The Charlie Kirk Show - February 27, 2023


SNL, Cartels, and Fetterman's Disappearing Act—Navigating Rumors and Real News


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What's the truth behind the Katie Hobbs story? What did Woody Harrelson say on SNL? And, finally, where is John Fetterman? Subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show on Apple Podcasts!

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:01.000 What's the truth behind the Katie Hobbs story?
00:00:04.000 What did Woody Harrelson say on SNL?
00:00:06.000 And finally, where is John Fetterman?
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00:01:03.000 I have not taken SNL seriously for quite some time, but we're going to lead today, lead this week with what happened on Saturday Night Live.
00:01:12.000 It's incredibly interesting, and part of it remains a mystery.
00:01:15.000 Woody Harrelson, who I actually really enjoy as an actor in both Cheers and many other movies, including young people would recognize him for his roles in the Hunger Games, delivered a monologue on SNL.
00:01:30.000 Now, usually these monologues are jokes at Republicans and Trumps.
00:01:34.000 And actually, part of his remarks did include some stabs at Donald Trump.
00:01:39.000 But Woody Harrelson decided to go a little off the reservation.
00:01:42.000 He decided to defect from the machine.
00:01:46.000 He might have just broke from the picket line.
00:01:48.000 And there's a little bit of a mystery here.
00:01:51.000 Was this pre-taped or pre-recorded?
00:01:53.000 Sometimes part of SNL Saturday Night Live's content is pre-recorded.
00:01:58.000 Sometimes it's pre-taped.
00:01:59.000 Sometimes it's actually live.
00:02:00.000 So it's a little bit unclear.
00:02:03.000 Did NBC know about this?
00:02:04.000 Did this slip through an editing booth?
00:02:08.000 Did they know what he was saying and say, let's just air it anyway because it'll make us interesting and different?
00:02:14.000 Woody Harrelson has always been somewhat of a free thinker.
00:02:17.000 He's always been somebody of somewhat of an interesting member of Hollywood.
00:02:25.000 It's heterodox in some of his opinions, contrarian, you could say.
00:02:29.000 So Woody Harrelson gets up on his monologue and he said, well, I kind of threw the script away and begins to criticize the government and the pharmaceutical industry for blocking affordable, off-patent antivirals like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin so that they could benefit and profit from the vaccines.
00:02:50.000 Now, some of you are asking, Charlie, is SNL really taped?
00:02:54.000 It depends.
00:02:54.000 Sometimes there are parts that are pre-taped.
00:02:57.000 By the way, you know this because sometimes they show you teasers of what they're going to say hours before it actually airs.
00:03:04.000 And it's just taped a couple hours ahead of time.
00:03:06.000 It depends on what it is.
00:03:08.000 Sometimes it actually is live, right?
00:03:10.000 Sometimes it is legitimately live.
00:03:11.000 Just like Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon and Letterman and Leno used to be, it would just be a couple hours prior.
00:03:17.000 They'd tape in the afternoon and then they would air and they would be able to kind of smooth over the edges.
00:03:21.000 The question is, was this live?
00:03:22.000 And if it was pre-taped, why didn't NBC kibosh it?
00:03:26.000 Because the response is actually what we're going to spend most of our time on.
00:03:29.000 We're going to play the entire tape, which is cut 10.
00:03:32.000 It's a minute long of Woody Harrelson saying a lot of things that are true on SNL.
00:03:38.000 And the response from the media has just been overwhelming.
00:03:43.000 He said something relatively benign, nothing that was that aggressive or that controversial.
00:03:49.000 So actually, we're going to go to cut seven.
00:03:51.000 This is Woody Harrelson hosting SNL on Big Pharma's response to COVID-19, Play Cut 7.
00:03:59.000 Okay, so the movie goes like this.
00:04:02.000 The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes and people can only come out if they take the cartel's drugs and keep taking them over and over.
00:04:21.000 I threw the script away.
00:04:23.000 I mean, who is going to believe that crazy idea?
