The Charlie Kirk Show - Trump's Defense Team STRIKES BACK

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00:02:12.000 Hey, everybody.

00:02:13.000 Happy Friday.

00:02:15.000 The House managers, also known as the prosecution, finished yesterday.

00:02:20.000 They didn't use all 16 hours of their time, but boy, did it feel like it.

00:02:24.000 They seemed to keep on saying the same thing over and over again.

00:02:28.000 And I complimented them.

00:02:29.000 I think they won on Tuesday.

00:02:32.000 I think the Trump impeachment team with Atticus Finch going in every direction possibly was not great.

00:02:38.000 He didn't make good arguments.

00:02:39.000 I think that the House Democrats won that day, just thinking objectively, not on arguments, but just on emotion and just on the framing.

00:02:47.000 But then I think the Democrats have really lost momentum in the last 12 hours.

00:02:52.000 The last 12 hours, their arguments have become so repetitive, they've become baseless.

00:02:58.000 The evidence has been meandering, in fact, false.

00:03:02.000 And we'll get into that later in this hour and later in this program.

00:03:06.000 So we're going to keep a close eye on that as the Trump defense team makes their arguments.

00:03:10.000 They're going to make about three or four hours of arguments.

00:03:13.000 And then I think they're going to force a vote.

00:03:15.000 Now, the way I think it works then, the House impeachment managers get to speak again, and then the prosecution, then the defense does.

00:03:22.000 I think that's how it works.

00:03:24.000 So we'll get into that and we'll dive into that a little bit deeper.

00:03:28.000 But I want to get into a feud that's happening between a couple states.

00:03:33.000 Liberal Justice Louis Brandeis said that states are laboratories of democracy.

00:03:42.000 That we will be able to tell what states are succeeding and failing.

00:03:49.000 Remember, what makes the American Republican system different, small R, not Republican Party, but a system based in a constitutional republic, is that the states created the federal government.

00:04:02.000 The federal government did not create the states.

00:04:04.000 That distinction is so incredibly important.

00:04:06.000 We're a coalition of states.

00:04:08.000 We're a coalition of sovereign entities that voluntarily agreed to a national compact.

00:04:13.000 That is why those of us that are conservatives don't like the heavy hand of the federal government.

00:04:19.000 We say, why does the Department of Education exist?

00:04:22.000 Why do you need a Department of Labor when you have a Georgia Department of Labor?

00:04:27.000 The federal government should be there for federal crimes, military, when needed, a social safety net, but really that should be left to the states.

00:04:36.000 Interstate commerce, protecting federal parks and lands, protecting our borders, managing immigration, international diplomacy.

00:04:48.000 And I'm sure there's a couple other things I can name that would probably be the proper role of government.

00:04:52.000 But that's about it.

00:04:55.000 Most things should be left to the states for good reason.

00:04:58.000 The Founding Fathers knew this.

00:05:00.000 The Founding Fathers knew that as soon as you strengthen a centralized federal government, as soon as you put unchecked power into D.C., they're soon going to forget who they represent.

00:05:18.000 You will live under bad laws inevitably if you lose a connection to the people who put you into office.

00:05:29.000 I encourage all of you to watch Mark Levin this weekend, Mark Levin, the great one.

00:05:34.000 I'm on Mark Levin on the Fox News channel this weekend.

00:05:36.000 We touch on this.

00:05:39.000 Where I think that some people that go to Washington, D.C. forget who they actually represent.

00:05:46.000 I really believe that Liz Cheney thinks that she represents the people within Congress.

00:05:53.000 I think she looks around Congress and she views that as a corporate board meeting, that that's who she represents.

00:06:01.000 That she wants to win favor and approval of the lobbyists and the reporters.

00:06:06.000 When in reality, the way that the system was built by the Founding Fathers, she needs to go win favor and approval of the people of Wyoming.

00:06:15.000 And so the difference between states should give all of you hope.

00:06:26.000 A lot of you are looking for hope right now, and you should be.

00:06:31.000 We try to be an optimistic, forward-thinking program.

00:06:34.000 We're also an honest program.

00:06:35.000 We're telling you everything that's going on in the country that sometimes is less than favorable.

00:06:44.000 But it should give you hope.

00:06:47.000 The difference between Florida and Illinois.

00:06:50.000 The difference between Florida and California.

00:06:55.000 The difference between Florida and New York.

00:07:00.000 That should give you hope.

00:07:04.000 Why should it give you hope?

00:07:05.000 Because it shows that certain states will be rewarded for better behavior, that certain states will be rewarded for passing same laws, that certain states will be rewarded for making the right decisions.

00:07:22.000 And if you have the movement or the capacity to move, then that is also a freedom that you are granted under this interstate compact.

00:07:31.000 And so Governor Ron DeSantis right now is under massive attack.

00:07:38.000 We have done entire hours dedicated to Governor Ron DeSantis because he is courageous, he is clear, he has results to show for it.

00:07:47.000 And there's even more that I want to unpack there.

00:07:50.000 So, Governor Ron DeSantis was attacked by the Biden administration, where McClatchy reported on Thursday: quote: The Biden administration is considering whether to impose domestic travel restrictions, including on Florida, fearful that the Chinese coronavirus mutations are threatening to reverse hard-fought progress on the pandemic.

00:08:08.000 Let me say, let me just make sure you understand what that is.

00:08:11.000 The Biden administration, the federal government, is thinking on putting restrictions, sanctions on a state.

00:08:22.000 Could you imagine if Donald Trump would have came out and said, you know what?

00:08:26.000 I'm going to put restrictions to go into New York or California.

00:08:30.000 They would have called him Benito Mussolini.

00:08:33.000 Well, they called him that anyway.

00:08:37.000 Ron DeSantis fired back: quote, I think it would be unconstitutional.

00:08:41.000 It would be unwise and it would be unjust.

00:08:43.000 He's right.

00:08:44.000 Restricting the rights of Americans to travel freely throughout our country while allowing illegal aliens to pour across the southern border unmolested would be ridiculous, but a very damaging farce.

00:08:56.000 So why is the activist media so upset at Florida?

00:09:04.000 Is it that the Chinese coronavirus is raging worse than ever in Florida?

00:09:08.000 No.

00:09:09.000 In fact, Ron DeSantis and Florida have some of the best numbers per capita for managing the Chinese coronavirus of any other state.

00:09:17.000 Fact.

00:09:18.000 In New York, there are 230 deaths per 100,000 people.

00:09:23.000 In Florida, it's nearly half that, 128 deaths per 100,000 people.

00:09:28.000 New York has 46,000 deaths to date.

00:09:31.000 Florida, 28,000 deaths.

00:09:33.000 New York, 15,000 nursing home deaths.

00:09:35.000 Florida, 9,000 nursing home deaths.

00:09:38.000 New York has lost over a million jobs.

00:09:40.000 Florida, only 400,000.

00:09:42.000 New York currently has 8,000 people currently hospitalized.

00:09:45.000 Florida, 5,000.

00:09:47.000 New York has 9,000 daily cases.

00:09:49.000 Florida, 7,400.

00:09:51.000 New York, 1.8 million vaccinations.

00:09:53.000 Florida, 2.1 million.

00:09:55.000 Yet Florida has a larger population than New York.

00:09:58.000 So Florida has less deaths, less nursing home deaths, less job loss, less people currently hospitalized, less daily cases, and more people vaccinated.

00:10:07.000 Why?

00:10:08.000 Leadership.

00:10:09.000 The reason that they want to sanction the sovereign state of Florida, the reason that they want to go after Florida is because Ron DeSantis is making them all look terrible.

00:10:22.000 Ron DeSantis is proving that you can have a wide open state and schools that are open, a successful vaccination policy, and not destroy the economy.

00:10:32.000 New York is proving that while you write a memoir in the midst of the virus, you lie about nursing home deaths, which Andrew Cuomo might be under federal investigation very soon for that, as a whistleblower has come out.

00:10:46.000 He destroyed the economy.

00:10:48.000 You have very serious problems.

00:10:50.000 Did you know Florida's population is also more concentrated in urban areas?

00:10:55.000 The activist media wouldn't tell you this.

00:10:56.000 They say, oh, it's all Manhattan.

00:10:58.000 Everyone lives on top of each other.

00:11:00.000 Well, New York has a lot of upstates, miles and miles of land, too.

00:11:06.000 So does Florida.

00:11:07.000 Florida is actually more densely populated.

00:11:10.000 And Florida is visited more potentially by infected tourists.

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00:12:42.000 Let's go here to CUT 102, Ron DeSantis.

00:12:46.000 I read this quote earlier saying that any attempt to lock down Florida would be an attack on our state.

00:12:51.000 Is that really what the Joe Biden administration is going?

00:12:54.000 You have a state that is doing twice as well as Andrew Cuomo, and you are now proposing sanctions.

00:13:01.000 I thought, so Joe Biden is more worried about people going from Michigan to Florida than from Honduras to Texas.

00:13:07.000 Play tape.

00:13:09.000 You know, I will, people have asked me about, there was some type of report about potential travel restrictions on Americans and on Floridians.

00:13:18.000 And I just, I think it's an absurd report that they would be doing that.

00:13:22.000 I think it would be unconstitutional, it would be unwise, and it would be unjust.

00:13:27.000 And if you think about it, restricting the right of Americans to travel freely throughout our country while allowing illegal aliens to pour across the southern border unmolested would be a ridiculous but very damaging farce.

00:13:44.000 So we will oppose it 100%.

00:13:47.000 It would not be based in science.

00:13:49.000 It would purely be a political attack against the people of Florida.

00:13:55.000 So we are now seeing the contrast, the difference between a leader and a lifelong politician.

00:14:06.000 And it's not just Andrew Cuomo.

00:14:08.000 It's also J.B. Pritzker, whose approval numbers are tumbling.

00:14:13.000 And also Governor Gavin Newsom.

00:14:18.000 Governor Gavin Newsom is facing a serious recall threat.

