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00:01:09.000All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:15.000Blake's holding it down in Phoenix, Arizona.
00:01:18.000Hey, Andrew, I guess the first thing we should do is we should just make sure everyone realizes that we did not get rid of the studio because I think that happens every time we have one of us in D.C.
00:02:35.000I saw that clip, actually, not until this morning, Blake.
00:02:39.000I actually watched it last night, didn't log it, saw it this morning, and it broke my heart, actually.
00:02:44.000And of course, he was referencing what happened at Mar a Lago.
00:02:48.000With the Austin Martin case, where he was killed, apparently trying to assassinate the president, ginned up on conspiracy theories, frustration, whatever, locked inside an ideological echo chamber on social media.
00:03:02.000And that is the third known assassination attempt against President Trump in the last two years.
00:03:10.000And of course, that strikes the heart of this show, the show that bears the name Charlie Kirk, who we lost to an assassin's bullet in September.
00:04:42.000My fear, Senator, and I hope I'm wrong, and let's stay in prayer that I'm wrong, that someone is going to get shot the same way that Steve Scalise got shot and, God forbid, killed.
00:04:53.000The left is creating a pressure cooker with so many of their rank and file paramilitary troops that very well might result in one of us.
00:05:39.000And one reason we're talking about this is not just because of what the president said, but.
00:05:44.000There's endless cases of them, of the left deliberately, people who should know better, constantly amping up low level actors, the mentally imbalanced, the mentally unwell, the people who are more likely to get tipped over the edge.
00:06:01.000And so I was just absolutely set off yesterday.
00:06:05.000There was an article in The Atlantic Magazine.
00:06:07.000For those of you who don't read it, The Atlantic is up there with The New York Times as a prestige outlet of what you would call the mainstream left opinion.
00:07:14.000He murdered Charlie because he was whipped up by this rhetoric of Nazis, this rhetoric of genocide.
00:07:21.000We've had a gunman shoot up an ICE facility and kill multiple detainees, but he wanted to kill ICE officers.
00:07:28.000We have these insurgents, essentially, in Minneapolis, constantly getting in the face of ICE agents who end up getting shot themselves, but very well, this could end in ICE agents being shot.
00:07:40.000The entire point is to throw it all into tumult.
00:07:43.000We have multiple transgender radicals, and of course, we've had three attempted assassinations of the president that have ended in someone being shot.
00:07:55.000It feels deliberate to me that when Tom Nichols goes out here and just writes Nazi, it is the line the left used in the past stochastic terrorism.
00:08:05.000It is the rhetoric that drives unwell people over the edge so that they're going to go grab a gun and try to shoot someone because they're nuts and they take this stuff literally.
00:09:21.000You'll see videos celebrating the targeting of ICE officers all over the place.
00:09:26.000You'll see them celebrating going after top Trump administration officials.
00:09:33.000It's assassination culture and it glorifies targeted killings as acts of justice against perceived oppressors, which you could just insert MAGA or conservatives.
00:09:43.000And it's fueled by social media in these echo chambers.
00:09:46.000Mangione, his 2024 assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has been celebrated by segments of the far left as heroic resistance.
00:09:57.000Hashtags like FreeLuigi have gained traction with over 50,000 posts, and they call him a hero.
00:10:05.000The idolization risks massive amounts of copycat killers.
00:10:34.000In the 18 to 39 group of liberals, 30% said yes, violence was justified.
00:10:42.000We have other polls that say almost 50% would suggest the same thing for Elon Musk, and over 50%, 55%, would say the same for President Trump.
00:12:15.000It chills dissent, it heightens threats to public officials.
00:12:20.000You have numbers of the Trump administration living.
00:12:23.000In military bases in and around DC because they are no longer safe to live in a normal home.
00:12:29.000If unchecked, this legitimately could unravel the fabric of democracy, replacing ballots with bullets and dialogue with division, pushing America toward a fractured future where voices are silenced not by votes, but by violence.
00:12:46.000This is much worse than the heckler's veto.
00:12:49.000This is the assassin's veto, and it must stop.
00:12:54.000And when you see articles like this from The Atlantic, which is a complete joke, which is an intentional provocation, as Blake said earlier, inviting crazy people to take shots at conservatives by calling them all Nazis, the problem is only going to get worse.
00:15:05.000And then in the article, he has to cover for the fact that he's like, well, yeah, the left, we've lionized Angela Davis, a college professor who helped murder a judge.
00:15:16.000We all partied with Bill Ayers, a terrorist who mailed bombs to the military and to Congress.
00:15:28.000The real story here in 385, this image.
00:15:32.000Critics of the GOP have long argued, they've long argued, something like the Trump movement and the emergence of a new American Nazism was inevitable.
00:15:41.000That conservatism as a belief system inevitably decays into fascism.
00:15:50.000And this is why you see these unhinged reactions across the Atlantic, by the way, to the rise of conservative populist movements like MAGA, because they believe that it's a runaway train that they must stop.
00:16:02.000By not just punching a Nazi, by killing a Nazi.
00:16:06.000And make no mistake, that is the through line.
