00:03:02.520The response to this video is that this was filmed at doors.
00:03:06.640This is not filmed during the actual event, except you can hear J.D. Vance speaking.
00:03:13.280Well, the theory is this guy or someone faked the video by overlaying audio from later till now, and they're claiming no one's actually sitting in the chairs.
00:16:31.360When it came to travel for this event, we had credible threats.
00:16:36.420I have been in contact with the FBI over these credible threats.
00:16:39.880We have had people posting videos making direct threats to kill me and my family.
00:16:43.400I contacted, let me give you an example of what a credible threat is. I get threats all the time.
00:16:50.240I ignore them. A credible threat. We were in the castle. This is a few years ago. This is,
00:16:54.960it's crazy how long it's been, you know, when we're at the old studio. And in the middle of
00:16:59.780doing the show, I get, there's a knock on the door and our security is there. And they say,
00:17:05.520did anyone, you know what? I got to, I got to, I don't want to give away the security information
00:17:10.780on this one. Let me keep it a little bit more vague. They said, can you confirm detail this
00:17:15.220detail? And I said, yes, that happened. And it was seemingly innocuous. And he went, OK,
00:17:20.820we're evacuating right now. I was like, whoa, we got to we have a bomb threat.
00:17:26.400Someone sent in a bomb threat with information about a specific incident that occurred that
00:17:32.420was innocuous. I don't want to go into detail, but over the weekend, we had done something
00:17:38.520seemingly innocuous, but not public. When I say innocuous, let me give you a facsimile. Let me
00:17:44.320give you something likened to it. We grilled burgers. That's about it. Something like that
00:17:52.100happened. And someone called in a bomb threat saying, when Tim and his crew and family did
00:18:01.320this specific thing, I did this other thing at the same time. Basically insinuating that access
00:18:07.620to information no one should have, which could suggest they were present on the property without
00:18:12.740our knowledge. So we evacuated the building for several hours because it was a credible threat.
00:18:19.000When it came to traveling to Arizona for this event, I did not go. And the reason why is
00:18:25.300my security team said, of course it is possible. Here's the cost. Here's the plan. And I said,
00:18:32.220holy crap, I'm not doing this. They said a few things that I'll get into. I won't get into a
00:18:38.820lot of the core details because explaining our security plan compromises our security.
00:18:43.460But they said, here's what's going to have to go down. I'm going to remove some of the security
00:18:47.920stuff and just say, you know, I can't explain everything. But some of it was three guys will
00:18:53.280meet you at a black SUV. We'll drive to the airport. You will exit the SUV. Those three
00:18:58.960guys will walk you in, bring you to the TSA checkpoint where they will have tickets for
00:19:05.480the flight. They will fly with you. When they land, they will walk you out where there will be
00:19:10.500three guys waiting in an SUV to drive you to the hotel. In that hotel, they will stand outside
00:19:17.040your hotel room the entire time you're there. We recommend not leaving. You will then be transported
00:19:23.780with with three bodyguards in a vehicle through the building, brought in. And I said,
00:19:28.720and how much is it going to cost? There are a few other details to it. And I was like,
00:19:32.600I can't do this. That's likely what happened with Erica Kirk. They probably said, we can get you
00:19:38.800there, but you're going to need three vehicles. You're going to need guards in each vehicle.
00:19:44.220And then we'll get you there. And she's like, I don't want to do this. And you know what? I got
00:19:49.360to be honest. Let's just combine these things. She hears the ticket sales are dead. 1,000,
00:19:57.7002,000 people might show up. She's then told they're going to spend 20 grand. She can be
00:20:02.240surrounded by guards. They're going to get her in, get her out. And she's like,
00:20:06.180I don't want to do this anymore. I got to be honest. I want you to imagine you're in this
00:20:13.380position. You set up this big event with the vice president. Ticket sales are abysmal. And then you
00:20:20.700have to be just brought in by armed guards in this big show of force. It's a nightmare. Would
00:20:27.000you not also be depressed? Just like, I can't do this anymore. I wonder if Erica Kirk is just like,
00:20:34.060I don't want to do this. I'll tell you what my thoughts are. I know Erica not particularly well,
00:20:38.620But my assessment is that after Charlie's death, they have this hundred plus million dollar network organizations, powerful interests and donors probably said, who's taking over?
