The Charlie Kirk Show - January 18, 2024


Why Can't Texas Defend Itself From Invasion?


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Former Texas AG Ken Paxton is back on the saddle with a new piece of news that will have you thinking twice before you sign a contract with the Texas AG's office. Paxton has been a long time friend of mine, and I know he's been through a hell of a lot in his career. He's a great guy and a great attorney general, but there's a lot of bad people out there that are trying to weigh him down and interfere with his ability to enforce the law and uphold the law of the great people of Texas.

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00:01:37.000 The invasion is the number one issue happening in the country, number one issue.
00:01:41.000 And the guy that is focused on it is a great friend, and we had his back 100%.
00:01:48.000 And he is back on the saddle with some huge news.
00:01:51.000 But also, remember that there's bad people that are trying to weigh him down, that are trying to interfere with his ability to enforce the law and uphold the law of the Great People of Texas, which is the centerpiece of all this.
00:02:03.000 Of course, is Ken Paxton.
00:02:04.000 He's doing an amazing job.
00:02:06.000 And we're going to get into some of the details here with Shelby Park.
00:02:08.000 But first, Attorney General Paxton has some news to share regarding just some of the leftover nonsense from the fight over the summer.
00:02:19.000 Attorney General Paxton, thank you for taking the time.
00:02:22.000 Walk us through some of that with the whistleblowers.
00:02:24.000 I know you have some news to share.
00:02:26.000 Yeah, so as you know, this has been a battle since my election when the Bush group, Carl Roe, came after me in a group called Texans for Lawsuit Reform, Dick Weekly, Dick Trabolsi, and they spent millions of dollars to beat me.
00:02:39.000 We ended up overwhelmingly winning the primary, beating George P. Bush 6832.
00:02:44.000 We overwhelmingly won our general election.
00:02:46.000 I ended up spending about $16 million.
00:02:48.000 And then when they had me down to no money and they knew I couldn't raise money during session, they impeached me so that I wouldn't have the ability to hire lawyers.
00:02:57.000 I wouldn't have the ability to defend myself.
00:02:58.000 That's why they chose that time period.
00:03:00.000 And they came after me with this ridiculous impeachment where there was no due process, there was no evidence, and there were no witnesses that were sworn in.
00:03:08.000 And we went through that saga, which the world got to see.
00:03:11.000 And despite the fact that they took me through the whole thing illegally, it was an overwhelming win for me.
00:03:17.000 That was the second attempt to get me out of office.
00:03:20.000 And the third attempt has been this so-called whistleblower or rogue employee lawsuit that they started three years ago.
00:03:27.000 We actually settled it over a year ago.
00:03:30.000 And the reason we settled it is because we were in a jurisdiction, Travis County, Austin, where we didn't think we had much chance.
00:03:37.000 And this is what Trump's dealing with.
00:03:38.000 When you're in jurisdictions where the law and the facts don't really matter, you're going to spend a lot of money and lose.
00:03:45.000 You try to figure out some way to resolve that because this isn't me getting sued.
00:03:49.000 This is the taxpayers having to pay for this.
00:03:51.000 So we settled it.
00:03:52.000 And now we have this issue where basically the local courts have said, oh, that contract that you signed doesn't matter anymore.
00:04:00.000 The whistleblowers are going to get to overturn it and just dismiss it as if they've never signed it.
00:04:05.000 And so we've decided, you know what?
00:04:06.000 We're just going to amend our answer and we're going to say, look, we're not playing this game anymore.
00:04:10.000 Give us whatever liability you think we have, whatever damages.
00:04:13.000 The end result is the legislature has already turned this down because they have to agree to pay these guys whatever that amount is.
00:04:23.000 And so if there's a judgment for more, the legislature has already said they're not paying anything.
00:04:29.000 And so there's no reason for us to let them harass my office when we're dealing with all of these immigration issues and suing Pfizer.
00:04:36.000 And we've got this huge Google laws that there's no reason to distract my office anymore.
00:04:40.000 Yeah, seriously.
00:04:42.000 And by the case, it doesn't matter.
00:04:42.000 Yeah.
