The Charlie Kirk Show - Reforming the RNC + Lankford’s Betrayal

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00:00:01.000 We start a little reflection from Vegas, but we also talk about the Senator Lankford's border bill and also what is going on with Iran and the unfolding crisis in the Middle East.

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00:01:34.000 Our Turning Point Action team is live in Vegas right now.

00:01:37.000 We're going to be cutting to that.

00:01:38.000 Steve Bannon is about to speak.

00:01:40.000 I was there all day yesterday.

00:01:41.000 We had a packed day of training, of meetings.

00:01:44.000 It was incredible.

00:01:45.000 And for those of you that are not caught up to speed, it's the Restoring National Confidence Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada.

00:01:51.000 It is the epicenter.

00:01:53.000 It is the nerve center.

00:01:54.000 It is the closest thing to a war room, a strategy session that we as patriots have had in quite some time.

00:02:00.000 The RNC has failed us all.

00:02:02.000 The RNC does not have an attitude to win.

00:02:05.000 The RNC has these meaningless meetings.

00:02:07.000 And in fact, I'll be very honest with you.

00:02:10.000 I have grown in my intensity against the RNC in the last couple hours because I see more and more people coming up to the camera and they thank Turning Point Action for giving them the data, for giving them the specifics.

00:02:24.000 But it shouldn't have to be this way.

00:02:26.000 There are these people that are coming up and saying, I have never received a piece of data from the RNC of what precincts to hit or what strategy.

00:02:33.000 We're doing individual one-off meetings.

00:02:35.000 And this clip really tells the entire story.

00:02:38.000 Praise God for Tyler Boyer and for Turning Point Action and for the whole team there.

00:02:42.000 And also, I want to make sure I mention this because far too often people say, oh, the donors are terrible.

00:02:48.000 We have great donors at Turning Point.

00:02:48.000 No, no, no.

00:02:50.000 We have very successful, wealthy people.

00:02:54.000 They're not necessarily in the majority of the donor class in this country, but they have given generously.

00:03:00.000 And they gave generously to Turning Point Action and Turning Point USA that allowed us to do this event.

00:03:05.000 And they stepped up in December and we had our big event and it allowed us to do this event and the scholarship a lot of these county chairs to come out there.

00:03:13.000 So I just want to thank all the amazing donors that have stepped up and given $100,000, $500,000.

00:03:19.000 And it goes to ballot chasing and helps pay for a lot of this.

00:03:21.000 By the way, it's the best investment.

00:03:23.000 So just look at this clip right here.

00:03:24.000 It's so powerful.

00:03:26.000 This is a patriot who says the RNC has never done anything for us, but now we have our marching orders.

00:03:34.000 We have the equipment to win.

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00:03:38.000 Thank you to Turning Point.

00:03:39.000 I've learned more in one day than I have in two years.

00:03:43.000 Okay, what are two or three things you learned that you have the Turning Point data people have dug down to precinct level six precincts of mine that had target voters that were likely voters in 2016, 2020 that did not vote.

00:03:59.000 And they're Republicans down to 25,000 voters.

00:04:02.000 I can hit those six precincts now with my walk list.

00:04:05.000 I've never gotten that dug down from the RPOF or the RNC.

00:04:09.000 Turning point has done it.

00:04:10.000 I'm taking it home to my people, my precinct captains, and going out and doing this now.

00:04:14.000 25,000 votes.

00:04:16.000 That's amazing.

00:04:17.000 It's huge.

00:04:17.000 Huge.

00:04:17.000 So thank you.

00:04:18.000 Thank you.

00:04:19.000 Thank you to Charlie Kirk.

00:04:20.000 Thank you, Steve, for everything you do.

00:04:22.000 And by the way, there's story after story after story we're hearing from that.

00:04:26.000 Last evening, when I spoke to this amazing group at Restoring National Confidence in Las Vegas, brought to you by Turning Point Action.

00:04:31.000 We have this young man and he says, I'm the county chair of Milwaukee County.

00:04:36.000 By the way, if we lose by 1% less, 1% less in Milwaukee County, that's 50,000 votes that we don't have to make up in the other parts of the red state, in red votes in the state of Wisconsin.

00:04:48.000 We have the county chair of Waukesha, Terry Dietrich, who is quoted in Politico saying Turning Point Action is giving the data, they're giving the training.

00:04:56.000 I feel so much better about how things are going.

00:04:58.000 He says the national RNC, they were telling us that all these things were coming.

