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00:04:10.000It's one of the reasons why Florida is wide open and California is locked down.
00:04:14.000It's one of the main reasons why Florida is prospering and Illinois is suffering.
00:04:20.000The laboratories of democracy, the competition between states, is incredibly important.
00:04:26.000The Founding Fathers were very hesitant to create a federal government to start.
00:04:33.000Thomas Jefferson, best known for being an architect, the founder of the University of Virginia, being the author of the Declaration of Independence, which interestingly, in the first draft of the Declaration, actually condemns slavery and King George bringing slavery to the United States.
00:04:52.000He was someone who pushed back against a centralized federal government and really wanted states' rights.
00:05:00.000The first swing at the United States of America was a failure.
00:05:05.000It was the Articles of a Confederation.
00:05:08.000The Articles of Confederation did not go far enough to strengthen a centralized authority to have unified currency, be able to collect taxes, have a national military, and some form of representation in between these states.
00:05:23.000And so the second pass was mainly written by James Madison, who was the fourth president of the United States, a brilliant man, the father of the United States Constitution.
00:05:34.000And they expanded on the thinking of the Declaration that rights are given to us by God, that states are going to create this system.
00:05:43.000The federal system is not going to all of a sudden recreate the states, that the states have sovereignty and they give their agreement voluntarily to a national federal government.
00:05:53.000The idea of a federal government is not necessarily uniquely American.
00:05:59.000The Romans tried it in smaller, more localized way.
00:06:07.000But a Republican system of government, not the Republican Party, but a republic system of government, was something that had not been tried in the way of a constitutional framework that was written down, not just orally transmitted, which the Romans mostly did, and was then able to recognize God-given rights.
00:06:31.000The United States Constitution is the greatest political document ever written in the history of the world.
00:06:35.000It has gone, it's been amended, but basically unchanged from its founding ideals from its ratification.
00:06:42.000Now, the United States Constitution is very clear about where rights come from.
00:06:53.000And as part of that system, the founding fathers, specifically James Madison, inspired by a French judge by the name of Montesquieu, wanted separation of powers, checks and balances.
00:07:07.000James Madison, alongside the ratifiers and the people that got behind the U.S. Constitution, understood that if the Constitution was not able to prevent the corruption of power, then it will just fall apart almost immediately.
00:07:25.000So the Founding Fathers came together, and James Madison was the one that really put this together through his understanding of the classics and John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and he said, okay, how are we going to settle differences?
00:07:44.000Now, elections are critical, and that's why the Founding Fathers wanted senators to be elected by their state legislatures, not just through popular election.
00:07:53.000I believe the 17th Amendment got rid of that.
00:07:55.000This is also why the founding fathers won an electoral college, not just a popular vote.
00:08:01.000But the creation of a third yet equal branch of government was a transformational breakthrough.
00:08:14.000The idea that the law, that which is written down, that is public, that we all share, that we can agree upon, that is by definition cooperative, the law, has its own branch of government.
00:08:32.000This was mostly and mainly inspired by the Bible.
00:08:39.000William Blackstone, in particular, a Christian man who is British, founding fathers, understood that the law needs its own branch because the legislature can make the law, the executive can implement the law, but who's going to interpret the law?
00:08:59.000Who is going to give clarity to what the law is supposed to say and do?
00:09:09.000And understand that in the beginning of the country, there was disagreement of how much power the Supreme Court actually could have.
00:09:18.000Was it just Article III as an asterisk or was it an equal branch of government?
00:09:25.000And the first court case that really determined this was Marbury versus Madison, which established judicial review.
00:09:32.000This idea that the Supreme Court of the United States can interpret text from Congress, and there's a Latin phrase for this, that which is said is final.
00:09:47.000But it's basically, it's written in, I think, on the building of the Supreme Court.
00:09:52.000And they take that very, very seriously.
00:09:54.000So the Supreme Court, over the decades and over the couple centuries of our country, has always grown in respect.
00:10:03.000It has grown in, let's say, popular opinion.
00:10:08.000That's not the best way to word it, but it's grown in respect, I guess is the best way to say it, of the American people as what the Supreme Court says goes.
00:10:18.000We have lower courts, which by the way, just so you all know, the idea of circuit courts, appellate courts, none of those are actually in the Constitution.
00:10:26.000Only the Supreme Court is in the Constitution.
