The Charlie Kirk Show - September 02, 2022


The REAL Story Behind Soros D.A. George Gascon's Failed Recall with Jennifer Van Laar


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Where is the Race Card? Why is the race card missing from the Democratic campaign trail lately? Is it because race is no longer a winning issue for Democrats? Or is it because it's not even a close thing anymore?

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show, Gascon in Los Angeles is going to not even face a recall.
00:00:06.000 We talk about that as well as where is the race card?
00:00:10.000 Why is the race card missing lately?
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00:00:31.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:32.000 Here we go.
00:00:33.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:35.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
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00:01:15.000 We've talked in great length here before about the danger of the Internal Revenue Service and how Raphael Warnock and Mark Kelly have voted to increase the size of the Internal Revenue Service by 87,000 new IRS agents.
00:01:32.000 And the Internal Revenue Service is part of an extension of a movement started by Woodrow Wilson, one of America's worst presidents, to build out this fourth branch of government.
00:01:45.000 The fourth branch of government is part of the progressive project of the administrative state.
00:01:51.000 There is one term that I would like to introduce into the American zeitgeist: it is the administrative state, an unknown, unelected, unchecked branch of government that strangles your freedoms and liberties.
00:02:03.000 And so, to kind of continue the point here, I talked to a certain Senate candidate who is in a very contentious race yesterday.
00:02:10.000 I had a 30-minute conversation with him.
00:02:12.000 He's in a tough race, and he can win.
00:02:15.000 And he asked for my advice.
00:02:16.000 And I told him a couple things.
00:02:18.000 I said, first of all, every single time you get on stage, you need to mention about how your opponent has voted or will vote for the expansion of the Internal Revenue Service.
00:02:32.000 Secondly, why are we not talking about crime more?
00:02:36.000 Crime is a major issue.
00:02:38.000 And as I pinpointed with Heather McDonald, the fact that we have seen these massive increases in crime across the board shows how Democrats are now adjusting to all of a sudden no longer be the defund the police people.
00:02:53.000 Joe Biden is talking about how he wants safe communities and law enforcement.
00:02:57.000 You see, the playbook of 2020 to try to boost black support via BLM and the racial arsonist agenda that was kind of stapled into that resulted in middle-class voters, suburban voters, Latino voters defecting from the Democrat Party in massive numbers. 0.80
00:03:21.000 Now, if you're out there and you see anything different, let me know.
00:03:24.000 But I have seen a massive de-emphasize, de-emphasizing campaign on the race issue.
00:03:33.000 When have the Democrats ever been this quiet on the issue of race?
00:03:39.000 They're quiet on the issue of race because it's no longer a winner.
00:03:44.000 Here's the good news.
00:03:45.000 Now, look, Bank of America does their wacky and wild thing.
00:03:49.000 You have the medical associations doing that.
00:03:52.000 However, I do believe that there is a turning on the race issue in our favor.
00:03:58.000 Critical race theory is widely unpopular.
00:04:01.000 Racial segregation is very unpopular.
00:04:06.000 This racial discord that we have seen, and all of that parlays into somehow they sound then see we they say we need less law enforcement, we need to defund the police.
00:04:18.000 It is very interesting to see the campaigns that these candidates are running.
00:04:23.000 For example, you go to Mark Kelly's website, almost nowhere on Mark Kelly's website, does he talk about race?
00:04:34.000 Does he talk about equity?
00:04:35.000 No, you go to Mark Kelly's website.
00:04:37.000 It's like the mission comes first.
00:04:39.000 This campaign is about the people of Arizona, not corporate PACs and the mess they've created in Washington.
00:04:43.000 Okay, Mark Kelly.
00:04:45.000 Nowhere does it talk about racial reconciliation or any of this nonsense.
00:04:49.000 It's not a winner, especially in the state of Arizona.
00:04:54.000 You go to these other websites as well.
00:04:57.000 You go to Cortez Mastro's website.
00:04:59.000 And by the way, she's in a lot of trouble.
00:05:01.000 Cortez Masto.
00:05:03.000 She's in a very, very, she's in a very tough race against a good candidate, Adam Laxalt.
00:05:07.000 Adam can win that race.
00:05:11.000 She's not talking about race anywhere.
