00:00:43.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:52.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:19.000Director, this is one of the most outrageous targetings.
00:01:22.000You have mobilized your division, the most powerful law enforcement division in the world against traditionalist Catholics, whatever the heck that means.
00:01:52.000Are you going to fire these people or not?
00:01:54.000Those individuals have all been admonished, and it is all going into their...
00:01:58.000If 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.
00:02:25.000I'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.
00:02:40.000And what are they going to get because of it?
00:03:51.000Well, 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.
00:03:58.000I mean, let's not forget this last year.
00:04:00.000We had the highest number, the biggest number of people on the terrorist watch list apprehended at the border ever.
00:04:05.000Now, those are the people that we caught.
00:04:07.000Just think about the number that got away.
00:04:23.000In 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.
00:04:52.000I think Christopher Wray is trying to increase the fear.
00:04:56.000He'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.
00:05:09.000So 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.
00:05:30.000That's what makes this environment that we're in now so fraught.
00:05:34.000So blinking red lights, analogy about 9-11, all the lights were blinking red before 9-11.
00:05:41.000Apparently, obviously all of us missed it.
00:05:44.000Would you say that there's multiple blinking red lights out there?
00:05:48.000I see blinking lights everywhere I turn.
00:05:54.0009-11 was partially an Intel failure, but it was an immigration failure, Senator.
00:05:59.000We allowed these people into our country.
00:06:02.000And 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.
00:07:01.000But 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.
00:07:18.000The Speaker Johnson, to his credit, decided not to do that.
00:07:22.000Senator Tom Tillis and others are saying, oh, we'll see what they're going to get.
00:07:26.000It's like a lot of threats going on here.
00:07:29.000And 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?
00:07:42.000And 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.
00:07:54.000And yet the stuff that is clear as day, you and I have no problem with.
00:07:58.000But there's these abuses and it's abuse of the January 6th defendants.
00:08:02.000They spied on Tucker Carlson with this.
00:08:31.000Now, 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.
00:08:50.000So 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.
00:09:27.000I 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.
00:09:36.000Yeah, pointing out those affiliations is the nastiest things you've said to me, Charlie.
00:09:47.000I mean, all joking aside, it's just, it's heinous.
00:09:50.000It is a sign, once again, that these universities have failed this country and failed these students.
00:09:56.000They clearly do not teach them right from wrong.
00:09:59.000The 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.
00:10:11.000And these universities come up there, these presidents, and say, oh, well, you know, I mean, it's hard to distinguish.
00:10:20.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:14:12.000It'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.
00:17:13.000Well, you have an alt-Roth IRA and you can go on vacations.
00:17:17.000You're missing something big, no matter how much you try to celebrate it.
00:17:25.000Hey, everybody, our friends at Hillsdale College want to wish you a happy Christmas and healthy, prosperous new year.
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00:18:05.000You could also take their online courses.
00:18:06.000They have courses about Winston Churchill, American history, Aristotle, Euclidean geometry.
00:18:11.000Also, the Victor Davis Hansen Citizenship Class is amazing.
00:18:44.000Look, I was appointed to chair this special subcommittee looking into January 6th, what really happened to bring transparency to it.
00:18:52.000And when the select committee handed over supposedly all the documents that they acquired during their fake investigation, they were very unorganized.
00:19:03.000It took us a long time to start going through it.
00:19:06.000But 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.
00:19:15.000And this letter was dated back in December of 2021.
00:19:20.000So 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.
00:19:33.000So my interest in my committee on this is what documents, what information was shared?
00:19:40.000And we've already realized that there were documents that weren't preserved by the committee.
00:19:44.000There were documents that were sent to the White House and Homeland Security to keep Republicans from seeing them.
00:19:54.000So 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.
00:20:05.000So we decided to team up on this investigation and see if we can get some clear answers.
00:20:10.000So Congressman, we need to put a pause right really quick.
00:20:14.000Remember the Bob Mueller team's phones when they all forgot their passwords and that was so fraudulent and it deleted all that data?
00:20:58.000And 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.
00:21:12.000Predominantly were the videotapes of the depositions and transcribed interviews they did of their witnesses.
00:21:21.000House rules say if you do an interview or a deposition, it has to be videotaped and it has to be preserved.
00:21:29.000I specifically ask about those because those are very relevant.
00:21:32.000If 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.
00:21:55.000You got body language, you got voice inflection.
00:22:23.000And 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.
00:22:34.000They 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.
00:22:43.000And what's interesting, Charlie, is that we found more documents that we do not have.
00:22:48.000We start going through the documents we have and they reference other documents.
00:22:52.000In 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.
00:23:06.000We then found another letter from another source that he did the same thing to the Department of Homeland Security.
00:23:11.000So we've been working to get those documents returned.
00:23:14.000I finally got the White House to send those House documents back, but they redacted them.
