The Charlie Kirk Show - January 13, 2023


What's The Matter With The Senate? with Rick Scott and Byron Donalds


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Sen. Rick Scott (R-Florida) and Rep. Byron Deutch (D-GA) join me to discuss the mid-term elections, the midterms, and the future of the Republican Party in Congress.

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00:00:01.000 Senator Rick Scott and Congressman Byron Donalds.
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00:01:04.000 Joining us now is Senator Scott from Florida.
00:01:07.000 We are thankful he's making time for us.
00:01:10.000 I know he is busy doing many things, but unfortunately, he's not busy in D.C. because the Senate, I don't think, is working as hard as they should be.
00:01:17.000 And I think Senator Scott will agree.
00:01:18.000 Senator, welcome to the program.
00:01:20.000 Charlie, it's always great to be with you.
00:01:21.000 I'm traveling in the state.
00:01:22.000 I've been traveling for the last two weeks.
00:01:26.000 I've been talking about the things we're trying to get done to make Washington actually work for Americans.
00:01:31.000 And then this afternoon, I'm going to go up and tour some of what we're trying to do to help the hurricane victims up after Ian.
00:01:38.000 I'm going to be up in Fort Myers in a little bit.
00:01:40.000 Well, glad you were able to make time and love the beautiful state of Florida.
00:01:44.000 So let's just kind of get your thoughts on the midterms in general.
00:01:48.000 I was very underwhelmed, obviously, by certain results.
00:01:52.000 And you've made a public, let's say, challenge or disagreement with current Senate leadership and their appropriation of funds.
00:02:01.000 Let's play your new advertisement, actually, which I think is terrific.
00:02:04.000 Let's play CUT 66.
00:02:06.000 People told me not to run for Republican leader against Mitch McConnell.
00:02:10.000 They said I wouldn't win.
00:02:11.000 I knew it was going to be hard, but we got to start somewhere.
00:02:16.000 Look, we're on the road to woke socialism, and Republicans are just a speed bump.
00:02:21.000 We can't keep doing the same old thing.
00:02:24.000 It's time for Republicans to be bold, speak the truth, and stop caving in.
00:02:29.000 Help us change our party.
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00:02:33.000 I'm Rick Scott.
00:02:34.000 I've proved this message.
00:02:36.000 So, Senator, I believe that ad is recent.
00:02:39.000 And so, tell us about that.
00:02:41.000 You're doubling down.
00:02:42.000 I think that Mitch McConnell has got to go, and he has done some real damage to our country.
00:02:47.000 The omnibus is just the latest example.
00:02:50.000 Walk us through your current plans, your calculus, and what do you think is the state of Senate Republican leadership?
00:02:57.000 Well, I ran against Republican.
00:02:59.000 I ran against Mitch McConnell because I think we have to have a new direction.
00:03:03.000 I mean, probably one of the best examples is this omnibus.
00:03:06.000 We're two weeks away from having Republican leadership in the House, and we let Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer write an ominous bill, and then Mitch McConnell supports it, votes for it.
00:03:20.000 And that's wrong.
00:03:22.000 I mean, that's not, I mean, we didn't get rid of the IRS agents with it.
00:03:26.000 I mean, there's nothing.
00:03:28.000 I mean, there's good spending, probably.
00:03:29.000 There's something good probably in the bill that was logical.
00:03:33.000 But, you know, we've got $31.5 trillion worth of debt.
00:03:36.000 It hadn't didn't have Republican priorities, had Democrat priorities in there.
00:03:40.000 And so I wanted a new direction.
00:03:42.000 And I'm going to keep fighting for a new direction.
00:03:46.000 We've got a great Republican Party out around the country.
00:03:49.000 We ought to start having the Republican Party in D.C., which we don't.
00:03:52.000 Stop caving into the Democrats.
00:03:54.000 I mean, the China bill, the gun bill, the infrastructure bill.
00:03:59.000 All those were just caves to Democrats.
00:04:02.000 It wasn't Republican priorities.
00:04:03.000 Those were Democrat priorities.
00:04:05.000 And I think we've got to change this party.
00:04:08.000 If we want to win elections, we've got to say, don't just do what some people want to do and say, well, the Democrats are bad, which they are.
