The Charlie Kirk Show - December 06, 2023


What's Wrong With the DINKs?


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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) joins us to discuss the FBI Director Christopher Wray's appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee to defend himself against accusations that he spied on conservative Catholics and other conservative Christians.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody, Senator Josh Hawley joins us.
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00:00:30.000 Here we go.
00:00:31.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:32.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
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00:01:13.000 Okay, everybody, with us is Senator Josh Hawley.
00:01:15.000 Let's play Cut 74.
00:01:17.000 Play Cut 74. 0.71
00:01:17.000 It's perfect. 0.71
00:01:19.000 Director, this is one of the most outrageous targetings.
00:01:22.000 You have mobilized your division, the most powerful law enforcement division in the world against traditionalist Catholics, whatever the heck that means.
00:01:31.000 Here, it gets worse.
00:01:32.000 Your Richmond field office, they thought there was nothing wrong with this.
00:01:36.000 The House interviewed the head of the Richmond Field Office.
00:01:39.000 In fact, we have internal memoranda of the members of the field office high-fiving.
00:01:43.000 One peer reviewer, another member of the field office, wrote, I think this is a great product.
00:01:48.000 I really enjoyed the read.
00:01:50.000 What are you going to do about this?
00:01:52.000 Are you going to fire these people or not?
00:01:54.000 Those individuals have all been admonished, and it is all going into their...
00:01:58.000 If you would let me finish my answer, it is all going into their annual performance reviews, which has direct impact on their compensation, among other things. 0.99
00:02:06.000 Oh, that is just a bunch of crap. 0.95
00:02:08.000 Joining us now is Senator Josh Hawley, who's doing a great job from the state of Missouri. 0.99
00:02:12.000 Senator, thank you for having the courage to confront Christopher Wray.
00:02:16.000 Walk us through that and the disappointing hearing of having him in front of the Senate.
00:02:22.000 Well, you know, thanks for having me on first, Charlie.
00:02:24.000 It's always great to be with you.
00:02:25.000 I'll just say this: I bet every Christian out there feels a lot better now knowing that FBI HR is involved and that these people who are trying to put spies into our churches, you know, by the way, if they're doing it in traditional Catholic churches, they're doing it at evangelical churches, they're doing it everywhere.
00:02:40.000 And what are they going to get because of it?
00:02:41.000 What are they going to suffer?
00:02:42.000 Oh, they're going to get a note in their file.
00:02:45.000 I mean, you cannot make this up, Charlie.
00:02:47.000 You talk about giving the middle finger to the American people, which is just what Christopher Ray did.
00:02:51.000 I mean, that is the finger to people of faith in this country.
00:02:55.000 It is, we don't care. 1.00
00:02:56.000 Yeah, you caught us trying to spy on you.
00:02:58.000 We don't care.
00:02:59.000 We're just going to keep right on doing it.
00:03:01.000 And the only thing I know to do is to drag this stuff that these guys want to keep behind closed doors.
00:03:07.000 They want to do it in the shadows, drag it into the light and expose it for the incredible abuse of power that it is.
00:03:14.000 Yeah.
00:03:14.000 And so Christopher Ray's on this new shtick right now, Senator, where he's talking about there's red alerts blinking all over the country.
00:03:21.000 We've never seen more terror threats.
00:03:23.000 And, you know, some of there might be some truth in some of that, but hold on a second.
00:03:26.000 We have a wide open southern border, a wide open southern border.
00:03:30.000 And what I find to be so sick and perverted about this is that you have an FBI-DHS kind of cabal that keeps the border open.
00:03:37.000 And then they have the gumption to complain to Congress that there's all these security threats.
00:03:42.000 So you allow it to happen and then you tell Congress, well, you know, we're looking at all these blinking lights all over the place.
00:03:50.000 Senator, your reaction.
00:03:51.000 Well, the reason why there are all of these terror warnings of why we're at increased risk is because the border is open and anybody can walk across it.
00:03:58.000 I mean, let's not forget this last year.
00:04:00.000 We had the highest number, the biggest number of people on the terrorist watch list apprehended at the border ever.
00:04:05.000 Now, those are the people that we caught.
00:04:07.000 Just think about the number that got away.
00:04:10.000 And you're exactly right.
00:04:11.000 I mean, what is DHS is doing nothing about this, as we know, absolutely zilt zero.
00:04:15.000 They love the border open.
00:04:16.000 They're rolling out the red carpet.
00:04:17.000 Come on in. 0.99
00:04:18.000 Bring the drugs. 1.00
00:04:19.000 Bring the crime. 0.97
00:04:20.000 Come on in.
00:04:21.000 But what's Christopher Wray doing about it?
