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00:01:46.000 I hope you had a wonderful weekend.

00:01:47.000 We have a big weekend store here.

00:01:49.000 There are a lot of stories that are bubbling up, and we are going to be covering them here exclusively on the program.

00:01:56.000 The first of which is an email.

00:01:58.000 An email heard around the world.

00:02:02.000 A singular email that was sent last week.

00:02:06.000 And the email was to ask every federal worker, so what do you do here?

00:02:12.000 And what have you gotten done?

00:02:16.000 Email was sent and it says, quote, Please reply.

00:02:18.000 This is sent to every federal worker.

00:02:21.000 Please reply to this email with approximately five bullets of what you accomplished last week and CC your manager.

00:02:30.000 Please do not send any classified information, links, or attachments.

00:02:35.000 Deadline to reply is Monday at 1159 Eastern Standard Time.

00:02:41.000 As soon as this email was sent, federal workers started to scream and say, what do you mean I have to tell you what I do?

00:02:48.000 This is harassment.

00:02:49.000 This is taunting.

00:02:51.000 This is unfair.

00:02:54.000 No one has ever asked a federal worker, what do you do?

00:02:57.000 Now, we do this every single week at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action.

00:03:01.000 What do you do here?

00:03:02.000 Tell us your progress report.

00:03:03.000 In fact, taking a page out of Elon, we're going to do this now every single week methodically.

00:03:08.000 List of five things you got done.

00:03:10.000 Federal workers are now clamoring, saying that this violates union rules.

00:03:15.000 I'm sorry, guys.

00:03:16.000 This is beyond laughable.

00:03:18.000 This is repulsive.

00:03:19.000 These people have jobs that we pay for, and they can't respond to an email asking them, just list five things you got done here.

00:03:30.000 And the answer, of course, is they don't do anything of value.

00:03:33.000 They show up, get a cup of coffee, reshuffle some papers.

00:03:39.000 Go into a conference room, and they're out the door by 3.30 or 4 o'clock. 0.99

00:03:44.000 They operate as, not them personally, but they operate as worthless parasites on the American taxpayer. 0.56

00:03:52.000 Meanwhile, every single one of you in the audience here, whether you are a doctor or a lawyer, an engineer, in the private sector, every day you have to justify your existence. 0.95

00:04:06.000 Every day.

00:04:07.000 Even if you work at McDonald's, even if you work as a garbage man, name five things that you did at McDonald's.

00:04:13.000 Well, today I cleaned the French fryer, and I scrubbed the floors, and I made Big Macs, and I made sure the Diet Coke machine was working, and I helped the customer to their car because she was struggling in the snow.

00:04:28.000 Five things?

00:04:28.000 Great.

00:04:29.000 Thank you very much, McDonald's Employee of the Month.

00:04:31.000 Earning $12 an hour.

00:04:35.000 Someone at McDonald's tells you concretely, What they do.

00:04:38.000 But if you dare to ask our millions of federal workers, hey, just tell us five bullet points of what you did.

00:04:45.000 They are mass refusing this inquiry.

00:04:47.000 It is intimidating, they say.

00:04:49.000 It's scary.

00:04:52.000 They're not used to have anybody come in and ask them a question.

00:04:55.000 In fact, what a chance to put out your chest.

00:04:59.000 Oh yeah, Elon, these are the five things that I do at the Department of Interior.

00:05:04.000 These are the five things I do at...

00:05:06.000 This could be done in two minutes.

00:05:10.000 These are the five things I did.

00:05:12.000 One, two, three, four, five.

00:05:14.000 Can these people not do bullets?

00:05:15.000 Can these people read?

00:05:16.000 I'm getting to some very provocative answers.

00:05:21.000 They are mass deciding not to respond to this inquiry.

00:05:26.000 If your work is all classified, just say so.

00:05:28.000 And chances are it's not.

00:05:30.000 Chances are you're not doing anything that you can even report on.

00:05:36.000 You simply exist. 0.99

00:05:37.000 You are a leech on us. 0.99

00:05:40.000 And this is the core of what Elon is surfacing, what President Trump is flushing out. 0.94

00:05:47.000 It's not even that they themselves are worthy of the criticism, which they are.