00:10:28.000And the number of justices is not even in the Supreme Court.
00:10:31.000So we created these other systems, federal government, a federal court, circuit court.
00:10:37.000We created appellate courts, district courts.
00:10:40.000All of that is a created system, which is fine.
00:10:42.000The Constitution allows for that, but it's not necessarily in the Constitution.
00:10:46.000And so the Supreme Court exists for a very specific reason to interpret the laws, to interpret the activity of the citizens in the country of whether or not what they are doing is constitutional.
00:11:01.000And so we look to the Supreme Court to settle our differences.
00:11:32.000But what happens when the Supreme Court decides not to do their job?
00:11:38.000What happens when the Supreme Court defers their responsibility?
00:11:42.000What happens when the Supreme Court does not step up and act as an equal branch of the federal government to add clarity to the confusion that the population is feeling, especially legally?
00:12:01.000Well, we're living through what happens, and in the last couple days, we have seen some very disappointing developments from the United States Supreme Court.
00:12:11.000We have seen some very troubling conclusions that the Supreme Court has reached.
00:12:17.000To not even have a decision that is improper, but to not even hear a case at all.
00:12:26.000And I would make the argument that the justices of the Supreme Court are pushing back on their constitutional mandate to interpret the law.
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00:14:29.000Some of the theories that are floating out there, I know are not true.
00:14:34.000Some of the other theories I find to be very, very compelling, especially the theories around signature verification, ballots being sent out to people that did not request them, constitutional measures that were not followed.
00:14:49.000And so the U.S. Supreme Court, for those of us that have concern about election integrity, which you should, was the last line of decision that could add clarity to the confusion.
00:15:07.000And so breaking yesterday and the day before that, the U.S. Supreme Court made a series of choices.
00:15:15.000I don't want to call them decisions because that's a little bit confusing because a decision is usually when the Supreme Court hears a case and they write an opinion.
00:15:23.000So I'll just say they made a choice not to hear a case.
00:15:27.000So I want to be very clear in the way I communicate this to you.
00:15:31.000But the Supreme Court said that they would not hear the 2020 election case that questioned some of the Pennsylvania ballots.
00:15:42.000I'm reading from USA Today, quote, the Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a dispute over whether absentee ballots received up to three days after Election Day in Pennsylvania should have been counted in the 2020 election.
00:15:57.000The people that, the justices that wanted to hear the case, were Alito, Gorsuch, and Thomas.
00:16:08.000And the correct legal term is they didn't grant Sarah Tiori.
00:16:15.000As close as I can, I don't speak Latin.
00:16:19.000The justices that said they didn't want to hear the case were Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Breyer, Soda Mayor, Kagan, and Roberts.
00:16:50.000So this case was centered around 10,000 ballots in Pennsylvania that very well might have been improperly counted against a certain deadline extension.
00:17:04.000Now this is one of dozens of legal challenges surrounding the 2020 election.
00:17:12.000Now remember, the Constitution explicitly grants the power of elections to the state legislators.
00:17:21.000Clarence Thomas, the great Clarence Thomas, said in his dissent, quote, the Constitution gives to each state legislature authority to determine the manner of federal elections.
00:17:37.000Quote, yet both before and after the 2020 election, non-legislative officials in various states took it upon themselves to set the rules instead.
00:17:48.000As a result, we received an unusually high number of petitions and emergency applications contesting those changes.
00:18:22.000It says explicitly in the Pennsylvania Constitution the way that absentee ballots and mail-in ballots must be sent and how elections must be conducted.
00:18:31.000This was done without the approval, without the consent, without the agreement of the Pennsylvania legislature.
00:18:42.000The state legislators have absolute power when it comes to these elections.
00:18:49.000So therefore, non-legislative actors, as Clarence Thomas stated, decided to make all these choices and all these decisions.
00:18:58.000Well, then who's supposed to say whether or not that election was constitutional or not?
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00:20:25.000Let's get deeper into this story here.
00:20:30.000So the U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear the election case around the Pennsylvania ballot issue.
00:20:41.000Now, traditionally, vote by mail was limited to voters who had defined, well-documented reasons to be absent.
00:20:52.000And this is according to Sam DeMarco, the one Republican on the Allegheny County Board of Elections.
00:21:00.000He argued, quote, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recognizes the legislature has the authority and responsibility for writing election law.
