The Charlie Kirk Show - When Will the Russiagate Scandal Produce Russiagate Indictments?

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here live from the Bitcoin.com studio.

00:00:04.000 Sean Davis joins the show to talk about Adam Schiff, the leaking, the intel agency, and also a fairy throws a subway sandwich at a federal agent.

00:00:12.000 We then have the acting U.S. Attorney in Central California, Bill Asaley, joins us.

00:00:18.000 And then a chart that is chilling.

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00:00:31.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:07.000 Joining us now is Sean Davis from The Federalist.

00:01:10.000 So, Sean, we got a renewed investigation into Comey leaking in 2017.

00:01:14.000 We have Tulsi exposing Clapper for cutting corners in 2017 and a DNI report admitting it after the NSA director warned he wasn't comfortable with the intel.

00:01:24.000 What is the latest here?

00:01:25.000 And do you think we'll actually see indictments?

00:01:27.000 Yeah, so I think the most important thing about all these new releases, and there have been a ton within the last couple of weeks.

00:01:33.000 Some of them was more flesh on the bones of information we already had.

00:01:38.000 Some of it was really, really new, but they all tell the exact same story.

00:01:42.000 And that story is that after Donald Trump won the election in 2016, there was an orchestrated, deliberate, widespread conspiracy within the Obama administration that continued for years to basically overthrow Donald Trump, overthrow the presidency, initiate a coup against the government.

00:02:00.000 And it was all done based on lies by people who knew they were lying, by people who knew they were leaking.

00:02:07.000 And every single new release that comes out just shows us more facts about why that was the case.

00:02:12.000 So do you think then an indictment is likely?

00:02:16.000 I mean, what chatter are we seeing from the Department of Justice?

00:02:19.000 And if so, what would the crime be?

00:02:20.000 Yeah, it's hard to say because so much of this stuff is cloaked in grand jury secrecy.

00:02:25.000 Having watched this stuff, you know, for eight, nine, 10 years now, having watched and covered the whole John Durham investigation, which didn't turn to much, I've gotten, I think, a fairly decent sense of kind of like the rhythms and where I think things are going.

00:02:39.000 It seems to me that this administration is dead serious about holding people accountable for their criminal conspiracies.

00:02:45.000 And I see a couple different possible charges.

00:02:48.000 One would just be a conspiracy against rights under color of law.

00:02:53.000 Another could be a conspiracy to defraud the U.S. I think there are some people who are still at jeopardy for having made false statements to Congress or federal investigators.

00:03:03.000 But what's interesting is that if you look at this whole thing as a conspiracy, each new overt act in furtherance of that conspiracy, whether it's lying or leaking or trying to obstruct justice or trying to tamper with witnesses, that tolls the statute of limitations and basically starts it over.

00:03:19.000 So the conspiracy charge is really what I would expect to see if we do eventually see indictments here.

00:03:25.000 So let's play some pieces of tape here.

00:03:27.000 This is Adam Schiff about the Adam Schiff deal here.

00:03:30.000 Let's go to Cut 393.

00:03:33.000 These people put our country in great danger.

00:03:35.000 And Adam Schiff, it was all made up.

00:03:38.000 It was a hoax.

00:03:39.000 The Mueller report came out.

00:03:40.000 They all hated me.

00:03:41.000 They had 18 Trump haters.

00:03:44.000 And they said I did nothing wrong.

00:03:46.000 They couldn't believe, they couldn't find anything after years of investigation.

00:03:51.000 And one more here.

00:03:52.000 Let's play cut 438.

00:03:55.000 A Democrat whistleblower repeatedly was warning the FBI beginning in 2017 that the congenital liar Adam Schiff had authorized leaking classified information to smear President Trump, which, by the way, could be a violation of the Espionage Act.

00:04:12.000 So is that a violation of the Espionage Act?

00:04:14.000 And what would the timeline be?

00:04:16.000 Wouldn't we start to need to see these indictments move in pretty quickly?

00:04:19.000 Yeah, I'm not sure it would qualify as an Espionage Act.

00:04:23.000 I think it probably could be a conspiracy to violate classified information rules.

00:04:29.000 You know, we reported Based on an IG report that came out in 2024, that there was this whistleblower there.