00:04:22.000 Nothing.
00:04:23.000 In fact, what he's doing with his time is targeting Catholics, targeting people of faith, sending SWAT teams to the homes of pro-life demonstrators.
00:04:32.000 That's what he's doing with his time.
00:04:33.000 Oh, and by the way, flying on the FBI's private jet back and forth to his various homes all across the country at taxpayer expense.
00:04:41.000 That's what he's doing with his time.
00:04:42.000 So he's playing into this whole thing about blinking lights.
00:04:45.000 I think it's, I have a theory about the narrative here.
00:04:47.000 Let's play cut, let's play cut 58.
00:04:50.000 I think it's all about section 702.
00:04:52.000 I think Christopher Wray is trying to increase the fear.
00:04:56.000 He's trying to say to senators, well, look, there's just so much stuff here and therefore give me a 12-year comp blanche renewal of a program that has been so abused against political dissidents.
00:05:07.000 Play Cut 58.
00:05:09.000 So what I would say that is unique about the environment that we're in right now in my career is that while there may have been times over the years where individual threats could have been higher here or there than where they might be right now, I've never seen a time where all the threats or so many of the threats are all elevated all at exactly the same time.
00:05:30.000 That's what makes this environment that we're in now so fraught.
00:05:34.000 So blinking red lights, analogy about 9-11, all the lights were blinking red before 9-11.
00:05:41.000 Apparently, obviously all of us missed it.
00:05:44.000 Would you say that there's multiple blinking red lights out there?
00:05:48.000 I see blinking lights everywhere I turn.
00:05:51.000 Hold on a second.
00:05:52.000 Hold on. 0.54
00:05:52.000 Hold on. 0.54
00:05:53.000 Let's not rewrite history.
00:05:54.000 9-11 was partially an Intel failure, but it was an immigration failure, Senator. 1.00
00:05:59.000 We allowed these people into our country. 1.00
00:06:02.000 And if Christopher Wray is alluding that there are similar prerequisite chattering, then we have a wide open border and we have no idea who the hell is coming into our nation. 0.99
00:06:10.000 Talk about 702. 0.78
00:06:12.000 I'm starting to finally see some pushback of Republicans that want massive reforms.
00:06:18.000 Talk about 702, Senator.
00:06:20.000 There's got to be huge reforms.
00:06:22.000 This is the surveillance apparatus that we, I think unwisely gave to the FBI and other agencies after 9-11.
00:06:29.000 The rationale was, well, we got to give these people all new power to listen in on, as it turns out, our conversations.
00:06:36.000 Now, that's not what they're supposed to do.
00:06:37.000 It's supposed to be just for foreigners, but we all know, we've seen the reports over years now, the FBI abuses this all the time.
00:06:44.000 They use this authority to not get a warrant, not go to a court, but yet to track Americans and to listen in on Americans.
00:06:52.000 And for my part, the idea that we would just reauthorize this program with no reforms is insane.
00:06:59.000 It's absolutely insane.
00:07:01.000 But Charlie, I can tell you, as we sit here and talk, they are trying to get a reauthorization of FISA jammed into the annual defense bill and sneak through Congress right now.
00:07:14.000 That is their plan.
00:07:15.000 And I think it's crazy.
00:07:16.000 We've got to stop this.
00:07:18.000 The Speaker Johnson, to his credit, decided not to do that.
00:07:22.000 Senator Tom Tillis and others are saying, oh, we'll see what they're going to get.
00:07:26.000 It's like a lot of threats going on here.
00:07:29.000 And so, Senator, I want to just emphasize this, that you and I are both okay, obviously, with the government going after terrorists, but why can't they get a warrant under most circumstances, especially in those gray areas?
00:07:42.000 And by the way, based on all of the watchdog reports, 90% of this stuff is in gray area, meaning it's an American citizen and they're communicating with someone that might be connected with someone that could be.
00:07:54.000 And yet the stuff that is clear as day, you and I have no problem with.
00:07:58.000 But there's these abuses and it's abuse of the January 6th defendants.
00:08:02.000 They spied on Tucker Carlson with this.
00:08:04.000 They spied on Donald Trump.
00:08:05.000 When you say this, and by the way, I talked to a lawmaker this weekend and their eyes get really big.
00:08:09.000 I say, why can't you get a warrant?
00:08:11.000 It's as if I'm asking them to like apply for citizenship.
00:08:15.000 I don't understand the argument.
00:08:17.000 Yeah, here's the thing.
00:08:19.000 If the FBI or whomever wants to go listen in to the conversations of foreign nationals who are suspected terrorists, fine. 1.00
00:08:25.000 You know, foreign nationals don't get the protection of our Constitution. 1.00
00:08:28.000 Exactly. 1.00
00:08:28.000 Fine. 1.00
00:08:29.000 It's totally fine.