00:05:02.000 And it's really, to be honest, the deeper that we dive into this, the more we realize not only were they doing very little, what they said they were doing actually wasn't even getting done.

00:05:13.000 You count, you talk to these grassroots, they say, they say the RNC was doing trainings.

00:05:17.000 They never did a training in our county.

00:05:19.000 Now, by the way, what that patriot, that woman just said there, she said, hey, you know, the Turning Point Data Team, that's important to know.

00:05:28.000 We've invested hundreds of thousands of dollars at Turning Point Action into world-class data.

00:05:33.000 And it's not that hard.

00:05:35.000 Just, you know, spend some money.

00:05:36.000 You got to buy the voter rolls, buy the precinct data, do some cross-analysis.

00:05:39.000 We have a whole team of data crunchers.

00:05:41.000 One day, I should actually do a show live from the Turning Point Action Data Room just to show you what they're doing.

00:05:48.000 And it looks like a tech company.

00:05:50.000 It's not that overly sophisticated.

00:05:52.000 The RNC has nothing.

00:05:52.000 The RNC, I don't know what they're doing.

00:05:54.000 They're buying flowers or other things.

00:05:56.000 We have Jennifer Van Laar coming up next hour.

00:05:58.000 She'll tell us what they're spending their money on.

00:06:00.000 But you got to supply the grassroots with the technology, with the data, so they can win, so we can win.

00:06:08.000 And we are just blown away by, first and foremost, we appreciate this relationship, the relationship with the county chairs, the relationship with the precinct committee men, because this is how we're going to win.

00:06:18.000 This is the greatest untapped asset on the right.

00:06:23.000 And I'll be very honest with you.

00:06:25.000 It is much worse than I realized in the grassroots as far as the RNC is ignoring their contempt.

00:06:32.000 They want nothing to do with the rank and file.

00:06:35.000 They want nothing to do with you.

00:06:36.000 I mean, I must have met with well over 100 people yesterday coming up, and I asked them, I said, just to be fair, I mean, come on, has the RNC ever done anything?

00:06:43.000 They said they lie to us, they don't supply us with anything.

00:06:46.000 We are alone.

00:06:47.000 I said, well, what state are you in?

00:06:49.000 They say, oh, Georgia.

00:06:51.000 Georgia.

00:06:52.000 You can't win back the civilization without winning Georgia. 0.56

00:06:56.000 And we have the county chairs.

00:06:57.000 We have 17 county chairs from the state of Georgia right now in Vegas.

00:07:01.000 And they are getting supplied.

00:07:03.000 They're getting fired up.

00:07:04.000 They're getting the data, the technology.

00:07:06.000 We're playing to win, everybody.

00:07:08.000 And it shouldn't have to be this way.

00:07:09.000 It shouldn't have to be this way.

00:07:10.000 The RNC, after many attempts, we try to meet with them.

00:07:13.000 We try to say, hey, do these things differently.

00:07:15.000 And they said, oh, we're already doing this.

00:07:17.000 We said, you guys are not doing this.

00:07:19.000 And they said, and then they attack us.

00:07:19.000 Okay.

00:07:22.000 In fact, the RNC sent out a statement in the Washington Times calling Turning Point keyboard warriors.

00:07:29.000 They say we're just keyboard warriors.

00:07:31.000 I think, well, that woman would disagree.

00:07:32.000 Those are not keyboard warriors.

00:07:34.000 These are the people that actually make up your party.

00:07:36.000 But it's not a big shock.

00:07:38.000 The RNC regime, they have contempt for the voters, for the grassroots.

00:07:44.000 For what reason, you can only speculate.

00:07:47.000 And it feels as if they're more like controlled opposition.

00:07:50.000 And there's another important element here.

00:07:53.000 Let's put the ideological component aside, which is the RNC and the regime, they're lazy and complacent.

00:08:02.000 And I realized this when I started to really get into politics because, I mean, I work pretty hard.

00:08:07.000 I traveled 3,000 days in the last decade.

00:08:10.000 I don't take many days off.

00:08:11.000 Now I honor the Shabbat, which has been a lifesaver for me.

00:08:15.000 But I put in a lot of hours.

00:08:16.000 No one outworks us, period.

00:08:17.000 That is rule number one at turning point.

00:08:19.000 No one will outwork us.

00:08:21.000 But I assumed in the first couple of years that everyone works really hard.

