The Charlie Kirk Show - The Impeachment Trap?

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, Dan the Charlie Kirk Show impeachment, not so fast.

00:00:03.000 All eyes on 9:30.

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00:00:35.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:17.000 Some very big news today, but I'm sure all of you are most curious as to our take of what happened yesterday with Aaron Rodgers.

00:01:27.000 Now, I won't spend too much time on this, but it is a fact that Josh Allen completed more passes to the New York Jets than Aaron Rodgers.

00:01:36.000 You watch it, Brian?

00:01:37.000 You saw the game or you saw the tear.

00:01:39.000 I like Aaron Rodgers.

00:01:41.000 He is a truth teller.

00:01:42.000 It's really sad.

00:01:42.000 It's tragic.

00:01:43.000 He might actually be forced to retire from this.

00:01:46.000 And if you didn't watch last night, he played four plays and tore his Achilles tendon.

00:01:52.000 Somebody messaged us in the chat.

00:01:54.000 Charlie, did he die?

00:01:55.000 No, he did not die.

00:01:58.000 But it is an important life lesson.

00:02:00.000 Things can blow apart in an instant.

00:02:03.000 So be grateful.

00:02:05.000 Be present.

00:02:06.000 This is not a sports show, but there's a lot of lessons to be derived from that.

00:02:12.000 Okay.

00:02:12.000 However, the other news today that is critical and that's happening, Speaker Kevin McCarthy is announcing, has announced that it is time to proceed on an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden.

00:02:26.000 Now, the position on this program is very clear. 0.74

00:02:28.000 Joe Biden is a traitor to the United States. 0.82

00:02:32.000 Joe Biden has sold out the country. 0.99

00:02:34.000 Joe Biden has lied repeatedly.

00:02:37.000 Joe Biden is still compromised by the business dealings that he has done previously.

00:02:42.000 And House Republicans are now going into an impeachment inquiry.

00:02:45.000 Now, that is not impeachment itself.

00:02:46.000 An inquiry is the first step.

00:02:49.000 Why did this not happen six months ago or seven months ago is an interesting question.

00:02:53.000 It's a prelude to official impeachment.

00:02:57.000 And this is being met with, understandably, very favorably by many Republicans.

00:03:02.000 They say, finally, about time we're going to have some form of justice against Joe Biden.

00:03:08.000 And I'm not going to downplay the impeachment of Joe Biden.

00:03:12.000 I'm not going to say I disagree with it.

00:03:15.000 I'm not going to say that it's a bad idea, but I think our position on this program is going to be a little bit different.

00:03:20.000 Again, Joe Biden definitely deserves impeachment.

00:03:24.000 He arguably deserves actually a treason trial.

00:03:28.000 Certainly his son, Hunter Biden, does, something close to gitmo.

00:03:31.000 But the fact that now McCarthy is willing to allow, willing to allow an impeachment trial is all because of the 30th of September.

00:03:42.000 On this show, we have been turning up the temperature and we've been having guest after guest after guest focusing on the big day.

00:03:49.000 You could call it D-Day, 9:30, the 30th of September.

00:03:56.000 We laid out the stakes of what that deadline means.

00:03:59.000 This is a real opportunity to turn back the massive overreach of the Biden machine, the Uniparty, the insiders, as we call them on this program.

00:04:10.000 Biden wants more money for his government and more money for Zelensky's government.

00:04:14.000 It's time for the Republican Party to draw a line, as we've said, and say no more.

00:04:19.000 Three really basic asks that we've been saying on this program that we are pushing for at turning point action, where we are able to lobby at turning point action. 0.59

00:04:27.000 And the grassroots are demanding: no blank check for Ukraine.

00:04:30.000 I would like no money for Ukraine.

00:04:32.000 Probably not realistic.

00:04:34.000 Defund the deep state, aka Jack Smith, and his illegitimate, unconstitutional special office, and secure the border.