00:08:30.000 No problem.
00:08:31.000 Now, if they want to then turn around and say, ah, an American citizen has having a conversation with someone overseas or a foreign national, and therefore I am going to start tracking the American citizen.
00:08:42.000 We have a big problem.
00:08:43.000 The Constitution absolutely applies to American citizens.
00:08:46.000 That's why we have the Constitution.
00:08:48.000 The Bill of Rights applies.
00:08:50.000 So this idea that you can just go around the warrant requirement, that you can just go around the normal court system, because let's remember this FISA process, it's a whole separate court, Charlie, as you know.
00:08:59.000 It's a secret court.
00:09:01.000 If you get targeted in the court, this is what happened to Donald Trump.
00:09:04.000 If you get targeted in that court, you don't get a lawyer.
00:09:06.000 You don't get to appear.
00:09:08.000 You don't get to defend yourself.
00:09:09.000 The government just says, yeah, okay, goodness for us.
00:09:11.000 Go ahead.
00:09:12.000 Wiretap.
00:09:12.000 Listen, go ahead.
00:09:13.000 You don't go through the normal requirements.
00:09:15.000 That has got to be changed.
00:09:16.000 And why we would just automatically reauthorize all this stuff and cross our fingers and hope for better next time is beyond me.
00:09:24.000 It's crazy.
00:09:24.000 Last question, Senator.
00:09:26.000 You went to Stanford.
00:09:26.000 You went to Yale.
00:09:27.000 I want just a minute comment on the anti-Semitism and the Jew hatred that we've seen out of these universities in recent years, in recent years, in recent days.
00:09:36.000 Yeah, pointing out those affiliations is the nastiest things you've said to me, Charlie.
00:09:40.000 I got my pass.
00:09:41.000 It's on your Wikipedia page.
00:09:42.000 I'm going to hurt your reelection.
00:09:43.000 Oh, I'm sure it is.
00:09:45.000 I'm sure it is.
00:09:46.000 Yeah, listen.
00:09:47.000 I mean, all joking aside, it's just, it's heinous.
00:09:50.000 It is a sign, once again, that these universities have failed this country and failed these students.
00:09:56.000 They clearly do not teach them right from wrong.
00:09:59.000 The idea that the state of Israel will be treated as a terrorist state, that it would be okay to assault Jewish Americans on campus, that you can chant these slogans, these pro-Hamas slogans that are basically pro-genocide slogans.
00:10:11.000 And these universities come up there, these presidents, and say, oh, well, you know, I mean, it's hard to distinguish.
00:10:15.000 I mean, it's just a matter of taste.
00:10:17.000 This is insane stuff.
00:10:19.000 It's totally insane.
00:10:20.000 Meanwhile, these are the same people who can't get enough taxpayer money for their DEI agenda, who can't get enough money to promote intersectionality, and yet they're fine with rhetoric about the slaughter of Jews. 0.98
00:10:33.000 It is absolutely sickening.
00:10:35.000 Senator Holly, I'm sorry for mentioning your past.
00:10:37.000 I really apologize, but you're doing an amazing job representing Missouri.
00:10:41.000 You're a hero.
00:10:42.000 You're doing a great job.
00:10:43.000 Senator, thanks so much.
00:10:44.000 Thanks for having me. 1.00
00:10:47.000 The world is in flames and biddenomics is a complete and total disaster, but it won't ruin my day. 1.00
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00:11:12.000 By the way, I was traveling recently and somebody brought me a cup of coffee and it tasted really bad.
00:11:17.000 It was really bad.
00:11:18.000 I said, where's my blackout?
00:11:20.000 And they said, we didn't bring the blackout on this trip.
00:11:22.000 And I was really disappointed.
00:11:23.000 It was a tough day.
00:11:24.000 When you get used to blackout coffee, you know what I mean.
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00:11:30.000 By the way, it's kind of coffee season, isn't it?
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00:11:34.000 It's cloudy.
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00:11:38.000 You kind of need to pick me up sometimes around 2 p.m.
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00:11:47.000 It is smooth.
00:11:49.000 And people know that I need my cup of coffee in the morning.
00:11:52.000 Not too much.
00:11:53.000 Not over the top, but if it's not blackout, then the mood is not so good.
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00:12:06.000 We're dinks.
00:12:06.000 We go to Trader Joe's and workout classes on the weekends.
