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00:01:09.000All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:16.000So I have been publicly calling for the administration to sell this war more fully, to give us a more comprehensive explanation of why, why do we strike?
00:01:43.000You do not have to be necessarily in favor of what's going on in Iran to admit that yesterday they added a lot more detail to the sales pitch.
00:01:54.000They should be forced to explain kinetic use of U.S. military forces in the Middle East, absolutely, and to explain the why we deserve that.
00:02:04.000So we're going to go through this, and we're going to have Sean Davis on from the Federalists specifically on the quote from Rubio that seemed to really cause a bunch of headlines yesterday explaining he kind of had a three-part answer.
00:02:21.000And in one of those, it seemed to suggest that we got involved because Israel was going to act.
00:02:26.000And if Israel acted, they were going to shoot us anyway.
00:02:28.000So we might as well preemptively attack Iran.
00:02:30.000So we'll get into that, but there's more layers than just that clip.
00:02:35.000Now, by the way, Trump has just responded.
00:02:37.000He's doing a bylap with the Chancellor of Germany currently.
00:02:41.000And we're going to also later in the hour break down the difference between France, Germany, Spain, and the UK.
00:02:55.000Remember now, Steve Witkoff was negotiating alongside Jared Kushner as we were hoping for a diplomatic solution to this Iranian issue.
00:03:05.000And Steve Witkoff dropped an absolute bombshell last night on Sean Hannity's show, 395.
00:03:11.000In that first meeting, both the Iranian negotiators said to us directly, with no shame, that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60%, and they're aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs, and that was the beginning of their negotiating stance.
00:03:51.000If it's true, that's a very strong point in favor of the administration's position, which is they're just clearly, endlessly going to pursue this very dangerous thing.
00:04:00.000But we have been around this sort of thing before.
00:04:57.000So I, you know, listen, I've seen Matt Walsh's arguments that, hey, if the Fordo strikes were so successful, why did we need to go in again?
00:05:43.000Let's start with reason number one, 420.
00:05:46.000The United States is conducting an operation to eliminate the threat of Iran's short-range ballistic missiles and the threat posed by their Navy, particularly to naval assets.
00:05:56.000That is what it is focused on doing right now, and it's doing quite successfully.
00:05:59.000I'll leave it to the Pentagon and the Department of War to discuss the tactics behind that and the progress that's being made.
00:06:05.000That is the clear objective of this mission.
00:06:07.000All right, so he says the objective is to take out the ballistic missiles and the naval threat.
00:06:14.000Okay, when we talk about the Strait of Hormuz, this all becomes very clear.
00:06:18.000About 20% of the world's energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz.
00:06:22.000About 14% to 15% of all trade goes through the Strait of Hormuz.
00:06:31.000It was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by anyone, the United States or Israel or anyone, they were going to respond and respond against the United States.
00:06:39.000The orders had been delegated down to the field commanders.
00:06:43.000It was automatic, and in fact, it bear to be true because, in fact, within an hour of the initial attack on the leadership compound, the missile forces in the south and in the north, for that matter, had already been activated to launch.
00:06:57.000In fact, those had already been pre-positioned.
00:07:00.000Okay, so he makes the point that we were going to get attacked no matter what happened automatically, that that had already been communicated down to the field commanders.
00:07:07.000Okay, he continues, reason number three, 424.
00:07:10.000The assessment that was made that if we stood and waited for that attack to come first before we hit them, we would suffer much higher casualties.
00:07:19.000And so the president made the very wise decision.
00:07:21.000We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action.
00:07:24.000We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces.
00:07:27.000And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even higher those killed.
00:07:35.000And then we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that and didn't act.
00:07:39.000All right, so I know this is a little bit clip-heavy, but this was literally a four-part answer that he gave.
00:07:45.000This is reason number four, I guess you would say.
00:08:04.000Why does Iran want that ballistic missile capability?
00:08:06.000What they are trying to do and have been trying to do for a very long time is build a conventional weapons capability as a shield where they can hide behind.
00:08:15.000Meaning, there would come a point where they have so many conventional missiles, so many drones, and it can inflict so much damage that no one can do anything about their nuclear program.
