The Charlie Kirk Show - Trick Questions with Senator Marsha Blackburn

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, we have Senator Marsha Blackburn.

00:00:03.000 And also, do you know what a transition closet is?

00:00:06.000 If you do not know what a transition closet is, well, your child might be exposed to one or might be using one.

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00:01:35.000 Okay, let's go to this story here.

00:01:38.000 More secret gender transition closets discovered in public schools.

00:01:43.000 A group sphere parents are being kept in the dark.

00:01:47.000 Quote, they started in colleges, but trans closets stocked with transgender clothes and accessories for students to change into after arriving to school and back out before going home are being discovered in public schools with some indication that they're being kept secret from parents.

00:02:03.000 So if you are sending your child to public school, there is a chance, albeit I don't know how widespread, but this kind of goes to show the culture around government school teachers and how they think they control your kids.

00:02:15.000 There is a chance that they are being exposed to or even participating in something called a transgender closet.

00:02:23.000 Now here's what a transgender closet is. 1.00

00:02:25.000 Your son might leave your home wearing jeans and a t-shirt, looking very masculine or at least somewhat masculine.

00:02:33.000 But then once they arrive to school, they will go into the closet and change into a dress outside of their parents' knowledge and then do the rest of the day in a dress, go back to the closet before their parents go and pick up their son where he'll change back into the shirt and the jeans as to keep the secret from parents that a transition ever happened at school.

00:02:58.000 Not a transition, but changing of the clothes.

00:03:01.000 Now this is happening more and more.

00:03:03.000 This is from the wonderful Epoch Times, where it shows that this is growing to more and more states.

00:03:09.000 The California Family Council and others have eventually confirmed the identity of a teacher in the Oakland Unified School District.

00:03:17.000 It's a Spanish teacher by the name of Thomas Martin Edwards, or Martín Edwards, who is also the founder of the quote queer teacher fellowship. 0.70

00:03:26.000 Martin Edwards, the teacher who runs the trans closet, is also a trans person.

00:03:33.000 He has posted videos of himself or herself or whatever in the classroom showing off stilettos he wears to school. 0.99

00:03:40.000 So Martin Edwards is obviously a very sick person. 0.93

00:03:45.000 Martin Edwards should not be a teacher. 0.98

00:03:47.000 Martin Edwards needs treatment and needs help.

00:03:50.000 Some people in life need help.

00:03:52.000 This is one of them.

00:03:54.000 And I really hope this person gets help and gets away from children. 0.97

00:03:57.000 This person is a predator.

00:03:59.000 Quote, this is an example of the deceit schools are deliberately using to carry out a growing transgender movement in public schools behind the backs of parents. 0.92

00:04:08.000 So we went very quickly from trying to recognize trans people are real people. 0.99

00:04:15.000 All right, what else you got?

00:04:16.000 Fine, sure.

00:04:18.000 To now teachers preying on children and offering the resources, the space, and the cover for children without their parents knowing, changing clothes to the gender that they so-and-so, so-called affiliate with.

00:04:36.000 I want you to listen to this teacher.

00:04:38.000 This is the teacher right here.

00:04:40.000 If you send your child to public school, there is a chance that your child is being exposed to this play tape.

00:04:49.000 My principal just approved our district's first transition closet.

00:04:52.000 We'll be working with the organization of the transition closet to provide clothes for transgender, non-binary, and gender-exploring youth who maybe don't have the access or the safety to get those clothes in their personal lives.

00:05:05.000 They'll be able to come to school and change into clothes that make them feel more at home and more like themselves.

00:05:10.000 And I just think that's lovely.

00:05:12.000 He's obviously very sick and needs help.

00:05:16.000 He filmed.

00:05:17.000 Who has to film?

00:05:18.000 They put this on TikTok themselves.

00:05:20.000 They voluntarily put this on TikTok for the world to see, and then they get really mad that Libs of TikTok finds these clips and then publicizes them.

00:05:30.000 So you start to see this increase at school after school after school.