00:04:43.000 No, this whole thing is insane to me.
00:04:44.000 And by the way, the Texas House and the Grassroots of Texas, they should pay nothing, not a dime, not a dime to any of these people.
00:04:50.000 Okay.
00:04:51.000 You cannot justify this.
00:04:52.000 You cannot subsidize this.
00:04:53.000 You cannot reward this type of behavior.
00:04:55.000 And understand the big game at play here, right?
00:04:57.000 You have a historic invasion like we've never seen.
00:05:00.000 And Texas is the centerpiece of it.
00:05:01.000 And you have this fire-breathing, amazing, constitution-loving Texan attorney general who's doing a great job.
00:05:08.000 And he has to defend himself against all this nonsense.
00:05:11.000 The invasion and the distraction campaign against Ken Paxton are directly connected.
00:05:18.000 I hope our audience understands it.
00:05:19.000 Ken, your thoughts.
00:05:20.000 No, it's absolutely true.
00:05:22.000 We just sent a letter back to the Department of Justice yesterday where they threatened us because the governor, doing the right thing, took over this park that Border Patrol was using as a staging ground to allow legals to come across at will.
00:05:33.000 And they threatened us.
00:05:34.000 Department of Justice said, hey, you can't do this.
00:05:38.000 We're in the business of protecting the border and you're stopping us from protecting the border.
00:05:43.000 We sent back a letter.
00:05:44.000 I sent back a letter yesterday saying, I haven't seen any sign of you protecting the border.
00:05:49.000 We're going to continue to disallow Border Patrol from taking our lands, our public lands, and using them for their benefit.
00:05:57.000 And so that's the fight we're in.
00:05:58.000 We're in the fight over the buoys.
00:05:59.000 We're in the fight over them cutting down our fences.
00:06:01.000 And those are the things that I don't want to lose sight of while we're dealing with this ridiculous lawsuit in Travis County.
00:06:09.000 We just got to end this.
00:06:09.000 The legislature should say, we're paying you nothing.
00:06:11.000 We're not rewarding this.
00:06:12.000 So, Ken, I just want to talk about the Shelby Park deal.
00:06:16.000 And I think this is the big one.
00:06:18.000 This is the one where it's going to go up to the Supreme Court.
00:06:22.000 And how would you prefer the Supreme Court rules on this?
00:06:26.000 What is the argument that you hope that they receive?
00:06:30.000 I can imagine that you want the Supreme Court to say that if and when the federal government does not do their constitutionally prescribed job, that the states are allowed to step up and do it.
00:06:42.000 It seems like Shelby Park is a perfect opportunity to make that argument.
00:06:46.000 Yes, and you've hit it exactly.
00:06:48.000 That's one of the cases.
00:06:49.000 The other is this wire-cutting thing, both of them.
00:06:52.000 And then also our election or this legislation the legislature passed where they're basically saying we're going to deport people.
00:06:59.000 So all of these are opportunities for the Supreme Court to back it up from their Arizona v U.S. case where they said that states can't do anything, even though the federal government fails to enforce law.
00:07:10.000 And that just can't be right because there's too many consequences to my state to the country when the court adopts a policy or a position that allows the federal government to have laws, not enforce them, and then suddenly we can't do anything about it.
00:07:23.000 That cannot be right.
00:07:24.000 And I hope that as we go forward on these cases, the Supreme Court will take one of them and say, no way, Texas has a right to defend themselves.
00:07:32.000 And so the government, the federal government's going to have a tough time with this one.
00:07:32.000 Yeah.
00:07:37.000 And what can you just, what is the argument that they're making that it's not happening, but it's good that it is, or that we as the federal government have the full right to not do our job?
00:07:48.000 They're making the argument in this particular case that this they have the right to go on public lands, which they don't.
00:07:55.000 These are not private lands.
00:07:56.000 These are not federal government lands.
00:07:58.000 These are controlled by governments of Texas, and they have there's nothing in the law that allows them to just walk into our property, take it over.
00:08:07.000 They're also arguing that we are interfering with their ability to enforce federal immigration law, which, as we all know, they aren't enforcing federal immigration law.
