The Charlie Kirk Show - The Great Supreme Court Betrayal + an Airtight Argument Against Abortion

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00:03:31.000 Hey, everybody.

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00:03:38.000 We are crisscrossing the country ending our week in the beautiful, amazing, free, open state of Florida.

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00:03:56.000 There's a lot that I want to get into today.

00:03:58.000 And I want to lead with the Supreme Court of the United States.

00:04:03.000 Remember, we've talked in great detail that the states created the federal government.

00:04:07.000 The federal government did not create the states.

00:04:08.000 It's a very important distinction.

00:04:10.000 It's one of the reasons why Florida is wide open and California is locked down.

00:04:14.000 It's one of the main reasons why Florida is prospering and Illinois is suffering.

00:04:20.000 The laboratories of democracy, the competition between states, is incredibly important.

00:04:26.000 The Founding Fathers were very hesitant to create a federal government to start.

00:04:33.000 Thomas 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.

00:04:52.000 He was someone who pushed back against a centralized federal government and really wanted states' rights.

00:05:00.000 The first swing at the United States of America was a failure.

00:05:05.000 It was the Articles of a Confederation.

00:05:08.000 The 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.

00:05:23.000 And 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.

00:05:34.000 And they expanded on the thinking of the Declaration that rights are given to us by God, that states are going to create this system.

00:05:43.000 The 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.

00:05:53.000 The idea of a federal government is not necessarily uniquely American.

00:05:59.000 The Romans tried it in smaller, more localized way.

00:06:06.000 The Greeks tried it.

00:06:07.000 But 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.

00:06:31.000 The United States Constitution is the greatest political document ever written in the history of the world.

00:06:35.000 It has gone, it's been amended, but basically unchanged from its founding ideals from its ratification.

00:06:42.000 Now, the United States Constitution is very clear about where rights come from.

00:06:48.000 Rights come from our creator.

00:06:50.000 They do not come from government.

00:06:53.000 And 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.

00:07:07.000 James 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.

00:07:25.000 So 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? 0.88

00:07:41.000 It's a really big question.

00:07:44.000 Now, elections are critical, and that's why the Founding Fathers wanted senators to be elected by their state legislatures, not just through popular election.

00:07:53.000 I believe the 17th Amendment got rid of that.

00:07:55.000 This is also why the founding fathers won an electoral college, not just a popular vote.

00:08:01.000 But the creation of a third yet equal branch of government was a transformational breakthrough.

00:08:14.000 The 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.

00:08:32.000 This was mostly and mainly inspired by the Bible.

00:08:39.000 William 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?

00:08:59.000 Who is going to give clarity to what the law is supposed to say and do?

00:09:07.000 That's why we have a Supreme Court.

00:09:09.000 And understand that in the beginning of the country, there was disagreement of how much power the Supreme Court actually could have.

00:09:18.000 Was it just Article III as an asterisk or was it an equal branch of government?

00:09:25.000 And the first court case that really determined this was Marbury versus Madison, which established judicial review.

00:09:32.000 This 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.

00:09:45.000 There is no more debate.

00:09:46.000 It is over.

00:09:47.000 But it's basically, it's written in, I think, on the building of the Supreme Court.

00:09:52.000 And they take that very, very seriously.

00:09:54.000 So the Supreme Court, over the decades and over the couple centuries of our country, has always grown in respect.

00:10:03.000 It has grown in, let's say, popular opinion.

00:10:08.000 That'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.

00:10:18.000 We 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.

00:10:26.000 Only the Supreme Court is in the Constitution.

00:10:28.000 And the number of justices is not even in the Supreme Court.

00:10:31.000 So we created these other systems, federal government, a federal court, circuit court.

00:10:37.000 We created appellate courts, district courts.

00:10:40.000 All of that is a created system, which is fine.

00:10:42.000 The Constitution allows for that, but it's not necessarily in the Constitution.

00:10:46.000 And 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.

00:11:01.000 And so we look to the Supreme Court to settle our differences.

00:11:05.000 A judge is supposed to be impartial.

00:11:07.000 Justice is supposed to be blind.

00:11:09.000 This is what makes a conservative, a constitutional view of justice different than a liberal view of justice.

00:11:15.000 A liberal or a Bernie Sanders or AOC view of justice would be revolutionary justice, economic justice, social justice.

00:11:25.000 We believe that justice must be impartial.

00:11:28.000 This is a biblical concept.

00:11:30.000 We've touched on this before.

00:11:32.000 But what happens when the Supreme Court decides not to do their job?

00:11:38.000 What happens when the Supreme Court defers their responsibility?

00:11:42.000 What 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?

00:11:59.000 What then happens?

00:12:01.000 Well, 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.

00:12:11.000 We have seen some very troubling conclusions that the Supreme Court has reached.

00:12:17.000 To not even have a decision that is improper, but to not even hear a case at all.

00:12:26.000 And 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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00:14:00.000 Marbury versus Madison established judicial review.

00:14:05.000 75 million people have been patiently waiting for clarity from the U.S. Supreme Court on what exactly happened in the 2020 election.