00:04:34.000 But what we didn't know until there were these documents out was how much detail the FBI had been given about a wide-ranging conspiracy with specific allegations, with specific names and times and places that the FBI had.

00:04:48.000 And instead of fully investigating and prosecuting that when they were given the information, the FBI instead lawlessly, based on nonsense from Democrat staffers on the same committee, went and spied on Republican staffers in both the House and the Senate for years and then tried to cover it up.

00:05:06.000 So it's just fascinating to see what the previous FBI investigated and didn't.

00:05:12.000 As far as timing, I don't expect anything particularly quickly.

00:05:18.000 This DOJ, I think, is looking at things differently than past DOJs, where they're trying to learn all the documentary facts and evidence, which takes time because they have to go through the mounds of documents that were hidden from them for years.

00:05:28.000 They have to interview low-level witnesses and learn what they can say about the documentary picture.

00:05:34.000 And then they'll eventually have to bring in the big dogs and interview them.

00:05:37.000 So I would expect a multi-month process, maybe even a year-long process, before we really get to the point of indictments.

00:05:44.000 So, Sean, your commentary here is terrific.

00:05:46.000 Let's go to, so put 403 up on screen.

00:05:49.000 The newly declassified top secret emails sent on December 22nd, 2016.

00:05:54.000 Now, remember, that is during the lame duck period.

00:05:56.000 This is critical, okay?

00:05:58.000 So, Donald Trump has won the presidency.

00:06:00.000 He is in transition.

00:06:02.000 And this is during the transition at Trump Tower.

00:06:05.000 The framing and the timing is important here.

00:06:07.000 The newly declassified top secret emails showed that complying with President Trump's order to create the manufactured 2017 ICA about Russia expose how DNI James Clapper demanded the intelligence community fall in line behind the Russia hoax.

00:06:28.000 Clapper admits that it was a team sport that required compromise on our normal modalities.

00:06:36.000 What on earth does that mean?

00:06:38.000 Well, I think it means that Clapper and Brennan and Comey were breaking the rules.

00:06:43.000 They were ignoring the process.

00:06:45.000 They were cutting corners and they were doing it all in furtherance of a narrative which they knew to be false.

00:06:51.000 And bravo to Tulsi Gabbard for finding this information and getting it out there because we've suspected it for a long time.

00:06:58.000 We knew that Brennan cooked the books when it came to the ICA.

00:07:01.000 We knew that he was putting in garbage, so-called evidence, that he was the one who put in the steel dossier because, quote, it rings true, doesn't it? 1.00

00:07:11.000 He's the one who lied to Congress about whether it was in the ICA.

00:07:14.000 But now we have information about Clapper himself basically trying to hijack the process to get to a particular endpoint, not based on the evidence, but based on what he had been ordered to do and what he wanted to do.

00:07:27.000 And we now know exactly, by the way, why Clapper and Brennan were calling for NSA director Mike Rogers to be fired in late 2016.

00:07:36.000 And it's because, based on these emails, we now know that he was, although he eventually signed on to the sham process, that he was highly skeptical of what they were doing and that his analysts didn't actually believe that the evidence that these people were using was sufficient to support the claims they were making.

00:07:52.000 And Clapper says the timeline is non-negotiable.

00:07:54.000 So to put this into kind of just, you know, to distill it down to the essence for people that might be, it's very hard to follow, right?

00:08:02.000 We need like charts and we need like a Glenn Beck chart here, right?

00:08:04.000 You need like a big whiteboard because it's all over the place.

00:08:07.000 Basically, it was a, hey, either you're on the train or you're on the tracks.

00:08:13.000 The president, which was Obama, gave the orders to resurrect Russia as the primary thing that will then use to be a subversion exercise of the incoming President Donald Trump. 0.58

00:08:26.000 Your thoughts, Sean Davis, then I want to go a step deeper.

00:08:29.000 Yeah, so the timing was critical because all of this had to be set in motion before Trump took office.

00:08:34.000 So recall that in early December, they pulled a presidential daily briefing that said Russia's cyber activities weren't meant to elect Trump.

00:08:43.000 And if they had been, they weren't effective at all.

