The Charlie Kirk Show - The Scale of Destruction in California ft. Adam Carolla

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, on the Charlie Kirk Show, the legend Adam Carolla joins us about the fires in California, the latest news out of George Floyd, and what was Barack Obama saying at the funeral to Donald Trump?

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00:01:23.000 The California fire tragedy continues.

00:01:26.000 Joining us now is a legend who has been speaking out against wokeism and himself.

00:01:32.000 He wanted to be a firefighter and he actually has a story there.

00:01:35.000 We'll play that in a second.

00:01:36.000 But it's a very troubling day.

00:01:38.000 Adam Carolla, welcome to the program.

00:01:39.000 Adam, are you and your family safe?

00:01:41.000 Yeah, we are.

00:01:43.000 I am in Malibu.

00:01:47.000 It's right where the fire blew through.

00:01:51.000 Everything around where I am is destroyed.

00:01:55.000 I was asked to evacuate on Tuesday night.

00:02:00.000 I did, and haven't been able to return, obviously, and I'm not really sure with the statuses of my home, although it's not looking good because literally everything around it was destroyed.

00:02:15.000 Goodness gracious, Adam.

00:02:17.000 I'm so sorry to hear that, and thank you for taking the time in the midst of all of this unspeakable horror.

00:02:23.000 How are you thinking about this, and how can you explain it to somebody who is having difficulty comprehending how the Los Angeles City government in California refuses to do basic things that could prevent such widespread scale of destruction?

00:02:39.000 Well, you know, they say actions have consequences, but inactions have even bigger consequences sometimes, meaning doing nothing.

00:02:49.000 This is the result of them doing nothing.

00:02:54.000 Obviously, they're putting their efforts into DEI hires and environment.

00:02:59.000 I mean, there's two major concerns.

00:03:03.000 It's how does this impact the environment, and then the other major concern is DEI. Those are the two things that the fire department, the mayor, and the city council focus on most sharply.

00:03:17.000 Later on, if there's some money and some time left over, we can talk about infrastructure.

00:03:22.000 Fire hydrants, water pressure, aqueducts, and so on and so forth.

00:03:28.000 The real focus is on the environment and DEI, and then this happens.

00:03:34.000 And this is no different than announcing your sanctuary city.

00:03:40.000 You just announce it, and everyone pats you on the back, and then at some point, a couple of busloads of Hondurans get dropped off on your doorstep, and you yell, what's going on?

00:03:52.000 That's essentially what this is.

00:03:54.000 And that's how they are sort of globally in Los Angeles.

00:03:58.000 It's all talk.

00:03:59.000 It's all fluff until the fires start or the shootings start.

00:04:04.000 So Adam, I want to play this piece of tape here from a congressional testimony you gave.

00:04:09.000 It's 121, where you explained how you wanted to be a firefighter.

00:04:13.000 Play cut 121. I could not find a job.

00:04:16.000 I walked to a fire station in North Hollywood.

00:04:18.000 I was 19. I was living in the garage of my family home.

00:04:22.000 My mom was on welfare and food stamps.

00:04:24.000 And I said, can I get a job as a fireman?

00:04:27.000 And they said, no, because you're not black, Hispanic, or a woman.

00:04:31.000 We'll see you in about seven years.

00:04:33.000 And I went to a construction site and dug ditches and picked up garbage for the next seven years.

00:04:39.000 I got a letter in the mail sent to my father's house saying, your time has come to do the written exam for the LA Fire Department.

00:04:47.000 I took it, and I was standing in line, and I had a young woman of color standing behind me in line, and I said, just out of curiosity, when did you sign up to become a fireman?

00:04:57.000 Because I did it, or a person, seven years ago, and she said, Wednesday.

00:05:02.000 That is an example of my white privilege.

00:05:05.000 Adam, it's almost hard to believe.

00:05:07.000 And now in Los Angeles, it's not a joke.

00:05:10.000 I mean, it is a joke.

00:05:11.000 There are three fire chiefs that are all named Kristen and they are all lesbian.