00:08:25.000That is what they were trying to do, is put themselves in a place of immunity where the damage they could inflict on the region would be so high that no one can do anything about their nuclear program or their nuclear ambitions.
00:08:36.000They are producing, by some estimates, over 100 of these missiles a month.
00:08:41.000Compare that to the six or seven interceptors that can be built a month.
00:08:44.000They can build 100 of these a month, not to mention the thousands of one-way attack drones that they also have.
00:08:49.000They've been doing this for a very long time, and by the way, they've been doing it under sanction.
00:08:53.000Well, we got a lot of clips there, and so we've heard that they had a giant pile of uranium and they were going to go for a bomb.
00:09:00.000We've heard all these ballistic missiles, and we heard Israel was going to attack anyway, so we felt we had to join or there would be more casualties.
00:09:08.000There's going to be a lot of discussion about that one for sure.
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00:11:29.000There seems to have been a bit of a walk back from what Rubio said, from what Johnson said after him.
00:11:35.000I think from what Cotton said this morning, what we've read in some news reports, Trump in the Oval Office today said, no, no, no, if anyone got anyone into this war, it was us getting Israel into the war.
00:11:48.000I don't know if I would personally say dog walk.
00:12:21.000It's been odd to me to see so many people recoil at that reality being laid out like, oh, that didn't happen or, oh, you're not allowed to say that.
00:14:01.000He's such an active force throughout everything.
00:14:06.000But at the same time, I do feel like Rubio didn't say that for no reason, but it comes within layers here because it could be that the president got on board with A, some sort of war with Iran months ago.
00:14:21.000I mean, we were obviously building up towards it for ages, and then there was disagreement on specific timings, specific actions.
00:14:27.000And, You know, I don't really want to hard commit on a specific answer because I suspect a lot of stuff will come out in the days and weeks, months, years to come.
00:14:38.000This will be dissected over and over again.
00:14:41.000And if you looked at the Iraq war when it happened, there was a lot of false stuff about the Iraq war when it unfolded, and we only really came to understand it years later.
00:14:50.000Yeah, and I will say this: just because something is in, that something is good for Israel doesn't mean that's the reason why we did it.
00:14:57.000So America could make a decision that our leaders determine is in our national security interest, and it might be good for Israel, but that might not be the driving force, right?
00:15:07.000So both things could in theory be true at the same time.
00:15:11.000I wanted to play this clip really quick, Sean, just because I, you know, this is an offensive action taken by Israel where they were meeting, gathering the religious leaders to pick a new Ayatollah, a new supreme leader.
00:15:26.000And they apparently have not figured out Zoom yet.
00:15:31.000I'm told by a senior Israeli official that the Israelis just struck the Supreme Council gathering where the Iranians were meeting to choose a new supreme leader.
00:15:42.000This is a significant development and again speaks to the Israeli intelligence about this war.
00:15:48.000They just targeted the meeting in Tehran where what's left of the leadership was gathering to choose a new supreme leader.
00:15:57.000I feel like they could have, you know, we're usually against mail voting.
00:16:01.000I think I would have, if I were Iranian, I would have approved postal voting.
00:16:22.000I don't know if you've seen it, Sean, where Ahmadinejad is talking about they, you know, they developed this task force to go after Mossad and root out Mossad within the Iranian ranks, only to find out that the head of that task force was a Mossad agent.
00:16:38.000Yeah, I mean, listen, you don't have to love this conflict.
00:16:42.000You don't have to be in support of it.
00:16:44.000But, you know, hat tip where it's due, credit where it's due, the talents are on full display here.
00:16:50.000You just have to sort of acknowledge that much.
00:16:53.000One thing I actually love about the Israelis and the Brits is unlike us, they kind of never abandon actual human intelligence.
00:17:01.000We seem overly reliant on technology and surveillance, and they've just decided, you know, both the Brits and the Israelis, no, we're going to go in and have people as deep cover assets for decades.
00:17:12.000There's something we could learn from that.
00:17:54.000How were we so vulnerable to Iranian attack over there?
00:17:57.000It's because we have bases in installations everywhere.