00:08:46.000 That was pulled, at which point they went into this new ICA process, which later became the foundation of the entire Russia collusion hoax.

00:08:54.000 We focused a lot on collusion itself, but without the baseless claims in the ICA that Russia wanted Trump to win and that interfered for him to win.

00:09:02.000 None of the collusion claims would have been possible.

00:09:04.000 So they had to basically set this timed detonation device in motion before Trump took office so that it could explode once they were gone and then they wouldn't be around to have to deal with the fallout.

00:09:17.000 Yeah, and so what we're searching for right now is the clip, and you might remember it, where as a context to this, this shows that there was a gang of people that were aware of this.

00:09:26.000 And in a kind of vulnerable moment, Chuck Schumer went on Rachel Maddow's show in early January of 2017, just weeks before the president took the oath of office the first time.

00:09:38.000 And Chuck Schumer, in a rare, vulnerable moment, was obviously angry because remember, Donald Trump was getting whispers about this.

00:09:46.000 This is very important.

00:09:47.000 So Donald Trump was working in transition and there was chatter.

00:09:52.000 And so Donald Trump was getting whispers about, hey, like the CIA is doing some goofy stuff, you know, incoming President Trump.

00:10:00.000 So he starts tweeting about it.

00:10:02.000 And we can go find that, and everyone said, oh, my goodness, Donald Trump's attacking the Intel community.

00:10:06.000 How dare he do this?

00:10:08.000 And then Chuck Schumer did a mask off moment, PlayCut 446.

00:10:13.000 To take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you. 0.98

00:10:18.000 So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he's being really dumb to do this.

00:10:24.000 What do you think the intelligence community would do if they were moving? 0.91

00:10:26.000 I don't know, but from what I am told, they are very upset with how he has treated them and talked about them.

00:10:33.000 And we need the intelligence community.

00:10:35.000 We don't know what's going on.

00:10:36.000 Look at the Russian hacking.

00:10:38.000 Without the intelligence community, we wouldn't have discovered it.

00:10:42.000 Do you think he has an agenda to try to dismantle parts of the intelligence community?

00:10:45.000 I mean, this form of whether you're a super liberal Democrat or a very conservative Republican, you should be against dismantling the intelligence community.

00:10:55.000 Woo! 0.99

00:10:55.000 And you got a little nose touch at the end, a little like, ah, you know, that clip right there is that that is a masterclass what was happening. 0.99

00:11:02.000 Let me go through the three parts.

00:11:03.000 Number one, he does a threat shot across the bow.

00:11:06.000 You better be careful, President Trump.

00:11:08.000 Number two, he interjects the Russia thing.

00:11:10.000 Oh, you know, if it wasn't for the intel community, we wouldn't know about Russia.

00:11:14.000 And the third component is basically we work for the Intel agencies.

00:11:19.000 That's basically what Chuck Schumer, who was a representative of the Article I legislative branch, basically like, you better not touch them.

00:11:28.000 They run this super government.

00:11:29.000 Sean Davis, 40 seconds.

00:11:31.000 Well, Schumer was correct.

00:11:33.000 We saw that during the COVID thing.

00:11:35.000 We saw it during the Russia collusion hoax.

00:11:36.000 We saw it during the Ukraine impeachment hoax.

00:11:39.000 Recall, the Intel community cooked up a complaint against Trump that he wasn't listening to them, and they used that as the basis to try to impeach him.

00:11:46.000 So yeah, Chuck Schumer in that clip laid out the entire game.

00:11:50.000 You work for them, they call the shots, and if you at any point think you're in charge, they'll take you out.

00:11:55.000 And that's what they tried.

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00:13:00.000 So apparently there was the subway chucker. 0.99

00:13:03.000 We could put the bureau up here.

00:13:05.000 So apparently someone threw a subway sandwich at a federal agent.

00:13:08.000 And we said, okay, you know, find some typical lib that probably works for, you know, some trans organization.

00:13:13.000 Nope.

00:13:14.000 Turns out, who was he, Sean Davis?

00:13:16.000 Who was the sub-chucker? 1.00

00:13:18.000 Yeah, the sassy sub-chucker, as I believe he is now known, is a 37-year-old international affairs specialist, a non-attorney who was hired in 2022 by the Biden administration at the Department of Justice.