00:08:17.000 They're doing just the opposite.
00:08:18.000 They're encouraging illegal immigration.
00:08:19.000 So, you know, they mock the laws that they say that they're enforcing.
00:08:25.000 And we made that, I made that point in my letter back.
00:08:27.000 You're mocking these laws by saying you're enforcing them because we all know that's not true.
00:08:32.000 No, they're ignoring.
00:08:34.000 And in some ways, Ken, as someone who really cares about the law, this is super irritating, I'm sure, because they think they've found a cute loophole where they just don't enforce it, or they passively enforce it, or they have 1% of an excuse to say it, where it's obvious what they're doing, that they control the bureaucracy.
00:08:56.000 They control the federal branch, and they just do what they want without any sort of check and balance.
00:09:01.000 And I just think we need to take a step back and remind people: the states created the federal government.
00:09:07.000 The federal government did not create the states.
00:09:10.000 And while we, of course, want to live in a federalist system where the federal government handles invasion type matters and handles foreign policy type stuff, if and when, morally, the law will align with this.
00:09:22.000 But if and when they don't do their job, Texas doesn't just have a right.
00:09:27.000 You have a moral obligation to do this.
00:09:31.000 Charlie, I don't think you could have said any better.
00:09:33.000 I mean, that's really the position we're in.
00:09:35.000 We have a federal government that's just letting bad things happen, whether it's importation of drugs, whether it's just the cost of dealing with this, whether it's other crime that's going up in our state.
00:09:47.000 We cannot be forced to sit on the sidelines while the federal government imposes this on our state.
00:09:54.000 That cannot be what the law is.
00:09:56.000 I cannot imagine that the founders envision a federal government that would not protect the borders.
00:10:02.000 And then states were supposed to just sit there and go, well, you know, it's all sorry.
00:10:06.000 The federal government won't do it.
00:10:07.000 I'm sorry.
00:10:08.000 We're just going to let this happen.
00:10:10.000 Ken Paxton, we're behind you 100%.
00:10:12.000 Any other issues or cases you have in front of you you want to make our audience aware of?
00:10:16.000 Well, a huge one is our Pfizer case where we're suing them over the vaccine, the fact that they didn't tell us the truth about the effectiveness.
00:10:23.000 They claim 95% wasn't even close to that.
00:10:26.000 And then they tried to censor people who talked about it.
00:10:28.000 And then in a year, we're going to be in trial with Google over their control of the internet advertising.
00:10:34.000 And we think we've got both of those cases.
00:10:35.000 That's a big one.
00:10:36.000 No, by the way, Google is super worried about Ken's case.
00:10:39.000 I hope everyone knows this has been under the radar.
00:10:41.000 It's been going on for years.
00:10:42.000 I know some of the people that helped you put it together, Ken.
00:10:45.000 It is a very, very well-written complaint about how this oligarchy monopoly Google has been manipulating ad sets.
00:10:53.000 I just, Ken, I love it.
00:10:56.000 Keep up the great work, and we'll talk to you soon.
00:10:58.000 Thank you.
00:10:58.000 Hey, thank you.
00:10:59.000 Thanks for having me on.
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00:13:40.000 How is diversity and diversity targets working into the Aviate Academy?
00:13:44.000 We have committed that 50% of the class of the classes will be women or people of color.
00:13:50.000 Today, only 19% of our pilots at United Airlines are women or people of color.
00:13:55.000 And by the way, from all the data I've seen, that's the highest of any airline in the country.
00:13:58.000 White males don't just dominate in the cockpits. 0.73
00:14:00.000 Also, in the C-suite at United Airlines.
00:14:03.000 Well, look, at United, I'm proud of the diversity that we actually have in our C-suite.
00:14:07.000 I think if you look around corporate America, one of the things we do is for every job when we do an interview, we require women and people of color to be involved in the interview process.
00:14:17.000 Now, the buried lead of this is just the questioning from Axios.
00:14:20.000 The moral framework is already established, and Scott Kirby seamlessly enters into it as if there's no pushback, there's no questioning.
00:14:26.000 And Axios is like, well, of course, Scott Kirby, remind us that you are doing the diversity thing.
