The Charlie Kirk Show - January 22, 2021


Why You Shouldn't Trust Joe Biden's 'Unity'


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On the day after Joe Biden is sworn in as president of the United States, what do we do next? What do we go from here? What does the country need to do now that the new president has been sworn in?

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, the day after Joe Biden becomes President of the United States, unity versus liberty.
00:00:04.000 What's the difference?
00:00:05.000 And does it matter?
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00:00:32.000 Unity versus Liberty.
00:00:33.000 Here's the difference, why it matters.
00:00:35.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:36.000 Here we go.
00:00:37.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:39.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
00:00:41.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:44.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:48.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:49.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:50.000 His 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.
00:00:58.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:07.000 That's why we are here.
00:01:10.000 With Turning Point USA and the movement that we have started, I've had the honor of traveling and visiting to college campuses and engage in rigorous debate with the next generation.
00:01:20.000 When you talk to as many students as I do, you see several familiar themes.
00:01:24.000 I see disillusionment with the media, a lack of hope in their job prospects.
00:01:28.000 I hear them claim that they're victims and they deserve better.
00:01:31.000 Whether college students realize it or not, they're forming ideologies that will affect the way they think and treat others for a lifetime.
00:01:37.000 I'd like to recommend a great book to any young person in this time of life.
00:01:41.000 It's called Reflections on the Existence of God by best-selling author Richard Simmons III.
00:01:46.000 This guy never shies away from the hard questions of life.
00:01:49.000 Reflections on the existence of God is a collection of short essays that tackles the biggest question of all.
00:01:54.000 Does God exist?
00:01:56.000 This book is well researched and easy to read.
00:01:58.000 One of the most important things a young person can do is to solidify their worldview.
00:02:02.000 Our worldview informs our personal, social, and political lives.
00:02:06.000 It helps us understand our purpose.
00:02:07.000 So I'm challenging college students to ask themselves life's toughest questions.
00:02:11.000 Dive in and get this book today.
00:02:13.000 Reflections on the existence of God.
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00:02:17.000 That's reflectionscharlie.com.
00:02:19.000 Then drop me a line at freedom at charliekirk.com with your thoughts.
00:02:25.000 Welcome to this show.
00:02:26.000 It's a very, very important day.
00:02:28.000 It really is.
00:02:29.000 We are here today on the road.
00:02:31.000 Producer Andrew is here and important news day.
00:02:34.000 And we're going to go about it with positivity and good cheer.
00:02:37.000 Yesterday, I know, was a tough day for a lot of you, and we have received a lot of your emails, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:02:44.000 A lot of people are saying, Charlie, what do we do?
00:02:47.000 Where do we go from here?
00:02:48.000 So let me just start first with some of you that did email us early in the morning.
00:02:53.000 They said, Charlie, you don't understand.
00:02:54.000 Joe Biden is going to get walking up to get sworn in, and everyone's going to get arrested, and Donald Trump will swoop in and get another four years.
00:03:01.000 That did not happen.
00:03:03.000 There was no plan.
00:03:05.000 There was none of that.
00:03:05.000 And so I just hope that there will be just an end to some of the hopium message boards that have been used over the last couple of years that have done nothing but just feed a fake narrative that breeds inactivity and also just quite honestly misinformation and disinformation.
00:03:26.000 Joe Biden is now president of the United States.
00:03:28.000 He was sworn in yesterday and promised unity.
00:03:32.000 He promised that he wanted to unify the country around what we really weren't sure.
00:03:38.000 So Andrew, did you notice he really didn't tell us what he wanted to unify us around?
00:03:41.000 No, he was completely obtuse.
00:03:47.000 I would also say inexact and full of platitudes.
00:03:50.000 That's my favorite way to describe the way that Democrats talk in modern America.
00:03:55.000 They just say a bunch of niceties that don't really mean anything, and people just let them get away with it.
00:04:00.000 Yeah, and so I want to go to Cut 65, and this is a very important cut where President Biden said basically was declaring a new war.
00:04:12.000 Now, mind you, I was not the only one that heard it this way.
00:04:15.000 People on MSNBC and CNN said, I heard a battle cry, didn't you?
