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00:01:34.000And one of the aspects of the Biden crime family is the former January 6th investigative counsel, Hunter Biden, says he's not getting a fair shake.
00:01:48.000Say, you know, these are serious charges, and I don't want to diminish that, but I think these charges should be placed in the broader context of the investigation.
00:01:56.000So I think there are real questions about the delay with which DOJ has acted here.
00:02:00.000And I think that point from Hunter Biden's lawyer as to whether this would be happening if his last name wasn't Biden is a real question.
00:02:07.000And I will say as a former DOJ prosecutor, more and more looks like that to me.
00:02:12.000It looks like someone who's not getting a fair shake and is being treated more harshly because of their proximity to the president.
00:02:19.000More harshly because of the proximity to the president?
00:02:30.000Have you seen any evidence that President Biden has committed high crimes and misdemeanors?
00:02:35.000No, I don't see any evidence of that at all.
00:02:38.000I think before you begin an impeachment inquiry, you ought to have some evidence, some inclination that there's been wrongdoing.
00:02:45.000And so far, there's nothing of that nature that's been provided.
00:02:47.000Trump's, actually, President Biden's son, Hunter, is obviously a very unsavory person and has had some extremely damaging personal foibles, including a drug habit and so forth.
00:03:23.000Number one, the same day that the Chinese company CEFC wired $5 million into a business that had no activity in the count, by the way, for Hunter Biden and Jim Biden is the same day that Jim Biden moved about $400,000 into his personal account and $200,000 went to Joe Biden on the same day.
00:03:44.000If that doesn't demonstrate bribery moving through the Biden family to Joe Biden himself, I don't know what is.
00:03:51.000I don't know what Mitt Romney is talking about.
00:03:54.000The president has taken foreign money through his family.
00:03:57.000So at a minimum, at a minimum, it's bribery.
00:04:00.000And I will also add that it is very clear that nobody on the family is registered as a foreign agent.
00:04:06.000And so in my view, Joe Biden is a co-conspirator in violations of the Foreign Agent Registration Act, which is a felony in the United States of America.
00:04:15.000So what are the next steps then, Byron?
00:06:14.000Where do you think we're going to end up?
00:06:16.000Why does 702 even need to continue to exist?
00:06:19.000Well, first of all, I'm going to tell you the truth.
00:06:21.000I don't know where we're going to end up.
00:06:23.000What we should be taking is the judiciary bill that was voted on 35 to 2 out of the judiciary committee.
00:06:30.000This bill actually creates a warrant process to protect the American people from rogue agents in our government who have abused the FISA process.
00:06:38.000Not just Americans, but of course, President Trump as well.
00:06:42.000The judiciary bill, in my view, is the best bill.
00:06:45.000I don't agree with this strategy of running the Intel bill and the judiciary bill because we should just be focused on what's going to get the most votes in the House of Representatives.
00:06:53.000And as I understand it, that is the bill that came out of the Judiciary Committee.
00:06:57.000The last thing I will say is there should be no clean reauthorizations of FISA in the National Defense Authorization Act.
00:07:34.000If you have people like Andy Biggs, Jim Jordan in agreement, and frankly, with some of the progressive members on Capitol Hill who actually are concerned about spying on the American people, I mean, you got to give it to them.
00:07:47.000Then we should follow that bill, completely reform FISA, give the intelligence community the ability to collect assets and information on foreign operatives trying to do damage to our country.
00:07:58.000But you have to hold accountable these bureaucrats who are spying on the American people.
00:08:18.000And they're just going to cover their tracks and delete it.
00:08:21.000But so, so, Byron, I don't know where this is going to end up.
00:08:24.000Speaker Johnson's, at the very least, can we just hold the line on a 12-year renewal?
00:08:29.000And I hope our audience understands Pramila Jayapal and Rashida Talib and Elon Omar are fighting harder to make sure the government can't spy on Americans than most Republicans.
00:09:17.000And unfortunately, we have people in our government who they view that the national security aspects of the United States overwhelm and override the constitutional rights of the American people.
00:10:25.000I don't have time to build this out, but to announce tomorrow or when we have time this week, I want to read a very interesting tweet from a woman who obviously doesn't like Trump, but she pinpoints some really important concerns of how 2024 could go with Trump lawfare stuff.
00:11:13.000But in addition to that, next week, next week on Wednesday, once the Amfest dust settles, we are going to have at least three to five of the smartest guests.
