The Charlie Kirk Show - Taking Back D.C., Then Texas, Then America

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here live from the Bitcoin.com studio.

00:00:04.000 President Trump is federalizing DC.

00:00:06.000 Also, the governor of Texas, Governor Greg Abbott, joins us about the redistricting fight.

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00:01:21.000 Joining us right out of the gate today, we will get to the federalization of DC news in a moment, but is the governor of the great state of Texas, Governor Greg Abbott.

00:01:30.000 Governor, welcome to the program, sir.

00:01:32.000 First time on the program, honored to have you.

00:01:34.000 What is the latest on the Democrats fleeing the state of Texas?

00:01:39.000 Your strategy, your plan to hold them accountable, and give us the latest update, sir.

00:01:46.000 So we are working on quorum today.

00:01:48.000 And to do that, everyone can enter in your audience.

00:01:51.000 And this is the problem in the Texas House.

00:01:53.000 The Texas House has 150 members.

00:01:55.000 It requires two-thirds of them or 100 of them to show up.

00:01:59.000 There are 88 Republicans in the Texas House, which means we need 12 Democrats to be able to have a quorum.

00:02:04.000 And what the Texas Department of Public Safety is doing as we speak right now, they have stakeouts at dozens of locations across the state of Texas where there's the possibility that there could be a Texas House member there.

00:02:18.000 We have no confirmed information that we have at least 12 Democrats in the state to be able to arrest them and bring them to the Capitol.

00:02:27.000 The way this works is when the Speaker put a House on the call and issued arrest warrants.

00:02:32.000 These are civil, not criminal arrest warrants, but it nevertheless authorizes the Texas Department of Public Safety to search, find, and to arrest and bring to the Capitol any Democrat who's in the state of Texas.

00:02:44.000 So for one, they are searching for those people.

00:02:47.000 For another, we're doing the math with regard to who may be out of state.

00:02:51.000 You may have seen the news over the past couple of days that the Texas Attorney General filed claims in courts in these other states, seeking the apprehension of them in California, in Illinois, and other states to try to bring them home from there.

00:03:08.000 That said, let's go back to square one here, Charlie, because this is an issue that we've been through before.

00:03:13.000 We had a quorum break by these leftist Democrats four years ago.

00:03:17.000 We had another quorum break back in 2003 when we tried to pass mid-decade redistricting at that time.

00:03:23.000 And the same thing happens every time.

00:03:26.000 They're gone for one special session and then they come back for the next one.

00:03:30.000 And so let me provide that setting real quick.

00:03:32.000 So in Texas, we have a regular legislative session only every other year that ends at the end of May.

00:03:38.000 And then as governor, I can call a 30-day special session.

00:03:41.000 That 30-day special session is about to end here in about a week.

00:03:46.000 And so we will continue to search and find every Democrat that we can.

00:03:49.000 If we do not get a quorum, the nanosecond after the current special session gabbles out, I will be calling another special session.

00:03:58.000 And then I will continue calling special sessions until they do come back.

00:04:03.000 We know this.

00:04:04.000 They are going to come back.

00:04:06.000 That's happened every single time.

00:04:07.000 And when they come back, we're going to pass these maps as well as address the other pressing needs and demands of the people of Texas.

00:04:15.000 So, Governor, when does this become criminal?

00:04:18.000 And I know that you're mentioning this.

00:04:20.000 I mean, aren't they, I mean, what's the phrase, subverting our democracy?

00:04:25.000 When do we start to ratchet this up?

00:04:27.000 Because they are fleeing the state, not representing the voters that elected them.

00:04:31.000 Governor Greg Abbott.

00:04:33.000 So under Texas law, this does not become criminal because that's not authorized as an action that can be taken by the House.

00:04:40.000 However, what we've done this time that we've never done before, we're seeking another pathway that I believe is valid.

00:04:47.000 I filed a lawsuit about this time last week in the Texas Supreme Court, bypassing the trial courts, saying that we can get a writ of what's called quo or rento from the Texas Supreme Court saying that these offices have been vacated because they have been abandoned because we have Texas House members who are not following the Constitution.

00:05:08.000 The Texas Constitution specifically requires Texas House members to, quote, act on bills before them.

00:05:16.000 And when you're abandoning your responsibility, when you have abandoned the state, you're not there to act on those bills.

00:05:24.000 And so I think I filed this lawsuit in the Supreme Court.

