A federal judge dismisses indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and former US Attorney General Letitia James, but they could be re-hired by a different appointee. Governor Greg Abbott declares the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization and transnational criminal organization, and the Trump administration threatens to revoke the temporary protected status of Somalis living in the USA.
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00:01:22.000A federal judge has just dismissed indictments against Letitia James and James Comey, saying Lindsey Halligan appointment was unlawful.
00:01:31.000So a federal judge has dismissed the indictments against former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
00:01:38.000So the finding is that the cause of it is that the U.S. attorney who brought them was an interim appointment, and they've contested that that whole process is not allowed.
00:01:49.000So the cases were dismissed without prejudice.
00:01:52.000That does mean they didn't actually reject the substance of the indictments themselves.
00:01:58.000And so they actually could be rebrought if they later fill that post with a different prosecutor who wishes to bring them.
00:02:05.000But we'll probably have more chance to discuss this in the days to come.
00:02:10.000Yeah, this was U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Curry and basically saying that Halligan's appointment was unlawful.
00:02:21.000And they are, you know, pundits are already ruling this as a massive rebuke of President Trump's efforts to politically target political opponents, which, by the way, is, I think, really, you know, stunning given the fact that President Trump is probably the most politically targeted politician in American history, at least modern American history.
00:02:44.000But sure, okay, these cases can be brought again should the opportunity present itself.
00:03:46.000And it covered that there's one scam after another.
00:03:50.000It's like a feeding frenzy on the goodwill of the kind of Scandinavian ethos of Minnesota where they had an autism scam where kids were being falsely diagnosed with autism and getting a cut of dollars that were going to sort of fake autism, culturally appropriate autism treatment centers.
00:04:08.000They were scamming the Medicaid fund where it was for, I think, to help marginal people get housing.
00:04:16.000And it was budgeted to have maybe cost about $3 million and it ballooned to $300 million.
00:04:22.000And of course, we had the Feeding Our Future scam a few years ago.
00:04:24.000And so what broke last week and what makes this continue is the Trump administration, in response to this, announced they were going to revoke the temporary protected status on Somalis.
00:04:35.000So this is this ridiculous program that we have where, not even a program, ridiculous policy we have where we'll say, oh, this country is in turmoil.
00:05:05.000So you temporarily can stay here until your country is nice.
00:05:08.000So there are countries, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and of course, Somali, where they just get temporary protected status for years, decades on end.
00:05:37.000I mean, if there's an argument for the filibuster to remove it, and again, I don't think we would have the votes even if we did.
00:05:43.000But if say you could whip the votes and you could fix immigration, that would be the holy grail of what you would do with nuking the filibuster.
00:05:54.000Now, guaranteed, Democrats would get power again and they would just reverse course instantly because they are into unfettered mass migration from the third world.
00:06:06.000What you're seeing that is valuable is that the right is it's gradually getting more assertive, more confident.
00:06:14.000And one of those signs of that confidence is we're actually willing to say there are some immigrant communities who just don't seem to be adding up well for the American people.
00:06:24.000And we don't have some moral obligation to let in an infinite number of them when they overwhelmingly go on public benefits, when they overwhelmingly are not integrating that well, and when it doesn't seem to be improving America.
00:06:38.000And if we can't make that case for Somalis, we'll probably not be able to make it for any immigrant group anywhere on the planet, frankly.
00:06:45.000There's another story that emerged this weekend out of South Florida.
00:06:48.000And there's layers to this that I think we need to paint the full picture.
00:07:07.000the prayer ended we look up to see them taunting us in our faces with bacon.
00:07:18.000I had to relive the whole thing again.
00:07:22.000Now, I do just want to say taunting people while they're praying, even with bacon, is probably not the right move optically and politically.
00:07:31.000And they are getting charged, apparently, now with hate crimes.
00:08:43.000I was raised in a Western country in Germany as a Muslim, among traditional Muslims.
00:08:50.000And we were basically taught that we are only in this country because we eventually want this country to become an Islamic country.
00:09:00.000And so I learned and we learned and we generally learned that Islam is, that the Western nations are basically filthy and dirty and they follow wicked sick morals and satanic or evil morals that they eat,
00:09:16.000as the Imam just pointed out, that they eat pork, which is a very, very evil thing, and that we should abstain from such things and should make every effort to make it as Islamic as possible if we live here, because there is no other excuse for us to live here.