00:05:54.000 A lot of these people are less than desirable.

00:05:58.000 They could not hold a job at your local Chipotle.

00:06:01.000 In fact, your local Uber Eats driver, your local Chipotle, They're working their tail off every day, and God bless them.

00:06:09.000 But the federal work, ooh, those are plushy jobs where nothing is done.

00:06:14.000 These jobs never should have existed in the first place.

00:06:17.000 And both Republicans and Democrats, George W. Bush, alongside Bill Clinton, alongside Barack Hussein Obama, alongside Joe Biden, have been protectorates of this bipartisan regime that we talk about a lot, the Uniparty.

00:06:35.000 Where there are millions of jobs that should not exist.

00:06:38.000 There are famously entire departments of the government just filled with people taking months on end to do what would take a day in a startup or any real company, the bottom line.

00:06:49.000 It is so telling that asking a federal worker to take five minutes or two minutes to explain what exactly you do here has become such a controversy.

00:07:00.000 It proves that the culture in government is rotten and the media is going along with it.

00:07:05.000 MSNBC right now has Musk to federal workers, justify your job or else. 0.99

00:07:09.000 Yes, that's the way things work in the real world, not the fantasy world of government.

00:07:16.000 Because the money is running out.

00:07:19.000 If there's only one takeaway from our time together today that I want you to internalize, it's that President Trump and Elon Musk and J.D. Vance and Pete Hegseth are challenging the D.C. orthodoxy that government is untouchable.

00:07:35.000 Government works for us.

00:07:37.000 They are not a holy realm of existence that we are not allowed to criticize, that we are not allowed to question.

00:07:44.000 Now, mind you, the left, they will criticize every conservative nonprofit.

00:07:48.000 They'll investigate Turning Point USA. They'll find out how many ballot chases we have on the ground.

00:07:53.000 They'll write ad nauseum about anything in right-wing world, but they will never criticize or lift a finger.

00:07:59.000 Asking a question about the government.

00:08:02.000 This is not the government's money.

00:08:04.000 It is our money.

00:08:06.000 This is your money.

00:08:08.000 We are a team together in this as you as taxpayers, and they have been fleecing us over the last couple of decades.

00:08:15.000 And let me just read the email again.

00:08:17.000 Is this intimidating to you?

00:08:19.000 Does this require a safe space?

00:08:21.000 Does this make you have to run away?

00:08:22.000 And this goes to my operating thesis that I wrote in that book back there, The College Scam.

00:08:28.000 Which I said this is the college campusification, that's not a word, but I made it up, of the entire country.

00:08:34.000 You are not allowed to ask a junior at Yale, what did you learn here?

00:08:40.000 That's intimidation.

00:08:42.000 You're not allowed to have an exit test when you leave Stanford.

00:08:47.000 That could be threatening.

00:08:51.000 Safe spaces, speech codes.

00:08:53.000 Rooms with puppies and milk and cookies.

00:08:55.000 If you hear something threatening, these people are now staffing your government.

00:08:59.000 As we have always said, what happens on college campuses is not stay in college campuses.

00:09:03.000 It ends up in corporate boardrooms, the halls of Congress, and metastasizes into your government.

00:09:10.000 This is the same mentality that I've been fighting for the last decade on college campuses that we are finally starting to see a shift.

00:09:16.000 And again, this is the email.

00:09:17.000 Please reply to this email with approximately five bullet points of what you accomplished last week and CC your manager.

00:09:23.000 Do not send any classified information, links, or attachments.

00:09:26.000 For every single person out there that has had a private sector job, and there are millions of you listening and watching, you should be angered and incensed by this.

00:09:36.000 That these people think that they are an untouchable, holy class.

00:09:40.000 They think they have been given the divine right of kings.

00:09:44.000 That we serve at the pleasure of this oligarchy, that if you have a federal job, we can't ask a question.

00:09:50.000 We can't dare question your existence.

00:09:55.000 We are just lucky that you'll mention us.

00:09:57.000 As an example, and I could tell you as somebody who has employed, employs well over a thousand people, if AmericaFest was organized by the federal government, it would take four years to plan it out, it would cost five times as much, and there would be like a single podium.

