The Charlie Kirk Show - March 02, 2021


The Great Cuomo Coverup the Activist Media Is Missing


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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) joins CNN's Dana Bash to talk about the loss of the House, the Senate, and the presidency under President Trump. Bill Cassidy is a senator from Louisiana and represents a state that voted for Donald Trump in 2016.

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00:00:04.000 We talk about Bill Cassidy from Louisiana.
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00:01:50.000 I'm going to start with this, just something that really bothered me.
00:01:53.000 And our team does a great job.
00:01:54.000 They put together these clip sheets, and they're the hardest working team in podcasts.
00:01:59.000 In fact, we posted three podcasts in the last 12 hours, and that's saying something.
00:02:04.000 So I was reading one of these clips that our team put together from this guy.
00:02:09.000 I had a lot of respect for him before, and he's just been miserable lately, Senator Bill Cassidy from Louisiana.
00:02:17.000 And I kept reading and rereading this, and maybe I haven't even listened to the clip yet, so we'll listen to it together.
00:02:22.000 But he said, over the past four years, we lost the House, the Senate, and the presidency.
00:02:26.000 That has not happened in a single four years under a president since Herbert Hoover.
00:02:31.000 If we idolize one person, we will lose.
00:02:33.000 So let's play cut eight.
00:02:35.000 This guy's a senator.
00:02:37.000 He's just lying about history.
00:02:39.000 Of course, he's going on CNN.
00:02:42.000 And is that really the best way to represent the people of Louisiana to go pander to Dana Bash?
00:02:49.000 Play tape.
00:02:50.000 Over the last four years, we lost the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the presidency.
00:02:56.000 That has not happened in a single four years under a president since Herbert Hoover.
00:03:00.000 Now, if we plan to win in 2022 and 2024, we have to listen to the voters.
00:03:06.000 Not just those who really like President Trump, but also those who perhaps are less sure.
00:03:11.000 If we do, if we speak to the voters who are less sure, who went from President Trump to President Biden, we win.
00:03:18.000 If we don't, we lose.
00:03:19.000 That is a reality that we have to confront.
00:03:24.000 Again, I have a rule.
00:03:26.000 If you're a Republican and you're going on CNN to say something that they won't interrupt you, then you shouldn't be going on CNN.
00:03:36.000 If CNN is not interrupting you, you shouldn't be going on CNN.
00:03:40.000 So Bill Cassidy's saying exactly what Dana Bash wants to hear. 0.97
00:03:43.000 Trump is terrible. 0.86
00:03:44.000 We're losing like crazy. 0.92
00:03:45.000 So Bill Cassidy says something that's totally untrue.
00:03:47.000 And if you're watching this from Louisiana or listening in Louisiana, please email this to Bill Cassidy.
00:03:53.000 So he says, quote, over the last four years, we lost the House, the Senate, and the presidency.
00:04:00.000 That has not happened in a single four years under a president since Herbert Hoover.
00:04:03.000 He's just wrong.
00:04:05.000 And so, test case number one, George W. Bush.
00:04:09.000 In 2006, George W. Bush lost the House and the Senate.
00:04:12.000 And in 2008, Republicans lost the presidency.
00:04:16.000 In fact, because of George W. Bush and his warmongering tendencies and his big government policies, we lost worse than we could have ever imagined.
00:04:27.000 What was, Connor, can you look at the House margin in 2008?
00:04:30.000 I think it was 60 or 70 seats, and I think the Senate margin was at least nine seats. 0.98
00:04:36.000 And so Bill Cassidy is either a fool or he's lying. 0.97
00:04:43.000 And it also happened over six years to Obama, but the point is he's talking about a Republican. 0.99
00:04:49.000 George W. Bush oversaw massive collateral damage when it came to the Republican Party.
00:04:56.000 Significant.
00:04:59.000 But Bill Cassidy doesn't want to talk about that.
00:05:00.000 Okay, that just really bothered me.
00:05:02.000 So let's get into more critical news about the governor of the second largest state in the country who is under, let's say he's under fire right now.
00:05:14.000 How many was it?
00:05:14.000 Let me see here.
00:05:15.000 House of Representatives?
00:05:18.000 It was plus eight in the Senate, plus 21 in the House.
00:05:21.000 Only 21 in the House.
00:05:22.000 I thought it was more than that.
00:05:23.000 Interesting.