00:18:00.000And as I wrote in that tweet, when I worked for Tom Coburn in 2005, one of the first amendments he made me do as a staffer was one defunding the Iraqi embassy, U.S. embassy in Iraq, which hadn't been built yet, something like a billion or a billion and a half dollars.
00:18:13.000And he said, look, as soon as you do that, you are permanently in that country for 50 or 100 years.
00:18:18.000You're guaranteeing that you're going to be vulnerable, that you're going to have bases, that we're going to be surrounded by people who hate us.
00:18:23.000It's a similar issue in Libya, by the way, which I think is a good cautionary example.
00:18:29.000Gaddafi disarmed in good faith under Bush, and then along in the next term comes Obama and Hillary decides to depose him.
00:18:37.000They have him thrown out and murdered.
00:18:40.000And then what happens a couple years later?
00:18:42.000We end up, because of a secret CIA outpost in there, which was helping to traffic arms.
00:18:47.000They claim it was to take them off the streets, but helping to traffic arms.
00:18:51.000And then we end up seeing our ambassador, two Navy SEALs, and an intel expert from state getting killed.
00:18:56.000It is a logical result when you are so far flung.
00:19:00.000You have so many people in installations and places surrounded by people that hate us that you're going to be at risk.
00:19:05.000And maybe we should be taking a look going forward rather than having to respond and go to war anytime someone over there threatens us.
00:19:13.000Maybe we just shouldn't be in a position in a lot of these places where we're so easily threatened.
00:19:29.000Or is there a certain type of missile that we're more concerned about?
00:19:32.000Well, yeah, this is actually one of the major reasons so many of us were opposed to what we were doing in Ukraine, giving all of our stockpiles to them without thinking, hey, what's going to happen to us if we actually need those for our national interests, not just Ukraine's.
00:19:48.000I think we're starting to see some of that now.
00:19:50.000I do worry about a lot of interceptor missiles, what I call defensive missiles, THADS, that are used to intercept and stop incoming Iranian missiles.
00:20:01.000I worry that our allies over there, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, the Saudis, the Israelis, I worry about us running low on those a lot more than I worry about us running low on offensive munitions.
00:20:13.000Yeah, and I actually asked, you know, how many of these missiles we can produce a month.
00:20:45.000I must follow at the Federalist as well as on X. You're always throwing a wrench into the gears, and I love it because the contrary thinking is like super, super important right now.
00:21:48.000Well, listen, I walked with Charlie alongside, so did you, Blake, about the way Charlie handled Operation Midnight Hammer, the lead up to that.
00:21:57.000Privately, you know, he obviously expressed his, you know, his reticence.
00:22:03.000And then, but he said, you know, honestly, he said privately and publicly to me, he said, listen, if Trump decides to go, we're going to have his back.
00:23:35.000I think the most common one is a lot of we trust President Trump, which is what we said is generally what Charlie's point of view would be, we think, which is he would have argued against this going up to it.
00:23:47.000But if the president heard him and the president would listen to him, if the president listened to him and did it anyway, Charlie would give him the grace and trust to say, he knows things I don't.
00:23:58.000I think that's what his posture would be.
00:24:00.000President Trump has had a good record on not getting us embroiled in forever wars, okay?
00:24:04.000Got to give him a little leash, a little room to maneuver here.
00:24:08.000He's proven himself to be a very adept operator on the world stage.
00:24:13.000So here's what I want to get into now.
00:24:15.000There's a couple different storylines.
00:24:17.000There's the oil, how much China is relying on the oil.
00:24:20.000Maybe we'll get to that in an hour or two if we have a segment.
00:24:22.000But let's just go around the horn and get the European reaction to the Iranian strikes because they are varied and it's kind of surprising.
00:24:31.000Honestly, I want to start with the honorary Europeans of Canada because that is the one I find the funniest.
00:24:37.000We've had a lot of friction with last year.
00:24:40.000Carney has definitely tried to turn himself into basically the foil, the foil of Trump, the avatar of being his critic.
00:26:07.000Any UK actions must always have a lawful basis and a viable thought-through plan.
00:26:18.000I say again, we were not involved in the initial strikes on Iran, and we will not join offensive action now.