00:14:14.000 A recent poll shows that 17% of Trump voters believe that Joe Biden was legitimately elected.

00:14:20.000 17%.

00:14:22.000 There's a lot of confusion going around the discussion of the 2020 election.

00:14:27.000 And let me be very clear.

00:14:29.000 Some of the theories that are floating out there, I know are not true.

00:14:34.000 Some 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.

00:14:49.000 And 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.

00:15:07.000 And so breaking yesterday and the day before that, the U.S. Supreme Court made a series of choices.

00:15:15.000 I 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.

00:15:23.000 So I'll just say they made a choice not to hear a case.

00:15:27.000 So I want to be very clear in the way I communicate this to you.

00:15:31.000 But the Supreme Court said that they would not hear the 2020 election case that questioned some of the Pennsylvania ballots.

00:15:42.000 I'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.

00:15:57.000 The people that, the justices that wanted to hear the case, were Alito, Gorsuch, and Thomas.

00:16:08.000 And the correct legal term is they didn't grant Sarah Tiori.

00:16:15.000 As close as I can, I don't speak Latin.

00:16:19.000 The justices that said they didn't want to hear the case were Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Breyer, Soda Mayor, Kagan, and Roberts.

00:16:33.000 Not shocked by Roberts.

00:16:35.000 But Amy Coney Barrett and Kavanaugh are very surprising to me.

00:16:42.000 So it takes four justices to agree to take the case.

00:16:46.000 That's the way it works.

00:16:48.000 Four in order to take the case.

00:16:50.000 So this case was centered around 10,000 ballots in Pennsylvania that very well might have been improperly counted against a certain deadline extension.

00:17:04.000 Now this is one of dozens of legal challenges surrounding the 2020 election.

00:17:12.000 Now remember, the Constitution explicitly grants the power of elections to the state legislators.

00:17:21.000 Clarence 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.

00:17:37.000 Quote, yet both before and after the 2020 election, non-legislative officials in various states took it upon themselves to set the rules instead.

00:17:48.000 As a result, we received an unusually high number of petitions and emergency applications contesting those changes.

00:17:57.000 Clarence Thomas is exactly right.

00:17:59.000 Clarence Thomas will go down as one of the greatest Supreme Court justices in American history.

00:18:06.000 He gets no credit from the left and gets no credit from the activist media.

00:18:13.000 Now, it's really important to remember, Pennsylvania sent out millions of absentee ballots.

00:18:19.000 Millions.

00:18:22.000 It says explicitly in the Pennsylvania Constitution the way that absentee ballots and mail-in ballots must be sent and how elections must be conducted.

00:18:31.000 This was done without the approval, without the consent, without the agreement of the Pennsylvania legislature.

00:18:42.000 The state legislators have absolute power when it comes to these elections.

00:18:49.000 So therefore, non-legislative actors, as Clarence Thomas stated, decided to make all these choices and all these decisions.

00:18:58.000 Well, then who's supposed to say whether or not that election was constitutional or not?

00:19:02.000 The U.S. Supreme Court.

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00:20:25.000 Let's get deeper into this story here.

00:20:30.000 So the U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear the election case around the Pennsylvania ballot issue.

00:20:41.000 Now, traditionally, vote by mail was limited to voters who had defined, well-documented reasons to be absent.

00:20:52.000 And this is according to Sam DeMarco, the one Republican on the Allegheny County Board of Elections.

00:21:00.000 He argued, quote, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recognizes the legislature has the authority and responsibility for writing election law.

00:21:13.000 But they use the excuse of the Chinese coronavirus to grant these.

00:21:20.000 It's no mystery that there's a lot of pent-up frustration in the country around the election, around how it was conducted.

00:21:32.000 Now, some people would say that that's not fair.

00:21:35.000 Some people would say that the election was perfect and it was flawless.

00:21:39.000 A 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.

00:21:51.000 No one can say that and be a serious, rational, fair analyst.

00:22:00.000 But 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.

00:22:19.000 This is a massive disservice to our country.

00:22:22.000 And Clarence Thomas agrees.

00:22:24.000 Clarence 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.

00:22:37.000 Millions of people across the country are patiently waiting for clarity on what happened in the 2020 election.

00:22:47.000 So when you have confusion, it will then lead to division.

00:22:52.000 When 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.

00:23:14.000 When critical decisions are made in the shadows, the people are robbed.

00:23:22.000 And 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.

00:23:34.000 It is gaslighting.

00:23:35.000 And 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.

00:23:50.000 It's very, very effective.

00:23:52.000 And it's a term gaslighting that came from a play that basically was that somebody was living in an apartment.

00:23:59.000 It was a woman with an abusive husband or boyfriend.

00:24:02.000 He kept on turning down the lights every night, every so slightly.

00:24:07.000 And she would say, is it getting darker in here?

00:24:08.000 And he said, no, you're losing your mind.

00:24:09.000 That is a term called gaslighting, convincing someone that they're mad.

00:24:16.000 And 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.

