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00:03:29.000It's not clear if the Senate will actually act on this legislation, but they do.
00:03:33.000And if they pass it, Biden says he'll sign the bill.
00:03:36.000Now, what the bill will do is allow the Biden White House to designate TikTok as an app owned by a hostile foreign government.
00:03:45.000It would give Byte Dance, TikTok's Chinese Communist Party-linked owner, a few months to divest itself from TikTok, or else U.S. companies like Microsoft and Apple would be ordered to ban TikTok from their app stores, effectively neutering the distribution.
00:04:00.000Rubio and Mark Warner are the top Republicans, the top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Intel Committee, and they're trying to pass this bill.
00:04:07.000So understand this is not an effective ban.
00:04:09.000It's that they must sell to a United States company.
00:05:32.000It is owned by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:05:34.000Allegedly, they are data mining every single person who is using the TikTok app on their phone.
00:05:41.000We're going to have a great conversation on thought crime later.
00:05:44.000Blake is not convinced that they're actually doing anything with this data.
00:05:47.000I personally don't think we should be indifferent to the Chinese Communist Party having access to keystroke data and other personal information of our children.
00:05:57.000I just don't trust the Chinese Communist Party at all.
00:05:59.000They're an enemy of the United States.
00:07:14.000It will only say that it goes to an American company.
00:07:17.000Depending on what American company ends up receiving TikTok or purchasing, that's a better term for it, purchasing TikTok, then we'll have a better ability to judge whether or not they are still censoring speech and mining data.
00:07:33.000Congressman Warren Davidson warns the TikTok bill could create an even bigger surveillance state, play cut 72.
00:07:39.000And this bill isn't just limited to TikTok.
00:07:42.000It's a coercive power that can be applied to others.
00:07:45.000Apps like Telegram, Tor, things that provide privacy would be targeted by this bill.
00:07:53.000But this is what the administration really wanted to do, what members of Congress at both sides of the aisle wanted to do, is to create a bigger surveillance state.
00:08:01.000And that's what the Intel Committee wants to do with this.
00:08:37.000Again, I am legitimately undecided here, but I'm asking the proper questions.
00:08:42.000And also, if we do nothing, will TikTok only grow to be more powerful?
00:08:46.000Will the Chinese Communist Party use TikTok as an ability to influence this presidential election?
00:08:52.000All of a sudden in October, if TikTok is influencing the election for Joe Biden, who, of course, Joe Biden is a owned and operated and purchased commodity of the Chinese Communist Party government, are we going to wish that we would have forced TikTok to be sold?
00:09:09.000We're banning TikTok before securing our southern border.
00:09:47.000And another thing, when I see this kind of bipartisanship, I get even more skeptical that it's a uniparty regime neoliberal effort, not a legitimate people-centered citizen-led effort.
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00:12:17.000We also think it's dangerous to give the president that kind of power, to give him the power to decide what Americans can see on their phones and their computers.
00:12:27.000Do we want Joe Biden to have that kind of power?
00:12:29.000Do we want the Biden White House to be able to pick and choose?
00:12:32.000I've grown skeptical of all of these sort of legislative efforts recently.
00:12:40.000Now, people say that this TikTok ban will only apply to TikTok or maybe another company that pops up just like TikTok.
00:12:48.000But the bill is written so broadly that the president could abuse that discretion and include other companies that aren't just social media companies.
00:12:58.000So the question is, is it written that broadly?
00:13:01.000The proponents of the bill say, no, no, no, don't worry, just trust us.
00:13:05.000And under normal circumstances, I would, but the power you give the regime is power abused.
00:13:25.000If it could just be, sign a piece of paper, no more TikTok, go away forever, sign me up for that program.
00:13:32.000But it's not about winning or losing on TikTok.
00:13:37.000It's about something far deeper than this.
00:13:39.000It's about what power are we willing to give the executive branch of government?
00:13:43.000And has the executive branch of government, has the administrative state, has this quiet dictatorship, this fourth branch of government that exists in our country, have they earned our trust?
00:13:59.000If we don't trust the FBI, we don't trust the CIA, we don't trust the Department of Justice, do we think that whatever law, whatever rules, whatever measures are put into this piece of legislation, is it going to be followed completely?