00:11:28.000We're going to prep them on trying to game out 2024.
00:11:34.000I'm on these group texts, so many of these group texts, and one with some, you know, really serious thinkers and doers and very, very well-connected people.
00:11:42.000And I just put in there, I said, hey, guys, have we thought through exactly what happens if Donald Trump is in leg irons in September of 2024?
00:12:13.000But unless there's some black swan event or unexpected news item, usually the news calms down right before Christmas and people just kind of check out.
00:12:20.000It's a perfect time for us to methodically think about 2024 and isolate all of the threats, a threat analysis.
00:12:33.000Our friend, who's also going to join the Charlie Kirk show and is a keynote speaker at AmericaFest, amfest.com, A-M-F-B-S-T.com, Tucker Carlson, the Tucker Carlson Network has been announced.
00:12:47.000And he seems to be at a very nice house in Florida.
00:15:21.000I hope there's only a month left of this primary.
00:15:23.000The sooner this thing ends, the sooner we can transition into the general election fight that is looming.
00:15:31.000But this show is going to do the war gaming, is going to do the strategizing.
00:15:36.000In the most dead news week of the year after Amfest, we're going to analytically think about all the different vectors of attack and how we can counter them coming into 2024.
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00:16:51.000Joining us now is Chris Buzzkirk, great American.
00:17:10.000We, myself, my partner, Omin Malik, who you know as well, we took a SPAC public on the New York Stock Exchange and started trading on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, so a couple weeks ago.
00:17:23.000And we're going to ring the bell today at the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange.
00:17:26.000He and I will be up there with a few of our colleagues, board members, officers.
00:17:31.000And we are, as you know, with the SPAC, it's a special purpose acquisition company.
00:17:39.000We are looking actively for an operating business that we can acquire.
00:17:44.000And you know what we do at 1789 Capital, which is also run by myself and by Omid.
00:17:50.000We're investing in building the American future.
00:17:53.000We want to back innovators, people with high growth businesses that are going to regrow the American middle class and reintroduce the next American golden age.
00:18:10.000I mean, and you're a serious business guy.
00:18:12.000Talk about 1789 Capital more broadly, about the vision, really kind of what, you know, you guys are trying to do to try and drive entrepreneurship and value in the country we want to live in.
00:18:25.000Build the country that you want to live in.
00:18:27.000That's what I've said for years, Charlie, as you know, is like, you know, we as conservatives, we have a lot of critiques of the current state of play in this country.
00:18:43.000We want to try and figure out how do we take all of the resources in this country.
00:18:48.000And there are a lot of natural resources, political goodwill still exists in this country.
00:18:54.000Most importantly, we have the best business people, the best innovators in this country, and they have been stifled in a lot of ways.
00:19:03.000Sometimes it's just by, you know, big companies, they get so big, they're bureaucratic, and that's sort of just sort of the nature of the beast.
00:19:09.000And then people spin out of them because they have better ideas and they need capital to grow.
00:19:14.000What we've seen in the past, I don't know, five or 10 years, really accelerated since 2020 is what some people call woke capital.
00:19:21.000And that's the politicization of capital.
00:19:24.000And that has really stifled innovation, which has downstream effects, which are really negative.
00:19:29.000It leads to a less secure, less prosperous country.
00:19:32.000I mean, you think about just by way of example, Google will do business with the PRC, with the People's Republic of China, communist China, but will not do business with the U.S. Department of Defense infamously.
00:19:45.000And we look at that and say, you know, it's time to bring institutional great capital to back great American innovators because that's the only way we're going to build the next American age of prosperity.
00:19:59.000Just kind of closing on that topic, Chris, if there are entrepreneurs, business owners more broadly, is there a way to get connected with what you guys are doing?
00:20:09.000Is it just more kind of a closed door process?
00:20:27.000You can go on my X account at theChrisBuskirk or just email me, Chris at 1789capital.io.
00:20:36.000I will regret giving that email out because I'm going to get a million emails, but I will be very happy because I know that there's going to be some percentage of them that are really good.
00:20:44.000And that's what I find, which is super encouraging as an investor with investing on behalf of 1789.
00:20:51.000There are so many smart people in this country.
00:20:53.000Charlie, it's just, you know, we look at the political situation sometimes when we think like, gosh, all is lost.
