The Charlie Kirk Show - The Legacy of Andrew Breitbart with Rep. James Comer and Alex Marlow

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.

00:00:00.000 Today on the Charlie Kirk show, James Comer, who is the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, walks us through the pending investigations and what he hopes to accomplish.

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00:00:31.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:33.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

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00:01:12.000 Joining us now is James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee.

00:01:17.000 Congressman, welcome to the program.

00:01:19.000 There's a new Axios article.

00:01:21.000 Maybe you could tell us if it's true or not.

00:01:22.000 House GOP game plan, investigate everything.

00:01:26.000 What's the truth, Representative Comer?

00:01:28.000 The truth is we're going to focus on waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in the federal government.

00:01:33.000 We'll probably have somewhere around 40 or 50 investigations.

00:01:37.000 If you investigated everything, that would be a million things.

00:01:40.000 And Axios was being, you know, their typical smart elect self in that headline.

00:01:46.000 But at the end of the day, we are going to provide oversight for this administration and the mainstream media and the officials in the Biden administration are just going to have to get used to the fact that the voters spoke and there's a change of guard in Washington, D.C.

00:02:01.000 So no longer will Congress be turning a blind eye to scandals, to wasteful spending, unnecessary spending.

00:02:08.000 That day has ended.

00:02:09.000 Now we're going to ask for specific line items of how this administration is spending money.

00:02:15.000 We want receipts.

00:02:17.000 We're going to be doing audits and we want people to come testify to the committee to explain to the American people their actions.

00:02:23.000 So we are going to be very active in our pursuit for the truth.

00:02:28.000 What is the plan if and when these agencies start to stonewall you or miss deadlines?

00:02:33.000 Is your committee prepared to vote on subpoenas?

00:02:37.000 Absolutely.

00:02:38.000 And in fact, I just have to, I have subpoena authority.

00:02:41.000 The chairman of the oversight committee has complete subpoena authority.

00:02:45.000 Obviously, we have to get the counsel for the speaker's office to sign on to it because they'll be representing us in court if the receiver of the subpoena refuses to comply with the subpoena.

00:02:57.000 But what we're doing is checking the boxes to have a successful subpoena.

00:03:02.000 If you subpoena someone and they refuse to comply, then it goes to court.

00:03:08.000 You have to show good faith effort to get that information or that person to come forward.

00:03:15.000 We've already put deadlines on certain officials requesting certain information.

00:03:21.000 Just about all of them have missed that deadline.

00:03:24.000 That's what they did.

00:03:25.000 We'll re-request it and then they'll start receiving subpoenas if they don't comply with those requests.

00:03:30.000 I know this might be too many hypotheticals and I don't want to put you in a spot where it's all speculative, but we did deal with this with Eric Holder and we did deal with this with Lois Lerner.

00:03:40.000 Do you think that the committee has the desire, not the desire, but the willingness to potentially use contempt of Congress?

00:03:49.000 I'm only saying that because we know how these willpower is what I'm really thinking for.

00:03:53.000 We know how these people operate and they did it to a lot of people in the last Congress.

00:03:58.000 What are your thoughts on that?

00:04:00.000 The good thing about the January 6th committee, if there is a good thing, is that they set a lot of precedents that I think we can use.

00:04:07.000 They utilize the contempt of Congress folks.

00:04:10.000 I plan on requesting the leadership with McCarthy and Scalise to do the same thing if we get to that point.

00:04:19.000 They filmed depositions and then they used pieces of the film in producing videos and stuff to help amplify their message.

00:04:30.000 We're going to do all the same things that they did.

00:04:33.000 So they set a lot of precedents that I think will be to our advantage moving forward.

00:04:38.000 That's a great answer.

00:04:39.000 And I'm glad to hear that because the fourth branch of government, they do everything they possibly can.

00:04:44.000 You might remember when there was investigations into the Lois Lerner Internal Revenue Service targeting scandal.

00:04:52.000 All these emails just disappeared.

00:04:54.000 And even Paul Ryan, who is not one to get too heated up, he just said, I think you're lying to me.

00:04:58.000 I don't believe you.

00:04:59.000 And they were never held accountable for that.

00:05:01.000 So I'm pleased.

00:05:02.000 So one of my fears, Representative Comer, and maybe you can alleviate me of this concern, is that there's almost too much to investigate, that it would be spread too thin.

00:05:12.000 I'm sure you've heard this piece of feedback before.

00:05:16.000 What are the top priorities?

