The Charlie Kirk Show - This is More Than Just a Presidential Election — Live at Save Big Sky with Tim Sheehy

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, this is The Charlie Kirk Show.

00:00:01.000 My conversation with hopefully the next U.S. Senator from Montana.

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00:01:27.000 Thank you, everybody. Please take a seat.

00:01:29.000 Who is ready to fire John Tester this November?

00:01:35.000 I'll tell you, you guys deserve a lot better than what you've been getting here.

00:01:39.000 And it's very interesting.

00:01:40.000 And of course, most importantly, who's ready to put Donald Trump back in the White House?

00:01:45.000 And by the way, those two things are tied together.

00:01:48.000 As we drive Trump turnout here in this state, it's harder and harder for Mr.

00:01:52.000 Tester to hold on to the Senate seat.

00:01:55.000 You know, I'm in crisscrossing the country.

00:01:56.000 I finally have my voice back, by the way.

00:01:58.000 I lost my voice for an entire week.

00:02:00.000 We did events in Pennsylvania, in Georgia, in Michigan, in Wisconsin, in Arizona.

00:02:06.000 And I told our team, I said, we're going to Montana.

00:02:08.000 They said, what's in Montana? I said, I'll tell you what's in Montana.

00:02:12.000 The future of the U.S. Senate is in Montana.

00:02:14.000 That's what's in Montana. And I love this state and it has the most amazing people.

00:02:22.000 By the way, I'm told it's the most veterans per capita of any state in the country.

00:02:26.000 Is that right? By the way, thank you for all of you who served our country.

00:02:30.000 Give it up for them, all of you that serve the country.

00:02:32.000 Thank you so much.

00:02:33.000 You know, we are living through extraordinary times right now, and you can see here, this

00:02:43.000 I'll tell you, we would have even more people, but it's hard to build a crowd on a college campus at 3.30 in the afternoon.

00:02:49.000 This is pretty amazing. We're visiting the country.

00:02:52.000 When I go to Penn State University, we have 3,000 people that show up.

00:02:55.000 Arizona State University, 2,000 people.

00:02:58.000 And you could see it on the ground.

00:02:59.000 In fact, you saw it today in what we had happening out there.

00:03:03.000 Do you know that we registered 100 new voters for Donald Trump and Tim Sheehy today on campus, University of Montana?

00:03:10.000 Isn't that great? 100 new voters, and many of whom are young men, and young men are the most conservative they have been in over 50 years right now.

00:03:21.000 We're seeing it on the ground.

00:03:23.000 And it makes sense.

00:03:25.000 As we travel the country, we are seeing in real time the country become more and more conservative.

00:03:32.000 You see, in the last couple of years, we've seen the failures of open borders, of inflation.

00:03:37.000 In order to buy a home in this country, and in Montana, by the way, you have the highest increases of home prices in the country, largely thanks to Mr.

00:03:46.000 Tester. Largely thanks to what he's been doing and how he's been voting.

00:03:50.000 He voted for the Inflation Explosion Act in Washington, D.C. In order to buy a home in this country, four years ago when Donald Trump was president, it required $75,000 a year to be able to buy a home.

00:04:03.000 Now, upwards of $130,000 a year to be able to buy a home.

00:04:08.000 The reason why we are packing out audiences like this and we're seeing young people move in the conservative direction in record ways is that this next generation is the first generation since George Washington to have it worse off than their parents.

00:04:23.000 Nobody in this room that is over the age of 40 can resonate with that.

00:04:27.000 This generation is sicker, more depressed, anxious, suicidal, and poorer than previous generations.

00:04:32.000 And they're looking at the millennials and they're looking at the liberalism that is being force-fed.

00:04:37.000 They said, no, I want a country that is strong, that is proud, a country that has borders, a country...

00:04:42.000 That puts citizens above foreigners, a country that will employ young people above people coming in this country from distant and far off lands and say, no, we will not allow people in this country illegally when our own college graduates cannot afford homes in this country. 0.99

00:04:58.000 We're not going to put up with it.

00:05:01.000 And we are seeing this amazing unification happen in this country.

00:05:08.000 Who would have ever thought that in 2024, Donald Trump would be shot, try to be killed three times, and a Kennedy would be endorsing a Republican?

00:05:19.000 Look what's happening here.

00:05:20.000 You see, the media, they're not covering it, but there is a profound movement where we are rejecting the radical Democrats and their agenda.

00:05:28.000 The former co-chair of the Democrat National Committee, Tulsi Gabbard, is all in on Donald Trump.

00:05:35.000 The world's wealthiest man, Elon Musk, all in on our movement.

00:05:39.000 Bobby Kennedy. You see, these are people that might disagree on certain political issues, but they agree on the big stuff.

00:05:46.000 We agree that free speech is a bedrock of this country.

00:05:49.000 We agree that when decisions must be made, citizens must always be prioritized above citizens of another country. 0.93

00:05:57.000 Very basic. We believe that if you do not have a border, you do not have a country.

00:06:04.000 An open border is not a border.

00:06:05.000 And how about this one?

00:06:06.000 We believe that God created men and women and that men should stay out of female sports. 0.98

00:06:11.000 These are things that we can agree on.

00:06:20.000 And regardless of certain previous political differences, we are seeing that the Democrat Party is the party of censorship.

00:06:26.000 They are the party of mass migration. 0.83

00:06:29.000 They are the party of big government spending and inflation.

00:06:33.000 And you do not have a country if you simultaneously have to survive mass migration and inflation.

00:06:39.000 By the way, since we have inflation, doesn't that make sense that we should slow the curb of people coming into this country? 1.00

00:06:46.000 Wouldn't it be rational that we should say that we're going to slow down the amount of people coming in?

00:06:50.000 And every single state is a border state.

00:06:53.000 I want you to think about someone that you know in your community.

00:06:56.000 Maybe a loved one that overdosed on fentanyl.

00:06:59.000 I want you to think about someone here in this state that was impacted by the drug trade coming into Montana.