00:05:37.000 Remember, every totalitarian, every tyrant wants to break the bond that a child has with their parent.

00:05:46.000 Now you have principals and teachers working collaboratively to make that possible.

00:05:54.000 They don't want parents to know because the parents being involved might actually derail the alphabet mafia's agenda.

00:06:03.000 Now, if you do not know what a trans closet is and you're sending your child to school, public school, I would highly recommend you read up on this.

00:06:13.000 You might be sending your son to school, and your son might be going around wearing a dress during the day without your knowledge.

00:06:21.000 Play cut 41.

00:06:23.000 The goal of the transition closet is for our students to be able to wear the clothes that their parents approve of, come to school, and then swap out into the clothes that fit who they truly are.

00:06:33.000 And I use the idea that this is like Superman changing in a phone booth.

00:06:37.000 But that idea actually goes a lot further than that because Superman isn't Clark Kent.

00:06:42.000 Clark Kent is actually the disguise.

00:06:44.000 And when Clark Kent goes into the phone booth, he transforms into Superman, who's really just who he truly is, Kalel. 0.76

00:06:50.000 And so this gives our trans students the opportunity to be the superheroes that we know they are.

00:06:56.000 Yeah, it gives an opportunity for us to prey on your children and to turn them into superheroes, who they actually really are.

00:07:02.000 Yeah, there's a portion of the population that believes this stuff that wants to circumvent parental authority.

00:07:08.000 Who has sovereignty over your kids exactly?

00:07:11.000 Whose children are they?

00:07:13.000 Well, the predators or the, let's say, deeply disturbed activists who you just heard from, they believe that they're entitled to your children.

00:07:29.000 That it's their kids working collaboratively with the school principal and others.

00:07:35.000 They arrogantly believe that they can prey on your children, bring them to transition closets, and provide them with the clothes so that they can turn into Superman. 0.54

00:07:50.000 They say here, quote, these kids are just going to do it anyway.

00:07:53.000 We want to provide them with a way to do it safely where they're not wearing clothes that are too small for them or doing it in a way that's going to get them hurt by their parents.

00:08:01.000 Oh, that's, you see that?

00:08:02.000 The entire push by this is they look at parents as potential damaging figures in their life.

00:08:15.000 They look at this as a way to be like, hey, we can now focus on children against the wishes of their parents.

00:08:26.000 You have to ask yourselves the question.

00:08:28.000 Again, this is something that the media hates when I say, but why is it there's so many people in the gay community that are so aggressive about proselytizing the next generation? 1.00

00:08:41.000 And that's not all people in the gay community.

00:08:44.000 There's plenty of people I know that are gay that don't care about children all the time. 1.00

00:08:48.000 But why is it there are so many people that are gay that are super hyper-aggressive about going after children? 1.00

00:08:53.000 Why is that? 0.83

00:08:55.000 Why did the gay men's choir in San Francisco release a song saying they were going to convert your kids?

00:09:01.000 We could play that tape.

00:09:02.000 I think we got a copyright strike on it because we just posted it.

00:09:05.000 But I think if we do it and then we respond to it, I think it's perfectly fine.

00:09:11.000 It really is the framing of the parents' party versus the pervert party.

00:09:17.000 Which one do you think is going to be more likely to win elections? 0.90

00:09:24.000 Parents are starting to say, keep your Marxist hands off my kids.

00:09:29.000 It is a great moral tragedy that these people are allowed to do this to innocent children.

00:09:35.000 But the left has always been focused on trying to remove the innocence of children.

00:09:40.000 It is instrumental to their political aims and ambitions. 0.99

00:09:46.000 Okay, here is 44, Cut 44, the all gay men's choir singing that we will convert your children to become homosexuals. 0.99

00:09:55.000 Play Cut 44. 0.97

00:10:09.000 We'll convert your children and make an ally of union. 0.99

00:10:17.000 Okay, so yeah, that's the gay men's choir in San Francisco singing actually rather melodically, I have to say, about converting your children to become gay and lesbian.