00:05:13.000 I mean, the race issue.
00:05:14.000 You go to her website.
00:05:15.000 She makes herself seem like a total moderate.
00:05:17.000 She's a very unimpressive candidate.
00:05:20.000 Catherine Cortez-Masto is a very beatable candidate. 0.99
00:05:24.000 Adam Laxalt can win this race.
00:05:28.000 Fighting for Nevadans, her website, Meet Catherine.
00:05:31.000 It's very normal, kind of modern-day things, tackling issues, moderate things, I should say.
00:05:38.000 Nothing at all where it would make it seem as if she's kind of the participant or a lieutenant in a racial arsonist agenda.
00:05:45.000 2020 was totally different.
00:05:47.000 You go to John Fetterman.
00:05:48.000 By the way, John Fetterman is one of the craziest people to run for office in the last decade. 1.00
00:05:51.000 This guy's a psychopath. 0.99
00:05:53.000 He's a weird, weird person. 1.00
00:05:56.000 He is like convicted murderers on his payroll. 0.99
00:05:58.000 He's a legit radical. 0.87
00:06:01.000 He is a legitimate Marxist.
00:06:03.000 He's a supersized Marxist, is what he is.
00:06:07.000 So go to his website.
00:06:08.000 It says a different kind of Democrat.
00:06:10.000 Doesn't look like a typical politician.
00:06:12.000 Again, I'm so exhausted with this kind of Hollywood play acting thing where John Fetterman wears the sweatshirt and the shorts, like, ooh, you're such a tough guy, John Fetterman.
00:06:22.000 Okay.
00:06:23.000 Again, his health is one thing.
00:06:25.000 I wish him a recovery.
00:06:26.000 I don't wish poor health on anybody.
00:06:28.000 But honestly, when it comes to John Fetterman's health, this is something we need to say.
00:06:32.000 He is not well enough to serve as United States Senator, period.
00:06:36.000 You can wish somebody well and to recover while simultaneously also saying he is not physically fit.
00:06:44.000 He is not mentally fit to serve as a United States Senator.
00:06:48.000 He's running against a doctor.
00:06:50.000 I hope the doctor who's running against him makes a point of that.
00:06:54.000 You know, we get emails in our audience, freedom at charliekirk.com, of people that are not fans of Dr. Oz.
00:07:00.000 But I'll tell you, you want to become, you want, you want Dr. Oz to be tolerable?
00:07:04.000 Go look at John Fetterman.
00:07:06.000 I'll tell you what.
00:07:08.000 You go to his website.
00:07:10.000 Nowhere does it talk about the kind of racial equity issues.
00:07:14.000 And by the way, can I just say something that might be considered to be controversial?
00:07:18.000 We have to stop tolerating unhealthy people running our country.
00:07:22.000 It's a very serious.
00:07:22.000 They used to do that against Donald Trump.
00:07:24.000 And again, I wish John Fetterman a speedy recovery.
00:07:27.000 I wish Robert Francis O'Rourke a speedy recovery.
00:07:30.000 I'm not wishing health issues on anybody.
00:07:32.000 It's a very serious thing.
00:07:33.000 It's sad.
00:07:34.000 I get it.
00:07:35.000 But that's a separate issue also from are you able to do the job?
00:07:41.000 Are you able to do the thing you're supposed to do?
00:07:46.000 How about Raphael Warnock, who's now down in the polls, by the way, to Herschel Walker?
00:07:52.000 Herschel Walker is only going to gain momentum as the Rev Raphael Warnock. 1.00
00:08:00.000 What a piece of garbage he is. 1.00
00:08:02.000 I'll tell you what. 1.00
00:08:03.000 Raphael Warnock is so radical.
00:08:08.000 He is so out of the mainstream for Georgia.
00:08:11.000 Raphael Warnock running up against an honorable man of Herschel Walker.
00:08:14.000 You go to Warnock's website.
00:08:16.000 He's raising tons of money.
00:08:18.000 Fight for a better Georgia.
00:08:19.000 The Democrats have figured out small dollar donations.
00:08:24.000 Why I'm running.
00:08:25.000 Raphael Warnock grew up in the Catons home public housing in Savannah.
00:08:29.000 The family was short on money, but long on faith and love and humor.