00:12:09.000 We're dinks. 0.63
00:12:09.000 We get into snobby hobbies like skiing and golfing. 0.63
00:12:12.000 We're dinks. 0.82
00:12:12.000 We can go to Florida on a whim. 0.82
00:12:14.000 We're dinks. 0.52
00:12:15.000 We're already planning our European vacation next year. 0.97
00:12:17.000 Dinks.
00:12:17.000 We get a full eight hours of sleep and sometimes more.
00:12:20.000 We're dinks.
00:12:21.000 We get desserts and appetizers at restaurants. 0.62
00:12:23.000 We can play with other kids and give them back. 0.95
00:12:23.000 We're dinks. 0.95
00:12:26.000 We're dinks. 0.99
00:12:27.000 We still do it three times a week. 0.99
00:12:28.000 We're dinks. 0.93
00:12:29.000 We spend our discretionary income on $8 latte. 0.99
00:12:32.000 We're dinks.
00:12:33.000 We max out our 401ks, Roth IRAs, and HSAs. 0.99
00:12:36.000 We're dinks.
00:12:37.000 We don't use our kids or dog as an excuse to leave a party. 0.98
00:12:40.000 We just leave.
00:12:41.000 Okay, so this is on TikTok. 1.00
00:12:43.000 And so a dink is a dual-income no-kids. 0.84
00:12:50.000 And basically, what it is, is it's very mentally troubled people that go to social media and try to brag about their broken life. 0.76
00:12:58.000 And social media basically has become that, which is you try to dress up your very difficult life.
00:13:06.000 And they're bragging about not having children.
00:13:08.000 So I guess this is some sort of a couple.
00:13:11.000 Are we supposed to be jealous of them?
00:13:13.000 We're supposed to be jealous of them and they're walking through the park. 0.98
00:13:18.000 So we're dinks. 0.99
00:13:18.000 We're going to die alone. 0.99
00:13:20.000 We're dinks. 0.99
00:13:21.000 And I'll have a very well-funded Roth IRA on my deathbed. 0.98
00:13:26.000 It's a massive cope.
00:13:28.000 And the easy thing is, well, let's feel really sad for them.
00:13:31.000 Actually, I mean, yeah, I think there is some sadness that we should feel, but these people are sick. 0.99
00:13:36.000 We should ridicule them. 0.97
00:13:37.000 Enough sadness. 0.98
00:13:38.000 They're going on social media bragging about one of the most selfish, narcissistic, inward-facing things.
00:13:45.000 Period. 0.99
00:13:46.000 They're proud to be feel useless. 0.96
00:13:49.000 Now, let me be very clear. 0.95
00:13:50.000 I want to be very, very clear.
00:13:51.000 It's different than people that have labored trying not to have children.
00:13:54.000 There's an amazing verse in the scriptures.
00:13:56.000 I think it's in Amos or Hosea, where it says, God has a special heart for the childless.
00:14:03.000 It's a very, very beautiful scripture.
00:14:05.000 That if it's your heart to have children and that's not part of your plan, that's a completely different thing.
00:14:10.000 But also, you know how sick this is?
00:14:12.000 It's also unbelievably insulting to people that are trying to have kids, which infertility is a major issue in our country for a lot of different reasons, declining testosterone rates, the food that we have, people waiting too long to have kids.
00:14:28.000 That's not the verse.
00:14:29.000 I'll find it.
00:14:30.000 There's a verse in one of the prophets where it says, God has a special heart for those people that don't have kids.
00:14:35.000 It's really, really special, but that's not what this is.
00:14:37.000 This is the celebration of the lifestyle and elevating it above doing something deep, doing something difficult.
00:14:46.000 Having a father changed, being a father changes you, and having a father changes you.
00:14:50.000 But being a father changes you 100%.
00:14:52.000 It changes everything about you.
00:14:54.000 And it's the, I mean, just getting started, it's the most fulfilling thing somebody can do.
00:14:59.000 I think that's it.
00:14:59.000 Isaiah, I'll have to look.
00:15:00.000 I don't want to.
00:15:01.000 I'm getting a lot of verses sent at me.
00:15:03.000 I think it might be Isaiah.
00:15:04.000 But then there's this really beautiful verse that says that.
00:15:07.000 But think about how sick you must be to go to TikTok and say, we're a dink and we go to Trader Joe's.
00:15:12.000 Yeah, you're lonely.
00:15:14.000 You're a lonely person.
00:15:15.000 You know what's so amazing?
00:15:17.000 Is that they mention in the video that they like being around kids and we have to give them back.
00:15:23.000 And it's really sad.
00:15:24.000 So you don't want to take the responsibility.
00:15:29.000 You want to sleep eight hours a night?
00:15:31.000 Well, you're going to live a really shallow life. 0.98
00:15:32.000 You're a narcissist. 0.94
00:15:34.000 And by the way, that is the inevitable outcome of liberalism. 0.96
00:15:40.000 Me, my body, my choice.