00:04:27.000 Now, did he go off script?
00:04:29.000 Was he saying something that wasn't actually on script?
00:04:32.000 Or was he talking about a hypothetical movie script that he would throw it away saying, there's no way that's actually true?
00:04:38.000 What you heard right there, again, was this kind of an offhand remark?
00:04:42.000 Was it spontaneous?
00:04:43.000 Was it scripted?
00:04:44.000 Who knows?
00:04:45.000 Woody Harrelson is saying something that's totally true.
00:04:48.000 The media is purchased by big tech.
00:04:52.000 They're purchased by Pfizer.
00:04:55.000 The entire media, if you look at one after the other after the other, they say, brought to you by Pfizer, brought to you by Pfizer.
00:05:04.000 And the response to Woody Harrelson saying just that little remark has been extraordinary.
00:05:09.000 Let me read some of these headlines here.
00:05:11.000 Variety Magazine, Woody Harrelson's Saturday Night Live monologue makes COVID conspiracy jokes.
00:05:17.000 Huffington Post, Woody Harrelson rambles about weed, anti-vax conspiracy, and SNL monologue.
00:05:23.000 Woody Harrelson spews anti-vax conspiracies in rambling SNL monologue.
00:05:30.000 Woody Harrelson spreads anti-vax conspiracies during SNL monologue.
00:05:34.000 Literally the same headline for the Rolling Stone and Daily Beast.
00:05:38.000 There's not an original thought that these people ever have.
00:05:40.000 Salon.com, SNL Open has something for everyone.
00:05:45.000 Trump riffs weed jokes, anti-vax sentiments.
00:05:48.000 Mashable.com.
00:05:50.000 Woody Harrelson delivered a strange anti-vax SNL monologue.
00:05:54.000 Raw story, who approved this?
00:05:57.000 Who let this happen?
00:05:58.000 Raw story asks.
00:05:59.000 Woody Harrelson torched for anti-vax SNL monologue.
00:06:05.000 Brought to you by Pfizer.
00:06:08.000 If you look carefully, news segment after news segment is sponsored and underwritten by Pfizer.
00:06:14.000 Let's play Cut 19.
00:06:16.000 This was them.
00:06:16.000 Actually, let's go Cut 22.
00:06:18.000 Brought to you by Pfizer montage.
00:06:20.000 Good morning, America, sports, you name it.
00:06:22.000 Pfizer is delivering you your news.
00:06:24.000 That's one of the things that Woody Harrelson said.
00:06:26.000 It's a fact.
00:06:26.000 He said that, will they buy up the media?
00:06:29.000 Play Cut 22.
00:06:30.000 Good morning, America, is brought to you by Pfizer.
00:06:33.000 CBS Health Watch sponsored by Pfizer.
00:06:36.000 Anderson Cooper 360.
00:06:39.000 Brought to you by Pfizer.
00:06:40.000 ABC News Nightline.
00:06:42.000 Brought to you by Pfizer.
00:06:44.000 And that's just a little bit of a taste.
00:06:46.000 How about Cut 19, The Grammys, which was the satanic, let's just say satanic event, spectacle, play cut 22.
00:07:11.000 I mean, it's just so flagrant.
00:07:12.000 It's so in your face.
00:07:13.000 So what did Woody Harrelson say exactly?
00:07:16.000 He said, let me tell you about a hypothetical movie script that might be so hard to believe and so hard to grasp, that the pharmaceutical companies get together, buy the media, and tell you to take their drugs.
00:07:28.000 And if they only, if you only take their drugs, then you're allowed out of your home.
00:07:32.000 Is that not what we just lived through the last three years?
00:07:34.000 How many members of the military were kicked out because they did not want to take the mRNA gene altering shot called the vaccine?
00:07:42.000 How many people lost their jobs because they didn't want to take the shot?
00:07:47.000 And then they say, well, you have to get another booster and you have to get another booster and you have to get another booster.