00:21:13.000But they use the excuse of the Chinese coronavirus to grant these.
00:21:20.000It's no mystery that there's a lot of pent-up frustration in the country around the election, around how it was conducted.
00:21:32.000Now, some people would say that that's not fair.
00:21:35.000Some people would say that the election was perfect and it was flawless.
00:21:39.000A basic objective data analysis of how this election was conducted, specifically with the mail-in-ballot issue in states like Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona.
00:21:51.000No one can say that and be a serious, rational, fair analyst.
00:22:00.000But instead of addressing these problems head-on, instead of being unafraid of the backlash, the United States Supreme Court has decided to dodge, avoid, and run away from the problem and act as if it does not exist.
00:22:19.000This is a massive disservice to our country.
00:22:24.000Clarence Thomas, who again will go down as one of the greatest Supreme Court justices in American history, said that this is a disservice to our fellow citizens.
00:22:37.000Millions of people across the country are patiently waiting for clarity on what happened in the 2020 election.
00:22:47.000So when you have confusion, it will then lead to division.
00:22:52.000When people are clouded in their perspective of what's happening when it comes to elections, they're far less likely to trust elections in the future and therefore trust the leaders that are the beneficiaries of those elections, and even more so the decisions that those leaders make.
00:23:14.000When critical decisions are made in the shadows, the people are robbed.
00:23:22.000And it's even worse when the leaders and the media tell us that we have a wonderfully transparent system, that there's nothing to see here.
00:23:35.000And we've gone through what gaslighting is many times, but very quickly, gaslighting is a psychological manipulation tactic that is used to convince people something is happening when it really isn't.
00:23:52.000And it's a term gaslighting that came from a play that basically was that somebody was living in an apartment.
00:23:59.000It was a woman with an abusive husband or boyfriend.
00:24:02.000He kept on turning down the lights every night, every so slightly.
00:24:07.000And she would say, is it getting darker in here?
00:24:08.000And he said, no, you're losing your mind.
00:24:09.000That is a term called gaslighting, convincing someone that they're mad.
00:24:16.000And so because of this, there have been thousands of theories that have now been launched and concocted in the last couple of years, last couple of months, I should say, around the 2020 election.
00:24:43.000The issue that many people have is that they do not feel as if their voice was adequately heard or that their viewpoint represented in the 2020 election.
00:25:05.000So how do you properly deal with this?
00:25:07.000Do you dismiss it like the Supreme Court did?
00:25:10.000No, you confront it head-on with facts.
00:25:13.000That's what the U.S. Supreme Court is supposed to do.
00:25:16.000That's what the Supreme Court has always done.
00:25:18.000The Supreme Court did this with Marbray versus Madison.
00:25:22.000The Supreme Court did this with Brown versus the Board of Education.
00:25:26.000The Supreme Court did this time and time again in its history to give clarity to the citizens around the most important issues of our time, the interpretation of the laws.
00:25:40.000And so when there is a narrative that is not true, we must always confront it with facts, always.
00:25:49.000A great example of this was dramatized in a couple different television programs and also a movie, The Richard Jewell Story in Atlanta, Georgia.
00:26:01.000Richard Jewell was wrongly accused of the Centennial Park bombing in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
00:26:12.000He was character assassinated by federal agents alongside the activist media, accusing him of something he did not do.
00:26:25.000And actually, my friend Sean Handy, who was one of the few radio show hosts at the time, who was a local Atlanta host, that said, we're rushing to judgment here, guys.
00:26:33.000Everyone else, every other news institution from the Atlanta Journal Constitution to the Washington Post, New York Times is ready to sign, seal, and deliver an indictment to Richard Jewell and put him away for life for something he did not do.
00:26:46.000The only reason Richard Jewell's name was cleared is because he decided to confront this head on.
00:26:56.000In a famous interview with Mike Wallace, Chris Wallace's father on 60 Minutes, Richard Jewell said, here are the facts.
00:27:44.000And in fact, the New York Times just had a very interesting and instructive piece that made our argument that we've been making for quite some time that what happened on January the 6th was done by an ever-increasingly small group of people with motives that were outside of the 2020 election.
00:28:08.000However, when the people that did not come to Washington, D.C. with that intention and got caught up in it and still committed a crime and have been arrested, what was their primary motivator to do that?