00:15:44.000 Me, me, me, me.
00:15:45.000 That's a really sad way to live.
00:15:48.000 Here's another dink video, PlayCut 79. 1.00
00:15:51.000 Why is nobody talking about being dinks? 1.00
00:15:53.000 Well, I'm freshly married and I'm going to talk about it. 1.00
00:15:55.000 Here's our life as dinks in her early 30s. 1.00
00:15:56.000 No shocker here, folks. 1.00
00:15:57.000 Today we went to Costco.
00:15:59.000 We don't have kids to feed, but we got lots of money to spend on goodies.
00:16:01.000 Brian always checks out while I get a box and then I sit here and look cute.
00:16:04.000 Here's the haul and our total was $252.
00:16:07.000 The registered game at Costco never gets old.
00:16:09.000 You cannot tell me that grocery shopping and a fresh slice of Costco pizza isn't a good date night.
00:16:13.000 I mean, you can tell me that, but I don't believe it.
00:16:15.000 Obviously, we had car cookies for dessert.
00:16:17.000 And yeah, I will probably just make this a series now.
00:16:19.000 So follow along for more dink content.
00:16:21.000 More dink content.
00:16:23.000 This is secularism. 0.81
00:16:25.000 When I talk about a post-Christian, post-Judeo-Christian society, this is what you get. 0.56
00:16:32.000 Not only are they not having children, but they go on social media bragging about it. 0.79
00:16:39.000 By the way, you don't need to depopulate a country if you're young and you're fertile, decide not to have children.
00:16:46.000 And some people say, well, you know, everyone can make their own choice.
00:16:50.000 Of course they can make their own choice.
00:16:52.000 These people should be humiliated.
00:16:54.000 They should be challenged.
00:16:55.000 Are you doing something deep with your time? 1.00
00:16:58.000 I totally understand if you're barren. 1.00
00:16:59.000 That's a separate issue. 0.98
00:17:01.000 That's not what we're talking about.
00:17:02.000 We're talking about the intentional celebration of not furthering your bloodline.
00:17:07.000 That's a really empty existence.
00:17:10.000 And our culture celebrates it.
00:17:12.000 Oh, wow.
00:17:13.000 Well, you have an alt-Roth IRA and you can go on vacations.
00:17:17.000 You're missing something big, no matter how much you try to celebrate it.
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00:18:28.000 Joining us now is Congressman Barry Laudermilk from Georgia's 11th District, also serves on the House Judiciary Committee.
00:18:34.000 Congressman, thank you so much for joining us.
00:18:36.000 Tell us about your announcement in regards to the January 6th panel and Fannie Willis.
00:18:42.000 It's good to be on your show.
00:18:42.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:18:44.000 Look, I was appointed to chair this special subcommittee looking into January 6th, what really happened to bring transparency to it.
00:18:52.000 And when the select committee handed over supposedly all the documents that they acquired during their fake investigation, they were very unorganized.
00:19:03.000 It took us a long time to start going through it.
00:19:06.000 But as we were going through it just a few weeks ago, we came across this letter from Fonnie Willis, the Fulton County DA, asking for documents.
00:19:15.000 And this letter was dated back in December of 2021.
00:19:20.000 So it appears that there was collusion between the Fulton County DA and Benny Thompson's committee, that partisan committee put together by Pelosi to acquire documents and information.
00:19:33.000 So my interest in my committee on this is what documents, what information was shared?
00:19:40.000 And we've already realized that there were documents that weren't preserved by the committee.
00:19:44.000 There were documents that were sent to the White House and Homeland Security to keep Republicans from seeing them.
00:19:49.000 What documents do they have?
00:19:51.000 Do I have those documents?
00:19:54.000 So my good friend Jim Jordan met with him since he's the chair of the Judiciary Committee and he has oversight over the DAs and he had great interest in it as well.
00:20:05.000 So we decided to team up on this investigation and see if we can get some clear answers.
00:20:10.000 So Congressman, we need to put a pause right really quick.
00:20:14.000 Remember the Bob Mueller team's phones when they all forgot their passwords and that was so fraudulent and it deleted all that data?
00:20:20.000 Lois Lerner's missing emails.
00:20:23.000 Hillary Clinton's destroyed emails and now the January 6th committees destroyed evidence.
00:20:28.000 This is a pattern.
00:20:29.000 By the way, that's just off the top of my head.
00:20:31.000 This happens every 18 to 24 months of these criminals and these rascals that destroy everything.
00:20:37.000 Is this criminal what they did?
00:20:40.000 Well, at least it's a violation of House rules.