00:05:24.000 Well, it's plus seven right now in the House.
00:05:26.000 Okay.
00:05:27.000 Andrew Cuomo is under fire.
00:05:32.000 Now, this story is very interesting to me.
00:05:35.000 And you could just tell by how the New York Times covers it that he might survive this.
00:05:42.000 Now, Andrew Cuomo is under two separate scandals.
00:05:48.000 One that I really don't care about and one that I really care about. 0.82
00:05:55.000 So the one I really don't care about is whether or not Andrew Cuomo was a dirty old man to his young staffers saying inappropriate things.
00:06:06.000 I expect that out of 60-plus-year-old New York mob-style politicians.
00:06:11.000 It's baked into their existence. 0.96
00:06:15.000 If Andrew Cuomo wasn't acting like a pig, I would say there's probably a scandal behind that. 0.96
00:06:23.000 It's just part of you're in control of everything. 0.97
00:06:26.000 You're Don Corolone of New York.
00:06:28.000 People look to you.
00:06:29.000 They kiss the ring. 1.00
00:06:30.000 You act as a jerk and as a pig to young women. 1.00
00:06:35.000 Now, he didn't inappropriately touch any of them, from what I understand. 1.00
00:06:38.000 He sexually harassed them.
00:06:40.000 Now, I'm not making excuse for it.
00:06:41.000 I just don't think it's that critical.
00:06:43.000 I don't.
00:06:45.000 Do I think he should be removed from office?
00:06:46.000 I think he should be removed for office for much more consequential things.
00:06:51.000 I'm a critic of the entire Me Too movement.
00:06:53.000 I am.
00:06:54.000 I have been outspoken against it.
00:06:56.000 I think that without any nuance, without any context with these sort of accusations, we're going to go the way of complete and total mob rule.
00:07:08.000 We've talked about this before.
00:07:09.000 So, but the real story when it comes to Andrew Cuomo right now is around these accusations.
00:07:17.000 Now, Joe Biden was under accusations too from Tara Reid.
00:07:21.000 Whatever happened to Tara Reid, by the way?
00:07:23.000 Can we get Tara Reid on our podcast?
00:07:24.000 I would love to have Tara Reid as a guest on our podcast. 1.00
00:07:27.000 Let's do that.
00:07:27.000 I'm not kidding.
00:07:28.000 If you don't know who Tara Reid is, Tara Reid credibly accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, not just sexual harassment.
00:07:34.000 But again, I just get, I just take a much slower, more deliberate approach with these things. 0.98
00:07:40.000 Not everyone is scum like Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein. 0.89
00:07:44.000 Like there's actually gradations of difference here, okay? 0.98
00:07:48.000 So, Andrew Cuomo is under these accusations, and he says that the accusers misinterpreted his remarks and agrees to harassment inquiry. 0.54
00:07:55.000 Now, since Andrew Cuomo is a pathological liar, I actually tend to believe these women.
00:08:02.000 However, he might be right. 0.92
00:08:04.000 They might have misinterpreted it.
00:08:06.000 Because if you read the accusations from these young women, this one young woman said that Andrew Cuomo asked her, Do you like being with older men?
00:08:15.000 So, at the very worst, that's Andrew Cuomo hitting on her. 0.99
00:08:19.000 At the very best, it's Andrew Cuomo being just kind of a dirty pig. 0.99
00:08:30.000 By the way, I'm not justifying or defending his behavior. 0.99
00:08:32.000 Trust me, okay?
00:08:35.000 But what the Democrats want us to do, and this is all their strategy, and I learned this from the great Rush Limbaugh.
00:08:42.000 May he rest in peace.
00:08:43.000 I miss him every day.
00:08:44.000 You know what the Democrats want to do right now?
00:08:46.000 Is the Democrats want us to have a conversation about leaders over the age of 60 acting inappropriately towards women?
00:08:56.000 What does that open up?
00:08:57.000 Oh, we can go talk about Donald Trump's behavior towards women. 0.86
00:09:01.000 That's what they want.
00:09:03.000 They want to say, okay, Andrew Cuomo was bad, but he wasn't as bad as Trump.
00:09:07.000 And all of a sudden, you're like, why are we talking about Trump again?
00:09:10.000 The real scandal, by the way, Andrew Cuomo is actually enjoying this right now.
00:09:14.000 Andrew Cuomo, very well, and I will be the only one that will argue this.