00:13:32.000 Ah, there you go.

00:13:34.000 That's what we care about.

00:13:36.000 Which is remarkable.

00:13:37.000 So wait, so tell us more.

00:13:39.000 He is also an openly gay guy.

00:13:41.000 And so he works for the Department of Justice.

00:13:43.000 So let me just get this straight.

00:13:45.000 So someone who works for the DOJ is throwing objects and breaking federal laws against federal law enforcement.

00:13:52.000 Apparently, and there's some more hilarious connections here.

00:13:56.000 It's bad enough that he works for DOJ and was assaulting federal officers.

00:14:02.000 But according to court records that we looked at, his attorney is something of a famous criminal defense attorney.

00:14:08.000 Her name is Sabrina Schroff, who is known for having represented Billy McFarland, who was the Firefest huckster, who also got in trouble for throwing out some filthy sandwiches to concertgoers at Firefest.

00:14:23.000 Ah, that's depressing.

00:14:27.000 So look, the left has gotten used to the idea that they can get paid a lifelong salary to be a political operative on a tax paradigm and never face any consequences.

00:14:36.000 And so look, of course, this guy should go to jail.

00:14:38.000 He should be put behind bars.

00:14:41.000 But Sean, do you think that this is a window into who is actually in the deep state of our government?

00:14:48.000 Like that guy who like forcibly throws the subway and he runs away like a little fairy.

00:14:53.000 Look at that.

00:14:54.000 Oh, wow.

00:14:54.000 I run in my pink little shirt and my, yeah, I love those guys just hunting them down.

00:15:01.000 So tell us how many of these kind of anti-American fairies are in our government.

00:15:08.000 I think the worst thing I can say about that guy is he throws like Barack Obama.

00:15:12.000 That's right.

00:15:12.000 But the federal government is full of people like this.

00:15:16.000 And it's actually why they all freaked out when Trump went and shut down USAID, this gajillion dollar, massive industrial complex, which seemed to only be used to fund the left.

00:15:26.000 This is what they do, whether it's through Sue and Settle, whether it's through NGOs that survive entirely on taxpayer money, or whether it's through the permanent bureaucracy with people like this.

00:15:37.000 This is how they control the government. 0.81

00:15:38.000 And this is how they're able to get paid to do their activism under the color of just normal federal service.

00:15:44.000 And it has to stop.

00:15:45.000 And quite honestly, it's no wonder that conservatives and Republicans have such a hard time implementing their agenda because at every single step on every floor of every building, they have people like this subverting the agenda while pretending to just be nonpartisan, objective civil servants.

00:16:02.000 And it's got to stop.

00:16:03.000 Look, I mean, Doge should not go nearly far enough.

00:16:06.000 And we have a budget fight coming up this fall.

00:16:09.000 The Senate and the House, they're going to probably try to do some omnibus, and we need to just draw the line, not allow it.

00:16:14.000 Why do these people still work for the U.S. taxpayer?

00:16:17.000 We need mass layoffs, mass firings.

00:16:20.000 And by the way, start with guys like this.

00:16:22.000 I mean, what good is he bringing to the Department of Justice?

00:16:26.000 He's throwing subway sandwiches, being hunted by federal officers.

00:16:30.000 Why do we need gay 37-year-olds working in international affairs at the Department of Justice? 1.00

00:16:35.000 How is that making us safer? 0.87

00:16:37.000 It's not about like, okay, the gay thing or whatever.

00:16:39.000 It's just the point is that it's obvious that he has an agenda.

00:16:42.000 He's like open about it.

00:16:44.000 He's not there.

00:16:45.000 It's just like a sense of entitlement.

00:16:47.000 And he's chucking objects at federal law enforcement as he himself is a federal employee.

00:16:55.000 Final thoughts, Sean Davis.

00:16:56.000 Yeah, well, a big problem here is you've got a bazillion different employees.

00:17:01.000 It's hard to know who all the bad ones are.

00:17:03.000 You've got to have good people in place at the political level to fix this.

00:17:07.000 And the Senate so far has only confirmed 100-something of Trump's political nominees.

00:17:11.000 There's still hundreds waiting to be confirmed, waiting to take their jobs in these agencies.