00:05:28.000 The Supreme Court demanded a response last Friday.

00:05:30.000 They're considering it as we speak right now.

00:05:32.000 But Charlie, the pathway that I'm seeking to go down is one that would allow the removal of these Texas legislators who have abandoned the state.

00:05:42.000 How is this playing out politically domestically?

00:05:45.000 If you were to listen to the national media, they call this gerrymandering, terrible, you know, cowing to President Trump.

00:05:52.000 What are you hearing from Texas voters?

00:05:55.000 And what is the latest on the will and the fortitude of the Texas legislature on the Republican side to get this done?

00:06:06.000 So first of all, what we're hearing on the ground, this is what we hear on the ground every single time this happens.

00:06:10.000 And that is Texans do not like people who don't show up for work.

00:06:17.000 And Texans have to show up for work. 1.00

00:06:20.000 If they didn't show up for work, they would get fired.

00:06:22.000 And so they get angry when they see Democrats flee the state, not show up to the job they were elected to do, and not get the job done.

00:06:30.000 And so this always works to the detriment of the Democrat House members who flee the state.

00:06:36.000 Second, this is a character flaw by these Democrats because one thing that is anti-Texan is running from a fight.

00:06:45.000 You know, Texas kind of got its beginnings with the Battle of the Alamo, and that was a place where people chose not to run from a fight, but to stay and fight.

00:06:52.000 And, you know, the come and take it slogan.

00:06:54.000 That was when Texans were willing to say to Mexico, if you want to take your cannon back, you got to come and take it from us. 0.81

00:07:02.000 And they were willing to stand and fight.

00:07:04.000 To the contrary of that, we have these Democrats who are running like scaredy cats off to some other state, and they have refused to stand and fight.

00:07:12.000 So this is going to be very harmful to them back home.

00:07:15.000 And at the same time, I'm running TV advertisements and digital advertisements in districts of the missing Democrats pointing out how they're not showing up, not doing the job, not dealing with the flooding problems that we have in central Texas because of the horrific deadly floods.

00:07:30.000 And so this is going to hurt them a lot.

00:07:32.000 Your other question, listen, the legislature is fully committed to using every tool.

00:07:38.000 And I can explain it in this context.

00:07:40.000 The tools already used by the legislature to try to bring these Democrats back are far more, far stronger, far better than any House member that I've been involved with to try to bring runaway quorum-breaking Democrats back to the state of Texas.

00:07:58.000 So if the seats are declared vacant, just make sure I understand, does that lower the quorum threshold or would we have to wait until another election?

00:08:07.000 Two things.

00:08:08.000 One is it does, is my understanding that it does lower the quorum threshold.

00:08:13.000 However, it also does something else.

00:08:15.000 It triggers Article 3, Section 13 of the Texas Constitution that is as soon as we get a decision that they have abandoned their seat, a ruling in our favor in that lawsuit that I filed, I as governor am authorized to fill those vacancies.

00:08:33.000 And I do so by calling for an election that must take place within 20 days.

00:08:36.000 Got it.

00:08:37.000 So that's very interesting for our audience here because this can move quite quick.

00:08:42.000 What is your response then, Governor?

00:08:44.000 Governor Newsom is declaring war.

00:08:46.000 J.B. Pritzker is declaring war.

00:08:49.000 Jasmine Crockett calls all of these maps racist.

00:08:52.000 Can you defend this move?

00:08:55.000 And of course, I'm with you 100%.

00:08:57.000 But talk about why you are doing this and the intent.

00:09:01.000 Governor Greg Abbott, why are you doing this and why does it matter?

00:09:05.000 What Texas is doing is 100% perfectly legal.

00:09:09.000 And this is not the first time that Texas has done mid-decade redistricting.

00:09:13.000 This time, we had the law and the facts change since we last did redistricting in 2021.

00:09:19.000 The law that changes last year, pursuant to a lawsuit filed by Democrats, last year that the federal court of appeals came out and said that Texas is not required to maintain what are called coalition districts that were helping out Democrats.

00:09:34.000 And freed from that limitation, that opened up the possibility of creating all these new districts.

00:09:39.000 And then couple that with the facts.

00:09:41.000 And the facts are that the racial minorities in the state of Texas are voting Republican now as opposed to Democrat.

00:09:49.000 You saw that with Trump's big win in the state of Texas.

00:09:53.000 The Hispanics in Texas, they don't want open border policies.

