00:01:01.000His 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.
00:01:10.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:39.000Then we went to Springfield, Missouri, in southwestern Missouri.
00:01:43.000And we had a packed house that evening at Missouri State University right near there.
00:01:48.000And then last evening, we capped off our campus tour for the week at least because we'll be back on the road next week in Nashville with Candace Owens.
00:01:57.000But last night we were in Lexington, Kentucky.
00:02:02.000And the University of Kentucky warmly opened up Rup Arena for us, of which there's a lot of great history, basketball history there.
00:02:26.000And why a lot of people kind of watching and waiting and asking, well, what do we do in a moment like this?
00:02:31.000We at Turning Point USA, we are continually playing offense with a sense of urgency to win America's culture war.
00:02:38.000Okay, CharlieKirk.com, the front page of CharlieKirk.com, we have a story about the biggest story happening in the country because he finally did it.
00:02:48.000The president of the United States, Joe Biden, gave a press conference.
00:02:53.000Joe Biden decided to do what Donald Trump and many other presidents before him would do almost weekly, limited to just 25 reporters.
00:03:03.000Now, the stunning part of this press conference was that Joe Biden was not calling on people and having a dialogue.
00:03:12.000Instead, he had a prescripted list of people to call on.
00:03:18.000In fact, a side angle of a photograph that was taken, Joe Biden had names and pictures of every single reporter with numbers next to them of the order of which he was going to call on them.
00:03:33.000He also had a note card that said all of his main talking points.
00:03:37.000The United States now ranks 13th globally in infrastructure quality, down from fifth place in 2022, which doesn't even make any sense.
00:03:46.000China spends three times more on infrastructure than the U.S.
00:03:50.000These are all of his cheat sheets that he had.
00:04:17.000The questions were screened beforehand, at least the journalists, quote-unquote, the journalists, beforehand were screened.
00:04:24.000Joe Biden knew the questions that were going to be asked.
00:04:27.000And the most important thing is not what the questions that were asked, but the questions that weren't asked.
00:04:34.000Do you not know that Joe Biden got zero questions on the Chinese coronavirus?
00:04:39.000Meanwhile, that's the only questions that Donald Trump got through every single press briefing that he did.
00:04:44.000No questions on the Chinese coronavirus.
00:04:47.000Do you think if Donald Trump fell walking up the stairs three times, you think that someone would have asked a question of whether or not his health was okay or he passed his health examination?
00:06:08.000Now, that's Caitlin Collins from CNN, who instead of asking questions about substance, just asks the easiest question that would generate a clickbait headline that is actually completely irrelevant to the crises that are happening in our country right now.
00:06:24.000So the matinee at the White House continued when Joe Biden decided to comment on the border crisis.
00:06:31.000He was asked about it, and he misrepresented and lied about the border crisis.
00:06:36.000He said, something like this happens every year, man.
00:06:40.000Well, look, I guess I should be flattered people are coming because I'm the nice guy.
00:06:44.000That's the reason why it's happening, that I'm a decent man, or Haver's phrase.
00:06:49.000That's why they're coming because no Biden's a good guy.
00:06:52.000Truth of the matter is, nothing has changed.
00:06:55.000As many people came, 28% increase in children to the border in my administration, 31% in the last year in 2019 before the pandemic in the Trump administration.
00:07:10.000It happens every single solitary year.
00:07:46.000Look, we all need notes here and there.
00:07:47.000I just gave seven hours of speeches this week, and I had a couple notes.
00:07:53.000Notes are helpful to kind of keep you on track.
00:07:57.000The real question that people need to be asking is who's writing those notes?
00:08:03.000Who's actually in charge of the input into the output of the Biden administration?
00:08:10.000Who are the people making the decisions behind the most powerful government in our country?
00:08:18.000Joe Biden refused to do a press conference up until this last moment, this last 24 hours.
00:08:26.000And he covered a lot of different topics.
00:08:29.000Joe Biden also talked about the filibuster, which is a new obsession of the Democrat Party to try to get rid of the filibuster because the filibuster is the last impediment of their totalitarian power grab in our country.
00:08:42.000And it's more clear than ever that the activist press, they don't want to ask tough questions out of Joe Biden because they look at him as a teammate.
00:08:53.000They look at him as the captain of the team.
00:08:57.000And instead of asking tough questions, Caitlin Collins from CNN will ask him, so are you going to run again?
00:09:59.000Yeah, and I have to say, I was also struck by the fact that it seemed on every foreign policy question, not the others, but on foreign policy, he went to his briefing book like Jen Saki does sometimes in the briefings and was reading, obviously, White House guidance, White House talking points, covering Ronald Reagan for six years.
00:10:22.000Watching a lot of news conferences over the years, I've never seen that.
