Today on The Charlie Kirk Show, a full cultural realignment with a sigh of relief, we explain the UFC fight and more with Sen. Eric Schmidt (R-NY) who joins us on the show to talk about his thoughts on the Trump transition team and what he thinks of the team that President Trump has assembled so far. We also talk about the UFC Fight and what it means for the future of the UFC. Finally, we talk about why the Democratic Party is not as strong as they seem and why we should not be surprised that Trump won the election and what we can do to make sure that the next four years are better than the last four years. Join us at AmericaFest in Phoenix, Arizona on Dec. 19th-21st. AmericaFest is the event of the year and is the best way to spend your last weekend in Mar-A-Laveray. Don t miss it! CHEERS! Check it out right now at Amfest.org/TurningPointUSA/AMF and join us at the event on Dec 19th, 20th, 21st, and 22nd at AMF in Phoenix Arizona! CHECK OUT AMF on Amfest! That's AmericaFest! This is Amfest, everybody! - The Charlie Kirker Show. - Charlie & The Turning Point Team Subscribe to our new podcast, "Turning Point USA" - Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on your favorite streaming platform Subscribe on the App Store or Google Play or wherever else you get your favorite podcasting platform. Learn more about your ad choices. FREE Training Tip: How do you get 5% off the show? Learn how to save 10% off your first month? Subscribe & Review the Deal of the Day: $5, get 20% off for 7 months for 7 days and get 7 Months of VIP Pricing? FREE Training & 7% OFF for 7 Months? Learn How to Protect Your Future? Get 20% Off Upgrading Your Future With VIP & 7 Months Of VIP Proven Winners Only Shipping Up to $99 a Year-UPC? Click Here! Learn More About Meals On The CharlieKirk Show: Charlie Kirk Show: Change Point USA: The Real Good Thing: The Ultimate Guide To Win It All? CHILLING Point USA? - FREE Shipping & Support The Showing It?
00:01:02.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. 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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00:02:11.000Phase two is making sure that your picks get selected and confirmed.
00:02:16.000And then phase three is actually governing the country.
00:02:19.000And then phase three is a whole different thing, which of course we will be on top of every day here on the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:02:25.000We're here in Palm Beach and the energy is just off the charts.
00:02:28.000I have to start here and then we'll go into the UFC fight, which is super interesting and kind of making some comments on the team that Donald Trump is assembling.
00:02:37.000But first, people are coming up to me saying, Charlie, I can finally feel as if there is a weight lifted off my shoulders.
00:02:43.000You are living through, and again, it will fade a little bit, but it's going to last a lot longer than I think people realize, a national sigh of relief.
00:02:53.000You are living through just kind of this major moment where everyday people feel as if we don't necessarily have to live through crisis to crisis.
00:03:05.000Now, understand the Democrats right now, as we are doing this broadcast, are the weakest that we have seen them In quite some time.
00:03:18.000There's these hilarious stories being written out in Politico and the New York Times about how they're pointing figures and they're saying, well, we have to have the left wing of the Democrat Party kind of stay in its corner and we have to re-embrace Bill Clinton.
00:03:57.000Just this last weekend, Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough met with Donald Trump.
00:04:02.000They went to Mar-a-Lago and met with Donald Trump to go bend the knee, which is interesting.
00:04:06.000Why would you go meet with what you called Hitler?
00:04:10.000Why would you go meet with what you falsely call the fascists?
00:04:13.000Because they never actually believed it.
00:04:14.000And now they want to be in the good graces of the incoming president.
00:04:18.000So Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough go to kiss the ring and bend the knee.
00:04:24.000As we're watching this team assemble in front of us, This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to get changemakers in every cabinet level.
00:04:31.000Remember the lesson in 2016, 2017, 2018 was that we won the election, but we did not win on transition.
00:04:39.000It's one of the reasons I'm here just to help any way I can.
00:04:42.000Help to sit in meetings, help to advise where I can, help to expose things that are necessary, help fulfill the president's mandate and fulfill the president's agenda and The American people.
00:05:44.000The personnel that you have surrounding a candidate, surrounding a politician, will end up resulting in the policy.
00:05:52.000It's not enough just to say, hey, I want to secure the southern border.
00:05:55.000If you have a bunch of people working at Immigration Customs Enforcement, if you've got a bunch of people at the Department of Justice, like the Solicitor General, that does not believe in the agenda, then they're not going to defend it in court.
00:06:09.000This last weekend, Donald Trump Went to go claim what was his.
00:06:14.000He went back to Madison Square Garden, which of course was his major rally before the end of the campaign, to a UFC fight, of course, hosted by Dana White.
00:06:23.000And he was joined by his Avengers squad.
00:06:27.000He was joined by Vivek Ramaswamy, Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, Bobby Kennedy.
