00:00:38.000His 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.
00:00:46.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:34.000So we wanted to do something together, something kind of for fun, and got to thinking about, you know, what it is that we think really matters about life.
00:01:41.000And so why not talk about those things and talk about them together?
00:01:45.000And it's been really fun to think about those things and talk about those things with.
00:01:53.000It's the things, Charlie, when I think about what your message to students, I heard you say a lot of times, is, hey, you know, here's a radical thought.
00:03:10.000He gets to read them stories, pray for them each night.
00:03:14.000And of course, he's got work trips and those sorts of things, but he really prioritizes them in a way that I think makes family life very real and possible.
00:03:21.000Yeah, and I just, here's my bottom line, Charlie, is that I am a husband and a father first.
00:03:28.000And I mean, that's at the core of who I am.
00:03:30.000So, you know, doing my job as a senator, you know, I'm not going to be able to do that unless I put my family at the center of what we're doing.
00:03:39.000And so, you know, yeah, my kids are, when we're in Washington, Aaron and the kids are with me.
00:03:43.000When we're home in Missouri, Aaron and the kids are with me.
00:04:31.000So we just try to bring our family into everything that we're doing as much as we can, you know, and bring the kids along if we can and just experience it together as a family.
00:04:43.000And so on that kind of theme of families, it seems that just like the Washington, D.C. Uniparty is increasingly hostile to families.
00:04:51.000And I mean, just recently, there was this, I call it the Disrespect for Marriage Act that was passed by too many Republicans and then signed into law by Biden, who then invites, honestly, a freak to the White House.
00:05:05.000I don't know if you saw it or not, but this like drag whatever person, which was inexcusable.
00:06:16.000I mean, Aaron, being the brilliant legal mind, I mean, is that now a protected class like races and religion?
00:06:24.000So, I think you're certainly going to see that argument made by liberal activists.
00:06:28.000I think arguably those two things are very different.
00:06:31.000We have the 14th Amendment for a reason, which is part of our Constitution, that says, you know, the equal protection clause that every person shall be treated equally regardless of race.
00:06:41.000So, that's a specific thing that we fought a civil war over, a horrible history of slavery, and those sorts of things.
00:06:48.000So, I think race is different, but I do think you might see those arguments.
00:06:51.000No, but they've been asking for a while to just get an attachment on the Civil Rights Act to lifestyle.
00:06:58.000It's like my lifestyle now needs to be basically the moral premise of the 14th Amendment is how God made you should not be a, you shouldn't, it should not be legal to discriminate against somebody based on how God made you, right?
00:07:09.000And so, if you make a certain lifestyle choice, and also if you have a religious conviction that says, you know what, we don't believe in homosexual marriage here, is that now going to be put into suspense, right?
00:07:20.000Yeah, and I think the fact now that Congress has passed a law that says that blesses same-sex marriage and adopts it as national policy, I think, Charlie, you're going to have a lot of people going into court and saying, see, there's a compelling interest, they're a protected class.
00:07:36.000And so, you know, I'm worried about it.
00:07:38.000It will be 90 days, 120 days before the human rights campaign, and the ACLU goes in, because they go plaintiff shopping, that's what they do, and then they go judge shopping, right?
00:07:59.000Boy, I don't remember the name of the school.
00:08:01.000I just met him, and I met with him for like 20 minutes, super sweet guy.
00:08:04.000He's on the board of a Christian college in downtown Seattle.
00:08:07.000And ADF might actually be involved in this in some way, where they have a statement of faith that says we believe in one man, one woman marriage, and the Attorney General of Washington is suing them for LGBTQ discrimination.
00:08:26.000In the Masterpiece Cake decision involving the Colorado Baker, the court was clear that views about marriage between one man and one woman are decent and honorable.
00:08:35.000But that's not what you see from the State Attorney General.
00:08:45.000When the court came up with same-sex marriage and said, oh, it's required in the Constitution, they said, but we're not saying that people of faith should be forced to observe or participate in those ceremonies.