00:04:43.000 Those are the three main asks right now.

00:04:45.000 And those are reasonable asks.

00:04:47.000 In a country long gone, 20 or 30 years ago, that would not even be deemed controversial or political.

00:04:55.000 So 9:30 is looming, and Matt Gates and many others have been threatening Speaker McCarthy with a motion to vacate.

00:05:04.000 Speaker McCarthy has been feeling that heat.

00:05:07.000 He's been feeling that pushback.

00:05:11.000 And because of that, today he made the announcement.

00:05:14.000 That's why the timing is happening today.

00:05:15.000 Now, a motion to vacate is that according to the speaker rules that were formed, any member with, I think it takes four or five other members, can say we're going to vacate the chair.

00:05:26.000 We need to find a new speaker of the House.

00:05:29.000 So they've been holding that over Speaker McCarthy.

00:05:32.000 Remember, that was all during the speaker negotiations that happened back in January.

00:05:37.000 So this deadline of 9:30 is far more important than any impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden.

00:05:43.000 Remember, we have a presidential election coming up next year, and it looks like Joe Biden is going to be the nominee.

00:05:50.000 My argument is not that we shouldn't impeach Joe Biden because it would hurt us in the election.

00:05:59.000 It just wouldn't work.

00:06:02.000 Are we going to be able to remove Joe Biden from the presidency?

00:06:07.000 Probably not.

00:06:08.000 Now, I still think that maybe there's an argument to do it.

00:06:10.000 Should have been done a long time ago.

00:06:13.000 But I'm actually far more worried, not about Joe Biden and potentially impeaching him, but I'm far more worried about why aren't we using our political power to defund the FBI.

00:06:26.000 If we have to make a choice, do we impeach Joe Biden or force confessions out of Joe Biden?

00:06:33.000 We should always choose the second.

00:06:36.000 So while it is tempting to say, yes, it's time to impeach Joe Biden, again, I'm all for it. 1.00

00:06:42.000 He's a traitor. 0.94

00:06:43.000 Impeachment feels as if it's just an election maneuver. 0.99

00:06:47.000 But we have political power right now.

00:06:50.000 This is an opportunity for once in a generation, once in a lifetime, to defang the beast, to stand up to the machine.

00:06:58.000 That's what 9:30 is all about: a 110-year opportunity to offer a legislative surgical strike against their tyranny of the American people.

00:07:12.000 We can say this, and we should say this: Republicans should say this.

00:07:15.000 It's time for the Republicans to say, Jack Smith, you're an abomination.

00:07:19.000 You get zero dollars.

00:07:21.000 You're done.

00:07:22.000 Your investigation is an assault on our Constitution and our system of government.

00:07:27.000 You aren't getting a cent until it goes away.

00:07:30.000 Now, we can't demand everything we want.

00:07:33.000 We would want, of course, the Department of Education and other things to be shut down.

00:07:36.000 But instead, we should be focused on one or two or three things that we realistically can get done.

00:07:42.000 Now, here's an interesting concession: Joe Biden might say, Oh, I'm not going to sign a piece of legislation that will defund Jack Smith.

00:07:51.000 But interesting, you could write the piece of legislation where actually you could Joe Biden could read it and say, well, it could actually help him and help his son.

00:08:01.000 Isn't the argument that we're making is that elections should not be interfered with via Department of Justice inquiries?

00:08:08.000 I would rather actually have impeachment proceedings against Merrick Garland and Jack Smith than even Joe Biden.

00:08:16.000 So we're not going to knock Joe Biden out of office by doing these impeachment proceedings.

00:08:21.000 Democrats hold the Senate, and they have to do a trial.

00:08:26.000 The only reason to impeach Biden is just for the symbolism of it.

00:08:29.000 And of course, there's an argument to be made to force the press to cover the evidence and the allegations against the Biden crime family.

00:08:36.000 That's fine.

