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00:02:29.000However, what I am going to focus on is when she was seemingly misrepresenting where she was and what she was doing during the Capitol tragedy.
00:02:42.000For what reason, I'm not exactly sure.
00:02:44.000So this is now one of the top stories in the country where AOC claims something, but the facts say otherwise.
00:02:54.000And so I look through this door hinge and I see this white man in a black beanie bump, just like open the door of my personal office and come inside the personal office.
00:04:51.000I talked to G, my legislative director, after the fact, and he said, no, I didn't know if he was there to help us or hurt us either.
00:05:00.000And G was actually like, this man came with so much hostility that G was sizing him up and didn't know if he was going to have to fight him.
00:05:14.000So like, you know, like so many other communities in this country, like just that presence doesn't necessarily give you a clear signal if you're safe or not.
00:05:24.000I want to reinforce what she just said there.
00:05:26.000That's a Capitol Hill police officer that was there to help you, AOC, and you had to size him up.
00:05:34.000By the way, can we just say, AOC, just please, can you stop saying like every other word?
00:05:58.000And so, AOC, I'm wondering, the Capitol Hill police officer who was brutally murdered, did you know whether or not that he was there to hurt you or not, AOC?
00:06:09.000Who's the racist in this equation, AOC, where you're automatically assuming that a white police officer comes with aggression and hostility, and you said my legislative advisor had to size him up?
00:06:24.000Is that what you do to police officers?
00:06:53.000The rioters focused all of their attention on the Capitol Rotunda, as you can see in the middle.
00:06:58.000AOC's office is in the Cannon office building, which is on the left side of your screen, which I believe is actually North if we were talking about Washington, D.C. geography.
00:07:11.000And she was nearly a half a mile away.
00:07:42.000And so AOC just set back the cause of trying to hold a lot of these Capitol infiltrators accountable because now AOC is All of a sudden, entering and introducing a narrative that is pathologically untrue.
00:10:02.000If I was Jamie Raskin, and we're going to get to some news with him in just a second, some breaking news, I'd say, AOC, stop it.
00:10:11.000So AOC says this: quote: The sad thing about disinformation is that once the truth comes out, the damage has already been done.
00:10:18.000People have already been misled, radicalized, and believed lies to a point where their hatred has brewed to violence.
00:10:24.000That's what led to the six, and it's happening now.
00:10:26.000You mean when you were misleading your entire Instagram live audience that you were in the Capitol Rotunda, not giving the logistical architecture of the Capitol layout that you were nearly half a mile away?
00:10:41.000And I'm not diminishing that that might not have been traumatizing or scary, but it's also very misleading when people do not understand that people are thinking that you're right outside the door of where this happened.
00:10:55.000And you then walk through the process that a guy with a beanie came in, it was a police officer, and then you had your legislative director size him up.
00:11:06.000Are you allowed to size up a police officer?
00:11:09.000You know, he was there to help you, AOC.
00:11:12.000And instead of saying thank you, he had rage and hostility.
00:11:15.000Well, maybe next time, let's defund the Capitol Hill Police together, AOC, and you could have your legislative aide defend against everyone and size up all the terrorists.
00:11:39.000Well, we're trying to impeach a private citizen over the details of this case.
00:11:43.000So AOC is trying to go to her people, her millions and millions of followers, and say, it really was an awful day, which it was, and it was so awful, I almost died.
00:12:58.000I'm convinced the Democrats' new strategy is every time we start to criticize one of their people, like Eric Swalwell with Fang Fang, the Chinese agent, they just put it front and center right in front of us.
00:13:08.000It's like, here's Fang Fang and Swalwell right up in your face.
00:13:13.000So AOC is going to start this storytelling session with other members of Congress.
00:13:22.000And that in and of itself, I'm not going to say is good or bad, but I hope AOC actually tells the truth from the Senate, from the congressional floor.
00:13:33.000Not that she was very close encounter.
00:13:40.000Maybe just a thank you to law enforcement would be wonderful.
00:13:42.000In fact, I'm going to have our team watch very closely the remarks of Ayanna Presley and Rashida Tlaib.
00:15:22.000So the rich parents will send their kids to still get educated.
00:15:29.000And the working-class parents who can't take their kids out of school, who can't take their kids and put them into private school or can't put them into homeschooling situation, what will they do with them?
00:15:43.000Over 10 years, you are going to see the trend lines In such dramatic fashion, schools should be wide open in our country.
00:15:55.000The education of our children has been on almost a 12-month delay.
00:16:02.000Suicides are up, alcoholism, drug addiction.
00:16:05.000We have been on this for nearly a year.
00:16:09.000In fact, a year ago, just about a year ago, coming up on this Sunday, I've got to double-check the dates.
00:16:18.000I think actually it might have been a couple weeks later.
00:16:22.000Anyway, is when I first heard about the Chinese coronavirus and my book came out, The MAGA Doctrine, made the New York Times bestseller list, which we were very happy about.
00:17:00.000But it was really interesting because kind of this thing that was looming over us as the book was being launched was the chatter around the coronavirus, the Chinese coronavirus.
00:17:11.000And I remember being at an event that we did in Phoenix, Arizona.
00:17:16.000You remember this, Connor, when you picked me up at the airport?
00:17:18.000We went to that one place in Scottsdale.
00:17:21.000And we walked in and there was hand sanitizer everywhere.
