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00:01:30.000I've been texting with a friend of mine, a great patriot, someone who I am thrilled won a convincing reelection, one of the bright spots in an underwhelming midterm election cycle.
00:01:56.000And it was a long and at times grueling campaign season, but we're glad that things worked out at the end.
00:02:03.000And you campaigned very hard, and God bless the voters of Utah who made the correct decision.
00:02:08.000Senator, you're very fired up about a specific measure, a specific law that's trying to be passed in the Senate and a measure within that law that is not getting enough media attention.
00:02:22.000Okay, so the Respect for Marriage Act is something that recognizes same-sex marriage under federal law and requires states to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states as long as those states happen to recognize it.
00:02:43.000The issue that we face with this is that that legislation passing would, through a combination of the overlapping impact of various federal statutes and Supreme Court precedents, produce a situation in which religious nonprofits could have their tax exempt status revoked by the federal government based on their religious beliefs about same-sex marriage.
00:03:12.000So I wrote an amendment to deal with this.
00:03:14.000This is a legitimate issue, an issue that's been of concern ever since the Supreme Court decided of Bergerfeld versus Hodges about seven years ago.
00:03:24.000And in fact, it was acknowledged, Justice Alito, my former boss, raised it with Solicitor General Donald Durelli at oral argument.
00:03:32.000He acknowledged it was going to be an issue.
00:03:34.000And so as long as we're codifying it, it makes sense to put in place an amendment, affirmatively prohibit the government from taking any adverse action against an individual or group based on that religious belief.
00:03:49.000Yeah, Senator, I'm so glad you're bringing attention to this because I actually had a conversation with a family member about this over the weekend where I was under the impression based on media reports because of this LGBTQ bill that is passed into the Senate, which by the way, no Republican should be voting for this, by the way, period, end of story, that there was some sort of bipartisan working committee.
00:04:10.000What you are trying to warn people is that not so fast, that bipartisan whatever committee has actually not solved the problem that very well could result in the internal revenue service.
00:04:22.000I hope everyone in the audience understands this.
00:04:23.000This could empower the Internal Revenue Service to revoke tax-exempt status from any nonprofit that believes that marriage is between one man and one woman, a school, a hospital, a church, a parachurch ministry.
00:04:44.000And that's exactly the kind of thing that we should never allow in this country.
00:04:48.000People shouldn't be threatened with their tax-exempt status if they run a religious nonprofit for sticking to a sincere religious belief about what marriage consists of.
00:05:19.000It's interesting, though, that we've got 12 Republicans who have so far been joining up with Democrats.
00:05:27.000Every Democrat, all 50 Democrats in the Senate are voting for this.
00:05:31.000And then we've got 12 Republicans who have been with them.
00:05:35.000If those 12 Republicans, or even three of those 12 Republicans, were to decide they would vote against the bill, unless at the end of the day, they incorporated my amendment, then it could happen.
00:05:48.000But as long as they're willing to vote for the bill, regardless of whether it's in there, the Democrats are never going to support it, and the amendment will fail.
00:05:57.000But this is kind of a do-or-die moment.
00:05:59.000It's the make or break moment for religious freedom.
00:06:03.000Meanwhile, the bill's sponsors are claiming that they've got language that they've recently added to the bill that takes care of the problem.
00:06:26.000The concern isn't that the bill itself does it.
00:06:28.000The bill itself leaves intact and, if anything, accelerates a preexisting risk.
00:06:33.000And so what they've written is deliberately deceitful, I think.
00:06:38.000It's deliberately written in such a way as to convince people to lull them into a false sense of security that this problem has been dealt with.
00:07:04.000Susan Collins from Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah, Tom Tillis of North Carolina, Roy Blunt of Missouri, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Todd Young of Indiana.
00:07:22.000Now, Cynthia Lummis is a very, she's a liberty loving person.
00:07:26.000I'm going to text her, Senator, after this, and I would imagine she's persuadable.
00:07:30.000Some of these other people, I think, are a lost cause.
00:07:32.000But let me make sure I understand this, Senator.
00:07:34.000If even just a couple of these Republicans are, if they go along with the Lee Amendment, would that fix this, essentially?
00:07:43.000Because this is such a big issue, Senator, that if we just say, oh, the election's over, this could be the end of religious liberty.
