00:01:03.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:45.000Two of Hunter Biden's former business partners, including Tony Bobolinski, who received the email, told CBS News the 10 held by H for the big guy is shorthand for 10% held by Hunter for his father.
00:01:58.000Last month, Senator Chuck Grassley wrote this letter alleging bank records and financial data showed that Hunter Biden and the president's brother profited from a $5 million wire from a company connected to CEFC, the Chinese energy firm.
00:02:13.000After two years of scrutiny, the laptop has not produced evidence President Biden directly benefited from his son's business deals.
00:02:20.000So joining us now is John Paul McIsaak.
00:03:26.000You know, I've never felt really comfortable about talking about the actual contents of the laptop with anybody other than people of authority and the authorities.
00:03:35.000I can say that the 80,000 images of CP that were reported to be on the laptop, that's false.
00:03:44.000There is some, there's some disturbing images revolving family members, and I'll just leave it at that.
00:03:51.000So let me ask you, how do you personally feel after having been basically character assassinated for years?
00:03:58.000And now, CBS News is coming out and acting as if they knew this all along.
00:04:03.000Well, you know, I knew it was going to be a gamble when CBS approached my lawyer about three, four months ago requesting a copy of the laptop.
00:04:13.000I knew that it was a risk giving them access, but also what they could do, tried to twist the story and tried to damage my reputation more than they already had.
00:04:54.000It really all started when I got defeated by Twitter in the court of law.
00:04:59.000I tried to sue Twitter for defamation when they labeled my actions hacking when they decided to block the New York Post story and then block people's accounts and throttle the conversation.
00:05:12.000Because if I was ever going to fix people's computers again, having the label hacker was just a death sentence in my industry.
00:05:18.000So I figured the only way I was going to, if I couldn't, if I couldn't defend myself and hold those accountable in a court of law, then a book was going to be my only way of holding people accountable in a court of public opinion.
00:05:30.000And I wrote the book and I didn't think it was going to get published because people still thought I was a Russian agent or this is all part of a plot from the Kremlin.
00:05:38.000Eventually, though, Miranda Devine, who wrote The Laptop from Hell, saved my bacon.
00:05:44.000She was able to put me in front of her publisher and things got moving.
00:05:50.000What do you think people are going to learn in this book when they get it?
00:05:53.000And the book, by the way, is American Injustice, My Battle to Expose the Truth.
00:05:57.000Well, I think it should be a cautionary tale.
00:06:01.000There's two stories, and I think the more important story is not revolving around a guy with a drug problem and a sex addiction that left three laptops at my shop or one laptop at my shop.
00:06:13.000I think the story is more of this is what happens when our mainstream and social media collude with our federal agencies that have been weaponized politically.
00:08:08.000Anything else about the book you want our audience to know or about your story in general?
00:08:12.000And I also want to thank you for your courage and perseverance throughout this entire drama.
00:08:17.000Well, I want to, first off, I just want to let everybody who has supported me either by buying the book or by just a prayer or anything in between.
00:08:52.000GLAD, which I think is the gay lesbian something, something, talks about in terms of gender-affirming care, the AMA and Pediatric Association have confirmed that surgeries are safe.
00:09:02.000They are saying that it's safe to chemically castrate your children and medically mutilate your kids.
00:09:08.000I really wonder that in some of these battleground districts that didn't go our way, if we would have talked more about this issue, PlayCut 57.
00:09:14.000In terms of trans kids and gender-affirming care, the American Medical Association, the Pediatric Association, has confirmed that these are safe procedures.
00:09:47.000An entire multi-billion dollar industry has been created around preying on children, administering drugs they do not need, convincing them to go in for surgery that they're told is going to be a wonderful thing to them.
00:10:07.000She says it is settled science in terms of gender-affirming care.
00:10:12.000My position on this remains the same in counseling and in psychology and in medicine.
00:10:18.000It is not the job of the professional to affirm the sick person.