00:10:28.000 So if it's all just about gay marriage, why is it about converting your children all of a sudden?

00:10:34.000 You see, when I first got started in conservative politics back in like 2007 and 2008, the gay marriage debate was well on its way.

00:10:41.000 Obama, of course, first stood for one man, one woman marriage and then reversed.

00:10:46.000 He evolved on the issue.

00:10:47.000 No, he didn't.

00:10:48.000 He always believed in gay marriage. 0.81

00:10:49.000 He just, it wasn't popular.

00:10:51.000 It changed almost overnight.

00:10:52.000 Will and Grace, Modern Family, the Overton window moved.

00:10:58.000 And those of us that believe in traditional marriage lost that debate.

00:11:01.000 We first lost the debate in public opinion.

00:11:03.000 Then we lost it in the courts.

00:11:05.000 And a lot of us thought that it was going to kind of be over.

00:11:08.000 That, okay, got it.

00:11:09.000 Sure.

00:11:10.000 Gay marriage is the law of the land. 0.97

00:11:11.000 We disagree with that.

00:11:13.000 We believe that all people are made in the image of God.

00:11:16.000 We believe in constitutional rights for all people.

00:11:18.000 We do not believe that the dissolution of the institution of marriage itself is something that expands rights.

00:11:25.000 But all right, fine.

00:11:26.000 Like, let's go live our lives, right?

00:11:28.000 Like, live and let live.

00:11:29.000 That was kind of the whole thing, right?

00:11:30.000 We're not going to get in your way.

00:11:31.000 Don't get in ours.

00:11:32.000 Like, let's just keep on moving forward and let's just keep on, you know, making America a better place.

00:11:38.000 And how naive of myself and for many others to believe that.

00:11:42.000 How naive.

00:11:43.000 And maybe it's because I just believed in the best of people.

00:11:45.000 And now we're talking more about this than ever before.

00:11:48.000 And talking about going after children and these weirdos that are saying that we have to do transition closets and all men's choirs saying we're going to convert your children.

00:11:59.000 What is driving this?

00:12:00.000 I mean, I want an explanation.

00:12:01.000 You deserve an explanation as a parent because it's not about gay marriage anymore. 0.75

00:12:05.000 It's just not.

00:12:06.000 Of course not.

00:12:07.000 It's the law of the land.

00:12:09.000 So gay marriage goes everywhere across the world, across the country.

00:12:13.000 And yet now this is the next kind of chapter of this.

00:12:17.000 And coming up in June will be the entire month is Gay Pride Month. 0.86

00:12:22.000 So we're going to have to go through this entire kind of narrative again.

00:12:26.000 And it really does beg the question: what is the end goal here?

00:12:29.000 What is the objective?

00:12:30.000 If it was just about recognition and marriage rights for gay people, then why does it involve children?

00:12:38.000 What is the push there?

00:12:41.000 And parents, you'd have to be vigilant here.

00:12:46.000 There's some topics and there's some things that children should not be exposed to at all.

00:12:54.000 And this being one of them, especially without parental consent, without a parent, without a parent guardian.

00:13:00.000 And the explanation, of course, is Marxism.

00:13:02.000 I mean, if you are able to culturally deconstruct an entire society, most importantly from the family, then you can get whatever you want.

00:13:14.000 Now, the family is the backbone of the American middle class.

00:13:18.000 But families that are disconnected to one another, that disconnects the entire nation.

00:13:22.000 We've said this multiple times, and it's worthy of repeating because repetition is the soul of memory: the Ten Commandments is the only one of the Ten Commandments that comes with a promise and involves your nation.

00:13:34.000 Honor your mother and father so you may live long in the land of which you are in.

00:13:38.000 If the government owns your children, if the state controls your family, if the state controls your children, or your children are not connected to the parents, well, then that society itself just starts to tear apart.

00:13:51.000 Is that intentionally part of the agenda?

00:13:54.000 It's hard to be able to say that.