00:05:17.000 It's very hard to even comprehend that, that are in charge of the Los Angeles fire response.

00:05:24.000 Do you think part of this lackluster ability to handle this is because of embracing these ideologies over meritocracy?

00:05:32.000 Well, it would have to because...

00:05:36.000 Meritocracy is the best, regardless of gender, sexual properties, skin color, what have you.

00:05:43.000 As soon as you start factoring in other factors, whether it's being an airline pilot, or as we found out, Vice President of the United States, as soon as you start factoring in other factors, the product's going to be hurt.

00:06:00.000 It's going to be harmed.

00:06:01.000 I mean, imagine if you tried this.

00:06:04.000 In the NFL, you want, you know, the cornerbacks, well, they're all African-American, but I'd like to get a little diversity in there.

00:06:12.000 I'd like to get someone with a little Jewish blood, someone with some Asian blood in there, perhaps someone from the LGBT community.

00:06:20.000 How fast would the product go down?

00:06:25.000 It would have to.

00:06:26.000 It just has to.

00:06:28.000 So that's what we're living.

00:06:30.000 And we're seeing it all over the place.

00:06:32.000 I think we saw it in New Orleans.

00:06:34.000 We see it nationwide now.

00:06:37.000 Taking a bunch of incompetent people, shoving them into positions of power, and expecting a result that we're not going to get because this is what we're doing.

00:06:48.000 Adam, do you think, I know this is a speculative question, I know that you're in a lot of pain right now in that it's difficult to think clearly in times like this.

00:06:57.000 So again, thank you for taking the time.

00:06:59.000 But for some of your friends and neighbors that have been, let's say, more enthusiastically, let's just say, zealots for the worldview that we are talking about here, is this a wake-up call when your entire neighborhood starts to burn down?

00:07:15.000 You know, I'll tell you something I was talking about on my podcast yesterday, and there's a clip sort of floating around, going a little bit viral, but it's a serious thing.

00:07:26.000 I have been saying, I used to be a builder, so...

00:07:29.000 As you heard from my testimony in front of Congress, when I couldn't be a fireman, I end up being a carpenter and a builder and a contractor, and that's how I made my living.

00:07:40.000 And I had to deal with the city, and I had to deal with permits, and I had to deal with red tape and bureaucracy my entire career.

00:07:47.000 And then later on, when I got into show business, I renovated my homes, built homes, did a lot of work, and it was a constant burden.

00:07:54.000 To deal with the city.

00:07:55.000 And I used to shout to everyone all the time, you don't get who these people are, but everyone I knew didn't do it, you know?

00:08:04.000 Bill Maher tried to pull some permits to get his solar shack built famously a few years ago, and now he hates red tape, right?

00:08:13.000 Because Bill Maher, hard left, blue-leaning liberal, had to deal with the city, had to pull permits, got screwed.

00:08:24.000 And then realize, oh, this is an S shell, and I want less of this. 1.00

00:08:30.000 Well, every single one of these people in Malibu, Palisades, Santa Monica, they're going to want to rebuild.

00:08:36.000 And guess what?

00:08:37.000 The Coastal Commission is going to get involved.

00:08:40.000 And the Coastal Commission is going to tell them no, or going to tell them it's going to take four years to get a permit.

00:08:45.000 You're going to have a bunch of blue liberal people who would like to rebuild their homes in Malibu and Santa Monica and the Palisade, and they're going to have to go through the permit process.

00:08:58.000 And when they do, they're going to be converted to Donald Trump fans.

00:09:03.000 That is incredibly deep and profound.

00:09:06.000 And I live in Scottsdale, Adam.

00:09:10.000 Adam, we are anticipating a lot of refugees after this because there's just not a lot of – there's not going to be a lot of homestanding. 1.00

00:09:18.000 Adam, in closing here, I know that you might not have anticipated this question.

00:09:22.000 Feel free to answer it however you'd like.

00:09:24.000 Last night I spoke to Sue Prager, wife of Dennis Prager.

00:09:27.000 Dennis is still in a very serious medical condition.

