The Charlie Kirk Show - Why Conservatives Can’t Turn Our Backs on Rigged Elections with Mollie Hemingway

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show, we are joined by Molly Hemingway, author of Rigged.

00:00:04.000 We talk about also what is it with these prosecutors, these Soros-funded prosecutors across the country that are basically saying we're not going to put criminals in jail.

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00:01:23.000 There is this nationwide trend of George Soros-backed prosecutors, district attorneys across the country, who are basically getting rid of any sort of harsh sentencing at all whatsoever.

00:01:35.000 This is happening in New York, Los Angeles, basically getting rid of prison time as we know it. 0.75

00:01:40.000 New York City, unfortunately, is becoming a third world city. 1.00

00:01:43.000 It's too bad. 1.00

00:01:44.000 New York used to be such a great place.

00:01:46.000 Now New York is basically and totally unrecognizable.

00:01:50.000 And New York City has this new district attorney prosecutor.

00:01:53.000 And what's amazing is he's actually doing everything he ran on.

00:01:57.000 Is that it's not like he ran as some sort of moderate.

00:02:00.000 No, he ran on basically getting rid of prison time.

00:02:03.000 And in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams, who is hardly a moderate mayor, he's just continuing a lot of what Bill de Blasio did, is covering for it.

00:02:14.000 This guy's name is Alvin Bragg.

00:02:17.000 Now, Alvin Bragg is basically coming out and he's saying that he's going to get rid of prison time.

00:02:28.000 Now, Alvin Bragg was a lawyer and ran for all of this.

00:02:32.000 He says this.

00:02:34.000 He says that seeks incarceration only for worst crimes.

00:02:39.000 This is the New York Times.

00:02:41.000 Alvin Bragg has told prosecutors in his office to seek jail or prison time only for the most serious crimes, unless the law requires otherwise.

00:02:51.000 Jonah Bromwich for the New York Times wrote, quote, Manhattan's new district attorney began this week to adopt the lenient policies he campaigned on.

00:03:00.000 I want to stop there.

00:03:00.000 This is what's so shocking about this.

00:03:02.000 He told the voters he was going to do this.

00:03:07.000 This is not some sort of bait and switch.

00:03:11.000 It's not some sort of like, I was going to do this.

00:03:13.000 No, they told the voters, like, you elect me, people aren't going to go to jail.

00:03:19.000 Setting the stage for potential conflict in set and outside his office, inside and outside his office, as he tries to change the way criminal justice is administered in the borough.

00:03:28.000 This is just for Manhattan.

00:03:30.000 The district attorney Alvin Bragg told prosecutors in his office in a memo that they should ask judges for jail or prison time for only the most serious offenses like murder, sexual assault, economic crimes involving vast sums of money, unless the law requires them to do otherwise.

00:03:45.000 The crimes he instructed prosecutors to avoid seeking jail time for, including robberies, assaults, gun possession.

00:03:54.000 He also directed that they no longer request prison sentences of more than 20 years absent exceptional circumstances.

00:04:01.000 He says his goal is to find alternatives to incarceration, especially for first-time offenders, a name he seeks to balance with the need to keep the public safe.

00:04:12.000 And the way they take into account the experiences of those who are charged, his policies resemble those of several prosecutors in big cities around the country who have been elected over the past five years.

00:04:22.000 I'm reading from the New York Times.

00:04:24.000 So let's just ask a very simple, rational question.

00:04:28.000 If people know they're not going to go to jail when they steal stuff, do you think people are going to steal more stuff?

00:04:36.000 If people know they're not going to go to jail when they commit assault and robbery, do you think that assaults and robberies are going to go up or they're going to go down?

00:04:45.000 If people know they're not going to go to jail for assault and robbery, do you think that other murders might occur because of the assault and the robberies or other rapes or arsons?

00:04:57.000 Jen Saki was asked about these progressive prosecutors failing to prosecute certain crimes in Democrat-run areas.