00:14:30.000 And Scott Kirby says, yeah, of course, we're doing this.
00:14:33.000 By the way, Scott Kirby literally is a drag queen.
00:14:35.000 There's viral video of him being a drag queen.
00:14:38.000 And instead of totally rejecting it and putting merit and excellence above apartheid-style race-based hiring programming, Scott Kirby, by the way, this is a video of Scott Kirby, who's a drag queen.
00:14:51.000 He's an activist.
00:14:52.000 He's an ideologue who is now running one of America's most popular airlines.
00:14:58.000 There are very few things out there.
00:15:00.000 Well, I shouldn't say that.
00:15:01.000 There's a lot of things.
00:15:01.000 But the stakes are literally pretty high.
00:15:04.000 You're 35,000 feet.
00:15:04.000 Get it?
00:15:06.000 That's the CEO of United Airlines.
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00:15:15.000 The CEO of United Airlines dancing like that the next time you have to fly from Newark, New Jersey to Los Angeles or to go see a loved one at Chicago O'Hare International Airport.
00:15:24.000 That clip right there is civilizational suicide. 0.70
00:15:27.000 Scott Kirby saying, Yeah, half of all of our new pilots are going to be black women of color, people of color, or women. 0.83
00:15:35.000 Are they going to be qualified?
00:15:37.000 Are they going to know what they're doing?
00:15:40.000 Are they going to be the best?
00:15:41.000 The excellent?
00:15:42.000 No, they don't care about that.
00:15:43.000 And just like we saw with the Harvard admissions, they have to lower the standards to try to meet the criteria of their cult of diversity.
00:15:52.000 Now, of course, the Axios person is awful, not very smart.
00:15:55.000 But if I ever got the opportunity to be interviewed by that Axios individual or the Scott Kirby person, just say, hold on, hold on, time out a second. 0.96
00:16:02.000 Why is it, Scott Kirby, that so few women want to become pilots? 0.94
00:16:06.000 Is it because that we live in a patriarchy or sexist? 0.86
00:16:09.000 Or is it because that women have different needs, wants, interests, talents, desires than men do?
00:16:16.000 That men gravitate more towards engineering, strategy, machinery, and that women gravitate more towards the empathetic instruction, teaching, education, healthcare.
00:16:30.000 As I've mentioned a couple of times, I've had to keep revisiting a hospital this week, not fun at all.
00:16:36.000 And I just, there was like a shift over and I had to leave the room for a second.
00:16:41.000 So I just went for a walk.
00:16:42.000 I said, I'm just going to count how long it takes for me to find a male nurse. 0.93
00:16:49.000 12 minutes, I found one. 0.99
00:16:51.000 Is that because of sexism? 1.00
00:16:55.000 No, it's just more women want to get into nursing. 1.00
00:16:57.000 Their talent set, their skill set is more about helping, empathy, compassion. 1.00
00:17:03.000 It's far more about how can I individually connect with you and look after you.
00:17:10.000 It's almost kind of motherly in a certain way.
00:17:13.000 It's not to say that there's no good male nurses or that men shouldn't become nurses, but you walk into almost any hospital ward of rank and file nurses, it will be a vast majority female staffed community.
00:17:28.000 Is there a big push to try to change that?
00:17:30.000 There shouldn't be a big push to try to change that.
00:17:32.000 There shouldn't be.
00:17:34.000 Because men are better at some things than women, and women are better at some things than men.
00:17:39.000 This is a truth of nature.
00:17:41.000 United Airlines has 19% minority or women pilots.
00:17:44.000 He said they want to have 50% of the new pilots be black and women.
00:17:48.000 So a 31% change overnight.
00:17:51.000 Is that even possible?
00:17:52.000 Is that smart?
00:17:53.000 How long until a, God forbid, a plane falls out of the sky and 300 people die so the cult of diversity can say that we did our job.
00:18:01.000 Why penalize men for wanting to be pilots?
00:18:04.000 A 31% increase in female and minority pilots?
00:18:08.000 Scott Kirby wants revolutionary progress over safety and excellence.
