The Charlie Kirk Show - The Antichrist Administration with Benny Johnson and Simcha Rothman

00:00:00.000 Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, Benny Johnson joins us to talk about East Palestine Garland and a spiritual war.

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.

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00:00:08.000 It's international news.

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00:01:17.000 So many topics to cover, and no better person, very serious person, never laughs or makes a joke.

00:01:24.000 Benny Johnson joins us.

00:01:26.000 We've done some fun things together.

00:01:27.000 Benny has really been a critical ingredient to Turning Point USA's explosive trajectory over the last couple of years.

00:01:35.000 And he's the host of the Benny Show.

00:01:37.000 And Benny gets very fired up and is incredibly effective and generous, by the way, giving a lot of money to the residents East Palestine.

00:01:43.000 Benny, why don't you tell our audience about that as we get started?

00:01:46.000 You went to East Palestine and actually gave money to the residents there.

00:01:49.000 Tell us about it.

00:01:50.000 So I gave nothing.

00:01:52.000 I gave merely the social media monetization that came from all of you watching our program, subscribing to our show every single morning.

00:02:03.000 And so we thank you.

00:02:04.000 We simply gave away our revenue for that month to the people of East Palestine because, well, it's really evil to monopolize and monetize someone's pain and then do nothing for them, I think.

00:02:15.000 And so based on the teachings of Jesus Christ and based on being just a simple Christian, not trying to start a movement or a church here or anything, just trying to do what God asked us to do, which is to be light unto the world, to be salt and light.

00:02:28.000 And those people, man, they've gotten plenty of salt.

00:02:30.000 They need some light.

00:02:31.000 And so we went there to help out the 20 people closest to the burn, the toxic burn.

00:02:36.000 One of the men who I walked up to his doorstep, knocked on his door, handed him the envelope.

00:02:40.000 He said, come on back.

00:02:41.000 I want to show you something.

00:02:42.000 And behind his house, Charlie, was the wreckage of the train, smoldering, noxious, burning to the eyes.

00:02:49.000 And it was the entire thing was bent open like it was an Avengers movie, like it was a Marvel movie, right?

00:02:54.000 It was like the train had melted in his backyard.

00:02:58.000 And he has to live with that.

00:02:59.000 He's a poor working class American. 1.00

00:03:01.000 He doesn't have anywhere to go and no one's helping him.

00:03:04.000 The EPA is now admitting, let's play this tape here.

00:03:07.000 They wouldn't allow his kids anywhere near the streams.

00:03:11.000 It's interesting because he probably is able to go back to his regional office or Washington, D.C. Let's play Cut 57.

00:03:17.000 Administrator, let me ask you real quick.

00:03:19.000 Would you allow your children to touch the water?

00:03:22.000 We've seen the rainbow sheen.

00:03:24.000 We've seen all these chemicals popping up from the bottom of the streams that these kids used to play in.

00:03:29.000 Would you allow your kids anywhere close to these streams right now?

00:03:33.000 I would not.

00:03:34.000 I'm a father of a nine-year-old.

00:03:36.000 I think we have to all agree that we wish this accident didn't occur.

00:03:40.000 The accident occurred, and as a result, some of our creeks and our streams have pollution in them.

00:03:47.000 Benny?

00:03:48.000 So your father, Charlie, I'm father.

00:03:52.000 Why is it okay for the children of East Palestine to play inside of these putrid springs? 1.00

00:03:58.000 Why does it take President Trump to come there and deliver Trump water, tens of thousands of pounds of goods, and the federal government can't spend a dime there?

00:04:07.000 Joe Biden hasn't been.

00:04:09.000 Joe Biden can't be spared to go there for a photo op.

00:04:12.000 It's 200 miles from Washington, D.C. How fast would that be in Air Force One?

00:04:15.000 Charlie, you've been on Air Force One with the F-22 Raptors plowing the way for you.

00:04:19.000 How quickly would the Air Force One be able to get to East Palestinians?

00:04:22.000 The cool thing about being on Air Force One is you don't have to wait for air traffic control.

00:04:25.000 They wait for you.

00:04:26.000 So yeah.

00:04:27.000 And the taxi takeoff and landing, it is like doors closed, takeoff.