00:04:19.000 And this is one war that even the anti-war left is very, very excited about.
00:04:23.000 Let's play Cut 65.
00:04:26.000 Now, a rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat.
00:04:37.000 And so, look, I'm all for rising up against the most fringe, awful people that want to wish harm upon our country.
00:04:48.000 But you also must do it within the frames of the Constitution.
00:04:51.000 And also, when you start to use these open-ended words, political extremism, what does that mean?
00:04:57.000 Political extremism.
00:04:59.000 That's a label that could be thrown at basically anyone for any reason whatsoever that they just might disagree with.
00:05:05.000 And so, Cut 66 is Glenn Greenwald talking about this is a new domestic war on terror.
00:05:11.000 Glenn Greenwald is a civil libertarian.
00:05:14.000 He's one of the few.
00:05:15.000 Where all the libertarians are in a moment like this, I don't know.
00:05:18.000 And we're going to play a tape from John Brennan, the former head of either DNI or CIA.
00:05:22.000 He ran CIA.
00:05:24.000 He ran the CIA and lied in front of Congress multiple times.
00:05:28.000 And John Brennan even said that it's libertarians that are on the list of worthy of opposition.
00:05:34.000 Let's play tape of Glenn Greenwald.
00:05:37.000 Well, one thing I think that we're clearly seeing is the initiation of a new war on terror, which I don't say lately.
00:05:43.000 I say that because the Biden administration, what will be the Biden administration in about a week, is saying explicitly that they want, first of all, a new law to further criminalize domestic terrorism, even though every act that constitutes domestic terrorism is already criminalized.
00:06:02.000 What they want to do is increase their power to monitor political groups, to infiltrate them, to criminalize activities that currently are not criminalized, nor should they be, whether it be advocacy of speech or other things.
00:06:15.000 They're saying they want a new law, similar to the way that the 9-11 attack and the emotions surrounding it was instantly seized upon to institute a whole series of new laws that endure to this very day.
00:06:27.000 And so what Glenn Greenwald is warning about, and God bless him for doing it, he's one of the few people on the left that is actually talking about how dangerous this can be, is that Democrats have found a new war on terror.
00:06:39.000 Not one in the Kandahar Valley, not one in Baghdad, not one in Tripoli, but no, one in Philadelphia, one in Chicago, one in Los Angeles, and one in Denver.
00:06:51.000 And it gives them now permission domestically, if they pass this legislatively, to infiltrate, monitor, and go after people that are on the political spectrum they don't like, including potentially libertarians.
00:07:09.000 Now, John Brennan said that in an interview with MSNBC, and our team is going to get that clip.
00:07:14.000 But the question should be: why are the Democrats doing this so quickly?
00:07:20.000 And I learned something yesterday that I want to share with you.
00:07:22.000 I saw something yesterday I want to share with you, which I think is very important.
00:07:29.000 And the Democrats wasted no time to go on offense.
00:07:36.000 When Barack Obama was sworn into office in 2008, he did not hit the ground running as quickly as Joe Biden did yesterday.
00:07:45.000 Within hours, there were 14 executive orders signed, maybe more.
00:07:49.000 A press conference of 35 to 40 minutes that was hosted.
00:07:54.000 They wasted no time to take back power in our government.
00:07:58.000 And I think that Obama, who is probably the advisor and one of the chief architects behind all of this, advised them that if you do not play offense, Republicans will put you on defense.
00:08:13.000 The margins are narrow.
00:08:15.000 You need to play offense instantaneously.
00:08:17.000 And I got to give Jen Saki and all of them credit. 0.97
00:08:21.000 To go do a press conference the day you take over the government, that's risky.
00:08:27.000 That is not normal.
00:08:29.000 President Donald Trump's team did not host a press conference until, I believe, the following Monday or Tuesday.
00:08:35.000 In fact, President Donald Trump did not start signing executive orders till the weekend after he was sworn in.
00:08:41.000 He started with calls with foreign leaders, and Trump hit it very quickly.
00:08:45.000 I mean, he hit the ground running and they were ready to go.
00:08:48.000 But it was still very incremental.
00:08:50.000 For Joe Biden, they are trying to make up for lost time.
