The Megyn Kelly Show - January 26, 2024


Charlie Kirk on the Border "Invasion," Key GOP Ground Game Strategies, and Fani Willis' Rough Road | Ep. 711


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1 hour and 36 minutes

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196.78795

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19,074

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1,461

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38

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Summary

The Supreme Court has ruled that the federal government has the green light to tear down the razor wire protecting the southern border from illegal immigrants. But Texas Governor Greg Abbott is fighting back. Megyn and Charlie Kirk join me to discuss what's going on in Texas, and why they think it's a good idea to have National Guard troops on the border.


Transcript

00:00:00.540 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
00:00:12.360 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and happy Friday.
00:00:17.400 It's been a busy week between former President Trump beating Nikki Haley in New Hampshire,
00:00:22.400 but Haley vowing to fight on and the border battle between Texas and the Biden administration
00:00:26.900 heating up. It's gone well beyond Texas now. Some 25 states are joining behind Texas in solidarity.
00:00:34.820 The former president, Donald Trump, is calling for them to send National Guard troops from each state
00:00:40.080 down to shore up the southern border because the Biden administration won't do it.
00:00:45.940 We'll get to all of that. Joining me today for the full show to discuss that and so much more is
00:00:50.900 Charlie Kirk, founder and CEO of Turning Point USA and host of The Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:59.240 Charlie, great to have you back. How are you?
00:01:01.040 Thank you. I'm doing great. Lots to talk about. It's quite a time to be alive.
00:01:05.300 Oh my gosh, what's happening down in Texas is crazy. So the numbers, I mean, they just keep growing.
00:01:09.980 25 Republican governors released a joint statement. They stand in support of Texas. Now you've got,
00:01:17.160 you know, Trump calling for them to send, as I said, National Guard troops of their own down there.
00:01:22.240 So far, the Biden administration has not sent down an order to tear down those wire, the wire fences.
00:01:29.800 But if they do, it's on and it's going to get really ugly. I mean, Texas is within its rights to
00:01:36.700 just put it right back up. But if they try to stop the feds from tearing it down and we get into some
00:01:43.060 sort of a confrontation, I mean, like, where does it where is this going? Yeah, I hope it doesn't
00:01:47.860 get into some sort of a, you know, constitutional crisis confrontation. I don't think that's where
00:01:51.540 we're going. I think Abbott read the decision like we all did. And the essence of the decision is that
00:01:56.800 the federal government should have supremacy over border control and border policy. There's some
00:02:03.380 major details there that are I think we're lacking. I don't like the decision, but it could have been far
00:02:08.300 worse. The court didn't say that Texas has no right to secure their own border. The court didn't say
00:02:13.960 that Texas has no business in securing the border. All the all the court said is that Texas basically
00:02:19.660 will allow the federal government to get rid of the razor wire. It was so specific to just razor wire
00:02:25.800 as well, which people need to understand. So Greg Abbott reads the decision. He puts out this really
00:02:30.560 beautiful letter where he says we have a moral and a constitutional and a traditional and a historical
00:02:36.040 right to self-defense against invasion. And this is an invasion, Megan, and we can dive into it
00:02:41.460 because I want your audience to make sure they understand the sophistication and the sinister
00:02:45.900 nature of what's happening on the southern border, which could only best be compared to the modern
00:02:51.020 equivalent of the North Atlantic slave trade. And I don't use that lightly. I'm not throwing that
00:02:55.660 around like a Frisbee, but there are hundreds of thousands of young women who have been trafficked into
00:03:01.520 this country into a new form of very sick slavery. So what Greg Abbott has said is, listen, we have a
00:03:07.220 right to defend ourselves. The federal government is not securing the border. In fact, they're doing
00:03:11.960 the opposite. They're doing expedited entry into the United States where you get cash, a cell phone,
00:03:17.360 and basically Border Patrol has become Expedia.com for the third world. They say, where would you like
00:03:23.140 to go? Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Seattle, New York, and they will book them a flight into the interior of the
00:03:29.280 United States. And they're doing this in harmony with NGOs, non-government organizations like Catholic
00:03:34.300 Charities, Amnesty International, and many others. So Greg Abbott says this is out of control. It's
00:03:38.900 ruining our communities, especially the border communities, and we need to do something about
00:03:42.180 it. So the federal government now has the green light from the Supreme Court to get rid of this razor
00:03:46.740 wire. But interestingly, Joe Biden hasn't yet deployed federal agents to go cut the razor wire. So Greg Abbott
00:03:53.740 has added more razor wire. It's being creative. It's certainly challenging the essence of the
00:04:00.440 decision. I mean, the spirit of the decision to an untrained eye is back off Texas. And Greg Abbott
00:04:06.060 says, well, that's not what it says. And Greg Abbott is a lawyer. He was a judge. He loves the law. So
00:04:12.060 he's not doing this lightly. He's exploiting the murkiness and the cloudiness of this decision
00:04:18.460 to play offense. And I love it, Megan. We would not have seen this in the last couple of years.
00:04:23.360 I have a theory as to why this is. The border is now the number one issue in the country
00:04:27.400 that transcends political lines. It transcends racial demographic lines. It transcends income
00:04:32.780 levels. People know what's happening on the southern border is an outrage. It's against our
00:04:36.700 customs and our laws and who we are as Americans. And Greg Abbott is really forcing the hand of the
00:04:42.060 federal government. And so my advice to him, I said this on our podcast, on our show, if the federal
00:04:46.140 government goes and wants to cut the razor wire, watch them do it, put it on camera. It would be a PR
00:04:51.480 loss for them. The agents will leave and put up more razor wire, rinse and repeat. That is perfectly
00:04:57.420 legal and constitutional based on what the Supreme Court decided this last week.
00:05:02.680 I agree. I've been watching this carefully because I really my hope is that Texas doesn't get to the
00:05:08.860 point where they have to openly defy the order. I mean, it's not really about them defying it. It's
00:05:14.400 about whether the feds will actively do something about the permission slip they've just been given
00:05:19.340 by the Supreme Court to go in there and pull it down. Texas really doesn't have to do or not do
00:05:24.520 anything under that order. I mean, they're not really being compelled by it. But if Abbott tries
00:05:32.600 to stop them from pulling down the border wire, you know, this wire, then he could be in trouble.
00:05:38.800 And we're getting a little closer to that. There's in my update today from my team,
00:05:44.100 per Fox 4 in Dallas, top Texas officials saying they will not comply with the deadline to allow
00:05:50.240 federal border agents access to a park along the Rio Grande, from which I think they would need
00:05:56.140 to enter the waters to actually cut down the wire. So I'm not sure exactly where that's going. And
00:06:02.000 saying something is not the same as doing something. So we've got our eyes on it. But either way,
00:06:08.800 if you zoom out, the bigger picture is, it feels a little civil worry, like 25 states saying to the
00:06:18.540 federal government, this is where we hold the line. It's a no, you will not allow this invasion to go
00:06:25.480 on any longer. We've had it with you. And if Biden, because he's under pressure from the left to try to
00:06:31.480 get these states in hand, right? And if he bows, like you said, sends agents down there to cut down
00:06:37.280 these fences and to take on the National Guard that's now being sent, not just from Texas,
00:06:41.440 Oklahoma, perhaps some of these other states will do it too. I don't think it could get just,
00:06:46.940 it's like a powder keg.
00:06:50.180 Yeah, I do trust Greg Abbott. I think he's a very responsible person. It's the other side that's
00:06:55.700 forcing this conflict, though. And I want to just reiterate, you know, having 25 red state governors
00:07:01.900 consolidate behind this issue, that's a real big statement. A lot of these governors are not exactly
00:07:07.760 full MAGA, right? Some of them are just chamber of commerce type of old generation Republican
00:07:13.680 governors that have come in and they're voicing support. I mean, take one, for example, who I
00:07:17.680 respect. I think he's done a great job on certain things. He's not as conservative as I am, is Glenn
00:07:22.720 Youngkin. And he says, we're all in. We're sending support for the border. And look, so Joe Biden is going
00:07:28.060 to try to exploit this, but they're losing on this issue, Megan. And so the only option that Joe Biden
00:07:33.000 has in front of him is further escalation. Escalation of saying that, you know, Texas is
00:07:38.200 trying to secede. Well, no, they're not. I mean, they're in the Texas Constitution, in the laws in
00:07:44.620 front of them, they have the ability to stop an invasion. And there is still a question of what the
00:07:49.120 Fifth Circuit is going to do, because they haven't completely and totally ruled on this. And the Supreme
00:07:54.000 Court can rule on that as well. But I think the left is trying. Yes, exactly. I think the left is
00:08:00.060 trying to play into this idea of secession or nullification, when in reality, Texas is saying,
00:08:05.180 well, nope, the law still allows us to do this. And I think we need to make the argument, though,
00:08:09.900 that this is the existential crisis that is hitting every community across the country. You could talk
00:08:15.560 about it from a fentanyl perspective. You could talk about it from a child labor perspective. You could
00:08:19.820 talk about it from a labor perspective or even what's happening in Chicago. I mean, an unreported
00:08:24.700 story in the last week is that Mayor Johnson of Chicago, I'm not a fan of his. He's been hospitalized
00:08:29.720 multiple times because of panic attacks because of all the people that are coming to Chicago and he can't
00:08:35.160 handle it. I mean, Eric Adams obviously has been outspoken. Oh, no, it's a it's a big story that he was
00:08:41.060 hospitalized a couple of times because of panic attacks in Chicago. I couldn't believe it. I had to
00:08:45.760 double check the story. And so this is this is hitting all across the country. People know it. They
00:08:50.580 see it. And this is an important thing, though, is that one of the reasons why this is so
00:08:55.660 grotesque. And I don't know if you saw this clip, Megan, of this guy from Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan with
00:09:00.300 this Middle Eastern accent. He was asked, hey, what's your name? And he said, everyone's going to soon know
00:09:04.460 my name. You're not smart enough to know who I am. Now, we suspect that this guy was the former leader of a
00:09:09.980 terrorist group. That's not confirmed. I want to be very clear. That's not confirmed. He looks
00:09:14.380 identical. OK, but he just got released out of prison. But the way he said it was, you know,
00:09:19.240 chilling to the spine where he says, oh, you're going to know who I am as if it's some sort of a
00:09:22.880 threat is that you might remember back a year, year and a half ago, Bill Malusian, who does a great
00:09:27.320 job. He had those famous images of tens of thousands of people under an overpass. Do you remember those
00:09:33.960 images and the drone shots? So the Biden administration hated those images. They thought it
00:09:38.480 made them look bad and they thought it was a crisis. And so they went to Border Patrol. They went to
00:09:42.900 the Department of Homeland Security. I got this information from Todd Bedsman, who's amazing.
00:09:47.260 And Border Patrol and DHS said, well, Mr. Biden and Mayorkas, the reason why there is a backlog
00:09:53.200 is because we're doing DNA testing and background checking. So, for example, a guy comes
00:09:58.600 from Kazakhstan. They call up the Kazakhstan embassy. Hey, we have this guy. Is there anything
00:10:04.860 we should know about it? And, you know, sometimes the Kazakhstan, it was like, oh, no, you don't want
00:10:08.360 that guy in your country. He just escaped our country for murder or whatever. And so the Biden
00:10:13.280 administration said, no more lines. Get him through as quickly as possible because it's bad
00:10:18.620 optics. So, Megan, not only do we have open borders, we're not even doing open borders in a sane or
00:10:24.640 rational way. We're not doing DNA testing where a 28 year old will show up with three girls that are
00:10:31.020 10, 11 and 12 years old and do a very quick swab DNA test, put it through the machine and say, oh,
00:10:36.660 they're not related. He's probably sex trafficking them. And I just hope everyone understands this is
00:10:41.160 one of the greatest, most horrific humanitarian crises when it comes to sex trafficking in the
00:10:46.760 history of the country. And, you know, the Democrats don't care. The left doesn't care.
00:10:50.600 And Joe Biden is co-sponsoring it. So I say all that, Megan, because I think Greg Abbott is morally
00:10:56.000 in the right position to play hardball here. We must understand that we don't want some constitutional
00:11:02.140 crisis. We don't want this to try to spark something. We don't want the bad guys to
00:11:06.500 exploit it in a way that will further divide the country. But it's Joe Biden that has sat and done
00:11:11.260 nothing for three years now. We must understand we have patiently waited for the federal government
00:11:16.620 to do its moral responsibility. And they just lie about it. Alejandro Mayorkas says, oh, no,
00:11:21.960 the border is completely secure. Everything is perfectly fine. They are outright lying and it's
00:11:26.760 impacting the entire country. And the fact that 25 governors are stepping up behind Greg Abbott,
00:11:31.900 I think is a great sign. And I think it's Joe Biden who's going to blink here because it means
00:11:36.620 that Joe Biden would have to either federalize the National Guard, which has not been done either.