00:16:08.000That if force was justified to take out Hitler and the Third Reich in Germany, well, then force is justified to kill conservatives here because it inevitably decays into fascism.
00:17:57.000Yeah, well, you know, to be honest, and I'd love for you to chime in on this, Chip.
00:18:02.000There's, it's just, you know, we spent the first two seconds of the show going over this ridiculous article from the Atlantic on assassinate, or calling everybody Nazis.
00:18:11.000That is the conservative Nazis, fascists, also.
00:18:14.000And I just can't help but make the connection that they want conservatives dead.
00:18:19.000The dehumanizing rhetoric, this assassination attempt again against President Trump, please, Congressman.
00:18:27.000Well, as you all know, because you all had witness testimony participate, we had a hearing in the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, which I chair, to address this topic.
00:18:39.000And one of the things I did immediately after the brutal murder of Charlie was to call on a special select committee, which so many of my member colleagues had joined with me in that call.
00:18:51.000But I think we need to be very focused on the flow of the money and the organized effort by the radical Marxist left to target conservatives, to target Christians to target our Judeo Christian values, all in an intentional way to foment that hatred and divide us, which then puts a specific target on our key conservative leaders, whether it was President Trump, whether it was Charlie, whether it was, as we had, and you know, Tony Perkins,
00:19:18.000whose Family Research Council was targeted about a decade ago and shot up when the Southern Poverty Law Center made very clear and put them on their hate map list.
00:19:28.000And now that I'm daring to co chair the Sharia Free America Caucus that I co founded with Keith Self, my fellow Texan.
00:19:35.000Now, CARE is putting us on a hate list.
00:19:38.000I can't remember what it's called, but somehow, you know, I'm now a hater because I believe we should stand up on our Judeo Christian values and defend those against the Islamification of the country.
00:19:48.000Now, I just touched on a lot of issues, but the main one is the organized effort by the Marxist left that is well funded, it's purposeful, and they are putting targets on us and using rhetoric intentionally to raise that temperature.
00:20:02.000You're 100% right, Congressman, and I'm absolutely sick of it.
00:20:59.000All of the issues that we're going to address as conservatives, as God fearing Americans, all go through this central issue that they are an organized bunch of Marxists who want to undermine our country.
00:21:21.000Charlie was a good friend in the political circles.
00:21:23.000I don't go around masquerading like he and I were best buds, but talk about responsive.
00:21:27.000Like I would text Charlie, hey, what's going on?
00:21:30.000Our last substantive conversation was about the Islamification of America and the West.
00:21:36.000But when I talk about Charlie, I say two things.
00:21:38.000One, he wasn't afraid to call out that organized bunch of Marxists and the extent to which they are organized against us.
00:21:46.000And two, and most importantly, it wasn't the freedom shirt, respectfully.
00:21:50.000It wasn't talking about limited government and constitution, all great things, all important.
00:21:55.000It was that he was going to college campuses and proclaiming the gospel of Christ.
00:22:00.000And I want to stop and hold there for a second because nothing else matters.
00:22:05.000The freedom that we're talking about, the ability to carry out our lives according to our conscience, none of that matters if we're not proclaiming the gospel of Christ.
00:22:16.000And we get wrapped around our American axle and we hide behind the First Amendment to say that we don't talk about those things.
00:22:42.000We are at war in this world, and it is a predicted war.
00:22:45.000We need to gird our loins for that battle, and we need to be proud of it.
00:22:49.000We need to be defensive of our families, our heritage, and our community, and who we are as Americans, and what that's meant for the world, and why Sharia law is bad, and why the Islamification of America would destroy all that is good and great about Western civilization and what America means for it.
00:23:06.000So, sorry for that little bit of a rant, but That's so central to everything.
00:23:10.000Congressman, I just want to say quickly that you've always been very gracious in the way you talk about Charlie, and Charlie and you were great friends, and he believed in you and he had your back.
00:23:20.000You came on the show constantly with Charlie, and I'm grateful that you come on the show with us.
00:23:25.000You have helped make the Islamification of Texas a massive issue in that primary season, in that state.
00:24:24.000But to answer your question, Texas has three or four key problems.
00:24:28.000Number one, Texas is suffering from a failure by the federal government to secure the border, both from an illegal immigration standpoint, but importantly, legal immigration.
00:24:39.000We've allowed the abuse of H 1B visas, of so called diversity visas, of the SIV issues with respect to Afghanistan.
00:24:47.000And all of these things to bring loads of people into our country post 9 11 who are Islamists.
00:24:53.000Number two, Texas, with all due respect to our current leadership, has sold itself to the corporate establishment in Texas that wants labor.
00:25:04.000And they hide behind saying, we need, quote, skilled labor.
00:25:08.000But the truth is, they're just importing people that do not adhere to our values.
00:25:12.000And at some point, you've got to defend Texas.
00:25:15.000And as attorney general, my message to a lot of the business leaders is, I'm going to defend the state of Texas and our value system as much as I am the needs for businesses to have labor.
00:25:26.000Let's make sure we're building our labor from within and make sure we defend our values.