00:08:24.000 Like, why would you ever do something and not do it for greatness?

00:08:28.000 And this was just young naivete.

00:08:29.000 And I said, oh my goodness, there's a lot of lazy people in this world.

00:08:33.000 They don't want to be excellent.

00:08:34.000 They don't want to flourish.

00:08:35.000 They don't want to be great.

00:08:36.000 And that culture is all throughout the RNC.

00:08:38.000 They just are kind of okay with being mediocre.

00:08:41.000 They're not trying to be the best version of themselves.

00:08:44.000 They're not hustling.

00:08:45.000 There's a lot of people that just want to work in politics.

00:08:49.000 They want a nice title and prestige and to kind of ascend to a comfortable place.

00:08:54.000 And some of these people, I'm not saying they're all necessarily bad.

00:08:57.000 Some of it is an ideological thing.

00:08:58.000 But I want to put that aside.

00:09:00.000 Some of it is just, it's a culture of mediocrity.

00:09:04.000 These are not people that would be, these are people that should, you know, go work in a very comfortable cubicle job, maybe for the Department of Interior.

00:09:14.000 That's basically who staffs the RNC.

00:09:16.000 You know who staffs turning point action?

00:09:18.000 Cutthroat people that would be able to survive a surge of Elon Musk at SpaceX or Tesla.

00:09:25.000 These are young, 24-hour on-call killers.

00:09:29.000 And that's one of the reasons why the RNC is so confused by this.

00:09:32.000 Basically, they're annoyed that a group is working hard because they think it's making them look bad.

00:09:38.000 Well, yeah, we put more hours in than you.

00:09:40.000 We want it more because we're sick of losing.

00:09:43.000 Winning is the ultimate goal.

00:09:46.000 We're not in this for any other reason.

00:09:48.000 The RNC attacks us.

00:09:49.000 Oh, you guys are a bunch of keyboard warriors.

00:09:51.000 Okay.

00:09:52.000 Well, we're in the grassroots.

00:09:53.000 We're hiring 300 full-time people in Arizona.

00:09:55.000 How many people is the RNC hiring in Arizona?

00:09:58.000 One, maybe two?

00:09:59.000 And we're playing to win.

00:10:02.000 We're playing to win and we are releasing the grassroots from captivity.

00:10:10.000 The grassroots have been in captivity.

00:10:11.000 They've been demoralized.

00:10:13.000 They have a lot of energy, but they're not really sure always what to do.

00:10:15.000 And they feel as if the National Party is working against them.

00:10:18.000 But we have your back.

00:10:19.000 For those of you that are precinct committee men that are state party chairs and county chairs, this event has gone far better than I could have imagined.

00:10:27.000 And I see what the missing piece is.

00:10:30.000 I see why we've been falling short.

00:10:32.000 We have an RNC that doesn't care, that doesn't play to win, that turns their back on the most important part of our political party, the grassroots.

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00:12:40.000 As a side story, which I think is really important, we need to talk about Senator Lankford's bill.

00:12:49.000 So Senator Lankford from Oklahoma has decided that he wants to betray the voters of Oklahoma.

00:12:54.000 And he has now gone out and said that it's internet rumors as to why people are getting so upset.

00:13:03.000 Now, this entire Senate negotiation is repulsive.

00:13:07.000 It's repulsive.

00:13:08.000 It's one of the reasons why we need to fix the RNC and make the RNC and the Republican Party in alignment with its voters, in alignment with you.

00:13:19.000 Lankford is saying that this is a good deal.

00:13:23.000 And again, we don't really even know what the deal is.

00:13:27.000 We don't even know what is in the essence of the deal.

00:13:31.000 What is the deal exactly?

00:13:33.000 What is in the details of the deal?

00:13:37.000 Well, they say that we can cut off borders.

00:13:40.000 We could close the border if it's more than 5,000 a day. 0.79

00:13:43.000 I want you to think about that.

00:13:44.000 That means they are acknowledging and admitting that they can close the border.

00:13:50.000 So supposedly, the deal will give special emergency border shutdown powers to the government once reachings with border crossings could go across 5,000 A, which means they're telling you it could be zero.

00:14:01.000 They are telling you in broadcasting it could be zero.

00:14:04.000 This is pure and simple hostage taking.

00:14:08.000 So we'll only have half of an open border.

00:14:11.000 So what is Senator Lankford doing here exactly?

00:14:13.000 Well, there's suspicions that he's going to run for governor.

