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00:01:46.000I will tell you, one of my favorite guests of the show, one of my favorite thinkers in all of America, one of my favorite authors in all of America is Walter Kern.
00:01:55.000Gosh, he's got My Hard Bargain, Mission to America, Up in the Air, Blood Will Out, Thumbsucker, all these great books.
00:02:02.000And he is the editor at large of the County Highway, America's only newspaper.
00:02:08.000They don't even have a digital version.
00:02:10.000So, without further ado, let's welcome him in.
00:02:15.000I'm psyched to be here at a high leverage point for American democracy because it either slides into the ocean or we pull it out.
00:02:24.000Well, yeah, let's start right there, Walter.
00:02:26.000I mean, you know, so a lot more intel is kind of coming out.
00:02:29.000The internet sleuths are trying to figure out how the heck did somebody like Nithya Raman, who not many people in the country had even heard of, not many left wingers in LA knew much about her, how she went from about 21% of the vote from the first 65%.
00:02:45.000And then the next 15%, she about doubled her, well, it was 23% of the vote to about 41% of the vote.
00:02:53.000So now she has overtaken Spencer Pratt in the number two position.
00:02:56.000And I'm told by, you know, all the lefties, this is just the way LA and California count their ballots.
00:03:04.000They've prioritized participation, Walter, not speed.
00:03:07.000Well, there's no way for them to know whether participation has occurred because the ballots are.
00:03:15.000Enigmatic documents with people behind them, presumably whose faces we don't know, whose names we don't know, whose circumstances around filling out the ballot or allowing it to be filled out, we don't know.
00:03:32.000So, if what we want is participation, I can propose a much better way everybody getting off their butts and standing in a line talking to each other without activists.
00:03:46.000Bothering them or holding a pen over their ballot, and they participate in the ritual that has been time honored and proved to work and works in almost every other country but ours.
00:04:00.000Well, and that's the big thing here, Walter.
00:04:02.000When I was chatting with you yesterday about coming on, making lack of transparency stand for participation is an Orwellian inversion, like so many that are used in these circumstances.
00:04:19.000They've turned elections that last forever into proof of their deliberate, slow, patient, careful way of counting, when in fact they're the opposite.
00:04:35.000So, you see, Ro Khanna is actually, in very Ro Khanna fashion, I will tell you, is sort of trying to split the baby.
00:04:44.000He's at least saying in this tweet he just fired off a few hours ago, actually about an hour ago, you know, he goes, you know, a close friend of mine, he says this, is canceling his voter registration today.
00:04:56.000He is convinced Spencer Pratt was robbed of the election.
00:04:59.000I explained to him that in California, we can't count absentees first, which is older and more conservative.
00:05:05.000And election day voters are younger and more democratic.
00:05:07.000The slow count is largely because of policies to maximize participation, including postmarking a ballot on election day.
00:05:14.000Regardless, we need to figure out how California can get the vote counted faster and results tabulated so it doesn't drag on.
00:05:28.000And if you read on, his whole point is let's throw some more money at it so we can get the vote counted in 48 hours.
00:05:35.000Because that's like the stretch goal in California.
00:05:38.000But I kind of can't stand this, Walter, because he's justifying the fraud and he's calling it the impression of fraud and eroding trust conspiracy theories.
00:05:49.000We used to have a concept called the appearance of conflict of interest, meaning that it was important that politicians not even appear to be working for outside forces or be taking money from the people that they're supposed to be writing laws to control and regulate and so on.
00:06:09.000Sort of height of liberal circumspection to make sure that there is no appearance of conflict of interest.
00:06:16.000What we have now is not just the appearance of fraud or just the appearance of malfeasance, but the overwhelming stench of it rising so it makes your eyes water.
00:06:28.000And now, in their classic fashion, they've taken what has now been identified as a problem, which they created, and they want to be the ones to solve it.
00:06:38.000They want, you know, create homelessness.
00:08:02.000And when you systematically make it impossible to have faith, and when you also systematically allow the conditions in which fraud traditionally grows, which are silence and darkness, then you've got the end of your system on your hands.
00:09:12.000Of course they're necessary because no matter how secure you might be in the thought that you have erected or constructed a one party state, there are always, as we saw with Spencer Pratt, or as we saw with past candidates, Arnold Schwarzenegger, for example, there are all, Ronald Reagan.