00:05:05.000 And she says, we're not going to wade into the actions of prosecutors.

00:05:08.000 Oh, really?

00:05:08.000 I thought it's the whole position of the Biden regime to wait in on local issues in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

00:05:14.000 That's all you guys do is you wait in on the Texas abortion law.

00:05:18.000 You weigh in on the Georgia voting law.

00:05:21.000 You weigh in on the mask mandate policy in Virginia.

00:05:24.000 But no, no, no.

00:05:25.000 The fact that robbers and rapists aren't going to jail, we don't do that at the Biden White House.

00:05:29.000 Play cut 73.

00:05:30.000 Well, he pushed on the progressive prosecutors that are, for example, here in New York City saying that things like using, taking a gun into a store, robbing it, but then leaving and nobody gets killed, that that's a misdemeanor.

00:05:42.000 Is the president okay with that?

00:05:44.000 Well, look, the president's not going to wait into the actions of prosecutors or of the legal justice department.

00:05:50.000 That's his bottom line.

00:05:52.000 And she's a morally compromised person.

00:05:56.000 I hope she finds Jesus.

00:05:57.000 I mean, that she's been covering up for these crimes for so long. 0.98

00:06:01.000 Jen Pesaki, that is.

00:06:04.000 Yeah, we're not going to weigh in on the fact that the murder rate has hit a 25-year high.

00:06:08.000 Here's yesterday in Chicago.

00:06:10.000 Girl, 11-year-old, shot.

00:06:12.000 Boy, 15-year-old, shot.

00:06:13.000 Boy, 16-year-old shot.

00:06:15.000 Boy, 16-year-old shot.

00:06:16.000 Girl, 17-year-old shot.

00:06:18.000 Violence is a much greater threat to our children in Chicago than COVID.

00:06:23.000 But you're not allowed to say that because the narrative or the facts of black-on-black violence in Chicago is at direct odds with the regime narrative of systemic racism.

00:06:37.000 The final 2021 totals in Chicago, finally, the murder tallies are in.

00:06:43.000 Here we go.

00:06:45.000 794 people shot and killed, up 10%.

00:06:49.000 3,748 people shot and wounded, up 9%.

00:06:52.000 4,542 people total shot, up 9%.

00:06:56.000 And total homicides, 846 for a 6% increase after a record year in 2020.

00:07:02.000 That's just Chicago.

00:07:04.000 One of the bloodiest years on record in American history.

00:07:10.000 And on the other side of it, you have these district attorneys.

00:07:12.000 What is her name?

00:07:13.000 Kim Fox in Chicago, Cook County.

00:07:16.000 You have Alvin Bragg in New York City.

00:07:18.000 You have the guy in Los Angeles.

00:07:20.000 I can't remember his name.

00:07:21.000 San Francisco, they're doing something very similar.

00:07:24.000 And when are the upper middle class or the business class members going to push back against this?

00:07:35.000 And there's something that I have learned about the business class the last two, three years, I'll be honest.

00:07:44.000 I used to have this belief that business and people that run companies are going to actually make prudent and responsible decisions.

00:07:55.000 This is something when you spend a lot of time in free market literature, most of which is very true, by the way, you are convinced that profit motives and competition and entrepreneurialism and startups is always going to push forward towards the best possible outcome.

00:08:12.000 That those forces, given no interventions, you're going to be able to have a desirable outcome.

00:08:20.000 But if you actually look at history, business or the money changers or the people that are engaged or invested in just seeking a profit, they will go whichever way the wind blows.

00:08:36.000 They are agnostic without knowledge.

00:08:38.000 They are without a strong opinion.

00:08:41.000 You see that with the major companies in New York City where they know how dangerous New York is becoming.

00:08:48.000 You're trying to tell me that if you took the top 100 employees for Goldman Sachs and you put them in a room and you said, hey, do you feel comfortable, those of you that have children, do you feel comfortable having your child walk 20 blocks at night from Goldman Sachs headquarters to NYU at 14th Street, Union Square?