00:20:43.000 I mean, there's clear guidelines on what documents have to be preserved.
00:20:48.000 And any document used in an official proceeding, this was an official proceeding, even though it was contrived to be very partisan.
00:20:56.000 It was an official proceeding.
00:20:58.000 And the chairman, Benny Thompson of Mississippi, in response to a letter I sent to him asking for documents that we realized were missing, basically responded and said we decided to not preserve some of those documents.
00:21:12.000 Predominantly were the videotapes of the depositions and transcribed interviews they did of their witnesses.
00:21:19.000 It's clear.
00:21:21.000 House rules say if you do an interview or a deposition, it has to be videotaped and it has to be preserved.
00:21:29.000 I specifically ask about those because those are very relevant.
00:21:32.000 If you look at what we've uncovered now about Cassidy Hutchins of how we found where she significantly changed the content of her previous transcribed interviews to match her public statement, it's important for us to go back and look at the videos of how did she answer the questions when she first was interviewed versus later.
00:21:55.000 You got body language, you got voice inflection.
00:21:58.000 So those things are important.
00:22:00.000 Well, I asked about where are those videotapes?
00:22:03.000 And the then chairman Benny Thompson said, we just decided we weren't going to keep them.
00:22:10.000 Oh, just I bet my videotape is there.
00:22:12.000 So you can.
00:22:13.000 Oh, yeah.
00:22:14.000 Yeah, I'm sure mine's there.
00:22:15.000 Well, it's interesting.
00:22:16.000 They have my text.
00:22:18.000 They were able to subpoena Mark Meadows because he was in the House.
00:22:22.000 He was a friend of mine.
00:22:23.000 And I had even texted him on January 6th when the Capitol was, you know, things were going on at the Capitol telling him that things were bad here.
00:22:31.000 They have my text, my personal text.
00:22:34.000 They don't have a problem of making that public and even my cell phone number they gave to media, but yet they're not going to keep the videotapes.
00:22:43.000 And what's interesting, Charlie, is that we found more documents that we do not have.
00:22:48.000 We start going through the documents we have and they reference other documents.
00:22:52.000 In fact, we found a letter from Benny Thompson to the White House where in December of 2022, just literally a few days before Republicans took control of the House, he sent documents, House documents to the White House for them to keep.
00:23:06.000 We then found another letter from another source that he did the same thing to the Department of Homeland Security.
00:23:11.000 So we've been working to get those documents returned.
00:23:14.000 I finally got the White House to send those House documents back, but they redacted them.
00:23:21.000 I mean, they're so heavily redacted, you can't really derive any information.
00:23:25.000 So we're going back to them and demanding that these documents be returned.
00:23:29.000 The only reason that I can come up with is that you send those documents elsewhere is because it contains information that you don't want the Republicans to see.
00:23:38.000 See, it's okay for when Democrats are in control, they're to be available.
00:23:42.000 But when we're in control, they didn't want us to be able to see what's inside those documents.
00:23:46.000 Okay, I want to play a piece of tape here.
00:23:49.000 Cut 81.
00:23:51.000 This connects with Fannie Willis.
00:23:53.000 This was Newt Gingrich months ago breaking some news.
00:23:56.000 I think that there's some fire here.
00:23:58.000 We have some smoke.
00:23:59.000 Play cut 81.
00:24:00.000 That I am told, this is hearsay, but I am told by a reliable source that Friday evening, somebody from Washington called the District Attorney in Atlanta and said, you have to indict on Monday.
00:24:12.000 We have to cover up all of the mistakes we just made with Weiss.
00:24:16.000 And she said, apparently, my jurors aren't coming back till Tuesday.
00:24:21.000 And they said, you didn't hear me.
00:24:22.000 You have to indict on Monday.
00:24:25.000 And she said, well, they're not going to get here before noon.
00:24:27.000 They said, it doesn't matter.
00:24:29.000 She said, this means it's going to be eight or nine or 10 o'clock at night.
00:24:32.000 Said, it doesn't matter.
00:24:34.000 We need the news media shifting.
00:24:36.000 Who made that phone call?
00:24:38.000 We don't know.
00:24:40.000 And I'm telling you up front, this is hearsay, but it's from a person who has remarkably good sources.
00:24:44.000 I totally believe it, though, because that would explain why they leaked and they messed up on the clerk document, why she was exhausted and why they had the 11 p.m. press conference, Mr. Speaker.
00:24:54.000 Congressman, what's going on?
00:24:58.000 That is a great question.
00:24:59.000 And that's what we're trying to find out.
00:25:00.000 It's interesting.
00:25:01.000 Newt is a good friend of mine, and he called me around that time and told me, he said, look, I think that there is something going on between Willis and the former select committee.