00:09:55.000 They don't want boys and girls force.

00:09:58.000 They support law enforcement as opposed to curtailing law enforcement.

00:10:01.000 And so what we are authorized legally to do, and that is to draw districts for political purposes so that the people of these congressional districts are going to be able to vote for the candidate of their choice, which they showed is Republican, because every seat that we are drawing is a seat that Donald Trump won.

00:10:20.000 And those candidates are trapped in a Democrat congressional seat who is a member of Congress hostile to the values of the people in that district.

00:10:28.000 So we are just trying to fulfill the will and the demand of the people of the state of Texas.

00:10:33.000 Governor Abbott, we have your back 100%.

00:10:35.000 Finally, our side is fighting.

00:10:36.000 Fight fire with fire.

00:10:38.000 Do not give an inch, especially to these Democrat extortionists.

00:10:42.000 Thank you so much, Governor Greg Abbott from the great state of Texas.

00:10:44.000 Thank you.

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00:11:50.000 President Donald Trump, major news today.

00:11:53.000 He is federalizing Washington, D.C. President Donald Trump took to the press briefing room early on a Monday morning to make the announcement saying that enough of this crime and the third worldification of Washington, D.C. We're not going to put up with it.

00:12:12.000 Let's play cut 304.

00:12:14.000 Today we're declaring public safety emergency in the District of Columbia.

00:12:19.000 Attorney General Pam Bondi, who's fantastic, is taking command of the Metropolitan Police Department as of this moment.

00:12:29.000 And I'll be making the appropriate notifications to Congress.

00:12:32.000 Now, the 1973 Home Rule Act for D.C. explicitly allows the president to take control of Washington, D.C. police for 48 hours.

00:12:40.000 No questions asked.

00:12:41.000 As long as he believes that, quote, special conditions of an emergency nature exist.

00:12:45.000 President Trump says that's the case and that D.C. has a public safety emergency.

00:12:50.000 Now, in addition, the president can keep D.C. police federalized for up to 30 days as long as he notifies Congress and explains why.

00:12:59.000 Right now, 30 days is the cap, unless Congress passes a new law that said it's not clear that anything that stops President Trump from controlling the police for 30 days, surrendering power for a day, and then federalizing them again.

00:13:11.000 But there may be other arguments.

00:13:12.000 Mike Davis was recently arguing that D.C. Home Rule Act itself is unconstitutional.

00:13:16.000 We'll have to wait and see what the arguments are there.

00:13:18.000 But the legal questions aside is why is Trump doing this?

00:13:21.000 You could say quite reasonably he has a lot on his plate.

00:13:23.000 He's going to go, by the way, sit down with Vladimir Putin in Alaska this Friday.

00:13:28.000 He's trying to fix Gaza. 0.98

00:13:30.000 He's doing deportations and tariff negotiations and a lot more.

00:13:33.000 So why is he looking to micromanage the nation's capital?

00:13:37.000 Ronald Reagan ignored our nation's capital.

00:13:40.000 George W. Bush ignored our nation's capital.

00:13:42.000 Bill Clinton ignored our nation's capital.

00:13:44.000 George W. Bush ignored our nation's capital.

00:13:46.000 Barack Obama ignored our nation's capital.

00:13:48.000 And Joe Biden ignored our nation's capital.

00:13:50.000 Why?

00:13:51.000 Because it's easy to ignore our nation's capital.

00:13:53.000 Ah, it's just homeless people, slums being slums, and slumlords being slumlords.

00:13:58.000 And it's okay if it has a higher crime rate than Mexico City and Bogota and Islamabad. 0.80

00:14:05.000 No, it's actually not okay.

00:14:07.000 President Donald Trump has always been a person very aware of symbolism.

00:14:13.000 He's very visual.

00:14:15.000 He cares a lot about the trappings of the presidency.

00:14:18.000 That's why he liked putting on the military parade this summer, one that I supported.

00:14:21.000 It's why he wants to build a big ballroom on White House grounds.

00:14:25.000 A great nation should have a great presidential ballroom.

00:14:29.000 So it really impacts President Trump to see the reality of our nation's capital city.

00:14:34.000 We're supposed to be the world's greatest superpower, the leader of the free world.

00:14:37.000 So why is our capital a joke, a mess, a disgrace?

00:14:41.000 In 2023, Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C., had 274 murders in a city with a population of only 700,000 people.