00:10:25.000A president in a news conference reading talking points, he did that on, it seemed every foreign policy question.
00:10:32.000So Chris Wallace makes a very important point here.
00:10:35.000And again, I've been plenty critical of Chris Wallace.
00:10:39.000However, he has a lot of credibility because of how unfair I believe he was to Donald Trump that it's actually worth playing the tape because it goes to show that even he will go out of his way to criticize Joe Biden for this.
00:10:50.000There is one question that the activist press should be asking, and that we as conservatives and those of us that love our country need to be asking this question.
00:11:00.000And quite honestly, I don't know the answer totally.
00:11:56.000And that's one of the major ways they were able to delegitimize the presidency of Donald Trump, is they asked from the beginning, who's in charge?
00:15:22.000Who's the Quentin Tarantino behind this scripted play to destroy the American Republic?
00:15:30.000OpenSecrets.org had a story that came out nine days ago that almost no one covered.
00:15:37.000Dark money topped $1 billion in 2020, largely boosting Democrats.
00:15:45.000The 2020 election saw $1 billion in dark money spending at a federal level, a massive sum driven by the explosion of secret donations boosting Democrats.
00:15:55.000Over $660 million of contributions to political groups, $88 million of FEC reported spending, $132 million of digital ad spending, and $170 million of television advertising spending.
00:16:11.000Liberal dark money groups overshadow conservatives.
00:16:14.000Again, I am reading right now from opensecrets.org.
00:16:17.000Joe Biden's presidential bid attracted $174 million in support from anonymous donors, more than six times the $25.2 million in dark money contributions and spending boosting President Donald Trump's unsuccessful reelection effort.
00:16:32.000Future Forward USA, a new hybrid PAC, put in $100 million into ads backing Biden in the presidential race and took in $61 million from its affiliated 501c4 nonprofit in the final months of the election.
00:16:48.000Each of the top Biden super PACs, American Bridge 21st Century Priorities USA Action and Unite the Country, received multi-million dollar contributions from the 1630 Fund.
00:16:59.000The expansive secret donor network, which poured more than $57 million into liberal committees at the federal level, anti-Trump 501c4 nonprofits defending democracy together also chipped in spending more than $15 million.
00:17:14.000And yet, if you just read the activist press, you would think only conservatives were using 501c4 quote-unquote dark money groups.
00:17:25.000Yet it is Democrats that dwarf Republicans when it comes to using the dark money apparatus, which then the question should be: who's behind these groups?
00:18:05.000At the very least, it's worthy of asking the question.
00:18:08.000You see, very angry journalists, I put that in quotes, who have very little talent made millions of dollars accusing and speculating that Donald Trump was purchased by the Russian government.
00:18:26.000That he laundered the money through Deutsche Bank.
00:18:30.000You see, we as conservatives sometimes live in a bubble.
00:18:32.000And in fact, that's okay at times, because if you had to encounter the left as much as I did, do or did, you wouldn't be a very happy person.
00:18:42.000And if you would be stunned at how many books have been written around this conspiracy theory that Donald Trump was purchased by Vladimir Putin.
00:18:55.000So the interesting question that Rachel Maddow explored for years with no evidence at all whatsoever is who is in charge of Donald Trump?
00:19:03.000Now, of course, we knew the answer to that question.
00:19:05.000The people were in charge of Donald Trump.
00:19:37.000So I see stiff competition with China.
00:19:43.000China has an overall goal, and I don't criticize them for the goal, but they have an overall goal to become the leading country in the world, the wealthiest country in the world, and the most powerful country in the world.
00:20:49.000Who's the one that is conducting this metaphorical orchestra of the Biden White House?
00:20:57.000If I was Xi Jiping, I would have been thrilled with yesterday's press conference.
00:21:03.000If I was Xi Jping, I would have waited up very late, probably was midnight or 1 a.m. in Wuhan, and I would have toasted champagne and ate pork.
00:21:14.000They love pork in China, with the nonsense and the drivel and the weakness that your employee, Joe Biden, espoused at the press conference.
00:21:25.000You see, the Chinese, they're very bad at some things, and they're very good at other things.
00:22:18.000The Chinese and the Chinese Communist Party, they have no such concerns about that.
00:22:24.000But the Chinese Communist Party was very smart strategically to purchase certain political families through business deals throughout the years.
00:22:34.000That's exactly what they did with Tony Bobulinsky and Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, 10% for the big man, when Hunter Biden boarded Air Force 2 and went to China and secured a multi-billion dollar investment.
00:22:46.000And now China is able to cash in on that investment.
00:22:50.000You trying to tell me the Chinese Communist Party, through a sovereign bank, they invested in Hunter Biden's funds, something that he had no experience in whatsoever, because they thought that he was going to deliver double-digit returns?