00:14:22.000 As I made the prediction on this program yesterday, Governor Gavin Newsom is likely going to challenge all of the signatures that are submitted in favor of his recall.

00:14:33.000 He's going to say, well, there could be fraudulent signatures.

00:14:35.000 There could be problems with mail-in.

00:14:38.000 There could be problem.

00:14:38.000 We have to make sure we verify the identity of all the recall signatures against Gavin Newsom.

00:14:45.000 I hope he does that.

00:14:46.000 I hope we can have a robust debate on how, when you have millions of people that participate in something, there could be a little bit of fraud and shenanigans.

00:14:58.000 I just can't wait for Governor Gavin Newsom to do that.

00:15:00.000 But Governor Gavin Newsom is facing a very serious recall threat.

00:15:04.000 Now, that doesn't mean that he'll necessarily be removed from office.

00:15:07.000 The way it works in California, they submit the signatures.

00:15:10.000 It looks like they're on pace to do it.

00:15:11.000 They're going to probably hit 2 million signatures, which is a real accomplishment.

00:15:15.000 That's a very big deal.

00:15:16.000 And I know a lot of people that are working on the ground on the Gavin Newsom recall in California, they have told me that it is Democrats that are signing up at this moment just as much as Republicans, which is awesome.

00:15:31.000 And so the way it works in California is then if a recall is triggered, then there's a waiting period where there's a campaign period, and then the ballots go out or you go to vote and it'll say, do you want a yes or no recall?

00:15:44.000 And then if yes, who do you want to replace that person with?

00:15:48.000 So it would have to be 50 plus 1% to be able to have Gavin Newsom recalled.

00:15:54.000 And then you have to have the if yes, whoever wins that would then replace him.

00:15:58.000 And names that are being floated out is former director of national intelligence Rick Grinnell, who I think would be a terrific choice for that, amongst many other names that I know in California.

00:16:09.000 But I could tell you this: that the grassroots rebellion against Gavin Newsom is legitimate.

00:16:16.000 This is across party lines.

00:16:18.000 This is across philosophies.

00:16:20.000 Gavin Newsom's in serious trouble.

00:16:22.000 And this is the system the Founding Fathers built for us.

00:16:26.000 Isn't it amazing to think, James Madison, the architect of the U.S. Constitution, the foundation built on the laws of nature and nature's God as it's articulated in the Declaration, that that system and that framework, it still is relevant.

00:16:42.000 Why is that?

00:16:42.000 It's because as much as we want to convince ourselves that we're so much better than the people from 1790, human nature has not changed.

00:16:55.000 And the way that human beings naturally act is predictable.

00:16:59.000 The Founding Fathers knew this.

00:17:00.000 They wanted local governance first and foremost.

00:17:05.000 They wanted local representation.

00:17:08.000 And so while you have Florida booming with Ron DeSantis and his approval ratings going up, Democrats that are scared to even confront him in an election, you have the opposite happening on the other side of the country.

00:17:21.000 Gavin Newsom facing a rebellion of working people of the muscular class that says, you know what, Gavin Newsom, you can go eat at French laundry, but that doesn't mean you can do it as governor.

00:17:34.000 And we are going to vote you out.

00:17:37.000 What we are seeing right now is our system working.

00:17:42.000 And that should give you all hope.

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00:19:32.000 I want to go to David Schoen.

00:19:33.000 He's doing a great job here defending the president and really attacking the Democrats' case.

00:19:39.000 Let's cut to that.

00:19:40.000 Our Constitution and any basic sense of fairness require that every legal process with significant consequences for a person's life, including impeachment, requires due process under the law, which includes fact-finding and the establishment of a legitimate evidentiary record with an appropriate foundation.

00:20:04.000 Even last year's impeachment followed committee hearings and months of examination and investigation by the House.

00:20:11.000 Here, President Trump and his counsel were given no opportunity to review evidence or question its propriety.

00:20:19.000 The rush to judgment for a snap impeachment in this case was just one example of the denial of due process.

00:20:29.000 Another, perhaps even more vitally significant example was the denial of any opportunity ever to test the integrity of the evidence offered against Donald J. Trump in a proceeding seeking to bar him from ever holding public office again and that seeks to disenfranchise some 75 million voters, American voters.

00:20:55.000 On Wednesday this week, countless news outlets repeated the Democrat talking point about the power of never-before-seen footage.

00:21:06.000 Let me ask you this.

00:21:09.000 Why was this footage never seen before?

00:21:12.000 Shouldn't the subject of an impeachment trial, this impeachment trial, President Trump, have the right to see the so-called new evidence against him?

00:21:20.000 More importantly, the riot and the attack on this very building was a major event that shocked and impacted all Americans.

00:21:28.000 Shouldn't the American people have seen this footage as soon as it was available?

00:21:34.000 For what possible reason did the House managers withhold it from the American people and President Trump's lawyers?

00:21:40.000 For political gain?

00:21:42.000 How did they get it?

00:21:44.000 How were they the ones releasing it?

00:21:46.000 It is evidence in hundreds of pending criminal cases against the rioters.

00:21:50.000 Why was it not released through law enforcement or the Department of Justice?

00:21:55.000 Is it the result of a rushed snap impeachment for political gain without due process?

00:22:03.000 House Manager Raskin told us all yesterday that your job as jurors in this case is a fact-intensive job.

00:22:12.000 But of course, as several of the House managers have told you, we still don't have the facts.

00:22:19.000 Speaker Pelosi herself on February 2nd called for a 9-11-style commission to investigate the events of January 6th.

00:22:30.000 Speaker Pelosi says that the commission is needed to determine the causes of the events.

00:22:37.000 She says it herself.

00:22:39.000 If an inquiry of that magnitude is needed to determine the causes of the riot, and it may very well be, then how can these same Democrats have the certainty needed to bring articles of impeachment and blame the riots on President Trump?

00:22:56.000 They don't.

00:22:58.000 The House managers, facing a significant lack of evidence, turned off into press reports and rumors during these proceedings.

00:23:05.000 Claims that would never meet the evidentiary standards of any court.

00:23:10.000 In fact, they even relied on the words of Andrew Feinberg, a reporter who recently worked for Sputnik, the Russian propaganda outlet.

00:23:20.000 You saw it posted.

00:23:21.000 By the way, the report they cited was completely refuted.

00:23:25.000 The frequency with which House managers relied on unproven media reports shocked me as I sat in this chamber and listened to this.

00:23:35.000 And there's a lot that we don't know yet about what happened that day.

00:23:38.000 According to those around him at the time, reportedly responded.

00:23:43.000 Trump reportedly reports across all major media outlets.

00:23:47.000 Major news networks, including Fox News, reported...

00:23:51.000 Reported.

00:23:52.000 Reportedly summoned.

00:23:53.000 Reportedly.

00:23:54.000 Reportedly not accidental.

00:23:56.000 According to reports, President Trump was reportedly, who reportedly spoke to the Guard.

00:24:02.000 It was widely reported.

00:24:04.000 Media reports?

00:24:05.000 According to reports, reported.

00:24:07.000 Reportedly.

00:24:10.000 As any trial lawyer will tell you, reportedly is a euphemism for, I have no real evidence.

00:24:18.000 Reportedly is not the standard in any American setting in which any semblance of due process is afforded an accused.

00:24:27.000 Don't be.

00:24:29.000 You get more due process than this when you fight a parking ticket.

00:24:34.000 One reason due process is so important with respect to evidence offered against an accused is that it requires an opportunity to test the integrity, the credibility, the reliability of the evidence.

00:24:48.000 Here, of course, former President Trump was completely denied any such opportunity.

00:24:54.000 And it turns out, there is significant reason to doubt the evidence that House managers have put before us.

00:25:02.000 Let me say this clearly.

00:25:05.000 We have reason to believe the House managers manipulated evidence and selectively edited footage.

00:25:12.000 If they did, and this were a court of law, they would face sanctions from the judge.

00:25:18.000 I don't raise this issue lightly.

00:25:21.000 Rather, it is a product of what we have found in just the limited time we have had since we first saw the evidence here with you this week.

00:25:32.000 We have reason to believe that the House managers created false representations of tweets, and the lack of due process means there was no opportunity to review or verify the accuracy.

00:25:45.000 Consider these facts.

00:25:46.000 The House managers, proud of their work on this snap impeachment, staged numerous photo shoots of their preparations.

00:25:57.000 In one of those, Manager Raskin is seen here at his desk reviewing two tweets side by side.

00:26:04.000 The image on his screen claims to show that President Trump had retweeted one of those tweets.

00:26:10.000 Now, members of the Senate, let's look closely at this screen, because obviously Manager Raskin considered it important enough that he invited the New York Times to watch him watching it.

00:26:23.000 Now, what's wrong with this image?

00:26:25.000 Actually, there are three things very wrong with it.

00:26:29.000 Look at the date on the very bottom of the screen on Manager Raskin's computer screen when we zoom into the picture.

00:26:36.000 The date that appears is January 3rd, 2020, not 2021.

00:26:44.000 Why is that date wrong?

00:26:46.000 Because this is not a real screenshot that he's working with.

00:26:49.000 This is a recreation of a tweet, and you got the date wrong when you manufactured this graphic.

00:26:56.000 You did not disclose that this is a manufactured graphic and not a real screenshot of a tweet.

00:27:01.000 That to be fair, the House managers caught this error before showing the image on the Senate floor.

00:27:06.000 So you never saw it when it was presented to you.

00:27:12.000 But that's not all.

00:27:13.000 They didn't fix this one.

00:27:15.000 Look at the blue check mark next to the Twitter username of the account retweeted by the president.

00:27:21.000 It indicates that this is a verified account, given the blue check by Twitter to indicate it is run by a public figure.

00:27:29.000 The problem?

00:27:30.000 The user's real account is not verified and has no blue check mark, as you can see.

00:27:35.000 Were you trying to make her account seem more significant, or were you just sloppy?

