The Charlie Kirk Show - January 12, 2023


The Dem Docs Double Standard with Donald Trump Jr. and Rep. Jim Jordan


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Donald Trump Jr. joins the show to talk about his new show on Rumble, a new app all of you should have downloaded on your phone. Then, former Vice President Joe Biden is accused of keeping documents in his garage next to his Corvette.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today in the Charlie Kirk Show, Donald Trump Jr. joins us as he has a new show on Rumble, r-um-b-le-e.com.
00:00:07.000 As always, you can email me your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:10.000 That's freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:11.000 And then Jim Jordan joins us, who is going to be the chair of the Judiciary Committee.
00:00:16.000 Very deep, in-depth, important conversation that we have.
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00:00:31.000 Here we go.
00:00:32.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:33.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
00:00:35.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
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00:00:42.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:43.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:44.000 His spirit, his love of this country.
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00:00:53.000 We 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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00:01:13.000 We have a special guest to kick us off today, Donald Trump Jr., who has a new show on Rumble, Rumble, the Rumble app.
00:01:21.000 All of you should have downloaded on your phone, rumble.com.
00:01:25.000 Don, welcome back to the program and congrats on your new show.
00:01:29.000 Thanks a lot, buddy.
00:01:30.000 How are you doing?
00:01:30.000 Doing great.
00:01:31.000 The fight for freedom and liberty continues.
00:01:33.000 Tell us about your new show.
00:01:35.000 Well, listen, to your point about the fight for liberty and freedom, we have to be doing it.
00:01:40.000 As you know, and as we've spoken about, we got to help promote these platforms, whether it's Real America's Voice, whether it's just those willing to take on that establishment.
00:01:48.000 That ain't YouTube.
00:01:50.000 You know, I was early on Rumble doing the short form stuff that I do, just fighting the good fight.
00:01:55.000 And as they're expanding the platform, creating the interactive components, all these things, they said, hey, would you do something a little bit more extensive?
00:02:02.000 And I said, you know what?
00:02:03.000 I will do that.
00:02:05.000 I got to sort of put my time where my mouth is and encourage these other platforms that are taking on sort of the tyranny of big tech and all the other things that are out there.
00:02:14.000 So I'm really excited to be on there.
00:02:16.000 I'm really excited to do sort of the long form component of these things.
00:02:19.000 I love sort of the interactive capabilities there where people can sort of interact live with me there as part of that show.
00:02:26.000 So I think we're going to have a good time and just keep fighting the good fight.
00:02:29.000 I think it's a great fit.
00:02:30.000 Rumble is doing very well.
00:02:31.000 Their users are up dramatically.
00:02:33.000 And credit to Chris and the entire Rumble team for having the grit and having the hustle.
00:02:38.000 It's not easy to build a tech company, let alone one, to go up against a multi-trillion dollar monolith.
00:02:44.000 And Rumble has successfully gone public.
00:02:46.000 They have successfully de-specced.
00:02:47.000 This is kind of wonky stuff.
00:02:49.000 But the point is that they are now a functioning real company that is really on a trajectory to be able to create that kind of parallel competitor.
00:02:58.000 So Don, I want to ask you about the breaking news today.
00:03:00.000 They raid Mar-a-Lago after President Trump was cooperating the federal agencies, showed the federal agents where the documents were, and he declassified them.
00:03:10.000 He had the right to do all those things, and they were protected by Secret Service.
00:03:13.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden as vice president of the United States, no declassification authority, was storing documents in his garage in Delaware without secret service protection next to his Corvette.
00:03:26.000 Your reaction.
00:03:27.000 Well, Charlie, you know, the garage was locked, so it makes it all okay, right?
00:03:32.000 You know, I thought it was bad when they said, so you wait a minute, it's in his think tank, which in and of itself is a little bit interesting given Joe Biden's incapable of actually thinking, but it's in his think tank, which is funded to the tune of $54 million by the Chinese Communist Party, right?
00:03:48.000 So that was bad enough.
00:03:49.000 And that means you know someone had access, right?
00:03:52.000 Apparently, Hunter Biden had four keys.
00:03:54.000 I'm sure his business partners had nothing to do with this, right?
00:03:57.000 But then you have the videos of him criticizing Trump about how irresponsible it is.
00:04:02.000 Then it goes to, well, what about the stuff in your garage?
00:04:05.000 He goes, oh, you know, the Corvette was locked.
00:04:08.000 I mean, it's totally fine.
00:04:09.000 I mean, it's a caricature of itself. 0.97
00:04:13.000 This is a clown show. 0.79
00:04:14.000 They use the FBI's hostage rescue team to raid Mar-a-Lago. 0.99
00:04:18.000 I mean, those guys deal with terrorists.