00:08:33.000 Raphael and his 11 brothers and sisters taught the meaning of hard work.
00:08:37.000 Raphael Warnock voted for 87,000 new IRS agents.
00:08:40.000 Raphael Warnock voted for all the worst aspects of Biden's agenda.
00:08:45.000 And he's on the ropes now.
00:08:46.000 Herschel Walker's hitting his stride.
00:08:49.000 Herschel Walker for the comeback candidate of the year.
00:08:52.000 I'll tell you what, people thought Herschel was going to lose in July.
00:08:55.000 He's been running a much better race.
00:08:57.000 These candidates are not running radical campaigns, even though they are radicals.
00:09:02.000 This country is far more center-right than I think the media will ever recognize.
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00:10:11.000 I don't understand why the IRS goes to college campuses and starts to try to get kids to do these mock criminal investigations.
00:10:20.000 This is at Dixie State University in Utah.
00:10:24.000 Let's play Cut 79.
00:10:27.000 No, these aren't actual police officers.
00:10:30.000 They're students posing as special agents for the IRS.
00:10:33.000 Arresting a man who is wanted for tax evasions.
00:10:36.000 Who are you guys?
00:10:38.000 What is this?
00:10:39.000 We're the IRS.
00:10:40.000 You're under arrest.
00:10:41.000 You're going to jail, buddy.
00:10:43.000 We are the only agency that can work investigations regarding tax evasion and other tax-related offenses.
00:10:51.000 Many students say it's satisfying to know you've taken down those who have cheated the financial system using taxpayers' dollars.
00:10:58.000 Once you, you know, steal money from the government, you're going down.
00:11:03.000 Down.
00:11:04.000 Why does the IRS need to go to college campuses and put on these clinics of, you steal money from the government, you're going down with my fake pistol?
00:11:12.000 It's so bizarre and weird, and you're filming it and publicizing it.
00:11:16.000 This was just this last spring, if I'm not mistaken.
00:11:18.000 One of our team members found this clip.
00:11:20.000 It's amazing.
00:11:21.000 Then cut 80.
00:11:22.000 This is another video going around what appears to be new IRS agents training and entering a room and then arresting two men for conspiracy.
00:11:30.000 Now, we got an email from somebody and they said, Charlie, you know, look, the IRS, they have a criminal division and civil division.
00:11:37.000 The criminal division does a lot of work.
00:11:38.000 I understand all that.
00:11:39.000 I just don't trust the IRS.
00:11:40.000 I just don't.
00:11:41.000 We're just not going to see eye to eye in that. 0.83
00:11:43.000 The IRS is slow and they're incompetent.
00:11:48.000 And I know too many lives that have been ruined and destroyed by the Internal Revenue Service.
00:11:53.000 And why do they need to be armed?
00:11:55.000 Why do federal tax auditors need to be armed?
00:11:58.000 Play cut 80.
00:12:08.000 Put your hands on you. 0.97
00:12:19.000 I have a gun.
00:12:20.000 Yeah, I have a permit.
00:12:22.000 Can we take your weapon, please?
00:12:25.000 Say no.
00:12:29.000 Do you have any other weapons on your hands behind your back?
00:12:32.000 You're underwrestered.
00:12:35.000 Let me put it this way: that's not exactly the most athletic and fit people that could potentially be federal agents.
00:12:42.000 Let me just put it that way.
00:12:44.000 They're not sending their best.
00:12:46.000 87,000 new of them.
00:12:49.000 So this weekend, when you're watching college football, and I hope you're watching college football, let's say the Ohio State Notre Dame game this weekend.
00:12:58.000 Okay?
00:13:00.000 That will be at Ohio Stadium.
00:13:01.000 I think Ohio Stadium's capacity is right near 100,000.
00:13:05.000 I'm going to actually look it up right now.
00:13:07.000 Yeah, it's 104,000 at Ohio Stadium.
00:13:10.000 So a little bit less than that is how many IRS agents are now hired by Cortez Masto, Mark Kelly, Raphael Warnock.
00:13:22.000 If you look at, I think Oklahoma would be another example, Oklahoma Sooner Stadium.
00:13:28.000 That's about 86,112 people in that stadium.
00:13:31.000 Are there?