00:09:31.000So there are so many layers and so many aspects to this.
00:09:38.000Islam commands the execution of people who leave Islam, like myself, for example, commands the complete silencing and punishing and execution of people who blaspheme against Islam.
00:09:50.000It covers up women, puts them into the background of society, reduces their status brutally, far beyond what supposedly regressive conservative people would advocate for.
00:10:05.000It is in general, so it has values of, I don't know, child marriage, of polygamy, of wife beating, of cousin marriage, of all these things that are just terrible for society.
00:10:17.000And it is in no way compatible with Western values.
00:10:21.000We should all be aware of the dangers of it.
00:10:23.000We should all be aware as Europe is becoming aware that when the numbers of it increase, it becomes a huge stab in the back of the society.
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00:11:38.000Blake, you are probably one of the more articulate people I know in this talk.
00:11:42.000I guess, you know, you mentioned the goal is to make society more Islamic.
00:11:46.000That's the justification for being in a Western society.
00:11:49.000Why don't you lay out what does that process look like?
00:11:52.000What happens when your country is becoming more, what does it mean for your country to become more Islamic?
00:11:58.000So what it would mean is, so first off, the goal is to make people comply with what Islam demands of people when it comes to speaking about Islam.
00:12:10.000So any conversation about Islam is to be overseen and led by Muslims.
00:12:16.000If it gets too offensive, if it gets too uncomfortable, Muslims are supposed to speak up and take control of the situation or demand that it is shut down.
00:12:25.000As they increase their numbers, society should have more and more Islamic laws put into place.
00:12:33.000Any rules, any laws that counter Islam or that are contrary to Islam need to be eradicated, need to be changed, need to be somehow adjusted.
00:12:44.000What it would look like in America, as it does already in Europe, is that immigration would more and more open up.
00:12:51.000Muslims would more often, in higher numbers, come into the country, have more and more the right to vote for their own parties, establish their own systems, establish their own politicians in your parties and infiltrate them.
00:13:06.000What it would eventually look like is that free speech, first off, that's the major target.
00:13:11.000Free speech would be curbed, of course.
00:13:16.000So you would no longer have the right to speak about it.
00:13:19.000You would no longer have the right to offend Islam, to speak against Islam.
00:13:22.000The majority, the vast majority of Muslims around the world agree that nobody should have the right to speak against Islam, to criticize it.
00:13:29.000And one of the most remarkable things about Islam I feel that I've seen is they really like the assertiveness of playing the call to prayer because the call to prayer is broadcast very loudly at 3 or 4 a.m. I believe for the pre-dawn prayers.
00:13:43.000And so you hear this in the UK now where people say, I actually can't sleep because they've made a point of loudly broadcasting the call to prayer for everyone to hear in the neighborhood.
00:13:53.000And that's a very visible sign that you're being taken over.
00:13:56.000Yeah, I mean, it does feel like the whole thrust in pursuit of political power is an in-your-face full frontal attack to say, we are here and we're asserting our authority.
00:14:09.000We're going to exploit your Western, sorry, we're getting notes here.
00:14:16.000We're going to exploit your Western tolerance and your lack of, I think, what's in modern terms, our lack of cultural confidence in ourselves.
00:14:26.000We are no longer a culture that asserts ourselves proudly because we don't want to be racist.
00:15:02.000Muslim nations and Muslim people generally have a big obsession with white people, with Western people.
00:15:07.000So if a Western person comes out and says something favorably about Islam, that is very, very much amplified.
00:15:12.000If a Western person converts to Islam, that is very much amplified.
00:15:15.000The one place where indeed there is a huge conversion of people to Islam is prisons, which is, I'm not sure if that's a thing to brag about from the Muslim perspective.
00:15:24.000But there is something that is indeed appealing to some people, which is that Islam is a very strong religion, right?
00:15:32.000And I'm not saying that as something positive or as something praiseworthy, although there is some praiseworthy aspect of it, because in the West, people have become very timid and very tolerant and all that.
00:15:43.000So while the West is very tolerant and very timid, Islam has a huge assertiveness.
00:15:49.000It is very proud and very firm, but it is also very deeply indoctrinating and very brainwashing.
00:15:56.000So it has strong foundations that make it very aggressive and that oppose anyone who speaks against it.