00:21:54.000I'm so glad to see them, you know, finally on defense.
00:21:57.000But I fear that really bad actors are going to capitalize on the situation to even restrict speech on campus even further against conservatives, pro-liberty, pro-freedom, or just anyone that might have a contrarian idea perspective.
00:22:12.000Chris, I know you agree with me on this.
00:22:15.000Build this out because this could be an opportunity that turns into a tragedy.
00:22:20.000Yeah, I mean, look, what we see, you see this especially in the Ivy Leagues.
00:22:24.000You see it at University of Pennsylvania over the weekend, the president resigned, but you see it at Harvard, Harvard Law School.
00:22:31.000There is, how do I say, there's a certain Schadenfreude.
00:22:35.000There's a pleasure that conservatives are taking in seeing these very left-wing college officials, college presidents primarily, but others as well, some of the trustees at these colleges.
00:22:45.000And we've looked at them for years and said, these people are just absolutely.
00:22:51.000They're anti-American in really profound ways.
00:22:54.000And when we see them taking flack because of the stances that they have been taking with regards to Hamas, and you say, you know, that's justice.
00:23:03.000Finally, you're being held to account on this.
00:23:06.000And nobody's sorry to see the president of the University of Pennsylvania go, she was, you know, unique.
00:23:11.000Well, I was just going to say uniquely horrible.
00:23:18.000So is the president of a lot of these institutions.
00:23:21.000However, We should also realize that some of the things that are the specific actions that we are applauding and that may and in fact are just in a lot of ways, that the things that come out of those will definitely be weaponized by the people who take the place of the college presidents who are going to suffer the consequences for their actions in the immediate future.
00:23:46.000This doesn't change who the college professors are.
00:23:49.000This doesn't change these institutions.
00:23:51.000Yes, it's good that these people have gone, but we still are engaged in the exact same fight.
00:23:56.000We still have to deal with the exact same threats.
00:23:58.000But this will be, I guess what I want to say is that we should be aware of the fact that people on the left have not changed their views on this and that they will, as they say, not let a crisis go to waste.
00:24:10.000And the next thing you know, that some of these rules or mores that are enacted as a result of the unbrokle around Hamas will be used against conservatives.
00:24:20.000And the next thing you know is you say something conservative with a pro-American tinge to it.
00:24:26.000And now all of a sudden we're back to the hate speech thing and you're getting expelled or you're suffering some type of a consequence.
00:24:32.000So I think you're right to be extremely leery of some of the things that are taking place right now.
00:24:58.000So if I go to speak at Penn, which I'm planning to in the spring, if they'll have me, and I say that there are two sexes and no genders and infinite personalities, Chris, I could potentially get in trouble.
00:25:12.000I'm a guest speaker, but let's pretend a student parroted what I would say as a guest speaker as hate speech and could be disciplined in the same bucket as a Hamas terror sympathizer.
00:25:26.000Yeah, this is exactly what's been going on.
00:25:29.000The only thing that's different that's happening right now, like this is just an enforcement of so-called hate speech codes.
00:25:34.000And it just happens that this is the one time where certain people on the left are getting hit with the rules that they put in place to begin with, which is this, you know, speech as violence concept.
00:25:48.000The whole idea of hate speech is almost uniformly wrong.
00:25:52.000You may be able to pick up very, very particular instances, yelling fire at a crowded theater, for example, as really dangerous speech that promotes conduct that causes harm.
00:26:03.000But what the left has promoted is a view that the speech itself is harm.
00:26:08.000So if you hear something, if you hear words that you disagree with, that that causes you a harm.
00:26:14.000And as a result, you're entitled to protection from the state and the person who said something that they may believe or that they subjectively think or that you subjectively think is good, bad, or otherwise, that person can be censored or punished for that.
00:26:29.000And it so happens that the president of Penn is punished for hate speech in this case and more.
00:26:34.000And I think we need to just go back and look at the fundamentals, you know, go back to basics, which is what you're doing here and talk about the difference between speech and conduct.
00:26:44.000And the Penn president, it was more about moral clarity than speech.
00:26:48.000It was her inability to answer a very simple question.
00:27:26.000So it's actually two separate columns of the Washington Post.
00:27:29.000One, they actually didn't, from what I know, rename it.
00:27:33.000To fight anti-Semitism on campuses, we must restrict speech by Claire O. Finkenstein.
