The Charlie Kirk Show - What's a "CR," and Why is This One So Bad?

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00:00:01.000 What is a CR?

00:00:02.000 We walk through this in great detail of what some people are calling a pile of garbage marching through Congress.

00:00:10.000 Mike Davis as well joins the program to talk lawfare and the importance of staffing the Department of Justice.

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00:02:12.000 Continuing resolution, which is just a huge disappointment.

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00:02:46.000 Okay, so what is a continuing resolution?

00:02:48.000 We are now on the 35th CR, or continuing resolution.

00:02:52.000 Let's educate you first, all of us together, on what a CR is.

00:02:56.000 So a CR, and the primary purpose of a CR is to try to prevent a government shutdown by keeping the government running at current funding levels until new budget agreements are reached.

00:03:08.000 So here's how it works.

00:03:09.000 It's about a four-step process.

00:03:11.000 It's usually a short-term funding measure.

00:03:14.000 A CR provides, typically...

00:03:17.000 Funding at same or about levels as the previous fiscal year.

00:03:21.000 This allows government operations to continue without any interruption, even though the formal appropriations process has not been completed.

00:03:29.000 The duration of a CR usually lasts from either a couple days to several months, depending on how long Congress needs to finalize the appropriations bills or reach a broader budget agreement.

00:03:42.000 Now, let me pause.

00:03:44.000 We have not gone back to regular established budget order in 35 CRs.

00:03:50.000 It has now been 35 CRs over and over and over again.

00:03:55.000 That phrase, kicking the can down the road, is summarized within the idea of a CR. As the name suggests, it's just a resolution to continue business as usual.

00:04:08.000 No changes, no cuts, no appropriations, just keep things going without interruption.

00:04:15.000 Now, there's the lack of a lot of policy changes as well.

00:04:19.000 In general, a CR only addresses funding and does not include any significant policy changes.

00:04:26.000 Now, sometimes Congress may add anomalies to a CR, which are specific adjustments or exceptions to normal funding rules to address unique circumstances.

00:04:35.000 Now, the impact on government programs, a CR ensures that federal workers can keep on being working, blah, blah, blah, blah, away from a government shutdown.

00:04:42.000 I always laugh at the government shutdown.

00:04:43.000 Why are we afraid of government shutdowns?

00:04:44.000 Because then you can finally divide the federal government into essential and not essential workers.

00:04:49.000 Now, if you watch the Charlie Kirk show carefully, remember, there's always an excuse as to why we can't cut spending.

00:04:56.000 Always.

00:04:56.000 Well, we're too close to an election is typically the excuse.

00:05:01.000 Well, you can't possibly use that excuse right now.

00:05:04.000 You can't possibly say, we are the farthest that you humanly can possibly be from an election.

00:05:09.000 But now it's the excuse that drives me mad.

00:05:14.000 The excuse is, well, it's Christmas time and we need to go home.

00:05:21.000 It's Christmas time.

00:05:22.000 Now, the best possible argument for why you pass a CR, or at least you try to get a clean slate, this is what they're saying, is that we need to make sure the president does not inherit President Trump, inherit a government shutdown, and that the president can get his initial policy agenda items like immigration passed in the first place.

00:05:43.000 That's not a stupid argument.

00:05:45.000 But what is indefensible, what is Just complete rubbish is the idea that you could not work through Christmas to get a better version of the budget.

00:06:00.000 And so it's everybody's favorite time of the year.

00:06:03.000 The House of Representatives yesterday, House of Representatives, rushed a 1,500-page spending bill.

00:06:13.000 Nobody has read, and nobody understands.

00:06:15.000 You know, something I really want clarity on is the logistics of this.

00:06:20.000 Who wrote this, and who has been writing this?

00:06:23.000 I want to meet that human being.

00:06:25.000 In what office are they housed?

00:06:26.000 I mean, 1,500 pages.

00:06:29.000 I mean, Blake helped with Right Wing Revolution.