00:24:43.000 The 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.

00:25:05.000 So how do you properly deal with this?

00:25:07.000 Do you dismiss it like the Supreme Court did?

00:25:10.000 No, you confront it head-on with facts.

00:25:13.000 That's what the U.S. Supreme Court is supposed to do.

00:25:16.000 That's what the Supreme Court has always done.

00:25:18.000 The Supreme Court did this with Marbray versus Madison.

00:25:22.000 The Supreme Court did this with Brown versus the Board of Education.

00:25:26.000 The 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.

00:25:40.000 And so when there is a narrative that is not true, we must always confront it with facts, always.

00:25:49.000 A great example of this was dramatized in a couple different television programs and also a movie, The Richard Jewell Story in Atlanta, Georgia.

00:26:01.000 Richard Jewell was wrongly accused of the Centennial Park bombing in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

00:26:12.000 He was character assassinated by federal agents alongside the activist media, accusing him of something he did not do.

00:26:23.000 He died a couple years later.

00:26:25.000 And 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.

00:26:32.000 He ended up being correct.

00:26:32.000 Let's slow down.

00:26:33.000 Everyone 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.

00:26:46.000 The only reason Richard Jewell's name was cleared is because he decided to confront this head on.

00:26:56.000 In a famous interview with Mike Wallace, Chris Wallace's father on 60 Minutes, Richard Jewell said, here are the facts.

00:27:04.000 I did not do this.

00:27:07.000 That is the way that we use speech, dialogue, to add clarity to confusion.

00:27:14.000 Now, what happens when we decide to do the opposite?

00:27:16.000 We're living through that right now.

00:27:19.000 People start to lose their mind.

00:27:21.000 Start to lose trust in how we do elections.

00:27:25.000 Elections are pressure release valves.

00:27:28.000 Elections are all that prevents us from losing decent and civil society.

00:27:37.000 What happened on January the 6th at the Capitol was inexcusable.

00:27:41.000 We've said it many times.

00:27:44.000 And 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.

00:28:04.000 January 6th was a tragedy.

00:28:06.000 What happened there is inexcusable.

00:28:08.000 That's right.

00:28:08.000 However, 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?

00:28:22.000 Was it to really overthrow the government?

00:28:24.000 We don't know.

00:28:25.000 A lot of that will still be decided.

00:28:26.000 But the point is this.

00:28:28.000 The point is that massive frustration with the system is not healthy for anybody, regardless of your political affiliation.

00:28:37.000 And 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.

00:28:53.000 And that's what the Supreme Court did.

00:28:56.000 That is exactly what the Supreme Court decided to do.

00:29:01.000 Cato 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.

00:29:18.000 He was a fierce critic against the first Roman emperor, Julius Caesar.

00:29:23.000 And 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.

00:29:36.000 Not acting is the same thing as acting perfectly.

00:29:39.000 In doing nothing, men learn to do evil.

00:29:45.000 It's perfectly said.

00:29:48.000 By 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.

00:30:06.000 This is fundamental to our republic, how we elect our leaders.

00:30:13.000 And we know that Pennsylvania acted unconstitutionally.

00:30:17.000 When 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.

00:30:39.000 How do you expect them to react?

00:30:44.000 What do you expect the states to then say and do?

00:30:47.000 Do you think they're going to grow in ever glamorous appreciation of the federal government?

00:30:54.000 Do you think this is going to make future elections more trusted?

00:30:57.000 And Democrats are basically saying, we don't care.

00:31:01.000 Democrats are basically saying, we don't care if you trust elections.

00:31:05.000 We're planning to be in power permanently.

00:31:08.000 We're never going to lose again.

00:31:09.000 We're going to interfere with elections and control institutions from tech to social media to the way we do ballots.

00:31:15.000 And eventually we're going to punish you because you dared to speak out.

00:31:19.000 That's effectively the Democrat position.

00:31:22.000 And 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.

00:31:33.000 Why?

00:31:34.000 Because they benefit from it.

00:31:35.000 That's why.

00:31:36.000 So what did Republicans do when Democrats said our elections were interfered with?

00:31:42.000 Did they dismiss them?

00:31:45.000 No, Republicans cared so much about the integrity of elections.

00:31:49.000 Republicans have cared so much about the entire country, Democrats, socialists, moderates, independents, trusting the system.

00:32:00.000 That word trust is so important.

00:32:02.000 So 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.

00:32:15.000 Republicans cared about it.

00:32:17.000 So what am I talking about?

00:32:18.000 In 2016, there was a deceptive, false, and baseless narrative that was launched by Hillary Clinton and her campaign surrogates.

00:32:32.000 The narrative was, of course, that Donald Trump was a Russian agent purchased by the Kremlin.

00:32:36.000 He 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.

00:32:49.000 Now, this was not anything they had evidence for.

00:32:52.000 This is not something that they were able to prove.

00:32:59.000 They had a dossier that was funded by the Clinton campaign.

00:33:03.000 And by the way, have you noticed that no one's gone to jail over this whole thing?