00:06:34.000He was joined by the squad that is going to help take back America.
00:06:38.000And we are here To help them every single step of the way.
00:07:32.000For you, for your dreams, for the future of your children, we're going to leave the greatest comeback in American history under Donald Trump's leadership.
00:07:45.000God spared my life for a reason, to restore America to greatness.
00:07:52.000Together we can truly make America great again.
00:07:56.000Now, most of that was a campaign video that Dana repurposed.
00:08:07.000And this was shown at UFC 309 as Donald Trump enters triumphantly.
00:08:13.000Understand the cultural realignment that we're living through right now.
00:08:16.000In what world a decade ago would a Republican candidate in 2014, a Republican candidate and president-elect would enter UFC with roaring applause?
00:08:27.000Donald Trump has completely remade the Republican Party, and it doesn't stop there.
00:08:32.000With winning the popular vote and this kind of national sigh of relief, it is an ongoing celebration.
00:08:39.000An ongoing celebration at UFC and then also on NFL Sunday.
00:08:44.000Let's just play cut five as I continue to narrate.
00:08:47.000The Trump dance is going viral from John Jones to Brock Bowers all throughout the NFL where people are doing the YMCA dance.
00:08:57.000I just think it's hilarious that Donald Trump Has not just realigned the Republican Party, but he has realigned the YMCA dance.
00:09:04.000And if you know, you know, and I'm just going to say that.
00:09:07.000This is not just a political victory, everybody.
00:09:10.000This is a full-scale reorientation of our culture.
00:09:14.000This is a full-scale reconfiguration of how we view what is acceptable, what is cool, what is desirable.
00:09:23.000The Democrat Party has embraced what we know what they always have been, which is a bunch of scolds.
00:09:30.000Hall monitors, political correct police officers, self-involved, self-righteous elitists, that the Democrat Party...
00:11:19.000They know that 90% of permanent change comes from the mind and they work on eliminating the reason you gain this weight in the first place.
00:11:24.000There's no shortcuts, pills, or injections.
00:11:26.000Just solid, science-based nutrition and behavior change.
00:11:29.000And finally, a probably most importantly, I lost 30 pounds.
00:12:57.000And what's so amazing is that the bad guys have done everything they could to make him seem uncool, to make him seem toxic, poisonous.
00:13:06.000And that actually made Donald Trump more liked.
00:13:09.000The more they attacked Trump and the more that Trump fought, he became more interesting.
00:13:14.000Let's play cut 10 of Trump's walkout at UFC. Ladies and gentlemen, look who is now making his way to the world-famous octagon flanked by UFC CEO Dana White.
00:13:27.00045, soon to be 47, President-elect Donald Trump.
00:13:34.000I wish the people at Cajon could hear the sound in this room.
00:14:11.000If you are a Democrat left-winger, What popular institution right now that nonpolitical people consume, that's the kicker, that nonpolitical people consume, excites you.
00:15:16.000In fact, it's met with celebration and applause.
00:15:20.000Nick Bosa takes a fine just to say he loves Trump, says it's worth it.
00:15:23.000And then Nick Bosa does the Trump dance with other, by the way, players of all different races and backgrounds, Hispanic, Black, White doesn't matter.
00:15:35.000They're all doing the Trump dance because Trump is a symbol of cultural realignment.
00:15:42.000He's a symbol against political correctness, of free speech.
00:15:46.000Donald Trump is a symbol to stick it to the man.
00:15:48.000Donald Trump is a symbol that even when you are down and the odds are against you, Thank you, America.
00:16:14.000Trump is a symbol of the value of calling it like it is.
00:16:18.000It took eight years, but more and more people realized, well, Trump was right about what he said on the border, on foreign policy, on war, on political correctness.
00:16:26.000The left so overplayed their hand by trying to censor our thoughts.
00:16:32.000Let's play cut John Jones, who is the UFC champion from this last week.
00:16:37.000And he gave his belt to Donald Trump, by the way.
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00:18:45.000Joining us now is a wonderful man and a fighter for America, one of the good guys in D.C., Senator Eric Schmidt from the great state of Missouri.
00:19:17.000And also this civics class that we should all revisit, which is the states created The federal government and agreed that they should have limited powers, right?
00:19:28.000So when you get to DC, it's like everybody wants to solve every problem with expanded authority and that's just not the design of the founders.
00:19:35.000I think that is the most important lesson because it's meant to protect liberty, right?
00:19:39.000You spread out power, you diffuse it, and the purpose of all of that is to protect individual liberty.
00:19:44.000I think, yeah, people in DC should take note Revisit that.
00:19:48.000And one in particular, now that we're on this topic, Senator, is I would love to see the Republican House, Republican Senate revisit how we veered off course where the administrative state is able to author laws without consent of Congress.