00:11:40.940 And it's only done in times of crisis, hurricanes, widespread Watts riots that we saw in the early
00:11:46.600 90s or when Dwight D. Eisenhower federalized the National Guard in Arkansas for desegregation of
00:11:53.240 schools. It's done very rarely. If Joe Biden does it, that is a huge escalation point.
00:11:57.700 And for Greg Abbott to be holding the line here, I think is inspiring courage on the issue of the
00:12:02.500 border. It's very promising. Yeah. I mean, I do and I don't want to see a constitutional crisis.
00:12:08.440 I would love to see a ruling from the high court saying, yes, when it's at this level,
00:12:15.460 affirming the state's ability to stop an invasion, notwithstanding all these federal statutes that have
00:12:20.420 been passed trying to seize control over immigration. There was a very interesting Andy McCarthy
00:12:24.700 podcast over on the National Review feed. And, you know, he he's not like some knee jerk Trump
00:12:31.000 defender or even Republican defender. He calls him like he sees him. And he's very much on Texas's
00:12:37.120 side here and really went back and walked through the history of immigration law was really saying,
00:12:42.800 you know, that the Fed started to legislate by statute with immigration. But then it got really
00:12:48.200 expanded when Elena Kagan was Barack Obama's solicitor general and was making these arguments
00:12:54.160 that really the administrative state state. Yeah, exactly. That the administrative state would
00:12:58.640 really expand those immigration powers. And then they've done nothing under the Democratic
00:13:03.620 presidents. They've done nothing but open the borders. So that's right. There is room to push back
00:13:07.960 for these states to say, actually, let's go back to the original intent, which was we would be
00:13:13.340 responsible for securing ourselves. We never wanted to cede control of this issue or our borders
00:13:18.840 to the feds. We wanted the feds to have as little power as possible. That's the only way you got us to
00:13:23.280 join this union. And let's let's have the argument that we haven't had in 200 plus years.
00:13:30.020 Yeah, I mean, in six million people have been put into the interior of this country illegally.
00:13:34.260 That is bad for everybody. It's bad for our sovereignty. It's bad for our traditions.
00:13:37.860 It's bad for us economically. Six million people that we know of. And that doesn't count the
00:13:42.160 getaways. That doesn't count the drugs. It doesn't count the guns. It doesn't count all the other
00:13:46.980 things that we know that's happening. And we must understand because the left, they don't like the
00:13:51.020 word invasion. But if you go down to Eagle Pass, if you go down to Yuma, like I have multiple times,
00:13:56.080 and you see the cartels, this is strategic. This is not just some sort of massive open up,
00:14:01.940 you know, the floodgates. And the one thing I push back at times is people say, well, it's complete
00:14:06.440 chaos on the border. Well, sort of. It's actually very methodical what the cartel is doing.
00:14:11.480 They know every single person that is going across. And the way it works is that if you come
00:14:16.960 from across the world, it's 10,000 bucks, you don't have the money, you go into the interior
00:14:20.720 of the United States and they will make sure they track you and you are repaying that. In fact, you
00:14:25.580 might repay a lot more than $10,000. That's slavery, by the way. They are trafficking human A
00:14:30.720 across the border into the United States. And they say you are going to remit to the cartel or
00:14:35.880 we're going to hurt your family. And this is a true story. Many of them, they'll have a
00:14:40.260 Honduran or a Nicaraguan and they'll call them right before they go in the interior and
00:14:44.600 they'll have on speakerphone their family they care about back in Honduras and they'll
00:14:47.860 say, you're going to repay the money or else something very well might happen. They hold
00:14:52.860 hostage the family back in the country of origin. And at times when the cartel really wants to
00:14:59.100 get people across the border that they're afraid very well might get flagged by Border Patrol
00:15:02.980 or DHS that just look unusual, they will throw babies into the Rio Grande River. This happens
00:15:08.280 on almost a daily basis. They'll throw a baby into the Rio Grande Valley. And what do the
00:15:11.980 Americans do? Because our value system is the best value system on the planet, our Border Patrol,
00:15:17.760 Texas DPS, will go and try to save the baby's life who's drowning to death in the Rio Grande
00:15:22.000 Valley. That creates a diversionary effect. So then a couple hundred yards down, all of a sudden
00:15:26.700 you'll see a hundred people run into the country. We have no idea who those people are.
00:15:29.640 So when we say the numbers, the gotaways, I mean, they could be sleeper cells. They could
00:15:34.580 be terrorist forces. This is going to go down as one of the greatest crises in American history.
00:15:41.520 And Joe Biden and Mayorkas want it. And I want to just repeat that. They want this to happen.
00:15:46.740 I know that is a very difficult truth for some people to swallow. I had this debate recently
00:15:51.520 with a Democrat friend and they say, Charlie, you trying to tell me that the American government
00:15:55.040 hates its citizens and they want to replace it with a bunch of third worlders? I said,
00:15:58.420 that's exactly what I'm saying. It's exactly. They have intentionally eroded the laws and customs
00:16:02.880 and don't take my word for it. Listen to Todd Bensman. Listen to Tom Homan, who, by the way,
00:16:07.580 served under six presidents. He's not a political guy. Tom Homan was head of Border Patrol, ICE,
00:16:13.160 Immigration Customs Enforcement. He knows the border better than any other person in the country.
00:16:17.240 He served under Obama. He served under Bush. He served under Clinton. He's a nonpolitical,
00:16:21.840 duty first, America first type guy. And he says he's never seen anything like this on the border.
00:16:26.680 This is an intentional opening up of the floodgates. And they're trying to remake the country and
00:16:31.760 destroy the United States from within. And for the own government to do that, there is a word for it.
00:16:37.060 It's called treason. And I'm glad Greg Abbott and other governors are stepping up to stop it,
00:16:41.040 which is the only option we have left at our disposal.
00:16:45.340 No, there is a real question about what the motivation is for a lot of these illegals crossing
00:16:51.020 that border. I'm sure some are just families looking for a better life. And there's a very
00:16:55.680 unhealthy proportion of them who actually mean to do us harm, whether it's through drugs like fentanyl
00:17:01.600 or some other means like possible terrorism. I mean, there are people on the terror watch list
00:17:05.840 who have been found after we let them skip across. We reported on the guy the other day,
00:17:10.420 the cartel member who got across. He'd been detained. He tried to get across 42 other times,
00:17:15.960 just one is a felony that should land you in jail for two years. 42 times he crossed over in the past
00:17:22.220 two years under Joe Biden. Cartel member. What do you think he's going to do over here? Get a job at
00:17:27.060 the Piggly Wiggly and work as a nice cashier? It's not happening. He's going to start a coffee shop.
00:17:31.460 Yes. So it's like the word invasion. Yes, it used to mean, you know, whatever, somebody from another
00:17:35.820 country coming in trying to like take over. Well, you could make that argument based on those facts
00:17:40.600 of what's happening to us. They mean to do us harm to kill our children. Why wouldn't we declare it that?
00:17:45.520 It's it took people a long time to get there. People did not say under Reagan, we gave amnesty
00:17:51.600 under George W. Bush. The border wasn't secure. It's been happening for a long time. It's not like
00:17:56.300 the Republicans first knee jerked instinct was to say invasion. It's taken a true crisis for us to
00:18:02.440 get to the point where Greg Abbott feels like he has to do this stuff. Yes. And if the federal
00:18:07.160 government was even somewhat doing its job, this would not be necessary. And, you know, for the people in
00:18:12.340 the audience that might be unpersuaded, I encourage you guys to look up what is called a rape tree.
00:18:16.340 I've seen it many times. You go down there. A rape tree is where the cartels take the 11, 12 and 13
00:18:21.840 year old girls and they'll rape them. And then as a sign of pride, they'll put the underwear of the
00:18:27.780 raped girl on the tree. This happens every single day. I mean, we are dealing with savages here,
00:18:32.740 not to mention the amount of drugs that go with it. And right now you have these 12, 13 and 14 year
00:18:38.360 old girls that are used as sex prostitutes in the major cities across the country. We have no idea
00:18:43.000 who they are. No one's tracking them down. They came down as family members across the border.
00:18:48.260 And yes, of course, you know, Megan, what I'm saying is if it's intentional,
00:18:52.160 they mix in their people that want to come here to work and whatever. But that's not the point.
00:18:57.320 The point is that the leaders are doing this for a reason. Mayorkas is doing this for a reason.
00:19:02.140 Joe Biden is doing this for a reason. And there's some really, really bad people. They mix into it.
00:19:06.800 And, you know, when we were at AmericaFest, our Turning Point USA event, Megan, I had my our
00:19:11.940 colleague, Ben Berquam, who I work with. He's amazing. And he said, Charlie, let me show you
00:19:15.620 something. He comes on my show and he gives me, he dumps a bunch of IDs. And so what happens is
00:19:21.600 before a foreigner will enter the United States of America, about 100 yards out, the cartel instructs
00:19:27.720 them drop any form of identification. So they needed the ID to get that far, to get on a bus,
00:19:32.280 to get on a plane, to get into Mexico. You need the ID. Let me say that again. To get into Mexico,
00:19:36.660 you need the ID. And then they'll do what they call dump IDs. So America is not allowed to go
00:19:40.840 into Mexico, which is insane and silly. We could solve this in an afternoon if we actually used
00:19:46.220 leverage against them with the Mexican government. So they'll drop IDs. You can go and see it for
00:19:50.480 yourself. I've seen it. And there'll be thousands and thousands of these IDs. So all of a sudden,
00:19:55.480 I'm looking through these IDs and China, Russia, Uzbekistan, Iran. I mean, this is not Turkey.
00:20:03.400 This is not your, and by the way, fighting age men. These are 22, 23, 24, 25 year old men.
00:20:09.620 So I'm looking at these IDs. So it's no BS, not bluster. These are official government issued IDs
00:20:13.960 of the Chinese communist party. I think to myself, a 25 year old man from the Chinese communist party
00:20:18.940 comes to the border and claims asylum. And our government is so corrupt. It's so treasonous.
00:20:23.780 They say, okay, sir, welcome to America. We'll see you in three years. Here's a court date.
00:20:28.260 And so that you have to adjudicate it. It's a total joke. And I pray, Megan, I pray that I'm
00:20:34.000 just the guy that is over-exaggerating this. I pray that we don't wake up one day and all of a
00:20:38.320 sudden there are 10 coordinated terrorist attacks against the homeland. And what we do know already
00:20:44.560 is DUIs, rapes, and murders on almost a daily basis. There's a news item after a news item of
00:20:51.360 somebody who came into the country. We lost track of them. They didn't show up for a court date
00:20:55.340 and they kill an American. And so this is all co-sponsored by Joe Biden.
00:20:59.980 Not to mention the number of people coming to a school near you, being forced to stay in your
00:21:06.420 school as your kids get kicked out. Who knows what they're going to leave behind in the school for
00:21:10.580 your kids to deal with at an airport near you in Chicago right now, the brand new wing that they
00:21:15.760 just built on O'Hare, housing all these migrants who aren't washing, the children aren't washing.
00:21:20.200 It's inhumane. And on top of all that, even if you haven't seen that, I live in a Tony town in
00:21:26.600 Connecticut, so we're not exactly experiencing that firsthand. But you know what's coming to
00:21:30.780 everybody? Your kid goes off to college. He gets offered a pill that somebody says will make him
00:21:36.280 feel good, whether it's an ecstasy or an Ambien or whatever it is of the day, and it's laced with
00:21:42.600 fentanyl. And your kid has no idea. And you know what? It happens all the time.
00:21:45.840 I, of course, talk to my children about this all the time because I'm in the news business.
00:21:50.520 But there are a lot of parents out there who really aren't following this that closely,
00:21:53.980 and they think fentanyl is like, oh, it's something somebody chooses to do, like cocaine.
00:21:57.560 And they don't realize that the deaths from fentanyl now are exceeding the deaths that we
00:22:02.440 suffered as a country during the crack cocaine problem and during the opioid crisis of the early
00:22:09.160 aughts. It's happening right now with fentanyl that's intentionally being put in these little
00:22:13.420 pills. And that's why Eric Bolling's got, that's what happened to his kid. One pill can kill.
00:22:18.100 That's the name of his foundation. One pill can kill. So if you don't, if you don't think just
00:22:22.060 because you can't see it in your town, that it's not going to come face to face, probably with your
00:22:27.140 20 year old son, you haven't been paying attention. Big time, 110,000 people drug overdosed and died.
00:22:33.900 I mean, look at the Pawn Star's son, Harrison. He overdosed just in the last week because of
00:22:39.720 fentanyl. And look, it is an underreported tragedy. And some parents say, oh, you know,
00:22:44.480 how bad could fentanyl be? You know, they give it in the hospital, which is true. It is used as a
00:22:47.960 pain relief in the hospital. They have no idea what they're talking about, though, when parents say
00:22:50.860 that. This is so powerful and it's done intentionally. And the cartels are putting in
00:22:56.380 these pharmacological agents and they need to be designated as a foreign terrorist organization.
