00:00:47.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:03:33.000They're frustrated with the woke culture and the progressive ideology being indoctrinated to us and shoved down our throats.
00:03:39.000And they are actually, my hope and prayer is taking that energy to the polls and to the ballot box this November.
00:03:46.000You're seeing that same energy in this parallel economy as well.
00:03:49.000There are folks that have been so frustrated by institutional corporate America for far too long, selling our jobs overseas, mocking Americans while they do it with progressive social causes, taking our hard-earned money and turning it into an opportunity to enforce their political agenda.
00:04:06.000And what's been amazing, Charlie, is all the folks that feel that sense of frustration at woke corporate America, ESG-driven corporate America, are moving their money, their hard-earned money to businesses and brands that support this incredible country, the Constitution, and the family values that that document protects.
00:04:23.000The pro-life, pro-family, and pro-freedom economy is absolutely booming.
00:04:27.000Public Square is a great example of that.
00:04:29.000Our revenue is up a thousand percent from last year.
00:04:32.000And already in the first quarter of this year, we made more money than we did all of last year, which is a sign that the consumers and merchants in this parallel economy are waking up en masse and they're putting action behind their values.
00:04:46.000I tell people all the time, Charlie, and I'll finish with this, we have a bright future ahead for our nation.
00:04:51.000And I know that because if people did not have hope, a company like ours could never thrive.
00:04:57.000But because people have hope still, they're turning their frustration into action.
00:05:02.000And because of that, millions of customers and tens of thousands of small businesses, over 80,000 now on our platform in this great country, are experiencing much needed benefit and blessing right now, especially in a time of economic turmoil.
00:05:16.000So I could not be happier with how things are going.
00:06:21.000Why are they leaning in on a deeply unpopular fringe agenda?
00:06:27.000Do they think like, oh, this is just pride for adults, not for kids?
00:06:31.000Do they not realize that America is just kind of exhausted with this public celebration of one's private sexual preferences?
00:06:40.000Well, the incentive structure that you point out is no longer based upon economics because if it was, they would have learned from the Target debacle and recognized that they need to change course and change course quickly.
00:06:51.000Target, after last year's Pride misstep, to say the least, I thought it was a perversion disaster.
00:06:59.000After Target's massive malfeasance last June, they saw their first quarterly earnings miss, which means for the first time in six years, they have missed what analysts thought that they would actually do in sales.
00:07:11.000And they attributed it to the backlash from the pride collection in storefronts across this country.
00:07:17.000The last time Targets missed their quarterly earnings six years ago before that was due to the bathroom debacle when Target decided to take a stand in favor of allowing men inside women's bathrooms.
00:07:30.000So Target has repeatedly misstepped and it's resulted in their economic demise.
00:07:35.000Walmart's taking a note from the same playbook and wants to do the same thing because for them, it's not about economics anymore.
00:07:41.000They have a diversity and inclusion officer that runs that company, not the CEO, not Sam Walton's vision, not proper economics, not the aspiration to serve shareholders, none of that.
00:07:52.000At the end of the day, their country or excuse me, their company is run by a set of progressive ideas that are structured almost like a religion, where who cares if you lose profits because of this?
00:08:05.000You pledged your allegiance to a set of values.
00:08:08.000And because of that, they believe that they'll be in the good graces of the progressive overlords.
00:08:13.000That's how these companies are structured today.
00:08:14.000One more thing I'll note, Charlie, is that if you look back at Sam Walton's career and his original vision, he used to walk through the stores of Walmart for eight hours a week.
00:08:25.000He would take a day of his week and he'd walk through the storefront and he would ask customers, what are you looking for?
00:08:30.000And why did you choose that product instead of this one?
00:08:33.000And can you tell me a little bit about what you're hoping that Walmart would be able to solve for you today?
00:08:37.000He was all about learning what was in the best interest of their customers.
00:08:41.000Today, a few generations pass, that's of no interest to their customer base or to their executive team.
00:08:48.000You think that the diversity, equity, inclusion officer at the top that's making these decisions for how they market and campaign in alignment with Pride Month has any regard for what middle America consumers that rely on Walmart have to say?