00:08:38.000 But the only victory, if it happens to produce a political advantage, that's it.

00:08:44.000 Now, it might not happen.

00:08:45.000 It might not happen for a long time.

00:08:47.000 The 2024 election is looming over us right now.

00:08:50.000 And the big news is that we're now going to move forward with impeachment.

00:08:56.000 But if I'm looking at this without any emotionalism, it feels like in some ways it's too little, too late.

00:09:06.000 This fight should have started around February, March.

00:09:09.000 Why is all this bubbling up now when we have the most consequential funding fight of a generation?

00:09:18.000 Do not keep your eyes off that.

00:09:20.000 Do not take your eyes off that, everybody.

00:09:22.000 It's that old Latin phrase, qui bono.

00:09:25.000 Who benefits from this impeachment inquiry, which itself is not even impeachment?

00:09:30.000 Why the sudden urgency?

00:09:31.000 The answer is obvious.

00:09:35.000 Moderate Republicans don't want to cut Jack Smith's funding.

00:09:39.000 Moderate Republicans do not want to limit Zelensky's funding.

00:09:43.000 Moderate Republicans do not want to close the border.

00:09:47.000 So a concession they're making is, oh, just throw the right-wingers on the Charlie Kirk show on Steve Bannon, on Jack Pesobic, throw them a little bit of a bone where they have an impeachment inquiry.

00:10:00.000 They're trying to make you care about 9:30 less.

00:10:05.000 That's what this is all about.

00:10:07.000 They're trying to get a clean resolution as a deal for an impeachment inquiry.

00:10:14.000 I don't think that's a good deal at all.

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00:10:55.000 Let's be real.

00:10:56.000 The Senate is not going to remove Joe Biden from office.

00:10:59.000 That's not going to happen.

00:11:00.000 It's not right.

00:11:02.000 It's disappointing.

00:11:04.000 It's real.

00:11:05.000 Okay.

00:11:05.000 I bet Mitt Romney might even vote for it.

00:11:08.000 Mitt Romney might even vote for acquitting him.

00:11:10.000 Okay.

00:11:10.000 So with that fact, let me ask a question.

00:11:14.000 And I want your thoughts, freedom, at charliekirk.com.

00:11:17.000 Would you rather have the energy, the focus, the passion, the vigor, the intensity on impeaching Joe Biden and that process, which does have a PR element to it?

00:11:32.000 I totally understand.

00:11:33.000 I'm not saying it's nothing.

00:11:34.000 I'm not even saying it's a waste of time.

00:11:36.000 I'm not saying that.

00:11:38.000 Or would you rather have a focus, an emphasis on the fourth branch of government?

00:11:46.000 Is Joe Biden running the government or is the government running Joe Biden?

00:11:50.000 It feels as if that Joe Biden is not actually in charge.

00:11:52.000 You probably believe that.

00:11:54.000 I certainly do.

00:11:56.000 So, therefore, why would we just then say, hey, clean resolution on 930 for impeachment?

00:12:03.000 I'm of the opinion, why did the impeachment inquiry take this long?

00:12:07.000 Why now?

00:12:08.000 And is it an interesting thing that the impeachment inquiry is popping up right as our funding deadline is looming?

00:12:18.000 Why is that?

00:12:20.000 And so, if you are of the opinion that Merrick Garland and DOJ and the FBI and the CIA have created a permanent administrative state,

00:12:37.000 which I think this program on our show, we've done a very thorough job, almost on a daily basis, of talking about how the administrative state is philosophically and morally and structurally at odds with the U.S. Constitution, to use a sexier term, shadow government or deep state, then that's where we need to focus our energy.

00:13:01.000 I'm not saying impeachment is a bad idea.

00:13:03.000 I'm not saying that this is a waste of time.

00:13:06.000 But we're receiving emails.

00:13:07.000 People say, well, Charlie, I'm so excited to finally see Joe Biden removed from office.