00:07:05.000 That right there is because of Kamala Harris's inability to secure the southern border. 1.00

00:07:11.000 And we're going to fire her and John Tester in November to secure the southern border once and for all.

00:07:19.000 And this is even bigger than that.

00:07:22.000 We are in this for our children.

00:07:23.000 I am a father of two, two kids under two.

00:07:26.000 The most important thing in the world is being able to raise kids in a country, in a stable country.

00:07:31.000 Do you know that there's over 320,000 missing kids under Kamala Harris coming across the southern border?

00:07:39.000 320,000 kids, many of whom are being sold into sex slavery and labor slaves.

00:07:44.000 You don't hear the media talking about that.

00:07:46.000 You see, the media, they will not mention that according to the Department of Homeland Security, Over 13,000 of the people that have come into this country were convicted of murder in the country they fled from.

00:07:58.000 Did you see that report last week?

00:08:00.000 13,000 of the people that came into this country illegally were convicted by a jury of their peers of murder in Venezuela, in El Salvador.

00:08:10.000 15,000 of them convicted of a jury of their peers of rape.

00:08:15.000 425,000 of them have prior criminal convictions, and hundreds of them are on the terror watch list.

00:08:21.000 You would only do this if you want to see the destruction and the deterioration of the country that we love.

00:08:26.000 But here's the good news, everybody.

00:08:28.000 And you're seeing this in Montana.

00:08:30.000 We are being outspent.

00:08:31.000 100%. How many ads do you see for Tester?

00:08:34.000 It's unbelievable, right?

00:08:36.000 Let me tell you why.

00:08:37.000 Because Tester is perfect for California liberals.

00:08:41.000 California liberals have a lot of money, but some of them live here. 0.95

00:08:44.000 Unfortunately, too many are coming to Montana.

00:08:45.000 Am I right? Too many are coming in.

00:08:48.000 But they have a perfect puppet in Jon Tester.

00:08:53.000 He will do whatever they want.

00:08:55.000 Vote for bigger spending, refuse to close the southern border, never try to balance the budget.

00:09:00.000 You see, Jon Tester does the bidding of New York and California liberals and pretends to be one of you.

00:09:06.000 In these beautifully curated television advertisements.

00:09:10.000 You see, this is the last stand.

00:09:11.000 This is the last stand for people that pretend that they can game you.

00:09:15.000 And it's an insult to all of you.

00:09:17.000 You go to D.C., he's all chummy on these committees that are doing these radical policies.

00:09:22.000 Chummy with all of them in the inside of Washington, D.C. Instead, we have an opportunity to send a Navy SEAL, someone who is a job creator, and a true conservative of the U.S. Senate, and his name is Tim Sheehy, and we need to rise up in huge numbers and tell the people of Montana about this.

00:09:39.000 You see... I'm going to welcome them out here in just a second.

00:09:43.000 This will only happen if every single one of you get to work and you're able to cut through the television propaganda.

00:09:51.000 You need to tell your family and friends, first and foremost, you vote the entire ballot, right?

00:09:57.000 It's not just president, you vote the entire ballot, and as you work down, you need to make sure that Donald Trump has a unified government to work with.

00:10:06.000 You know, day one, if they control the U.S. Senate or the U.S. House, they will impeach Donald Trump for breathing.

00:10:11.000 I guarantee it. They will impeach him.

00:10:14.000 Also, how are we going to get good Supreme Court justices?

00:10:17.000 Supreme Court justices that support our Second Amendment rights and religious liberty.

00:10:23.000 And Supreme Court justices that will say, you are not allowed to put a mask on my child in middle school.

00:10:29.000 Thank you very much. Those are the justices that we want.

00:10:32.000 You see... Today, Senate Democrats, did you see this?

00:10:38.000 They introduced a bill to expand the Supreme Court.

00:10:42.000 That's who John Tester represents.

00:10:44.000 They want to pack the court and expand the court to try to take away your God-given liberties and freedoms.

00:10:50.000 I trust the people of Montana.

00:10:52.000 Many of you have served in this country.

00:10:54.000 You are decent, God-fearing people.

00:10:56.000 You love this country.

00:10:57.000 You understand what is happening right now and that we're losing it to a small, unelected oligarchy that is constantly coming after our core cherished values and freedoms.

00:11:08.000 And I know that when all the chips are down, I know you'll vote for Donald Trump.

00:11:12.000 I'm not worried about that one. But I also know that you guys are going to send a message to the rest of the country.

00:11:18.000 And also, God forbid, Donald Trump doesn't win the White House.

00:11:22.000 We better make sure that Kamala Harris does not have a unified government if, God forbid, she becomes president. 1.00

00:11:28.000 So not only are you guys important for the future of the Senate, but you could be an insurance policy To prevent her from getting rid of the filibuster and giving amnesty to 20 million illegals.

00:11:42.000 And they would give them all voting rights, and that would be the end of the country as we know it.

00:11:45.000 However, there's something that stands in the way.

00:11:48.000 And who stands in the way is a great man, loves the country, family man, someone that he needs your help and support.

00:11:54.000 Join me in welcoming the next U.S. Senator from Montana, Tim Sheehy, everybody.

00:11:59.000 So I was told that we weren't going to draw much of a crowd in Missoula.

00:12:02.000 This is pretty good. Yeah, well, it's a beautiful fall day.

00:12:05.000 Thanks for spending your time with us.

00:12:07.000 So, Tim, you know, you had an opportunity to run a business during both Trump and under the current Harris regime.

00:12:15.000 What do you see as the big difference between the two attitudes between business and entrepreneurship, comparing and contrasting the two administrations?

00:12:22.000 Well, it's a great question, because when you think about what the magic of America has always been, you know, it's not our government.

00:12:30.000 It's not our military, even.

00:12:32.000 What set America apart from the very beginning is we were the first nation to be founded around the idea, the concept that the potential of every individual is unique and every individual has a very unique mind, spirit, heart and trajectory in life and our founding documents were written around Protecting the potential of every single individual.