00:18:53.000But was so interesting to see, though, is how in the midst of all of that, we went from total open society to complete safetyism and not even bearing the costs of, hey, if we do the safetyism thing, are our children going to be properly educated?
00:19:16.000Just so everyone is clear, we are now closing in on the one-year mark of 15 days to slow the spread.
00:19:25.000Connor put in our message here, he said that was the first event when I saw people doing elbow bumps instead of handshakes.
00:19:34.000And today is day 324 of 15 days to slow the spread.
00:19:40.000San Francisco schools are still completely closed.
00:19:42.000Chicago schools are still closed, largely Because of Chicago teacher unions, almost only because of them, one of the most corrupt institutions in the entire country.
00:19:56.000And I read from a Wall Street Journal piece: quote: In Chicago, the nation's third-largest system is on the brink of a strike, despite press pleas from the city's progressive mayor, Laurie Lightfoot, for the teachers to return.
00:20:08.000Unions are resisting opening in Los Angeles, Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Washington.
00:20:12.000Michael Mulgrew, head of the teacher unions in New York City, says the schools may not open until September.
00:20:19.000San Francisco Board of Education has enough time on its hands to vote six to one to cancel the names of the schools, but not enough time to open the schools that now have the names that are canceled.
00:20:31.000When asked why Chicago teachers would be threatening to strike now, President Biden's chief of staff, Ron Klain, peacetime kleptocrat, said money.
00:20:44.000Well, at least Mr. Klain, according to here, has an A-plus for honesty.
00:20:52.000One might wish to believe politicians such as Lightfoot and New York City's Bill de Blasio are begging the teachers to return out of concern for their children.
00:21:37.000There is increasing data to suggest that schools can safely reopen, and that that safe reopening does not suggest that teachers need to be vaccinated.
00:21:48.000Vaccination of teachers is not a prerequisite for safe reopening of schools.
00:21:53.000So that is not anywhere close to what the Chicago teacher unions or the other schools are saying at all.
00:22:25.000Do you guys know what the rubber room is?
00:22:29.000The rubber room is a physical building where teachers who have been accused of crimes, where teachers that have been accused of not showing up to work, that they are not allowed to be fired because of public sector teacher unions, because of contracts that were put forward, because of tenure.
00:22:48.000Public sector teacher unions, which, by the way, is the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, are one of the largest reasons.
00:22:59.000It is the predominant reason why we have not been able to get any sort of educational reform on a national level done in our country, which, by the way, goes back to a thesis that we talked at length yesterday, which is, as Justice Louis Brandeis said, states need to be laboratories of democracy.
00:23:16.000You want to know where kids are suffering the most?
00:24:00.000Well, I saw the comments of Dr. Walensky, but I will say that even she would say, if she were standing here, she's welcome to come anytime, but she's in Atlanta, that they have not released their official guidance yet from the CDC on the vaccination of teachers and what would be needed to ensure the safe reopening of schools.
00:24:19.000And so we'd certainly defer to that, which we hope to see soon.
00:24:25.000And so the White House press secretary seems to be contradicting the CDC director.
00:26:16.000Yes, fine state and local officials demand stricter signature verification standards in Georgia and audits of the voter rolls and the people on the voter rolls.
00:26:26.000And basically, just keep on repeating: we need the Florida model in Georgia.
00:26:44.000I actually want to get to one of the questions earlier that got sent here.
00:26:53.000Some people are asking about our Illinois segment.
00:27:01.000You can find that on YouTube, and we'll also put the supporting documents on charliekirk.com.
00:27:08.000Dear Charlie, I'm a supporter of the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:27:10.000I am subscribed to your podcast, and I listen daily to your programs.
00:27:13.000This morning, I arrived late to your program on Salem Media.
00:27:16.000You stated you reject the comments made by Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:27:19.000Maybe you already discussed, I missed it, but which comments do you reject?
00:27:22.000The stuff around Sandy Hook would probably be a good place to start.
00:27:26.000And also the embracing of the complete and total fake, baseless conspiracy theory of the message boards.
00:27:33.000And also her denying 9-11 would also be another one.
00:27:37.000So, again, I'm not going to hyper-focus on that, but I'm also not going to defend what somebody said just because they have an R next to their name.
00:27:45.000And with that being said, do I think she should be expelled from Congress?
00:28:10.000Hey, Charlie, kudos to you for identifying and speaking out on this critical issue of campaign finance and election reform.
00:28:15.000I was shocked to hear last fall from our local party rep, the Republican Party demands and collects from new representatives and senators as soon as they arrive in Washington, let alone how much they demand for committee assignments and position of leadership.
00:28:25.000No wonder they are beholden to special interests.
00:28:28.000Also, foreign funds are supposedly banning campaigns, but out-of-state funds freely flow into various states and influence state elections.
00:28:33.000Well, foreign money also comes in through corporations.
00:28:37.000The election campaign process itself needs reform too, eliminating the mass mail and media ad campaigns, which waste money and provide little to no useful information.
00:28:46.000Candidate forms and debates are much more helpful.
00:28:49.000It goes on to say, currently, Tennessee only requires 25 signatures for state rep, state senate, governor, U.S. House, or Senate candidates.
00:28:56.000And she's just proposing some reforms.
00:29:12.000Should someone who is currently lobbying for contracts from the government be able to also send contributions to representatives that have a say in that sort of process?