00:04:20.000 They don't serve search warrants for stuff that was under lock and key and guarded by the United States Secret Service.
00:04:28.000 But like, did Hunter Biden have access to Joe's home?
00:04:31.000 I'm sure he did because we know, and we frankly know that Joe was doing the same thing, but we certainly know that Hunter Biden had dealings with plenty of people that the U.S. government is doing, whether it's Ukraine, whether it's Russia, whether it's China.
00:04:44.000 Could all of these people have seen these documents?
00:04:47.000 And the answer is, of course.
00:04:48.000 And yet, I actually agree with you.
00:04:50.000 I said that I recorded a short form video earlier where I said what you said in your intro, which is like, I have a feeling DC's gotten what they've needed out of Joe Biden.
00:05:00.000 Like, either nothing will happen or they'll use this as their excuse to get rid of him, which, of course, they would love to do.
00:05:07.000 But I don't know that anyone else is that much better.
00:05:09.000 Maybe they need a fall guy for 24 that they can throw into us so they don't take out one of their glorious bench warmers like Pete Buttigieg, who's doing a phenomenal job as transportation secretary.
00:05:20.000 He's incredibly well credentialed, which means it doesn't matter, Charlie, if he's totally incompetent.
00:05:26.000 He can oversee a supply chain crisis.
00:05:29.000 He can call our highway systems racist, obviously, because they weren't designed with enough space for illegal migrants to live under them. 1.00
00:05:36.000 That's now racist. 1.00
00:05:38.000 We must just obey that level of stupidity. 1.00
00:05:41.000 The FAA can shut down while we give $130 billion to Ukraine. 1.00
00:05:46.000 I'm sure that could not have been used to update our antiquated systems.
00:05:49.000 And while our airplane fleets are grounded, though, Charlie, I want you and your viewers to rest assured that all is well because they are making sure that equity and inclusion are being implemented at the FAA.
00:06:04.000 Because when you're at 36,000 feet, you don't really care if the person in charge, whether it's flying the plane or ground control or air traffic control, are competent.
00:06:15.000 You care that they're diverse.
00:06:18.000 That's what we should be believing these days.
00:06:20.000 So I'm of a slightly different mindset.
00:06:22.000 I don't care if the person's red, blue, or green.
00:06:25.000 I want like someone who's competent.
00:06:28.000 Unfortunately, our transportation secretary is not, but he did check off a bunch of boxes in the woke categories, which allows you to be a high-level member of Joe Biden and probably any Democrat member of government's cabinet. 0.61
00:06:46.000 So competence be damned, Charlie Kirk.
00:06:49.000 It's 2023. 0.87
00:06:50.000 That's no longer a criterion.
00:06:51.000 And Pete Buttigieg doesn't even believe this in the micro.
00:06:54.000 He might say it in the macro. 0.85
00:06:55.000 If Pete Buttigieg was boarding a private plane and you said, excuse me, before we take off, just so you know, Pete Buttigieg, the pilots up front, they're black. 0.96
00:07:03.000 They got no idea what they're doing, but they're black. 0.95
00:07:06.000 Have a nice flight. 0.89
00:07:07.000 Do you think Pete Budig would say, you know, let's get up in the air?
00:07:11.000 He'd be like, whoa, Hold on a second.
00:07:14.000 No, I mean, in high-pressure situations, even the most woke person is going to privately demand competency.
00:07:21.000 The problem is they're mandating these sort of things on us when they get to live in a life of competency and merit and functioning high society when the rest of us have to have 10,000 flight delays.
00:07:36.000 No, he's fine.
00:07:37.000 He's fine putting your family on a plane flown by someone who didn't really pass the test. 0.90
00:07:44.000 But he's there because of his skin color.
00:07:46.000 He really did through it.
00:07:47.000 But like, hey, you know, equity and stuff, you know, and that's the whole problem.
00:07:51.000 It's not equality of opportunity where then you get to, and you saw that, my alma mater, which is racking up some pretty serious wins in the last year, whether it be being the home of Leah Thomas, the home or funding of the CCP think tank of Joe Biden that just was storing these classified documents or the fact that they wanted to get rid of, I guess, the MCAT for getting into Penn Medical.
00:08:19.000 I read an article about that last week because who really wants their doctors to have gone through like enough to decide whether maybe they should be doctors or not.
00:08:28.000 I mean, let's just, let's forget the hard parts of medical school and like, let's just get to the nice parts of equity and talk about how wonderful that is.
00:08:36.000 I mean, I'm sure the outcomes there will be wonderful.
00:08:40.000 You know, and we're joking about it, Charlie, but the reality is this is serious stuff.