00:33:05.000 As we unfortunately cynically predicted, just no one gets held accountable for the most important treacherous crimes.

00:33:12.000 Different podcasts, different radio show for a different time.

00:33:17.000 And so the Democrats launched this narrative.

00:33:19.000 They lost the election.

00:33:22.000 And 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.

00:33:33.000 You 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.

00:33:43.000 And all of this continued until Donald Trump fired James Comey.

00:33:49.000 Donald Trump then told a media outlet he did it because of Russia. 0.99

00:33:52.000 What he was talking about was not the best answer, but his answer was correct. 0.94

00:33:56.000 Meaning, Donald Trump was saying, I did it because of the FISA abuses regarding the Russia investigation.

00:34:02.000 I think it was Lester Holt he said it too.

00:34:04.000 Anyway, that was the metaphorical straw that broke the camel's back.

00:34:08.000 And then Republicans with Democrats wrongly approved in Congress special counselor Bob Mueller.

00:34:21.000 So Bob Mueller then had unilateral authority to go after Donald Trump and his allies and their affiliates through a special counsel investigation.

00:34:34.000 Why did that start and why did Republicans end up agreeing?

00:34:38.000 Because Republicans never actually believed the Russia interference narrative, but Republicans had a fear.

00:34:46.000 They 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.

00:35:00.000 We got to get to the bottom of this.

00:35:01.000 We have to get to, it just is so irritating.

00:35:05.000 It's right up there, a circle back, and at the end of the day, I can't stand at the end of the day.

00:35:10.000 It is so overused.

00:35:12.000 Anyway, that's a side note and a hat tip to someone I know that's listened to this program.

00:35:16.000 That's an old friend.

00:35:17.000 He taught me very on.

00:35:18.000 He said, never say it.

00:35:19.000 And I've really done my best not to say it, except when I'm criticizing it.

00:35:23.000 Republicans at the end of the day, I'm kidding.

00:35:25.000 Republicans.

00:35:28.000 Yeah, and let's have a conversation.

00:35:30.000 I can't stand it.

00:35:31.000 That is terrible.

00:35:32.000 Let's have a conversation at the end of the day, circle back, get to the bottom of it.

00:35:37.000 Drives me nuts.

00:35:39.000 Anyway, Republicans agreed that if this was not sorted out, that it would be bad for the country.

00:35:48.000 So 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.

00:35:57.000 Democrats have now made the opposite decision.

00:36:00.000 They'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.

00:36:18.000 The point is this: Democrats have grown increasingly uninterested in caring about what happened in the 2020 election.

00:36:27.000 And 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.

00:36:40.000 No courage.

00:36:41.000 Offer no clarity.

00:36:42.000 Lindsey Graham, the weathervane, has come out and he said that the best path to victory for Republicans in 2022 is to get behind Trump.

00:36:52.000 Let's play cut 32.

00:36:55.000 Weather Vane, Lindsey Graham. 0.82

00:36:57.000 And stay tuned.

00:36:58.000 I 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.

00:37:10.000 The Democrats are doing their part.

00:37:12.000 If we could get behind President Trump and follow his lead, we will win in 2022.

00:37:18.000 If we argue with ourselves, we're going to lose, and there's no reason to lose.

00:37:24.000 I think Lindsey Graham is making a very good point.

00:37:28.000 I 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.

00:37:43.000 If they embrace Donald Trump and his policies and his movement, they could expand beyond their wildest expectations.

00:37:55.000 And 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.

00:38:07.000 He's not wrong.

00:38:09.000 That all roads to being a leader in the Republican Party and the conservative movement go through Mar-a-Lago.

00:38:17.000 That Mar-a-Lago is going to be the political center of gravity for years to come.

00:38:24.000 And 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?

00:38:37.000 And 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.

00:38:47.000 The people are with him.

00:38:48.000 The technocrats are not with him.

00:38:51.000 And 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.

00:39:12.000 You should say, look, Lindsey, I agree with you on some things.

00:39:15.000 Why is it that Liz Cheney is still the head of the Republican Leadership Conference after she voted to impeach me?

00:39:22.000 The issue that I think many Republicans are going to face is how do you actually deal with voters who have been enlightened?

00:39:34.000 Lindsey 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.

00:39:48.000 Because what President Trump did is he expanded the Republican Party to embrace new perspectives on immigration, trade, challenging entrenched corporate interests.

00:40:00.000 Most people that came out and voted for Donald Trump think very lowly of most Republican politicians.

00:40:12.000 And 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.

00:40:29.000 And 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.

00:40:46.000 Say one thing and not do anything substantive. 0.73

00:40:51.000 Republicans can win a 40-seat majority in 2022.

00:40:56.000 I floated the idea on a previous podcast and broadcast that Donald Trump should run for Congress in the state of Florida.

00:41:04.000 Because 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.

00:41:15.000 Democrats have no counter to that.

00:41:18.000 None.

00:41:19.000 They will try their vote-by-mail nonsense, but the party that wins a presidential election is set up for a very difficult midterm election.

