00:01:11.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:23.000Her whole life was about advancing in politics, and she was pretty good at it.
00:02:27.000Really ambitious, scrappy, willing to make deals.
00:02:31.000She kind of made a whole campaign around an extension of the feminine mystique.
00:02:38.000We've kind of played around with this feminine mystique, modern woman doctrine that was composed by Betty Fredan.
00:02:47.000If you want to know where the American feminist movement started, the feminine mystique is a really good place as a genesis or an origination.
00:02:56.000A lot of it came out of California and Diane Feinstein was perfectly positioned in California.
00:03:00.000Former mayor of San Francisco, similar to Gavin Newsom.
00:03:04.000She was actually a better mayor than Gavin Newsome was.
00:03:06.000San Francisco was still a respectable city back then.
00:03:08.000But it was all about progress, all about bringing forth the revolution.
00:03:12.000In 1978, she held a press conference following the killing of San Francisco mayor George Muscone and supervisor Harvey Milk.
00:03:20.000Muscon's designated successor was in office a few feet away from the shooting.
00:04:20.000They're trying to bring forth utopia on earth.
00:04:24.000Feinstein looked at her entire career as a way to accelerate the progressive revolution.
00:04:32.000Abortion was one of her biggest issues, obviously, and not just safe, legal, and rare abortion.
00:04:37.000We're talking about the most radical, unthinkable, heinous abortion practices, abortion right up until the baby is born.
00:04:46.000She also focused a ton of attention, especially in 2012 through 14, on gun confiscation, especially after the Sandy Hook shooting, when she still had a little bit of spirit.
00:04:58.000She led all in on trying to confiscate our weapons.
00:05:02.000Now, before I get misunderstood by making it seem as if I'm giving some sort of a positive reflection on Diane Feinstein's life, I think it's important to note that it's hard to find a figure in modern politics who loved power, who loved being a politician, who dedicated their life to the expansion of the state and the destruction and the refounding of America as much as Diane Feinstein.
00:05:32.000Maybe Nancy Pelosi, interestingly enough, from the same city, maybe Pelosi.
00:05:37.000Feinstein believed that political power was the most important thing a human being can engage in.
00:05:46.000And you think about it, part of this is actually really sad.
00:05:49.000While I don't believe that retirement is something that we should necessarily overly platform in our country, I think some people retire when there is way too much potential still left.
00:06:01.000I don't think that it's a good thing to say that someone who is cognitively impaired had one of the most important positions in the entire U.S. government.
00:06:12.000Instead of her spending her last few years with her grandkids, she was too busy on subcommittees about renaming post offices and sending foreign aid to Namibia or Kenya.
00:06:24.000But for her, that was the most important thing.
00:06:28.000For her, being a senator all up until her death was the ultimate purpose because she believed, as Hegel believed, that the state is the closest thing to God on this earth.
00:06:44.000Now, all the eulogies are coming in for Diane Feinstein.
00:06:47.000They're saying she is an amazingly dedicated leader.
00:06:50.000She's an inspiration to women everywhere.
00:06:55.000Is Diane Feinstein a good role model for women?
00:07:00.000Is Diane Feinstein somebody that we should lift up like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Nancy Pelosi?
00:07:08.000You see, you look at how the media goes all in on the eulogizing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Feinstein, perfect examples, incredibly radical.
00:07:19.000They want young women to look up to them.
00:08:25.000And now I'm about to get into a topic that I don't think is going to be very warmly received by a lot of you, but it needs to be said, which is when you have people like Mitch McConnell and Diane Feinstein that are far past their prime, that make the Senate look more like a nursing home with votes than actually a place where robust debate occurs and the representation of voters, that is a bad thing for the country.
00:08:53.000Now, I say this because some of you are going to say, Charlie, you know, respect your elders.
00:08:58.000I respect my elders so much that I don't want to have them go through the pain of having to sit on some committee where they obviously are not understanding every word.
00:09:09.000Mitch McConnell is short-circuiting on a regular basis now.
00:09:14.000Diane Feinstein was unable to even hear questions recently, as much a couple months ago.
00:09:19.000Joe Biden, what I'm getting at is that we have a nursing home ruling class running America right now.
00:09:29.000We are a great country with tons of energy and potential, people that are willing to work the 20-hour days, people that want to start to give their all.
00:09:40.000But the people that are still at the top level of society are disproportionately mentally incapable, physically incapable at governing their best.
00:09:51.000And there's another very interesting wrinkle to this because you would think, you would think that when you have a bunch of elderly people, again, there's nothing inherently wrong with it.
00:10:02.000Chuck Grassley would be the exception.
00:10:04.000He has more energy than most 30-year-olds that I know.