00:13:11.000 That's not going to happen, everybody.

00:13:12.000 He might get removed by office if we defeat him in the 2024 election.

00:13:17.000 The United States Senate will not remove him from office.

00:13:20.000 Now, if your argument is, well, this can weigh him down politically, this can create some new cycles around Joe Biden's corruption and his foreign business dealings, how's the media going to cover the impeachment proceedings?

00:13:38.000 Is the media going to cover him fairly?

00:13:40.000 Are they going to say, Republicans on a witch hunt while Americans can't pay for groceries?

00:13:45.000 Be careful if that could potentially backfire.

00:13:47.000 Please be careful.

00:13:48.000 I'm not saying that's not a reason to do it because the media has a way of lying about everything we're doing.

00:13:53.000 I get that.

00:13:55.000 On the list of priorities, I've said this before, I'll say it again: Joe Biden will likely be dead in 10 to 15 years, and that's grading on a very generous curve.

00:14:05.000 I don't wish him death, it's just the way it is.

00:14:07.000 We've said this before on the program.

00:14:08.000 It's not really about Joe Biden, is it?

00:14:10.000 Joe Biden is a figurehead.

00:14:13.000 They're going to just repeat, they're going to plug and replace.

00:14:18.000 It's just widgets in a machine.

00:14:21.000 So let's focus on the machine, right?

00:14:24.000 But what is the machine?

00:14:26.000 The machine can be best represented as unelected, unknown bureaucrats, desk workers, is what that word means in French, paper shufflers, the permanent bureaucracy that run the country.

00:14:40.000 And we have the power to do it.

00:14:41.000 We have the mandate to do it.

00:14:42.000 You've got Jack Smith completely and totally out of control.

00:14:44.000 Focus on him.

00:14:46.000 If you are able to defund Jack Smith and defund those aspects of the DOJ, why would Republicans not have the stomach or the courage to do that?

00:14:56.000 That's a fundamental question, isn't it?

00:14:59.000 And before, you know, some receiving some emails here, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:15:04.000 Well, Charlie, we need to really get rid of Joe Biden.

00:15:06.000 Joe Biden's not in charge.

00:15:07.000 Obama's probably still running this government, or Susan Rice is still probably running this government, or Valerie Jarrett, or James Comey.

00:15:16.000 So then is that the best use of our energy or our time?

00:15:20.000 If you had to choose, would you prefer an impeachment of Joe Biden that will fail in the Senate or an all-out campaign on the fourth branch of government? 0.94

00:15:32.000 And you know, I think Joe Biden's a traitor.

00:15:34.000 I'm not saying he doesn't deserve to be impeached. 0.91

00:15:36.000 I'm talking about real strategy, real tactics.

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00:15:45.000 Well, I do.

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00:16:44.000 Okay, so I want to go to this email here.

00:16:46.000 This is fine.

00:16:48.000 I appreciate the disagreement.

00:16:49.000 Charlie, what is going on with you?

00:16:51.000 Let's calm down a little bit.

00:16:53.000 Just listen to you now and I'm shocked.

00:16:54.000 The impeachment inquiry includes everyone you're talking about.

00:16:57.000 No, it doesn't.

00:16:58.000 No, it doesn't.

00:16:59.000 We can do an inquiry and defund Jack Smith.

00:17:02.000 Can't we walk and chew gum at the same time?

00:17:08.000 That's a good argument. 0.80

00:17:09.000 Can we do both?

00:17:11.000 Well, if we had Congress that didn't take six weeks off in the summer, if we had Congress that did not have to do very basic things, maybe.

00:17:21.000 Maybe.

00:17:22.000 But understand that when you embrace an impeachment inquiry, which again, I totally support the facts of going after Joe Biden.

00:17:31.000 And by the way, can we get Ken Buck?

00:17:32.000 What is going on with this guy?

00:17:34.000 I want to also be very clear what I don't support.

00:17:37.000 Okay.

