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00:01:09.000Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show, February 27th, 2026.
00:01:16.000I feel like this is a day where we're almost, it almost feels annoying because it feels like we're on the cusp of very dramatic events or we can't see them.
00:01:23.000So, Bill Clinton testifying on the Epstein probe, but it's behind closed doors.
00:01:52.000There's a lot that we are paying attention to and watching.
00:01:55.000Obviously, if anything breaks in the midst of this show, we will move to it immediately.
00:02:01.000We've got stories we have to hit here in the first part of this hour.
00:02:05.000Then we're going to bring in Brandon Herrera, who's running for Congress in Texas at the middle of this hour.
00:02:11.000Then we have Pastor John Amonchukwu, Mikey McCoy.
00:02:14.000We're going to be doing Ask Us Anything Fridays.
00:02:16.000So, you can call in, join us, members.charliekirk.com, members.charliekirk.com, if you want to take part in that and actually ask questions on the air.
00:02:25.000But first, let's just go over what happened yesterday really quick with Hillary Clinton.
00:02:32.000She was actually in New York testifying before James Comer's committee about Epstein.
00:03:03.000If you really have specific questions about the Clinton Global Initiative or the relationship between the Clintons and Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, you got to ask Bill Clinton.
00:03:42.000The first is that I love my country, and America was built upon the idea that no person is above the law, even presidents, especially presidents.
00:03:50.000Democracy requires every person to play their part, blah, blah, blah.
00:03:53.000The second reason I'm here is that girls and women whose lives Jeffrey Epstein destroyed deserve not only justice, but healing.
00:03:59.000They've been waiting too long for both.
00:04:01.000Though my brief acquaintance with Epstein ended years before his brief acquaintance, before his crimes came to light.
00:04:07.000And though I never witnessed during our limited interactions any indication of what was truly going on, I'm here to offer what little I know so that I might prevent anything like this from ever happening again.
00:04:37.000As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing, I would have turned him in myself.
00:04:46.000So that's going to be the tone today from Bill Clinton.
00:05:33.000The political class is worried about the historic drop.
00:05:36.000But the biggest change is among the youngest women.
00:05:38.000Who are the least ready to have children?
00:05:40.000It's entirely embracing the culture, like let's call it the culture of death, the culture of decline, the culture of no future.
00:05:49.000Because this article comes out simultaneously with another headline, and we'll talk about both.
00:05:54.000We have a story out of Canada with it was a report from the data chief of the Medical Assistance in Dying program for the province of Ontario.
00:07:40.000And these issues are so innately linked together.
00:07:45.000This desire to have no children, this desire to perpetuate adolescence, and then simultaneously at the end of life to rush into suicide.
00:07:56.000Every horror story about assisted suicide that exists has already happened where people are pressured by family members into killing themselves because they're tired of taking care of them, where supposed.
00:08:09.000Healthcare workers are pressuring someone into suicide rather than providing them actual treatment for what they want.
00:08:16.000There are cases where people who are suffering from disabilities are basically told, Yeah, we can't actually supply you with any normal treatments, but you know, there is suicide if you want that, if you're feeling depressed about things.
00:08:44.000There's an image of a, this New York Post has an image of this 26 year old that was killed because I guess he had mental illness and they killed him.
00:09:37.000Keanu Vafayen accused authorities of failing to protect their vulnerable son, the parents of him, who was able to end his life with assisted suicide despite a history of mental illness.
00:09:51.000They say that Vafayen had seasonal depression, suffered from type 1 diabetes, and lost vision in one eye when he died last December.
00:10:04.000Is Governor Kathy Hochul in December said that she would sign a law, medical aid in dying, a bill giving state sanction to doctors in New York helping terminally ill patients end their lives?
00:10:20.000Like, we always sympathize with people who are dying, but every incentive that legalizing assisted suicide creates is so profoundly negative for me.
00:10:30.000You're giving extra power to people who, I'll be frank, are often already inclined to feel they have godlike power over individuals.
00:10:38.000We Again, already have cases in other countries, and I think in this country, but certainly in others, where doctors decide, I don't think this person's life is worth living, so I'm going to push suicide on them.