00:07:53.000 No, you see, Woody Harrelson, albeit a little clumsily, but truthfully, committed the crime of noticing.
00:08:05.000 Woody Harrelson didn't just notice, but he mentioned it.
00:08:07.000 And he didn't just mention it on some obscure podcast.
00:08:11.000 No, no, no, no.
00:08:12.000 Woody Harrelson did it at, he did it in one of the thoroughfares of narrative building, one of the shrines, one of the sacred temples of the left.
00:08:29.000 He did it in the building of 30 Rock.
00:08:32.000 He did it on SNL.
00:08:34.000 No, no, no.
00:08:34.000 At SNL, you're supposed, there's a couple of rules when you go on SNL.
00:08:37.000 You can't be funny.
00:08:39.000 You must be obedient.
00:08:41.000 And you must mock the other side.
00:08:43.000 That's it.
00:08:43.000 Those are the rules.
00:08:44.000 Being funny has been, you have not been allowed to be funny on SNL for quite some time.
00:08:48.000 Remember, Dave Chappelle broke the rules?
00:08:50.000 He got away with it.
00:08:51.000 But Woody Harrelson going right into the SNL sacred shrine of the left, he didn't even do it that flagrantly.
00:09:00.000 It wasn't even that big of a deal.
00:09:01.000 It was a throwaway line.
00:09:02.000 He said, what about a hypothetical thing?
00:09:03.000 I'll throw the script away and the media comes after him like you wouldn't believe.
00:09:07.000 One headline after the other.
00:09:11.000 And there's many reasons for this.
00:09:12.000 The most obvious is that they have to try and show that the cost of defection is high.
00:09:20.000 For any other celebrity, for anybody else with a platform that might even think to say it's a little insane what we lived through the last year, no, we're going to ruin your life.
00:09:28.000 Now, Woody doesn't care.
00:09:29.000 He seems to be a free thinker.
00:09:31.000 I don't even know if our politics align.
00:09:33.000 He's probably really far on the left.
00:09:34.000 Not the point.
00:09:36.000 He's a truth teller.
00:09:37.000 He said something that's real.
00:09:40.000 And the media is trying to punish him for that.
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00:12:23.000 This is a longer clip.
00:12:23.000 This is him on Bill Maher talking about ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.
00:12:29.000 Listen to this, play cut 10.
00:12:31.000 I think they've done a lot of studies about vitamin D and how important it was when the people who had low levels were much more vulnerable to COVID.
00:12:42.000 Why not tell people that?
00:12:44.000 Can't you make money selling vitamin D?
00:12:47.000 Is it that kind of what's the worst that could happen?
00:12:49.000 That's just it, man.
00:12:50.000 There was only one thing.
00:12:52.000 You know, ivermectin got made into a horse tranquilizer or horse, whatever it is.
00:13:00.000 Which it is, but also used by humans.
00:13:04.000 It used by millions and millions. 0.75
00:13:08.000 Hydroxychloroquine got made ridiculous.
00:13:13.000 And there was only one thing that could work, and that's the vaccine, right?
00:13:18.000 And so ultimately, because of that, billions of dollars was made.
00:13:26.000 The last people I would trust with my health is big pharma and big government, because neither one of those strike me as caring entities.
00:13:37.000 That is exactly what happened.
00:13:40.000 It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
00:13:45.000 It also just, it was so illuminating to me how strong, how well-funded, how organized the pharmaceutical cartel state that we live in, how effective their PR operation is to counter it.
00:14:02.000 This happened on a Saturday evening.
00:14:05.000 And by lunch on Sunday, there was a mess of articles countering, smearing, and slandering Woody.
00:14:14.000 One after the other, after the other, after the other.
00:14:17.000 And I do want to just mention a little bit about Woody's past because I do find it very interesting.
00:14:23.000 And then we are going to get to the Katie Hobbs story.
00:14:25.000 And then we're going to get to the Fetterman story.
00:14:27.000 There's a lot of news and potential news over the last weekend.
