WEBVTT - MAHA in Big Ag + AMA 268 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.360 My name is Charlie kirk I run the largest pro 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:09.960 American student organization in the country, fighting for the future 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:13.360 of our republic. My call is to fight evil and 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:16.520 to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:19.919 is just feeling good, you're gonna end up miserable. But 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:23.200 if the most important thing is doing good, you'll end 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:26.400 up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:28.600 stop sending your kids to college. You should get married 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:31.160 as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:33.280 Go start at turning point. 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That is Noblegoldinvestments dot Com. 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:20.480 All right, well, welcome to the studio. We are so 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:24.280 honored to have the United States Secretary of Agriculture here, 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:25.959 Brooke Rawlins, welcome. 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.119 Thank you. I'm feeling a little overwhelmed right now, as 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:33.640 you and I talked about before, I first met Charlie 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:37.039 when he was eighteen. Oh yeah, we kind of grew up. 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:39.360 I'm honestly older, but kind of grew up in the 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:42.480 movement together. So this is a sort of full circle. 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:44.600 Well, you know, I totally relate to that. 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:47.800 When I first came into this studio after everything that happened, 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.240 it was overwhelming for me basically for the first like 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:52.680 couple months, and I had to like, you know, I 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:54.440 had a job to do, and I had to sort 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:58.520 of act like I was comfortable and I but you know, now. 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.360 It's actually comforting. It's weird. 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:04.280 I come in here, I see his chair, I see Jesus, 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:08.880 you know, beautiful presence for her dad and his hat 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.280 and beautiful he's yeah, and it actually brings me like comfort. 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.040 So I get like, I try and relate to that 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:16.600 as we have guests in the studio, and I know 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:19.720 it can be overwhelming, but it's kind of just beautiful 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:21.280 just to see all these reminders of him too. 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.800 So it is, and I tell you that the work 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:28.800 has to continue, and I just I feel, I feel 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:32.480 his spirit. I'm so grateful to y'all. I'm grateful to 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:37.000 Erica for being such a warrior for the country, but 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.880 for him and his legacy, for his children. So to 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.040 be a very small part of that is a real honor. 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:42.520 Thank you. 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:43.560 The work must continue. 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:45.720 You might remember the first time he ran into him, 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:47.080 he got to be he had to be an insane 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.080 go get her at eighteen, can you I only met 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:50.919 him when he was. 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:52.200 Twenty nine or thirty. 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:54.400 Everyone I thought I ran into him. I just thought, 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:56.760 this guy is high intensity. He's always done anything. 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.240 Yeah, and Andrew and everyone else are telling me, oh, 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.240 he's massive, chilled out. He used to be far far 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:02.799 more intense. 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:04.400 Well, let me let me we have time for the 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:04.920 quick story. 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:06.160 Yeah, of course. 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.560 So at that point, let's see, I'm probably I'm just thirty. 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.440 I'm probably a little more than twenty years older than him, 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:15.080 But I always felt more like a big sister. And uh, 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:17.560 and so he was just starting turning point and we 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.600 kept hearing about it. I was building the Texas Public 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:24.080 Policy Foundation in Texas really kind of the first of 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:26.760 its kind, idea that I didn't even know what a 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:28.840 think tank was. But what I knew is I'd been 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:31.920 Rick Perry's policy director and general counsel in my late twenties, 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:34.440 and what I knew is that every day, all day, 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.840 I would get lobbyist after lobbyist after lobbyists in conservative Texas, 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.120 and it was never about doing what was right. It 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:43.280 was never about we're cutting taxes because it's for freedom, 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.320 or we're not going to regulate because we want to 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:47.240 return power to the people. It was just here's what 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.880 I need. I'm like, where's where's the lobbyist for freedom? 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:54.000 Like I don't understand? So I left Rick Perry's office 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:55.920 after a couple of years. It was a great experience. 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:59.760 I hit twenty nine, maybe maybe thirty, and someone came 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.400 to me with this idea of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.040 and I think because I had been on the inside, 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:08.920 I fully understand stood. I couldn't have articulated it then, 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.840 but I fully understood the opportunity to go in and 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.200 to really make a difference in my state and just 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.160 representing freedom like that was it, So I said, okay, 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.479 so kind of that's where it started. So when Charlie 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:22.440 came on the scene, I don't know how. For many 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:26.400 years later, ten maybe fifteen, he of course, I think, 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.560 somehow ended up in Texas to raise money for this 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.960 new concept from this new kid, and so all the 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:35.719 people that he would go to and he'd get the meetings. 