00:27:41.000 If we had due process of law in this case, we would know the truth.

00:27:46.000 But that's not all that's wrong with this one tweet.

00:27:51.000 House Manager Swalwell showed you this tweet this week, and he emphasized that this tweet reflected a call to arms.

00:27:58.000 He told you repeatedly that this was a promise to call in the cavalry for January 6th.

00:28:04.000 He expressly led you to believe that President Trump's supporter believed that the President wanted armed supporters at the January 6th speech, paramilitary groups, the cavalry, ready for physical combat.

00:28:18.000 The problem is the actual text is exactly the opposite.

00:28:22.000 The tweeter promised to bring the Calvary, a public display of Christ's crucifixion, a central symbol of her Christian faith, with her to the President's speech, a symbol of faith, love, and peace.

00:28:38.000 They just never want to seem to read the text and believe what the text means.

00:28:43.000 You'll see this reported in the media last evening also.

00:28:46.000 Words matter, they told you.

00:28:49.000 But they selectively edited the president's words over and over again.

00:28:54.000 They manipulated video, time-shifting clips, and made it appear the president's words were playing to a crowd when they weren't.

00:29:02.000 Let's take a look.

00:29:04.000 After this, we're going to walk down, and I'll be there with you.

00:29:08.000 We're going to walk down to the Capitol right here.

00:29:14.000 We're going to walk down to the Capitol and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.

00:29:27.000 And we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them.

00:29:33.000 Because you'll never take back our country with weakness.

00:29:37.000 You have to show strength and you have to be strong.

00:29:42.000 We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated.

00:29:54.000 I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.

00:30:06.000 And we are going to walk down to the Capitol.

00:30:08.000 They showed you that part.

00:30:10.000 Why are we walking to the Capitol?

00:30:12.000 Well, they cut that off.

00:30:15.000 To cheer on some members of Congress, and not others, peacefully and patriotically.

00:30:21.000 The Supreme Court ruled in Brandenburg that there's a very clear standard for incitement.

00:30:25.000 In short, to paraphrase whether the speech was intended to provoke imminent lawless action and was it likely to do so.

00:30:32.000 Go to the Capitol and cheer on some members of Congress, but not others.

00:30:37.000 They know it doesn't meet the standard for incitement, so they edited it down.

00:30:44.000 We heard a lot this week about fight like hell, but they cut off the video before they showed you the president's optimistic, patriotic words that followed immediately after.

00:30:58.000 We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.

00:31:03.000 Our exciting adventures and boldest endeavors have not yet begun.

00:31:09.000 My fellow Americans, for our movement, for our children, and for our beloved country.

00:31:16.000 And I say this, despite all that's happened, the best is yet to come.

00:31:26.000 There's that famous quote, like one of the House managers said, a lie will travel halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its shoes on.

00:31:36.000 Well, this lie traveled around the world a few times, made its way into the Biden campaign talking points, and ended up on the Senate floor.

00:31:45.000 The Charlottesville lie.

00:31:47.000 Very fine people on both sides.

00:31:49.000 Except that isn't all he said.

00:31:51.000 And they knew it then, and they know it now.

00:31:54.000 Watch this.

00:31:56.000 But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides.

00:32:02.000 You had people in that group.

00:32:03.000 Excuse me.

00:32:04.000 Excuse me.

00:32:05.000 I saw the same pictures as you did.

00:32:07.000 You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.

00:32:18.000 Is it like Robert Lee or not?

00:32:20.000 No, George Washington was a slave owner.

00:32:22.000 Was George Washington a slave owner?

00:32:25.000 So will George Washington now lose his status?

00:32:28.000 Are we going to take down, excuse me, are we going to take down, are we going to take down statues to George Washington?

00:32:35.000 How about Thomas Jefferson?

00:32:36.000 What do you think of Thomas Jefferson?

00:32:38.000 I do love him.

00:32:38.000 You like him?

00:32:39.000 Okay, good.

00:32:40.000 Are we going to take down the statue? 0.77

00:32:41.000 Because he was a major slave owner.

00:32:43.000 Now we're going to take down his statue.

00:32:45.000 So you know what?

00:32:46.000 It's fine.

00:32:47.000 You're changing history.

00:32:48.000 You're changing culture.

00:32:50.000 And you had people, and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.

00:32:56.000 But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay?

00:33:03.000 And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly.

00:33:06.000 Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people, but you also had troublemakers, and you see them come with the black outfits and with the helmets and with the baseball bats.

00:33:20.000 You had a lot of bad people in the other group, too.

00:33:23.000 I'm sorry, I didn't understand what you were saying.

00:33:24.000 You were saying the press has treated white nationalists unfairly.

00:33:27.000 I just didn't understand what you were saying.

00:33:28.000 There were people in that rally, and I looked the night before.

00:33:31.000 If you look, they were people protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee.

00:33:42.000 I'm sure in that group there were some bad ones.

00:33:44.000 The following day, it looked like they had some rough, bad people, neo-Nazis, white nationalists, whatever you want to call them.

00:33:53.000 But you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest and very legally protest because I don't know if you know, they had a permit.

00:34:02.000 The other group didn't have a permit.

00:34:04.000 So I only tell you this.

00:34:06.000 There are two sides to a story.

00:34:09.000 I thought what took place was a horrible moment for our country, a horrible moment.

00:34:15.000 But there are two sides to the country.

00:34:17.000 Does anybody have a final...

00:34:18.000 Does anybody have an infrastructure?

00:34:21.000 What makes you think?

00:34:22.000 This might be today the first time the news networks played those full remarks in their context.

00:34:29.000 And how many times have you heard that President Trump has never denounced white supremacists?

00:34:34.000 Now you in America know the truth.

00:34:37.000 Here's another example.

00:34:38.000 One of the House managers made much of the president's supposedly ominous words of, you have to get your people to fight.

00:34:45.000 But you knew what the president really meant.

00:34:48.000 He meant that the crowd should demand action from members of Congress and support primary challenges to those who don't do what he considered to be right.

00:34:57.000 Support primary challenges, not violent action.

00:35:01.000 I know what he meant because I watched the full video.

00:35:05.000 And so did the House managers.

00:35:07.000 But they manipulated his words.

00:35:10.000 You will see where they stopped it.

00:35:12.000 And to give it a very different meaning from the meaning it has in full context.

00:35:16.000 Let's watch.

00:35:19.000 You have to get your people to fight.

00:35:24.000 He told them.

00:35:26.000 You have to get your people to fight.

00:35:28.000 And if they don't fight, we have to primary the hell out of the ones that don't fight.

00:35:33.000 We primary them.

00:35:35.000 We're going to let you know who they are.

00:35:36.000 I can already tell you, frankly.

00:35:40.000 The people who need to fight are members of Congress.

00:35:44.000 Why do we have to skip the necessary due diligence and due process of law that any legal proceeding should have?

00:35:51.000 It couldn't have been the urgency to get President Trump out of office.

00:35:54.000 House Democrats held the articles until he was no longer president, mooting their case.

00:36:00.000 Hatred, animosity, division, political gain.

00:36:05.000 And let's face it, for House Democrats, President Trump is the best enemy to attack.

00:36:12.000 I want to say this for Donald Trump, who I may well be voting to impeach.

00:36:17.000 Donald Trump has already done a number of things which legitimately raise the question of impeachment.

00:36:22.000 I don't respect this president, and I will fight every day until he is impeached.

00:36:29.000 That is grounds to start impeachment proceedings.

00:36:32.000 Those are grounds to start impeachment.

00:36:33.000 Those are grounds to start impeachment proceedings.

00:36:35.000 Yes, I think that's grounds to start impeachment proceedings.

00:36:38.000 I rise today, Mr. Speaker, to call for the impeachment of the President of the United States of America.

00:36:48.000 I continue to say, impeach him!

00:36:51.000 MP 45!

00:36:54.000 And page 45!

00:36:56.000 So we're calling upon the House to begin impeachment hearings immediately on the impeachment of Donald Trump.

00:37:01.000 Would you vote yes or no?

00:37:02.000 I would vote yes.

00:37:04.000 I would vote to impeach.

00:37:05.000 Because we're going to go in there, we're going to impeach the mother that I thought he should have punched him in the face. 0.97

00:37:10.000 I feel like punching him. 0.90

00:37:11.000 I'd like to take him behind the gym if I were in high school. 0.99

00:37:14.000 If you're in high school, I'd take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.

00:37:17.000 No, I wish you were in high school.

00:37:18.000 I could take him behind the gym.

00:37:20.000 I will go and take Trump out tonight.

00:37:22.000 Take him out now.

00:37:24.000 When was the last time an actor assassinated a president? 0.99

00:37:28.000 They're still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump.

00:37:30.000 Show me where it says that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful. 0.91

00:37:46.000 Please, get up in the face of some Congress people.

00:37:50.000 People will do what they do. 1.00

00:37:52.000 I want to tell you, Coor Dutch. 1.00

00:37:54.000 I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have relieved the whirlwind and you will pay the price. 1.00

00:38:02.000 We're going to go in there.

00:38:03.000 We're going to impeach the people.

00:38:05.000 This is just a warning to you Trumpers.

00:38:08.000 Be careful.

00:38:10.000 Walk lightly.

00:38:12.000 And for those of you who are soldiers, make them pay.

00:38:17.000 If you had to be stuck in an elevator with either President Trump, Mike Pence, or Jeff Sessions, who would it be?

00:38:22.000 Does one of us have to come out alive?

00:38:30.000 And there's more.

00:38:32.000 I promise to fight every single day.

00:38:36.000 One, I'm a fighter and I'm relentless, but I'm a fighter and I'm relentless.

00:38:40.000 A fighter and I'm relentless.

00:38:42.000 I will fight like hell.

00:38:44.000 The way I see it now is that we pick ourselves up and we fight back.

00:38:48.000 That's what I think it's all about.

00:38:50.000 We stand up and we fight back.