00:14:16.000Are they going to go after Rumble or even threaten Elon Musk with this piece of legislation?
00:14:27.000There were some people who were legitimately concerned that this was an overly broad bill, and they got an exclusion written into the bill that I want to read.
00:14:38.000It says the term covered company does not include an entity that operates a website or application whose primary purpose is to allow users to post product reviews, business reviews, or travel information and reviews.
00:14:53.000Why did somebody feel like they needed this exception if the bill itself only covers social media applications that foreign adversaries are running?
00:15:03.000So one of the proponents, one of the people that's pro-legislation says this.
00:15:10.000The law would require a fairly holistic review to put another company off the list.
00:15:14.000The general enforcement investigation would come from the Attorney General's office for civil penalties.
00:15:19.000But that's after the app has been designated by the White House via an interagency process.
00:15:24.000In order, for example, Telegram to be even considered, you have to show, one, that it's owned by an entity owned by an adverse sale government, okay, Russia, or is a subsidiary of that company, and that government has control over the app.
00:15:35.000Okay, Telegram is much different than TikTok in that regard.
00:15:38.000Sure, it's owned by a Russian company, but it's not controlled by Putin.
00:15:48.000Whereas Byte Dance literally has a member of the Chinese Communist Party stationed in its boardroom to align itself with Chinese Communist Party priorities.
00:17:47.000Miss Daisy here, who does a lot of great work for us, making sure we remain viral and Mr. Ryan, they were telling me that there's this growing right-wing army on TikTok.
00:17:56.000I wouldn't know because I'm banned for a hate speech.
00:17:59.000But if that's true, we should have Isabel on the show, the great Isabel Brown, who's very popular on TikTok.
00:18:06.000At the same time, I say, if you're popular in a Chinese Communist Party application, that's not that persuasive.
00:18:13.000And understand, I think, and I don't want to speak too much out of turn here, but if you count YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Getter, Truth, Social Rumble, I think we have 12 million followers between the 10, 11 million?
00:19:05.000There's something to TikTok that the Chinese Communist Party and that whole cabal over there, the mafia, that they have figured out how to make that application highly addictive.
00:19:17.000I remember before we get on to the breaking Georgia news, I remember Benny Johnson in 2018 said, Charlie, you got to download this app, TikTok.
00:22:01.000And basically, what is happening is that Judge Scott McAfee is dismissing several of the charges here in Georgia against former President Donald Trump, six of the charges in this order.
00:22:12.000And so this is certainly notable because the former president was facing a number of charges, but for to have six of them removed is notable.
00:22:22.000By the way, when are we going to finally, Blake, can you tell me when are we finally going to get a ruling from this judge on Fannie Willis's love affairs, garage door openers?
00:23:02.000Potentially momentous decision or monumental decision that could completely derail the case altogether if Judge Scott McAfee were to come out and say he's determined Fonnie Willis is disqualified.
00:23:20.000And that was kind of the bomb that we were expecting to drop this week.
00:23:22.000And so this is certainly a separate, unexpected, though certainly consequential ruling from the judge.
00:23:28.000So overall, the Fulton County case, as brought by Big Fanny Willis, had 41 charges against many people.
00:23:35.000This morning, he threw out six of those 41.
00:23:38.000So the drop charges relate to allegations of, quote, soliciting the violation of oath by a public officer, basically the pressure on Brad Rothensberger to find votes in Georgia.
00:23:46.000And also the pressure on Georgia lawmakers to vote to throw out the state's 2020 results.
00:23:51.000Quote, as written, these six counts contain all the essential elements of the crimes, but fail to allege sufficient detail regarding the nature of their commission.
00:23:59.000They do not give the defendants enough information to prepare their defenses intelligently, as defendants could have violated the Constitution and thus the statute in dozens, if not hundreds or of distinct ways.
00:24:14.000McAfee says the charges could conceivably be refiled.
00:24:19.000But for now, he says that those six charges were so lacking in detail, it was not possible for the defendants to effectively defend themselves.
00:24:26.000Now, Judge McAfee still hasn't ruled on whether or not to dismiss Fanny Willis as a prosecutor, as we've said.