00:06:31.000 I mean, that 1,500 pages is a lot.

00:06:35.000 That's a lot of writing.

00:06:37.000 Who's doing this?

00:06:38.000 Are they using AI? I think they're using CoPilot or ChatGPT.

00:06:43.000 Here's the other question.

00:06:44.000 Did ChatGPT write the continuing resolution?

00:06:47.000 The continuing resolution includes $100 billion in disaster relief and FEMA funding.

00:06:53.000 It includes a random revision to laws governing pharmacy benefit managers.

00:06:59.000 Now, maybe it's a good law, maybe it's not, but they're folding a massive spending bill instead of debating all of these things directly.

00:07:05.000 And again, I cannot reiterate this enough.

00:07:09.000 If you are a member of Congress and you are just trying to go home for Christmas while bankrupting future generations with trillions of dollars of unnecessary spending, that is a bad reason.

00:07:22.000 Okay, do a one-week CR. Do a one-week CR. Do a one-week CR and then keep on debating.

00:07:33.000 That's what CRs were designed in the first place.

00:07:36.000 CRs were always designed to give you an extra week to allow negotiations to keep going for two weeks.

00:07:45.000 The CR includes...

00:07:47.000 That the federal government must pay 100% of rebuilding the cost of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed.

00:07:55.000 Obviously, a ship collided with it in Maryland.

00:07:57.000 The bill gives control of the land containing the RFK Stadium in D.C. back to D.C. itself.

00:08:03.000 Why is that part of emergency spending bill?

00:08:05.000 I don't know.

00:08:06.000 Oh, and also, just to kind of stick the knife in and twist it.

00:08:10.000 This is the one that bothers me the most.

00:08:13.000 It raises Congress's pay.

00:08:17.000 To $243,000 a year.

00:08:21.000 It went up from $174,000 a year to $243,000 a year.

00:08:27.000 How many of you right now would love a pay increase of that magnitude?

00:08:34.000 Would love a $70,000 pay increase?

00:08:40.000 That's a big pay increase.

00:08:43.000 $174,000 to $243,000?

00:08:46.000 Chip Roy has called this a crap sandwich.

00:08:48.000 Eric Burleson says it's a dumpster fire.

00:08:50.000 Now look, I've been very busy at Mar-a-Lago, so I've been following all of these details.

00:08:54.000 Been in and out of stuff in Palm Beach.

00:08:57.000 I don't know how this mess subtly emerged in the last couple of days.

00:09:02.000 But trust me, even members of Congress are feeling blindsided in some way.

00:09:05.000 And again, I am all on the team.

00:09:08.000 I am Team Clean Slate.

00:09:11.000 The president must have a clean slate so that he is not inheriting Joe Biden's legislative problems.

00:09:17.000 I think that is smart.

00:09:19.000 I think that is justifiable.

00:09:23.000 However, this rush that we are going to force feed another CR is not defensible.

00:09:31.000 So instead, it should have been the following.

00:09:35.000 We're going to do a one-week continuing resolution or a two-week continuing resolution, and we're going to negotiate all through over Christmas.

00:09:43.000 We're going to do Christmas in Congress.

00:09:46.000 We're going to order a bunch of pizzas.

00:09:48.000 And as I mentioned last year during that same spending palooza that happened, how many of you in this audience that are nurses, police officers, that are working in urgent care, that are doctors, have worked on Christmas?

00:10:04.000 And yet Congress, it's like an incomprehensible reality that as a U.S. Senator or as a member of the House, that you must show up and work.

00:10:15.000 But they are increasing their pay by 28% from $174,000 a year to $243,000 a year.

00:10:24.000 So instead, what should have happened is they should have said, we're going to keep negotiating.

00:10:29.000 We're going to cut spending.

00:10:31.000 We're not going to just keep on doing business as usual.

00:10:33.000 And if you miss Christmas, well, the country is more important than that.

00:10:38.000 It just is.

