The Charlie Kirk Show - May 04, 2023


The Next George Floyd? with Senator Rick Scott


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What happens when you do not have stable police or a society that prioritizes the rule of law? It s a tragedy. We dive into that and so much more of the news of the day on today's Charlie Kirk Show.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:00.000 Today on the Charlie Kirk show, what happened in New York City is what happens when you do not have stable police or a society that prioritizes the rule of law.
00:00:10.000 It's a tragedy.
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00:01:20.000 Here is a fact of life.
00:01:22.000 Most people do nothing when evil advances.
00:01:26.000 It is the cliché, the platitude.
00:01:29.000 All it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing by Edmund Burke.
00:01:33.000 You hear it all the time.
00:01:34.000 Well, the truism is that most people do nothing when evil advances.
00:01:38.000 Most people sit idly by when the railcars start to send people to concentration camps.
00:01:43.000 That's an extreme example, but it's true.
00:01:45.000 Most people sit idly by when churches were closed and strip clubs were allowed to remain open.
00:01:49.000 It's just true.
00:01:51.000 People are more comfortable being spectators of evil than actually interfering with evil.
00:01:58.000 Now, in a decent and civil society, we have laws and we have enforcers of the law that make sure that citizens do not have to take things into their own hands.
00:02:09.000 I do not want to live in a country where we, the people, have to become our own pseudo-police.
00:02:15.000 It's sloppy.
00:02:16.000 It's messy.
00:02:17.000 It's dangerous.
00:02:20.000 It's not good.
00:02:21.000 In fact, it's a mark of a third world country where you have to have citizens rise up against people that are committing crimes that are powerful.
00:02:32.000 You do not want to live in that country at all.
00:02:34.000 Well, right now, there's a George Floyd 2.0 attempt that is bubbling up in downtown New York City.
00:02:42.000 Do not take the bait on this.
00:02:43.000 And we're going to build this out for you.
00:02:45.000 They're trying to turn this into Floyd a Palooza 2.0 and the misrepresentations, the lies from the media.
00:02:51.000 I mean, this is a whole new threshold.
00:02:53.000 And for them, that's really something.
00:02:55.000 So it's all around this situation, and it's a tragic situation.
00:02:59.000 I don't think anyone should say that this is a desired outcome.
00:03:02.000 Somebody died.
00:03:03.000 It's awful.
00:03:05.000 Jordan Neely, Jordan Neely obviously had some schizophrenic tendencies with dozens of prior arrests.
00:03:13.000 Now, 44 prior arrests, 44 prior arrests.
00:03:19.000 Now, it hasn't been proven yet, but there's some evidence to show that he even tried to push people onto the subway at times.
00:03:24.000 He was well known on this particular subway stop.
00:03:28.000 So this was a dangerous person, a dangerous man who New York authorities and the New York Police Department just allowed to roam.
00:03:35.000 And this is what's now happening in New York City, in Philadelphia.
00:03:39.000 Remember, New York City is the capital of anarcho-tyranny.
00:03:44.000 We're going to have tyrannical indictment authority against former presidents we don't like.
00:03:49.000 But if you want to throw people onto the subway or if you want to terrorize people, if you want to harass people, that's not our problem.
00:03:56.000 So this guy, this Jordan Neely, started to harass people and was not just bothering people, he was allegedly throwing objects.
00:04:06.000 He was getting in people's face.
00:04:09.000 He was disrupting the peace, if you will, on the subway.
00:04:18.000 And he very well could have hurt somebody. 0.94
00:04:19.000 He very well, with 44 prior arrests, this guy has a track record of widespread criminal behavior, allowed to roam free and be an absolute crazy person.
00:04:29.000 And so then a good Samaritan, that's right, should be called a good Samaritan, stepped up to this menace to society.
00:04:38.000 Now, remember, the New York Police Department was letting this maniac roam free until he might have killed somebody.
00:04:46.000 I want to read this from the New York Post.
00:04:49.000 A person can be heard in the video expressing worry about, okay, I'll get to that in a second, not yet.
00:04:54.000 I will read that.
00:04:56.000 So a good Samaritan steps up.
00:04:58.000 We don't know who this man is.
00:05:00.000 And he decides to restrain Jordan Neely.
00:05:07.000 Put him in a chokehold because he was being a menace to society.