00:09:09.000 Do you feel comfortable with that?

00:09:12.000 And they're all going to say, of course not.

00:09:13.000 They know it.

00:09:14.000 They live it.

00:09:15.000 You ask any reasonable person in New York City or Los Angeles or San Francisco, regardless of their political affiliation, they know crime is going up.

00:09:24.000 That's why security guards are costing more than ever.

00:09:26.000 That's why gun sales are going up.

00:09:28.000 That's why protective dog services are more desirable and lucrative than ever.

00:09:33.000 People know what's really happening.

00:09:35.000 They know crime is going up.

00:09:36.000 Vagrancy is going up.

00:09:38.000 And yet there is this tension between what people empirically see what is happening around them that you can use your reason and almost a, I don't say this lightly, a pseudo-mystical religious belief that we just need to abolish all white racism and somehow the guy that is stabbing the women on 37th Street is going to stop.

00:10:02.000 Christianity gets under attack a lot by being, who could possibly believe that?

00:10:06.000 Christianity is far more rational and reasonable than believing that abolishing the police and unraveling every aspect of a civil society is going to result in a peaceful place to live.

00:10:22.000 It's really something I fail to understand.

00:10:24.000 I really do.

00:10:27.000 Look, it's a new year and not much has changed.

00:10:29.000 We have inflation.

00:10:31.000 Houses are selling in a week.

00:10:32.000 Interest rates are at zero and our government is still borrowing money.

00:10:35.000 Well, actually printing money, $5 trillion in new money to be exact.

00:10:39.000 What could go wrong?

00:10:40.000 Meanwhile, consumer confidence hits a 10-year low.

00:10:42.000 Inflation, 6.8%, even higher in certain places, 10%, 12% in other places.

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00:11:28.000 Germany has said the German producer price inflation jumps 24.2% in December year over year, the highest increase in history of the index post-World War II.

00:11:40.000 24.2%.

00:11:42.000 Now, I actually trust the German inflation metrics more than our own.

00:11:47.000 So I bet that ours is not too far behind, that our own metrics are actually probably being suppressed. 1.00

00:11:55.000 Now, why would I trust the Germans? 0.99

00:11:58.000 They have a tendency to be rather a precise people. 1.00

00:12:02.000 Rarely late.

00:12:03.000 Let's put it that way.

00:12:06.000 24.2% inflation.

00:12:09.000 Now, Connor, for example, as we've mentioned, he's gotten $7,200 richer.

00:12:15.000 Poor.

00:12:16.000 I'm sorry.

00:12:16.000 Not richer.

00:12:17.000 Geez, poor.

00:12:18.000 $7,200 poor.

00:12:19.000 Inflation makes working people poorer.

00:12:20.000 It's part of the plan.

00:12:21.000 They want you to be poor.

00:12:22.000 They want to get you on government programs.

00:12:24.000 They want you to be disenfranchised from owning property.

00:12:27.000 If you own property right now, then you're going to benefit.

00:12:31.000 Most young people listening, though, are renters, and they're being permanently priced out of an opportunity to buy a home.

00:12:40.000 I hear this all the time with our employees and our students, recent graduates, 25, 26, 27, 30 years old.

00:12:46.000 They say, Charlie, even if I want to buy, let's say, a $350,000 home, which by the way, a $350,000 home in Phoenix will get you in a rather shady area.

00:12:57.000 Let's just put it that way.

00:12:58.000 That's not exactly anything that would be safe, comfortable, and reliable, but whatever.

00:13:05.000 Not diminishing people that have home values of that.

00:13:08.000 You're still going to have to put 5% down if you're lucky.

00:13:12.000 Some banks are requiring 7.5%, 10% down.

