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00:01:04.000Joining us now is Senator Scott from Florida.
00:01:07.000We are thankful he's making time for us.
00:01:10.000I 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.
00:02:59.000I ran against Mitch McConnell because I think we have to have a new direction.
00:03:03.000I mean, probably one of the best examples is this omnibus.
00:03:06.000We'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.
00:04:05.000And I think we've got to change this party.
00:04:08.000If 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.
00:04:15.000We've got to say, but this is what we're going to do, and we're hell-bent on doing it.
00:04:20.000So 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.
00:04:30.000And I want to do the same thing in the Senate.
00:04:34.000And there's a lot of us that are going to fight, I think.
00:04:37.000Yeah, we're starting to see some hustle and bustle out of the House of Representatives recently.
00:04:41.000And we're starting to see some results and really putting together strong committees and repealing the 87,000 IRS agents.
00:04:49.000What 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.
00:05:02.000And 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?
00:05:20.000And 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?
00:06:20.000And 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.
00:07:38.000Because you're not giving up to build a consensus amongst members and amongst the grassroots to challenge McConnell again.
00:07:48.000And I don't even mean the policy plan, Senator.
00:07:50.000What 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?
00:08:04.000Is that something you're still going to go after in the next year and a half, two years?
00:09:45.000The end of the year is right around the corner, and it's time for you to consider a change in your investment plan.
00:09:50.000This is Charlie Kirk, and I strongly recommend you go right now and see my friends at PAX to review your investments.
00:09:57.000They are the one firm I know that focuses on biblical, responsible investing and does not force you to invest in companies that literally attack Christian values.
00:10:07.000If we want religious liberty in our country, we have to stop investing in companies that are trying to suppress our freedoms.
00:11:19.000Number two is we won't be able to, you know, the way the committee structure works, the Democrats will control the committees.
00:11:25.000But 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.
00:11:36.000So I think the key is we need to get out there, talk about the issues, and put the Democrats in position.
00:11:43.000You know, there's going to be, I think, what, 24 Democrats up this next cycle.
00:11:47.000They're going to have to start worrying about their election.
00:11:50.000So I think we have to be constantly out there.
00:11:56.000I can ask the federal government for more accountability.
00:12:00.000So like yesterday, I talked to Secretary Mayorkus on Homeland Security about, I mean, the 400% increase in migrants in the Florida Keys.
00:12:09.000Now, I'm going to be very vocal that it's his job to fix this.
00:12:13.000I 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.
00:12:22.000He'll be coming to talk in front of committees, and I'm going to ask him how he's doing.
00:12:27.000And I'm going to do that with everybody.
00:12:28.000That's what every senator has the option to do this.
00:12:31.000We just all have to be very aggressive at doing it.
00:12:33.000Yeah, I hope that there is some ability to be able to use the power there.
00:12:38.000And this is Senator, the Senate is supposed to be able to block bills because of the filibuster.
00:12:43.000And then Republicans willingly go along with the omnibus, right?
00:12:47.000And it just makes a lot of people throw up their hands.
00:13:13.000Every 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.
00:14:47.000And 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.
00:14:54.000Yeah, 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.
00:15:07.000Now, of course, spending bills have to originate in the House, but sometimes the Senate is able to negotiate first.
00:15:12.000And so this is now going to change the entire negotiation process.
00:15:36.000Adam 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.
00:15:43.000But you've deployed your money from your super PAC, I think, prudently, Senator, and I want to compliment you for that.
00:15:48.000Senator, thank you for joining the show.
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00:16:57.000Merrick Garland has now named a special counsel to investigate Joe Biden's document handlings, play cut 89.
00:17:06.000On 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.
00:17:17.000Based 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.
00:17:28.000In the days since, while Mr. Lausch continued the investigation, the department identified Mr. Hur for appointment as special counsel.
00:17:37.000This 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.
00:17:49.000This is a shadow government pincer movement.
00:17:51.000You have two simultaneous, allegedly independent counsels both going after a former president and a current president for different reasons.
00:17:58.000Donald Trump, the obvious one, we don't have to belabor the point.
00:18:01.000For 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.
00:18:17.000And so Attorney General Garland is greenlighting this, trying to act as if the Department of Justice is fair and impartial.
00:18:24.000And 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.
00:18:33.000This also is not great news for Donald Trump.
00:18:38.000The fact that they are putting a special counsel, this is what's going to happen.
00:18:41.000This special counsel will likely vindicate Joe Biden, like, oh, okay, kind of like Hillary Clinton.
00:18:48.000She didn't store her emails correctly, but we're not going to indict her.
00:18:51.000But the special counsel into Trump is almost assuredly going to indict Donald Trump and or the Fulton County investigation in Georgia.
00:19:00.000They 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.
00:19:10.000This is not about Joe Biden's crimes and all of that.