00:24:31.000We had a big story last week from the federalist Molly Hemingway.
00:24:34.000I wish she wouldn't have published it on a Friday.
00:24:35.000It was like the last thing that I tweeted out before Shabbat, where the Fulton County case was kicked off by Jordan Fuchs, the chief of staff to Brad Roffensberger, making an illegal recording of the phone call between Rothensberger and Trump.
00:24:50.000So a crime very well might have started the entire investigation into Trump.
00:24:58.000I want to take you back to what started this whole thing in the beginning.
00:25:01.000That was that phone call that the former president made to the Republican Secretary of State here in Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, essentially asking him to find enough votes to overturn Biden's election victory here in the state.
00:25:13.000Well, the judge is basically saying that the charges, the counts related to that phone call, he is throwing out.
00:25:37.000This is what Donald Trump, Alan Dershowitz, made this argument to his great credit.
00:25:42.000I want to read this is what Trump was indicted for, and it's now been caught.
00:25:45.000Quote, so look, all I want to do is this.
00:25:49.000I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state, adding that, quote, there's no way I lost Georgia.
00:28:45.000What if I told you that now, given recent news, we are one heartbeat away from Speaker Jeffries.
00:28:51.000One heartbeat away from Speaker Jeffries.
00:28:56.000And I am not being morbid, but if you look at how overweight and old some of those Republicans are, they better drive safe and they better get their cholesterol down.
00:31:44.000I don't think we can get that super quick, right, Ryan?
00:31:46.000Burchett said, hey, somebody comes, whispers in your ear, and they say, hey, we've got a picture of you with a naked girl, and you better do what you tell you to do.
00:31:53.000Is Ken Buck being actively blackmailed by the dark arts machine of the Imperial Capital of Washington, D.C.?
00:32:02.000So for those of you keeping score at home, we started with, I think, a four or five-seat majority, if I'm not mistaken.
00:32:08.000We are now down to a one-seat majority.
00:33:39.000I have been very animated about this today because I didn't quite realize just how much the club for, we used to call it the Club for China Growth, the Club for China Growth Money and all of that was splashing around Washington, D.C., trying to convince people that somehow it's a good idea to allow the Chinese Communist Party and its tentacles to remain in American public life.
00:34:02.000And, you know, this morning we saw some totally egregious, false statements by people who I respect, people whose work that I have followed for a long time, Thomas Massey being one of them, Rand Paul being another, who were reading in part from the bill.
00:34:19.000But I just happen to have a full copy of the bill right here.
00:34:22.000And up at the National Pulse, by the way, we've published just now an article by somebody who worked in the Trump administration on the TikTok ban itself specifically, who says this is exactly what we wanted.
00:34:34.000This is exactly what we were working on during the Trump administration.
00:34:38.000So let me break it down for the people who think that somewhere in this bill contains provisions for Joe Biden or the U.S. government to censor them on X or Twitter or anywhere else.
00:34:52.000This bill is very specific about foreign adversary control of applications, websites, and it goes into detail about what foreign adversary control actually means.
00:35:07.000I've done an entire video on this this morning where I walk people through.
00:35:12.000This is specifically about TikTok, bike dance, and the Chinese Communist Party.
00:35:18.000And it does not and could not apply to anything in any person, website, outlet in the domestic United States.
00:35:29.000I think we have to just, there's a lot of money, a lot of TikTok cash floating around Washington, D.C. right now to try to convince you that this Republican-written bill, this MAGA Republican written bill, is somehow going to end up with the censorship of you or I. Let me tell you something, Charlie.
00:35:46.000If there was any semblance of a chance of that, of the Biden regime going after us on the grounds of this, I would be the first to start ringing the alarm because I would be one of the first that it would be used against.
00:36:00.000What is in this bill is very specific, and it basically says: look, if the company is owned 20% or more by a foreign adversary and that foreign adversary is spelled out bike dance, TikTok, Chinese Communist Party, then it either needs to divest itself of that investment or it cannot broadcast and be utilized in the United States.
00:36:19.000I think it's a perfectly reasonable thing.
00:36:26.000And I think it's everything that they battled for during the Trump administration.