00:04:15.000 We've got to say, but this is what we're going to do, and we're hell-bent on doing it.
00:04:20.000 So I think what happened in the House with the, you know, the fight over leadership is that, you know, there's a lot of House members that said, you know, we've got to change the direction in how we're governing.
00:04:30.000 And I want to do the same thing in the Senate.
00:04:32.000 We're going to.
00:04:32.000 I'm not giving up.
00:04:34.000 And there's a lot of us that are going to fight, I think.
00:04:37.000 Yeah, we're starting to see some hustle and bustle out of the House of Representatives recently.
00:04:41.000 And we're starting to see some results and really putting together strong committees and repealing the 87,000 IRS agents.
00:04:49.000 What I hear from the grassroots, though, Senator, what I hear from the small dollar donors and the activists is a fair amount of cynicism about Mitch McConnell and the senators.
00:05:00.000 Can you just walk me through?
00:05:02.000 And I know you have to be careful and respectful with this, but what the heck are your colleagues thinking re-electing Mitch McConnell as leader?
00:05:09.000 I don't understand it at all.
00:05:11.000 And our audience certainly doesn't.
00:05:13.000 I don't either.
00:05:16.000 I think here's the way I think leadership goes.
00:05:18.000 I'm a business guy.
00:05:20.000 And what you do is you come up with your business plan, and then you say, for this business plan, who would be the right person to execute it?
00:05:28.000 That's how you do business.
00:05:30.000 And so, and you hire people that way.
00:05:32.000 Well, what we should do is we should hire a leader, a Republican leader in the Senate, to implement the policies that we believe in.
00:05:41.000 If we want to balance the budget, it would be hard.
00:05:44.000 So what?
00:05:45.000 We ought to have a leader that's committed to balancing the budget.
00:05:48.000 Say we don't want to keep caving into the Democrats.
00:05:52.000 And let's say, well, who wouldn't do that?
00:05:55.000 And so that's the way you have to think about it.
00:05:57.000 Right now, what we've got is Mitch McConnell.
00:06:02.000 He keeps caving in to the Democrats.
00:06:05.000 I mean, the infrastructure bill had very little to do with infrastructure.
00:06:09.000 I mean, it spent, I think, new dollars for roads, bridges, and airports and seaports.
00:06:14.000 What I spent per year in Florida, and that was for the whole country.
00:06:18.000 But it was a Green New Deal.
00:06:20.000 And then you saw, you know, you saw Mitch McConnell go basically have a campaign event with Joe Biden on the infrastructure bill, which most of us vote against.
00:06:32.000 I mean, we voted against it.
00:06:33.000 We knew it's a bad bill.
00:06:35.000 It doesn't make any sense to me.
00:06:36.000 And it's disappointing.
00:06:37.000 But here's what I believe.
00:06:39.000 I believe the Republican Party around the country is going to demand we change.
00:06:45.000 I think we've elected some new senators.
00:06:48.000 Hopefully they're going to say, I just got off the campaign trail.
00:06:51.000 This is what people are telling me.
00:06:52.000 And if they do, they're going to say, we want accountability in government.
00:06:58.000 We want a balanced budget.
00:06:59.000 We want a strong military.
00:07:01.000 We don't want wokeism.
00:07:04.000 And then so that's what we have to do.
00:07:07.000 Stop caving in.
00:07:08.000 People are mad that Republicans cave in to the Democrats.
00:07:12.000 I hear it all the time.
00:07:13.000 People are mad.
00:07:15.000 We're very mad.
00:07:15.000 And they should be.
00:07:16.000 Yes.
00:07:18.000 I mean, we should be.
00:07:19.000 I mean, I tell people, you go campaign on something, govern like that.
00:07:24.000 Don't hope people don't look at what you vote.
00:07:26.000 Brag about your votes.
00:07:28.000 If you can't explain your vote, that's not the public's problem.
00:07:31.000 That's your problem.
00:07:34.000 I completely agree.
00:07:36.000 And so what is then your plan?
00:07:38.000 Because you're not giving up to build a consensus amongst members and amongst the grassroots to challenge McConnell again.
00:07:48.000 And I don't even mean the policy plan, Senator.