00:05:18.000 Because look, Congress is only in session, what, another 100 years, 100 days this year, right?

00:05:23.000 More or less.

00:05:24.000 And that's really when you're able to do most of your work.

00:05:26.000 And they're going to try to stretch out.

00:05:28.000 And then you have debt ceiling fights and you have foreign policy stuff and you've got things happening in the skiff and you have the weaponization of government.

00:05:35.000 So what can you say to our audience that might be concerned?

00:05:38.000 There's almost too much to investigate.

00:05:40.000 Well, I'm utilizing the staff a lot.

00:05:42.000 We have a really top-notch staff, a lot of really good lawyers, former DOJ officials.

00:05:50.000 I mean, we've got the experts that want to do the right thing.

00:05:54.000 We're sending, we're going to send people to the border to do depositions with Border Patrol agents in our investigation of wrongdoing with Mayorkas.

00:06:02.000 So we're actually going to send our staff down there to make it easier to where people can do depositions on potential wrongdoing with the Homeland Security Cabinet.

00:06:13.000 We're bringing people in today.

00:06:14.000 We've had two people that are closely identified with the Hunter Biden scandals that came in today to meet with our counsel.

00:06:22.000 We're working every day.

00:06:24.000 We're working six days a week.

00:06:26.000 We're going to them if we have to.

00:06:28.000 So there's a lot that takes place behind the scenes.

00:06:31.000 I know the committee hearing is when you get the big bang, but we're going to be doing a lot of transcribed interviews.

00:06:36.000 We're going to be doing a lot of depositions.

00:06:37.000 We're traveling to them.

00:06:39.000 We're going to do whatever is easiest to get the information as quickly as possible.

00:06:42.000 So fortunately, in addition to having a great committee that meets, as you say, we've got about 100 more dates set to meet this year.

00:06:50.000 We also have a very large staff that wants to do the right thing.

00:06:55.000 They can all probably make money in the private sector more, and they probably will be in the private sector very soon, but they have something to prove.

00:07:01.000 And I think we're going to be hopefully very successful in our quest for the truth.

00:07:06.000 There's some breaking news from just the news in the last couple of hours, couple days.

00:07:10.000 Former Rosemont Seneca businessman, Eric Schwerin, is going to be a very valuable witness, you say, and he's cooperating with the committee.

00:07:18.000 Tell us about it.

00:07:20.000 Yeah, so we're in constant communication now with his attorney.

00:07:23.000 We requested information from Schwerwin, Jim Biden, and Hunter Biden.

00:07:28.000 Obviously, we never heard back from Hunter Biden and Jim Biden, but Sherwin's attorneys are cooperating.

00:07:35.000 So we're getting together.

00:07:36.000 We're trying to get an agreement on what information is going to be turned over.

00:07:41.000 That's a very positive sign.

00:07:42.000 He knows that he could be subpoenaed.

00:07:47.000 So he's cooperating with us.

00:07:49.000 And I think that's a positive thing.

00:07:51.000 All of these people are going to have to come forward at some point.

00:07:54.000 They're either going to have to sit down for a transcribed interview or they're going to be subpoenaed to do a deposition and or have to sit in front of the committee and answer questions in front of the American people.

00:08:05.000 But either way, even if they come in for a deposition or interview, because of what the January 6th committee did, people will be able to see this now because they recorded all those depositions.

00:08:15.000 We plan on doing the same thing.

00:08:16.000 Can you explain Eric Schwerin's importance?

00:08:18.000 Why is he so critical?

00:08:20.000 He's critical because he's the one, if you'll remember the email that was on the laptop where he Sherwin emailed Hunter Biden and said, This is why Joe Biden is vice president.

00:08:32.000 He said, Your dad's Delaware tax return has come in the mail today.

00:08:36.000 I've got it.

00:08:37.000 I'm going to deposit it into his account at the time he's vice president of the United States and then turn around and write a check from Joe Biden to you.

00:08:46.000 So he definitely had access to Joe Biden's personal checking account.

00:08:52.000 And one of the questions that we're trying to answer: were all these accounts that were flagged by the banks, were they commingled accounts with Joe Biden?

00:09:00.000 Because at the end of the day, our investigation is of Joe Biden.

00:09:04.000 Okay.

00:09:04.000 I don't think we need to prove Hunter Biden did anything wrong or is a bad dude.

00:09:08.000 I think that ship sailed.

00:09:09.000 Everybody knows that.

00:09:11.000 The question is: is Joe Biden compromised because of all the money that his family took in?

