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00:00:08.000 Hey, everybody.

00:00:08.000 I was looking at the lineup, the Republican National Convention.

00:00:10.000 I said to myself, we've had all these people on our show before.

00:00:14.000 And 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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00:00:42.000 Amazing star-studded cast here of the biggest stars of the Republican convention that have all been on our program.

00:00:49.000 Buckle up, everybody.

00:00:50.000 Here we go.

00:00:51.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:53.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:00:55.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:58.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:01:02.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:01:03.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:01:04.000 His 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.

00:01:12.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

00:01:21.000 That's why we are here.

00:01:24.000 And now, Kaylee McEnini.

00:01:27.000 So, I do want to end on a more personal note, Kaylee, on kind of a two-part question.

00:01:31.000 First, you are one of the youngest press secretaries, I think, in White House history.

00:01:35.000 You 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.

00:01:44.000 I first would love to have you just comment on how you're able to come to this.

00:01:48.000 You wear that cross every single day.

00:01:48.000 I see that cross.

00:01:50.000 I want to just compliment you for the boldness of your faith.

00:01:53.000 It's obviously really important to your testimony and your daily work.

00:01:57.000 Please comment on those two things.

00:01:59.000 I know our listeners will be blessed by that.

00:02:01.000 Sure.

00:02:02.000 You know, it's an honor to be here as a millennial woman. 0.97

00:02:04.000 I know you work with millennials all across the country.

00:02:08.000 And, you know, being here and being a young person in particular, I'm very proud.

00:02:12.000 I got here through a lot of hard work.

00:02:14.000 As my dad says, talent beats hard work when hard work, excuse me, beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.

00:02:21.000 So I put in a lot of time.

00:02:22.000 I take these proposals seriously.

00:02:24.000 I 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.

00:02:30.000 He never gets tired.

00:02:32.000 Yeah, he's just got full of energy.

00:02:33.000 So to be here, to be here at a young age, it's just a testament to what hard work can do and keeping up with this president.

00:02:40.000 But in terms of my faith, it's a very important part of my life.

00:02:44.000 You know, one of my mentors is Ravi Zacharias, and I've never actually met him, but he's someone I've always looked up to.

00:02:53.000 He's a Christian apologist who has been a lot in my life.

00:02:57.000 And unfortunately, he has cancer.

00:02:59.000 And they've announced that he's stopping treatment.

00:03:01.000 But 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.

00:03:14.000 And he's someone who is in my thoughts and in my prayers at this time.

00:03:17.000 But my faith is huge to me.

00:03:19.000 I 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.

00:03:29.000 I couldn't get through this job, this really hard job, without my faith.

00:03:35.000 And now, Madison Cawthorne.

00:03:37.000 My entire life was going as good as it could have been.

00:03:40.000 You know, I was born in 1995, grew up in the mountains of Western North Carolina, incredible family, incredible community.

00:03:46.000 Had always dreamed about going to the Naval Academy, had just gotten nominated, 18 years old, planned on playing football.

00:03:52.000 My entire life was going however you'd want it to go.

00:03:55.000 Sharp mind, incredible physical abilities.

00:03:58.000 But then, you know, as I'm on a road trip with my best friend, I'm taking a nap in the passenger seat.

00:04:04.000 For whatever reason, I assume he thought it would be better as a group activity.

00:04:08.000 And so he accidentally fell asleep behind the wheel of the car.

00:04:12.000 We were going about 70 miles an hour to construction zone on the interstate, not really speeding, nothing bad.

00:04:17.000 But when there's no one on the wheel of the car, dangerous things happen.

00:04:21.000 So 70 miles an hour, we run headlong into a concrete barricade.

00:04:24.000 Wow.

00:04:25.000 And from there, you went through years in the hospital.

00:04:29.000 You're in a month in a hospital?

00:04:30.000 Year and a month in a hospital, three months in ICU.

00:04:34.000 I was terribly damaged, just my entire body.

00:04:37.000 I'm now bound to a wheelchair from now on.

00:04:41.000 But 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.

00:05:03.000 And 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.

00:05:12.000 And so you started going across the country speaking about your story, right?

00:05:16.000 One of being a victor, not of a victim.

00:05:19.000 And then you had this idea, I'm going to run for Congress because you felt like we were losing our country.

00:05:23.000 You were the youngest candidate, probably by half, probably, in a very crowded primary.

00:05:29.000 How many people were in your primary?

00:05:30.000 We had 12 people in the primary.