00:13:33.000 87,000 new IRS agents coming after you, coming after your business, coming after your deductions, coming after your church, coming after your charity, coming after your organization.
00:13:45.000 We just got to keep on hitting this IRS theme, everybody, because they thought they could just sneak that through in the Inflation Reduction Act.
00:13:51.000 Kirsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, all the people that voted for it.
00:13:55.000 They are not going to get a pass on this.
00:13:58.000 They voted for the massive expansion of an unelected group of people to be able to terrorize you, take money from you, punish you, penalize you.
00:14:10.000 It's not about enforcing taxes or anything about that.
00:14:13.000 No, no, no.
00:14:14.000 It's about going after hardworking Americans. 0.50
00:14:17.000 You know, the best example is the Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma.
00:14:22.000 It's one of the top 25 stadiums in the world, max capacity at 86,112.
00:14:28.000 And it could hold, in fact, it's too small to hold the 87,000 new IRS agents that will be hired once this inflation bill goes into law.
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00:15:37.000 So I spent some time in Los Angeles here and there.
00:15:39.000 I travel and I could tell you that there was a bipartisan, massive rejection looming of this LA district attorney, George Gascon, who is one of the sneakiest, just dirty politicians in America.
00:15:56.000 George Gascon has made Los Angeles a dirtier city, more dangerous city, and just a less enjoyable place to live, quite honestly.
00:16:09.000 So, George Gascon was facing a recall effort.
00:16:13.000 And this is where it got to be really weird.
00:16:15.000 I thought the recall was for sure going to happen.
00:16:17.000 And then there was all this signature issue and all these other things.
00:16:19.000 And there's a phenomenal journalist who can unpack that for us, which goes to show the lengths that the regime is willing to go to prevent people from having a check and balance against people in power.
00:16:31.000 And that is Jennifer Van Law, who has been covering this in great detail.
00:16:35.000 Jennifer, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:16:37.000 Thank you.
00:16:39.000 So, Jennifer, walk us through.
00:16:41.000 You wrote this at redstate.com: Recall Gascon Committee knowingly turned in invalid petition signatures, misled donors and volunteers.
00:16:48.000 Tell us what's going on here.
00:16:51.000 So it's one of those situations where there's not just one person that maybe did the wrong thing or messed up or something.
00:16:57.000 There's just everyone involved messed up or was corrupt in some kind of way.
00:17:04.000 I mean, we know that the registrar in LA County, Dean Logan, is notorious for shady Democrat dealings.
00:17:12.000 For, you know, that was, he was the guy that when people went to vote in the Newsom recall, Republicans, they were told, oh, you already voted, and their new vote didn't count.
00:17:20.000 So he's definitely not a great guy here.
00:17:23.000 Then we had the signature gathering firm that was hired by the committee has ties to George Soros companies and were actually working against ballot, against voter ID in Michigan.
00:17:35.000 They were the ones getting signatures in Los Angeles and turning in thousands of signatures from people not in LA County, from people not registered to vote, from people who had already signed it and still getting paid per signature.
00:17:48.000 Then we had the committee themselves who were not taking the advice of people like that got the Newsom recall on the ballot or that got other big statewide initiatives on the ballot and knew how to get it done.
00:17:59.000 They weren't taking that advice and instead doing things that would enrich themselves.
00:18:03.000 So it turned into this giant cluster that really the people in Los Angeles County and the surrounding counties are going to pay for for the next two years.
00:18:13.000 Yeah.
00:18:13.000 So I don't quite understand it though, because it seems like the support was there amongst the people.
00:18:20.000 So how did this get so screwed up?
00:18:23.000 Was it legitimately, you know, not having the signatures?
00:18:26.000 Over 195,000 signatures had been deemed invalid.
00:18:31.000 That's extraordinary.
00:18:32.000 Do you think there was a conspiracy to try to derail this?
00:18:35.000 I'm not going to go that far.
00:18:36.000 I don't think that we have enough evidence to say for sure yet exactly what happened because the committee has the opportunity and that timeframe is still going on to examine each and every signature that was rejected by the county and the reason why.
00:18:51.000 And they absolutely should be challenging all of that.
00:18:54.000 So of the 195,000, 88,000 of the signatures were not rejected because of a signature match issue.
00:19:01.000 They were rejected because that person was not a registered voter, period.