00:08:53.000 They're angry they were ever displaced from power.
00:08:55.000 They are upset that they lost these four years.
00:08:59.000 And they are focused on enacting whatever agenda that they think will better themselves or put America in a position that they desire.
00:09:12.000 But one of the biggest things that they are trying to prevent is another Tea Party.
00:09:17.000 I got my political start in the Tea Party back in 2009, 2010, 2011.
00:09:22.000 It was a beautiful movement.
00:09:24.000 Voices like Mark Levin became nationally known.
00:09:28.000 Candidates such as even Marco Rubio were elected in surprise elections.
00:09:34.000 The United States House of Representatives was taken out of Nancy Pelosi's control and given back in 2010.
00:09:42.000 The Tea Party movement became the most powerful political movement for years, and it eventually turned into the MAGA movement.
00:09:49.000 Many MAGA people were previously Tea Party people.
00:09:53.000 Now, Tea Party people were called domestic terrorists.
00:09:56.000 They were called racists.
00:09:57.000 They were called xenophobes completely and totally baselessly.
00:10:04.000 With the tragic attack on the Capitol that happened just a couple weeks ago, the Democrats are now seizing this blanket narrative to go after a potential counter movement to anything that they do.
00:10:22.000 And John Brennan is wasting no time advertising this.
00:10:25.000 John Brennan, who I don't think has an official role in the administration, right?
00:10:29.000 Not yet.
00:10:30.000 On MSNBC saying Joe Biden's team is wasting no time with laser-like focus to go after all these different sorts of groups.
00:10:39.000 Play tape.
00:10:41.000 Oh, looking forward that the members of the Biden team who have been nominated or have been appointed are now moving in laser-like fashion to try to uncover as much as they can about what looks very similar to insurgency movements that we've seen overseas,
00:10:58.000 where they germinate in different parts of a country and they gain strength and it brings together an unholy alliance frequently of religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians.
00:11:13.000 And unfortunately, I think there has been this momentum that has been generated as a result of, unfortunately, the demagogic rhetoric of people that just departed government, but also those who continue in the halls of Congress.
00:11:25.000 That's John Brennan, even including libertarians.
00:11:27.000 Now, why would he put that kind of grouping together?
00:11:32.000 Because the domestic war on terror that they so desperately want to see launched will inevitably stave off another Tea Party.
00:11:47.000 They're terrified of another reaction because they want to stay in political power perpetually.
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00:13:03.000 Okay, so we were unpacking in the previous segment.
00:13:06.000 Why is it that Democrats are so quick right now to want to declare a new domestic war on terror?
00:13:14.000 That is Glenn Greenwald's words, not even our words.
00:13:17.000 And Glenn Greenwald is a liberal.
00:13:19.000 And the reason is multifold, and it's really important that we unpack this.
00:13:24.000 The Democrats back in 2008 underestimated Republicans.
00:13:30.000 They were so in charge.
00:13:31.000 They had such overwhelming majorities in the House and the Senate.
00:13:36.000 They thought there was no way Republicans could get back in control anytime soon, and they were wrong.
00:13:41.000 Because of Obama's unpopular policies, because of the unpopular way that he handled a lot of different issues, including health care, there was a grassroots response that, yes, included libertarians, which is involved, which is included in John Brennan's list of kind of untouchables, like the political untouchables.
00:14:02.000 And because of that, the Democrats don't want to make the same mistake that they made in 2008, which is underestimate the conservative movement.
00:14:13.000 And so their strategy now is to describe 74 million people as potential insurgents.
00:14:20.000 And that's exactly what John Brennan did.
00:14:22.000 Now, interestingly, they never would consider what is happening in Seattle and Portland right now as actual insurgency.
00:14:34.000 Did you know, last night and yesterday, there were zero, as far as we know of, Trump supporters engaging in violence or public protests.
00:14:44.000 However, there were people that were anarchists and Antifa smashing Democrat headquarters in downtown Portland, setting fire to the original Starbucks.
00:14:58.000 In fact, let's go to Cut 78 that shows this.
00:15:00.000 Antifa on the move in Seattle, a little over eight hours since Joe Biden was inaugurated.