00:17:38.000 And I'm largely just asking questions here.

00:17:41.000 Is it worth going all in, Texas Holdam, all in on impeachment, and then passing a clean resolution on the deep state?

00:17:50.000 Because that's basically what is happening right now.

00:17:53.000 Now, of course, we can do both.

00:17:55.000 Obviously, we can impeach Joe Biden and defund the DOJ, defund Jack Smith.

00:18:03.000 But the moderates are trying to offer us just one.

00:18:06.000 That's what you have to understand is happening here.

00:18:09.000 The moderates in the Republican Party are trying to broker a deal, and they want us to pick impeachment.

00:18:18.000 That's what's really going on here.

00:18:20.000 And what I am trying to humbly submit is that impeachment, albeit the morally right thing to do, will not be successful in the U.S. Senate.

00:18:35.000 So I'm not going to do what some people do, which is give hopium, raise your expectations unrealistically, and then you get disappointed.

00:18:44.000 I have too much respect for you guys.

00:18:45.000 I'm going to tell you the truth.

00:18:47.000 I'm trying to give you a real vision of what's possible.

00:18:49.000 Politics is the art of the possible.

00:18:52.000 And right now, the moderates are saying, hey, okay, we'll give you an impeachment inquiry, but we're not going to touch Jack Smith.

00:19:00.000 We're not going to touch the FBI.

00:19:02.000 We're not going to touch the border. 0.88

00:19:04.000 We're not going to touch Ukraine.

00:19:07.000 What they're really getting at, let's get even deeper, is that they want a trade.

00:19:13.000 They want a deal.

00:19:15.000 This is a deal happening in real time.

00:19:19.000 And I want to tell you what this deal is, which is why I have a contrarian take here today, instead of just putting on the pom-poms and saying, yay, impeachment.

00:19:28.000 Let me tell you what the deal is.

00:19:30.000 Impeachment inquiry for not shutting down the government.

00:19:34.000 That's what's going on here.

00:19:36.000 Impeachment inquiry, clean resolution.

00:19:39.000 Impeachment inquiry, no deal on the funding, meaning just a totally clean resolution.

00:19:45.000 That's what is really happening here.

00:19:47.000 So I encourage you not to take the bait of what is being fed to you here.

00:19:52.000 Matt Gates says some choice words, just took to the House floor.

00:19:57.000 I haven't heard this.

00:19:57.000 We're going to be hearing it for the first time together.

00:20:00.000 Play COP44.

00:20:01.000 At this point, during Democrat control over the House of Representatives, they had already brought in Don Jr. three times.

00:20:08.000 And we haven't even sent the first subpoena to Hunter Biden.

00:20:11.000 Power of the subpoena and power of the purse.

00:20:13.000 Only thing the 118th Congress is known for at this point is electing Kevin McCarthy speaker and underwriting Biden's debt.

00:20:20.000 And unfortunately, there's only one of those things we can remediate at this time: power of the purse.

00:20:26.000 Our leadership right now is asking us to vote for a continuing resolution.

00:20:30.000 A vote for a continuing resolution is a vote to continue the Green New Deal, a vote to continue inflationary spending.

00:20:38.000 And in the most troubling of fashions, a vote for a continuing resolution is a vote to continue the election interference of Jack Smith.

00:20:46.000 Boom.

00:20:47.000 That's what's really going on here. 0.98

00:20:50.000 The deal that the moderates are trying to broker, the Bacon wing of the Republican Party.

00:20:56.000 No, not Bacon like you get at Denny's.

00:20:59.000 I'm talking about Don Bacon, okay, very moderate guy.

00:21:03.000 Mario Diaz-Baltart, those guys, is you're seeing a crony deal being brokered in real time.

00:21:13.000 Understand that the MAGA base, you, the Charlie Kirk show audience, all of us together, the power of this audience, has a fair amount of power in the negotiation.