00:09:16.000 And did Joe Biden benefit?

00:09:19.000 Did he benefit personally from all these shady business dealings that his family did?

00:09:23.000 Sherwin can be, he has the ability to answer a lot of those questions because he was in charge of both accounts for Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, as witnessed in the emails.

00:09:35.000 Representative Comer, there's so much to get into.

00:09:37.000 So just stay right there.

00:09:38.000 And I'm really glad you guys are focused on your committee.

00:09:41.000 You have some great committee members as well.

00:09:43.000 And, you know, the fourth branch of government, the intel agencies, the FBI, the CIA, the Department of Justice, all of them, they're going to do everything they possibly can to try and prevent you from getting to the truth.

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00:11:40.000 James Comer demands records on State Department funding group blacklisting conservatives.

00:11:45.000 I think you're onto something here.

00:11:46.000 I think this could, based on all public reporting, I think this is a blueprint that is used in the Department of Homeland Security.

00:11:54.000 I think this is used in the FBI.

00:11:56.000 And yes, the State Department, where they technically, because we have a constitution, are not able to censor people like Charlie Kirk, but they can fund groups that censor us.

00:12:06.000 Explain.

00:12:07.000 Well, anything that pertains to tax dollars is fair game for the House Oversight Committee.

00:12:12.000 And what we learned, first of all, if you go back to Zuckerberg, the interview he did, and then with our committee hearing with Twitter executives, is the federal government was funding outside groups.

00:12:25.000 The FBI had the group that no one knew about that censored conservatives on social media.

00:12:33.000 I know the White House is funding an outside group to attack me and Jim Jordan every day for having the audacity to investigate this white. 0.95

00:12:41.000 Wait, wait, tell me about that.

00:12:42.000 What do you mean?

00:12:42.000 I haven't heard about that.

00:12:43.000 The White House.

00:12:43.000 They have outside groups, Congressional Integrity Project or whatever that's being funded.

00:12:49.000 They have a new spokesperson for the White House that Ian Sams that comes out every day and attacks me on Twitter and in a future.

00:12:57.000 Funded by the government.

00:12:59.000 Well, Ian Sams is for sure.

00:13:01.000 We don't know who's funding the, we don't know who's funding the Congressional Integrity Project.

00:13:05.000 But with respect to what we've seen with the Twitter files, is the FBI was telling Twitter stories that should be suppressed, people they should consider to suppress.

00:13:17.000 They were being very careful, just like those 51 former intelligence officials.

00:13:21.000 They didn't say the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation.

00:13:25.000 They said, boy, that sure looks like Russian disinformation.

00:13:29.000 So they were using social media to do what the government thinks.

00:13:35.000 It's a model.

00:13:36.000 I think they've gone further.

00:13:38.000 And I think that what you're going to see is different cabinets.

00:13:41.000 We think Homeland Security, the State Department was using tax dollars to try to spin a narrative against conservatives.

00:13:50.000 And you were one of them.

00:13:51.000 Yeah.

00:13:51.000 And we're looking at legal action.

00:13:53.000 We're exploring that too, because the government shouldn't be allowed to shut up its own citizens.

00:13:56.000 Just kind of a basic constitutional promise.

00:13:59.000 So you have, we've talked about several topics, the Biden stuff.

00:14:05.000 Is there any hesitation that you have that too much emphasis on Biden could either get categorized as overly political or just it might not be the best use of time?

00:14:15.000 Because we haven't even talked about the CDC, the FDA.

00:14:19.000 So explain that, your calculus here, because as the leader of the oversight committee, you got to prioritize.

00:14:28.000 I know we talked about this a little bit earlier, but walk us through your thoughts on that.

00:14:33.000 Well, we have lots of priorities.

00:14:34.000 The origination of COVID, that's going to be done through the select committee, which is a subcommittee of the House Oversight Committee.

00:14:40.000 Just recently, we sent out letters to 40 lower-ranking people that had anything to do with sending tax dollars to the Wuhan Lab.

00:14:49.000 And you know what?

00:14:50.000 The Department of Energy came out and said, yeah, yeah, you know what?

00:14:53.000 We decided the COVID originated in the Wuhan lab.

00:14:56.000 They knew we would get this information out.

00:14:58.000 Just the sheer fact that we've got the gavel, we have subpoena power, we've identified people to bring in to talk to, then, you know, answers are starting to come out of this government.

00:15:08.000 We're going to continue to do that.