00:04:31.000 But yeah, I mean, it's like 35 minutes.

00:04:33.000 Maybe.

00:04:35.000 So go there.

00:04:36.000 You can be back in time for applesauce and Matlock, right?

00:04:39.000 And so why not?

00:04:41.000 But it's cruel.

00:04:42.000 Instead, geographically, Joe Biden went to the absolute polar opposite end of the planet, which is Kiev.

00:04:50.000 You can't actually get farther away from East Palestinian. 1.00

00:04:52.000 These treasured constituents of Ukraine.

00:04:54.000 The people that I hate to be so sinister about this, the people that have paid his family quite a lot of money.

00:05:00.000 That's a fact.

00:05:01.000 Ukraine has been very good to the Biden family.

00:05:03.000 So, Benny, shifting gears here a little bit.

00:05:06.000 You've been on top of this story.

00:05:07.000 I haven't touched it or covered it at all.

00:05:09.000 We've been talking about a lot of campus stuff, and you know this to great detail and you've had some wonderful takes on it.

00:05:14.000 The Garland hearing.

00:05:15.000 Benny, what happened in the Garland hearing?

00:05:17.000 So the public beating has not gone out of style, Charlie.

00:05:21.000 It used to be tar and feather.

00:05:23.000 It used to be running out of town on the rails in the old colonial days.

00:05:27.000 For some odd reason, we got rid of the stocks in the middle of the city.

00:05:30.000 But the public beating exists today.

00:05:32.000 It just exists in the form of the congressional hearing.

00:05:35.000 And Republicans delivered bombshell after blow after pistol whipping to Merrick Garland.

00:05:43.000 And that 70-year-old man deserved it.

00:05:44.000 That little Keebler elf had his feet held to the fire and not just the fires that cooked the cookies inside of the tree that he lives in making cookies.

00:05:52.000 He got burned yesterday.

00:05:53.000 And it was bad.

00:05:54.000 Listen, there was not a single stone left unturned.

00:05:57.000 Hunter Biden, Joe Biden attacking Catholics, attacking Christians.

00:06:01.000 I think those is probably one of the harshest lines of questioning by Josh Hawley.

00:06:06.000 Ted Cruz went after.

00:06:07.000 Yep.

00:06:08.000 Yep.

00:06:08.000 Ted Cruz went after Kavanaugh.

00:06:09.000 The Supreme Court justices being threatened. 0.85

00:06:11.000 A man wandering through Brett Kavanaugh's neighborhood with full tactical gear on, ready to kill him, admittedly.

00:06:18.000 And the Justice Department doing absolutely nothing.

00:06:20.000 So if you're a Mima and you have a 25 cent American flag and the Capitol police usher you into the U.S. Capitol, you get put on the terrorist watch list and you spend the rest of your life in jail. 0.96

00:06:29.000 But if you are a man kitted out in tactical gear with deadly weapons and you go up to kill a Supreme Court justice that was appointed by President Trump, you get a ticket to the chocolate factory.

00:06:41.000 Okay. 0.65

00:06:41.000 You get to go to the candy shop. 0.65

00:06:43.000 This is important.

00:06:44.000 And look, the more laws, the less justice.

00:06:46.000 So Garland is choosing what laws to enforce based on his own political revenge. 0.99

00:06:51.000 Look, Merrick Garland is a craven old man who is bitter. 0.97

00:06:54.000 He's bitter he never became a Supreme Court justice. 0.99

00:06:56.000 He's bitter that that seat remained open.

00:06:59.000 Remember, Barack Obama put Garland up for that seat.

00:07:02.000 And the turtle, to his great credit, Mitch McConnell, refused to put it up for vote.

00:07:06.000 It was one of the great things that the parliamentarian of the Senate from Kentucky ever did, and he does deserve credit for it.

00:07:12.000 And we won that shock election in 16 and Gorsuch filled the seat that Garland wanted.

00:07:16.000 Let's play Police Cut 88.

00:07:18.000 So as the committee well knows from my confirmation hearing, I promised to leave the matter of Hunter Biden in the hands of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, who was appointed in the previous administration.