00:17:17.000 And you just can't expect one person at the top to go in and be able to know where all the bodies are buried and who all the extra weight is to get rid of it.

00:17:26.000 You've got to have your full team in place.

00:17:28.000 And for reasons that I just don't understand, the Senate's being allowed to just obstruct and dicker around and prevent Trump from getting his full team in place, which leads to this type of nonsense.

00:17:38.000 That is a window.

00:17:39.000 I hope the takeaway is this, as we say goodbye to Sean Davis and the Federalist.

00:17:43.000 I want you to extrapolate a standing army of 600,000 fairies that throw subway sandwiches. 1.00

00:17:49.000 That's who staffs your government. 0.88

00:17:50.000 We should fire them all.

00:17:51.000 Thank you, Sean Davis.

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00:18:56.000 There are street takeovers happening in Los Angeles.

00:19:00.000 We have crime all across California.

00:19:02.000 We're trying to get our U.S. attorneys in, but the Senate needs to figure themselves out. 0.97

00:19:06.000 But joining us now is the acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California with a lot to discuss, Bill Isaley.

00:19:14.000 Bill, great to see you.

00:19:15.000 Thank you for joining the program.

00:19:17.000 What are some of the fights that you guys are engaged in in California to bring down crime?

00:19:24.000 Please walk us through it.

00:19:25.000 Oh, Charlie, thanks for having me on.

00:19:28.000 And since I've gotten here in April, we have taken on a huge initiative here.

00:19:32.000 I would say the first thing I've made a priority is going after this homelessness fraud that happens here in the state of California.

00:19:38.000 We've had $24 billion spent over five years, and it's only gotten worse.

00:19:43.000 And there's a lot of people who've seen and been enriched off that.

00:19:46.000 So we have open investigations into that.

00:19:48.000 And I think you'll be seeing some of the fruits of that here very soon.

00:19:52.000 We are going after sanctuary cities and jurisdictions.

00:19:54.000 We have Operation Guardian Angel, where we are getting warrants for criminals in state custody, and they are required to hand them over to us, which they are not required to comply with the detainer, but they have to comply with a warrant.

00:20:06.000 We're going after street gangs.

00:20:08.000 Just yesterday at 5 a.m., we did a takedown of the Hoover street gang in LA in the Figueroa Corridor, which is one of the worst sex trafficking corridors probably in the world.

00:20:21.000 It's horrendous what happens there.

00:20:23.000 You have young women and children as young as 14 years old being pimped out by these gang members.

00:20:29.000 And yesterday we indicted and took out 11 of the leaders of this organization who are pimping out these girls and these children.

00:20:36.000 And we're very proud of doing that.

00:20:38.000 That's the work that the Department of Justice is doing to clean up our communities where the prior administration was busy weaponizing the department. 0.52

00:20:46.000 We're out there making the American people safer.

00:20:48.000 That's what we're doing here.

00:20:49.000 Yeah, and so how is that being received by mayors, local leaders?

00:20:54.000 Are some Democrats fighting this crackdown on crime?

00:20:58.000 No, actually, behind the scenes, they're begging us to take these cases.

00:21:02.000 They understand that they don't have the ability to go after these thugs in the state system.

00:21:07.000 California has watered down their criminal justice system.

00:21:10.000 They have no real punishment for their felonies.

00:21:13.000 They're closing prisons left and right.

00:21:15.000 So they don't have the ability to incarcerate people and to have meaningful consequences.

00:21:19.000 So they beg us to take these cases.

00:21:21.000 Where they are fighting us, Charlie, is on the immigration enforcement.

00:21:24.000 We are having our Border Patrol and ICE.

00:21:26.000 They're going out every day arresting hundreds of illegal immigrants, criminal legal immigrants, and they are fighting us tooth and nail on that.

00:21:32.000 They're sending out these thugs to resist our agents, and we are charging people.

00:21:37.000 I filed over 53 cases for assaults and interference with our agents.

00:21:41.000 And that's where they're focusing their opposition.

00:21:44.000 Yeah, and so what is your status in front of the U.S. Senate?

00:21:48.000 I mean, are you confirmed?

00:21:50.000 You're acting.

00:21:51.000 Tell us.