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:38.240 I don't know how, but he'd get the meetings, and 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:40.480 then they would tell him go talk to Brook like 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:42.320 she's kind of a little bit ahead of you, and 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.160 go talk to Brook and you're wanting to build this thing. 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.919 She's now built this pretty massive thing in Texas, but 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:49.919 we want to see kind of how y'all can work together, 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.160 what she thinks, etc. And so that's how we first met, 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.000 was at eighteen nineteen year old Charlie building turning point, 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.200 coming to Texas, sitting down, and then of course we 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:00.520 became really good friends. 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.080 I remember talking to him about you, and the way 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.680 he would talk about you was always so like the 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:10.080 big sister thing. It really it's apt because I remember 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.120 it was always like there was a level of comfort. 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:13.400 When it came to brook On Carlbrook, you know. 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.400 Yeah, And by the way, like, so Charlie ends up 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.200 creating Turning Point and building it into this machine. And 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:22.159 now you're in the administration, you're a cabinet official. So 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:25.400 I figured that's where we should start. Well, we started 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:27.880 with the story, which is actually better. But this was 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:30.839 just from yesterday or two days ago. If you're watching 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:33.120 this live, so forty nine. 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.240 The US Department of Agriculture, we've canceled three hundred thousand 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:41.560 dollars contract educating on food justice for queer and transgender 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:45.359 farmers in San Francisco. A similar contract we canceled in 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:50.039 New York again educating transgender and queer farmers on food 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:53.520 justice and food equality. I'm not even sure what that means, 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.640 but apparently the last administration wanted to put our taxpayer 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.600 dollars towards that. We canceled a six hundred thousand dollars 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:03.919 contract out of Louisiana that was studying the menstrual cycles 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:07.880 of transgender men, a six hundred thousand dollars contract. We 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:11.000 canceled another contract out of a university in the middle 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:14.440 of the country that focused on getting more diversity, equity, 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:20.520 and inclusion into our pest management industry. Again, these are nonsensical. 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.720 It makes zero sense to use taxpayer dollars to fund these. 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:25.719 I know these are just a few examples of the 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.360 hundreds in the hundreds that we have found. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.480 Well believe cloud Show. 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:33.440 I looked that up and it's so funny because it 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.680 just captures the moment so well where I guess the 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:39.919 actual study was like, we're gonna see how feminine hygiene products, 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:43.400 whether some are healthy or unhealthy. But then, of course 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:45.839 it was happening in peak woke, so they had to 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:48.960 go and especially for the trans men who need to 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.360 use these, you had to throw this into every single 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:52.640 grant application. 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:54.880 Yes, just got a vaporize. You just have to say 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:55.320 that stuff. 0:06:55.480 --> 0:07:01.839 But when you're saying it out loud, it's the most obnoxious, obscene, absurd, ridiculous, 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.520 Like you just said those sentences. 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:08.320 Yes, TV, I do. 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:12.040 What is even a BIPOC former me in San Francisco. 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.080 I'm so like to this cabinet meeting and send it 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.600 back to nineteen seventy five and so anyone can. 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:18.320 Tell what you're talking about. 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:19.440 This is obscene stuff. 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.960 And I'm I mean, I'm proud of you and the 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.440 job you're doing, but I'm also really embarrassed for you 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:26.680 that you had to say that, right. 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.600 Well, and you're your a professional, dignified woman. 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:33.480 I'm talking about queer, bipoc, transgender mice and men in 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.360 control and the president and to the President of the 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.600 United States in the cabinet room. It was so bad, y'all. 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:41.960 And just last week we just got a court ruling 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:49.000 down USDA. Under the Biden, USDA actually prioritized grants and 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.200 loans based on the color of your skin. How do 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:56.760 how you were illegal, illegal, illegal, canceling all of that. 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:58.960 It's just is and I feel like we're still just 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:00.680 at the tip of the spear. I mean Snap fraud, 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:01.600 the foods Okay. 