00:05:12.000 Other people, other passengers decided to help.
00:05:15.000 Again, the police would not be bothered to do anything.
00:05:19.000 They're nowhere to be found.
00:05:20.000 But restraining Jordan Neely, he's fighting back.
00:05:23.000 He's fighting back.
00:05:24.000 And it ends up that Jordan Neely dies from this.
00:05:29.000 He just like stops fighting back at one time.
00:05:31.000 They stop the chokehold.
00:05:34.000 And the entire activist left, local people in New York, including Alexandria Ecasio-Cortez, are calling this restraining of a menace to society murder, a homicide, in fact.
00:05:47.000 It's being categorized as a homicide.
00:05:51.000 When in reality, it's a lot murkier than that.
00:05:54.000 It's murkier.
00:05:55.000 And this is what happens when you do not have police on the streets, if you do not have laws that are enforced, you're going to have messy, cloudy, and confusing situations.
00:06:08.000 You can put the thing up on screen and they're saying, this is George Floyd 2.0.
00:06:12.000 Look at the white guy going and murdering the black guy. 1.00
00:06:15.000 That is a lie from the pit of hell. 1.00
00:06:18.000 This guy is a lifelong criminal who should be in jail. 0.58
00:06:23.000 The left's narrative is some ordinary guy and his life ran and living his life and he randomly decided to be murdered on a train for no reason.
00:06:31.000 No, he was a menace to all the passengers around him.
00:06:35.000 And so this good Samaritan decided to restrain him and other people decided to help in that regard.
00:06:42.000 So how is the city of New York reacting to this?
00:06:44.000 They're saying they're ruling this a homicide.
00:06:47.000 They're obviously ruling it a homicide because it was a white person restraining a black person, obviously.
00:06:53.000 They're trying to play into the racial tribalism that fits their political agenda.
00:06:58.000 The coroner has deemed it a homicide.
00:07:01.000 And we'll see if criminal charges are actually put forward.
00:07:04.000 And of course, if they hadn't deemed it a homicide, there'd be big riots because people can't control themselves.
00:07:11.000 We got to make sure that it gets called a homicide, even though this guy was obviously a lifelong criminal.
00:07:16.000 Again, this is not an ideal situation at all.
00:07:19.000 No one wants this individual to be dead. 0.96
00:07:20.000 Yes, he's a criminal. 0.99
00:07:21.000 He doesn't deserve death for that. 0.99
00:07:24.000 But the lesson is this.
00:07:26.000 When you disassemble all of the institutions of a civil society, police, sane district attorneys, the enforcement of laws, you're going to get widespread vigilante behavior.
00:07:41.000 Instead of protesting the man who inadvertently killed Jordan Neely while restraining him, New Yorkers should be asking why a madman with 44 prior arrests was walking around the streets in the first place.
00:07:52.000 New York's catch and release policies have created a powder keg.
00:07:57.000 A healthy society should produce good Samaritans. 1.00
00:08:01.000 And this is the same thing as Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:08:04.000 And what they're basically, the message they're sending to you is that when you see evil occur around you, a menace to society, mind your own business.
00:08:14.000 There's multiple levels of this.
00:08:16.000 The first level is where the police to be found.
00:08:17.000 They've had their funding cut, defund the police.
00:08:19.000 You're going to get more situations like this.
00:08:22.000 But the tragic thing is, if you are a courageous person, you decide to stand up against a shoplifter, you decide to stand up against a schizophrenic criminal, you then end up being in trouble. 0.66
00:08:36.000 Remember the McCloskeys in Missouri? 1.00
00:08:39.000 Their home was invaded.
00:08:41.000 And all they did was wave weapons, a perfectly constitutional thing to do.
00:08:46.000 And they were indicted.
00:08:47.000 Thankfully, they were eventually pardoned or charges dropped, something on that.
00:08:52.000 But the McCloskeys, remember they McCloskeys? 1.00
00:08:54.000 They are going to come after you for defending yourself against the hordes of criminals, against the outright criminality on the streets.
00:09:03.000 Now, I have no, you know, special window into prophecy at all.
00:09:10.000 But it sure seems like in New York, they are drumming this up to become a George Floyd 2.0.
00:09:16.000 They want it.
00:09:16.000 They're yearning for it.
00:09:18.000 This is going to be homeless Floyd.