00:23:02.240 They're not. Joe Biden, when confronted by Republican lawmakers, I've had Republican lawmakers
00:23:07.120 tell me, oh, when we confront Joe Biden on this in closed door negotiations and meetings,
00:23:11.420 he says, well, we can't get Mexico to do their job because they get mad every time we bring it up.
00:23:17.440 This is literally the position of the Joe Biden government that Mexico gets mad. I want you to
00:23:22.540 contrast that with Donald Trump, who loves his country. He has an unconventional leadership
00:23:25.940 style. I'm sure people have mixed opinions about him. But however, it is a fact the border was the
00:23:31.120 most secure. We had border crossings down to record lows. It spiked temporarily. He solved it in
00:23:36.100 afternoon. He called up Mexico. He said, oh, you know, I know that you guys really depend on auto
00:23:40.440 manufacturing and NAFTA. It's going to be a tariff. We're going to start at 5 percent and maybe 10
00:23:46.260 percent. And I need 28000 troops on the border. And Mexico said, is this guy serious? And then he
00:23:51.080 tweeted it out. Remember that, Megan? He tweeted it out and markets even went down and auto manufacturers
00:23:55.420 are freaking out. And within a day he said, OK, we're not going to have to do that because Mexico is
00:24:00.400 sending the proper border patrol. They could do this. Mexico doesn't want to do this. The Mexican
00:24:05.100 government is largely captured by the cartel, but there's still a wing of the Mexican government that
00:24:09.320 have some really good people that are really concerned about this. And they just want America
00:24:13.420 to put them in the right place to solve this problem. But look, Mexico is also benefiting
00:24:18.220 significantly. There's a thing called remittances anywhere between 25 to 30 billion dollars of
00:24:23.580 remittances, which are just going to Walmart in America. You go to the money desk, the currency
00:24:28.120 desk, and you send 100 bucks back to, you know, Guadalajara, Mexico or whatever. And so Mexico is
00:24:34.000 seeing a massive amount of repatriation and remittances of American dollars that are coming
00:24:38.600 back. We need a president to solve this. It is it is immensely solvable, which is what is the most
00:24:43.740 just frustrating part, Megan, is that what is plaguing our country right now, it's not some sort
00:24:50.220 of mystery. It's not like we need to have an investigation to how do we solve this problem?
00:24:54.640 What is lacking is the political will and a ruling class that cares about the country. Every single one of
00:25:02.020 the major problems that is ailing America is solvable. This will go down. It's the first
00:25:06.920 time in modern history where what is plaguing us most can be solved easily and we refuse to do it.
00:25:13.840 I honestly I would vote for Trump just to get Stephen Miller back in there. Stephen Miller knows
00:25:18.440 what he's doing. This is a man who knows how to shut down the border. He just needs to be empowered,
00:25:23.640 ideally by Congress and a president who say, here you go here. Do your thing. Make sure it's secure.
00:25:29.860 The numbers were so dramatic. I mean, we looked it up the other day. It was something like 400,000
00:25:34.940 crossed in in 2020. And this this past year, it's what, two point one, two point three million who
00:25:40.920 have come in, not not including the getaways. It's just in a few years. Think of that. And that's not
00:25:45.500 even counting the numbers who came at one point seven the year before under Joe Biden. So we do have
00:25:50.380 millions more here than we had just under President Trump a couple years ago. Wanted to make a couple
00:25:55.820 points. One on the question of whether Biden will nationalize, will federalize the National Guard.
00:26:02.120 John Kirby was asked that if President Biden is going to federalize the National Guard in Texas
00:26:07.600 to work against Greg Abbott. And he punted. He said, I don't have any decisions to speak for the
00:26:13.860 president. I don't have anything on that at this time. And then Dave Rubin, you may have seen this.
00:26:19.460 He posted something at the airport that's happening right now. I think he was in Chicago
00:26:23.780 that showed you and I, you can't get through to get to your flight without showing your ID and also
00:26:30.640 now having your picture taken. Have you noticed that now you got to stand in front of a little
00:26:34.120 like lens and they take your picture? Not if you're an illegal. No problem. That's he he posted.
00:26:40.260 He actually posted it on his Twitter, the actual sign from TSA. And this is his tweet.
00:26:46.640 This is the state of absolute insanity happening at our airports. I'm in the pre TSA line where
00:26:52.180 migrants do not have to have an ID to get through security. And it's their choice whether they want
00:26:58.500 their picture taken. And that's true. If you read the TSA notice, it says it's optional for you and
00:27:03.980 they don't have to have like a driver's license. They have to have if requested, it says, then provide
00:27:09.180 your alien ID number, alien ID number, not a picture ID. And they don't have to have their
00:27:15.240 photographs taken. But Megyn Kelly does. Charlie Kirk does. What in the course?
00:27:22.780 There is a there's a term that I like to use called anarcho tyranny, which is it's tyranny for
00:27:30.120 the American citizen and complete anarchy for the foreigner. They could do whatever they want.
00:27:34.140 And you think about it, we live in this insane surveillance state for American citizens where
00:27:38.940 everything we're tracked, we're spied on constantly having our fingerprints put in. But if you're from
00:27:44.660 Honduras, you get the you get the special privileges. And there is a philosophy behind
00:27:49.260 this. They believe they can invert the United States by doing this. They believe that they
00:27:53.800 should give special privileges. It's kind of their way of redistribution by other means. But you,
00:28:00.340 you as an American citizen and taxpayer, I hope everybody in the audience understands,
00:28:03.920 is that your leaders don't care about you. The ruling class actually hates you. And that is just
00:28:08.620 one example of so many. I mean, the fundamental things that an illegal alien does to first get
00:28:14.660 into the country, to illegally domicile themselves, to illegally harbor themselves, many of them steal
00:28:19.380 social security numbers. And what'd you say they get an alien ID that that is a gateway to amnesty.
00:28:24.660 We could deport every single one of these people if we so if this government wanted to, but they don't
00:28:30.400 they want them here, because they look at them as the true and real Americans, thou shall have open
00:28:35.860 borders. And there is contempt for Native-born Americans. Yes. And that seems that used to be a
00:28:42.680 controversial thing to say. But finally, that's getting into the narrative. And I could point to
00:28:46.840 multiple pieces of tape. Joe Biden, many years ago, saying that open borders is going to remake the
00:28:53.000 country and help the Democrat Party. The Castro brothers on Face the Nation, they sat down, they said,
00:28:58.460 you're going to be calling the electoral votes for Texas because of the changing demographics.
00:29:03.860 Now, that is becoming a little bit less clear, actually, because Hispanics hate the Democrat
00:29:09.420 Party right now. However, some of these other third world countries, they do vote very, very
00:29:13.980 Democrat, for example, if they're coming from India or from China. And so, yes, it is for political
00:29:19.760 purposes. But it also just seems as if the American Democrat Party, they have such disgust and disdain
00:29:26.620 and contempt for the American project in its current form. It's that whatever we can possibly do
00:29:32.740 to destroy this thing so we can remake it in our image. So destruction must come before remaking.
00:29:38.980 I don't even know if they have that second piece of it, Charlie. I don't even know if they do want
00:29:42.260 to remake it. I don't I don't know what they want. I think destruction. I tend to agree. I'm trying to
00:29:46.380 be I'm trying to be nice. You know, I'm trying to like maybe they have some sort of thing. But no,
00:29:50.760 these people are arsonists. I mean, look at what they're doing to our currency. Our currency is
00:29:55.500 getting absolutely obliterated. Inflation is a country buster, as Donald Trump would say,
00:30:00.140 what they're doing with immigration. At every single turn, the American Democrat Party has proven
00:30:05.260 that they want to burn this nation. And Megan, that's it. I want to just reiterate. I know many
00:30:11.340 people in your audience are listening and say, boy, that's really tough for me to believe. OK,
00:30:14.840 I want to be clear that it's not your Democrat neighbor that lives next to you, you know, on the
00:30:18.840 Upper East Side. They might be co-sponsoring it through their vote. But the average Democrat elite
00:30:23.960 or in the not their average, but the Democrat elite in the ruling class, they have a philosophical
00:30:30.980 or ideological agenda that could be best described by bitterness towards the country. And it's reflected
00:30:36.640 by their policy decisions. It's reflected in what they say openly. And the only way to stop it is
00:30:43.580 to try to create a critical mass. And I think we're starting to get there. This this this issue in
00:30:49.880 particular is not going away. It's only intensifying. And the American Democrat Party is finally being
00:30:56.540 exposed. That's right. All right. One other thing on immigration, and then we'll take a break and
00:31:00.140 move on other subjects. The border bill, so-called. It's not really a border bill. But what happened
00:31:06.800 was Joe Biden wanted sixty one billion dollars for Ukraine. He wants now it was 11. It's more like
00:31:11.440 15 billion for Israel. And the Republicans not really in a spending mood, given the problems that
00:31:16.880 we have finally, by the way, finally not in a spending mood, said, yeah, no. And if we're going
00:31:22.840 to give you anything, we have to have some border security in exchange for it. And now there is a
00:31:26.800 proposed deal. But late yesterday, Mitch McConnell was quoted behind closed doors in the Senate
00:31:31.560 as saying we can't do it because President Trump doesn't want to give the Dems a win in an election
00:31:38.780 year. And Mitt Romney came out of the closed door meeting saying this is outrageous. I can't believe
00:31:43.920 this. Then others said, OK, that was overplayed. But yes, there was some sort of thumb on the scale
00:31:49.420 by Trump behind the scenes like no. My own take on this, having listened to a bunch of people on it,
00:31:55.000 Charlie, is that it's a terrible border bill. It's yes, it's more than we've had. But that's not saying
00:32:01.540 much. You know, then his kid at fat camp doesn't get us very far. And the money really all we're getting
00:32:08.240 is money. And as I understand it, the money that we get, you know, that the Biden administration
00:32:14.120 devotes toward it towards immigration right now is just to process more illegals. It's not to stop
00:32:19.980 illegals. It's just to process them. And so like it's it's a longer ticket to be here in the United
00:32:26.300 States. So it doesn't seem like a good deal at all. I get that it's a little bit more than we had
00:32:31.720 and that the money would stay available for when a Republican took over, however. But it's like
00:32:36.760 the whole it's just such a fig leaf. And I just I'm having trouble feeling bad that it's falling
00:32:43.500 apart. Where do you stand? No, it's a terrible deal. And in fact, no deal is better than this
00:32:47.940 deal because this deal gives work permits to the illegals, which makes them basically permanently
00:32:52.920 in this country. And they need to be deported. If Donald Trump is to become president, they need to
00:32:57.940 be deported back to their country of origin, period, hard stop. You cannot have a country and have six
00:33:02.900 million foreigners come in and remain and still call yourself a country. So this border, quote,
00:33:08.440 unquote, deal, we actually don't know the details. We only know some leaking and some reporting.
00:33:12.780 Rosemary Jenks did some reporting here from Senator Lankford's office. So I want to make sure
00:33:16.480 your audience is clear. We're kind of doing this on the fly. We think we know some of the details,
00:33:21.080 but based on some of the leak details, Chuck Schumer said, well, we can get the illegal border
00:33:25.840 crossings down to 5,000 a day. Wait, time out. So you can cut it in half if you want Chuck Schumer.
00:33:30.340 They're acknowledging, Megan, they could get to zero if they want.
00:33:33.500 And the Republicans were like, no, it has to be 3,000. Even the Republicans are not saying it has
00:33:39.300 to be zero. Yeah. Way to drive a hard bargain, guys. Yeah. You know, we're OK with 3,000,
00:33:44.380 which for all of you keeping it score score at home, that's 90,000 a month. OK. And nearly a million
00:33:50.280 a year. So the Republican position on immigration or on that score under President Trump back in 2019,
00:33:56.520 the illegal border crossings were about 60,000 a month. 60,000. Again, not ideal, but Trump was
00:34:03.260 doing something about it. 60. And now we're talking about a minimum of, you know, 90, whatever. The
00:34:09.880 numbers are egregious. And just FYI, just for comparison's sake, in December of this past year,
00:34:16.340 they were up to 302,000 illegal crossings. OK. From 60 under Trump. And we've never seen anything like
00:34:24.000 that. And like this. And so the Republicans also say that they're negotiating, which they're really
00:34:29.120 just surrendering because they're being held hostage by Chuck Schumer. They say, well, OK,
00:34:33.120 so fine, 3,000. So their counter is let's make it 3,000 a month instead of 3,000 a day instead of
00:34:39.800 12,000 or 15,000. The offer should be zero. And then the second part of this is they want to
00:34:45.480 increase legal immigration in harmony with this, which is to give more H-1B visas like out of nowhere
00:34:51.560 as if, yeah, the solution to this is just more people all the time and more cheap labor. And so
00:34:56.700 that's kind of somewhat of a separate but also just egregious and repulsive detail. And then finally,
00:35:01.580 what they they were talking about in the leaked part of this is they they're not actually changing
00:35:07.780 remain in Mexico. They're not changing any of the details that could quell this or could actually
00:35:13.460 make this. The deportations are not a part of this at all. So Chuck Schumer looks at this and he is
00:35:18.400 basically taunting us and he's saying, yeah, you know, we can get to zero, but we don't we're not
00:35:23.200 going to get to zero because the future of the Democrat Party relies on 5,000 people a day and,
00:35:28.100 you know, 5,000 people. Let me ask you this, because the concern is that now that the that
00:35:33.360 the Republicans appear, although we don't know, but for now they appear to be turning on this deal
00:35:37.220 like, no, of course, the Dems are going to freak out and they're going to blame the whole thing
00:35:43.940 on the Republicans. The whole next year, Joe Biden's going to be out there saying,
00:35:47.620 I tried. We proposed a deal. The Republicans, the obstructionist Republicans in Congress refused it.