00:14:15.000 Well, that's not going to work.

00:14:17.000 His political career is dead.

00:14:20.000 He can go become chairman of some pharmaceutical board or some sort of oil company in Oklahoma.

00:14:28.000 He's done.

00:14:29.000 His political career is over.

00:14:30.000 Senator Lankford will never be taken seriously in any sort of political context.

00:14:35.000 He was lied to by Mitch McConnell.

00:14:36.000 Mitch McConnell deployed him and said, oh, it's going to be just fine.

00:14:39.000 And Senator Lankford is now defending it, but we don't even know exactly what he's defending.

00:14:43.000 And then he's attacking us for attacking the thing that is obviously what is in the deal, but he said, I'm not going to give you the actual specifics of the deal.

00:14:50.000 Also, they say that migrants could be granted exceptions for humanitarian reasons.

00:14:53.000 Well, yeah, that won't be abused.

00:14:56.000 If you give a loophole, they will maximize it.

00:14:59.000 Why is Senator Lankford negotiating the suicide of our civilization?

00:15:05.000 Why wouldn't Lankford say, yeah, if it's not zero, we're not negotiating.

00:15:08.000 Thanks, Chuck Schumer.

00:15:10.000 Where is Senator Lankford's actual loyalty?

00:15:12.000 Is it to the people of Oklahoma?

00:15:14.000 Or is it to Mitch McConnell?

00:15:16.000 Senator Lankford goes and he goes on these Sunday shows and says, oh, you know, this is a great deal.

00:15:22.000 And, you know, we need to make sure that we're negotiating in good faith.

00:15:26.000 Well, they're not negotiating in good faith.

00:15:28.000 They are allowing our country to be invaded on a daily basis.

00:15:32.000 They are allowing the overflow of illegals, foreigners, drugs, fentanyl. 1.00

00:15:40.000 And Senator Lankford says, you know, we have to do this.

00:15:42.000 And by the way, we're going to increase permanent work visas, which will codify amnesty.

00:15:48.000 It will make it nearly permanent.

00:15:51.000 This bill codifies the dilution of our national identity and undermines our sovereignty.

00:15:57.000 Now, one good part is the deal would require asylum cases to be considered within six months.

00:16:02.000 Right now, it takes years on average.

00:16:03.000 But what keeps them from picking judges who will grant every asylum petition?

00:16:07.000 What this bill admits is that we could have a totally secure border and zero people crossing into our country.

00:16:13.000 That is what Senator Lankford is acknowledging.

00:16:16.000 But he's also acknowledging that, well, we won't, we'll get Habsies. 1.00

00:16:19.000 We'll have 5,000 a day instead of 12,000 a day.

00:16:22.000 Senator Cruz goes after Senator Lankford.

00:16:25.000 Let me be very clear.

00:16:26.000 Senator Lankford, if he's going to go and resign and go become governor, the grassroots, including myself, I will actively campaign against Senator Lankford.

00:16:34.000 His career is over.

00:16:35.000 He needs to leave politics.

00:16:36.000 He needs to just step aside respectfully.

00:16:39.000 No one should trust him.

00:16:40.000 He is not one of us.

00:16:42.000 He is not a patriot.

00:16:43.000 He is not showing love of country.

00:16:45.000 He is showing in the most broad and clear way that he cares about loyalty to Mitch McConnell, corporate America, and the open borders lobby than to you or the people of Oklahoma.

00:16:56.000 Play Cut 23.

00:16:57.000 This bill normalizes 5,000 people a day coming in.

00:17:01.000 5,000 people a day is over 1.8 million a year.

00:17:06.000 That's called an invasion.

00:17:07.000 By the way, under Joe Biden, we've had 9.6 million.

00:17:12.000 So the great Republican compromises were for two-thirds of Joe Biden's open borders.

00:17:18.000 We'll let in $6 million instead of $9 million.

00:17:22.000 This makes utterly no sense.

00:17:24.000 It's well said, Senator Cruz.

00:17:26.000 And Senator Cruz has always been a great friend of this program at Turning Point USA.

00:17:29.000 Great respect for him.

00:17:30.000 What is Senator Lankford doing here?

00:17:32.000 Oh, it's because Mitch McConnell needs money to Ukraine.

00:17:35.000 The most important thing for Mitch McConnell is money to Ukraine.

00:17:38.000 So he thinks if they show a little bit of a little border deal, they're admitting we can close the entire border.

00:17:44.000 We can seal the border.