00:15:05.000 Isn't this domestic terrorism?
00:15:07.000 Isn't this insurrection?
00:15:08.000 Isn't this an insurgency play tape?
00:15:21.000 And so that's just a video of them marching through the streets.
00:15:23.000 Tear gas was used to actually disperse them because they tried to attack a federal courthouse.
00:15:29.000 Remember when Donald Trump tried to do that in Portland and Seattle?
00:15:33.000 I was on television with Chris Hahn back in July, who called those federal agents jack-booted thugs.
00:15:42.000 I wonder if Chris Hahn and the left-wing intelligentsia would call them that now.
00:15:46.000 Let's play Cut 95.
00:15:52.000 These are federal agents using tear gas and other means to disperse Antifa.
00:16:06.000 Now, interestingly, I bet Antifa was probably like, guys, why are you shooting at us?
00:16:11.000 You haven't shot at us in like four years.
00:16:14.000 Well, now that a Democrat is in control, all of a sudden, they don't want any form of opposition in the streets.
00:16:21.000 Remember, we're in charge.
00:16:23.000 We control the military.
00:16:24.000 We have the guns, and you don't.
00:16:26.000 I think this is actually an interesting take here, too, because they attacked the DNC in, I believe it was Seattle.
00:16:33.000 It could have been Portland.
00:16:34.000 One of those two cities, the actual Democrat headquarters was attacked.
00:16:39.000 And it kind of reminded me, Charlie, of images from early in the summer when you saw like CNN's building get vandalized by BLM as well.
00:16:48.000 What the Democrats either don't understand, there's two theories, right?
00:16:52.000 Either the Democrats are, the establishment is also a target, right?
00:16:55.000 They had that sign that says, we don't want Biden, we want revenge, or they are being secretly behind the scenes sort of dispatched to sort of create additional further left momentum and pressure on the Democrat Party on purpose, right?
00:17:11.000 To put pressure on Biden or the administration.
00:17:14.000 It's an interesting debate.
00:17:16.000 I'm not suggesting that's true.
00:17:17.000 I'm just saying it's a theory that's being floated out there.
00:17:20.000 Or it just could be a bunch of anarchists that take to the streets often.
00:17:23.000 And Joe Biden doesn't want the appearance of discord on the streets.
00:17:30.000 And this is Joe Biden squashing actual opposition where Donald Trump just wanted peace on the streets.
00:17:36.000 And Joe Biden and the federal agents that's now under his jurisdiction and his control are acting more like the fascists that they were afraid that Donald Trump was going to be over the last four years.
00:17:48.000 And so there is an idealism that Joe Biden is pushing forward.
00:17:53.000 And this idealism is unity.
00:17:56.000 But before we ever can unify, we must say, hold on, what is it we actually have in common?
00:18:01.000 What are we unifying around?
00:18:03.000 And this is the question that no one is asking that I want to unpack in our next segment, which is, what is the idealism that Joe Biden is trying to push forward?
00:18:12.000 Because typically, idealism can actually just be a cover for something that is quite sinister in nature.
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00:19:46.000 Eric Weinstein is a liberal.
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00:19:54.000 And Glenn Beck is obviously awesome.
00:19:57.000 And they had this really good conversation back and forth about why are we in the position we are in in our country.
00:20:03.000 And Eric Weinstein said something I've heard him say before, where he said that the idealism of an era is usually the cover of the theft.
00:20:12.000 So, for example, back in the 1990s, there was this entire movement to say, we are the world.
00:20:20.000 You know, we are world citizens, which was a cover for betraying the fellow countrymen that you live with.
00:20:27.000 For example, the ties that bind an Iowan and a Texan together, it really doesn't matter very much because you should just equally care about the Texan as you do as a Nicaraguan or the person in Vietnam.
00:20:39.000 And that was, according to Eric Weinstein, a kind of corporate permission slip to put forward NAFTA, TPP, and expand some of the international corporate theft, as he put, that was really instituted.
00:20:55.000 What happened in the early 2000s?
00:20:57.000 Well, the early 2000s was the continuation of an idealism of the American dream is owning a home.
00:21:05.000 Everyone needs that white picket fence.