00:28:22.000Was it to really overthrow the government?
00:28:28.000The point is that massive frustration with the system is not healthy for anybody, regardless of your political affiliation.
00:28:37.000And if you are of the belief that all concerns around the legitimacy of the 2020 election must be dismissed immediately without hearing the validity of these concerns, then you're basically dismissing half the country.
00:28:53.000And that's what the Supreme Court did.
00:28:56.000That is exactly what the Supreme Court decided to do.
00:29:01.000Cato the Younger, not to be confused with Cato the Elder, was a Roman statesman, philosopher, heavily influenced our founding fathers, James Madison in particular, was known for his ethical standards to not be able to be corrupted by giving bribes.
00:29:18.000He was a fierce critic against the first Roman emperor, Julius Caesar.
00:29:23.000And he had a great quote that I want to share with you that I think pinpoints what the Supreme Court did or didn't do, which is still the same thing as acting.
00:29:36.000Not acting is the same thing as acting perfectly.
00:29:39.000In doing nothing, men learn to do evil.
00:29:48.000By not acting, by staying on the sidelines, by staying silent on a controversial, critical issue on how we elect our leaders, they are learning to do something incorrect or immoral.
00:30:06.000This is fundamental to our republic, how we elect our leaders.
00:30:13.000And we know that Pennsylvania acted unconstitutionally.
00:30:17.000When we know this, through the federal system that we have, states creating the federal government, and the states that have been disenfranchised, like the Dakotas, like Wyoming, Missouri, Kansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, look to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court says, sorry, not our problem.
00:31:09.000We're going to interfere with elections and control institutions from tech to social media to the way we do ballots.
00:31:15.000And eventually we're going to punish you because you dared to speak out.
00:31:19.000That's effectively the Democrat position.
00:31:22.000And I hate to be so brutal or so callous, but Democrats are totally uninterested in having meaningful dialogue around how we do elections fairly and securely in this country.
00:32:02.000So you don't trust something, then you're not going to engage with it, and you're not going to trust the output of whatever that something is, in particular the laws, the regulations, the measures.
00:32:18.000In 2016, there was a deceptive, false, and baseless narrative that was launched by Hillary Clinton and her campaign surrogates.
00:32:32.000The narrative was, of course, that Donald Trump was a Russian agent purchased by the Kremlin.
00:32:36.000He was a lapdog of Vladimir Putin, and that Russia significantly, substantially interfered with the 2016 election that resulted in an outcome of Hillary Clinton losing and Donald Trump winning.
00:32:49.000Now, this was not anything they had evidence for.
00:32:52.000This is not something that they were able to prove.
00:32:59.000They had a dossier that was funded by the Clinton campaign.
00:33:03.000And by the way, have you noticed that no one's gone to jail over this whole thing?
00:33:05.000As we unfortunately cynically predicted, just no one gets held accountable for the most important treacherous crimes.
00:33:12.000Different podcasts, different radio show for a different time.
00:33:17.000And so the Democrats launched this narrative.
00:33:22.000And all throughout December, all throughout January, all throughout February of 16 and 17, they started to build this narrative in Senate subcommittee hearings, in House committee hearings.
00:33:33.000You might remember they got Lieutenant General Michael Flynn when Peter Strzok went into the White House and illegally entrapped him without representation of legal counsel.
00:33:43.000And all of this continued until Donald Trump fired James Comey.
00:33:49.000Donald Trump then told a media outlet he did it because of Russia.
00:33:52.000What he was talking about was not the best answer, but his answer was correct.
00:33:56.000Meaning, Donald Trump was saying, I did it because of the FISA abuses regarding the Russia investigation.
00:34:02.000I think it was Lester Holt he said it too.
00:34:04.000Anyway, that was the metaphorical straw that broke the camel's back.
00:34:08.000And then Republicans with Democrats wrongly approved in Congress special counselor Bob Mueller.
00:34:21.000So Bob Mueller then had unilateral authority to go after Donald Trump and his allies and their affiliates through a special counsel investigation.
00:34:34.000Why did that start and why did Republicans end up agreeing?
00:34:38.000Because Republicans never actually believed the Russia interference narrative, but Republicans had a fear.
00:34:46.000They had a fear that if they did not approve Bob Mueller and get to the bottom of this, which we hear so often, it's one of my least favorite phrases I have to hear from politicians.