00:38:52.000 We do not back down.

00:38:54.000 We do not compromise.

00:38:56.000 Not today, not tomorrow, not ever.

00:38:59.000 You can either lie down, you can whimper, you can pull up at a ball, you can decide to move to Canada, or you can stand your ground and fight back.

00:39:10.000 And that's what it's about.

00:39:12.000 We do fight back, but we are going to fight back.

00:39:14.000 We are not turning this country over to what Donald Trump has sold.

00:39:20.000 We are just not.

00:39:21.000 Look, people are upset and they're right to be upset.

00:39:25.000 Now we can whimper, we can whine, or we can fight back.

00:39:30.000 Me, I'm here to fight back.

00:39:34.000 I'm here to fight back because we will not forget.

00:39:40.000 We do not want to forget.

00:39:42.000 We will use that vision to make sure that we fight harder, we fight tougher, and we fight more passionately for it than ever.

00:39:54.000 We still have a fight on our hands.

00:39:57.000 Fight hard for the changes Americans are demanding.

00:40:01.000 Get in the fight.

00:40:02.000 It's winning the fight.

00:40:03.000 Fight fighting these fighting fights.

00:40:05.000 We'll use every tool possible to fight for this change.

00:40:08.000 We'll fight.

00:40:09.000 We'll fight to fight fighting hard.

00:40:12.000 Serious about fighting and fight.

00:40:15.000 We got to get on our front foot and fight back.

00:40:18.000 We call them out and we fight back.

00:40:18.000 Problems.

00:40:22.000 I'm in this fight.

00:40:24.000 I'm not afraid of a fight.

00:40:26.000 I am in this fight all the way.

00:40:29.000 You don't get what you don't fight for.

00:40:32.000 Our fight, our fight.

00:40:35.000 We are in this fight for our lives.

00:40:38.000 This is the fight of our lives.

00:40:42.000 But we are going to make sure that this fight does not end tonight.

00:40:46.000 This is a fight for our lives, the lives of our friends and family members and neighbors.

00:40:57.000 It is a fight, fight, and it is a fight that we're going to work to make sure continues.

00:41:03.000 It's a fight.

00:41:05.000 It is a fight.

00:41:07.000 It is a fight, and that's what this fight is for.

00:41:11.000 Well, I'm wired to fight anyone who isn't doing their job for us. 0.93

00:41:14.000 I'm John Tester, and you damn right.

00:41:16.000 I approve this message. 0.75

00:41:21.000 And I'll have lots of fights ahead of us, and I'm ready to stand up and keep fighting.

00:41:26.000 That's a fight that we're going to fight.

00:41:27.000 We're going to fight.

00:41:28.000 We need to fight, fight, fight, and we need to fight.

00:41:31.000 We're going to fight.

00:41:32.000 We got a few more fights.

00:41:34.000 We're going to take the privilege of a few more fights, and we have the biggest fight of all.

00:41:39.000 I will never stop fighting.

00:41:40.000 I will fight like hell to fight back against anyone.

00:41:44.000 We need to say loud and clear that we are ready to fight.

00:41:48.000 The bare knuckles fight.

00:41:50.000 Now they're going to have to actually fight back against people.

00:41:54.000 The fight has to be conducted.

00:41:56.000 It is so important that we need to fight.

00:41:58.000 Fight that fight.

00:41:59.000 We have been fighting.

00:42:00.000 I was fighting very hard.

00:42:01.000 Time is of the essence both in terms of the fight.

00:42:03.000 I think we should be fighting.

00:42:04.000 Well, I really believe we need to fight, but we're simply not going to take this line down.

00:42:10.000 We're going to keep fighting.

00:42:11.000 So I'm telling all my colleagues, this is the fight of our life.

00:42:14.000 Whose side are you on?

00:42:15.000 Who are you fighting for?

00:42:17.000 They're fighting, but I'm fighting.

00:42:18.000 We're both fighting.

00:42:19.000 We will fight back.

00:42:20.000 We're not going to just take this line down.

00:42:22.000 I'm just going to keep the fight up.

00:42:23.000 What we have to do right now is fight as hard as we can.

00:42:26.000 We have to rise up and fight back.

00:42:30.000 And so we're going to fight and we're going to continue to fight.

00:42:33.000 I am going to be fighting like hell.

00:42:36.000 Keep fighting, fighting, fighting, or we kept fighting, and we did.

00:42:38.000 So we're going to keep fighting.

00:42:40.000 We have to be fighting every single day.

00:42:42.000 We have to fight back.

00:42:44.000 And we have no choice but to do that.

00:42:45.000 I think we're doing the right thing to do that.

00:42:47.000 Fighting.

00:42:48.000 And I'm fighting.

00:42:49.000 Well, our job right now is to fight.

00:42:51.000 It's really important.

00:42:52.000 I'm going to keep fighting.

00:42:53.000 I'm asking for the support of people across the country to fight back.

00:42:55.000 And you've got to be fierce in fighting.

00:42:58.000 Keep fighting. 0.94

00:42:59.000 Brown have been fighting for fighting.

00:43:00.000 I've told President Biden I will fight like mad.

00:43:03.000 I'll tell you what.

00:43:04.000 Now, more than ever, we have to fight like hell.

00:43:06.000 We have these battles on the floor of the Senate.

00:43:08.000 Going to go down and battle, and I'm going to be down there on the floor fighting.

00:43:12.000 But we Democrats are fighting as hard as we can.

00:43:15.000 Democrats are fighting as hard as we can.

00:43:17.000 Credit it in any way, but we're fighting back.

00:43:20.000 What we've got to do is fight in Congress, fight in the courts, fight in the streets, fight online, fight at the ballot box.

00:43:26.000 Fighting and pushing around the clock fighting.

00:43:28.000 Continue to be brave and be strong and keep fighting.

00:43:32.000 We're getting people engaged in the fight.

00:43:34.000 We're fighting.

00:43:35.000 We've got to keep fighting and keep focused.

00:43:38.000 Continue to fight.

00:43:39.000 Fight.

00:43:39.000 This is going to be a fight.

00:43:41.000 We'll also fight him and challenge him in every way that we can in the Congress, in the courts, and in the streets.

00:43:46.000 To continue fighting.

00:43:48.000 We each have an important role to play in fighting.

00:43:52.000 In this fight, like so many before it, it has been a fight.

00:43:56.000 The American people are going to have to fight.

00:43:59.000 And about the importance of fighting.

00:44:00.000 I will always fight.

00:44:02.000 Fighting.

00:44:05.000 We always must fight.

00:44:07.000 Joe Biden has a deep, deep-seated commitment to fight and to fight.

00:44:12.000 And about the importance of fighting.

00:44:14.000 We always must fight the fight to fight and to fight.

00:44:18.000 As our willingness to fight continued the fight, as Joe Biden says, to fight.

00:44:23.000 It's about fighting for what we're fighting for.

00:44:25.000 We will tell them about what we did to fight.

00:44:28.000 It's not truly about a fight.

00:44:30.000 But truly, I do believe that we're in a fight.

00:44:32.000 I believe that we are in a fight.

00:44:34.000 I believe we are in a fight.

00:44:35.000 I believe we are in a fight.

00:44:37.000 So there's a fight in front of us.

00:44:39.000 A fight for all of these things.

00:44:41.000 And so we're prepared to fight for that.

00:44:43.000 We know how to fight.

00:44:44.000 Our ongoing fight of fight.

00:44:47.000 We know how to fight.

00:44:50.000 We like a good fight.

00:44:52.000 We were born out of a fight.

00:44:55.000 This is what is our fight right now.

00:44:58.000 There's the fight.

00:45:00.000 And then there's the fight to defend back in the fight.

00:45:03.000 Our mission is to fight.

00:45:05.000 That is the guiding purpose of House Democrats fighting.

00:45:08.000 He has never forgotten who he is fighting for.

00:45:11.000 Marched and fought, and we just have to fight.

00:45:14.000 But this is a fight for our country.

00:45:17.000 Fighting the health crisis of COVID.

00:45:19.000 I led the fight and continue to fight.

00:45:22.000 Never, never, never give up this fight.

00:45:26.000 I'm a citizen.

00:45:27.000 We're going to fight.

00:45:28.000 We are going to fight.

00:45:29.000 We're going to fight.

00:45:30.000 We're going to fight.

00:45:31.000 And I will fight for it.

00:45:33.000 We're in the fight of our lives right now.

00:45:35.000 We fight like hell to fight.

00:45:37.000 To fight.

00:45:38.000 To fight against the Trump administration.

00:45:40.000 Democrats are standing up to fight.

00:45:42.000 We're in this fight in a serious way.

00:45:44.000 If you're fighting.

00:45:45.000 We're eager to take on this fight.

00:45:46.000 Get in this fight and we'll fight it out.

00:45:49.000 I have taken on the fight.

00:45:50.000 As representatives for the people, as legislators here in the halls of Congress, our job is to fight.

00:45:55.000 Who has led us in this fight? Is to fight for this.

00:45:58.000 This fight.

00:45:59.000 Every day I'm in the United States Senate.

00:46:03.000 I will fight.

00:46:04.000 And one of the things we do is fight, should fight.

00:46:07.000 And because my constituents send me here each and every day to fight.

00:46:11.000 We have been fighting this fight, and we need to be side by side so we can succeed.

00:46:15.000 And so I hope that you will all join us in our fight.

00:46:18.000 And if we fight, and as the next governor of Georgia, I will never stop fighting.

00:46:24.000 We can show the old guard something new and we can fight.

00:46:27.000 My fight, those fights are to fight to fight an administration.

00:46:30.000 Requiring us to fight and fight, we will.

00:46:33.000 Their fight and their fight.

00:46:35.000 Their fight.

00:46:36.000 The fight is a fight.

00:46:37.000 And so when we fight the fight that we are in, when we are fighting this fight, we fight this fight.

00:46:44.000 The strength of who we are is we will fight.