00:07:50.000 What is your plan to be able to navigate that country club that calls itself the U.S. Senate so that you could become Senate leader from raising money or to messaging?
00:08:04.000 Is that something you're still going to go after in the next year and a half, two years?
00:08:09.000 Or what is your current blueprint?
00:08:12.000 Absolutely.
00:08:12.000 I'm not giving up.
00:08:13.000 Good.
00:08:13.000 Charlie, I'm not giving up.
00:08:15.000 But here's the way I think about the Senate.
00:08:18.000 So I meet every Tuesday we're in session with Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, Mike Braun.
00:08:30.000 All right.
00:08:30.000 We get together and we say, what are we going to do to make sure that we hold government accountable?
00:08:36.000 Watch our dollars.
00:08:38.000 And so there'll be more as we do this more and more.
00:08:41.000 There's going to be more.
00:08:42.000 But you know what the real key is?
00:08:44.000 It's you.
00:08:45.000 It's the public that are going to demand their senators to do what they committed to them when they ran for office.
00:08:53.000 Look, I'm simply a reflection of my state.
00:08:59.000 Right?
00:09:00.000 So I represent, I tell people, I represent Florida.
00:09:03.000 Look, I'm not going to tell you how you should vote.
00:09:06.000 Floridians voted for me on a platform.
00:09:08.000 I said, this is what I'm going to do.
00:09:10.000 They had eight years to watch me as governor.
00:09:13.000 I paid off a third of the state debt.
00:09:15.000 Paid it off.
00:09:16.000 I balanced a budget every year.
00:09:17.000 I didn't borrow more money.
00:09:19.000 I fixed the pension plan.
00:09:20.000 I fixed our property insurance plan.
00:09:23.000 I said, this is what I'm going to do in D.C. I'm going to try to do the exact same thing.
00:09:27.000 I'm a business guy.
00:09:29.000 I'm a fixer-upper.
00:09:30.000 I go find problems and I fix them.
00:09:32.000 If you want somebody that's just going to go have lunch with people, I'm not your guy.
00:09:38.000 Don't hire me. 0.57
00:09:38.000 When you vote for me, you're hiring me. 0.57
00:09:42.000 I completely agree.
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00:10:47.000 So, Senator Scott, how are you going to navigate now being in the Senate minority?
00:10:51.000 What power, if any, do you have to be able to issue subpoenas and have meaningful oversight be done?
00:10:58.000 I think the biggest thing we do is we each have a pulpit, and we can talk about things.
00:11:03.000 That's why I think what's going on in the House right now is you're starting to see a lot of people are out there being vocals.
00:11:09.000 That's the biggest thing.
00:11:10.000 And I put out my plan at rescueamerica.com.
00:11:13.000 I think everybody ought to say, this is what I believe in, and let's fight over what the right answer is.
00:11:18.000 That's one.
00:11:19.000 Number two is we won't be able to, you know, the way the committee structure works, the Democrats will control the committees.
00:11:25.000 But if the public demands that we really have better understanding of what, you know, Joe Biden and Hunter Biden's relationship was with China, then Democrats are going to have to do it.
00:11:36.000 So I think the key is we need to get out there, talk about the issues, and put the Democrats in position.
00:11:43.000 You know, there's going to be, I think, what, 24 Democrats up this next cycle.
00:11:47.000 They're going to have to start worrying about their election.
00:11:50.000 So I think we have to be constantly out there.
00:11:52.000 So I can propose bills.
00:11:54.000 I can push things on committees.
00:11:56.000 I can ask the federal government for more accountability.
00:12:00.000 So like yesterday, I talked to Secretary Mayorkus on Homeland Security about, I mean, the 400% increase in migrants in the Florida Keys.
00:12:09.000 Now, I'm going to be very vocal that it's his job to fix this.
00:12:13.000 I mean, I think he has misrepresented or lied, whatever you want to call it, where we are on the border, but I'm going to hold him accountable.
00:12:22.000 He'll be coming to talk in front of committees, and I'm going to ask him how he's doing.
00:12:27.000 And I'm going to do that with everybody.
00:12:28.000 That's what every senator has the option to do this.
00:12:31.000 We just all have to be very aggressive at doing it.