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00:19:27.000 Byron Donalds is on my short list for vice president.
00:19:30.000 One of the reasons is this: If you really want to terrify the deep state operators, you have to potentially have somebody that can cast a 12-year vision, not just four years, but 12 years.
00:19:45.000 Meaning, you then have a vice president who could win two more terms.
00:19:49.000 That would terrify the internal operators at the deep state.
00:19:54.000 Joining us now is Byron Donalds, Congressman Donalds.
00:19:56.000 Welcome to the program.
00:19:57.000 Hey, Charlie, how are you?
00:19:58.000 Good to see you.
00:19:58.000 I'm doing great.
00:19:59.000 We play this game where I just say you should be vice president and you smile wonderfully.
00:20:03.000 We've been doing it for the last year.
00:20:04.000 I think you're doing a great job, Byron.
00:20:06.000 So there's some looming fights here.
00:20:09.000 Is there a funding deadline that is due on Friday night?
00:20:12.000 And what is, I'm just making sure I get all my facts correctly.
00:20:16.000 When does the CR expire?
00:20:18.000 What is the latest here?
00:20:19.000 It feels as if we're running out of time and going towards a shutdown.
00:20:23.000 So there's actually going to be a vote on the floor today about whether we're going to extend government funding to March 1st and March 8th, splitting a bunch of the appropriation bills into two segments.
00:20:36.000 There's a vote in a couple of hours to see if we're going to extend government funding to March 1st and March 8th.
00:20:42.000 There's a concern in the Republican conference that a majority of the conference doesn't support the continuing resolution.
00:20:49.000 Not really sure where the votes are going to land, but we'll see in a couple hours.
00:20:53.000 Yeah, so what is the argument to extend?
00:20:56.000 Why wouldn't we shut it down?
00:20:58.000 How are you going to be voting just based on what we know?
00:21:01.000 Because it seems as if we have the Democrats on the rope.
00:21:04.000 They're finally conceding the border is an issue.
00:21:06.000 Kicking it to March, I feel as if that would be a gift to Chuck Schumer and the Democrats.
00:21:10.000 Well, a couple of things.
00:21:11.000 One, I'm voting no on this package.
00:21:13.000 I think that at this point, this government should not be funding until be funded until the border is secured.
00:21:19.000 That's my position.
00:21:21.000 I told that to the leadership and told that to our members and your viewers and everybody else.
00:21:26.000 The issue at hand is if you're going to fund this government, what you're really telling Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell for that matter is that you're not willing to use every lever that you have in order to secure the nation's border.
00:21:40.000 It is the number one thing that is causing serious security concerns in our country.
00:21:44.000 It makes no sense that there have been now 7 million to 9 million encounters at the southern border in just three years during Joe Biden's presidency.
00:21:52.000 And House Republicans have an opportunity to actually do something about it right now.
00:21:57.000 And I believe that if you just continue to fund the government for another month or so while the appropriators figure out how to fund the government, you're not going to have any leverage in order to get border security done.
00:22:09.000 And I think there's a dereliction of our duty as members.
00:22:12.000 So I'm voting no, and I would encourage all of our members to vote no.
00:22:15.000 I'm afraid, though, that there'll be 10, 20 moderate Republican members that are going to side with Hakeem Jeffries.
00:22:23.000 And what is the fear here, Byron?
00:22:27.000 You don't have this fear, but it feels as if this is a hostage situation where we get anywhere close to meaningful change, and then they go, shut down.
00:22:37.000 And now this will be, we will be entering nearly six months of extensions of CRs.
00:22:43.000 Before you know it, we're going to be in June and they'll be like, oh, we're in cycle.
00:22:46.000 We'll just go CR post the election.
00:22:49.000 This is truly should be the last stand.
00:22:52.000 This is the, it should have happened in November and December, but that's already over with.
00:22:58.000 I just want to brace for impact.
00:23:00.000 Are there going to be moderate defections here that keep this border, that keep things open and no changes to the border through March?
00:23:08.000 I mean, look, Charlie, it's a possibility, but the point that I've been trying to make to the leadership team is that you have a golden opportunity to actually win the political argument of the day.