00:26:27.000And by the way, so Kier Starmer was not giving access to American bases or a UK basis for American strikes.
00:26:34.000They have since reversed that decision, but it was with a lot of hemming and hawing and hand-wringing, and President Trump is not too happy about it.
00:27:28.000Spain denies U.S. military use of its bases for Iran attack.
00:27:33.000The leftist government in Madrid said the war against Iran violated both international law and the agreement between Spain and the United States for use of air bases.
00:27:41.000Now, we actually have, like, I think two or three in Spain.
00:27:58.000I will say, I had this thought at first.
00:28:00.000He's known to admire President William McKinley, who, for those of you who don't remember high school, his U.S. history, fought the Spanish-American War to get Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, and Cuba.
00:28:14.000Yeah, well, and so what's interesting here is that Spain just, this is the same leftist government that just, I guess, legalized essentially a million.
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00:30:16.000We are joined on set by Tyler Boyer, COO of Turning Point Action.
00:30:21.000We're going to be going in depth into Texas because tonight is the night, the big primary, and we have the man himself, Attorney General Ken Paxton, running for U.S. Senate in the great state of Texas.
00:30:33.000Welcome back to the show, Mr. Attorney General.
00:31:28.000Yeah, it's totally insane the amount of money that's been spent by the establishment to target you.
00:31:35.000And yet, every poll is showing you, every single poll is showing you, you know, not just a little bit ahead, not just competitive, but pretty significantly ahead.
00:31:46.000I mean, just speak a little bit to this about this fight because nobody really understands, I think, on the outside and across the country that, you know, when you actually tabulate all the money that the campaign that Cornyn spent, all the outside group money, it's probably close to $100 million that's been spent against you.
00:32:04.000And yet, the people of Texas are still coming out, you know, big behind Paxton.
00:33:22.000And because I'm in office and I can keep working and keep talking about it, it's allowed me to stay fresh in the minds of voters despite the tremendous number of negative ads and the number of false ads that he's wrote about himself, claiming to be a MAGA conservative, pro-border, all that, you know, pro-border.
00:33:42.000Yeah, Ken, I remember talking with you, and when this whole kind of race was gathering steam, you said to me, you said, watch, he's going to vote lockstep with the president.
00:33:54.000All of a sudden, he's going to be Mr. MAGA general.
00:33:56.000I mean, it was as soon as you announced you knew this was going to be kind of the pattern he was going to walk.
00:34:02.000But here's what else is interesting: is that you are getting outspent 31.
00:34:13.000I mean, it's multiple, multiple times a day, just a deluge of anti-Paxton media right now.
00:34:20.000I've seen, I was watching Fox News on Sunday because of the efforts of the war, and I saw three ads in a row that were John Cornyn, one positive, two different negative ads on me.
00:34:47.000And I think people have grown weary of it.
00:34:51.000It's obviously it's helped close some of the gap because originally I was at 25 points ahead.
00:34:56.000And because I haven't had the money to compete, it's closed some of the gap, but I don't think it's closed the gap to the degree that they expected it to because there's too many educated voters.
00:35:06.000The people he called radicals two days ago, he called them radicals that are voting in the Republican primary.
00:35:12.000Those are the people that actually know what's going on and they know what he's done.
00:35:19.000I was just going to say, I mean, this has all of the elements that we're walking into to be one of the greatest upsets in establishment history.
00:35:29.000And again, no one is more deserving of it than you.
00:35:32.000That's actually fought on the side of conservatives.
00:35:35.000You know, there's no question when people that know you and have done any investigative work know that you would be a far superior vote in the U.S. Senate than John Cornyn.
00:35:45.000But, you know, we look at this and the lessons that come out of this, because everybody that I've seen talk about this goes, oh, well, you know, we might have to spend money to help Paxton win in a general.
00:36:00.000And, you know, that is such a silly argument because you look at this $100 million.
00:36:04.000A fraction of that $100 million is what it takes to win in general.
00:36:43.000And question two, if you have to go to a runoff, does polling show how much of Wesley Hunt's vote you would accumulate?