00:17:45.000 The border can be completely secure, but we don't want that because thou shall have open borders is the prime directive of modern American politics.

00:17:53.000 No matter what, the Supreme Court, corporate America, the U.S. Senate, we will keep the borders open and the foreigners will flow. 1.00

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00:19:21.000 Okay, I want to talk in other news as we have this amazing event happening in Las Vegas and we have Lankford that is selling out the voters of Oklahoma.

00:19:28.000 There is war looming in the Middle East.

00:19:31.000 Over the weekend, there was a suicide kamikaze drone strike that went after three American service members and tragically killed them in Jordan.

00:19:42.000 Now, this seems to be an escalating conflict.

00:19:45.000 Joe Biden and via Tony Blinken says that there is going to be a response and there will be a measured, they say, and methodical, but very overtime response.

00:19:57.000 And it's just a terrible tragedy that these three Americans were killed.

00:20:01.000 I do have to ask the question: why was it in America's necessary national security interest to have military bases in Jordan?

00:20:08.000 What exactly about having military bases in Jordan makes America a stronger country?

00:20:16.000 Do we have military bases actively operating and stopping the invasion via the cartels into our country on the southern border?

00:20:23.000 And yes, they are directly related.

00:20:24.000 Yes.

00:20:25.000 Because when these three American service members were killed, immediately John Cornyn, tragically killed.

00:20:32.000 It's terrible.

00:20:33.000 There's no other word for it. 0.98

00:20:34.000 As soon as these three individuals and these three patriots were killed, John Cornyn and Lindsey Graham come out like a bunch of lunatics saying we have to bomb Tehran immediately. 0.76

00:20:45.000 Where is that sort of gusto towards the cartels? 0.55

00:20:50.000 And I'll be very honest.

00:20:51.000 It is when three Americans are killed, a response does feel justified. 1.00

00:20:57.000 But then you have to be consistent, Lindsey Graham.

00:20:59.000 What about the Americans that are held hostage in Gaza or that were killed by Hamas?

00:21:04.000 Or is it just so happens that you're looking for an attack vector against Iran and that's always been your goal? 0.67

00:21:10.000 I want to play some pieces of tape here so you guys can get some context.

00:21:13.000 Let's first just go through the facts.

00:21:15.000 Play cut two, please.

00:21:16.000 This is the deadliest attack on American forces in the Middle East since the October 7th Hamas massacre.

00:21:23.000 As you mentioned last night, a drone strike killed three U.S. troops and wounded 25 at a base in northeast Jordan near the border with Syria.

00:21:31.000 That's according to the White House President Biden releasing a statement moments ago, which says, quote, while we are still gathering the facts of the attack, we know it was carried out by radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq.

00:21:46.000 Nikki Haley responds, she says, the very first strike that they hit, you punch back and punch back hard.

00:21:51.000 You go wherever those missiles are and you take it out.

00:21:53.000 It's not about starting war.

00:21:54.000 It's about preventing war.

00:21:56.000 Play cut six.

00:21:57.000 What would that mean in practice?

00:21:59.000 When you say Biden, you say Biden didn't do something.

00:22:01.000 What was that something that he should have done?

00:22:03.000 The very first strike that hit, you punch and you punch back hard.

00:22:07.000 What they should be doing is going after every ounce of production of those missiles, wherever those missiles are, you take that out.

00:22:14.000 You keep it out the training sites.

00:22:17.000 But does that risk away from the menu?

00:22:17.000 You go and you take it.

00:22:19.000 Does that mean striking Iran directly?

00:22:21.000 It means striking the resources that are allowing them to hurt our troops.

00:22:25.000 That's what you're doing.

00:22:26.000 Yes, you're going to be.

00:22:30.000 You go after wherever those missiles are, the production, wherever it is in Iraq and Syria, you take that out.

00:22:36.000 It's not starting war.

00:22:37.000 It's actually preventing war.

00:22:39.000 Brought to you by the same people that gave you Iraq and Afghanistan, the debacle in Libya, displacement in Syria, Vietnam. 0.96

00:22:48.000 And so, look, I want to just put part of that aside.

00:22:51.000 As Nikki Haley says, you know, just the anger that she has towards it.

00:22:54.000 By the way, I share that anger.

00:22:56.000 I do want to just examine the psychology of Washington, D.C. for a second here.

00:23:01.000 Why is it that they get so fired up in this instance and they don't get fired up with what happens on our southern border?