00:08:54.000And now that the line keeps moving, now it's moving, and now Congress is saying, oh, actually, we're going to make a federal statute and bless this and call it national policy and give people the right to sue if you don't go along with it.
00:09:23.000I mean, you do a lot of different cases.
00:09:25.000I don't know what part of law is your expertise, but I mean, we have seen this unaccountable fourth branch of government now for the last couple of years.
00:09:35.000I believe it to be just largely unconstitutional, going after private property rights, outsourcing speech.
00:09:40.000So let me ask you a direct question, not an abstract one, okay?
00:09:42.000How is it constitutional for the FBI to go to Twitter and say, hey, I want you to censor Charlie Kirk?
00:09:52.000I got out of the clouds and I got into something.
00:09:55.000And of course, the First Amendment has what's called a state action requirement.
00:09:58.000So that means that some government has to be involved in some capacity.
00:10:02.000But when you have the FBI, which is the government's preeminent law enforcement authority, telling one of the major companies that has basically a monopoly on speech to do something, it's arguable you do have that state action requirement met.
00:10:17.000So certainly bad policy and very arguably unconstitutional.
00:10:22.000Particularly, Charlie, when you look at the Twitter files revelations, and you got the FBI, this is what they're doing with their time, by the way.
00:10:28.000Are they out there prosecuting criminals?
00:10:52.000We know it's even worse than this because we've had whistleblowers come to me from the Department of Homeland Security and say, that disinformation board that you read about, that's the tip of the iceberg.
00:11:02.000In fact, the censorship campaign goes across the department.
00:11:06.000It goes across multiple federal agencies, and it's all about tracking American citizens and American First Amendment speech.
00:12:38.000And it shouldn't be just, you know, there's levels of this, Charlie, but it should just be like, hey, if you could have, if you could make some time for us, you know, come and testify.
00:12:45.000It ought to be fit you into our schedule.
00:12:48.000And because the answer is always no, by the way.
00:12:49.000And you just referenced a second ago the fact that the FBI director actually left a Senate oversight hearing this past year early, refused to answer questions funded by us so he could get on his Gulf Stream and go for a family vacation, which he lied about to the committee.
00:13:05.000He said, oh, I've got important business.
00:13:06.000Yeah, yeah, Senator Grassley, I got important business.
00:13:08.000Counterterrorism work, which, by the way, that plane is supposed to be only for counterterrorism stuff.
00:14:08.000So I was privileged to serve as counsel to Mississippi in the Dobbs case on behalf of Alliance Defending Freedom and as the mom to three little ones.
00:14:15.000It was really just an amazing experience.
00:15:42.000They want you to tell them how you're going to fight for them.
00:15:44.000And I can only speak for Senate Republicans.
00:15:46.000Senate Republicans, if you look at the record of the last couple years, I mean, it's not inspiring.
00:15:52.000Why would anybody vote for sell out to Big Pharma on insulin, sell out to Chuck Schumer on the Second Amendment, sell out to the radical climate activists on their Green New Deal, which is what the infrastructure bill was.
00:16:02.000I mean, that gives Zelensky $100 billion while our border is wide open.
00:17:41.000Well, my view is that state by state, I mean, look, you got to take the rules of the state as they're given, and then you've got to play by those rules and win by those rules.
00:17:50.000So, I mean, I love our law in Missouri.
00:18:13.000And, you know, in states like Arizona or others, it's just like, hey, listen, where we don't have the chance to change the law right now.
00:18:19.000It's like, you got to play by the rules that are written, and you want to win by those rules legally and fairly.
00:18:23.000But I think to that end, what I'm getting at is we're places where early voting, like here in Arizona, where early voting is the overwhelming majority of the vote.
00:18:41.000And, you know, we've got blessed to have a beautiful family, but that's what the American Dream is all about.
00:18:46.000The idea that husband and wife can come together, build work, but also just provide for children.
00:18:53.000You know what else gives me hope, Charlie, is just talking to seeing the thousands of students that are here thousands of students who are people of courage, who are people of conviction, who are people of honor and integrity, and they want their lives to matter.