00:14:50.000 That's a murder rate of 39 per 100,000.

00:14:53.000 That's nearly the murder rate of South Africa, where we're now taking refugees from, just so we're clear.

00:14:58.000 And we should.

00:14:59.000 In 2024, murders were down, but the murder rate was still 27 per 100,000.

00:15:06.000 That's higher than the murder rate of Mexico.

00:15:09.000 And it's four times the U.S. national average.

00:15:12.000 Even if crime is dropping, the lower rates are still a complete and total humiliation and disgrace.

00:15:18.000 Let's play cut 307.

00:15:20.000 We're formally declaring a public safety emergency.

00:15:24.000 This is an emergency.

00:15:25.000 This is a tragic emergency.

00:15:28.000 And it's embarrassing for me to be up here.

00:15:30.000 You know, I'm going to see Putin.

00:15:31.000 I'm going to Russia on Friday.

00:15:34.000 I don't like being up here talking about how unsafe and how dirty and disgusting this once beautiful capital was with graffiti all over the walls.

00:15:44.000 It's another part of it, by the way.

00:15:47.000 Because we're talking about safety, but we're also talking about beautification.

00:15:50.000 We're the most beautiful, potentially capital in the world.

00:15:53.000 We always had.

00:15:55.000 But people come from Iowa, they come from Indiana, they come and then they get mugged.

00:15:59.000 Not going to happen.

00:16:00.000 Keep coming because within, by the time you get your trip set, it's going to be safe again and it's going to be clean very quickly.

00:16:08.000 Think of all the high schoolers that go to Washington, D.C. for the first time.

00:16:11.000 What are we putting on display?

00:16:13.000 Why is it that Tokyo, New Delhi, Havana, Cuba, are safer than Washington, D.C.?

00:16:22.000 Substantially safer.

00:16:24.000 You can walk the streets of Tokyo at night.

00:16:26.000 You can walk the streets of Seoul, South Korea at night.

00:16:28.000 You can walk the streets of Kuala Lumpur.

00:16:31.000 You can walk the streets of Singapore.

00:16:34.000 But the fact that you cannot walk the streets of Washington, D.C. or New York City, or Chicago is an indictment and a failure of our ruling class.

00:16:43.000 Our ruling class has cared more about sending javelins and missiles to Ukraine while they have to walk over drug-overdosed bodies on the way to go make a vote on the Senate floor.

00:16:55.000 D.C. has long been ignored, and it is a perfect example of national decay, of collapse, of the lower morale.

00:17:03.000 Oh, it doesn't matter.

00:17:04.000 It does matter.

00:17:05.000 Roll in the tanks, bring in the drones, send in the Marines. 0.83

00:17:09.000 We're federalizing Washington, D.C.

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00:18:17.000 I want to play another piece of tape here of President Donald Trump announcing the takeover of Washington, D.C.

00:18:24.000 And understand this: you get what you put up with.

00:18:28.000 There are political issues you can control, and there are political issues you cannot control.

00:18:35.000 And what is most frustrating about the current American moment is that we are overwhelmingly met with political issues that we can control.

00:18:43.000 Our failure is an act of the will or a lack of the will when it comes to crime.

00:18:49.000 We saw this on the southern border.

00:18:51.000 All you had to do was have it make a decision that you wanted a border.

00:18:55.000 We were told by James Lankford from Oklahoma, well, you know, we need to have some bipartisan deal that allows 5,000 people a day to come across.

00:19:03.000 Wrong.

00:19:04.000 You need to have the willpower.

00:19:06.000 You need to dive deep and dig deep to have the fortitude, the wherewithal, the spine, the cojones, the chutzpah to achieve what you want to achieve.

00:19:20.000 And we've just put up with crime for the last 40 years because we're afraid of being called racist because, you know, youths are going to do youth things.

00:19:28.000 Crime is a choice.

00:19:29.000 Putting up with crime is a choice.

00:19:31.000 We don't have to live like this.

00:19:34.000 Let me repeat one of my core political philosophies.

00:19:37.000 This is not Republican or Democrat.

00:19:39.000 If you cannot walk the great American cities at night safely without having to look over your shoulder, then your political leaders should all be fired.

00:19:52.000 That ruling class has failed.

00:19:54.000 I don't care if they're Republican.

00:19:56.000 I don't care if they're Democrat.

00:19:58.000 Degradation is a choice.

00:20:00.000 And it's time for us to clean it up.