00:23:20.000 And that question is, should our government remain open?
00:23:23.000 Should we be sending money to Ukraine, et cetera, while our border is porously open?
00:23:28.000 And I believe that the American people want our border secured, even if it means that tough choices have to be made up here on Capitol Hill.
00:23:34.000 I mean, look at Joe Biden's polling.
00:23:36.000 It's a mess when it comes to immigration and border security.
00:23:39.000 He has lost all credibility with the American people.
00:23:42.000 So you can win that political argument.
00:23:44.000 I think if you're winning the politics of this, those moderate members, those swing district Republicans will actually stand with us to hold the Biden administration accountable to get this border secured.
00:23:57.000 But if you don't take that leverage point, if you don't have that fight, you're not going to get this administration to change any policy.
00:24:04.000 Because Charlie, you know, everything happening at the southern border is by design.
00:24:08.000 This is what they have wanted, and they're doing it on purpose.
00:24:12.000 The only way you change behavior in most people's lives is you change it with money and you change it with funding.
00:24:19.000 You don't change it with letters.
00:24:20.000 You don't change it with talking points.
00:24:22.000 Yeah, it just, in addition, there's all these looming fights here.
00:24:27.000 And this one shouldn't be tough at all.
00:24:29.000 This one should not be difficult where we've done enough CRs, guys.
00:24:33.000 And I'm not a Speaker Johnson fan, but I'll just give him some benefit of the doubt.
00:24:37.000 Fine, you had to get your feet underneath you, one CR.
00:24:40.000 But at this point, and he might vote against it, but I just, I'll be honest, I know how D.C. works.
00:24:45.000 There'll be 20 moderates that cover for 20 people that wish they could vote for it.
00:24:49.000 I hope not.
00:24:50.000 I hope that this does not kick into March.
00:24:53.000 And so, so, Byron, I want to just kind of also contrast this.
00:24:58.000 How did the Iow results at all resonate with the members of your conference?
00:25:03.000 That is a clear message that the Republican base, regardless of all the lawfare, all the nonsense, that immigration is a primary issue, that they want not just talk.
00:25:12.000 In fact, some of the exit polls that CNN was, you know, freaking out over, they were saying, oh, my goodness, the Republican base wants transformational change in D.C. How is how were those results received by some of your colleagues?
00:25:26.000 Well, one real quick thing about the vote itself: this vote is going to be on a suspension of the rules.
00:25:33.000 So you got to have two-thirds, as I understand, you got to have two-thirds of the members in the chamber vote for this.
00:25:39.000 Oh, I see.
00:25:39.000 So you won't be protection from 10 members or 20 members.
00:25:43.000 Now, putting that aside, I think what Iowa has demonstrated to our members is that first, President Trump is the nominee for our party.
00:25:51.000 Our voters want him back because he was decisive, especially when it came to our border and when it came to foreign policy.
00:25:58.000 There was no ambiguity.
00:25:59.000 There was no weakness.
00:26:01.000 It was strength and it was decisiveness.
00:26:03.000 And that's what he brought.
00:26:04.000 And our voters want that back.
00:26:06.000 And so the point I make to our colleagues is our voters want us to hold this government accountable.
00:26:13.000 They do not want to have this demonstration of governing if governing means that you're going to do a slow walk towards the demise of America.
00:26:22.000 You're going to move slower than the Democrats are moving, but we're going to govern.
00:26:26.000 What our voters want is leadership and they want decisiveness.
00:26:29.000 And you saw that.
00:26:30.000 I saw that on the ground in Iowa.
00:26:32.000 You're going to see it on the ground in New Hampshire and every other state in the country.
00:26:35.000 And Charlie, I will add, it's more than just base Republicans.
00:26:39.000 Independent voters are wanting to see the same thing as well.
00:26:43.000 No, and I want the audience to know, Byron has been behind Trump early.
00:26:46.000 He went on the CNN panels defending Trump when it wasn't popular, when other Republicans wouldn't touch him.
00:26:52.000 And we'll never forget that, Byron.
00:26:54.000 You've been excellent on defending Trump and really defending the MAGA agenda.