00:36:50.000So first of all, let me just say this winning, being a sitting of a senator, if you'll go back because of the way the campaign finance laws are set up, and I was limited to 7,000 a person and only half could be used in the primary, 3,500.
00:37:03.000Think about how many people I had to get to just to do one ad in Texas, which is $3, $4, $5 million.
00:37:10.000And yet, you look at incumbency, senatorial incumbency, you go back 40, 50 years, how many senators have lost?
00:37:17.000You got Richard Luger in 2012 in a smaller state who was completely, you know, had gone left.
00:37:24.000And then, second, you had Mike Lee winning in a convention state where you don't have to spend much money.
00:37:37.000It's hard because what people don't realize, there's eight people in my race.
00:37:41.000So everybody's, so I have to, I would tell people it's seven-on-one basketball and I got to outscore everybody and they're all trying to score and they're all playing defense too.
00:37:48.000So it's not just that it's two other people.
00:37:52.000There's seven other people that I have to outscore all of them.
00:37:57.000But I've looked at the numbers and I've seen polls after early voting that suggest that I'm in the 40s, that Corinne's in the low 30s, that Wesley's in the teens with about 13% undecided.
00:38:08.000So if the right number of undecided break my way and if the right if that trend continues through election day and the right number of people from Wesley, because he's lost a few points over the last couple of days, because Cornyn pounded him, and it's not impossible.
00:38:24.000It's just challenging to get to 50% plus one with eight people.
00:38:49.000I mean, it still may be a lot of hassle for you, but the reality is it literally could make the difference between having to go into a runoff and not having to go into a runoff.
00:38:57.000And I always tell people from the beginning of time, you know, in order to change power, people used to have to fight with their hands.
00:39:03.000Then they had to throw rocks and then arrows and then guns and bombs.
00:39:07.000Today, all we have to do is show up to vote and get our friends to go vote.
00:39:10.000It's a lot more, it's a lot easier than it's been ever.
00:39:57.000And the Ken Paxton race is really important because if Paxton is successful, which it looks like he should be, and they make him a U.S. Senator, Texas is going to the underlying Bush control, you know, control arm is basically annihilated.
00:40:14.000And this is very similar to Arizona with McCain.
00:40:17.000Arizona had to fight this big war, basically, and the McCain influence dissipated.
00:40:23.000The Paxton race is really important because if Paxton loses, it gives a revitalization to the Bushwing.
00:40:29.000This sets up all the rest of the races because there's so many other races that are happening in Texas today that are super, super critical.
00:40:36.000Probably the second most important next to the Paxton race is Dan Crenshaw's district.
00:40:45.000Districts didn't change too much in this district.
00:40:47.000That was mostly a majority, all the same for Dan Crenshaw.
00:40:51.000But a gentleman named Steve Toth, who's in the state legislature right now, who's really well liked, has been a leader on that front, decided, hey, I'm going to run against Dan Crenshaw, even though this seems like a near-impossible task.
00:41:06.000He's really well liked, really well supported by the donor community that has had some real questions for Dan Crenshaw and the positions he's taken.
00:41:16.000And polling is showing Steve Toth within the realm of possibility of being able to defeat Dan Crenshaw.
00:41:23.000So if you're in, we're going to call you out because some people don't know their district.
00:41:26.000If you're north of Houston, if you're in the woodlands, if you're in spring in Texas, it's centered around the woodlands.
00:41:31.000So if you're anywhere near the woodlands in North Houston, your primary match is always matters.
00:41:39.000Wherever you are in Texas, you have an opportunity to replace Dan Crenshaw with Steve Toth, who will be a Freedom Caucus-level, likely congressman, which is a big, huge change.
00:41:54.000So between Paxton and Toth, those are the two races to keep an eye on in Texas today.
00:41:58.000If those both go positively for both those gentlemen today, Texas has turned a corner that's heading a lot more conservatively than the Republican Party.
00:42:07.000Texas went for Trump, I think, 13 or 14 points.
00:42:13.000A lot of people were predicting like four points, five points, six points.
00:42:17.000And it ends up going, you know, 14, almost 15 points.
00:42:21.000And it's funny you bring up this number.