00:07:49.000Anyone watching, your church could be attacked by the IRS because you believe in biblical marriage because of the consequence of this bill.
00:07:56.000Senator, so what is the action item for our audience right now that are fired up to hear about this is happening in the Senate?
00:08:03.000And to be clear, under the bill, they can't go after your church itself, but a religious nonprofit.
00:08:18.000Many of these people, many of the 12 Republicans you mentioned, may well end up voting for my amendment, but that isn't enough.
00:08:26.000If they believe in the amendment and they see the need for it, such that they're willing to openly say that they support it, then they should refuse to vote for the bill at the end of the process.
00:08:57.000And I don't quite, I mean, I sort of do understand, but some of these people are from very red states, Indiana, Iowa, West Virginia, North Carolina, Wyoming.
00:09:06.000I can't imagine that this would be potentially popular.
00:09:09.000So, Senator, we're going to keep our eye on this.
00:09:12.000I want to thank you for joining the program.
00:09:18.000Yes, it's happening in the next few hours.
00:09:20.000The Senate will start votes on this measure at 3.45 p.m. Eastern Time today.
00:09:28.000And we'll be voting for the next couple of hours after that.
00:09:33.000We'll be voting on my amendment, the Lee amendment, on an amendment from James Lankford, an amendment from Marco Rubio, and then we'll have a vote on final passage on the bill.
00:09:44.000We need everyone watching right now to blow up the switchboards, to email the Senate offices, be respectful.
00:09:50.000But these 12 Republicans in particular, Collins from Maine, Murkowski from Alaska, Portman from Ohio, Romney from Utah, Tillis from North Carolina, Blunt from Missouri, Lummis from Wyoming, Burr from North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capital from West Virginia, Sullivan from Alaska, Ernst from Iowa, or Young from Indiana.
00:10:07.000And by the way, McConnell could fix this in a second.
00:10:12.000This could end up being, if we do not hold the line here and follow Senator Lee's lead, this could end up being one of the great defeats of religious liberty of a generation, if not in American history.
00:10:22.000Senator, thank you for your courage and for shining a light on this today.
00:10:33.000Cynthia Lummis, I think, will do that.
00:10:34.000I'm going to contact her personally, and I encourage the audience to do the same.
00:10:40.000The end of the year is right around the corner, and it's time for you to consider a change in your investment plan.
00:10:44.000This is Charlie Kirk, and I strongly recommend you go right now and see my friends at PACS to review your investments.
00:10:51.000They are the one firm I know that focuses on biblical, responsible investing and does not force you to invest in companies that literally attack Christian values.
00:11:01.000If we want religious liberty in our country, we have to stop investing in companies that are trying to suppress our freedoms.
00:12:07.000But again, you got 12 Republicans that are going out of their way to try to nationalize a new definition of marriage.
00:12:18.000Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Rob Portman, Mitt Romney, Tom Tillis, Roy Blunt, Cynthia Lummis, Richard Burr, Shelly Moore Capito, Dan Sullivan, Joni Ernst, Todd Young.
00:12:30.000They're going out of their way to redefine marriage in a national context, but it goes deeper than that.
00:12:49.000They're so good at words, aren't they?
00:12:52.000Branding leaves religious groups and organizations exposed to lawsuits or worse for practicing their beliefs or being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service.
00:13:03.000And you might say, oh, Charlie, come on, give me an example.
00:14:02.000You got to light up the switchboards, be respectful, be polite.
00:14:07.000And again, the Republicans that have voted to redefine marriage: Todd Young from Indiana, Joni Ernst from Iowa, Dan Sullivan from Alaska, Shelly Moore Capito from West Virginia, Richard Burr from North Carolina, Cynthia Lummis from Wyoming, who I'm going to work on.
00:14:27.000I think she's a great woman, and I can't understand why she would do this.
00:14:30.000Roy Blunt of Missouri, Tom Tillis of North Carolina, Mitt Romney from Utah, Rob Portman from Ohio, Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, and Susan Collins of Maine.
00:15:18.000The more important issue in front of us is how this opens the door for lawsuits, for civil measures, for investigations, for audits, and revocations of thousands and tens of thousands of organizations out there: mental health clinics, adoption shelters.
00:15:39.000And this has always been the agenda of the civil rights regime.
00:15:44.000They always go under the idea of civil rights.