00:07:32.000 So any information like that should have gone or should or should have gone to that U.S. attorney's offices and the FBI squad that's working with him.

00:07:42.000 I have pledged not to interfere with that investigation, and I have carried through on my pledge.

00:07:49.000 I mean, Benny, I want to play another piece of tape here between Chuck Grassley, who I like, even though he's not right on everything.

00:07:57.000 But he's asking Garland, play cut 90.

00:08:01.000 If the Justice Department received information that foreign persons had evidence of improper or unlawful financial payment paid to elected officials or other politically exposed persons, and those payments may have influenced policy decisions, would that pose a national security concern and demand a full investigation?

00:08:27.000 If I follow the question exactly right, if it's an agent of a foreign government asking someone and paying someone to do things to support that foreign government in secret, yes, I definitely think that would be a national security problem.

00:08:41.000 Benny Riff, one minute.

00:08:43.000 So he's got Merrick Garland on the record saying that Joe Biden's a foreign agent.

00:08:48.000 I mean, I don't even need a minute.

00:08:50.000 That's the headline there.

00:08:51.000 Joe Biden's a foreign agent, right?

00:08:53.000 So if you, so Merrick Garland's saying if you accepted money from a foreign government, then you need to be considered a foreign agent.

00:08:58.000 So our president is a foreign agent of Ukraine, a foreign agent of Russia, a foreign agent of Tajikistan, and a foreign agent of China.

00:09:04.000 So you can lump all that together and take it to the polls with you.

00:09:08.000 That's what it is.

00:09:09.000 Carry it in a bucket.

00:09:10.000 I don't care what tune you sing.

00:09:11.000 That's what Merrick Garland just admitted.

00:09:12.000 And he also said on the record that he's going to allow prosecution of Hunter Biden to go forward.

00:09:17.000 And he's going to accept the terms of the prosecution from the District Attorney of Delaware.

00:09:22.000 So very big.

00:09:24.000 That's well summarized, Benny.

00:09:25.000 In the next segment that we have together, I want to play the pieces of tape where Merrick Garland was asked, I was mocked, I was ridiculed, Benny, when I just kind of said on our program a couple weeks ago, I said the feds probably have informants going to mass and the left went crazy.

00:09:39.000 Oh, how dare you say that?

00:09:40.000 And Merrick Garland was asked that question yesterday: Hey, are there any FBI agents undercover going to Latin Mass?

00:09:47.000 And he refused to answer.

00:09:49.000 We're going to play that tape.

00:09:50.000 You're a man of faith, and so am I, Benny.

00:09:52.000 This beyond crosses the line.

00:09:54.000 This is serious.

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00:10:03.000 I could say that from many years of being in the trenches and the foxholes with Benny.

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00:11:22.000 Is the FBI deploying undercover agents to the mass service near you?

00:11:27.000 Play cut 92.

00:11:29.000 I notice a pattern, though.

00:11:31.000 The FBI field office in Richmond on the 23rd of January of this year issued a memorandum in which they advocated for, and I quote, the exploration of new avenues for tripwire and source development against traditionalist Catholics, it's their language, including those who favor the Latin Mass.

00:11:52.000 Attorney General, are you cultivating sources and spies in Latin Mass parishes and other Catholic parishes around the country?

00:11:59.000 The Justice Department does not do that.

00:12:01.000 It does not do investigations based on religion.

00:12:04.000 I saw the document you have.

00:12:06.000 It's appalling.

00:12:07.000 It's appalling.

00:12:09.000 Benny, do you believe him?

00:12:11.000 Okay, so one, I would believe you if you put any action to your words.

00:12:16.000 You're going to call it appalling.

00:12:17.000 That's pretty harsh word.

00:12:19.000 You were judged for a very long time, Merrick Garland.

00:12:22.000 So you know the power of the English language.

00:12:24.000 If it's actually appalling, well, then why don't you deliver some crusades level justice here and heads rolling? 0.93

00:12:30.000 Yeah, how many people have been fired for the racist against somebody or if you misgendered somebody, well, damn it, they would be out on a street corner singing a tune, busking. 0.87

00:12:44.000 You would not have a job. 0.98

00:12:46.000 You would be done.

00:12:47.000 Your career would be finished.