00:46:47.000 And we will fight.

00:46:48.000 We will fight the fight.

00:46:50.000 We will fight.

00:46:50.000 We are in a fight.

00:46:52.000 The fight, fight, fight, fight.

00:46:54.000 It is a fight.

00:46:55.000 It is a fight.

00:46:56.000 And it is a fight born out of patriotism.

00:46:59.000 This is a fight fighting.

00:47:01.000 I say fight on, fight on, fight on, fight on.

00:47:06.000 I'm here to say one more time in publicly, this is not a fight I wanted to take on, but this is the fight in front of a snail.

00:47:15.000 Every single one of you and every one of you.

00:47:20.000 That's okay.

00:47:21.000 You didn't do anything wrong.

00:47:22.000 It's a word people use.

00:47:24.000 But please stop the hypocrisy.

00:47:28.000 And did you tone down the rhetoric last summer when all of this was happening?

00:47:32.000 Did you condemn the rioters?

00:47:34.000 Or did you stand with Nancy Pelosi, who said people are going to do what they're going to do?

00:47:40.000 This is a movement, I'm telling you.

00:47:42.000 They're not going to stop.

00:47:44.000 And everyone beware, because they're not going to stop.

00:47:48.000 They're not going to stop before Election Day in November, and they're not going to stop after.

00:47:56.000 And please, show me where it says that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful.

00:48:02.000 I just don't know why there aren't uprisings all over the country.

00:48:05.000 Maybe there will, too.

00:48:11.000 It was a violent night in St. Louis.

00:48:13.000 They shot and killed David in cold blood.

00:48:15.000 Destroying property which can be replaced is not violent.

00:48:19.000 This is an apartment complex on fire, and it just collapsed.

00:48:22.000 Their building just collapsed.

00:48:24.000 I have nowhere to go now.

00:48:25.000 These people did this for no reason.

00:48:29.000 This is just a snapshot of some of the damage that people will be waking up to.

00:48:34.000 I'm proud of New York, and I'm proud of the protests.

00:48:41.000 There is damage everywhere you look.

00:48:44.000 Honestly, it looks like a war zone.

00:48:46.000 Heartwarming to see so many people turn out peacefully.

00:48:53.000 And they keep doing it day after day after day. 1.00

00:48:57.000 This darn country is a nation of protests. 1.00

00:49:00.000 The Patriots were protesters. 1.00

00:49:05.000 St. John's Church is on fire.

00:49:09.000 That's a myth. 0.99

00:49:13.000 I hope someone burns down your whole precinct while y'all inside. 0.97

00:49:17.000 It is not generally speaking unruly. 0.98

00:49:20.000 And you push back on them.

00:49:22.000 And you bound them in their welcome.

00:49:25.000 Anyway, anywhere.

00:49:28.000 They're not going to let up, and they should not.

00:49:33.000 You claim that it's wrong to object to the certification of election results.

00:49:37.000 You, along with your allies in the media, attempted to cancel and censor members of this chamber who voiced concerns and objected to certification.

00:49:46.000 Manager Raskin, you'd been in Congress only three days when you objected in 2017.

00:49:51.000 It's one of the first things you did when you got here.

00:49:54.000 I have an objection because 10 of the 29 electoral votes cast by Florida were cast by electors not lawfully certified.

00:50:03.000 Is the objection in writing and signed not only by the member of the House of Representatives, but also by a senator?

00:50:10.000 It is in writing, Mr. President.

00:50:11.000 Is it signed by a senator?

00:50:12.000 Not as a yes, Mr. President.

00:50:14.000 In that case, the objection cannot be entertained.

00:50:16.000 Mr. President, I object to the certificate from the state of Georgia on the grounds that the electoral votes...

00:50:21.000 No debate.

00:50:22.000 There's no debate.

00:50:23.000 I object to the certificate from the state of North Carolina based on violations of the border.

00:50:29.000 There's no debate and no debate by the joint session.

00:50:32.000 I object because people are horrified by the overwhelming evidence.

00:50:36.000 Section 18, Title III of the United States Code prohibits debate.

00:50:41.000 I object.

00:50:42.000 I've objected to the counting of the electoral votes of the state of Ohio.

00:50:46.000 I object to the certificate from the state of Alabama.

00:50:48.000 The electors were not lawfully certified.

00:50:51.000 I object to the 15 votes from the state of North Carolina because of the massive vote of suppression and the closing of voting polling booths.

00:50:57.000 There's no debate.

00:50:58.000 There's no debate.

00:50:59.000 16.

00:51:01.000 And the massive suppression that encouraged me.

00:51:04.000 General was suspended.

00:51:06.000 I have an objection to the electoral votes.

00:51:08.000 The objection is in writing, and I don't care that it is not signed by a member of the Senate.

00:51:14.000 I do not wish to debate.

00:51:15.000 I wish to ask, is there one United States senator who will join me in this letter?

00:51:21.000 There is no debate.

00:51:22.000 The objection is signed by a member of the House, but not yet by a member of the Senate.

00:51:27.000 It is over.

00:51:33.000 And when the House managers realized that the President's actual words could not have incited the riot, as you alleged in your article of impeachment, you attempted to pivot.

00:51:43.000 You said that raising the issue of election security and casting doubt on the propriety of our elections was dangerous.

00:51:50.000 One of the House managers, Mr. Ciceline, told you that this is not about the words Mr. Trump used in isolation.

00:51:58.000 Rather, it is about the big lie, the claim that the election was stolen.

00:52:04.000 The House managers told you that it's the big lie that incited the riot, and that the big lie was President Trump's claim that the election was not a fair election or that the election was stolen.

00:52:16.000 Claiming an election was stolen, you were told, are words that are insightful to a candidate's followers and cause people to respond violently.

00:52:26.000 Claiming an election was stolen or not legitimate is something that a candidate should never do because he or she knows or should know that such a claim and such words can actually incite violent insurrection, you were told.

00:52:41.000 Well, it seems that the House manager's position must be actually a bit narrower than that.

00:52:46.000 The House manager's position really is that when Republican candidates for office claim an election is stolen or that the winner is illegitimate, it constitutes inciting an insurrection and the candidate should know it.

00:52:59.000 But Democratic Party candidates for public elective office are perfectly entitled to claim the election was stolen or that the winner is illegitimate or to make any other outrageous claim they can.

00:53:10.000 It is their absolute right to do so.

00:53:13.000 And it is their absolute right to do so, irrespective of whether there's any evidence to support the claim.

00:53:20.000 Democratic candidates can claim that an election was stolen because of Russian collusion or without any explanation at all.

00:53:27.000 And that is perfectly okay and is in no way incitement to an insurrection.

00:53:33.000 And somehow, when Democratic candidates publicly decry an election as stolen or illegitimate, it's never a big lie.

00:53:42.000 You've been doing it for years.

00:53:45.000 But can you imagine telling your supporters that the only way you could possibly lose is if an American election was rigged and stolen from you?

00:53:58.000 And ask yourself whether you've ever seen anyone at any level of government make the same claim about their own election.

00:54:09.000 If Stacey Abrams doesn't win in Georgia, they stole it.

00:54:11.000 It's clear.

00:54:12.000 It's clear.

00:54:13.000 And I would say that publicly, it's clear.

00:54:15.000 You can run the best campaign.

00:54:18.000 You can even become the nominee.

00:54:21.000 And you can have the election stolen from you.

00:54:23.000 He knows he's an illegitimate president.

00:54:26.000 He knows.

00:54:26.000 He knows that there were a bunch of different reasons why the election turned out the way it did.

00:54:34.000 Votes remain to be counted.

00:54:36.000 There are voices that were waiting to be heard.

00:54:39.000 And I will not concede that.

00:54:41.000 I respect and I respect where you're coming from, and I respect the issues that you're raising.

00:54:44.000 You're not answering the question.

00:54:45.000 Do you think it's a...

00:54:48.000 You're not using the word legitimate.

00:54:50.000 There are still legitimate concerns over the integrity of our elections and of ensuring the principle of one person, one vote.

00:54:59.000 House Manager Castro no longer has to try to imagine it, thanks to the distinguished senator and others.

00:55:05.000 It didn't have to be this way.

00:55:07.000 The Democrats promised unity.

00:55:10.000 They promised to deliver the very COVID relief in the form of $2,000 stimulus checks that President Trump called for.

00:55:17.000 They should have listened to their own words of the past.

00:55:21.000 I leave you with the wise words of Congressman Jerry Nadler.

00:55:27.000 The effect of impeachment is to overturn the popular will of the voters.

00:55:31.000 We must not overturn an election and remove a president from office, except to defend our system of government or our constitutional liberties against the dire threat.

00:55:40.000 And we must not do so without an overwhelming consensus of the American people.

00:55:44.000 There must never be a narrowly voted impeachment or an impeachment supported by one of our major political parties and opposed by the other.

00:55:53.000 Such an impeachment will produce the divisiveness and bitterness in our politics for years to come and will call into question the very legitimacy of our political institutions.

00:56:03.000 The American people have heard the allegations against the president and they overwhelmingly oppose impeaching him.

00:56:09.000 They elected President Clinton.

00:56:11.000 They still support him.

00:56:12.000 We have no right to overturn the considered judgment of the American people.

00:56:17.000 Mr. Speaker, the case against the president has not been made.

00:56:23.000 There is far from sufficient evidence to support the allegations.

00:56:27.000 And the allegations, even if proven true, do not rise to the level of impeachable offenses.

00:56:34.000 Mr. Speaker, this is clearly a partisan railroad job.

00:56:37.000 The same people who today tell us we must impeach the president for lying under oath, almost to a person voted last year to re-elect the speaker who had just admitted lying to Congress in an official proceeding.

00:56:48.000 The American people are watching and they will not forget.

00:56:51.000 You may have the votes.

00:56:53.000 You may have the muscle, but you do not have the legitimacy of a national consensus or of a constitutional imperative.