00:09:30.000Back when there are always cases in which a challenger in every league, in every boxing league, in every fight league, there are cases in which a challenger, um, taking advantage of opportunity, superior training, and circumstances, and maybe God's luck, God's given luck, can unseat a champion.
00:09:53.000And when you get in there and you make the circumstances such that no challenger can arise and none can be successful, you no longer have a little action, you no longer have a No longer have a sport.
00:10:06.000What you have is a ritual, and it is a ritual of domination and a ritual of intimidation.
00:10:13.000And that's what we've been treated to.
00:10:14.000Or, and I agree with you exactly, the insecurity is obvious.
00:10:20.000But why would they be insecure, Walter?
00:10:22.000Maybe they know that their house of cards has been built on fraud for a long time, and that they know how flimsy it all is.
00:10:30.000I've written a lot about criminality over the years in my books and in my journalism, and criminals know better than.
00:10:37.000anyone better than the cops how their schemes work.
00:10:40.000They know where their vulnerabilities lie and they know exactly how the working parts come together.
00:10:46.000The kind of elections that they're running now that involve bringing vast amounts of votes in late, you know, across public roads and so on, you know, in helicopters even, are very difficult operations.
00:11:03.000At every moment, they're conscious of what they're doing.
00:11:07.000As the ballot grows further and further from the voter, more detachable, it's sort of like the way we used to have money that was backed by gold.
00:11:15.000For every dollar you had in your wallet, somewhere there was gold in Fort Knox, say.
00:11:20.000Now, for every ballot you've got down at the registrar, there's a voter somewhere, maybe.
00:12:06.000They're deliberating back and forth, back and forth.
00:12:08.000Ultimately, though, they say this Ultimately, we recommend a vote for Rahman to ensure a left candidate with a proven track record of delivering for working class Angelenos makes it to the general against Bass.
00:12:22.000So, you know, the first part of these two paragraphs are saying, you know, some DSA LA members believe that we should vote for the candidate with the most radical and grassroots platform, you know, and they admit that Rahman has a rocky relationship with major constituencies on the left, but ultimately, let's just get rid of Pratt.
00:12:44.000So it's very simple and it's highlighted right there.
00:13:11.000So all the ballot harvesting from these DSA guys that were out on the streets, often illegal, by the way.
00:13:17.000And we had Bill Asale on the show yesterday, Walter, and he said, listen, I'm going to go after the individual instances of Of voter fraud, and we're going to put a lot of these people behind bars.
00:13:27.000He's like, but it's so baked into the cake that literally the fraud is basically legalized corruption at this point.
00:13:35.000Yeah, but whenever there's legalized corruption, there's frosting, which is just pure illegality.
00:13:44.000And most corrupt about all this is the, as I say, the opacity, the shadowiness, the darkness, the untraceability.
00:13:54.000These are all almost academic questions because there's no way to go back and answer them.
00:13:59.000You know, how did this stream of votes get this way?
00:14:03.000Why are people voting for an increase in a sales tax?
00:14:09.000Now, that's interesting because if we stipulate that her supporters are grassroots people, ordinary people, working people, sales taxes are the most regressive taxes in America.
00:14:23.000You pay them on every, you know, Mountain Dew you pick up at the convenience store.
00:14:32.000The idea that working people and people who live near the street and near the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder would vote for a sales tax increase?
00:14:49.000There is very thin and complex evidence that they have been represented as doing it in a legal way.
00:14:57.000But whether they're doing it, we have no bloody idea.
00:15:01.000I want to end this discussion about California's sham debacle, election debacle here that would make the Venezuelans blush and Maduro blush and so many others.
00:15:12.000Walter, when I talked to you last night, you said you agreed to come on because you believe this is a critical moment for our constitutional republic and our representative democracy.
00:15:25.000Well, first of all, California, our biggest state, our most powerful and financially important state.
00:15:33.000It's important to our food supply and our military, it's where the aerospace industry is headquartered and so on, is one that we cannot afford to have fall into political chaos and turpitude.
00:15:53.000But more importantly, the moment that people begin to despair of not just regular voting, but of having any potential weapon against people who will exploit them.
00:16:10.000In other words, the minute you think, wow, no matter what is done to me by these officials, if they burn down my whole neighborhood or fail to put out a fire, no matter what they do, I have no weapon against them.
00:16:22.000It's not just voting then that people despair of.
00:16:25.000It's any counter, posing any counterforce to the powers that be.
