00:00:00.000Hey everybody, Major League Baseball still has vaccine mandates for minor league coaches.
00:00:04.000A really bizarre story that we talk about with some Major League Baseball wives.
00:00:11.000And also, the CIA is spying on American citizens.
00:00:14.000A very critical, important story that I think we all need to really take a moment and understand the ramifications of this.
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00:01:04.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:35.000And of course, one of the most famous books, political books, ever written, 1984, it is a terrific piece of literature.
00:01:41.000We study it and we talk about it quite often here on this program for many reasons, the obvious and the not so obvious.
00:01:48.000The not so obvious is that when you think about freedom, you don't always think about privacy, but your ability to have your own thoughts, your own effects, your own opinions absent somebody looking over your shoulder is actually what it means to be free, to be sovereign, to be able to make your own choices.
00:02:08.000This is why they established the Fourth Amendment, the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution of the Bill of Rights, ratified in 1791.
00:02:18.000Basically says that you cannot have unwarranted search or seizure of your private articles or effects absent a warrant.
00:02:25.000I think we can all agree that if you have a warrant and you are a legit criminal and you go in front of a judge, there should be a process for that.
00:02:33.000Even Rand Paul and Ron Paul agrees with that.
00:02:36.000But it's the warrantless mass surveillance of citizens, which is something that has gone completely and totally unchecked.
00:02:45.000Now, the Constitution, the greatest political document ever written, has in it a deliberate function of a check and a balance.
00:02:57.000So for every action, there needs to be a check on that action.
00:03:03.000And when Edward Snowden came out and revealed that the federal government was massively surveilling American citizens without warrants, it was one of the largest stories on the planet.
00:03:16.000But almost nothing was done to reform that.
00:03:19.000That was the very same intelligence service that spied on Donald Trump in his campaign with a fake dossier funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign to try to infiltrate Donald Trump's campaign.
00:03:31.000And breaking in the last 24 hours, quote, senators, CIA has a secret program that collects American data.
00:03:41.000This should not surprise you, by the way, at all.
00:03:45.000Even though the Central Intelligence Agency is forbidden by its charter to actually do work domestically, it should not surprise you the CIA is breaking the law and doing it anyway.
00:03:58.000Quote, the CIA has a secret undisclosed data repository that includes information collected about Americans, two Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee said.
00:04:07.000While neither the agency nor lawmakers would disclose specifics about the data, the senators allege the CIA has long hidden details about the program from the public and Congress.
00:04:18.000Ron Wyden of Oregon and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico sent a letter to top intelligence officials calling for more details about the program to be declassified.
00:04:27.000Large parts of the letter, which was sent in April of 2021 and declassified Thursday, documents released by the CIA were blacked out.
00:04:35.000Wyden and Heinrich said the program operated, quote, outside the statutory framework that Congress and the public believe that can govern this type of data collection.
00:04:44.000There have been long concerns about what the information the intelligence community collects domestically, driven in part by previous violations of American civil liberties.
00:04:53.000The CIA and National Security Agency, NSA, which Edward Snowden worked for, have a foreign mission and are generally barred from investigating Americans or U.S. businesses, as I said.
00:05:04.000But the spy agency's sprawling collection of foreign communications often snares Americans' messages and data incidentally.
00:05:11.000So I've known plenty of people that worked at the CIA and high levels of the CIA.
00:05:15.000And whenever I confront them on this, I say, so the CIA is forbidden from doing work domestically.
00:05:26.000People that have worked in the CIA openly admit it.
00:05:30.000Now, it would be nice if we actually had a media apparatus that wasn't so focused on what pronouns people were using when they're six years old or whether or not the emojis you're using on your Apple iPhone of what racist color they are or whatever sort of story they're looking into.
00:05:47.000I mean, right here, front page of the New York Times, all about January 6th and Trump's call logs.
00:05:52.000Yeah, I think that mass surveillance of American citizens and a violation of the Central Intelligence Agency's charter is probably more important than Trump's call logs on January 6th.
00:06:05.000But the media is usually and typically a whole and operated subsidiary of the intelligence agencies.
00:06:13.000This is why Glenn Greenwald will go down as one of the most heroic, courageous journalists in the modern era.
00:06:20.000Edward Snowden knew he could not go to the Wall Street Journal or he could not go to the New York Times.
00:06:25.000So he went to Glenn Greenwald, who, if I remember correctly, was working for The Guardian at the time.