00:14:34.000 So let me just go to cut eight.
00:14:37.000 This is who is Woody's family?
00:14:39.000 It's just interesting.
00:14:41.000 Play cut eight.
00:14:43.000 When you were seven years old, your father went off to prison, convicted of murder.
00:14:47.000 Well, he is in prison right now for the killing of a federal judge.
00:14:54.000 I think that it was not a fair trial, especially because the guy who supposedly hired my father to commit the murder was later acquitted on a retrial.
00:15:07.000 Woody, do you think your father is innocent of that second murder?
00:15:12.000 That's what I've heard.
00:15:13.000 I'm not saying my father's the same, but I think he's innocent of that.
00:15:16.000 And did Woody Harrelson's father work for the CIA?
00:15:19.000 Does Woody know something about how our government works?
00:15:22.000 Probably play cut nine.
00:15:25.000 You said once that you thought that your father was a CIA operative.
00:15:31.000 Yes.
00:15:32.000 Yeah, he was.
00:15:33.000 How do you know?
00:15:34.000 What proof?
00:15:37.000 See, I shouldn't get into this right now.
00:15:39.000 This is where we're going to get into trouble.
00:15:41.000 But this is something that you feel and that you're trying to work on?
00:15:43.000 Oh, I know, it's true, but yeah.
00:15:46.000 Does it make a difference?
00:15:48.000 That he was trained by the CIA?
00:15:50.000 Yeah, I think it makes a difference.
00:15:53.000 Just interesting.
00:15:56.000 We're getting a lot of emails about the Katie Hobbs story.
00:15:58.000 Let me just briefly mention this and then we'll talk about it.
00:16:01.000 We're getting hundreds, if not thousands, of emails on the Katie Hobbs.
00:16:05.000 Okay.
00:16:05.000 So there, over the weekend, there were allegations that began to surface and be made against Katie Hobbs, potentially and allegedly laundering cartel money and the entire racketeering scheme allegations.
00:16:22.000 Let me just say, yes, we've seen all the stuff that you have, and we're looking into it. 0.74
00:16:29.000 And apparently, the allegation is that she took money to also bribe judges.
00:16:33.000 Now, this is some pretty serious stuff.
00:16:35.000 Now, we're taking it very seriously, but to be clear, these are massive allegations brought against basically the entire state of Arizona and their public officials.
00:16:45.000 And so we need a lot of time to look into this, and we definitely are.
00:16:48.000 And some people aren't even mentioning it, but I have a duty and an obligation to you to let you know because this is a huge allegation.
00:16:55.000 Massive, if true, as they say, and if being the most important and operative word.
00:17:02.000 But as Wendy Rogers said in her statement, the allegations were not made in the appropriate venue for a criminal investigation to take place.
00:17:09.000 So for right now, they are allegations.
00:17:12.000 And a lot of people get allegations of things they didn't do.
00:17:16.000 I certainly don't.
00:17:17.000 But I believe every Democrat and establishment Republican should be profiled.
00:17:22.000 And we're realizing we know very little about so many of these people.
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00:18:30.000 So I want to play these pieces of tape here. 0.58
00:18:32.000 The woman who makes the allegations is Jacqueline Breger, an insurance agent who owns a farmer's insurance agency and has been a resident of Scottsdale since 1997.
00:18:43.000 She also works as an investigator with the Harris Thaler law firm.
00:18:48.000 She testified in front of the Senate Elections and House Municipal Oversight and Elections Joint Committee. 0.92
00:18:56.000 Let's listen to her allegations in her own words: play cut 20.
00:19:00.000 The Maricopa County database for the recorder's office and for the Superior Court were designed in 2014.
00:19:06.000 They were set up for outside infiltration so that falsified documents could be uploaded or legitimate documents removed.
00:19:17.000 Since 2004, elections within Pima County and Maricopa County have been manipulated through the infiltration of the county databases, resulting from bribes paid to executives at election service providers, including, but not limited to, principals at run back election services.