00:23:21.000I mean, they're so heavily redacted, you can't really derive any information.
00:23:25.000So we're going back to them and demanding that these documents be returned.
00:23:29.000The 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.
00:23:38.000See, it's okay for when Democrats are in control, they're to be available.
00:23:42.000But when we're in control, they didn't want us to be able to see what's inside those documents.
00:23:46.000Okay, I want to play a piece of tape here.
00:24:00.000That 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.
00:24:12.000We have to cover up all of the mistakes we just made with Weiss.
00:24:16.000And she said, apparently, my jurors aren't coming back till Tuesday.
00:24:40.000And I'm telling you up front, this is hearsay, but it's from a person who has remarkably good sources.
00:24:44.000I 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.
00:25:01.000Newt 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.
00:25:11.000And I had to tell them at that time that, you know, we hadn't uncovered anything at that point.
00:25:17.000But again, we've got 2 million printed pages of documents that were just handed to us in boxes.
00:27:01.000And I'm sure that Trump's team of lawyers is interested as well because I'm not a lawyer.
00:27:08.000But from what I understand is when the prosecution has evidence, they have to provide copies of that evidence to the defense.
00:27:17.000And 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.
00:27:26.000In closing here, Congressman, there's a fair amount of frustration in our audience.
00:27:29.000It seems like our majority is shrinking without any elections occurring.
00:27:33.000The expulsion of Santos, McCarthy resigning at the end of the month, which is awfully unusual.
00:27:40.000How are you processing this now with a seeming one-seat majority?
00:27:44.000Yeah, it's going to be difficult, Charlie.
00:27:46.000And, you know, we're just going to press on even harder and faster than we have.
00:27:51.000Fortunately, at least in McCarthy's case, with his resignation, we should fulfill that seat with another Republican.
00:27:59.000But 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.
00:28:09.000And so that even makes this next election that much more important.
00:28:13.000But it also requires us to unify more as a party, as a conference.
00:28:20.000And so it also is an incentive to those of us who are doing the investigations.
00:28:25.000We're going to have to double down because there is the chance.
00:28:29.000You 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.
00:28:52.000For years, we've been talking about how our nation's public schools have been captured by progressive ideologues.
00:28:58.000They teach things that directly contradict the values of millions of Americans.
00:29:02.000That's especially true if you are a Christian family.
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00:30:14.000The war in higher education is continuing, and I am delighted to see it.
00:30:19.000It's one of the feel-good stories of 2023.
00:30:22.000It's a tragedy as to why it's happening, obviously.
00:30:25.000It took a 9-11-style attempt at Holocaust to get this civil war brewing.
00:30:32.000But 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.
00:30:51.000David Friedman, who was the American ambassador to Israel under Donald Trump, quote: Today in the halls of Congress, the Ivy League died.
00:31:01.000The elitist emperors were on full display and they had no clothes.
00:31:05.000Let 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.
00:31:21.000Now, David Friedman, I'll be honest, that's not going to happen.
00:31:24.000Once an institution is captured, liberating it is very difficult.
00:31:28.000Just look at how rare and how exceptional it is for Elon Musk to liberate Twitter.
00:31:34.000It's required $50 billion, relentless effort, and there's still infiltrators, landmines all throughout Twitter that Elon Musk is trying to purge.
00:31:46.000And taking over Harvard and liberating it is very, very hard.
00:31:50.000Let me just play some pieces of tape here yesterday.
00:31:52.000By the way, this is making waves in upper middle class elite Jewish donor circles.
00:32:01.000The eyes of that community were on these college presidents yesterday.
00:32:06.000And I have been forwarded emails from very, very wealthy, very generous Jewish turning point USA donors.
00:32:12.000And they've been forwarding me emails of secular Jews using F this and F that and I'm, I mean, language.
00:32:26.000The presidents of these universities are held hostage by two, well, actually three groups.
00:32:32.000The administration, they're held hostage by the students, and they're held hostage by the professors.
00:32:37.000And then on the other side, they have alumni and donors that tend to see the world far more realistic.
00:32:44.000And they think it's insane that the president of Harvard is retreating to excuses when the genocide of Jews are called on campus.
00:32:51.000Now, we need to make sure this is clear.
00:32:53.000And 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.
00:33:19.000Will 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?
00:33:32.000As I've said, that type of hateful, reckless, offensive speech is personally abhorrent to me.
00:33:41.000And today that no action will be taken.
00:33:43.000What action will be taken when speech crosses into conduct that violates our policies, including policies against bullying, harassment, or intimidation?
00:34:52.000He was a, by the way, a Jewish kid, and they rescind his offer.
00:34:57.000They rescind it, saying that it was callous and inflammatory language.
00:35:02.000So 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.
00:35:14.000And yet they defend the Muslim Arab Jew haters.
00:35:18.000I 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.
00:35:32.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:35:33.000Email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com.