00:20:02.000 And the liberals, they have no idea how to respond to this. 0.99

00:20:05.000 Oh, Donald Trump's a racist. 0.99

00:20:07.000 Ant, that doesn't work anymore. 1.00

00:20:08.000 It's not 2016. 1.00

00:20:08.000 Oh, Donald Trump's a fascist. 1.00

00:20:09.000 Ant, that doesn't work anymore. 1.00

00:20:10.000 It's not 2020.

00:20:12.000 What new talking point do you have?

00:20:13.000 What is your objection to rolling in the tanks, bringing in the drones, sending the Marines?

00:20:20.000 What is your objection exactly?

00:20:21.000 Do you not want to live in a safer city?

00:20:24.000 Deep down, they're cheering for him, by the way.

00:20:26.000 Deep down, a lot of these libs actually want this to happen.

00:20:30.000 But on television, they're going to performatively say this is the wrong thing.

00:20:34.000 It's time for us to get aggressive on crime.

00:20:37.000 We need more people in jail.

00:20:40.000 Write that down.

00:20:41.000 We do not have enough people incarcerated in America.

00:20:44.000 We need mass incarceration.

00:20:46.000 People always say, oh, we have a mass incarceration problem.

00:20:49.000 We have an under-incarceration problem.

00:20:51.000 We just happen to be a very violent country.

00:20:53.000 Get over it.

00:20:54.000 Put them in jail for life.

00:20:57.000 If you're going to start shooting up schoolyards, you're going to start getting kids caught in crossfire.

00:21:04.000 A job of a political leader must be the safety of their citizens.

00:21:10.000 If you're a mayor of a major city, your job is to police the streets, to fix the streets and clean up the homeless.

00:21:17.000 And since Mario Bowser has not done her job in Washington, D.C., the tanks are going to be rolling.

00:21:24.000 Play Cut 309.

00:21:25.000 We're going to be removing homeless encampments from all over our parks, our beautiful, beautiful parks, which now a lot of people can't walk on.

00:21:35.000 They'd be very, they're very dirty, very got a lot of problems.

00:21:41.000 But we've already started that.

00:21:42.000 We're moving the encampments away, trying to take care of people, getting rid of the people from underpasses and public spaces from all over the city.

00:21:52.000 There are many places that they can go, and we're going to help them as much as you can help.

00:21:58.000 But they'll not be allowed to turn our capital into a wasteland.

00:22:02.000 Washington, D.C. has become a dumping ground for the third world and a safe haven for criminals. 1.00

00:22:07.000 That is our nation's capital.

00:22:09.000 We're not talking about the liberation of Toledo, Ohio, of course, which we should try to liberate all American cities.

00:22:14.000 This is not the liberation of Portland, which we should do.

00:22:17.000 This is our nation's capital.

00:22:19.000 And do you know how disgusting it is when I drive the city, the streets of D.C., and you pass the Saudi embassy, for example, big, beautiful building, and there's just homeless encampments all around it.

00:22:34.000 It's embarrassing.

00:22:35.000 So you have, basically, we have to accept that the sheiks of Qatar and the ruling class of Saudi Arabia and the prime minister of Japan, they see what we see, and it's humiliating. 0.79

00:22:48.000 They see this.

00:22:49.000 We're supposed to believe that these foreign leaders, you go down Embassy Row in Georgetown.

00:22:55.000 You go down Embassy Row in Washington, D.C., and you got one after, you got Spain, you got Portugal, you got Croatia, one after the other.

00:23:03.000 Boom, boom, boom.

00:23:05.000 They see the graffiti.

00:23:06.000 It's not a good look for a superpower.

00:23:08.000 And we're just supposed to put up with it because we're afraid of being called racist.

00:23:12.000 That dog doesn't hunt anymore.

00:23:14.000 This is President Donald Trump saying once we liberate D.C., and by the way, I guarantee the crime is going to go whoop.

00:23:20.000 It's going to go way down.

00:23:21.000 And then the media will say, oh, it's only going down because you brought in the military.

00:23:25.000 Exactly.

00:23:25.000 We need full military occupation of these cities until the crime desists.

00:23:30.000 Period.

00:23:31.000 We need a desisting of crime in our cities.

00:23:35.000 We're not going to put up with it.

00:23:36.000 I want to be able to walk magnificent mile in Chicago without having to look over my shoulder.

