The Charlie Kirk Show - Red Flags, Gun Grabs, and GOP Surrender with Ken Paxton and Andrew Pollack

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00:00:00.000 Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, Ken Paxton from Texas weighs in on the latest out of Uvalde and the southern border.

00:00:07.000 We also have Andrew Pollack who talks about solutions on how to harden our schools and get mentally crazy, insane people that are evil off the streets.

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00:00:57.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:42.000 We want to dedicate this entire hour to solutions.

00:01:46.000 We got to fix this mass shooting problem in our schools.

00:01:50.000 Now, mind you, statistically, it is not as consistent with the outrage that it receives from the trend.

00:02:00.000 But that's not at all to say that this is not unbelievably tragic what's happening.

00:02:05.000 Now, what do I mean by that?

00:02:06.000 There have been some changes in how mass shootings are actually considered and tabulated, whatever.

00:02:12.000 One mass shooting is too much.

00:02:14.000 It's unacceptable, especially mass shootings at schools.

00:02:18.000 We shouldn't put up with it.

00:02:19.000 We're not going to put up with it.

00:02:21.000 And we got to talk about how we can actually make sure this does not happen again, period.

00:02:29.000 And this is something that doesn't require too much kind of overthinking, but we're going to have some experts here to help unpack this.

00:02:40.000 So with us right now is Andrew Pollack.

00:02:43.000 I got to know Andrew a couple years ago after the tragedy at the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas School in Parkland, Florida.

00:02:49.000 Andrew, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:02:51.000 Oh, thanks for having me on, Charlie.

00:02:54.000 So Andrew, why don't you introduce yourself to our audience and kind of tragically share how you got into this fight and then let's talk about solutions.

00:03:03.000 My daughter Meadow was murdered in 2018 at the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School.

00:03:11.000 She was on the third floor.

00:03:13.000 She was shot nine times.

00:03:16.000 And, you know, I've never, personally, I've never been the same since she was murdered.

00:03:22.000 But I owe it to parents and to just the average people in this country to try and educate them in things they could be doing to better protect their children and themselves.

00:03:36.000 Society, it's a shame how bad society has been going down the path that it's been going down.

00:03:42.000 But there's definitely solutions out there.

00:03:44.000 And I think I'd be able to get it.

00:03:47.000 I could fix it.

00:03:48.000 It wouldn't take that much, but I have good solutions on a process that will definitely make a difference in this country.

00:03:58.000 Tell us what that is.

00:04:01.000 The biggest problem, you know, you mentioned, you said school shootings, but you just go back to, it's all, it's mostly all mass shootings, Charlie, not just at schools.

00:04:13.000 The same situation happens.

00:04:15.000 So what happened in, wait, what is this? 0.99

00:04:19.000 I got a fucking call. 0.99

00:04:20.000 They're going to decline. 1.00

00:04:21.000 Okay.

00:04:22.000 I don't know if you, I had a quote come in.

00:04:24.000 No problem.

00:04:25.000 The problem is, look what happened in, look what happened in Buffalo a week ago at that market with that shooting.

00:04:32.000 You know, similar situation to Parkland.

00:04:36.000 It wasn't in a school, but that individual threatened to shoot up a school and never arrested.

00:04:42.000 Okay.

00:04:43.000 So what happens in this country, a major, major issue, and I'm on the front line of it because my wife works in the ER. 0.98

00:04:50.000 She's an emergency room doctor. 0.92

00:04:52.000 So she sees mentally ill people on a daily basis or just evil people.

00:04:58.000 You know, it's very close to some people of just pure evil.

00:05:02.000 So what happens in society is, I'm going to use the buffalo shooter. 1.00

00:05:08.000 He threatened to shoot the school up.

00:05:11.000 What happens is, okay, they got called in on that shooting and there's no institution to take this individual to.

00:05:19.000 The police take them.

00:05:21.000 They use the hospitals as dumping grounds throughout the country.

00:05:25.000 They'll take that mentally ill person. 1.00

00:05:27.000 They take them to the hospital. 0.76

00:05:29.000 They drop them off.

00:05:31.000 They get evaluated for about an hour.

00:05:34.000 And then they're there for less than a day.

00:05:38.000 And then they're let back into society without anything on their record.

00:05:43.000 Okay.

00:05:44.000 Same thing in Parkland.

