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00:02:09.000Then the details start coming out, what they're going to give, what they're going to get for it.
00:02:13.000So they, you know, the Democrats get $60 billion for Ukraine, and in return, we get, well, it wasn't really clear, but they said, you have to wait.
00:02:39.000And what the pants were was 50,000 new legal immigrant visas a year.
00:02:45.000And any challenge has to go through the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
00:02:49.000And also the Secretary of Homeland Security, who we're currently impeaching, can just ignore the law whenever he wants, you know, if he thinks it's a good idea.
00:02:58.000And so those were the pants that it had to put on.
00:03:34.000So we've had all these court challenges to the Biden immigration policies, like when they were trying to scuttle remain in Mexico, some of their other stuff.
00:03:43.000There will be legal challenges in federal court.
00:03:45.000And we've had a good number of rulings that are in our favor come out of the Fifth Circuit, for example.
00:03:53.000And those have at least slowed down what the Biden administration was attempting to do.
00:03:58.000So, you know, the Supreme Court the other day did strike down something we, or at least they removed an injunction on the barbed wire thing, for example.
00:04:05.000That's coming up from the federal courts.
00:04:07.000So, what the bill was requiring or would require is any challenges to any provisions in this massive sweeping immigration overhaul bill have to be heard in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals under its original jurisdiction.
00:04:22.000So, it's saying you can't sue for this law anywhere else.
00:04:26.000It has to be in this one court, which is one of the more liberal appeals courts.
00:04:31.000Well, and Blake, if you're going to bring up the D.C. Circuit, I mean, the D.C. Circuit's in the news again today because it basically just struck down President Trump's appeal for presidential immunity, right?
00:04:50.000And it doesn't override the Supreme Court.
00:04:52.000So, if the Supreme Court's on your side, that can still be good.
00:04:55.000But the Supreme Court doesn't even hear remotely close to every case that is brought before it.
00:05:00.000They have to be selective, and that slows everything down.
00:05:03.000So, it often matters a great deal who is controlling things at the lower level, if only for the status quo.
00:05:09.000If a case takes two years, that's half a presidential administration.
00:05:13.000So, it matters a lot whether that lower court's ruling is favorable to the administration or hostile to the administration.
00:05:19.000That could be a million people, one way or the other.
00:05:22.000So, we do have, I want to keep on the border bill thing.
00:05:26.000If we have it, Ryan, let's just throw to just for a little taste.
00:05:29.000This is Matt Gates introducing a resolution saying President Trump didn't engage in insurrection.
00:05:33.000Now, this is not going to go anywhere legislatively, but it's interesting to see how the House Republican Conference has changed on the entire January 6th question and the insurrection question.
00:05:44.000Let's just get a little taste here, and then we'll be right back.
00:05:48.000We had, and we watched cities burn across this country in the name of peaceful protest.
00:05:55.000Yet, President Trump and his supporters were vilified for doing nothing more than exercising their First Amendment rights.
00:06:03.000You know, the American people know there's a two-tier justice system in this country, but I would factually, I will tell you, there's a triple threat.
00:06:10.000We have weaponization of the Department of Justice under the Biden administration, and they absolutely work in collaboration with Democratic secretaries of states, and then they work with far-left judicial activist judges.
00:06:25.000And together, they have launched a coordinated attack on our elections to silence the voice of millions of Americans.
00:06:33.000But their calculated distortion of the truth is aimed to deny Biden's chief political opposition an appearance on the 2024 ballot and interfere with the presidential election.
00:06:45.000You know, this is not partisan politics, folks.
00:07:10.000Let the American people make their own judgment.
00:07:13.000And the last thing I'm going to say is this: we have to stand strong against this evil.
00:07:19.000There's a verse of scripture, Ephesians 6:12, and it says, We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers and rulers of this dark world.
00:07:30.000And we wrestle against spiritual wickedness, spiritual wickedness in high places.
00:07:37.000So my message to the American people is simple: armor up and get ready for the spiritual battle ahead because it's going to be a battle.
00:08:09.000In every single court of our land, no one's been charged and convicted with insurrection.
00:08:14.000Yet Democrats and dishonest people in the media every single day accuse President Trump of waging an insurrection and accuse many of us of waging an insurrection.
00:08:28.000And you're doing nothing but lying and selling the lies of the Democrats all for campaigns and elections.
00:08:35.000Shame on every single person that has done that.
00:08:41.000You have the freedom of press, one of the greatest rights in this entire world.