00:16:18.000When it is played in a Western nation, in a Western society, in a Western neighborhood, what it says is that there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.
00:16:27.000So it is a direct declaration that Islam is true and all the other religions and all the other ways of thinking around you are false.
00:16:34.000So it is a direct assertion of superiority over everybody else.
00:16:38.000Ridban, you were talking about the Muslim call to prayer as a public demonstration and an assertion of Islamic superiority, of theological correctness, essentially an exclusivity claim, right?
00:16:53.000Christians get a lot of grief for the exclusivity claims about Jesus, that he is the way, the truth, and the life.
00:17:01.000I have recently been watching YouTube videos about these missionaries in Africa.
00:17:08.000And they talk about the, you know, you see what's happening in Nigeria with the persecution of Christians there and these Muslim armies and these militias coming to hunt them down.
00:17:19.000And there is a spirit of fear that goes before them.
00:17:23.000And I don't want to make this, you know, too in the clouds or too spiritual, but it occurs to me that when Muslims begin doing the Muslim call to prayer in Western cultures five times a day, that there is a spiritual element to that.
00:17:40.000There is like a, you know, they talk about these missionaries in Africa, they talk about this.
00:17:45.000You could feel the spirit of fear go in front of the armies almost, in front of these militias before the persecution and the killing starts.
00:17:53.000I believe that there is a spiritual element of this that is unleashed when you allow that type of thing into your culture.
00:18:01.000And it also actually goes back to how it is intended to be.
00:18:05.000So in the beginnings of Islam, when Muhammad was around, he made it a thing to shout, Allahu Akbar, and La ilahi illallah, and so on.
00:18:16.000So that there is no God but Allah and Allah is the greatest in front of his armies.
00:18:21.000It was a very, very fierce battle cry, aside from simply being an invitation to prayer.
00:18:26.000And of course, you might anticipate that there is a spiritual aspect to it, that when you invoke something like that and invoke something, to be very frank, evil, that it has wider implications.
00:18:40.000It is also, so it has psychological impacts as well.
00:18:44.000Think about a Muslim society that comes into a Western nation or that is in Nigeria, which has a conflict between Muslims and Christians.
00:18:55.000So think about a group of Muslims that simply settles in an area and practices their religion privately without having any calls for anything at all.
00:19:04.000And then think about how Muslims do it.
00:19:07.000Muslims come into a place, establish their community, establish a mosque, a minaret, that then shouts out, there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.
00:19:17.000It is not only a declaration of superiority over others.
00:19:21.000It is also a declaration to the Muslims who are around to say, hey, wake up, guys.
00:19:27.000All others are wrong and they are the enemy.
00:19:29.000I'm very sure that despite the, so together with the psychological impact and the social impact, there is something evil going on with that as well.
00:20:06.000When I was at the last event and spoke at Turning Point USA, I also pointed out a few things that need to be done, that should be done.
00:20:15.000First off, the Muslim Brotherhood needs to be seriously countered and seen as a terrorist organization with all its elements and all its connections.
00:20:28.000It is an organization that infiltrates countries, that infiltrates Western nations, that infiltrates non-Western nations.
00:20:36.000And certain Muslim-majority nations in the Arab countries have taken large steps against the Muslim Brotherhood because they know that it is a terrorist organization that wants to subvert societies.
00:20:48.000Another thing would be to seriously curb and shut down immigration from Muslim countries.
00:20:56.000I know we have taken steps, but they are not enough.
00:20:59.000Immigration from Muslim countries needs to be shut down.
00:21:05.000We need to stop being so weak and so meek.
00:21:09.000And finally, another thing would be information and education about Islam, what it is, what it teaches, what it preaches, and what happens wherever Islam goes needs to spread among the common people.
00:21:25.000Maybe, I know it is always a conflict, and it is kind of problematic when the government steps in and does something like that, but maybe it is upon us to do something about that, as Charlie also wanted us to do, and to inform everybody in America about what Islam actually teaches.
00:21:41.000And maybe the government can help us at some point to reach more people and educate people who are in charge and educate the officers on that.
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00:23:26.000Very excited about our next guest, Leland Vitter, author of the new book, Born Lucky, felt very, very appropriate for this week of Thanksgiving.
00:23:35.000You can find him on X at Leland Vitter, and he is also the chief Washington anchor for News Nation.
00:23:41.000Leland, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:24:26.000Well, so Born Lucky, okay, I'll be honest with you.