00:12:33.000 Yeah, I hope that there is some ability to be able to use the power there.
00:12:38.000 And this is Senator, the Senate is supposed to be able to block bills because of the filibuster. 0.98
00:12:43.000 And then Republicans willingly go along with the omnibus, right?
00:12:47.000 And it just makes a lot of people throw up their hands.
00:12:50.000 Please continue.
00:12:51.000 Sorry.
00:12:52.000 Charlie, it's up to us, though, right?
00:12:55.000 It's up to us to demand that our senators represent our states and don't do that.
00:13:02.000 Here's the thing, think about it.
00:13:03.000 We're going to have, you know, Mitch McConnell blinked on the debt ceiling.
00:13:09.000 The debt ceiling is going to come up again.
00:13:12.000 We all committed.
00:13:13.000 Every Republican senator committed, right, we would not vote to raise a debt ceiling without either reducing our expenses or having structural change, which will force that in the future.
00:13:24.000 Then, of course, some of them did.
00:13:27.000 So we just got to be out there.
00:13:29.000 All of us have to be out there vocal and say, that is wrong.
00:13:33.000 You are not representing me when you do that.
00:13:36.000 And so I think if we do the right things are going to happen.
00:13:38.000 I think the House is going to be a good partner.
00:13:40.000 I'm optimistic that the House is going to start holding people accountable and they'll give us the opportunity to work out.
00:13:47.000 Yeah, so Senator, I mean, now that the House has passed new rules, in some ways, it almost has a overflow effect, right?
00:13:53.000 That you guys now have to kind of live by the House rules.
00:13:55.000 Is that fair to say?
00:13:57.000 Absolutely.
00:13:58.000 And they're going to send bills over, right?
00:14:00.000 And you're right.
00:14:02.000 As long as we stick together and don't give the nine votes they need to pass legislation, right, then we have power.
00:14:11.000 Use it.
00:14:12.000 Use it to do what we govern on.
00:14:15.000 Use it to make this country a better place.
00:14:17.000 Use it to balance the budget.
00:14:19.000 Use it to pay down debt.
00:14:20.000 Use it to have a strong military, strong schools, reduce crime, the things that Americans care about.
00:14:26.000 We've got to use the power and our obligation.
00:14:29.000 I got elected to do these things.
00:14:32.000 We all did.
00:14:33.000 Republicans got elected on a fiscal responsibility platform.
00:14:37.000 We all did.
00:14:38.000 I don't know.
00:14:39.000 One Republican went out there and said, you know, I'm for bigger taxes and bigger government and got elected.
00:14:43.000 So do what we said we're going to do.
00:14:46.000 I'm going to do everything I can.
00:14:47.000 And I know there's other, I've got, you know, I know Mike Lee will, Ted Cruz will, Ron Johnson will, Mike Braun will, and I hope others will.
00:14:54.000 Yeah, and I just think that finally we are in a place now where because the House is not able to do that, for example, if the if McConnell goes to Schumer and they say they want to do this big bill, they're now going to have to say, well, we can't send it to the House because they have their own rules.
00:15:07.000 Now, of course, spending bills have to originate in the House, but sometimes the Senate is able to negotiate first.
00:15:12.000 And so this is now going to change the entire negotiation process.
00:15:16.000 It should.
00:15:16.000 But just think about the omnibus.
00:15:18.000 They started the omnibus in the Senate.
00:15:20.000 They didn't follow the rules.
00:15:22.000 Yep.
00:15:22.000 They just make up their money.
00:15:25.000 All right.
00:15:26.000 Well, Senator I.
00:15:27.000 Oh, but I'm optimistic, Charlie.
00:15:28.000 Yeah, well, thank you, Senator, for your courage, and I pray that you can become Senate majority leader one day.
00:15:33.000 We should be in the majority of the Senate.
00:15:35.000 It's ridiculous that we're not.
00:15:36.000 Adam Laxalt should have won, but Mitch McConnell was too busy spending, what, $8 million on Lisa Murkowski and sending money on a primary in New Hampshire.
00:15:43.000 But you've deployed your money from your super PAC, I think, prudently, Senator, and I want to compliment you for that.
00:15:48.000 Senator, thank you for joining the show.