00:09:03.000And it's rather sinister, Charlie, that a brand that rose to prominence, taking over American main streets, pricing out small businesses, offshoring the manufacturing and labor overseas, now lecturing you on progressive politics.
00:09:28.000It's not guided by any sort of economic feasibility or economic wisdom.
00:09:34.000It is purely another expression of a progressive political agenda that Americans are tired of, and yet it clearly hasn't made its way to the Walmart boardroom yet.
00:09:43.000Michael, then shouldn't we have massive class action lawsuits?
00:09:47.000I mean, this is a violation of the fiduciary duty of Walmart.
00:09:51.000They have data and they have publicly available information that embracing this nonsense is bad for the bottom line.
00:09:59.000So they are prioritizing ideological zealotry above their shareholders.
00:10:04.000Is it time for anyone who owns Walmart stock to sue?
00:10:09.000I encouraged this last year with Target as well.
00:10:11.000It is absolutely time to band together.
00:10:13.000And there are a few organizations that are attempting to do this and file class action lawsuits on behalf of shareholders against these companies that have embraced stakeholder capitalism instead of shareholder capitalism.
00:10:24.000Shareholder capitalism is we do as a business, what is in the best interests of our customers and our shareholders.
00:10:29.000Stakeholder capitalism is what Target and Walmart have embraced, which says we have to factor in these other external stakeholders like the climate or marginalized communities.
00:10:38.000It's not in the best interest of shareholders.
00:10:40.000The problem, Charlie, is that Walmart and Target are in the same boat.
00:10:44.000Their largest shareholders are BlackRock and Vanguard and these other entities that would never lead a charge to push against this progressive ideology being enforced from the top of these corporate boardrooms.
00:10:55.000So it will take a mass army of retail investors that come together and say, we're done.
00:11:02.000I encourage lawyers all the time, go out and find these folks because they will serve as plaintiffs immediately when given the opportunity.
00:11:11.000So if you're a lawyer on this call that has any background in securities violations or organizing class action lawsuits, know that there's a market there for you.
00:12:27.000They know that 90% of permanent change comes from the mind and they work on eliminating the reason you gain this weight in the first place.
00:12:33.000There's no shortcuts, pills, or injections, just solid science-based nutrition and behavior change.
00:12:37.000And finally, probably most importantly, I lost 30 pounds.
00:13:41.000They're telling us the opposite, Charlie.
00:13:43.000In fact, the reason we do this survey, it's called the Freedom Economy Index.
00:13:48.000The reason we do this every month is because we are daily gaslit from the Biden administration telling us, ignore your eyes, ignore your ears, everything is fine.
00:13:58.000We wanted to ask our businesses, over 80,000 of them that actually represent Main Street America, are you really fine?
00:14:08.000Every month for the last 10 months, we've sent out this survey to over 80,000 businesses.
00:14:12.000Thousands of them respond and give their take.
00:14:15.000We just released the May results, and here's what we have found.
00:14:20.000We have found from our small business community that 40% of all of our business owners have recently been forced to delay bill payments in order simply to keep their business alive.
00:14:31.000Over half of our businesses say that they likely will not survive another Biden term.
00:14:37.000And by the way, this mirrors what was recently released.
00:14:40.000There was a poll, I believe it was done by Axios, that found that four in 10 business owners missed April's rent.
00:14:49.000And so we are not hearing that everything is fine.
00:14:52.000In fact, we're hearing even further this sort of indictment on the broader economic environment taking place right now.
00:14:59.00064% of our business community strongly believes that the U.S. is actually headed towards stagflation.
00:15:04.000And as a reminder, stagflation is incredibly dangerous because not only do you have the pain of inflation at incredibly high rates, not seen since the late 70s, you also have that paired with slow economic growth and increasing unemployment.
00:15:20.000So you pair all of these findings and it paints a very clear picture for you.
00:15:24.000Our small business community, American Main Street, is very resilient, but they cannot take much more of this.
00:15:30.000And I hope that these results inform everyone listening and watching right now.
00:15:36.000It matters more than just for your own personal well-being and the well-being of your family.
00:15:41.000America's small business community relies very tangibly on a different economic set of policies over the next four years.
00:15:49.000If that does not happen, we are at risk of losing Main Street holistically.
00:15:53.000Then you are stuck with the Walmarts and Tallmark, Walmarts and Targets.
