00:00:50.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:01:51.000If we cannot secure our border, we need to close the border.
00:01:54.000If we have a president that doesn't want to secure the border, let's close the border until we get a president that actually is going to enforce our laws.
00:02:30.000Look at what the Biden administration did.
00:02:32.000So we're negotiating a border deal with the Biden administration that just went to the Supreme Court and said they wanted to close down what Texas is trying to do to secure their own border.
00:02:42.000So if you, so somebody like that, do you trust them?
00:02:47.000So the only way this is going to happen, we cannot do a bill unless it has some sort of measurement on something the Biden administration wants.
00:02:56.000Well, if you want Ukraine aid, if we're going to fund Ukraine and secure their border, then it's only going to happen if the number of people coming across our southern border goes down to what it was under Trump.
00:03:08.000Now, they keep saying they're going to close to a deal.
00:06:06.000I just, and I want to just emphasize there's some incredibly qualified people not named Mitch McConnell in the U.S. Senate, you being one of them.
00:06:23.000And I know that is like the third rail here, but how many times are we going to put up with this sort of legislative deception, this sort of deploying his surrogates?
00:06:57.000Past few minutes, Jake Sherman with Punch Bowl News had this about a McConnell meeting with Republican senators.
00:07:03.000Senator McConnell told a closed meeting of Senate Republicans today that the politics of the border has flipped and cast doubt on linking Ukraine and the border.
00:07:15.000It quotes us him saying, when we started this, the border united us and Ukraine divided us.
00:07:19.000The politics on this have changed, he told his GOP colleagues.
00:07:23.000He said he referred to Donald Trump as the nominee.
00:07:26.000We don't want to do anything to undermine him, and he wants to campaign and center it on immigration.
00:07:49.000I don't know one Republican senator that doesn't believe we ought to secure the border.
00:07:53.000I actually don't know anybody that doesn't think we've got to do something.
00:07:57.000Now, if it's not Ukraine aid, maybe it's something else, but it has to be something to force the lawless Biden administration to basically do their job.
00:08:08.000So, all we're saying is we all want the border secure.
00:08:11.000I don't know one Republican senator that doesn't, right?
00:08:14.000And but we know that the Biden administration is not going to do it unless they have to.
00:08:18.000So, why doesn't our leadership, why doesn't Mitch McConnell, who is, you know, is the Republican leader, why doesn't he, if he doesn't want to tie it to Ukraine, then find something else.
00:08:31.000But don't keep us in the dark and then tell Langford and tell the negotiators, you cannot, you cannot tie it to the monthly Ukraine aid to how many people come across the border.
00:08:46.000Because I can tell you what, I don't know if it's a majority, but a lot of us have been saying we've got to tie these things together because it's the only thing we know that's going to get the Biden administration to do their job.
00:08:57.000Yeah, and that's the other element of this, which is, you know, we have the CR that was passed that now goes to March.
00:09:05.000If I were to just play devil's advocate here, Senator, and I don't loop you into this, but I'm deathly afraid that people that are in cycle, you're doing the right thing despite what they're trying to do to you.
00:09:17.000But it's not as if courage increases the closer we get to election day.
00:09:23.000It's not as if all of a sudden everyone's going to say, you know, we're nine months out from an election.
00:09:55.000I mean, I'm up this cycle, but I am hell-bent on improving this country.
00:10:01.000And if it means that somebody up here in DC doesn't like me, there's nothing I can do about it.
00:10:07.000But the fact that Donald Trump is winning and will be our nominee does not change anybody in the Senate's decision.
00:10:15.000They all know we want a secure border.
00:10:18.000It's what we're dealing with is Mitch McConnell has said we're not going to tie real accountability and metrics to Ukraine aid because he wants Ukraine aid.
00:10:34.000But I'm focused on our border before I focus on Ukraine's border.
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00:12:12.000There's allegedly going to be some sort of a border deal, but then Senator McConnell seems to be undermining that because of the politics of Trump.
00:12:20.000This seems like it's going to hit a fever pitch soon.
00:12:23.000When I speak to the House side, they say, well, we're waiting for the Senate side, and then we're going to swat it down, and then we're going to redo negotiations.
00:12:30.000So what is the timeline looking like here?
00:12:32.000Well, it's always up to Chuck Schumer, right?
00:12:34.000He's the majority leader, so he gets to decide when we do anything up here.
00:12:46.000Because what we have to do is we have to get people together and have real conversations instead of having one person negotiate on our behalf.
00:13:12.000I mean, I think that Donald Trump did it.
00:13:15.000It's really just we got to go enforce the laws.
00:13:20.000Now we can just sit here and wait until Donald Trump takes over next January, or we can say, what can we get done right now?
00:13:27.000And I want to do the things that will force the Biden administration to do their job now.
00:13:31.000Maorca is, you know, it just comes and lies to us and says the border's secure.
00:13:35.000You know, Director Ray came and testified probably in November when I asked him the question is, are there terror cells around the United States as a result of an open border?
00:14:59.000And I have to be honest that for some of your colleagues that are fixated on national security, and I mean, let's play this piece of tape here.
00:16:17.000How many does it take to do something horrible in this country?
00:16:22.000And how long is it going to, by the way, how long is it going to take the next administration?
00:16:27.000How long is it going to take Trump to try to clean up how many people that are druggists, are drug sellers, human traffickers, terrorists, you know, in our country?
00:17:19.000And if we take back the Senate, which I think we will, yeah, when, I'm going to do whatever it takes to make sure that you're Senate majority leader.