00:36:30.000So let's just take and I hear you and all that.
00:36:33.000The foreign adversary, though, Telegram, for example, has connections to Russia.
00:36:38.000What would prevent them from going after my beloved Telegram?
00:36:44.000Well, specifically, this bill actually talks about bike dance and TikTok.
00:36:49.000So there's nothing in this bill that would necessarily predicate them being able to go after Telegram.
00:36:54.000For instance, I'll quote from you here.
00:36:56.000Number three, foreign adversary controlled application means a website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented immersive technology application that is operated directly or indirectly through a parent company, subsidiary, or affiliate of any of the following: Bike Dance, TikTok, a subsidiary or successor to an entity identified in clause A, or that is controlled by the foreign adversary.
00:37:25.000And look, if there's a problem with this bill, for me, it's actually that it doesn't go far enough because it has this 20% ownership threshold in it for the Chinese Communist Party.
00:37:36.000So what they could do is actually drop their shareholding to 19% and actually get away with the provisions against that in this bill.
00:37:44.000If there are problems on the libertarian right with this bill, if there are freedom and free speech implications that people are concerned about with this bill, well, then I'm happy to look at another draft.
00:37:56.000If Tom Massey or anybody else wants to draft what they would like this to look like, fine.
00:38:08.000This is not about giving the U.S. government more power over what you get to say in the United States.
00:38:14.000It's about taking the power away from the Chinese Communist Party.
00:38:18.000I don't know how we've got to a position where suddenly everybody believes that a China-owned application that is in almost every young American's phones is okay, but we weren't there last year.
00:39:11.000Well, so this is what I actually think this is all about beneath the surface.
00:39:15.000And here, here I go putting my tinfoil hat on, right?
00:39:19.000I suspect that what's really going on here is that Americans like Jeffrey Yass, who are heavily invested, I mean, heavily invested, billionaire, I mean, billionaires with billions invested in TikTok, are attempting to leverage organizations like the Club for Growth.
00:39:38.000The Club for Growth is in tandem then lobbying on Capitol Hill.
00:39:42.000One of our people that we know quite well, Kellyanne Conway, is lobbying on Capitol Hill, using that money, TikTok money, to try and get people to change their minds over this.
00:39:52.000But critically, they're also lobbying President Trump.
00:39:56.000And here's what I think is going to happen.
00:39:58.000If it can be shown through bank transactions, financial transactions, whatever, that money flowed into the Trump campaign at the same time that President Trump changed his position on TikTok, then the Biden regime and Merrick Garland will say Donald Trump is an asset of China and they will start to do the whole Russiagate thing all over again, but this time with China.
00:40:19.000I actually think that's what they're really hoping happens here.
00:40:22.000But to answer your question directly, look, it's investors like Jeffrey Yass who give a lot of money to conservative politicians on Capitol Hill and it's groups like Club for Growth.
00:40:32.000And look, there will always be, always be, and there should not never be, a situation where people are concerned about the civil liberties and the free speech implications of government taking these steps.
00:40:44.000But again, ladies and gentlemen, please don't take my word for it.
00:40:47.000Read the bill for yourself because a lot of people are pulling out.
00:40:50.000I mean, Thomas Massey, I thought this was gross, by the way.
00:40:53.000Thomas Massey pulled out one part of this bill, right, where it says, quote, qualified divestiture.
00:41:00.000The term qualified divestiture means a divestiture or similar transaction that the president determines through an interagency process would result in the relevant covered company no longer being controlled by a foreign adversary.
00:41:10.000And B, the president determines through an interagency process precludes the establishment or maintenance of any operational relationship between the United States, blah, And they're pulling that out and they're saying, see, this means that Biden can just arbitrarily decide.
00:41:23.000And they don't show you the 10 pages that went before that, which stipulates, no, it's only TikTok and ByteDance that that's applying to.
00:41:31.000So I think people are being disingenuous and dishonest about it.
00:41:34.000Read the bill for yourselves, ladies and gentlemen.
00:41:36.000This is about stopping CCP influence in America.
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00:42:24.000So Raheem, what do you say to the people that will say, but it doesn't ban it?
00:42:27.000It just makes an American company buy it.