00:05:32.000 So the way this system works in North Carolina, like a lot of southern states, they have a very crowded primary.

00:05:37.000 Then the top two vote-getters have a runoff.

00:05:40.000 And so it was a surprise you even made the runoff, right?

00:05:42.000 It was.

00:05:43.000 We were considered a dark horse in the race.

00:05:45.000 No one really ever gave us, thought we'd be able to do it.

00:05:48.000 But 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.

00:05:59.000 And so no one gave us a chance.

00:06:02.000 But when all the votes came out, we realized we were in second place.

00:06:06.000 My team was actually frustrated because we thought we were going to be in first.

00:06:08.000 And so then we started into our runoff election.

00:06:12.000 And, you know, Charlie, you know how the odds are even stacked against us more at that point.

00:06:16.000 Yeah, and I could speak personally to that.

00:06:21.000 And now, Congressman Matt Gates.

00:06:24.000 Then coronavirus comes, and there is this demand from law enforcement agencies around the country to be able to enforce social distancing.

00:06:32.000 And so DJI, this Chinese drone company, donates just a ton of drones to 22 states, over 48 municipalities, to fly around.

00:06:44.000 Now, why should that scare us?

00:06:45.000 Because 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.

00:06:58.000 That 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.

00:07:10.000 And that they do report those things back to China.

00:07:12.000 Again, that's not some conspiracy theory I thought of.

00:07:15.000 That's what our own government wrote in a report.

00:07:18.000 After that report, Homeland Security grounds their DJI drones.

00:07:22.000 The U.S. Army says that they will never again procure these because of their compromising capabilities.

00:07:29.000 And even the Park Rangers at the Department of the Interior grounded their DJI drone fleet. 0.86

00:07:34.000 But 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. 0.82

00:07:55.000 But if you're worried, well, you know, I don't care if China knows I'm grilling chicken in my backyard. 0.70

00:08:00.000 You know, what am I worried about?

00:08:01.000 The real question is, as these broadcasting surveillance flights are occurring, are they picking up where you get your water, where you get your energy? 0.67

00:08:10.000 And that is just simply not information that I want China to have.

00:08:13.000 So I think the Department of Justice needs to act swiftly on this.

00:08:16.000 They need to issue guidance.

00:08:17.000 And hopefully, Charlie, the states will also take a role here.

00:08:22.000 The state's attorneys general just sent a memo to the United States Congress, 17 of them encouraging us to pursue action against China.

00:08:31.000 I would suggest that every attorney general in America could issue guidance today to their law enforcement in their state saying, ground your DJI fleets.

00:08:40.000 Our government knows that this is not a gift.

00:08:43.000 This is an intelligence collection asset provided to us by our enemy.

00:08:48.000 It is so well said. 0.93

00:08:49.000 Thank 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.

00:09:01.000 Quite honestly, it's terrifying. 0.81

00:09:03.000 It'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.

00:09:15.000 These people cannot be trusted.

00:09:16.000 And would you give fascist Italy, would you give Mao's China that sort of power?

00:09:21.000 Because that's what we're dealing with here. 0.86

00:09:22.000 We are dealing with a malevolent regime that has a million Muslims in concentration camps. 0.99

00:09:27.000 They've been trying to build an international empire and they're ahead of schedule. 1.00

00:09:31.000 They lie continuously.

00:09:33.000 It is a, it is, as they speak, the lies flow.

00:09:38.000 And we have covered that extensively here on the Charlie Kirk Show.

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00:10:44.000 Rand Paul, everybody.

00:10:45.000 And so we built them a natural gas gas station.

00:10:48.000 They had no cars, so we bought them some cars.

00:10:50.000 We bought them 24 cars that run on natural gas.

00:10:52.000 They had no money, so we gave them a credit card to get the gas.

00:10:56.000 But the gas station was supposed to cost about a half a million.

00:10:59.000 It ended up costing $45 million because the contractors were ripping us off.

00:11:03.000 So I had two members of my staff that said they'd go to Afghanistan to look at some of this waste. 0.92

00:11:07.000 They got over there, and after 19 years, you can't drive in a car anywhere. 1.00

00:11:11.000 You have to go by a helicopter with Marines to protect you, even within the city of Kabul, the capital.

00:11:16.000 So the gas station was out in the country, and they said, can we see it to see if it is functioning?

00:11:21.000 What's a $45 million natural gas gas station doing?

00:11:24.000 And they said, well, we just can't take the risk to go out there.