00:05:45.000 The shooter threatened to shoot the school up. 0.99

00:05:48.000 He threatened to rape students. 0.93

00:05:50.000 He trespassed at the school. 0.98

00:05:53.000 Never arrested.

00:05:54.000 Okay.

00:05:55.000 So they do get brought to the hospital, but the whole system to where they get in front of a judge and it goes on their background to where it's not put on their background, then that gives them the ability to be able to go purchase a firearm legally.

00:06:11.000 That's where the system's broken, Charlie.

00:06:14.000 You know, these people that threaten people that are a danger to themselves or to society, it needs to, that process needs to be perfected where it would go on their background.

00:06:27.000 So they didn't have the ability to purchase a rifle.

00:06:29.000 So yeah, this is a controversial topic for some people.

00:06:32.000 It's not for me.

00:06:33.000 But if I'm not mistaken, in the 70s or 80s, there was kind of a movement to open up the insane asylums. 0.68

00:06:41.000 There was a movement to deinstitutionalize mental health.

00:06:47.000 Do you think that's played a role in this?

00:06:50.000 Well, there are no institutions anymore for these type of individuals, and there's nowhere to put them.

00:06:56.000 And they're not evaluated correctly because 99.9% of the time they're released back into society without anything on their background.

00:07:07.000 I have a statistic from a buddy of mine.

00:07:10.000 I don't know if you know John Lott at the Real Time Crime Prevention Network.

00:07:15.000 And we speak a lot because I get a lot of my information from him.

00:07:20.000 In the last 25 years, 50% of the shooters were seeing a mental health counselor and nothing was ever put on their backgrounds.

00:07:33.000 There's no record of it.

00:07:35.000 So they were able to go commit crimes without having any blemish put on their background.

00:07:41.000 So, you know, the mental health, the way it's going is failing us.

00:07:45.000 You know, it's not protecting society.

00:07:49.000 Sure, you're protecting their gun rights.

00:07:51.000 I don't know the logistics of it, but I'm just saying that's where the system's broken.

00:07:56.000 You don't want to hurt people that are just having, like, say there could be someone having a mental breakdown.

00:08:02.000 That happens.

00:08:04.000 Their gun rights, you know, there's a fine line.

00:08:06.000 You know, I don't think they should be looked at.

00:08:09.000 But the people that are evil, that threaten mass shootings, threaten to kill themselves and others.

00:08:17.000 There needs to be a system in place where it would go on their background, and a lot of these people wouldn't be able to go and purchase.

00:08:24.000 Yeah.

00:08:24.000 And so, what you're saying, though, is that the background checks is part of this, but because of the closure of psychiatric institutions and because of the kind of the political correctness, I suppose, around it, that even if we had the most robust background check, you know, system available, which it's more rigorous than people realize, is the kind of these evil people with these incredibly, I believe,

00:08:51.000 demonic possessions and thoughts that they're not even getting their records filled out when they get checked into these institutions.

00:09:00.000 Is that right?

00:09:01.000 That's 100% correct.

00:09:03.000 They go, it's not even, they go to the hospital.

00:09:05.000 I don't even think there's institutions.

00:09:07.000 They get the police will drop them.

00:09:09.000 They don't want to deal with them.

00:09:10.000 Then they'll go to the hospital where there's no beds already.

00:09:15.000 You know, they're already full to capacity in the ERs.

00:09:18.000 So what do they want to do?

00:09:19.000 They want to get it done.

00:09:21.000 You know, they want them out the door as fast as possible.

00:09:24.000 So they get put out back into society without anything on their background.

00:09:29.000 You know, all you do is hear Democrats talking about universal background checks, background checks, but then, you know, they don't believe in holding the criminals accountable.

00:09:39.000 You know, you got this whole reform movement going on, no bail, just, you know, leniency policies of not arresting.

00:09:48.000 So gun background checks only work if the criminals and these evil people get arrested and it goes on their background.

00:09:56.000 That would stop a lot of these mass shootings.

00:09:59.000 Yeah, and that now you're getting towards something that has been contributing to our homelessness crisis in our country and increase in crime.

00:10:07.000 I mean, look, in the 1950s, there was anywhere between half a million people in state psychiatric institutions.

00:10:18.000 Now there's 37,000 and our population is nearly double.

00:10:22.000 And look, this is something that people don't like talking about, but you know, and I think there was probably a good argument that some of these institutions were inhumane.