00:15:10.000 That didn't take a lot of effort.

00:15:12.000 We had done the background work for a long time and identified 40 individuals who had anything to do with funding gain of function research and different things that were going to the Wuhan lab.

00:15:22.000 The same thing with the laptop story.

00:15:24.000 Once we subpoenaed the Twitter people, they came out and said, yeah, you know what?

00:15:29.000 We know the laptop's real, which is important because forever the narrative was that the laptop was Russian disinformation and that Republicans had altered the contents to try to embarrass Joe Biden.

00:15:41.000 Now we know that that laptop's real and it hasn't been tampered with.

00:15:46.000 Everything on it is authentic.

00:15:48.000 That's a problem for the Biden administration.

00:15:50.000 So it doesn't take a lot of effort.

00:15:53.000 This administration has had no oversight during the first two years of Democrat rule.

00:15:58.000 We're going to be able to prioritize.

00:16:00.000 We're going to investigate all the things that need to be investigated.

00:16:03.000 And I'm also delegating.

00:16:05.000 There's so much, as you mentioned, to investigate.

00:16:07.000 If it's something that I think the financial services can do related to the Securities and Exchange Commission, then I'm calling up McHenry at Financial Services.

00:16:16.000 If it's something that I think that G.G. Thompson can do at the Agriculture Committee for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, we're doing that.

00:16:25.000 So we're delegating a lot of things to other committees.

00:16:29.000 We're making every committee focus at some point on oversight of this administration.

00:16:35.000 Representative Comer, keep up the great work.

00:16:38.000 Thank you for being so generous with your time.

00:16:40.000 You're a busy man.

00:16:40.000 Our audience backs you 100%.

00:16:42.000 The emails are flooding in.

00:16:43.000 Just stay focused on the truth.

00:16:45.000 And if I were to say one thing, focus more on the fourth branch of government than even on Biden, because that's going to long outlive him.

00:16:53.000 And I know you believe that the Leviathan is the greatest threat to our liberties.

00:16:57.000 God bless you for your courage, and you're welcome back anytime.

00:16:59.000 Thank you.

00:17:00.000 Thank you for having me.

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00:18:20.000 So 11 years ago, I was in high school, and I was just getting started in my political journey.

00:18:32.000 I had volunteered on a fair amount of campaigns before that.

00:18:36.000 I volunteered for the Mark Kirk for Senate campaign.

00:18:39.000 He ended up being a total rhino, but it was good that he won at the time. 0.99

00:18:43.000 I ended up volunteering for Bob Gold.

00:18:45.000 That's dulled with a D, not an E, amongst many other campaigns in northern Illinois.

00:18:51.000 And I started to speak at local Tea Party meetings and really enjoyed that.

00:18:56.000 And I really was fascinated by this incredible, just magnanimous, just life force of a man.

00:19:07.000 He was winsome.

00:19:08.000 He was clear.

00:19:11.000 He was cutting edge.

00:19:14.000 And he was everything I loved about where the conservative movement was headed.

00:19:21.000 It had a rebellious spirit.

00:19:22.000 It was free thinking.

00:19:24.000 It was entrepreneurial.

00:19:26.000 It was in your face.

00:19:27.000 It was the tip of the conservative sword.

00:19:29.000 I remember 11 years ago today, I got the push notification on my phone from Fox News.

00:19:36.000 Andrew Breitbart dead.

00:19:39.000 I never met Andrew Breitbart, and he was dead at 43.

00:19:44.000 And it sent shockwaves for good reason throughout the entire conservative movement.

00:19:49.000 I believe this was the last speech he ever gave, and CPAC is this weekend.

00:19:53.000 So it's right about the same time-ish.

00:19:55.000 CPAC used to be earlier in February.

00:19:58.000 This was one of the last things Andrew Breitbart said publicly, PlayCut 67.

00:20:03.000 Who our candidate is.

00:20:04.000 And I haven't since the beginning of this.

00:20:07.000 I haven't.

00:20:08.000 Ask not what a candidate can do for you.

00:20:10.000 Ask what you can do for the candidate.

00:20:13.000 I will march behind whoever our candidate is because if we don't, we lose.

00:20:18.000 There are two paths.

00:20:20.000 There are two paths.

00:20:24.000 One is America and the other one is Occupy.

00:20:29.000 Anyone that's willing to stand next to me to fight the progressive left, I will be in that bunker.

00:20:35.000 And if you're not in that bunker, because you're not satisfied with this candidate, more than shame on you.