00:21:30.000 So they think that you, the audience, will calm down if they throw an impeachment inquiry at you and that you will not care when there is a clean resolution.

00:21:47.000 Now let's get our language right.

00:21:49.000 It is not a clean resolution.

00:21:50.000 Let's call it a dirty resolution.

00:21:53.000 We just need a clean CR.

00:21:55.000 That is the dirtiest thing you can do.

00:21:58.000 So the Republican moderates do this announcement, which on the surface, it's very hard to oppose.

00:22:09.000 I got to give the moderates credit.

00:22:12.000 I really do.

00:22:12.000 I got to give the Republican moderates some compliments here.

00:22:18.000 They've been stringing us along on impeachment, stringing us along on impeachment, keeping it in their back pocket this whole time, where they said, hey, in mid-September, if there are real calls of rebellion in the House, throw some red meat at the base and then announce the impeachment inquiry and do a deal.

00:22:36.000 Fund the government.

00:22:37.000 Don't touch Jack Smith.

00:22:39.000 Get Zelensky the money he needs.

00:22:42.000 Not money he needs, whatever.

00:22:43.000 You know what I mean?

00:22:45.000 And then throw the red meat to the rabbit dogs of the conservative movement.

00:22:49.000 You guys, us together.

00:22:51.000 That's what's going on here.

00:22:53.000 And so the question in front of us is: do we take that deal?

00:23:01.000 No.

00:23:03.000 No.

00:23:05.000 They didn't launch the impeachment inquiry in March or April, in June or July, because they had 9:30 circled.

00:23:15.000 Before we started talking about 9.30 on this program, before we started to talk about September 30th as being the climax of the 110-year war, the moderates in the Republican Party had it circled, 9.30.

00:23:31.000 So they said, okay, let's not do the impeachment thing.

00:23:34.000 Let's slow walk it.

00:23:36.000 Let's slow drip it. 0.58

00:23:38.000 And then when the fall comes, if the chatter, if the intensity builds too much, throw them.

00:23:48.000 Matt Gates continues, play cut 45.

00:23:51.000 Mr. Speaker, dust off our written January agreement.

00:23:55.000 You have a copy.

00:23:56.000 Reflect on the spirit of that agreement and build on the start that we had moments ago.

00:24:03.000 Begin to comply.

00:24:05.000 No continuing resolutions.

00:24:07.000 Individual spending bills are bust.

00:24:09.000 Votes on balanced budgets and term limits.

00:24:12.000 Subpoenas for Hunter Biden and the members of the Biden family who've been grifting off of this country and the impeachment for Joe Biden that he so richly deserves.

00:24:22.000 Do these things or face a motion to vacate the chair.

00:24:27.000 So Matt Gates on the floor of the House of Representatives said that's the nuclear weapon.

00:24:33.000 He's opening up the nuclear football.

00:24:39.000 Starting to plug in his coordinates, and that gets the speaker's office freaked out, understandably.

00:24:45.000 Face a motion to vacate.

00:24:48.000 And Gates was starting to tell people privately that he was going to have an announcement.

00:24:52.000 And then he was trolling Eric Swallow on Twitter.

00:24:54.000 This was like the worst kept secret in right-wing politics the last three days, that Matt Gates was going to do something about this, right?

00:25:01.000 And he hasn't done anything yet, but he's teasing it.

00:25:04.000 He's probing it.

00:25:05.000 He's throwing little crumbs here or there.

00:25:08.000 Matt Gates is coming on the show tomorrow to talk about this.

00:25:10.000 So then it's by no coincidence that then, ta-da!

00:25:18.000 Worst kept secret in politics.

00:25:20.000 You might get a motion to vacate.

00:25:22.000 We want a clean resolution.

00:25:24.000 And then you get this impeachment inquiry, not an impeachment, an impeachment inquiry.