00:24:30.000I think you even say it in the description of the book.
00:24:33.000Most of your friends and colleagues had no idea of these childhood struggles that you went through with autism being a little bit socially awkward, struggling to fit in.
00:24:42.000But it sounds like it was even worse than what I'm describing.
00:24:46.000And your dad is just such a hero in this book, and you are thankful for him, which is, again, why I thought it was appropriate for this week with Thanksgiving.
00:24:57.000Yeah, I think my wife would say that I'm still socially awkward.
00:25:00.000I was far more awkward and difficult when I was a child.
00:25:06.000Born Lucky is the story of what happened when I was diagnosed with what we now know to be autism at about eight years old.
00:25:14.000My parents were told that they needed to have me evaluated, worst thing any parent can hear.
00:25:20.000And they took me to one of those medical testing centers, sat there with the stale coffee and magazines and linoleum floors and uncomfortable furniture for a couple of hours.
00:26:19.000But my parents asked, as any parent would, you know, what do we do?
00:26:24.000And the woman said, there's not much you can do.
00:26:26.000And my dad goes, is there anything we can do?
00:26:28.000You know, he, the desperation is real for any parent.
00:26:31.000And he said, or the woman said to my dad, not really.
00:26:35.000So born lucky is the story of my dad quitting his job and trying day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute to adapt me to the world rather than the world to me.
00:26:49.000You know, he didn't tell anybody about my diagnosis.
00:27:48.000They were going to have lots of friends.
00:27:50.000I wasn't going to get invited to play dates or birthday parties, much less have any friends.
00:27:55.000And then lastly, from athletics, I wasn't good at athletics.
00:27:59.000So dad's whole desire was to try to figure out how to give me self-esteem.
00:28:04.000And as his word, self-esteem is not given, it's earned.
00:28:08.000So that was 200 push-ups a day, five days a week for three or four months.
00:28:12.000And then you got something, but it was trying to get me to have pride in something and to be able to accomplish things, even if it was just something like doing push-ups.
00:28:37.000I obviously couldn't relate to anybody my own age and had terrible social skills.
00:28:43.000And it was actually sort of negative social skills.
00:28:46.000You know, some people, and I thought about this actually as we were talking more and more about the book.
00:28:50.000Some people like Charlie had a magnetic personality that they just attracted people.
00:28:56.000I sort of repelled them like a magnet, like the same poles of a magnet.
00:29:00.000So my dad decided he would try to teach me the social construct and he would take me out to lunch or breakfast.
00:29:07.000And I had a lot of free time on my hands because I didn't have any kid friends.
00:29:11.000And when we would sit down with an adult and I'd start asking the adult questions or interrupt or whatever it is, my dad would tap his watch.
00:29:57.000I mean, your dad is a real hero here, Leland.
00:30:01.000I mean, I feel like we could all relate.
00:30:03.000What's so interesting about this to me is, I guess, I think of a lot of what we see today where reports of autism are rising.
00:30:10.000And I feel there's also, you know, they come with the neurodivergent label for it.
00:30:16.000And, you know, another person we guest we had a few months ago, Aaron Siberium, he's actually had a similar account where I think he was diagnosed with like pretty severe autism that he trained, you know, he was trained to deal with better.
00:30:28.000And so he's able to have a more functional existence.
00:30:31.000And do you think there's good lessons for that, Leland, in just that it's not like you're just locked into one state.
00:30:38.000You can improve things and make people more adequately socialized if they have difficulties with that.
00:30:47.000And the reason Born Lucky has exploded, and I've gotten emails from hundreds of families across the country just saying thank you for telling us we're not alone, for giving us hope, and for proving what great parenting can do and showing what great parenting can do.
00:31:03.000And I think there is so many people who feel so helpless and so many parents who feel so hopeless that they can't make a difference.
00:31:12.000And this is really proof that you can make an enormous difference.
00:31:15.000And, you know, Born Lucky is not how to turn your autistic kid into a TV news anchor.
00:31:20.000This is a story about how every kid can be more.
00:31:23.000Born Lucky is sort of the story of how every kid can be more if a parent really digs in.
00:31:29.000And I think about a young man who I learned about who has profound autism.
00:31:34.000He's about 23 years old and had big behavioral issues, you know, very angry and upset all the time and very classic autism characteristics.