00:09:19.000 I think Andrew Cuomo leaked these.
00:09:22.000 I do.
00:09:23.000 I think Andrew Cuomo wants to be under Me Too accusations.
00:09:28.000 I do.
00:09:30.000 Because I think the nursing home scandal is so bad, is so credible, and so factual.
00:09:36.000 Anything to distract Andrew Cuomo from that, where he could potentially be exonerated, he wants.
00:09:44.000 And so apparently now, Letitia James, who is the Attorney General of New York, is going to launch a full investigation into whether Andrew Cuomo said a couple of inappropriate remarks to 20-something staffers.
00:09:56.000 The New York Times reports: Mr. Cuomo, 63, said that his comments, which emerged in an account from his aide, Charlotte Bennett, were an extension of life spent at work, where sometimes he quote teased people about their personal lives and relationships.
00:10:10.000 Quote, I now understand that in my interactions, may have been insensitive or too personal, and that some of my comments given my position made others feel in a way I never intended.
00:10:22.000 I acknowledge some of the things I've said have been misinterpreted and as an unwanted flirtation to the extent anyone felt that way, I'm truly sorry about that.
00:10:28.000 Now, the true test will be if anyone from Andrew Cuomo's past will come out and show a pattern of this.
00:10:37.000 But again, I'm less concerned at whether or not Andrew Cuomo was acting like Hugh Hefner and more concerned about whether or not Andrew Cuomo was putting infected Chinese coronavirus patients in nursing homes, lying about it and covering it up.
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00:12:04.000 Dr. Anthony Fauci should be fired.
00:12:06.000 We've been saying that since the first day I heard that maniac on television. 1.00
00:12:10.000 He's a liar. 0.99
00:12:11.000 And so Florida is succeeding. 0.99
00:12:14.000 It was a great piece of television last evening.
00:12:17.000 I got to thank the great one, Mark Levin.
00:12:20.000 He just did a phenomenal job highlighting Ron DeSantis for the full hour, giving him an opportunity to explain exactly what's happening in our country.
00:12:29.000 Florida is the second oldest state in the entire country, the third largest state, and has some of the lowest infection rates, death rates, and severe hospitalization rates, the most vibrant economy, small businesses that are flourishing, and schools that are wide open.
00:12:44.000 Why?
00:12:45.000 Because Ron DeSantis did what we talked about on the show back in April.
00:12:50.000 He trusted the scientific method.
00:12:53.000 He didn't listen to the scientists.
00:12:56.000 He actually employed the Socratic method of questioning.
00:13:00.000 He doubted the political motives of Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has failed upwards his entire life.
00:13:10.000 He should be removed from all decent and polite society.
00:13:16.000 And quite honestly, Anthony Fauci should be called to question for the thousands of people that have had to suffer under mental health issues, self-harm issues, because of the lockdowns.
00:13:29.000 So I want to play some tape here of America's greatest governor, Ron DeSantis.
00:13:36.000 And the second greatest governor, I think, is Christy Noam.
00:13:39.000 And why is every Republican in the country not like this?
00:13:42.000 What is the excuse?
00:13:44.000 Why are most Republicans afraid to open their state?
00:13:49.000 Why are most Republicans implementing mask mandates like Brian Kemp in Georgia?
00:13:54.000 Now, he's been a little bit better than most on the lockdowns, quite honestly, but not as good as Ron DeSantis.
00:14:00.000 Or the governor of Alabama has been terrible.
00:14:03.000 It's because Ron DeSantis, quite honestly, is smarter than the rest of them.
00:14:07.000 Most governors in the country, most people in politics, are not very smart.
00:14:11.000 They're not.
00:14:12.000 Most people in politics are sociopathic, self-interested people, and some of them do a good job because they just follow the party line.
00:14:20.000 But Ron DeSantis is very rare.
00:14:23.000 As the great Alex Marlow from Breitbark.com mentioned on our podcast, which by the way, check out our podcast.
00:14:30.000 He said, Ron DeSantis is the rare combination of a high IQ, courageous, ambitious politician with good principles.
00:14:39.000 What a great way to put it.
00:14:41.000 So let's go to cut 21 of Ron DeSantis on my friend's program, the great one, Mark Levin, talking about how we cleaned up elections.
00:14:52.000 Let's just start with elections.
00:14:54.000 Now, Brian Kemp, why can't you fix your elections like Ron DeSantis?