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00:18:42.000In the last decade, there has been not necessarily a new trend, but a habit of the rich, the famous, and the elite.
00:18:52.000And it's been that instead of just buying yachts and homes in Aspen and Gulf streams, that if you're super rich and super powerful, you buy media companies.
00:19:54.000And she has been subsidizing The Atlantic.
00:19:56.000Jeff Bezos, one of the world's wealthiest men, previously the most wealthy man, worth $120,000, $30,000 billion.
00:20:03.000Owning media companies is nothing new.
00:20:05.000Titans of Industries did this in the 1950s and 60s and 70s as well.
00:20:09.000But it's starting to hit a breaking point because of digital media and because of new media, people are saying, why do I have to pay money to go read the Washington Post?
00:20:20.000Why do I need to read money to read the Los Angeles Times?
00:20:24.000It's just too easy to start a new media outlet.
00:20:27.000And look at our program right here on the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:20:30.000We were the number one stream on the New Hampshire primary night.
00:20:34.000150,000 concurrent viewers on our stream.
00:20:38.000By contrast, NBC News did their own stream on YouTube and other channels.
00:20:43.000And I think they might have 10 or 15,000 concurrence, maybe, maybe.
00:20:47.000And that doesn't even count our amazing partners on Real America's Voice.
00:20:51.000And we have a ragtag team because we care about it.
00:20:54.000We're entrepreneurial and we've earned the trust of the audience.
00:20:57.000While corporate force-fed regime media continues to get utterly destroyed, this program, The Charlie Kirk Show, is thriving like never before.
00:21:16.000Just because your show is inside the box or in a paper that no one reads does not give you an excuse to exist.
00:21:24.000The market will decide, and there are great journalists out there, of course.
00:21:28.000But right now, we're finally seeing the Great Purge.
00:21:32.000And very wealthy billionaires who bought these news media companies and they said to themselves, yeah, I can write a $30 million check a year to kind of keep it going.
00:21:46.000Well, you do that for six years and all of a sudden your CFO comes to you and says, hey, Mr. Bezos, just let you know, you know, you've subsidized $200 million of losses at the Washington Post?
00:22:02.000Yeah, I know that you say you really don't care, but is there any cost-saving measures that we should insist that the Washington Post does?
00:22:31.000That's a lot of money, even if you're worth $4 billion or if you're worth $30 billion to keep writing a $30 million check a year, $30 million, $40 million, $50 million check.
00:22:45.000And the same way that we saw some of the major brokerage firms and banks go under in the 2008 financial crisis, we might be seeing the collapse of institutional overly partisan media.
00:23:02.000I want to play this piece of tape here.
00:24:21.000But what's really dark is this is just the latest in months and months and months of layoffs in the media industry.
00:24:28.000In fact, tens of thousands of journalists have been laid off in the past year.
00:24:32.000Major media companies like BuzzFeed News have completely shuttered their news operations.
00:24:36.000Time magazine also just laid off a ton of people.
00:24:39.000And oh, Sports Illustrated basically shut down last week.
00:24:42.000Pretty much the entire digital media ecosystem that myself and a lot of other millennial journalists came up in has been completely hollowed out.
00:24:49.000And it's not just digital media sites.
00:25:11.000Even mainstream national media outlets owned by billionaires like the Washington Post, where I work, and The Atlantic, where I used to work, have done layoffs.
00:25:19.000If you're a young journalist, say there's almost no on-ramp to traditional journalism.
00:25:23.000Even if you do get a job, journalists' salaries have been stagnant and even declined.
00:25:27.000And by the way, we don't make that much to begin with.
00:25:29.000I don't think people understand how bad the world would be without journalists.
00:25:32.000All right, first of all, you're not that young.
00:25:35.000So stop acting in that little high-pitched squeal like you're a recent college grad just trying to make it and you just graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
00:25:46.000You're nearly Gen X. Again, she live action role plays as if she's some sort of 24-year-old.
00:28:44.000Even you look at Joe Rogan, you look at some of these other programs, they're doing very, very well because people want shows that engage in dialogue in the pursuit of truth.
00:29:17.000And I hope that they get what is coming for them.
00:29:20.000I hope that they have to go work at a nine-to-five job or go learn to code or go learn how to make a Frappuccino.
00:29:32.000Because that's basically the talent set that they have.
00:29:36.000In fact, making a Frappuccino is a lot harder than writing a low IQ rage-induced piece for the Washington Post and calling it disinformation.
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00:32:25.000If you go on the Apple News podcast charts, of which I go five or six times a day, because I want to see how our show is doing, I'm a competitive guy.
00:32:32.000I want to see how we're stacking up against the big dogs.
00:32:34.000And considering that, you know, we're still new to the space and that we're up against shows that spend millions of dollars in advertising.
00:33:16.000Then temporarily right now, it's this New Yorker thing, which I'm just going to dismiss because some of these charts, you can spike and then you go back down.
00:33:32.000Then two NPR shows, and then Candace Owens, conservative.
00:33:36.000So out of the top 15, if you take this New Yorker runaway princess thing, which I don't even know what this is about, serial investigative journalism of rural Minnesota.
00:33:45.000Yeah, that should be in the true crime section.
00:34:51.000But the New York Times, believe it or not, is fine because I think there was an editorial directive from the New York Times says, guys, let's not go full social justice warrior.
00:34:59.000Let's be left, but let's not be Marxist.
00:35:04.000The Associated Press is way worse than the New York Times.