00:09:31.000 Is there anything you want to share about Dennis, your friendship with him, as Dennis still is in a very precarious situation?

00:09:37.000 I went and saw him recently Recently, Dennis, obviously, as you know, has paralysis and is dealing with a lot of different stuff.

00:09:48.000 In his eyes and in his facial expression, it's still Dennis, you know, as you know.

00:09:55.000 And, you know, he's sort of a national treasure.

00:09:59.000 And it's funny, everyone's reaction to Dennis, our first reaction, it's almost selfish.

00:10:05.000 It's like...

00:10:06.000 I hope Dennis is okay so I can hear him.

00:10:09.000 You know what I mean?

00:10:10.000 Like, he's got to be okay.

00:10:12.000 I mean, it sounds like we all care about Dennis, which we do.

00:10:17.000 But in a way, it's selfish.

00:10:18.000 I'm like, I can't not have Dennis.

00:10:21.000 I need Dennis in my life.

00:10:22.000 I need to turn on the radio in the morning and hear the man speaking.

00:10:27.000 I would like to know what he thought about these fires and about this whole situation.

00:10:31.000 You know what I mean?

00:10:32.000 So, he's a great soul.

00:10:37.000 I told him, you know, I said to him, Dennis, you know, he used to tell me all the time, he used to talk about Charles Krauthammer all the time.

00:10:45.000 And he would say, even though the guy was confined to a wheelchair, that didn't stop him.

00:10:49.000 He still had his thoughts.

00:10:51.000 He still shared his wisdom with us.

00:10:54.000 I said, you know what?

00:10:55.000 I mean, you're going to have to be consistent here.

00:10:58.000 You praised Charles Krauthammer for being in this condition and yet never letting it slow him down or defying him.

00:11:06.000 And he agreed.

00:11:07.000 He was like, yeah, but that's the situation I'm in.

00:11:10.000 I know.

00:11:11.000 It's so profound what you're saying and deep.

00:11:14.000 I was listening to an old fireside chat of where Dennis was speaking about Charles Krauthammer the day that I heard the news.

00:11:22.000 It's just, it really is something.

00:11:24.000 Adam, thank you so much, and we'll continue to pray for Dennis and for the people of the Palisades and Los Angeles.

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00:12:29.000 I knew about this one coming for quite some time.

00:12:31.000 I am very...

00:12:32.000 I'm proud of my secret keeping abilities.

00:12:36.000 I think it's pretty good because this one I wanted to talk about so badly.

00:12:39.000 I was like, oh, this is the greatest idea ever.

00:12:43.000 And so I pulled up my maps here and you think about it, it doesn't make any sense.

00:12:48.000 Why is it that the body of water...

00:12:52.000 That most borders our country is called the Gulf of Mexico.

00:12:58.000 Where did that come from?

00:12:59.000 Blake could probably tell us where it came from.

00:13:01.000 It doesn't make any sense.

00:13:03.000 So President Trump announced at the press conference that it will now be called the Gulf of America.

00:13:10.000 Which, by the way, more of our coastline borders this Gulf than Mexico.

00:13:14.000 Why not?

00:13:16.000 He's not the first to suggest it allegedly, but again, he's going to be the first to do it. 0.96

00:13:20.000 This is a small example of the type of energy that is now coming back to the country.

00:13:26.000 We're tired of being taken advantage of, and yes, it might be a little silly thing, but it's deathly serious.

00:13:33.000 It borders our country more than your country. 0.68

00:13:35.000 The Gulf of Mexico got its name in the 1540s, according to the Texas State Historical Association.

00:13:40.000 Spanish explorers and cartographers often called it Seno Mexicano, Seno meaning golf or bay.

00:13:47.000 Some documents also called the body of water Golfo de Nueva España, or Golfo de Mexico.

00:13:53.000 Anyone can propose a geographic name and change it to the U.S. Board of Geographic Names.

00:13:58.000 The president has authority to change it the same way that Barack Obama changed Mount McKinley to Denali.

00:14:02.000 By the way, we're going back to Mount McKinley.