00:35:53.980 Now, will the American people buy that? I don't know. This was why I got a little fired up at
00:36:02.100 Speaker Johnson. I spoke to Speaker Johnson over the weekend after I hit him very hard on our podcast
00:36:06.860 and he reached out. It was a good conversation. As I said, that's why you should have shut down
00:36:10.540 the government before the Senate deal came out, is that you should have shut down the government
00:36:14.260 before they have any sort of moral high ground to say that we put sort of sort of bipartisan deal.
00:36:18.500 And my advice to him, both privately and publicly, was you should have shut down the government,
00:36:23.640 which I know people don't like. And he should have went straight to Eagle Pass, Texas and set
00:36:28.120 up a series of tents and say, if you want to reopen the government, you must come to Eagle Pass,
00:36:32.040 Texas in front of cameras and let's talk and let's negotiate. That would have been an offensive,
00:36:36.960 aggressive move. That's not how D.C. usually works. If he would have actually physically moved
00:36:41.200 himself to Eagle Pass, Texas. Imagine the optics, Megan. Every day he'd be doing interviews and the
00:36:46.000 media would be like torn. Do we cover this? Do we not? Because you know how it works in a shutdown.
00:36:50.100 They always want to put their hand out. Comment, Mr. Speaker, do you think the government's going to
00:36:53.300 reopen? And imagine, you know, all these guys having to get in a get in a plane and go to Eagle Pass and
00:36:58.000 say, listen, this is why we're here. This is six thousand fighting age males that are coming across
00:37:02.600 every single day. Now, whether it would have worked, would have Biden capitulated? Possibly. I've never
00:37:07.740 seen public opinion polls where Democrats are so weak on an issue in the modern era. Megan, 12 percent of
00:37:14.700 American voters. I may be off by a couple, but like 12 to 18 percent approve of Joe Biden's
00:37:19.320 handling of the border. And this is the issue that you could have gone to bat on. I am somewhat afraid
00:37:25.760 that how they smell blood in the water on this. They're losing on this. We saw it in the exit polls
00:37:30.260 in Iowa. We saw the exit polls in New Hampshire. But enter. OK, I'll just give you a flavor because,
00:37:34.820 you know, this is where it's going to go. Joe Scarborough this morning, I think, on Donald Trump.
00:37:41.860 Listen to this. You've got Donald Trump saying, let fentanyl flood across the border and kill
00:37:47.300 Americans over the next year. Let illegal immigrants keep flooding over the border.
00:37:52.780 Let's not have a solution. This is really one of them that just really clarify and tell you the
00:37:57.200 whole story, which is, are you working on behalf of the country? Are you working on behalf of people
00:38:02.760 who want to see the border crisis resolved, that they don't want drugs flooding in, that they think
00:38:07.020 there should be an orderly and legal immigration system in this country? That's what you've said
00:38:11.400 you wanted for generations. Oh, my God. Willie Geist. This guy's unbelievable. Well, he admits
00:38:18.820 it's a border crisis. There we go. Before you in, actually, can I just play Gavin Newsom, too?
00:38:24.500 Because he exploited it already, too. And, you know, you know, his role. Take a listen to him. Stop for
00:38:28.660 war. It's so pathetically weak. This Republican Party and the new speaker said, oh, yes, sir,
00:38:35.540 what else would you like us to do? We don't care about America. We don't care about our freedoms
00:38:39.780 and liberties. We care about politics exclusively at the expense of the American people, because all
00:38:44.700 we care about is winning for winning's sake. That is shameful. Mm hmm. OK, get used to that.
00:38:51.160 Well, these people are such liars and they have intentionally ignored the border, ignored it. And
00:38:57.700 now that people are noticing all of a sudden they say, well, it's the Republicans fault for not putting
00:39:02.320 forth a border plan or a comprehensive plan. First of all, the Republicans have they passed something
00:39:07.580 called H.R. to the Senate has not even taken that up for a vote. Everyone should look it up. House
00:39:12.380 Resolution two, which is a firm and clear border plan. And my question to Gavin Newsom and these repulsive
00:39:18.980 people on MSNBC, if it was all about politics, why is Abbott and twenty five red state governors
00:39:24.080 mobilizing the National Guard and playing with what could be the greatest constitutional crisis
00:39:28.560 of the modern era? Do you think they do that lightly? They're doing that because it is a crisis
00:39:33.060 and it's destroying our communities and drugs are flowing in and people are are demanding reform on
00:39:39.760 the border. But look, I'm a little bit encouraged because I don't know if that media narrative is going
00:39:45.520 to sink in, which goes to my other point, Megan, which is I put this on Twitter, which is exactly
00:39:49.720 what I'm going to talk about. I believe we're winning on the border thanks to Elon Musk liberating
00:39:54.740 Twitter and X. I go back to this. This is a theme I talk about frequently on my podcast, which is
00:40:00.060 because we have a one, a single liberated social media platform, which is the incubator of influencer
00:40:07.000 and elite opinion. I don't think them screaming on MSNBC is going to be nearly as impactful as it
00:40:13.680 was a couple of years ago. And I'll prove it to you. Greg Abbott's letter, which was a beautiful
00:40:17.520 letter, has now been viewed over 40 million times on Twitter or X. Elon Musk went down to the border
00:40:24.280 and did a live stream exposing what was happening on the border. These all were the building blocks
00:40:29.300 of moving public and independent minded opinion on what's happening on the border beforehand. I don't
00:40:34.740 know if we would have been able to do that, not to mention this podcast and our podcast and all
00:40:39.400 these different shows that are starting to get the message out, the gatekeepers of the narrative,
00:40:43.920 they no longer are able to control it. And they're largely on defense because millions and tens of
00:40:50.800 millions of people are able to get the truth outside of just reading the New York Times or watching CNN
00:40:57.200 or watching MSNBC. And I truly believe Elon Musk is largely to credit for that. You're so right.
00:41:04.000 Not to mention we've talked before about the trans thing. You could not debate the trans issue on
00:41:08.820 that's right. And now it's a winning issue. Yeah. People are exposed to differing opinions,
00:41:14.860 to the stories about the trophies being stolen and the 50 year old in the pool with the 12 year
00:41:19.660 olds. We wouldn't know about that stuff if it were still being run by Jack Dorsey and his people.
00:41:24.740 And it was still called Twitter. All right. Standby. Quick break. There's so much more to get
00:41:28.500 through. I'm so happy to have you here. Charlie Kirk's with us for the full show. Don't go away.
00:41:32.460 So Charlie, we'll get into the polling and where we think Trump is versus Biden in these swing states
00:41:42.940 because you've had some interesting commentary on that. But first, just let's spend a minute on
00:41:47.240 Joe Biden. And, you know, he's I think the Democrats think he's a much better candidate
00:41:52.440 when they don't see him and they don't hear from him. You know, like Van Jones was saying he should
00:41:57.380 stay hidden over the next 10 months. Yes. And he's 100 percent right, because when he's not hidden,
00:42:02.540 he's out at places like Superior, Wisconsin, Thursday, saying things like this about beer
00:42:12.000 brewing, I guess. Take a listen. It's on top of another billion dollars to clean up the Great Lakes
00:42:16.800 was provide drinking water for 20 million people, 20 million people. And by the way, used to make
00:42:25.560 beer brewed here. It is used to make the brew beer. Oh, Earth Rider. Thanks for the Great Lakes.
00:42:33.880 I wonder what if I was. This is the other advice I gave to Speaker Johnson. He needs to introduce a
00:42:42.020 piece of legislation by law. We need subtitles for the president of the United States. I can't
00:42:46.080 understand what he's saying half the time. It has to just be we need to close cap. We need to close
00:42:50.180 captioning as if he's like a foreign leader. I feel as if I need to have one of those translating
00:42:54.220 devices. I don't know what that is. I don't know what he's saying. We should understand.
00:42:58.680 Well, I think you have a right. That's what I said. I was half joking. I said, we as the American
00:43:02.220 taxpayer and we as the citizens of the United States, we have a moral obligation to know what
00:43:06.700 our president is saying. I don't know what that was. He has a Joe Biden has a tendency to just kind
00:43:10.780 of go deep into these slurs. And, you know, without speculating too much medically, I've, you know,
00:43:17.480 talked to several people, neurologists and just anyone that has a brain in medicine. They say
00:43:23.060 he's not improving. Let's just put it that way. Is that it's, it is a, it is a decline and he has
00:43:30.180 defied odds. He has lasted a lot longer than I thought he has. So I guess it's a, it's a power
00:43:35.180 to modern medicine, I suppose. I mean, I love your idea. However, the poor transcription person,
00:43:40.740 what are they supposed to do? Do they have some superhuman powers that the rest of us do not have?
00:43:44.400 Like who's going to be able to understand that? That's right. That's exact. I mean, I,
00:43:50.020 I think that he was saying something about beer in the great lakes. I think that's what he said,
00:43:56.960 that he's turning, uh, the, the, he's turning the, maybe the water of Huron, Ontario,
00:44:03.340 Ontario, Michigan, Erie, or Superior into beer. That's what he was saying.
00:44:09.180 He'll get back to us. I don't know. Well, meantime, meantime, we've got his number two,
00:44:13.180 who is focused on the world's problems right now. And apparently gave an interview to Katie Couric,
00:44:17.820 who resurfaced. And, uh, in, in, it's supposed to be one of the, one of the lighter moments,
00:44:22.360 I think that's meant to make us fall in love with Kamala Harris. Um, you tell me whether it's
00:44:26.580 having that effect on you. Take a listen here.
00:44:29.520 I recently learned you're only five, two. Is that true?
00:44:32.540 That is absolutely incorrect.
00:44:33.900 Okay.
00:44:34.600 I am five, four and a quarter.
00:44:36.700 Okay.
00:44:37.080 And I'm five, three and a half.
00:44:38.700 And with heels, which I always wear in five, seven and a half. Thank you very much.
00:44:41.760 Okay. Wikipedia, you're wrong. And we need to correct that.
00:44:44.680 I've said this to my team. Like what? I don't know where it came from. I've, I was five,
00:44:49.820 two, when I was 12.
00:44:51.040 They say I'm five, one on my Wikipedia page, five, three and three quarters and shrinking.
00:44:57.560 It's like, literally you, they just want to just make us smaller in every way.
00:45:03.280 The damn patriarchy. She means you that you're doing it.
00:45:07.980 Yeah. So first of all, people that are, and I, this is a generalization that are so fixated
00:45:11.960 on their height or not tall. That's just, I mean, people say, Charlie, how tall are you?
00:45:15.940 I don't know. I'm, I'm tall. Okay. I could be six, two or six, four. I don't know. I'm a tall,
00:45:20.100 I'm a tall. It's just like, it's, it doesn't mean anything to me. But, uh, the other part of that
00:45:24.380 is that she embraces like Kamala Harris, like I'm just being awestruck in your presence. It's like
00:45:30.100 the greatest thing ever. I mean, could you imagine just like a mainstream media person being that
00:45:36.440 buddy buddy with a Republican and it, it just, it, it, it, it is really remarkable. And I know
00:45:42.920 professional distance. I think that, you know, the Democrats say, boy, Joe Biden's not polling.
00:45:49.660 Well, but what we have next could potentially be even worse. I mean, Kamala Harris might be one of
00:45:56.460 the most just undesirable politicians in, in American life from her cackle to her unpopularity.
00:46:03.600 She, she, she, she's, she was there just because Joe Biden said she wanted the black female as vice
00:46:09.460 president. And, um, she is, she's less popular than Joe Biden. And we all know it. I mean, Biden's
00:46:15.500 not doing much better. I mean, every single clip we see of him, cause it's okay. At least she could
00:46:19.080 get the statement out coherently. I understood every word she said. I didn't respond to them.
00:46:23.760 They did not resonate with me. Her obsession with, and I'm five, seven, my heels on, which I wear
00:46:28.040 every day. She sounded a little bit like the Nikki Haley thing from the, you know, and their five inch
00:46:32.740 shield, like just, just stop. Right. Like it is so cringe. It's so it's like this. I'm sorry.