00:57:00.000 This partisan coup d'état will go down in infamy in the history of this nation.

00:57:05.000 Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

00:57:06.000 I yield back the balance of my time.

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00:58:18.000 What a phenomenal speech that was by David Schoen.

00:58:22.000 We're going to keep an eye on that.

00:58:23.000 That was unexpected.

00:58:24.000 We had a whole show planned.

00:58:26.000 It's so funny.

00:58:27.000 Actually, in our show flow today, kind of things that we were going to think about going through, one of the things I wanted to go through is how the Democrats tampered with evidence.

00:58:37.000 And I was going through it with our team.

00:58:39.000 I said, you do know that Eric Swalwell, who's a lover of Fang Feng, the Chinese Communist Party spy, he tampered with evidence.

00:58:48.000 And David Schoen, to his great credit, came out and proved that point.

00:58:53.000 That Eric Swalwell, and this is why this is not a trial.

00:58:58.000 This is a Hollywood Broadway production.

00:59:01.000 That's all this is.

00:59:02.000 So, in a real trial, you'd say, Your Honor, this evidence is tampered with.

00:59:07.000 So, you had Swalwell, the lover of Fang Fang, who came out and said that Donald Trump called for the Calvary to come.

00:59:19.000 Cavalry.

00:59:20.000 Now, anyone in the Christian world knows that there's a difference between Calvary and Calvary.

00:59:27.000 I sometimes, without unintentionally, mispronounce one or the other, but I know the difference.

00:59:34.000 Calvary, C-A-L, Cavalry.

00:59:38.000 One is where Christ was crucified.

00:59:43.000 The other is horse-mounted military.

00:59:53.000 So Eric Swalwell reads Jennifer Lawrence's tweet, who says, Mr. President, the Calvary is coming.

01:00:01.000 So Eric Swalwell then comes out and says, Well, on the House impeachment floor, you see here, President Trump, he was calling in for reinforcements, and the Calvary is coming.

01:00:14.000 Now, to an untrained eye, you're like, Well, there might be something, you know, maybe there might be.

01:00:18.000 It's nothing.

01:00:21.000 It's the opposite.

01:00:22.000 She was calling in a prayer vigil.

01:00:26.000 They also added a blue check verification to Jennifer Lawrence.

01:00:31.000 Not that Jennifer Lawrence, a different Jennifer Lawrence, by the way.

01:00:34.000 I think the girl from Hunger Games is named Jennifer Lawrence, too, right?

01:00:38.000 So not that Jennifer.

01:00:39.000 It's a different Jennifer Lawrence.

01:00:40.000 Jennifer Lynn Lawrence, who's not verified on Twitter.

01:00:43.000 So the House impeachment managers saw her tweet and they say, huh, if we added a blue check verification, it would add a lot of credibility to this.

01:00:51.000 Boom, they did.

01:00:53.000 Tampering with evidence.

01:00:55.000 Now, there's no recourse for the Democrats lying under oath.

01:00:59.000 There's no recourse for the Democrats tampering with evidence.

01:01:02.000 But if this was a real court of law, you could get in serious, potentially criminal trouble for tampering with evidence in a court proceeding, in a prosecution.

01:01:13.000 Then David Schoen went on to play one of the greatest supercuts I think ever compiled of every single Democrat senator.

01:01:20.000 That's right, every single Democrat senator saying, We must fight.

01:01:24.000 We must fight.

01:01:26.000 The very same thing that they're trying to impeach the president for.

01:01:30.000 David Schoen made the brilliant move of not necessarily even having to defend the president, instead attacking the prosecution's case.

01:01:40.000 David Schoen is a brilliant lawyer because he knows that before you even have to get to defend your client, if there's no case for the prosecution and you can add doubt to the jury, then the whole case will be dismissed.

01:01:54.000 And that's exactly what he did.

01:01:56.000 He said there was evidence tampered with.

01:01:58.000 This was a made-for-TV production.

01:01:59.000 They selectively edited tapes.

01:02:03.000 They misrepresented words, cavalry and cavalry.

01:02:07.000 Now, one of two things. 1.00

01:02:08.000 Either Eric Swalwell is a total fool or he's a pathological liar. 1.00

01:02:15.000 Now, he could be both, but it's one or the other. 1.00

01:02:19.000 Producer Connor's nodding his head.

01:02:20.000 He says, yes, he's both.

01:02:23.000 I believe that Eric Swalwell doesn't know the difference between Calvary and Calvary.

01:02:32.000 Cav, Calvary.

01:02:34.000 That was a big part of his speech.

01:02:36.000 Swalwell comes out and he says, see, he's bringing in the troops.

01:02:39.000 He's calling them in.

01:02:41.000 Now, all of this stuff had to go through some form of a Democrat impeachment manager filter team, you would imagine.

01:02:49.000 And what does that tell you about the Democrat Party and all their lawyers and their millions of dollars they've spent on this?

01:02:55.000 That not one of them caught.

01:02:57.000 Oh, hold on.

01:02:58.000 This is cavalry, not cavalry.

01:03:01.000 It goes to show in a real criminal proceeding, the prosecution, you know what they would do?

01:03:05.000 They'd go through all of her other tweets.

01:03:08.000 They'd look at it through a thousand different perspectives.

01:03:10.000 They'd say, does this really mean what I think?

01:03:12.000 It means then they have to submit the evidence.

01:03:14.000 David Schoen, he almost made this point.

01:03:17.000 It was so close, but he didn't make it.

01:03:19.000 And I was a little, the only critique I have of him is the fact that President Trump and his team were not given the opportunity to look at this evidence is a direct violation of the Sixth Amendment.

01:03:31.000 A part of the Sixth Amendment is called the confrontation clause.

01:03:35.000 You have the right to be confronted with everything that you are being charged with, all the witnesses, all the evidence, and then your team has the opportunity to challenge it, to cross-examine it.

01:03:46.000 The right to cross-examine witnesses and evidence in a criminal proceeding.

01:03:49.000 Why is that important?

01:03:51.000 Well, it's important because in countries like Russia or in China, they won't introduce evidence against you till the last moment.

01:03:58.000 And you won't have any opportunity to be able to vet it, be able to get your defense right.

01:04:02.000 They'll say, oh, Alexei Navalani, turns out we have a sworn affidavit from your childhood friend that you killed dogs for fun.

01:04:11.000 That's it.

01:04:11.000 What do you think, jury?

01:04:12.000 Well, that sounds terrible.

01:04:13.000 You go to jail for three and a half years.

01:04:14.000 That's obviously an exaggerated example, but it's not really.

01:04:16.000 The point is that if you're not being able to be confronted with the evidence and cross-examine it and challenge it, then the prosecution can introduce any evidence at any time for any reason whatsoever to destroy your life.

01:04:28.000 The founding fathers knew this.

01:04:29.000 Did you understand how brilliant the founding fathers were?

01:04:31.000 That if you do not have, they had the brilliance to know that if you are not confronted with what you're charged for, that's a violation of natural rights.

01:04:38.000 Where do natural rights come from?

01:04:40.000 They come from God.

01:04:41.000 You have the right to live free, and to take that freedom away, you must have the opportunity to know what you're being charged with.

01:04:49.000 The House Democrats violated the Sixth Amendment.

01:04:52.000 Not only is this impeachment unconstitutional because there's not a chief justice sitting behind them, it's unconstitutional because it's violated the fourth, probably the fourth amendment, definitely the Sixth Amendment.

01:05:02.000 I want to get back into this idea of different states, different country, different direction.

01:05:08.000 And we all do have to live under federal law in this country, but there's a huge distinction between states, and you're seeing that.

01:05:14.000 The three hottest real estate markets in the country are Phoenix, Austin, and Tampa, the fourth being Nashville.

01:05:22.000 Now, Phoenix would be the exception of this, but it's generally been governed by Republicans for quite some time.

01:05:27.000 Texas has not had a Republican, Democrat governor in quite some time.

01:05:30.000 Florida has not had a Democrat governor since the 90s.

01:05:33.000 And Tennessee has not had a Democrat governor.

01:05:35.000 You know what else those states have in common? 1.00

01:05:37.000 And Arizona better get their income tax figured out.

01:05:39.000 I'm telling you right now, for anyone watching this from Arizona or listening to this, if your legislatures do not fix this Prop 208 nonsense, a lot of people are going to leave Arizona and they're going to leave quickly.

01:05:51.000 It's going to be harder and harder for people to want to go to Arizona. 0.86

01:05:53.000 It's one of the most foolish things. 0.99

01:05:55.000 It's a byproduct of weak Republicans. 0.96

01:05:57.000 And I'm telling you, everyone listening to this in Arizona, you better go contact your legislators right now to tell them to go fix Prop 208.

01:06:04.000 It's a disaster.

01:06:05.000 Texas, no income tax.

01:06:07.000 Tennessee, no income tax.

01:06:09.000 Florida, no income tax.

01:06:10.000 Elon Musk cut 95 on the Joe Rogan podcast on the massive move to Austin and how people shouldn't bring their politics that made them move in the first place.

01:06:19.000 Let's go to Cut 95.

01:06:21.000 It's going to be the biggest boomtown in the America's scene in 50 years.

01:06:26.000 Yes. 0.99

01:06:26.000 I agree. 0.99

01:06:27.000 Yeah.

01:06:28.000 I think so.

01:06:28.000 Megaboom.

01:06:30.000 I think we need to make sure that Austin does not, you know, people moving from California don't inadvertently recreate the issues that they moved that caused them to move in the first place.

01:06:41.000 Yes.

01:06:43.000 Joe Rogan and Elon Musk are not necessarily political by any means.

01:06:48.000 But Elon is saying very little I disagree with.

01:06:50.000 And what Elon is saying logically is, now don't go vote for a bunch of high taxes, homeless nonsense, open drug usage, high property tax, public sector unions.

01:07:04.000 And so, yes, Austin is going to become one of the largest boom towns we have ever seen.