00:15:50.000 Appreciate it.
00:15:50.000 Hey, Charlie, take care.
00:15:51.000 Have a good day.
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00:16:57.000 Merrick Garland has now named a special counsel to investigate Joe Biden's document handlings, play cut 89.
00:17:06.000 On January 5th, 2023, Mr. Lausch briefed me on the results of his initial investigation and advised me that further investigation by a special counsel was warranted.
00:17:17.000 Based on Mr. Lausch's initial investigation, I concluded that under the special counsel regulations, it was in the public interest to appoint a special counsel.
00:17:28.000 In the days since, while Mr. Lausch continued the investigation, the department identified Mr. Hur for appointment as special counsel.
00:17:37.000 This morning, President Biden's personal counsel called Mr. Lausch and stated that an additional document bearing classification markings was identified at the president's personal residence in Wilmington, Delaware.
00:17:49.000 This is a shadow government pincer movement.
00:17:51.000 You have two simultaneous, allegedly independent counsels both going after a former president and a current president for different reasons.
00:17:58.000 Donald Trump, the obvious one, we don't have to belabor the point.
00:18:01.000 For Joe Biden, though, Joe Biden, because of his unpopularity and because of the risk that Joe Biden introduces into the 2024 election cycle, it's no guarantee that he would win again or win again, go get into office again.
00:18:13.000 Let me put it that way.
00:18:14.000 Let me be precise with our language.
00:18:16.000 They need to do a pincer movement.
00:18:17.000 And so Attorney General Garland is greenlighting this, trying to act as if the Department of Justice is fair and impartial.
00:18:24.000 And this is also because Republicans now control the House of Representatives and there at least is a threat of some form of a check and balance.
00:18:33.000 This also is not great news for Donald Trump.
00:18:38.000 The fact that they are putting a special counsel, this is what's going to happen.
00:18:41.000 This special counsel will likely vindicate Joe Biden, like, oh, okay, kind of like Hillary Clinton.
00:18:48.000 She didn't store her emails correctly, but we're not going to indict her.
00:18:51.000 But the special counsel into Trump is almost assuredly going to indict Donald Trump and or the Fulton County investigation in Georgia.
00:19:00.000 They need to try to keep up some form of an appearance, some sort of an aesthetic that they are impartial and that they are fair.
00:19:10.000 This is not about Joe Biden's crimes and all of that.
00:19:14.000 There's plenty there.
00:19:15.000 This is about removing someone who is a threat to the regime because he might not win.
00:19:23.000 And air quotes again.
00:19:24.000 Joining us now is Congressman Byron Donalds.
00:19:28.000 Congressman, welcome to the program.
00:19:30.000 You were one of the holdouts last week.
00:19:33.000 And it looks like since Speaker McCarthy has become Speaker McCarthy, the pace has been extraordinary.
00:19:38.000 Swawal off committees, Elon Omar off committee, Adam Schiff off committee, anti-CCP committee, the church committee.
00:19:46.000 Are you guys able to keep up this pace?
00:19:48.000 Yeah, we are because that's just the investigative stuff and there's going to be more to come.
00:19:52.000 But we haven't even gotten into border policy, energy policy, financial services policy, capital markets.
00:19:59.000 What we're going to have to start thinking through about tax policy as the tax, as the Trump tax cuts are going to expire in a couple of years, there's a lot of work to be done.
00:20:07.000 The country has been neglected for far too long.
00:20:09.000 And House Republicans, we're committed to that work.
00:20:12.000 Yeah.
00:20:12.000 And so what obviously not having the Senate is a barrier in some sense, but walk our audience through some of the rule changes that you were able to broker last week.
00:20:23.000 Well, a couple of things.
00:20:24.000 Everybody's been talking about the motion to vacate.
00:20:26.000 That's one.
00:20:27.000 I think it's important for people to understand that for more than 100 years, any member of the House of Representatives could have went to the floor and called for a motion to vacate the chair.
00:20:38.000 Anyone member, Republican or Democrat, didn't matter.
00:20:41.000 Nancy Pelosi is the one who changed the rules. 0.97
00:20:43.000 She's the one that said, no, I don't want this rule when she was speaker. 0.95
00:20:47.000 And so we were saying, well, look, we shouldn't be following Nancy's rules.