00:10:23.000You do not give liposuction to someone who has anorexia.
00:10:28.000You do not affirm someone's mental illness.
00:10:31.000You challenge them and heal them into a place where they could be at peace and they can flourish.
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00:12:21.000We got to get him back in front of Congress.
00:12:24.000We got to get this leadership fight figured out.
00:12:26.000We got to get committees filled and then we got to start sending subpoenas out like frisbees to every single one of these people.
00:12:33.000Fauci gave his final message today at the White House, PlayCut 69.
00:12:39.000So my message and my final message, maybe the final message I give you from this podium, is that please, for your own safety, for that of your family, get your updated COVID-19 shot as soon as you're eligible to protect yourself, your family, and your community.
00:13:12.000Vaccinated and unboosted versus vaccinated plus boosted.
00:13:16.000That doesn't mean you shouldn't get boosted, but the real danger is in the people who have not been vaccinated.
00:13:22.000So that's where we expect if we're going to see a problem this winter, it's going to.
00:13:27.000Yeah, if you see a problem, it's going to be the unvaccinated people.
00:13:31.000Dr. Anthony Fauci is the worst of the fourth branch of government.
00:13:35.000There has to be a mandate for this new Republican House of Representatives to put on full display the lying, the cheating, the stealing, the deceit, the self-enrichment of Anthony Fauci.
00:13:50.000Anthony Fauci was never elected by anybody.
00:13:52.000Anthony Fauci, who's largely unknown to most people, and unlimited amounts of power to be able to make money from private actors and still run a government agency, the highest paid employee in the federal government.
00:14:04.000And we're still being lectured, morally told that if you do not get the experimental gene therapy that they call the vaccine, you are a bad person.
00:14:29.000That any of their unvaccinated patients, that they should consider that they have a mental problem and that they should be put on psychiatric medication.
00:14:39.000So far, it's just a suggestion, but the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario should not be making these kinds of suggestions.
00:14:46.000This is extremely unethical, and this is a very, very slippery slope.
00:14:50.000If they're suggesting that people who wish to have bodily autonomy and don't want an experimental vaccine, that there may be something mentally wrong with them, that is a very, very dangerous, slippery slope that we're on.
00:15:03.000So that is, that's not some fringe person saying that.
00:15:06.000That is the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario sending out a memo that if you do not get vaccinated, you need to get on benzodiazepans, Zolof, and Xanax immediately.
00:15:19.000That you have a chemical imbalance, that you need to be medicated.
00:15:25.000It's that if you have a free thinking bone in your body, if you have a liberty-loving fiber in your being, we have to medicate you.
00:15:37.000If you love liberty and you might have some fears about tyranny or, I don't know, fears about the experimental gene therapy, we're going to put you on antidepressants.
00:15:49.000We're going to put you on psychiatric drugs.
00:15:52.000You might say, oh, Charlie, that will never happen here.
00:15:55.000How many times do we have to say that of what happens to our neighbors to the north and it creeps on down to America?
00:16:01.000How many times from the trucker resistance to the debanking campaigns to social media suppression to ESG to the environmentalism?
00:16:15.000Doesn't start there, but it's incubated there and then it comes over here.
00:16:18.000The official board of the physicians and surgeons of Ontario saying that if you are unvaccinated, you should be put on psychiatric drugs.
00:16:31.000The end of the year is right around the corner, and it's time for you to consider a change in your investment plan.
00:16:35.000This is Charlie Kirk, and I strongly recommend you go right now and see my friends at PAX to review your investments.
00:16:42.000They are the one firm I know that focuses on biblical, responsible investing and does not force you to invest in companies that literally attack Christian values.
00:16:52.000If we want religious liberty in our country, we have to stop investing in companies that are trying to suppress our freedoms.
00:17:32.000As we continue to reflect back on the midterm elections, it's important that we learn the right lessons and not the wrong lessons, because there is a deliberate campaign by the establishment unit party to tell us that it's because we nominated two conservative candidates and that we need to go back to the ways of John McCain and Jeff Flake.