00:16:34.000That's when they start looking for separate deals.
00:16:37.000They either leave or they form warlord groups to kind of in some way push their case in ways that no longer are possible by usual means.
00:16:51.000I don't think, one thing I said to you real quickly is I don't think that the Democratic machine is free to have a fair election.
00:16:59.000I think they are mastered and guided by corrupt elements that say deliver or else.
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00:18:09.000All right, Walter, we're going to turn our attention now.
00:18:14.000To the Carmelo Anthony case, which the closing arguments I believe are happening right now.
00:18:20.000A little bit of a twist here is that they are the judge has allowed manslaughter to be a potential verdict here, which would mean that they believe Carmelo Anthony acted recklessly but not with intent.
00:18:34.000And I want to show you this image here.
00:18:36.000This is actually a snippet from one of the reports on this case.
00:18:41.000It says, Left Metcalf with a gaping two inch wound, and that the knife went so deep it pierced the bone of his chest and the right side of his heart.
00:18:54.000So that was just recklessness, possibly.
00:18:58.000It's the fact that no one else knew he had a knife.
00:19:01.000He knew he had a knife in his bag, and he's endlessly repeating over and over, like, touch me, see what happens, touch me, see what happens.
00:19:08.000That's what he was saying over and over.
00:19:10.000He knew what it would mean if someone touched him and they would see what happens.
00:19:13.000He would pull out a knife and stab them.
00:19:16.000The bigger picture thing, I think, is, Walter, is beyond the details of this specific trial, it's that, for example, we've had our front lines reporter, Savannah Hernandez, there.
00:19:47.000Like he was basically about to, you know, about to be beaten up or murdered if he hadn't defended himself.
00:19:52.000And now they're, you know, they're railroading him.
00:19:55.000And we've also seen the narrative with the.
00:19:59.000Who got onto the jury and the different demographics of it.
00:20:02.000And a lot of people are thinking and watching this and just thinking, can the American tradition of a jury trial withstand this sort of modern pressure to racialize everything, view everything through a racial lens?
00:20:18.000Can that work when you need 12 people unanimous in a jury to convict someone of a crime?
00:20:25.000It can go on in the sense that we can keep having trials and they might or might not result in.
00:20:33.000Verdicts that the wider community finds just.
00:20:37.000But the cost of it is that the gaming of these trials by jury consultants, lawyers, the media, because remember, the media often forms these arguments in advance.
00:20:50.000What we see happen in the courtroom was also composed before the trial even started.
00:20:57.000They will game these things and turn them into something completely different than what they were, which is a kind of theater.
00:21:05.000And we've been seeing that obviously since OJ.
00:21:07.000Race is only one way in which they sort of insert identity politics into trials.
00:21:14.000You know, sometimes it's gender based, sometimes it's, you know, based on sexual preference and so on.
00:21:23.000But what loses is the notion that there is an overarching transcendent set of laws that can be applied equally.
00:21:32.000And when you no longer believe in the equal application of the law, You don't have the United States anymore because its entire basis was to create a state in which the law was equally applied.
00:21:47.000We didn't need the United States if all questions could be decided in favor of this group or that group based on their inclusion in it.
00:21:59.000The whole complex constitutional republic of the United States was based on the premise that we had to overcome superficial differences.
00:22:08.000In order to preserve a kind of eternal or transcendent or deep order in our lives.
00:22:15.000And that seems to have been abandoned.
00:22:17.000So it's not what happens in the trials that I worry about.
00:22:20.000It's what's going to happen in the streets as a result of the trials.
00:22:23.000You're going to start to get people who think, you know, I can expect not so much a trial for what I do or for my misbehavior as an airing of my justifications and my excuses.
00:22:52.000I think the reason this has sparked such intrigue and interest across the country is that it seems like such a cut and dry case.
00:23:00.000And yet, even when it's cut and dry, and I hate to use that expression, actually, now that I think about it, it's a poor choice, but it's a very clear case.
00:23:10.000And, you know, the fact that there is still controversy, the fact that this man's family, this murderer's family, raised $700,000 from people that wanted to just support him because he's a young black man and they don't want to see another brother in jail, I think is the part that's really disheartening to me.
00:23:29.000Now, I will say, it does seem to me that we've developed some antibodies as a culture, perhaps, since OJ, right?
00:23:36.000The way that this is being handled in this Texas court seems to have been.