00:26:58.000 Last question I have here, Byron, and it's a little bit wonky, but it's something I really care about.
00:27:03.000 I just, what is the timing?
00:27:04.000 Just remind me.
00:27:05.000 702 in this FISA extension.
00:27:08.000 They kicked part of it to the march to march.
00:27:10.000 To me, this is one of the top issues that no one's talking about because I'll be very honest with you.
00:27:15.000 You know, I like Jim Jordan.
00:27:17.000 I saw him on Fox Business last night.
00:27:19.000 And, you know, they're making this big stink about how the FBI and how Treasury, their federal government, is flagging terms like MAGA and Trump, the financial institutions, and they're flagging things like Bass Pro Shop, Cabela's, and it's outrageous.
00:27:31.000 It never should happen.
00:27:32.000 But I say, guys, are we then going to be able to get a serious reform of 702 with the FISA?
00:27:38.000 There's only so much complaining we could do about flagging stuff.
00:27:41.000 What's the stuff we don't know about?
00:27:42.000 So what is the timeline on FISA?
00:27:44.000 And is this a fight that we can win?
00:27:47.000 Well, first, it is a fight that we can win because actually you have some of the progressive members want to see reforms to FISA as well.
00:27:54.000 There's some other stuff that they want in there that we don't agree with, but generally speaking, they want reforms as well.
00:28:00.000 There is broad agreement that we got to stop the FBI and other elements of our government from spying on the American people.
00:28:07.000 But the opportunity that was missed was actually doing this short-term FISA extension.
00:28:12.000 I firmly believed it then, and I even more so believe it now, that if we had sent our reform package over to the Senate and left before Christmas, then the Senate would have a responsibility to take that package up and pass it.
00:28:26.000 And you would have actually seen significant reforms.
00:28:29.000 I think there's an opportunity to do that.
00:28:32.000 But what we're starting to see up here on Capitol Hill is that the Chuck Schumer strategy is to slow walk everything.
00:28:38.000 And you said it earlier, Charlie, to slow walk us into the presidential cycle.
00:28:43.000 And then you'll have enough members say, I don't want to do anything because now I have to go fight for my own reelection.
00:28:48.000 And that's the most unfortunate part of what's happened with FISA and other things.
00:28:52.000 But specific to 702, we can get that done and have a credible bill come out of the House that would actually pass with Democrat votes in the House and will also pass in the Senate.
00:29:02.000 That stuff can occur.
00:29:03.000 We can get it done.
00:29:04.000 Byron Donalds, keep fighting.
00:29:05.000 FISA is one of my top priorities, our top priorities.
00:29:08.000 We can't let a renewal of FISA and never should have been extended even for the time that it was.
00:29:14.000 But this 702 has been used and abused for political purposes from the Intel agencies to infiltrate MA movements and do other sort of clandestine opportunity.
00:29:24.000 We have to de-fang the FBI beast, and it starts with the 702 fight.
00:29:29.000 Byron Donalds, thanks so much.
00:29:30.000 Thanks, Charlie.
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00:30:36.000 So the WEF, they're meeting the World Economic Forum.
00:30:39.000 And again, we don't want to put too much stock into what happens there.
00:30:42.000 I think in some ways we need to look at, yes, the global game.
00:30:47.000 Do we have this here?
00:30:48.000 All right.
00:30:49.000 I want your theories here.
00:30:50.000 This is the World Economic Forum Religious Hour, Playcut 99.
00:31:22.000 This is the World Economic Forum Religious Hour, Playcut 99.
00:31:50.000 My favorite part are these white CEOs that just take it. 0.70
00:31:54.000 Yeah, just like spread your witch doctor Disease X on me. 0.98
00:31:58.000 Could you imagine Rockefeller or JP Morgan or Winston Churchill?
00:32:03.000 And you got some witch doctor coming up spewing on you. 0.67
00:32:08.000 People wonder why we don't like the World Economic Forum. 0.51
00:32:11.000 Here we are, we say it's a bunch of Satanists trying to recreate Genesis 11 and the city of Babel.
