00:00:00.000Today 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.
00:00:59.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:51.000People are more comfortable being spectators of evil than actually interfering with evil.
00:01:58.000Now, 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.
00:02:09.000I do not want to live in a country where we, the people, have to become our own pseudo-police.
00:02:21.000In 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.
00:02:32.000You do not want to live in that country at all.
00:02:34.000Well, right now, there's a George Floyd 2.0 attempt that is bubbling up in downtown New York City.
00:04:09.000He was disrupting the peace, if you will, on the subway.
00:04:18.000And he very well could have hurt somebody.
00:04:19.000He 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.
00:04:29.000And so then a good Samaritan, that's right, should be called a good Samaritan, stepped up to this menace to society.
00:04:38.000Now, remember, the New York Police Department was letting this maniac roam free until he might have killed somebody.
00:04:46.000I want to read this from the New York Post.
00:04:49.000A person can be heard in the video expressing worry about, okay, I'll get to that in a second, not yet.
00:05:34.000And 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.
00:05:55.000And 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.
00:06:08.000You can put the thing up on screen and they're saying, this is George Floyd 2.0.
00:06:12.000Look at the white guy going and murdering the black guy.
00:06:18.000This guy is a lifelong criminal who should be in jail.
00:06:23.000The 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.
00:06:31.000No, he was a menace to all the passengers around him.
00:06:35.000And so this good Samaritan decided to restrain him and other people decided to help in that regard.
00:06:42.000So how is the city of New York reacting to this?
00:06:44.000They're saying they're ruling this a homicide.
00:06:47.000They're obviously ruling it a homicide because it was a white person restraining a black person, obviously.
00:06:53.000They're trying to play into the racial tribalism that fits their political agenda.
00:07:26.000When 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.
00:07:41.000Instead 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.
00:07:52.000New York's catch and release policies have created a powder keg.
00:07:57.000A healthy society should produce good Samaritans.
00:08:01.000And this is the same thing as Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:08:04.000And 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.
00:08:16.000The first level is where the police to be found.
00:08:17.000They've had their funding cut, defund the police.
00:08:19.000You're going to get more situations like this.
00:08:22.000But 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.
00:11:20.000You're in a subway and you have this schizophrenic maniac going after women, throwing objects.
00:11:25.000Would you sit idly by and just keep on tapping on your phone?
00:11:28.000What kind of a country are we living in where the hero, the good Samaritan, gets smeared and slandered?
00:11:35.000We used to live in a country where we elevated the person that went into the arena.
00:11:40.000I 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.
00:12:11.000And so let's just go through some news reports here.
00:12:13.000And Eric Adams, to his credit, is actually pushing back against some of the nonsense associated with this with this.
00:12:24.000Let's play cut 87 on the news report on Jordan Neely, play cut 87.
00:12:28.000The 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.
00:12:40.000Law enforcement sources with knowledge of the case confirm his account, saying, according to a witness, the man began shouting, quote, I want food.
00:12:50.000I'm ready to go back to jail and I'll hurt anyone on this train.
00:12:55.000So this schizophrenic criminal was threatening passengers, 44 prior arrests, and according to reports, even try to push people onto the subway.
00:13:17.000But the most deserving of the situation is a police officer coming and saying, we're done, pal.
00:13:22.000He 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.
00:13:28.000That'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.
00:13:39.000The kind of mass liberation from insane asylums has been one of the greatest failures of modern American public policy.
00:15:35.000And 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.
00:17:49.000Joining us now is Senator Rick Scott from the great state of Florida.
00:17:54.000Senator, 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.
00:18:06.000Senator 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.
00:18:23.000Well, it's like everything around Biden.
00:18:25.000Why can't they come clean and tell us everything they know?
00:18:29.000If 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.
00:18:43.000I'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.
00:18:49.000But no, everything is not transparent.
00:18:54.000And 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.
00:19:04.000So whether it's DOJ, any of them, we've got to make sure there's transparency there.
00:19:08.000I'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.
00:19:18.000If Bidens have done nothing wrong, great.
00:19:20.000I'm glad they didn't do anything wrong.
00:19:22.000But if they have, the American public ought to know that.
00:19:25.000Yeah, I'm going to just go out on a limb here and say they've done something wrong.
00:19:29.000But 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.
00:19:56.000I 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.
00:20:06.000And so this could potentially mean that the federal Bureau of Investigation was running an operation and Joe Biden just happened to stumble into it.
00:20:16.000This is new stuff, not the same sort of Tony Bobulinsky stuff we've heard the last couple of years.
00:22:14.000Well, I just think more broadly, though, and this is kind of to look beneath the surface, right?
00:22:19.000If 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.