00:12:53.000 We're the first country ever founded on the concept that every individual has a unique future and we're going to try to unleash that future and allow them to reach the greatest potential ever.

00:13:02.000 We're the first country that's ever done that.

00:13:04.000 And that's why we've been the strongest country in the history of the world in a very short period of time.

00:13:09.000 And how is that excellence expressed?

00:13:12.000 Business. I mean, it just is.

00:13:14.000 We're the first country that really was founded as an entrepreneurial republic.

00:13:17.000 We were a mercantile republic when we were founded, and still largely are today.

00:13:21.000 And so it's so important for our government to ensure that we don't snuff that out, because when you look at countries that have done that, you know, there was also disastrous.

00:13:31.000 The innovation leaves, the brain drain.

00:13:32.000 I mean, Iran's a perfect example. 1.00

00:13:34.000 I mean, Iran was a pretty impressive economy.

00:13:36.000 Now, yes, they had some, you know, monarchy issues, and I mean, there are details I'm not going to gloss over, But now you look at the brain drain from Iran. 1.00

00:13:43.000 So many amazingly smart people fled Iran since the rise of the Ayatollah and their radical regime now. 0.73

00:13:49.000 And we've been the beneficiary of that.

00:13:52.000 They've come here. They've come to somewhere that's fertile ground for entrepreneurship.

00:13:55.000 And we've benefited from that.

00:13:57.000 But these last four years, especially during COVID, you saw what the heavy hand of an unaccountable bureaucracy can do Not just to businesses, but to families, to schools.

00:14:07.000 You know, they'll decide whether your job's essential or not.

00:14:10.000 Whether you can have a job.

00:14:12.000 And, you know, I'm really disappointed that a lot of folks have started to forget quickly the pains of what happened during COVID. About the greatest constitutional, you know, trampling of our rights in the history of this country.

00:14:25.000 And, you know, we can't forget that that happened.

00:14:27.000 Because that basically is a preview of what the Democrats want America to look like.

00:14:30.000 Which is, we're going to decide where you eat.

00:14:32.000 When you eat, whether you go to school, whether you don't go to school, what you learn, what you put in your body.

00:14:37.000 And oh, by the way, whether your job matters or not, or whether your business matters or not.

00:14:41.000 So, you know, what we saw during the Trump years as a business owner was growth.

00:14:47.000 I mean, what you saw was a government that wanted you to succeed.

00:14:49.000 And what we've seen here in these past three and a half years was just a massive wind shift to empowering bureaucrats, unaccountable bureaucrats, unelected bureaucrats, That they want to make the decisions of what's best for you and your business and your family.

00:15:04.000 And that's been the most insidious, I think, change we've seen, is the growth and empowerment of an unaccountable bureaucracy, because that's very unconstitutional.

00:15:12.000 Our Constitution did not imagine an executive branch this overreaching and this aggressive in going after its own citizens.

00:15:21.000 It's important we get back to a pro-business set of policies.

00:15:24.000 It's more than just taxes.

00:15:25.000 It's also just recognizing that businesses are the heart of the American spirit, and we've got to unleash them.

00:15:30.000 We've got to support them. We want them to succeed.

00:15:32.000 and all you hear from Biden and Harris is, you know, all you hear about is USA, USA, USA, USA.

00:15:45.000 You are outnumbered.

00:15:46.000 USA!

00:16:28.000 Give it up for them. Missoula's going to Missoula.

00:16:36.000 Now watch this. I'll write the headline here.

00:16:39.000 Over a thousand people gather.

00:16:41.000 Two maniacs scream something.

00:16:42.000 The front page of the newspaper will say, mass protest. 0.96

00:16:45.000 That's how dishonest these people are.

00:16:47.000 I'm telling you, right? Yes.

00:16:52.000 Sheehy met with protests.

00:16:53.000 Meanwhile, over a thousand people in Missoula are gathering.

00:16:56.000 I'm sorry, Tim. I didn't plan for that, but...

00:17:00.000 They did warn me about Missoula.

00:17:03.000 So, Tim, you served in Afghanistan, and if I could speak candidly, the withdrawal from Afghanistan that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris oversaw was one of the most humiliating chapters in American history.

00:17:17.000 Watching what happened in Afghanistan Was disgusting and should never happen again.

00:17:23.000 And Joe Biden should have resigned in disgrace after what happened when those 13 Marines were killed.

00:17:32.000 Talk about your perspective and how your fellow veterans reacted to that, that dark day in American history.

00:17:40.000 Well, what you obviously know, thank you for saying that.

00:17:42.000 You're absolutely right. You know, we're spending like two and a half times more money per head on legal immigrants right now than we own our veterans, you know? 0.96

00:17:48.000 We got homeless veterans in the street, but illegals get free housing, right? 1.00

00:17:51.000 But back to your point, I mean, that's exactly why I'm here.

00:17:54.000 I mean, I've never run for student council before.

00:17:56.000 I've never run for Congress or city commission.

00:17:58.000 I'm a first-time candidate.

00:18:00.000 And it was Afghanistan that got me into politics.

00:18:03.000 You may not know my wife was also a Marine, also a veteran of Afghanistan.

00:18:07.000 Thank you. And interesting fact, as a result of both of us deploying at the same time, multiple times, you know, we saw each other about 45 days spread across six years or so, which is the secret to a happy marriage, right? It's never... No, I'm lucky she's still with me.

00:18:27.000 But I'm a mail-order husband, literally.

00:18:31.000 I'm a mail-order husband.

00:18:32.000 So she was in Afghanistan.

00:18:33.000 I was in another country.

00:18:34.000 We were trying to get married. We couldn't physically get co-located.

00:18:37.000 So she found that there's a state that you could get married via double proxy.

00:18:41.000 Anybody know what state that is? That's right.

00:18:45.000 It's an old law. It's only state.

00:18:46.000 It's the old law left over from the gold mining days, the frontier days, when they were trying to encourage settlement in the Homesteading Act, because, you know, the territories were competing to be states, so they were trying to encourage people to come.