00:23:44.000I'm concerned about what happens in the streets.
00:23:46.000But notice there's no Reverend Sharpton there.
00:23:50.000You know, a lot of the race baiters and the grifters that we've become accustomed to aren't even showing up to this case.
00:23:55.000And yet, and still, there is a portion of society that thinks young black man about to be thrown in prison can't let that stand.
00:24:05.000Even though all the facts go against him.
00:24:06.000And the surge of sentimentalism, too, where we mentioned that home invasion case where someone was murdered and that the jury four person said, Someone in this jury was just not going to convict because they just didn't want to see a person go to jail for life for murder.
00:24:23.000And we saw that in the jury selection where they dismissed potential jurors because they said, I just don't want to send a brother to prison, a young man.
00:25:17.000If this guy gets off for reasons that aren't perceived as legitimate, then we aren't really a country that protects each other using the law anymore.
00:25:29.000We're just a country that referees political fights using real people.
00:25:51.000You know, this outrage is spreading across Europe, which is good.
00:25:55.000Then we find another story that's going viral this morning about this.
00:26:01.000It looks like an African immigrant in Northern Ireland that attempted to behead an Irishman.
00:26:09.000Just confirmed a Sudanese asylum recipient who apparently came bonus stuff, comes to Ireland, and then Britain, thanks to Brexit, has this open border just in Ireland with the world.
00:26:22.000So comes in, comes to Belfast, and, you know, does the natural.
00:26:25.000Thing that anyone seeking safety would do, which is decapitate a random person in the street.
00:26:41.000But this is something that is a bigger conversation.
00:26:45.000And we're probably going to have to get into the next segment here, though, Walter, is that it does contribute to this feeling like we're losing our society.
00:26:57.000You know, this oft used term, social cohesion, we're losing it partly by immigration, partly from stupidity, partly from woke.
00:27:05.000And it's this witch's brew of garbage.
00:27:07.000You know what we're really losing it from?
00:27:12.000You need social cohesion when you have groups of people mingling in real life in public spaces.
00:27:19.000If you're doing that a lot, then it's very important to you that some member of that group doesn't turn around and behead another one.
00:27:27.000But as we withdraw into our phones, as we withdraw into our private worlds, as we withdraw into spaces in which we are insulated, we look at incidents like this.
00:27:39.000As though they're reality TV shows that won't affect us.
00:27:44.000Unfortunately, the people who make the laws anymore, the so called elites, are the people least likely to end up on that street in that situation.
00:27:54.000And it is, if the poor are your concern, and they should always be our concern as human beings, then what are we doing by creating this arena in which they're beheading each other and we're standing back and making abstract arguments about it?
00:30:18.000It's a war that we fought. in all sorts of proxy ways, silent ways, financial ways, diplomatic ways, but not militarily, not in an outright fashion.
00:30:28.000Under Trump, we started to fight it that way with tanks, helicopters, missiles, and planes.
00:30:36.000I think the thought was that we had to bring this thing to a conclusion, that it had gone on chronically for too long, that it had spread its tentacles into all sorts of organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah and so on, that it was regionally destabilizing, and it was time to bring the damn thing to a head.
00:30:55.000It's a war that has been going on, but that we decided to fight in a new way.
00:31:01.000I personally feel that because there is a nuclear component to it and a genuine one, which there wasn't in Iraq, and there certainly wasn't in Afghanistan, it's a slightly different situation.
00:31:16.000And if there is a real prospect of reordering things such that we have a non nuclear Iran and an Iran that is no longer basically. headquarters for a worldwide terrorist organization that is also destabilizing the region immediately.
00:31:34.000It was probably an incentive to go hot.
00:31:40.000People's tolerance for that and their patience with it will vary.
00:31:43.000It has not been a high casualty war for us so far.
00:33:05.000But that's not so much a fissure as a kind of gradient, a difference.
00:33:11.000What's made it a cleavage, what's made it an absolute difference, is the insistence that this war was fought for Israel, on Israel's behalf, almost at their command.
00:33:27.000Otherwise, we would not have been enemies before with Iran, which we have been for long standing.
00:33:36.000Maybe Israel's cooperation in the war and the timing of it have something to do with how and when it took place.
00:33:43.000But they turned it into a surrogate for a kind of decision about what you thought on Israel.
00:33:56.000And that's what's turned it, made it divisive.