00:10:32.000 I get that argument, and they could have been improved.

00:10:36.000 But the kind of the push to deinstitutionalize was part of the liberation movement in the 70s.

00:10:41.000 And basically, you're saying that if a kid starts spouting off that he wants to shoot up a school, you're going to go put him on benzodiazepans and Xanax and Prozac and hope it doesn't happen.

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00:12:48.000 Andrew, why don't you tell us about Burna here?

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00:12:55.000 It's burna.com/slash school safety.

00:12:56.000 Andrew, tell us about it.

00:12:58.000 Well, it's a company that I got involved with to try and make a difference and educate parents.

00:13:04.000 They could go on the website.

00:13:06.000 We could come visit schools throughout the country to help them with an active shooter plan to put it in place.

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00:13:15.000 Charlie, I'm going to send you one of these.

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00:13:19.000 One of these shields.

00:13:21.000 Okay.

00:13:21.000 They're pretty amazing.

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00:13:29.000 It weighs less than a pound.

00:13:31.000 And it's an option for parents, okay, to have to give them a little more peace of mind.

00:13:38.000 You know, when you talk about safety, there's multitude.

00:13:41.000 It's multifaceted of the things you need to look at.

00:13:45.000 And this is just one thing.

00:13:47.000 And you know what?

00:13:48.000 This is great.

00:13:48.000 You're putting this up, but I like to help young parents too.

00:13:53.000 And I know you have such a young audience of up-and-coming families and they watch you.

00:14:00.000 So, you know, my number one solution for young adults growing up now is make enough money to send your children to private school.

00:14:09.000 That's what I tell them first.

00:14:10.000 Anytime someone asked me, I said, you never hear about any of this stuff that goes on in this country going on in a private school.

00:14:18.000 Because number one is they take your child's safety to the utmost, you know, the utmost.

00:14:27.000 You know, they put that at the top of the tier, your child's safety.

00:14:31.000 That's number one.

00:14:32.000 Number two is public schools have to take everybody.

00:14:36.000 You know, they have to take, like in my daughter's instance, he threatened to kill people. 0.98

00:14:43.000 He wanted to rape people. 0.95

00:14:44.000 He was cutting animals up. 1.00

00:14:46.000 They had to frisk my daughter's killer every day before he went into school.

00:14:52.000 And this is a public school.

00:14:54.000 So number one is marry someone or make enough money to send your children to private school. 0.67

00:15:01.000 Number two is: okay, if you do have a child and you have no choice to send them to public school, you have to get involved with your local elections.

00:15:10.000 Okay.

00:15:11.000 Who runs the school board is very important, Charlie.

00:15:14.000 That's where the cancer starts in this country that goes all the way up to Washington.

00:15:21.000 We call it the swamp.

00:15:22.000 The swamp starts locally in the school board.

00:15:25.000 Okay.

00:15:26.000 Parents, you have the power to make a difference locally and put like-minded people into these school boards that are going to take security seriously.

00:15:37.000 You know, they didn't do it in Avaldi after so many shootings.

00:15:41.000 You know, the side door was open.

00:15:44.000 This classroom door was open.

00:15:46.000 No police officer at the school.

00:15:48.000 Okay.

00:15:49.000 It's 2022.

00:15:52.000 Okay, parents or all your listeners, do not send your child to a school that doesn't have at least one police officer or security guard or trained personnel with a firearm per 500 students.

00:16:06.000 We changed the law in Florida.

00:16:08.000 We have one armed security guard or guardian or police officer per 500 students.

00:16:14.000 Okay, you wouldn't go to the airport.

00:16:16.000 You don't go to a sporting event without security.

00:16:20.000 None of the congresspeople, when they go places, they all have security teams.

00:16:24.000 The Hollywood people, they have security teams.

00:16:27.000 Do not leave our kids unprotected.

00:16:31.000 Another tip for parents is you could go after you drop your child off at the school, take a ride, go back to that school and see if you could get in.

00:16:41.000 Just because there's a single point of entry, if they have it, principals need to reinforce with the children and the faculty not to open a door.

00:16:50.000 Go to one of the side doors, knock on it, see if they'll let you in.

00:16:54.000 Okay?

00:16:55.000 That's what that's, I'd love to give these tips to parents to help them.

00:16:59.000 That's amazing insight and wisdom.

00:17:01.000 And thank you.

00:17:02.000 The website is burna by RNA.com slash school safety.