00:19:30.000You were one of the holdouts last week.
00:19:33.000And it looks like since Speaker McCarthy has become Speaker McCarthy, the pace has been extraordinary.
00:19:38.000Swawal off committees, Elon Omar off committee, Adam Schiff off committee, anti-CCP committee, the church committee.
00:19:46.000Are you guys able to keep up this pace?
00:19:48.000Yeah, we are because that's just the investigative stuff and there's going to be more to come.
00:19:52.000But we haven't even gotten into border policy, energy policy, financial services policy, capital markets.
00:19:59.000What 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.
00:20:07.000The country has been neglected for far too long.
00:20:09.000And House Republicans, we're committed to that work.
00:20:12.000And 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.
00:20:27.000I 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.
00:20:38.000Anyone member, Republican or Democrat, didn't matter.
00:20:41.000Nancy Pelosi is the one who changed the rules.
00:20:43.000She's the one that said, no, I don't want this rule when she was speaker.
00:20:47.000And so we were saying, well, look, we shouldn't be following Nancy's rules.
00:20:50.000Let's get back to the rules of the people's body.
00:20:54.000Second one is on germaneness and single subjects.
00:20:57.000We 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.
00:21:10.000If it's about a post office, it's about a post office.
00:21:13.000But what happens too often, the omnibus package is indicative.
00:21:33.000Number three, the weaponization of the federal government, a church committee that was announced.
00:21:38.000Part of the negotiations was making sure that that church committee could have all of the teeth necessary to be effective.
00:21:47.000We don't want to get into the business of just doing dog and pony shows.
00:21:51.000If we're going to do something, we want it to be effective.
00:21:53.000So that was part of the process there.
00:21:56.000Then the other piece was just making sure that every part of the conference was reflected in terms of their political viewpoints on all committees.
00:22:05.000That 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.
00:22:22.000And so what committees are you personally going to be on?
00:23:48.000It was effectively cutting me off, but that's another point.
00:23:50.000Oh, 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.
00:24:02.000One 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.
00:24:13.000So 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.
00:24:19.000But make no mistakes, it's going to be insolvent.
00:24:22.000My 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.
00:24:47.000But 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.
00:25:00.000You continue talking to Joy Reed, Cut69, about the woke military policies, PlayCut 69.
00:25:05.000One 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.
00:25:13.000If our military is not prepared to deal with battles in the future, because recruitment is down, shouldn't we go in and investigate?
00:25:20.000And it should be a, should be no question at all to investigate it.
00:27:00.000So look, I want to elaborate a little bit more on the moral necessity of checking and balancing the fourth branch of government.
00:27:09.000As 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.
00:27:19.000Yes, I asked them to get me a Constitution.
00:27:21.000We have one that Turning Point USA makes, but this is just a printout, which I do appreciate.
00:27:26.000Look, Article 1, 2, and 3, it sets up the three main branches of government.
00:27:31.000Now, when James Madison was asked, what is the brilliance of the United States Constitution?
00:27:35.000He wrote about the structure of the U.S. Constitution.
00:27:38.000As 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.
00:27:48.000Now, 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.
00:27:58.000And those natural rights are given to you by a creator that is given to you by something greater than you.
00:28:05.000Therefore, 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.
00:28:15.000Now, the federal government is a republic, not a democracy.
00:28:18.000If I have to, every time I hear, we're a democracy, we're a democracy, it just really drives me nuts.
00:28:23.000We are not a democracy, we are a republic.
00:28:25.000We've been through the differences there.
00:28:26.000In fact, democracy assuredly leads to dictatorship time and time and time again.
00:28:32.000Democracy left unchecked is the whims of the masses, eventually voting themselves more benefits, voting themselves less liberty and freedom.
00:28:42.000When eventually a benevolent dictator comes in, that turns out to be not so benevolent.
00:28:48.000Now, 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.
00:28:59.000Woodrow Wilson, who was a college professor, then a college president.
00:29:04.000I 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.
00:29:18.000Woodrow Wilson won with a plurality, not a majority, of the vote in 1912 and became one of the worst most progressive presidents.
00:29:25.000He was the first president to write that the founding fathers were not as advanced as the people of the 1913, 14, 15, 16.
00:29:34.000He gave us some of the worst measures, including getting rid of the direct election of senators from instituting the income tax.
00:29:42.000But 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.
00:29:57.000It is the administration of experts that is going to bring forth a better world.
00:30:03.000You 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.
00:30:25.000And that is the birth of the administrative state.
00:30:28.000The 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.
00:30:44.000This was never in the original intent or design of the U.S. Constitution.
00:31:22.000To 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.
00:31:39.000That is the significance of finally being able to have a church committee and have it be properly staffed.
00:31:47.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:31:48.000Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:31:51.000Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.
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