00:25:32.000 And now they're going to go into private discussions and they're going to say, okay, we are going to do this impeachment inquiry if you guys come to a deal, a deal, on a clean, dirty, a clean, dirty CR.

00:25:46.000 That's what's really going on here.

00:25:48.000 Look deeper.

00:25:49.000 Because on a lot of the mockingbird networks on the conservative side, you're going to see the cheerleading squad come up.

00:25:55.000 You're going to see the pom-poms.

00:25:56.000 Yay.

00:25:57.000 Yay, we've been working so hard.

00:25:58.000 We get the inquiry.

00:25:59.000 And we're like, oh, time out.

00:26:01.000 Joe Biden's going to be dead in a decade.

00:26:04.000 What's more important is do we defang the beast, change the trajectory of the administrative state?

00:26:09.000 Don't get too distracted by this.

00:26:10.000 I want to be very clear.

00:26:12.000 I'm not the guy that's getting squirrely and I say, oh, well, I don't know if there's a way to prove the case.

00:26:17.000 Joe Biden, there are people in gitmo that have not done stuff as bad as Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.

00:26:24.000 I've said it before.

00:26:25.000 I'll say it before.

00:26:26.000 Again, Joe Biden has sold out the foreign policy decisions of the United States for cash, decisions made before.

00:26:33.000 The Chinese Communist Party owns and operates the entire Biden cabal.

00:26:38.000 But let's look that next level deeper.

00:26:40.000 And I don't know about you.

00:26:42.000 I feel far too often that I'm being played.

00:26:48.000 And I don't like being played.

00:26:52.000 So now let me strongman my position here.

00:26:58.000 I think Joe Biden absolutely should be impeached. 0.95

00:27:00.000 He's a traitor to the United States. 0.67

00:27:02.000 He sold us out 100%. 0.98

00:27:04.000 What we're talking about is the deal, look a level deeper that is being brokered.

00:27:08.000 And I don't like the deal.

00:27:09.000 If you have to choose, I don't like choosing.

00:27:12.000 If you have to choose, then you choose deep state oversight.

00:27:17.000 Don't fall for the trap.

00:27:19.000 Do not fall for what the moderate Republicans are doing.

00:27:21.000 Clean resolution.

00:27:22.000 It's dirty.

00:27:22.000 It's toxic.

00:27:24.000 So I have this guy's phone number.

00:27:26.000 I've texted with him warmly for years and I've met with him.

00:27:30.000 He was really strong on some of our issues for years.

00:27:33.000 It's Congressman Ken Buck from Colorado.

00:27:38.000 And I'll be honest, I have no idea what the heck is going on with him.

00:27:43.000 It's very strange.

00:27:44.000 It's very peculiar.

00:27:46.000 And so Congressman Ken Buck goes on Jake Tapper on CNN and says that there's no evidence that Joe Biden was involved in Hunter Biden's business dealings.

00:28:01.000 You cannot rationally believe this.

00:28:03.000 Now, if you're a Democrat, you say this, we know you're just wearing the Democrat jersey.

00:28:07.000 We know you're lying.

00:28:09.000 He's literally doing the bidding of the enemy, of the Democrat Party, of the intel agencies.

00:28:13.000 How about 10% for the big guy?

00:28:15.000 Or how about all the fake emails that Joe Biden used to communicate the business calls?

00:28:21.000 Ken Buck used to be a really good congressman.

00:28:23.000 In fact, so good he came and spoke at some of our events.

00:28:26.000 It's not going to happen again.

00:28:27.000 I can tell you that.

00:28:28.000 Listen to this.

00:28:28.000 Play cut 46.

00:28:30.000 I don't think that there is an appetite right now for a motion to vacate Speaker McCarthy.

00:28:36.000 I think that we have three committees that are working very hard on uncovering evidence of Hunter Biden's wrongdoing.

00:28:44.000 They are looking to see if there is a connection with Joe Biden.

00:28:47.000 If they reach that point where they can find evidence of a connection, fine.

