00:00:08.000I was looking at the lineup, the Republican National Convention.
00:00:10.000I said to myself, we've had all these people on our show before.
00:00:14.000And so I want to do an episode where we recap the best moments of Kaylee McEniny, Madison Cawthorne, Matt Gates, Rand Paul, Don Jr., the President of the United States, the Vice President, Dan Crenshaw, Marshall Blackburn, Rick Rinnell, Jim Jordan, Nikki Haley, Rudy Giuliani, Christian Neumann, Tom Cotton.
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00:00:42.000Amazing star-studded cast here of the biggest stars of the Republican convention that have all been on our program.
00:01:04.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, turning point USA.
00:01:12.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:27.000So, I do want to end on a more personal note, Kaylee, on kind of a two-part question.
00:01:31.000First, you are one of the youngest press secretaries, I think, in White House history.
00:01:35.000You have an amazing career trajectory, and so many young people that message me, both men and women, are inspired by how much confidence you have.
00:01:44.000I first would love to have you just comment on how you're able to come to this.
00:02:24.000I know I'm working on behalf of the American people, and I'm just trying to keep up with President Trump, who is someone who works around the clock.
00:02:59.000And they've announced that he's stopping treatment.
00:03:01.000But he's someone who really, throughout my days in academia, when the going got tough, when I was trying to stand up for my faith and my point of view, he's someone who always kind of provided the footnote to what I was trying to say when I shared my faith.
00:03:14.000And he's someone who is in my thoughts and in my prayers at this time.
00:03:19.000I began the days immersed in my faith, whether it's listening to Christian music or reading a devotional before I go out to the podium or listening to a sermon.
00:03:29.000I couldn't get through this job, this really hard job, without my faith.
00:04:30.000Year and a month in a hospital, three months in ICU.
00:04:34.000I was terribly damaged, just my entire body.
00:04:37.000I'm now bound to a wheelchair from now on.
00:04:41.000But for the very first time after I came out of the hospital at about 150 pounds in a wheelchair, and I went to a professional baseball game, I realized what it was like to have people look over you in a crowd, to feel disenfranchised, to feel like the society had left you behind and that you were no longer a part of the process.
00:05:03.000And so that enabled me to empathize with people and really want to walk a mile in someone's moccasins before I make a decision about what happened in their life.
00:05:12.000And so you started going across the country speaking about your story, right?
00:05:16.000One of being a victor, not of a victim.
00:05:19.000And then you had this idea, I'm going to run for Congress because you felt like we were losing our country.
00:05:23.000You were the youngest candidate, probably by half, probably, in a very crowded primary.
00:05:43.000We were considered a dark horse in the race.
00:05:45.000No one really ever gave us, thought we'd be able to do it.
00:05:48.000But at the end of the day, what it came down to is hard work and a great message, that message of conservatism, of freedom, of personal responsibility, of having the pen of destiny in your own hands.
00:06:45.000Because in 2017, our own Department of Homeland Security out of the Los Angeles office wrote a memo indicating that these very DJI drones were dual use.
00:06:58.000That while they might be flying around a park to enforce social distancing, that they're really collecting information on key infrastructure, electric grids, points of vulnerability, ingress and egress.
00:07:10.000And that they do report those things back to China.
00:07:12.000Again, that's not some conspiracy theory I thought of.
00:07:15.000That's what our own government wrote in a report.
00:07:18.000After that report, Homeland Security grounds their DJI drones.
00:07:22.000The U.S. Army says that they will never again procure these because of their compromising capabilities.
00:07:29.000And even the Park Rangers at the Department of the Interior grounded their DJI drone fleet.
00:07:34.000But today in America, there is this massive expansion of this Trojan horse intelligence gathering operation run by China, executed by the DJI drones, and your local police department may be unknowingly at the controls of a Chinese operation to make your communities less safe.
00:07:55.000But if you're worried, well, you know, I don't care if China knows I'm grilling chicken in my backyard.
00:08:01.000The real question is, as these broadcasting surveillance flights are occurring, are they picking up where you get your water, where you get your energy?
00:08:10.000And that is just simply not information that I want China to have.
00:08:13.000So I think the Department of Justice needs to act swiftly on this.
00:08:17.000And hopefully, Charlie, the states will also take a role here.
00:08:22.000The state's attorneys general just sent a memo to the United States Congress, 17 of them encouraging us to pursue action against China.
00:08:31.000I would suggest that every attorney general in America could issue guidance today to their law enforcement in their state saying, ground your DJI fleets.
00:08:40.000Our government knows that this is not a gift.
00:08:43.000This is an intelligence collection asset provided to us by our enemy.