00:18:57.000 And this old law was on the books, and she found it, and we notarized a couple forms, mailed them into Kalispell Courthouse up in Flatted County, and about 11 days later, we get them back, and hey, we're married.

00:19:07.000 So a very romantic wedding.

00:19:08.000 We weren't even there. But, you know, I tell that story because, you know, our 20s were characterized by our nation's longest war.

00:19:17.000 And, you know, a lot of folks, nothing wrong with this, the ski bumming or surf bumming, and that's great.

00:19:21.000 But my wife and I and almost all of our close friends, we spent our 20s.

00:19:25.000 Going mud hut to mud hut, ridge line to ridge line, fighting our nation's longest war.

00:19:30.000 And when you come back from that, it changes you.

00:19:33.000 War changes you. But when I watched those bodies falling from the C-17s, when that was going on, I was flying water bombers out in Chico, California.

00:19:43.000 So I was operating by day out of Chico, California, water bombing fires by night.

00:19:47.000 I was on my phone talking to former interpreters, pilots, commandos, Folks that have volunteered to fight alongside us that knew they were now marked for death by the Taliban.

00:19:58.000 You know, and these friends back here, they're just calling me a racist.

00:20:01.000 It's like, you know what? I fought alongside Muslims, Jews, Hindis, you know, like every possible race you could imagine.

00:20:08.000 You know, I was in foxholes with him and gunfights with him.

00:20:10.000 We were covered, you know, in the same mud in the same spots.

00:20:15.000 And I was on the phone with my interpreter trying to get him and his young children out of Afghanistan before they were murdered by the Taliban.

00:20:22.000 And I'll never forget him being on the other side of the phone, begging me to get his kids out.

00:20:25.000 He's like, fine, just leave me, but get my children out of here. 0.95

00:20:27.000 Before they get their heads cut off. 0.99

00:20:29.000 Before the Taliban, you know, burns us alive in the street. 1.00

00:20:32.000 And our government left them behind.

00:20:35.000 And left over 800 American citizens behind and 80 billion dollars of equipment behind.

00:20:40.000 And nobody's been held accountable to this day.

00:20:42.000 No generals got fired. No secretaries got drug in.

00:20:45.000 Nobody got impeached. Nothing.

00:20:46.000 I mean, they impeached Trump over a phone call with, you know, a Ukrainian president.

00:20:50.000 Meanwhile, like, Biden collapses a whole country that we spent 20 years fighting, and nothing happens.

00:20:56.000 And here's a really scary thing for you.

00:20:58.000 We just talked about the bureaucracy of the American government and how it's unaccountable and ineffectual.

00:21:03.000 The Russians invaded Afghanistan, and they were there for about nine and a half years.

00:21:09.000 When they left Afghanistan, which, of course, was a huge focus of, you know, we didn't go to the Olympics because they had invaded Afghanistan. 0.96

00:21:17.000 When they left, the government that the Russians built lasted for about three years before it collapsed.

00:21:22.000 We were there for 20 years, and the government that we built lasted less than a day.

00:21:29.000 So if this doesn't scare you about how incompetent our own governments become, that they can't solve any problems, whether it's our border, whether it's healthcare, whether it's our budget, or whether it's a foreign war we spent 20 years fighting, I don't know what'll scare you.

00:21:40.000 So when I saw that happen, I got involved in politics.

00:21:45.000 And not as a candidate, but...

00:21:50.000 Just, you know, as an organizer, as a speaker, and Ryan Zinke, our Western congressman, had pinned my purple heart on me back when I was a SEAL. He was also a SEAL, so I'd known him for years, and I told him, hey, I said, listen, I've got a personal vendetta against this administration.

00:22:03.000 I'm pissed off, and I want to get involved.

00:22:05.000 Let me help out. I'll host fundraisers.

00:22:07.000 I'll be a surrogate speaker. You tell me how, but put me in.

00:22:09.000 We've got to save this country. We've got to take this country back, and I want to be a part of the solution.

00:22:14.000 And... About a year and a half after that conversation, a few folks pulled me aside and said, hey, you said whatever you can do with the party.

00:22:25.000 We've got a great idea for you.

00:22:28.000 And here we are. But yeah, that event was just a turning point for me personally, for my wife, for so many of us in service.

00:22:35.000 You know, we spend our own money and our own time getting hundreds of families out of that country.

00:22:40.000 A lot of money. And this administration tried to They went after us.

00:22:45.000 They went after a lot of these veteran groups saying, hey, you're illegally transferring money.

00:22:48.000 You're chartering flights into these sketchy countries, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan.

00:22:52.000 Stop doing what you're doing. Get out of the way.

00:22:54.000 And we're like, hey, we're cleaning up your mess.

00:22:55.000 You should be thanking us. You walked away and left this mess, and we're not going to leave our friends behind.

00:23:01.000 We're not going to leave those people there.

00:23:02.000 Maybe you did, but we're not. The least you can do is get the hell out of our way and stop threatening us.

00:23:06.000 And they wouldn't even do that.

00:23:11.000 And I think for a whole generation of veterans...

00:23:14.000 How many are vets in here?

00:23:17.000 Thank you for your service. Thanks for coming.

00:23:22.000 But your job is not over yet.

00:23:24.000 Your job's not over yet.

00:23:25.000 And I know the burden is heavy, and I know you did your time in your home, but people will look to you for guidance and leadership.

00:23:31.000 Whether you like it or not, 1.5% of Americans served.

00:23:34.000 11% of Montanans served.

00:23:36.000 People... Value your opinion.

00:23:38.000 If you wore the uniform and you have an opinion on a matter, people listen.

00:23:42.000 A lot of times they'll tell everyone else to shut up, but if you say, hey, I'm a combat veteran, I serve here, and you start talking about an issue, they will stop talking and they'll listen to you.

00:23:49.000 So you have a really important responsibility these next 35 days because we have to save this country on and before November 5th, and you guys are going to be a huge part of that.

00:23:57.000 Get out there, be involved.

00:23:59.000 I know you've already served your country, but serve it again like I am because we got to save this country.