00:41:28.000 Now, they might try their best to try and use the vote-by-mail schemes to keep themselves permanently in political power.

00:41:34.000 They might try to use social media even further to restrict viral reach of content, to restrict conservative voices.

00:41:40.000 They're going to do all of that.

00:41:42.000 But 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.

00:41:54.000 It does not look like Cinema or Joe Manchin are going to break the filibuster.

00:41:58.000 And these are the couple months that are the most important, just so we're clear.

00:42:01.000 This right now, March, April, May, June, July, are the most critical in the congressional calendar.

00:42:08.000 They just are.

00:42:08.000 In the first year after an election, that's where they feel they have the mandate.

00:42:11.000 Then 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.

00:42:27.000 And 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?

00:42:37.000 But let's say we do all of that.

00:42:40.000 If 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.

00:42:49.000 And credit to Lindsey Graham, who is highlighting this.

00:42:56.000 We 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.

00:43:03.000 He 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.

00:43:10.000 Like, didn't I just see you on CNN saying the exact opposite?

00:43:13.000 Anyway, he's saying the right thing right now.

00:43:19.000 And we're seeing independents and moderates become increasingly upset with the Democrat Party.

00:43:32.000 It's all on the Democrats.

00:43:33.000 They control every vector of power in Washington, D.C.

00:43:38.000 And 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?

00:43:56.000 So some people say that it's time to end all quarrels within the Republican Party.

00:44:01.000 I don't agree with that.

00:44:03.000 A 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.

00:44:13.000 Say that three times quickly, nasty, brutish, and short.

00:44:15.000 It's not easy.

00:44:16.000 He was talking about the English Civil War written in the mid-night 1630s or whatever.

00:44:22.000 He was a social contract theorist.

00:44:24.000 He argued for a big government, big state to be able to compensate for how awful human nature is.

00:44:32.000 I actually agree with his assessment of human nature.

00:44:34.000 The point being that there is a Republican Civil War about to occur. 0.59

00:44:44.000 Should we embrace it? 0.59

00:44:46.000 Should we hope it doesn't happen? 0.97

00:44:48.000 I'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. 0.82

00:44:58.000 I think that we should embrace the current moment that we're in as Republicans.

00:45:03.000 This is a great opportunity to find out what the party and what the movement should stand for.

00:45:07.000 Now, I'm a registered independent.

00:45:09.000 Obviously, I vote for Republicans, not for Democrats.

00:45:12.000 But 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.

00:45:23.000 But 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.

00:45:35.000 I 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.

00:45:40.000 I 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.

00:45:48.000 It's amazing.

00:45:49.000 The point is that Republicans are under this belief right now that we must unify at all costs.

00:46:02.000 If it was a year from now and it was 2022, I'd probably believe that.

00:46:06.000 If it was March or April or May, right before a midterm, I'd say, okay, yeah, that's fine.

00:46:12.000 But we're at a moment right now where we need to figure out what kind of party are we going to be.

00:46:19.000 Now, I made the argument with Shannon Bream that primaries are like cough syrup.

00:46:27.000 No one likes taking them, but they're actually really good for you.

00:46:31.000 Primaries can get some of the bad hangar on politicians removed.

00:46:37.000 Let's play that tape.

00:46:39.000 That's right.

00:46:39.000 And a lot of people are asking when's the Republican Civil War going to start?

00:46:43.000 It's already underway.

00:46:44.000 And I want it to begin quickly and I want it to end quickly.

00:46:47.000 It needs to happen.

00:46:48.000 Political primaries after losing the White House are nasty.

00:46:52.000 They'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.

00:46:58.000 And we need to make sure that the best ideas win.

00:47:01.000 If the Beltway class, run by Liz Cheney and Senate Republican leaders, think they can win, then so be it.

00:47:06.000 Present your ideas.

00:47:07.000 President Trump has already proved that his ideas of restricting immigration and fair trade deals, those are very, very popular.

00:47:14.000 Political primaries like cough syrup.

00:47:16.000 No one likes taking it, but it's actually really good for you.

00:47:19.000 And I want the Republican Party to be unified next year.

00:47:22.000 This year needs to be a year when we do some soul searching.

00:47:25.000 Are 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?

00:47:34.000 I couldn't have said it any better myself.

00:47:36.000 Oh, wait, I did say it.

00:47:38.000 I was listening to it.

00:47:39.000 I was listening.

00:47:39.000 I said, I agree.

00:47:40.000 I was like, oh, wait, yeah, okay.

00:47:41.000 So anyway, the point is that Republicans, we need to go through the necessary process of finding out, are we going to be Beltway-centric?

00:47:52.000 Are we going to be people and American-centric?

00:47:55.000 And there's a lot of history of Republican primaries.

00:47:57.000 Sometimes Republican primaries go really well.

00:48:01.000 Sometimes they go terribly.

00:48:04.000 You might remember Todd Aiken, Murdoch, and Roy Moore.

00:48:08.000 All of those seats, thankfully, have been won back by Republicans.

00:48:12.000 Todd Aiken, back in 2012, was running in the Missouri Senate seat.