00:15:00.000 The easy answer is Ron DeSantis is much smarter and has more courage.
00:15:05.000 And if that bothers you, Brian Kemp, to hear, then prove us, prove to us that you have the intelligence or the charisma or the courage to do something different.
00:15:14.000 Play tape.
00:15:15.000 And then when I came in, I had the situation of looking at Broward and Palm Beach.
00:15:20.000 So we accepted the resignation of Brenda Snipes from Broward County, and then we removed the supervisor in Palm Beach County and replaced her with somebody who's done a good job.
00:15:30.000 Those had been two of the problem counties.
00:15:32.000 So we did that right off the bat, took the election integrity very seriously.
00:15:36.000 Then we also, when COVID hit, I refuse to do any type of mass mail balloting or any of the things these other states did.
00:15:44.000 The fact is in Florida, we had our system.
00:15:47.000 If you want an absentee ballot, you can request it and then you can send it in.
00:15:51.000 But we're not just going to send millions of ballots into the ether and then trying to figure out what's going on.
00:15:57.000 What a simple, logical, reasonable way to go about running elections.
00:16:01.000 If you want a ballot, you request it.
00:16:03.000 We're not going to send ballots all over the place.
00:16:06.000 Ron DeSantis also fired Brenda Snipes right out of the gate.
00:16:08.000 Ron DeSantis oversaw the cleanest and most trusted elections in the country, which just so happened to result in Donald Trump winning by 400,000 votes.
00:16:23.000 Ron DeSantis has the booming economy, protecting Second Amendment rights.
00:16:27.000 He's passing an anti-riot bill.
00:16:29.000 He's holding big tech accountable.
00:16:32.000 Now, we've focused on Ron DeSantis quite a lot on this program.
00:16:37.000 And the reason is twofold.
00:16:39.000 Number one, he's doing a phenomenal job.
00:16:41.000 Number two, most Republican governors aren't.
00:16:45.000 Most Republican governors do not have what it takes to be a leader.
00:16:51.000 Governor Ron DeSantis has proven that even in a state that is split down the middle, Republican and Democrat, almost 50-50, in a state that is a battleground state, you can be the most conservative governor in America.
00:17:08.000 And again, Christy Noam deserves a lot of credit.
00:17:09.000 We'll play some tape from her.
00:17:10.000 Besides that, I see an open area of really no courageous Republican governors.
00:17:21.000 And I'll go through the list and we'll see if there's some exceptions.
00:17:26.000 All right, listen closely, everybody.
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00:20:09.000 Governor Christy Noam comes out and says that Fauci was wrong a lot.
00:20:15.000 Let's go to Cut 13.
00:20:17.000 We never focused on the case numbers.
00:20:19.000 Instead, we kept our eye on hospital capacity.
00:20:22.000 Now, Dr. Fauci, he told me that on my worst day, I'd have 10,000 patients in the hospital.
00:20:29.000 On our worst day, we had a little over 600.
00:20:33.000 I don't know if you agree with me, but Dr. Fauci is wrong a lot.
00:20:41.000 Roaring applause.
00:20:43.000 Dr. Anthony Fauci should be allowed nowhere near government, but you get the government that you advocate for and deserve.
00:20:48.000 And for whatever reason, we deserve Dr. Anthony Fauci in some form of a sinister punishment.
00:20:54.000 Let's go to cut 23 of Ron DeSantis, the other great governor in our country, who says that we're going to challenge big tech.
00:21:01.000 Now, for every Republican governor and Republican attorney general out there, and I'm actually seeing some Republican attorney generals tomorrow, why are you not following the Florida model?
00:21:12.000 Ron DeSantis is challenging these big tech companies directly.
00:21:16.000 It's not enough, but it's a start.
00:21:17.000 Play cut 23.
00:21:19.000 Well, Mark, our country cannot allow the terms of the debate to be set by leftist oligarchs in Silicon Valley.
00:21:27.000 That is totally unacceptable.
00:21:29.000 So we're really tackling it on three different areas.
00:21:32.000 One is data privacy and personal privacy.
00:21:35.000 You have a phone, even if you're not using it, they're always pulling data from that.
00:21:39.000 They sell the data.
00:21:40.000 They make hundreds of billions of dollars doing that.
00:21:43.000 We think individuals should be able to opt out of that process.