00:24:03.000 I want you guys to think about that for a second.

00:24:11.000 $80 billion of equipment we left behind.

00:24:13.000 You know that they're parading it in front of us now.

00:24:16.000 They are proudly saying, look at all this equipment that we pay for that we left behind.

00:24:22.000 And secondly, these interpreters that we just abandoned were the greatest friends and were almost co-soldiers.

00:24:29.000 Is that fair to say, Tim? Not almost.

00:24:31.000 100% were. I mean, I had several interpreters, but my closest one I did several deployments all over the world, but my closest one, who him and I were in so much together, I personally saw him run across an open alley in gunfire grabbing an American soldier and pulling him after he'd been hit.

00:24:49.000 They fought alongside us every step of the way.

00:24:51.000 And the mission we had was so important to have an interpreter.

00:24:55.000 Because it's not just, you know, you don't just Google translate what you're saying, you know.

00:24:58.000 If you're interrogating somebody, which is a lot of what we were doing, or if you're talking to some locals trying to, you know, they're going to be very hesitant about telling you whether the Taliban or Al-Qaeda or the Haqqani Network are using their village as a stopover point or whether the rat lines for the smugglers are nearby.

00:25:13.000 So it takes more than just language translation.

00:25:16.000 It takes body language.

00:25:17.000 It takes cultural transformation.

00:25:19.000 And then you may ask a question and they may know what you're trying to ask and change it to be asked the right way To somebody else.

00:25:25.000 So they become more than just co-soldiers.

00:25:27.000 They become, you know, partners with you.

00:25:29.000 They become, you know, very, very close friends.

00:25:32.000 I mean, him and I would sit there, you know, hours, hours, you know, days on end in the mountains.

00:25:37.000 And, you know, I remember showing him a magazine I had with me and it had an astronaut on one of the pages.

00:25:42.000 And you have to remember that, you know, Afghanistan in many parts is still like third century BC. And it totally blew his mind that First of all, outer space was a thing, but then America would send people into outer space.

00:25:56.000 And walking him through that process, I'll never forget the conversation I had with him about it.

00:26:00.000 And yes, he learned from me.

00:26:02.000 I also learned a tremendous amount from him.

00:26:05.000 Because it's a totally different lifestyle.

00:26:07.000 Living in the mountains of Afghanistan is a different world that they live in, literally. 1.00

00:26:12.000 And we have a lot to learn from them as well.

00:26:14.000 So the U.S. dollar and our global hegemony is built on the U.S. military as it should be, which is the finest fighting force ever assembled.

00:26:23.000 What is the current state of our military under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris?

00:26:28.000 I'm far from an expert, but I hear from a lot of people, it's not where it should be.

00:26:32.000 What is your thoughts on that?

00:26:33.000 Yeah, I mean, there's no question.

00:26:34.000 We are seeing record levels of non-readiness in our military.

00:26:39.000 Our air wings. We literally have guys in our squadrons, I won't name names because, you know, I'm always being recorded by some sort of, like, you know, liberal tracker, and they'll take someone's name I mentioned, so I won't mention the guy's name, but he's a close friend.

00:26:53.000 And he still works active duty military and is responsible for aircraft maintenance.

00:26:57.000 And they will go out, if you've ever been to a military base, you'll see aircraft parked by the gate basically as props.

00:27:02.000 They'll still go out to some of those aircraft and take parts off of them.

00:27:05.000 You know, planes that have been sending out in the rain and the dust and the wind for years because they have to keep the aircraft running.

00:27:10.000 You know, continuing resolutions.

00:27:12.000 We haven't passed a proper military defense budget since, like, I was in high school.

00:27:17.000 You know, and yet we continually kick the can on defense spending.

00:27:21.000 And the truth is, the DoD doesn't need more money.

00:27:24.000 The DoD needs an innovation enema.

00:27:26.000 Like, the bureaucracy in that organization is so thick and it's terrible.

00:27:31.000 And so much money is soaked up in these layers of bureaucratic sclerosis and innovation doesn't happen.

00:27:39.000 NASA's a perfect example. Yes, it's not military, but this is a great example of when you have a government-run, bureaucratic, rule-by-committee organization that, if you saw, couldn't even send a capsule to the low-Earth orbit and back a few weeks ago with the Boeing Starliner.

00:27:51.000 And they've been developing the SLS program for like two decades.

00:27:54.000 Meanwhile, you have Elon Musk and his organization SpaceX, which are commercially driven.

00:27:58.000 Yes, the taxpayer pays the bill, but they're developing products to a standard for excellence.

00:28:03.000 And their standard is excellence.

00:28:06.000 And they're pioneering space travel, the likes of which we never really thought we'd see.

00:28:11.000 So we are seeing record levels of low recruitment.

00:28:15.000 We're seeing record levels of our ships are not ready.

00:28:18.000 Right now, the Navy's contingency plan to build ships.

00:28:20.000 Anybody know where they plan to build them if we need a lot of ships to fight China?

00:28:24.000 Anybody know? South Korea.

00:28:27.000 Which is great. South Korea is a great ally, and they have tremendous shipbuilding expertise.

00:28:31.000 But if we're at a war with China, what do you think it is we're fighting over?

00:28:34.000 Control of the Pacific Ocean.

00:28:36.000 So we're going to build ships on the other side of the ocean that we're fighting for control over?

00:28:40.000 We can't build airplanes fast enough.

00:28:42.000 And the Ukraine War.

00:28:43.000 You look at the attrition portion of that.

00:28:46.000 One of the theses for us supporting the military aid to Ukraine is that we're going to attrite Russia. 0.57

00:28:52.000 Well, Russia makes bullets, bombs, and artillery shells like 10 times faster than we do at like 15% the cost.

00:29:00.000 So who's attracting whom?

00:29:02.000 So we have serious problems in our defense industrial base.

00:29:05.000 We absolutely have to re-energize that.

00:29:07.000 We've got to work on deconsolidating it.

00:29:09.000 We have so many, you know, just massive companies that control so much of that space.