00:14:04.000 Denali, I think, is done.

00:14:05.000 I think the president has said that one before.

00:14:08.000 That's ridiculous.

00:14:09.000 57, it's going to be the Gulf of America.

00:14:11.000 This is in Spanish.

00:14:13.000 This is the Mexican government speaking about the Gulf of Mexico.

00:14:16.000 Playcut 130. What is she saying?

00:14:38.000 She wants to name our country Mexican America? 0.98

00:14:41.000 Look, the Mexican government is going to have to get in line at some point.

00:14:45.000 We could break the back of the Mexican government with a terror threat overnight, and it wouldn't even hurt us.

00:14:50.000 The Mexican government better let us go after the cartels, stop the human trafficking, the drug smuggling.

00:14:55.000 The Mexican government has been complicit.

00:14:57.000 These last couple of years of the largest invasion in American history.

00:15:02.000 And so, no, we're not going to call it the Gulf of Mexico anymore, as Mexico has allowed tens of thousands of sex slaves to come into our country. 0.96

00:15:09.000 And by the way, all those military bases, why don't we fix those while we're at it?

00:15:14.000 Getting back to Fort Bragg, get back to the original naming of these military bases.

00:15:21.000 We need to de-woke-ify the country. 0.73

00:15:25.000 And it will now be called the Gulf of America.

00:15:29.000 It makes you wonder, why has no other president thought of this before?

00:15:33.000 And it's important because other presidents are afraid of tough fights and offending.

00:15:38.000 Like George W. Bush.

00:15:39.000 What good did he do as president?

00:15:40.000 Actually, he was a terrible president.

00:15:42.000 Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden.

00:15:45.000 They would never think to do something like this.

00:15:47.000 They need some sort of board or commission or council of experts.

00:15:50.000 President Trump said, we're just going to call it the Gulf of America.

00:15:52.000 And Mexico better take back their invaders. 1.00

00:15:55.000 Look, these countries, you're afraid of offending Mexico?

00:15:57.000 I'm sorry, I'm afraid that we're losing tens of thousands of our own citizens to drugs coming from Mexico. 0.97

00:16:03.000 I don't care if we offend Mexico.

00:16:05.000 You guys are a poor, small country.

00:16:08.000 You have no say in these matters.

00:16:11.000 You guys have been poisoning our land for too long with drugs, with cartel members, and guns.

00:16:17.000 You guys are one of the most murderous, bloody countries on the planet.

00:16:21.000 Playtime is over.

00:16:23.000 The Mexican economy is reliant on us for survival. 0.99

00:16:27.000 Same thing with Denmark.

00:16:28.000 What negotiating power does Denmark have?

00:16:29.000 Yes, the great power of Denmark.

00:16:31.000 Ooh, the Danish Navy.

00:16:33.000 So scary.

00:16:34.000 Or the Mexican Army.

00:16:35.000 Ooh.

00:16:37.000 Look, buckle up. 1.00

00:16:38.000 The American Renaissance is about to launch, and the attitude is this.

00:16:41.000 Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

00:16:42.000 We have real enemies.

00:16:43.000 The Chinese Communist Party, that is a real enemy.

00:16:47.000 First, we've got to clean up our hemisphere. 0.99

00:16:49.000 Panama, back to America. 0.77

00:16:51.000 Canada?

00:16:51.000 I don't know.

00:16:51.000 I'm not there yet.

00:16:52.000 Maybe Alberta.

00:16:53.000 That's about it.

00:16:54.000 Greenland?

00:16:55.000 We were there yesterday or the day before yesterday.

00:16:57.000 That one's already in motion.

00:16:59.000 Greenland?

00:16:59.000 What are the Danes going to do?

00:17:01.000 Send us a strongly worded letter?

00:17:03.000 President Trump says, Greenland is going to be ours.

00:17:05.000 What are they going to do?

00:17:05.000 Type up a, no, this is a bad idea.

00:17:08.000 Yeah, great.

00:17:08.000 Okay.