00:12:48.000 You would have to leave.

00:12:49.000 You would have to go live on Epstein Island. 0.90

00:12:51.000 But no, no.

00:12:52.000 Now, if, you know, nobody, no, there's been no consequences.

00:12:55.000 So, you know, I would ask you if you actually cared about this, if you cared about Christians, if you cared about Latin Mass, prove it. 0.96

00:13:01.000 Prove it. 0.94

00:13:01.000 Fire someone. 0.94

00:13:02.000 Let the blood, like, like, like, let the blood, let the blood flow, right, metaphorically, in the Justice Department for the people who did this.

00:13:10.000 But they won't do it.

00:13:11.000 They won't do it because they actually agree with this.

00:13:13.000 They were shocked that they got found out and that this is the most anti-Christian administration in American history.

00:13:19.000 This is the Antichrist administration. 0.85

00:13:20.000 They are.

00:13:21.000 And we know that because we know that the Antichrist is going to attack the church.

00:13:25.000 Now, I'm not God.

00:13:26.000 I'm not saying that this is the book of Revelation playing out before us, but attacks on the church are increasing.

00:13:31.000 The first thing they shut down, Charlie, is the church during COVID.

00:13:34.000 They were thrilled.

00:13:34.000 They ran.

00:13:35.000 They sprinted to shut down the church.

00:13:37.000 They were so thrilled about it.

00:13:39.000 Stories about how you could get COVID by choirs singing in the church.

00:13:42.000 That was the first thing to hit the presses.

00:13:44.000 And now, under the Biden administration, they are going after Latin Mass so that Christians can have connections to our ancestors and Christendom.

00:13:54.000 That's why they're attacking Latin Mass. 0.98

00:13:56.000 And just a final note here, just a final note here.

00:13:58.000 The Pope died just a couple weeks ago, Pope Ratzinger.

00:14:01.000 And his only request was that Joe Biden didn't come to his funeral.

00:14:07.000 That's real.

00:14:08.000 So why exactly?

00:14:09.000 Why pray tell is that?

00:14:11.000 If these people are so Catholic and so Christian. 0.91

00:14:14.000 Let's play Cut 93.

00:14:16.000 Karine Jean-Pierre not answering what the Catholic administration is or is not doing of Joe Biden.

00:14:24.000 Joe Biden says he's a Catholic.

00:14:26.000 Play cut 93.

00:14:29.000 Several attorneys general have written a letter and they say, quote, anti-Catholic bigotry appears to be festering in the FBI.

00:14:37.000 And the Bureau is treating Catholics as potential terrorists because of their beliefs.

00:14:42.000 Again, they wrote that in reaction to that leaked document.

00:14:44.000 So my question is, is the president aware of that document?

00:14:47.000 And what would he tell Catholics seeing these headlines who might be worried they're coming after us, the feds, because of our faith?

00:14:53.000 So I, look, I have not seen this leaked document.

00:14:56.000 I've not spoken to the president.

00:14:57.000 I haven't seen it, so therefore I haven't spoken to the president about it.

00:14:59.000 So I just don't want to get ahead of that.

00:15:02.000 We can look at it eventually and get it.

00:15:04.000 Happy to.

00:15:04.000 Okay.

00:15:06.000 She is without a doubt the worst press secretary in American history because she was chosen for characteristics that aren't competency or merit.

00:15:14.000 It was a diversity choice.

00:15:16.000 But Benny, I mean, this is a real crusade, no pun intended, against Christians, one minute remaining. 0.96

00:15:23.000 Well, yeah, I mean, again, if you were actual Christians, if you were actual Christians, let's just go to the basics here.

00:15:30.000 Are you treating all men equal?

00:15:32.000 Are you living by the standard that all men are created equal by God and deserve respect on this earth?

00:15:38.000 Are you treating all life equally?

00:15:40.000 Or are you the most radical pro-abortion frothing at the mouse demonic administration that we've ever seen?

00:15:45.000 Well, the answer to that is pretty plain.

00:15:48.000 You can see it in the policy.

00:15:50.000 They're not only in favor of abortion up to the point of birth, they're in favor of abortion after birth, if you're to believe Ralph Northam.