01:07:08.000 I'm not a huge fan of Austin, Texas.

01:07:10.000 It's way too liberal for me, and it's really weird.

01:07:13.000 Would you agree, Producer Connor?

01:07:15.000 It's a weird town.

01:07:17.000 I will tell you, Harris County, Houston, it's also turning into a mini Austin.

01:07:21.000 I was walking the streets of Houston a couple months ago, and they got all sorts of different liberal-feeling things.

01:07:26.000 They got like downtown Houston had like juice shops and Pilates, vegan stuff.

01:07:33.000 And I'm okay with all that.

01:07:35.000 It's just kind of a just goes to show that Houston was changing.

01:07:38.000 I'm telling you, if you look at the voting trends, I'm exactly right.

01:07:42.000 I'm making my point, is that Harris County is one of the most, it's the quickest growing liberal counties.

01:07:48.000 It's the quickest movement, meaning it's made one of the largest movements in recent years.

01:07:55.000 And so now we have these difference of states.

01:07:58.000 So let me just tell you something.

01:08:00.000 If you're moving out of Illinois, California, or New York to a red state, don't try to change that red state. 0.67

01:08:09.000 Just do what they've already been doing. 0.54

01:08:10.000 We're seeing this here in Arizona.

01:08:12.000 In Arizona, we have a bunch of Californians moving in, and they say, oh, this place is nice. 0.97

01:08:16.000 Let's destroy it.

01:08:18.000 We fled high taxes. 0.96

01:08:19.000 We fled public sector corruption.

01:08:22.000 We fled cost of living. 0.87

01:08:25.000 Let's just wreck this place too.

01:08:28.000 Republicans built these functioning states, and people are moving in dramatic and drastic numbers like we've never seen before.

01:08:38.000 And it's going to be up to states like Florida, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas to be keeping the Biden administration accountable, to file lawsuits, to hold them legally accountable.

01:08:50.000 And now we have a real grassroots movement to hold Gavin Newsom accountable.

01:08:56.000 If you have not signed the Gavin Newsom recall pledge and you're in California, I encourage you to do that immediately.

01:09:02.000 It's very important.

01:09:04.000 Go get your friends to do the same.

01:09:05.000 National Republicans are pouring money into the Newsom recall.

01:09:09.000 This is a way to put Democrats on defense.

01:09:11.000 Because remember, the entire Democrat cartel comes from the San Francisco Bay Area.

01:09:17.000 Swalwell, Pelosi, Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom.

01:09:21.000 Gavin Newsom is the former mayor of San Francisco.

01:09:24.000 They are all friends with each other.

01:09:27.000 They all whine and dine at the same places.

01:09:31.000 People originally moved to the Wild West for freedom.

01:09:35.000 Now people are fleeing the West because it's become totalitarian.

01:09:42.000 California was one of the most free and prosperous states in the country.

01:09:47.000 It has flipped itself upside down. 1.00

01:09:48.000 Immigration played a large role in this. 0.81

01:09:50.000 Hollywood, weak Republicans, all of it played a factor.

01:09:54.000 But now Gavin Newsom is on defense.

01:09:56.000 The Democrats are on defense in California.

01:09:59.000 It's a great opportunity for us to play offense and to support the good governors in our country, like Ron DeSantis and Chris Denome.

01:10:07.000 I'm going to go through just some of the cuts of the week that we have not had a chance to go through.

01:10:13.000 Representative Clyburn, Cut 101, says, I don't think Trump is going to escape this.

01:10:18.000 This is just the beginning.

01:10:19.000 Cut 101.

01:10:20.000 But Donald Trump knows very well the next Mulligan he gets is going to have to be on the golf course because they're waiting for him down in Fulton County, Georgia, as well as up in New York.

01:10:34.000 I don't think he's going to escape this.

01:10:36.000 This is just the beginning.

01:10:38.000 Didn't quite understand what he said at the beginning of this, but I think that just the crackly audio.

01:10:43.000 But I think he said that this is just the beginning of our hunt for Donald Trump.

01:10:50.000 So there's a really interesting article here.

01:10:53.000 I think they changed the name of the title.

01:10:55.000 They changed it.

01:10:56.000 Of course they did.

01:10:56.000 Yeah.

01:10:57.000 Because it was too honest.

01:10:59.000 It's by this guy, Alexander Nazarian.

01:11:02.000 I don't know who that is.

01:11:03.000 He's a very gifted writer.

01:11:05.000 I don't say that lightly.

01:11:06.000 His diction, his flow, his syntax, it's probably not a word you thought you'd hear today, syntax.

01:11:14.000 He's very gifted.

01:11:15.000 He missed his calling being a novelist.

01:11:19.000 Not joking.

01:11:20.000 But it's a really good article.

01:11:21.000 They changed the title because it was probably too honest.

01:11:24.000 The title was originally, I missed the thrill of Trump, or I'm going to miss the thrill of Trump.

01:11:30.000 And it goes on.

01:11:30.000 It's quite a long piece.

01:11:32.000 And he equates himself to being a World War II fighter on the Allied side at Normandy.

01:11:43.000 And so the Atlantic was getting very trolled, very, very hard about this for a good reason, because it was just so outrageous.

01:11:50.000 But it was actually really true.

01:11:52.000 And basically, the argument, as he was a Democrat activist media member, is that Trump made our lives exciting.

01:12:03.000 We were in the opposition, but they knew they really weren't.

01:12:06.000 So they were in this very unique position, a gift that will never be given to them again, where they could act all rebellious, but they were actually part of the predominant culture in the country.

01:12:15.000 So they could act, yeah, we're part of good trouble.

01:12:17.000 Yeah, okay.

01:12:18.000 You control all the media, you control all the colleges, you control all the universities, you control the corporations, and yet they can still kind of feel as if they're mounting this revolutionary, rebellious style campaign.

01:12:33.000 He then goes on to, he does say this, that it is now time to put pressure on the Biden administration.

01:12:44.000 Now, that's probably the real reason he got attacked.

01:12:45.000 He said, quote, some want journalists to give the new administration a break, to let Biden undo Trumpism before subjecting him to harsh scrutiny.

01:12:53.000 To which I say, no dice.

01:12:55.000 If all those peons about speaking the truth to power and democracy dying in darkness were reserved for Trump alone, they were never really serious to begin with.

01:13:05.000 The thrill may be gone, but the work begins.

01:13:12.000 Democrats were made relevant because of Donald Trump.

01:13:15.000 He made American politics exciting again.

01:13:19.000 And so now a lot of these Democrats are looking for relevancy.

01:13:22.000 This is their last gasp through this impeachment trial saying, can I still get on TV for attacking Trump?

01:13:27.000 Yes.

01:13:27.000 And they will not stop.

01:13:31.000 And they're going to continue to lose credibility.

01:13:34.000 They're going to lose relevancy the more they do that.

01:13:42.000 I want to get to a cut here from Newt Gingrich about how the Biden administration is committed to radically changing America, which is completely contrary to what the Biden ran on in the campaign.

01:14:00.000 I want to go to Cut 62.

01:14:03.000 This is one of the major reasons why Biden is okay with impeachment.

01:14:07.000 One of the major reasons why Biden is okay with impeachment is because it is smokescreen.

01:14:12.000 It is vapor.

01:14:12.000 It's a mirage.

01:14:13.000 It's a distraction.

01:14:14.000 It's camouflage to what's really happening.

01:14:18.000 What is Joe Biden doing today?

01:14:19.000 We're not talking about it.

01:14:21.000 That's a good thing for Biden.

01:14:22.000 There's probably something bad for America.

01:14:24.000 Play tape.

01:14:26.000 Here's reality.

01:14:27.000 The Biden-Harris Democratic team are committed to radically changing America in every way they can.

01:14:37.000 And what they don't realize is that they are rapidly building themselves for a disaster in 2022 and 2024 because they're drawing a very wide gap between themselves and the Republicans.

01:14:51.000 This is what Obama did.

01:14:54.000 He lost 63 seats two years later.

01:14:57.000 It is what Bill Clinton did.

01:14:58.000 He lost 54 seats.

01:15:01.000 And so I think that they want the noise of Trump so we don't notice how many really disastrous things they're doing.

01:15:09.000 That's exactly right.

01:15:11.000 So they are creating cover fire for their theft.

01:15:15.000 So people are not paying attention to all of the destruction that Joe Biden is doing to this country.

01:15:22.000 Now, we'll be able to turn it around.

01:15:23.000 We're going to be able to reverse it.

01:15:25.000 This impeachment is already failing.

01:15:27.000 David Schoen just took them to task for altering evidence, violating the Sixth Amendment, tampering with evidence, not allowing due process.

01:15:38.000 And so now the Biden administration at some point is going to have to be held accountable.

01:15:44.000 And the activist media is going to be up against a financial cliff soon.

01:15:52.000 What do I mean by that?

01:15:54.000 These media companies are going to run out of stuff to write.

01:15:59.000 The New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, they've grown accustomed to having millions and millions of eyeballs of people that are dedicated daily to try to destroy Trump.

01:16:10.000 Well, now that he's a private citizen, he'll be acquitted by the Senate.

01:16:14.000 He'll still be criminally investigated by the Georgia phone call that they've already signaled that.

01:16:20.000 He's going to be investigated probably by the Southern District of New York and the state of New York or the Manhattan DA.

01:16:26.000 But those stories are not traveling as much as they used to.

01:16:30.000 Now that Biden has been president for almost a month, the American people are saying, that's fine, but what are you doing to hold him accountable?

01:16:38.000 Because my wages aren't going up, prices are going up, jobs are not as abundant as they used to be.

01:16:44.000 I kind of miss the guy that used to tweet crazy things, but the economy was robust.

01:16:50.000 Why aren't you holding him accountable?

01:16:52.000 So I'm going to make a prediction for you.

01:16:54.000 And this Alexander guy, I miss the thrill of Trump, Alexander Nazarian, I think actually gives a little bit of a preview.