00:20:42.000 You're on the other side.

00:20:44.000 Joining us now is someone who knew Andrew Breitbart personally, worked for him, and continues his legacy to this day.

00:20:52.000 Alex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Breitbart.com.

00:20:55.000 Alex, welcome back to the program.

00:20:57.000 Charlie, thank you for having me and thanks for doing this for Andrew.

00:21:01.000 We all appreciate it at Breitbart.

00:21:02.000 It is a collective effort, a group effort to remember Andrew because he deserves that.

00:21:08.000 It's so much more than I can do by myself.

00:21:11.000 And luckily, there's so many people on board with this.

00:21:14.000 Just last year for the 10th anniversary of his passing, we put together a tribute of dozens and dozens of the top conservatives lending their voice to share what Andrew meant to them.

00:21:24.000 And it really is a who's who of the conservative movement.

00:21:26.000 I've never seen such an assemblage of top conservatives do one sort of dedicated task.

00:21:31.000 It's at the front page of Breitbart.com.

00:21:33.000 People listening to show live.

00:21:34.000 It's pretty easy to find.

00:21:35.000 And Charlie, yours was one of the best ones.

00:21:37.000 You summed up his legacy so well.

00:21:39.000 The people who participated, Clarence Thomas, Mark Levin, Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump.

00:21:45.000 You've got Ron DeSantis, Ben Shapiro, Steve Bannon.

00:21:49.000 Everyone came out, Candace, and shared what Andrew meant to them.

00:21:52.000 And it just touches me a lot because every day since I've been an adult, pretty much, I've worked for Breitbart.

00:21:58.000 And it's a huge thing that we're fighting for, but it's not just about politics.

00:22:02.000 It's about winning the culture and having fun fighting the left.

00:22:05.000 So Andrew was the best and he deserves everything.

00:22:07.000 And just the people that directly worked, not the indirect, because I'm an indirect, right?

00:22:12.000 And but I'm, boy, am I a beneficiary and an inheritor of his courage, his charisma, his vision.

00:22:18.000 But Shapiro, Bannon, O'Keefe, you, Dana Lash.

00:22:24.000 I mean, that's just the ones that come off the top of my head.

00:22:26.000 And just the immediate circle, right, Alex?

00:22:28.000 I mean, you're talking about a decade later, the all-star team of the right came from this man.

00:22:34.000 Uh-oh, it's an amazing thing.

00:22:36.000 The first, I was taking LSAT classes and basically working part-time picking up Andrew's laundry until James O'Keefe walked in with his acorn case, games' first big scoop.

00:22:47.000 And then all of a sudden, I was leaving the LSAT classes to go put up stores.

00:22:51.000 And Acorn, we're taking down one of the biggest organizations ever without the New York Times, without the Washington Post.

00:22:57.000 Thankfully, Fox is on board a little bit, but it was the, there was no CNN coverage.

00:23:01.000 And then unless they were attacking Andrew, and we took out this leviathan of a left-wing group directly connected to Obama.

00:23:08.000 And we were doing it, you know, from our laptops outside of our LSAC classes.

00:23:11.000 And it was just, and Andrew marshaled the whole thing beautifully.

00:23:14.000 He didn't just take out Acorn, he took out the media.

00:23:17.000 And that started my career and James's at the same time.

00:23:21.000 And that's just one example, just one example of the million.

00:23:24.000 The movie Hating Breitbart is a really good film.

00:23:27.000 It's super raw.

00:23:28.000 I mean, it's not overly edited, right?

00:23:31.000 It's just kind of like a home movie.

00:23:32.000 And I don't mean that negatively.

00:23:34.000 It's really amazing.

00:23:35.000 And I encourage everybody, if you ever use Breitbart.com, if you want to say, like, where did the conservative movement come from?

00:23:41.000 You cannot build Mount Rushmore of the modern new right without Andrew Breitbart right there.

00:23:46.000 It's impossible.

00:23:47.000 And I just want everyone to understand the framework, the mentality, the energy, and the spirit that is just dominant now on the right was so minuscule.

00:23:56.000 What do I mean by that?

00:23:57.000 In your face, we're going to fight the left.

00:23:59.000 We need to understand the funders behind it.

00:24:01.000 There's a bigger game at play here.

00:24:03.000 Uniparty.

00:24:04.000 This language was not anywhere in the conservative movement till Andrew came along, right, Alex?

00:24:10.000 Yeah, he was really the only people he would ever call to resign or anything like that were always disappointing Republicans.