00:21:52.000 My status in front of the U.S. Senate is I have no status.

00:21:57.000 I've never been nominated to the Senate because the senators here, Alex Badilla and Adam Schiff, have refused to even, my understanding, is meet with the White House or have discussions with the White House.

00:22:10.000 So I was appointed by the Attorney General as the interim U.S. Attorney, which gave me the ability to serve in that position for 120 days.

00:22:18.000 At the end of that 120 days, the judges had the opportunity to make me the permanent U.S. attorney.

00:22:24.000 They declined to do so here, which is unsurprising.

00:22:28.000 But they did not name a replacement, Like, unlike what they tried to do at Lena Haba there to impose their own prosecutor, they just did nothing in this district.

00:22:37.000 So, because of that, I am now what's called the acting U.S. attorney.

00:22:41.000 I am a DOJ employee, and I'm the top DOJ employee in the office.

00:22:45.000 So, that effectively makes me the acting U.S. attorney here.

00:22:49.000 And that's our workaround right now because my understanding is there is no appetite in the United States Senate to modify the blue slip process, which allows Democrat senators like Adam Schiff and Alex Badilla to have a veto over the president's appointees.

00:23:07.000 It makes zero sense to have this process.

00:23:10.000 We spoke out against the blue slip, and Chuck Grassley is the kind of one overseeing it.

00:23:14.000 Just so we are clear, you're doing a great job, but you will not be able to be a permanent U.S. attorney as long as a Democrat vetoes you.

00:23:20.000 So, basically, we win an election, and then we don't get to have our U.S. attorneys, even though we voted for secure border going on cartels, because you have a couple U.S. senators of a non-constitutional, purely procedural gentleman's club, where they say, oh, you know, we're going to be able to kind of get in the way of this.

00:23:36.000 It is a ridiculous system.

00:23:37.000 It will not allow us to get President Trump's people in Oregon, in Washington, in California, in Arizona, in Georgia, in New Jersey, in New York, in Massachusetts, and in Maine. 0.82

00:23:48.000 Well, Maine, we have Susan Collins, but still Angus King get in the way of it.

00:23:51.000 Those blues support supporters, they need to get a pink slip, basically, we said. 0.98

00:23:55.000 So, so walk us through what are the other issues that we are fighting here that you are fighting firsthand in California, and how present is the cartel activity?

00:24:08.000 And, real quick on the blue slip thing, Charlie, it's not just U.S. attorneys.

00:24:11.000 You're talking about judges.

00:24:13.000 When you look at all the judges who are issuing TROs or injunctions, we had a judge issue a TRO against our border patrol agents here because they don't want them to do the immigration enforcement.

00:24:23.000 All those judges are basically they have to go through the senators.

00:24:26.000 The senators, through this blue slip tradition, it's really a tradition, it's not a law or anything.

00:24:31.000 It allows them to be the kings of their states.

00:24:33.000 So, these Democrat senators walk around like they're kingmakers.

00:24:36.000 They pick the U.S. attorneys, they pick the judges, they run the place.

00:24:40.000 And what I've seen does not happen in the reverse, Charlie.

00:24:43.000 And in Republican states, Republicans don't exercise their power that way.

00:24:48.000 You know what they say?

00:24:49.000 Barack Obama won the election.

00:24:51.000 He deserves to have his people.

00:24:53.000 And so they allow the president to pick his people in Republican states.

00:24:57.000 But in blue states, Democrats refuse to do that.

00:25:00.000 So it's a bigger issue than just U.S. attorneys.

00:25:04.000 On cartels, there is no shortage of crime here.

00:25:08.000 Even though we are not a border district, we're not technically on the border.

00:25:12.000 We are still considered a border district in the eyes of the DOJ.

00:25:16.000 We do some of the largest, most impactful drug interdiction cases.

00:25:22.000 We have a lot of illegal immigrants in this district, millions of illegal immigrants in this district.

00:25:27.000 We file what's called 1326 cases.

00:25:29.000 This is when someone is deported and they re-enter.

00:25:32.000 It is now a federal felony.

00:25:35.000 Under the Biden administration, they stopped filing those cases.

00:25:38.000 We have filed over 900 just this year.

00:25:41.000 So that's just a little flavor of the work that we're doing here.

