00:00:00.000Hey, everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, two states that are rising up for freedom.
00:00:04.000First, we talk to Adam Laxalt from Nevada and talk about his race for Senate.
00:00:09.000And then we talk to Fiona McFarland from Sarasota, Florida, who has an amazing data privacy bill as states start to rise up against big tech.
00:00:17.000About time states start to wield their power to restrict the power of big tech.
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00:01:43.000Look, it's important for everybody to understand that, yes, we're living in a red wave environment, which likely means we can win the House and some governor seats, but the Senate map is incredibly small.
00:01:54.000We cannot win the Senate without winning Georgia and Nevada.
00:01:59.000And I can tell you, our backup is as good as we can ask for.
00:02:02.000I'm running against Harry Reid's hand-picked successor.
00:02:08.000A lot of your listeners haven't heard of her because she has not had a major impact for our state or for our country.
00:02:16.000And look, you know, we have an ability to continue to highlight all the things that are going wrong in America.
00:02:23.000It seems like within every single hour, we get more bad news out of our failed leadership in Washington.
00:02:30.000And, you know, we look forward to prosecuting the case.
00:02:34.000We've been doing that for the last many months, of course, without the help of local media, but we continue to get our message out in every other medium we possibly can.
00:02:44.000So, Adam, some people have their doubts about a Republican winning statewide in Nevada, something you've done before.
00:02:51.000But tell us about how you think this year it can actually be done.
00:03:07.000I'm the former attorney general of the state.
00:03:09.000We won in 2014 when we had a red environment.
00:03:13.000And I think that people need to understand that even in these slightly blue-tilting years, this race has been, this state has been razor thin.
00:03:27.000That's with them changing our election, giving us mail-in ballot, ballot harvesting, all that kind of stuff.
00:03:32.000Senator Masto only won by two points in 2016.
00:03:37.000Harry Reid was the majority leader in 16.
00:03:40.000You can't imagine how much, how many chips he called in to get her into office.
00:03:44.000And so we have the perfect opportunity in a state that has been ever so slightly blue to flip this seat.
00:03:52.000And one last thing: the vaunted Harry Reid machine has slowly but surely been crumbling.
00:03:59.000And the Democrat socialists, and I don't mean that as just a tagline.
00:04:03.000They're actually self-described and self-named socialists took over the Democrat Party here in Nevada.
00:04:12.000They invite the likes of Elon Omar to be guest speakers in our state.
00:04:18.000All these things make it prime for us to take the message to the voters and flip Nevada in 2022.
00:04:25.000Yeah, Harry Reid is a total crook, or he was a total crook, and he established this criminal enterprise all throughout Vegas and Clark County.
00:04:34.000And it's too bad because Nevada is such a great state.
00:04:36.000Tell us a little bit more about how the state of Nevada is broken up.
00:04:42.000You have Vegas and Henderson and Clark County, but the rest of the state is ruby red.
00:04:47.000It really is a matter of kind of not losing by as much in Summerlin, West Vegas, North Vegas, and then running up the score in the rules.
00:04:56.000Yeah, look, I think it's important for people to understand that Trump contributed to the largest turnout in the history of our state in 2020.
00:05:05.000And we need to make sure our people turn out.
00:06:22.000Everywhere you look, they know that President Biden and our Democrats, Captain Cortez-Masto, are presiding over a completely failed set of policies that they know are not working.
00:06:35.000And so we think we have an absolute unique opportunity to speak to the Latino community, make them understand that the values that I represent are the values of the American dream.
00:06:47.000Give them the opportunity to be successful, to prosper, to raise their children here in Nevada.
00:06:54.000And I don't think we can have a better opportunity to do that.
00:06:57.000We did a Latinos for Laxalt launch on Friday, and we had Steve Cortez and others come in to help crystallize.
00:07:05.000This set of policies are what can make our valley successful.
00:07:12.000And look, we have an opportunity to not only flip for this cycle, but to make sure we're moving towards 50-50 with Hispanics in Nevada in the long haul, which would make this a red state, not a slightly blue state.