00:10:41.000 But this is just more business as usual, and the taxpayers get hosed.

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00:11:57.000 Charlie, your team's math is wrong.

00:11:58.000 It's a 40% increase.

00:12:00.000 It is a 40% increase.

00:12:04.000 Not a 28% increase.

00:12:08.000 The working class of this country rose up in huge numbers.

00:12:15.000 And sent a message saying that we are working our tail off.

00:12:19.000 It is time that you start to take orders from us.

00:12:22.000 And instead of listening to the voters, this lame duck Congress is doing more of the same.

00:12:29.000 Here is Senator Richard Durbin from Illinois, one of The worst.

00:12:35.000 He is one of the worst.

00:12:38.000 Manu Raju is asking him about pay increases.

00:12:41.000 Play cut 52. Members are giving themselves a pay raise.

00:12:44.000 Do you guys deserve a pay raise?

00:12:46.000 Well, that's news to me.

00:12:48.000 It's good news.

00:12:49.000 You know, what has it been?

00:12:50.000 10 years or 14 years of no COLA? No change at all?

00:12:55.000 I think it's about time something's done.

00:12:57.000 You support giving yourself some payers?

00:12:59.000 How would I not know about the amount of payers?

00:13:01.000 But I mean, people look at the performance of Congress and say, why should we give them more money?

00:13:06.000 What about the media?

00:13:07.000 Think about that for a second.

00:13:08.000 We're not paid by public money.

00:13:10.000 I know you're not, but half of your listeners are not there anymore.

00:13:13.000 You're still getting the same paycheck?

00:13:14.000 What's going on?

00:13:15.000 Well, I mean, you're taxpayer money.

00:13:17.000 I mean, you guys deserve it, right?

00:13:20.000 I've not seen that.

00:13:21.000 That is excellent.

00:13:23.000 Here's the difference.

00:13:25.000 Well, it's not even a difference.

00:13:26.000 I mean, look, CNN wants to pay their executives $9 million a year.

00:13:30.000 They're a private corporation.

00:13:31.000 They have every right to be able to do that.

00:13:34.000 Dick Durbin is supposed to work for the people of Illinois.

00:13:37.000 He's supposed to be a public servant.

00:13:41.000 And Dick Durbin's a liar.

00:13:42.000 He knew this pay increase was coming.

00:13:44.000 That whole thing was a shtick.

00:13:45.000 That was all a bunch of BS. By the way, a state of Illinois that is in debt, losing population, is a laughingstock, and is an open war zone.

00:13:54.000 Dick Durbin says, oh, we haven't got our COLA, and we haven't gotten our pay increase.

00:13:59.000 And you wonder, Dick Durbin, why people hate you.

00:14:02.000 You wonder why there has been this populist revolt.

00:14:07.000 You wonder why the citizens have been rising up against the entrenched oligarchy.

00:14:13.000 Let's go to the CR right here.

00:14:15.000 Let's go to cut 53, please.

00:14:17.000 Well, I was communicating with Elon last night.

00:14:19.000 Elon and Vivek and I are on a text chain together.

00:14:21.000 And I was explaining to them the background of this.

00:14:24.000 They understand the situation.

00:14:25.000 They said, it's not directed to you, Mr. Speaker, but we don't like the spending.

00:14:28.000 I said, guess what, fellas?

00:14:29.000 I don't either.

00:14:30.000 We got to get this done because here's the key.

00:14:32.000 By doing this, we are clearing the decks and we are setting up for Trump to come in roaring back with the America First agenda.

00:14:39.000 And all of our fiscal conservative friends, I'm one of them, will be able to finally do the things that we have been wanting to do for the last couple years.

00:14:46.000 Right now, Democrats still control the pens. 0.91

00:14:49.000 And that's the problem.

00:14:50.000 So we got to get this thing done so we don't have the shutdown.

00:14:53.000 So we get the short term funding measure and we get to March where we can put our fingerprints on the spending.