00:16:00.000So for example, if you are in adoption shelter, it says, we are only going to allow people to adopt that are in heterosexual monogamous relationships.
00:16:13.000This bill very well might allow you now to be sued for that against your deeply held religious beliefs.
00:16:20.000They're going to weaponize the government potentially if Republicans let this happen.
00:16:25.000Weaponize the government to try to misconstrue and paint anybody that holds a view of traditional marriage as a bigot and necessary to then have to go under the force of government.
00:18:24.000I wake up every day and, you know, I'm not going to say every day because it's been some difficult days, but really in the last couple of weeks, well, last week and a half, ready to fight for this country.
00:18:36.000God never said this was going to be easy, Charlie, but he put us here at this moment for a reason.
00:20:25.000This is one of the citizens that spoke at the meeting yesterday.
00:20:29.000Stephen Richer says that these are conspiracy theorists, but it's actually this guy was a poll worker.
00:20:36.000So Stephen Richer is calling his own volunteers conspiracy theorists.
00:20:39.000I just, for the record, I want people to know that.
00:20:42.000Bill Gates says that these are narratives of misinformation, even though the narratives are from your own trained poll workers of Maricopa County.
00:20:50.000So it's not like some random person is coming in and making this stuff up.
00:21:36.000Ladies and gentlemen of the Board of Supervisors, I was a poll worker.
00:21:40.000And what I will say that I've seen is voters this cycle have in fact been disenfranchised because we as poll workers were not taught how to check out voters at our poll centers.
00:21:54.000And then at my poll center, where we literally had at 7 p.m. on election day, 675 people waiting in line.
00:22:03.000Of those 675, do you know how many came in?
00:22:53.000And yet they're happy to extend Election Day for a month ahead of Election Day, but they refused to extend it for three hours to try to help some of these people who got confused, maybe.
00:23:24.000And Stephen Richer is behind a pact, started a pack.
00:23:28.000He and Bill Gates, the two people who we saw a lot of yesterday, started a pack with the sole purpose to stop MAGA candidates.
00:23:36.000But then we learned that the only candidate that they spent money to try to stop was yours truly.
00:23:42.000So their entire mission was to stop someone like me because they know that when I got into office, we were going to restore honesty to our elections.
00:23:51.000We were going to uncover any corruption.
00:23:53.000And these people are so afraid of our movement, Charlie.
00:23:56.000And so everybody who's in our movement, who loves this country, needs to take that as a badge of honor and step forward and continue in this fight.
00:24:05.000We don't have the option to back away and feel this gut punch and say, oh, well, it's time to just roll things up and we're just going to throw our hands up.
00:24:15.000No, this is the time where we really need to step in, lean in, and fight for this country.
00:24:21.000The Secretary of State, the referee, the chief administrator of the elections, was your opponent.
00:24:26.000The chairman of the board of the supervisors in the largest county by far in Arizona was on the record saying that the only way to save the Republican Party is quote humiliation at the ballot box.
00:24:39.000Stephen Richard, the county recorder, was involved in a super PAC against you.
00:24:44.000So you add all that together, you say, wow, the referees of this election don't really want Kerry to win.
00:24:51.000Now, the Washington Post and Yvonne, who writes there, has been actually doing a very accurate job detailing what's been going on here, had in there that it's our show, the Charlie Kirk Show, and our Twitter account that is the problem here.
00:25:07.000And you too, Carrie, that basically Maricopa County was saying, and the Washington Post is just putting together people's statements.
00:25:13.000I thought it was a very fair piece, saying that it's our fault that people were not able to vote on Election Day.
00:25:20.000So I want to play another piece of tape here.
00:26:10.000You are actually part of Katie Hobbs, the governor selects transition team.
00:26:15.000So you've got a conflict of interest, sir, and we don't give a damn what you say.
00:26:20.000We have freedom of speech and we're going to use it, okay?
00:26:23.000And so, Steve Gallardo, you can shove it, buddy.
00:26:26.000We are going to get the message out from the people who are disenfranchised.
00:26:31.000The way you have run elections, and this is a message to him and the board of supervisors, is such a sham that the people of Arizona have lost all faith in our election system.
00:26:40.000And even if 10 people were disenfranchised, but when people lose their faith in the election system, you've got a real problem.