00:07:27.000So tell us about Senator Cortez-Masto, who took thousands of dollars from a Russian pipeline lobbyist.
00:07:35.000The idea, the topic of energy is a huge topic.
00:07:38.000I'd love to hear kind of what the price per gallon is in Nevada.
00:07:43.000I'm sure it's gone up significantly, and we're just entering driving season right now.
00:07:48.000It seems as if that Senator Cortez-Masto tries to put herself as sort of like a moderate senator, but she's anything but that.
00:07:56.000Yeah, look, the AAA guidelines just came out.
00:07:59.000Nevada is third behind only California and Hawaii.
00:08:03.000And we've been fighting this Californization of Nevada for a very long time.
00:08:09.000A lot of our stats look very similar to California, thanks to a Democrat governor, two Democrat legislatures, Democrat president, two Democrat houses.
00:08:20.000And so unlike 2020, where the media helped.
00:08:24.000to try to point the finger at any problems at President Trump.
00:08:27.000There's nowhere to blame to shift blame now.
00:09:10.000We've been talking about this for now many weeks, but she leads from the back.
00:09:16.000And I might add that, you know, just calling for the banning of Russian oil is not the solution.
00:09:22.000It must come with energy independence, which she's still dead silent on because she's beholden to her super green base that wants to trade livelihood pocketbooks for this radical agenda.
00:09:38.000I think voters aren't going to be tricked this time around.
00:09:42.000I think that they're seeing it in real life.
00:09:44.000And again, this issue, along with many other issues, we have a perfect opportunity to contrast with the Democrats.
00:09:52.000And if I could go a little further on the contrast between Masto and myself, she was a former attorney general eight years.
00:09:59.000I was a former attorney general as well.
00:10:02.000Well, she campaigned on being the queen of anti-human trafficking.
00:10:06.000In fact, an ad yesterday trying to tout her credentials on it.
00:10:11.000Guess what she's not standing up for right now?
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00:12:18.000Yeah, and so let's talk about the border.
00:12:20.000Nevada is not a border state, but it might as well be because, I mean, you're only maybe 150 miles from the border at the southern tip of Nevada, and you feel the damage of illegal immigration.
00:12:32.000I was just in Yuma, not too far from Nevada at all, and they were experiencing 50 people crossing across the border under Trump, while over a thousand people a day coming across the border.
00:12:43.000An unprecedented invasion of our country.
00:12:46.000If elected senator, what will you do to push for border security and really kind of make your perspective of in leadership of Nevada of Nevada as a border state?
00:12:57.000Well, first and foremost, we must return to the policies of the Trump administration, remain in Mexico, finishing the wall.
00:13:04.000These are quite obviously solutions that made a difference heading into the Biden administration.
00:13:11.000But I like to zoom back a little bit when I talk to voters.
00:13:14.000Someone that put a uniform on and served both in the Navy and in Iraq, you serve your country because nationhood means something.
00:13:22.000You're willing to put on a uniform and fight and die for a nation that we're willing to protect and an idea that actually is worth preserving.
00:13:32.000And the Democrats have become the party that does not like America.
00:14:22.000This issue of parents getting more and more involved in their kids' education has been something that really has created the parents' party.
00:14:30.000I know that in Nevada, there have been a lot of, there's been a lot of commotion in the local school boards and getting people to challenge what's happening on a local and state level.
00:14:42.000Talk about the perspective you're going to have as a U.S. Senator supporting this ever-growing and exciting movement of parents fighting for their kids' education.
00:14:51.000Well, I've spoken at school board meetings, joining massive numbers of parents that are willing to stand up for our kids.
00:14:59.000It's something that I'll continue to advocate for, including school choice, which I sued on.
00:15:04.000And we were able to get an education savings account made constitutional in the state of Nevada.
00:15:10.000But let's not forget just how radical the Democrat Party is right now.
00:15:15.000The Department of Justice that called our parents terrorists is the same Department of Justice that just lifted the Chinese espionage program quietly a few weeks ago.
00:15:27.000This is what we're dealing with with this administration and their priorities.