00:21:07.000 And so what ended up happening was that narrative, that cultural conversation resulted in the massive government-subsidized housing bubble.
00:21:17.000 And the same could be said throughout the 80s and every era has its idealism, as Eric Weinstein provocatively argues, and I think he's mostly right, that that idealism is a cloak for something they're trying to take away from you or they're trying to destroy.
00:21:36.000 And it hit me as I was listening that if we take that thesis statement as true, which I think it's generally right and I think it's really interesting, that what is the idealism that is being pushed right now that very well might be the cover of the theft that they're trying to institute?
00:21:52.000 Unity.
00:21:54.000 That's the idealism.
00:21:57.000 And no one asks the question, well, what are we exactly supposed to unify around?
00:22:01.000 Wouldn't we rather have liberty, which means the capacity to have differences but still live together, than forced unity?
00:22:07.000 We must all sing in unison to the same song sheet?
00:22:11.000 Isn't that potentially kind of dangerous? 0.61
00:22:14.000 And so the idealism that is being put forward, and by the way, I am, as I think Andrew is, we're all suckers for idealism.
00:22:24.000 It's built into us.
00:22:25.000 Plato talked about this.
00:22:26.000 Plato dealt in the clouds, in the sky, and what we could be as human beings.
00:22:32.000 We are hardwired, part of us at least, to want to believe that the ideal can supersede reality.
00:22:40.000 And sometimes that idealism is really necessary to improve a civilization.
00:22:46.000 Sometimes that idealism is really helpful.
00:22:49.000 That's how we abolished slavery.
00:22:51.000 That's how we put forward the Civil Rights Act.
00:22:53.000 Those are good things.
00:22:54.000 But also sometimes idealism can be really, really dangerous, especially when you're at a point where the idealism is now being pushed forward to actually be regressive, to actually move things backwards. 0.91
00:23:09.000 And so the idealism that is being pushed forward by these peacetime kleptocrats is that we all want to agree and unify that everything that happened in the last four years was awful. 0.92
00:23:25.000 That's what they want you to unify around. 0.67
00:23:28.000 Not that we're going to unify on there's only one race, the human race.
00:23:31.000 No, no, no, no.
00:23:32.000 You're not allowed to say that.
00:23:34.000 Not that we are going to unify around the idea of e pluribus unim out of many one, liberty and idgon we trust, which Dennis Prager, who's just feet away from us, says is the American Trinity, great guy.
00:23:46.000 No.
00:23:47.000 The unity that they want to bring to our country is much different.
00:23:53.000 And that's just a very simple question that the activist media should ask Jen Saki, who again deserves credit, and I say this non-sarcastically, for hosting a press conference the day you move into the White House.
00:24:05.000 Pretty bold, I'm not going to lie. 1.00
00:24:07.000 You're still getting the Keurig machine figured out, and she's hosting a press conference.
00:24:12.000 I have thoughts on this, by the way.
00:24:13.000 Please.
00:24:14.000 I mean, it was such a thumb in the nose, and it was an intentional burn to the Trump administration, which obviously didn't hold daily press briefings.
00:24:22.000 They tried at the beginning to be more regular, but it was such a war zone every time they entered, and it was such a waste of space.
00:24:29.000 People like Jim Acosta were getting famous and getting future book deals on it.
00:24:33.000 So they rightly changed it up, and President Trump switched it up as well.
00:24:36.000 He went and took questions right in front of Marine One and that sort of thing to sort of reclaim the power and get the cameras looking at him and away from them, which I thought was a good move.
00:24:46.000 But what it was was she knew that she was walking into a room full of friendly reporters that were full of puff pieces that wanted to know what did Joe Biden feel like when he went into the Oval Office?
00:24:57.000 And she was like, oh, well, you know, he said it felt like coming home.
00:25:00.000 It was like, you knew.
00:25:02.000 And by the way, the other thing, if you were looking really closely, there was two.
00:25:05.000 Originally, I had said there was one hostile question from Peter Doocy.
00:25:08.000 And he asked a great question.
00:25:10.000 I like Peter Duce.
00:25:11.000 He asked a great question, and I think it bodes well for his tenure as White House correspondent for Fox.