00:17:07.000 I was just flipping through it actually right here.

00:17:09.000 It's a great website.

00:17:10.000 It's right there, all about school safety.

00:17:13.000 You guys could check it out.

00:17:14.000 And Andrew, thank you for your leadership.

00:17:16.000 And I know a lot of parents learned a lot through that.

00:17:19.000 So thank you, Andrew.

00:17:20.000 Really appreciate it.

00:17:22.000 Thanks, Charlie.

00:17:23.000 Talk soon.

00:17:23.000 See you soon.

00:17:24.000 Thank you.

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00:18:18.000 With us is the Attorney General of Texas with, I think, the largest Attorney General's office in the country.

00:18:23.000 Maybe California is close to it or New York, but he does a great job and he just survived.

00:18:28.000 In fact, he thrived past a highly contested primary against, I believe, a member of the Bush family.

00:18:37.000 Ken Paxton is with us.

00:18:38.000 Ken, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:18:41.000 Hey, Charlie, good to be back.

00:18:43.000 It's been a little while, but I'm happy to be back, and I'm happy to be back after the primary is over.

00:18:48.000 Absolutely.

00:18:48.000 And congratulations.

00:18:49.000 Just tell us a little bit about that.

00:18:51.000 That was pretty high profile, a lot of money being spent, and you were victorious.

00:18:55.000 Tell us about that.

00:18:56.000 Yeah, so, I mean, basically, I just ran on my record, and he didn't really have much of a record to run on.

00:19:03.000 I think the voters of Texas figured it out.

00:19:06.000 It ended up being 68, 32.

00:19:08.000 So it was a pretty resounding win for us.

00:19:10.000 And it gives us a chance to continue to fight for freedom, not just for Texas, but really for the whole country.

00:19:17.000 Congratulations.

00:19:18.000 So I want to start with the shooting in Uvalde.

00:19:21.000 I have more questions than answers.

00:19:25.000 We do know there is this inexplicable hour-long gap.

00:19:28.000 The police have admitted that they made a mistake and they should have done things differently.

00:19:33.000 But now the local police are saying they're no longer going to be complying with a Texas Department of Public Safety investigation.

00:19:41.000 What's your take on this?

00:19:42.000 And what is your office going to do to get to the bottom of this?

00:19:47.000 So unfortunately, my office can only investigate any type of crime, whether it's law enforcement or whatever, if we're asked.

00:19:56.000 If DPS, if the state police asks us, otherwise it's on them to continue the investigation.

00:20:03.000 It is strange now that the police department Uvale, if that's accurate, that they don't want to talk to the state police and just bring it, as you said, the answers.

00:20:16.000 Yeah, and so that's interesting that the Attorney General's office isn't able to investigate it unless it's asked.

00:20:22.000 I suppose there's some people that are asking the question, is there a cover-up underway?

00:20:26.000 We know the story has changed a lot.

00:20:28.000 So what's your take generally as the Attorney General of Texas?

00:20:31.000 You know, you're going to be under a lot of pressure from left-wing activist groups to try and go after the Second Amendment.

00:20:38.000 What's your perspective as the chief law enforcement officer of the great state of Texas as it comes to hardening our schools and protecting our Second Amendment rights?

00:20:47.000 So I believe in both of those.

00:20:49.000 I think we should definitely harden our schools.

00:20:51.000 I think that teachers and administrators should be trained how to use a firearm.

00:20:55.000 We have a program.

00:20:56.000 We have two programs in Texas that were passed, I believe, in 2013 when I was in the Texas Senate called the Guardian Program.

00:21:03.000 And then we also have a Marshals program that involves even more training.

00:21:07.000 So I think if shooters knew there were people in those buildings with guns and they didn't know who they were, I think it would have an insurrent effect.

00:21:15.000 And if it didn't, then we'd at least have people trained to deal with the situation before law enforcement got there.

00:21:20.000 Because as we already noted, they didn't get there right away.

00:21:23.000 And then when they did, they didn't go in right away.

00:21:26.000 And we lost valuable time and lost valuable lives.

00:21:29.000 And I think that can be somewhat solved by just implementing the program that's already been passed.

00:21:36.000 Second Amendment, it's there.

00:21:38.000 It is our right to bear firearms.

00:21:41.000 Having laws, gun laws that supposedly protect us don't really protect us because this guy went in and violated all the murder laws.