00:15:57.000If that happens, we cannot ensure that the lifeblood of America, the small business economy, is left out to dry with another four years of Biden.
00:16:05.000It feels as if that's the agenda, though.
00:16:07.000It feels as if they want a disintegration and evaporation of all small businesses.
00:16:44.000Been surfing since I was a little kid.
00:16:46.000Central America is an amazing place for surfing.
00:16:48.000I went on a trip that was paired with sort of a mission trip to Nicaragua.
00:16:52.000And I walked through a grocery store on the first day and I noticed that everything that you could possibly buy in that grocery store largely was sourced by two or three companies.
00:17:02.000I asked our tour guide, what's this about?
00:17:04.000He said, well, those are the only government-approved companies to operate in our nation.
00:17:09.000So all of what we buy now is from a few major select oligarchies that just so happen to have very close ties with the Nicaraguan government.
00:17:19.000That is our future in the United States, unless we the people rise up and recognize that our actions, our vote, not just with our ballot, but also with our dollar, is needed more than ever.
00:17:32.000You need to channel your votes at the ballot box to politicians that will secure economic freedom for the small business community of our great country.
00:17:39.000And you need to secure your vote with your wallet for businesses that love this country and this constitution.
00:17:45.000If we do not do that, we have very dire economic horizons waiting for us.
00:17:50.000But if we do, if we rise up and we put our values, our dollars behind the future we want to see in our great country, I have a lot of hope that we're going to see a really bright American renaissance emerge before us where Main Street thrives and the oligarchies crumble.
00:18:59.000A movement to change how we elect our president is growing, led by radical left-wing activists who don't think their side should ever have to lose the presidency again.
00:19:08.000It seeks to do away with the Electoral College as devised by the framers of our Constitution.
00:19:13.000Today, 18 states have signed on to overhaul how presidents are elected.
00:19:17.000That's why my friends at Hillsdale College are conducting a national survey on presidential selection.
00:19:23.000Hearing directly from informed patriots like you is critical.
00:19:26.000So please take their national survey on presidential selection today at charlieforhillsdale.com.
00:20:11.000I've been doing for six and a half years, almost seven, a show every week on TBN.
00:20:15.000It runs on the weekends, Saturday and Sunday, twice Saturday, again on Sunday, on Newsmax as well on Sunday.
00:20:22.000And starting Monday, I'll be adding to.
00:20:25.000It's not going to take away the program that I do, Tape It Out of Nashville in the theater with a live audience and live music and all sorts of stuff.
00:20:33.000This is going to be a little different focus, but it's going to be a show every weeknight, Monday through Friday, 6.30 Central, 7.30 Eastern.
00:20:43.000And it's going to focus with extraordinary newsmaker guests.
00:20:47.000And we're going to try to give a little more breathing room to our guests in this show.
00:20:52.000Also, commentary of the major issues of the day.
00:20:56.000What may be a little different in that rather than just simply give a regurgitation of what happened that day in the news, we're going to try to focus a little more on what the big picture means for the folks sitting at home as they sit around their kitchen table.
00:21:16.000And then to also do a much more intense job on talking about the big picture, where this takes us as a country, add some common sense solutions to it.
00:21:29.000So I think it's going to be a very interesting program, 30 minutes a day.
00:21:33.000It'll be accessible on all TBN outlets, which is everywhere.
00:21:37.000You can get it not only on every cable service and satellite service, but also on YouTube and Facebook, broadcast channels across the country.
00:21:48.000So you really have to work hard to miss it if you want to see it.
00:22:04.000These are now closing arguments for Donald Trump in Manhattan.
00:22:08.000You've been around for quite some time and you've seen a lot.
00:22:13.000What is your macro reaction to the idea that a former president who is the opposition party leader, who's ahead in the polls, more popular than ever, is now having to endure lawfare from the opposition regime?
00:22:26.000We've never lived through anything like this.
00:22:32.000The first reaction I have is that Judge Murshan should be disbarred, as should Alvin Bragg.
00:22:38.000And the second is that Joe Biden and his henchmen should be perk walked across the White House lawn on the way to a federal courthouse for having interfered with an election by sending his third in command at the DOJ to help go prosecute this case.