00:20:02.000I know this is something that you've really been passionate about when you were previously Attorney General and also in the Senate, but we're talking about anywhere between 80,000 to 100,000 laws and regulations that have basically been authored and implemented without Yeah,
00:20:29.000in fact, when I gave my first floor speech or maiden speech in the Senate, the two topics that I identified as the biggest threat to our republic is the suppression of free speech and the growth of the administrative state.
00:20:41.000And I think that, you know, the administrative state It's just as antithetical to the design that the founders that we're talking about the Constitution had in mind, because the whole idea of our country is that we could self-govern, right?
00:20:53.000And this was an anomaly in world history.
00:20:56.000It still is, for the most part, in the world today, that the people are the sovereign, right?
00:21:01.000And the people grant this authority to their elected representatives to go do certain things, and they can send them home or they can send them back.
00:21:10.000The big problem, Charlie, as you know, with the administrative state is nobody's accountable.
00:21:14.000You have no idea who the deputy undersecretary of some agency you've never heard of is.
00:21:19.000And if they can write a guidance letter to destroy your business or your livelihood or take away your liberties, or say, for example, OSHA wants to force 100 million people to take the shot or the...
00:21:31.000Joe Biden with the stroke of a pen can wipe away a half a trillion dollars worth of student loan debt.
00:21:36.000That's what they want, because they want to aggrandize their authority.
00:21:39.000But that's not what they're empowered to do.
00:21:41.000And so I do think there's a couple things that should happen by way of executive order.
00:21:46.000And I think you're going to see Vivek and Elon Musk take on some of these things that can be done from an executive level.
00:21:51.000But we do have to have structural reform in Congress.
00:21:54.000Whereas if some bureaucrat wants to ban gas stoves, we should have to vote on that, right?
00:22:00.000And then the people in Missouri can judge me on my vote.
00:22:01.000The people from Idaho can judge somebody from Idaho on their vote.
00:22:04.000But right now, there's just no accountability.
00:22:06.000So it really is a fundamental issue about our republic and self-government.
00:22:12.000So I absolutely think there needs to be a focus.
00:22:14.000It's some of the things that I'm going to be working on in the Senate.
00:22:16.000And of course, in my previous life as AG, we brought a lot of lawsuits that were successful, but we brought that Missouri versus Biden lawsuit that showed these administrative actors coordinating with some of the biggest companies in the history of the world to suppress speech, which is really scary, too.
00:22:30.000Without getting too wonky, this is just for my own purposes and the audience will definitely hopefully go deeper on this.
00:22:39.000The Chevron doctrine does not go as far on this topic, is that right?
00:22:44.000That just means that the scope of the regulation cannot be extended.
00:22:48.000It doesn't necessarily get down to the route that regulatory agencies cannot author new rules.
00:22:55.000So I think the best way to describe it is there were two cases that kind of chipped away.
00:22:59.000There was this, and then the most important one probably is this West Virginia versus EPA case that was decided a few years ago.
00:23:05.000So for the audience, Chevron gave outsized authority or deference to these agencies, which basically said, hey, kind of trust the experts here, and the courts would defer to their opinions in an outsized way.
00:23:16.000So that starts to get chipped away over the years.
00:23:19.000There's something called the major questions doctrine, which is, hey, if this is a big enough deal, maybe Congress should have to weigh in on it.
00:23:26.000So that came down a couple years ago, which was a big step.
00:23:28.000But in the Loper-Bride case that was decided this past summer, the Supreme Court basically said Chevron was wrongly decided.
00:23:38.000Okay, so these agencies shouldn't have that much authority.
00:23:41.000But what now remains, Charlie, is what are we left with?
00:23:46.000And so, actually, I'm leading a working group in the Senate, working with people like Mike Lee and others, so that Congress now reclaims some of this authority, right?
00:23:55.000We should be the ones that have to vote on these things.
00:23:57.000Our legislation should probably be a little bit more prescriptive, so we don't give them this much authority.
00:24:03.000The other truth is, some people in Congress kind of like it, Charlie, because they can say, hey, I voted for the greatest bill in the world, but I can't believe what the EPA did.
00:24:11.000They can kind of pass the buck and we got to change that dynamic too.
00:24:14.000So there's some work to do, but that's a big opening for us with the Chevron decision being overturned, but we got to do something with it.
00:24:22.000So now shifting gears to personnel, which obviously that's been all the attention the last week and a half on the newly minted Senate, which is now 53 seats, as long as they don't completely steal it in Pennsylvania.
00:25:23.000There's been a lot of chatter about advice and consent, about potential recess appointments.
00:25:29.000Let me take a step back before we get specific.
00:25:32.000Do you feel as if in the conference there is a renewed sense of urgency to give President Trump his cabinet that the American people voted for?