00:21:50.000 And for some reason, people think, well, he would have followed the gun law if there had been a gun law.

00:21:54.000 That doesn't make any sense and won't work.

00:21:56.000 All that does is take guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens.

00:22:00.000 So here's where I'm a little bit confused, though.

00:22:03.000 And, you know, I obviously have to be careful in the way you have to answer this.

00:22:07.000 But what is a senator from Texas doing negotiating gun control with the Democrats?

00:22:14.000 That doesn't seem to be consistent with where the voters of Texas are.

00:22:18.000 You know, Senator John Cornyn who's doing that.

00:22:21.000 What on earth is going on here?

00:22:23.000 Look, I don't have a good answer for that.

00:22:25.000 I don't know if he's just been up there too long and he's bought into the swamp politics.

00:22:30.000 Sports on hearing that he's negotiating some type of limitations on lawful citizens having the ability to have arms.

00:22:38.000 And if he's doing that, I'm not in favor of it.

00:22:41.000 I don't think most Texas are in favor of it.

00:22:43.000 And I'm not afraid to say he's wrong if that's what he's doing.

00:22:46.000 Yeah, I just, it's just such a misrepresentation of kind of what the voters of Texas want.

00:22:52.000 I mean, there's this story in the Federalists that there is no bipartisan gun compromise in the works, just GOP capitulation.

00:23:01.000 And of all the people to kind of lead negotiations, it's Senator John Cornyn from Texas, who's focusing on two new gun control proposals, including red flag laws.

00:23:13.000 And so, you know, we've talked about red flag laws here on this program and how they might have good intentions, but it also could create situations where people are misdiagnosed or misprofiled.

00:23:25.000 And you know this, Ken.

00:23:26.000 We've talked about it on this program.

00:23:28.000 For example, moms and dads are categorized as domestic terrorists by our federal government.

00:23:33.000 Does that mean they can no longer own a firearm?

00:23:36.000 Can you talk about how some of these gun control policies that the federal government might try to pass might on a surface have some good intentions, but in reality might prohibit total peaceful, law-abiding, mentally stable Americans from being able to own firearms?

00:23:51.000 Yeah, so I think you're right about this.

00:23:52.000 I think red flag laws sound like reasonable ways to deal with this problem, but they're really not.

00:23:58.000 They create a dangerous sort of setup because then who decides whether you're a that you're a threat?

00:24:06.000 Is it the government?

00:24:07.000 Well, what if the government doesn't like you?

00:24:08.000 What if the government has uses pretenses to go take away your Second Amendment right?

00:24:14.000 Well, we're talking about constitutional rights.

00:24:18.000 Those were given to us not by the government, and they cannot be taken away by the government.

00:24:22.000 I don't care what good reason they have, unless it goes through the constitutional process of changing the Second Amendment.

00:24:28.000 We as Americans have that right, and I don't believe that we should have some government oversight deciding when we can have that firearm or when we shouldn't.

00:24:36.000 Yeah, and that's the most important point.

00:24:38.000 I mean, if we were at a place where we had trust in the federal government and their ability to compile lists and to kind of put forward threat assessment tags, I think a lot of us would not necessarily be on board for it, but I'd be more open-minded for it.

00:24:54.000 But, you know, they say, for example, you know, in their press conferences, we have to make sure certain people are not able to own firearms.

00:25:01.000 I totally agree with that conceptually.

00:25:03.000 Of course I do. 0.99

00:25:04.000 I mean, this scumbag in Uvalde, first of all, I don't know if you know anything. 0.99

00:25:08.000 I don't know how he was able to afford 2,000 rounds of ammunition and two $2,000 rifles. 0.99

00:25:14.000 That's a separate issue, though.

00:25:15.000 But the federal government now has a track record, especially with the moms and dads of domestic terrorists calling people that come in to take selfies in the Capitol Rotunda as, you know, trying to lock them up for the rest of their life.

00:25:27.000 You know, we can't, we don't trust the government to kind of compile these lists, and it's not out of the realm of the possibility that they would try to use that against us.

00:25:36.000 I do want to pivot, though.

00:25:38.000 What do we know about this individual purchasing the weapon and where he got it from?

00:25:43.000 Does that fall under your office's jurisdiction, or is that still Texas Department of Public Safety?

00:25:49.000 That is still local police and Texas state police.