00:22:29.100Well, I don't, you know, I don't know.
00:22:32.080you know, when it comes to voting, right, like there's, again, voting is like a strategic thing.
00:22:38.000That's what voting is about. It's like you have this little bit of a tiny little shred of authority
00:22:45.180over one election and then nothing else. That's just the hand you're dealt. And so what's your
00:22:49.900strategy there? Now, there are arguments all around. I mean, look, there is an argument that
00:22:55.780we'd be better off if Kamala Harris was president today. At this point, that's not that tough of an
00:23:01.100argument, and part, at least for me, of the best, strongest argument that we'd be better off with
00:23:06.140Kamala Harris, is just that the whole resistance would still be the resistance. And you would,
00:23:11.400you know, the... So I want to pause real quick before he goes, and I want to add that I half
00:23:15.800agree. I half agree. If his argument is that everything would be the same, but you'd at least
00:23:21.960still have a large right that is coalesced around stopping these things, you have the cultural
00:23:28.140victory. I do agree. However, I have to stress, not only would we still have all these wars,
00:23:33.060people would be in jail, children will be getting sex changes. I have to say there is no strong
00:23:38.600argument that we would be better off. We'd be worse off, but we'd have cultural resistance.
00:23:44.220I'd call that moot. In a kind of, I don't know, maybe counterintuitive way. Sometimes the best
00:23:51.040thing, if you're a right winger, is for a Democrat to be the president. And sometimes the best thing,
00:23:56.220if you're a left winger is for a Republican to be the president. If you want to rally people and
00:23:59.860make money, but the point is this, the right won everything. So what did that rage turn into?
00:24:05.160Apparently nothing. Because if they really blow it and they really mess up, it gives all of the
00:24:10.360like cultural energy back to you. And the best case of that is like, just look at from a cultural
00:24:17.440perspective, the right lost everything through the first four years of Donald Trump. If you
00:24:23.000remember this was the rise of the craziest wokeism in in america was all in donald trump's first term
00:24:28.780and they only finally had some cultural victories when it was joe biden that's right and he was in
00:24:34.160there and then all of a sudden you started having things like the the bud light light boycott and
00:24:38.580the target boycott and i mean elon musk bought twitter in those years like there were a few
00:24:42.700major factors that happened but anyway look i think there is an argument that the best thing
00:24:49.900right now is that the Democrats win the midterm elections because the Republicans just have to be
00:24:54.120punished for this. Like it's there's got to be a message that like you do this. There is a cost to
00:24:59.480it, except they don't care. There is no real cost to it. They will just keep doing the same thing.
00:25:05.800But what I will what I will give David is right about when Democrats were in power, when Biden
00:25:10.880won the right unified against their cultural endeavors and won the battles where they could
00:25:18.280Not in office, not with law. They went after Trump, they went after Trump supporters, but culturally the right pushed back against censorship, shut down the weird woke stuff, boycotted these companies.
00:25:29.920But now that's all fracturing because when the right took political power, Trump failed on several key issues.
00:25:37.880Even if that means we have to give ourselves the Democrats in Congress.
00:25:41.000But giving ourselves the Democrats in Congress is a different thing than, say, like, giving the Democrats the White House and both chambers of Congress, where now they can go crazy with their agenda.
00:25:50.660So, like, but I just kind of think the Democrats are going to win anyway.
00:25:54.400So I don't really I'm not signing up to vote for no Democrats.
00:25:57.640Like, I just I don't know if I'll ever put my name like if I'll ever vote for a major party candidate again, unless like Thomas Massey or someone like that runs.
00:35:37.560I wonder if it's just that, you know, if you tied yourself to one core issue that people have broken upon, like they're fragmenting from, you're going to see an audience hit.
00:35:47.180You're going to see a decline in momentum.
00:35:49.020Maybe people just don't want to just scream about politics 24-7 for 10 years.
00:35:53.920Maybe for once they want to put on some swim trunks, go to the beach, and just have a cheeseburger.