00:10:51.000I think that's the best outcome for them.
00:10:53.000Once you are creating a system where the group of people who are supposed to treat illness have killed this person as a treatment, shockingly, they decide in a lot of cases, killing this person is easier than trying to cure them or help them.
00:11:06.000Yeah, well, and again, when they first passed this law, it was bad enough, but they mandated a minimum 10 day wait period.
00:11:14.000Now, people are getting killed on the same day.
00:11:17.000Here's Charlie talking about medical assistance in death.
00:12:47.000So, my life is not very enjoyable at this point, so I should just snuff it out at this moment.
00:12:54.000And that's why it does relate so directly to the children question as well, because the same impulses that cause people to avoid having children, to actively reject it, which the New York Times is celebrating, are the same impulses that drive them to kill themselves when their lives are painful towards the end.
00:13:12.000And I think Charlie observed that as well.
00:13:14.000We have a good clip of him just talking about the attitude towards children.
00:15:10.000Those are the groups, the cohorts that are not happy.
00:15:14.000If you are a woman and your goal is to live a fulfilling life and a productive life and a happy life, guess what?
00:15:23.000The odds are very much more in your favor to be happy and fulfilled if you are married with children or if you are married and you don't have children.
00:15:56.000Increase the meaning and importance of your life when you embrace having obligations to other people, as Charlie would say, obligations to God, obligations to a spouse, and yes, obligations to the children you and your spouse have together.
00:16:10.000And it's a very bleak sign for our civilization if the New York Times is running out with this headline that just says, Actually, everyone deciding to not have kids is a good thing.
00:16:19.000And yeah, maybe a half century from now, no one will be around anymore, but it's not our problem.
00:16:24.000We'll just import a bunch of foreigners, we'll replace you.
00:16:30.000Imagine being a young woman just finding out that you're pregnant, not knowing where to go or what to do, not even knowing exactly what is going on in your body.
00:16:38.000While the whole world tells her it's just a clump of cells, you and I, we both know the truth.
00:18:33.000So the channel is just my name, it's just Brandon Herrera.
00:18:36.000So I've used that over the last few years to not only just have fun with friends and blow stuff up on the internet, which is my dream job, but also to kind of use that platform to teach people about firearm history, firearm engineering, design.
00:18:49.000And usually that's a nice gateway drug into the importance of the Second Amendment and the importance of the Constitution.
00:18:55.000You can tell that Brandon is entirely committed to the public interest because there is no other reason you would possibly step away from blowing stuff up on the internet to try to enter Congress.
00:19:44.000He voted against the Second Amendment for a Democrat gun control bill, he voted against the Fourth Amendment with wireless surveillance of American citizens.
00:19:53.000Voted against border policy, which is crazy in the biggest border district in the entire country here in District 23.
00:19:58.000So I just had an issue with his voting record.
00:20:03.000I hope when we lost the last election, we lost it in a runoff because he got below 50% in the primary.
00:20:11.000He lost it in a runoff by about 400 votes after outspending us 10 to 1.
00:20:16.000So I figured that that would be a message that, hey, maybe you need to fix your behavior.
00:20:19.000And unfortunately, it just didn't go through.
00:20:21.000So I jumped into the race a second time.
00:20:23.000Very shortly after, you know, the rumblings of this scandal, the affair, and everything started to hit.
00:20:30.000And just this last few weeks, it seems like the dam finally burst and people are finding out the truth about the kind of person that Tony Gonzalez is and why he needs to be replaced.
00:20:40.000So, the details of this case, I don't want to be salacious.
00:20:43.000I don't want to hurl unfounded accusations.
00:20:47.000You know, I just want to be respectful because a woman did take her life in this instance.
00:20:56.000Would you walk us through what you know to be true?
00:20:59.000And, you know, a lot of people still say, you know, this is alleged, these are allegations.
00:21:04.000I'm not even willing to do that at this point because, in my mind, from what I've seen and what I've seen proven, this is 100% fact.
00:21:13.000Actually, during the last election, during the runoff election, probably like I think maybe 20 to 30 days out from the runoff against me, he engaged in predatory sexual behavior with a married female staffer.