00:20:50.000 Let's get back to the rules of the people's body.
00:20:52.000 That's what we did.
00:20:53.000 That's one.
00:20:54.000 Second one is on germaneness and single subjects.
00:20:57.000 We put it in there, and it's actually very clear language that was refined and beefed up to make sure that what we're doing here is a bill that if the bill is about spending in the Defense Department, it is about spending in the Defense Department.
00:21:10.000 If it's about a post office, it's about a post office.
00:21:13.000 But what happens too often, the omnibus package is indicative.
00:21:17.000 That was a coin bill.
00:21:18.000 The Senate basically opened up a coin bill and dumped in $1.7 trillion in spending.
00:21:24.000 That is not going to be allowed in the House of Representatives.
00:21:26.000 The Senate can pass whatever they want, but they've been put on notice.
00:21:29.000 If you do that, Mess and you send it here, it's going to be out of order.
00:21:32.000 That's number two.
00:21:33.000 Number three, the weaponization of the federal government, a church committee that was announced.
00:21:38.000 Part of the negotiations was making sure that that church committee could have all of the teeth necessary to be effective.
00:21:47.000 We don't want to get into the business of just doing dog and pony shows.
00:21:51.000 If we're going to do something, we want it to be effective.
00:21:53.000 So that was part of the process there.
00:21:56.000 Then the other piece was just making sure that every part of the conference was reflected in terms of their political viewpoints on all committees.
00:22:05.000 That way, whether you're talking about budget, you're talking about energy and commerce, appropriations, and so on and so forth, that there are people who are more moderate in their leaning and more conservative in their leanings at the table going through this policy that affects the American people.
00:22:22.000 And so what committees are you personally going to be on?
00:22:22.000 Yeah.
00:22:26.000 Do you know that yet or is that still being decided?
00:22:29.000 So actually yesterday I was appointed to the Financial Services Committee.
00:22:33.000 On a personal note, financial services is actually how I got into politics.
00:22:37.000 That's going back to 2008.
00:22:39.000 I remember watching that committee when they were going over Dodd-Frank and all that stuff.
00:22:43.000 And I just thought that they had no idea what they were doing.
00:22:46.000 Still don't think they had any idea that they knew what they were doing.
00:22:49.000 But it's what got me, it's, you know, it's got me interested in politics.
00:22:52.000 So, you know, we've now come full circle, I guess.
00:22:55.000 So I'm going to be serving on that committee.
00:22:57.000 And then there's still a potential I'll serve on oversight in this Congress as well.
00:23:01.000 You are a finance professional.
00:23:02.000 Joy Reed is not.
00:23:04.000 First, I want to compliment you for going on Joy Reed.
00:23:06.000 You significantly boosted her show, which is miserable to watch.
00:23:12.000 I think that it's torture, but good for you for doing that.
00:23:15.000 Let's play cut 70 because Joy Reed, let's just let the tape speak for itself.
00:23:20.000 Play Cut 70.
00:23:21.000 Do you know that Social Security is going to be insolvent in 2020?
00:23:25.000 It is not Cut.
00:23:25.000 That is not true.
00:23:26.000 That's actually not true.
00:23:27.000 No, it's actually not true.
00:23:29.000 It's actually not true.
00:23:30.000 It's actually not true.
00:23:33.000 That's actually not true.
00:23:34.000 That's actually true.
00:23:35.000 You'll go insolvent.
00:23:35.000 That's actually not true.
00:23:36.000 Those are the facts.
00:23:37.000 That's not true.
00:23:37.000 Should we not?
00:23:38.000 That is not true.
00:23:39.000 Congressman, you're right.
00:23:40.000 Elaborate.
00:23:43.000 Well, first of all, listening to the clip, I didn't realize that they boomed, they boomed her mic over mine.
00:23:47.000 Of course.
00:23:48.000 It was effectively cutting me off, but that's another point.
00:23:50.000 Oh, listen, the Congressional Budget Office, the Office of Management and Budget, the Congressional Research Service have all said that Social Security is going to go insolvent in 2035 or maybe sooner.