00:08:45.000 Like our enemies are looking at us and they are laughing because like they couldn't have imagined a better scenario for them, whether that's the Chinese, you know, whether that's the Russians, whether it's literally, you know, any third world country that hates us at this point, they're saying, this is wonderful.
00:09:03.000 America's, you know, it's crazy.
00:09:07.000 We're imploding from within.
00:09:09.000 And, you know, all the brilliant minds in DC and stuff, they're going along with it because presumably they'll still be able to make enough money to take care of themselves and their families.
00:09:17.000 Who cares what happens to yours?
00:09:19.000 And that's sick.
00:09:20.000 So, Don, I want to explore the kind of topic you mentioned briefly, which I think there is more to this story because the double standard, of course, we can explain ad nauseum, which of course they raid Mar-a-Lago.
00:09:30.000 They don't go here. 0.87
00:09:31.000 But I think there is a game that is unfolding here, which is let's get rid of Joe Biden.
00:09:36.000 Let's get rid of the Biden family.
00:09:38.000 And I want to get your hypothesis as to why.
00:09:42.000 And also, does it involve the House Republicans having the discipline to go after the agencies, not just the low-hanging fruit of Joe Biden, Joe Biden, which, of course, we care about, but let's be honest, the FBI 20 years from now is going to be around.
00:09:57.000 Joe Biden probably won't be.
00:09:58.000 I'm not trying to be morbid or cruel.
00:10:00.000 Yeah, no, I agree with you.
00:10:01.000 Listen, I'm not impeachment for the sake of impeachment.
00:10:05.000 The Democrats tried doing that. 1.00
00:10:06.000 It was stupid. 1.00
00:10:08.000 Just stop them from doing the nonsense. 1.00
00:10:11.000 Honestly, I'm pretty happy so far with what they've done, whether it's going after the 87,000 IRS agents or SWAW.
00:10:17.000 Whether it's starting the church committees for people who didn't fully understand that, literally looking at the government abuse of power and where that stems from.
00:10:25.000 I mean, frankly, that's much more important.
00:10:28.000 And that's the difference that a lot of people don't understand.
00:10:30.000 And I think we saw a lot of that in sort of the speaker fight the other day.
00:10:33.000 There's sort of what's really happening and what's going on behind the scenes and then what people can fundraise off of and make viral for social media.
00:10:41.000 And those two things and the results don't often line up.
00:10:45.000 And so I don't want showmanship.
00:10:47.000 I actually want action and I want them to go after these agencies because if they don't, they're going to get so powerful as you saw last term where they can derail or try to derail a presidency and prevent a lot of stuff from going into place.
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00:12:07.000 So, Don, the House Republicans only have limited time, energy, and resources.
00:12:12.000 My advice to them would be to de-emphasize the investigations into Biden.
00:12:17.000 Still do some of the Chinese Communist Party stuff and barisma stuff, but it is the agencies.
00:12:22.000 It's the fourth branch of government, which you know very well.
00:12:25.000 They have the power.
00:12:26.000 They are the shadow government.
00:12:28.000 And so I don't want to see, in my personal opinion, Republicans spend all their time just going after Joe Biden when he might not even be president in two years and the intel agencies get off the hook.
00:12:38.000 What's your thoughts?
00:12:39.000 Yeah, I agree 100%.
00:12:41.000 I mean, I think the reality is, though, we got to prioritize that without question.
00:12:45.000 And as it relates to future elections, actually, what we have to prioritize is actually figuring out how to play the game the way the Democrats have.
00:12:52.000 Right now, as much as I don't want to say this as someone who believes in these concepts, the candidates, the issues, none of that matters if we're not essentially doing the same ballot harvest operation that the Democrats are doing and they figured out they weaponized COVID to make that happen.
00:13:07.000 And if we don't also focus on that, you know, to the fullest extent, national elections, in my opinion, are going to be virtually impossible to win.
00:13:16.000 Yeah.
00:13:16.000 And I mean, their repeated involvement in domestic politics.
00:13:21.000 And so, Don, you know, for years, you were saying that, hey, they're shadow banning us.
00:13:26.000 They're coming after us on Twitter.
00:13:28.000 And you and I were both called conspiracy theorists.
00:13:30.000 Now we have the receipts.
00:13:32.000 I want this to be a top priority of House Republicans.
00:13:35.000 I want to see Jack Dorsey subpoenaed.
00:13:37.000 I want to see the FBI.
00:13:38.000 Your thoughts, Don.
00:13:39.000 Well, how about like, you know, we knew what was going on at Twitter and yeah, they went after us.
00:13:44.000 How dare you?
00:13:44.000 I was like, well, I was getting like 7,000 retweets a tweet yesterday.