00:13:15.000 Where is a working class person who is getting poorer because their currency is getting deteriorated and everything else is getting more expensive?

00:13:24.000 Where are they supposed to go to to get their down payment? 1.00

00:13:26.000 Well, the answer is many of them go to their parents.

00:13:32.000 Or do you know that some people are taking out loans just to be able to get their down payment?

00:13:37.000 I want you to think about that.

00:13:39.000 I have known three instances of 28, 29, 30-year-olds that are recently married.

00:13:45.000 They can't afford a down payment.

00:13:46.000 The down payment is anywhere between $17,000 to $25,000.

00:13:50.000 And they are taking out a loan just to be able to take out a loan.

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00:15:27.000 When you have massive and runaway inflation, it's happening for a reason.

00:15:32.000 It's happening intentionally.

00:15:34.000 And Biden said yesterday at his press conference, we want more inflation.

00:15:37.000 We want to create more currency out of thin air to further deteriorate it, which would only allow the ruling class, the elites, and the people that are in debt a greater opportunity to be able to spend and borrow into the future.

00:15:55.000 We don't talk enough about our national debt and deficit.

00:15:59.000 We don't.

00:16:01.000 It has become a rather third rail topic for both political parties.

00:16:06.000 It's as if the era of big debts and deficits are here.

00:16:09.000 But inflation is directly related with big debts and deficits.

00:16:13.000 Our increasing $30 trillion debt, we're getting very close to it.

00:16:16.000 You can either spend your way.

00:16:18.000 You can either tax array out of it, which they're trying to do, but not going to be successful.

00:16:22.000 You can cut your way out of it, never going to happen, or you can inflate your way out of it.

00:16:27.000 Inflation is the last ditch effort of a declining civilization that has borrowed too much and has lived beyond their means.

00:16:37.000 Inflation is the last gasp.

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00:17:58.000 With us right now is one of the sharpest and smartest minds, someone who has been ahead of the curve on almost every single topic, Molly Hemingway from the Federalist.

00:18:07.000 She does a wonderful job and she has an amazing new book out called Rigged.

00:18:10.000 Molly, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:18:12.000 It's great to be here with you.

00:18:14.000 So, Molly, yesterday, Joe Biden goes to the press conference in his press conference.

00:18:19.000 He says, hey, the 2022 election might be illegitimate.

00:18:23.000 So that's a new development.

00:18:24.000 Now they're saying elections domestically could be illegitimate.

00:18:27.000 How did we go from the 2020 election was the safest, most secure, most amazing election in history to just a year later, all of a sudden they're questioning the legitimacy of our elections.

00:18:35.000 What's going on here?

00:18:36.000 Well, I actually think Joe Biden is doing what Democrats have been doing for a very long period of time, going back to the 90s, where they tend to question elections where they don't think they're going to do well or where they don't do well.

00:18:51.000 And that is the established pattern.

00:18:54.000 We saw it with, we saw this when George W. Bush won his first election.

00:19:02.000 They said he was selected, not elected.

00:19:04.000 When he won reelection, you had a ton of people, including a senator and members of Congress, challenge the election results based on their belief that Karl Rove controlled the voting machines in Ohio, which determined the outcome of that election.

00:19:19.000 And then 2016 through 2020, of course, was nothing but a belief that, or a claimed belief, that Donald Trump stole the election and was an illegitimate president.

00:19:30.000 And it wasn't just Biden who believed stuff like that.

00:19:32.000 It was everybody.

00:19:33.000 Hillary Clinton, Jimmy Carter, John Lewis refused to go to the inauguration in 2017 on these grounds.

00:19:39.000 So did one out of three Democrats, the entire media complex.

00:19:42.000 So really the only aberration we have is that 2020 to the current moment where only Republicans are allowed to have any, are disallowed from having any problem with any election, even though of all those elections, 2020 was far and away the most aberrant in terms of how we ran it.