00:29:14.000 Return innovation and free market principles to it.

00:29:16.000 Most importantly, the number one priority in the military should be combat lethality.

00:29:20.000 That's it. Be able to close with and kill the enemy.

00:29:23.000 All this other DEI, ESG, you know, equality stuff.

00:29:26.000 Listen, you know, sure, my wife is a Marine, female Marine, so it's not like I'm against women in the military.

00:29:31.000 She's a total stud. But she'll be the first one to say, I don't want to be given a free pass because I'm a woman. 0.99

00:29:36.000 I want to earn my spot in the Corps just like she did, and that's the standard we ought to have.

00:29:39.000 So in order for Jon Tester to win, he needs to try to get one out of three Trump voters.

00:29:51.000 And so Trump is going to win this state handedly, maybe by 15, 20, 25 points, maybe even 30 points, who knows.

00:29:57.000 Why is it important for Trump to have a U.S. Senate that is Republican for him to work with?

00:30:04.000 And also, I want you guys to listen carefully to tell everybody in your life that is voting for Trump and is not sure yet on the U.S. Senate pick.

00:30:12.000 Tim, please. So today, already now, this is the most expensive election in American history ever per vote, the Sheehy Tester election, which is crazy to think about, you know, in a state of million-ish people with probably 575,000 voter turnout, but it's because the stakes are high.

00:30:28.000 And like Charlie pointed out, if Trump wins and he doesn't control the Senate, you can assume that he'll be impeached on day one.

00:30:36.000 And if he wins and does have the Senate, he can get things done like appoint Supreme Court justices Keep in mind, the two oldest justices on the court are conservative judges.

00:30:47.000 So the next president has a very likely opportunity to appoint two more judges.

00:30:51.000 Cabinet nominees. As we talked about earlier, our executive branch of government has more authority over your life, your business, your dollar, your family than ever before in the history of this country.

00:31:01.000 The cabinet nominees appointed by the president have tremendous power over you, your families in this country.

00:31:07.000 Those are appointed by the president and they're approved by the Senate.

00:31:10.000 So the Senate is critical for Trump to have.

00:31:12.000 If he doesn't win, the Senate is the firewall against more progressive lunacy.

00:31:17.000 It is the firewall to make sure we don't expand the court, add two more states, open the border more, print another eight trillion dollars, whatever, what have you.

00:31:26.000 The Senate is the firewall.

00:31:28.000 What you can do, talk to folks.

00:31:30.000 If Trump's leading the state by about 20 points, which he is, and I'm running basically even with Tester, maybe a few point lead, that means a lot of people are going to vote for Trump and vote for Tester.

00:31:40.000 Which I can't blame them because they're inundated with $150 million of ads that are telling them John Tester is basically a Republican.

00:31:47.000 And John Tester loves working with Donald Trump.

00:31:50.000 And John Tester is going to secure the border even though he hasn't.

00:31:53.000 And he's going to protect your guns even though he's gotten enough from the NRA. And you know, what they'll leave out is John Tester voted to impeach Donald Trump twice.

00:32:02.000 Not once, but twice.

00:32:04.000 He voted against all of his Supreme Court nominees. 0.99

00:32:06.000 He, even on CNN, said, hey, we should punch Trump in the face. 0.54

00:32:10.000 I mean, he was a party line, complete supporter of Chuck Schumer, Biden, Harris' agenda. 0.91

00:32:16.000 He was part of the resistance when Trump was in office, and as soon as he was out, he was part of the deconstruction of the America First agenda.

00:32:22.000 So if you know those people that are buying the whole...

00:32:27.000 Republicans for Tester.

00:32:28.000 Tester's basically a Republican message.

00:32:30.000 Don't be mean to them. Buy him a cup of coffee.

00:32:32.000 Sit down with him. Buy him a beer.

00:32:34.000 And just be like, hey, do you realize that Tester voted to impeach Trump twice?

00:32:38.000 Voted against all of his cabinet nominees, his Supreme Court nominees, went against his agenda every step of the way.

00:32:43.000 How can you vote for both of those people?

00:32:45.000 How can you consistently vote for those?

00:32:47.000 Because if you're voting for Tester, you better be voting for Kamala Harris, you know?

00:32:50.000 It's great. It's not a town hall.

00:32:52.000 Thank you for your opinion. So Tim, one of the things that Kamala Harris... 1.00

00:32:57.000 So here's a guy that's short selling the stock of my company.

00:33:00.000 He's decided to go after my company as a liberal operative.

00:33:05.000 And he's been short selling the stock of our company trying to put us out of business. 0.99

00:33:09.000 The truth is he's a liar. 0.98

00:33:11.000 He gets paid to lie and that's what he does. 1.00

00:33:15.000 Yeah. I want to tell you guys something, though.

00:33:18.000 The fact, you guys feel the energy around this race?

00:33:21.000 We better win this Senate race, everybody.

00:33:23.000 The energy around this race.

00:33:25.000 I'm telling you. That should fire you up even more.

00:33:29.000 They are desperate that they're going to lose the U.S. Senate and that this state will be red for a generation.

00:33:35.000 These are desperate measures.

00:33:36.000 People who are confident don't act this way.

00:33:38.000 So it's good to know who that guy was.

00:33:40.000 So that guy has been shorting the stock of our company intentionally to try to put us out of business.

00:33:45.000 He's buddies with Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer and the Democrats got him to try to drive our company out of business just to make us look bad.

00:33:52.000 That's it. That's the only reason you can see he's erratically comes here today and does that.

00:33:56.000 So he's been leading an effort to try to put hundreds of Montana employees out of business.

00:34:01.000 And guess what? We fight wildfires for a living.

00:34:03.000 We're not making, like, dating pants, dating apps, and yoga pants.

00:34:06.000 Like, we fight wildfires.

00:34:08.000 And that guy wants our company out of business.

00:34:14.000 By the way, could you imagine Republicans organizing to short-sell a stock of a Senate candidate?

00:34:20.000 I mean... They're very cruel, trying to destroy Montana jobs.