00:42:23.000So the number to look for tonight for everyone, and when we're on the broadcast tonight, I'll be dipping out early, but we'll have some Texas people that are on the broadcast tonight because we're live streaming tonight on the Charlie Kirk channels about evaluating the returns.
00:42:37.000If Paxton wins by five or more points against Cornyn, but still has to go to a runoff, but if it's five or more points, that spells doomsday for Cornyn.
00:42:48.000They should stop spending all the money.
00:42:49.000They've already spent $100 million on this man, and they haven't been able to get him within five points.
00:42:54.000Now, if it's less than five points for Paxton, that's a problem because they're going to keep spending.
00:42:59.000Yeah, and that's a huge, huge pivot point, right?
00:43:03.000So are the outside groups, the NRSC, because if you watch Fox News or anything, by the way, all the senators get on and they say, we need Cornyn, right?
00:45:30.000Chip Roy is in, so you have this race right now.
00:45:34.000And everybody's talking about the Attorney General's race.
00:45:37.000There are three major players that you see in this race.
00:45:42.000You have Chip Roy, and then you have the gentleman that was endorsed by Ken Paxton.
00:45:47.000And then you have, his name's Aaron Reitz, and then you have another guy named Mays Middleton.
00:45:54.000Mays has been described, he's going out and saying a lot of pro-Trump things, but he's been described as being friendly with the Trump associate.
00:46:04.000I'm sorry, not Trump, with the Bush, the bad Bush side of the state of Texas.
00:46:10.000And, you know, Chip has been on the Freedom Caucus, supported by the Freedom Fund, all of that.
00:46:17.000And then you have, again, Aaron, who's been endorsed by Ken.
00:46:22.000All the polling is showing that this race is coming down to between Maze and Chip Roy.
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00:48:54.000And then also there's this aspect of what we found out, what I really helped to uncover is that a lot of the co-conspirators that were given these plea deals were actually some of the women.
00:49:04.000So these women engaged in what I would say is human rights abuses.
00:49:09.000They were responsible for trafficking.
00:49:10.000And then, also, too, you have a lot of the doctors and physicians that were essentially let off that kind of knew about what was happening.
00:49:17.000So, there's clearly more to be investigated in this, but then also the aspect of, okay, well, how much did you know Epstein's circle of influence know about what was happening?
00:49:25.000We saw that the Clintons, specifically with the secretary, you know, had a lot of connections there via the Clinton Foundation.
00:49:33.000Although, according to her deposition and according to a lot of the statements made by President Clinton, she was somewhat insulated in, I guess, her direct contact.
00:49:42.000But the president, President Bill Clinton specifically, did seem to acknowledge and admit that it was his relationship with Jeffrey to include Galeene that actually kind of is a reason why he should be brought in to testify.
00:49:56.000And so it was very evident that Secretary Clinton did not want to be there.
00:50:01.000She, as you saw in some of that footage, lost her temper a few times and was not so, I don't want to say nice, but just not as cooperative and they were very difficult to get in.
00:50:16.000And then you saw kind of when President Clinton came in the next day, it was definitely kind of a shift.
00:50:21.000He was a lot more, I guess, you know, a lot more forward in his answering.
00:50:27.000And it did not appear that he was trying to hide the ball.
00:50:30.000But as you also saw, there was a lot of questioning that, you know, even with the secretary, when we were posing questions, a lot of their communication between husband and wife is considered protected communication privilege.
00:50:42.000So there's a lot that we could not have answered as well.
00:50:46.000Well, and you know, it was just, I had to, I have to say, it was just a bit interesting.
00:50:52.000I think a lot of people had this experience watching these clips because you see President Clinton kind of still jovial.
00:51:00.000You could still see all the elements that made him a really talented politician, but he's getting cast about the most salacious details about, you know, it felt very, it felt very 90s.
00:51:10.000And as the joke was made, like, of course, we're bombing a country in the Middle East right now.
00:51:14.000Of course, Bill Clinton is testifying.
00:51:59.000He's, you know, and then at one point, somebody shows him a picture of him with some young woman, and the lawyer tries to take it out of his hands, and he grabs it back.