00:25:40.000I know you were not in the Senate then, but at least based on your colleagues that were, do you think that we're in a more urgent place to move more rapidly than in January of 2017?
00:26:37.000President Trump, after the Democrats tried to bankrupt him, keep him off the ballot, throw him in jail, there were two assassination attempts, he delivered the biggest political comeback in American history.
00:27:45.000And so we have a very unique opportunity, a once in a lifetime opportunity, as far as I'm concerned, to really take on Permanent Washington.
00:27:53.000And so, yes, there are things that we can do in the Congress to address those things structurally, and we should.
00:27:59.000But you also need reformers inside the agencies to go do that and who share that vision that you trust as well.
00:28:06.000And to me, that's what these cabinet appointments are all about.
00:28:09.000And so when President Trump, who got a mandate, sweeping the battleground states, winning the popular vote — and I'm not sure how many people actually saw that coming, if they're being honest — Winning all of those things, he deserves the ability, in my view, to put the people that he trusts to go execute on this reform agenda.
00:28:26.000And so I do think there's momentum for that.
00:28:29.000My hope is if there are any concerns anybody actually has, that they would try to address those early.
00:28:34.000Because, in my view, I'm going to support them all.
00:28:37.000But we've got to get to a place, when we get there January 5th, We've got to be ready to rock and roll with hearings and move these nominees forward for approval.
00:28:49.000Okay, so just really quick, there's been a lot of chatter on recess appointments.
00:28:53.000Is there appetite within the body, not leadership, if we get too stalled here to be able to use recess appointments where both the houses of Congress would basically recess and President Trump could fill his cabinet for two years and 700 days?
00:29:15.000It'll take a great deal of coordination, which we've got the House and the Senate allows us to do that if we have to get there.
00:29:21.000And recessed appointments, by the way, aren't some like historical anomaly.
00:29:25.000They happened a lot prior to about 12 years ago.
00:29:28.000So I absolutely think they should be on the table.
00:29:30.000They need to be used if we have to get there.
00:29:32.000But I'm also pretty confident That sense of urgency you and I were talking about, that is also for making sure these personnel decisions get the full attention early and for a very long time.
00:29:43.000If that means that we got to be there over the weekend, whatever, that's what we should do.
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00:30:51.000So, Senator, what legislative priorities can we expect in the first 100 days?
00:30:57.000What bills are you going to be pushing for to get on the president's desk and sign into law?
00:31:03.000Well, I think the first two orders of business, and we're going to work closely with the Trump administration.
00:31:06.000I mean, one of the reasons I'm excited about this is that I think the...
00:31:11.000The effort between a Republican House, Republican Senate, and the White House now, I mean, we can do a lot of important things.
00:31:18.000I think when he comes in on day one, I mean, he's in a bunch of executive orders, but mission, I think, number one will be securing our border, right?
00:31:27.000The truth is, Biden's team, they came in on day one.
00:31:39.000We get operational control of our border.
00:31:41.000There are going to be deportations, and that'll be a good thing.
00:31:44.000So I think that's the—and if there's legislation that we need to backfill that, I think a lot of that's going to be executive action because the laws are there.
00:32:26.000The truth is, if you declare war on domestic energy production, you spend trillions and trillions and trillions that you don't have, the cost of everything is going to go up.
00:32:34.000So I would fully expect American energy to be unleashed, and that'll be a good thing.
00:32:39.000It's good for our national security as well.
00:32:42.000So for me, I think those are going to be focuses.
00:32:44.000Also, I think we need to make sure that free speech is protected in this country.
00:32:48.000So You know, I've got the legislation that if you're a bureaucrat and you are working with social media companies to suppress speech, you can be sued individually by Americans.
00:32:58.000It shouldn't have to be some attorney general in some state to do it.
00:33:09.000It's good that media is diffused, and they can make their own decisions.
00:33:13.000This command and control, disinformation governance board mentality has got to go, and then also those reforms that we talked about about the administrative state.
00:33:21.000Like, for example, if you're an agency and you're proposing some new rule that's going to have an economic impact of, pick your number.
00:33:28.000Mine would be really low, but let's just call it $100 million.
00:33:31.000Then Congress should have to vote on that first.
00:33:34.000We should have to vote on it before it ever goes into effect.
00:34:52.000Why wouldn't we use some of that revenue to help pay down the national debt, $36 trillion?
00:34:56.000I think the American people would support that, which is why if we actually do our jobs, we work with President Trump, we can have an agenda and build out this coalition, I think, for the long term, which is working class people, common sense folks, normal people, Who don't want to be hit with critical race theory and DEI and taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for inmates.
00:35:18.000Our alternative is, I think, an agenda that works for normal people, working people who just want to be able to have a good life and their kids to have a better life.