00:17:09.000 Why don't you go access your nuclear arsenal, Denmark?

00:17:11.000 Oh, you don't have one?

00:17:12.000 Got it.

00:17:13.000 It's in the Western Hemisphere.

00:17:14.000 Why is it part of Denmark?

00:17:16.000 Never should be.

00:17:19.000 It's time that we consolidate power in the North American hemisphere and then we look to the east and we confront our greatest enemy, the Chinese Communist Party. 0.95

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00:18:30.000 Joining us now is Liz Collin, the filmmaker behind The Fall of Minneapolis and journalist from Alpha News.

00:18:37.000 Liz, welcome back to the program.

00:18:39.000 Liz, walk us through this breaking news regarding Derek Chauvin and the situation around George Floyd.

00:18:46.000 It's a chilling breaking news.

00:18:48.000 Thanks, Charlie, for having me back on.

00:18:49.000 Good to see you and Happy New Year to you guys.

00:18:52.000 There's been a lot of developments just this week in this case.

00:18:55.000 This all stems actually from a defamation lawsuit that was filed against myself.

00:18:59.000 And Alpha News from the fall of Minneapolis.

00:19:03.000 This is from the assistant police chief.

00:19:06.000 Katie Blackwell is her name.

00:19:08.000 She filed this defamation suit back in October against us, saying we did not depict her testimony correctly in the fall of Minneapolis.

00:19:16.000 And also, she took issue with some wording we used in their lying, the media, the left, and the death of George Floyd.

00:19:23.000 That is the book that I first put out that led to the documentary.

00:19:26.000 So as part of this motion to dismiss...

00:19:29.000 That we filed in this case earlier this week.

00:19:32.000 We have 34 current and former police officers who filed sworn declarations to say that this knee-on-neck restraint that she testified about in Derek Chauvin's trial was in fact a part of police training.

00:19:46.000 14 of these officers go so far as to say that she perjured herself, that she lied on the stand in Derek Chauvin's criminal trial back in 2021.

00:19:55.000 So really some bombshell court filings that have taken place.

00:19:59.000 She brought this fight to us, not liking how she was depicted in the fall of Minneapolis, but this was our response to that lawsuit. 0.65

00:20:08.000 It's a 113-page brief in all that was filed in Hennepin County court earlier this week.

00:20:14.000 Can you refresh our audiences?

00:20:16.000 And you had the movie Fall of Minneapolis.

00:20:18.000 Of all of the protocol that wasn't fallen in the criminal prosecution of Derek Chauvin.

00:20:23.000 Yeah, we spent quite a bit of time in the documentary itself dedicated to what jurors saw.

00:20:31.000 But I think really what they did not see, and that was a huge part of this, the MRT, the maximal restraint technique, which you can hear Thomas Lane actually talk about in the body camera footage.

00:20:43.000 Again, the body camera footage, that's kept from the public for months in this case.

00:20:48.000 But MRT is not allowed in Derek Chauvin's trial back in 2021. Judge Peter Cahill at the time said there was no proof that Chauvin signed his name in the last time MRT was taught.

00:21:00.000 Two police officers in Minneapolis.

00:21:03.000 So in his ruling this is why he decided that that would not be allowed in Chauvin's trial.

00:21:10.000 So this is a big part, and then you have Katie Blackwell take the stand, who says under oath that she does not recognize the technique that Derek Chauvin is using.

00:21:18.000 And this is a clip that they continue to use in the trial again and again, a specific exhibit where you can see Derek Chauvin's knee near the neck of George Floyd.

00:21:28.000 She says on the stand that this is not a part of training.

00:21:32.000 However, these officers have now come forward to say that they took issue with her testimony.

00:21:37.000 That the depiction was completely correct in what we used in the fall of Minneapolis, or 30 seconds that we used in the documentary itself.

00:21:47.000 And they now want to go on the record and say that she lied, that she committed perjury in Derek Chauvin's trial.

00:21:55.000 This is amazing.

00:21:56.000 So if you win this case, is there any hope of reopening the Chauvin case itself?