00:13:47.000 Now I'm getting four.
00:13:48.000 Yep.
00:13:50.000 It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out.
00:13:52.000 And I know we spoke about it extensively at the time.
00:13:55.000 We didn't have access or way to prove it, but it was just so obvious, right?
00:13:59.000 Of course they were doing it.
00:14:00.000 But you don't think that's going on at Facebook or Instagram or any, you know, Google or it's happening everywhere.
00:14:06.000 And by the way, more importantly, and I think what people aren't discussing is, you know, now that that sort of the cover has been pulled off and we've seen it, like, do you think what's went on at Twitter is any different than what's happening at every newsroom in America?
00:14:20.000 You know, this is election interference.
00:14:22.000 I remember when this was treasonous and yet it's like it's like it never happened.
00:14:26.000 You know, none of these people are talking about it because guess what?
00:14:28.000 They were all doing the same thing in the mainstream media and they're not talking about it right now.
00:14:33.000 So we need to get all of these guys and not just the guys where we've discovered it, but look into the details and levels of all of this.
00:14:40.000 I think these are all major public companies.
00:14:43.000 If they're doing these and playing these games, they have a responsibility to their shareholders where they're either not maximizing shareholder potential by banning and crushing large content creators like they've done with us and a lot of our friends and otherwise.
00:14:56.000 And I think, you know, we have to put a full court press on these guys or it's just going to keep going, right?
00:15:02.000 We have to make their life uncomfortable.
00:15:03.000 Frankly, a little blip in the ocean relative to Meta and a lot of these other platforms.
00:15:10.000 And I think Google being by far the worst defender of all of it.
00:15:13.000 And of course it's going on there.
00:15:16.000 But they're dictating what happened.
00:15:19.000 It doesn't have to be true, but if you can't find anything else, they're able to really push their thumb on the scales of truth.
00:15:28.000 And that's nonsense.
00:15:29.000 And it has to be looked into extensively and it has to be stopped because there's nothing freedom of speech about this stuff.
00:15:35.000 This is just gross propaganda at this point.
00:15:39.000 Check out rumble.com, everybody.
00:15:40.000 Don's going to be doing a show.
00:15:41.000 Don, what's the regularity you're doing the show with?
00:15:44.000 Yeah, I'm gonna do a couple times a week starting the week at the 23rd.
00:15:48.000 Uh, gonna go live uh with a lot of that and you know, little combination.
00:15:52.000 What's been great about the platform is, you know, hey, like, let's figure out what works.
00:15:56.000 I want to have sort of interaction with the audience, see what they like, whether it's the long-form interview, whether it's the shorter stuff, where it's me ranting, maybe a combination of all of it.
00:16:04.000 So, to have that flexibility, see what works.
00:16:07.000 I mean, I think you know, that's sort of the future.
00:16:09.000 We don't want to be going doing sort of the mainstream media coverage where you have the four talking points and you sit there and beat them into people's heads and you do that for 24/7.
00:16:17.000 I mean, we're going to have a lot more fun, a lot more interactive, and you know, get the people involved.
00:16:22.000 That's what this movement's always been about.
00:16:23.000 It's been about the people.
00:16:24.000 So, we want them involved and we want them interactive.
00:16:27.000 I'm thrilled you're doing it.
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00:16:34.000 Rumble is going to be the go-to destination for free speech, for new ideas, and for content creators.
00:16:41.000 Don, thrilled you're there.
00:16:42.000 Thanks so much.
00:16:43.000 Thanks a lot, Charlie.
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00:17:45.000 Let's get right to it.
00:17:45.000 With us is Congressman Jim Jordan, who I think we can now say is officially the chair of the Judiciary Committee.
00:17:52.000 Congressman, welcome.
00:17:53.000 Is that correct?
00:17:55.000 Well, not 100% officially because there has to be a resolution that gets actually voted on.
00:18:01.000 But it's been announced.
00:18:02.000 So look, we're looking forward to getting to work for the American people and doing the investigations that need to be done and passing the legislation that needs to be passed.
00:18:09.000 So that's what we're going to be focused on.
00:18:11.000 Well, I'm thrilled.
00:18:11.000 So, Congressman, walk us through this weaponization of government committee that is kind of paralleled and mirrored off of the church committee.
00:18:19.000 This is an unprecedented development in the last couple of decades to actually be able to have oversight of the fourth branch of government.
00:18:24.000 It seems as if it's going to be well staffed at the same level as the January 6th Committee.
00:18:29.000 Walk us through this.
00:18:30.000 Well, if I could first maybe just step back and say the reason it's needed is never forget what we've seen here in the last couple of years.
00:18:37.000 We've seen the Department of Justice target parents, treat them as terrorists for simply going to a school board meeting, speaking up for their son or their daughter.