00:25:45.000 Almost every day, we're indicting some drug trafficker, gang member, someone with guns and drugs, some child molester or trafficker.

00:25:54.000 I mean, there's no shortage of crime.

00:25:56.000 It just doesn't get reported the way the other stuff does in the media.

00:26:00.000 Okay, let's now go to cut 435.

00:26:03.000 This is Karen Bass fighting Trump's raids. 0.89

00:26:06.000 I'm going to play this and say, isn't it time to start indicting these mayors?

00:26:09.000 I mean, they're allowed to just fight against President Trump's immigration policy play cut 435.

00:26:16.000 We're all here today in solidarity to say that we will continue to resist.

00:26:21.000 We are not going to accept this behavior from this administration and that Los Angeles stands united.

00:26:29.000 So, again, that's not, she's like standing with the immigrant community fighting against.

00:26:33.000 I mean, is it legal for a mayor to defy federal law enforcement?

00:26:38.000 It is not legal for a mayor to defy federal law enforcement.

00:26:42.000 It is illegal for her to interfere with federal law enforcement.

00:26:46.000 What they do is they try to kind of walk this line where they say, we're not going to cooperate.

00:26:52.000 We're not going to help you.

00:26:53.000 And we're just going to make it very clear that we don't like you.

00:26:56.000 The thing that would cross them into the criminal Territory is if they took actions to actually impede or interfere with our ability to do our job.

00:27:08.000 And Charlie, if I could say, first of all, I'm not going to talk about any investigations that we may or may not have, but this to me is a problem that is easily remedied by Congress.

00:27:19.000 Sanctuary cities have been challenged in the courts.

00:27:22.000 And what the courts have said is that states do not have to use their state resources to help the federal government.

00:27:29.000 Now, what Congress could very easily do is say, fine, you're not going to get a penny from the federal government unless you get rid of your sanctuary policies.

00:27:37.000 This is how we regulate highway speeds.

00:27:40.000 That's why we have speed limits in every state.

00:27:42.000 This is why we have a drinking age of 21 in every state.

00:27:45.000 That is how the federal government compels states to do things.

00:27:48.000 Simple levels of money.

00:27:50.000 That's right.

00:27:50.000 Yes.

00:27:50.000 That's right.

00:27:51.000 We are behind you.

00:27:52.000 We're going to do everything we can to get you confirmed under the current system.

00:27:55.000 You're not going to get confirmed unless the Senate fixes this ridiculous blue slip thing. 0.87

00:28:01.000 Bill Isali, thank you so much for your time, and we really appreciate it.

00:28:05.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:28:08.000 America's small businesses rely on TikTok to succeed.

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00:29:03.000 I don't love charts.

00:29:05.000 I'm not a big chart guy because they could be very deceiving.

00:29:08.000 But every so often you find a chart that is a perfect depiction of what not just is reality, but something that you've been trying to put into words.

00:29:18.000 President Donald Trump, of course, loved a chart.

00:29:20.000 A chart saved his life.

00:29:21.000 Thanks to Ron Johnson.

00:29:22.000 He turned his head at the right moment and vomited that bullet went by.

00:29:26.000 Of course, it was the illegal border crossings chart.

00:29:28.000 This chart is one I want to draw your attention to.

00:29:31.000 This is not a criticism, of course, of any generation.

00:29:33.000 This is a statement of reality.

00:29:36.000 This is the estimated percentage of 30-year-olds who are both married and are homeowners.

00:29:44.000 In 1950, the World War II generation, 50% of 30-year-olds were married and they owned a home.

00:29:52.000 In the 1980s, it only went down by about 5%.

00:29:55.000 45% of 30-year-olds in 1980 were married and owned homes.

00:30:03.000 Around the turn of the millennium, it was okay, but obviously falling.

00:30:07.000 It was like 35%.

00:30:09.000 When Obama was president, it was 27%.

00:30:13.000 It is now about 8%.

00:30:17.000 So we went from a country where half of our nation's young people were married and owned homes right in 1950.

00:30:25.000 And now it's about 8%.

00:30:28.000 Interesting to start to see the chart drop at 1990.