00:19:36.000 Continue in Cut 21.
00:19:39.000 Public officials who have received bribes include multi-state office holders, state house and state senate, local office holders, county supervisors, judges in the Maricopa Supreme Court, judges of some city courts, including two presiding judges.
00:19:54.000 In the Superior Court of Maricopa County and Pinnell County and Pima County, at least 25% of the active judges have accepted bribes in exchange for protecting the racketeering activities.
00:20:06.000 By way of example, Mesa City Prosecutor Prosecutor's Office routinely files charges and convicts innocent individuals who knowingly or unwittingly pose a threat to the racketeering enterprise.
00:20:19.000 So Wendy Rogers has addressed this, the great Wendy Rogers.
00:20:22.000 She said, as chairman of the Senate Committee on Elections, I want to address a concerning issue that came up during the February 23rd Senate elections and House Municipal Oversight and Elections Joint Meeting.
00:20:34.000 Several weeks ago, a representative, Representative Liz Harris, requested to host an elections presentation before the House and the Senate.
00:20:41.000 Both chambers agreed, and the presentation took place during the above-mentioned meeting in the Senate.
00:20:47.000 As part of the presentation, a speaker invited by Representative Harris alleged that several public officials had violated criminal law.
00:20:55.000 Any claims as serious as those presented to us should have been immediately turned in to Arizona law enforcement officials and not brought before the legislature.
00:21:04.000 This was not the appropriate venue to discuss what could potentially be criminal activity.
00:21:09.000 To our knowledge, none of the peoples named had charges filed, have prosecutions pending, nor had any convictions made against them.
00:21:17.000 Wendy Rogers continued by saying, if any of the allegations presented are in fact true, there's evidence to support these claims.
00:21:24.000 And if there's evidence to support these claims, the legislature most certainly is not the proper authority to pursue charges.
00:21:30.000 We are here to pass laws.
00:21:32.000 The executive is charged with enforcing the laws we pass.
00:21:36.000 Now, that is a rather sober response by Wendy Rogers, someone who is an amazing grassroots hero.
00:21:44.000 Very measured response.
00:21:46.000 Now, look, the root of these allegations go back to John Thaler, the aforementioned law company.
00:21:53.000 There's some questions, certainly, around this.
00:21:57.000 Now, many of Thaler's critics regarding this say that a large number of Thaler's allegations were first made in a federal lawsuit against his wife, Brittany Thaler.
00:22:08.000 That federal lawsuit was dismissed last fall, and the judges had rather harsh words for Mr. John Thaler, saying essentially that his lawsuit was completely unsubstantiated.
00:22:18.000 His critics say that, well, the lawsuit says that Brittany started her involvement in racketeering and fraud from the age of eight, working with her mother.
00:22:27.000 Thaler then also claimed that his entire marriage to Brittany was fraudulent and that she engineered meeting him and marrying him as a plot to undermine his work.
00:22:36.000 He claims that in order to suppress his investigation, Arizona public officials colluded in kidnapping that of his own son.
00:22:42.000 There's a lot going on here.
00:22:44.000 And then the title of John Thaler's report is Racketeering, Bribery, and Corruption.
00:22:50.000 In his words, how the Mormon Church and Mexican Drug Cartels Conspired to Hijack Arizona and then plotted the abduction of McKinley Harris Thaler to prevent discovery and disclosure.
00:23:01.000 Okay, so a lot going on here.
00:23:02.000 We're going to continue to look into it.
00:23:04.000 And those are certainly some explosive allegations, if true.
00:23:10.000 But we're going to need more evidence in order to substantiate that.
00:23:14.000 Let me ask a very simple question that no human being should have to ask in America.
00:23:19.000 Where is Pennsylvania's junior senator?
00:23:22.000 Not where is he literally.
00:23:24.000 We actually know where he is.
00:23:25.000 He's still in the hospital.
00:23:27.000 But where is he mentally?
00:23:30.000 Is he processing information?