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:03.000 Cross, That's what I'm going to get into here, because 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:07.680 I have a list here of these fraud initiatives that 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:11.440 you're leading you. Okay, so twenty three state waivers. You've 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.600 gotten twenty three states to sign on basically restricting junk 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.080 food purchases with SNAP. Eight are already implementing. That's really 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:22.760 good you. This one blows my mind. You have exposed 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:26.360 three billion dollars in snap fraud across twenty eight states 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:30.720 and with national losses projected at over six billion dollars, and. 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:32.720 By the way, those are the Red states. Think about 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:33.440 the Blue states. 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:35.600 That's a whole other ed and they're just like not 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:36.160 playing ball. 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.320 The Blue states are not playing ball states. 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.319 We need to bend them to our will. This shouldn't 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.680 be okay, you have to play ball. Can we stop 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.040 the funding? Can we stop sending them? I mean, I 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.440 know it's a big political hot potato because it's like 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.559 Snap benefits or whatever. We'll find play by the rules 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.240 and we'll give the people that need it the money. 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:58.120 This this is bananas. One hundred and eighty six thousand 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:02.040 dead people, we're still collecting Snap benefits and more than 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.840 three hundred and fifty five thousand cases of people illegally 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:05.600 double dipping. 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:07.640 Yes, and these are in the Red states. This is 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.280 that we have. We don't even have California's data or 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:10.959 New York states. 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:15.520 It'll be quadrupled. How did this happen since President Trump 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:20.199 took office? Four point three million fewer people you say Americans, 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:22.679 but we'll say fewer people are off Snap. How are 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:23.160 we doing that? 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.480 Well? A couple of different things. First, I think this 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.880 focus on the fraud has moved a lot of the 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.599 fake people off of Snap. But I also think and 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.200 this is the dream, right, the wages are increasing, there's 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.880 more people working now than ever before. This is supposed 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:41.079 to be the supplemental nutrition assistance program. It's only supposed 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.040 to last for a certain amount of time for people 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:46.640 that truly truly needed. It had become a year round 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:50.400 welfare program everywhere qualified and a way of. 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:54.800 Life icket with its SNAP with disability payments exactly what 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:56.480 we expanded during COVID. 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:59.760 We're now acquiring work requirements, so you unless you have, 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.600 you know, a young child, you are required to look 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.559 for a job or actually go find a job before 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.400 you can get these these So we've changed the whole 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.280 game on the SNAP program and across the whole administration. 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:11.959 It's amazing. 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.280 And then I mean you combine that with russ vote 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.959 coming out just today, he's overhauling a trillion dollars with 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:21.000 a federal grants mandating e verify. I have no idea 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.600 how that will overlap with what you're doing at USDA, but. 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:25.640 It's it's all good. It's amazing, it's all good. 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:29.360 And you know, no more DEI nonsense, and you know, 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.040 performance based reviews things can get. 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:33.760 You can actually end things, which is amazing. 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.079 So this is a really big story that I don't 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.560 think a lot of people are are yet talking about. 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.480 And I want to make sure people are taking note 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.040 of it, and that is you are. You have this 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:48.160 the Great American Cotton Plan, which people do not respect, 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.680 how big our cotton industry is and how under assault 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:50.960 it is. 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:52.280 So I love that you're doing this. 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:54.559 I think we have some graphics here we can throw 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:55.520 up as you're talking about it. 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:56.680 What's going on here? 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.160 Well, first of all, what I realized a year and 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.480 a half ago when I very unexpectedly ended up in 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.600 this job, this was not on my big go card. 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:06.600 Was not expecting it. The President made an announcement, and 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:10.040 off to the races we went. My background is agriculture. 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.600 I grew up on a farm. I studied agriculture in 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.160 college at Texas A and M. But I had been 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.360 doing really all policy in all those years, in building 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.840 policy organizations alongside Charlie. So this was unexpected. 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:23.360 What I we were not a policy organization. We're not 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:24.600 think tank. We're battle tank. 