00:10:12.000 With five speakers.

00:10:14.000 The federal government is not just slow and bloated and efficient.

00:10:19.000 It's largely become 80% unnecessary.

00:10:23.000 Of course there's core function in the federal government that should exist.

00:10:25.000 80% of these jobs should not exist.

00:10:27.000 90% should not exist.

00:10:28.000 And they're proving our point.

00:10:30.000 They can't even respond to a crisp email.

00:10:33.000 This is what I do.

00:10:35.000 This is why I exist.

00:10:36.000 Your local janitor at a school could tell you what they do all day long.

00:10:40.000 The person that serves you your Starbucks coffee or serves you your Dunkin' Donuts can tell you to do it all day long.

00:10:47.000 But no.

00:10:48.000 The HR manager at Department of Commerce, it's against union rules.

00:10:53.000 And the difference is this.

00:10:55.000 When you go to Dunkin' Donuts, that's a voluntary exchange.

00:10:58.000 You are deciding to spend your money at Dunkin' Donuts.

00:11:00.000 No one did that in a mandatory way.

00:11:02.000 But you must pay your taxes or you go to jail.

00:11:05.000 But you can't ask the workers that take your taxes at gunpoint.

00:11:10.000 What do you do all day long?

00:11:13.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here.

00:11:15.000 You just saw it.

00:11:16.000 The privileged get tax pardons while hardworking Americans do not.

00:11:20.000 The IRS just stepped up enforcement.

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00:11:27.000 Waiting to get caught makes you look like a tax evader and it will not end well.

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00:12:14.000 We have been propagandized by the storytellers in the media, the mockingbird media, and they conflate voluntary action versus compulsory action or mandatory action.

00:12:33.000 If you in the audience right now do not pay your taxes, They'll eventually find you, most likely, and put you in jail.

00:12:43.000 It is mandatory for you to pay your taxes.

00:12:46.000 I pay a lot in taxes, and I'm sure you pay a lot in taxes.

00:12:50.000 An unnecessary amount in taxes.

00:12:53.000 So we pay a lot in taxes, and we send it to Washington, D.C. It is not us doing a voluntary contribution.

00:13:01.000 Now contrast that for a second with when you go to Home Depot.

00:13:07.000 Or when you decide to take your family out to a meal at Chili's.

00:13:11.000 There was competition.

00:13:12.000 There was choice.

00:13:13.000 There was variety.

00:13:15.000 And they have to earn your money.

00:13:19.000 Customer service.

00:13:20.000 That's why you're constantly singing, you can get a burger for $5 at Chili's.

00:13:25.000 You can buy one, get one free.

00:13:27.000 They have to earn your money.

00:13:29.000 They have to convince you that your capital is worthy of spending.

00:13:33.000 The government does no such thing.

00:13:35.000 The government, at its core, Comes in with a gun.

00:13:38.000 And with the gun, they say, pay us or else.

00:13:43.000 It's compulsory.

00:13:45.000 Now, of course, some form of taxation is necessary.

00:13:47.000 We agree with that.

00:13:49.000 Some form of compulsory extraction of capital from the body politic is essential for common defense, for border security, for services for those that could never lift themselves up.

00:14:03.000 But the federal government has gone so much bigger than any of you realize.

00:14:08.000 And it should tick you off because there is no concern for actually what finances this.

00:14:14.000 And one of the core elements, and I would love to see President Trump rescind this executive order, is the forced unionization of federal workers.

00:14:26.000 I don't believe that this was done by an act of Congress.

00:14:30.000 I think it was an executive order by either JFK, FDR spoke out against the forced unionization of federal workers.

00:14:38.000 It's so hard to fire these workers.

00:14:40.000 So, for example, if you're running a local Wendy's and a worker's constantly late and he is confusing burgers with chicken patties and chicken nuggets with fries, he has a bad attitude and is defiant, you fire them.

00:14:57.000 But if you have a federal worker that is confusing, In audit with a subpoena, is constantly late with a bad attitude, it's very difficult to fire that person.

00:15:08.000 Nearly impossible.