00:13:56.000 It's hard to say that there's kind of like some central bureau conspiracy.

00:14:00.000 I think it's more of an unintentional thing where what else are they going to focus on?

00:14:05.000 I mean, if they are so focused on their LGBT lifestyle, then why not all of a sudden go and try and recruit more children into what you believe is kind of this ever-bubbling up pseudo-religion? 1.00

00:14:21.000 We need to be comfortable talking about this and talking about how wrong this is.

00:14:27.000 But most parents are like, well, I don't know.

00:14:29.000 It scares me to talk about it.

00:14:30.000 But increasingly, parents are starting to push back against this, as you see in the collapse of Netflix and Disney, school board watch list.

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00:15:28.000 With us right now is one of my favorite U.S. Senators.

00:15:31.000 She's just doing a phenomenal job representing the people of Tennessee.

00:15:35.000 I was in Tennessee last week in Chattanooga and then in Athens, Tennessee.

00:15:41.000 And it is, of course, Senator Marsha Blackburn.

00:15:43.000 Senator, welcome back to the program.

00:15:45.000 Good to be with you.

00:15:45.000 Thank you so much.

00:15:47.000 So, Senator, I just got to ask you the trick question of the decade.

00:15:50.000 What is a woman? 1.00

00:15:52.000 You know, a woman is an adult female human being, 2X chromosomes. 1.00

00:16:00.000 There are so many ways we can answer that question.

00:16:03.000 And, Charlie, I have to tell you, I was probably as dumbfounded as anybody with the fact that I could not get an answer from Judge Jackson as to could she provide the definition of the word woman.

00:16:18.000 And of course, my question came in a series of questions that I was asking her about woke education, the school board she serves on, a curriculum called Woke Kindergarten that teaches children as young as five to choose a gender.

00:16:35.000 I went to the VMI case, and Justice Ginsburg had written in that case in the deciding position that there were enduring differences between male and female.

00:16:47.000 This, of course, was the decision that lent women into our military academies. 0.99

00:16:52.000 And I was moving on to question her about the NCAA and biological males competing against biological females.

00:16:59.000 So, since I couldn't get an answer from her about woke kindergarten or the VMI decision in Justice Ginsburg's writing on that opinion, I just looked at her and said, well, can you provide me the definition of the word woman?

00:17:16.000 Because these cases dealing with biological males competing in women's sports, that's going to end up at the Supreme Court.

00:17:25.000 Because when you allow biological males into that competition, in essence, what you're doing is doing away with Title IX, which means that girls have equal opportunity in sports. 0.88

00:17:40.000 They can't be discriminated against.

00:17:43.000 Also, I think it's important.

00:17:45.000 Look at the number of sex discrimination cases that are filed every year in the American workplace.

00:17:53.000 And companies many times have to negotiate these things out.

00:17:56.000 And Charlie, if you can't define woman, then how are you going to make certain that women are treated fairly in the workplace?

00:18:05.000 That's such an important point, is that this is not some sort of trick question.

00:18:09.000 This is not some sort of, you know, gotcha, as the media said.

00:18:14.000 This has serious legal implications that the failure to just acknowledge something so simple.

00:18:19.000 And Senator, I didn't know you were a biologist.

00:18:22.000 So congratulations to that.

00:18:27.000 And the way she just smugly responded to you was, again, it's not a trick question.

00:18:31.000 I mean, she could have actually turned it into a pretty amazing moment where she says, I am a woman.

00:18:36.000 What are you talking about?

00:18:36.000 You're a woman.

00:18:38.000 And it could have been like this moment of where the left used to be of kind of like female power and all that.

00:18:43.000 Now it's this kind of blurred lines of, I don't quite know.

00:18:47.000 I mean, what's your thoughts on that?

00:18:48.000 Kind of, we went from Kavanaugh to, you know, believe all women to what is a woman.

00:18:54.000 That's exactly right.

00:18:57.000 And now what you are seeing is the left, the progressives, the socialists, the Marxists, the left writ large is trying to erase gender identity.