00:23:42.000 Do you know crime is so bad in Chicago that if you get a fender bender, there's a new thing that the youths are doing.

00:23:50.000 Remember, we have a big teenage problem of crime in our country that teenagers will bang the back of your car as a fenderbender.

00:23:58.000 You come out to go trade insurance and then they steal your car.

00:24:02.000 In Chicago, the new guidance is that if you get a fenderbender, drive to the nearest police station to trade insurance just in case they're there to steal your car.

00:24:13.000 It's a real thing.

00:24:14.000 It's happening all the time.

00:24:16.000 By the way, get a burner.

00:24:17.000 We advertise it all the time here on our program.

00:24:20.000 I don't want to live in that country.

00:24:22.000 You shouldn't either.

00:24:24.000 Simple fix.

00:24:25.000 You steal a car, 25 years in prison.

00:24:27.000 I don't care if you're a teenager.

00:24:29.000 I don't care if, well, I was raised without a dad.

00:24:32.000 Well, you're going to go meet a new dad in jail.

00:24:33.000 We're done.

00:24:34.000 We're not putting up with it.

00:24:35.000 We need more prisons and we need more prisoners.

00:24:37.000 Enough of this.

00:24:38.000 And I honestly, you know, I was once part of this whole prison reform thing.

00:24:42.000 I look back at it and I just cringe at myself.

00:24:44.000 It's a totally wrong premise.

00:24:46.000 We are soft on crime in this country.

00:24:49.000 We need discipline.

00:24:50.000 We need, honestly, we need the humiliation of criminals.

00:24:54.000 We need order.

00:24:55.000 You don't live in a nation if you can't walk the streets of San Francisco at night.

00:25:00.000 You don't live in a country when young teenage girls can't walk the streets of L.A. How is that a free society?

00:25:08.000 You are appeasing the criminals.

00:25:11.000 Stop coddling criminals because they happen to be a protected class.

00:25:15.000 We don't believe in protected classes anymore, by the way.

00:25:17.000 We're done with that.

00:25:18.000 Game over.

00:25:19.000 No more protected classes.

00:25:20.000 We are all citizens made of the image of God.

00:25:22.000 Oh, you're a protected class because, you know, a different skin color. 0.99

00:25:25.000 Ain't wrong.

00:25:26.000 That regime was defeated back in November.

00:25:29.000 That whole worldview was gone, over, done.

00:25:32.000 Kaput, Sayonara.

00:25:34.000 Instead, a new worldview has ascended, which is we're not going to make accommodations for criminals.

00:25:41.000 We're going through mass deportations. 0.98

00:25:43.000 If you're black and you commit a crime, you go to jail. 0.99

00:25:46.000 If you're white and you commit a crime, you go to jail. 0.98

00:25:48.000 Human equality doesn't matter. 1.00

00:25:50.000 Doesn't matter your background.

00:25:52.000 We are all treated equal under the law, and that is a biblical principle.

00:25:56.000 So once we liberate Washington, D.C., and we will liberate it.

00:26:00.000 Now, again, I want to say President Donald Trump, he's got to go play to win here.

00:26:04.000 The one piece of caution we'd have to say is that if we just kind of do this symbolically, we will lose.

00:26:11.000 The criminals will win.

00:26:12.000 We got to go hard.

00:26:13.000 We got to go big league.

00:26:15.000 We're talking National Guard, tanks, every street, you need military.

00:26:21.000 And if people are afraid, oh, well, Donald Trump is a fascist because he's bringing in the military.

00:26:25.000 Well, you're an anarchist.

00:26:27.000 We're not fascist.

00:26:28.000 We're ordered.

00:26:29.000 Call them a name right back.

00:26:30.000 You're an anarchist.

00:26:31.000 You want the criminals, the thugs, the gang members, and the worst of society to run the streets of D.C. We're not going to put up with it.

00:26:38.000 By the way, spare me the lecture.

00:26:41.000 You guys militarized Washington, D.C. after January 6th, but you wouldn't move them a couple blocks north to the criminals because you acted as if, oh, all the people on January 6th are the greatest threat ever because they went in with a pocket constitution to go say a prayer in the U.S. Capitol.

00:27:02.000 Once we liberate D.C., you better believe it.

00:27:05.000 Chicago, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco, we got a big military.

00:27:11.000 We should be willing to use it.

00:27:12.000 Play Cup 316.

00:27:14.000 And we're going to have the same thing here.