00:52:26.000I mean, look, I straight up asked him about his trip to Africa, where we know that there was, you know, one of the victims on that flight.
00:52:34.000And I should have asked him about Virginia Guffray's commentary about him going to the island.
00:52:41.000And I, you know, when you're sitting there and obviously no one is above the law, but also to, you know, part of what I have, and it's become very evident and apparent.
00:52:50.000And I even confronted both Secretary Clinton and President Clinton with the facts that Jeffrey Epstein was an intel asset.
00:53:01.000I asked specifically with Secretary Clinton, which she said, you know, it's quite possible he was running a honeypot operation, which I think is very, very evident at this point.
00:53:10.000But then, you know, kind of referencing, well, which countries would have a specific interest in, you know, figuring out what President Clinton was doing, right?
00:53:17.000And I think just kind of the whole aspect of, you know, he, once I presented him with the alias and the, and the other identity that Epstein had, you know, he kind of saw that and you could tell that he was shocked.
00:53:29.000But then also, too, it goes into kind of like an even more weirder space, I guess, because at one point, President Clinton was asked about, did he think that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself?
00:53:40.000And he was like, well, I think he finally got caught.
00:53:44.000The attorneys didn't really want him to answer.
00:53:46.000And then on the flip side, Secretary Clinton, when she was confronted with a similar question, she had said something along the lines of Jeffrey Epstein died in mysterious circumstances or mysteriously had died.
00:53:56.000So I think the fact is, is that, you know, they see the writing on the wall.
00:54:08.000You know, Bill Clinton, you can't tell me that, you know, he probably didn't fully know what was going on in the sense that, you know, those were kind of some younger girls, et cetera.
00:54:22.000But also, too, I mean, at a certain point, did he, do we have any evidence right now that he did anything illegal?
00:54:28.000And the answer is no, according to the deposition and according to, you know, at least the evidence that we have, that's not there.
00:54:37.000But what was interesting is that the entire time that we were in that room, the Democrats were trying to, you know, basically come up with reasons to bring in and depose President Trump.
00:54:47.000And at a certain point, President Clinton actually did exonerate President Trump, which they did not like and they freaked out about.
00:54:54.000And then shortly thereafter, I actually also had asked President Trump about a woman who had made a false claim that he had sex tapes out there with some of the victims.
00:55:04.000And I asked him, in so many words, would you want oversight to call in a victim like that or an alleged victim that had been proven to be lying?
00:55:12.000And he said, no, you shouldn't be doing that.
00:55:14.000And the reason I asked that specifically is because there has also been this attempt with the files to call in President Trump using false claims from people that were not credible witnesses or credible victims.
00:55:24.000And so I think, you know, it was good that he came in.
00:55:28.000Do I think that we're ever going to be able to get names directly from the Clintons or were we able to get names directly from the Clintons regarding people that were potentially involved in the trafficking?
00:55:40.000However, when I showed the secretary emails that were some of the most egregious emails that you guys probably all saw and read on the internet, and she read them, and then I said, Do you think that this person should be called?
00:55:58.000And I've already talked to Chairman Comer.
00:56:00.000And I think there is support for bringing in the co-conspirators that were given lesser plea deals because they should have to answer for that in addition to some of the other individuals that knew and potentially were even treating these victims because they did not report the trafficking.
00:56:13.000Yeah, that falls in line with a lot of Blake's thinking, actually.
00:56:18.000You know, women were accomplices in this.
00:56:21.000And that's a big part of how Jeffrey Epstein got these young women to be surrounding him and these other rich guys is they used Virginia Guffray as an example of that.
00:56:31.000She lured in underage women, told them to wear makeup and act and lie about their age.
00:56:39.000But I think that there's also a big difference, though, between someone that's coaxed into doing something as a minor versus someone that continues to do it for years as an adult and is getting paid to do it.
00:56:50.000And they are no longer co-conspirator, you know, victims.
00:56:52.000They would then become co-conspirators and traffickers.
00:56:55.000And so I think that that's a big difference.
00:56:57.000And, you know, a lot of people for a long time, I think, don't really realize that we were promised names.
00:57:03.000They said, when we interviewed some of the victims, they said, we will give you names.