00:21:28.000Him, of course, being a married father of six, this is completely unacceptable behavior, especially with a subordinate.
00:21:34.000But the text messages have been released now at this point where he was pressuring a staffer into a sexual relationship.
00:21:43.000And then, you know, the husband found out about it.
00:21:46.000It was a big ordeal, and one thing led to another.
00:21:49.000And he essentially wrecked the home to the point where on September 13th of last year, she committed suicide via self immolation.
00:21:57.000And it was pretty much swept under the rug.
00:22:03.000He would avoid journalists like the plague.
00:22:05.000He would run away from journalists, ban media from all of his events, and wouldn't deny it until a couple months later when no evidence came forward, no hard evidence.
00:22:15.000Then he went to a journalist and said, Oh, yeah, all of these rumors are untruthful, I believe is what he said, and just kind of swept it away and denied it.
00:22:22.000And of course, we knew that wasn't true.
00:22:24.000There's a lot of people, former staffers, that were coming forward that were trying to say, Hey, we know this is a lie.
00:22:30.000But nobody would go on the record until about a month ago when a former staffer of his that worked with Regina Santos Aviles, the staffer who killed herself, a staffer that worked with her very closely came forward.
00:22:45.000And he had text message receipts from Regina referencing the affair.
00:22:50.000He had personal allegories of accidentally facilitating extramarital behavior with their family cabin between Regina and Tony.
00:22:59.000And then Tony smeared me and the staffer saying, How dare I give a disgruntled former staffer a platform?
00:23:53.000I was called a neo Nazi, a Klan member, an anarchist, and a California lover in the same campaign.
00:24:02.000California loving liberal, which is funny because he took a clip out of context from a podcast where I had said, he clipped it where I said, California might be my favorite state in the country.
00:24:26.000I mean, I'm pretty sure Charlie said the exact thing.
00:24:28.000Well, Charlie loved Paradise and they ruined it.
00:24:30.000I actually wrote an op ed for the California Post that ran on Sunday talking about how when I'd land in California with Charlie, he'd always go, This state is so beautiful.
00:24:56.000Extramarital affairs are awful on their face.
00:25:00.000To do it in a way in which you might have been using funding or abusing the office or whatever is also terrible.
00:25:09.000I just want to say, it sounds like if somebody's going to do that, self immolate, then I got to believe there's underlying stuff there with that person.
00:25:18.000I just want to say that out loud because you can't put that all on an affair, in my opinion.
00:25:35.000And none of us could know the full situation at this point.
00:25:37.000The only person that could break this down objectively or give us the full story is no longer with us.
00:25:44.000But one thing I can say pretty confidently is that the affair and then all of the consequences of it were 100% the domino that started everything cascading.
00:26:19.000Well, there's a lot of things, especially that are specific to this district.
00:26:22.000So, District 23 goes all the way from the west side of San Antonio to the east side of El Paso and everything in between.
00:26:29.000It's the biggest district in Texas and it's the biggest border district in the country.
00:26:33.000And so, we need somebody who's going to be firm on the border.
00:26:35.000Now, President Trump has done quite a lot.
00:26:38.000To help solve the Biden border crisis.
00:26:40.000It's night and day compared to where it was two, three years ago.
00:26:43.000But a lot of that stuff needs to be codified.
00:26:45.000We need to make sure the legislature actually passes bills that protect us because, you know, I hope we get eight years of JD Vance after Trump is over.
00:26:54.000But, you know, the truth is, one of these days we will have another Democrat in office.
00:26:58.000And if it was one stroke of a pen from President Trump to fix these things, it's one stroke of a pen away from being undone.
00:27:04.000And we cannot afford that as a country.
00:27:24.000It's the only way we're going to beat the Democrats in November, and it's the number one way that we're going to get people like Tony out of office in the primaries here.
00:27:32.000So if you want to check out the campaign, it's BrandonHerrorForCongress.com.
00:27:35.000But if you're out in Texas District 23, I would be honored to have your vote and give West Texas the conservative voice it deserves.