00:22:01.000 Yes, so Charlie, I've already been in touch quite a bit with Derek Chauvin's new attorney.

00:22:06.000 Greg Joseph is his name, and he released a statement to Alpha News on Tuesday calling this a very significant development, and he says it will have direct impact on our approach for post-conviction relief.

00:22:18.000 Just to remind your viewers, Chauvin has a state and a federal appeal ongoing at the moment, and he now plans to use what we've uncovered and put forth to the court in his post-conviction relief that is ongoing at this point. and he now plans to use what we've uncovered and I mean, you would just look at the civilizational importance consistently.

00:22:39.000 Can you speak to how this was not just a single act?

00:22:42.000 This particular incident was extrapolated to be like the greatest injustice since, I mean, I can't even think of, since the assassination of Martin Luther King, right?

00:22:57.000 And yet there's so much mystery around it still.

00:23:01.000 What questions do we still have remaining regarding the events that day that we still haven't been able to get an answer?

00:23:05.000 Well, I think what's interesting here is we took these questions again back to the mayor of Minneapolis.

00:23:12.000 We've been asking now for years, you know, what did you mean by this, that this technique was not trained?

00:23:17.000 Also, now, what do you think that your assistant police chief...

00:23:20.000 Is being accused of perjury, probably in the largest criminal case in Minnesota history.

00:23:25.000 He has yet to answer those questions.

00:23:27.000 The current police chief, Brian O'Hara, has issued a statement since these filings came out to say basically that he stands by his assistant chief, calls her a person of moral character and courage.

00:23:41.000 I confronted her.

00:23:41.000 People can see this on my X account and also through Alpha News.

00:23:45.000 It's just at Liz Collin or at Alpha News MN on X. But we were there when she walked in to work asking her about these court filings.

00:23:55.000 So what's the truth here?

00:23:56.000 You know, who's telling the truth?

00:23:58.000 Is it you or is it these 34 officers that have now filed these sworn declarations?

00:24:04.000 And I will say, even since these court filings, many more...

00:24:08.000 Police officers, current and former, have come forward to say, yeah, she lied.

00:24:13.000 What can we do to push back and go on the record now?

00:24:18.000 But it seems like a completely different time that we're living in at this point, that perhaps there is a hope, finally, for truth.

00:24:27.000 Has Minneapolis recovered since the June of 2020?

00:24:31.000 Has Minneapolis come back to how it was in that previous spring?

00:24:36.000 Not even how it was 10 years ago.

00:24:38.000 But has Minneapolis restored itself to how it was, let's say, in April of 2020?

00:24:43.000 You know, we always take a look at this pretty closely at the end of every year, just with statistics, crime statistics.

00:24:52.000 But no, the answer is, you know, there's a reason we called even the documentary The Fall of Minneapolis last year.

00:24:58.000 You have record crime that continues.

00:25:01.000 I think in 2019, there were about 46 homicides in the city of Minneapolis.

00:25:06.000 That's up to in the 70s and 80s ever since.

00:25:10.000 The murder rate in Minnesota alone has gone up by 50% since 2019. And remember, we were told that we'd be living on the right side of history after all of this.

00:25:21.000 This was the mantra back then that we were fed by the mayor of Minneapolis, by our governor.

00:25:27.000 Tim Walls and many others.

00:25:29.000 And I've yet to find anyone who actually thinks that we are now, you know, nearly five years later.

00:25:35.000 It's remarkable that of all the states where you could pick a running mate, Kamala Harris chose the running mate from Minnesota.

00:25:42.000 Can you rattle off some of the figures of how dangerous Minneapolis has become?

00:25:47.000 And is there any sort of reckoning?

00:25:50.000 I mean, we've seen in certain parts of the country, as it goes peak woke, there's a little bit of a retreat.

00:25:55.000 Is there any sign of that in Minneapolis?

00:25:58.000 I always come on here, Charlie, and wish that I always had better news for you.

00:26:03.000 But there's some things that took place just voting-wise this November.