00:33:59.000And the rhetoric around that conflict, pro, anti Israel, Zionist, anti Zionist, and some of it just outright anti-Semitic, Jew or hate Jew, has made it a real problem, not just for Trump, but for American society, for Western society.
00:34:19.000Because I have not, because the fact is it does dip its toe in the rankest anti-Semitism.
00:34:25.000But geopolitically, I also think it's a little bit absurd.
00:34:28.000I mean, if Israel has the whip hand over the American military, and you see all this stuff now, oh, we've decided to merge our militaries, that's not accurate either.
00:34:41.000Then Americans are going to be justly afraid if they believe it.
00:34:44.000But it's hyperbola, it's exaggeration, it's not borne out, and it's a propaganda tactic.
00:34:50.000And the propaganda tactic has been effective.
00:35:10.000I go on tv now and then, but I will return in my glory as a talking head at some point, um and and so people can await that moment, but for the moment, i'm finishing up some big projects that I hope to be everywhere Next year, Walter Kern, the great Walter Kern and County Highway.
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00:36:48.000Man, I've been thinking about this conversation for the last couple days because there's a lot of stuff going on with Butler, Pennsylvania, and the attempted assassination against President Trump.
00:37:03.000That just, you know, just keeps raising these questions.
00:37:08.000And one man, as we've become accustomed to, is like a dog with a bone on this, and that is Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch.
00:37:15.000And he's been FOIAing like a crazy man, getting all the information we can, but it's drips and drabs, and we don't know exactly what it is.
00:37:24.000So I'll let him explain what he's found.
00:40:08.000And if they have to redact this to keep up with statutes or laws or customs, change those because the guy's dead and we deserve to know what happened.
00:40:17.000Yeah, you would think, given that President Trump was nearly killed as a result of Biden administration malfeasance and negligence, to put it charitably.
00:40:30.000There'd be an interest in exposing that because I do think there are still risks to the president as a result of failures by the Secret Service and the agencies that support his security.
00:40:44.000And so we're trying to figure out what went on to make sure it doesn't happen again.
00:40:48.000And this issue to get attacked over for disclosing records in a good faith way and saying, well, you're lying because we have material you don't have, and therefore you're lying.
00:41:02.000In disclosing what you do have, it's just crazy.
00:41:06.000And in many ways, I want to move beyond it because all I want is the disclosure.
00:41:16.000And our focus, at least my focus, was at the time, is like, what's going on in California?
00:41:21.000We're suing in California to clean up the voting rolls.
00:41:24.000We've got a Supreme Court decision about to come down that is likely going to stop counting the counting of ballots that arrive late after election day.
00:41:35.000So, like big issues, and of course, transparency about Butler, it's a big issue.
00:41:40.000Instead, we get this juvenile attack from the FBI director and his people.
00:41:45.000And, you know, he owes us an apology and he overreacted.
00:41:52.000And I think they're upset because, you know, we give everyone guff.
00:43:54.000You know, when you see these sort of bureaucratic, bureaucratic, uh, You know, I don't know, obstructionism, whatever you want to call it.
00:44:02.000And then they go after somebody like you, who's our friend, who's on the right side of all of these issues, who's fighting to clean up the voter rolls, who's fighting for transparency.
00:44:33.000I doubt there's been full disclosure even internally.
00:44:37.000I think this is what I would do if I were a Kash Patel.
00:44:40.000I get a handle as to what the documents are that are outstanding, direct his agency, and the Justice Department, which is responsible for the FBI, should collaborate on this because they're defending this lawlessness in court right now in terms of transparency and secrecy, and just get the records out as quickly as they can.
00:45:05.000Stop with the excuse making about the need to do redactions and then attacking Judicial Watch when we get it wrong because they hid crap from us.
00:45:27.000You want what's best for the country and you want what's best for the conservative movement.
00:45:31.000You want what's best for our voter rolls, for transparency, for trust in the system, all these things.
00:45:36.000So, I think it's super counterproductive.
00:45:38.000And I will tell you, as somebody that has had a lot of pressure on me, put on me personally, to attack the FBI, and, you know, when it comes to Charlie's case or whatever.
00:45:49.000And listen, so this is not an easy place for me to be, but I just want to say once more, Tom, we have your back.
00:45:56.000And I just appreciate all the work you're doing to try and bring transparency and actual accountability, communication from our Federal Bureau of Investigation.
00:46:07.000Yeah, it's the work we do as a watchdog.