00:09:20.000 Like, oh, wow. 0.96
00:09:21.000 This was a random white person that decided to choke a black person on a subway.
00:09:25.000 That is so, that's categorically untrue.
00:09:28.000 In fact, there was a black person that was even helping the Good Samaritan to restrain this individual. 0.83
00:09:34.000 Two things can simultaneously be true.
00:09:36.000 That's a tragic outcome.
00:09:38.000 No one wants that.
00:09:39.000 It doesn't deserve death.
00:09:41.000 Simultaneously, there's an unintentional result of a good person that was trying to restore civil society.
00:09:53.000 And AOC, and I'm going to play some of this tape.
00:09:56.000 Wait till you see how the news is covering it.
00:09:57.000 They're almost trying to incite a race riot in New York City.
00:10:01.000 They're misrepresenting it.
00:10:02.000 They're lying it.
00:10:03.000 They're lying about it intentionally because it makes the regime more powerful.
00:10:07.000 They want to turn this into George Floyd 2.0.
00:10:09.000 I sure hope that the temperature gets brought down.
00:10:12.000 Eric Adams, to his credit, is actually pushing back a little bit on this.
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00:11:20.000 You're in a subway and you have this schizophrenic maniac going after women, throwing objects. 0.79
00:11:25.000 Would you sit idly by and just keep on tapping on your phone? 0.69
00:11:28.000 What kind of a country are we living in where the hero, the good Samaritan, gets smeared and slandered?
00:11:35.000 We used to live in a country where we elevated the person that went into the arena.
00:11:40.000 I don't want to live in a society where citizens have to step up because, again, it gets murky, it gets messy, and you have tragic unintended consequences.
00:11:53.000 That largely happened.
00:11:54.000 This is why we have police.
00:11:55.000 We should have police.
00:11:57.000 But this is exactly what they want.
00:11:58.000 We have to understand.
00:11:59.000 This is intentional.
00:12:00.000 Alvin Bragg is Soros funded.
00:12:02.000 This is all by design.
00:12:03.000 They need chaos and fear to lead for the, to get to the woke National Police Force.
00:12:08.000 I'll talk about that in a second.
00:12:11.000 And so let's just go through some news reports here.
00:12:13.000 And Eric Adams, to his credit, is actually pushing back against some of the nonsense associated with this with this.
00:12:24.000 Let's play cut 87 on the news report on Jordan Neely, play cut 87.
00:12:28.000 The video shows three strap hangers subduing the 30-year-old man after witness Juan Alberto Vasquez says he got on the northbound F train and began acting aggressively, threatening riders.
00:12:40.000 Law enforcement sources with knowledge of the case confirm his account, saying, according to a witness, the man began shouting, quote, I want food.
00:12:48.000 I'm not taking no for an answer.
00:12:50.000 I'm ready to go back to jail and I'll hurt anyone on this train. 0.91
00:12:55.000 So this schizophrenic criminal was threatening passengers, 44 prior arrests, and according to reports, even try to push people onto the subway. 0.94
00:12:55.000 So he's threatening. 0.94
00:13:03.000 This is not some sort of, oh, beautiful, nice person.
00:13:06.000 Again, doesn't deserve to die.
00:13:08.000 No one is making that argument.
00:13:10.000 It's a tragic outcome.
00:13:11.000 But yeah, he did deserve to get in a chokehold.
00:13:14.000 You act like that.
00:13:15.000 Somebody should restrain you.
00:13:17.000 But the most deserving of the situation is a police officer coming and saying, we're done, pal.
00:13:22.000 He would still be alive today if the state of New York and the city of New York did its job and put him in a mental institution.
00:13:28.000 That's a whole separate issue of how we have opened up our insane asylums in our country and how it has negatively impacted our quality of life and our streets. 1.00
00:13:39.000 The kind of mass liberation from insane asylums has been one of the greatest failures of modern American public policy. 0.99
00:13:46.000 And nobody wants to say it out loud.
00:13:48.000 No one does. 1.00
00:13:49.000 We allow these psychos to roam our streets, murder people.
00:13:54.000 There is just a situation right now in Scottsdale, Arizona, where a young lady was likely murdered by a homeless person.
00:14:01.000 We don't know who it is, but all things are pointing to that.
00:14:04.000 I sure hope that there's more to the story.
