasco.
00:24:59.000 I think a lot of those things will immediately be on the table.
00:25:02.000 On a substantive policy level, I think we're going to need to look at government spending and how to reform it.
00:25:07.000 I think there will be a stronger call than ever to reform the way Congress is passing, Congress passes appropriations measures.
00:25:15.000 We've got to abandon once and for all this practice of waiting till the last minute before the expiration of a spending period and then allowing what I call the law firm currently constituted as the law firm of Schumer, McConnell, Pelosi, McCarthy.
00:25:30.000 The law firm emerges from the caverns beneath the Capitol with a 2,714-page bill that spends $1.5 trillion and says, okay, we only have a few hours left.
00:25:41.000 You either got to vote for all of this or none of it.
00:25:44.000 But if you vote against it, you'll be accused of causing a government shutdown.
00:25:47.000 That can't happen, not on our watch, never, ever again.
00:25:51.000 So that's one of my top priorities, in part because it's one of the things that's driving inflation.
00:25:56.000 In Utah, people are paying $582 a month more for everything they buy just because of this runaway government spending.
00:26:04.000 We've got to take control of that.
00:26:06.000 Federal regulations.
00:26:08.000 Also, I've got a broad array of regulatory, federal regulatory reform legislation that we need to examine is another contributor to inflation.
00:26:18.000 Energy is also going to be a big part of this ticket.
00:26:21.000 We've got these moratoriums put in place on oil and gas leasing on federal lands.
00:26:28.000 That's halting our production.
00:26:30.000 That's driving up the price of gas, of oil, and of all the products that are made with them.
00:26:37.000 And that's a big problem.
00:26:38.000 So another part of this is just government overreach.
00:26:41.000 And I know that's a passion of yours to try to rein in.
00:26:43.000 Department of Justice calling parents domestic terrorists.
00:26:46.000 I'm hearing firsthand stories of overreach of government agencies, IRS, FDA.
00:26:51.000 It seems as if kind of the Obama cartel is back in charge of government.
00:26:54.000 Is that something you're going to be focusing on?
00:26:56.000 I'm sure you're getting a lot of complaints from constituents in some of your oversight.
00:27:01.000 Absolutely.
00:27:01.000 You're trying to rein in the fourth branch of government.
00:27:04.000 Absolutely.
00:27:04.000 I mean, you've seen it on our judiciary committee.
00:27:07.000 Even when the Democrats call committees, one of the many bad things about not having the majority is that we're not in charge of the hearings, but they'll call a hearing for one purpose and we're able to still ask questions of Attorney General Merrick Garland, top officials of the FBI, about what we want to talk about.
00:27:23.000 Now, they can gavel us out when our time has expired, and we can't issue the subpoenas that we'd like to.
00:27:28.000 All that will change when we get the majority because we'll be able to ask tough questions.
00:27:32.000 Tough questions like, why on earth did you collude with outside leftist groups in order to brand concerned American parents as domestic terrorists?
00:27:44.000 And what makes that okay?
00:27:45.000 And the difference is we'll be able to ask the question then as we have now, but this time they can't filibuster us until our clock runs out because this time we'll be able to issue subpoenas.
00:27:56.000 It's a big difference.
00:27:57.000 So just in closing here, Senator, I want to tell your website, leeforsenate.com.
00:28:02.000 When is your race?
00:28:03.000 How could people help you and get behind you?
00:28:05.000 And then talk about what other races across the country are you focused on.
00:28:09.000 Great.
00:28:10.000 Leeforsenate.com is my website.
00:28:10.000 Yeah.
00:28:12.000 I've got a multi-stage election process in Utah.
00:28:15.000 We've got an April 23rd statewide convention in Utah.
00:28:19.000 I've got five primary election opponents who I'll be facing in that convention.
00:28:23.000 Then we've got a June 28th primary.
00:28:25.000 It looks like I will face a primary on June 28th with at least two of the five of my primary election challengers.
00:28:33.000 I expect to win that, but I've got two of my challengers who between the two of them have raised over $1.5 million against me.
00:28:40.000 And that's why I can use all the help I can get.
00:28:42.000 Then the November election with the general concern that I raised with regard to Evan McMullen, my leftist independent challenger.
00:28:51.000 As far as other races I'm looking at, look, I'm very, very excited about a handful of races.
00:28:56.000 I think we've stand, we're in a very good position to achieve net gains through Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, New Hampshire.
00:29:07.000 There is now some reason to believe that the state of Washington might be in play.
00:29:11.000 Wow.
00:29:11.000 And I'm very happy about a number of those.
00:29:14.000 I've been deeply invested in the Ohio Senate race.
00:29:18.000 I'm a supporter of Josh Mandel.
00:29:20.000 I've supported him each time he's run for the United States Senate.
00:29:22.000 I think this is the time he's going to win, and I very much look forward to having him as a colleague.
00:29:28.000 I'm also a big supporter of Ad-On Laxalt in Nevada.
00:29:32.000 He's a good, solid conservative with a long track record.
00:29:36.000 Very good, Senator.
00:29:37.000 Well, we're on different sides of the Ohio Senate race, but that's okay.
00:29:39.000 Disagreement is fun.
00:29:40.000 So JD is a good friend of mine, but I will say we're 100% behind.
00:29:44.000 I love JD too.
00:29:45.000 He's a good man.
00:29:46.000 I'm all in with Josh.
00:29:48.000 And disagreement is fun.
00:29:49.000 That's what makes friendships and politics really worth it.
