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00:01:15.000We'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.
00:01:32.000And 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.
00:01:45.000The fourth branch of government is part of the progressive project of the administrative state.
00:01:51.000There 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.
00:02:03.000And so, to kind of continue the point here, I talked to a certain Senate candidate who is in a very contentious race yesterday.
00:02:10.000I had a 30-minute conversation with him.
00:02:18.000I 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.
00:02:32.000Secondly, why are we not talking about crime more?
00:02:38.000And 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.
00:02:53.000Joe Biden is talking about how he wants safe communities and law enforcement.
00:02:57.000You 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.
00:03:21.000Now, if you're out there and you see anything different, let me know.
00:03:24.000But I have seen a massive de-emphasize, de-emphasizing campaign on the race issue.
00:03:33.000When have the Democrats ever been this quiet on the issue of race?
00:03:39.000They're quiet on the issue of race because it's no longer a winner.
00:04:06.000This 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.
00:04:18.000It is very interesting to see the campaigns that these candidates are running.
00:04:23.000For example, you go to Mark Kelly's website, almost nowhere on Mark Kelly's website, does he talk about race?
00:06:10.000Doesn't look like a typical politician.
00:06:12.000Again, 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.
00:08:57.000These candidates are not running radical campaigns, even though they are radicals.
00:09:02.000This country is far more center-right than I think the media will ever recognize.
00:09:10.000Are you like every one of us that thinks our country has gone nuts, whether it's Russia Gate market crashes or selling oil to China or this insane inflation?
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00:11:04.000Why 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?
00:11:12.000It's so bizarre and weird, and you're filming it and publicizing it.
00:11:16.000This was just this last spring, if I'm not mistaken.
00:11:18.000One of our team members found this clip.
00:11:22.000This is another video going around what appears to be new IRS agents training and entering a room and then arresting two men for conspiracy.
00:11:30.000Now, we got an email from somebody and they said, Charlie, you know, look, the IRS, they have a criminal division and civil division.
00:11:37.000The criminal division does a lot of work.
00:12:49.000So 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.
00:13:33.00087,000 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.
00:13:45.000We just got to keep on hitting this IRS theme, everybody, because they thought they could just sneak that through in the Inflation Reduction Act.
00:13:51.000Kirsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, all the people that voted for it.
00:13:55.000They are not going to get a pass on this.
00:13:58.000They 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.
00:14:10.000It's not about enforcing taxes or anything about that.
00:14:14.000It's about going after hardworking Americans.
00:14:17.000You know, the best example is the Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma.
00:14:22.000It's one of the top 25 stadiums in the world, max capacity at 86,112.
00:14:28.000And 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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00:15:37.000So I spent some time in Los Angeles here and there.
00:15:39.000I 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.
00:15:56.000George Gascon has made Los Angeles a dirtier city, more dangerous city, and just a less enjoyable place to live, quite honestly.
00:16:09.000So, George Gascon was facing a recall effort.
00:16:13.000And this is where it got to be really weird.
00:16:15.000I thought the recall was for sure going to happen.
00:16:17.000And then there was all this signature issue and all these other things.
00:16:19.000And 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.
00:16:31.000And that is Jennifer Van Law, who has been covering this in great detail.
00:16:35.000Jennifer, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:16:51.000So it's one of those situations where there's not just one person that maybe did the wrong thing or messed up or something.
00:16:57.000There's just everyone involved messed up or was corrupt in some kind of way.
00:17:04.000I mean, we know that the registrar in LA County, Dean Logan, is notorious for shady Democrat dealings.
00:17:12.000For, 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.
00:17:20.000So he's definitely not a great guy here.
00:17:23.000Then 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.
00:17:35.000They 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.
00:17:48.000Then 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.
00:17:59.000They weren't taking that advice and instead doing things that would enrich themselves.
00:18:03.000So 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.
00:18:36.000I 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.
00:18:51.000And they absolutely should be challenging all of that.
00:18:54.000So of the 195,000, 88,000 of the signatures were not rejected because of a signature match issue.
00:19:01.000They were rejected because that person was not a registered voter, period.
00:19:06.000And you have to be a registered voter to sign these petitions.
00:19:10.00044,000 and some were duplicate signatures.
00:19:15.000There are about 6,000 from out-of-county voters, which that also doesn't count for an LA County thing.
00:19:21.000But 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.
00:19:32.000So it remains to be seen whether there were a complete lack of enough signatures.
00:19:39.000They were about 45,000 signatures short, 520,000 were ruled valid.
00:19:45.000Yeah, 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.
00:19:58.000So 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.
00:20:08.000But they rejected that because they were too expensive.
00:20:11.000But, you know, when you're getting, you want to get people who actually get valid signatures, then you pay for the quality you get.
00:20:16.000And they hired this firm that had these other issues.
00:20:19.000Then instead of keeping on with getting signatures in front of Walmart, Target, how you normally do, they sent out petitions.
00:20:27.000They 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.
00:20:35.000But 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.