00:22:52.000This is an absurdity that I don't think a lot of Americans understand because maybe they get their news from places like CNN or BSNBC, and they don't understand that what this is, this is the worst instance of election interfering because it's not just interference by a social media platform or by a TV network or even by a political party.
00:23:15.000It's election interference by the highest levels of our taxpayer-funded government who's trying to, instead of defeat their opponent, try to disable him by keeping him in court and coming up with, pardon the pun, trumped-up charges to try to destroy the capacity of the next president of the United States to be elected.
00:23:39.000And it seems as if it's not working, thankfully, that the decency of the American people is prevailing, that he is more popular, and they're becoming more and more desperate.
00:23:51.000This morning, they threw out Robert De Niro, who was just very nasty.
00:23:55.000You know what's the tragedy about the De Niro thing?
00:23:58.000Is that he will now be remembered for being a Trump-hating lunatic, not for his acting.
00:24:04.000And I just, he's a great actor, objectively.
00:24:09.000But today, he should have read somebody else's script because the one that he read was an embarrassment to him.
00:24:14.000He sounded like a bitter old curmudgeon, and he acted as if New York was exclusively his city.
00:24:20.000And I'm thinking, gee, I don't remember any of the landscape of New York City that Robert De Niro helped build.
00:24:27.000You know, Donald Trump was born there too, spent his lifetime making it a better place to live and doing extraordinary things, not only commercially, but charitably.
00:24:36.000And I don't remember seeing a lot of De Niro's fingerprints on extraordinary works of charity or in developing business enterprises that resulted in tens of thousands of jobs being created in New York and a great level of prosperity.
00:24:51.000But it's clearly that Robert De Niro, like a lot of celebrities, have an intense terminal case of Trump derangement syndrome.
00:25:03.000Where does he get this whole idea of the possession of New York as if he controls who's allowed to come into the 12 million people in New York?
00:25:11.000And he kind of speaks for all New Yorkers and he starts screaming at people and calling them gangsters and F you.
00:25:17.000And it's just, it really is a tragedy there.
00:25:21.000But Governor, speaking more broadly, I don't want to be too confident because we're up against a very, very nasty opposition.
00:25:28.000Politico.com dems and full-blown freak out over Biden.
00:25:57.000They're going to try to do what the Democrats will want them to do.
00:26:00.000And the fact that they published this story tells me that somebody fed it to them and that it wasn't just something that they came up with all by themselves in their editorial room.
00:26:10.000So here's what it appears is going on.
00:26:13.000The Democrats are in full-blown panic mode.
00:26:16.000You see it with James Carble as he's talking about things.
00:26:20.000We can't even say it on this conversation, but talking about their message being, well, let's just say basically excrement.
00:26:28.000That would be the kindest way to put it.
00:26:31.000You have prominent Democrats, even some members of Congress who are now beginning to question some of the policies of the Biden administration because it's hurting them in their congressional districts.
00:26:42.000But what we are beginning to see, the moving up of the debate into June, that's very unprecedented.
00:26:49.000Why would they do that before the convention?
00:26:59.000And when it's proven that he can't, then they have good reason to go and sit down with Joe and Jill and say, Joe and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of ballots.
00:27:11.000Jack fell down and Jill came tumbling down and they were never seen thereafter.
00:27:17.000That's what I think we're going to see come the end of June.
00:27:21.000There's no way this party, the Democrat Party, can afford to go forward given the economic disaster that Bidenomics has been versus Maganomics, which has been, just look at the comparison, an open border that has resulted in even blue cities turning black and blue from the beatings they're taking because they're not enforcing crime in these big Democrat-run cities.
00:27:47.000And you have an extraordinary level of foreign policy failures reminding us that what Bob Gates said about Joe Biden has proven to be true.
00:27:56.000Joe Biden hadn't made one single foreign policy decision in 50 years that was the right one.
00:28:03.000Do not underestimate Joe Biden's ability to, let's just say, mess things up.
00:28:10.000That's a very nice euphemistic way to put it, Charlie.
00:28:13.000We both know what Obama said about it.
00:28:25.000You know, look, we've seen in the past, Mika, that candidates who are seen as maybe not as strong on the economy ultimately win an election like, say, Barack Obama in 2012.