00:21:46.000 You buy a phone, you pay your money for it, and you can use it, but they shouldn't be able to monetize indefinitely off your use.
00:21:55.000 Also, election interference.
00:21:56.000 We saw with what they did with the Hunter Biden story by suppressing it.
00:22:00.000 Obviously, we saw what they did with President Trump.
00:22:03.000 So we have penalties if they deplatform a candidate for office.
00:22:07.000 And then if they're doing things like suppressing or elevating for a particular candidate, that's an in-kind contribution.
00:22:14.000 That is the most thoughtful defense of going after big tech that I have heard from an elected official.
00:22:21.000 And the reason why Ron DeSantis gets an entire hour on Mark Levin's program on Sunday evening, while other Republican governors are saying, well, what can I do to get that?
00:22:32.000 Well, be courageous, be wise, and be unafraid of the criticism.
00:22:37.000 Whereas most Republican governors across the country are nowhere to be found.
00:22:41.000 They're doing mask mandates, lockdown measures, doing nothing against big tech.
00:22:46.000 Ron DeSantis has shown that we can stand up, advocate our positions, implement them, and we'll get more popular in the process.
00:22:56.000 Cut 16, Ron DeSantis at CPAC saying we cannot and we will not go back to the failed establishment of yesteryear.
00:23:04.000 Cut 16.
00:23:05.000 Florida's leading on the issues that matter to conservatives.
00:23:08.000 We don't spout hollow rhetoric.
00:23:11.000 We take decisive action.
00:23:13.000 And what's true in Florida is true for conservatives across the nation.
00:23:18.000 We cannot, we will not go back to the days of the failed Republican establishment of yesteryear. 0.57
00:23:28.000 We reject weakness in the face of the threat posed by China, including their actions in international trade. 0.57
00:23:36.000 We reject military adventurism.
00:23:39.000 Instead, support a strong defense solely for the purpose of protecting our nation and its people.
00:23:46.000 Ron DeSantis is smart enough to listen to the conservative base, look at the MAGA doctrine, something we know a little bit about here on this program, that is immensely popular amongst his citizens.
00:24:00.000 So Ron DeSantis is not talking about starting foreign wars all across the world.
00:24:05.000 He's not talking about representing the corporate interests of the war machine.
00:24:10.000 Instead, Ron DeSantis says we reject military adventurism.
00:24:15.000 If Ron DeSantis focuses on trade, China, American culture, ending endless wars, free speech, big tech censorship, anti-riots, opening schools, and opening the economy, he's already running circles around every other conservative out there.
00:24:36.000 Now, whether Ron DeSantis will run for president or not, he has proven in this time he is more qualified than anyone except Christy Noam.
00:24:49.000 Christy Noam and Ron DeSantis have proven what it means to be a leader.
00:24:53.000 And I'm saying if Trump runs or not, Trump runs, the point is that the measuring stick should be a crisis.
00:25:02.000 For some of these other people that want to run for re-election, like Governor Brian Kemp, for example, in Georgia, he's just not up to the task.
00:25:12.000 He should have remained as Secretary of State or as a state senator.
00:25:16.000 He is not a natural-born leader. 0.99
00:25:20.000 He's just kind of cowardly, corrupt, and not very good at his job, quite honestly. 0.98
00:25:25.000 Same can be said of a lot of Republican governors across the country. 0.99
00:25:30.000 You know, it's kind of funny.
00:25:33.000 When you get used to a certain type of food, you think all food tastes that way.
00:25:44.000 And then you have a real meal.
00:25:45.000 You say, oh, my goodness, I've been eating trash.
00:25:47.000 This is what happens with college kids, at least you used to, before they started to open up these five-star buffets.
00:25:52.000 When they started eating ramen noodles all the time, then they have a real meal.
00:25:54.000 They say, oh, my goodness, there's more than just this cup of sodium-dense liquid.
00:26:02.000 The point is that Governor Brian Kemp wouldn't look terrible if it wasn't for how exceptional Ron DeSantis looks and how courageous he is.
00:26:11.000 He has raised the bar.
00:26:13.000 And so if your governor is not like Mike DeWine in Ohio, I'm sure he's a very nice person.
00:26:23.000 Why did Ohio ever lock down?
00:26:26.000 Why was Ohio not leading the charge in opening schools?
00:26:31.000 Ron DeSantis was the first state alongside South Dakota to open up all their restaurants and open up public gatherings.