00:19:12.000 And whether it is college sports, women's athletics, whether it is competition for scholarships, what you are seeing is this removal of the word woman.

00:19:28.000 You know, you're not a mother, you're a birthing person and rewriting the language. 1.00

00:19:33.000 And the thing that gets me about this is when you go throughout history and you see The impact of trying to take freedom away from people and then place that authority over people with an authoritarian government.

00:19:54.000 What do they do?

00:19:55.000 They start to change the meaning of words.

00:19:57.000 They start to change the language.

00:20:00.000 They practice cancel culture. 1.00

00:20:03.000 They become thought police.

00:20:06.000 So we know that Demand Justice, Arabella Group, some of these leftist organizations spent a lot of money pushing Judge Jackson for the Supreme Court.

00:20:20.000 That is something that has been widely written.

00:20:23.000 That is not speculation or information privy to me, Charlie.

00:20:28.000 That is everybody is aware of this.

00:20:31.000 Demand Justice spent a million dollars on advertising the week of her hearing.

00:20:39.000 So this shows you the intensity they were putting into this nomination.

00:20:46.000 And they wanted her.

00:20:47.000 The left wanted her.

00:20:49.000 They wanted a progressive on the court.

00:20:53.000 And they got one, unfortunately.

00:20:55.000 And I believe there will be a political price for Mark Kelly and for Raphael Warnock to pay this election cycle for voting for now Justice Jackson, as hard as that is to say.

00:21:09.000 Well, and I will say, you know, you can extend that to Cortez Masto.

00:21:14.000 Yes, you can extend it to Hassan in New Hampshire.

00:21:20.000 People that are very concerned, New Hampshire has just passed a piece of legislation that outlaws teaching CRT in their schools.

00:21:31.000 And then here is someone that supported a nominee who is very much for CRT, who sits on a school board that their kindergarten teaches a curriculum called woke kindergarten.

00:21:52.000 And the Democrats thinking this won't result in some sort of a backlash is one of the great political miscalculations in the modern era.

00:22:01.000 I mean, we will benefit from it, but the country is going through a rough patch in the intermediate.

00:22:07.000 I want to ask you about the repealing of Title 42.

00:22:09.000 So I live in Arizona.

00:22:10.000 We're doing our show right here from Arizona.

00:22:13.000 It looks like Biden is, looks like he's going to do it unless I've seen some sort of news items.

00:22:18.000 I haven't seen any of the news items contrary to that.

00:22:20.000 Title 42, of course, is a public health measure that allows us to more easily deport people that are illegally entering into the country. 0.98

00:22:27.000 What are you hearing on Capitol Hill regarding the possible repealing of Title 42?

00:22:32.000 Is this really something Biden's going to go all the way through with?

00:22:36.000 Well, he's trying to go all the way through with it because he wants to dissolve our border.

00:22:41.000 There are some of us at Senate Judiciary, some Republicans who are trying to get a hearing with Chairman Durbin, bringing in Secretary Mayorkas to say, okay, if you're going to triple the number of people coming to the border every single day, then how are you going to handle this?

00:23:01.000 What is the game plan?

00:23:03.000 Because you obviously didn't have a plan A for handling the impact at the border.

00:23:10.000 So now, if you're going to see the need for a plan B, we have had 6,000 people a day coming to the southern border.

00:23:19.000 They anticipate that with the removal of Title 42, Charlie, it will be 18,000 people a day.

00:23:28.000 Well, 18,000 is a pretty big number.

00:23:30.000 So I said, how many cities do we have in Tennessee?

00:23:34.000 And one of our team members looked it up: 345 towns of cities in the great state of Tennessee.

00:23:41.000 How many of those cities have 18,000 or fewer people?

00:23:46.000 90% of those cities have fewer than 18,000 people.

00:23:52.000 Now, think about that.

00:23:54.000 So it would be the equivalent of adding a majority of cities to the state every single day.