00:35:39.000Anyway, Republicans agreed that if this was not sorted out, that it would be bad for the country.
00:35:48.000So Republicans put the country above their party when in reality they shouldn't have done it because they wanted people to trust the election system.
00:35:57.000Democrats have now made the opposite decision.
00:36:00.000They've decided to put politics above their country, forgetting that just four years ago, Republicans did the opposite and granted them a Mueller investigation to sort out their concerns, which actually ended up in a complete and total exoneration of that narrative, but they still advance it to this day.
00:36:18.000The point is this: Democrats have grown increasingly uninterested in caring about what happened in the 2020 election.
00:36:27.000And the disappointing thing and the takeaway from this entire buildup is that the third branch of government, Article III, the Supreme Court, has decided they do not want to take a stand.
00:36:58.000I think you're going to see over the next couple of months Donald Trump lead the Republican Party on policy and give us the energy we need to take back the House and the Senate.
00:37:12.000If we could get behind President Trump and follow his lead, we will win in 2022.
00:37:18.000If we argue with ourselves, we're going to lose, and there's no reason to lose.
00:37:24.000I think Lindsey Graham is making a very good point.
00:37:28.000I think he understands the political landscape that we're in, that if the Republican Party decides to run against Trump or not even acknowledge any of Trump's supporters, they will get clobbered.
00:37:43.000If they embrace Donald Trump and his policies and his movement, they could expand beyond their wildest expectations.
00:37:55.000And former President Trump will be speaking at CPAC this weekend, and he will be making the argument based on all publicly available reports that he is the presumptive nominee in 2024.
00:38:09.000That all roads to being a leader in the Republican Party and the conservative movement go through Mar-a-Lago.
00:38:17.000That Mar-a-Lago is going to be the political center of gravity for years to come.
00:38:24.000And so Lindsey Graham is making a very interesting point because the question is, does Lindsey Graham actually want that to be the case or is he seeing it as the only way to stay in political power?
00:38:37.000And my advice to President Trump should take this opportunity to permanently make the Republican Party in his image because it is currently not totally in his image.
00:38:51.000And so if Lindsey Graham and these people want his support, he should have a very simple list of demands of policies the Republican Party will embrace, fight for, pass, of people that are going to get some primaries because of certain opinions that they pushed forward, impeachment votes that they supported.
00:39:12.000You should say, look, Lindsey, I agree with you on some things.
00:39:15.000Why is it that Liz Cheney is still the head of the Republican Leadership Conference after she voted to impeach me?
00:39:22.000The issue that I think many Republicans are going to face is how do you actually deal with voters who have been enlightened?
00:39:34.000Lindsey Graham knows that the people of South Carolina are not with the traditional Republican establishment, that without President Trump and his base, Republicans are going to end a very, very difficult position.
00:39:48.000Because what President Trump did is he expanded the Republican Party to embrace new perspectives on immigration, trade, challenging entrenched corporate interests.
00:40:00.000Most people that came out and voted for Donald Trump think very lowly of most Republican politicians.
00:40:12.000And so I'm of the opinion that if we are serious about winning elections in the future, first of all, we need to get election integrity taken very seriously in our country, which we currently don't take it seriously.
00:40:29.000And governors like Brian Kemp and Doug Ducey need to step up and do their job and audit election results, demand signature verification, and not just tap dance around the issue.
00:40:46.000Say one thing and not do anything substantive.
00:40:51.000Republicans can win a 40-seat majority in 2022.
00:40:56.000I floated the idea on a previous podcast and broadcast that Donald Trump should run for Congress in the state of Florida.
00:41:04.000Because basically, if Trump nationalizes the midterm elections, if President Trump gets heavily involved in these races, he will bring out the tens of millions of people and Republicans will sweep Congress again in 2022.
00:41:19.000They will try their vote-by-mail nonsense, but the party that wins a presidential election is set up for a very difficult midterm election.
00:41:28.000Now, they might try their best to try and use the vote-by-mail schemes to keep themselves permanently in political power.
00:41:34.000They might try to use social media even further to restrict viral reach of content, to restrict conservative voices.
00:41:42.000But Democrats, I think, are growing increasingly nervous because they do not have the margins in the U.S. Senate to get their transformational agenda items done that they wish.
