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00:01:47.000So we're going to say this a couple times, but yesterday we intentionally ignored what was happening with the committee.
00:01:54.000We had other stories that I thought were more important.
00:01:56.000Ghelain Maxwell, her sentencing, gas prices, the porous and southern, open southern border, I should say.
00:02:05.000Just this testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson.
00:02:08.000I just, I had developed kind of quite honestly a muscle memory to not really get into something, to really focus on it until I have all the facts available in front of me.
00:02:21.000You see, throughout the years, we've been through many different stories where the media went instantaneously into accusation mode and full transparency.
00:02:33.000One of the great teaching moments, one of the great learning moments for me personally was in either January or February of 2019.
00:02:43.000I think it was January, the Covington Kid deal with Nicholas Sandman, where I was doing too many things at once.
00:02:51.000I was spending far too much time on Twitter.
00:02:54.000And I tweeted something such as the Covington kids shouldn't have behaved the way they did.
00:02:59.000A stupid, dumb thing to tweet because I didn't let all the facts come through.
00:03:13.000Just kind of going along with the narrative for the narrative's sake.
00:03:17.000And I wrote a whole op-ed about it, but I actually learned from it.
00:03:22.000I decided that I was never going to do that again.
00:03:24.000I said, I'm not going to kind of ready-fire aim.
00:03:27.000I said, we're just going to kind of let the facts come out.
00:03:30.000And I also learned that, man, when the media becomes so enthusiastic and so passionate about something so quickly, there's probably something they're withholding from us.
00:03:43.000And then a couple months later, the Mueller report came out and it showed that Trump collusion was all a lie.
00:03:51.000And as I was growing in the movement and growing as a commentator and growing as a podcaster and growing as a host and growing as a leader of Turning Point USA, I said to myself, man, the next time the media wants me to get so excited about something, I'm just not going to do it.
00:04:07.000And I'm quite honestly thankful and thankful to God and thankful to all my mentors.
00:04:19.000We refused to engage in the BLM nonsense from day one.
00:04:22.000In fact, we pushed back against it, which people thought was coming at great personal cost to us.
00:04:28.000And so every time the media starts to go into full coordination mode and they're almost wagging their finger at you, you must pay attention to this.
00:04:57.000Do not use the pathos, the pathological arguments, the emotional arguments.
00:05:03.000Let's use some facts, some cross-examination.
00:05:06.000Let's yield to our reason because reason is universal.
00:05:09.000Emotion is not, especially when you're talking about things that are so detailed and consequential.
00:05:17.000And so what happened yesterday, I just, I have it built into my muscle memory now after COVID and masks and vaccines and Ukraine and all the mass hysteria that we live through.
00:06:02.000We were told yesterday that we had to care about what was happening in the January 6th committee.
00:06:07.000And so we decided to cover other stories.
00:06:10.000I've learned throughout the years that when the media is insisting that you cover a story, when the media is demanding that you engage with their rage, it's usually a bad idea.
00:06:26.000You see, I've learned throughout the years that the media, the narrative industrial complex, the regime, they prey on your emotions.
00:06:38.000They want early and enthusiastic comments to try to get people to see things not as they are, but how they feel them to be.
00:06:47.000I've fallen victim to this, as I mentioned, and I've wrote a whole op-ed about it.
00:07:21.000As you grow and as you learn, there's a certain fever pitch that you have to kind of develop an ear to, where it kind of gets to a frequency and you say, nope, let's pause.
00:07:35.000Now, it doesn't inherently mean that everything that is being said is not true.
00:07:39.000Another example, by the way, would be Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:07:42.000When we refused to go along with the media, for example, when Black Rifle Coffee attacked Kyle Rittenhouse, we refused to go along with all of that.
00:07:50.000And so, all these different examples where we were told we had to believe a certain thing.
00:07:55.000It turns out there's more to the story.
00:07:58.000So, yesterday, I intentionally avoided any mention of what was happening.
00:08:03.000I said, why on earth would I cover something where I can't validate, cross-examine, or find out if there's any truth to what is being said?
00:08:11.000Because there's some very significant things.
00:08:14.000And so, basically, here's what happened yesterday.
00:08:18.000Yesterday, with an urgent pace, the committee put together a surprise hearing with a White House aide, her name Cassidy Hutchinson.
00:08:31.000Now, I'd never heard of Cassidy Hutchinson before.
00:08:33.000I knew a lot of people in the White House.