00:24:02.000 One of the things that has impacted Social Security in a negative way is the fact that during the COVID lockdowns, there just weren't payroll taxes going into the system in order to pay Social Security benefits.
00:24:13.000 So we are going to have to take a look at that at some point in the future, and we can do that in a responsible way.
00:24:19.000 But make no mistakes, it's going to be insolvent.
00:24:22.000 My view is, is that we need to sit down and start to have plans about how to address it, where you are taking care of the current retirees who will be able to get their payments that they were promised and will continue to be able to deliver that while at the same time making the necessary adjustments for future Americans so that if they still want to take advantage of Social Security in the future, that it's there for them as well.
00:24:46.000 That's what we're talking about.
00:24:47.000 But to put your head in the sand and say it's not insolvent, it's not going insolvent, then you're lying to yourself and you're lying to the American people.
00:24:54.000 Well, truth is not a left-wing value. 1.00
00:24:55.000 And Joy Reid is a dumb person. 1.00
00:24:57.000 I hate to be that blunt. 1.00
00:24:58.000 She's just not very smart.
00:25:00.000 You continue talking to Joy Reed, Cut69, about the woke military policies, PlayCut 69.
00:25:05.000 One of the reasons that we have to get into some woke policies at the Department of Defense is because recruitment is down at the Department of Defense.
00:25:13.000 If our military is not prepared to deal with battles in the future, because recruitment is down, shouldn't we go in and investigate?
00:25:20.000 And it should be a, should be no question at all to investigate it.
00:25:24.000 Look, I totally agree.
00:25:24.000 Your thoughts, Byron?
00:25:25.000 It makes no sense at all.
00:25:26.000 We already know about the diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in every branch of the military.
00:25:32.000 Members of our armed services have been talking about this.
00:25:35.000 There was one gentleman in particular lost his commission because he wrote a book over it.
00:25:40.000 We have to dig into this.
00:25:41.000 And last but not least, recruitment is down.
00:25:43.000 Our military has one job, and let's just be very blunt.
00:25:46.000 It is to defend the homeland, fight wars, and if worse comes to worse, yes, kill the enemy.
00:25:52.000 That is the job of the military.
00:25:54.000 It is not a social experiment.
00:25:56.000 And what is happening over there is to the detriment of the United States.
00:26:00.000 Congressman Donalds, I'm excited to see what the future holds in store for you.
00:26:03.000 It wasn't Speaker of the House this time, but I think there's some big things.
00:26:07.000 Keep fighting for liberty.
00:26:08.000 You were super impressive on Joy Reed.
00:26:11.000 She showed us who she is, which we've always known.
00:26:13.000 She's a low IQ left-wing activist, and you were stoic.
00:26:18.000 You were poised.
00:26:19.000 You were full of joy and charisma and clarity.
00:26:24.000 And I'd love to see you do more of that.
00:26:25.000 Thank you, Congressman.
00:26:26.000 Talk to you soon.
00:26:27.000 All right.
00:26:28.000 See ya.
00:26:28.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:26:31.000 Someone says here, Charlie, you're brilliant and amazing young man.
00:26:34.000 Thank you.
00:26:34.000 I've enjoyed watching you for years.
00:26:35.000 Please don't fall into the traditional ad hominem trap.
00:26:37.000 Calling Joy Reed low IQ is unbecoming and acting like the enemy. 0.94
00:26:41.000 I have no issues saying that she is showing her true colors and she's an activist.
00:26:44.000 It just looks ugly when an ad hominem is in play and you know it.
00:26:47.000 It's a fallacy.
00:26:48.000 No, Melanie, I disagree. 1.00
00:26:50.000 She's dumb. 1.00
00:26:51.000 She's stupid. 1.00
00:26:52.000 She's an ignorant person, also full of hate. 1.00
00:26:54.000 So it's not ad hominem if it's true. 1.00
00:26:57.000 Email us freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:27:00.000 So look, I want to elaborate a little bit more on the moral necessity of checking and balancing the fourth branch of government.
00:27:09.000 As described in the United States Constitution, as we have right here, you have Article 1, 2, and 3, which establishes the structure, the framework of the United States Constitution.
00:27:19.000 Yes, I asked them to get me a Constitution.