00:11:28.000 It's not worth Americans dying to show you this gas station.

00:11:30.000 So it's like, we spent $45 million in an area of the country we can't even visit.

00:11:34.000 See, this is crazy.

00:11:36.000 No kids should be sent over to Afghanistan when there is no reason for the war anymore.

00:11:39.000 We're building them gas stations and roads.

00:11:43.000 Well, Senator, our time is short.

00:11:47.000 Is there anything in particular you wanted to plug?

00:11:49.000 I know you mentioned the book, and everyone here should buy the book, The Case Against Socialism.

00:11:54.000 Is it available for pre-order yet or it will be soon?

00:11:56.000 Soon.

00:11:57.000 It's going to come out end of September, early October.

00:11:59.000 Well, this room can help make it a bestseller.

00:12:01.000 I know that.

00:12:01.000 But is there anything else that these students can help you with in your fight for liberty?

00:12:05.000 And I have to tell everyone in this audience, I've dealt with so many of these politicians, and they just don't get it.

00:12:09.000 I mean, there's maybe four or five in the Senate that reasonably get it.

00:12:13.000 And 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.

00:12:24.000 And 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.

00:12:43.000 It's really disgusting, but that's what we are up against.

00:12:45.000 I mean, we have to realize that we are in a serious fight for the culture of our country.

00:12:51.000 Yes.

00:12:51.000 And there's nothing the other side won't do.

00:12:53.000 And when I see them espousing those values and the big government nonsense and the censorship and this, it's crazy.

00:12:59.000 I mean, there's things, what was the thing I saw today?

00:13:01.000 And Massachusetts, what's the latest outrage that might be a little out of it?

00:13:05.000 They're literally banning. 0.99

00:13:06.000 Yeah, I think they said Massachusetts trying to ban the ability to call someone a bitch. 0.97

00:13:12.000 It's not nice, but man, and then they go around. 0.94

00:13:15.000 No, we're not trying to suppress it.

00:13:17.000 They're not trying to suppress anything as long as they're okay with what you're saying.

00:13:20.000 But I'm sure it's okay to call a MAGA supporter that.

00:13:23.000 I mean, they'd be fine with it.

00:13:24.000 Listen, you see the media area.

00:13:25.000 Are they really trying to ban that kind of thing?

00:13:26.000 I saw that today.

00:13:28.000 They don't have anything better to do in NASA.

00:13:30.000 They got nothing better to do.

00:13:31.000 Well, if they did, they'd be working on the USMCA?

00:13:35.000 They'd be infrastructure instead of immigration.

00:13:38.000 The president's put forth an amazing immigration plan.

00:13:40.000 This is the big pressing issue in Massachusetts.

00:13:42.000 They don't want to do anything.

00:13:43.000 This shows how good the economy has done, to be honest with you.

00:13:45.000 Well, they can't talk about it because they got nothing.

00:13:47.000 I mean, what are their plans?

00:13:48.000 They have none.

00:13:49.000 They won't even vote on issues that will make it better because they're worried about getting Trump a win.

00:13:53.000 And that's the real issue.

00:13:54.000 I mean, when you think, you realize that NAFTA is a failure.

00:13:57.000 They realize that NAFTA is a failure.

00:13:59.000 They're trying to reclaim this notion that they're for the blue-collar workers of America, which they lost under Trump.

00:14:05.000 Where are you?

00:14:05.000 They don't want to be able to do it.

00:14:06.000 It was the first thing they voted on six months ago when they brought it to the table.

00:14:09.000 But it's still sitting on Nancy Pelosi's desk because she can't bring it to the people because Trump was the guy that got it done.

00:14:16.000 They said it was impossible and he got it done like everything else that he's done.

00:14:19.000 And it might help him get re-elected.

00:14:20.000 That's why they're trying to get it.

00:14:21.000 They 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.

00:14:34.000 The president of the United States, everybody.

00:14:36.000 I don't have to say much more than that.

00:14:37.000 Email me your questions really quick.

00:14:38.000 Freedom at Charlie Kirk.com, the president.

00:14:41.000 Mr. President, welcome to Arizona.

00:14:43.000 Well, thank you very much.

00:14:44.000 You're about to address the second largest gathering post-lockdown, I think, on the planet.

00:14:48.000 That's right.

00:14:49.000 And all young people, what is your message to the next generation?

00:14:52.000 I think it's just hope, and I think that we are doing a great job.