00:18:44.000 We've seen the FBI spend $3.4 million, pay Twitter $3.4 million to censor American citizens.
00:18:53.000 And then, of course, we had the Department of Homeland Security set up the Disinformation Governance Board to try to set it up until we found out about it.
00:19:00.000 We all raised it, like, this is crazy.
00:19:02.000 As if some agency can determine what should be said, what shouldn't be said, what's allowed to be talked about, what's not allowed to be talked about.
00:19:09.000 So, this is what we're focused on: this pervasive kind of weaponizing government against your political opponents.
00:19:15.000 It goes all the way to the president who stood in front of Independence Hall and said what he did, called half the country fascist.
00:19:20.000 And of course, it's driven by now the dozens and dozens of FBI agents who have come to us as whistleblowers and told us about what's going on in the FBI that is political in nature.
00:19:32.000 So, that's why we have it.
00:19:34.000 It's going to be nine six, nine Republicans, six Democrats, and we're going to get to work on hopefully exposing everything so because the first step you have to do to stop it is get all the facts on the table so that we can protect Americans' First Amendment liberties.
00:19:46.000 So, a couple thoughts on this.
00:19:47.000 The first, what are you going to do or how are you prepared to be able to navigate the labyrinth that these intel agencies are going to have waiting for you?
00:19:55.000 The trapdoors, the classified documents, the staff.
00:19:58.000 So, you have a great staff.
00:20:00.000 I know that.
00:20:01.000 Phenomenal reputation.
00:20:02.000 But walk us through that.
00:20:03.000 And they're going to, I mean, we know that the Justice Department, we know that, I mean, we've been trying to get information for two years as in the minority.
00:20:11.000 Now, when you get the majority, you have the ability to subpoena, but we still know they're going to drag their feet.
00:20:16.000 It's going to be tough.
00:20:17.000 That's just the nature of government today, unfortunately.
00:20:20.000 It's tough to get information from the executive branch.
00:20:23.000 But again, remember, we have these whistleblowers.
00:20:26.000 We're going to work on seeing if they're willing to testify.
00:20:28.000 We think many of them are, because frankly, we believe many of them have been retaliated against for coming forward and telling us what's going on.
00:20:36.000 So we think they're going to be willing to testify, willing to be deposed.
00:20:40.000 So we'll start there.
00:20:41.000 And then also, remember, we can get information from folks who've left the government, who worked there.
00:20:46.000 There's a great piece out today from this Nicole Parker.
00:20:49.000 She said on the Fox News, and she talks about why I left the FBI.
00:20:54.000 And she left the FBI because of the very things that we've been talking about.
00:20:57.000 So there's someone that I think potentially we can talk to.
00:21:01.000 Not to mention the people who were targeted themselves, like parents, the 25 parents we know about who the FBI targeted because a whistleblower came and told us these individuals were the ones who had the threat tag designation, put on their name, the FBI showed up their door and investigated them.
00:21:16.000 So that's where we start with this investigation, I believe.
00:21:19.000 I'm thrilled to hear that.
00:21:20.000 So, Congressman, a fear I have, and we had Thomas Masty on the other day, and I was really excited about him being part of this.
00:21:27.000 I think he's such an ethical and he's a principled person who really cares about civil liberties deeply.
00:21:33.000 And but so, one of my fears, though, because he mentioned something, I thought about it overnight, is he mentioned that, and you said there's two Democrats might be on this committee.
00:21:41.000 Congressman, what Democrats are going to be on this committee that aren't going to work against your aims and your goals that might actually double-cross you with the intel agencies?
00:21:50.000 They might be leaking, they might be secretly telling Christopher Wray kind of what you guys are going after.
00:21:56.000 What assurances can you give us that these Democrats won't work in this sabotage agency?
00:22:00.000 No, I think they are going to oppose us because they said it even before the resolution passed creating the committee.
00:22:07.000 So, Jerry Nandler was quoted in the press as saying this is all political.
00:22:10.000 We're going to fight this tooth and nail.
00:22:12.000 It's not political.
00:22:13.000 And Democrats, frankly, used to care about the First Amendment, and they used to want to defend it.
00:22:17.000 So, that's unfortunate that that's the position they've taken right from the get-go, frankly, before this committee was even formed.
00:22:23.000 But it is what it is.
00:22:24.000 We're going to do our work regardless.
00:22:26.000 I hope they will have second thoughts.
00:22:27.000 I hope they will say, you know what?
00:22:29.000 We think the First Amendment is so darn important.
00:22:31.000 And understand, Charlie, and you know this because you've talked about it.
00:22:33.000 Every right we enjoy as Americans under the First Amendment has been assaulted in the last few years.