00:48:16.000 Claire McCaskill ended up winning when he famously came out and said that something about accidental rape, if my memory serves me correctly.

00:48:26.000 You might remember Murdoch running in Indiana, who used to say the exact same thing.

00:48:32.000 He said something very similar, such as that it could be a good thing for the woman, something awful or horrendous.

00:48:40.000 Both those seats were lost to Donnelly and Claire McCaskill.

00:48:43.000 You might remember Roy Moore, who won a primary in Alabama.

00:48:46.000 So primaries can be dangerous.

00:48:49.000 I understand that, but that's also how we got Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.

00:48:53.000 That's also how we got Josh Hawley.

00:48:56.000 It's also how we got Jim Jordan.

00:49:00.000 So primaries can go either way.

00:49:02.000 You can have really, really good candidates that win surprisingly in primaries, or sometimes you can get terrible candidates.

00:49:10.000 But the point is not about the specific candidate.

00:49:16.000 The point is about the ideas of which the party will represent or fail to represent.

00:49:23.000 And that's exactly the argument we need to have right now.

00:49:26.000 And 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.

00:49:38.000 I've seen a couple corporate-funded think tank papers from some people.

00:49:43.000 Like, oh, Trump was the worst thing ever.

00:49:44.000 Now we need to go make sure our companies go back to Wuhan or something. 0.71

00:49:48.000 That basically was the essence of whatever paper was written.

00:49:52.000 Or, 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.

00:49:59.000 The 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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00:52:11.000 I can't believe a reporter started to do his job.

00:52:16.000 This is very interesting.

00:52:17.000 I'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.

00:52:32.000 It's exactly what this reporter says.

00:52:34.000 And it's actually a very brilliant point.

00:52:36.000 This 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.

00:52:52.000 Play cut 31.

00:52:53.000 So we'll continue to work closely with Germany.

00:52:55.000 We'll continue to work closely with our other allies and partners in Europe to uphold Europe's own stated energy security goals.

00:53:10.000 You guys have only been in month for only been in office for a month.

00:53:15.000 Right?

00:53:15.000 Are 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.

00:53:23.000 I am speaking for the unit.

00:53:24.000 I'm not that.

00:53:26.000 You guys are taking credit for stuff that the previous administration did.

00:53:30.000 I am not.

00:53:30.000 I am speaking for the Department of State.

00:53:34.000 And 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.

00:53:49.000 He's not an ideologue.

00:53:51.000 He says, come on.

00:53:52.000 I mean, I hated Trump too.

00:53:54.000 Basically, that's kind of the tone of what he's saying.

00:53:55.000 I hated Trump too.

00:53:56.000 I agree. 0.99

00:53:57.000 He was terrible.

00:53:58.000 But you just can't say that everything you, his administration to top the bottom was bad.

00:54:02.000 Stop taking credit for things that you guys didn't do.

00:54:05.000 And they did the same on vaccines.

00:54:07.000 And it's really funny.

00:54:09.000 I mean, where's Joe Biden's unity message?

00:54:11.000 I'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.

00:54:20.000 And I think that's how that song went.

00:54:23.000 You don't think so.

00:54:26.000 And 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.

00:54:43.000 And so another great example is Cut 35.

00:54:47.000 Peter 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?

00:54:55.000 It's literally, the Biden administration is now opening up cages for children at the border.

00:54:59.000 Now, I'm going to take the position that ICE and DHS know what they're doing.

00:55:07.000 And this idea of cages for children at the border is probably over-exaggerated.

00:55:13.000 With that being said, the Biden administration ran against the Trump administration allegedly doing that.

00:55:18.000 Play tape.

00:55:20.000 And to that point, why is the Biden administration reopening a temporary facility for migrant children in Texas?

00:55:28.000 Well, 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.

00:55:38.000 And the process, how it works, is that customs and border control continue to transfer unaccompanied children to the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement.

00:55:47.000 That can take a couple of days.

00:55:49.000 I just want to give this context so people need to understand the process.

00:55:52.000 So 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.

00:56:08.000 In 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.

00:56:15.000 It was super sunny.

00:56:16.000 It was really, really, really hot.

00:56:18.000 And there's all these people that said, no children in cages, all these things.

00:56:22.000 Hundreds of people.

00:56:23.000 Some of our most viral content, I just went out and asked them questions.

00:56:25.000 I don't know if I'd be able to do that today, not just because of the virus, but I don't know how peaceful they'd be.

00:56:30.000 They just didn't recognize whatever.

00:56:32.000 And it was tens of millions of views we got on this content.

00:56:36.000 And they were basically reiterating and repeating: you know, children are in cages, most evil thing ever.

00:56:42.000 Well, now children are in cages under the Biden administration.

00:56:44.000 And all of the pro-illegal activists, such as AOC and all these people, are completely and totally silent.

00:56:52.000 Starting to see some emerging issues amongst the Biden administration.

00:56:58.000 And make no mistake, conservatives and independents that voted for Trump, they're a little bit depressed and despondent.