00:26:09.000 I'll point out that Governor Walz did not actually even carry his home county in Minnesota.

00:26:14.000 That went to Trump this time around, and that's been a...

00:26:18.000 Predominantly blue area for many years.

00:26:21.000 So that seemed to be, it's a more rural area of Minnesota.

00:26:25.000 That seemed to be a bit of a bright spot from the election.

00:26:28.000 The current city council in Minneapolis is up for re-election this year, this new year in 2025. And there's already a lot of movement there to try to find more moderate candidates.

00:26:37.000 You have a city council that is primarily filled with socialists.

00:26:43.000 Self-proclaimed socialists, DSA candidates in Minneapolis.

00:26:48.000 And there's dozens of homeless encampments that have been allowed in the city since this.

00:26:54.000 They never used to even track carjackings in Minneapolis.

00:26:58.000 There were so few.

00:27:00.000 Now there are hundreds every year.

00:27:02.000 I think there was about 6,500 stolen cars in the city alone this year.

00:27:08.000 Again, a number that dwarfed that, you know, pre-George Floyd.

00:27:13.000 So much has changed.

00:27:15.000 And you have a police department that is barely half of what it once was.

00:27:20.000 900 officers were on the force at the beginning of May of 2020. I think the current number is right around 500 in the city.

00:27:28.000 They really struggle to find candidates and good quality candidates in the city of Minneapolis as well.

00:27:35.000 It really is a tragedy.

00:27:37.000 Liz, in closing here, please summarize how people can support you and learn more about your great work.

00:27:43.000 If they haven't watched The Fall of Minneapolis, it is free on YouTube.

00:27:47.000 If you just check out Alpha News on YouTube, you'll find our stories there.

00:27:52.000 And you can also head to alphanews.org.

00:27:55.000 We'll continue to follow this lawsuit, and there's going to be a lot of developments, I think, coming here quickly.

00:28:00.000 So we'll be sure to keep you up to date.

00:28:02.000 Liz, thank you so much.

00:28:03.000 Excellent.

00:28:04.000 Thank you.

00:28:04.000 Thanks, Charlie.

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00:30:18.000 There was a pretty amazing moment that happened today at Jimmy Carter's funeral where you had...

00:30:24.000 Everything wrong with American politics surrounding the solution.

00:30:29.000 You had in one shot, I don't know if we'll see this again, you had Barack Hussein Obama, you had Al Gore, you had President Trump surrounded in every possible direction.

00:30:39.000 You had George Bush, you had Bill Clinton, you had Hillary Clinton.

00:30:43.000 The lip reader says this.

00:30:48.000 Lip reader reveals Donald Trump told Obama they will, quote, find a quiet place to discuss matter of importance at Jimmy Carter funeral.

00:30:57.000 Ooh, that's very dramatic, isn't it?

00:31:00.000 They know that they're lip reading, that their lips are being read here.

00:31:04.000 What do you guys think?

00:31:05.000 Let's put this up.

00:31:06.000 Let's put 134. Hey, for all the people that are mad about me at the sign reading thing, maybe they can help us out here.

00:31:13.000 Because I said we've got to get these emergency alerts with all the signs.

00:31:16.000 It's just a distraction.

00:31:17.000 So maybe they can help here.

00:31:19.000 What is Trump saying?

00:31:22.000 By the way, there's Doug and Kamala Harris and Barbara Bush.

00:31:27.000 Is it Barbara?

00:31:28.000 No, it's Laura Bush.

00:31:28.000 Not Barbara Bush.

00:31:29.000 Laura Bush.

00:31:30.000 And you just look.

00:31:31.000 You see how much damage the collective group of people has done to the country.

00:31:35.000 And you realize they're actually not in control.

00:31:38.000 That everybody except Donald Trump on that screen is controlled by an unelected shadow government deep state.

00:31:45.000 That they're just a figurehead for the administrative state.

00:31:47.000 They're a figurehead for the bureaucracy.

00:31:49.000 But President Trump standing right there is a unique phenomenon.

00:31:53.000 He is a vessel for the citizenry.