00:34:24.000 Just how mean and how awful that is.

00:34:27.000 Speaking of radical measures, Kamala Harris has now said she wants to get rid of the filibuster. 1.00

00:34:34.000 Tester, from my understanding, has endorsed eliminating the filibuster in the past.

00:34:38.000 Please educate the audience on the importance of it.

00:34:41.000 It's a little bit wonky, but it really is civilizational altering stuff.

00:34:46.000 No, thanks for bringing that up, because it is incredibly important.

00:34:49.000 The filibuster in the Senate is a 60-vote threshold to pass legislation.

00:34:54.000 And it's that way for a reason.

00:34:56.000 If you look at democracies and republics and parliamentary governments around the world, we're obviously a constitutional republic in America.

00:35:05.000 Yes, we're democratically elected, but we are a constitutional republic.

00:35:09.000 And that's a different structure than a pure democracy.

00:35:12.000 And that gets lost in translation far too much.

00:35:16.000 Yes, you should clap for that.

00:35:20.000 And what really sets our constitutional republic aside from everything else in the world is the American Senate.

00:35:27.000 If you look at how our founders framed our country, the Senate is really the most unique port.

00:35:32.000 Lots of countries have Supreme Courts.

00:35:34.000 Lots of them have House of Commons and prime ministers and presidents.

00:35:37.000 The American Senate and how it's structured is specifically built to be a firewall.

00:35:42.000 A firewall against radical change of any kind, either direction.

00:35:45.000 And it's really meant to be deliberative, steady, and glacial.

00:35:49.000 A lot of people hate the Senate because they say it doesn't get anything done.

00:35:51.000 It's almost exactly what it's meant to do, is not get anything done.

00:35:54.000 It's almost meant to be there and say, yeah, we're supposed to be the rock that radical progress smashes itself upon to ensure that constitutional intent is still present.

00:36:04.000 So the filibuster is the 60-volt threshold to ensure legislation gets through and truly has a strong voice.

00:36:11.000 And for a state like Montana, With, you know, now we just crossed the million resident mark here recently.

00:36:16.000 For a state like Montana, the Senate is our most potent expression of political power in the nation because we only get, now we have two congressional representatives.

00:36:25.000 We don't have a whole lot of say in who becomes president, but we have just as much say in the U.S. Senate as New York, California, and Florida.

00:36:33.000 That's the great equalizer, and the framers built it that way for a very specific reason, because they said, we're going to make sure rural states with not very many people have just as much say in the Senate as everyone else.

00:36:44.000 And that's very important.

00:36:47.000 So, back to the filibuster.

00:36:50.000 The move from the left to eliminate the filibuster is very simple.

00:36:54.000 They're frustrated that, you know, their criticism of our Constitution, their criticism of how our nation's structured, they want that to go away.

00:37:02.000 They want to fundamentally alter the nation.

00:37:04.000 And the Senate is what's going to stop that.

00:37:06.000 So they want to get rid of the filibuster so that they can push through any legislation they want.

00:37:11.000 And there's a couple ways they want to do that.

00:37:13.000 One way is just vote to eliminate it, which Harry Reid did, you know, many years ago with the nuclear option for certain nominees.

00:37:19.000 And then what they want to do is add two more states, DC and Puerto Rico.

00:37:22.000 That's four more Democrat senators inserted into the Senate. 1.00

00:37:25.000 That basically builds an almost quasi-permanent majority for the foreseeable future.

00:37:31.000 Then they want to move right to the court and pack the Supreme Court.

00:37:35.000 So the filibuster is really a critical step that ensures our constitutional republic will continue to function the way that it is.

00:37:42.000 And that's at stake right now because Kamala wants to get rid of it. 1.00

00:37:45.000 Biden wants to get rid of it.

00:37:46.000 Tester and Schumer have already said.

00:37:48.000 Adam Schiff, who will be the next senator from California, most likely.

00:37:51.000 I hope Steve Garvey pulls it out, but just the way the polls look, it's unlikely, and plus it's California.

00:37:55.000 He wants to get rid of the filibuster.

00:37:57.000 So the first thing they'll do is try and get rid of it, and guess what can stop that?

00:38:01.000 You can. Montana can stop it.

00:38:03.000 Because if we take the Senate, they can't push it through.

00:38:09.000 So I have to get Tim to his debate tonight with Tester.

00:38:13.000 You guys know that. He's debating Tester tonight.

00:38:17.000 So two things. I want to talk about the border and then early voting.

00:38:22.000 One-two. I want to get a one-two combo here.

00:38:24.000 Every state's a border state. So quickly, it's my number one issue.

00:38:27.000 My number one issue is that we are being invaded on the southern border and our leaders do not care.

00:38:31.000 That is a breakdown of the social contract of why we have politicians. 0.73

00:38:35.000 Politicians that don't secure a nation's border should be fired.

00:38:38.000 Every state is a border state.

00:38:40.000 Tell us how it impacts Montana.

00:38:43.000 It impacts everybody. Right now, especially, unfortunately, our tribal members stood up earlier and decided to tow the party line that they've been told to by somebody.

00:38:52.000 Our reservations are getting devastated by fentanyl influx onto the reservations.

00:38:56.000 I mean, devastated. And we don't have enough law enforcement officers on the reservations to provide a basic level of public safety.

00:39:02.000 And they're using, many times, they're using our reservations as jumping off points to supply other areas around the country.

00:39:08.000 And I've talked to folks at Haver, even.

00:39:11.000 You know, Haver's a nice old railroad town.

00:39:13.000 And they're like, man, our cars are getting broken into.

00:39:15.000 Our homes are getting broken into now.

00:39:17.000 And it's all drug related.

00:39:18.000 So whether it's overdoses or whether it's just criminal activity that's a second or third order effect of the drug trade, the worst thing we're seeing is human trafficking increases.

00:39:27.000 Like 230% increase in human trafficking along our interstate corridors in Montana.

00:39:31.000 That's disgusting. No other way to say it other than disgusting. 0.62

00:39:34.000 And it's come directly as a result of our open southern border.