00:57:04.000 But I think we're at our low point.

00:57:06.000 I think that we're actually building up.

00:57:07.000 I think that people are more optimistic than they were a month ago.

00:57:10.000 And I think people are even more optimistic than they were two weeks ago.

00:57:13.000 I think that we are growing in energy and we are growing in numbers.

00:57:17.000 I see it happening every day.

00:57:18.000 You know what?

00:57:18.000 I'm going to just be factual.

00:57:20.000 Mitt Romney actually asked a good question.

00:57:22.000 It's true.

00:57:23.000 Mitt Romney asked a good question out of this guy at a Javier Becerra.

00:57:27.000 And it was actually a really good question.

00:57:29.000 He could have been more clear in his follow-up.

00:57:35.000 But the answer that this guy gave was like bad lip reading.

00:57:41.000 It doesn't even make any sense.

00:57:42.000 He just goes all over the place.

00:57:44.000 This is Mitt Romney, actually, probably with the best moment of his Senate career, play tape.

00:57:49.000 You voted against a ban on partial birth abortion.

00:57:53.000 Why?

00:57:54.000 So, Senator, here, I understand that people have different deeply held beliefs on this issue.

00:58:02.000 We may not always agree on where to go, but I think we can find some common ground on these issues.

00:58:08.000 Everyone wants to make sure that if you have an opportunity, you're going to live a healthy life.

00:58:14.000 And 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.

00:58:19.000 I 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.

00:58:27.000 So I guess that's a Mitt Romney equivalent of mic drop or whatever.

00:58:32.000 It's the first viral moment he's ever been involved in.

00:58:35.000 I 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.

00:58:44.000 Okay, anyway, enough on Mitt.

00:58:46.000 The point is that this guy, Javier Becerra, is a threat to the American Republic.

00:58:58.000 Is that fair to say?

00:58:59.000 That is not, he's really, really bad.

00:59:02.000 He can't answer.

00:59:05.000 So, the question that was asked of him, which is a fair question by Mitt, he says, you voted against a ban on partial birth abortion.

00:59:11.000 Why?

00:59:12.000 And Becera's answer didn't explain why.

00:59:15.000 He said, I understand people have different deeply held beliefs on this issue.

00:59:19.000 We may not always agree on where to go, but I think we can find common ground.

00:59:22.000 That is completely irrelevant to the question.

00:59:26.000 It's completely irrelevant whether or not people have deeply held beliefs.

00:59:28.000 You, Javier Becerra, he's HHS, right?

00:59:32.000 Health and Human Services, that might actually run health and human services.

00:59:38.000 Why is it that you believe that when a baby is fully formed after 20 weeks, you think it's okay to terminate that life?

00:59:48.000 It's a very simple question.

00:59:51.000 The question that I wish any senator would ask one of these people when it comes to abortion is such a simple question.

00:59:57.000 When does life begin?

00:59:59.000 If you can't answer that question, then you have not properly thought out the abortion issue.

01:00:05.000 Democrats cannot answer that question. 0.59

01:00:09.000 And this Javier guy is currently the California Attorney General, pandering to the pro-abortion industry that slaughters infants in the womb every single year. 0.78

01:00:19.000 Millions, one million abortions every single year.

01:00:22.000 And Democrats try to tell us that they care about people that can't protect themselves and they care for the little guy.

01:00:30.000 But here's a deeper question about the abortion issue.

01:00:33.000 Why are Democrats so afraid to articulate when they believe life begins?

01:00:38.000 It's the most important question around abortion.

01:00:39.000 If 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.

01:00:46.000 When does life begin?

01:00:49.000 Do you think it should be okay to take a human life?

01:00:53.000 They'll probably say no.

01:00:54.000 All right, well, then when does human life begin?

01:00:56.000 Those 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.

01:01:14.000 I'm going to say something that I really hope I have to be very, very careful the way I talk about this.

01:01:20.000 I feel terribly about the loss of life for Christy Teigen and John Legend.

01:01:27.000 I really do.

01:01:29.000 I feel terribly about it.

01:01:32.000 But Christy Teigen is a pro-abortion activist.

01:01:36.000 According to all available reports, her child was lost when she was pregnant.

01:01:45.000 It's very sad.

01:01:47.000 It's very sad.

01:01:48.000 But why is that a human life, Christy Teigen?

01:01:51.000 Why is that human life worthy of protection?

01:01:55.000 And a mother in a different position is not. 0.80

01:01:59.000 Christy Teigen has been posting about it on social media and she deserves our sympathy and our thoughts and our prayers.

01:02:06.000 I thought that's just a fetus.

01:02:08.000 I thought that's a clump of cells.

01:02:09.000 According to the U.S. government, that's an unrecognized life.

01:02:12.000 I 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.

01:02:35.000 And we see this over and over again.

01:02:36.000 We see this when Beyonce was pregnant.

01:02:38.000 We saw this when Kim Kardashian was pregnant.

01:02:41.000 We saw this when, you know, who the one is right now that's really interesting?