00:15:00.000 That's when the big changes start and we can't wait to get there.

00:15:03.000 Right.

00:15:03.000 Okay, so let me first agree with the first part of what Speaker Johnson says, and then the rest I couldn't be more opposed.

00:15:12.000 He is right.

00:15:13.000 The agenda should be to give President Trump a clean slate.

00:15:17.000 President Trump should not inherit the Joe Biden legislative problems.

00:15:22.000 However, it's a little bit misleading, because you can still fight in this session.

00:15:27.000 That does not mean you have to capitulate or surrender.

00:15:31.000 So both those things can simultaneously be true.

00:15:34.000 While you're saying, we want to eventually clear the deck, you could say, hey, we're going to do a one-week government shutdown.

00:15:40.000 We're going to do a one-week government shutdown, and we are going to try to get some concessions.

00:15:45.000 We're going to try to get some spending cuts.

00:15:49.000 And we're going to take this week by week, and by the time the new Congress gets sworn in on January 3rd, then we will have a clean slate.

00:15:55.000 At least do some of the leverage that you have.

00:15:59.000 And also, work through Christmas.

00:16:02.000 Work through the Christmas season.

00:16:04.000 I cannot be more perplexed why the members of Congress feel as if they are immune from working weekends, working evenings, and working through Christmas.

00:16:17.000 So while, yes, we do want to make sure President Trump does not have poison pills of a government past, I also kind of just shrug my shoulders and say, okay, now March, I mean, if you had, you know,

00:16:33.000 it would be a very powerful timeline, is all the people in D.C., That have said, we just have to wait until September of 2022. We just have to wait until December of 2022. We have to wait until June of 2023. We have to wait until December of 2023. We have to wait until January of 2024. Oh, it's an election year.

00:16:52.000 We've got to punt through.

00:16:53.000 And if someone makes that sizzle reel, you could connect that back over a decade.

00:17:00.000 You are the most powerful office holder as a republic in the country.

00:17:04.000 I think it's time to start working like it.

00:17:07.000 And great nations should demand greatness of their leaders.

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00:18:12.000 Okay, joining us now is Mike Davis.

00:18:17.000 Mike, welcome to the program.

00:18:18.000 Mike, first, I want to get your reaction on the continuing resolution.

00:18:23.000 More of the same.

00:18:24.000 Your reaction, Mike Davis.

00:18:25.000 I would say this.

00:18:26.000 I think that we get frustrated every year that the reptiles won't drain the swamp.

00:18:34.000 The political branches won't drain their own swamp.

00:18:37.000 And I would say this, that we need to keep pushing them, and hopefully this gets better under a Trump administration.

00:18:44.000 But at the Article III project, we understand that our 20-year goal Is to have the federal judiciary, federal judges drain the swamp by looking at the Constitution and saying, I don't see, for example, this particular federal agency named in the Constitution, so why the hell does this agency exist?

00:19:04.000 I think that's the play over a 20-year period to dismantle the federal government through federal judges, our plumbers.

00:19:16.000 The CR is very frustrating to a lot of this audience.

00:19:21.000 You've worked a lot in the Senate and on legal counseling.

00:19:24.000 What specifically do you think needs to change in the Trump administration to make sure that we can disrupt the standard operating procedure here?

00:19:33.000 Well, I think what has to happen is you need to have your audience, and maybe we can team up on this, is just light up their elected members of the House and Senate and hold them accountable every step of the way during the appropriations process.

00:19:50.000 Because these politicians in D.C. are always going to go with the lobbyist and the special interest in D.C. unless and until they hear from their constituents back home.

00:20:03.000 We did this with Ketanji Brown, Jackson's confirmation to the Supreme Court.

00:20:07.000 She almost got 10 Republican votes and ended up where she got three and they ran out of town. 0.95

00:20:12.000 We're doing this now with these cabinet picks with Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth.