00:24:03.000 Now, think about that.

00:24:06.000 If you are in a state, and maybe this is going to be an additional 300 cities that would be impacting your state, that's the number of people that are coming in.

00:24:19.000 How difficult is it going to be to provide the resources that are necessary when you have that volume of people coming into your southern border every day? 0.99

00:24:35.000 I mean, so what is the calculus here?

00:24:37.000 I mean, we know that the Democrats largely want open borders.

00:24:41.000 They have for a while.

00:24:42.000 But what is the what's the explanation they're giving on Capitol Hill?

00:24:46.000 I mean, other than just we don't care?

00:24:50.000 They think it's compassionate.

00:24:53.000 Oh, that's right.

00:24:54.000 Okay.

00:24:54.000 I say, you know, it's not compassionate to subject women and children to drugs and to sex trafficking.

00:25:01.000 It's not compassionate to allow the cartels to run drugs, fentanyl and heroin and meth, across our border and into every one of our communities.

00:25:13.000 And with that southern border, every town's a border town.

00:25:15.000 Every state's a border state.

00:25:18.000 The 100,000 people that lost their lives to drugs, primarily to fentanyl, it's not compassionate.

00:25:25.000 It is not compassionate to families that now fentanyl is the number one killer of young adult Americans.

00:25:34.000 And we know where this is coming from.

00:25:36.000 It is all coming out of Mexico. 1.00

00:25:38.000 And the cartels are so brazen.

00:25:40.000 You know, not only are they global entities working in 160 different countries.

00:25:46.000 We had people from 160 different countries coming across our border.

00:25:50.000 The cartels have now set up hubs on U.S. soil.

00:25:55.000 And this is where they're running in the gangs and the sex trafficking and the drugs and then doing their handling their distribution out of these hubs that are on U.S. soil.

00:26:07.000 This is a travesty.

00:26:10.000 Yeah, it really is.

00:26:11.000 Just a minute and a half remaining, Senator.

00:26:14.000 You know, you've been really good on China for years.

00:26:18.000 We've kind of taken our eye off China recently.

00:26:20.000 They're re-locking down.

00:26:22.000 We don't know if they're going to take a move for Taiwan, but they're talking a big game.

00:26:27.000 Anything that we need to know about China in recent news, our position towards China, what's your insight there?

00:26:32.000 One of the things we know is you cannot trust the Chinese Communist Party.

00:26:37.000 I find it very interesting that China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, that is your new axis of evil. 0.98

00:26:44.000 And you look at the China-Russia relationship.

00:26:47.000 And I don't think Xi Jinping is going to be believing Vladimir Putin the next time he says, hey, we're going to go take Ukraine.

00:26:55.000 It's only going to take us about three days.

00:26:58.000 We are into 60-something days at this point with this fight.

00:27:03.000 And people are rallying.

00:27:04.000 The global community is rallying to China.

00:27:07.000 Here's the thing to watch, is China going to dump Russia and let them just be pushed back into Russia? 0.96

00:27:16.000 Or is China going to prop them up, buy their oil, bank them with all the sanctions that are being put on them?

00:27:27.000 Or is China going to say, hey, I need to be selling into the U.S., to Canada, to Mexico?

00:27:32.000 I need to be selling into the EU.

00:27:36.000 I better rethink this situation.

00:27:39.000 So when it comes to China, I would watch very carefully what their measures and their moves are going to be pertaining to Russia.

00:27:48.000 It's great insight.

00:27:49.000 Senator, thank you so much for joining us from the great state of Tennessee.

00:27:52.000 I was just in Athens, Tennessee.

00:27:54.000 There's some proud people out there.

00:27:55.000 You know it well.

00:27:56.000 Thank you so much, Senator.

00:27:57.000 We'll talk to you soon.

00:27:58.000 Thank you.

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00:29:01.000 Let's go to Cut 36, Ron DeSantis on his take on Elon Musk purchasing Twitter, PlayCut 36.