00:46:09.000And I know I think the president appreciates the work, and I think Cash generally appreciates the work.
00:46:15.000His nose is out of joint for whatever reason on this particular issue.
00:46:20.000But he's got to stop calling us a liar and have his people calling us a liar because that type of language is dangerous language.
00:46:28.000It's escalatory, and these are dangerous times.
00:46:33.000And when you have the FBI going around targeting people like this with.
00:46:37.000With what I consider to be outrageously false statements, you know, that's not good.
00:46:43.000That's not good, and it's a dangerous smear.
00:46:53.000You said you got it wrong, that it wasn't an officer that was emailing with crooks.
00:46:58.000It was a professor or some sort of academic contact of his.
00:47:03.000I want to quickly change our focus here, Tom, because so much is going on in L.A., going on in California.
00:47:12.000So we want to also highlight the good work you do there.
00:47:14.000You have some recent cases you've been suing to highlight California.
00:47:18.000You've, one of your most recent suits, you've exposed California has almost a million inactive voter registrations that have been hanging around for three or even four elections, which when California is sending out a million ballots every single cycle, that shows a lot of danger here.
00:47:38.000Yeah, so the issue is: is California taking reasonable steps to clean up the rolls?
00:47:44.000And we sued previously California, and LA agreed to, as part of a settlement, Ultimately, they remove 1.2 million dirty names from the rolls.
00:47:57.000And there are at least 873 dirty names on the rolls, 873,000 dirty names on the rolls, some of which are going back as long as 10 years.
00:48:07.000And they say they're, quote, inactive.
00:48:10.000Well, when you have the process break down and you're not cleaning the names out, it means that there are people who are, quote, active who are getting ballots, I suspect by the hundreds of thousands.
00:48:23.000Because if they have 800,000 they're telling us about that are inactive and they know shouldn't be on the rolls, what about people who move away and the state doesn't even know they've moved away for two years?
00:48:35.000These are people that they know or should have known have moved away.
00:48:39.000But there are tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands who they just don't even check.
00:48:44.000So when they say there's no evidence of impropriety, and that's the new media line, right?
00:48:49.000No evidence of impropriety in the California elections.
00:48:55.000They aren't following federal law to clean up the election rolls.
00:48:59.000That's an indicator that there are dirty names on the rolls, likely receiving dirty ballots, and that lawlessness is resulting in less confidence in the elections.
00:49:11.000So the whole system is being compromised.
00:49:14.000This election is compromised by the failure to keep the rolls clean.
00:49:20.000On top of it, we've got this litigation in California.
00:49:24.000The underlying issue right now is before the Supreme Court.
00:49:26.000We made the arguments a few months ago, our lawyers did, that counting ballots that arrive after Election Day is contrary to federal law.
00:49:34.000Now, certainly in November, where federal law sets an Election Day, I'm hoping the Supreme Court will rule almost any minute now, practically speaking, that we're right.
00:50:01.000Well, and Tom, we had Bill Asaley on, first assistant U.S. attorney of the Central District in California, yesterday, talking about you can use a gym card or a prescription pill label for proof of, you know, when you register to vote as your ID.
00:50:19.000And look at this crazy clip from Steve Hilton, who, you know, by some miracle is going to be in the top two for the governorship.
00:50:34.000There's a line in the law that says that actually the proof that you mailed your ballot on or just before Election Day, even if it arrives after Election Day, it's not just the postmark.
00:50:50.000You can write it, you can handwrite the date.
00:51:18.000It just says, if they have dated their ballot and it's before election day, then it counts.
00:51:25.000I can't think of how that could go astray when you have a month to count these things and you have thousands of city employees and volunteers and active.
00:51:35.000Everything going into this and the amount of time they take to do this, there's so much room for shenanigans to come in.
00:51:41.000And that's one of the reasons it's so important to at least count this stuff in a day.
00:51:49.000And in California, they just passed a law, the leftists did, and Newsom's been celebrating it.
00:51:54.000He signed it into law that makes it harder to challenge this issue.
00:51:58.000So if you're an observer and you see the signatures aren't matching and you want to raise an objection, you're prohibited from doing so.
00:52:07.000That's how sensitive they are about protecting this unsecure, unsupervised voting.
00:52:16.000I mean, you know, it places your vote at risk to have all these mail in ballots out there because your honest vote can be negated by dishonest voting.
