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00:01:57.000So over the last 24 hours, a lot of things have been going viral, including a clip that I was in from last week where I said that we should prioritize excellence, not diversity, when it comes to air travel.
00:02:10.000That DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion, should mean nothing when it comes to safe trips at 35,000 feet.
00:02:20.000It has now been viewed 7 million times.
00:02:25.000And I will as the time presents, but I want to get to our guests in just a second here because what DEI does, especially when you talk about the United Airline hiring quota, is that you are forcing criteria that is irrelevant.
00:02:39.000United Airlines is bragging that 50% of their new pilots, 50% of their new pilots, will be black.
00:02:45.000Now, there are a lot of questions that arise from this.
00:02:47.000This means that if you have a qualified and extraordinarily black or women or female, if you have an extraordinarily qualified white pilot and a not so qualified or someone didn't do as well in their test, black pilot or female pilot, who do you choose, United Airlines?
00:03:05.000If Harvard University is any example, it shows that in order to reach abstract diversity, equity, inclusion, affirmative action goals, you end up having to lower the standard to reach that goal.
00:03:20.000This is United Airlines that triggered this entire conversation.
00:03:26.000How is diversity and diversity targets working into the Aviator Academy?
00:03:30.000We have committed that 50% of the class of the classes will be women or people of color.
00:03:36.000Today, only 19% of our pilots at United Airlines are women or people of color.
00:03:41.000And by the way, from all the data I've seen, that's the highest of any airline in the country.
00:03:45.000White males don't just dominate in the cockpits.
00:03:47.000Also, in the C-suite at United Airlines.
00:03:50.000Well, look, at United, I'm proud of the diversity that we actually have in our C-suite.
00:03:53.000I 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.
00:04:03.000As if it's just the standard thing that we are now going to actively discriminate based on race or sex.
00:04:34.000The number of flight hours and the quality of the training also is a key here.
00:04:39.000So, you know, to basically say that because of your race, your skin color, whether you're male or female, you know, whether you're a minority, it doesn't cut it as far as being in the left seat or the right seat of an airliner.
00:04:59.000The FAA mandates 1,500 flight hours for the typical person coming into the right seat of an airliner.
00:05:07.000Those 1,500 flight hours are very hard to get, especially if you're in an inner city because you're paying hundreds of dollars of flight hours to get this training, and it's a lot of money.
00:05:21.000And quite frankly, minorities in inner cities don't have tens of thousands of dollars to throw away on flight training.
00:05:29.000So the question is: how do they get to those standards, or how does an airline get them to those 1,500-hour standards to be a very competent pilot?
00:05:40.000But to answer your question, I mean, experience is the key.
00:06:06.000If this, if these programs go forward and people are just pushed through the system, it's also going to have a psychological effect on the qualified candidates who pretty much busted their tail from like 14 or 15 years old.
00:06:21.000When you go into an average cockpit of your average airliner, if you knocked on that cockpit door and said, Hey, guys, tell me about your experience.
00:06:50.000You either have the bug or you don't have the bug.
00:06:52.000And they say when you're very young, if you have a young child, you know if that child has the bug, if an airplane flies over and they look to the sky, you know they have that love and that passion and to become a pilot.
00:07:07.000So you can't put that into any into somebody who does not have that.
00:07:15.000I would love to say, you know what, we have lots of women and we have lots of African Americans flying airplanes.
00:07:22.000If they have the proper qualifications, if they go through the same interview scrutiny, say, as a white male does, it's fine.
00:07:32.000And I would encourage that if they did, and I would welcome it.
00:07:35.000You know, just recently we heard of Miss America.
00:07:40.000She's a young lady and she's going through all the proper steps.
00:07:45.000Now is going into the Air Force and she's going through those steps properly to probably one day wanting to become an airline pilot.
00:07:53.000So that's the type of person and the type of female we want to see become airline pilots where we know they're qualified and we know the passengers will really appreciate the fact that there is a qualified individual in the left seat in that cockpit flying their airplane that they're paying a lot of money to fly on.
00:08:15.000So Kyle, the American flying standards are very, very high.