00:10:08.000But large in part, Biden, Pelosi, McConnell, and now the deceased Feinstein, not the best America has to offer.
00:10:19.000But what's amazing is that you would think when you have elderly people, they would be temperamentally conservative and politically conservative.
00:11:09.000And remember, retirement is about more than just investments.
00:11:12.000The Charlie Kirk endorsement of the PAX Financial Group LLC was given for compensation, which creates an incentive to recommend PAX's advisory services.
00:11:22.000Let me make sure that disclaimer is very clear.
00:11:29.000So what is strange is that if you have a bunch of elderly people that are representing the country, you would think that they would have greatest generation values.
00:11:46.000So if you have a bunch of people in their late 80s and early 90s, you would think that they would be against the trans nonsense, believe in a border.
00:11:57.000When I meet amazing Americans in their 80s and 90s, they're very, very conservative.
00:12:05.000It's very hard, very hard to travel the country and find somebody in their early 90s that is flying a trans flag, unless they're being like manipulated by a granddaughter or something else, which is not, it's not kind of a side point.
00:12:23.000That's actually what ends up happening, especially with the Senate.
00:12:27.000But what we have is not only do we have leaders that are cognitively unable to do their job, but they're also progressively radical.
00:12:39.000You would think that if you have an old ruling class, they would be stodgy and saying no to all the bad ideas and like constantly complaining.
00:12:48.000Oh, the kids nowadays, they have the purple hair and they're cutting off their breasts and they're taking a Lupron and we don't have a border.
00:13:11.000Instead, we have elderly men who, you know, their testosterone rates go down as they get older, their estrogen rates increase, so they just lose their spirit.
00:13:21.000You see this a lot sometimes where elderly men, they kind of go out of their way to try to find agreement and they get worn down by the fight.
00:13:28.000I'm going to be, I'm going to be overly generous.
00:13:31.000Producer and Andrew I were talking about this.
00:13:33.000He's that the left will wear you down.
00:13:34.000So some of these elderly men get into their late 80s and they're like, well, why can't we just come together and compromise?
00:13:39.000And the left, they're revolutionaries.
00:13:40.000And then the women, they become very hard.
00:13:43.000Some of them as they get older, especially in the Senate.
00:14:58.000And that's what's so fascinating is that they've never stopped actually being at Woodstock.
00:15:05.000Feinstein and the rest of them, they have such an attachment to the energy and to the rebellion, to the burn-it-all attitude of SDS, Students for a Democrat Society, to all of the anti-war, anti-establishment movements, that they've never stopped viewing themselves through the lens that they are the revolutionaries, that they are the Bolsheviks.
00:15:33.000Because you would think that if you have groups of older people, they would at least be concerned about a legacy and conservation.
00:15:44.000You would think that if you have a Diane Feinstein, if you have a Joe Biden, if you have a Mitch McConnell, if you have a John Cornyn, any one of these elderly people, you could go Lisk by, I mean, I'm barely touching the service, by the way.
00:15:58.000I think the average age in the Senate is like 74.
00:16:04.000You would think that at some point they would say, we're going to say no.
00:16:09.000Instead, it's McConnell that is the chief pom-pom waiver for money to Ukraine.
00:16:16.000None of the geriatric class in the cabal of DC seemed even slightly concerned about borrowing trillions of dollars and handing it to their grandkids.
00:16:31.000And this gets to a much deeper, more troubling moral issue that we are not going to be able to unpack, which is this is the first elderly ruling class in the history of America that intentionally leaves a damaged country for their kids.
00:18:59.000The House of Representatives has passed bills to fund veterans, to fund our military, the Department of Defense, to fund our state and foreign operations, and to also fund our Department of Homeland Security.
00:19:12.000The Senate has not passed a single subject bill to fund anything.
00:19:17.000So we think those are the core functions of government: veterans, military, border, state, and foreign ops.
00:19:23.000We had the agriculture appropriations bill up last night.
00:20:09.000So we passed a bill for our Department of Defense, for our Department of State and Foreign Ops, for our Department of Homeland Security, and our Department of Veterans Affairs.
00:20:18.000So those are areas of great focus for a lot of your viewers, for a lot of our fellow Americans.
00:20:25.000The Senate could take action on those today.
00:20:26.000Instead, what the Senate wants to do is say, well, we just want to fund everything the way it's always been funded and then maybe negotiate how much additional Ukraine money to add on top of that.
00:20:38.000We had a majority of the majority, 117 Republicans last night for the first time vote against Ukraine money.
00:20:45.000So now Ukraine money only exists by virtue of the Democrats, and our leadership should not bring it up ever again.
00:20:52.000That, I think, is the Senate position.
00:20:55.000And it is the position that really the federal government has had since the mid-90s, just to take one up or down vote on the funding of the entire government.