00:14:07.000 29-year-old girl hiking at 10 a.m. on a Saturday morning, boom, murdered.
00:14:07.000 It's tragic.
00:14:11.000 Hope there's more to the story in some way, but it sure seems that way.
00:14:15.000 This doesn't help anybody.
00:14:16.000 It doesn't help the psychos.
00:14:17.000 It doesn't help the schizophrenic people. 1.00
00:14:19.000 It makes society worse.
00:14:21.000 That the ordinary people then have to suffer at the foot of the tyranny of people that obviously have deep-seated issues and problems.
00:14:29.000 So Eric Adams, to his credit, let's play cut 93.
00:14:32.000 Eric Adams is slamming Alexandria Acasio-Cortez for saying this whole situation was murder, play cut 93.
00:14:40.000 There's also this from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic Congresswoman.
00:14:44.000 She said, Jordan Neely was murdered.
00:14:47.000 What is your response to what they're saying here?
00:14:51.000 Well, both the Congress Congresswoman and the controller of the patrol is a citywide leader.
00:14:58.000 And I don't think that's very responsible at the time where we're still investigating the situation. 0.59
00:15:04.000 Let's let the DA conduct its investigation with the law enforcement officials.
00:15:09.000 To really interfere with that is not the right thing to do.
00:15:13.000 And I'm going to be responsible and allow them to do their job and allow them to determine exactly what happened here.
00:15:18.000 And then play cut 90.
00:15:20.000 Eric Adams on CNN says that we cannot blanketly say what a passenger should or should not do in a situation like that.
00:15:26.000 He's actually being nuanced.
00:15:28.000 It's amazing to see from an elected Democrat running a city.
00:15:31.000 Play Cut 90.
00:15:32.000 Each situation is different.
00:15:35.000 And how a passenger, we have so many cases where passengers assist of the riders, and we don't know exactly what happened here until the investigation is thorough.
00:15:45.000 And each situation is different.
00:15:47.000 I was a former transit police officer, and I responded to many jobs where you had a passenger assisted someone.
00:15:53.000 And so we cannot just blatantly say what a passenger should or should not do in a situation like that.
00:16:00.000 We should allow the investigation to take its course.
00:16:02.000 All right.
00:16:03.000 We'll see if he continues his moral clarity as the BLM activist class is going to increase in their ferocity. 0.66
00:16:12.000 We'll see.
00:16:14.000 But that's a pretty good response by the mayor of New York trying to say, you don't know.
00:16:19.000 These are murky situations.
00:16:20.000 Hey, Eric Adams, why don't you fully fund your police and deploy them on the streets and tell Alvin Bragg to leave the city?
00:16:26.000 That would actually be leadership.
00:16:28.000 So I'm going to stop short of overly praising Eric Adams.
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00:17:49.000 Joining us now is Senator Rick Scott from the great state of Florida.
00:17:54.000 Senator, there's a lot of leaking going on, a lot of suspicion about Hunter Biden possibly getting indicted, but also this new story, which is very interesting.
00:18:06.000 Senator Grassley and James Comer have subpoenaed the FBI over an alleged, quote, criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions.
00:18:21.000 Senator, tell us about this.
00:18:23.000 Well, it's like everything around Biden.
00:18:25.000 Why can't they come clean and tell us everything they know?
00:18:29.000 If you were Joe Biden and he's running for re-election, wouldn't you want the American public to say, hey, I did nothing wrong, so let me open my books and I'll tell you exactly what I did when I was a U.S. senator, exactly what I did when I was vice president, and exactly what I'm doing now.
00:18:43.000 I'm going to do the, I expect the same thing out of all my family members because I want to make sure every American feels comfortable.
00:18:49.000 But no, everything is not transparent.
00:18:53.000 They hide everything.
00:18:54.000 And so, and what you worry about, and our federal agencies lose their credibility when it appears that they're covering up for the Biden family.
00:19:04.000 So whether it's DOJ, any of them, we've got to make sure there's transparency there.
00:19:08.000 I'm glad that there's individuals that are talking to Senator Grassley and Congressman Comer about what's going on there so we can have transparency.
00:19:16.000 Let's get to the bottom of this.
00:19:18.000 If Bidens have done nothing wrong, great.
00:19:20.000 I'm glad they didn't do anything wrong.