00:15:57.000 So, no, the answer is no, you know, and we're not, I'm not going to let you sit here and desecrate my church and my cross and my faith if you can't even hold up the simple tenets of life has value and men are created equal.

00:16:13.000 If you can't say that, and the left cannot say that, they cannot say those things, then you have to call it out for what it is.

00:16:21.000 You have to call out Satanists, you have to call out demons, and you have to call out the agents against the church and call them out by name.

00:16:28.000 Christ asks us to do this and to be bold.

00:16:30.000 Check out the Benny show, everybody.

00:16:32.000 Benny, God bless you, men.

00:16:34.000 Thank you so much.

00:16:34.000 Thanks, Charlie.

00:16:38.000 Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here.

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00:17:40.000 There's a lot of confusion about what's happening in Israel right now.

00:17:45.000 And joining us is a member of the Knesset, chairman of the Law and Justice Committee, Simka Rothman, joins us to help explain what is going on in Israel.

00:17:55.000 Simka, thank you so much for joining the program and educate our audience of what is happening in the Knesset.

00:18:02.000 What is the issue you're trying to address?

00:18:04.000 The floor is yours.

00:18:06.000 Thank you for having me.

00:18:08.000 And it's very hard to explain different systems.

00:18:13.000 Everything looks strange when you try to explain to people in Israel what's going on in the U.S. or in Canada or in Britain or something.

00:18:21.000 Everything is different, but I will try and do my best.

00:18:26.000 The system in Israel, we basically want to try to bring it closer to the American system.

00:18:33.000 In the U.S., judges are appointed in the states, sometimes elections, sometimes a different method for the federal system.

00:18:42.000 It's the president and the senate are involved.

00:18:45.000 In Israel, we have a system.

00:18:47.000 The judges are basically selecting themselves.

00:18:50.000 It's created a big problem.

00:18:52.000 They have a veto power who will get into the Supreme Court that create ever-growing distance between where the public is and where the court is.

00:19:04.000 It creates a self-appointing, self-perpetuating court.

00:19:07.000 It creates a very activist court.

00:19:10.000 And that needs to change.

00:19:11.000 And we want a system that gives the ability for the elected officials of Israel to influence the way the court is built.

00:19:20.000 So it's a committee.

00:19:22.000 I can get into details if it's more of an interest.

00:19:25.000 But the goal is that in Israel, like basically almost any other democratic country in the world, the judges will be selected by the people or by the people representatives.

00:19:36.000 That's one key part of the reform.

00:19:40.000 And I think that's the easiest part to explain to people in the US because that's the way it works all over.

00:19:47.000 More complicated is what we are talking about.

00:19:52.000 When you mentioned my title, you said that I am the chair of the law and justice committee in the Knesset.

00:20:03.000 But another part of the name of the committee I'm the chair of is the Constitution Committee.

00:20:08.000 This committee is supposed to create the Constitution for Israel, but in Israel, we don't have a constitution, even though it's a work in progress for the last, basically since the founding of the state of Israel.

00:20:23.000 We don't have a constitution.

00:20:25.000 The Knesset, our parliament, never created a constitution, never brought it to the public for a referendum or something.

00:20:34.000 So basically, what we have is a constitution, a quasi-constitution that was created by the court, whatever in it decided by the court, and the court, based on his own jurisprudence, basically say this law is unconstitutional.

00:20:50.000 This law is constitutional.

00:20:52.000 And when you have this and combine it with the way we appoint our judges, you basically have what Justice Posner said, you have a judicial boutian, you have a court that rules the country without ever being elected. 0.82

00:21:09.000 So we need the second parties to address this and to create that the court will only be able to cancel laws in a very special majority, only based on something that is written in the basic laws, not about some vague jurisprudence.

00:21:24.000 And the Knesset, which has the power to create the basic laws to begin with, will have the ability to override court and tell the court, listen, you try to explain to us what the basic law means.

00:21:38.000 We legislate them.

00:21:39.000 We know better than you what it means and we want to make it clear in the legislation.

00:21:45.000 It's not the system that is so easy to understand when you don't have a constitution, but countries without the constitution, like the Great Britain or New Zealand, or in some parts, even Canada has kind of this override mechanism where the court cannot cancel laws.