00:22:38.000 Your right to practice your faith, your right to petition the government, right to assemble, freedom of press, freedom of speech.
00:22:43.000 Everyone has been attacked.
00:22:44.000 Ultimately, that's what this committee is about.
00:22:46.000 It's about protecting Americans' First Amendment liberties, protecting Americans' rights, protecting due process, and not having the double standard that we see, frankly, playing out in front of us as we're talking with these classified documents and how President Trump was tweeted, treated, versus how Secretary Clinton was treated and how Joe Biden's been treated.
00:23:05.000 Yeah, and so let's talk about that.
00:23:08.000 Another fear that I have and a concern, and Congressman, you can push back as aggressively as you want, is that House Republicans are going to probably emphasize the Biden crime family too much when you and I both know that, unfortunately, the power is really deeper.
00:23:21.000 It is a shadow government.
00:23:23.000 So, how are you going to strike that balance?
00:23:25.000 Because my fear is that it becomes too much about Biden, who, if we're honest with ourselves, 25 years from now, I don't mean to be morbid, I don't know if Joe Biden's still going to be a player in American politics, but the shadow government probably will.
00:23:37.000 So, how are you guys going to balance that?
00:23:40.000 No, good point.
00:23:42.000 Mr. Comer, Jamie Comer, who will be chair of the oversight committee, is going to focus in on the Biden issue and the Biden family business operation.
00:23:52.000 We in the over, or excuse me, in the judiciary committee, our only touch on that will be how the Department of Justice has handled certain things relative to the Biden family.
00:24:03.000 We are more focused on just this double standard, this treatment of people with a different political persuasion, the way that they're treated differently.
00:24:12.000 Hey, here's another great example.
00:24:14.000 So, there's a statute that directly on point, 18 USC 1507, where it says, if you're protesting, trying to intimidate and influence the Supreme Court justice, you're not allowed to do that.
00:24:24.000 That's against the law.
00:24:25.000 No one, to my knowledge, has been prosecuted after what we saw at all this conservative justices' homes this past summer after the draft opinion was leaked.
00:24:33.000 But then you have Mark Hauck.
00:24:36.000 Yep, that's right.
00:24:37.000 With an assassination temple and justice. 0.79
00:24:38.000 Then you have Mark Hauck, who has his door kicked in, is arrested, handcuffed in front of his wife and seven kids for praying in front of an abortion clinic outside of Philadelphia.
00:24:50.000 And local police said he did nothing wrong.
00:24:52.000 There were no charges there.
00:24:52.000 But the FBI comes in and does that, but yet hasn't prosecuted anyone, or not to mention the hundreds, hundreds, over 100 churches and crisis pregnancy centers that have been attacked since the Dobbs leak.
00:25:04.000 To my knowledge, no one's been prosecuted there either.
00:25:06.000 So this double standard, I think, is really important that we highlight.
00:25:10.000 And highlighting, I think, helps us, again, get to the facts and present this information to the American people.
00:25:16.000 This excites me because the machinery of the fourth branch of government, they go untouched.
00:25:23.000 And you and I both know that they have an arrogance and they have a hoobris.
00:25:26.000 I mean, look, Christopher Wray stops a Senate hearing.
00:25:29.000 He's like, sorry, I got to go take the taxpayer-funded Gulf State up to the Adirondacks.
00:25:33.000 And to be able to cross-examine them, to really get into the weeds.
00:25:37.000 Now, Congressman, I think that there will be an interesting thing that you guys might discover, which is I believe that the regime of the intel agencies and these domestic government groups, I think they've been going after people on the progressive left as well.
00:25:55.000 I think you might uncover that it's not just conservatives and moms and conservative moms and homeschool groups and Christians.
00:26:03.000 I think what we call the radical left, the Bernie Sanders types, the Pramila Jayapoles, I think you might uncover some evidence that the AOC types might have also had some of their domestic political aims and ambitions interfered with.
00:26:16.000 And in fact, I encourage you guys to try to uncover that because that might actually be able to create a consensus and a coalition to fix this.
00:26:26.000 I agree 100%.
00:26:28.000 And frankly, it used to be the left cared about the First Amendment.
00:26:30.000 I hope they will join us.
00:26:32.000 And remember, when the initial, when this was done in the 70s, this kind of investigative work, it was largely because the government was targeting more people on the left of our political spectrum.
00:26:42.000 So I agree with you 100%.
00:26:44.000 The fundamental thing here is so many of these people who are doing this never put their name on the ballot.
00:26:50.000 Many of them never even had Senate confirmation.
00:26:53.000 So that's not how our country is supposed to.