00:20:03.000 Yeah, the most interfered with, the most corrupt, the most questioned, and you detailed that beautifully in your book.

00:20:08.000 You have an article here on the Federalist.

00:20:10.000 You say GOP's old guard out of touch with their voters on election integrity.

00:20:14.000 And it's a picture of Mitch McConnell talking and President Trump looking at Mitch McConnell.

00:20:20.000 So this is something that I'm curious about, which is that the establishment or the old guard, really all they care about is power.

00:20:28.000 And therefore, if all they cared about is power, shouldn't they care about election integrity?

00:20:33.000 So they I think their main concern right now is for power within the GOP.

00:20:40.000 And so what we saw also happen in 2016 was a real change in the Republican Party where its policies went away from some of those failed Republican policies that we became quite familiar with, whether it was mismanaging when we got into war or how we managed those wars, mismanaging financial crises, the border, et cetera.

00:21:03.000 But it was kind of a good moment for the establishment of the GOP.

00:21:06.000 They were able to exert a lot of control over the party, over the people, and they liked that era.

00:21:10.000 And so what they'd like to do is go right back to it.

00:21:13.000 The party itself, by which I mean the actual tens of millions of voters, are done with that.

00:21:18.000 They would like to move forward into a new era where we do have a more, we have a strong national defense that is restrained from getting involved in wars that don't have a clear purpose or way of being won.

00:21:30.000 They want policies that help the middle class.

00:21:33.000 And so they're ready to keep going with what got started in 2016.

00:21:37.000 But that internal conflict still isn't totally settled.

00:21:40.000 And so because of that, and because the establishment can have as their allies the corporate media in their battle against Trump and the policies that he promotes, they're just seeing this as a short-term way to marginalize Trump and his most ardent supporters, even though, as you point out, it's not a really great long-term strategy to lose control over the integrity of elections.

00:22:05.000 So I'm holding in my hand here rigged.

00:22:05.000 No, not at all.

00:22:07.000 It's this beautiful yellow book.

00:22:08.000 Everyone pick up a copy.

00:22:09.000 I plug it a lot.

00:22:11.000 You know, I cite your book, Molly, anytime I get questions about the election because it's such a thoughtful, can I use the D word, Connor, dossier?

00:22:19.000 Is that okay, Molly?

00:22:20.000 Is that an insult to you?

00:22:21.000 No?

00:22:22.000 I think you'll take that.

00:22:23.000 It's okay.

00:22:24.000 It's a thoughtful dossier, okay?

00:22:26.000 That word's been so contaminated in the last couple of years.

00:22:30.000 It's so good and for a variety of different reasons.

00:22:32.000 So I want to read from your piece here.

00:22:34.000 So what you say here, you mention kind of this back and forth between Senator Rounds from South Dakota and also Senator Kramer.

00:22:41.000 You say that Senator Rounds basically said something that I'm kind of done with voter integrity.

00:22:48.000 And he went on television basically to say that.

00:22:51.000 And then Senator Kramer, a North Dakota Republican who contended Democrats took advantage of more voting rules eased during the pandemic, said, quote, I've moved on a long time ago.

00:23:00.000 And most members of Congress have, including Mike.

00:23:04.000 You go to say, quote, it is absolutely charming that Kramer has the luxury of moving on from the important election integrity battle, but Biden sure hasn't moved on.

00:23:14.000 North Dakota, you say, is a state that voted for Trump in 2020 by 33 points, not exactly a battleground state.

00:23:21.000 Its senators should probably use some political capital to tackle the top issue of the week, this issue of the week for American voters.

00:23:29.000 How does one come to a conclusion that they want to move on from the $450 million from the Center for Technology and Civic Life?

00:23:36.000 How does that work?

00:23:37.000 Charlie, it would be insane to say you want to move on from integrity of elections at any point in time.

00:23:44.000 They were saying this last week.