00:15:37.000And it's not just the fact that they're attacking parents.
00:15:41.000It's the policies of the last few years, which kept schools closed, which kept kids in masks until just a few weeks ago.
00:15:51.000And there was an editorial for our largest paper that talked about how there are hundreds of thousands of kids, especially in Las Vegas, that will never get this time back.
00:16:03.000We all believe that education is your chance for opportunity.
00:16:50.000But, you know, I have to go there for conventions and I have to go there for all sorts of different things.
00:16:55.000And the restrictions of the mask mandates and the enforcement of it, the lockdowns that accompanied it, Governor Sisilak really went further than almost any other state for quite some time, especially in a state that is so focused on hospitality.
00:17:23.000And a few days later, whatever he did, we would get here in Nevada further evidence that the Nevada Democrats want to make us like California.
00:17:32.000And I'll tell you, the media was absolutely terrible during COVID because they wouldn't ask the hard questions.
00:17:39.000They wouldn't ask why casinos could be open and churches would be closed.
00:17:45.000There is no explanation for that, but they would not ask where was the science beyond that.
00:17:50.000And about two weeks ago, there was this big tide.
00:17:53.000All of a sudden, Democrat governors are having a change of heart.
00:17:57.000And Sisilak out of nowhere said, dear God, we're going to be the last state to lift these mandates.
00:18:03.000And he quickly goes into a press conference.
00:18:06.000And we went on Tucker Carlson to call this out.
00:18:09.000That day when he lifted these mandates, the entire state was still in the red based on their criteria.
00:18:17.000And the infection rate was higher that day than when he put masks back on last summer.
00:18:23.000So there was no science to support this.
00:18:26.000He, of course, was not called out by the media, just the political science.
00:18:30.000But the good news is that the people are onto it.
00:18:45.000And look, don't lose faith in Las Vegas.
00:18:48.000It's one of the greatest cities in the country.
00:18:51.000And we're going to get back to what it was just a few years ago as soon as we get these Democrats out of office.
00:18:57.000Yeah, I'm not so sure about that, but I'm not going to create a political liability for you.
00:19:01.000So yeah, tell us more about the things that you're going to be fighting for in D.C. and some other things that you're really talking about for your plan to become a senator.
00:19:12.000Look, first and foremost, our voters across the country in Nevada, they still wake up every single day in grave fear that the left is radically transforming our nation.
00:19:25.000And as long as they have the ability with the president, the house, and the senate to materialize that leftist worldview, we are all in danger.
00:19:34.000The Senate could still go in tomorrow if they had the votes.
00:19:40.000They could give DC and Puerto Rico statehood, all the things they want to do.
00:19:44.000They could try to federalize our election and make every single state look like California.
00:19:50.000They could pass billback better, all these things that would radically transform our nation.
00:19:55.000So, first and foremost, we must take back a majority.
00:19:58.000We must stop the Biden radical agenda in its tracks.
00:20:03.000But then, once we're in office, you know, I hope to join the group that figures out how to be on offense in the United States and how to use committees to go after the Russia collusion, find answers once and for all of what happened here.
00:20:18.000We know we've got the Durham probe going on, but in the end of the day, voters deserve to know what happened with these terrible things.
00:20:25.000They deserve to know what Fauci knew, what science did he really ignore as he continued to push the false COVID narratives that we dealt with over the last few years.
00:20:36.000And so, I hope we've learned from President Trump, as well as from Governor DeSantis in Florida, how to be a fighting party, how to fight against the leftist agenda.
00:20:47.000I know we got a long way to go there, Charlie, but I believe that I can be part of that young generation.
00:20:53.000I'm 43 to join some of our younger leaders that understand that the left must be defeated.
00:21:00.000We must destroy their radical ideology.
00:21:03.000Until we do that, we don't have a chance of saving this country.
00:21:07.000Yeah, and so that's a really important point, which is what we're going to do for investigations and to issue subpoenas and to really push forward the cause of transparency.
00:21:20.000And I know that there is going to be a massive fight that to hold people accountable and to actually get to the bottom of so many of these crimes that have been committed, you know, from the people in power.