00:28:36.000But to be losing by this margin, that is unsustainable at this point for an incumbent.
00:28:42.000And so let's go through the process then.
00:28:44.000So your hypothesis, which I think is really smart, is that the early debate was like a stress test.
00:29:34.000He reads whatever is put in front of him.
00:29:37.000Charlie, I've said the most wonderful political prank in the history of mankind would be if I could find a way to hack into Joe's teleprompter operator and to be able just to put up stuff on the screen as he's reading it because he would read whatever is on that screen, no matter how ridiculous it might sound.
00:29:56.000And it would just be, it would be comical.
00:29:58.000It would be, but then again, it would also, in all fairness, it would be tragic because we have a president who really doesn't know what he's saying, what he's doing, and he's being led and run by people who hate Israel, who really hate our borders, who hate the freedom of this country.
00:30:16.000They think we're all a bunch of racists.
00:30:17.000They think the country got its land by stealing every bit of it, and that we're an evil bunch of people.
00:30:25.000And, you know, when you think like that, you shouldn't be in charge of a country you can't stand.
00:30:31.000And that's what's so remarkable is that their political movement is the first of its kind, which seeks to obtain permanent control of a country they hate.
00:30:39.000Typically, I mean, even the Russian Revolution, they loved Russia.
00:31:23.000And even people who get elected to Congress appear not to have read it.
00:31:27.000If they read the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, here's what they discover: every single right that is listed in the Bill of Rights tells government what it cannot do to the people.
00:31:40.000It never says anything about what the people can't do.
00:31:44.000It guarantees their freedoms and it restricts the government.
00:31:48.000We have people that want to restrict the people and give the government unlimited power and freedom to do whatever they want to the people who disagree with it.
00:32:00.000So, looking ahead here, Governor, I know this is awfully speculative, but it feels as if if they keep Joe Biden, there has to be some asymmetric warfare that is deployed.
00:32:11.000And we saw it in 2020 with mass mail and ballots.
00:32:14.000We saw it with the Hunter Biden laptop.
00:32:16.000I know this is a little bit of an unfair question, but let me ask it this way: what should we be on the lookout for?
00:32:22.000I mean, again, you know these Democrat dirty tricks really well.
00:32:25.000A lot of what they've done, they workshopped in Arkansas before you ran them out of that state.
00:32:48.000Will they try to extend the time in which people can vote, as they did in Pennsylvania, which was absolutely unconstitutional according to the Pennsylvania Constitution, but they did it and they got away with it.
00:33:00.000And when people said there's no evidence of election fraud, well, there wasn't much evidence that courts would allow, but it didn't mean there wasn't evidence.
00:33:08.000It just was evidence that somebody said, you don't have standing, or we don't consider it valid because we're in COVID.
00:33:15.000A whole lot of things that got excused that shouldn't have been.
00:33:19.000And Republicans need to be lawyered up heavily, not because we want to cheat the election, which is one of a one.
00:33:27.000I think that's all Republicans want is an election in which everyone who is qualified to vote, eligible to vote, gets to vote, but they only get one vote.
00:33:37.000And people who aren't eligible and qualified, illegals, for example, people who are convicted felons are dead people, they should not be allowed to vote.
00:33:47.000I mean, I don't know why that's so complicated.
00:33:49.000And having a voter ID to verify who's who and is this person really the person voting?
00:33:56.000That should not be something that is even controversial.
00:33:59.000But when Democrats think it is, there's your answer right there.
00:34:04.000You only want to cheat when somebody has sort of turned the lights on.
00:34:09.000And I love to say, just remember, when you turn on the lights, the rats and roaches start to run.
00:34:55.000I think that's one thing we can certainly be absolutely clear on.
00:34:59.000But he needs somebody who is compatible.
00:35:01.000And quite frankly, he needs somebody who will be loyal to the cause.
00:35:04.000When I say loyal to the cause, I mean, they really need to believe in their heart of hearts in an America-first resolve, an America-first policy.
00:35:15.000I don't want somebody who wants the job.
00:35:31.000Whoever says, I want him to pick someone who is looking after America's interests, and they're not looking to what it's going to mean for their political future.
00:35:40.000I want them to think about what it's going to mean to the American citizens' future.