00:08:49.000Thank you for your leadership on that because so few members of Congress are actually getting into the weeds of how the Chinese Communist Party is continuing their imperial international expansion into our country.
00:09:03.000It's terrifying that the tyrants of Beijing and Shanghai will be able to open up their laptops and see the movements and see how American citizens are going to church or not going to church.
00:09:33.000It is a, it is, as they speak, the lies flow.
00:09:38.000And we have covered that extensively here on the Charlie Kirk Show.
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00:12:01.000But is there anything else that these students can help you with in your fight for liberty?
00:12:05.000And I have to tell everyone in this audience, I've dealt with so many of these politicians, and they just don't get it.
00:12:09.000I mean, there's maybe four or five in the Senate that reasonably get it.
00:12:13.000And really, I have to say, Senator Rand Paul is one of the few that is so vocal on the issue of ending the endless wars and criticizing the spending.
00:12:24.000And now, Donald Trump Jr. You know, and if they're willing to destroy people's lives without any basis, in fact, without any evidence, you know, obviously the evidence against Kavanaugh was so overwhelming that Diane Fanstein in the Senate sat on it for three months and then illegally leaked it and then leaks it.
00:12:43.000It's really disgusting, but that's what we are up against.
00:12:45.000I mean, we have to realize that we are in a serious fight for the culture of our country.
00:14:21.000They would rather watch Americans suffer and not be able to take advantage of more job opportunities and all of these things than to have their own constituencies thrive because they hate Trump more than they love America.
00:14:34.000The president of the United States, everybody.
00:14:36.000I don't have to say much more than that.
00:17:58.000Yeah, there are tremendous, there's a tremendous spirit out there that I guess they call it enthusiasm that people haven't seen in a long time.
00:18:08.000So I think we're going to do really well.
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00:19:28.000The Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, right now.
00:19:32.000All of this just feels to me like an unending effort by Democrats that literally began on our inauguration day to overturn the results of the 2016 election.
00:19:48.000As I travel across Iowa today, as I've been traveling all across this country, I think the American people see through it.
00:19:56.000I think they see a president who's rebuilt our military, who's revived the American economy, who's appointed a record number of conservatives to our courts at every level, who has America standing tall in the world again, respected as never before.
00:20:15.000And they contrast that with a Democratic Party that just seems to be overtaken by left-wing radicals who support not only this partisan impeachment, but late-term abortion, open borders,
00:20:30.000free health care for illegal immigrants, and socialist policies that really have literally impoverished millions over the last century and robbed the liberties of generations.
00:20:47.000I mean, to think that Bernie Sanders is leading in the polls in the Democratic Party here in Iowa today and is an avowed socialist is really tells you all you need to know about today's Democratic Party.
00:21:04.000And I think that's why you see so many people coming our way.
00:21:08.000When the rally tonight in Des Moines, I mean, I know, Charlie, there'll be a lot of good Republicans there.
00:21:13.000Yeah, there'll be some Democrats, too.
00:21:14.000There's going to be a lot of Democrats there.
00:21:17.000You know, we actually, people register for these things, and they're given the opportunity to tell us about their political background.
00:21:23.000And there'll be a significant number of people in Des Moines tonight before the president and I take the stage that'll be proud Democrats.
00:21:34.000They're coming to the Republican Party, just like students all across the country are coming to this movement through Turning Point because they see the results.
00:21:43.000They see a president who's putting common sense, American principles and ideals into practice, and is delivering results in a stronger, more prosperous America.
00:21:53.000So I want to quickly follow up on one of those points.
00:21:56.000Being in Iowa, Bernie Sanders might win this state and he might be the nominee, which, in my opinion, would be probably one of the most stark contrasts in my lifetime of two different ideologies.
00:22:08.000And, you know, you could look at 1984 and 1972, which were landslides in the Republican-conservative direction when Democrats nominated someone so socialist and so radical.
00:22:18.000But it's the universities and young people that are pushing the rise of Bernie Sanders.
00:22:26.000Congressman Dan Crenshaw, right here on the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:24:02.000If you're interested in a whole bunch of different policies and you want to have a kind of a broader effect in that way, then you do have to get into politics a little bit more.
00:24:13.000And I found more and more that that's where I was at.
00:24:17.000I still wasn't thinking about running because there was no path to running.
00:24:37.000But my wife and I did talk about running just kind of casually.
00:24:41.000And then all of a sudden, one day, maybe probably at least four or five months, six months after I graduated from Harvard, I was actually about to take a job, a policy job at the Department of Defense, and then the next day was running for Congress.