00:14:56.000 We had the best job numbers we've ever had a month ago, actually two weeks ago.

00:15:01.000 The retail numbers were coming back very strong. 0.96

00:15:04.000 We had this problem with China where they sent something over here, probably by accident. 0.86

00:15:10.000 Who knows? 0.98

00:15:11.000 And we're coming out of it very strong, very powerfully.

00:15:14.000 The third quarter is going to be incredible, I think.

00:15:17.000 I really believe it will be.

00:15:18.000 And fourth quarter is going to be really good.

00:15:21.000 And next year is going to be one of the best years we've ever had.

00:15:24.000 So it's going to be great for young people. 0.98

00:15:26.000 You signed an executive order yesterday that I loved and appreciated, restricting immigration that will protect jobs of young graduates.

00:15:32.000 Can you tell us a little about that? 0.57

00:15:34.000 Well, very simply, we want to take care of Americans first.

00:15:37.000 And I'm okay with having people come in based on merit.

00:15:39.000 You know that.

00:15:40.000 I've been talking to you about that for a long time.

00:15:42.000 But we want to have people come in on merit, but right now we have jobs to fill.

00:15:48.000 And I want to do that before I even think about anything else.

00:15:51.000 We've signed something that's very strong.

00:15:53.000 It's really America First. 0.53

00:15:55.000 It's the old story.

00:15:56.000 America First is a very simple message.

00:15:58.000 To put our country and our generation first.

00:16:00.000 So, Mr. President, you have been outspoken about the need for the silent majority to be silent no longer.

00:16:06.000 So many young people are losing their jobs because of their beliefs.

00:16:09.000 Some of them get physically threatened.

00:16:11.000 In closing here, one last kind of piece of messaging as you hear the crowd roar in anticipation.

00:16:16.000 Great crowd.

00:16:17.000 Incredible.

00:16:17.000 In fact, every single seat filled, and we had kind of a battle with the fire marshal over it.

00:16:21.000 But I said that.

00:16:23.000 And you always win those battles.

00:16:24.000 Yes, sir.

00:16:25.000 So, for young conservatives out there that are being targeted for their beliefs, what is your message for them?

00:16:31.000 Well, we're going to be doing something.

00:16:32.000 I'm going to be, you know, you saw what I did having to do with schools that are funded and refunded.

00:16:39.000 And I know it's had a big impact on you.

00:16:40.000 And I know that you have sold out crowds and everything else.

00:16:45.000 But we're winning.

00:16:46.000 We're in the White House.

00:16:47.000 We're going to win the White House again.

00:16:50.000 Hopefully, we're going to win the Senate.

00:16:51.000 We're going to bring back the House.

00:16:53.000 We are doing great.

00:16:54.000 And I really think that as far as targeting, I like targeting back.

00:16:58.000 You know, they go after people's business.

00:17:00.000 They go after customers.

00:17:01.000 If you advertise at a conservative show, you know what's going on.

00:17:04.000 They go after the advertisers.

00:17:06.000 Oh, it's a disgrace.

00:17:07.000 What they do is a disgrace.

00:17:09.000 And the bottom line is we're winning.

00:17:11.000 And they're knocking down our monuments and they're knocking down our statues.

00:17:15.000 They're knocking down all sorts of things.

00:17:17.000 In the end, we're going to knock them down.

00:17:18.000 We're going to win this.

00:17:19.000 We're going to win it really big.

00:17:21.000 And these incredible people that I hear in the background, they're on the winning team.

00:17:26.000 And I think the other side has, frankly, I think they've just lost it and you see it.

00:17:31.000 But we'll see what happens.

00:17:32.000 November, we have to go to November 3rd's a big day.

00:17:34.000 It is a big day.

00:17:35.000 That's a big day.

00:17:36.000 We're all waiting for it.

00:17:37.000 And I think we're doing really well.

00:17:38.000 We're all set to go.

00:17:39.000 We're just starting the campaign right now.

00:17:42.000 You know, we were on television the other night for a speech, and it was the highest rating in the history of Fox on a Saturday night.

00:17:49.000 And the history, that's a long history.

00:17:51.000 It's a lot of good shows and some probably pretty bad ones too.

00:17:55.000 And online, you saw the kind of numbers we got.

00:17:57.000 11 million views.

00:17:58.000 Yeah, 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.

00:18:08.000 So I think we're going to do really well.

00:18:09.000 Mr. President, we have your back.

00:18:11.000 Thank you for fighting for our generation and can't wait to hear what you have to say.