00:29:55.000 Thank you, Senator, for what you're doing.
00:29:56.000 We're 100% behind you.
00:29:58.000 And it's LeeForsenate.com.
00:29:59.000 Everyone help out, Senator Lee.
00:30:01.000 Thanks for what you're doing to defend ourselves.
00:30:03.000 Thanks so much, Charlie.
00:30:04.000 We appreciate it.
00:30:04.000 Thank you.
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00:31:03.000 I want to play some more sound here.
00:31:06.000 Do we have Pedro Gonzalez in CUT 111?
00:31:08.000 Play Cut 111.
00:31:10.000 It really cannot be stressed enough that Republicans are not your friends.
00:31:14.000 At critical moments, at pivotal junctures, they will stab you in the back like Spencer Koch tried to do.
00:31:20.000 But thankfully, Utah seems like one of these rare examples where there is a large, a growing contingency of Republican lawmakers who are at least proceeding from the understanding that I need to do what my constituents want me to do in order for me to fulfill my role in office.
00:31:37.000 Paige, that ties perfectly into what we were just talking about with Senator Mike Lee, kind of what's happening in Utah.
00:31:45.000 It's very interesting about how some of the most conservative states in the country just get totally hijacked by these fake Republicans. 0.98
00:31:52.000 I mean, Spencer Cox, what a weak, cowardly man, lacking of principles, lacking of conviction. 0.97
00:32:01.000 Pedro continues, cut 110. 0.95
00:32:04.000 And I think Spencer Cox's case is very illustrative of this relationship between woke capital and progressive ideology.
00:32:11.000 You know, what explains the bizarre behavior of guys like Cox and Romney who consistently side with the people who want to sexualize our children, these so-called groomers?
00:32:24.000 Well, like you pointed out, it actually tends to pay pretty well.
00:32:28.000 For example, Cox's financial disclosures from last year show that Zion's Bang Corporation is his biggest corporate donor.
00:32:35.000 Zion has a friendly relationship with Troy Williams, the executive director of Equality Utah, an LGBT advocacy organization.
00:32:45.000 Could it be that it's not just coward, it's corruption? 0.83
00:32:48.000 Cowardice, it's corruption.
00:32:50.000 I've said for a while that these pharmaceutical companies, the very same pharmaceutical companies that are the ones that are behind the vaccine mandates, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Johnson, and Johnson, there is a massive opportunity here to expose how the pharmaceutical companies are also standing to make billions of dollars putting puberty blockers and homeborne blockers.
00:33:12.000 There is a financial incentive behind this entire program.
00:33:18.000 There is a financial incentive behind trying to sexualize your children. 0.61
00:33:26.000 Here's Utah Republican Governor Spencer Fox.
00:33:29.000 Shares his preferred pronouns.
00:33:31.000 Play Cut 68.
00:33:34.000 Okay, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon.
00:33:38.000 I am Governor Spencer Cox, and I have the pleasure today of hosting the first one Utah student town hall.
00:33:46.000 And my preferred pronouns are he, him, and his.
00:33:48.000 Thank you for sharing yours with me.
00:33:51.000 Boy, he's very effeminate.
00:33:54.000 And no, he's not the mayor of some sort of bureau in San Francisco.
00:33:57.000 He's the governor of Utah.
00:34:01.000 Father of four should know better than that.
00:34:04.000 Goodness.
00:34:06.000 I mean, let's replay that.
00:34:07.000 Cut 68.
00:34:08.000 If I didn't tell you who this was, you'd say that this is some sort of grooming teacher from New York City.
00:34:14.000 Play it again.
00:34:15.000 This is the governor of Utah.
00:34:18.000 Cut 68.
00:34:19.000 Okay.
00:34:20.000 Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon.
00:34:22.000 I am Governor Spencer Cox, and I have the pleasure today of hosting the first one Utah student town hall.
00:34:30.000 And my preferred pronouns are he, him, and his.
00:34:33.000 Thank you for sharing yours with me.
00:34:36.000 My goodness.
00:34:39.000 He should be nowhere near leadership, let alone leadership of Utah.
00:34:44.000 We deserve the people of Utah are wonderful people.
00:34:46.000 They deserve so much better than that.
00:34:49.000 Father of four playing into that.
00:34:52.000 Play Cut 78.
00:34:55.000 Well, there's a couple of things to say here.
00:34:57.000 One is, even if you are looking for a threshold, let's say there's a threshold.
00:35:01.000 I'm making this number up, but let's say it's at age eight.
00:35:05.000 Still, that tells you that some adult child sex is permissible.
00:35:09.000 Second, the notion that it's wrong even with a one-year-old is not quite obvious to me.
00:35:16.000 Are reports in some cultures of grandmothers fillating their baby boys to calm them down when a colochy.
00:35:23.000 Now, I don't know if it's true, but this is sort of widely reported as occurring in at least one culture and it working, that the grandmothers believe this actually works.
00:35:31.000 If this were to be true, and again, I don't know it to be true, if it were to be true, it's hard to see what would be wrong with it.
00:35:38.000 So, yeah, I guess I think, no, I don't think there's a blanket period beyond which this is permissible if we're interested in willing participation.
00:35:48.000 That's a professor who says, I don't know what would be wrong with having sex with a one-year-old. 0.91
00:35:53.000 Where's the difference between the governor of Utah and that professor? 0.82
00:35:57.000 You've got to stand up to Republicans, sometimes even more than Democrats.
00:36:00.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
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