00:19:06.000 And you have to be a registered voter to sign these petitions.
00:19:10.000 44,000 and some were duplicate signatures.
00:19:13.000 So people who signed twice.
00:19:15.000 There are about 6,000 from out-of-county voters, which that also doesn't count for an LA County thing.
00:19:21.000 But I mean, who's to say that the 88,000 people really weren't registered to vote or that the signature, I think there were 6,000 signature mismatches that those, maybe some of those should have been counted.
00:19:32.000 So it remains to be seen whether there were a complete lack of enough signatures.
00:19:39.000 They were about 45,000 signatures short, 520,000 were ruled valid.
00:19:45.000 Yeah, so it seems as if this is widespread incompetence and corrupt consultants who were lining their own pocket, and then they tried to basically deflect blame.
00:19:55.000 Is that right?
00:19:56.000 There's an element of that.
00:19:58.000 So the consultants were advised to hire a certain signature gathering company that got the recall Newsome and had some other successes getting statewide things on the ballot.
00:20:08.000 But they rejected that because they were too expensive.
00:20:11.000 But, you know, when you're getting, you want to get people who actually get valid signatures, then you pay for the quality you get.
00:20:16.000 And they hired this firm that had these other issues.
00:20:19.000 Then instead of keeping on with getting signatures in front of Walmart, Target, how you normally do, they sent out petitions.
00:20:27.000 They mailed them to 3.6 million households in May at the same time all the election mail was coming to people's houses where it might get thrown in the trash.
00:20:35.000 But when they do that, the consultants get a 10 to 15% bonus back to themselves as a kind of a finder's fee for sending out the mail.
00:20:45.000 They don't get that if they just send out paid signature gatherers.
00:20:48.000 So it seems like you make a bad decision, but the one that's going to line your own pockets is not really the greatest thing to do.
00:20:54.000 Can you expand on the George Soros connection here and his involvement in all of this?
00:21:00.000 So in Michigan, they've had multiple ballot initiatives this year.
00:21:00.000 Yes.
00:21:04.000 They were trying to get voter ID laws tightened, which is something we absolutely need. 1.00
00:21:09.000 And so what George Soros' people did was start an opposing ballot thing, making basically that HR1, that terrible bill that they had in Congress, making it Michigan law.
00:21:19.000 So this firm that got the signatures that was hired by the Gascon committee was actually being paid by the Soros people to go oppose the voter ID laws, the voter ID proposition in Michigan and instead get signatures for something that would have made this massive expansion of mail-in and no ID needed and same-day registration kind of thing.
00:21:39.000 So it's not like they were conservative or really caring about what they were doing.
00:21:45.000 This firm also, some of their people in Michigan advertised that they're a felon-friendly operation and they want people who have been down on their luck.
00:21:54.000 And even a convicted felon could go and get signatures and get paid by them.
00:21:58.000 So, you know, I wouldn't necessarily trust a convicted felon to go sign something under penalty of perjury that they were doing a good job on this.
00:22:06.000 So, Jennifer, here's a question.
00:22:08.000 Do we check regular ballots for signature authenticity and accuracy like this or only on recall ballots of a George Soros appointed prosecutor?
00:22:17.000 The signatures, yes.
00:22:18.000 Now, the thing, the difference that we have here is on a ballot, allegedly it's being mailed to someone who's already on the voter rolls at a certain address.
00:22:27.000 If we're sending, if we're just having people walk up at Walmart, Target, the grocery store, you don't know that that person is who they are.
00:22:37.000 Like they could just sign Charlie Kirk and write whatever address.
00:22:41.000 And should that be counted as Charlie Kirk?
00:22:43.000 So I agree with you that we need more stringent looks at mail and ballots for sure.
00:22:50.000 But on this type of petition, it's kind of apples and oranges.
00:22:54.000 Okay, so I guess.
00:22:56.000 So what is the big takeaway here?
00:22:58.000 I mean, because I do believe that the amount of people that did not have concern for Gascon was pretty widespread and significant.
00:23:05.000 However, you know, he's going to remain in office.
00:23:08.000 So why is it that they were able to get the signatures for the Newsom recall, but not the Gascon recall?
00:23:14.000 That I think goes directly to the people running it and the vendors hired.