00:17:54.000And that's what they're trying to tell us.
00:17:57.000Well, here to help us navigate all of it is Chris Buzzkirk, great American and very smart thinker.
00:18:22.000Here's where I would start with that is it wasn't two weeks ago.
00:18:25.000It was a year ago, but we got some really, really good, smart candidates to run.
00:18:33.000And that's where all this stuff starts, right?
00:18:35.000You've got to get good quality candidates out there to run.
00:18:37.000And I know as you were kind of saying just a second ago, there's a narrative that is being attempted to be foisted upon us, which is that we ran a bunch of terrible candidates.
00:18:48.000I mean, there were some that were, you know, C's.
00:19:40.000The good is that those are the people we want running the country.
00:19:42.000Those are the people we want in office.
00:19:44.000Bad is that those people are as much a threat to the incumbent establishment, even on our side politically, as they are to the opposite side.
00:19:59.000Like they can see these guys come and they're like, wow, they're young, they're hungry, they're smart, they're accomplished, and maybe they're coming for our jobs too.
00:20:07.000They're not just, and as a result, and you saw it, you saw it here with Blake in Arizona.
00:20:13.000Blake got Blake got a lot of support from the grassroots.
00:20:17.000Blake got a lot of support from the America First Donor Community.
00:20:20.000Blake got absolutely nothing from the establishment.
00:20:26.000He got left hung out to drive by people like Mitch McConnell and the super PEC that he runs.
00:20:31.000Yeah, and that just talks about, I mean, that's just the surface level.
00:20:35.000By the way, Chris is behind American Greatness, great website.
00:20:40.000You guys should check it out, amgreatness.org.
00:20:42.000So, Chris, I guess let's also then let's go into what went wrong.
00:20:47.000You were one of the few people that early, early, early were warning and cautioning that the era of vote by mail is here and that voting early needs to be strategically embraced.
00:21:03.000You know, my own feelings were: okay, maybe in-person election day, but because, you know, for a lot of reasons, game day voting, and obviously that didn't work very well in Arizona.
00:21:12.000We were ambushed and sabotaged with machine failures, amongst other things.
00:21:17.000So how should we think about vote by mail?
00:22:20.000Counting, you know, paper, pencil, no, that's archaic.
00:22:23.000But the countries that do it actually count ballots faster than we do.
00:22:27.000So anyway, not to belabor the point, but that is actually the ideal is to do it that way.
00:22:32.000That is probably not going to happen anytime soon in this country.
00:22:38.000Because even if there was sort of a ground 12 support, it would be a state by state.
00:22:45.000So with that sort of as a backdrop, what I would say is this: is that Republicans need to do one thing, and that is to understand that there is a difference between the rules around the elections as they are currently written and the rules around elections as we would like them to be written.
00:23:04.000And we can, you know, we should be able to walk and chew gum while we are working on a better set of rules around elections.
00:23:12.000And that's everything from voter ID to whether it be day of, you know, how the mail imbalance are handled, all of those sorts of things.
00:23:19.000There's real work to be done on that stuff in a bunch of states.
00:23:23.000Not every state, because you do have states like Ohio and Florida that actually have reformed their elections and they're really functioning elections.
00:24:00.000And so what that means is embracing early balloting where it presently exists without having to love it.
00:24:07.000But it does mean you cannot allow the Republican candidates to get behind.
00:24:14.000And that's what we saw is that it's not only a matter of going out and collecting ballots where legal.
00:24:20.000You know, there's legal ballot harvesting some states.
00:24:23.000Even in Arizona, there's a version of ballot harvesting that is legal.
00:24:27.000I mean, people say it is ballot harvesting, but basically if somebody's a family member in your household, like a husband with a wife, the husband is allowed to take the wife's ballot.
00:24:37.000But whatever the rules are, abide by them, but maximize the amount of ballots that we are getting turned in legally, obviously, but maximize that according to the rules in your state, even while we are working on making a better set of rules.