00:25:53.000 It does not fall under our jurisdiction unless, again, we have law enforcement officers in our office that assist or we're asked often to participate in investigations.

00:26:03.000 If we're asked, we're ready to roll today if we're asked.

00:26:08.000 So far, that's been carried on by the local police and by state police.

00:26:12.000 That's fascinating to me.

00:26:13.000 So you have to be asked, but the FBI could just waltz in and do whatever they want.

00:26:17.000 Is that right?

00:26:18.000 Yeah, I mean, basically, the FBI couldn't come in here either unless the state police asked them.

00:26:24.000 My understanding is that to some limited extent, the FBI has been asked to participate, which I'm not sure that would have been my call, but that's what's happened.

00:26:33.000 Yeah, that's interesting because it seems as if the DOJ just made a preemptive investigation.

00:26:38.000 Like, we're just going to investigate this.

00:26:40.000 And so I suppose that's a really interesting state's rights kind of discussion for another time.

00:26:45.000 I want to play tape here of the new Biden White House press secretary, Jean Pierre, where she talks about hardening schools.

00:26:55.000 Let's listen to this together, play cut 28.

00:26:59.000 And so the problem is with guns and not having legislation to really deal with an issue that is a pandemic here in this country.

00:27:11.000 I know there's been conversation about hardening schools.

00:27:14.000 That is not something that he believes in.

00:27:16.000 You hear that?

00:27:16.000 It's a pandemic.

00:27:17.000 We're all going to have to get vaccines against guns and wear masks and stay at home.

00:27:20.000 They love that word.

00:27:22.000 She's against hardening schools. 0.72

00:27:24.000 What's your reaction to that?

00:27:26.000 Well, look, I'm not surprised because they typically, it seems like whatever is coming out of their office is not good for America.

00:27:34.000 I don't know how they cannot be for protecting these children and giving them a chance and doing that by hardening the schools.

00:27:42.000 I see no downside in that other than it costs money.

00:27:45.000 And since we're sending $40 billion to Ukraine, I don't know why we can't spend that money, similar money, protecting our most valuable asset, which is our children.

00:27:55.000 Yeah, amen.

00:27:56.000 In closing here, I just want to focus on the southern border where I wish we had $40 billion going there.

00:28:01.000 What is your office doing?

00:28:02.000 to continually to sue the Biden administration around Title 42 and the erosion of our sovereignty.

00:28:09.000 We have 11 lawsuits alone just related to the border.

00:28:12.000 The most recent one that went up to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Remain New Mexico asylum program, is really important to get reinstituted.

00:28:19.000 It's one of the primary pieces of legislation or statute that President Trump used to lower, continue to lower the number of people coming here illegally.

00:28:29.000 That decision should be coming soon, along with Title New gives us a chance at stemming some of the tide.

00:28:35.000 But the reality is they've opened the border up.

00:28:41.000 They're working with the cartels, and they want as many people here as possible, including the transportation of drugs, because they're freely allowing that to occur.

00:28:49.000 It's just unbelievable.

00:28:51.000 Congratulations on your victory.

00:28:53.000 It was up against a lot of establishment forces, but it was a resounding win and a runoff that never should have had to happen.

00:28:59.000 And it looks like you're going to be just great in November.

00:29:01.000 Attorney General Ken Paxton doing a wonderful job in the great state of Texas.

00:29:05.000 He's not going to give an inch to these gun grabbers or these anti-constitutional folks.

00:29:10.000 So congratulations again, and you're welcome anytime on the program.

00:29:13.000 Thank you.

00:29:14.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:29:15.000 Have a great day.

00:29:15.000 You bet.

00:29:16.000 Talk to you soon.

00:29:19.000 Look, we all know that a war is being waged on reality, and the left is leading the charge.

00:29:23.000 Their radical gender ideology has seeped into children's classrooms, into medical terminology, and into our everyday life. 0.99

00:29:29.000 It's producing a generation of psychologically infantile and confused young people.

00:29:33.000 Not only that, but this radical ideology is trying to erase the people who brought us all into existence, women. 0.93

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00:29:43.000 He recently embarked on a journey around the world to ask one simple question, what is a woman?

00:29:46.000 And you'd be surprised not only how few people are capable of answering, but how many people have a completely twisted idea of what a woman is. 1.00

00:29:53.000 Thankfully, he got his whole experience on film.