00:21:33.000Fauci being totally unchecked, you know, an unelected, largely unchecked bureaucrat, and restoring constitutional governance and rights back to the states.
00:21:43.000And so, what you're saying basically is that if you're elected senator, one of the things you're going to be given a mandate to is going to be able to use the oversight ability of the U.S. Senate to get answers that the people sorely need.
00:21:59.000I'm a former attorney general, and I think being able to be on judiciary and some of these committees where we can go on offense.
00:22:07.000How about what they're doing to our military right now?
00:22:09.000I mean, have we really scratched the surface of what they're doing to wokeify our military, what they're doing to drive out service members through those mask mandates?
00:22:21.000This is some really, really dangerous stuff.
00:22:23.000And with the threats we face in the world, if we can't hold our military accountable, then I don't know who's one.
00:22:30.000I don't know who's going to sign up to be part of a military that people don't feel like they can trust the leadership.
00:22:36.000They don't feel like they can trust the commander-in-chief.
00:22:39.000And so, oversight is essential to get major change.
00:22:44.000We know in the last few months that by giving voice to our side, by exposing the left, we've forced them in retreat on a number of major issues.
00:22:57.000And so, that's what I hope to be able to do to be a loud voice.
00:23:00.000And the United States Senate's a unique place where you can be a loud voice.
00:23:06.000Oversight is important for a lot of the bad things that Washington are doing, but we can't lose sight of the fact that the delegation problem in Washington is still a real and present danger to our constitutional government.
00:23:21.000And as long as our elected representatives keep giving these blank checks to these bureaucrats and these large agencies, we are going to continue to lose power.
00:23:36.000I sued the Obama administration every week at trying to peel back their executive orders and their unilateral direction.
00:23:46.000And they're using whether it was the Department of Interior or the EPA, these are their enforcement arms to try to do something beyond what they were democratically allowed to do.
00:23:57.000And we need to get in there and hold these agencies accountable.
00:24:01.000And hopefully, we can actually come up with an agenda that passes bills that will rein in some of these out-of-control bureaucrats.
00:24:09.000Because my state has over 80% of our land is owned by the federal government.
00:24:15.000And so, your listeners, when they hear that, people can't believe it.
00:24:18.000So, you can imagine how important it is that we have oversight of these federal agencies.
00:24:23.000And, you know, the Democrats, their policies cripple this state.
00:26:47.000And I love the fact that states are rising up to start to protect their voters and their citizens, especially when it comes to the issue of big tech.
00:26:55.000So Fiona, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show and walk us through your bill.
00:27:07.000It creates some right to privacy for consumers when they interact with businesses online.
00:27:14.000So I'll list out the rights that we're creating with this bill.
00:27:17.000We create the right to request what information a company has about you, the right to ask them to delete it, and then the right to opt out of your data being sold or shared without your permission.
00:27:29.000And companies, you know, companies know us better than our friends and our family do.
00:27:34.000And the fact that they can sell and resell our data or profit off of us, it's just gone too far.
00:27:42.000And we're going to take a stand in the state of Florida.
00:27:46.000And I think it's really important to protect consumers.
00:27:49.000So I just want to kind of ask this question, which I find to be fascinating, which is, why is the Senate trying to shut down this bill in the state of Florida?
00:28:16.000I think this bill is a classic example of the opposition exists in a bubble, right?
00:28:23.000We are here in Tallahassee, in Florida's capital, and we have all of these business interests that are lobbying against the bill because every company out there uses data in some way or another.
00:28:38.000And the reason why there's so much opposition just in the Tallahassee political bubble is because these lobbyists have a very, very loud voice up here.
00:28:45.000And there are companies that are willing to put up big lobbying dollars to try to defeat this bill.
00:28:50.000As soon as I step outside the Tallahassee bubble, as soon as I go back to Sarasota, every single person wants control over their data online.
00:30:42.000They don't want this sort of bill, even though other states have one very simple, have bills very similar to this.
00:30:48.000And the reason they don't want it is that they want to be able to monetize your internet activity without your consent, without notifying you.