00:24:16.000 It was never, it was never that he understood the left was a collective.

00:24:21.000 And the only people who really got like individual attention through him on the left were the people who were the major power brokers and the funders.

00:24:27.000 He was really George Soros, John Podesta, the type of people who were.

00:24:32.000 He was obsessed with Podesta.

00:24:33.000 That was one of those.

00:24:35.000 Let's continue.

00:24:35.000 Yep.

00:24:36.000 Yeah, no, no, he wanted to do a big Podesta, and he called that one so right because that guy's been just such a cockroach in the sense that he keeps surviving.

00:24:45.000 It's the, he's in so many scandals, his families had scandals, and then Hillary makes him campaign manager, and then he loses that, and which he, you know, never should have lost that race, and he lost it.

00:24:56.000 And then he gets revived again by Joe Biden, who's given him hundreds of billions of dollars to spend on climate.

00:25:03.000 And Andrew knew it.

00:25:04.000 He knew this was a bad guy and worth focus.

00:25:06.000 Yeah, and he just knew how important he was to the Democrat machinery.

00:25:10.000 And that was the other thing: Andrew would always go a level deeper.

00:25:13.000 And by the way, we've talked about this on air before, Alex, but for some of our new listeners, he took out Weiner.

00:25:19.000 He took out that whole thing.

00:25:21.000 He took out Huma Ahmedine.

00:25:23.000 He literally, Andrew Breitbart, years after his death, directly impacted the 2016 election.

00:25:29.000 You've heard me talk about that before.

00:25:30.000 It's one of the most amazing stories about how James Comey comes out, does a press release and says, oh, we found some stuff on the laptop.

00:25:37.000 Literally, but remember, it wasn't whose laptop was it?

00:25:40.000 It was Anthony Weiner's laptop.

00:25:42.000 And the only reason they found stuff on it is because Weiner was married to Huma Abedin, who was friends with Hillary Clinton.

00:25:49.000 But that kind of whole cabal, and that was only the case because Andrew Breitbart was able to successfully get Andrew Anthony Weiner exposed, no pun intended, and get him to resign.

00:26:00.000 It's all that kind of cause set in motion years before.

00:26:03.000 I want to play a piece of tape here of Andrew, just kind of his attitude.

00:26:07.000 You know, he, again, I feel like I know him, even though I never met him.

00:26:11.000 He's larger than life, PlayCut 66.

00:26:15.000 Why are you going along with the mainstream media?

00:26:17.000 Why are you going along with the administration's narrative to try and make this about race?

00:26:21.000 This is manufactured.

00:26:23.000 You are, this is why the American people, a great amount, pulling, this is why so many people can't stand the mainstream media and why there's a hardcore animosity towards the media that is pretty much commensurate or equivalent to the animosity towards Congress.

00:26:47.000 Alex, everything he talks, he could be saying that today.

00:26:50.000 Yeah.

00:26:52.000 That's the thing about Andrew, which blows my mind.

00:26:55.000 And I was just, you know, it's still thinking about his memory still brings a tear to my eye sometimes because so often do I hear his words ringing when I'm looking at the current news cycle, when I'm looking at the current heroes and villains of our movement, who's really making things happen on our side and who's really making things happen on the left, the bad guys.

00:27:14.000 And Andrew's words were always so prescient.

00:27:17.000 He really understood that the cultural battles were the biggest.

00:27:20.000 He understood that the media has to be the target number one for the conservative movement, figuratively speaking, for you Soros-funded freaks who are monitoring the show, figuratively, when I say target.

00:27:31.000 But He understood where the movement needed to go, but also the tactics.

00:27:37.000 And this is what I'm most obsessed with: is that understanding, empowering guerrilla journalists, empowering citizen journalists, rejecting the establishment media, and doing so proudly.

00:27:48.000 It's not a point of shame.

00:27:50.000 It's a point of shame if you're relying on the New York Times.

00:27:52.000 Yeah.

00:27:53.000 And also, just one of the things Andrew did, though, and that video reminds me: this kind of street vibe that I'm going to meet you in the streets.

00:28:01.000 I'm going to talk to you wherever you are.

00:28:03.000 Honestly, it's inspired me.

00:28:04.000 Like right after this, Alex, I'm going to Santa Barbara, University of California, Santa Barbara, setting up a card table and talking for kids for a couple hours.

00:28:10.000 I'm largely inspired by that kind of bravado, that kind of gusto of Breitbart.

00:28:16.000 It's like, yeah, okay, fine.