00:57:07.000And we have not yet received those names.
00:57:09.000And so that's why I guess it's kind of frustrating.
00:57:11.000And I understand that people have been failed by the justice system previously, but we are still trying to at least ensure that people, if they were trafficking, let's bring them in.
00:57:22.000And then it's up to the Department of Justice on whether or not they're going to prosecute.
00:57:26.000But the fact is, is that this has become so politicized with the attempts to try to basically make it look like President Trump was trafficking people, which we know he's been exonerated by the victims, by multiple AGs, by literally President Bill Clinton.
00:57:39.000And so it seems like some of it's being lost in translation.
00:57:42.000But yeah, it was definitely, definitely quite the experience.
00:57:45.000I did not expect Hillary Clinton to lose her cool like that.
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01:00:50.000The president never, this is 20-something years ago, never said anything to me to make me think he was involved in anything unproper with regard to Epstein either.
01:02:31.000Dead laughing, but we don't really know what precisely he's laughing at.
01:02:35.000Yeah, it was flipping through old Epstein photos of him smiling and nodding with, I mean, I find that he's still a dirty old man.
01:02:42.000I find it unlikely that what was going on there is he was suddenly tipping his hand like, oh yeah, I remember abusing that person.
01:02:49.000No, I think he's sort of laughing at the spectacle of the entire ordeal.
01:02:54.000But a lot of people found it humorous online because those were apparently pictures.
01:02:58.000I mean, many people think that he's laughing because, you know, what is out there, what he's looking at is far less egregious than what is not out there.
01:03:11.000Yeah, it could be like a very real possibility to Is what we've seen over and over is there's a lot of salacious allegations that have come from they'll release a photo next to someone who's has their face blurred out and they're implying that this was someone they abused, that someone who was underage, and they're neither of those things.
01:03:50.000They're not blackmail photos as far as we know.
01:03:54.000They just seem to be any photo you might take like with your phone today if you're at a party.
01:03:59.000I mean, certainly, Blake, a sitting president that leaves office and immediately is flying down with imagery that is being produced and put in front of him.
01:04:11.000That's that's, that is not exactly, especially when we rewind back to the 90s, like I get today's 90s thing to me.
01:04:21.000I was only 10 when the 90s well, you know what's okay, I don't think we know what.
01:04:25.000No one, not even no one, was okay with any of this, like nobody has ever.
01:04:31.000Like the fact that, like society has has been degraded into something where it's like oh, this isn't that big of a deal, and I get it totally jaded, everyone's jaded now whatever okay, at the time, at the time period, if those images would have come out, it would have been.
01:04:47.000It would have been, it would have been, it would have been the most important thing on the news for three years.
01:04:52.000Well, kind of like when Clinton had his uh intern, uh run in with Monica Lewinsky.
01:04:59.000I don't have the clip here and I just remembered it so I didn't call for it, but they were asking about, why do you hang out with all these young women?
01:05:05.000He's like well I, that's wrong, I don't hang out with, I don't typically hang out with younger women and all this stuff, and they go.
01:05:19.000Um, let me just play one from Hillary, because she's just got a vibe here.
01:05:23.000386, when you saw photos of your husband in a hot tub, laying on a beach and getting massaged by other women and you knew that Jeffrey Epstein was involved in some of these trips and these things, did it concern you at all?
01:05:55.000Because they're trying to get salacious details and et cetera, et cetera.
01:06:00.000But, anyways, yeah, she ended up, there was a whole photo leak situation with, I believe, Lauren Boebert, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert out of Colorado, leaked a picture.
01:06:09.000They found out that she leaked it during the hearing.
01:06:12.000She slammed her fists on the table, and it was quite the moment.
01:06:19.000I believe we just about have it loaded up here.
01:06:21.000But it literally, all of us turned and looked at each other and were like, that was Benghazi.
01:06:48.000I have another photos that are being released of the secretary as she is testifying from inside this room.
01:06:55.000Can you please advise me as to whether or not that's permissible and consistent with the rules, particularly given that we have asked for a public hearing?
01:07:03.000If there are photos that are being released of the secretary as she is testifying, can you please explain how that is?