00:08:35.000I knew a different Cassidy, who's one of the sweetest person people ever who worked in the White House and was super loyal to the country and loyal to President Trump.
00:08:43.000But this Cassidy, I had never heard of.
00:08:46.000I didn't know everyone in the White House.
00:08:47.000I didn't work there, just did some projects and happened to visit more times than not.
00:08:53.000So, this person comes up and she starts to testify.
00:08:56.000And she says some very, very serious things.
00:09:01.000She says some things, such as, for example, the kind of scintillating news-grabbing headline was the one that Donald Trump tried to hijack the presidential motorcade, otherwise known as the Beast.
00:09:16.000That Donald Trump, in all of his fury, in all of his anger, was so upset with what was happening.
00:09:22.000He wanted to go to the Capitol so badly that Donald Trump put his hand on the collar of a Secret Service agent, tried to take the steering wheel of the car, and the Secret Service had to push him back.
00:10:28.000Here's Cassidy Hutchinson saying that Donald Trump tried to create a new saga in the Grand Theft Auto series, otherwise known as Grand Theft Auto Capital City, Play Cut 70.
00:12:10.000Without any opportunity to do so, they never even thought to ask the Secret Service, hey, is this true?
00:12:20.000Cut 71, the U.S. Secret Service issued a statement saying it's now prepared for agents to provide sworn testimony in relation to new allegations brought up in the January 6th committee.
00:12:33.000Agents are prepared to give sworn testimony in relation to these new allegations.
00:12:38.000Two sources familiar with the investigation tell me that when President Trump returned to his motorcade after giving that speech on January 6th, he requested that agents take him to the Capitol.
00:12:48.000Those sources told me that Robert Engel, one of the agents in the car, said something to the effect of that being unwise or dangerous and that the motorcade was going to return the president to the White House.
00:12:58.000A source close to the Secret Service tells me that President Trump was apparently not happy with that answer, but the agents in the car would push back against any allegation of an assault by President Trump and the allegation that he reached for the steering wheel.
00:13:11.000So the Secret Service, which is traditionally not exactly seeking out media attention, they're typically silent professionals.
00:13:22.000That literally is in the name, Secret Service.
00:13:26.000They are so repulsed by this accusation that the Secret Service is now talking to the media.
00:13:58.000Can we find out if this is true or not?
00:14:02.000And what's where we're going to now take this is, yes, we're going to keep on going through some of the other statements that were false, lying in front of Congress, lying under oath.
00:14:12.000But there's a deeper point because I'm actually not shocked by the January 6th committee to do this.
00:14:19.000What should shock you, though, and what should anger you is all of the conservatives in media and in government that immediately, without question, without pause, took everything that they heard to be true.
00:14:35.000Oh my goodness, Donald Trump hijacked the presidential limo?
00:14:38.000He tried to put his hand on the steering wheel, one after the other after the other.
00:14:42.000Oh, and we're going to name names of these people because the people that many of you have watched or watched on television, without any moment of pause, bought everything that was being said that has now been revealed to be a lie.
00:15:00.000Look, we talk about current events a lot on this show, but there's other things that are in life that are bigger than current events, bigger things.
00:15:05.000We try to do some shows every so often on these things.
00:15:08.000But look, what am I talking about when I say that?
00:15:12.000Right and wrong, prayer and the Bible or heaven and hell.
00:15:15.000So look, the great C.S. Lewis, who's one of the most amazing minds ever to exist, was a master at addressing these questions.
00:15:24.000And that is why Hillsdale College, the great college, the only college, in my opinion, wants you to learn more about him and his writings in their newest free online course, C.S. Lewis on Christianity.
00:15:36.000And it all starts with taking a short quiz to find out how much you already know about Lewis.
00:15:41.000He wrote more than the Narnia series, by the way.
00:16:56.000Don't be led away by the emotion of it.
00:17:00.000You see, this is a separate point, but it's important, which is I am a big believer that people should read their news before they watch their news.
00:17:12.000Now, I say this also as we have a television program and we have a podcast, but especially if you're trying to get down to the root of it, I personally am a big believer in reading the news.
00:17:25.000So when I read a New York Times article, I can add my own voice to it.
00:17:33.000But if you are watching a full-fledged CBS television program or ABC television program with the graphics and the red alert and the precise emotionally charged language, you're being taken for a ride.
00:17:48.000Cut 73, while all this was happening, while we just basically ignored it and we said, take a time out.