00:27:17.000 But then I'm going to look at New York in a little while.

00:27:20.000 Let's do this.

00:27:20.000 Let's do this together.

00:27:22.000 Let's see.

00:27:22.000 It's going to go pretty quickly.

00:27:24.000 And if we need to, we're going to do the same thing in Chicago, which is a disaster. 0.78

00:27:29.000 We have a mayor there who's totally incompetent. 0.99

00:27:32.000 He's an incompetent man. 0.99

00:27:34.000 And we have an incompetent governor there. 1.00

00:27:37.000 Pritzker's an incompetent. 0.96

00:27:39.000 His family threw him out of the business. 0.98

00:27:41.000 And he ran for governor.

00:27:44.000 And now I understand he wants to be president.

00:27:46.000 But I noticed he lost a little weight.

00:27:48.000 So maybe he has a chance.

00:27:49.000 You know, you never know what happens. 0.96

00:27:51.000 But Pritzker's a gross incompetent guy, thrown out of the family business.

00:27:56.000 J.B. Pritzker was born on third and thought he hit a triple. 0.96

00:28:00.000 If your city is a third-world hellhole, look at that.

00:28:04.000 He's a mile-wide, J.B. Pritzker.

00:28:07.000 I always lie, I'm going to run for president.

00:28:09.000 As I say commonly, I would love to see that.

00:28:13.000 The running part.

00:28:16.000 We need an El Salvadorian reset. 0.92

00:28:17.000 El Salvador went from the most dangerous country in the Western Hemisphere to one of the safest, if not the safest.

00:28:24.000 Crime is a choice.

00:28:25.000 We are deciding and choosing to put up with it.

00:28:28.000 We are deciding and choosing to allow our streets to be littered with criminals and the worst of society.

00:28:36.000 And President Donald Trump is saying no more.

00:28:38.000 He is exercising his willpower.

00:28:41.000 And Brandon Johnson, Muriel Bowser, Karen Bass, Mamdani, if he's going to be the next mayor of New York City, watch out.

00:28:50.000 This is what we are elected to do.

00:28:52.000 Crime is a choice.

00:28:54.000 And we want the streets of America to be as clean as Tokyo.

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00:30:02.000 I get called a lot of things.

00:30:03.000 The one thing I wish people would call me more is an entrepreneur or a builder.

00:30:09.000 And I got to give credit to this one young lady. 1.00

00:30:12.000 She is very annoying. 1.00

00:30:13.000 She follows me around the country. 1.00

00:30:15.000 She sends her little clowns and her trolls and her circus acts and her court gestures at all of our events from the UNF America thing. 0.95

00:30:22.000 But she is obsessed with me.

00:30:24.000 However, she has more so than most accurately depicted what we've been able to do here because she does describe us as a builder.

00:30:36.000 Now, this is a former Bernie Sanders type. 1.00

00:30:38.000 She's got very crass language. 1.00

00:30:42.000 She's got quite a way to herself that is unappealing. 1.00

00:30:45.000 I mean, if you look at her, you're like, whoa, give me the American Eagle ad back.

00:30:50.000 Like, I don't want that.

00:30:51.000 Please.

00:30:51.000 More American Eagle, less this, please.

00:30:54.000 Like, that's not what I want.

00:30:55.000 I want the sorority videos, not this.

00:30:58.000 And, but to her credit, she has accurately diagnosed the problem.

00:31:04.000 And she is a girl for the record.

00:31:07.000 I have no reason not to believe it.

00:31:08.000 Jesse was kind of playing with words here.

00:31:14.000 So Jesse Waters did a summary of this.

00:31:19.000 I wish we had more of this CNN interview, but this is some of the best parts.

00:31:22.000 Where CNN dispatched one of their reporters who looks like Ruben Gallego.

00:31:26.000 I don't know why Ruben Gallego is doing street interviews for CNN, but he's doing side work.

00:31:33.000 So, you know, dollar store Ruben Gallego basically was doing interviews for CNN at our Student Action Summit.

00:31:41.000 And we knew that this whole story was going to populate, which is, oh, wow, Charlie's so successful and Turning Point's so successful.

00:31:49.000 And therefore, the left is trying to infiltrate a go.

00:31:52.000 We knew the story was coming.

00:31:53.000 And Jesse Waters caught on to it.

00:31:55.000 Play Cut 258.

00:31:57.000 Crats are leaderless.