00:18:14.000 You've always had my back and I appreciate it.

00:18:16.000 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:18:16.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:18:17.000 Thanks.

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00:19:28.000 The Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, right now.

00:19:32.000 All 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.

00:19:46.000 But I'll be honest with you, Charlie.

00:19:48.000 As I travel across Iowa today, as I've been traveling all across this country, I think the American people see through it.

00:19:56.000 I 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.

00:20:15.000 And 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,

00:20:30.000 free health care for illegal immigrants, and socialist policies that really have literally impoverished millions over the last century and robbed the liberties of generations.

00:20:47.000 I 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.

00:21:04.000 And I think that's why you see so many people coming our way.

00:21:08.000 When the rally tonight in Des Moines, I mean, I know, Charlie, there'll be a lot of good Republicans there.

00:21:13.000 Yeah, there'll be some Democrats, too.

00:21:14.000 There's going to be a lot of Democrats there.

00:21:17.000 You know, we actually, people register for these things, and they're given the opportunity to tell us about their political background.

00:21:23.000 And 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.

00:21:32.000 But they're coming to this president.

00:21:34.000 They'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.

00:21:43.000 They see a president who's putting common sense, American principles and ideals into practice, and is delivering results in a stronger, more prosperous America.

00:21:53.000 So I want to quickly follow up on one of those points.

00:21:56.000 Being 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.

00:22:08.000 And, 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.

00:22:18.000 But it's the universities and young people that are pushing the rise of Bernie Sanders.

00:22:26.000 Congressman Dan Crenshaw, right here on the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:22:30.000 And I have no connection to Boston.

00:22:31.000 So I went to Tufts because I was always interested in policy.

00:22:36.000 I did international relations at Tufts.

00:22:40.000 I grew up abroad because my dad was in the oil and gas sector.

00:22:42.000 So I grew up in Houston.

00:22:43.000 You speak fluent Spanish.

00:22:45.000 And so I went to high school in Bobota, Colombia, and did model UN as a kid.

00:22:45.000 Yeah.

00:22:50.000 So I was all into international affairs.

00:22:53.000 I figured that would be a good major.

00:22:55.000 And I minored in physics just because I don't know why.

00:22:58.000 There was no reason for that.

00:23:00.000 I figured that's what I would do if I wanted to pretend to be a smart kid.

00:23:04.000 And which I guess that's a whole different story.

00:23:08.000 But so I got to Harvard at the end of my military career.

00:23:11.000 I knew I wanted to remain in policy.

00:23:13.000 And so I went to the Kennedy School.

00:23:16.000 I didn't go to business school.

00:23:17.000 I didn't go to law school.

00:23:18.000 I went to the Kennedy School.

00:23:20.000 I wanted to study policy and then find a new path in that direction.

00:23:24.000 Not politics, but policy.

00:23:26.000 And there is a difference.

00:23:27.000 And this is maybe important for kids to understand because you get asked about this a lot.

00:23:30.000 Like, how do you get involved?

00:23:32.000 How do you get into the political question?

00:23:34.000 And I say the first thing you have to differentiate is whether you're interested in policy or politics.

00:23:39.000 There is a difference.

00:23:40.000 If you're interested in policy, I would suggest that usually means you're interested in a certain type of policy.

00:23:46.000 Okay, maybe it's, you know, I don't know.

00:23:48.000 Maybe it's labor or something.

00:23:49.000 Maybe, maybe it's, maybe it's small business development.

00:23:52.000 Like, I don't know.

00:23:52.000 I don't know, whatever it is for you.

00:23:54.000 But maybe get really smart on that one piece of policy.

00:23:57.000 Maybe work for a politician.

00:23:59.000 Maybe work for a think tank.

00:24:00.000 Maybe that's your thing.

00:24:01.000 Maybe it's behind the scenes.

00:24:02.000 If 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.

00:24:13.000 And I found more and more that that's where I was at.

00:24:17.000 I still wasn't thinking about running because there was no path to running.

00:24:21.000 Okay.

00:24:22.000 I don't have any money.

00:24:23.000 I don't know a lot of people with money.

00:24:24.000 I didn't know anybody with money, really.

00:24:27.000 And there wasn't really a clear window of opportunity.

00:24:30.000 There wasn't a clear place that I would run for office.

00:24:32.000 And so you have to have one of those three things.

00:24:35.000 And I didn't have any of them.

00:24:37.000 But my wife and I did talk about running just kind of casually.