00:52:26.000And I tell you, if you're not voting in the ballot place, in the voting precincts or the voting places, you can't be assured, or no sensible person can be assured.
00:52:40.000That votes aren't being, voters aren't being threatened, coerced, or having their votes stolen out from under their noses.
00:52:47.000Well, Tom, I moved, you know, after Charlie's assassination, I moved from California to Arizona.
00:52:53.000And this is probably on me because I didn't inform the state and say that I was moving or whatever.
00:52:58.000But I got a ballot, you know, and that's the thing.
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00:58:24.000This is a standard, fun gallop through our history, you know, starting in 1763, the end of the French and Indian War, which leads to the Revolution, all the stories of the Revolution and the heroes, the people, the stories.
00:58:51.000If you stick a microphone, anybody's face, Main Street America, 1960, Every single person, every American knew everything that's in this book.
00:58:59.000Nathan Hale, you mentioned Nathan Hale.
00:59:01.000There's a chapter in here on Nathan Hale, one of the great heroes of American history.
00:59:25.000Obviously, we care about America's actual religion with Christianity, but you need the country to have its secular religion as well, which is its secular heroes.
00:59:34.000Especially because we're this diverse country, you actually need everyone to think George Washington rocks.
00:59:39.000But, Blake, here's the problem all these quote unquote secular heroes are fire breathing Christians.
00:59:45.000This is what I didn't know when I started to write the book.
00:59:49.000And that's what the big news is for me.
00:59:51.000When people said, Eric, you're writing a book on the revolution, what's your angle?
01:00:34.000And the proof, the reason the title is Revolution, not the American Revolution, is because I make the case, and I think it's open and shut.
01:00:41.000There's no other revolution that succeeded.
01:01:33.000And then we had to build up antibodies.
01:01:35.000I mean, I'm starting to realize that our modern environment is a series of onslaughts, attacks against, to Blake's point, our civic religion, our civic myths.
01:02:27.000The Townsend Act, Liberty Affair, on the road to bloodshed.
01:02:30.000I mean, this is the actual history, and it's so readable.
01:02:33.000And it's so insane they tear it down because we're really such a blessed country.
01:02:36.000Like, if you're a modern French person, the French Revolution is the founding event of your modern country, and it is a bloodbath that goes horrible.
01:03:17.000In the course of doing a ton of research, this evidence comes to me.
01:03:21.000I thought, how in the world did I not know this?
01:03:24.000How does every American not know this?
01:03:26.000It's because all of these guys in this revolution were looking directly to God.
01:03:31.000They wanted to go back to the Sinai covenant of the Israelites in the wilderness.
01:03:34.000They had this Old Testament theology that we're going to get rid of a king, we're going to get out from under Pharaoh, and we're going to look directly to God.
01:03:41.000And only by doing that can we govern ourselves.
01:03:44.000There's nobody in this book who didn't get that.
01:05:47.000If you don't know the biblical roots of the founding of America, that all of the founders understood that, then you're really missing it, and we can't sustain what we have.
01:05:58.000You cannot have liberty without people looking to God, being virtuous.
01:06:03.000And again, that's not what the book's about, but you just can't help but see.
01:06:40.000I know some of y'all are, you know, caping for Charlie Kirk because I hadn't heard y'all talk about his organization over and over and over.
01:06:48.000So, I'm not gonna play with anybody who's gonna play with my time, so I'm going directly to Ms. McCord.
01:06:53.000If I see a black pilot, I'm going to be like, boy, I hope he's qualified.
01:07:57.000Where Charlie was reflecting on the fact that the CEO of United was going to mandate racial quotas and gender quotas on the new pilot class, taking it from about 85 15%, 85 straight white men or white men in general, to 15% minorities, and going to mandate that the new pilot class was 50 50.
01:10:32.000Oh, that's, and I just couldn't get over the fact that she goes to the SBLC rep and she goes, well, that seems like racial animus and that seems like bigotry.
01:10:40.000And that seems, no, it's called common sense.
01:10:43.000We don't want people that are subjugating other people, taxing them.
01:10:48.000Creating streets named after Islamic conquerors.
01:10:57.000They are beating their wives, and they're saying, according to our laws, that is absolutely fine.
01:11:03.000Well, according to the American laws, it's not fine.
01:11:06.000So the idea that we're going to have an area that's not going to abide by the rules of the United States of America, obviously that's the problem.