00:06:30.000It was either the Intercept or The Guardian or it might have been a joint partnership between the two.
00:06:35.000And Edward Snowden, of course, met with the head of the, I think, originally published the stories on The Guardian, but he did so because he knew he was not going to be able to get an American news agency to cover it.
00:06:48.000Guardian is a British-based publication.
00:06:52.000Yeah, he broke the Snowden stuff in The Guardian.
00:06:57.000Quote, intelligence agencies are required to take steps to protect U.S. information, including redacting the names of any Americans from reports unless they are deemed relevant to an investigation.
00:07:16.000How do you hold a government bureaucrat accountable?
00:07:19.000Well, as we've seen with Lois Lerner, Eric Holder, Anthony Fauci, Merrick Garland, the unelected, the fourth branch of government, they know what they're supposed to do and they don't do it anyway.
00:07:33.000As the Constitution has deteriorated out of sight and the teeth of the Constitution of the actual check and balance and what Congress is supposed to do, which really all of this kind of goes down to the total betrayal of Article 1.
00:07:48.000If you want to kind of boil down why the CIA and the IRS and the FDA and all these different agencies, the Department of Treasury, where have they gone wrong?
00:08:00.000It's because in Article 1 of the Constitution, Congress is supposed to have oversight over all of these, and they decided to just kind of delegate it and say, Yeah, we're going to kind of find a carve-out in a loophole.
00:08:12.000We're not going to do meaningful oversight.
00:08:14.000We're not going to do balanced budgeting.
00:08:16.000We're not going to do zero-based budgeting.
00:08:18.000We're not going to audit their finances.
00:08:19.000We're not going to really question them.
00:08:21.000Instead, we members of Congress are actually going to benefit from the Leviathan that we create.
00:08:27.000And by the way, it's both political parties.
00:08:30.000It's the neocons on the Republican side, like Lindsey Graham, who is a stalwart defender of the national security apparatus, and also that weird guy that's a Connecticut, the Connecticut senator, Chris Murphy, who's never found a war he doesn't want to fight or a country he doesn't want to invade.
00:08:57.000Yeah, Senator Ron Wyden and that Sheldon White House guy, who deeply disturbed individual from Rhode Island who have attacked Turning Point before.
00:09:05.000Now, why Ron Wyden is launching a campaign against the CIA?
00:09:11.000He's a legitimate crusader from the left to try to worry about surveillance and civil liberties, or he's actually working with the CIA to slowly drip this information so that it's out there so it doesn't get revealed in a smoking gun later.
00:09:26.000Don't be surprised if that's actually the case, where Ron Wyden is actually working in tandem with the CIA to get this information out.
00:09:33.000So it's like, oh, there's radical Ron Wyden leaking things again.
00:12:03.000Last summer, the NSA director was at a conference, and he was asked a question about the NSA surveillance of Americans.
00:12:11.000He replied, and I quote here: the story that we have millions or hundreds of millions of dossiers on people is completely false.
00:12:20.000The reason I'm asking the question is having served on the committee now for a dozen years, I don't really know what a dossier is in this context.
00:12:31.000So, what I wanted to see is if you could give me a yes or no answer to the question, does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?
00:13:56.000So we follow our own law when it comes to border policy, but the CIA does whatever they want to do.
00:14:03.000And this is a story that is going to take, I could spend a whole hour on this, but I just want to flag it.
00:14:08.000The FBI has bought exclusive rights to Pegasus, which is the Israeli spy firm that can basically infiltrate all of your phones at any time.
00:14:20.000That is a much more complex story than I am actually describing it as, but it's tested the Israeli company NSO's group Spyware, and it confirms it bought spyware from Israel's NSO group.
00:14:34.000And it's called the world's most powerful cyber weapon.
00:14:38.000They're probably not going to use it against Antifa or BLM, but they will probably use it against your local church, your MAGA group, or your local Republican gathering.
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00:16:17.000I think baseball is the perfect sport in some ways.
00:16:21.000It has Dr. Larry Arn has a speech about baseball that I'm going to get into at some point, but everything works in a circle.
00:16:28.000Everyone has the equal opportunity to be able to win from at-bats to outs to the structure of the innings.
00:16:36.000And it has an unlimited capacity for time and for travel.
00:16:40.000Now, for travel, meaning the ball could go as far as you want to go, but obviously you're limited by the laws of nature, but meaning a game could be very short or very long.
00:16:47.000Now, baseball has always been kind of described as America's pastime.