00:25:30.000But I think those two things wide open borders, a loose legal immigration system on issues bringing people in from countries that are Islamic centric, and then businesses driving the agenda in Texas has driven so many people into the state of Texas, again, plus the open border.
00:27:19.000And then when the news was breaking about Tony, we've known some of these things that were out there, but they're rumors, and you got to give People do process.
00:27:27.000You don't jump to conclusions based on what's put out on social media.
00:27:31.000But enough smoke tells me there's fire.
00:27:34.000And we need a standard bearer for Texas 23 who can hold that seat.
00:27:38.000And we need a God fearing, strong conservative.
00:29:29.000And remember, whyrefi doesn't care what your credit score is.
00:29:32.000Just go to whyrefi.com and tell them your friend Andrew sent you.
00:29:38.000So I do have breaking news from the Tyler Robinson trial.
00:29:45.000Blake, and you've been following this along with us.
00:29:48.000So, there was a motion by the defense to dismiss the prosecutor because one of the prosecution's team, other prosecutors on the team, had a daughter there.
00:29:59.000And apparently, they moved to disqualify the entire prosecution because of this.
00:30:04.000A motion, if accepted, would have delayed this trial enormously.
00:30:09.000I think it's difficult to overstate that.
00:30:12.000And the court has now denied the motion, which is great news.
00:30:32.000You drive people more into a frenzy about things.
00:30:35.000Because as we've said, the best counter to a lot of the wild things we've seen online that we've seen in our own inboxes that we've seen on X is people want justice for what happened.
00:30:46.000They need to see the process playing out.
00:30:48.000And it's been so frustrating to people.
00:31:18.000We're getting video just breaking, which will be made available and posted later today.
00:31:22.000Before the court defends its motion to disqualify Utah County Attorney's Office, defendant argues that high level prosecutor assigned to this case has a concurrent conflict of interest.
00:31:32.000And because no efforts were made to screen him, the entire office should be disqualified.
00:31:37.000Again, this is coming from the defense.
00:31:40.000Because defendant has not established a factual basis for finding conflict of interest or objective appearance of impropriety, Rising to a constitutional concern.
00:31:52.000So, as we looked, so this was a big one that we marked on the calendar to see if this case was going to get delayed or if the speedy trial promise that we are afforded, well, in his case, as the defendant, was actually going to be met.
00:32:06.000But yes, to Blake's point, this was a delay tactic.
00:32:10.000It has been denied by the court, so we're grateful there.
00:32:13.000So, next landmarks to keep an eye on, we are all eyes on May.
00:32:19.000May is going to be the big month, and that is going to be the preliminary hearing where the prosecution team, which will now stay in place, is going to present the mountain of evidence that they have accumulated over the course of these months against Tyler Robinson.
00:32:34.000I'm told a lot of this is evidence that you have not seen or heard before.
00:32:38.000Some of it was in the original charging documents, but there is going to be additional evidence.
00:32:44.000And, you know, I just hearken back to the words of Jonathan Turley.
00:32:49.000Who reviewed this case and said that if 90%, if the defense was successful in getting rid of 90% of the evidence against Tyler Robinson, he'd still be found guilty and subject to capital punishment for his crime.
00:33:05.000And so to think that you could lose 90% of what we already know exists, still get a guilty verdict, but then there's even more that they haven't yet made public, mountains more potentially, is a very, I guess, comforting thought as we.
00:33:56.000The court now reads its ruling, which will be made available and posted later today.
00:34:05.000Before the court is defendant's motion to disqualify Utah County Attorney's Office.
00:34:10.000Defendant argues that high level prosecutor assigned to this case has a concurrent conflict of interest and because no efforts were made to screen him, the entire office should be disqualified.
00:34:23.000Because defendant has not established a factual basis for a finding of conflict of interest or an objective appearance of impropriety rising to a constitutional concern, his motion is respectfully denied.
00:34:38.000And I guess they're moving to a death penalty discussion upcoming, so we're going to continue monitoring that.
00:34:45.000But this is, I feel like, been a really important show, actually.
00:34:49.000You sometimes wake up in the morning and you don't know which ones are going to be important.
00:34:52.000When I saw that, I think they're all important, but some are more so.
00:34:56.000But when I saw that clip from President Trump, it was this moment of vulnerability from the commander in chief ahead of what's typically considered.
00:35:06.000The most or one of the most important addresses to the nation on the calendar.
00:35:11.000And so he's going to talk about, you know, the economy, the wins, focus on domestic tranquility and success.
00:35:20.000And overshadowing so much of this conversation tonight is this idea that the left wants political violence exacted upon its political enemies, conservatives, MAGA.
00:35:34.000God bless Chip Roy for addressing it in committee, but more work needs to be done.
00:35:39.000This needs to be rooted out at a very deep level.
00:35:42.000It stole our friend from us, the host of this show, whose name is still on this show.
00:35:48.000It has almost taken President Trump's life, countless others in the administration.
00:35:55.000And it is a pall that hangs over this whole country.
00:35:58.000It's a tragedy, it's an evil, and it must be blotted out.
00:36:01.000Pray for America, pray for this country.
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