00:21:02.000I don't believe that's the responsible way to put downward pressure on inflationary spending.
00:21:07.000That's why I think this is a better path.
00:21:09.000So are there other single-issue bills that you guys are going to pass before tomorrow?
00:21:13.000I mean, trying to basically, since we're not doing a CR, which I think is a great approach, by the way, you have to probably put together five or six separate single-issue bills, right, to get to the combined totality.
00:21:30.000So we attempted to pass the agriculture bill.
00:21:34.000We still have issues to work through on that.
00:21:36.000If we were to get the agriculture bill passed along with what we've already passed, it's 73% of the discretionary funding for the government.
00:21:44.000So it is the vast majority of the federal government's function and the spending that Washington approves for our disparate agencies.
00:21:52.000Look, I think there's going to be some real debate around the Department of Justice's bill.
00:21:59.000I think that one is not first because we'd rather prioritize our veterans, our troops, our Border Patrol over some of the folks at the FBI who aren't answering our requests for documents without putting up a massive fight and don't produce the witnesses in a timely fashion that we want to interview.
00:22:14.000So I do think there is a reason to the priority that we have chosen, and I think it is sound.
00:22:21.000So Matt, I want you to try to fill in our audience the best you can of some inside baseball.
00:22:24.000There were some heated conversations because there's been some vicious and unfair influencer attacks against you.
00:22:29.000Who are behind these attacks, Matt Gates?
00:22:33.000I saw a bunch of MAGA influencers we know and love post that McCarthy proxies were reaching out to them to ask them to post negative things about me for money.
00:22:44.000And a lot of those influencers rejected that solicitation and then posted their rejection of it to indicate that they're supportive of the position I've taken to try to get our fiscal house in order.
00:22:57.000And so we had a meeting of our conference.
00:23:00.000I simply asked Speaker McCarthy, was it indeed his proxies?
00:23:03.000Or some lawyer sent out a letter that said he didn't have anything to do with it.
00:23:07.000And I wanted to know which was true because there was conflicting information.
00:23:13.000I mean, he mumbled and grumbled and looked down at his shoes.
00:23:16.000And everyone that was in the room could objectively see that when he said that it wasn't him who was behind these things, that that didn't come from a place of great veracity.
00:23:27.000So Matt, I want to ask you also about this story from Olivia Beavers.
00:25:56.000But I think if we had all of our Republicans in the House, if we had the American people saying, look, we know there has to be compromise and divided government.
00:26:03.000We know that people like Gates are going to have to make some common ground with some Senate Democrats to get the government funded.
00:26:09.000But the way to do that is not to start with the premise that it's all or nothing, that it's all at once.
00:26:15.000The premise should be individual review.
00:26:18.000We may actually get more bipartisan agreement when you're looking at these agencies and programs and different spending priorities that may have lost their efficacy years or decades ago.
00:26:29.000Yeah, and so there were 117 Republicans who voted against Ukraine funding.
00:26:38.000We're starting to see two census bills.
00:26:40.000Can you just talk a little bit about that as far as how you've seen the Overton window shift?
00:26:44.000I mean, from 20 people voting against Ukraine funding to 117.
00:26:50.000I mean, when we started with the group of people that did not want our country involved in the Ukraine war, we could have met in the Capitol elevator and still had room for social distancing.
00:27:03.000And that is because Congress is the lagging indicator.
00:27:06.000Republican voters believe that we've sent enough money to Ukraine, that now we need to focus on our border, our country, the safety on our streets, the quality of education in our schools.
00:27:17.000I mean, we are literally spending $3.5 billion to retire debt that Ukraine accrued before the war began.
00:27:26.000So we're going into debt to pay off Ukraine's debt.
00:27:30.000That's how crazy some of these programs are.
00:27:33.000And it's only through this process that we are acquiring that we're able to highlight that and draw people to our side.
00:27:40.000Like the only way you go from having three, four, five, seven votes to having 117 is you have to keep taking votes.
00:28:14.000What were to happen if the government were to pause tomorrow evening?
00:28:18.000I just want to make sure everyone understands.
00:28:19.000We're not talking about the sky is falling chicken little stuff, Matt.
00:28:23.000No, I believe, excuse me, Charlie, I think I might have lost my sound, but what I believe is that you really start to feel the highest levels of pain in these shutdowns when people start missing paychecks.
00:28:37.000And so if we can get the Senate onto these bills, if we can work out a funding strategy before halfway through October, that's a very different thing than if you have a shutdown that's over the weekend, which would barely be felt by anyone or that might last a couple days during a work week.
00:28:53.000I don't want people missing paychecks.
00:28:54.000I don't want people wearing the uniform missing paychecks.