00:08:19.000And thankfully we've had a track record of millions of flights, praise God, knock on wood in the last couple decades without a major airliner crash.
00:08:28.000And I just want to say we hope that continues.
00:08:32.000Now we're starting to see a bubbling up of certain issues and problems and there's a lot of close calls.
00:08:38.000Part of this is, and there's some rumors around this, that from the FAA, specifically Air Traffic Control ATC, that they're prioritizing diversity as well.
00:08:50.000Can you talk about just broadly how important it is to be a qualified individual for air traffic control?
00:08:56.000We focus on the pilots, but air traffic control is a very high-pressure, difficult task where I think everyone in the audience would agree that excellence and meritocracy should be the most important qualification to be an air traffic controller.
00:09:12.000Air traffic controllers are pretty much held to the same standards as airline pilots from the psychological and the physical perspective, and even as far as their training goes.
00:09:24.000A very strict, condensed FAA training program where it takes about two years to become an air traffic controller.
00:09:33.000But you can't become an air traffic controller at 45 or 50 or 55 years old.
00:09:38.000You have to be the max age, I believe, is in the 30s to become an air traffic controller.
00:09:43.000And that's because they want somebody sharp.
00:09:46.000And your mind pretty much goes downhill after a certain age, like it or not.
00:09:52.000So to kind of, there's no doubt in my mind that there's going to be any controllers who have any kind of psychological, a negative history in their background.
00:10:04.000But it really does play a key because it's a very difficult job.
00:10:10.000Like the pilot, they're even actually under more stress because they're basically staring at a computer screen for four or five hours at a time.
00:10:19.000And, you know, just getting on this diversity thing, I don't want to kind of identify who this person is, but I'm just going to give you an example.
00:10:30.000When I was a kid and when I was going for flight training many years ago, there was an air traffic controller who was female and also a minority who really was making a lot of mistakes in the control tower.
00:10:55.000They actually got rid of her and then she basically sued, got her job back.
00:11:00.000And to make a long story short, they wound up transferring her from a smaller airport with very small airplanes to a major airport just to kind of get her out of the hair of and the environment where she was to pretty much give her like a, in other words, a fresh start again.
00:12:14.000Next time you're at 35,000 feet, I hope that the pilot is qualified and knows what they're doing, not just there because they fit some sort of abstract criteria.
00:12:32.000Hi, I'm Adriana, a politics major at Hillsdale College.
00:12:35.000Here's Hillsdale President Dr. Larry Arn with a Constitution Minute.
00:12:39.000America's founders recognized an obvious fact of life: human beings differ in terms of physical attributes and talents.
00:12:45.000Because of this, some people will be better at some things than they are at others.
00:12:48.000But they also recognize that the tall and the short among us, the swift and the slow among us, are still human beings if we are recognizable as human beings.
00:12:57.000And therefore, we are equal in terms of the rights that pertain to human beings.
00:13:01.000Rights attached to human nature, rights that come from God.
00:13:05.000The Declaration of Independence names three of the big ones: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:13:10.000Exercising these rights is necessary if we are to be truly free.
00:13:14.000In our own time, many influential people believe that only government can decide what our rights should be.
00:15:35.000For example, if you looked at the Harvard admission standards, they had to lower very quietly their standards 20 to 30% for test scores for black students versus Asian and white counterparts.
00:15:49.000The question that United Airlines has to answer, and they won't, will United Airlines lower the criteria for new pilot hires to meet their goals like Harvard did before they got caught.
00:16:00.000We've largely also been a victim of our own success.
00:16:03.000Praise God, in the last 25 years, we haven't had a major airline crash.
00:18:14.000When you put diversity first, it means that you would not put ability first.
00:18:20.000And I think we know the answer to that question.
00:18:23.000The solution is get rid of all DEI in every form or fashion.
00:18:27.000And the reason why we all get so worked up about the pilot example and with the surgeon example is that there's not a lot of room for error.
00:18:38.000If there's diversity, equity, inclusion in the luggage department, that's frustrating.
00:18:42.000If they lose your piece of luggage and they send it to Honolulu and you are going to New York.