00:42:29.000So this will potentially be owned by Google or Facebook.
00:42:33.000Yeah, well, I think that's far better than it being owned by the Chinese Communist Party for a start.
00:42:38.000But I also think that there are other options here.
00:42:40.000I mean, I saw that Rumble yesterday put out a statement and said, look, they are happy to join a consortium, specifically as a cloud hosting partner in a takeover.
00:42:51.000And that is something that the bill addresses, right?
00:42:53.000It's talking about divestiture or sale.
00:42:56.000And it would be 180 days after the bill passes that this would have to happen by.
00:43:01.000So, it doesn't even necessarily impact this coming presidential election.
00:43:05.000Let's say if the Senate gets to it in a month and then it goes to Biden's desk, I mean, it takes you up until after the election to actually have anything like that happen.
00:43:14.000Yeah, look, there will be American companies chomping at the bit to try and get their hands on something like this.
00:43:21.000But at the same time, American companies will also have American oversight already written into American law via your legislative branch.
00:43:30.000And if there were to be any overstep, any overstretch, especially on a bill like this, I would imagine this current Supreme Court especially would have no problem jumping in and saying, hold on a second, guys, this is not what the bill says.
00:43:40.000This is not what you're allowed to do.
00:43:42.000So, I think, you know, President Trump had some wonderful Supreme Court picks.
00:43:45.000I would expect them to uphold the rule of law when it comes to something like this.
00:43:49.000But what is the alternative here, Charlie?
00:43:51.000To continue to allow the Chinese Communist Party via bite dance to impact America, impact your elections, foist the pandemic upon you, drill narratives into young Americans' heads that, by the way, they're not doing that with the Chinese version of TikTok.
00:44:06.000You don't see the degenerate content that you see in America on the Chinese version of TikTok.
00:44:11.000This is a foreign power tool that is being used by a foreign adversary.
00:44:15.000And let's be clear about this, by the way, as well.
00:44:18.000We're not talking about an allied nation.
00:44:20.000We're not talking about a European nation.
00:44:23.000This is literally the first line of this bill says to protect the national security of the United States from the threat posed by foreign adversary-controlled applications.
00:45:26.000And this is, again, I don't want to make it seem like there is a pay-for-play going on here, but this is politics.
00:45:33.000This is the kind of compromise that politicians and campaigns and candidates often have to make.
00:45:38.000I'm not sure, by the way, that President Trump is fully sold on the position of opposing the ban.
00:45:44.000I know he sent some tweets about it or truths about it, sorry, last week, but I'm also hearing at the same time that he's not completely sold on the idea that this is what he wants to do.
00:45:53.000And that those truths were kind of him gauging the reaction to this from his own base, as he often does, by the way.
00:45:59.000So I would say, and people can take me to the cleaners on this if they want to, if it doesn't happen, I would say that we are going to experience a further nuancing of President Trump positions in the next week over this.
00:46:13.000Where do you think the base is on this?
00:46:15.000Because Congress is acting as if there's massive majority support.
00:46:19.000Where do you think the base is at with this?
00:46:21.000I think torn, honestly, and fairly so.
00:46:24.000You know, the way this bill has been kind of broadcast and the way that the TikTok lobbyists have thrown cash at this to try and confuse the issue, it's no surprise to me that members of the ordinary public are confused over this.
00:46:39.000This is why I didn't explain a video that is available on Guesser on Truth on X on Instagram, not on TikTok, that I published this morning to walk people through it and say, look, I know what you're hearing.
00:46:53.000I thought it was really disingenuous what Elon Musk tweeted about the other day.
00:46:58.000He has his own Chinese business interests, by the way.
00:47:01.000And so the only thing I can say to people is bother to get down into the nitty-gritty for yourselves.
00:47:06.000I think if you read it, and I have multiple times over backwards, there's no doubt in my mind that this is specifically targeted at TikTok in China.
00:47:19.000I think we should all want the Chinese Communist Party out of our lives, especially after what they did during the pandemic, especially with the narratives that they push via TikTok with transgenderism, especially with an election coming up.
00:47:31.000I think the less China you have, the better.
00:47:34.000National Pulse, everyone, check it out.