00:25:17.000 But there was two.
00:25:18.000 There was another one about abortion.
00:25:20.000 She skipped over Peter Doocy, and she even said, if you notice, she says, I meant to get to you earlier.
00:25:27.000 I'm sorry.
00:25:27.000 I'm coming back to you.
00:25:28.000 So she went almost the entire presser with softball questions.
00:25:32.000 Nobody asked about the caravan from Honduras.
00:25:34.000 Nobody asked about the coming economic malaise that will happen when you shut down the pipeline and you join the Paris Climate Accord and what that's going to do to business.
00:25:44.000 Nobody asked about the Mexico City rule and that sort of thing.
00:25:48.000 Well, actually, she did get one question about that, which she deferred.
00:25:51.000 But it was just a little bit into friendly territory.
00:25:55.000 Not just friendly territory.
00:25:58.000 She was walking into fellow comrades.
00:26:00.000 Yeah.
00:26:01.000 And I don't use that word lightly.
00:26:02.000 I mean, it's as if, oh, now we're all in this together.
00:26:05.000 And so let's just give an example of this, just because in case you missed it, again, I agree, Andrew, but I still think it's bold to host a press conference in a couple hours.
00:26:13.000 I'm going to give the...
00:26:13.000 If I'm a Democrat, I do it every day.
00:26:15.000 I don't think it's helpful.
00:26:16.000 The day you move in.
00:26:18.000 I'm saying that deserves, I'm not saying credit.
00:26:22.000 It's noteworthy.
00:26:23.000 No, it is.
00:26:23.000 And it was a good move.
00:26:25.000 It was strategically.
00:26:26.000 If I was a Democrat, they are playing this perfectly right now.
00:26:29.000 Yeah, no, you're right.
00:26:30.000 You put them on defense.
00:26:31.000 You host the press conference.
00:26:32.000 Republicans are still kind of grapple.
00:26:34.000 Who's our leader?
00:26:35.000 What's this?
00:26:36.000 It's still significant.
00:26:37.000 Okay, here's the tough questioning of they're asking Jen Saki while we're in the midst of a pandemic.
00:26:43.000 Millions of people are out of work.
00:26:45.000 Treaties are getting flown all over the place.
00:26:47.000 Iran wants a deal. 0.94
00:26:49.000 Suicide bombers in Baghdad.
00:26:51.000 What color is Air Force One going to be? 0.86
00:26:52.000 Playtime.
00:26:54.000 A lighter note.
00:26:55.000 Will he keep Donald Trump's Air Force One color scheme changed?
00:26:59.000 This is such a good question.
00:27:00.000 I have not had the opportunity to dig into that today, given the number of executive actions, orders, the inauguration, a few things happening.
00:27:08.000 I will venture to get you an answer on that, and maybe we can talk about it in here tomorrow.
00:27:13.000 That's such a good question.
00:27:14.000 Thank you.
00:27:16.000 Oh, my gosh. 1.00
00:27:17.000 Who is that woman that asked that?
00:27:20.000 I don't know her name, actually.
00:27:21.000 I think, because now that we have a new administration, a lot of people are going to be able to do that.
00:27:24.000 Here's the real question.
00:27:25.000 Why is Jensaki violating the mask mandate?
00:27:27.000 That's the real question that people need to ask.
00:27:28.000 Well, Joe Biden himself violated the mask mandate.
00:27:32.000 The EO that he signed at all federal buildings, he was at the Lincoln Memorial, caught on camera without his mask on.
00:27:38.000 But what is the, so a question that Jensaki should have been asked is, okay.
00:27:41.000 We have that clip.
00:27:43.000 We'll play it in a second.
00:27:44.000 You want unity.
00:27:45.000 You want to bring the country together.
00:27:47.000 We think that's admirable.
00:27:48.000 What are the values you want us to unite around?
00:27:51.000 What does unity look like?
00:27:53.000 And are you willing to achieve that idealism?
00:27:57.000 Are you willing as president in your first 100 days when you have the most political capital, absent other times when unexpected things happen, most political capital to say, stand down on impeachment?
00:28:07.000 Are you willing to do that?
00:28:08.000 That was Peter Ducey's question.