00:24:54.000It just happened that fast because the third thing opened up, which is after your service to the SEALs.
00:25:23.000Oh, Charlie, I am so happy to be with you and your listeners.
00:25:28.000One of the things that we know is it is going to take all of us working together to finally deal with China.
00:25:35.000And as you're aware, I have worked on this issue of China with their intellectual property violations, the way they've stolen our entertainment and written works, content, the way they have tried to force Huawei, their telecommunications company, into our system because that is how they are using, they're using Huawei to build a spy network.
00:25:59.000And I've also spent time raising the awareness.
00:26:01.000Every one of these Chinese companies are guess what?
00:26:10.000So as we look at coronavirus and COVID-19 as a way to pivot toward action, there are some steps we need to put in place to make this an orderly process.
00:26:27.000Congressman Jim Banks has it in the House.
00:26:30.000And this is a Sense of Congress resolution, which would send the message to the Chinese Communist Party and their leadership that we know they caused the COVID virus.
00:26:41.000They did this by hiding information, by lying about what was happening.
00:27:01.000And then they changed their mind and decided to give it to us.
00:27:04.000Then they said, oh, this is all caused by the U.S. military.
00:27:09.000Then they decided they would begin to expel journalists.
00:27:12.000So in that resolution, we say we recognize all this.
00:27:16.000And China, you are guilty of having taken this virus, allowed it to spread, and caused this global pandemic.
00:27:26.000The second thing that we would do is to end these Confucius Institutes that are on the campuses of many of our universities.
00:27:37.000You know, some of these universities thinking they were teaching a different culture and allowing these Chinese professors, quote-unquote, air quotes, professors, they're actually spies onto these campuses.
00:27:54.000If you take taxpayer money, you can't have a Confucius Institute.
00:27:58.000The third thing: have China waive all of the payments related to the debt, our U.S. debt that they hold, which is over a trillion dollars of our debt notes that they hold.
00:28:12.000They should waive their payments on that.
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00:30:15.000And yet the Germans are going to say to us, we're not going to abide by the NATO rule, which says 2% of your GDP should be spent on your own defense.
00:30:26.000They haven't been doing that for quite some time, is that right?
00:31:21.000What lesson do you learn that when President Trump is very clear, when President Trump tweets a pay your fair share obligations at NATO and you start to raise your defense spending, the only lesson that we can learn is that we have to keep the pressure on because that's the only way that you're going to increase the defense spending.
00:31:47.000I think the way that Lieutenant General Michael Flynn was treated and has now been revealed to have been treated is one of the greatest injustices in modern American history.
00:31:56.000Everything the president has said about the deep state and spying has been proven to be true.
00:32:01.000You have, you went out on a limb and you called out this nonsense before these documents were even made public.
00:32:07.000And in these documents, it was shown that this was entrapment in its purest form.
00:32:11.000And any way you look at it, it was entrapment of Lieutenant General Michael Flynn without legal representation in the people's house, the White House.
00:32:32.000I have no idea, but it is frustrating.
00:32:34.000But for the work of Sidney Powell, Michael Flynn's lawyer, but for the effort of the Attorney General Bill Barr, Bill Barr said to Jeff Jensen, U.S. Attorney in St. Louis, go take another look at the Mike Flynn case.
00:32:46.000Those two, Bill Barr's actions and Sidney Powell's actions are the reason we now have this information of what they did to a three-star general who served our country for over 30 years.
00:32:59.000In July of 2016, they launched an investigation into President Trump.
00:33:04.000In the course of that investigation in the summer of 2016, they used the now famous dossier, the dossier that was paid for by the Clinton campaign, the dossier that was written by Christopher Steele, who Christopher Steele told the Justice Department he was, quote, desperate to stop Trump from getting elected.
00:33:18.000The dossier that they knew was Russian disinformation, the dossier that they knew was salacious and unverified, Jim Comey's words, not mine.
00:33:24.000They used that dossier to go spy on people associated with President Trump's campaign.
00:33:29.000And then we learn, just a couple weeks into his administration, they sneaked two guys into the White House.
00:33:34.000They don't follow the standards they're supposed to follow, notifying the White House counsel.
00:33:38.000They sneaked two FBI agents into the White House to set up a three-star general and to charge him with lying to the FBI in this crazy Logan Act, which has never been used to charge anyone with the crime.
00:33:50.000And if I can just add one more thing, understand what took place.
00:33:53.000January 3rd, Chuck Schumer goes on the Rachel Maddow show.
00:33:56.000He says in response to a statement President Trump had said, President-elect Trump had said, President-elect Trump had said that they're spying on me.
00:34:03.000He said they're spying on our campaign.