00:46:38.760 This sounds bad. This fake girl power thing, which drives me nuts, which is Nikki Haley every
00:46:44.500 other week. It's nauseating Megan. And I think it actually does disservice to strong female leaders
00:46:49.640 like yourself. And she's like, well, a woman has, I mean, it was like some tweet. It's like,
00:46:53.840 she always has to just remind us. And she's like, you know, like, for example, this is like,
00:46:58.040 you know, uh, only, you know, the, the first man running for president, he's like, well,
00:47:02.860 a woman hasn't done this. It's like, it's like her whole shtick of the campaign. And it's like
00:47:06.960 this fake girl power thing. Um, I think it turns a lot of people off. In fact, I think it turns a
00:47:11.060 lot of female voters off. I think it's just, it's remarkably cringe. Yeah. We know she's a woman.
00:47:16.060 She doesn't have to keep reminding us like, stop making it an issue. Like if anything, you should
00:47:20.480 never mention it, especially when you're running as a Republican, not a Democrat. We don't fall for
00:47:26.400 identity politics. We don't like them. We're trying to get rid of them. We don't want to
00:47:29.620 celebrate them. So she's learning that the heart. Exactly. Stand by another break. There's
00:47:33.760 bizarrely something I really want to talk to you about. And it includes Amy Robach and TJ Holmes
00:47:37.720 and their bizarre new podcast, which will play in part. Let's talk politics because I saw your tweet
00:47:46.280 and it kind of dovetailed with something I had heard on one of the podcasts I listened to
00:47:50.660 about some, some trouble for Trump that needs to be shorn up over the next 10 months.
00:47:55.860 And you, you said, um, it was your warning. You said, I could tell you right now, we are
00:48:02.480 getting our tails kicked in Arizona, Wisconsin, and Georgia. I come after this from infrastructure
00:48:10.280 and machinery, uh, that, and that we are currently on pace to lose in November. So you're, you're
00:48:16.440 sounding the alarm in Arizona, Wisconsin, and Georgia. And on that same front, um, I was listening
00:48:21.740 to our pal, Tom Bevin. He's got a good podcast under the real clear politics manner. And, um,
00:48:27.760 he put on this pollster from Pennsylvania and, you know, Tom is totally fair. He is not
00:48:33.300 a Trump hater at all. He's excellent. He's excellent. He put on this pollster, uh, from Susquehanna
00:48:38.980 polling. And it showed that in Pennsylvania, which an earlier poll had shown Trump leading Biden in
00:48:46.120 now Biden's leading Trump by seven points, 46 to 39. And this guy, his name is James Lee said
00:48:52.700 Trump is underperforming with Republicans in a way, um, that is, that is dragging his support down
00:49:00.820 statewide with Republicans. He's talking about it because he dropped, um, from 45 in September in
00:49:06.140 that poll down to 39 in the current poll. And he said, the support he's losing is with Republicans.
00:49:11.300 And he said, I think it has a lot to do with the fact that we're seeing a competition for the
00:49:14.860 nomination with Nikki Haley. Um, he said he was only getting 77, 7% of the Republican vote.
00:49:20.600 That's not enough. In the last survey, he was in the mid eighties and most people agree Trump needs
00:49:25.680 to be a 90 plus with Republicans to win. You know, you given just, there aren't, there are more
00:49:30.460 Democrats than there are Republicans. And then there's a huge amount of independence in the country.
00:49:34.560 Uh, but just in terms of registrations, there are way more Democrats than there are Republicans.
00:49:38.160 So as a Republican running, you've got to win almost all of your own party and you have to win a
00:49:42.200 healthy share of the independence in order to win, you know, the presidency. So he's saying 77% is not
00:49:47.060 enough. He's pointing Nikki Haley still being out there as a problem for him with the Republican vote
00:49:51.180 in Pennsylvania. And, um, just identifying some trouble for him in this critical swing state and
00:49:58.720 you're identifying other trouble. So let's talk about it. What is the trouble as you see it and
00:50:02.240 how does he address it? There's a lot of trouble on the horizon. And I try to always, if, if people are
00:50:08.080 too excited, I try to bring things down. If people are too low, I try to bring things up. So, you know,
00:50:12.200 six months ago, people say, you know, Trump can't win and all this. And then I'd say, no, no, no,
00:50:16.560 look at, here's the case of how we can do it. Now. I think it's the opposite. Megan, people are way
00:50:20.300 too cocky on the right. I mean, I'm getting these text messages where they, this one person, I kid,
00:50:25.100 I nearly threw my phone. This one person said, Charlie, do you think I can get invited to the
00:50:29.400 white house Christmas party? I said, what are you kidding me? No, no, it was, I'm not kidding you,
00:50:34.020 Megan. I just, I nearly threw my phone and it was like one step short of, you know, can you,
00:50:39.980 can you make sure that, you know, the measuring the drapes or whatever people say it's just so
00:50:45.080 repulsive. And, and so look, I think there's too much cockiness. The prediction markets do think
00:50:50.240 Donald Trump is going to win, but those things change all the time. We have an electoral college
00:50:55.100 system. It's going to come down to a handful of States. We believe at turning point action,
00:50:58.800 which is our political arm. It's going to come down to Arizona, Wisconsin, Georgia,
00:51:02.280 which collectively Donald Trump fell 42,000 votes short in the 2020 election. Um, there is
00:51:09.400 legitimate questions of kind of self-identified Republicans and suburbs. Are they going to come
00:51:14.340 home to Trump to the point for the Susquehanna, Susquehanna polar, uh, that, that pollster, it's
00:51:19.900 exactly what I would have said in a primary, those numbers typically do go down and they recover.
00:51:23.740 So there's plenty of time to, to kind of remedy that. A couple of thoughts though. We don't know the
00:51:29.760 RFK, uh, situation. We know he's going to be on the ballot in all 50 States. I have warned for quite
00:51:35.380 some time. It hurts Donald Trump more than it hurts Joe Biden. I think that's changing. I think
00:51:39.880 that's changing in real time. I think RFK has an opportunity to become a protest vote for black
00:51:45.360 voters and younger voters. Um, and so that's interesting. We're going to keep an eye on that.
00:51:49.880 Uh, young men are trending more in Trump's direction, uh, as kind of a protest F you vote.
00:51:54.980 We hear that a lot on campus. We see that in the data, you know, I'm not going to go along with
00:52:00.000 the trans agenda, the woke agenda, the affirmative action, DEI, and Trump kind of represents a stick
00:52:05.260 it to the man, especially for young male voters, young females will definitely go more towards
00:52:10.060 in the Joe Biden direction, primarily on the abortion topic. I will say though, that what I'm
00:52:15.820 trying to tell Republicans, stop the guessing, stop the speculating, stop wondering if you're going
00:52:21.020 to get invited to the white house Christmas party and get to work, which is why Megan on Monday,
00:52:25.560 uh, at turning point action, we're hosting an alternate RNC meeting in Vegas, same place,
00:52:31.100 uh, the hotel next to where the RNC is hosting their winter meeting. Uh, cause we believe the RNC
00:52:36.360 is not doing the job. We think Ronna McRomney is a loser. Uh, and she is not properly equipped to
00:52:41.660 make the Republicans prepared to win an awfully winnable election. And Megan, I know you feel this way.
00:52:46.760 If you were just outside of all the other dynamics and the lack of party machinery,
00:52:51.340 what issue set favors which side it is like a 99% issue set that should favor Republicans.
00:52:58.040 The economy is not what it should be. There's high inflation, the border crisis,
00:53:02.460 they're transing and grooming our kids. Foreign policy stuff is a complete disaster.
00:53:06.880 That is an issue set where it's advantage Republicans almost every single time. And if we don't win it,
00:53:12.140 it's going to be the fault of the RNC and the Republican infrastructure and the Republican
00:53:16.240 establishment. I will say one of the things that will be advantage Trump is that it looks as if
00:53:21.560 no labels is going to put a candidate in. It looks like Cornell West is still running.
00:53:25.440 Jill Stein is still running. And if RFK still runs, it's probably going to be a race to 40 or 41%
00:53:30.880 in some of these States that the winner is going to be the winner of the plurality, not the majority,
00:53:36.960 which will drive the Democrats nuts because they hate that. They go, they go crazy. Anytime that occurs,
00:53:41.740 even though Bill Clinton won with a plurality of votes back when Ross Perot ran in the 1990,
00:53:46.500 1988, 1992 election, I'm sorry. And the 1996 election, yeah, 92 and 96, he wanted the plurality,
00:53:53.760 not a majority. So it remains to be seen. But what I think Republicans need to focus far more on
00:53:58.560 is the boring stuff, ballot chasing, voter registration, getting into the streets. We're
00:54:04.000 hiring 300 full-time people at Turning Point Action to be full-time ballot chasers in Arizona and
00:54:09.200 Wisconsin alone. We want to do even more than that. It's going to be the largest deployment
00:54:13.100 of full-time get out the vote election workers that the Republican conservative side has ever seen.
00:54:19.460 So we're trying to do our part. We're not making any predictions of whether it's going to be decisive
00:54:23.680 or not, but we can say that if this work is not done, we're probably going to fall short.
00:54:28.740 But wait, let me ask Donald Trump ballot chaser. Yeah, please. What does that mean?
00:54:33.040 Yeah. So the Democrats employ thousands of these people and a ballot chaser in states where you're not
00:54:39.200 allowed to touch or assume custody of the ballot. They are invested in a 30-day period to go after
00:54:46.460 low-propensity voters. So people that might somewhat fit the profile of what is a likely voter
00:54:53.040 for your preferred candidate. So for example, if you're on the right, maybe someone who has a hunting
00:54:57.720 license, they own firearms, and they're a white male in their mid-40s, but they haven't voted in quite
00:55:04.020 some time. That's somebody who fits the profile, who is likely going to be a Donald Trump voter or
00:55:10.540 a likely Trump voter. In the 30-day period before actually election day, since you have these states
00:55:16.720 that have nearly universal mail-in balloting like we have here in Arizona, you try to find that low
00:55:21.360 propensity voter. So Earl, who's a plumber, and we know he has a hunting license, and we know that he
00:55:26.240 owns firearms, and you knock on the door, and you try to persuade or convince Earl to fill out that
00:55:31.320 ballot and chase that ballot and get that into the mail. Now, you can't touch the ballot. You can't
00:55:35.980 assume custody. You can't fill it out for him, but you can persuade him. You could build a relationship.
00:55:41.260 The Democrats have done this. They've deployed thousands of full-time ballot chasers, and they've
00:55:45.340 done it on the inverse. So they target people that care about the climate. They target people that care
00:55:50.200 about the race stuff. And abortion is the superpower issue that they can micro-target. And so you have a lot
00:55:57.020 of young, single, professional, corporate-driven women in their late 20s and early 30s, where abortion
00:56:02.900 is the primary topic. It's something Republicans struggle with. It's something Democrats dominate
00:56:07.980 with. And so they deploy these full-time ballot chasers in that 30-day period, and they'll knock on
00:56:13.480 doors. And it's Susie, who's 28 years old and went to Arizona State University, and she lives in her
00:56:21.180 apartment. And she may or may not usually vote, but she had a ballot sent to her home, and the Democrat
00:56:25.680 operative knows that there's a ballot sent to their home. And the person knocking on the door
00:56:29.520 is a colleague. So it's a female to female, 20-something to 20-something. And she'll say,
00:56:34.500 listen, the Republicans are going to take away your right to choose. I need you to fill in that
00:56:38.300 ballot. Let's do this together. They're going to take your birth control. They're going to take
00:56:41.700 everything. Exactly. Let me ask you this. The psychological aversion by Republicans to voting
00:56:46.960 by mail remains. One of the downsides to Trump with the questions about the election integrity for the
00:56:53.160 past X years is people don't trust. They don't trust if they put their ballot in the mail and send
00:56:58.580 it in that the person who receives it is going to do what's right, what's legally required. That's
00:57:03.460 right. The Trump vote is going to suddenly just slide into the garbage, wait at night when no one's
00:57:07.960 looking. That's right. So what? And I understand that fear. So that's why Republicans want to vote
00:57:13.800 day off. But they are going to continue to lose if they only do day of voting and the other side does so
00:57:19.120 much mail in. So what do you want people to know on that front? Yeah. So first of all,
00:57:24.140 low propensity voters is icing on the cake. So these are voters that might not have voted at all.
00:57:28.340 And it's going to the trick and the challenge, Megan, for our ballot chasers is going to knock
00:57:32.280 on the door and somebody says, what? I don't want to vote. The election is rigged. That's going to be
00:57:36.680 the number one chief objection. And we're going to become experts on how to navigate that conversation.