00:24:41.000 And 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.

00:24:54.000 It just happened that fast because the third thing opened up, which is after your service to the SEALs.

00:24:59.000 Yep, yep.

00:25:00.000 This is 10 years in the SEAL teams.

00:25:01.000 Yeah, obviously I'm jumping around a lot, but 10 years in the SEAL teams, then going to Harvard.

00:25:05.000 And I think being at Harvard, again, I went in there wearing conservatism on my sleeve.

00:25:11.000 Well, like super outspoken about it, but it was a Navy SEAL that went to Harvard.

00:25:16.000 Yeah.

00:25:19.000 Senator Marsha Blackburn.

00:25:23.000 Oh, Charlie, I am so happy to be with you and your listeners. 0.97

00:25:28.000 One of the things that we know is it is going to take all of us working together to finally deal with China. 0.97

00:25:35.000 And 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. 0.91

00:25:59.000 And I've also spent time raising the awareness. 0.97

00:26:01.000 Every one of these Chinese companies are guess what?

00:26:04.000 They're state-owned.

00:26:06.000 And who is the state in China?

00:26:07.000 It's the Chinese Communist Party.

00:26:10.000 So 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. 0.89

00:26:23.000 First is Senate Resolution 553.

00:26:26.000 I have it in the Senate.

00:26:27.000 Congressman Jim Banks has it in the House. 0.96

00:26:30.000 And 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. 0.85

00:26:41.000 They did this by hiding information, by lying about what was happening. 0.88

00:26:46.000 They were not transparent.

00:26:48.000 They would not give us a viral sample to work from.

00:26:53.000 When we asked them for an active pharmaceutical ingredient, they said, well, we may hold back on that.

00:26:59.000 We might not give it to you.

00:27:01.000 And then they changed their mind and decided to give it to us.

00:27:04.000 Then they said, oh, this is all caused by the U.S. military.

00:27:09.000 Then they decided they would begin to expel journalists.

00:27:12.000 So in that resolution, we say we recognize all this. 0.96

00:27:16.000 And China, you are guilty of having taken this virus, allowed it to spread, and caused this global pandemic. 0.98

00:27:26.000 The second thing that we would do is to end these Confucius Institutes that are on the campuses of many of our universities. 0.96

00:27:37.000 You 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.

00:27:52.000 And this has all come to light.

00:27:53.000 Let's end it.

00:27:54.000 If you take taxpayer money, you can't have a Confucius Institute.

00:27:58.000 The 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.

00:28:12.000 They should waive their payments on that.

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00:28:48.000 Why would you choose to spend 30, 50, 100% more for the exact same auto parts at a chain store or a new car dealership?

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00:29:44.000 Rick Grinnell.

00:29:46.000 Especially when we look at Europe as being a Western alliance, right?

00:29:51.000 They're part of NATO.

00:29:52.000 NATO is the greatest multilateral organization in the history of the world.

00:29:58.000 And therefore, we believe that Germany, the largest economy in Europe, should pay its NATO bill.

00:30:05.000 Why should we have 50,000 American troops in Germany, 50,000 American troops, your tax dollars, okay?

00:30:13.000 This is billions of dollars.

00:30:15.000 And 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.

00:30:26.000 They haven't been doing that for quite some time, is that right? 0.70

00:30:26.000 This is on the right. 0.70

00:30:29.000 No, and you know, look, I have to be honest with you, when I get pushback from the German government and they say, ah, you're so tough.

00:30:36.000 And you're...

00:30:37.000 The Germans are saying you're tough.

00:30:40.000 She must be quite tough.

00:30:41.000 You know, they complain about President Trump's tweets.

00:30:44.000 They complain about my speeches or direct messages.

00:30:49.000 They're complaining that we are too tough on them on defense spending.

00:30:55.000 And what I say to them very clearly is this also has been a policy of multiple U.S. governments.

00:31:02.000 And you have ignored the Obama administration.

00:31:05.000 You've ignored the Bush administration, who all asked very nicely in the very typical diplomatic way, right?

00:31:14.000 Please pay more for defense.

00:31:16.000 Please pay your NATO obligation.

00:31:19.000 And yet they've ignored that.

00:31:21.000 What 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.

00:31:45.000 Jim Jordan.

00:31:47.000 I 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.

00:31:56.000 Everything the president has said about the deep state and spying has been proven to be true.

00:32:01.000 You have, you went out on a limb and you called out this nonsense before these documents were even made public.