00:41:54.000It does not look like Cinema or Joe Manchin are going to break the filibuster.
00:41:58.000And these are the couple months that are the most important, just so we're clear.
00:42:01.000This right now, March, April, May, June, July, are the most critical in the congressional calendar.
00:42:08.000In the first year after an election, that's where they feel they have the mandate.
00:42:11.000Then starting in August, when real challengers start to pop up, when real money starts to flow in these districts, when real threats start to emerge in these states, all of a sudden people like Mark Kelly and Raphael Warnock might say, I'm not so into the state addition thing.
00:42:27.000And my goodness, do we need a good candidate to go up against Raphael Warnock and Mark Kelly in Arizona and in Georgia and make sure we actually have fair and free elections?
00:42:40.000If we are just going to abandon the 30 million new voters that Donald Trump brought into the fold, then we will get clobbered in the midterm elections.
00:42:49.000And credit to Lindsey Graham, who is highlighting this.
00:42:56.000We call him a weather vane for a reason because he's just all over the place, whichever the way the wind goes, he's just condemning Donald Trump.
00:43:03.000He wants, I don't think you want him impeached, but he said something really wild a couple weeks ago, and then he just completely shifted in the other direction.
00:43:10.000Like, didn't I just see you on CNN saying the exact opposite?
00:43:13.000Anyway, he's saying the right thing right now.
00:43:19.000And we're seeing independents and moderates become increasingly upset with the Democrat Party.
00:43:33.000They control every vector of power in Washington, D.C.
00:43:38.000And as we are now knocking on the door of the month of March, We're getting closer and closer to real candidates being slated in the midterm election What will the Republican Party do in response to this?
00:43:56.000So some people say that it's time to end all quarrels within the Republican Party.
00:44:03.000A great philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, who wrote The Leviathan, argued that, he didn't argue, is that human nature is nasty, brutish, and short to each other.
00:44:13.000Say that three times quickly, nasty, brutish, and short.
00:44:48.000I'm of the opinion, and I will explain this throughout this broadcast in this hour, that the Republican Civil War can actually be a good thing.
00:44:58.000I think that we should embrace the current moment that we're in as Republicans.
00:45:03.000This is a great opportunity to find out what the party and what the movement should stand for.
00:45:09.000Obviously, I vote for Republicans, not for Democrats.
00:45:12.000But the reason I don't register as a Republican is I have far too many points of disagreement with many things that Republicans tend to do, such as sell out our country to China, to name one.
00:45:23.000But I think that this is a moment that we have to embrace the Republican Civil War, and I want it to start quickly and end quickly.
00:45:35.000I don't want this to be prolonged, but I want us to really have a conversation of whether we are a party of Liz Cheney.
00:45:40.000I want us to have a conversation of whether or not we are a party of Mitt Romney, which hilariously, we're going to play a clip from Mitt Romney where he didn't do actually something terrible for the country.
00:46:48.000Political primaries after losing the White House are nasty.
00:46:52.000They're brutish and short, to quote a great philosopher who said something similar many years ago and when he was actually looking at a civil war.
00:46:58.000And we need to make sure that the best ideas win.
00:47:01.000If the Beltway class, run by Liz Cheney and Senate Republican leaders, think they can win, then so be it.
00:47:16.000No one likes taking it, but it's actually really good for you.
00:47:19.000And I want the Republican Party to be unified next year.
00:47:22.000This year needs to be a year when we do some soul searching.
00:47:25.000Are we going to be a Chamber of Commerce party or a people-centered party, the party that President Trump left behind and still wants to continue to lead?
00:47:34.000I couldn't have said it any better myself.
00:48:04.000You might remember Todd Aiken, Murdoch, and Roy Moore.
00:48:08.000All of those seats, thankfully, have been won back by Republicans.
00:48:12.000Todd Aiken, back in 2012, was running in the Missouri Senate seat.
00:48:16.000Claire McCaskill ended up winning when he famously came out and said that something about accidental rape, if my memory serves me correctly.
00:48:26.000You might remember Murdoch running in Indiana, who used to say the exact same thing.
00:48:32.000He said something very similar, such as that it could be a good thing for the woman, something awful or horrendous.
00:48:40.000Both those seats were lost to Donnelly and Claire McCaskill.
00:48:43.000You might remember Roy Moore, who won a primary in Alabama.