00:23:11.000 That is the most important question.

00:23:14.000 I'm not saying you shouldn't get fired up when three American patriots are killed in the Middle East.

00:23:18.000 It does beg the question, why are they in Jordan and what were they doing there?

00:23:21.000 I would love an answer to that.

00:23:23.000 But when we have 110,000 Americans die of drug overdoses every single day, 100, not every single day, every year, 110,000 Americans die of drug overdoses.

00:23:33.000 And we have rapes and we have murders and we have illegals and foreigners killing Americans every single day. 1.00

00:23:38.000 And more importantly, why don't we care that Iranians are coming across the southern border? 0.94

00:23:45.000 Why don't we care that people from Kazakhstan or China are coming across the southern border?

00:23:50.000 If we're so quick to say that we must strike Iran, to be consistent, shouldn't we be really fired up that Iranians are walking across our southern border every single day? 1.00

00:24:01.000 John Corny and Lindsey Graham came out and they said, hit Iran now, hit them hard. 0.95

00:24:05.000 John Cornyn says, target Tehran. 0.92

00:24:07.000 Okay.

00:24:08.000 That's your position. 0.98

00:24:09.000 It's a ridiculously irresponsible, reckless position.

00:24:14.000 But John Cornyn and Lindsey Graham, to be consistent, do you support military strikes against the cartel, their drug manufacturing capabilities, their base of operations on the southern border where they are obviously impacting the homeland?

00:24:33.000 You got to be consistent.

00:24:34.000 So Lindsey Graham and John Cornyn are all about escalating a war against Iran.

00:24:39.000 Do you believe in military strikes, surgical precision, tomahawk missiles, drone strikes?

00:24:45.000 I'm not saying I support that against the cartel.

00:24:47.000 I'm open to it.

00:24:48.000 I'd like to see the pros and cons.

00:24:50.000 They certainly deserve it more than Iran does. 1.00

00:24:53.000 So what is it about Iran that gets John Cornyn and Lindsey Graham fired up?

00:24:58.000 Well, of course, the war lobby, they need to make profits.

00:25:02.000 They need to hit their earnings.

00:25:04.000 Let's play another piece of tape here.

00:25:05.000 Just listen to this language.

00:25:07.000 We will not tolerate an attack on U.S. forces.

00:25:10.000 We'll take all necessary actions to defend U.S. and our troops.

00:25:13.000 I agree with that.

00:25:15.000 However, it's hard to take what they say seriously when you're actively being invaded and they seem to co-sponsor it.

00:25:22.000 Play cut seven.

00:25:24.000 I will not tolerate attack on U.S. forces, and we will take all necessary actions to defend the U.S. and our troops.

00:25:33.000 Now, at this important time, I'm glad to be back at the Pentagon.

00:25:38.000 I feel good and am recovering well, but still recovering.

00:25:42.000 Boy, he sounds very, very weak.

00:25:44.000 I want to play another piece of tape here.

00:25:46.000 And by the way, who made this situation?

00:25:48.000 It's just, these people are unbelievable.

00:25:50.000 It's the most dangerous the Middle East ever has ever been. 1.00

00:25:52.000 I wonder what it was when you guys inherited it.

00:25:54.000 Donald Trump had peace in the Middle East.

00:25:56.000 None of these actors were doing this stuff.

00:25:58.000 He had it perfectly balanced.

00:26:00.000 Play cut 15.

00:26:02.000 I would argue that we've not seen a situation as dangerous as the one we're facing now across the region since at least 1973.

00:26:12.000 This all right here, Joe Biden's going to play into.

00:26:16.000 Now, I'm not saying that the American government was behind in this stuff.

00:26:19.000 But the seizing of this narrative is helpful because every day that they get to talk about abstractions abroad is a day they don't have to address the border crisis that was bringing down their numbers, that was bringing down their popularity.

00:26:19.000 I'm not saying that.

00:26:34.000 Think about it.

00:26:34.000 On Thursday of Friday of last year, we were talking last week.

00:26:37.000 We were talking about a clash between Texas and the federal government.

00:26:40.000 By the way, Joe Biden still hasn't cut the razor wire.

00:26:43.000 He's allowed to, but he hasn't.

00:26:45.000 And now Joe Biden is super focused on escalating a war with Iran.

00:26:53.000 What does a response look like?

00:26:55.000 What is the retaliation?

00:26:58.000 And even, because I got a message here from someone I really trust, and I like him.