00:32:07.000 And in these documents, it was shown that this was entrapment in its purest form.

00:32:11.000 And 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.

00:32:19.000 They go in and entrap Michael Flynn.

00:32:21.000 Here's the question I have, Congressman.

00:32:23.000 Why is it that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Christopher Ray sat on this exculpatory evidence for two years?

00:32:29.000 Can you add some insight into this?

00:32:32.000 I have no idea, but it is frustrating.

00:32:34.000 But 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.

00:32:46.000 Those 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.

00:32:55.000 And you put it all in context.

00:32:56.000 Remember, Charlie, you know this.

00:32:59.000 In July of 2016, they launched an investigation into President Trump.

00:33:04.000 In 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.

00:33:18.000 The dossier that they knew was Russian disinformation, the dossier that they knew was salacious and unverified, Jim Comey's words, not mine.

00:33:24.000 They used that dossier to go spy on people associated with President Trump's campaign.

00:33:29.000 And then we learn, just a couple weeks into his administration, they sneaked two guys into the White House.

00:33:34.000 They don't follow the standards they're supposed to follow, notifying the White House counsel.

00:33:38.000 They 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.

00:33:48.000 That is how bad it is.

00:33:50.000 And if I can just add one more thing, understand what took place.

00:33:53.000 January 3rd, Chuck Schumer goes on the Rachel Maddow show.

00:33:56.000 He 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.

00:34:03.000 He said they're spying on our campaign.

00:34:05.000 They're spying on me.

00:34:06.000 Chuck Schumer says, if you mess with the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday getting back at you.

00:34:11.000 The next day, the two agents who were doing the investigation said there's nothing there with Michael Flynn.

00:34:15.000 We should drop this crossfire razor investigation.

00:34:18.000 The day after that, Peter Strzok, famous now, Peter Strzzok says, wait a minute, don't drop it.

00:34:23.000 Come and McCabe told me we're going to continue this investigation.

00:34:27.000 And then the 6th of January, this is all in 2017, all in the span of three weeks.

00:34:31.000 January 6th is when they go to Trump Tower and try to trap the president and brief the president on the dossier.

00:34:37.000 Two and a half weeks later is when they go to the White House and trap Michael Flynn.

00:34:41.000 All that happens in a three and a half week time period in January of 2017.

00:34:46.000 That's how disgusting this is.

00:34:48.000 So people need to be held to account.

00:34:50.000 Most importantly, I hope, I hope John Durham and the investigation he's doing, I hope they hold Jim Comey accountable.

00:34:59.000 Nikki Haley.

00:35:01.000 Charlie, the one thing I want people to understand is this is bigger than the virus. 0.77

00:35:05.000 China has been an aggressor and a bully for a long time.

00:35:09.000 And the United States has been naive for way too long. 0.94

00:35:13.000 Just 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.

00:35:22.000 Do you know what China's been doing?

00:35:25.000 They have been highly aggressive in the South China Sea, where a third of our shipping takes place.

00:35:31.000 They have been arresting Hong Kong protesters that were speaking negatively about China.

00:35:36.000 They have been testing nuclear weapons, going against the nuclear testing ban.

00:35:41.000 This is all stuff they've done in the last month.

00:35:44.000 So while everyone else is trying to survive, they have not let off the gas.

00:35:48.000 It's time for us to be smart.

00:35:50.000 It's time for us to call them out.

00:35:52.000 And it's time for us to do something about it.

00:35:54.000 And that's what we hope the petition does.

00:35:56.000 This is music to my ears.

00:35:57.000 I have talked about for some time how we need to be skeptical and we need to be very firm.

00:36:02.000 And now I have called for the complete and total shutdown of economic relations with China, with some people saying that goes too far. 0.89

00:36:10.000 You accurately point out that their aggression in the South China Sea, they have a million Muslims in concentration camps. 0.91

00:36:17.000 They harvest the organs of anyone that they choose at any time. 1.00

00:36:21.000 It is one of the most hostile countries in the world to Christianity. 1.00

00:36:26.000 They have the Belt and Road Initiative. 1.00

00:36:28.000 They have bought up ports of entry in sub-Saharan Africa and South America.

00:36:33.000 They look at the world as if it's their imperial sandbox, and they have a total disregard for human rights.

00:36:39.000 And 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.

00:36:46.000 It's basically we pay them so they can hate us.

00:36:51.000 Rudy Giuliani.

00:36:53.000 And 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.

00:37:01.000 We debated it.