00:29:55.000 It's the question you're not allowed to ask, the documentary they don't want you to see, what is a woman? 1.00

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00:30:02.000 Look, Matt Walsh is terrific.

00:30:04.000 He's a great American patriot.

00:30:05.000 You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll scream, probably all at the same time.

00:30:08.000 Radical gender ideologies have a not-so-secret agenda. 1.00

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00:30:20.000 What is a Woman is only available to watch for members of the Daily Wire, great organization. 0.91

00:30:24.000 So I highly recommend you join today.

00:30:26.000 Together, we can fight back against the lunatic agenda, and the Daily Wire is taking it head-on.

00:30:30.000 Now more than ever, we must support those who are preaching the one word that the world is missing, and that is sanity.

00:30:35.000 Check it out.

00:30:36.000 Matt Welsh, great American Patriot, whatisAwoman.com.

00:30:40.000 WhatisAwoman.com.

00:30:45.000 Thomas gave an interview on ABC News about why people transition to be one's authentic self.

00:30:54.000 Play cut three.

00:30:56.000 There's a lot of factors that go into a race and how well you do.

00:31:03.000 And the biggest change for me is that I'm happy.

00:31:07.000 Trans people don't transition for athletics. 0.99

00:31:12.000 We transition to be happy and authentic and our true selves.

00:31:16.000 Transitioning to get an advantage is not something that ever factors into our decisions.

00:31:22.000 You didn't transition to win more medals.

00:31:25.000 No.

00:31:26.000 Look, I don't want to be cruel, but you sound like a dude, man.

00:31:29.000 I mean, at least try to make your voice sound different.

00:31:31.000 Like, can you at least try the squeaky thing, like a higher-pitch octave?

00:31:37.000 Like, I'm not trying to be mean, but it's like, you're not selling it well at all.

00:31:42.000 Worst salesman ever. 0.96

00:31:44.000 It's just narcissistic. 0.99

00:31:46.000 It's all about you.

00:31:46.000 Of course it's about that.

00:31:49.000 It's all about what you want, what you feel is right, regardless of who you disenfranchise, regardless of who you cut in line.

00:32:01.000 What about the happiness and the well-being of the teammates?

00:32:03.000 And this is where society does come in.

00:32:06.000 And this is where the people say, oh, let people do whatever you want, live and let live.

00:32:10.000 No, you need guardrails so people could be actually free or else the strong dominate the weak.

00:32:15.000 Remember, we have a moral principle in the West that the strong must protect the weak and that standards must allow people to participate and compete within certain agreed-upon frameworks.

00:32:27.000 The one that has worked rather well is chromosomal structures.

00:32:31.000 Thomas goes on to say that it's just all about all about happiness.

00:32:38.000 Critics accused, this is a hilarious article from The Independent.

00:32:41.000 I don't have time to go through all of this.

00:32:44.000 Critics accuse trans swimming star Leah Thomas of having an unfair advantage.

00:32:48.000 The data tells a different story.

00:32:50.000 And it says, this is what's so funny.

00:32:52.000 So it says here in The Independent, it says, her swimming times are on pair with cis women.

00:32:58.000 You know who they compare her to? 0.83

00:32:59.000 Katie Ledecki, who is like the best female swimmer ever.

00:33:04.000 And without having to read this kind of pile of pharmaceutical-funded transgender propaganda, Thomas won the national title. 0.97

00:33:13.000 It proves the point that if you win the national title, then obviously you have an unfair advantage and you weren't able to win it against fellow men.

00:33:22.000 And they say, well, her time is on par with Katie Ledecki.

00:33:25.000 Yet they don't mention that Katie Ladecki is on pace to get more gold medals than Michael Phelps if she competes in one more Summer Olympics.

00:33:33.000 Thomas says, it's been a goal of mine to swim at the Olympic trials for a very long time.

00:33:37.000 I'd love to see that through. 0.96

00:33:38.000 Of course, you're a cheater.

00:33:39.000 You'd love to make everything about yourself.

00:33:42.000 At times, you must pick tough fights to tell people you're not allowed to do that.

00:33:47.000 You might be called bad names, but standards are what keep people free.

00:33:51.000 Otherwise, you live in chaos.

00:33:53.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:33:54.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:33:57.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:33:58.000 God bless.

00:34:00.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - June 01, 2022

Red Flags, Gun Grabs, and GOP Surrender with Ken Paxton and Andrew Pollack

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