00:20:18.000 They said they were dead on arrival And then three days later, after we got Americans to call their home state senators and light them up, they went from dead on arrival to, when can we start?

00:20:28.000 We need to do that same grassroots movement on government spending.

00:20:34.000 Every step of the appropriations process to hold these politicians accountable and then make them understand, if you go with the DC politicians, If you go with the D.C. lobbyist, the special interest, instead of your constituents back home, we're going to make your lives hell.

00:20:51.000 Mike, let's now talk about what is the breaking news with Juan Mershon yesterday involving the president.

00:20:55.000 Well, Juan Bershon seems to think he can just disregard the Supreme Court's monumental presidential immunity decision back in June, where the Supreme Court correctly held that the president, any president, is immune from criminal prosecution for their official acts, not their personal misconduct, their official acts.

00:21:16.000 And part of that ruling was very clear.

00:21:19.000 Not only can you not charge a president for his official acts You can't take evidence from his presidency.

00:21:28.000 You cannot have evidence come in, for example, of Deputy Chief of Staff Hope Hicks or Deputy Chief of Staff Madeline, I can't remember her last name, where Alvin Bragg and this Judge Juan Mershon allowed in this testimony over Trump's objection.

00:21:47.000 And now they're saying, oh, that evidence...

00:21:51.000 Didn't really matter.

00:21:52.000 It was cumulative.

00:21:53.000 It was harmless.

00:21:54.000 That's nonsense.

00:21:55.000 This Judge Juan Mershon directly violated the Supreme Court's presidential immunity decision.

00:22:03.000 He's going to get reversed on appeal, no question.

00:22:07.000 This case needs to be kicked because of mistrial.

00:22:12.000 And I would say this.

00:22:13.000 This judge is corrupt.

00:22:15.000 He's clearly corrupt.

00:22:16.000 His adult daughter, Lauren Michonne, is a Democrat consultant and fundraiser.

00:22:22.000 She's making money off of this case. 1.00

00:22:25.000 Judge Michonne should have recused from this case, and he's corruptly moving forward and not recusing.

00:22:32.000 Even though a former Clinton judge went on Caitlin Collins' show on CNN on April 5th, And said he had to recuse under New York statute.

00:22:41.000 This guy is corrupt.

00:22:43.000 He must be held accountable by the Trump 47 Justice Department.

00:22:48.000 So can I just ask kind of the verboten question?

00:22:52.000 That since this case was not dismissed on the immunity charge, is there a chance that President Trump gets sentenced while president?

00:23:01.000 That's the problem, Charlie, is that they want this sword of Damocles over President Trump's head for the entire four years of his second term.

00:23:11.000 So, for example, maybe he wants to cut funding for illegal immigrants in New York City.

00:23:17.000 And so what does Alvin Bragg do?

00:23:20.000 What does Judge Juan Mershon do?

00:23:22.000 Then they drop this sword on Trump's head and cut off his head and say that he's going to go to sentence.

00:23:27.000 This is going to create a constitutional crisis.

00:23:31.000 Have a president of the United States held hostage by a corrupt prosecutor and a corrupt judge.

00:23:39.000 There's no question that the Supreme Court of the United States is going to step in and stop this.

00:23:45.000 And I would urge Trump's team to move forward very quickly.

00:23:50.000 Yeah, I just, what would that look like?

00:23:52.000 I just, I need to speculate a little bit with you here, Mike, which is a sitting president that might have to serve jail time in a New York courthouse.

00:24:01.000 Are we even having this conversation right now?

00:24:03.000 Well, I think they understand that they couldn't go arrest, they couldn't go arrest him while he's president and put him in Rikers Island.

00:24:11.000 I hope they're not crazy enough to try to do that.

00:24:14.000 I mean, these people are insane.

00:24:14.000 They might.

00:24:15.000 Well, I mean, you might have a shootout with the Secret Service if they tried to do that, because it's clearly illegal if they tried to do that.

00:24:23.000 But I would say this.