00:23:32.000 What is going on with John Fetterman?
00:23:35.000 And let me just say this again.
00:23:36.000 There are a lot of what could be called rumor mill stories over the weekend, but I do not shy away from them because quote unquote rumor mill stories, stories that the media told us to ignore, sometimes come true, like Jeffrey Epstein trafficking young girls to islands in the Caribbean.
00:23:54.000 Oh, that's a rumor mill.
00:23:55.000 That's a conspiracy.
00:23:56.000 You can't touch that.
00:23:57.000 Or how about that there is some virus that is coming onto the mainland?
00:24:01.000 I was one of the first people to ask Mike Pence to his face about COVID.
00:24:05.000 I did it in a campaign bus in January of 2020.
00:24:09.000 Andrew was there.
00:24:10.000 We were in Iowa, and we just asked Mike Pence, like, hey, what's this COVID thing?
00:24:14.000 And it was a very, like, oh, we got it under control.
00:24:16.000 We're working to the Chinese. 1.00
00:24:18.000 I got it all.
00:24:18.000 It's all about, boom, the whole civilization changes.
00:24:21.000 And so I entertain these things.
00:24:23.000 I'm not saying I believe all of it.
00:24:25.000 I don't even know.
00:24:26.000 We're just asking questions.
00:24:27.000 Isn't that what you should do in the media?
00:24:28.000 Simply ask questions.
00:24:30.000 Okay, so there were a lot of these sort of stories that started to surface over the weekend.
00:24:34.000 And one of them was an allegation that John Fetterman is past the point of sentience.
00:24:41.000 Let's just say that.
00:24:42.000 Past the point of being able to actually do his job.
00:24:45.000 Now, there is a disturbing pattern of evidence that has been going to the surface about John Fetterman.
00:24:53.000 First of all, John Fetterman is in the hospital under the guise of being treated for depression.
00:25:00.000 Now, is that actually the case?
00:25:02.000 Or is it that he has such serious brain damage from the stroke?
00:25:07.000 And I feel sorry for him for that.
00:25:08.000 No one should have to go through it.
00:25:10.000 That he is now unable to do his job.
00:25:13.000 There are several simultaneous suspicious things happening with John Fetterman.
00:25:19.000 And there is a media campaign right now where they say, well, John Fetterman deserves his privacy.
00:25:26.000 I respectfully disagree.
00:25:29.000 I think that some medical, obviously treatment, should be kept private.
00:25:34.000 But if you are a senator from Pennsylvania, the people have a right to know if you're healthy enough to be able to do your job.
00:25:43.000 Are you able to deliver constituent services?
00:25:46.000 Can you work with your colleagues?
00:25:48.000 Are you actually able to inform yourself about major pieces of legislation that could affect the people that you represent?
00:25:56.000 So while I'm all for medical privacy and I think that medical privacy should be respected with John Fetterman, I do think we should have a right to know as things progress.
00:26:08.000 We should get a daily update on how is John Fetterman doing.
00:26:12.000 Right now, here's what we know.
00:26:14.000 He's off indefinitely and his wife took off to Canada to avoid the quote media circus.
00:26:20.000 Now, the people and the defenders of John Fetterman have suggested he could be out for a month for inpatient treatment for depression.
00:26:28.000 That's an odd prediction to make that you need a whole month off to treat depression.
00:26:33.000 Not saying that's never happened before.
00:26:35.000 He could be having a mental breakdown.
00:26:37.000 That sounds terrible.
00:26:39.000 It's awful.
00:26:39.000 We should have compassion for people like that.
00:26:41.000 But he is a U.S. senator.
00:26:43.000 The threshold that someone should have to, let's just say, endure criticism, not criticism, but just questioning, should be rather high if you're one of 100 that is going to determine the future of the country.
00:26:57.000 Should we get rid of the Electoral College?
00:26:59.000 Should we add DC and Puerto Rico as a state? 0.98
00:27:01.000 Should we get rid of fracking?