00:28:09.000 Great question, by the way.
00:28:10.000 Really good question.
00:28:11.000 Absolutely great question.
00:28:11.000 And the fact that he's not...
00:28:13.000 Yeah, well, and what she did, and if you noticed what she did, she said, oh, well, that's up to Schumer and Pelosi.
00:28:13.000 She totally dodged it.
00:28:18.000 And it's like, no, you're the president of the United States.
00:28:22.000 You are the standard bearer, rather, of the Democrat Party.
00:28:26.000 Now, you are the leader of the Democrat Party.
00:28:28.000 Show some leadership.
00:28:29.000 Right.
00:28:30.000 And by the way, if Biden would say no impeachment, they'd stand down.
00:28:33.000 Now, they wouldn't necessarily want that.
00:28:35.000 Nothing says unifying the country, like trying to not remove a president, but say you can never run again and convict that president.
00:28:43.000 Oh, and start domestic surveillance on 75 million that's coming next.
00:28:47.000 Right.
00:28:47.000 And so, and what's so amazing to me, and I want to find the evidence of this because Glenn Greenwald said Elon Omar and Rashida Taliba are against this new domestic war on terror, which I've seen no evidence of.
00:28:57.000 So I want to kind of see where Glenn Greenwald got that from.
00:29:01.000 Strange bedfellows, nevertheless.
00:29:02.000 That's true. 0.97
00:29:03.000 I could see it, sort of, but I think they're looking at it from more of a potential, this could be used against Islamic groups.
00:29:12.000 However, the Democrats were always the harshest critics of the Patriot Act.
00:29:16.000 Now they want a new Patriot Act.
00:29:18.000 And guess what? 0.88
00:29:20.000 Establishment Republicans want it too.
00:29:22.000 You know why?
00:29:23.000 Mitch McConnell would love nothing more and the establishment Republicans than to be able to say those Tea Party, those MAGA people, we want to stifle them and maybe not destroy them, but have them have the threat of surveillance, infiltration, no Fourth Amendment rights.
00:29:40.000 We're going to treat them like 70 million Timothy McVeighs.
00:29:45.000 If you don't know who Timothy McVeigh is, that's not even worth going through.
00:29:48.000 Okay.
00:29:49.000 Let's go to Cut 87.
00:29:50.000 Nothing says uniting the country like saying the former president is an accessory to murder.
00:29:55.000 Cut 87, like he's Al Capone.
00:29:58.000 Any of our colleagues collaborate?
00:30:01.000 Well, that remains to be seen.
00:30:02.000 We have to get the evidence of that.
00:30:04.000 And if they did, they would be accessory to the crime.
00:30:08.000 And the crime, in some cases, was murder.
00:30:10.000 Yeah, and this president is an accessory to that crime.
00:30:14.000 Okay, this kind of language has got to stop.
00:30:16.000 And look, you can be, and I've said this before, you can be critical that President Trump might not have used, he shouldn't have used certain phrases at that speech at the ellipse.
00:30:26.000 Maybe he was not specific enough about, you know, certain ways.
00:30:30.000 He did say patriotically and peacefully protest.
00:30:33.000 But I think that there's a kind of argument that can be made, a run of the, like just a normal argument that he might have excited the crowd and he should have just been really insistent about what he wanted to see happen.
00:30:47.000 However, to all of a sudden then connect every single bad thing that happened 100% to President Donald Trump's speech is first of all inaccurate and it runs against even the Washington Post on reporting.
00:30:58.000 Yeah, and you said it first, she's got to knock off this language.
00:31:02.000 Speaker Pelosi is, what is she, 80?
00:31:06.000 I honestly have never met another 80-year-old that speaks this at this tone, at this level of this vitriol.
00:31:14.000 She's completely out of touch and she is further dividing the nation.
00:31:19.000 But why would you expect anything else from the leader of the House from San Francisco?
00:31:25.000 And so Joe Biden says he wants to unify the country.
00:31:28.000 He wants to bring people together.
00:31:29.000 Let me tell you what he should do, what he won't do, though.