00:24:54.000And I mean, we have some evidence to suggest this video evidence as well.
00:24:58.000But I mean, we know the left is breaking the rules.
00:25:00.000We know they're ballot harvesting in Arizona.
00:25:02.000It's just some of these dumps are just so uncharacteristic.
00:25:06.000I refuse to believe that some of this is happening organically.
00:25:09.000But so then I guess the question is then, Chris, do we need to then, you know, going now to 2024, do we now need to have a rather robust and aggressive campaign to say that we are going to have in-person early voting?
00:25:36.000And just by simple logic, you're going to have a taper.
00:25:41.000You're going to broaden the window of bad things to go to happen, like what happened in Anthem, for example, one of our Reddit precincts in Maricopa County, where there were two and a half, three hour waits.
00:26:23.000I grew up, you know, watching my parents vote on Election Day.
00:26:26.000And so I'm just, I'm in the habit of doing that.
00:26:28.000And I'm, you know, like as no surprise, like I'm one of those voters who like would crawl across broken glass to get there on election day.
00:26:37.000But I guess I would say this is that you talk about conservatives and Republicans dominating early voting in the in the distant past.
00:26:53.000You know, so it's only four years ago that we were dominating this.
00:26:57.000And that was that was not because we had an awesome turnout machine.
00:27:01.000That was because Republicans, you know, Republicans like to vote.
00:27:04.000Republicans are responsible about voting, et cetera.
00:27:07.000That's historically sort of been the way it is.
00:27:10.000There's a couple of cultural changes that have gone on.
00:27:13.000One is there has been so much controversy around election integrity and election security since the 2020 election that a lot of Republicans who even only four years ago, they just mailed in their ballots in a place like Arizona.
00:27:27.000They held their ballots and they either voted in person or they took their mail-in ballot and they just walked it in on election day.
00:27:37.000So there was a bunch of that that was going on.
00:27:41.000So there's that cultural shift where we have to sort of reorient our people back to just making sure they vote.
00:27:46.000I mean, honestly, we really don't care if people who are on our side, I don't care if they vote on election day, if they do early in person or whatever, but they got to do it.
00:27:55.000So there's that part because our turnout was down this year.
00:27:59.000There's probably a lot of reasons behind that.
00:28:02.000But the other thing that's sort of at a higher level that we need to be to really recognize and be more intentional about is that the Republican coalition has changed quite a bit over the years.
00:28:14.000It was a sort of middle, upper middle class coalition.
00:28:17.000It is now sort of more of a working class, middle class coalition.
00:28:22.000And the working class, you know, I don't love that term.
00:28:26.000It sounds sort of, it sounds sort of Marxist, but you know what I mean.
00:28:35.000The muscular class is out moving drywall on election day.
00:28:39.000The muscular class has other things going on.
00:28:43.000We need to be people who are sort of in what you might call the operations element of politics need to make sure those people get turned out.
00:28:53.000Like we need to have very robust turnout operations because at the margin, it makes a big difference whether we, you know, whether or not we are strongly motivating people to get out and vote.
00:29:06.000I mean, this is basically old-fashioned Democrat union politics, right?
00:29:10.000The unions turned out the muscular class for the Democrats for generations.
00:29:14.000Well, a lot of that, a lot of that base has moved over to the Republican Party, but we don't have the apparatus or the infrastructure to do the turnout that the Democrats were doing.
00:29:23.000And we need to because at the margin, we lose a meaningful percentage of those people who, for whatever reason, just don't vote.
00:31:30.000He actually defies the laws of nature in that capacity.
00:31:35.000And I think we've now tried to apply it to other cycles and other circumstances.
00:31:40.000In this midterm election, we just assumed that we were going to see that turnout.
00:31:44.000Now, turnout was pretty robust, but we didn't see the extra tick up of turnout.