00:19:22.000 But if they have, the American public ought to know that.
00:19:25.000 Yeah, I'm going to just go out on a limb here and say they've done something wrong.
00:19:29.000 But the issue here seems to be, and this is what's so interesting, there's this document in FD 1023, which means that the FBI was running an operation through a clandestine human source, and that Joe Biden allegedly just got caught up in it, meaning that they were doing their own operation, tracing foreign nationals that were trying to trade influence for money, and they just so happened to intersect with then Vice President Biden.
00:19:56.000 I mean, Senator, I don't want to get too ahead of ourselves here, but this could implicate Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, this entire prior administration.
00:20:06.000 And so this could potentially mean that the federal Bureau of Investigation was running an operation and Joe Biden just happened to stumble into it.
00:20:16.000 This is new stuff, not the same sort of Tony Bobulinsky stuff we've heard the last couple of years.
00:20:22.000 This seems to be new, isn't it?
00:20:24.000 Absolutely.
00:20:25.000 So, so, I mean, two things.
00:20:28.000 One, what really happened, right?
00:20:31.000 And then two, did somebody cover it up?
00:20:34.000 Because both of them are horrendous.
00:20:37.000 I totally agree.
00:20:38.000 What I get frustrated with is let's get better information.
00:20:41.000 I'm on the Homeland Security Committee.
00:20:42.000 The Democrats control the committee and the Senate, so they will not allow us to do an investigation.
00:20:47.000 That's what we're supposed to do.
00:20:48.000 We're supposed to hold the federal government accountable.
00:20:52.000 So Gary Peters, who's the chair of the committee, should say, you know what?
00:20:55.000 It's better for all of us if we know the facts.
00:20:59.000 Yeah, and I mean, so just, I'm sure this is immensely frustrating.
00:21:02.000 And this is why we tried so hard to try to give you guys a Senate majority.
00:21:06.000 I think Mitch McConnell failed us in that regard.
00:21:10.000 I wish you were in charge of that operation.
00:21:12.000 I know you're doing your best to try to do that.
00:21:14.000 But being in a Senate minority, are you getting any cooperation from Democrats on this?
00:21:19.000 Is there any interest?
00:21:22.000 Or is it just absolute protection of the regime?
00:21:26.000 Absolute protection of the Biden administration.
00:21:30.000 While Biden's in office, Democrats control the U.S. Senate.
00:21:34.000 There's no investigations that are going to happen.
00:21:36.000 Thank God that we have a majority in the House.
00:21:39.000 And thank God that people like Jim Jordan and Kevin McCarthy care about this and there's others that care about it.
00:21:44.000 So that's our chance.
00:21:46.000 Now, what we have to do is support what is happening in the House and do everything we can to make sure the public knows.
00:21:53.000 We're going to work hard to get this out there.
00:21:55.000 And maybe we can hope Springs Eternal.
00:21:59.000 Maybe at some point these Democrats say, you know, it's not good for me to be covering up for the Biden administration.
00:22:04.000 Yeah.
00:22:05.000 And so, but then there's, this is an interesting thing, right?
00:22:08.000 So you got Joe Manchin and Tester.
00:22:10.000 Are they on that committee?
00:22:11.000 Or are any of these?
00:22:13.000 Okay.
00:22:13.000 No.
00:22:14.000 Well, I just think more broadly, though, and this is kind of to look beneath the surface, right?
00:22:19.000 If there ends up being an agreement to kind of discard Joe Biden for 2024, it might start in your committee, Senator, where all of a sudden a couple of Democrats say, well, you know, hey, we might as well advance this.
00:22:33.000 Just kind of the interest.
00:22:34.000 We're not there yet.
00:22:35.000 It seems as if they're protecting Joe Biden 100%.
00:22:38.000 But Senator, this is not the only one.
00:22:40.000 So we have this potential money for policy thing that our own FBI, you know, is looking at.
00:22:47.000 Then we have this IRS issue, which is equally as interesting, right?
00:22:52.000 And so it's hard to keep track of this.
00:22:54.000 So the IRS whistleblower should be giving whistleblower protection soon by the House.
00:23:01.000 Merrick Garland could be potentially implicated in this.
00:23:04.000 Your thoughts?
00:23:05.000 Well, on top of that, on top of that, wasn't Blinken the one that organized a letter to say, oh, the laptop was Russian disinformation.