00:28:51.000 I think the Republicans will move forward with an impeachment inquiry.

00:28:54.000 Right now, I'm not convinced that that evidence exists, and I'm not supporting an impeachment inquiry.

00:28:59.000 There's an even worse tape than that.

00:29:01.000 But he says, I'm not supporting an impeachment inquiry for this potential reason.

00:29:05.000 There's another one where he says, I've seen no evidence.

00:29:08.000 That's the wrong argument.

00:29:09.000 The argument should instead be this.

00:29:11.000 This is what our party should be saying, because I want to make sure it's clear.

00:29:14.000 Okay, Jake Tapper, he went on Jen Psaki's show, too. 0.95

00:29:19.000 Joe Biden's a traitor to the United States.

00:29:22.000 Joe Biden sold out the country repeatedly. 0.99

00:29:24.000 Joe Biden is a Chinese agent masquerading as a U.S. president. 0.96

00:29:29.000 But if I have to choose, instead of brokering a deal for a dirty resolution on 930, I would much rather have our energies be focused. 0.90

00:29:38.000 Fine, do the impeachment inquiry.

00:29:40.000 That's fine.

00:29:40.000 Just like go and do it.

00:29:42.000 Move it.

00:29:42.000 Fine.

00:29:43.000 Not going to be the main focus of my energy.

00:29:47.000 I want you guys in the audience to your phones and emails and calls to be less about the pom-pom cheering squad of, yay, we do an impeachment query instead of why is Jack Smith still have any money?

00:29:59.000 Why does Jack Smith have any money?

00:30:01.000 Kathy emailed us.

00:30:02.000 Charlie, 930 deadline is a couple weeks away.

00:30:04.000 Deal with it first.

00:30:05.000 No CR.

00:30:06.000 Defund Jack Smith and others.

00:30:07.000 Get over that hump first. 0.90

00:30:09.000 Then take on impeachment inquiry.

00:30:10.000 The inquiry has been slow walked this long.

00:30:12.000 What is a couple of months?

00:30:14.000 Clearly, this is red meat to unsuspecting MAGA folks.

00:30:16.000 Thanks for teasing this out for our attention.

00:30:18.000 God bless you.

00:30:19.000 We should call our reps.

00:30:21.000 Kathy, you heard me loud and clear.

00:30:23.000 That is the best email summary of what we've been talking about this hour.

00:30:26.000 It's very, that's a great summary.

00:30:29.000 Ken Buck comes out and he says, House Freedom Caucus member said there's no evidence Biden committed a high crime or misdemeanor.

00:30:38.000 I could, that boils my blood.

00:30:41.000 Ken Buck has railed against Marjorie Taylor Greene, saying it's absurd to think that she's an, quote, expert on impeachment.

00:30:51.000 Why do you need Democrats when you have people like this?

00:30:53.000 I do not know what's going on with Ken Buck.

00:30:55.000 He's talking like a compromised person.

00:30:57.000 I'll tell you what.

00:30:59.000 So let's summarize the whole hour.

00:31:01.000 On the surface, impeachment and create announcement, positive and good on the surface.

00:31:07.000 However, you have this massive deadline coming up on 930.

00:31:12.000 They strung it out.

00:31:14.000 They had this in their back pocket and they announced it just in time to try to throw some red meat while you have the actual funding, the technical aspects of the Leviathan right in front of us.

00:31:28.000 Look at the bigger picture.

00:31:29.000 Look at the bigger threat.

00:31:32.000 And that's all coming on 9:30.

00:31:34.000 They're trying to cut a deal.

00:31:37.000 The moderate Republicans with the people on the more conservative wing.

00:31:42.000 Are you guys going to take that deal?

00:31:44.000 That is the question.

00:31:48.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:31:50.000 Email us your thoughts as always: freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:31:53.000 Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.

00:31:58.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk dot com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - September 12, 2023

The Impeachment Trap?

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