00:24:24.000 Do you want President Trump worried his entire four-year term that he has to be a good boy and Alvin Bragg's mind and Juan Murchant's mind otherwise— He could face Rikers Island at the end of his presidency.

00:24:37.000 That's not how our system works.

00:24:39.000 I think that even John Roberts, who wrote a very good decision with the presidential immunity decision, understands this is so much bigger than Donald Trump or any one president.

00:24:51.000 This is about the presidency, and you can't have corrupt local prosecutors hijacking the presidency with the threat of putting a president in prison.

00:25:02.000 So, again, the incoming Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Associated U.S. Attorneys, let's take Fannie Willis, let's take some of these out-of-control prosecutors. 1.00

00:25:15.000 We're not trying to indulge in the spirit of retribution.

00:25:19.000 That's not what we're talking about here.

00:25:20.000 We're talking about fairness and justice.

00:25:23.000 Walk me through the criminal code, Mike, of what they could potentially be held accountable for.

00:25:29.000 I would say the clearest Federal crime is 18 U.S.C. Section 241, Conspiracy Against Rights.

00:25:39.000 When you politicize and weaponize intel agencies and law enforcement at every level, federal, state, and local, to go after your political enemies for non-crimes, that is the very definition of a criminal conspiracy against rights.

00:25:55.000 And what I would strongly urge the Trump 47 Justice Department to do is open a criminal probe in Fort Pierce, Florida, where they did the Mar-a-Lago raid, have a special grand jury come in and do this investigation, do this grand jury investigation.

00:26:12.000 And if there is probable cause that these Democrats, lawyers, and prosecutors, and agents, and operatives, and even judges like Juan Mershon, and prosecutors and agents and operatives and even judges like Juan Mershon worked together to violate the constitutional rights of President Trump or his top aides like Steve Bannon and Peter DeVarro, who went to prison or his supporters on January 6th, who were politically persecuted, who went to prison or his supporters on January 6th, who were politically persecuted, according to the Supreme Court's

00:26:41.000 I think that there needs to be an indictment brought, and I would recommend that indictment be brought in Fort Pierce, Florida for conspiracy against rights.

00:26:49.000 And if they've done nothing wrong, why are they seeking preemptive pardons now?

00:26:54.000 And if a grand jury indicts, that means there's obviously probable cause.

00:26:59.000 They've committed a crime and nobody's above the law, so they should probably lawyer up.

00:27:04.000 Those are all the things that they told our side during the four years of Biden's lawfare against President Trump for non-crimes.

00:27:12.000 I think that we need to bring justice and accountability for real crimes so this never happens again.

00:27:18.000 Mike, am I correct in my recollection here that conspiracy against rights is what they use to put Douglas Mackey in the criminal justice?

00:27:27.000 I want to say behind bars because he hasn't been sentenced yet, but is that correct?

00:27:30.000 I believe so, Charlie, and it was also one of the charges that Jack Smith brought against President Trump with one of his four charges in the D.C. January 6th case for the non-crime of objecting to a presidential election.

00:27:43.000 So Jack Smith And Jay Bratt and the rest of Jack Smith's special counsel team is very, very well aware of 18 U.S.C. Section 241. And frankly, it sounds like they may have participated in their own conspiracy against rights when they politicized and weaponized our federal intel agencies and law enforcement to go after Trump.

00:28:07.000 His top aides, his supporters.

00:28:09.000 It sounds like a very serious federal civil rights felony.

00:28:14.000 I think it's up to 10 years in prison under 18 U.S.C. Section 241. And so, you know, I'd be worried if I were them.

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00:29:27.000 So Mike Davis, we have four minutes here, and this is more of a personnel fun conversation.

00:29:32.000 You are ready to jump to the screen.

00:29:34.000 Mike, the floor is yours.

00:29:35.000 Pam Bondi is an outstanding pick.

00:29:38.000 By President Trump to lead the Justice Department.

00:29:38.000 I agree.