00:28:57.000And by the way, they wouldn't have to.
00:28:58.000Charlie Kirk, I'm telling you right now, Schumer can bring up our defense bill anytime he wants.
00:29:04.000He can pass it and we can get our troops paid.
00:29:09.000But the likelihood is that Schumer and Biden are going to let it shut down, partial shutdown, slowdown, pause, and then they're going to blame Matt Gates and these people.
00:29:18.000But it's a lot more complicated than that.
00:29:20.000I just hope you guys are all bracing for impact.
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00:30:47.000One of the attack vectors against Trump and all this is Cassidy Hutchinson.
00:30:52.000And you have said that you had a relationship with Cassie Hutchinson.
00:30:57.000Look, I've said all I'm going to say about that.
00:31:00.000I think she tried to create a false narrative around a lot of people who knew her, who worked with her, who had various and sundry personal connections and affections.
00:31:11.000And she, I think, has really gone down a dark path of deceit.
00:31:15.000And I don't love seeing that, but I don't have much to offer there.
00:31:19.000So, Matt, what are the marching orders then coming into the weekend?
00:31:22.000What are the bills that are the most important as we piecemail our way to try to avoid a shutdown?
00:31:27.000Yeah, I think we have to build this government, you know, kind of brick by brick, stone by stone here.
00:31:32.000And I think we need to start with our veterans and our military and our border.
00:31:37.000And if we get that rolling, I think it builds momentum to the other areas where we need deep cuts.
00:31:42.000I mean, we passed a Department of State bill that cuts down to 2014 levels.
00:31:46.000It gets rid of a bunch of this woke and weaponized activity that occurs at the Department of State.
00:31:51.000I would love to see that bill become law.
00:31:53.000And then, of course, we've got a Department of Justice that really has seen a metastization of their bad politics, really masquerading as criminal justice and law enforcement.
00:32:07.000So the next 24 hours are going to be super important.
00:32:13.000How could this be, let's just say, swampified?
00:32:17.000How could the cartel try to navigate here?
00:32:39.000It's the same exact play they've been running for decades.
00:32:42.000That's why we're $33 trillion in debt.
00:32:44.000It's why we have $2.2 trillion annual deficits right staring us in the face.
00:32:49.000And it's why the rest of the world is starting to de-dollarize from the BRICS system to the African Union to even some of the Gulf monarchies selling more and more of their energy outside the U.S. dollar.
00:32:58.000This is not a time to crush the most valued institution in the American economy, the dollar.
00:33:04.000Yeah, and I can start to see, though, the rumblings that moderate Republicans might try to go do a deal with Democrats.
00:33:10.000How do we prevent that from happening?
00:33:15.000And by the way, if that's going to happen, that was always going to be what was going to happen.
00:33:20.000If at the end of all the performances, you were going to see moderate Republicans join up with their Uniparty coalition in the Democrats to advance Joe Biden's priorities, then that exposes to the American people who you are governed by.
00:33:34.000And I'm doing everything I can to stop the Uniparty, to force them to take votes, to force them to budget and work and appropriate as the law requires.
00:33:43.000And it's going to be a battle, and the battle's on.
00:33:46.000Yeah, this is my big fear: we have all this great fight, single subject, but tonight, it would not be impossible if Don Bacon and some of the moderates just put a clean CR on the floor.
00:33:58.000I don't even know if it has to go through committee, and then every Democrat votes alongside of it and it goes to the Senate.
00:34:14.000And I'm not speaking about any one particular member, but if we have members that go do that, we will be seeding the fields of the upcoming primary challenges for people who would join with Democrats to advance Joe Biden's spending priorities.
00:34:28.000At some point, you've just got to win elections, win primaries, and get better Republicans.
00:34:33.000And if our Republicans are going to go do a bad, dirty deal with the Democrats, I'm going to do everything in my power as one member to see that that doesn't happen.
00:34:52.000Who are the other moderates that we should put some pressure on to say, hey, don't go do a deal with Democrats?
00:34:58.000Well, look, there are moderates who've been helping.
00:35:01.000Mike Molinaro of New York is the guy who actually had the idea to get onto this packet of single-subject bills that met most of our nation's priorities.
00:35:10.000So I don't want to cast any one group as being destructive, but I think that the people in districts that Joe Biden won, I think that people in blue states with a big Democrat infrastructure in California, New York are likely feeling the heat more on these matters than other members.
00:35:29.000I still want to work collaboratively with all of our members, and certainly Mark Molinaronaro of New York has been an ally to date, trying to get some momentum in the appropriations process.
00:35:40.000Matt Gates, everybody, hold the line, Matt.
00:35:43.000We will be watching very closely and carefully.
00:35:45.000The regime is trying to take Matt out because he is really holding the line.