00:26:55.000 It's supposed to be the people whose names are on the ballot, who get elected to Congress, who make the laws.
00:27:00.000 Those people are directly accountable to we, the people, to the country, to the citizens, but not unelected bureaucrats who think they run the country, who treat the American citizens the way they have, and have such a disregard for the First Amendment.
00:27:13.000 So, Congressman, I know you're tight on time, and thank you for joining us.
00:27:16.000 I just have kind of one final question.
00:27:17.000 I ended with Thomas Massey with this, and I first want to start the question with a statement.
00:27:22.000 First, we have your back because we know that they're going to try to character assassinate you and come after you because you are now going into waters that are no-go zones, that are really kind of considered to be the third rail of a no-fly zone.
00:27:36.000 You're not supposed to touch this.
00:27:38.000 Just talk a little bit, if you can, about your own personal faith, your love of America that is giving you the conviction to go into these uncharted waters because you and I both know they're going to try to discredit you, come after your staff.
00:27:52.000 They're going to try every type of clandestine effort possible.
00:27:58.000 How are you anticipating that as you know that you're going up against the Leviathan itself?
00:28:05.000 Well, I appreciate saying that our job is to get to the truth.
00:28:08.000 It's part of our duty.
00:28:09.000 God has blessed this country.
00:28:10.000 It's the greatest nation ever.
00:28:12.000 And my favorite scripture verse, I may have said this in a, I don't know if I said this last week on the floor or not, but my favorite scripture verse is 2 Timothy 4:7.
00:28:19.000 Paul's the old guy giving advice to the young guy.
00:28:22.000 And he says, fight the good fight, finish the course, keep the faith.
00:28:25.000 And I like it because of the action in it: fight, finish, keep.
00:28:29.000 Not wimpy words, words of action, words that you frankly would associate with Americans.
00:28:33.000 Americans are people who aren't timid.
00:28:35.000 We are not timid folk.
00:28:37.000 We are people of action and initiative.
00:28:39.000 And our job is to make sure this country will always offer its citizens the ability to set a goal, have a dream, and go make it happen and not have the government impact that and hurt you in that effort.
00:28:50.000 That's what's at stake.
00:28:50.000 That's what Congress is supposed to be doing.
00:28:52.000 So we'll do it the best we can.
00:28:54.000 And, you know, I've had all kinds of things said about me.
00:28:56.000 I assume they'll say more bad things about me, but we'll just kind of do the work of the American people and make sure we protect the liberties we enjoy under our Constitution.
00:29:04.000 In my opinion, what you are about to embark on is the most important project of this new Congress.
00:29:09.000 It is the highest stakes game.
00:29:11.000 I believe the civilization is on the line.
00:29:13.000 You have an ally here with all of our audience and our followers.
00:29:17.000 So, Congressman, keep the faith.
00:29:18.000 And when they come after you, we're going to know why.
00:29:21.000 And we're going to be able to punch back twice as hard, metaphorically, of course.
00:29:24.000 Congressman, thank you so much.
00:29:25.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:29:26.000 Take care.
00:29:26.000 You bet.
00:29:29.000 Okay, just in the last week, Kevin McCarthy became Speaker of the House.
00:29:33.000 And a lot of you in the audience are very skeptical.
00:29:35.000 In fact, I have, I counted.
00:29:37.000 There were 1,800 emails that said he is a traitor and he is Judas, one or the other.
00:29:42.000 I think that language is uncalled for and unnecessarily heated, but I hear you as the audience.
00:29:48.000 But many of you said, you know what?
00:29:49.000 I don't like this, but let's give this a chance.
00:29:53.000 Let's see what happens out of the gate.
00:29:55.000 Okay, so the first act of Congress is they decided to pass the rules, which include 72 hours to read bills, win.
00:30:03.000 Every single concession that was made verbally by Kevin McCarthy and the 20 holdouts ended up getting manifested into rules.
00:30:09.000 72 hours to read bills, done.
00:30:13.000 Ending of the COVID emergency, done.
00:30:15.000 Voting in person, done.
00:30:16.000 All those things were done.
00:30:17.000 Jim Jordan, head of the House Judiciary Committee, getting done and will get done.
00:30:22.000 In-person committee meetings, done.
00:30:25.000 Having the church committee equivalent, done in the rules package.
00:30:28.000 That is done.
00:30:29.000 That is happening.
00:30:30.000 That is no longer abstract.
00:30:31.000 That is no longer a maybe.
00:30:32.000 That is happening and staffed with really good people.
00:30:35.000 Anti-Chinese Communist Party Committee, done.
00:30:38.000 First act of Congress, which some of you say, well, this is just performative.
00:30:42.000 Yes, but the defunding of the 87,000 IRS agents.