00:15:10.000 So market forces that built the wealth of the West, market forces that allowed the competitive drive and edge of entrepreneurialism for this country to become the greatest nation in the history of the world, are not just not implemented in government, they're at odds with those things.

00:15:26.000 So what Elon Musk and President Trump are doing is like, let's just...

00:15:30.000 Ask a couple questions.

00:15:31.000 What do you do here and what have you gotten done?

00:15:34.000 And the demons are shrieking within the government because you can't even ask the question.

00:15:38.000 And let me reiterate the point.

00:15:40.000 They are only able to exist through force.

00:15:44.000 Your local company, whether it be Apple or whether it be a local restaurant, Italian restaurant or Lebanese restaurant that you care about, an auto repair clinic, whatever it might be, they are there.

00:15:59.000 Because they earned it.

00:16:00.000 They're not there through force.

00:16:02.000 They're there through voluntary exchange.

00:16:05.000 You cannot have a functioning organization if you cannot terminate the defiant, the lazy, or the unproductive.

00:16:14.000 Write that down and commit it to memory.

00:16:17.000 You cannot have a flourishing organization if you cannot fire the lazy, the bloated, the defiant, or the unproductive.

00:16:28.000 And the federal government is there through force, and we have no choice.

00:16:34.000 And so we say, okay, since you're there because you extracted the money through us at gunpoint, shouldn't we then be able to, I don't know, wonder where our money is going?

00:16:44.000 Remember, our money.

00:16:46.000 And by the way, if Apple or if Chipotle or Five Guys is wasting our money, Then stop going there because the product will decline.

00:16:58.000 But it's done through voluntary exchange.

00:17:00.000 The federal government is different because it's we the people.

00:17:03.000 We are shareholders in this project.

00:17:05.000 We are citizens.

00:17:08.000 We are co-owners.

00:17:10.000 At least we're supposed to be.

00:17:11.000 And that is the central question revolving all of this.

00:17:15.000 Are we the people customers?

00:17:17.000 Are we shareholders?

00:17:19.000 Or are we subjects?

00:17:21.000 Who works for who?

00:17:22.000 They work for us.

00:17:24.000 And soon...

00:17:25.000 They've got to tell us what they do all day long, or else face instant termination.

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00:18:40.000 Joining us now is Senator Rick Scott from the great state of Florida.

00:18:44.000 Senator, great to see you.

00:18:45.000 Senator, I think you would like to hear.

00:18:47.000 I was just on the campus of University of South Florida.

00:18:50.000 We had 2,000-plus students attend.

00:18:52.000 This Thursday, I'll be on the campus of University of Florida.

00:18:55.000 This Friday, Florida State University.

00:18:57.000 So we are doing your home state proud, sir.

00:19:00.000 I bet you're having fun, and the weather's pretty good, too.

00:19:02.000 It's very good.

00:19:04.000 Better than Washington, D.C., and much better than my hometown of Chicago right now.

00:19:09.000 So, Senator, I want to ask you a really hard question out of the gate here.

00:19:13.000 I need five bullet points of what you did last week.

00:19:16.000 The floor is yours.

00:19:17.000 Okay, here we go.

00:19:19.000 Charlie, I was ready for this because I'm a business guy, so I expected this.

00:19:24.000 I do a weekly newsletter to all my constituents every week.

00:19:28.000 12,000 phone calls to my 10 offices.

00:19:31.000 We passed a reconciliation bill Thursday night.

00:19:33.000 We got Kash Patel confirmed.

00:19:36.000 We got Howard Latina confirmed.

00:19:37.000 And I filed a merit-based hiring bill, which means that we'll stop this stuff that federal workers are different than everybody else, that you can't fire people for not doing their job.

00:19:47.000 So is that enough?

00:19:48.000 I can give you a bunch more if you want.

00:19:50.000 Keep going.

00:19:51.000 I want to keep hearing it.

00:19:53.000 So, you know, Charlie, this is so simplistic.

00:19:57.000 What Elon Musk is asking for is exactly what should be done.

00:20:01.000 There should be complete accountability by every federal worker.

00:20:05.000 And guess what?

00:20:06.000 I was governor of Florida for eight years, and that's exactly what I ask everybody to do.