00:30:57.000And these big tech companies obviously are no friends of conservatives.
00:31:02.000They're basically foreign companies that call themselves American companies that come in and commercialize the most private communication and activity of our citizens.
00:32:50.000Yeah, if you don't like it, just don't engage in these services.
00:32:53.000But there is no Luddite out there who can exist in the modern day society and not be tracked in some way.
00:33:02.000Unless you went to great lengths to like pay in cash for everything, you know, not use an AVM, walk in places that there were no cameras ever.
00:33:12.000I don't know how you exist in the world today without having companies collect information about you in some way or another.
00:33:21.000And look, these tech companies, they turn you into the product.
00:33:26.000Only addictive drugs and social media call the people who use their products users.
00:33:30.000They're highly addictive to young people in particular.
00:33:33.000Talk about the generational component to this of how these tech companies really prey on young people and then they monetize them for the rest of their life.
00:33:41.000Your bill will make it much more transparent.
00:33:45.000Yeah, I mean, you know, if anyone followed along with the Facebook whistleblower over the summer, I think we got a little peek behind the curtain into how some of these companies really like profit seek with our data.
00:33:58.000When I interact with a company, I'm only so valuable to them, right?
00:34:03.000Like I can only buy so many cups of coffee in a given year, but they can take what they know about me.
00:34:11.000They can take my behavioral characteristics and say, oh, I know that this consumer is like a 30-something white female that has two small babies.
00:34:20.000They can sell that an infinite number of times and continue to profit seek.
00:34:53.000Our bill goes one step further to protect children.
00:34:56.000It says that for a child under the age of 18, they or their parent has to opt in to their data being sold or shared.
00:35:06.000No one would bring this up in lobbying because I think it's very, it's politically untenable to say you don't support the children.
00:35:12.000But I have a sneaking suspicion that there's a great deal of fear in turning off that spigot of insights into minors.
00:35:22.000You mentioned it, you know, you identify these kids early on and then you've got a product that, you know, their data is a product that you can continue to profit off of for life.
00:35:31.000Another component of our bill is that a company would have to delete information about you if you haven't interacted with them for three years or records retention.
00:35:43.000Every year on my birthday, I probably get 20 happy birthday emails from vendors and stores that I have not shopped in for like at least 15 years.
00:35:53.000And the fact that there are all of these companies out there that know my name, address, phone number, and birthday when I have no intention of ever shopping there again is highly unsettling to me.
00:36:09.000So in closing here, what I love about this too is the states that are rising up against these tech companies, not just waiting for Washington, D.C.
00:36:16.000A lot of people ask, what are we going to do about big tech?
00:36:20.000Well, this is one way to protect consumers, but also punish the companies that hate us, that kicked Trump off social media, that consistently restrict our ability to speak, whether it be about vaccines or anything.
00:36:32.000So talk about the state-based component of this.
00:36:34.000Florida is the leader in so many ways.
00:36:36.000Florida is a free state, and it will be a disappointment if Florida's not able to get this right.
00:36:42.000This would be legislation better suited to the federal level, period.
00:36:46.000There are so many companies that operate across state lines and internationally.
00:36:50.000And I agree that it is burdensome for them to have to figure out a patchwork of regulation in different states around the country.
00:36:57.000However, that doesn't mean I'm going to sleep on privacy for Floridians until the federal government gets their butt in gear and passes something.
00:37:03.000What we have now, a couple states were able to pass a version of this last year.
00:37:08.000There's a few more of us that are on the cusp of doing it this year.
00:37:12.000As more and more states start to step up for privacy for their residents, it puts tremendous upward pressure on the feds to get their butts in gear.
00:37:22.000I don't ever like to compare us to California, but California passed a version of a consumer data privacy bill last year.
00:37:30.000It was very broad and very bold and very California.
00:37:35.000We are intending to do the same thing, a big, bold step for privacy, but with Florida flavor.
00:37:42.000I think that if two of the three largest states in the country, one red, one blue, can pass such compelling legislation, I think that even ratchet up the pressure even more on DC to do something.