00:32:16.000 And people say, oh, no, you're a bunch of conspiracy theorists.
00:32:20.000 And you got this shaman spitting on people. 0.84
00:32:24.000 So let the shaman be a super spreader of Disease X. 0.99
00:32:29.000 But I want to contrast that with a seemingly unrelated story.
00:32:32.000 That's considered fine and multicultural and accepted.
00:32:34.000 And people laugh at it.
00:32:35.000 And it's fine.
00:32:35.000 I mean, it doesn't overly bother me.
00:32:37.000 It just kind of doesn't exactly make the World Economic Forum be taken seriously.
00:32:41.000 But NBC News, this last weekend, NBC corporate.
00:32:46.000 I'm a big C.J. Stroud fan.
00:32:47.000 I like football.
00:32:48.000 I love it.
00:32:49.000 CJ Stroud is a rookie quarterback.
00:32:51.000 He has the hot hand.
00:32:52.000 He was one of the most impressive college quarterbacks I've seen in quite some time.
00:32:55.000 Joe Burrow would get close to him.
00:32:57.000 CJ Stroud had one of the most amazing Rose Bowl performances ever two years ago, a year and a half ago, whenever it was.
00:33:04.000 It was unbelievable.
00:33:05.000 And C.J. Stroud is the quarterback for the Houston Texans.
00:33:09.000 And C.J. Stroud is a devout follower of Jesus Christ, our Lord.
00:33:13.000 He speaks about it all the time.
00:33:14.000 He has won a playoff game.
00:33:15.000 It's unbelievably rare to find a true rookie quarterback to carry a team and to go win a playoff game.
00:33:21.000 He's now in the divisional round with a chance to get into the semifinal, which is the game before the Super Bowl.
00:33:28.000 And he loves Jesus.
00:33:30.000 NBC News would probably wear that, they would air that witch doctor from the World Economic Forum, but this is an incredible clip. 0.90
00:33:38.000 And if you're a Christian out there, and even if you're not a Christian, this should insult you. 0.97
00:33:42.000 This is reprehensible stuff where they edit out CJ Stroud's post-game interview where he mentions Jesus Christ our Lord.
00:33:53.000 Play cut 100, please.
00:33:54.000 In your first NFL season and a record-setting performance for you, what does this moment mean?
00:34:00.000 I mean, it's been amazing being in this city for as short as I've been, but first and foremost, I just want to give all the glory and praise my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
00:34:10.000 I mean, it's been amazing.
00:34:13.000 You hear that?
00:34:14.000 So the first one was the edited one where he talks about the city.
00:34:17.000 The second one, he says, yeah, I just want to give all the credit to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
00:34:21.000 Why is NBC News so afraid of Jesus?
00:34:25.000 Who at NBC News made that decision?
00:34:27.000 Why are we putting up with this?
00:34:29.000 This is an unbelievable piece of editing.
00:34:32.000 It's completely unnecessary.
00:34:34.000 It obviously took deliberate planning and top-down decision-making because it was, I saw it when it was aired and I turned to Erica and I said, this is why I like this guy.
00:34:43.000 Every time he mentions Jesus Christ, and C.J. Stroud, if you're listening, please keep mentioning Jesus.
00:34:48.000 Please.
00:34:49.000 And for all the athletes out there, keep on mentioning Jesus.
00:34:52.000 Make them edit it out.
00:34:53.000 And C.J. Stroud is not a political guy.
00:34:55.000 He might tilt left.
00:34:56.000 I don't care.
00:34:57.000 But good for you, man.
00:34:58.000 You mentioned the eternal.
00:34:59.000 You mentioned divine.
00:35:00.000 It's not all about you.
00:35:01.000 The humility.
00:35:02.000 And Jesus has impacted your life.
00:35:04.000 And C.J. Stroud has had a very difficult life.
00:35:06.000 You know anything about his biography.
00:35:08.000 But NBC News is so afraid of a three-second mention of Jesus Christ that they deceptively edit it out of a post-game interview.
00:35:19.000 They wouldn't do that to the shaman witch doctor at Davos.
00:35:23.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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00:35:28.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:35:29.000 God bless.
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