00:21:59.000 That's what we try to do.

00:22:01.000 So right now in Israel, there's mass protests, tens of thousands of people.

00:22:06.000 They're acting like this is the end of Israel.

00:22:09.000 So why the outrage and the reaction for something that seems so reasonable?

00:22:14.000 Help explain it to our audience.

00:22:18.000 So it's basically a matter of the power balance.

00:22:23.000 Just imagine, I'll try to make it again for American audience.

00:22:29.000 Just imagine you would have a court that was appointed by the Democrats.

00:22:37.000 And even though the Republicans are in power for 30 years or for 40 years, the judges are still electing themselves.

00:22:46.000 So you have a country that goes very much to one side and the court, you cannot change it.

00:22:54.000 So of course, the Democrats, the minority, will be very happy with this because they will have a court that makes sure that whatever, doesn't matter what the public choose, their view stays in power.

00:23:08.000 So they are happy about it.

00:23:10.000 They are fine.

00:23:11.000 The majority, the Republicans, will say, wow, we have to reform and change the way we elect our judges.

00:23:17.000 That would be the case.

00:23:18.000 So in Israel, some parts, namely the left in Israel, which is a small part, Israel is compared to the world, is a very conservative country, very strong family values, national security values.

00:23:35.000 In the public, the right is very strong in Israel.

00:23:42.000 But the court was appointed way before and is appointing himself.

00:23:47.000 So the distance is growing.

00:23:48.000 So the people you see demonstrating, most of them are people who voted for the left, some of them even to parties that never passed the threshold.

00:23:58.000 So they're not represented in the net.

00:24:01.000 And they say for many years we thought that even if we lose elections, we stay in power.

00:24:06.000 Now we're actually going to lose the extra, the excessive power that our views had.

00:24:12.000 So they are not happy about it.

00:24:14.000 But the majority of the public in Israel, in amazing numbers, supports the reform.

00:24:20.000 Of course, some of them, me included, say it's better to pass it with members from both sides of the aisle, members from the coalition and the opposition in Israel.

00:24:31.000 That's the reason why when I put the legislation forward, I did not choose my dreams.

00:24:39.000 I chose exactly some legislation that was supported and voted on by members of the opposition just a year ago.

00:24:48.000 So I said, I want exactly what you proposed a year ago so we can get to some middle ground.

00:24:54.000 Of course, politics is politics.

00:24:56.000 So some of the people basically voted against the law that they voted for it just a year ago.

00:25:03.000 But I guess that's true all over the world.

00:25:05.000 So just in closing here, how do you see this concluding?

00:25:09.000 Because you guys do have the consensus and the power despite all the protests.

00:25:14.000 So do you believe that this will simmer down and you'll inevitably be successful?

00:25:20.000 So first, as you said, we have the political majority to pass it without ever trying to negotiate with the opposition.

00:25:28.000 But despite this, we are reaching out for the opposition.

00:25:33.000 We don't pass it in fast pace.

00:25:39.000 We are doing it to try to get the opposition on board.

00:25:43.000 I hope it's better for any reform to pass with multi-partisan support.

00:25:51.000 So that's what I try to do.

00:25:53.000 But if not, we will pass it with the majorities that the government have.

00:25:57.000 And the support in the streets, there was the riots or the demonstrations, but the support, when I walk the street, the majority of the public supports it.

00:26:09.000 You see it, we saw it on the election, so it will pass.

00:26:13.000 And I hope Israel will be closer to other democracies in the world.

00:26:18.000 And we want to be a country ruled by its justices.

00:26:22.000 Well, you did a wonderful job explaining this.

00:26:24.000 Simca, I hope to meet you soon in Israel.

00:26:27.000 And if you ever in the States, let us know.

00:26:29.000 And it seems you are fighting for something that is very reasonable and popular.

00:26:34.000 And so don't let the activists get to you.

00:26:36.000 Thank you so much.

00:26:38.000 Thank you.

00:26:38.000 Thank you very much.

00:26:40.000 Everybody, email us freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:26:42.000 It's fascinating to connect what we just learned there to what I learned from Jair Bolsinaro a couple of weeks ago.