00:25:11.000 And I had to tell them at that time that, you know, we hadn't uncovered anything at that point.
00:25:17.000 But again, we've got 2 million printed pages of documents that were just handed to us in boxes.
00:25:22.000 They didn't give us their database.
00:25:24.000 There was no table of contents indexed.
00:25:27.000 We had about two and a half terabytes of digital data and 2 million printed copies.
00:25:32.000 And our team is just going through it.
00:25:34.000 And then sometime later, just a few weeks ago, we come across this letter.
00:25:39.000 But I can tell you what Newt called me about, he turned out to be right on.
00:25:44.000 So then, what will your investigation look like as far as looking into Fannie Willis?
00:25:52.000 Because we're now seeing this very suspicious schedule of trials for Donald Trump going into an election year.
00:25:59.000 And I don't know if you'll be able to uncover this, but you might be able to get some crumbs that can lead to something.
00:26:05.000 It seems as if there is a war room.
00:26:07.000 It seems like there is a central operating hub where a lot of this lawfare is being coordinated.
00:26:14.000 Yeah, and you're right about the crumbs.
00:26:16.000 Somebody asked me the other day, have you found a smoking gun?
00:26:19.000 I said, no, we haven't found a bazooka, but there's a lot of small .22 caliber shots being fired.
00:26:24.000 And when you put those together, and then you get a picture of the entire war.
00:26:28.000 And so we're going to continue.
00:26:29.000 And this investigation, we're taking it from two fronts.
00:26:33.000 Jim Jordan on the Judiciary Committee, he sent a letter to Ms. Willis asking her for what documents, more information.
00:26:44.000 I, in my jurisdiction of Capitol Hill and the select committee, I've sent a letter to Benny basically asking the same questions.
00:26:52.000 And so we're taking it from two fronts.
00:26:55.000 My interest is what documents?
00:26:58.000 Where are those documents?
00:26:59.000 Do we have copies of those documents?
00:27:01.000 And I'm sure that Trump's team of lawyers is interested as well because I'm not a lawyer.
00:27:08.000 But from what I understand is when the prosecution has evidence, they have to provide copies of that evidence to the defense.
00:27:17.000 And so I think from Trump's perspective, they want to know what documents were sent to the Willis team so they can compare to see if there's anything that they have not been given.
00:27:26.000 In closing here, Congressman, there's a fair amount of frustration in our audience.
00:27:29.000 It seems like our majority is shrinking without any elections occurring.
00:27:33.000 The expulsion of Santos, McCarthy resigning at the end of the month, which is awfully unusual.
00:27:38.000 It seems as if that's his revenge.
00:27:40.000 How are you processing this now with a seeming one-seat majority?
00:27:44.000 Yeah, it's going to be difficult, Charlie.
00:27:46.000 And, you know, we're just going to press on even harder and faster than we have.
00:27:51.000 Fortunately, at least in McCarthy's case, with his resignation, we should fulfill that seat with another Republican.
00:27:59.000 But there's going to be this timeframe until California has their election, their special election, that we're going to be even a slimmer majority.
00:28:09.000 And so that even makes this next election that much more important.
00:28:13.000 But it also requires us to unify more as a party, as a conference.
00:28:20.000 And so it also is an incentive to those of us who are doing the investigations.
00:28:25.000 We're going to have to double down because there is the chance.
00:28:29.000 You know, all it takes is a plane wreck or a car crash or somebody to get hit by a bus or a stroke or something that takes one or two Republicans out of it.
00:28:41.000 We lose our majority.
00:28:42.000 That would be a tragedy.
00:28:44.000 Well, stay healthy, Congressman, and your colleagues as well.
00:28:47.000 So, Congressman, thanks so much.
00:28:48.000 All right.
00:28:49.000 Thank you, Charlie.
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00:28:58.000 They teach things that directly contradict the values of millions of Americans.
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00:30:14.000 The war in higher education is continuing, and I am delighted to see it.
00:30:19.000 It's one of the feel-good stories of 2023.
00:30:22.000 It's a tragedy as to why it's happening, obviously. 0.80
00:30:25.000 It took a 9-11-style attempt at Holocaust to get this civil war brewing.
00:30:32.000 But I could not have guessed or predicted that in 2023, we would be having the nearly unanimous narrative from any respectable public intellectual saying that colleges have become a threat to our country.
00:30:51.000 David Friedman, who was the American ambassador to Israel under Donald Trump, quote: Today in the halls of Congress, the Ivy League died.
00:31:01.000 The elitist emperors were on full display and they had no clothes.