00:57:43.060 Secondly, Donald Trump needs to offer us air support by every single day. He needs to say,
00:57:47.960 hey, you have to you have to vote by mail if you're it's OK. We have to do it. We have to maximize
00:57:53.740 it. And if he says that it will make our job even easier. Right. Which is why just saying that every
00:57:59.300 election is rigged is probably not going to be helpful. I fully acknowledge and admit, Megan,
00:58:03.840 they might they might put the you know, put the ballot, you know, aside. They might do shenanigans,
00:58:09.260 but not voting is a guarantee that they're going to win. At least participating in the system gives us a
00:58:14.740 chance. But also, Megan, there's other ways, which is we're chasing ballots and they'll say, well,
00:58:19.100 I don't trust mail in balloting. Now we're legally allowed to say, hey, but would you like a ride to
00:58:23.220 the early voting in person early voting center, which we found in with DeSantis in Florida that
00:58:28.660 that's a good bridge. So Arizona has a massively underutilized in person early voting infrastructure
00:58:34.480 where you can go no lines, still vote in person three or four days ahead of Election Day.
00:58:39.800 Our fear is that we're if we don't fix the process of which we vote and maximize to the best of our
00:58:46.100 ability the early voting mechanisms, we're going to have a redux of Carrie Lake 2.0 where I went to
00:58:52.380 go vote on Election Day in 2022 and it was an hour and a half wait and the machines failed and people
00:58:58.360 were getting out of line. I'll never forget Megan. There was a young lady. She was in scrubs. She was a
00:59:03.000 nurse. She walks up hour and a half wait. She says, well, forget this gets back in her car. Now,
00:59:08.620 I don't know if she came later in the day. There's no guarantee that she did. But the long lines on
00:59:13.520 Election Day and almost inviting machine malfunction or tabulation is is unacceptable if we want to win.
00:59:20.040 And the Democrats, they have perfected the system where they have banked their votes to such a certain
00:59:25.520 extent that we're not even able to overcome anything. We would need ninety nine point eight percent
00:59:31.060 turnout on Election Day. You can't get that for anything. People get sick or they travel or they
00:59:35.620 forget. And the problem that I and I. Yes, exactly. Like what we saw in northern Nevada and the Adam
00:59:42.620 Laxalt race. Right. In northern Nevada, there was a terrible winter storm. If twenty one hundred more
00:59:48.120 human beings would have showed up on Election Day, you would have had a Republican center in the state
00:59:52.840 of Nevada and the Senate would be 50 50. And the Democrats would have a tiebreaker of Kamala Harris would be a
00:59:58.260 completely different type of dynamic. And that was back in the 2022 midterm. So Adam Laxalt would be a
01:00:03.240 center. He lost by like twenty two thousand votes to Cortez Masto. So our philosophy is this, is that
01:00:08.980 if we keep on acting as if we're in a 2016 election format where Election Day is decisive, we're going
01:00:14.220 to lose. And the number that I repeat that I know the best in the state of Georgia in 2018, when it
01:00:19.100 was Kemp versus Abrams, Stacey Abrams, the first time over to about two hundred forty seven thousand
01:00:24.960 people voted by mail in the state of Georgia in the 2020 election during covid, that number was two
01:00:30.020 point six million. It increased by a factor nearly ten and it's near three million. Now we have the ball
01:00:37.440 game has completely changed. We have to change alongside of it. I don't like it. I wish we had
01:00:42.080 same day paper balloting the way they do it in France. But the Democrats have sued using the Voting Rights Act,
01:00:48.020 the Civil Rights Act and many of these other very crafty legal methods, largely architected by Mark
01:00:54.900 Elias to increase the mail and balloting infrastructure because they have always been angry
01:01:00.060 and mad that enthusiasm is what won elections. And you think about it, Megan, Republicans,
01:01:05.420 you know, they're they take election day really seriously. You get in your car, you go to the voting
01:01:09.740 place. Democrats say, how can we get the person who doesn't really care? The twenty five year old on the
01:01:15.780 couch that might be sympathetic to our abortion policies. How do we get them to vote easier?
01:01:21.380 You send them a piece of paper. You have someone knock on the door and try to get that piece of
01:01:25.380 paper submitted. It's I believe this is going to be one of the more decisive elements of the 2024
01:01:30.520 election this November. The boring stuff, the infrastructure, the machinery. And currently we are
01:01:35.800 significantly outgunned on this front versus the Democrats. Who besides you is is undertaking these
01:01:42.860 operations in these swing states. Well, the Republican Party should. We're not aware of any
01:01:49.500 robust effort. Yeah, I don't want to speak. We have not been aware of anybody else. If they are
01:01:55.720 there, if anybody else is high, if if anyone else is hiring 300 full time people and raising the capital
01:02:02.700 to do that in Arizona and Georgia, I would love to meet them because just hiring 300 people.
01:02:07.500 People this is what Republicans need to be spending their money on. This this is what they need to be
01:02:12.520 spending their money on because they do have winning positions on these issues that but they do need to
01:02:17.120 do a better job now that the Democrats have won the fight over how we vote of getting their party
01:02:22.840 to vote in this new way that they distrust. They just there's no other way to win. All right. I want
01:02:30.220 to keep going. There's a lot. You cannot win. Thank you. Yes. Speaking of the Democrats being very
01:02:36.340 clever in how they win elections. Fannie Willis is one of the people going after Trump in Georgia.
01:02:41.120 She's the D.A. who says he committed a RICO violation. And there are some updates now in the
01:02:45.460 case against her. The audience by now is familiar with the fact that she's under examination for
01:02:49.600 having an alleged affair with her special prosecutor. She brought in Nathan Wade and paying
01:02:55.380 him what looks like much, much more than the other two special prosecutors and then taking trips all
01:02:59.980 over the world with the guy on the taxpayer dime. All of it looks corrupt, could potentially be a
01:03:04.020 bribe, could potentially be a violation of law that she's going to have to answer for in a criminal
01:03:07.400 court herself. And it could potentially get her bumped off of this case. Do I think it'll get
01:03:11.780 the case dumped? I don't. But I don't think Fannie Willis has any business staying on this case.
01:03:16.400 And that's all going to be litigated. The latest on it is she and Nathan Wade are expected to be
01:03:23.040 subpoenaed for a hearing on the affair allegation. So it looks like they are actually going to have to
01:03:29.460 provide witness testimony at this hearing. And, you know, so far, neither one has denied it.
01:03:34.640 Neither one has spoken to it. They said they'd address it, address it in motion practice, but
01:03:38.340 they haven't. So the hearing, which takes place on February 15th, could include live testimony from
01:03:45.500 both Fannie Willis and Nathan Wade. Oh, that's going to be must watch TV. Put it on your calendar.
01:03:52.020 Now, secondly. Oh, yeah. Trump Trump filed something interesting in this case. He's
01:03:56.380 kind of let this other defendant run her run herd on the Fannie Willis problems.
01:04:01.360 That's fine. Trump's got enough legal issues to deal with. But Trump and his attorneys just weighed
01:04:05.980 in on the Fannie thing legally. And they are they filed a motion in Fulton County Superior Court
01:04:12.380 regarding Willis. And it zeroes in on the speech she gave at the Big Bethel AME Church that we've
01:04:18.280 played in part for our audience over this past week, where she got up there and made it all about
01:04:22.880 race and, you know, got very political. She was supposed to be giving a speech on MLK Day.
01:04:29.080 Instead, she made it all about herself and her alleged lover and how what victims they are.
01:04:35.400 And the allegations that Trump is making in this motion are that these constitute, I'm quoting here,
01:04:43.960 a glaring, flagrant and calculated effort to foment racial bias in this case by publicly denouncing
01:04:51.580 the defendants for somehow daring to question her decision to hire a black man without also
01:04:56.680 mentioning that she is alleged to have had a workplace affair with the same man to be a special
01:05:00.340 prosecutor. These assertions by the D.A. engender a great likelihood of substantial prejudice
01:05:04.920 toward the defendants in the eyes of the public in general and prospective jurors in Fulton County.
01:05:09.200 In particular, they say that these remarks, which I'll play for you in part right now,
01:05:14.300 amount to a violation of Georgia's rules of professional conduct, which require prosecutors
01:05:19.040 in criminal cases to, quote, refrain from making extrajudicial comments that have a substantial
01:05:24.300 likelihood of heightening public condemnation of the accused. Here is just a snippet of what he's
01:05:31.080 talking about in SOT. I think it's 11.
01:05:34.580 Why does Commissioner Thorne and so many others question my decision in a special counsel?
01:05:42.240 I appointed three special counsels as is my right to do, paid them all the same hourly rate.
01:05:49.780 They only attack one. First thing they say, oh, she gonna play the race card now. But no,
01:05:56.860 God, isn't it them who's playing the race card when they only question one?
01:06:02.080 Why are they surprised that a diverse team that I assembled, your child, can accomplish extraordinary
01:06:10.460 things? God, wasn't it them that attacked this lawyer of impeccable credentials? How come,
01:06:17.360 God, the same black man I hired was acceptable when a Republican in another county hired him
01:06:24.960 and paid him twice the rate? Oh, y'all ain't hearing me. Why is the white male Republicans' judgment good
01:06:33.200 enough, but the black female Democrats not? It's pretty extraordinary and it's a pretty clever
01:06:41.360 objection by Team Trump because they're absolutely right. I mean, it is extraordinary to hear a
01:06:45.820 prosecutor talking like this. Well, yeah. And I mean, there are so many layers to this. First of all,
01:06:50.980 she's in big trouble. And if she did end up having a romantic relationship, which it seems
01:06:56.020 that she did with Nathan Wade, then she should be dismissed immediately. And you could make an
01:07:01.260 argument, which it's not enforced and it's kind of an antiquated law in some ways, that adultery is a
01:07:06.740 felony in the state of Georgia. So somebody very well might have to answer. Again, it's almost never
01:07:13.460 enforced, but it's still in the books. You can fact check it. It is still on the books in the state
01:07:17.560 of Georgia. Well, at a minimum, she ran. She ran. It's a misdemeanor. It's a misdemeanor. I want to
01:07:22.220 be clear. Yes. Yes. That's right. Criminal matter. She promised the voter she would never do this. So
01:07:27.840 as an ethical and a political matter, it's two strikes against her. Keep going. Right. No. And
01:07:33.460 then the other layer, which is, I think we could come after this from another perspective, is remember
01:07:37.520 Nathan Wade invoiced saying that he was communicating with the Biden White House billable hours to the White
01:07:44.440 House counsel's office on multiple occasions. So that deserves some sort of explanation.
01:07:50.660 There finally is some Senate board overseeing this to look into it. But Fannie Willis, this is the
01:07:56.680 playbook. How dare you look into me? How dare you question anything? And it's because I'm a black
01:08:01.940 female. No, it's not. You're the first person besides Alvin Bragg to indict a former president of
01:08:06.860 the United States on the most silly, insane RICO charge ever. And now that we are criticizing and
01:08:12.880 looking into, you're going to play the black female race card. And by the way, what what in Nathan
01:08:18.340 Wade's experience as a personal injury lawyer prepares him to work on, you know, work on this
01:08:24.760 for six hundred thousand cumulative dollars? It's as if you hire Better Call Saul as a personal injury
01:08:31.840 lawyer to come alongside of you to go after Donald Trump. And this is a sweetheart deal that is being
01:08:37.620 exposed, thankfully, because of these divorce proceedings. And look, Fannie Willis has been the
01:08:43.940 darling of the left wing media. If the New York Times did a whole cover story on her last year,
01:08:49.500 they really were ramp, you know, amping it up. Do you notice how Georgia has not received a lot of
01:08:54.100 attention lately, Megan, that they're kind of ignoring this? There was a lot of hype around Georgia
01:08:59.160 and they say, oh, Donald Trump's in legal perils. But if you read the legal peril arguments,
01:09:03.100 they all kind of point to the Jack Smith stuff and they point to documents and they point to the
01:09:07.580 insurrection or whatever, all that nonsense, because they know they have a serious problem here
01:09:11.440 because the prosecutor and the investigator who might be removed, who could be removed by the
01:09:16.260 special Senate hearing. They're looking into it. All the different nefarious activity is that the
01:09:21.700 prosecutor herself is engaging in prosecutorial misconduct and potentially illegal behavior.
01:09:28.740 And it's a shame because you look at all the other defendants, whether it be Rudy Giuliani
01:09:34.140 or Mark Meadows, that have to spend hundreds of thousands and near millions of dollars to defend
01:09:38.300 themselves. I want to find out who's actually pulling the strings here. If Nathan Wade actually
01:09:42.940 had multiple billable hours to the Biden White House counsel's office, did the Biden White House
01:09:47.360 counsel's office get tipped off ahead of time? Were they the one coordinating this? Are they the
01:09:51.780 coordinating hub of the lawfare attack against Donald Trump? This is what interests me even more
01:09:56.380 than, you know, Fannie Willis is. Well, they deny it. But then what was this all about? Why is
01:10:01.040 Nathan Wade billing the taxpayers of Fulton County multiple times? Yes. Yeah. Cause it's a huge
01:10:06.720 question. The Biden White House, they deny having anything to do with this. You know, they've done
01:10:10.480 jumped through 10,000 legal hoops to make it look like they have nothing to do with any of these
01:10:16.460 prosecutions. And then there's a bill by Nathan Wade for having, after having met with the White House
01:10:21.960 counsel's office about this case. So which is it? And Nathan Wade's about to take the stand.