00:23:18.000 And if you talk to Senator Ron Johnson, he'll tell you that Blinken basically lied to him, that he had never, you know, he had never been involved in that at all.
00:23:28.000 So, I think we've we here's what the American public, and this is not a partisan issue.
00:23:34.000 The American public expects their elected officials to be transparent and be honest.
00:23:39.000 The way to make people feel that you're honest is you be transparent.
00:23:42.000 So, you tell people exactly what you're doing and they'll feel way better about you.
00:23:46.000 That's not what the Biden family does.
00:23:48.000 So, it's very opaque.
00:23:50.000 And so, right now, the Democrats are just, you know, it's like they rallied around them, say, oh, we're not going to let anybody get information because we don't want to have a chance of you losing in 24 because we're getting all of our stuff done through your horrible administration.
00:24:02.000 But we've got to do it.
00:24:04.000 Charlie, what you're doing is the right thing to do because you're continuing to get the information out there.
00:24:09.000 And hopefully, Americans will say, this is wrong.
00:24:12.000 I want information.
00:24:13.000 Prove your, you know, we're not going to say you're guilty until you are, but you sure look pretty bad here when you have this information.
00:24:20.000 Yeah, and I can be a little bit more forthright.
00:24:23.000 I mean, I think these people are guilty.
00:24:24.000 And you got to do your job, obviously.
00:24:26.000 Just find the facts.
00:24:27.000 I 100% support that.
00:24:28.000 You know, you have to be responsible.
00:24:29.000 You don't want to be like Adam Schiff where he just goes on television and he says Donald Trump colluded with the foreign government, right?
00:24:34.000 That's irresponsible.
00:24:35.000 It's reckless.
00:24:36.000 And so I totally appreciate how you have to handle this.
00:24:40.000 So, Senator, and then we have this Tony Blinken deal, right?
00:24:43.000 As if it just keeps on layering.
00:24:45.000 If I were to predict, it seems as if this summer one of these dams is going to break, right?
00:24:53.000 It's an unsustainable amount of cover-up and corruption.
00:24:56.000 Do you see the same thing that I'm seeing?
00:24:59.000 One of these things is going to break.
00:25:01.000 Yeah, Charlie, it's just there's more information coming out than there's more people that are part of the administration that don't believe in what the Biden administration is doing.
00:25:10.000 They want to do their job responsibly and they're coming forward and saying, this is wrong.
00:25:15.000 This is, I mean, like, I talked to DOJ and I talked to the FBI.
00:25:19.000 I said, you guys are ruining your reputation.
00:25:23.000 I said, you don't tell anybody about what you're doing.
00:25:26.000 You know, you go raid Mar-a-Lago, but you, God forbid, won't, and don't tell us why, but you wouldn't do that to Biden.
00:25:33.000 You can't have two standards here and expect the American public to feel comfortable with you.
00:25:38.000 They don't.
00:25:38.000 You're losing your credibility.
00:25:40.000 It's not good for the country for our institutions to lack credibility by the American public, even if it's just half of the American public.
00:25:48.000 I think that's smart.
00:25:49.000 And you're also on the Senate Committee on Armed Services.
00:25:52.000 And so I want to play a piece of tape here.
00:25:54.000 And Senator, I'm just curious if there's any inside baseball hallway chatter you could share with how Democrats are spinning or telling you in private their interpretation of the military recruitment being down.
00:26:08.000 This is not a political issue, right?
00:26:09.000 Military recruitment is down worse than it has been since the Vietnam War.
00:26:14.000 That is an existential threat to our reserve currency status, to our health, to our vitality, to all of it, which I find our freedoms.
00:26:23.000 And I find it a little bit ironic that the consensus in DC is to get overly involved in the Ukraine war while we can't even staff our military properly.
00:26:33.000 And so, Senator, there's a piece of tape here I want to try to play, which, okay, I'll find it in a second.
00:26:39.000 What are Democrats saying about this when you approach it?
00:26:43.000 Well, it's come up.
00:26:44.000 I'm the ranking Republican on the personnel committee.
00:26:48.000 Liz Warren is the chair because they have control.
00:26:51.000 So they've come up and talked about their recruitment down.
00:26:54.000 I think the only one that recruitment's not down is the Marines.