00:27:38.000But I'm going to read from a separate article here.
00:27:40.000And Chris, I think this hits it perfectly.
00:27:41.000Quote, a culture of intimidation is a different challenge.
00:27:44.000It's very opposite of the culture of mutual respect for necessary learning and for that matter, a healthy democracy.
00:27:50.000The problem is that we're struggling with that now.
00:27:52.000Clearly, we cannot allow a culture of intimidation to develop and padure on our campuses, regardless of what initial intention students might have had, such as quote, globalize the intifada or other slogans associated with eliminating Jewish people.
00:28:05.000If college campuses regularly had groups of kids chanting white power, I would not be comfortable sending my kids there, even if those chanters never took a targeted action against a specific person.
00:28:15.000Okay, that's a fair argument to make, finally incorporating that.
00:28:18.000But you could see where this is headed, Chris, right?
00:28:20.000Which is they would love nothing more than to restrict our ability to challenge trans tyranny, to make pro-life arguments, to talk about restricted immigration.
00:28:52.000I mean, we're betting a thousand on that one.
00:28:55.000Look, you're either for free speech or you are not.
00:28:59.000And if we want to have a functioning, self-governing republic, then we need to really understand that free speech, A, is essential to that, and B, that there is an important and very and pretty easy to understand distinction between conduct and speech.
00:29:13.000You know, and we can't make rules based on edge cases.
00:29:16.000So, you know, we saw maybe it's a month or six weeks ago now, we saw Jewish students at Harvard and HLS being chased by the editor of the Harvard Law Review.
00:29:28.000It's despicable and it should be punished.
00:29:29.000That's different than saying, than making a statement that somebody disagrees with, a political statement that somebody disagrees with.
00:29:37.000Now, where this gets dicey is where people are calling for violence.
00:29:41.000And I think that's where these college administrators need to show some wisdom in the specific case around Israel's war against Hamas, is that when the students are on campus and they're calling for violence, that now we run up into these situations where you are shouting fire in a crowded theater.
00:30:04.000But that is not what is going to happen here.
00:30:06.000What is going to happen is that there's going to be more restrictive speech codes put on place in campus, if that's even possible.
00:30:12.000And once the furor dies down around these specific issues, the left is still in control of all of these institutions.
00:30:19.000And those rules will be used to restrict conservative speech, pro-American speech.
00:30:24.000Anything that you wanted to say about, say, pro-life or in any way questioning the trans agenda will be viewed as not just calling for violence, but as violence itself.
00:30:37.000And that's where I think conservatives need to really seek wisdom on this and decide who and how they want to partner with in dealing with this issue.
00:30:46.000And just to kind of put a bow on it, every day the trans groups say that we are committing trans genocide because we don't say that they are the gender that they say they are.
00:30:56.000And they say that that's literally how they describe Turning Point USA.
00:30:59.000We have been striked on YouTube and we got a hate speech strike because I said that trans people are suffering from a mental illness.
00:31:09.000In closing here, Chris, 2024 is around the corner.
00:31:12.000What are you looking at that is giving you the most hope?
00:31:14.000Yeah, gosh, more things than I would have thought I could say maybe six months ago.
00:31:18.000Look, what I think we've all seen happen is that the more that Donald Trump has been attacked and persecuted by a weaponized justice system, the more popular he has gotten.
00:31:27.000And we see that both in polls of Republican primary voters, but you see that also in polling of independent and swing voters, which is people look at this and they say, you know, maybe I like Trump, maybe I don't.
00:31:40.000Maybe I'm not, maybe even I think he wasn't a great president, but I don't think these things should be happening to him.
00:31:46.000You know, the anecdotal evidence I have here, and bear in mind, it is just anecdotal, is that there are sort of a lot of fair-minded people in this country that look at what's gone on in the persecution and prosecution of Donald Trump, and they have given him another look.
00:32:00.000And I think that is extremely hopeful.
00:32:04.000The other thing that I've seen is that our side for all of the sort of weeping and gnashing of teeth is that we are, I think, understanding what it means to get grassroots organizations up, organized, and in the field.
00:32:16.000And you obviously are a huge part of this, Charlie, but there are a bunch of other organizations, an ecosystem, you could say, that's been developing since 2020 that is much more serious about grassroots organizing.
00:32:29.000I think back to when Barack Obama was running for president and, well, they'd say, you know, he's a community organizer.