01:02:44.000 Is the woman with the long name, Emily Rata Jakowski, Rada Jakowski?

01:02:50.000 I read an article that was on yahoo.com where she said, I can't wait to meet my baby.

01:02:55.000 And she was holding her stomach.

01:02:58.000 Well, I thought it's a fetus. 1.00

01:03:00.000 Someone 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. 1.00

01:03:12.000 But Emily is outspokenly pro-abortion.

01:03:15.000 Emily is an abortion advocate.

01:03:16.000 So is Chrissy Teigen.

01:03:18.000 Christy Teigen advocates, Chrissy Teigen, for more abortions in our country.

01:03:23.000 Chrissy Teigen wants more women to have abortions.

01:03:27.000 She led a celebrity push for Planned Parenthood. 1.00

01:03:31.000 Chrissy Teigen wanted resources and money and attention to go to the abortion factory known as Planned Parenthood. 0.67

01:03:39.000 If Chrissy Teigen never commented on this issue, I would not single her out on this.

01:03:43.000 And again, I feel sympathy for the loss of her life.

01:03:46.000 But 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?

01:03:58.000 The reason is that there is no logic at all whatsoever behind the left's abortion argument.

01:04:04.000 The guy's a mixed bag, but overall, I've grown in admiration of him in the last couple of months and specifically years.

01:04:10.000 Elon 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.

01:04:26.000 And so the Washington Post tries to contact Elon Musk for comment.

01:04:34.000 And in response to the emails to Tesla, Elon Musk commented to the Washington Post, quote, give my regards to your puppet master.

01:04:42.000 This is perfect.

01:04:44.000 So Elon Musk, who now is the world's richest man, is in a duel with Jeff Bezos.

01:04:49.000 And I love every single minute of it.

01:04:51.000 Okay, so we were going back to, do we have the cut here of Donald Trump asking who built the cages?

01:04:57.000 Let's play that cut.

01:04:59.000 And it makes us a laughing stock and violates every notion of who we are as a nation.

01:05:04.000 Let me ask you a first question.

01:05:05.000 Kristen, they did it.

01:05:07.000 We changed the policy.

01:05:08.000 Your response was policy.

01:05:09.000 They did it.

01:05:09.000 We changed notes.

01:05:11.000 They built the cages.

01:05:12.000 Who built the cages?

01:05:14.000 Let's talk about what they're talking about.

01:05:15.000 Let's talk about what we're talking about.

01:05:17.000 What happened? 0.98

01:05:18.000 Parents were ripped.

01:05:20.000 Their kids were ripped from their arms and separated.

01:05:23.000 And now they cannot find over 500 sets of those parents, and those kids are alone.

01:05:30.000 Nowhere to go.

01:05:31.000 Nowhere to go.

01:05:33.000 It's criminal.

01:05:34.000 It's criminal.

01:05:36.000 Well, Joe Biden is now doing the exact same thing he said was criminal.

01:05:39.000 It's criminal.

01:05:40.000 Joe Biden said it three or four times, obviously a talking point that was given to him beforehand.

01:05:45.000 But Joe Biden's doing the exact same thing.

01:05:47.000 And what he was accusing Donald Trump of, they were not even doing.

01:05:50.000 And so the accusation itself is deeply flawed in every single possible component.

01:06:00.000 I want to get to some sound here.

01:06:03.000 Let's go here to cut, let's see.

01:06:07.000 I guess we could do some Anthony Fauci.

01:06:08.000 Let's go to cut 30.

01:06:10.000 If 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?

01:06:26.000 Common sense tells you that, in fact, you don't have to be as stringent in your public health measures.

01:06:32.000 But what we want, we want to get firm recommendations from the CDC.

01:06:37.000 He's all over the place.

01:06:38.000 He has contradicted himself at every single turn.

01:06:41.000 You want to talk about someone who's a weather vein.

01:06:43.000 I mean, it's Dr. Anthony Fauci.

01:06:46.000 We dove into this in great detail.

01:06:47.000 Encourage all of you, again, to go to our podcast.

01:06:49.000 We did a whole segment on the difference between trust the science and trust science or trust the scientists.

01:06:55.000 Dr. Anthony Fauci is a sophist.

01:06:57.000 He engages in sophistry.

01:06:59.000 He just makes things up.

01:07:00.000 No one ever asks him very detailed questions.

01:07:02.000 Instead, 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.

01:07:13.000 We refuse to do that.

01:07:14.000 We've asked questions of Dr. Anthony Fauci since he paraded on the scene about a year ago.

01:07:18.000 By the way, we're just about 15 days to slow the spread.

01:07:21.000 We're just coming up on that.

01:07:22.000 One year.

01:07:24.000 The 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.

01:07:39.000 All 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.

01:07:52.000 But Dr. Fauci is a perfect example of someone who has failed up his entire career.

01:07:59.000 He's never been an expert on anything.

01:08:03.000 He has been a miserable, proven failure in every single aspect of his career.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - February 23, 2021

The Great Supreme Court Betrayal + an Airtight Argument Against Abortion

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