00:26:50.000 We did that interview in Miami.

00:26:52.000 It seems that what's happened in Brazil is very similar to Israel, where you have these judges with extraordinary authority.

00:27:00.000 It was either Hamilton or Madison.

00:27:02.000 Actually, you know what?

00:27:03.000 It might have been John Jay because he was a judge himself.

00:27:05.000 He was the first Supreme Court justice of America.

00:27:08.000 He warned about an unaccountable judicial branch.

00:27:11.000 They talked about that at length.

00:27:12.000 I'll find the Federalist Paper.

00:27:14.000 And there were some really powerful quotes where when they set up the structure of the United States Constitution, they kept in mind that the judicial branch cannot be superior to the executive or the legislative.

00:27:26.000 They must be in harmony with one another, equal branches.

00:27:31.000 Otherwise, it can go completely off the rails.

00:27:33.000 And that's what's happening in Israel, happening in Brazil.

00:27:35.000 And the left, they're able to infiltrate that.

00:27:38.000 If we're able to find Scalia's quote on the structure of the Constitution, and for Simka to say that they don't even have a Constitution in Israel, that's eye-opening for me.

00:27:48.000 Hamilton talked about it in Federalist 78 and Federalist 81.

00:27:52.000 The Federalist Papers were at the time anonymously written newspaper articles in New York defending the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

00:27:59.000 They were the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers, published under the name of Publius.

00:28:03.000 But later we learned, obviously, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, we have a picture of James Madison here, who is really the father of the U.S. Constitution, and John Jay were the three co-authors of the Federalist Paper.

00:28:13.000 I think there's 108 of them or 115, something like that.

00:28:16.000 But they talk about basically why they need a judicial branch, and they talk, it's really interesting.

00:28:21.000 In Federalist 81, Alexander Hamilton pushes back against this argument where some people say, well, why do we need a judicial branch at all?

00:28:28.000 Why don't you just let the legislature check themselves?

00:28:32.000 He says, no, no, no, that's not enough.

00:28:34.000 You do need its own place.

00:28:36.000 But at the same time, you cannot allow them to be extrajudicial.

00:28:40.000 Publius then made the famous claim that the judiciary will, quote, always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution.

00:28:46.000 It may truly be said to have neither force nor will, but merely judgment, as quote, the weakest of the three departments of power, it needs to be fortified, needs to be for had fortification.

00:28:56.000 And the reason that it's the weakest of all the branches because of the structure it set up.

00:29:01.000 This is not the case in Israel, Brazil.

00:29:02.000 That's what's so interesting.

00:29:03.000 It's the opposite.

00:29:04.000 It's the most powerful of all the branches.

00:29:06.000 God bless our founding fathers for seeing that problem before it ever manifested.

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00:30:11.000 When I was on campus yesterday, we spent probably 40 minutes talking about Ukraine and Russia.

00:30:16.000 And the kids there, they knew their stuff.

00:30:19.000 I shouldn't call them kids.

00:30:20.000 The students there, they knew their stuff to their credit, but they were very, very pro sending weapons, support to Ukraine, like extraordinarily.

00:30:31.000 And I did ask them at some point, I said, are you guys getting this from your professor?

00:30:34.000 He said, oh, no, independent research, you know, just looking at things like, wow.

00:30:38.000 And I mean, the arguments were all the same sort of arguments that we hear, but the essence was: look, Ukraine is basically a great partner of ours.

00:30:46.000 They're a wonderful country.

00:30:48.000 We need to send aim and support and weapons, and we can't allow autocratic, terrible people like Vladimir Putin to invade countries without some sort of recourse.

00:30:56.000 I said, well, does $200 billion bother you?

00:30:58.000 They said, oh, that's just a drop in the bucket.

00:31:00.000 That's nothing.

00:31:00.000 I said, okay, that's not true, but it's an interesting perspective.

00:31:06.000 Zelensky recently, we haven't had a chance to talk about this yet.

00:31:10.000 Zelensky.

00:31:13.000 Now, I think this is almost a threat.

00:31:16.000 Some people disagree with me.

00:31:18.000 They say, oh, no, it's not a threat.

00:31:19.000 It's just Zelensky being Zelensky.