00:31:50.000And for example, let's just take Arizona, Yava Pie, Yuma, Mojave.
00:31:54.000It was good, but there was anywhere between 220 to 280,000 voters in just four counties that were at Maricopa that didn't vote this cycle, that voted for Trump.
00:32:04.000I mean, that's the answer to the narrative that is being attempted to be pushed on us right now, which is that Trump depresses turnout or Trump candidates depress turnout or they turn people off.
00:32:24.000I mean, we know that Trump is the most hated politician.
00:32:27.000He's also in many ways the most beloved politician in this country, but there is a segment of our voters who only come out and vote for him.
00:32:37.000There were, and we did this as we did this as an organization I'm involved with, did this as a data project in the lead up to the 2022 election.
00:32:46.000So earlier this year, there were 543,000 odd Republican voters in Arizona who voted in 2016 and 2020 who were eligible to vote in 2014 and 2018, but did not.
00:33:01.000So it's a big pool of people who are coming out just to vote in the presidential election.
00:33:05.000Now, in a sense, that's normal behavior.
00:33:08.000Like there are just people who only vote presidential, but it was actually quite a large number as a percentage compared to other comparable periods in other states.
00:33:17.000And the point is that Trump, there are people Trump turns out and only he turns out.
00:33:23.000And so when you go back and you start to look at some of these states, Arizona is one, Michigan's another, Wisconsin's another, and you look at what turnout was like in 2016, 18, 20, and 22, you find out that actually the margin in these states is Trump because of the people that he brings out.
00:33:41.000And so for the people, you know, in other words, there's a counter argument here.
00:33:45.000Yes, there are people who were just turned off by Donald Trump.
00:33:47.000There's a lot of people who are turned on almost exclusively by him.
00:33:52.000And one of the challenges for Republicans in general is how do you keep those people engaged?
00:33:56.000How do you keep them motivated when Donald Trump isn't on, isn't at the top of the ticket, whether that be because it's a midterm or whether that be because maybe we're four years or eight years down the road.
00:34:07.000And these are people that are a key part of our coalition.
00:34:11.000We need them to be involved if we're going to win.
00:34:13.000And the question is, how do you keep them involved when the guy that the guy that has gotten them involved in politics in many cases for the first time isn't on the ballot?
00:34:22.000Yeah, so Democrats were able to replicate Tempe and downtown Phoenix presidential style turnout.
00:34:28.000Republicans were not able to replicate Yavapai, Mojave, and Cochise.
00:34:34.000I didn't think that would have been the case.
00:34:36.000And again, a lot of it's speculation, right?
00:34:38.000Because how are you going to get these people if Trump's not on the ballot?
00:34:41.000But for Kerry Lake or Abe Hamade, to a lesser extent, Blake, if 50,000 more hard R's would have showed up in the rules of Arizona, it's over with all with all the other nonsense that happened, right?
00:35:22.000You know, I've given this talk a bunch of times in public, and I'll just repeat, I'll just repeat it in a very brief form right now for your audience, Charlie.
00:35:31.000There are things, there are legitimate criticisms of the Republican establishment, the Republican, the existing Republican infrastructure.
00:35:41.000But as I've gotten more deeply involved in some of the grassroots type of stuff when you're doing voter registration, get out the vote and these sorts of things, one of the things that I learned, honestly, I mean, it was just a legitimate learning experience, is that there are things that we expect some of the existing institutions to do that they're not capable of doing.
00:36:02.000And one of the, and that means that we need new institutions to do those things because they are very much needful.
00:36:10.000But, you know, I'll give you an example.
00:36:12.000The RNC comes in for a lot of criticism.
00:36:18.000But one thing that people don't, one thing people don't appreciate is that campaign finance limits the amount of money that the RNC can raise.
00:36:25.000And the things that we expect them to do, the amount of money it costs is far in excess of what they can raise.
00:36:30.000And that means that we need other allied organizations to go out and do those things.
00:36:35.000We'll dive into that deeper at another time.