00:49:02.000You can have really, really good candidates that win surprisingly in primaries, or sometimes you can get terrible candidates.
00:49:10.000But the point is not about the specific candidate.
00:49:16.000The point is about the ideas of which the party will represent or fail to represent.
00:49:23.000And that's exactly the argument we need to have right now.
00:49:26.000And I've just, I have not seen as much of any sort of philosophical, logical, or reasonable case for why we should go back to the Republican Party before Trump.
00:49:38.000I've seen a couple corporate-funded think tank papers from some people.
00:49:43.000Like, oh, Trump was the worst thing ever.
00:49:44.000Now we need to go make sure our companies go back to Wuhan or something.
00:49:48.000That basically was the essence of whatever paper was written.
00:49:52.000Or, you know, what we need as Republicans is to advocate for men going into women's locker rooms or another guy that's, I don't know, something like that.
00:49:59.000The point is that it's now time for the Beltway class to put forth their best challenge because the incumbent, the dominant, and the popular view of the Republican Party is one that is people-centered, focused on the excellence and the revival of America.
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00:52:11.000I can't believe a reporter started to do his job.
00:52:17.000I'm going to make a prediction that the Biden administration is going to pause undoing everything that came before them and now just simply take credit for all of it.
00:52:34.000And it's actually a very brilliant point.
00:52:36.000This is some State Department spokesperson who is trying to ramble off all of the successes that the Biden administration is supposed to celebrate in the last 30 days, when in reality, he was talking about things that President Trump and Mike Pompeo did.
00:53:15.000Are you telling me that in the last four weeks, these 18 companies all of a sudden decide to say, oh my God, we better not do anything with you.
00:53:30.000I am speaking for the Department of State.
00:53:34.000And so this guy, whomever he is, this spokesperson, is so used to the media taking everything that he says without ever challenging it, that this old school reporter from the AP, you could just tell by the way he wears his glasses, and he's just an old school reporter.
00:54:09.000I mean, where's Joe Biden's unity message?
00:54:11.000I'm still waiting for the country to become wonderfully unified in the John Lennon song of there's no more war, there's only peace, everyone's happy running through the streets.
00:54:20.000And I think that's how that song went.
00:54:26.000And yet, Joe Biden, his version of unifying the country is calling half the country just unconscionably evil and then not getting any credit where credit is legitimately due to the prior administration.
00:54:43.000And so another great example is Cut 35.
00:54:47.000Peter Doocy asks a legitimate question at a Gen Saki where he just asks, he says, so why are you opening up cages for children at the border?
00:54:55.000It's literally, the Biden administration is now opening up cages for children at the border.
00:54:59.000Now, I'm going to take the position that ICE and DHS know what they're doing.
00:55:07.000And this idea of cages for children at the border is probably over-exaggerated.
00:55:13.000With that being said, the Biden administration ran against the Trump administration allegedly doing that.
00:55:20.000And to that point, why is the Biden administration reopening a temporary facility for migrant children in Texas?
00:55:28.000Well, first, the policy of this administration, as you well know, but just for others, is not to expel unaccompanied children who arrive at the border.
00:55:38.000And the process, how it works, is that customs and border control continue to transfer unaccompanied children to the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement.
00:55:49.000I just want to give this context so people need to understand the process.
00:55:52.000So she's basically saying we're going to continue to do what the Trump administration did, which is not deport unaccompanied minors and keep them in a holding facility, a detention facility, which is precisely the fake scandal that Donald Trump and his administration were met with.
00:56:08.000In fact, if you guys go to our YouTube channel or our Instagram channel, we have a variety of videos where I actually walked the streets of Arlington Heights, Illinois.
00:57:54.000So, Senator, here, I understand that people have different deeply held beliefs on this issue.
00:58:02.000We may not always agree on where to go, but I think we can find some common ground on these issues.
00:58:08.000Everyone wants to make sure that if you have an opportunity, you're going to live a healthy life.
00:58:14.000And I will tell you that I hope to be able to work with you and others to reach that common ground on so many different issues.
00:58:19.000I think we can reach common ground on many issues, but on partial birth abortion, it sounds like we're not going to reach common ground there.
00:58:27.000So I guess that's a Mitt Romney equivalent of mic drop or whatever.
00:58:32.000It's the first viral moment he's ever been involved in.