00:31:21.000 But I want your thoughts on this.

00:31:22.000 This is Zelensky saying that the United States will have to send their sons or daughters to die to defend NATO.

00:31:32.000 Play cut 70.

00:31:35.000 The U.S. will have to send their sons and daughters exactly the same way as we are sending their sons and daughters to war. 0.58

00:31:44.000 And they will have to fight because it's nature that we're talking about and they will be dying.

00:31:51.000 And you could disagree whether or not that's a threat.

00:31:53.000 What I mean by a threat is that he's basically saying if you don't give me enough weapons and give me enough support, your kids might have to end up fighting this war.

00:32:01.000 Let's play cuts 31.

00:32:02.000 NATO chief admits that Ukraine will join the alliance.

00:32:07.000 This admission violates our promise to Russia and crosses Putin's red line.

00:32:12.000 Play Cut 31.

00:32:14.000 NATO allies have agreed that Ukraine will become a member of our alliance.

00:32:20.000 But at the same time, that is a long-term perspective.

00:32:23.000 What is the issue now is to ensure that Ukraine prevail as a sovereign independent nation and therefore need to support Ukraine.

00:32:33.000 And Jake Sullivan was asked by CNN, can you level with the American people about what the expectations could be?

00:32:40.000 Could there be a full-blown war going on a year from now that America could be involved in?

00:32:47.000 They're not able to answer that question, and that should trouble you greatly.

00:32:50.000 PlayCut 14.

00:32:52.000 You're talking about supporting Ukraine, and you're talking about them taking the lead on how they define victory, which is understandable.

00:32:59.000 It's their war. 0.76

00:33:01.000 But the administration is also promising them that America will support them as long as it takes.

00:33:07.000 Can you level with the American people about what expectations should be?

00:33:11.000 I cannot predict the future, and nor can anyone else.

00:33:14.000 And anyone who is suggesting they can define for you how and when this war will end is not leveling with the American people or anyone else.

00:33:22.000 He's an unbelievably irresponsible person.

00:33:24.000 He also was intimately involved in a lot of the Trump-Russia hoax, steel dossier nonsense with Hillary Clinton.

00:33:32.000 All right, it's time for Republicans to draw a line in the sand and say, regardless of your feelings on this, we need a congressional war authorization.

00:33:40.000 We need to get every single member right now to vote.

00:33:43.000 No more proxy wars, no more bombing Nord Stream 2, sending weapons.

00:33:48.000 Yes, they have appropriated weapons in funding bills, but it is now time to get a line-by-line, member-by-member vote, a roll call vote of do you are you ready to say that we are officially at war with Russia? 0.57

00:34:02.000 The U.S. Constitution, which we just spent time celebrating, is being shredded by the national security and national defense apparatus.

00:34:11.000 Congress is the only branch of government that has the long-term power to authorize and go to war.

00:34:19.000 Now, that has been broken because of the War Powers Act of 1973, and you could declare war for 90 days, and you could have troops and you could have reconnaissance, and there's all these workarounds.

00:34:27.000 Enough.

00:34:28.000 If we as conservatives love the Constitution as much as we say we do and love America, regardless of your feelings on the Ukrainian dispute and what's happening there, we need to slow this down and we need to use the Constitution as our guide.

00:34:42.000 It is there to be able to temper our emotions, focus on actual results.

00:34:48.000 The Constitution has a process for this.

00:34:51.000 Go through the process.

00:34:53.000 It stands the test of time.

00:34:55.000 The structure of the Constitution has been tested through world wars, through invasions.

00:35:02.000 It's time for Republicans that might, like Mike Gallagher, who's completely out of control from Wisconsin.

00:35:08.000 Even if you love what's going on there, get on the record.

00:35:11.000 Use Congress.

00:35:12.000 Use the Constitution.

00:35:14.000 Stop being cowards and allowing the executive branch to go rogue and get us closer into a hot kinetic war with one of the largest countries in the world.

00:35:22.000 That would be such a mistake. 0.50

00:35:24.000 It's time for Congress to vote.

00:35:26.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:35:28.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:35:31.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - March 03, 2023

The Antichrist Administration with Benny Johnson and Simcha Rothman

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