00:18:48.000But if there's diversity, equity, inclusion in the cockpit and otherwise qualified applicants were not hired because they don't look the right way, that is repulsive and the decline of civilization as we know it.
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00:20:18.000Uh, Chip, you and I had some fun text message over the weekend, uh, but we won't get we won't get into that.
00:20:22.000I have a lot of respect for you, Chip.
00:20:24.000Chip, walk us through the Supreme Court decision and your now viral remarks where you say it's time for Texas to ignore the court and secure the border.
00:20:33.000Hey, Charlie, great to be on, as always.
00:20:35.000And like, I always enjoy our Texas changes, and you're always thoughtful about stuff, even when we disagree.
00:20:39.000And, like, I'll tell you exactly what's going on.
00:20:41.000I am in Brackettville, Texas right now.
00:20:43.000I'm about to have a meeting with landowners and a bunch of the leadership and local law enforcement and folks that are leading in South Texas to get an update of what they're facing.
00:20:52.000I'm not yet sure if I'm going to get to Eagle Pass.
00:20:54.000I'm talking to some of the guys down there.
00:20:56.000But the bottom line is: it is long past time for Texas to just go ahead and tell the federal government no.
00:21:02.000I mean, if the federal government is not going to do their job, if they're going to expose the people of Texas to danger, fentanyl poisoning, the empowerment of cartels, terrorists coming across our borders, criminals coming across our borders, our ranchers, you know, fences getting out, their livestock getting out, and there's no end in sight, 10,000 a month.
00:21:25.000And now the Supreme Court comes in and says, and by the way, 5-4 decision with obviously John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett siding with the leftists.
00:21:34.000And they say, no, sorry, even though the Constitution says it's the federal government's job to take care of the border.
00:21:38.000And even though the Constitution says states can repel invasion if the federal government fails to do it, they say, no, sorry, Texas, too bad.
00:23:10.000Like it's an academic question, one you sit around and debate.
00:23:13.000The response I give is the Constitution contemplated a federal government of limited enumerated powers and specifically said the federal government is supposed to manage those issues, but did in fact preserve the ability and the right of governors and states to protect their own citizensry in the absence of the protection of the federal government.
00:23:34.000In addition, just conceptually, okay, if you're at your house and it's being invaded and the Supreme Court ruled yesterday, you may not use a weapon to defend yourself and your family.
00:23:54.000My point is at some point, you have to recognize what our job is in reflecting our God-given rights, which the Constitution, the Bill of Rights does, a form of government that is decidedly built around empowering people and states and localities, not the federal government, to interfere.
00:24:12.000And we've got to be able to hold the line.
00:24:16.000I say it with the fear of what I'm saying.
00:24:18.000I do not want to live in a post-constitutional world, but this court is pushing our hand.
00:24:24.000And the court needs to know that because John Roberts likes to go around to the cocktail set and say, hey, I came up with a tax idea instead of a mandate idea to save Obamacare.
00:24:34.000I want them to feel the pressure because if they're political animals, they need to know it.
00:24:38.000We were out there defending Amy Coney Barrett when her house was being protested.
00:24:42.000We said that the law should be enforced to protect her.
00:24:45.000Where is she when the people of Texas need to be protected?
00:25:14.000And can you help me understand that, Chip?
00:25:16.000Is he banking on a decisive Fifth Circuit?
00:25:20.000Is he signaling that the crisis is at such a fever pitch that since Texas was once a sovereign nation and can repel invasion, that Texas is going to take care of itself, even if the federal government says it can't?
00:25:35.000I do not want to speak for Governor Abbott.
00:25:38.000You know, we don't always agree, but we agree a lot on the basic operations of government and what we should do and shouldn't do.
00:25:46.000I say that respectfully, but also sometimes critically.
00:25:50.000I believe that he is reaching the judgment that, look, you got to reach a sober judgment, right?
00:25:55.000You know, when we want to say that we want our law enforcement in Texas to do the job of Border Patrol and go grab an illegal and remove that illegal and take them across into Mexico.
00:26:07.000Governor Abbott, if he has to process that as the chief executive, he's the one that has to say to a DPS trooper, you're going to do this, but you may get sued.