00:27:02.000 Should we pass the Green New Deal? 0.91
00:27:03.000 All of these are questions that senators have to entertain.
00:27:06.000 And if you're not able to be able to really have a sentence together, should we add judges to the Supreme Court?
00:27:12.000 These are not just unheard of concepts.
00:27:16.000 These are in front of senators right now.
00:27:19.000 So how long should it take to treat depression in a hospital environment?
00:27:25.000 It's not like he's recovering from surgery.
00:27:27.000 So presumably he could be better tomorrow or he might never return.
00:27:32.000 Again, this is one of the most powerful people in America.
00:27:35.000 If this was just some random person, then I would say, okay, guys, just leave him alone.
00:27:39.000 I mean, but I don't think we should leave this story alone.
00:27:44.000 He ran and lied to the people of Pennsylvania and said, I am mentally okay.
00:27:49.000 He had doctors that vouch for him.
00:27:51.000 Remember during the race against Oz?
00:27:54.000 The race against Oz, he had doctors go and say, Fetterman can do his job.
00:27:58.000 He just has to read a little prompter.
00:27:59.000 He's got to read a teleprompter.
00:28:02.000 He had to do interviews with closed captioning.
00:28:04.000 But come on, what are you?
00:28:05.000 Against the disabled? 0.98
00:28:10.000 This should be a very basic fact.
00:28:12.000 If you can't read, write, have conversations, or put together sentences, being a senator is not for you.
00:28:23.000 There are other things in life, obviously, that you can do.
00:28:28.000 To be a U.S. senator of the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world, the strongest country with a lot of threats, invasion on the southern border, Chinese Communist Party, proxy war in Ukraine, you're trying to tell me that Fetterman at this point is able to materially understand the implications of what's happening in Ukraine.
00:28:50.000 That's laughable.
00:28:51.000 And that puts our national security at risk.
00:28:54.000 So I hope that he does not have to suffer health-wise.
00:28:59.000 No one should have to deal with that.
00:29:00.000 At the same time, what the heck is going on?
00:29:02.000 His wife has fled the country.
00:29:04.000 And that's a little exaggeration.
00:29:05.000 She left the country to bring his kids to Canada.
00:29:07.000 Some people, she fled the country, but she left the country to go to Canada with her kids to talk about quote-unquote tough stuff.
00:29:12.000 The whole story is so weird and bizarre that it warrants attention.
00:29:20.000 Isn't it interesting?
00:29:21.000 And it's also depressing, but it should be motivating for those of us that are conservatives and that vote Republican.
00:29:29.000 It's really something where people who are not able to conduct basic interviews are able to become president of the United States and then be able to become a senator.
00:29:38.000 It shows the Democrats invested hundreds of millions of dollars post-election of Donald Trump in 2016 into building a community organizing machine.
00:29:49.000 They go block by block and precinct by precinct.
00:29:52.000 They relax the signature verification threshold so that when they flood the box with a lot of ballots, they really don't get looked at and they just throw them through the machines.
00:30:01.000 I said this at the wonderful Lincoln, Nebraska event that I did on Saturday evening, which is right now, we need to be actively organizing and building a machine.
00:30:14.000 It's less about who the candidate is and more about whether or not we are going to have the machinery necessary to win in 2024.
00:30:24.000 What are we actively doing today to try and build the machine?
00:30:29.000 Are we registering voters?
00:30:31.000 Are we taking back precinct committee positions?
00:30:33.000 At turning point action, over the weekend, we helped sign up hundreds of people to become precinct committeemen.
00:30:41.000 The RNC is not doing any of that.
00:30:42.000 The RNC is a complete waste of time currently.
00:30:44.000 I hope they change their pace, but I see no path forward for the RNC.
00:30:51.000 They're too weighed down.
00:30:53.000 Maybe that'll change, but we try to do our part there.
00:30:57.000 It does not matter like it used to who you run for office.
00:31:01.000 It matters whether or not they're a rhino or grassroots conservative in the sense where it helps to actually have a fighter when they go to the U.S. Senate.