00:30:46.000 Senate's not going to take it up.
00:30:48.000 Biden's not going to sign it.
00:30:49.000 But it did feel good, and that's not insignificant, by the way, to finally be able to say, hey, we control things.
00:30:55.000 We're in charge.
00:30:56.000 And so it was a little bit of kind of a signal saying we're in charge.
00:31:00.000 Our first act of Congress, 87,000 IRS agents.
00:31:04.000 By the way, in the rules package, one member, no confidence on Speaker and the Rules.
00:31:09.000 Three Freedom Caucus members on Rules Committee.
00:31:11.000 This is all just in the last week.
00:31:14.000 And again, the credit goes towards the holdouts that negotiated this sort of deal and this sort of pace.
00:31:22.000 And today, Kevin McCarthy has come out and he has said that, hey, I want you, the American people, to see all of the footage from January 6th.
00:31:34.000 Those 14,000 hours, let's make it public.
00:31:37.000 Play cut 88.
00:31:51.000 Congressman Gates said that he said that you would be willing to do that.
00:31:54.000 Yeah, I think the public should see what has happened on day.
00:31:57.000 I've watched what Nancy Pelosi did, where she politicized it.
00:32:01.000 We're for the first time in the history as a speaker, not allowing the minority to appoint to a committee, to pick and choose. 0.52
00:32:09.000 We watched the politicization of this.
00:32:11.000 I think the American public should actually see all what happened instead of a report that's written for a political basis.
00:32:17.000 And I think the answer.
00:32:19.000 We're looking through that.
00:32:20.000 I want to be very thoughtful about it, but yes, I'm engaged to do that.
00:32:23.000 And I'm going to personally encourage Speaker McCarthy, publicly and privately, release the tapes.
00:32:29.000 That is an easy win.
00:32:32.000 By the way, other wins in the last week, Kevin McCarthy, Speaker McCarthy, has stripped Elon Omar and Eric Swalwell off committees.
00:32:41.000 They are off committees, done.
00:32:44.000 And with the huge backlash from the media and Swalwell and said, sorry, you're done.
00:32:48.000 By the way, Adam Schiff off intel.
00:32:50.000 And so just in the last week, we are seeing real progress.
00:32:53.000 Someone right here, Charlie, I like what the House is doing.
00:32:55.000 I had doubts about Kevin McCarthy, but I kept an open mind.
00:32:57.000 So far, he's doing what he's promised.
00:32:59.000 But doesn't all this have to get to the Senate to be enacted?
00:33:02.000 The Senate will not approve any of the things the House is doing.
00:33:03.000 That's not true.
00:33:04.000 Yes, the 87,000 IRS agents requires the Senate.
00:33:07.000 The Senate is not involved in Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, or Elon Omar being on Intel committees.
00:33:12.000 The Senate is not involved in the declassification of 14,000 hours of January 6th footage.
00:33:17.000 The Speaker of the House can do that.
00:33:19.000 Not involved in the church committee.
00:33:21.000 It's not involved in the anti-CCP committee.
00:33:23.000 It's not involved in any of those things.
00:33:25.000 And so all of these are wins that can happen siloed off within the House of Representatives.
00:33:29.000 So yes, legislatively, that's going to be difficult to get into action, except on the debt ceiling and the fiscal and the fiscal issues and the spending limits.
00:33:40.000 That now the House has serious leverage to go back to the House, go back to the Senate and say, no, we're not going to approve another debt ceiling increase.
00:33:47.000 So now there's finally some negotiating power.
00:33:49.000 Don't want to get your hopes up too high.
00:33:51.000 There's going to be to be some give and take.
00:33:53.000 But the new House rules say that you're not allowed to pass omnibus bills anymore, period.
00:33:59.000 So the omnibus would never have happened.
00:34:00.000 It would have had to be 12 separate votes.
00:34:03.000 McCarthy said today, is the Senate even in this week?
00:34:06.000 What do they even do?
00:34:07.000 Oh, yeah, they haven't done anything.
00:34:09.000 And that is correct.
00:34:10.000 The Senate is on vacation or at home.
00:34:11.000 The House, for their credit, they're moving at a big pace.
00:34:14.000 So can they keep it up?
00:34:15.000 I don't know.
00:34:15.000 Is this all just kind of virtue signaling out of the gate to say, hey, 20, I hear you and see you?
00:34:20.000 It's actually kind of irrelevant, the intention.
00:34:22.000 What is relevant is what is actually happening, which is real action.
00:34:27.000 On this program, we are going to encourage the good and we're going to support results.
00:34:31.000 I hope they keep up this hustle and this pace.
00:34:35.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:34:37.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:34:40.000 Thank you so much for listening and God bless.
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