00:27:03.000 And I'm just going to read the text message.

00:27:04.000 And we disagree on a lot.

00:27:05.000 He's a good guy.

00:27:07.000 And he says this.

00:27:08.000 He says, so does America first now mean allowing terrorists to murder three American soldiers without any response?

00:27:15.000 And it's just like, okay, again, I don't like the fact that these three patriots were killed, but like spare me the moral outrage while the homeland is being just completely overrun.

00:27:26.000 Again, three patriots, it shouldn't go without response, but hold on a second.

00:27:31.000 Let's pretend that it's as cut and dry as that.

00:27:35.000 Just from a very simple question, do you trust this government to execute a military strategy?

00:27:41.000 Do you trust Lloyd Austin and Joe Biden to be a steady, cool hand to navigate this?

00:27:46.000 That alone should give you pause. 1.00

00:27:49.000 Lindsey Graham is screaming like a lunatic from the rooftops. 1.00

00:27:52.000 Hit Tehran and hit Iran and hit them hard. 1.00

00:27:55.000 I want to make sure I get this right. 0.99

00:27:56.000 Okay, I'm sorry.

00:27:56.000 Yeah.

00:27:58.000 John Cornyn says target Tehran.

00:28:00.000 I want you to understand the significance of what John Cornyn is suggesting here.

00:28:03.000 First of all, he's from Texas, a border state that is currently being invaded.

00:28:08.000 He represents Texas, allegedly.

00:28:10.000 Number two, that would be the equivalent, the equivalent that when we hit Qassam Soleimani, that Iran said, target Washington, D.C., target it now.

00:28:24.000 This is their capital.

00:28:26.000 This is their capital.

00:28:28.000 This is not some sort of military outpost in the hinterlands.

00:28:32.000 And let's play this out, John Cornyn.

00:28:34.000 Let's say we hit Tehran.

00:28:37.000 We have reasonable evidence in front of us to show that there are sleeper cells here in the homeland.

00:28:44.000 So what would prevent Iran from activating sleeper cells here in the homeland because you didn't do your job to secure the southern border?

00:28:52.000 Have you thought that through?

00:28:54.000 How many Iranians are in Dallas, Atlanta, D.C., and New York, and they're waiting for the Islamic bat signal to be deployed from Tehran? 0.88

00:29:06.000 Let's go back in the campaign.

00:29:08.000 This is Joe Biden back in 2020 trying to scare America by saying Trump is going to try to start a war with Iran, play CUP 28.

00:29:16.000 Donald Trump does not have, let me make it clear, does not have the authority to go to war with Iran without congressional authorization, without working with Congress.

00:29:27.000 It is not optional.

00:29:29.000 It is not an optional part of his job.

00:29:32.000 Presidential notification of Congress about the need to exercise war powers cannot be satisfied in 280 characters or less.

00:29:42.000 And no president should ever take the United States to war without securing the informed consent of the American people.

00:29:50.000 Democracy runs on accountability.

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00:30:58.000 Anything to distract from immediate domestic concerns.

00:31:02.000 Anything, anything to distract from the border.

00:31:07.000 And this is the old playbook.

00:31:09.000 Republicans and Democrats alike have done this.

00:31:13.000 And I want to be very clear. 0.98

00:31:15.000 I sympathize with the argument that you kill three Americans. 1.00

00:31:20.000 There has to be a response.

00:31:22.000 I cannot find anything morally wrong with people saying that.

00:31:27.000 My criticism instead is about the intensity, the energy, the focus that comes out of nowhere.

00:31:37.000 When it comes to the border, it's like they're negotiating tax policy.

00:31:40.000 There's no urgency and, oh, 5,000 or 3,000 or 6,000.

00:31:46.000 And they're like they're negotiating regulatory reform.

00:31:50.000 But when it comes to Iran, it's life or death civilizational struggle.

00:31:56.000 I don't like Iran. 0.99

00:31:57.000 Iran's a bunch of bad dudes. 1.00

00:31:59.000 So let me ask a question here. 0.92

00:32:01.000 What or who is a greater threat to the United States?

00:32:05.000 Iran and the mullahs of Iran or the cartels? 0.60

00:32:10.000 And I'm not saying Iran is not a threat. 1.00

00:32:13.000 What is a greater immediate threat to the United States?

00:32:16.000 You have to choose.

00:32:17.000 You have to choose one.

00:32:18.000 In life, there are hierarchies.