00:08:47.000And anyone that puts the word insurrectionist, calls President Trump an insurrectionist, and calls any of us an insurrectionist is a liar and you do not deserve the power that you possess.
00:09:18.000BLM raised millions of dollars on the Act Blue Democrat fundraising website and then proceeded to cause $2 billion in damages across American cities and communities all in 2020, every day, not one day for three hours, every damn day.
00:09:54.000And you lied to the American people and the American people don't trust you anymore because of that.
00:09:59.000And then the American people who pay for elections with their tax dollars actually own the elections and have the right, the right to care about their elections, election integrity, and the results of their elections when they came to Washington and protested.
00:13:04.000And, you know, I, other voices like Molly Hemingway have come on, you know, and said, you should, basically, Lankford, you should step down, let Governor Stitt replace you with somebody that represents the state of Oklahoma better.
00:13:17.000So I think this has not only been a 48-hour tsunami, I think it's been a couple of weeks.
00:13:21.000And we heard Punch Bowl News reported a couple of weeks back as well that McConnell was starting to change his tone on this border deal.
00:13:31.000He's sort of a deliberating character historically.
00:13:35.000So I would venture to guess what happens is he saw that Trump was dominating in Ohio, dominating in New Hampshire.
00:14:21.000There was basically there's two voices on the right currently that seem to be supporting this.
00:14:26.000It's Brandon Judd, the Customs and Border Patrol Union, who's saying that this is a step in the right direction.
00:14:31.000There's like Dan Crenshaw, basically, who's showing a willingness to engage this bill.
00:14:37.000I haven't seen anybody else come out in support of it.
00:14:41.000And I would say, and I'm not saying that Crenshaw is fully supporting.
00:14:44.000He's just sort of taking a, hey, let's read the bill and process this.
00:14:48.000Now, what I'm interested with Mike Lee, Charlie, and I think you're going to ask him this, is Brandon Judd's making the claim that this does not hamstring President Trump if he were to be elected.
00:14:59.000So that President Trump's executive authority to shut the border down would not be inhibited by this bill.
00:15:04.000I think that's a central question that we need to uncover.
00:15:08.000But yeah, I mean, the political wins have certainly changed.
00:15:11.000McConnell, you would agree, Charlie, he is a very, very savvy behind the scenes operator.
00:15:17.000So basically, based on sources that I have within the Senate, McConnell is now, he heard and saw the backlash, or at least his staff did.
00:15:45.000And he's worried that this is going to really blow up.
00:15:49.000So don't be surprised if Senate Republicans volley back a much more aggressive border bill that will just die and say that it was the Democrats' fault that's the counter, right?
00:16:00.000They passed HR2, so they might try and return to that.
00:16:03.000Senate Republicans, the problem is that they don't control the legislative docket in the Senate.
00:16:07.000So Schumer would have to take something up.
00:16:09.000So it would just have to be a, it'd have to be the text of a bill that the Senate Republicans resurrect.
00:16:14.000Do you think we maybe get some sort of game of chicken with Ukraine?
00:16:29.000So they could get, what if we get to this phase where they seem to seriously be losing and this takes over the border debate in a kind of strange way.
00:16:37.000The way that the Ukraine issue has changed is directly tied to the border topic as well.
00:18:04.000It's not completely dead, but it's mostly dead.
00:18:07.000I think it's likely to not pass on the cloture vote.
00:18:12.000A cloture vote brings debate to a close on something.
00:18:15.000The first cloture vote we would have this week, if we were to turn to it, would be what's called cloture on the motion to proceed.
00:18:22.000It's bringing an end to debate on a different motion, deciding whether to begin debate.
00:18:28.000And so as a result of that, it takes 60 votes as a cloture vote, and I don't think they will get to 60.
00:18:34.000And the reason I don't think they will get to 60 is I think Republicans are turning on it left and right.
00:18:39.000They realize that it doesn't do what it promised to do.
00:18:42.000And as a result, it has become wildly unpopular with our voting base.
00:18:47.000This is the predictable, foreseeable, and inexorable result of having negotiated something behind closed doors with one or two people handing the negotiation on behalf of 49 and then not keeping those 49 updated and apprised with details and even with details, including legislative text for like three or four months.
00:19:10.000When that happens, the ideas of the negotiator grow distant from those in the larger group.
00:19:29.000It may be likely to be likely to meet demise.
00:19:32.000In theory, in theory, this bill could still survive.
00:19:35.000But that is a theoretical notion at this point, a theoretical notion that doesn't appear to have any significant chance of success.