00:17:54.000We'll cover this once we kind of figure out all the different pieces.
00:19:10.000It's saying that it was compelling and stunning.
00:19:13.000Continued by saying on Cut 74 that the January 6th testimony proves that we're not even close to being on the brink of losing our democracy because patriots resisted Trump's efforts.
00:19:25.000Back and forth here on Fox News, PlayCut 74.
00:19:28.000Listen, the premise here from the chairman, Benny Thompson and Liz Cheney, is that we were on the brink of losing our democracy.
00:19:37.000If anything, I think this testimony shows not only the Arizona House Speaker, all of the state officials, these officials in DOJ, who, again, were working for President Trump, stood up saying, We have an oath to the Constitution.
00:19:52.000But if one of them had buckled, it would be a very different 100%, right?
00:21:12.000We're being told it's a bombshell, but it's a mockingbird media strategy to try to have us believe that it's something that it actually isn't.
00:21:52.000But there is even more, including an op-ed that is so incredible, written by someone that you probably see on TV quite often.
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00:24:39.000Andy McCarthy has been phenomenal on television on some things recently in the last couple years, but he immediately, instantaneously came out with this story.
00:24:49.000By the way, as the story was starting to get debunked and unraveling, he still published this, which goes to show the bubble that he's living in.
00:24:57.000That says, Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony against Trump is devastating.
00:25:02.000Now, I hope you know who Andy McCarthy is.
00:25:05.000Andy McCarthy is not just some sort of legal analyst, but he's become one.
00:25:18.000As the assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
00:25:22.000So, for example, Andy McCarthy said, It's worse than America thought.
00:25:27.000Even Americans with extraordinarily low expectations about the former president previously undisclosed behind-the-scenes behavior during the hours when the riot unfolded.
00:25:38.000Skillfully led through a prosecutor-style direct examination by committee chairwoman Liz Cheney.
00:25:44.000Hutchinson explained that Trump was a wild beast at the ellipse shortly before his gasoline on fire speech.
00:25:52.000The security personnel had set up mags for entry into the area that thinned the throngs proximate to the podium where he'd be speaking.
00:26:00.000Trump was ballistic because of the effect of the shot, the video image of the speech that would go to the world.
00:27:04.000He was hired as a prosecutor in the Southern District and worked for the U.S. Attorney for the District Rudy Julian at the time.
00:27:10.000He led the successful prosecution of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and 11 others for planning out and carrying out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
00:27:20.000But what he's doing right here is preemptive and it's reckless.
00:27:26.000He continues by saying here, in this piece, Hutchinson recounted that after numerous discussions among this White House staff and security officials, that it was settled, that Trump would not go to the Capitol, which is to say, underlings made the call without the boss.
00:27:45.000Gliding on the energy of his ellipse speech, Trump told the throngs that they should be marching to the Capitol and that he'd be going with them.
00:27:51.000Andy McCarthy does not mention that he said peacefully and patriotically.
00:27:56.000The piece continues by repeating the lie that Donald Trump grabbed the agent, and it goes all the way through and it ends with this.
00:28:32.000And the echo chamber by the mockingbird media just intensifies.
00:28:36.000By the way, we went through this with Bob Mueller.
00:28:38.000We went through this with the first impeachment call, with a perfectly fine phone call with Ukraine.
00:28:42.000We went through this at every single turn.
00:28:45.000And yet we just kind of get back into this same, we get led down these rabbit holes that turn out not to be what we were told they were at all.
00:28:54.000In fact, directly the opposite of what we were told.
00:30:09.000I'm a massive supporter of President Trump and what he got done.
00:30:14.000But I believe the greatest and most legitimate kind of piece of frustration from the Trump administration is some of the snakes that were given platforms within the Trump White House.
00:30:38.000If Trump gets a second term, he better get this sorted out.
00:30:40.000I'm telling you what, I say this as someone who remains loyal and a massive fan.
00:30:45.000Mick Mulvaney, former White House chief of staff, says, my guess is that before this is over, we'll be hearing testimony from Ornado, Engel, and Meadows.
00:31:18.000Look, very weak people with miserable personal lives.
00:31:24.000They just seem to be so quick to go sell themselves out.
00:31:32.000And now you have, and it's very hard to backtrack all of this now because you have all this testimony and this hoopla, and some people don't go as deep as they should.
00:31:41.000And now we have to spend literally our entire hour we now have to spend on this, cross-examining it and all of this.