00:23:02.000They did that because they knew that one day, maybe, possibly, Joe Biden might be in front of that lectern that has the seal that says the president of the United States.
00:23:15.000And under that, it says E pluribus Unum with the beautiful golden eagle seal.
00:23:20.000The Chinese Communist Party was placing a bet.
00:23:23.000The Chinese Communist Party was developing a farm team, to use a baseball analogy as baseball's coming back.
00:23:32.000They were trying to make sure they had a seat at the table early and often.
00:23:39.000And so yesterday when Joe Biden comes up on stage and he refused to call China an adversary, refused to call them an enemy, and he says, oh, they're a competitor.
00:24:01.000They have a million Muslims in concentration camps.
00:24:04.000Joe Biden is worse than Neville Chamberlain ever was.
00:24:08.000And the activist press is perfectly okay with it because the activist press has been propagandized and hypnotized by our colleges or universities to truly believe that the Chinese Communist Party is nowhere near as evil as our own country.
00:24:23.000Only people that go to college can believe something so foolish as that.
00:24:27.000And so as we wrestle with this question this hour, who's in charge, a pretty good guess would, well, maybe China's in charge.
00:24:34.000They went after Donald Trump relentlessly on this idea of the emoluments clause that Donald Trump was somehow purchased by the Russians and the Saudis.
00:24:46.000And yet the activist press is completely silent on the idea that maybe Joe Biden is purchased and still is purchased by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:24:58.000In fact, Hunter Biden still has shares in a Chinese Communist Party company.
00:25:06.000New York Post, Hunter Biden still working to unwind his investment in Chinese firm.
00:25:12.000Hunter Biden still owns a share in Bohai Harvest RST, an equity investment fund in management known as BHR.
00:25:24.000So Hunter Biden, who has unfettered access into our government, Hunter Biden, who is currently under Secret Service protection, Hunter Biden, who is very close to his father, is a shareholder in a Chinese Communist Party company.
00:25:40.000Maybe that's why Joe Biden was so light on China yesterday.
00:25:44.000I want you to email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com, as we explore together the most important question in the country that no one is talking about.
00:26:58.000We know that there are logical and reasonable responses to every single claim he is making.
00:27:03.000But the question that needs to be asked and our attention must be focused on who's actually the person or the group, the entity that is putting forward the agenda that we find to be so reprehensible in our country.
00:27:38.000Maybe it's the Chamber of Commerce, the National Chamber of Commerce.
00:27:43.000Maybe it's far-left-wing activist groups, or maybe it's all of those inputs and one person behind Joe Biden that is really calling the shots.
00:27:53.000You see, the Founding Fathers warned us against a president like Joe Biden.
00:27:59.000There's a psychological truth called psychological projection.
00:28:07.000It can be best described as a defense mechanism in which the ego will defend itself against impulses that might be unconscious or qualities by denying their existence in themselves by attributing it to others.
00:28:26.000And this is exactly how the Democrats and the left treated Donald Trump.
00:28:31.000They accused him and they accuse conservatives and Republicans of everything they are actually doing.
00:28:38.000We are in the midst of a massive psychological projection exercise where they say to Republicans and to Donald Trump that conservatives are purchased by Russia and that they are not the ones actually calling the shots when in reality, it's the exact opposite.
00:28:56.000In reality, it is the Democrats that are the ones that are not calling the shots.
00:29:02.000They are the ones that are doing the bidding of others.
00:29:07.000And it is imperative that we do not lose focus on this question.
00:29:12.000It's the most important question happening.
00:29:14.000And I think the more questions we ask and the more research we do from wonderful people like Peter Schweitzer, we'll be able to get a fuller picture in groups like Judicial Watch and Tom Fitten.
00:29:25.000Now, mind you, the activist press tried to answer that question when it came to Donald Trump, and they tried to come to some nefarious fictional answer, and they were never able to get close to it, despite a special counsel, despite tens of millions of dollars spent on it, despite two impeachment hearings.
00:29:41.000And let's just not forget Eric Swawell, who's on the House Intelligence Committee, was compromised by Fang Fang.
00:29:47.000We can't forget that Diane Feinstein had a Chinese Communist Party driver for years.
00:29:52.000That Hunter Biden received a massive investment, $2 billion plus investment from the Chinese Communist Party sanctioned bank.
00:29:59.000That Hunter Biden is still a shareholder in a Chinese Communist Party company.
00:30:26.000You ever had that phenomenon happen before?
00:30:29.000And then eventually someone who has a badge or someone, that person is responsible for what is happening at that circus or that chaotic environment.
00:30:40.000And that person must then take ownership and responsibility.
00:30:44.000You see, because there was someone that was at that specific incident who had no idea what was going on.
00:30:50.000And I knew that person's not in charge.