00:58:35.000I mean, his idea of kind of slamming it to him is, I know we'll reach common ground and lots of things, but that doesn't sound like one of them.
00:59:59.000If you can't answer that question, then you have not properly thought out the abortion issue.
01:00:05.000Democrats cannot answer that question.
01:00:09.000And this Javier guy is currently the California Attorney General, pandering to the pro-abortion industry that slaughters infants in the womb every single year.
01:00:19.000Millions, one million abortions every single year.
01:00:22.000And Democrats try to tell us that they care about people that can't protect themselves and they care for the little guy.
01:00:30.000But here's a deeper question about the abortion issue.
01:00:33.000Why are Democrats so afraid to articulate when they believe life begins?
01:00:38.000It's the most important question around abortion.
01:00:39.000If anyone's listening to this program right now on radio or the live stream and abortion comes up with your friends, just keep asking them these three or four questions.
01:00:54.000All right, well, then when does human life begin?
01:00:56.000Those two questions immediately put the abortion discussion in a moral framework that will inevitably come to the conclusion of one of the protection of the unborn child.
01:01:14.000I'm going to say something that I really hope I have to be very, very careful the way I talk about this.
01:01:20.000I feel terribly about the loss of life for Christy Teigen and John Legend.
01:02:09.000According to the U.S. government, that's an unrecognized life.
01:02:12.000I think Christy Teigen actually knows that's a life, but I think she's been misled by her liberal husband, John Legend, and Planned Parenthood and the pro-abortion activists that is not worthy of protection.
01:03:00.000Someone should ask Emily if we had an honest press in our country, because it'd be one thing if Emily was indifferent when it came to the issue.
01:03:12.000But Emily is outspokenly pro-abortion.
01:03:18.000Christy Teigen advocates, Chrissy Teigen, for more abortions in our country.
01:03:23.000Chrissy Teigen wants more women to have abortions.
01:03:27.000She led a celebrity push for Planned Parenthood.
01:03:31.000Chrissy Teigen wanted resources and money and attention to go to the abortion factory known as Planned Parenthood.
01:03:39.000If Chrissy Teigen never commented on this issue, I would not single her out on this.
01:03:43.000And again, I feel sympathy for the loss of her life.
01:03:46.000But why is Chrissy Teigen given a pass to go raise money for Planned Parenthood, say that any woman should be able to terminate their pregnancy, all the while saying that it was a baby that lost its life, not a fetus?
01:03:58.000The reason is that there is no logic at all whatsoever behind the left's abortion argument.
01:04:04.000The guy's a mixed bag, but overall, I've grown in admiration of him in the last couple of months and specifically years.
01:04:10.000Elon Musk, not a big fan of all the subsidies he gets from California for electrical cars, but recently he really has been funny, courageous, clear, and someone that quite honestly can help rebalance the tech environment in our country.
01:04:26.000And so the Washington Post tries to contact Elon Musk for comment.
01:04:34.000And in response to the emails to Tesla, Elon Musk commented to the Washington Post, quote, give my regards to your puppet master.
01:06:10.000If I'm fully vaccinated and my daughter comes in the house and she's fully vaccinated, do we really have to have as stringent the public health measures than you would if it was a stranger who was not vaccinated and you were not vaccinated?
01:06:26.000Common sense tells you that, in fact, you don't have to be as stringent in your public health measures.
01:06:32.000But what we want, we want to get firm recommendations from the CDC.
01:07:00.000No one ever asks him very detailed questions.
01:07:02.000Instead, he gets treated as if he's almost a Hollywood actor, as if he's so smart and he has so much wisdom that whatever he says is absolute gospel.
01:07:24.000The longest, yeah, it's going to be a whole decade of slowing the spread, which, of course, is part of a greater agenda of the great reset, abolishing private property, destroying the American church, addicting people to government programs, normalizing obedience to the scientific international intelligentsia.
01:07:39.000All those things, which we've talked about in great detail, made possible by the lockdowns and the instruments of power being pushed by people like Dr. Anthony Fauci, Joe Biden, Jen Saki, and the type.
01:07:52.000But Dr. Fauci is a perfect example of someone who has failed up his entire career.
01:07:59.000He's never been an expert on anything.
01:08:03.000He has been a miserable, proven failure in every single aspect of his career.
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