00:31:56.000 He's a representative for the people.

00:31:58.000 An insurgent against the imperial regime that has existed.

00:32:03.000 That's a great shot, Andrew.

00:32:04.000 Let's put that up.

00:32:05.000 Here you got the whole cast of no-good characters.

00:32:08.000 Here, look at this.

00:32:09.000 By the way, where's Dick Cheney?

00:32:11.000 That would have just topped it off.

00:32:13.000 And where's Michelle Obama? 1.00

00:32:15.000 Why did Barack come alone?

00:32:20.000 I was born in 1993. Every single person who has been president since 1993 is pictured here.

00:32:27.000 So you got Bill Clinton, you got Hillary Clinton, you got George Bush, you got Barack Obama, and it was supposed to be Hillary Clinton again, but Donald Trump disrupted it all.

00:32:35.000 He will go down in the legend books, in the history books, for just that.

00:32:41.000 All of these other maniacs have overseen the destruction of our country, one by one, both parties.

00:32:47.000 And Donald Trump said, stop it.

00:32:49.000 This is a bad idea.

00:32:51.000 Donald Trump is the rebellion against all of their damage to this country.

00:32:58.000 No more neoliberal imperialist wars.

00:33:01.000 No more adventurism overseas.

00:33:03.000 We're going to stop the invasion.

00:33:06.000 No more apologizing for our greatness.

00:33:09.000 No more bending a knee to our enemies.

00:33:13.000 This is the dark night of the soul for the Uniparty. 0.70

00:33:17.000 Is what this is.

00:33:19.000 And Donald Trump is such an exception.

00:33:22.000 And it also just goes to show what frauds Barack Hussein Obama is. 0.59

00:33:28.000 Oh, Donald Trump is Hitler.

00:33:30.000 Meanwhile, he's chatting it up with Hitler, I guess, at the funeral.

00:33:33.000 So chummy.

00:33:35.000 They didn't believe any of the nonsense that they were trying to tell the American people.

00:33:39.000 Look, I would actually have respect if they were like, we're not going to Carter's funeral because Donald Trump is the greatest thing ever.

00:33:45.000 And if 2017 was marked by the resistance, 2025 is the acquiescence.

00:33:55.000 He just wore them out.

00:33:57.000 It isn't that complicated, everybody.

00:34:00.000 He just wore them down.

00:34:04.000 And they're just like, fine.

00:34:06.000 How much more do we have to deal with this Trump guy?

00:34:08.000 Just get it over with.

00:34:10.000 Trump won.

00:34:10.000 He outlasted us.

00:34:12.000 He got shot.

00:34:13.000 He got indicted.

00:34:14.000 700 years in fellow prison.

00:34:15.000 New York civil case.

00:34:16.000 And deep down, I think Barack Hussein Obama really madly respects Donald Trump.

00:34:24.000 I don't think he likes him.

00:34:25.000 I think he's annoyed by him.

00:34:27.000 But I think he's like, man, that guy's got game.

00:34:29.000 I think deep down, Barack's like, this guy is superhuman.

00:34:33.000 I think deep down, you can just kind of tell that Barack Obama's like, man, this guy is a baller.

00:34:38.000 This guy's as good as it gets.

00:34:40.000 He'll never say it.

00:34:42.000 He'll never whisper it.

00:34:44.000 But you can deep down, Barack is like, man, this guy, after everything that we've thrown at him, a generational talent.

00:34:50.000 And we've got to be honest, Barack Obama is as well.

00:34:52.000 It takes one to know one.

00:34:53.000 All those other people are largely low IQ basement dweller dog catchers.

00:34:58.000 Barack Obama is a legit generational talent.

00:35:02.000 Clinton is fine, but I mean, you got some really unimpressive people there.

00:35:04.000 Kamala Harris, Hillary. 0.97

00:35:06.000 Obama has real talent.

00:35:08.000 The two most talented people there are Trump and Obama.

00:35:12.000 And deep down, I think Obama has a lot more respect for Trump than he'll ever let on.

00:35:16.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

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