00:35:01.000Charlie, the one thing I want people to understand is this is bigger than the virus.
00:35:05.000China has been an aggressor and a bully for a long time.
00:35:09.000And the United States has been naive for way too long.
00:35:13.000Just to give you an example, in the past month where every country in the world stood still, every country has tried to survive and take care of their people.
00:35:57.000I have talked about for some time how we need to be skeptical and we need to be very firm.
00:36:02.000And now I have called for the complete and total shutdown of economic relations with China, with some people saying that goes too far.
00:36:10.000You accurately point out that their aggression in the South China Sea, they have a million Muslims in concentration camps.
00:36:17.000They harvest the organs of anyone that they choose at any time.
00:36:21.000It is one of the most hostile countries in the world to Christianity.
00:36:26.000They have the Belt and Road Initiative.
00:36:28.000They have bought up ports of entry in sub-Saharan Africa and South America.
00:36:33.000They look at the world as if it's their imperial sandbox, and they have a total disregard for human rights.
00:36:39.000And thank you for standing up for what was right on the U.N. Security Council in the United Nations, where it's like the den of lions against America.
00:36:46.000It's basically we pay them so they can hate us.
00:36:53.000And I have now come to the position, I had a conversation with Rand Paul last night, and he and I had totally different views during the debate.
00:37:33.000Major places where they hire people are the Ivy League Law Schools, and they take the top 10.
00:37:39.000These are all self-proclaimed geniuses.
00:37:41.000Nine out of 10 are out-of-control liberals.
00:37:43.000I was going to say they're all Marxists.
00:37:45.000And I would imagine the hatred of Trump is palpable.
00:37:49.000So can someone, a good lawyer, control that and be a good lawyer?
00:37:54.000I actually have an example of a judge like that who just made a very fair decision that helps President Trump, even though he personally hates him.
00:38:22.000Number one, the new American left, not liberals, leftists that are trained in the universities, which is my fight, they train activists to throw away ethics and principle for what they say.
00:39:29.000And I say frequently, we do not have a media in our country.
00:39:32.000We have a group of activists that call themselves journalists with big Twitter followers that control big platforms of influence.
00:39:39.000True journalists would have treated every state and every locality independently and objectively, and it totally backfired on them because they had, look, the media always looks at things in terms of hero and villain, and they've tried to make Donald Trump the villain.
00:39:54.000Then they scanned across the prairie and they said, oh, we can try to make this governor from South Dakota the villain.
00:40:00.000Well, it backfired miraculously on them because I could tell you, you have now become the only person who will be able to have said during the greatest power grab in the last hundred years, if not in American history, where Christians couldn't go to church on Easter, where we had to shut down our businesses, where every school is basically shut down.
00:40:18.000Every governor who said these words, freedom, liberty, I trust my citizens, there was only one that actually did it.
00:40:24.000And the media said, well, no, no, no, we're going to try to make her into the one that was trying to be against the grain and contrarian, and yet you flattened your curve by 75%.
00:40:34.000I have seen nothing but great approvals.
00:40:40.000But from the very beginning, when I first started seeing reports of an unusual viral pneumonia in Wuhan in China, I started studying it pretty carefully and looking at what was happening.
00:40:53.000And you're right, there's still so many unknowns.
00:40:55.000Most notably, we still don't know where the virus started.
00:41:00.000The Chinese Communist Party said for weeks that it was at a raw food market.
00:41:05.000But even they now admit that that's not the case.
00:41:08.000So it's possible that it was naturally occurring at, say, another food market or a farm or a food processor or what have you.
00:41:14.000But as I've noted from the very beginning, there is a super lab in Wuhan that deals with infectious diseases to include coronavirus.
00:41:23.000So it's only reasonable and responsible that we ask the question about whether or not that lab has some connection.
00:41:29.000And it could be a negligent but unintentional connection.
00:41:32.000You know, China has a history of their laboratories not successfully containing diseases that they're researching.
00:41:39.000But we need to demand those answers from the Chinese Communist Party because they have been so dishonest and they've lacked transparency from the very beginning.
00:41:47.000And we need to put the burden of proof on them because the origins of the virus can, of course, affect and has implications for diagnostic testing, therapeutic drugs, and vaccines.
00:41:58.000Well, and you were called by the media a conspiracy theorist for dare pointing out that they have this super lab in Wuhan and we still have no idea who patient zero is.
00:42:09.000The Chinese have gone on our news networks.
00:42:12.000The Chinese ambassador or some equivalent to that was attacking you, basically, saying that you're spreading false propaganda and that we need, you know, this is really not as bad as we think.
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