00:31:12.000 But when you have somebody like John Fetterman that is able to win, put in quotes, significantly more than Dr. Oz, and you can say whatever you want about Dr. Oz.
00:31:23.000 Dr. Oz is a very smart person.
00:31:26.000 He accomplished some unbelievable stuff in his life.
00:31:29.000 Do I think Dr. Oz was a grassroots conservative?
00:31:32.000 No, of course not.
00:31:34.000 That was never the contention.
00:31:36.000 Do I think that Oz would be doing a much better job as a United States senator than Fetterman?
00:31:41.000 I mean, that's not even a question.
00:31:43.000 And Oz, being a literal surgeon like Oz was, that's really hard.
00:31:49.000 I mean, people's lives are in your hands.
00:31:51.000 I have a lot of respect for that.
00:31:52.000 I do.
00:31:54.000 And so where we're at with the Fetterman situation, really, we have more questions than answers.
00:32:02.000 Here is Cut 18.
00:32:04.000 Fetterman's wife, Giselle, and their children flee to Canada.
00:32:09.000 Again, fleeing to Canada is a little bit, I think that's too strong.
00:32:11.000 Let's just be accurate.
00:32:13.000 They visited Canada.
00:32:14.000 Very short clip.
00:32:15.000 Play cut 18.
00:32:17.000 One's zip lining over the falls and August got stuck.
00:32:23.000 They're trying to rescue him now.
00:32:26.000 So one of her kids was ziplining at Niagara Falls.
00:32:29.000 It's also not the best time of year to visit Niagara Falls.
00:32:32.000 It's kind of strange. 0.55
00:32:34.000 But the Giselle brings her kids up there.
00:32:39.000 Now, look, maybe her kids are having a really tough time and just want to get away.
00:32:43.000 There's probably a lot of explanations to this.
00:32:45.000 But if your husband is actively in the hospital, why are you going thousands of miles away?
00:32:51.000 Or at least 1,300, 1,400 miles away?
00:32:54.000 Why are you doing that?
00:32:55.000 From Washington, D.C., it's at least 1,000 miles from Washington, D.C. Why are you doing that?
00:33:00.000 It's very strange, very odd.
00:33:03.000 Does John Fetterman going to remain as a senator?
00:33:06.000 If John Fetterman has to resign, what is the process there?
00:33:10.000 Well, if, according to certain sources I've read online, it's not clear.
00:33:14.000 Somebody could look it up at the Pennsylvania Constitution.
00:33:16.000 If it's before August, there's a special election.
00:33:18.000 If it's after August, then Governor Shapiro, who's awful, will be able to appoint a replacement.
00:33:23.000 There's something like there's a cutoff date associated with it.
00:33:26.000 I'm not sure if that's technically true, but is it August 18th as the do or die date?
00:33:31.000 Okay.
00:33:31.000 So if Fetterman makes it post-August 18th, then Shapiro is able to appoint a replacement.
00:33:39.000 A question that needs to be asked is: Is Fetterman so deteriorated because of strokes and because of other things that might have happened to him that they're now trying to run out the clock to August 18th?
00:33:54.000 The entire balance of the U.S. Senate is determinative on this now.
00:34:00.000 It's a legitimate question.
00:34:04.000 What is happening to John Fetterman?
00:34:07.000 Are they trying to cover it up?
00:34:08.000 Can John Fetterman maybe clarify and maybe do an interview?
00:34:14.000 Can he just come out and say, here's how I'm doing?
00:34:17.000 And meanwhile, his wife goes to Canada and she tells her kids we talked about some really tough stuff.
00:34:23.000 Something is not right here.
00:34:25.000 And we deserve better.
00:34:27.000 Our politics and our government deserve better than this entire circus.
00:34:35.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:34:36.000 Email me your thoughts as alwaysfreedom at charliekirk.com.
00:34:40.000 Thank you so much for listening and God bless.
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