00:23:19.000 Because if you use a firm that is going to make sure, because these consultants that do the paid signature gathering, they have the voter file.
00:23:26.000 They have that database.
00:23:27.000 They should be going along every week and checking to make sure that the people that have signed it are registered to vote, that they're registered to vote at that address, that they're within LA County.
00:23:37.000 And the recall Gascon committee told the donors that they were doing this, that they were pre-verifying the signatures before they sent them in so that they had a high confidence in this.
00:23:46.000 And then it turned out that that wasn't even happening.
00:23:48.000 That last weekend before they were turned in, they were still pre-validating or pre-verifying stuff from February that kept them from being able to even look at all of the signatures.
00:24:00.000 That's why you had so many duplicates.
00:24:02.000 Like in the Chesa Boudin recall, they only had two duplicate signatures of the entire petition versus 44,000 for this one.
00:24:10.000 But I agree, it had overwhelming public support.
00:24:13.000 There was a poll that came out a few days after we knew that a petition had failed that Gascon would have lost by 21 points in a recall election.
00:24:23.000 So it was definitely, yeah, it's definitely a heartbreaking thing for people.
00:24:28.000 I've heard from volunteers all over California, all over LLA County that put in hundreds of hours going and gathering signatures from their neighborhoods and even standing out friday outside of grocery stores themselves, not even being paid.
00:24:40.000 And they're heartbroken over this.
00:24:42.000 And so that's why I think even if it reflects poorly on some of our own Republican consultants, that it's important to know the truth of what happened because people need to have confidence in the recall process and that when they're giving money to an organization to get something done, that people are competent in spending it.
00:25:00.000 And they need to know that where the blame should lie so that we can actually get things done in the future.
00:25:07.000 It doesn't serve us well to just, you know, throw our hands up and say, oh, it's all rigged, because then that doesn't help when we actually want to get out and vote in November.
00:25:15.000 Can you give us an update of the LA mayor's race, Bass versus Caruso?
00:25:20.000 What's the latest with that?
00:25:22.000 Bass is way ahead.
00:25:23.000 And that's really unfortunate because she is probably even worse than Garcetti because she is a true believer in, she's a huge Hugo Chavez Castro supporter.
00:25:34.000 She is just all about all of the communists and Marxists.
00:25:38.000 She goes way beyond progressive and socialist.
00:25:41.000 So it's just going to be more of the same.
00:25:42.000 She already said in the primary that in a first term, she couldn't even do anything about the homeless issue and criminal issues. 1.00
00:25:50.000 She'll just give George Gascon a free pass to do whatever he wants.
00:25:54.000 That's just, that's not good.
00:25:56.000 I mean, Caruso seemed though for a little bit he had some momentum.
00:25:59.000 And so then what happened?
00:26:01.000 The unions and the union money, they saw what was starting to happen with that momentum.
00:26:06.000 And Caruso has been more of the on the conservative side, you know, went Democrat for this, but it's definitely, if there's a choice between the two of them, they need Caruso.
00:26:15.000 And people in LA really seem to do everything they can to get everyone out to vote this November for Caruso.
00:26:22.000 Because if Karen Bass gets in and if Sheriff Illanueva loses, you might as well just ride off LA for the next five to 10 years.
00:26:28.000 But part of me thinks, you know, I live just outside in Ventura County, but part of me thinks that LA maybe needs to hit this bottom of having that happen and see just how terrible it can get.
00:26:38.000 Yeah, let LA hit rock bottom and the Olympics are coming a couple of years later.
00:26:42.000 That's going to be great.
00:26:43.000 Jennifer, great commentary as always.
00:26:45.000 Thank you so much.
00:26:46.000 Thanks.
00:26:49.000 We played this a little bit earlier.
00:26:50.000 It's just so remarkable to have Corrine Jean-Pierre say that half of our country, half of America is a threat to democracy, our freedoms, and our rights.
00:27:03.000 This sort of reckless and irresponsible language has serious implications about ever trying to have national unity or healing.
00:27:17.000 It is pouring gas on the metaphorical fire that they started, Play Cut 61.
00:27:22.000 The president thinks that there is an extremist threat to our democracy.
00:27:26.000 The president has been clear as he can be on that particular piece when we talk about a democracy, when we talk about our freedoms.