01:10:26.220 I'm February 15th in this courthouse. And you can bet that the cross examiners are going to say,
01:10:30.320 what was discussed? What was this for? Now it could just be, are there documents we need that
01:10:34.700 are related to this? We'll find out, but it was a couple of meetings. It wasn't just one.
01:10:38.780 And he's going to have to answer for it. Just two things. You're referencing it today in Georgia,
01:10:44.460 the GOP controlled state Senate is debating and will reportedly vote on a resolution that would
01:10:49.380 create a committee to investigate Fannie Willis. The panel would have no power to sanction her,
01:10:53.740 but could subpoena evidence and witnesses to dredge up embarrassing information.
01:10:58.300 That's interesting because we don't know what this judge in, you know, the cases down in Georgia,
01:11:04.780 the ones against Trump and his co-defendants or the divorce case in which this all got started.
01:11:08.960 We don't know what any of them is going to have to say about this. So this is sort of a backup
01:11:11.920 politically. And speaking of politically down in Georgia, the Fulton County supervisor named Bridget
01:11:18.440 Thorne, who was referenced by Fannie Willis in that church tirade. She went on has now weighed in
01:11:26.320 on what happened between the two of them. When Bridget Thorne had the temerity to ask Fannie Willis,
01:11:33.180 what's, what's the deal with these Nathan Wade expenditures? I'm supposed to be answering to
01:11:39.680 the taxpayers of Fulton County. Why is he getting paid so much? And take a listen to what she said.
01:11:45.540 Transparency was not there. As I've skimmed through it, um, the allegations are frightening.
01:11:55.420 I believe we need some transparency. As I asked her, um, how much this election interference case
01:12:03.700 was costing the County. The answer I got was that lady justice has no price and I wasn't given any
01:12:12.240 amounts. Thirdly, when I asked her about the Nathan, um, our way expenditures in particular,
01:12:20.140 um, I didn't get an answer. I was told that I'm just picking on him because he's black.
01:12:30.460 That's your only card to say. I'm sorry. Hold on a second. Almost every person in the Fulton County
01:12:35.400 government at this point is black. So, I mean, that's just, I mean, I hate to break it. If I,
01:12:39.300 again, it's not a race thing when, you know, when Fannie Willis comes up and does a press conference,
01:12:43.680 like 80% of the people working in her office are black. It's fine. I have no problem with that.
01:12:46.860 So, but just a silly thing to say, it's like, are we able to do our job as the supervisor office or
01:12:52.120 not? You know, you, you can't, you can't pick on anybody in it, but I will say this Fannie Willis
01:12:56.040 should be nervous. That is not a good enemy to have. You do not want to have the supervisor board
01:12:59.660 looking into you, uh, for a very specific reason. There's another, uh, rule and protocol that
01:13:06.160 Fannie Willis very well might've broken, which is a conflict of interest. When you submit your
01:13:10.380 expenses to the supervisor's office in Fulton County, you have to fill out any sort of conflict
01:13:14.220 of interest forms. Like, oh yeah, Hey, this is my brother. This is my sister. This is my cousin.
01:13:17.680 Oh, this is my lover that I go on Caribbean cruises and go to Napa Valley with. Um, you have to,
01:13:22.760 you have to disclose that. And I don't know. I think the Fulton County supervisor is another attack
01:13:27.320 vector here. I mean, look, they, they overreached when they went after Trump. One of these is going to
01:13:33.240 break one of these. And finally, and in final, if I'm reading the prosecutor, prosecutor, prosecutor
01:13:38.160 law correctly, I believe Brian Kemp can fire Fannie Willis at any point. Now, whether he's going to do
01:13:43.300 that or not remains to be seen. He's not exactly a friend of Trump. He's trying to keep his distance.
01:13:47.940 Uh, but the evidence is mounting that Fannie Willis herself might actually be the criminal here,
01:13:52.040 not Donald Trump. Here's something extraordinary. Here's something that's never been uttered before.
01:13:57.960 You and I are in agreement with Ellie Mistal, the very racist correspondent for the nation
01:14:05.160 who's on MSNBC regularly talking openly about his hatred for whites on, on MLK day. He was like,
01:14:12.340 I've had, I've, I've, I've had it for an hour and 30 minutes. That's all I could tolerate of the
01:14:17.160 whites today. And I had to go back inside. This guy does not, he does not like white people.
01:14:21.720 Okay. But I want you to hear this because what he's written here on this case is interesting,
01:14:27.480 given his feelings on these issues. Uh, some highlights. I really can't defend Fulton County
01:14:33.920 district attorney Fannie Willis. I want to, and then he goes on to say, because he loves her
01:14:38.180 prosecution of Trump. I want to, he adds, because I'm rooting for everybody black. I'm rooting for
01:14:45.620 everybody black. That's his life principle. Okay. But even this guy, it gets better. Even this guy
01:14:50.720 then goes on to say, but I can't or won't defend her from the salacious allegations leveled against
01:14:56.060 her because if true, they represent a textbook case of public corruption, even if they shouldn't
01:15:01.500 affect the case against Trump. This defendant Roman who filed this, I mean, he talks about him
01:15:06.460 a bit, um, goes on to say, uh, this is a hit job and a prominent black woman carried out by a long
01:15:12.780 time Republican operative, but still just because this looks like a bad faith hit job does not mean it
01:15:18.220 can be ignored. That's because if true, the relationship looks a lot like a kickback scheme.
01:15:23.380 The time for Nathan Wade to get his ass gone from this case is now. If Willis is to be punished,
01:15:29.040 it should be through the very electoral procedures. She has used her office to defend in the biggest
01:15:33.960 case of her life with the entire world watching. She apparently decided to hire her lover for a $650,000
01:15:39.880 government job. If true, that's not a mistake. It's not merely bad judgment. It's hubris. It's reckless.
01:15:46.880 It's walking on a tightrope without a net while juggling live grenades because you've convinced
01:15:51.800 yourself that gravity does not apply to you. All that's left now is the very long fall. Let's hope
01:15:57.480 she doesn't drag the case down with her. Did Ellie write that? Yes. Can you believe that? That guy's
01:16:06.240 like Mr. Black Power, as you say. I mean, that's remarkable. I'm almost speechless. And it's also a very
01:16:13.660 what could win Donald Trump, the state of Georgia. I mean, you have to remember this is happening in a
01:16:17.500 battleground state, a state that Joe Biden got the electoral votes back in 2020. And if Donald Trump
01:16:23.060 is able to come in and say, hey, you know, your local DA is a criminal looking into me, prosecutorial
01:16:28.580 public corruption. I mean, that's going to be awfully persuasive. It's going to be impossible to cover up.
01:16:33.180 And the worst case scenario for Democrats with all this lawfare is if the cases start to fall apart
01:16:40.520 and it gets to be used as a boost and a boon for Donald Trump. It is the rule. And you know this,
01:16:48.500 Megan, you've been covering this for a while, which is somebody actually can become far more popular
01:16:54.920 and sympathetic if a prosecution falls apart post-prosecution, if a jury acquits them,
01:17:00.960 if the prosecution drops charges, because then they become a sympathetic figure. Oh my goodness,
01:17:05.060 look what they went through. The government was overly aggressive. They were picking on you.
01:17:08.240 And Donald Trump is right on the verge of that. I mean, they, they, that was the only place that
01:17:12.320 did the mugshot. This is by far the most serious charges of even the Jack Smith stuff. They're
01:17:16.980 going after Rico and public corruption and all this incredibly aggressive stuff, all happening in a
01:17:23.380 jury. Yes, exactly. All and, and, and, and let's not forget, you know, Rachel Maddow reminded us in
01:17:30.520 her little smirk and she never changes her wardrobe and they all black. She says, and remember Trump can't
01:17:35.640 pardon, Trump can't pardon himself in Georgia charges. Yeah. And that was like the little
01:17:40.940 reminder. That's the, that's the little reminder. And so of all the ones that I wanted to see fall
01:17:46.540 apart the most, it's this one in Fulton County, Georgia. And, and it's predictable inner city
01:17:53.060 Democrat politics. This stuff happens all the time, right? They had, you know, the, the brother is
01:17:58.100 paying the sister who's paying the lover and all this stuff. They just don't usually get caught.
01:18:01.840 And because the whole world is watching, this stuff is, is amplified. And I think Fannie Willis
01:18:08.840 has been, she's freaking out a little bit because all of her defenders in the media are not, they're
01:18:14.540 not there. They're moving on. They're like, well, how's that Alvin Bragg case? When you've lost
01:18:19.320 Ellie Mistel, there's no coming back. That's it. I don't know whether this is going to be broadcast.
01:18:24.620 This thing's about to collapse. Like if this is going to be broadcast publicly, I mean,
01:18:28.300 obviously we'll be watching and reporting on it, but I think the Trump trial down in Florida or in
01:18:33.200 Georgia was supposed to be a broadcast. So let's see if Fannie Willis has to take the stand with a
01:18:37.780 camera around. Wouldn't, I mean, at a minimum, we're going to get a transcript. We're going to
01:18:40.940 see what was said. There's no more denying it. It's, it's D-Day's coming lady. You're going to have
01:18:46.180 to take the stand. And so is your alleged lover. And we're finally going to get some real answers on
01:18:50.860 why he was talking to the white house and whether you actually traveled on the taxpayer's dime
01:18:54.720 and you violated campaign promises and your ethical obligations and possibly the law while playing
01:19:00.760 holier than thou savior for the Democrat party in trying to put Trump behind bars. The irony that
01:19:07.220 she could wind up in trouble with the criminal law long before he actually does. All right,
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01:20:21.000 All right, Charlie. So you got yourself in some trouble online because you're always stirring up
01:20:25.360 trouble online. Oh, I'm such a troublemaker. You are a troublemaker reacting to a June,
01:20:32.080 2021 clip, but it was making the rounds on X of the CEO of United Airlines, Scott Kirby,
01:20:38.900 talking about their, their quotas over at United for, you know, diversity in the ranks of pilots,
01:20:45.940 which is extremely controversial for obvious reasons. Here's the clip that you were reacting
01:20:50.980 to in South 13. How is diversity and diversity targets working into the Aviate Academy? We have
01:20:57.400 committed that 50% of the class of the classes will be women or people of color. Today, only 19%
01:21:04.320 of our pilots at United Airlines are women or people of color. And by the way, from all the data
01:21:09.100 I've seen, that's the highest of any airline in the country. White males don't just dominate in the
01:21:12.980 cockpits. Also in the C-suite at United Airlines. Well, look, at United, I'm proud of the diversity that
01:21:18.080 we actually have in our C-suite. I think if you look around corporate America. Correct me if I'm saying
01:21:22.140 though, so I, this was just based off your website, the people you list as executives, but out of 11
01:21:25.480 people, three are women, I believe one is a person of color. Um, that's correct. Um, but you know,
01:21:31.880 in corporate America, I think, you know, that's a low bar. How do you raise your own bar? Well,
01:21:36.340 a lot of this is, you know, focusing on it. We have, uh, programs to, one of the things we do is
01:21:41.540 for every job when we're doing an interview or require women and people of color to be involved
01:21:46.540 in the interview process. Shut up. Oh, I'm sick of this nonsense. It's so repulsive.
01:21:55.900 All right. So wait, let me finish it by your, your reaction to it. And people freaked out
01:22:01.060 because you said the thing that you're not supposed to say, but that's what you're known
01:22:05.120 for. Here he is in SOT 14 on Charlie's show. And that's why I think this United story in the DEI
01:22:11.780 story hits so hard because we've all been in the back of a plane when the turbulence hits or when
01:22:18.180 you're flying through a storm and you're like, I'm so glad I saw the guy with the right stuff
01:22:22.240 in the square jaw, get into the cockpit before we took off. And I feel better now. I mean, like,
01:22:27.840 you want to go thought crime? Like, I'm sorry. If I see a black pilot, I'm going to be like, boy,
01:22:32.320 I hope he's qualified. Well, that's the, you wouldn't have done that. You wouldn't have,
01:22:35.760 you wouldn't have done that before. That's not an immediate, no, you wouldn't have done that before.
01:22:39.020 That's not what I am. That's not what I believe. It is the reality. The left has created.