00:16:54.000It's also because, in order to be really good at baseball, you have to be a phenomenal athlete, but you don't necessarily have to be like a freak of an athlete like in football to be like six foot eight and 380 pounds.
00:17:06.000In baseball, there is a preference on precision and also on hand-eye coordination and a very specific type of skill.
00:17:16.000Well, I think it would surprise a lot of people to learn that Major League Baseball is engaging in the very same sort of tyrannical vaccine mandates that the government of Canada is doing and some of these other governments as well.
00:17:30.000And so, with us right now, are two people that are speaking out against this, Katie and Casey, who are two wives of either Major League Baseball players or a current professional baseball coach.
00:17:40.000And they're outraged about this and they want you to know about it.
00:17:43.000And we're a national program, and it's time for all of our listeners to contact their local baseball teams and tell them that they've had enough of this.
00:17:51.000Katie and Casey, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:17:58.000What is the current position of Major League Baseball when it comes to the vaccine?
00:18:05.000So, our understanding and what MLB released in their memo is that they are mandating current minor league coaches and staff that will be on field as a segregated class alone to be current on their vaccines as well as the ongoing boosters every six months to maintain employment on the field.
00:18:33.000So, that counts for all managers, is that right?
00:20:09.000And so that's what's so weird about this is that Major League Baseball is exempting the players because I just don't think they want that fight.
00:20:16.000And I think there's also a rather significant fight still going on with baseball, if I'm not mistaken, trying to get that all sorted out.
00:20:23.000I think it's the first legitimate strike in like 20, 25 years where it'll get sorted out, but there's a lot of issues.
00:20:31.000And honestly, the players have some really legitimate claims, like free agent status and stuff.
00:20:36.000But so I don't think they want to poke the bear there, but it's like this really bizarre thing that I don't quite understand why, like the minor league coaches, these are the people that are a lot of former players, right?
00:20:48.000These are people that are trying to make it.
00:20:51.000So why the coaches and not the players?
00:20:54.000Katie, what's their explanation for that when they're asked?
00:20:58.000Well, frankly, we have submitted and organizations have submitted questions to Major League Baseball that they haven't been able to answer.
00:21:13.000We received this memo January 27th, which was just two weeks before coaches were supposed to report to spring training.
00:21:23.000So that intentional timing really backs all of us in a corner where we were not given a choice.
00:21:29.000Why did they wait until the very last minute before flights were scheduled, before housing arrangements were made, contracts signed?
00:21:39.000I mean, we have players who have leased out or coaches rather who have leased out their homes in order to prepare for the upcoming season.
00:21:49.000And then they just flung this on us at the last minute.
00:21:52.000And furthermore, January 13th, which was two weeks prior, the Supreme Court had just ruled in favor of the National Federation of Independent Business versus OSHA.
00:22:02.000The Supreme Court's published decision stated that COVID-19 is not a workplace risk, but rather a universal risk that is no different from the day-to-day dangers that all face from crime, air pollution, or any number of communicable diseases.
00:22:18.000The mandate is instead a significant encroachment into the lives and health of a vast number of employees.
00:22:24.000A vaccination, after all, cannot be undone at the end of the workday, they quoted.
00:22:29.000The Supreme Court also sided with the NFIB in the issue of irreparable harm, stating employees would meet that legal standard if forced with a choice between violating a mandate of doubtful validity or consenting to an unwanted medical procedure that cannot be undone.
00:22:46.000We realize this ruling was in regards to a federal mandate, but we believe the same logic and legal findings should apply to our constitutional rights in the private sector.
00:22:56.000In our case, MLB is still applying the oppressive and illegitimate arguments that this precedent refutes.
00:23:03.000Yeah, I just, it's so typical right now where you see rules that are put forward that make no sense.
00:23:12.000And it's as if they like need to go crush one portion of the population and they're going after minor league baseball players, which honestly have like the toughest life ever.
00:23:24.000They live in second and third, not rate cities.
00:23:28.000I don't mean it that way, but they're smaller markets.
00:23:30.000They're constantly traveling, usually traveling by bus.
00:23:32.000So Casey, you know, from what you talk to a lot of different wives and also families and other players in Major League Baseball, and, you know, absent maybe like, I don't know, a Chris Bryant, almost every one of these players really went through the minor leagues.
00:23:49.000So they're seeing their friends and they're seeing their colleagues and they're seeing their probably former college teammates have to go through this.