00:26:39.000 Let's just go through the checklist of what Florida has successfully done.
00:26:45.000 Safest and most secure elections, hosting a Super Bowl and winning that Super Bowl, hosting CPAC, reigniting the hotel industry, massive population growth, open businesses, open schools.
00:26:58.000 Meanwhile, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, California, Washington, Oregon, all run by Democrats, by the way, are suffering.
00:27:10.000 Ron DeSantis also talks about rejecting open borders and instead supporting American sovereignty.
00:27:16.000 My goodness, he is speaking the love language of the conservative base, CUT 17.
00:27:22.000 We reject open borders and instead support American sovereignty and the American worker.
00:27:29.000 Building a movement on the foundation of amnesty and cheap foreign labor is like building a house on a field of quicksand.
00:27:41.000 Well said. 0.99
00:27:42.000 You can win an election with a message like that.
00:27:44.000 I want to get to this clip and this sound here of something that happened in Georgia.
00:27:53.000 So Georgia passed favorable election reform measures requiring a voter ID to vote on absentee ballots.
00:28:03.000 What happened in response was that Georgia activists stormed the Georgia Capitol.
00:28:09.000 Did you hear about this story?
00:28:10.000 Probably not.
00:28:11.000 Did George Scarborough lead with it on Morning Joe?
00:28:14.000 CNN even mention it.
00:28:14.000 Probably not.
00:28:16.000 The Georgia Capitol was stormed.
00:28:19.000 Was the FBI called to call them insurrectionists?
00:28:24.000 Play tape.
00:28:25.000 Attention, attention.
00:28:28.000 I am George Involved with the Georgia State Patrol.
00:28:31.000 You are a violation of 1611, 34-point left.
00:28:48.000 Disperse immediately or you will be arrested.
00:29:11.000 That woman is a state rep refusing to leave after a Capitol police officer, a Georgia Capitol police officer, asks her to leave, Park Cannon.
00:29:21.000 HB 531 requiring a copy of a valid ID for absentee ballots.
00:29:27.000 I don't expect any sort of media outrage or backlash for this at all.
00:29:32.000 He said, you will disperse immediately or you'll be arrested.
00:29:36.000 State Representative Park Cannon put her head in front of the bullhorn, causing the amplification to feed back into a screech.
00:29:43.000 That will not be headline news anywhere.
00:29:47.000 Let's get to some more sound here.
00:29:50.000 Ah, yes, this is one.
00:29:51.000 I've been wanting to touch on this.
00:29:52.000 I saw this in the cut sheet earlier.
00:29:54.000 One thing that frustrates me more than anything else is someone who is given access, who is given a position that thousands of other people would give anything to be in that spot.
00:30:10.000 And the moment they're no longer in it, they become a Judas or a Brutus.
00:30:17.000 Someone who is steeped in betrayal, ingratitude, self-righteousness.
00:30:24.000 And that person would be John Bolton.
00:30:26.000 Do you see a through line between all the people that hate Donald Trump the most?
00:30:30.000 John Bolton, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger.
00:30:33.000 What do they all have in common?
00:30:36.000 They all have Genghis Khan-style zeal to conquer the planet, not actually serve the interests domestically of our own citizens.
00:30:45.000 So John Bolton, who never misses an opportunity to advocate for a foreign war, of course, attacks Donald Trump for something about the CPAC straw poll on CNN.
00:30:59.000 Cut to it.
00:31:02.000 But just to take CPAC, if this is the epitome of support for Trump, the straw poll that was taken this weekend and released just before Trump spoke showed that of all the participants, 55% supported Trump being reelected as president. 0.96
00:31:19.000 That is a pathetic figure. 0.88
00:31:22.000 I would have expected 90%. 0.93
00:31:24.000 So if 55% one month after leaving office at CPAC is the best he can do, that's a mark of how far he has fallen.
00:31:33.000 First of all, John Bolton has no idea what he's talking about.
00:31:35.000 The point is that the fact that John Bolton continues to go on TV and talk negatively about his former boss, someone who signed a document saying, I trust you to be near me, is the definition of immorality.
00:31:49.000 Self-righteous, immoral, lying person.
00:31:58.000 I'm very excited to talk to all of you about a new book out from my good friend Jim Holden. 0.96
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00:33:33.000 Nine years ago, I remember popping open my BlackBerry.