00:31:58.000 Their new plan, create a transgender Charlie Kirk. 0.96

00:32:02.000 I think that, you know, as much as I disagree with Charlie Kirk, I believe that what he's doing has worked.

00:32:08.000 And that's why I'm here to replicate what he's doing.

00:32:11.000 I'm not here to, you know, disrupt Charlie Kirk's events.

00:32:14.000 I'm here to say that there are alternative ideas and that we need to build the same thing that he has because he is good at it.

00:32:20.000 Well, we are good at it and because we build.

00:32:22.000 You see, that's what people miss.

00:32:24.000 People think it's just the campus thing or just this program.

00:32:27.000 This is two hours my day.

00:32:28.000 And then I go to the day job of managing a thousand people and we have to raise $100 million a year and we have 500,000 donors.

00:32:35.000 People say, oh, you know, if I was just supported by wealthy people, that's part of it.

00:32:39.000 We're very thankful to our wealthy contributors and amazing donors.

00:32:42.000 But it's also the 500,000 people that donate to us.

00:32:46.000 Jesse Waters continues, Play Cut 259.

00:32:49.000 The DNC, they're already trying to coup trans Charlie.

00:32:54.000 Is the DNC supporting this?

00:32:56.000 No, not currently.

00:32:57.000 Why not?

00:32:59.000 If Ken Martin's watching this, text me back.

00:33:03.000 But really, I mean, I think it's disappointing that we haven't been able to see the DNC really get off the ground since the election because I think a lot of things have happened internally that have been distractions to the actual ground game that we need right now.

00:33:15.000 There are so many more clips from that CNN exchange that we could mine.

00:33:20.000 But I love this.

00:33:22.000 About time that the left realizes and wakes up that while you guys have been ridiculing us, we've been building.

00:33:29.000 As we like to say at Turning Point USA, we did not come up with this, but Sun Tzu did.

00:33:32.000 No, he didn't.

00:33:33.000 But that's okay.

00:33:33.000 It's wrongly attributed to Sun Tzu, but that's fine.

00:33:35.000 It's hilarious.

00:33:36.000 First, they ignore you.

00:33:40.000 Then they laugh at you.

00:33:42.000 Then they fight you.

00:33:44.000 And then you win.

00:33:45.000 I remember the ignoring phase.

00:33:47.000 Ah, it's nothing.

00:33:48.000 This is Charlie.

00:33:49.000 He's nothing.

00:33:49.000 Forget him.

00:33:50.000 And then I remember the laughter.

00:33:52.000 Oh, it's so funny.

00:33:53.000 Look at Turning Point.

00:33:54.000 What do they think they're doing?

00:33:54.000 Now, many of those people are applying for jobs from us for the record.

00:33:58.000 And then the fighting.

00:34:00.000 Oh, we loved the fighting.

00:34:01.000 And then the victory.

00:34:02.000 But look, it goes in cycles.

00:34:04.000 But for Z, I think that's her name.

00:34:07.000 Is her name Z, prominently profiled on CNN?

00:34:11.000 She seems that she actually gets it more than most.

00:34:15.000 Where she's like, hey, guys, this guy's awful, but he's built something.

00:34:21.000 And again, I haven't built anything.

00:34:22.000 We have built it at Turning Point USA.

00:34:24.000 Z Cohen Sanchez for the record.

00:34:27.000 You will not be seeing her in American Eagle ad anytime soon.

00:34:30.000 But Z Cohen Sanchez, she's onto something.

00:34:35.000 She's onto something very powerful, which is the left struggles to build anything.

00:34:40.000 And by the way, she had her own little counterfeit clown show back in the spring and it fell apart. 0.62

00:34:45.000 Why?

00:34:45.000 Because they had a Oppression Olympics woke falling apart because someone did microaggressions that they didn't like and the whole thing fell apart.

00:34:53.000 People like to talk about the platform we built, but they don't know about the chapters, the high school groups, the events.

00:34:59.000 A lot of people want to do the stuff we do, but they don't want to work as hard as we worked.

00:35:03.000 300 days of travel a year for a decade straight, 3,000 days on the road.

00:35:09.000 You can never really relax.

00:35:10.000 Well, at least when it's not on the Sabbath.

00:35:12.000 Good luck.

00:35:13.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:35:14.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:35:17.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.

00:35:21.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - August 11, 2025

Taking Back D.C., Then Texas, Then America

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