00:31:44.000But his dad read the reports of him at the rec center because every other day or so, they would go from the group home to the rec center and he loved splashing around in the pool.
00:31:56.000So the father said to the folks who ran the group home and helped him, let's teach my son how to swim if he loves the pool.
00:32:05.000And the expert said, oh no, you can't do that.
00:32:08.000It's hard for him to learn and it could be upsetting to him and he could drown and on and on.
00:32:12.000The dad goes, you know, I need to push my son to be more.
00:32:26.000His mental moods are totally changed, all because a father did not accept this is just who my kid's going to be, and I am going to help them be more.
00:32:36.000And I think you're touching on something which is a sort of a cornerstone of what my dad taught me from the very beginning is you are not a victim.
00:32:45.000You can control your character and you can control your work ethic, but you are not a victim.
00:32:52.000And we're seeing now, there was the Wall Street Journal article last week about they're starting to medicate three-year-olds with very serious adult drugs to try to regulate ADHD.
00:33:03.000The New York Times out with a big story just today on the same thing that this over-prescribing, over-medicating, over-diagnosing of kids is basically just a cop-out.
00:33:17.000It's not that kids don't need help, but it's that there's real hard work to be done and just a diagnosis and meeting that kid where they're at and just saying, you be you and you're great and let's celebrate you is not a recipe for success and born lucky is proof of that.
00:33:35.000So I'm a father of three little kids, seven, five, and two.
00:33:40.000And it's like, you know, every parent, Leland, you know, it doesn't matter if they have autism or not, has those moments when they're with their kids and they're like genuinely terrified that they're doing it wrong or that their kid has an issue or that they're going to have problems in school or problems with friends.
00:33:59.000And so I think, you know, I'm hearing you, and, you know, as far as I know, my kids are not autistic or, you know, even if they were, though, the point is, is that you have the agency within yourself to be a better parent, to be more engaged.
00:34:14.000I find it really, really inspiring, even as I'm thinking about some of the changes in our own family's life because there's a lot just with everything that's happened.
00:36:50.000And what was like, was there a breakthrough or was it still a gradual thing?
00:36:55.000You know, Andrew, it's a great question.
00:36:57.000And I think one of the reasons that Born Lucky has resonated so much with folks is because it has touched this nerve of parents having a hard time with their kids.
00:37:11.000And, you know, my dad spent so much time teaching me and so much time working on me and giving me the tools and the discipline to really adapt and to work in the real world.
00:37:24.000That said, I would say it's still an everyday struggle for me.
00:37:28.000And in Born Lucky, I equate growing up with autism and having autism to a little bit like being an alcoholic.
00:37:33.000It's something you have to work at every single day.
00:37:36.000And just a couple of months ago, I was at a golf club with my father-in-law.
00:37:42.000We just finished a great round of golf.
00:38:15.000And my dad, I could hear my dad's voice, right?
00:38:20.000He had taught me, stop what you're doing, be able to sort of break out of that task focus, get up, shake hands, say hello, talk for a few minutes, whatever it is.
00:39:09.000So remember, you know, in Born Lucky, I tell you why my dad never told me that I had autism, never told teachers or therapists or family members.
00:39:17.000He and my mom struggled alone and felt alone for so long because they didn't want me to be defined by a diagnosis.
00:39:29.000But if you let yourself be defined, if you use it as an excuse, it will always, always be there.
00:39:36.000And I think it's one of the reasons it was on the New York Times bestseller list.
00:39:38.000It's one of the reasons now that Amazon picked it for its Black Friday books because that message of hope and power is really resonating with folks.
00:39:47.000Well, I just, every parent has that moment where you go, is my kid weird?
00:39:51.000And then, and there is a temptation to just be like, well, this is just the way he is or she is.
00:39:57.000And, you know, we were talking about that in the break is that one of our fears of modern, you know, psychology or modern diagnoses or medicine is that our tendency is to just placate the child and pander to the child as opposed to challenge the child to get better, to improve.
00:40:13.000I mean, right, Black, you were telling your story.
00:41:05.000I just, it's perfect for Thanksgiving.
00:41:07.000I am grateful for your dad's influence in your life and the fact that he quit his job to pour into you and to help you become the man that you are.
00:41:15.000And just congratulations on all the success, both in professionally and with this book, Leland.
00:41:20.000It's really important this week as we're grateful for the good things and for family.