00:33:43.000 And I was subscribed to the Foxnews.com Breaking News Alerts.
00:33:47.000 It was March 1st, 2012.
00:33:50.000 I was a senior in high school nine years ago.
00:33:53.000 And I remember getting this email alert, and it says, Andrew Breitbart, dead.
00:34:00.000 And I couldn't really even process what that meant.
00:34:05.000 I was a fan of Andrew Breitbart's.
00:34:07.000 I'd never met him.
00:34:10.000 And six weeks later, Joel Pollack from Breitbart.com actually gave me an opportunity to publish my first ever op-ed, which then led to my first ever television appearance.
00:34:24.000 And from there, Turning Point USA.
00:34:26.000 And so Andrew's legacy is larger than life.
00:34:32.000 I never knew him, never got to meet him, but I feel like I know him based on the amount of footage, the amount of literature, the amount of commentary that I have poured over throughout the years.
00:34:42.000 Andrew was larger than life.
00:34:44.000 He was magnanimous.
00:34:46.000 He was our most effective weapon against the left.
00:34:51.000 And I will make the argument to you right here, right now, that Andrew Breitbart got Donald Trump elected while not living.
00:35:02.000 Are you ready to hear this argument?
00:35:04.000 Andrew Breitbart spent a lot of time on Twitter and on his computer before Twitter was a big platform.
00:35:13.000 At 2 o'clock in the morning, he all of a sudden saw a very unusual tweet from Anthony Weiner.
00:35:21.000 Anthony Weiner decided to tweet out a very personal picture of himself.
00:35:25.000 Andrew Breitbart screenshot it and archived it.
00:35:28.000 Weiner denied it at first, resulted in Anthony Weiner getting exposed for his pattern of bad behavior.
00:35:40.000 Andrew Breitbart passed away not too long after that, but the story that Andrew Breitbart started to break turned into a full-fledged investigation into Anthony Weiner's most personal dealings.
00:35:57.000 Fast forward to the fall of 2016, October of 2016, all of a sudden there was a certain announcement from James Comey.
00:36:10.000 You might remember that got James Comey in a lot of trouble when James Comey said that there was a new server that was found and there are questions around Hillary Clinton's emails.
00:36:21.000 Now, what emails were they?
00:36:24.000 They were emails from Huma Abadine.
00:36:31.000 Who is Huma Abadin, the former wife and partner of Anthony Weiner?
00:36:37.000 How did the FBI get their hands on them?
00:36:44.000 Because of the shenanigans and criminal behavior of Anthony Weiner.
00:36:51.000 So if Andrew Breitbart would have never exposed Anthony Weiner, we very well may never have had a criminal investigation into him.
00:36:59.000 Therefore, all of the emails from the hard drive of Anthony Weiner would never have been possessed.
00:37:05.000 Therefore, an investigation into Huma Abedin, therefore an investigation to Hillary Clinton might never have started.
00:37:13.000 And that press release that James Comey wrote 10 days before the election would never have been issued because that was the center point of the whole thing, which definitely played a role on the margins of Donald Trump winning the election in 2016.
00:37:27.000 Only Andrew Breitbart could have possibly pulled off a multi-year campaign while not even being alive to defeat tyranny.
00:37:39.000 Breitbart.com continues to be a phenomenal website.
00:37:42.000 I contribute there quite often.
00:37:43.000 We have Alex Marlowe on our podcast.
00:37:46.000 And I will make the argument in a longer essay.
00:37:48.000 It's really a book that someone should write, that Andrew and Rush were the two most powerful, influential, non-elected political figures of our lifetime that taught the conservative movement how to communicate, how to create, how to fight, how to persuade, more so than anything else.
00:38:06.000 They had their own little lane.
00:38:08.000 One was investigative, one was more broadcast.
00:38:10.000 Both of them played an impact on my life when I was just a high schooler.
00:38:14.000 And they left the conservative movement in a much better place.
00:38:17.000 And I would make the argument, no Andrew Breitbart, no Rush Limbaugh, no Donald Trump.
00:38:22.000 So Andrew Breitbart, I never had a chance to get to know you, but God bless you.
00:38:27.000 Nine years ago, you passed away, and I could tell you the legacy that you continue to leave is one that we should all desire to have a mark on this world.
00:38:40.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:38:41.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
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00:38:48.000 God bless you.
00:38:49.000 Speak to you soon.