00:27:21.000 We have one that Turning Point USA makes, but this is just a printout, which I do appreciate.
00:27:26.000 Look, Article 1, 2, and 3, it sets up the three main branches of government.
00:27:31.000 Now, when James Madison was asked, what is the brilliance of the United States Constitution?
00:27:35.000 He wrote about the structure of the U.S. Constitution.
00:27:38.000 As Justice Antonin Scalia would repeatedly say, every banana republic has a Bill of Rights, but it is the framework and it is the adherence to that framework that allows you to stay free.
00:27:48.000 Now, the guiding moral premise of the United States Constitution is that you are a free being with agency, with free will, the ability to make choices, and that you have natural rights.
00:27:58.000 And those natural rights are given to you by a creator that is given to you by something greater than you.
00:28:05.000 Therefore, you must understand and recognize that those rights are not given to you by government, but government is formed by man by necessity to protect and preserve those rights.
00:28:15.000 Now, the federal government is a republic, not a democracy.
00:28:18.000 If I have to, every time I hear, we're a democracy, we're a democracy, it just really drives me nuts.
00:28:23.000 We are not a democracy, we are a republic.
00:28:25.000 We've been through the differences there.
00:28:26.000 In fact, democracy assuredly leads to dictatorship time and time and time again.
00:28:32.000 Democracy left unchecked is the whims of the masses, eventually voting themselves more benefits, voting themselves less liberty and freedom.
00:28:42.000 When eventually a benevolent dictator comes in, that turns out to be not so benevolent.
00:28:48.000 Now, this fourth branch of government that you hear me talk about quite often, this is one of my most passionate topics that I don't think gets enough coverage and enough philosophical or historical explanation in most conservative media.
00:28:59.000 Woodrow Wilson, who was a college professor, then a college president.
00:29:04.000 I don't know if he was ever a professor, but he was president of Princeton University, and then he became governor of New Jersey, won the election of 1912 because William Howard Taft and Teddy Roosevelt largely split the Republican vote between the Republican Party and the Bull News Party.
00:29:18.000 Woodrow Wilson won with a plurality, not a majority, of the vote in 1912 and became one of the worst most progressive presidents.
00:29:25.000 He was the first president to write that the founding fathers were not as advanced as the people of the 1913, 14, 15, 16.
00:29:34.000 He gave us some of the worst measures, including getting rid of the direct election of senators from instituting the income tax.
00:29:42.000 But Woodrow Wilson's lasting legacy was the embracing of a German historicist philosophical tradition that was started in the late 1860s and 70s, believing that it is the state.
00:29:53.000 It's very Hegelian in nature.
00:29:55.000 It is the state.
00:29:56.000 It is the Leviathan.
00:29:57.000 It is the administration of experts that is going to bring forth a better world.
00:30:03.000 You see, now that we are more enlightened than Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and John Jay and John Quincy Adams and the American founders and their sons and their immediate generations, we are more enlightened because we have trains and we have steam-powered engines and we have the, well, they have the printing press, but we are able to advance to higher purposes.
00:30:25.000 And that is the birth of the administrative state.
00:30:28.000 The administrative state best explained is that councils of experts, as Plato would call them, philosopher kings, are better able to make decisions for your life and for the future of our civilization than you yourself, your family, your community, your municipality, or your locality can.
00:30:44.000 This was never in the original intent or design of the U.S. Constitution.
00:30:49.000 It is extra-constitutional.
00:30:51.000 And Congress, instead of doing its job the last 100 years, has continually delegated those powers out to this fourth branch of government.
00:31:02.000 They have kicked their oversight abilities to the IRS, to the FBI, to the CIA, to the FTC, to the EPA.
00:31:14.000 And this fourth branch of government is very permanent.
00:31:17.000 It is filled with bureaucrats or bureaucracy.
00:31:19.000 In French, that means desk workers.
00:31:22.000 To finally be able to check and balance and to investigate them is going back to hopefully restore, it's going to take a long time, a lot of effort, a 100-year deviation from the original intent of the U.S. Constitution.
00:31:39.000 That is the significance of finally being able to have a church committee and have it be properly staffed.
00:31:47.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:31:48.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:31:51.000 Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.
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