00:19:43.000Now, in theory, they could decide to come plain and say, yeah, do you know what?
00:19:49.000We didn't do what this should have done.
00:19:51.000We didn't do what a lot of Senate Republicans, including myself, were saying for a long time.
00:19:57.000If you're going to try to negotiate in border security to require a border security outcome in this bill and then tie that to Ukraine funding, which I don't like, but could theoretically consider if it actually did something real on the border, if it actually ended once and for all the border crisis, then it has to actually do that thing.
00:20:19.000So we had suggested from the beginning, if you're going to try this experiment, we're not sure it'll work or if it's a good idea, but if you're going to do it, you've got to do it right, which means you've got to include HR2, or at least its core elements, and you've got to include border security metrics that would tie the release of any Ukraine funding to the achievement of those border security benchmarks that are measurable and objective.
00:20:43.000In other words, if you could bring down daily migrant encounters to less than 500, for example, and sustain that for a period of time, that's at a level that the Border Patrol says it can handle so that it doesn't have to go releasing people into the country in mass.
00:20:58.000That sort of thing might have had some potential.
00:21:02.000But when it all came down, they just ignored those suggestions.
00:21:07.000And Senator Lankford, unfortunately, was instructed by Leader McConnell not to even bring that up.
00:21:15.000But that essentially guaranteed the result they're now facing, which is the utter demise of the bill.
00:21:20.000So, Senator, the other part of this, there's a leaked sentiment that Senator McConnell said that the tone of the country has changed.
00:21:28.000I mean, if anyone pays attention, you know that.
00:21:30.000I mean, as if they had to introduce this garbage bill that took them months to put together to learn that the American people and the American right are not going to put up with mass amnesty and with the capitulation and the destruction of our sovereignty.
00:21:43.000Can you help me understand that, how they suddenly came to this realization after wasting all of this time and introducing this garbage bill?
00:21:52.000I can't provide understanding on that part because it's unintelligible.
00:22:10.000I don't see anything that has changed.
00:22:13.000Now, some will try to make it about the fact that, well, okay, people have turned on it because conservatives have been sounding the warning bell after they got a few details starting about a month ago without seeing text.
00:22:27.000Some of us started saying, hey, we're worried about what we're told this is going to include.
00:22:32.000We were then pushed back on by Senate Republican leadership and told, well, no, no, what they're saying is not true at all.
00:22:40.000Turns out most of what we were warning about was in fact in the bill, and a lot of it was a lot worse than we anticipated.
00:22:47.000Meanwhile, some of them say, some of them are mocking us for the fact that we were requiring, we're demanding that we have two or three weeks at a minimum to review this thing.
00:22:56.000We should actually have much longer than that, but we wanted to make sure we didn't get jammed, forced to vote and pass this thing in a matter of days after it's released.
00:23:04.000Now, yesterday, some of them came out and said, oh, well, the same people clamoring that they needed to see it for two or three weeks before voting on it have already decided that they're voting against it.
00:23:14.000As if our requests for time were somehow disingenuous.
00:23:18.000You've got to remember, Charlie, it takes time to digest the whole thing.
00:23:24.000I got this thing at about, I think it was about 7 p.m. Eastern, and I started tearing through it.
00:23:31.000And as I found new provisions that were troubling, I commented on them on my base, Mike Lee at Keanu, Twitter, pointing out some legitimate concerns.
00:23:42.000By the next morning, I'd seen so many of these that I was very confident that I could not vote for this.
00:23:48.000That is not the same as saying that does not mean that our request for time was insincere.
00:23:54.000You see, it takes time to read it thoroughly.
00:23:58.000I still haven't figured out every Easter egg buried in this by the Biden White House to facilitate more illegal immigration at the hands of the drug cartels.
00:24:08.000And it takes even more time to draft amendments and to offer up those amendments and debate those amendments and vote on them.
00:24:28.000You don't negotiate for 49 people with one person for four months, refuse to give them details, and then criticize them for saying we need time to read it, and then criticize them for saying this is nothing like what we demanded all along.
00:24:42.000So included in this is the Ukraine question.
00:25:36.000I'm very reluctant on Ukraine for the reasons that you've identified.
00:25:41.000And by the way, didn't European Union nations just pony up, I don't know, $54 billion or something along those lines?
00:25:48.000This is one of the things that happened.
00:25:50.000This is the magic of the United States stopping, pausing, and saying, wait a minute, maybe we shouldn't be funding this.