00:28:31.000Had that woman got it up there, she might have found out her ballot got spit back out and spit back out and thrown into drawer three, which we're finding out now.
00:28:39.000Those uncounted ballots got mixed in in many locations with counted ballots.
00:28:47.000And either our courts help us out right now, or I fear we lose this country.
00:28:51.000This is the biggest story in the country right now.
00:28:54.000And the fact that we're lucky that one reporter, you talked about Yvonne with the Washington Post, we should be honored that they're covering it.
00:29:02.000Every news outlet in the country should be covering this.
00:29:26.000You know what the Arizona Republic has on the front page today?
00:29:28.000They say that Steve Bannon, Charlie Kirk, and Real America's Voice needs to be taken off the Native American Gila Reservation television network.
00:29:39.000People are waking up to the lies of the fake news.
00:29:43.000They honestly don't deserve to have their broadcasting license.
00:29:46.000They've been lying that they're not covering this story.
00:29:49.000I'm actually, I'm fine with it because what I'm realizing is that the people who were asleep and didn't want to dig into what happened in 2020 because it was just too, it was, it's too much for them.
00:30:02.000A lot of people just said, you know what, let's move past that.
00:30:05.000Well, that's what happens when we ignore problems.
00:30:07.000When you ignore a problem like corrupt elections like we saw in 2020, they fester and grow, metastasize.
00:30:15.000And we're seeing it happening now in 2022.
00:31:08.000You've talked about some things coming forward.
00:31:10.000I want to build that out with you because we're getting a lot of emails right now, freedom at charliekirk.com, where people are saying, okay, what now?
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00:32:57.000We have to follow the statute here in Arizona.
00:33:00.000And that says that you can't challenge an election until it's been certified.
00:33:03.000And even though I wish we would have had some courageous individuals stand up and say, I'm not going to certify this sham election, we need to investigate.
00:33:10.000We need to figure out what went wrong.
00:33:12.000And frankly, I think we need a redo with actually an independent group running the election, an independent group who is not full of ulterior motives.
00:33:23.000But we have to wait until this election is certified.
00:33:27.000And that will be, I believe, the 5th or 6th of December.
00:33:31.000And then we will be ready to bring forth our case.
00:33:34.000I believe we have about five business days after it's been certified to put forth our case, in which time we will.
00:34:18.000We've got whistleblowers who have come forward.
00:34:20.000I believe we've got at least one smoking gun in there.
00:34:23.000And we feel very confident in our court case.
00:34:26.000Of course, we always have to pray that we get a judge who loves this country, a judge who will be fair, a judge who will understand what's at stake.
00:34:34.000So, I mean, look, I want you to imagine black inner city voters in Atlanta, Georgia, facing machine malfunctions and two three-hour lines all across the city or Philadelphia or Detroit or Chicago.
00:34:47.000There would be nationwide coverage and calls for a revote.
00:34:50.000But if it happens in Wickenburg or Anthem or in Surprise, nobody cares.
00:34:55.000I want to play a piece of tape here, Kerry, because we're talking about certification, but it doesn't feel like this has been a certification vote.
00:35:01.000This feels like a hostage situation because here's Ron Gould of Mojave County saying that if I don't vote to certify, I'm going to be arrested and charged with a felony, of which I have a question.
00:35:16.000Who is the one threatening him with arrest or a felony?
00:36:08.000I'm not a lawyer, but I would be curious to ask a lawyer that's exactly.
00:36:13.000I wish, though, and I know in Cochise County, they're threatening to not certify, and they've got these, you know, dirty attorneys with the Democrat Party down there threatening them.
00:36:22.000And Katie Hobbs, the Secretary of State, is threatening them, threatening them to certify what they know to be a bad election because she wants to steal this.
00:36:32.000So she's threatening Cochise County to certify.
00:36:36.000I wish that one person and one of these board of supervisors would stand up and say, then come on and arrest me.
00:37:00.000I don't think the Sheriff's Department in Mojave County would really arrest Ron Gould if he would have said, no, I'm not going to certify this.
00:37:08.000I don't think the Sheriff's Department run under Mark Daniels down in Cochise County, a true patriot, is going to arrest somebody who says, I'm not going to certify this because the election is a mess.
00:37:18.000And hundreds of thousands potentially were disenfranchised.