00:29:16.000It actually struck close to the heart of this show because Charlie, as many of you know, was an Eagle Scout, a proud Eagle Scout until they went woke.
00:30:19.000Because imagine a young boy in front of a bunch of other boys is going to try and fail and embarrass himself way more readily than if you put a bunch of girls in front of him.
00:30:31.000If the girls are watching, he's not going to want to make a fool of himself, he's not going to want to do a bunch of stuff.
00:30:35.000When you take teenage boys and you insert women in there, instantly everything becomes about their relations, like with those women, and they become much more likely to compete with each other rather than to cooperate with each other.
00:30:47.000Tons of psychological stuff goes into this.
00:30:50.000Actually, I didn't realize there's an old clip of Charlie.
00:30:56.000When I was 13 years old and I was worrying about climbing a rock or starting a fire, if there were young ladies around, I would not have been climbing a rock or starting a fire.
00:31:04.000I would have been much distracted and talking, trying to make, you know.
00:31:07.000Trying to make myself more socially acceptable and so on and so forth.
00:31:11.000There's a lot of character development that happens between those critical ages and being around other young men that are going through the same problems and failing and taking risks, I think, is something that has made the Boy Scouts so successful.
00:31:23.000And it's also those people that have studied gender exclusive education that go to show the exact same thing focus, attention to detail, especially amongst those critical ages, is something that we should not sacrifice or remove from.
00:31:46.000So, the big news this morning is that Pete Hegseth, because you got to understand the Boy Scouts and the Secretary of War, or the Department of War, there's been a long running sort of collaboration.
00:32:00.000You know, that's the pipeline for future military.
00:32:02.000They would do a military jamboree, and it would be on a military base.
00:32:25.000Scouting America will modify its policy to make clear that membership will be based solely on biological sex at birth and not gender identity.
00:32:33.000Scouting will also make clear that biological boys and girls will not be allowed to occupy or share intimate spaces together.
00:32:41.000Toilets, showers, tents, anywhere like that.
00:32:43.000Scouting America will honor those who serve by waiving the registration fees for children of active duty, guard, and reserve.
00:32:50.000In partnership with the War Department, Scouting America will introduce a new military service merit badge.
00:32:56.000These and other changes that Scouting America's leadership committed to will hopefully result in a rededication to the foundational ideals that have defined Scouting for generations duty to God and country, leadership, character, and service.
00:33:14.000I'm noting in the Department of War's announcement on this that membership dropped from there were 10.
00:33:21.000Million boys participating in just the Boy Scouts, only boys allowed in 1970.
00:33:26.000And that's with a significantly smaller population, maybe a similar number of children of scouting age, less than 1 million participating in 2026.
00:34:02.000And it's so sad to follow the decline of the Boy Scouts because it really, in my opinion, is such a charter of the decline of America.
00:34:11.000When you look at Boy Scouts' values as they were articulated, even when I was in it, just 20 years ago, it was such a perfect distillation of what you'd say are classic American values.
00:34:22.000And let's be frank, it's a very generally Kind of Judeo Christian outlook towards the world, even if other religions are allowed in.
00:34:29.000It's like American civic Christianity when there was just a sort of default.
00:34:33.000Oh, yeah, like this is a Christian country and it has Christian values.
00:34:36.000And that's what it embodied along with serving your country, all this pro citizenship stuff, and learn useful skills.
00:34:43.000We had an organization that tens of millions of boys went through that just taught you to love God, love your country, and learn to do useful things, learn to be a man.
00:34:52.000And they deliberately destroyed it over the course of decades.
00:34:57.000Precisely because it was something so good and so beautiful.
00:35:01.000There is a tendency in Western culture where the parasites, the horde of wokies or whatever, and the liberal malays will attack healthy hosts.
00:35:52.000I am telling you, there is no more effective, powerful force on the planet than a well formed, matured, fully functional, intelligent, self assured male.
00:36:33.000But I'm telling you, young men, fully formed, fully ready to take on the challenges of this generation and the next and the next after that, if we have those men, Western civilization will not only survive, it will thrive.
00:36:47.000That's why there's always an attack against them.