01:17:04.000 You're going to see some reporters and some members of the activist media.

01:17:08.000 I'm talking about the real reporters, not the people on the propaganda networks.

01:17:13.000 I'm talking about the people that do research.

01:17:15.000 You're going to start to see them defect a little bit.

01:17:19.000 You're going to start to see a couple people defect and investigate the Biden administration, submit FOIA requests, because they'll get clicks and they want to be famous.

01:17:35.000 Now, that's not a good way to be loved in liberal circles, but there's so much corruption out there that is not being investigated.

01:17:44.000 If the New Yorker or the New York Times or the Washington Post or any one of these outlets just focused 10% of the attention, just 1% of the attention they focused on Trump, they would uncover Pulitzer Prize-worthy stories.

01:18:00.000 And we're already starting to see that because Tara Palmieri, who is a reporter for Politico, I think she's actually the chief White House reporter, began investigating a romantic relationship between a journalist and TJ Ducklow.

01:18:23.000 The journalist is a journalist for?

01:18:33.000 Is it Axios?

01:18:34.000 It's a journalist for Axios.

01:18:38.000 And Tana Palmary starts asking questions about that, saying, isn't that a little bit of a conflict of interest, right?

01:18:45.000 Or like, what's going on here?

01:18:47.000 And so TJ Ducklow, in one call, allegedly tried to turn the tables, accusing Palmary of breaking an off-the-record agreement by relaying Ducklow's misconduct to her editors.

01:19:01.000 Paul Mary, who's a former New York Post reporter, I'm reading from the New York Post and co-author of Politico's popular playbook, was working on the story of Ducklow's then-secret romance with Axios reporter Alexi McCammond.

01:19:15.000 A male journalist at Politico asked Ducklow for comment while Palmero reached out to McCammond.

01:19:23.000 So basically, TJ Ducklow is dating Axios political reporter Alexi McCammond.

01:19:30.000 That's not a big deal.

01:19:32.000 It's something, but it's not groundbreaking.

01:19:35.000 The reason the story is newsworthy is less about T.J. Ducklow and more about Alexi McClamond, where this is an example of literally the Biden administration being in bed with the media.

01:19:48.000 Literally.

01:19:48.000 That's what it is.

01:19:50.000 Saying this is somewhat of a conflict of interest.

01:19:52.000 We're not exactly going to expect hard-hitting journalism from Alexi McCammond going towards T.J. Ducklow.

01:19:58.000 That's not exactly going to happen.

01:20:00.000 And so according to the original reporting, Alexi McCammond was working with Axios on the Biden campaign.

01:20:10.000 She then disclosed her relationship back during the campaign with T.J. Ducklow and then got reassigned to Kamala Harris.

01:20:16.000 Not exactly a big move. 0.96

01:20:18.000 Now, if she got reassigned to covering a Senate race, that's fine.

01:20:26.000 And so the bigger point here, though, is that T.J. Ducklow threatened Tana Palmary, Tara Palmieri.

01:20:34.000 And the other part of this is that the reporter who's being talked about, Alexi McCammond, there's an inherent conflict of interest here.

01:20:53.000 And so Tara Palmary, who's doing her job, just asks the very simple and obvious question: are you going to disclose this conflict of interest to your readers?

01:21:04.000 And it's turned into this entire, just very complicated saga where T.J. Ducklow basically goes to threaten her.

01:21:14.000 TJ Ducklow says, quote, I will destroy you to Tara Palmieri, lashed out to one of the head reporters at Politico.

01:21:27.000 He then claimed that Palmieri was jealous that a different man had wanted to F you and not you.

01:21:38.000 So TJ Ducklow has now been put on a one-week unpaid leave.

01:21:43.000 But I hope that Tara Palmieri remembers this.

01:21:46.000 I hope that the Politico staff says, okay, you're going to bully around our reporters. 1.00

01:21:51.000 You're going to put a one-week leave-on.

01:21:53.000 We're not your communication arms here at Politico.

01:21:56.000 We don't work for you.

01:21:58.000 Yeah, okay, we hated Trump and we are dedicated to him.

01:22:00.000 But you know what?

01:22:01.000 We are going to investigate you.

01:22:02.000 We're going to investigate your financial filings.

01:22:04.000 We're going to investigate you like we investigated Trump.

01:22:08.000 I hope that's the takeaway there.

01:22:12.000 Because I'm telling you, the way they've been covering it right now, these media companies will go bankrupt.

01:22:18.000 But then Clip 109 shows that Joe Biden, I will fire you if I see anyone disrespecting anyone.

01:22:24.000 Clip 109.

01:22:25.000 But I'm not joking when I say this.

01:22:28.000 If you're ever working with me and I hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise you I will fire you on the spot.

01:22:38.000 On the spot.

01:22:40.000 No if, ands, or buts.

01:22:43.000 Everybody, everybody is entitled to be teeth with decency.

01:22:48.000 And so I don't think that T.J. Ducklow is going to be fired anytime soon.

01:22:53.000 He was put on one week leave.

01:22:55.000 Apologize to the reporter, and we'll move on.

01:22:57.000 I'm going to get to some of your questions here, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:23:01.000 While I do that, I want to just compliment the Trump impeachment team, defense team.

01:23:06.000 They're doing a great job focusing on the illegitimacy of the claim, the problem with the prosecution, the unconstitutional nature of it.

01:23:14.000 And then they're also playing offense against the Democrats who say, fight, fight, fight, fight, talking about political speech.

01:23:21.000 This is the correct defense.

01:23:23.000 They're not getting into any of the specifics.

01:23:26.000 I would like to see if they'd get a little bit more into the narrative of what actually happened at the Capitol, but that remains to be seen.

01:23:35.000 Let's get to some questions here.

01:23:36.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

01:23:38.000 Someone's asking about what's going on in Arizona.

01:23:41.000 Well, we just had an amazing episode with Congressman Paul Gosar.

01:23:45.000 I asked some very pointed questions.

01:23:48.000 So I encourage you to go to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast right now, type in Charlie Kirk Show, maybe on Apple Podcast or on Spotify, and hit subscribe.

01:23:57.000 Let's go to a question here.

01:23:59.000 Someone is asking about TikTok.

01:24:02.000 Okay.

01:24:02.000 Hey, Charlie, my name is Sarah.

01:24:04.000 I'm writing you from a small town in Kingston, Oklahoma.

01:24:06.000 I listen to your podcast every day.

01:24:07.000 I know you always say that America was founded on Christian values and beliefs.

01:24:10.000 I believe this as well, but it's been circling along on TikTok.

01:24:13.000 A video that's saying that's a myth.

01:24:15.000 She says that none of the founding fathers were Christians, saying that they were deists, which believe in a God, not the God of the Bible.

01:24:20.000 It said that John Adams was quoted saying, quote, America was in no way founded on Christian beliefs.

01:24:25.000 This is pathologically untrue.

01:24:27.000 America was founded on activist pastors. 1.00

01:24:30.000 First and foremost, look at the Black Robe Regiment. 0.83

01:24:32.000 I'm going to give you four or five facts that will dispute this, that America was founded on Christian beliefs.

01:24:36.000 Number one, just look up the Black Robe Regiment, activist pastors that laid the foundation for America's founding.

01:24:42.000 Number two, I'll get the final number, but I believe it was 85% of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were regular church attending Christians.

01:24:49.000 Number three, Thomas Jefferson was called a deist by many historians, but he considered the Bible to be the most exceptional, incredible document ever written.

01:24:57.000 After traveling the world and reading all the greats and all the classics, they were inspired by the Bible.

01:25:02.000 Number four, God is mentioned four times in the Declaration of Independence.

01:25:06.000 One, two, three, four.

01:25:07.000 Why?

01:25:07.000 God the Creator, God the Lawgiver, God the Law Interpreter, and then finally, God the Law Administer.

01:25:13.000 It's basically getting the pretext to the United States Constitution.

01:25:16.000 It says clearly in the Declaration, the laws of nature and nature is God.

01:25:20.000 Another thing that people that make this argument with is totally untrue, is they do not look at William Blackstone.

01:25:28.000 William Blackstone was a devout Christian, and he, more than almost anyone else, inspired the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Amendment, and the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, talking about how God, Lord, inspired the United States, inspired common law and the protection for natural law and natural rights.

01:25:49.000 You cannot get to the American founding without going through William Blackstone.

01:25:53.000 It's impossible.

01:25:54.000 It is a riddle that the people that push this myth cannot break.

01:25:58.000 Then finally, George Washington.

01:26:00.000 George Washington was a Bible-believing Anglican Christian.

01:26:03.000 George Washington traveled everywhere with the Bible.

01:26:05.000 George Washington prayed at morning and evening with his Bible alongside of him.

01:26:11.000 And here's the final numbers.

01:26:13.000 Of the 56 men who signed the Declaration, the great majority, perhaps all, identified as Christians, and all but one were Protestants.

01:26:20.000 Four were either present or former ministers, and the number of signers were sons of clergy.

01:26:26.000 And at least half of them had studied divinity at various universities.

01:26:30.000 And then there's denomination breakdowns.

01:26:31.000 It is a lie that is being pushed by the university to say that America was not founded on Christian values.

01:26:39.000 John Locke himself, who is one of the major philosophical, one of the major philosophical influences, that's the word I was looking for, influences on the American founding, said himself that you cannot get around the God question.

01:26:59.000 The Scottish Enlightenment, Scottish Presbyterianism influenced the founding of our country more than almost anything else.

01:27:06.000 You'd have to get through John Edwards.

01:27:08.000 You'd have to get through the activist pastors to make that argument, and they can't do that.

01:27:15.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:27:17.000 Please consider supporting us at charliekirk.com slash support.

01:27:21.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com, and get involved at turningpointusa at tpusa.com.

01:27:27.000 God bless.

01:27:28.000 Speak to you, sir.

The Charlie Kirk Show - February 13, 2021

Trump's Defense Team STRIKES BACK

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