01:22:44.620 I like the meltdown after this with people like, and the response, the proper response was from
01:22:52.880 you, from people like Matt Walsh, this is the world you people have created. You have created
01:22:59.000 this world where you make somebody's skin color, the sole criterion for hiring. And then you react in
01:23:07.560 horror when people wonder whether the qualifications are also there. The nerve to get so indignant about
01:23:14.340 your reaction to that. This is their world. You're just living in it. Yes. And I want to just
01:23:20.060 reiterate the essence of that clip that was missed by almost everybody. Jordan Peterson, to his credit,
01:23:26.440 really picked up on it, which is what I was trying to be, you know, very vulnerable at the audience
01:23:31.480 is that DEI invites unwholesome thinking. And I said, I don't, and I was saying in the clip,
01:23:38.700 that's not who I am. That's not what I believe, but what it does is it makes us worse version of
01:23:44.880 ourselves, Megan. That's the whole point of what I was saying is that I now look at everything through
01:23:50.580 a hyper racialized diversity quota lens because of their massive insistence to try to hit these
01:23:58.160 ridiculous racial hiring quotas. Of course, I believe anybody of any skin color can become a
01:24:05.200 qualified pilot. That has never been my contention. I mean, it's silly. That's it's bigoted to think
01:24:10.620 otherwise. Right. What I was saying, though, is when you currently have less like three to four percent
01:24:17.600 of current pilots are blacks right now, three to four percent. And now they want to say this is
01:24:23.300 just a hiring class of candidates. Are there enough candidates to fill the 50 percent quota?
01:24:28.860 And the other question should be asked is, why is it a problem? Let's just ask the premise.
01:24:33.360 Why is it a problem that 81 percent are white? And I just I love the Axios guy. Well,
01:24:38.620 white males are dominating the cockpit. Yeah, those pesky safe flights are dominating our society,
01:24:44.300 Megan. You know, all those, you know, all those twenty five years of commercial airliners that have
01:24:51.120 kept on. I mean, dominating as if like the white male is like oppressing us with, you know, their
01:24:58.440 beautiful landings through turbulence and storms. And I just I just as if it's some some sort of like
01:25:06.920 we literally he said the Axios, well, white males dominate in the cockpit. Good. And the sense of like,
01:25:13.260 it's been safe. It's worked. I don't care about the race. I literally don't care. But like the
01:25:18.440 premise is as if there's some sort of massive oppression enterprise going on. And so I just I
01:25:23.180 want to make sure this is clear because the the deeper point even got cut off in that clip. That's
01:25:28.180 fine. Is that D.I. creates like bad people. And that's we walk around asking questions that we
01:25:36.180 otherwise wouldn't ask. And I happen to say the quiet part out loud because I don't like thinking that
01:25:42.160 way. I feel dirty. I feel like sinful. I feel that I'm now asking questions I wouldn't otherwise ask.
01:25:48.340 But they've invited this entire conversation. And by the way, I just want to make this clear
01:25:54.060 because then some people say, but Charlie, they're totally qualified. Hold on. Every analysis that we
01:25:58.980 have of similar quota based affirmative action programs always results in the lowering of standards,
01:26:06.260 whether it be Harvard, whether it be in federal hiring practices. Oh, at Harvard admission standards
01:26:12.020 were lowered 20 to 30 percent for black students versus Asian and white counterparts. So you can have
01:26:17.740 one or the other. You can have excellence or you can have diversity. And I, for one, someone who has
01:26:23.780 flown millions of miles and over 3000 days of travel in the last decade, I want excellence in air
01:26:29.620 travel. I don't care about the skin color of the person. Yes, exactly. And by the way,
01:26:35.720 this is happening in medicine, too, though. This is happening in medicine and places for quotas
01:26:41.280 or hyper focus on diversity. They're just not like people have to have confidence that everybody gets
01:26:46.920 into that cockpit or into that O.R. based on one thing, and that is merit. That's it. Like
01:26:52.340 they deserve to be there. I want to end it with this. Eli Steele, who I love. He's Shelby Steele's son,
01:26:58.260 and he's brilliant. He's a great social commentator. For the record, he's a person of color. He's a
01:27:03.020 black man, mixed race, I think, in any event, whatever. He says in response to this, Charlie,
01:27:09.020 he tweeted out, what do you think Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steele have been warning us about for
01:27:14.280 years? We cannot embrace the double edged sword of racial preferences and its lure of an advantage
01:27:20.840 without being stigmatized as inferior. It's the devil's bargain. It's too easy to point the finger
01:27:28.060 at Charlie Kirk and slam him for racism. It that solves nothing, and it makes racism the problem
01:27:32.660 when the left's systemic deployment of racial preferences is the true culprit. This system
01:27:38.440 benefits the corrupted racial essentialists like Claudine Gay at the expense of the aspirational.
01:27:44.800 The sad reality is that the aspirational among us do not need these advantages. We do not need the
01:27:51.860 man to help us. Our people didn't survive slavery for this, and we should honor our ancestors through
01:27:58.820 our untainted achievements. That's it right there. Beautiful. I couldn't have said it better myself,
01:28:06.620 and that is, I haven't heard that. And I will say, Megan, I was, I'm very encouraged that
01:28:12.800 many people, Allie B. Stuckey, Jordan Peterson, Matt Walsh, Tim Pool, Candace Owens, because this thing
01:28:19.920 has been viewed 30 million times without any prompting. They said, wait a second, this is what
01:28:24.600 Charlie's saying. And I think that was a really good thing, Megan, because it would have been very
01:28:28.880 easy to just kind of say, oh, wow, he said the private thing and it kind of, that's not how, you
01:28:34.100 know, I was really encouraged and thankful for how people stood up for me and stood up for the truth.
01:28:39.060 So thank you. Yes. Okay. All right. So let's end it on a fun note. So TJ Holmes and Amy Robach got
01:28:49.040 fired from their jobs on the third hour of Good Morning America a year or so ago. It wasn't
01:28:55.820 because they had an affair. I mean, according to the reports in the Daily Mail and the New York
01:28:59.720 Post, he had been stupping half of the newsroom. So this was not his first rodeo outside of his
01:29:05.220 marriage. She was also married at the time to Andrew Hsu, formerly of Melrose Place. She later claimed,
01:29:11.720 oh, you know, he had moved out by the time, you know, this affair broke, but we saw the pictures.
01:29:16.260 It had been going back some time, whatever. I don't think they got fired for infidelity to
01:29:21.080 their respective spouses, though there was a day when that would have canned you from morning TV.
01:29:25.540 They got fired because they then paraded themselves in their teeny weeny bikinis all over
01:29:31.420 the beaches of America, fawning over one another. They both have children in their marriages and their
01:29:37.620 kids, hers in particular, were posting sad faced photos of themselves, like alone with their dad,
01:29:45.060 without their mom, who we saw simultaneously frolicking in her little bikini with the
01:29:50.120 affair partner. That's a no. That's a PR nightmare for a company like GMA, ABC, The Mouse. So they
01:29:57.180 got canned, which was totally predictable. They could have saved themselves, done a mea culpa,
01:30:02.060 gotten past it, but they chose to go another way and try to make us celebrate their affairs.
01:30:06.460 And it was a hard no. There still are some standards. So now they've launched a podcast.
01:30:12.820 This thing is like a soap opera. You won't be surprised given how their relationship appears
01:30:18.080 to have begun. It doesn't seem like it's going very well. I don't think it's long for the wear,
01:30:24.700 Charlie. So on Tuesday of this past week, they decided to drop a podcast in the middle of an
01:30:33.180 argument of a fight they were having. And these, I mean, I'm sorry, I find them so unlikable.
01:30:39.600 Like the victim, he's an ass. She's victimized at everything. She can't believe all the work she has
01:30:47.820 to do now as a podcaster. She's used to somebody doing this for her. It's stressful.
01:30:52.540 And just what a tough life we have, right? Listen to thought 17.
01:30:58.460 I have always been fully confident in our ability to work together. And what I haven't
01:31:05.840 done as much of in my career is be responsible for content, booking, ratings. The pressure of all of
01:31:15.720 that I think has consumed both of us. I like to talk it out and brainstorm and throw things
01:31:23.240 out and up. And you like to quietly do your thing by yourself. And so what we've ended up doing is
01:31:31.200 sitting in silence for hours next to each other. And it's exhausting. When it is an extended period
01:31:35.780 of time or multiple days, I start to feel nervous.
01:31:40.360 Nervous about what?
01:31:43.200 How you're feeling about us and me.
01:31:47.700 Is that always on the table? Like everything that comes up, is it always that? Because that's
01:31:53.620 like nuclear. I don't know how in those moments
01:31:56.860 to take care of me and take care of somebody else.
01:32:02.220 Oh, my Lord.
01:32:05.640 Well, so I just so Megan, I take coming on your show very seriously. So I did a lot. I had to
01:32:12.640 listen to this pile of crap, you know, otherwise. And so I first of all, I found it very interesting.
01:32:19.740 You know that their ex spouses are now together. It's a very, very bizarre. So that that whole thing,
01:32:25.580 I just in the research, I was like, well, that's really weird. Secondly, in the podcast,
01:32:30.160 he periodically calls her robot, like, like her by her last name. Like, did you notice he
01:32:36.500 periodically calls her by her last name, as if like, it's he's like coaching her in a basketball
01:32:42.100 game. Like, it is very, very strange. These people are so nauseatingly self important using
01:32:48.320 terms like authenticity. And I have to be what was it? Oh, my I'm living my own truth.
01:32:55.580 I mean, like, no, it's totally wrapped up in a psychobabble.
01:33:00.260 So I'm far from an expert on this. But here was my initial takeaway. And it is part of an argument
01:33:04.880 I've made for years. You could tell a lot about somebody and how talented they are or not when you
01:33:10.960 remove them from the box. When you remove them from being in 100 million homes, and all of a sudden
01:33:18.120 you make them have to survive in the wild, you're going to find out a lot if they have talent and or
01:33:23.920 whether they don't. I mean, and Megan, look, you have like the number one podcast on the planet
01:33:27.300 here. And it's, you know, we love it. We love the success. We love the virality. I don't think
01:33:32.400 this is going to do very well. First of all, it's just they they I don't I don't know. Look,
01:33:38.700 I'm a big market guy. I'm a big competitor. I can't imagine people on their commute to work
01:33:44.020 turning that on while they're sitting in traffic on the 405. I maybe I'm wrong. But
01:33:49.740 it's a podcasting is a ruthless business. As you well know, Megan, it's hyper competitive.
01:33:55.320 And what I love about it is that if you're a failure, people see you're a failure very,
01:33:59.280 very quickly. It's just you don't succeed. You go you go into the end. I don't I don't know. I am.
01:34:04.680 You got short on this part about her complaining about it's the pressure of like having to put
01:34:09.900 together our own podcast. Meanwhile, it I guarantee you these people are working three hours a day.
01:34:15.400 OK, nurses are on their feet eight to 12 hours a day dealing with sick bodily functions. They
01:34:22.620 like they actually have to work to put food on their tables. These are both millionaires. Just
01:34:26.960 stop. No one feels sorry for you. What would she say? We don't want people to think we're the perfect
01:34:32.120 couple. We don't. Don't worry. Yeah, we don't. And but what she's saying is that for her, she has to
01:34:39.060 be interesting. And that's really hard work for her. She used to a good morning America to say,
01:34:44.440 here, read this script brought to you by Pfizer. You know, America's a racist country. The orange
01:34:49.100 man is destroying us. Let's go to our frontline correspondent. Now she has to be in a podcast
01:34:54.280 and actually be interesting. Very tiring, exhausting work. What are they going to do when they're not
01:34:59.780 talking about themselves? By the way, we've got to end with this. There was a follow up to the to
01:35:05.180 the fight podcast in which he TJ said the following. Listen to Sat 20. I don't want to put this out
01:35:11.800 because this is going to, I fear, be viewed as a black man beating up on a white woman.
01:35:18.100 Now, if anybody took their time and listened to that podcast, obviously, I was not yelling,
01:35:22.940 screaming. I wasn't doing anything. Now, we are a couple who's having a disagreement. So
01:35:27.780 obviously, neither one of us were having our best moments. But my immediate concern was that
01:35:32.900 and you and Sugarman both like, wait, what? I was shocked.
01:35:41.000 You've got, you got to get the race in there. Got to do it. Old habits die hard.
01:35:46.840 And they were still fighting. This is the resumption of the fight.
01:35:50.660 My immediate concern. So more so than the well-being of your partner, your immediate concern
01:35:55.620 is that you're playing into some like weird racial stereotype. Like these people need,
01:36:01.280 they need more than therapy. They need to go to like Switzerland for a month. They need like a
01:36:04.920 whole team of people that just look at them and heal them. These, they, they, they're, they're far
01:36:10.560 from, they're far from role models. We'll see if that works. I have a feeling this podcast is not
01:36:14.860 going to be around for too long. No, this is not a healthy relationship and it didn't start well and
01:36:19.980 it's not going to end well. We'll continue to watch it and use Charlie Kirk as our TJ and Amy
01:36:26.260 correspond. Oh, great. I, I'm honored, Megan. Thank you for, for giving me that honor.
01:36:33.400 Learned so much. It's great to see you. Thank you so much for being here. Let's talk again soon.
01:36:37.380 God bless you, Megan. Love the show. Thank you so much. Thank you as well. Uh, okay. Have a great
01:36:42.200 weekend, everybody. We'll see you on Monday. Look forward to that.
01:36:45.820 Thanks for listening to the Megan Kelly show. No BS, no agenda and no fear.