00:32:20.000 In life, you rank threats.

00:32:23.000 We have limited resources.

00:32:24.000 We have this trans-infested military. 1.00

00:32:28.000 So can somebody in Washington, D.C., John Cornyn or Lindsey Graham, answer the question, who is doing more damage to America?

00:32:35.000 And don't give me this double-speak Orwellian nonsense.

00:32:39.000 Oh, they're both threats and we both.

00:32:41.000 No, no, no, no.

00:32:42.000 You got to choose. 1.00

00:32:43.000 You got a gun to the head. 0.99

00:32:44.000 Which would you choose? 0.83

00:32:46.000 One has to be a greater, it's not even close, everybody.

00:32:49.000 It's not even close.

00:32:50.000 And people say, well, Iran chants death to America.

00:32:53.000 The cartels are bringing death to America. 0.90

00:32:56.000 Oh, Iran says they want to wipe us off the face of the earth.

00:32:59.000 The cartels are making that happen on a daily basis.

00:33:03.000 I don't hold the Iranians in high standing. 1.00

00:33:05.000 I don't like the whole weird Obama sympathetic to Shia Muslims.

00:33:10.000 And you got John Kerry.

00:33:11.000 I don't like any of that stuff.

00:33:13.000 Not a fan.

00:33:14.000 Iran is very low on my list of respect. 1.00

00:33:18.000 In fact, I think they are an enemy of the United States.

00:33:20.000 Not the point.

00:33:20.000 The point is when you're at a crisis, you have to triage.

00:33:24.000 So we have to triage.

00:33:26.000 We have a gashing open wound called the United States right now.

00:33:30.000 So let's triage that.

00:33:32.000 Is the most important thing striking Iran because they killed three amazing American patriots in Jordan who arguably should not have been there in the first place? 0.92

00:33:44.000 And to be perfectly consistent, why did you not then target the Taliban after they killed 13 people when you withdrew from Afghanistan, Joe Biden?

00:33:53.000 13 Marines were killed when you recklessly withdrew from Afghanistan.

00:33:58.000 Why did you not bomb the Taliban right after that?

00:34:01.000 You have to be morally consistent. 0.98

00:34:03.000 They killed 13 Marines, one dirty bomb. 0.96

00:34:07.000 That was the Taliban and their associate terrorists. 0.98

00:34:10.000 Why didn't you go missile strike the Taliban headquarters? 0.78

00:34:14.000 Or is it just with Iran you start to pump your chest? 1.00

00:34:18.000 No, there's been zero moral consistency.

00:34:20.000 Moral consistency would be, wait a second.

00:34:23.000 Hamas is still holding American passport holders hostage.

00:34:28.000 Why is it that the cartel gets zero emphasis, zero focus?

00:34:35.000 We just kind of shrug our shoulders.

00:34:37.000 We say, yeah, it's the cartel.

00:34:40.000 We will debate 5,000 a day, 6,000 a day.

00:34:43.000 When it comes to Iran, all of a sudden, it's a seething bloodlust. 1.00

00:34:49.000 It is this maniacal revenge campaign as if Iran is killing 110,000 people in America a year. 0.98

00:35:02.000 They're not.

00:35:04.000 You can make an argument that Chinese Communist Party killed a lot of people.

00:35:07.000 We haven't responded against them from COVID to the lies to fentanyl.

00:35:11.000 You can make an argument the cartel's doing that right now. 0.84

00:35:14.000 The morality of DC is so weirdly screwed up.

00:35:19.000 What gets you a presidential address?

00:35:21.000 What gets you massive amounts of response?

00:35:25.000 Three American soldiers killed in Jordan.

00:35:27.000 All of a sudden, we just go to a threshold.

00:35:29.000 But no, but not 13 American Marines killed when we're pulling out of Afghanistan.

00:35:33.000 That's just kind of like, oh, that's just the cost of withdrawing.

00:35:36.000 Move on.

00:35:37.000 Are we ready for another quagmire?

00:35:39.000 Are you ready for an Iraq war on steroids? 0.68

00:35:41.000 Are you ready for your son or daughter to be deployed 5,000 miles away while we are being invaded and nobody cares?

00:35:48.000 Because that is how Lindsey Graham and John Cornyn are talking.

00:35:51.000 And Joe Biden very well might be sleepwalking us into the Iran war.

00:36:00.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - January 30, 2024

Reforming the RNC + Lankford’s Betrayal

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