00:29:09.000 And I just think it's very telling that you have some of these legacy media outlets in DC and New York saying that this is such a bad thing because Musk believes in free speech.

00:29:22.000 But it shows you what they've used these tech platforms to do.

00:29:25.000 When these platforms first came on the scene, they build themselves as being open platforms.

00:29:31.000 And yet it seems like over the last five or six years, these big tech companies, including Twitter, have gone from being open platforms to being enforcers of the narrative.

00:29:41.000 And if you dissent from that narrative, you can be silenced.

00:29:45.000 You can be deplatformed.

00:29:47.000 That's exactly right.

00:29:49.000 Ron DeSantis properly weighing in on this issue.

00:29:52.000 And he has, it's funny, he was in front of a sign that says stop ballot harvesting.

00:29:57.000 I mean, I have looked hard and I have failed to find anything that Ron DeSantis has done wrong.

00:30:06.000 I'm trying.

00:30:07.000 I'm like, come on, he just can't be this good.

00:30:09.000 And, well, no tenure for professors in Florida?

00:30:13.000 Well, anti-BLM Riot Act?

00:30:16.000 Well, no CRT.

00:30:17.000 Parental rights bill.

00:30:19.000 0% income tax.

00:30:20.000 0% corporate tax.

00:30:22.000 Articulately going after Twitter.

00:30:25.000 School choice.

00:30:26.000 Investing in the Fatherhood Initiative.

00:30:28.000 Punching back against the media and winning.

00:30:31.000 No, trust me, I look, I say, come on, no one can be this exceptional.

00:30:36.000 I keep looking.

00:30:37.000 It's like, he just runs circles around these other Republican governors.

00:30:41.000 You have to wonder what they are doing all day long, with obvious exceptions, Governor Gianforte, who's great, and Governor Stitt, who's great, and a few others.

00:30:49.000 But most Republican governors, like Governor Kemp in Georgia or Hogan in Maryland, or Baker in Massachusetts or DeWine in Ohio, you got to wonder what drives them.

00:30:59.000 Certainly not the Ron DeSantis wants to save the country and do its rice for his voters and for his state.

00:31:04.000 That certainly is not the incentive structure of most Republicans, not at all.

00:31:08.000 So Brian Stelter, the eunuch, he's really upset that Elon Musk takes over Twitter.

00:31:16.000 Now, look, I'm somewhat sympathetic to this because here's what happened is that they invite these people on for these long panels that no one watches on CNN.

00:31:24.000 And I've been on television many times where you don't really know what to say.

00:31:29.000 It's because you just keep on talking.

00:31:30.000 So you kind of just kind of come up with something.

00:31:31.000 Thankfully, I've usually been able to navigate myself through it. 0.91

00:31:34.000 Brian Stelter just comes up with like the dumbest metaphor ever, which goes to show Brian Stelter was never invited to parties in his life. 0.78

00:31:41.000 Play Cut 34. 0.98

00:31:43.000 Look, who knows?

00:31:44.000 I think that's an example of a broader question for Twitter, which is, if you get invited to something where there are no rules, where there is total freedom for everybody, do you actually want to go to that party?

00:31:59.000 Or are you going to decide to stay home?

00:32:01.000 And that's a question for Twitter users.

00:32:03.000 Some Twitter users might love the idea there's going to be absolutely no moderation and no rules at all.

00:32:09.000 Before I go to your party, I need to know the rules.

00:32:14.000 The only rules that Brian Stelter would ever care about is, is there an all-you-eat, can you eat buffet?

00:32:20.000 That would be the only rules that Brian Stelter would ever be.

00:32:24.000 Can you believe that guy is 36 years old?

00:32:27.000 Jeez, life comes at you fast.

00:32:29.000 That's what working at CNN does for you.

00:32:31.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:32:33.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com and support the Charlie Kirk Show at CharlieKirk.com slash support.

00:32:38.000 Thank you so much for listening.

00:32:39.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - April 26, 2022

Trick Questions with Senator Marsha Blackburn

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