00:23:05.000Well, 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.
00:23:18.000And 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.
00:23:28.000So, I think we've we here's what the American public, and this is not a partisan issue.
00:23:34.000The American public expects their elected officials to be transparent and be honest.
00:23:39.000The way to make people feel that you're honest is you be transparent.
00:23:42.000So, you tell people exactly what you're doing and they'll feel way better about you.
00:23:46.000That's not what the Biden family does.
00:23:50.000And 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.
00:24:13.000Prove 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.
00:24:20.000Yeah, and I can be a little bit more forthright.
00:24:23.000I mean, I think these people are guilty.
00:24:24.000And you got to do your job, obviously.
00:24:29.000You 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?
00:24:45.000If I were to predict, it seems as if this summer one of these dams is going to break, right?
00:24:53.000It's an unsustainable amount of cover-up and corruption.
00:24:56.000Do you see the same thing that I'm seeing?
00:24:59.000One of these things is going to break.
00:25:01.000Yeah, 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.
00:25:10.000They want to do their job responsibly and they're coming forward and saying, this is wrong.
00:25:15.000This is, I mean, like, I talked to DOJ and I talked to the FBI.
00:25:19.000I said, you guys are ruining your reputation.
00:25:23.000I said, you don't tell anybody about what you're doing.
00:25:26.000You 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.
00:25:33.000You can't have two standards here and expect the American public to feel comfortable with you.
00:25:40.000It'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.
00:25:49.000And you're also on the Senate Committee on Armed Services.
00:25:52.000And so I want to play a piece of tape here.
00:25:54.000And 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.
00:26:09.000Military recruitment is down worse than it has been since the Vietnam War.
00:26:14.000That is an existential threat to our reserve currency status, to our health, to our vitality, to all of it, which I find our freedoms.
00:26:23.000And 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.
00:26:33.000And so, Senator, there's a piece of tape here I want to try to play, which, okay, I'll find it in a second.
00:26:39.000What are Democrats saying about this when you approach it?
00:28:31.000And 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.
00:28:39.000I mean, there's no, I wouldn't join that service.
00:28:48.000They're proud, all right, proud in a different way.
00:28:51.000And that's anyway, Senator, say right there.
00:28:53.000And 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.
00:29:09.000This is Charlie Kirk, and we're saving babies at pre-born.
00:30:12.000Senator, there seems to be a looming battle over the debt ceiling.
00:30:16.000Admittedly, this is more House of Representatives v. Biden, but what is the Senate Republican strategy on this?
00:30:22.000There's some leaked stories out of Politico where Joe Biden is asking Mitch McConnell to almost bail him out.
00:30:28.000How do you think Republicans should approach our reckless trillion-dollar deficit spending?
00:30:33.000We 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.
00:31:49.000It's one of the reasons why I support your plan so much.
00:31:52.000What you're trying to do is if we don't balance our budget, the whole country is over with.
00:31:56.000And I feel like Republicans have been just as bad as Democrats.
00:31:59.000But Biden has really, yeah, and Biden has really changed his tone, right?
00:32:02.000So before it was, oh, it's all Democrat, all Republicans, all this.
00:32:04.000He did not think McCarthy could get the votes.
00:32:06.000And McCarthy, to his credit, came up with a good plan, not a great plan, but a good plan.
00:32:11.000It's going to get us eventually to balance, cut a lot of spending, and he got 217 votes.
00:32:15.000So now Biden, they're freaking out, right?
00:32:16.000They're calling Mitch McConnell for help.
00:32:18.000But Senator, I want to get your thoughts on this.
00:32:20.000And 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.
00:32:39.000I don't know if you saw or heard this.
00:32:41.000Yeah, so tell us your thoughts on this.
00:32:43.000So he cannot do it by himself, first off.
00:32:46.000Now, he can prioritize payments by himself.
00:32:49.000He has that right to prioritize payments.
00:32:50.000He says he doesn't, but Obama put out that he could.
00:32:53.000The Treasury Department then said they could.
00:33:01.000It takes a majority of the House, and it's going to take 60 votes in the Senate.
00:33:06.000So 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.
00:33:20.000And I don't think anything is going to get through the House unless Kevin McCarthy and Republicans want to get it done.
00:33:26.000I mean, they are committed to fiscal responsibility.
00:33:28.000I mean, Charlie, who gets to just spend money like crazy?
00:34:08.000Do you think current Senate leadership is going to hold the line or is it a mystery at this current moment?
00:34:15.000Well, Schumer wants to just do a debt ceiling.
00:34:19.000So 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.
00:34:27.000It's going to move us towards a balanced budget, get our country back to work, get our people back to work.