00:26:19.000You may get sued under federal law under 1983 or whatever for a civil rights violation.
00:26:24.000You may get prosecuted by the federal government.
00:26:26.000And then I'm left having to figure out how to defend that.
00:27:14.000And he sees a federal government not just failing, but purposefully refusing to carry out their duty to secure the border of the United States.
00:27:30.000Because the evil Marxist left, and I don't use those words lightly, it seems as if they found this loophole.
00:27:36.000And the loophole is that as long as we control the cabinet agencies, we get to choose what laws we enforce and how enthusiastically we enforce them.
00:27:46.000And it's almost a way to subvert and bypass.
00:27:49.000It's a loophole of our constitutional system and order.
00:27:54.000I mean, you bring Majorkis, and I wish you would impeach him, but we'll get to that in a second.
00:27:58.000You bring him in front, and then he just lies.
00:28:00.000And he says, oh, no, we're enforcing the law.
00:28:02.000And, you know, basically, what are you going to do about it?
00:28:04.000He's almost taunting you, Chip, and you know it, because they want the border open.
00:28:09.000And the way that they think they can do it is through controlling these cabinet secretaries and agencies.
00:28:15.000And just so everyone's at home, if you haven't been following this, we did a whole show on it.
00:28:19.000The Biden administration sued Texas so that they could keep the border open.
00:28:26.000That was what the lawsuit was all about, saying, how dare you, Texas, get in our way to interfere with our open border agenda.
00:28:34.000That is what the lawsuit was all about and to cut fences.
00:28:38.000And so let's just talk about this for a second here, Chip.
00:28:42.000I think it's very, very important, which is the cabinet secretaries.
00:28:46.000They have found a workaround of the framer designed and framer-intended checks and balances where you have these cabinet secretaries that do whatever they want.
00:28:59.000Yeah, I mean, this is actually a fundamentally important problem, right?
00:29:06.000We had the Supreme Court, the irony here, right?
00:29:08.000The Supreme Court said you can't do what you're doing with respect to student loans, yet they're doing it anyway, right?
00:29:14.000They are purposely ignoring the law on multiple areas under the various cabinet secretaries, Department of Justice and what they are doing, right?
00:29:24.000They were obstructing justice with respect to Hunter Biden.
00:29:27.000They were purposely using laws to target pro-lifers, right?
00:29:35.000They're abusing the law to carry out their leftist ends.
00:29:38.000And in this case, leave our border wide open.
00:29:41.000And as you pointed out, Maorcas, he's doing it on purpose.
00:29:44.000And he lied to us under oath famously.
00:29:47.000Looking at me sitting in the Judiciary Committee, when I put the text of the law right in front of him, he boldly, brashly said, yes, we have operational control.
00:29:58.000And I said, are you sure this statute right here?
00:30:03.000Then he went to another committee and said, well, no, I mean, not under that meaning of the definition, but that meaning was literally the statute I put right in front of him.
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00:33:39.000Well, you know, before we go down the road of, you know, doing what, you know, following suit on some of these other cities are taking action on, let's find out who's willing to help.
00:33:49.000You know, so, you know, we do hear from constituents on both sides of this.
00:33:53.000What are we going to do to preemptively stop this?
00:33:56.000And then we hear from people that tell us we should do more.
00:33:58.000You know, we do have a very affluent community, a lot of big homes.
00:34:03.000And what I'd like to do is direct staff to create a sign-up sheet, you know, for individuals that would be willing to house migrant family.
00:34:13.000And if there's people that would do that, God bless them.
00:34:16.000So if we could raise awareness in that way, I think we need to find out.
00:34:21.000I think we need to find out who would be willing to house migrant families.
00:34:26.000Now, some people are attacking this guy for even suggesting it.
00:36:30.000Having the 20-year-old guy from Nicaragua get to know your 16-year-old daughter?
00:36:35.000If what I just said bothers you, then I'm proving the point.
00:36:39.000So you're perfectly fine with them invading Texas and invading Arizona and invading the rest of the country.
00:36:46.000But if you get up in arms, that a city council member rather soberly and I got to be in a neutral way says, hey, could we have a sign-up sheet?