00:39:37.000 So you're absolutely right. The number one priority our elected officials have is to keep us safe.

00:39:42.000 And they have failed at that just incredibly these past three and a half years, and the border ties right into it.

00:39:48.000 So that'll be my number one priority when elected.

00:39:51.000 We've got to seal it up tomorrow.

00:39:52.000 There's no reason why it shouldn't be shut down.

00:39:54.000 We know how to do it. We have the resources to do it.

00:39:56.000 We've got to get it done. Absolutely.

00:40:02.000 This shows you the fraud that John Tester is.

00:40:05.000 Tester could have said, I will not vote for any of your major spending bills until we secure the border.

00:40:10.000 He has that power. If he plus one or two other senators would have done that as Democrats, but he didn't do that.

00:40:15.000 Because Tester just turned a blind eye to this southern border crisis and talks good game.

00:40:20.000 Okay, in closing here, Tim, this is very important.

00:40:22.000 At Turning Point Action, we are doing the largest ever early vote turnout operation in Arizona, Wisconsin, called Chase the Vote.

00:40:30.000 To chase every Trump vote to maximize turnout in what is now voting month.

00:40:36.000 I know many of you guys like to vote on Election Day.

00:40:38.000 I guess that's fine.

00:40:40.000 But guess what? There might be a snowstorm.

00:40:42.000 You might have flooding like North Carolina.

00:40:44.000 Be careful if you think everything's going to be perfect on Election Day.

00:40:47.000 I could tell you in the Cary Lake governor's race in Arizona, half of our machine tabulators failed on Election Day.

00:40:53.000 Disenfranchising 100,000 voters.

00:40:55.000 I'm a big believer if you don't like two and a half hour waiting lines and you don't like chaos, voting early in person is a great option that must be embraced and entertained by our base.

00:41:06.000 Tim, what are your thoughts on this?

00:41:09.000 Because here's my final perspective.

00:41:11.000 Our voters are so excited.

00:41:12.000 Shouldn't we give them more days, not less days to go vote?

00:41:15.000 Your thoughts, Tim? 100%.

00:41:16.000 Listen, I mean, in a perfect world, which we don't live in and never will, in a perfect world, voter ID, same day, in-person voting.

00:41:24.000 Yes. Okay?

00:41:26.000 No question. I also want a hoverboard and a DeLorean, okay?

00:41:30.000 But, you know... Not gonna happen.

00:41:32.000 So, the world we live in is, here in Montana, you can vote early, you can vote via mail, you can vote absentee, you can harvest ballots.

00:41:41.000 Those are legal, okay?

00:41:42.000 So in Montana, we have all these different ways to vote.

00:41:45.000 You can harvest here? Lots of different ways to vote in Montana.

00:41:49.000 Okay? So, use them.

00:41:52.000 Use them. I mean, if the speed limit's 60 and we drive 40 and the other side drives 60, guess what?

00:41:56.000 We're going to lose. We are.

00:41:58.000 So, vote early.

00:42:00.000 October 7th, you can start in-person early voting.

00:42:03.000 I believe it's 7th. You know, MTGOP website, they're rolling out a great, you know, grassroots voter information campaign.

00:42:08.000 Mail-in ballots go out October 11th.

00:42:11.000 Vote. Please vote.

00:42:13.000 Everyone has to vote. Like Charlie said, probably the best example of kind of an election fumbled by us was Nevada in 2022.

00:42:20.000 You know, Laxalt was going to win the Nevada Senate seat, and that would have saved us from the last two years of lunacy.

00:42:25.000 Anybody know what happened election night 2022 in Nevada?

00:42:28.000 Yeah. Blizzard.

00:42:30.000 The biggest blizzard in like literally like 30 years.

00:42:33.000 I mean, it was the one where that Jeremy Renner, the Marvel guy or whatever, flipped his snowcat over and hurt himself.

00:42:38.000 You know, it was that mega storm.

00:42:41.000 And that storm, I mean, literally, you couldn't get anywhere.

00:42:44.000 You couldn't move.

00:42:46.000 You couldn't get to the polls. And as a result, that state party had said for months leading up, we don't trust the election.

00:42:52.000 We're only going to vote in person.

00:42:54.000 So don't mail you in ballots.

00:42:55.000 Don't vote early. Only vote in person.

00:42:57.000 And that's what happened.

00:42:58.000 We don't know what's going to happen November 5th, November 4th here in Montana.

00:43:03.000 So vote early.

00:43:05.000 Chrissy Jacobson, our Secretary of State, is doing a fantastic job.

00:43:09.000 She has totally locked this election down. 1.00

00:43:12.000 I have full faith that your ballots are going to be counted, whether they're mailed in or early.

00:43:16.000 Have faith. I think this Montana election is going to be the securest one we've ever seen.

00:43:19.000 And we've got so many grassroots groups out there that are doing great.

00:43:23.000 They're just doing the Lord's work door to door to door.

00:43:25.000 I mean, young Republicans, Americans for Prosperity, AFP, led by, you know, Jesse and Henry Kriegel, done an amazing job going door to door in this election, informing people not just about the issues, but about what I just said, about how to vote.

00:43:37.000 So those groups, we knew we were going to get outspent on the air from day one, so that grassroots, in-person, handshake, door knocker approach has been absolutely critical.

00:43:45.000 And if we win November 5th, it'll be because of those grassroots efforts.

00:43:48.000 But we're only going to win if you invest.

00:43:50.000 We're only going to win if you vote.

00:43:53.000 If we vote, we win.

00:43:55.000 It's that simple. Turnout helps us.

00:43:57.000 So make sure you vote, your family vote, and your friends vote.

00:44:00.000 America's on the ballot. November 5th, we've got to save this country.

00:44:02.000 Thank you. Everybody, tell your friends, chase ballots, and give it up for the next senator from Montana, Tim Chewy.

00:44:09.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:44:10.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:44:12.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - October 06, 2024

This is More Than Just a Presidential Election — Live at Save Big Sky with Tim Sheehy

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