00:20:10.000 Tell me what you're going to get done this week, because we have an obligation.

00:20:14.000 There are no non-essential workers.

00:20:17.000 There was none in my business life.

00:20:18.000 There's not going to be in state government.

00:20:20.000 There shouldn't be in the federal government.

00:20:21.000 And let's just kind of dwell on this for a second.

00:20:24.000 That market principles when you built a business are that if you're unproductive or if you're defiant or if you are lazy or if you are not a good fit, you will be terminated.

00:20:35.000 The government has always operated as its own thing.

00:20:39.000 Talk about how what you did also as governor of Florida to bring in those market principles and why Florida is probably the best run state in the country.

00:20:46.000 But how did we get to a point in the federal government where we act as if federal workers are an untouchable holy class?

00:20:53.000 It doesn't make any sense.

00:20:55.000 Like, Charlie, you have the right to pick which restaurant you go to.

00:20:59.000 So if you have a bad waiter, if you have bad food, you don't go back, right?

00:21:04.000 So you are deciding not to continue those people from having a job.

00:21:08.000 You do it every day.

00:21:09.000 We do it every day based on what services we'll buy, what products we buy, all that stuff.

00:21:13.000 So when I became governor of Florida, that's the way I thought because I built business.

00:21:17.000 I built the largest hospital company.

00:21:18.000 I built a bunch of manufacturing companies.

00:21:20.000 Every employee had a purpose or they weren't there.

00:21:23.000 And by the way, if you get fired, you decide to get fired.

00:21:28.000 Any good manager is very clear what they expect out of you.

00:21:33.000 So if you get fired, it's not a surprise because they told you this is what your expectation was and then you decided not to do it.

00:21:40.000 That's exactly what ought to be happening.

00:21:42.000 So I did it as governor of Florida.

00:21:43.000 We created unbelievable efficiencies.

00:21:46.000 I think we went from like 127,000 employees.

00:21:49.000 Yes.

00:21:49.000 To 112,000 employees.

00:21:51.000 Because, you know, we didn't need as many employees.

00:21:54.000 We tried every day, how do I get more efficient?

00:21:56.000 How do I get more efficient?

00:21:57.000 How do I provide better service to the citizens of Florida at a lower price?

00:22:01.000 That's what businesses do.

00:22:02.000 And so, what is Congress's role here, what would you say, as far as trying to put forward the Doge agenda and making government work for the people again?

00:22:13.000 Our job should be...

00:22:15.000 Accountability.

00:22:15.000 Our job should be, we want transparency.

00:22:17.000 There's two things, really, that Trump's team has brought to the table.

00:22:20.000 When you look at his cabinet picks, what they bring to the table, in my opinion, is two things.

00:22:25.000 A commitment to transparency and a commitment to accountability.

00:22:30.000 So, as an example, I was talking to Pam Bondi, who's a good friend of mine, the other day.

00:22:34.000 I mean, both the FBI and DOJ under Biden, they didn't think they had an obligation to tell us why they're doing what they're doing.

00:22:44.000 Pam Bondi and Cash Patel think totally different.

00:22:47.000 They know that it's the responsibility of everybody that runs any part of the federal government is tell the American public what the living daylights is going on.

00:22:54.000 So that's what we ought to be doing.

00:22:56.000 What we ought to be doing here is holding hearings and hold people accountable.

00:23:00.000 So on helmet security, Rand Paul is running that committee now, and we're going to have committee hearings.

00:23:07.000 We're going to be asking people all the hard questions.

00:23:10.000 Did you get something done?

00:23:12.000 Why does it cost that much?

00:23:13.000 Can you provide a better service?

00:23:15.000 We want my office one for the best constituent services team in the country last year of all House members and city members.

00:23:21.000 The reason we did is we have a measurement system for success.

00:23:25.000 What are the people looking for?

00:23:27.000 That's what we do.

00:23:28.000 And no one has thought to do this.

00:23:30.000 I mean, obviously, Biden wouldn't.

00:23:31.000 But for the last 20 or 30 years, and we finally have this mandate given by the American people.

00:23:37.000 We also need serious deficit and debt reduction reform.