00:26:57.000 So you look at this.
00:26:58.000 I joined the Navy at 18 years old.
00:27:00.000 I was proud to be a Navy sailor.
00:27:04.000 I was proud to be part of the U.S. military because it was a military that cared about defending the freedoms of this country.
00:27:10.000 Now what's happening is a military that, oh, we got the right pronouns, but we're not lethal.
00:27:16.000 But they don't have any plan.
00:27:18.000 They came and testified in the last two weeks.
00:27:22.000 And none of the services, Marines didn't come testify.
00:27:26.000 And other services had a plan on how they were going to do it and what they didn't, they couldn't figure out why is it not happening.
00:27:33.000 It has something to do, but with no plan to fix it.
00:27:37.000 If we don't fix our military recruitment, then how can we defend our freedoms?
00:27:42.000 And if we want to help anybody, how can we help anybody else?
00:27:46.000 I mean, this is, but I mean, just is there, what do they say?
00:27:48.000 Do they have a, do they have a working theory?
00:27:51.000 Does, I mean, I refuse to believe that every Democrat on that committee is excited about this.
00:27:56.000 Maybe some are.
00:27:56.000 I mean, what is their down there?
00:27:58.000 They ask a question.
00:27:59.000 Now, on the subcommittee that on the personnel, they all ask questions and none of us gotten great answers.
00:28:05.000 Well, I mean, nobody, no.
00:28:06.000 I have some answers.
00:28:07.000 I mean, and Senator, I'm going to play this piece of tape here.
00:28:09.000 Play Cut 98. 0.96
00:28:10.000 The United States military is hiring drag queens as their spokespeople. 0.99
00:28:15.000 I mean, yeah, if you're an alpha male 18-year-old from Mississippi, that doesn't make you excited to go serve in this military. 0.94
00:28:22.000 Play Cut 98.
00:28:29.000 So, yeah, I mean, it keeps on going.
00:28:31.000 And so, Senator, maybe, you know, when one of your Democrat colleagues asked a question, just show them an iPad and be like, you realize this is what future recruits are seeing.
00:28:39.000 I mean, there's no, I wouldn't join that service.
00:28:42.000 Would you?
00:28:42.000 I mean, that's not the service I joined.
00:28:45.000 I mean, what are they thinking?
00:28:46.000 This makes no sense.
00:28:48.000 They're proud, all right, proud in a different way.
00:28:51.000 And that's anyway, Senator, say right there.
00:28:53.000 And I'm glad you're starting to speak about this because out of all the issues, the one where I'm like, even moderate Democrats need to have a bipartisan consensus that military recruitment's down 20 or 30 percent.
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00:30:12.000 Senator, there seems to be a looming battle over the debt ceiling.
00:30:16.000 Admittedly, this is more House of Representatives v. Biden, but what is the Senate Republican strategy on this?
00:30:22.000 There's some leaked stories out of Politico where Joe Biden is asking Mitch McConnell to almost bail him out.
00:30:28.000 How do you think Republicans should approach our reckless trillion-dollar deficit spending?
00:30:33.000 We should do everything we can to support what the Freedom Caucus in the House did because they put out a plan and then they worked with Kevin McCarthy to get 217 Republicans to vote for something in the House.
00:30:44.000 And guess what?
00:30:45.000 It cuts spending.
00:30:46.000 It has a plan that gives us a balanced budget.
00:30:49.000 It gets people back to work, grows our economy.
00:30:52.000 So what they put out was very responsible.
00:30:55.000 And our job in the Senate is say we are very supportive of what the House did.
00:30:59.000 And Joe Biden, you ought to sit down and basically you ought to take what the House did.
00:31:03.000 And by the way, Schumer, if you don't like it or you and Joe Biden don't like it, what is your idea?
00:31:08.000 But if not, and Schumer put the bill that came out of the House on the floor and let's vote on it.
00:31:13.000 So, but what they're going to do is they're going to wait until the last minute.
00:31:16.000 They're going to try to scare the living daylights out of all Americans that we're going to default on our debt.
00:31:21.000 By the way, we don't default on our debt.
00:31:23.000 We have the ability to pay our interest through our revenues.
00:31:27.000 So this is a made-up issue by Biden that all, you know, the whole world is going to fall apart.
00:31:32.000 The world's going to fall apart if Joe Biden continues not to do his job.