00:28:17.000 You're paid Soros organizers, you're union people.

00:28:19.000 I'm going to go talk to you.

00:28:20.000 I'm going to film you.

00:28:22.000 That wasn't common before he came along.

00:28:25.000 No, and it wasn't.

00:28:26.000 It wasn't common then.

00:28:27.000 It won't be common really ever the way Andrew did it.

00:28:31.000 If you were at CPAC and let's say the top 100 conservatives are there, you know, most of them either won't mingle with the people or they'll have security around them.

00:28:39.000 Andrew would walk through, sit at the bar and hold court and talk to anyone for hours and hours and hours.

00:28:46.000 Exactly.

00:28:47.000 At the height of his powers, he'd do it.

00:28:49.000 And literally, it would be, you know, Tea Party grandma from Ohio on the right, New York Times reporter on the left, and just, you know, a blogger behind him.

00:28:58.000 And he wouldn't care.

00:29:00.000 And he was, what a loss.

00:29:03.000 But I want to talk about this because this is an important lesson for all people because we're all going to die one day.

00:29:08.000 I hope and pray that people are inspired to want to leave a lasting legacy the way Andrew left it.

00:29:15.000 Yes, he died young at 43, but he lived a full life.

00:29:19.000 And America is a freer country because of him.

00:29:24.000 Getting a lot of interesting emails of who the fourth on Mount Rushmore should be, the modern new right.

00:29:29.000 Definitely Andrew Breitbart.

00:29:30.000 That's done.

00:29:31.000 Rush Limbaugh for sure, Donald Trump.

00:29:33.000 Who the fourth would be?

00:29:34.000 That would be very interesting.

00:29:36.000 So email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:29:39.000 Someone just said, James O'Keefe.

00:29:41.000 Well, you don't have James O'Keefe without Breitbart.

00:29:44.000 Alex, tell that story.

00:29:44.000 You mentioned it in passing.

00:29:46.000 James O'Keefe, I mean, literally comes in the ragtag type, you know, operation here.

00:29:52.000 And Andrew immediately takes a liking to him and breaks one of the biggest news stories in American history.

00:29:56.000 Yeah.

00:29:57.000 So Andrew got, he had been introduced in Acorn.

00:30:00.000 Acorn, for those of you who don't remember, is the Association for Community Organizing and Reform Now.

00:30:05.000 It was an Obama-connected group that was community organizers extraordinaire.

00:30:10.000 And they would move money around and they would move voters around and they were a really bad group.

00:30:15.000 My familiarity with them, because we were out in California at the time, and I'm sure Andrew was aware of the same thing.

00:30:20.000 They were really involved in pushing.

00:30:24.000 Oh, I'll cut to the chase.

00:30:29.000 Andrew, James brought Andrew these tapes.

00:30:31.000 Andrew came up with a drip, drip, drip approach.

00:30:33.000 He trapped the media into ignoring it.

00:30:35.000 And then when Andrew defunded it, de-linked them from the census.

00:30:42.000 Yeah, so it is the, so, so they got defunded.

00:30:45.000 They got de-linked from the census, all because Andrew not only trapped Acorn with James's incredible reporting with these tapes where he opposes a pimp and a prostitute with a woman named Hannah Giles, who's a journalist, and he got them to actually commit to give money for a child sex trafficking ring, even though it was a fake thing.

00:31:04.000 And all but one Acorn, he went to like eight locations and all but one location said they were willing to help James get the money and set up the business and then funnel it back into a fake hoax congressional campaign that James was going to run once his child sex ring opened up.

00:31:19.000 And all these Acorn groups helped James do it.

00:31:23.000 And then Andrew had all these tapes.

00:31:25.000 He dripped them out one by one.

00:31:26.000 They kept saying this is out of context.

00:31:28.000 The media kept saying this is entrapment.

00:31:30.000 This is dishonest reporting.

00:31:32.000 This is, he's not releasing the full tape, but Andrew would release the full audio.

00:31:35.000 He'd release the full transcripts.

00:31:37.000 And by the end of it, Acorn lost all this congressional funding they had.

00:31:42.000 They were supposed to be a part of the census in 2010, and they were delinked from that.

00:31:46.000 But the best part of it all was it launched Andrew in the stratosphere and James as well.

00:31:50.000 Yep.

00:31:51.000 Let's play a couple more pieces of tape here of Andrew and Cut 68.

00:31:57.000 Andrew Breitbart confronting the front lines, asking the time-old question: What does your sign say?