00:27:34.000 The way that he sees is the MA Republicans are the most energized part of the Republican Party.
00:27:41.000 That extreme, this is an extreme threat to our democracy, to our freedom, to our rights.
00:27:47.000 Now, if you were to try to define what a democracy is, it's everything that the MAGA movement is.
00:27:52.000 It's a grassroots movement without serious institutional money behind it.
00:27:57.000 It is candidates popping up all across the country.
00:27:59.000 Yes, some of them are, you know, at times a little wacky and they're, you know, a little bit all over the place.
00:28:06.000 But let's use a different word.
00:28:08.000 Let's use colorful.
00:28:10.000 They could be very entertaining at times.
00:28:12.000 I don't mean wacky in a bad way.
00:28:13.000 I just mean, you know, sometimes they say things they shouldn't say.
00:28:16.000 You know why?
00:28:16.000 But I'm all for it.
00:28:17.000 That shows that we're not scripted.
00:28:18.000 It shows that it's real.
00:28:20.000 It's authentic.
00:28:21.000 The Democrats are running boring candidates because they're all scripted.
00:28:24.000 We got candidates that are all over the place.
00:28:27.000 If you were to ever look at a definition of what democracy actually is, it's the movement that is taking over precinct committee positions, taking over school board positions that is bottom-up.
00:28:38.000 And that's what President Trump started.
00:28:41.000 And I also just want to give all of you a little bit of warning tonight.
00:28:45.000 President Biden is speaking tonight.
00:28:48.000 And I believe he is going to lay down the terms in a primetime event on mainstream media by doubling and tripling down on the semi-fascist type language.
00:28:59.000 I think Joe Biden is going to be doing, look, folks, we got to come together.
00:29:03.000 But first, we must get rid of the dissenters in our ranks.
00:29:09.000 Just want to prep all of you and don't take the bait.
00:29:13.000 Stay peaceful.
00:29:14.000 It is a Hail Mary pass.
00:29:16.000 These people are losing at every single level.
00:29:18.000 All the polls have tightened.
00:29:20.000 The Democrat little surge of support that you might have saw in August, it's all turning around.
00:29:26.000 We now, we're finally getting organized.
00:29:29.000 Our candidates are finally getting on message.
00:29:30.000 We're talking about crime.
00:29:31.000 We're talking about inflation.
00:29:33.000 The Mar-a-Lago raid completely backfired on them.
00:29:36.000 Donald Trump is going to start to hit the campaign trail very soon.
00:29:39.000 We're going to see a total change of this.
00:29:42.000 So Joe Biden is going to come out and he's going to try to do everything he possibly can with obviously 87,000 new IRS agents, that ridiculous inflation reduction act, which is anything but that.
00:29:52.000 And Joe Biden is going to play into continually calling half the country semi-fascists.
00:29:59.000 Play cut 38, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre responding to the question about semi-fascism, play cut 38.
00:30:05.000 Look, I was very clear when laying out and defining what MAGA Republicans have done.
00:30:14.000 And you look at the definition of fascism and you think about what they're doing in attacking our democracy, what they're doing in taking away our freedoms, taking away, wanting to take away our rights, our voting rights.
00:30:29.000 I mean, that is what that is.
00:30:31.000 It is very clear.
00:30:33.000 It is so irresponsible.
00:30:34.000 It is dangerous for them to use that language.
00:30:36.000 And of course, we respond in kind because we actually want to talk about fascism.
00:30:39.000 Maybe it's the person who raids the home of a former president.
00:30:42.000 These are last-ditch, desperate efforts by a collapsing regime.
00:30:48.000 They can't run on policy.
00:30:50.000 They can't run on ideas.
00:30:51.000 They can't show you what they've done.
00:30:54.000 Joe Biden tonight is going to do his best to mutter through a speech to continue his domestic war and campaign on half of the country.
00:31:03.000 And I wish it wasn't the case.
00:31:06.000 I wish we were exaggerating a little bit.
00:31:08.000 They call half the country semi-fascist.
00:31:10.000 How do you think we're going to respond to that?
00:31:12.000 Speech will be very instructive, but just know this: their support is collapsing.
00:31:19.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:31:20.000 Email me your thoughts as always.
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00:31:23.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:31:25.000 God bless.
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