00:25:57.000Remember, we've given more military aid to Ukraine than any other nation on earth and every other nation combined last night checked, at least prior to this more recent announcement by the European Union.
00:26:10.000But when we allow our European allies who are closer to this action, who have given less, when we allow them breathing space, then they can decide that it's worth it to them.
00:26:21.000As far as where the firm goes from here, by that, in this context, I mean the law firm of Schumer and McConnell, I suspect that both of the alternatives that you described at first, running Ukraine as an independent standalone and then possibly also running Ukraine and Israel together.
00:27:27.000And that's a classic example of what the firm did here.
00:27:31.000Negotiated months behind closed doors in secret, keeping most members and especially the public from seeing it, then unleashing it at the last minute before an artificially imposed deadline contrived by the firm itself, telling members that some catastrophe will befall us if we don't pass whatever it is that they wrote, even without having a chance to read, debate, or amend it.
00:28:26.000And I certainly hope your prediction doesn't come true, that they just make this a massive omnibus that they put in Israel, Ukraine, 702 reauthorization.
00:29:05.000Rest assured knowing that you have emergency antibiotics, antivirals, and anti-parasitics on hand to help keep you and your family safe from whatever the globalists throw at us next.
00:29:46.000Andrew, this wasn't a huge surprise, but the media is completely losing it over Tucker visiting Russia.
00:29:53.000Oh, Brian will have to tell me what the clip is, but there was this great clip of on CNN yesterday.
00:30:00.000I mean, it was the best clip I've ever seen.
00:30:02.000I mean, Aaron Burnett, I mean, we hear about Trump derangement syndrome, and this is some like amalgamation of Tucker-Putin derangement syndrome.
00:30:12.000It's like, and I think you tweeted something like, you know, CNN is absolutely seething for Tucker daring to do actual journalism.
00:30:20.000And I mean, you would think scoring an interview with Putin in the midst of a war, a major, major political figure on the world stage, would be heralded as a good thing.
00:31:30.000A massive shakeup in Kyiv coming as Putin is trying to court the MAGA GOP in the United States.
00:31:36.000In fact, one of the leaders of the MAGA GOP is in Moscow tonight.
00:31:41.000It's the man you see here with the MAGA leader, Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson.
00:31:46.000Possibly there in Moscow to interview Putin.
00:31:49.000Definitely there as a Putin supporting celebrity.
00:31:52.000Now, it is unclear if an interview between Putin and Carlson will take place, but if it does, it gives Putin a chance to sit down with a big supporter.
00:32:02.000How should we think about this, Blake?
00:32:04.000It's just, you know, Barbara Walters, I believe, interviewed Fidel Castro.
00:32:09.000Chris Wallace interviewed Putin at some point, I believe.
00:32:12.000There's definitely been Putin interviews in the past, and it really shows the amount of there's like this cloistering of the left, of the regime, or whatever term you want to use.
00:32:25.000They narrow what they're allowed to even think about as more challenges erupt.
00:32:31.000So they freak out that people go to the border or go to the Darien Gap because it exposes what goes on there.
00:32:38.000They freak out over anyone interviewing a foreign leader because the list of foreign leaders that they've equated with Hitler keeps getting longer and longer.
00:32:46.000It turns out 20% of the world is Hitler.
00:33:45.000It's symmetrical messaging is what we're seeing.
00:33:48.000Yeah, well, so what you're seeing really is the pot calling the kettle black.
00:33:53.000So Aaron Burnett doesn't like that Tucker Carlson is a conservative, but we don't like that Aaron Burnett is parroting Biden talking points and true story.
00:34:03.000So Tucker was just in Canada and they sold that out.
00:34:06.000And Justin Trudeau, the prime minister, is mad about that.
00:34:10.000He's demanding that the conservative leader of Canada denounce all of this.
00:34:14.000And he's calling the people who attended that in Canada MAGA conservatives.
00:34:18.000He's using that as a slur on Canadian conservatives.
00:34:24.000But that's one thing for a politician to do, even a Canadian politician to do.
00:34:28.000You know, Fidel Castro's son can say whatever he wants in Canada, even if conservatives can't.
00:34:34.000But for an American journalist to actually parrot MAGA conservative talking points from Joe Biden just shows how in bed they are over at CNN with the regime.
00:34:46.000And I think that's, I mean, that's, I can just imagine Tucker seeing that clip and just laughing hysterically.
00:34:52.000Like it's your favorite part of Tucker's personality, I know, but we all love, we all love when Tucker laughs like that because that's exactly what this clip deserves.