00:23:56.000I would imagine there's widespread outrage on behalf of the players about this.
00:24:10.000These are their families' livelihoods and they can be released at any second.
00:24:15.000So these minor league guys, they're definitely not wanting to speak out because they're putting their whole lives on hold to try to, you know, play this game that they love so much.
00:24:25.000And here you have this vaccine being mandated that they don't want to take.
00:24:29.000I'm not saying all of them, but a lot of them probably don't want to and I feel like they're being forced to.
00:24:55.000And that's one of the things that people can do is raise their voice.
00:25:00.000Social media is a great outlet for that.
00:25:02.000If they can tag at MLB, at MLB TV, at Rob Manfred, if we could get this to trend on social media, one of our biggest things is to simply bring awareness and for our collective voices to be heard.
00:25:53.000I mean, minor leaguers that want to get into the majors, they're on the threshold of getting there.
00:25:57.000They're the least likely to speak out, right?
00:25:59.000I mean, they're waiting for their ticket to get pulled, you know, from AA or AAA.
00:26:04.000And it's literally the strong crushing the weak, right?
00:26:06.000It is the people that run these organizations.
00:26:10.000And they're like, okay, we're going to go after the people that we know aren't going to speak out, which is like really demented and weird, honestly.
00:26:17.000It's about like trying to control some 27-year-old that lives in rural Iowa that plays for a AA baseball team that's just trying to make it.
00:26:26.000So really quick before the end of this segment, just tell us how people can speak out.
00:26:30.000Yeah, everything that Katie had said, it's money talks.
00:26:35.000So if you're, you know, you don't have fans getting into the stadiums, something's got to change.
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00:28:39.000Five Phoenix police officers were shot during an incident early on Friday morning that involved rescuing a baby.
00:28:45.000Phoenix police chief Jerry Williams said the incident occurred when officers were responding to a shooting near a residence located near 51st Avenue, lower 1st or 1st Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road just before 3 a.m.
00:28:56.000So they come to go rescue a baby and they get shot at, five of them.
00:29:00.000Then a man inside the home opened the front door and placed a baby in the carrier on the front porch next to a backpack that appeared to be a diaper bag.
00:29:07.000In a video that captured the moment, appeared the man followed police commands and put his hands over his head, walked backwards toward the officers, and he set the baby on the front steps.
00:29:15.000He was taken into custody, and then four more officers were shot.
00:29:20.000Officers approached the front steps to rescue the baby, and that was when someone inside the home started shooting at the officers again.
00:29:26.000The officers went to bring the baby to safety.
00:29:40.000It continues to happen over and over again.
00:29:42.000Yeah, well, the California Democrats that are pouring into Phoenix, I got no patience for you guys that are doing these stupid defund movements in Arizona.
00:29:51.000Now, my really good friend Jack Hibbs, we just did a special, by the way, on Trinity Broadcasting Network that we're going to cross-post on our podcast feed.
00:29:58.000Jack Hibbs brought up this great point to me recently.
00:30:01.000For those of you listening on KTIE, you guys know Jack Hibbs well.
00:30:03.000He's one of the biggest pastors in the country.
00:30:29.000We're going to do all of our Super Bowl picks soon, by the way.
00:30:32.000Actually, I should probably do it right in this one, in this kind of conversation, because the next one is an AMA type deal.
00:30:38.000I think I really want to see the Bengals win.
00:30:40.000I'm a huge Joe Burrow fan, but the Rams, they might have it.
00:30:43.000And it's the second year in a row and the only two times has ever happened in NFL history where they have the Super Bowl in their home stadium.
00:32:21.000We invaded Iraq over alleged weapons of mass destruction.
00:32:26.000And now the very same veterans that went to go try to find alleged weapons of mass destruction are now overdosing on actual weapons of mass destruction that are flowing across our southern border.
00:32:37.000When are we going to get the same sort of focus that we got from Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, and George Bush on invading and holding Saddam Hussein accountable when Colin Powell lied to the world in front of the UN?
00:32:50.000Remember that famous video where he held up the rosin of mustard gas?
00:32:53.000He said, all it takes is this much to be deployed in New York City and a million people could die or whatever he said when he lied blatantly in front of the United Nations.
00:33:02.000Where is that moment of our own leaders holding up fentanyl and says, this is all it takes to wipe out an entire elementary school of children and fentanyls in your community?
00:33:10.000Made in China, brought through Mexico in your local suburbs.