00:31:32.000 And even Obama did this back in 2008 and 2009, where Joe Biden should invite not like moderate Republicans, but he should invite actual grassroots conservatives that are and were MAGA people and say, I don't think you are Timothy McVeigh,
00:31:48.000 and actually have a legitimate conversation because nothing that Joe Biden has done yet has proven or has said to us in any form or fashion whatsoever that the way he views half the country is not with resentment or bitterness or hatred or not even bitterness or hatred,
00:32:13.000 but he believes that they are part of what would be called a counterinsurgency in our country.
00:32:20.000 So you want to heal?
00:32:22.000 How many times do you have to hear, we need a real conversation about race in this country?
00:32:26.000 Hear that all the time.
00:32:27.000 You know what we need?
00:32:28.000 We need a conversation about the political divide in this country.
00:32:34.000 You want to see a truth and reconciliation project?
00:32:38.000 Well, then why don't you bring in Trump and MAGA people to go talk to now their new government as their new government is proposing a new domestic war on terror on them?
00:32:48.000 Wouldn't it be nice if you talked to them?
00:32:49.000 When was the last time Joe Biden sat down with a Trump voter?
00:32:51.000 Has Joe Biden ever sat down with a Trump voter?
00:32:53.000 Has Joe Biden ever talked to a Trump voter?
00:32:55.000 Not a Republican that is like George W. Bush who whispers in Clyburn's ear that you're the greatest thing.
00:33:00.000 You know, thank God you saved the Republic.
00:33:02.000 No, no, I'm talking about a real Trump supporter.
00:33:04.000 I'm talking about someone that has done thinking about this that does not have bigotry, hatred, and resentment in their heart.
00:33:11.000 Does he think that person exists?
00:33:13.000 Does Joe Biden have any sort of concern for those people?
00:33:18.000 Or is he just going to rule with an iron fist, but also say, unity, unity, unity, I'm going to stamp out the opposition?
00:33:26.000 Yeah, I mean, you just asked the question, and you legitimately got me thinking.
00:33:31.000 Does he think these people even exist?
00:33:34.000 That's a heck of a question.
00:33:36.000 And I genuinely think he does know that.
00:33:39.000 But I wonder if certain people in his party don't.
00:33:42.000 I mean, if you look at the pages of The Atlantic, I was browsing them yesterday.
00:33:47.000 Their argument right now, and this is obviously the intelligentsia of the left, their argument is: can you redeem MAGA people?
00:33:56.000 Can you redeem Trumpists?
00:33:58.000 Are they so irredeemable that you can't bring them back from the brink of extremism?
00:34:03.000 And Trump.
00:34:03.000 Biden will never do this because he will get such a left-wing flack from his flank for even talking to Trump supporters, even having the conversation, even saying, you know what?
00:34:21.000 I'm president, but I want to be a president of all Americans.
00:34:24.000 That's what he said.
00:34:25.000 When was the last time Joe Biden sat down, if at all, for 30 minutes, 20 minutes, 10 minutes, and heard it from the mouth of a dedicated Trump MAGA supporter of why they voted for Trump and what's really in their heart?
00:34:39.000 Or is he just going to continue to govern the country through a lens of MSNBC, CNN, and Vox.com of what all the staffers say Trump supporters are?
00:34:50.000 Because I could tell you what, and we've been through this multiple times, that, and I said this on, I said this on television, Trump supporters were repulsed by what happened at the Capitol.
00:35:04.000 That's right.
00:35:05.000 Some people got caught up in it.
00:35:06.000 We've been through the different groups, in fact, but more and more evidence is coming out that these fringe groups that I've never heard of before, Boogaloo, boys, Oath Keepers, whatever, they were the ones that had pre-planning, that had an agenda, and they were the ones that were instigating.
00:35:25.000 We've played plenty of tape here about suspicious behavior.
00:35:28.000 Pink hat woman screaming through a megaphone about schematics, architecture, points of entry, the people changing in the trees from black to MAGA gear, the BLM Incorporated activists that stormed the Capitol, John Sullivan and his friends.
00:35:46.000 And so the question is, will Joe Biden offer any nuance whatsoever?
00:35:53.000 Again, I love my country, and I want, I'm praying, and I know this probably won't happen, that he'll be a moderate in many things.
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