00:23:47.000 And you know that the whole news of the week, last week and this week has been Biden attempting to federalize elections, take them over, have Nancy Pelosi put in charge to make sure that we permanently have the corruption of the system that they put in place in 2020.

00:24:02.000 So even if they weren't interested in it in a normal week, which would be absurd, they have to understand that this is the battle right now for their voters.

00:24:10.000 This is an issue that not just the entire Republican Party, but a good chunk of the rest of the country cares about.

00:24:16.000 You know, Joe Biden's out there saying that voter ID is Jim Crow 2.0.

00:24:21.000 Meanwhile, 80% of the country, not Republicans, the country supports voter ID, which of course they do because nobody wants to have an election where it's too easy to cheat.

00:24:33.000 And that's, you know, that's what we have right now.

00:24:35.000 We have elections that are insecure.

00:24:37.000 And that is sometimes something that bothers Republicans.

00:24:39.000 It's sometimes something that bothers Democrats.

00:24:41.000 So of course it's a unifying issue, but the geniuses in the Senate can't figure that out.

00:24:46.000 So they just accept the corrupt framing of these media opponents who want to destroy the Republican Party.

00:24:53.000 It's infuriating for the average Republican voter.

00:24:56.000 Yeah, so I'm going to ask you to speculate here.

00:24:58.000 How does one in a position of power in the Republican Party, being a senator from North Dakota, what do you think goes into that kind of thought process?

00:25:08.000 Just like, let's just move on, right?

00:25:10.000 I mean, it is.

00:25:11.000 You read this, says most members of Congress, Congress have included me.

00:25:15.000 Is that basically an exposure of a greater fault line between the disconnect between voters and the politicians?

00:25:21.000 Or is it because this issue is considered to be kind of untouchable in the beltway?

00:25:26.000 Yeah, I think, I actually think the issue is one of courage.

00:25:30.000 I mean, probably ultimately the issue is that a lot of elected representatives and senators don't really care about the constituents so much as other benefits of being in political power, whether they're looking forward to their future of lucrative earnings or something else.

00:25:46.000 But I think this issue is one that requires both competence and courage to talk about.

00:25:51.000 You see people on all sides say things that are untrue or they come up with conspiracy theories, whether they're saying there were no problems with the election, which is an absurd conspiracy theory, or whether they push some of the unfounded conspiracy theories about foreign meddling and vote changing that just have not been verified.

00:26:08.000 And so it takes competence to actually know what went on, as you point out, Mark Zuckerberg taking over the government election offices in blue areas of swing states.

00:26:17.000 That's a huge crisis, but it's complicated.

00:26:20.000 So you have to know your facts.

00:26:21.000 But it also takes courage.

00:26:23.000 And that's the thing that Republican leadership lacks.

00:26:27.000 So, I mean, it lacks in a way that is, again, frustrating, but scandalous because the country is not doing well right now.

00:26:35.000 And so a lot of Americans are hoping for courage in this political class that they haven't seen and haven't seen for a long time from most of them.

00:26:42.000 And it's so rare that any sort of semblance of courage gets platformed almost immediately, like Ron DeSantis.

00:26:49.000 Like, whoa, you could do that?

00:26:51.000 Wow, that's so interesting.

00:26:53.000 And you kind of become an overnight hero.

00:26:55.000 So I want to ask you, Molly, there's been a lot of momentum, but little follow through, I should say, in some of these states like Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and changing these voting laws.

00:27:06.000 In your book, Rigged, where you talk about the Center for Technology and Civic Life, I'm going to read page 213, where you say, quote, Zuckerberg should be in jail.

00:27:14.000 That's what Molly writes.

00:27:15.000 Quote, the $350 million from Zuckerberg would turn the relatively new and narrow focus CTCL into a power player in the 2020 election.

00:27:24.000 In 2018, it had a budget of $1.4 million, now flush with cash, would distribute hundreds of millions of dollars in grants to election officials and local governments across the country.