00:37:02.000 I've now, I can't say I've come all the way over to his position, but he's absolutely right that we have to curtail it.

00:37:08.000 The rights of American citizens are precious.

00:37:11.000 And his position has long been, hey, this could end up being abused at some point, which you always admitted.

00:37:17.000 And you said, but, you know, there's a process.

00:37:19.000 And I also had a picture of U.S. attorney's offices of the 1980s.

00:37:26.000 Very, honestly, very, very different.

00:37:30.000 And you asked me about the Southern District.

00:37:32.000 Southern District is in Manhattan.

00:37:33.000 Major places where they hire people are the Ivy League Law Schools, and they take the top 10.

00:37:39.000 These are all self-proclaimed geniuses.

00:37:41.000 Nine out of 10 are out-of-control liberals.

00:37:43.000 I was going to say they're all Marxists.

00:37:45.000 And I would imagine the hatred of Trump is palpable.

00:37:49.000 So can someone, a good lawyer, control that and be a good lawyer?

00:37:54.000 I 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.

00:38:02.000 That's a great lawyer.

00:38:03.000 That's a great lawyer.

00:38:04.000 But the ordinary human beings are.

00:38:06.000 And they're angry at him.

00:38:08.000 I think they are angry at me because of the way I embarrassed him over the Cohen case. 0.97

00:38:12.000 I mean, that guy was a lying machine.

00:38:15.000 And every time he lied, we nailed him and we ruined him as a witness for them. 0.89

00:38:20.000 Yes.

00:38:20.000 Well, so two thoughts come to mind.

00:38:22.000 Number 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.

00:38:34.000 But the ends justify the means.

00:38:35.000 It's very Machiavellian in their mind.

00:38:37.000 And everybody says, and I think, I haven't read it in a while, about 12 years, Sololinsky.

00:38:42.000 The rules for Solinsky basis.

00:38:47.000 Christy Noam.

00:38:49.000 Kind of ridiculed by the media for telling people in my press conferences, if you're scared, if you're fearful, you can stay home.

00:38:58.000 You have every right and responsibility to stay in your house, and we will make sure that we get you food and that you're doing fine.

00:39:08.000 But if you are scared, you have every opportunity to stay home and you don't have to leave your house.

00:39:13.000 So, you know, having that plain conversation, I think the people appreciated.

00:39:18.000 At times, the media used it to say I was naive, but then the people stepped up and proved me right.

00:39:25.000 They did it, and it made all the difference in the world.

00:39:27.000 Well, and that's a badge of honor.

00:39:29.000 And I say frequently, we do not have a media in our country.

00:39:32.000 We have a group of activists that call themselves journalists with big Twitter followers that control big platforms of influence.

00:39:39.000 True 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.

00:39:54.000 Then they scanned across the prairie and they said, oh, we can try to make this governor from South Dakota the villain.

00:40:00.000 Well, 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.

00:40:18.000 Every governor who said these words, freedom, liberty, I trust my citizens, there was only one that actually did it.

00:40:24.000 And 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%.

00:40:34.000 I have seen nothing but great approvals.

00:40:38.000 Tom Cotton.

00:40:40.000 But 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.

00:40:53.000 And you're right, there's still so many unknowns.

00:40:55.000 Most notably, we still don't know where the virus started.

00:40:58.000 We know it was in or near Wuhan.

00:41:00.000 The Chinese Communist Party said for weeks that it was at a raw food market.

00:41:05.000 But even they now admit that that's not the case.

00:41:08.000 So it's possible that it was naturally occurring at, say, another food market or a farm or a food processor or what have you. 0.79

00:41:14.000 But as I've noted from the very beginning, there is a super lab in Wuhan that deals with infectious diseases to include coronavirus.

00:41:23.000 So it's only reasonable and responsible that we ask the question about whether or not that lab has some connection.

00:41:29.000 And it could be a negligent but unintentional connection.

00:41:32.000 You know, China has a history of their laboratories not successfully containing diseases that they're researching. 0.91

00:41:39.000 But 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. 0.91

00:41:47.000 And 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. 0.92

00:41:58.000 Well, 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. 0.88

00:42:09.000 The Chinese have gone on our news networks.

00:42:12.000 The 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.

00:42:24.000 Now it's worldwide.

00:42:26.000 It's slowing the global economy to a halt.

00:42:29.000 Apple has already seen it directly affect its production.

00:42:36.000 As you can see, everybody, we get the biggest names in the movement.

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