00:31:05.000 Let all these institutions, along with so many others, suffer the humiliation they deserve, renounce everything that made them the fraudulent institution takers, fraudulent tuition takers that they become, and then perhaps, after a complete house cleaning, return to their former glory.
00:31:20.000 The world is waiting.
00:31:21.000 Now, David Friedman, I'll be honest, that's not going to happen.
00:31:24.000 Once an institution is captured, liberating it is very difficult.
00:31:28.000 Just look at how rare and how exceptional it is for Elon Musk to liberate Twitter.
00:31:34.000 It's required $50 billion, relentless effort, and there's still infiltrators, landmines all throughout Twitter that Elon Musk is trying to purge.
00:31:46.000 And taking over Harvard and liberating it is very, very hard.
00:31:50.000 Let me just play some pieces of tape here yesterday. 0.94
00:31:52.000 By the way, this is making waves in upper middle class elite Jewish donor circles.
00:32:01.000 The eyes of that community were on these college presidents yesterday.
00:32:06.000 And I have been forwarded emails from very, very wealthy, very generous Jewish turning point USA donors.
00:32:12.000 And they've been forwarding me emails of secular Jews using F this and F that and I'm, I mean, language.
00:32:20.000 And I love it. 0.60
00:32:21.000 They are waking up.
00:32:22.000 They are done.
00:32:23.000 They are divesting.
00:32:24.000 They are insulted.
00:32:26.000 The presidents of these universities are held hostage by two, well, actually three groups.
00:32:32.000 The administration, they're held hostage by the students, and they're held hostage by the professors.
00:32:37.000 And then on the other side, they have alumni and donors that tend to see the world far more realistic.
00:32:44.000 And they think it's insane that the president of Harvard is retreating to excuses when the genocide of Jews are called on campus.
00:32:51.000 Now, we need to make sure this is clear.
00:32:53.000 And Bill Ackman, to his great credit, has repented for this, that Bill Ackman acknowledges that some of his donations has also been funding anti-white hatred.
00:33:04.000 It's not just anti-Semitism.
00:33:07.000 It's anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-Jew, anti-America. 0.95
00:33:11.000 It is a bundle package. 0.98
00:33:13.000 You get it all at Harvard.
00:33:16.000 Play cut 41, please.
00:33:18.000 Well, let me ask you this.
00:33:19.000 Will admissions offers be rescinded or any disciplinary action be taken against students or applicants who say from the river to the sea or into FADA advocating for the murder of Jews?
00:33:32.000 As I've said, that type of hateful, reckless, offensive speech is personally abhorrent to me.
00:33:41.000 And today that no action will be taken.
00:33:43.000 What action will be taken when speech crosses into conduct that violates our policies, including policies against bullying, harassment, or intimidation?
00:33:52.000 We take action.
00:33:54.000 I want to do a tweet about Kyle Khashuv.
00:33:56.000 Again, we're always running out of time.
00:33:57.000 Kyle Kashuv, we did a lot of work together at Turning Point USA, a survivor of the shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas.
00:34:04.000 Amazing kid.
00:34:05.000 He was going to Harvard.
00:34:06.000 Unbelievably smart.
00:34:07.000 NPR.org.
00:34:09.000 Harvard rescinds offer to Parkland survivor after discovery of racist comments.
00:34:13.000 He was 15 years old.
00:34:15.000 He used the N-word a couple times in a chat, which, by the way, a lot of young people have, and that is not an unforgivable sin. 0.66
00:34:23.000 Acting as if that is akin to rape or murder is disgusting. 0.99
00:34:27.000 Kids do silly stuff. 0.99
00:34:29.000 That is an easy thing to forgive.
00:34:32.000 Easy.
00:34:33.000 It doesn't mean anything for some 15-year-old to say that in a private chat or 16-year-old.
00:34:40.000 Oh, N-word this, N-word that.
00:34:42.000 That says nothing about your morality.
00:34:44.000 It says something about your maturity.
00:34:46.000 It says nothing about your morality.
00:34:48.000 Nothing.
00:34:50.000 Yet Harvard rescinded Kyle Khashub's.
00:34:52.000 He was a, by the way, a Jewish kid, and they rescind his offer.
00:34:57.000 They rescind it, saying that it was callous and inflammatory language.
00:35:02.000 So Harvard made a public spectacle out of revoking a shooting survivor Jewish kid's offer to Harvard because he used the N-word immaturely a couple times when he was 15 or 16 years old.
00:35:14.000 And yet they defend the Muslim Arab Jew haters. 0.90
00:35:18.000 I hope Harvard metaphorically burns to the ground, divests them, tax their endowment, and then once it is embers, we'll think about giving them mercy. 0.98
00:35:32.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:35:33.000 Email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:36.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:35:38.000 God bless.
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