00:27:33.000 Are you seeing progress in the states to fix this problem?

00:27:38.000 Okay, so first off, I just have to note that's actually a quote from Donald Trump.

00:27:42.000 I'm quoting him.

00:27:43.000 The Zuckerberg.

00:27:44.000 Talking about talking about the Zuckerberg operation, and he said Zuckerberg should be in jail.

00:27:49.000 Got it.

00:27:49.000 And I thought that was just, you know, again.

00:27:51.000 This is important that people understand what actually happened and then communicate what actually happened.

00:27:57.000 States have been making some progress on it, but, you know, like in Wisconsin, which has a history of having really good voter integrity concern and laws, I asked those people, how did this happen?

00:28:10.000 You know, you normally are better than this.

00:28:11.000 And they said, we just had no idea that it was possible to take over government election offices.

00:28:16.000 And I tell the story in the book about how one of their offices was literally taken over by these Zuckerberg funded groups, kicking out the actual government workers who were in charge of the election.

00:28:28.000 So they did vote to ban this private funding of election administration.

00:28:34.000 But then their Democrat governor, knowing how key it was to Democrats' election victories in the state, vetoed it.

00:28:40.000 Now, I believe they did have some kind of workaround where they kept pursuing it, but it takes, you know, this is exactly what legislatures should be doing is what they're charged with doing by the U.S. Constitution.

00:28:50.000 They've been making a little bit of progress, but nowhere near enough.

00:28:54.000 And then, of course, the other problem is you have states that are completely controlled by the Democrat Party, like New York, that are not allowing any reform for increasing the integrity.

00:29:04.000 And that does affect, you know, Republican members of Congress who are increasingly seeing these shenanigans affect their races.

00:29:12.000 That's well said.

00:29:15.000 So many people are worried about a major economic collapse right around the corner.

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00:30:18.000 Molly, that was the weirdest press conference I've ever seen in my life yesterday.

00:30:23.000 What was your take?

00:30:24.000 It was awkward.

00:30:26.000 I had to sit through the whole thing.

00:30:27.000 I saw people saying it was the longest press conference ever, which is undoubtedly true.

00:30:32.000 It felt like it lasted for a year.

00:30:35.000 But it was the way that President Biden speaks so slowly makes it particularly difficult to just sit there and listen to him.

00:30:43.000 And he kept saying things that you knew were going to get him in trouble, like when he questioned the legitimacy of the upcoming elections if they don't pass his radical voting bill, when he awkwardly discussed his attempt to downplay or to downgrade tensions with Russia in Ukraine.

00:31:03.000 But what I thought most interesting was that he seems to think he's done a good job, which is very alarming.

00:31:08.000 If he'd come out and said, listen, guys, I see everything you see.

00:31:13.000 We all know things are extremely bad.

00:31:14.000 There's a reason why you're all freaking out about the state of the country and why you're particularly angry with me.

00:31:20.000 Here's what I'm going to do going forward.

00:31:22.000 would say, I don't believe him, or I'm not sure I believe him, but you'd be like, at least he's aware of the seriousness of the problem.

00:31:27.000 And instead, he said, I'm the best president in the history of the world.

00:31:31.000 I've actually overachieved relative to my promises.

00:31:34.000 And you just thought, oh boy, this guy is, it just seemed like he was struggling to have a grasp on the actual reality that we're all living through.

00:31:43.000 Yeah, there's, there's multiple ways to govern in a crisis.

00:31:46.000 You can deny it, which doesn't work.

00:31:50.000 You can tell people to get used to it, which really doesn't work.

00:31:53.000 Jimmy Carter did that.

00:31:54.000 He admitted it.

00:31:55.000 He's like, yeah, just, it's the way it is.

00:31:57.000 You know, lower expectations. 1.00

00:31:59.000 It's the famous Malay speech didn't go well at all. 0.99

00:32:02.000 Or you could be like Reagan, be super honest and be like, we're going to turn it around.