00:31:36.000 So our job is, is to show up and do everything we can to support what Kevin McCarthy is doing.
00:31:42.000 So if you look below the surface, and I'm a fiscal hawk, right?
00:31:46.000 I think that this deficit spending is out of control.
00:31:48.000 I know you are, Senator, too.
00:31:49.000 It's one of the reasons why I support your plan so much.
00:31:52.000 What you're trying to do is if we don't balance our budget, the whole country is over with.
00:31:56.000 And I feel like Republicans have been just as bad as Democrats.
00:31:59.000 But Biden has really, yeah, and Biden has really changed his tone, right?
00:32:02.000 So before it was, oh, it's all Democrat, all Republicans, all this.
00:32:04.000 He did not think McCarthy could get the votes.
00:32:06.000 And McCarthy, to his credit, came up with a good plan, not a great plan, but a good plan.
00:32:11.000 It's going to get us eventually to balance, cut a lot of spending, and he got 217 votes.
00:32:15.000 So now Biden, they're freaking out, right?
00:32:16.000 They're calling Mitch McConnell for help.
00:32:18.000 But Senator, I want to get your thoughts on this.
00:32:20.000 And you could just see that the Treasury Department and the White House communications staff, they're working the phones because literally New York Magazine, Politico, New York Times, MSNBC, Washington Post, all with the exact same headline, which is Joe Biden can just raise the debt ceiling unilaterally because it might be unconstitutional.
00:32:39.000 I don't know if you saw or heard this.
00:32:41.000 Yeah, so tell us your thoughts on this.
00:32:43.000 So he cannot do it by himself, first off.
00:32:46.000 Now, he can prioritize payments by himself.
00:32:49.000 He has that right to prioritize payments.
00:32:50.000 He says he doesn't, but Obama put out that he could.
00:32:53.000 The Treasury Department then said they could.
00:32:54.000 So he could do that.
00:32:55.000 But he cannot raise the debt ceiling by himself.
00:32:59.000 That is not allowed.
00:33:01.000 It takes a majority of the House, and it's going to take 60 votes in the Senate.
00:33:06.000 So what we ought to understand is that this is going to take Biden to sign something, the Senate to pass something, which is going to take at least nine Republicans, if every Democrat wants to do it, and it's going to take a majority in the House.
00:33:20.000 And I don't think anything is going to get through the House unless Kevin McCarthy and Republicans want to get it done.
00:33:26.000 I mean, they are committed to fiscal responsibility.
00:33:28.000 I mean, Charlie, who gets to just spend money like crazy?
00:33:32.000 You have to live within your means.
00:33:34.000 Every American has to live within our means.
00:33:36.000 Your government at every level should say, this is my revenue.
00:33:40.000 This is what I'm going to spend.
00:33:41.000 I did it as governor of Florida, and I actually paid off a third of state debt.
00:33:45.000 Florida had not lived within its means for 20 straight years before it became governor.
00:33:49.000 You can do this.
00:33:50.000 We can balance the budget.
00:33:51.000 We actually never have to raise a debt ceiling if we just balance our budget.
00:33:55.000 Fiscal sanity is not talked about enough at all.
00:33:57.000 When I first got started at Turning Point USA, our national debt was $11 trillion.
00:34:00.000 Now it's upwards of $30 trillion.
00:34:02.000 It's tripled in nearly 10 years.
00:34:04.000 And both parties are to blame for this.
00:34:06.000 So, Senator, last question on this.
00:34:08.000 Do you think current Senate leadership is going to hold the line or is it a mystery at this current moment?
00:34:15.000 Well, Schumer wants to just do a debt ceiling.
00:34:19.000 So I'm going to make sure, and I'm working with other Republicans to make sure we, when we raise a debt ceiling, it's going to be responsible.
00:34:27.000 It's going to move us towards a balanced budget, get our country back to work, get our people back to work.
00:34:32.000 We did a press conference yesterday.
00:34:34.000 19 of us showed up to say we are supporting Kevin McCarthy to get something done.
00:34:39.000 And Joe Biden, show the heck up.
00:34:42.000 Senator, thank you so much.
00:34:44.000 Appreciate it.
00:34:44.000 You're welcome anytime.
00:34:46.000 Thank you.
00:34:46.000 Appreciate it.
00:34:50.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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