00:32:03.000 Play Cut 68.

00:32:05.000 You don't even know why you're here.

00:32:09.000 You don't understand why you're here.

00:32:12.000 What are you here for?

00:32:13.000 I am here to stop the thing that brings back this.

00:32:17.000 Like what?

00:32:18.000 One thing that he said that's hateful.

00:32:20.000 One thing.

00:32:21.000 One thing.

00:32:21.000 One.

00:32:22.000 One thing that he said that's hateful.

00:32:25.000 One, one, not 100.

00:32:27.000 One.

00:32:32.000 One.

00:32:32.000 It's a trap.

00:32:34.000 Truth is a trap.

00:32:36.000 Truth is a trap.

00:32:38.000 He invented that.

00:32:39.000 And now we have a whole genre, Alex, of challenging the left, calling them out.

00:32:44.000 They're obviously paid protesters.

00:32:45.000 That was in Rosemont, actually, Illinois, or Schomburg.

00:32:48.000 And then this is the other thing that I want to just focus on the last couple of minutes we have here is Andrew was a legitimate intellectual.

00:32:55.000 He read the books.

00:32:56.000 He understood.

00:32:57.000 He was talking about Mercuse and Derrida, and he was talking about postmodernism and post-structuralism, critical theory.

00:33:04.000 Literally decades before anybody on the right took it seriously, PlayCut 69.

00:33:09.000 My one discovery, my one great epiphany, my one aha moment that I said, I got it.

00:33:16.000 I got it.

00:33:16.000 I see what exactly happened in this country.

00:33:20.000 The Frankfurt School, these guys left.

00:33:23.000 These guys left Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy to come to California in the 1940s and they lived by the beach and they were depressed by the relentless cheeriness, the productivity, and the capitalism that they witnessed around them.

00:33:40.000 And they came up with a, they came up with at the end of the day, we could call it cultural Marxism, but at the end of the day, we experience it on a day-to-day basis.

00:33:51.000 And by that, I mean a minute-by-minute, second-by-second basis.

00:33:56.000 It's political correctness and it's multiculturalism.

00:33:59.000 Alex, he understood what we were up against.

00:34:02.000 Yeah, he's got a book called Righteous Indignation that thankfully wrote that before he passed.

00:34:06.000 And chapter six is all about this stuff, the Frankfurt School and all of those people, Theodore Dorno and Marcusa, coming to Berkeley and Santa Monica and trying to ruin our country and their legacy endures. 0.94

00:34:17.000 And Andrew was the first to flag that one.

00:34:20.000 And he was also, he used to be on the left, wasn't he?

00:34:26.000 Yeah, briefly.

00:34:27.000 Well, but he was just a factory setting default liberal.

00:34:31.000 I think he basically was, when you grow up in LA and you like partying and music and girls and drinking and stuff like that, then you're going to be that way until he started to listen to Rush Limbaugh.

00:34:41.000 And he started to, he paid attention to the high-tech lynching of Clarence Thomas by Joe Biden in the Senate in the Senate confirmation for a Supreme Court seat.

00:34:50.000 Those things were what informed Andrew and made him a conservative.

00:34:53.000 Alex Marlow from Breitbart.com, 11 years ago, we got some tragic news, but 11 years later, his legacy is not just alive and well, it is flourishing, it's thriving.

00:35:02.000 And in that spirit, I'm going to Santa Barbara to go challenge these apparatches.

00:35:07.000 Candace Owens is hitting the ground.

00:35:09.000 You look at all of the amazing tributary downstream effects of Breitbart.com across the movement, right?

00:35:16.000 The wins, the exposure.

00:35:18.000 I mean, I don't even know what the movement would be without him.

00:35:21.000 It'd be boring and it would be like bushy and chainy.

00:35:24.000 And he just disrupted it with this life force, this energy.

00:35:28.000 God bless him for that.

00:35:29.000 Alex, thank you so much.

00:35:30.000 Thanks for doing this, Charlie.

00:35:32.000 One of my favorite clips ever is this.

00:35:36.000 It's so short.

00:35:37.000 Play Cut 65.

00:35:40.000 All the people that have gone out there against the mainstream media and said, you're going to call us racist.

00:35:46.000 You're going to call us potential Timothy McVays.

00:35:50.000 You.

00:36:01.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:36:02.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:36:06.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

00:36:11.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - March 02, 2023

The Legacy of Andrew Breitbart with Rep. James Comer and Alex Marlow

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