00:29:42.000 She was an Attorney General of Florida for eight years.

00:29:45.000 She's going to bring an outsider perspective, a reform perspective to the Justice Department. 0.97

00:29:51.000 Todd Blanche is the pick to be Deputy Attorney General.

00:29:55.000 He was a longtime federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, a big firm lawyer who gave up his big firm practice to go represent Trump during this law fair.

00:30:06.000 So this guy has bled for President Trump.

00:30:09.000 So is Emma Boeve.

00:30:10.000 His deputy, John Sauer, is going to be the solicitor general.

00:30:14.000 John Sauer was President Trump's attorney who won a monumental case in the Supreme Court, the presidential immunity case, and was really the intellectual force behind President Trump winning this law fair through the legal effort.

00:30:30.000 He's going to be a great solicitor general.

00:30:33.000 And then you also have to look at, Charlie, the key offices.

00:30:37.000 The key offices to make sure that this lawfare never happens again.

00:30:40.000 Again, you have Cash Patel at the FBI, a former federal defender, a former national security attorney.

00:30:48.000 He worked for the Obama Justice Department, got awards.

00:30:51.000 He worked on the House Intel Committee as a senior lawyer, Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

00:31:01.000 Cash was a deputy.

00:31:03.000 He was the chief of staff at the Pentagon.

00:31:05.000 He worked at the NSC.

00:31:06.000 He's going to go into the FBI and bring serious reforms to the FBI.

00:31:10.000 And then we need someone very good to serve as the U.S. attorney in D.C.

00:31:16.000 Get rid of Matthew Graves, this left-wing hack who has politicized and weaponized that entire office to go after people who trespassed and took selfies on January 6th while he gives amnesty to the much more deadly and destructive BLM and Antifa writers.

00:31:33.000 There is...

00:31:34.000 President Trump ran on this law fair, ran on this election interference.

00:31:39.000 He won in a landslide.

00:31:40.000 He has a mandate for serious reforms to the intel agencies and the justice departments.

00:31:47.000 And so I would say to these people who ran this law fair against Trump, lawyer up, because justice is coming.

00:31:56.000 The U.S. attorney situation, does the president have the authority to fire all U.S. attorneys?

00:32:02.000 And since U.S. attorneys have to be confirmed by the Senate, who actually runs the U.S. attorney offices in the interim?

00:32:09.000 Yeah, so the president, as the head of the executive branch, has the constitutional authority to hire and fire any executive branch employee he wants, including the FBI director, including U.S. attorneys.

00:32:22.000 President Trump, through his attorney general, can appoint interim or acting U.S. attorneys while the president's nominees are going through the process.

00:32:32.000 Back in the states, the home state senators have a veto through this stupid thing called the blue slip that we've had for over 100 years.

00:32:40.000 But in D.C., there aren't senators.

00:32:42.000 And so the president should nominate someone who he wants and the Senate should confirm that person quickly so we can clean out the rat's nest called the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office.

00:32:55.000 Last thing, Mike, remember last time in 2017, the acting director was Sally Yates, am I correct?

00:33:02.000 Is that my memory?

00:33:04.000 Am I right?

00:33:05.000 How can the Trump team prevent an acting director in the Department of Justice that might do something goofy in Trump's first couple minutes or hours of the presidency?

00:33:15.000 30 seconds.

00:33:16.000 So M.O. Bove will be the principal deputy associate, excuse me, the principal associate deputy attorney general.

00:33:24.000 He's the number two to the number two.

00:33:26.000 He'll go in and he'll serve the functions of the deputy attorney general and he'll be essentially the acting attorney general on day one.

00:33:36.000 Mike Davis, God bless you, man.

00:33:37.000 Thank you so much.

00:33:38.000 Excellent.

00:33:39.000 Really good.

00:33:39.000 Thank you.

00:33:40.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:33:41.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:33:44.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - December 18, 2024

What's a "CR," and Why is This One So Bad?

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