00:23:40.000 I know this is something they're very passionate about, but if we are not serious about analyzing key expenditures, we're going to become routinely in trillion-dollar deficits.

00:23:51.000 It's a make-or-break moment.

00:23:53.000 Speak to this, to our audience, Senator, of the high stakes of the fiscal apocalypse that is looming if we do not start cutting spending.

00:24:01.000 Well, if you think about it, with $36 trillion of debt, now we're at $36.5 trillion worth of debt.

00:24:06.000 We're growing about $2 trillion this year, an increase.

00:24:11.000 So inflation will not come down, and interest rates will not come down.

00:24:16.000 I mean, inflation and interest rates are completely tied to wasteful government spending.

00:24:22.000 So we don't have a choice.

00:24:24.000 I became governor of Florida, and we had not lived within our means for 20 straight years.

00:24:29.000 We had added a billion dollars of excess debt every year for 20 straight years.

00:24:33.000 We were about to go on default on our debt.

00:24:35.000 Eventually, people are not going to buy our debt.

00:24:37.000 They're going to say, I don't know that you can pay all that money back.

00:24:42.000 But the worst thing is for poor families.

00:24:44.000 I grew up in a poor family.

00:24:45.000 A lot of Americans did.

00:24:47.000 My mom would have had a hard time with the inflation we've had under Biden and where interest rates are now.

00:24:52.000 And government spending is the primary driver of that.

00:24:57.000 I know you told...

00:24:59.000 Yeah, so I know you told Producer Andrew in the break that the next two weeks are going to be very interesting.

00:25:03.000 Please outline the next two weeks for us, Senator.

00:25:05.000 So here we got two big things, right?

00:25:09.000 We want to get a reconciliation bill done that does these things, right?

00:25:13.000 We want to secure the border.

00:25:15.000 We want to build up our military.

00:25:16.000 We want to extend the Trump tax cuts.

00:25:18.000 And there's a variety of other things.

00:25:20.000 We want to reduce wasteful spending.

00:25:21.000 Those are the things we want to get done.

00:25:22.000 So there's different approaches, whether you have one bill or...

00:25:26.000 You know, two bills or three bills.

00:25:27.000 I'm okay with whatever number we have as long as we get those things done.

00:25:30.000 So that we're working on.

00:25:32.000 We passed ours out of the Senate last Thursday.

00:25:35.000 The House will try to pass theirs this week.

00:25:37.000 But then on top of that, on March 14th, if we don't come to an agreement, government gets shut down.

00:25:42.000 Now, as you know, a lot of Democrats have said they want to shut down government, which is fascinating to me because they always try to blame that on Republicans.

00:25:49.000 But the Democrats now say they want to shut down government.

00:25:52.000 None of us want to—I don't know if a Republican wants to shut down government, but we're going to have to figure out how to come together to get something done that is fiscally responsible, where we don't have a gazillion number of earmarks that's completely wasteful.

00:26:05.000 I think last year it was 8,000 earmarks.

00:26:08.000 Complete waste, right?

00:26:10.000 Just complete waste when we're running $220 a year deficit.

00:26:13.000 So it's going to be—how we bring everybody together to get this done will be very difficult.

00:26:18.000 It's a very consequential time.

00:26:21.000 What are also the status of Trump's undersecretaries and deputies?

00:26:25.000 Give us some idea of the confirmation schedule there.

00:26:29.000 Well, we're behind on the number of nominees we've gotten done since Obama's first term, but we're ahead on cabinet picks, which is really good.

00:26:39.000 Now what we're doing is the undersecretaries are going through the committee process to get them out.

00:26:44.000 Tonight we're doing the Secretary of the Army.

00:26:47.000 Hopefully we'll get that one completed tonight or tomorrow or Wednesday.

00:26:52.000 So we're going through them, and we're doing as quickly as the Democrats allow us.

00:26:56.000 The way it works up here, depending on the nominee, you have 30 hours of debate or two hours of debate.

00:27:02.000 So what we're trying to do is we're doing this as quickly as we can, but the Democrats are not giving us any time back.

00:27:08.000 They're making us take all the 30 hours or two hours for every nominee.