00:32:06.000 And we're going to, I understand that you're freaking out about this.

00:32:09.000 Even if like Biden gave like a longer speech yesterday about, hey, we had to create all this money because we had a lockdown. 0.99

00:32:15.000 I think it's all garbage. 1.00

00:32:16.000 You think it's garbage. 1.00

00:32:17.000 But I think it probably would have won some people over. 0.98

00:32:19.000 But Molly, I mean, I feel like it's this massive gaslighting operation, which is like, you know, actually, there is no famine and everything is wonderful.

00:32:28.000 It's, it's like eerily Stalinistic.

00:32:31.000 And it makes you more upset.

00:32:34.000 It's like if you're in a relationship with someone and they're unwilling to address the issues, you start sort of panicking about how bad things really are.

00:32:43.000 And so it seems unwise to me, but it also seems like this is what happens when you're in a bubble where the media all support you.

00:32:49.000 Because of course, after this disastrous press conference that anybody who watched was kind of horrified by, Yamish Alsendor, who is a hero, heroine of the Washington Press Corps, she is an award-winning journalist.

00:33:03.000 She sounded like she was hoping to date Joe Biden in her praise of him as the most amazing press conference giver she'd ever experienced and a brave truth teller.

00:33:13.000 And he was so kind.

00:33:15.000 And it was just a reminder that the media aren't helping Biden.

00:33:19.000 Because if that's the way they're acting with him, he might actually think that it's working.

00:33:25.000 And if he's protected from the polls, and he said he doesn't believe the polls, which is really unwise for him because polls always are favorable to Democrats.

00:33:32.000 So if he doesn't even believe those polls, you know, he's just kind of out of touch.

00:33:36.000 Yeah, out of touch would put it lightly.

00:33:38.000 What advice would you give to Republicans?

00:33:40.000 It seems as if there is that, I'm really worried about this, to be honest, Molly.

00:33:44.000 There is this kind of arrogance that's starting to set in, confidence that is translating quickly to arrogance.

00:33:49.000 Do you see that too?

00:33:50.000 Absolutely.

00:33:51.000 So I just want to say the one thing I thought that Biden did have a good point on was what does Mitch McConnell stand for?

00:33:57.000 I know Mitch McConnell says he doesn't need to have an agenda because Democrats are performing so poorly.

00:34:02.000 And that's, you know, that's true.

00:34:04.000 He can regain the Senate without doing anything.

00:34:07.000 But I think Republican voters are sick to death of Republicans not having a really good agenda going forward to actually put the country on the right path.

00:34:17.000 And so Republicans do need to not just say what they're for, but start building the infrastructure to make sure that they can accomplish it as soon as voters do give them the majority in the Senate and the House.

00:34:28.000 And to that end, and to the point of the book, Republican voters themselves need to be totally on top of their local elections to make sure that they are being managed in as good of a way as possible.

00:34:39.000 And they need to get involved and they need to get involved now.

00:34:42.000 Molly, you made me remind me with the Yamichi thing and Biden, this kind of, this amazing advertisement that was on TV, the one that it's not about the nail.

00:34:50.000 I don't know if it's an advertisement.

00:34:51.000 Have you ever seen that video, Molly?

00:34:53.000 No.

00:34:53.000 Oh, I got to set it to you.

00:34:54.000 It's this, it's perfect.

00:34:55.000 I'll have to, I'm actually going to tweet it out.

00:34:56.000 It's like the media's relationship with Biden.

00:34:58.000 Molly, you're amazing.

00:34:59.000 Check out Rigged.

00:35:00.000 It's awesome.

00:35:01.000 How the media, big tech, and the Democrats sees our elections.

00:35:03.000 Thanks so much, Molly.

00:35:04.000 Thank you, Charlie.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - January 21, 2022

Why Conservatives Can’t Turn Our Backs on Rigged Elections with Mollie Hemingway

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