00:32:37.000Around the time that I understand the AP article went live, I remember hearing noise coming from down the hallway.
00:32:46.000So I poked my head out of the office and I saw the valet walking towards our office.
00:32:53.000After Mark had returned, I left the office and went down to the dining room.
00:32:57.000And I noticed that the door was propped open and the valet was inside the dining room changing the tablecloth off of the dining room table.
00:33:05.000He motioned for me to come in and then pointed towards the front of the room near the fireplace mantle and the TV where I first noticed there was ketchup dripping down the wall and there's a shattered porcelain plate on the floor.
00:33:21.000The valet had articulated that the president was extremely angry at the Attorney General's AP interview and had thrown his lunch against the wall.
00:34:05.000There has been no cross-examination as the great Jonathan Turley.
00:34:09.000And to defend Jonathan Turley, he's been excellent.
00:34:12.000I don't know what he did yesterday, but I didn't see anything out of him.
00:34:15.000Been very impressed with Jonathan Turley, where he said, Boy, I would have made for a great prosecutor if I never had to have defense attorneys in the room.
00:34:24.000Now, according to Google Trends, the only place yesterday where the interest in the January 6th committee outweighed gas prices was in Washington, D.C. Gas prices and gasoline is the number one issue for Google Trends, not total, but weighed against other political issues.
00:34:45.000Only in the kingdom, only in Washington, D.C., was what happened yesterday bombshell news.
00:34:54.000I can tell you right now, people are worried about paying their bills.
00:34:56.000They're worried about the quality of their kids' education.
00:34:59.000They're worried about CRT and transgenderism being taught to their five, six, or seven-year-old.
00:35:05.000Not worried about whether or not Donald Trump threw a hamburger against the wall and ketchup dripped down the walls.
00:35:14.000Nor are they moved by any sort of story that says, Yeah, Donald Trump tried to hijack the beast, which is impossible, despite the fact he was also not even in the beast.
00:35:24.000He was in the SUV, separate vehicle, separate mode of transportation for a president.
00:35:29.000So, Mick Mulvaney, you have Andy McCarthy rushing to judgment.
00:35:36.000Now, I do want to make one point here that is a positive.
00:35:39.000And I am not a fan of social media at all.
00:35:42.000I've deleted all social media apps off my phone.
00:35:44.000I get most of my information directly from Telegram.
00:35:47.000Telegram is great because there's no filter, no BS.
00:35:49.000You get the links, you can look at it directly, none of that nonsense.
00:35:52.000However, I do want to say one thing that's a positive of social media.
00:35:57.000If we did not have social media yesterday in particular, this narrative would have gone completely unchecked.
00:36:04.000It would have been incredibly difficult for us to be able to get the information into the zeitgeist and cross-examine it as quickly as we did.
00:36:12.000Social media allowed millions of people, patriots, that said, this doesn't sound right.
00:36:19.000And amazingly, it was this small D democratized operation where people in their basement or people on their porch enjoying a cup of coffee.
00:36:31.000For example, someone literally went and found the C-SPAN feed and found out that Trump wasn't in the Beast that day.
00:37:28.000I think it's a phenomenal and positive development at how the conservative movement, especially online, and many of you are doing this.
00:37:35.000You find a narrative and you say, I don't remember that.
00:37:39.000And that's why when I tell you, email me, freedom at charliekirk.com, you might remember something, you might see something, you might hear a story, and then you could get it to me, and we can get it out to millions.
00:37:48.000And all of a sudden, we're more agile.
00:37:50.000We are now, we have a direct connection to the people, and we have the collective brain power of millions of patriots to be able to debunk this stuff in real time with the actual access to technology to be able to communicate to millions of people in real time.
00:38:06.000If it was, if we were just reliant on NBC, ABC, and CBS News and Andy McCarthy, we would just be like, wow, what a testimony.
00:38:31.000This is like repulsive, vomit-inducing tweets from the weak-kneed, low-testosterone, center-right media apparatus, which is always like, I'm such a good person because I've never tried to hijack the beast.
00:38:44.000It's like, actually, that's all a lie.
00:38:47.000And you, when you communicate, when you watch the news, I want to encourage you and tell you and empower you that it's actually the grassroots that are helping counter a lot of these narratives.
00:38:58.000They come up with a narrative and they now have to come against the millions of patriots that can fact-check them, cross-examine them, and actually have memories of things that used to happen.
00:39:12.000Thank you so much for listening, everybody.