00:30:31.000 We had the invasion of Iraq and the signing, of course, of the 1990 Immigration Act, where we went from 0.5 million green cards to 1.2 million.

00:30:38.000 A coincidence?

00:30:39.000 Of course not.

00:30:41.000 This right here is a breakdown of the social compact.

00:30:44.000 This is what I've been talking about.

00:30:45.000 I talked about with Tucker Carlson.

00:30:47.000 I talked about on CNBC.

00:30:49.000 This is leading the populist nationalist revolution across the West.

00:30:55.000 We need urgency to restore it.

00:30:57.000 I believe President Trump can and will.

00:30:59.000 Mass deportations, stop the H-1B scam, dramatically reduce legal immigration, end chain migration and the visa lottery, build 10 million homes immediately for Americans and crush the college cartel and make it easier for you to be a plumber, electrician, a welder, a pipe fitter.

00:31:15.000 Do you want to save a generation and stop Mom Donnie and Maggioni?

00:31:20.000 Study that chart.

00:31:22.000 Know that chart. 0.91

00:31:23.000 It's harder than ever for young people to be able to find a mate that is not either incredibly, let's just Say unappealing or lesbian or gay. 1.00

00:31:33.000 It's just the whole generation, the whole dating pool is all disordered and messed up. 1.00

00:31:38.000 Trust me, I hear about that all the time.

00:31:40.000 That's a very good topic that we should talk about, Morris.

00:31:42.000 Why are young people not getting married?

00:31:44.000 Why are fertility rates collapsing the way they are?

00:31:47.000 But you have a choice, and we talked about this choice yesterday.

00:31:50.000 And I'll keep that chart up just for a second.

00:31:51.000 I just want to repeat it.

00:31:53.000 In 1980, it only went down by five points.

00:31:56.000 In 1980, where a lot of people in this audience were about 30 years old, that would be a baby boomer.

00:32:03.000 45% of you were able to get married and have homes and were married and had homes.

00:32:09.000 And now it's about 8%.

00:32:11.000 This invites radical politics.

00:32:15.000 I'm working on a longer form thesis as to why homeownership is so important.

00:32:22.000 An argument that someone made to me recently of someone I really respect, who was a private discussion, he said, but renting is the new way.

00:32:30.000 Renting is better. 0.72

00:32:31.000 Renting is better because the argument he made is, well, when's the last time you used your dining room in your house?

00:32:37.000 There's so much inefficiencies in owning.

00:32:39.000 There's so much dead space.

00:32:41.000 Wouldn't it be better to have a bed come out of the ceiling and your toilet come out of the wall and you could invest that extra money in a 401k or a stock portfolio?

00:32:52.000 While that all sounds good, is efficiency really the thing that we're aiming towards?

00:32:57.000 I think there's something uniquely American as saying this is my land, this is my property.

00:33:02.000 And those of us that are homeowners, you know that something happened to you as soon as you bought a home.

00:33:09.000 You know something changed.

00:33:12.000 Now, of course, people should have a choice.

00:33:13.000 If you want to rent, go ahead.

00:33:14.000 But we actually don't have the choice.

00:33:16.000 That's the point.

00:33:17.000 Is that young people are being forced into a mandatory rental economy?

00:33:23.000 Yeah, let's play cut 440.

00:33:24.000 They tell us to stop eating out and rent $2,000 a month.

00:33:28.000 Oh, save for retirement, and yet you can barely save for next week.

00:33:33.000 Go buy a house.

00:33:35.000 Every house is half a million dollars, brother.

00:33:38.000 I'm not asking for a handout, man.

00:33:40.000 We're asking for a freaking fair shot at life.

00:33:44.000 Our parents did not work harder than we work right now.

00:33:48.000 They were simply just given a better chance.

00:33:51.000 Their wages covered their lives, their bills, their hobbies, their passions.

00:33:56.000 Our wages barely cover our freaking bills for the month, dude.

00:34:02.000 No amount of budgeting can ever fix a system designed to keep us down. 0.57

00:34:07.000 We're doing the best that we can, and yet it feels like the outcome has already been decided.

00:34:11.000 We don't fix it.

00:34:12.000 You get Maggioni and Mom Donnie.

00:34:14.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:15.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:34:18.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - August 15, 2025

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