00:20:45.000They don't get that if they just send out paid signature gatherers.
00:20:48.000So 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.
00:20:54.000Can you expand on the George Soros connection here and his involvement in all of this?
00:21:00.000So in Michigan, they've had multiple ballot initiatives this year.
00:21:04.000They were trying to get voter ID laws tightened, which is something we absolutely need.
00:21:09.000And 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.
00:21:19.000So 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.
00:21:39.000So it's not like they were conservative or really caring about what they were doing.
00:21:45.000This 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.
00:21:54.000And even a convicted felon could go and get signatures and get paid by them.
00:21:58.000So, 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.
00:22:08.000Do we check regular ballots for signature authenticity and accuracy like this or only on recall ballots of a George Soros appointed prosecutor?
00:22:18.000Now, 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.
00:22:27.000If 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.
00:22:37.000Like they could just sign Charlie Kirk and write whatever address.
00:22:41.000And should that be counted as Charlie Kirk?
00:22:43.000So I agree with you that we need more stringent looks at mail and ballots for sure.
00:22:50.000But on this type of petition, it's kind of apples and oranges.
00:22:58.000I mean, because I do believe that the amount of people that did not have concern for Gascon was pretty widespread and significant.
00:23:05.000However, you know, he's going to remain in office.
00:23:08.000So why is it that they were able to get the signatures for the Newsom recall, but not the Gascon recall?
00:23:14.000That I think goes directly to the people running it and the vendors hired.
00:23:19.000Because 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.
00:23:27.000They 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.
00:23:37.000And 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.
00:23:46.000And then it turned out that that wasn't even happening.
00:23:48.000That 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.
00:24:00.000That's why you had so many duplicates.
00:24:02.000Like in the Chesa Boudin recall, they only had two duplicate signatures of the entire petition versus 44,000 for this one.
00:24:10.000But I agree, it had overwhelming public support.
00:24:13.000There 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.
00:24:23.000So it was definitely, yeah, it's definitely a heartbreaking thing for people.
00:24:28.000I'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.
00:24:42.000And 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.
00:25:00.000And they need to know that where the blame should lie so that we can actually get things done in the future.
00:25:07.000It 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.
00:25:15.000Can you give us an update of the LA mayor's race, Bass versus Caruso?
00:25:23.000And 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.
00:25:34.000She is just all about all of the communists and Marxists.
00:25:38.000She goes way beyond progressive and socialist.
00:25:41.000So it's just going to be more of the same.
00:25:42.000She already said in the primary that in a first term, she couldn't even do anything about the homeless issue and criminal issues.
00:25:50.000She'll just give George Gascon a free pass to do whatever he wants.
00:26:01.000The unions and the union money, they saw what was starting to happen with that momentum.
00:26:06.000And 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.
00:26:15.000And people in LA really seem to do everything they can to get everyone out to vote this November for Caruso.
00:26:22.000Because 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.
00:26:28.000But 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.
00:26:38.000Yeah, let LA hit rock bottom and the Olympics are coming a couple of years later.
00:26:50.000It'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.
00:27:03.000This sort of reckless and irresponsible language has serious implications about ever trying to have national unity or healing.
00:27:17.000It is pouring gas on the metaphorical fire that they started, Play Cut 61.
00:27:22.000The president thinks that there is an extremist threat to our democracy.
00:27:26.000The president has been clear as he can be on that particular piece when we talk about a democracy, when we talk about our freedoms.
00:27:34.000The way that he sees is the MA Republicans are the most energized part of the Republican Party.
00:27:41.000That extreme, this is an extreme threat to our democracy, to our freedom, to our rights.
00:27:47.000Now, if you were to try to define what a democracy is, it's everything that the MAGA movement is.
00:27:52.000It's a grassroots movement without serious institutional money behind it.
00:27:57.000It is candidates popping up all across the country.
00:27:59.000Yes, some of them are, you know, at times a little wacky and they're, you know, a little bit all over the place.
00:28:21.000The Democrats are running boring candidates because they're all scripted.
00:28:24.000We got candidates that are all over the place.
00:28:27.000If 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.
00:28:38.000And that's what President Trump started.
00:28:41.000And I also just want to give all of you a little bit of warning tonight.
00:28:48.000And 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.
00:28:59.000I think Joe Biden is going to be doing, look, folks, we got to come together.
00:29:03.000But first, we must get rid of the dissenters in our ranks.
00:29:09.000Just want to prep all of you and don't take the bait.
00:29:33.000The Mar-a-Lago raid completely backfired on them.
00:29:36.000Donald Trump is going to start to hit the campaign trail very soon.
00:29:39.000We're going to see a total change of this.
00:29:42.000So 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.
00:29:52.000And Joe Biden is going to play into continually calling half the country semi-fascists.
00:29:59.000Play cut 38, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre responding to the question about semi-fascism, play cut 38.
00:30:05.000Look, I was very clear when laying out and defining what MAGA Republicans have done.
00:30:14.000And 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.