00:27:12.000 So the other one we want to get done this week is the trade rep.

00:27:16.000 James McGuire, which is a really important job dealing with the Trump tariffs.

00:27:22.000 But, you know, we're Republicans up here.

00:27:25.000 We are staying.

00:27:26.000 We're working hard to get those things done.

00:27:28.000 So, Senator, I want your comments, and I'm going to speak about this later in the show, of another Floridian going into the FBI, Dan Bongino.

00:27:37.000 Dan Bongino has been chosen to be deputy director of the FBI. Your thoughts?

00:27:44.000 I think it's great.

00:27:45.000 I think Dan's going to do a great job.

00:27:46.000 First off, here's why I like Cash Patel.

00:27:49.000 The reason I like Cash was because he had been persecuted by the FBI. He had been a target, right?

00:27:55.000 And so I think he's going to bring a totally different perspective of somebody that's been, they try to take advantage of and ruin their life.

00:28:04.000 Dan Bongino is somebody that's been very vocal on this issue, very vocal on what our federal government law enforcement should be doing.

00:28:11.000 So I think those two together are going to do a great job.

00:28:14.000 Pam Bondi is going to do a great job as attorney general. 0.73

00:28:17.000 She was attorney general over the eight years I was governor of Florida.

00:28:20.000 So Trump's putting together a team that's going to make changes happen and is going to do two things.

00:28:25.000 Create transparency and accountability.

00:28:28.000 These entities, which they work for us.

00:28:33.000 They're going to be totally different.

00:28:34.000 So I think Dan's going to do a great job.

00:28:35.000 Cash, Pam, all of them are.

00:28:37.000 Senator, any closing thoughts of things that are legislative priorities or fights you want our audience to be aware of?

00:28:43.000 Well, the big thing is be vocal.

00:28:46.000 You showed it in the leaders race last November.

00:28:50.000 Your voice was heard.

00:28:53.000 While I didn't win, we completely changed the Senate.

00:28:55.000 So stay active.

00:28:57.000 That's how you get Trump's nominees done.

00:28:58.000 That's how you get Trump's agenda done.

00:29:00.000 Stay active and be vocal.

00:29:02.000 Senator, thank you so much.

00:29:03.000 Really appreciate it.

00:29:04.000 And Godspeed.

00:29:05.000 Big couple weeks ahead.

00:29:06.000 Thank you.

00:29:07.000 Take care.

00:29:07.000 Enjoy Florida.

00:29:08.000 Thank you.

00:29:11.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here.

00:29:13.000 There's a lot of excitement in Washington, D.C. as we start the year, but I wanted to talk to you about something just as exciting happening outside the D.C. Beltway, a revolution in the states.

00:29:23.000 It's the education freedom movement.

00:29:24.000 It's real, it's growing, and growing because some states, as they should, are putting parents in charge of the education of their kids.

00:29:32.000 Everyone knows education has the power to change a kid's life, and anyone who raised a child knows each has different needs, learning styles, and God.

00:29:41.000 The fact is parents know their own children best, knows what's best for their development and future.

00:29:48.000 Education freedom legislation puts parents, not zip codes and politicians, in charge of these important family decisions.

00:29:55.000 It's why I strongly support making universal education freedom a reality for every parent in every state.

00:30:02.000 To find out where your state legislature stands and to make sure your voice is heard.

00:30:06.000 Go to EducationFreedomUSA.com now.

00:30:10.000 EducationFreedomUSA.com.

00:30:14.000 Bombshell news.

00:30:16.000 Bombshell news.

00:30:17.000 My friend and friend of this program and great American patriot is going to be number two at the FBI. This is so important, everybody.

00:30:25.000 Let me explain to you before we play Dan Bongino's clip here.

00:30:28.000 Dan Bongino becoming deputy director of the FBI means that somebody is going to have Kash Patel 6. That somebody is going to be able...

00:30:36.000 To make sure that Kash Patel has his back covered.

00:30:41.000 Dan Bongino was a Secret Service agent.

00:30:45.000 A Secret Service agent, by the way, does have arrest authority.

00:30:48.000 So you could say that he was a law enforcement agent.

00:30:50.000 And I believe he was a police officer before that, if I'm not mistaken.

00:30:54.000 The media is trying to say, oh, he was just, you know, a podcaster.

00:30:57.000 No, no, no.

00:30:58.000 He has significant law enforcement background.

00:31:00.000 But Dan Bongino, his podcast is massive.

00:31:03.000 It's huge.

00:31:05.000 Really got viral during Russiagate.

00:31:07.000 Dan Bongino went all in during Russiagate and exposed the lying, the deceit, and the illegal activity of the FBI against President Trump.

00:31:20.000 And he was terrific at it.

00:31:22.000 Dan Bongino also will get to the bottom of what happened on July 13th in Butler, Pennsylvania.

00:31:27.000 No more can they just, oh, take out Kash Patel, but you also have Dan Bongino.

00:31:31.000 No, no.

00:31:31.000 Now you have this dynamic duo.

00:31:34.000 To turn the FBI back into a law enforcement agency.

00:31:37.000 And I trust Kash Patel with my life.

00:31:39.000 And I trust Dan Bongino with my life.

00:31:41.000 And you have one two combo here.

00:31:43.000 And people did not see this one coming.

00:31:45.000 Here is Dan Bongino this morning making the announcement on his program or reacting to it.

00:31:51.000 Playcut 65. Obviously we're going to be working with a team of people to make this transition from me, political commentator Dan, to...

00:32:01.000 Deputy Director of the FBI, Dan.

00:32:03.000 Those are different roles.

00:32:04.000 Require different skills.

00:32:06.000 Skills I have and have used before and I plan to use again.

00:32:11.000 Vision of President Trump, Attorney General Bondi, and Director Patel.

00:32:16.000 I am going to do my job to implement that vision.

00:32:18.000 And I can tell you right now, we are going to try our best.

00:32:22.000 Every single thing I have in me.

00:32:25.000 Every single strand of DNA cell in my body is going to be dedicated towards keeping this homeland safe, no matter what.

00:32:31.000 This is why all of you chased ballots.

00:32:33.000 This is why all of you gave financially to President Trump in Turning Point Action.

00:32:37.000 This is why all of you registered voters, all of our fortitude to grind through the dark night of the soul is paying off.

00:32:44.000 It's not just that we have President Donald Trump, but we have Pete Hegstead, we have Marco Rubio, we have Scott Bessent.

00:32:52.000 We have Bobby Kennedy.

00:32:54.000 We have Tulsi Gabbard.

00:32:55.000 Not just Kash Patel, but now Dan Bongino.

00:32:58.000 Tick-tock. 0.86

00:32:59.000 For all of the deceitful, parasitic criminals that have been infecting our law enforcement agents, the Department of Justice, the FBI. We got Pam Bondi. 0.58

00:33:09.000 We got Kash Patel.

00:33:10.000 We got Dan Bongino.

00:33:11.000 We got eyes scanning the horizon for any activity.

00:33:18.000 Dan Bongino being number two at the FBI will ensure that President Trump does not have to go through a Russiagate 2.0.

00:33:24.000 Will ensure that Peter Struck, Stroke, Smirk and his like and his little minions are not going to infiltrate the government to be weaponized against the people and against the administration that was popularly elected.

00:33:35.000 This is a man devoted to America and I can't speak high enough about his integrity, his character, his honesty.

00:33:42.000 He's been a wonderful friend to me.

00:33:44.000 You know Dan Bongino?

00:33:45.000 Every time he speaks at Turning Point USA does not charge us a cent.

00:33:49.000 You know, some of these prima donnas, they'll charge you hundreds of thousands of dollars you've got to negotiate down. 1.00

00:33:53.000 Like, no, no, no.

00:33:54.000 Like, let's not do that.

00:33:55.000 He will never charge us a dollar to speak at our events.

00:34:00.000 That's who he is.

00:34:01.000 And he has spoke at tons of our events, and he's always been there for me and always been there for our country.

00:34:06.000 I could not be more happy for not just for Dan Bongino, but for our country.

00:34:10.000 And woof! 0.99

00:34:11.000 Watch out, DC! It's going to get a little uncomfortable.

00:34:15.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:16.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - February 24, 2025

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