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:26.360 Yeah, I love it. Well, I would say we're battle 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.720 tank too, but part of the movement. As we're building 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:32.480 the movement, changing hearts, and minds. But the point we'll taken. 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:34.320 What I will say is I knew it was bad. 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.240 I knew agriculture was was was in real tough shape. 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:42.040 Big ag foreign adversaries buying farmland. The consolidation of our 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:45.839 food supply chain by foreign owned companies is insane. How 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:51.120 it happened, it still blows my mind, but we're hundred 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.760 percent so today in Arizona we announced as part of 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:58.400 that the Great American Cotton Plan for really the first 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:00.960 cotton plant we planted in six ten seven in a 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:06.600 Virginia settlement, our American Revolutionaries war cotton when George Washington 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.520 was battling the Brits. This goes back to the very 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:11.880 beginning and even before the beginning of our country. But 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.520 what has happened over the last we'll say decade or 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:19.480 so is the foreign fake synthetic material has become so 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:23.680 prolific and so cheap that we have begun been moving 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:27.120 away from Great American cotton for years. And then Joe Biden, 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.360 of course, took his eye off the ball. Do you 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.679 realize under Joe Biden's watch, we lost our market in soybeans, 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.199 we lost our market in corn, We lost our market 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.319 in beef and then they took over. We used to 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.200 be the greatest exporter in the world of cotton. Brazil 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.400 took that over in twenty twenty two. This is national 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.720 security level implications. This isn't just good for the farmers 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:48.960 and we want good cotton. If we begin to rely 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.720 on these other countries for food, for fiber, for fuel, 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.400 we lose our country. So today we announced a big, 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:56.480 big plan to take it back. And it's part of 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:57.480 the MAHA movement too. 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:59.679 I was going to say, hold on. 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:04.200 Alex Clark, New Year coming on, and she said, ask 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:06.079 if this means, and we have this grab at the 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:11.160 USDA is finally promoting natural fibers, yes, over petroleum based synthetics. 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.520 So she took note of this from the MAHA standpoint. 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:16.439 She said, ask if this means the FDA might look 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.280 into the laws about what chemicals are allowed in clothes 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.880 that haven't been updated since nineteen four. She's saying, the 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.360 laws about what chemicals were put in our clothes haven't 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:25.760 been updated since the forties. 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:28.240 Since the forties. It's it is you look at this, 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:34.040 it's FDA. But from my perspective, this administration, our cabinet 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:35.920 is very unique and that we all sort of roll 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:37.960 into each other's lanes. I mean, you've seen this with 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.120 me and Bobby Kennedy for a year and a half now, 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:41.280 I mean, who knew he was going to be my 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:44.240 number one partner in all things? But he talks about, Hey, 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.000 I waived, you know, I granted twenty three states waivers. 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.840 They can't sell junk food anymore under SNAP And I'm like, Bobby, 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.920 that was actually USDA, but I'm very glad you take 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.160 all the credit for that. It doesn't matter to me. 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.680 And so even though that is FDA, this will now 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.160 be one of my top priority is digging in and 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:04.960 understanding it. Mother of four children, I couldn't agree more 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:06.800 with Alex's focus on what you're doing. 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.440 I'm saying, she's saying, I've been hearing from so many 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:13.760 moms that they are really into clean clothing. Seems like 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:15.679 we're on the brink of another big movement. 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:16.800 We are, so is this. 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:20.440 But this could actually help cotton farmers, presumably, right, So 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.720 if you start banning some of these petroleum based synthetics, 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.200 if they're bad for people, correct, this would open up 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:27.920 market space for cotton. 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:29.920 Farm That's exactly right, And for the first time in 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.600 one hundred years, Cotton begins to do this instead of 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.600 doing this as we've offshored so much to the bad guys. 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.520 Frankly, we've got just a couple of minutes left here 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:42.880 in this segment with you. What is the most important 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:46.800 thing that this real America's voice audience watching live needs 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:48.040 to know about what you're doing. 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:50.600 There are a lot of really important things. I mentioned 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:53.760 national security. That's probably the most existential issue. But from 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:56.760 my perspective, the biggest legacy issue is the work to 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:00.160 make America healthy again. And I think a lot of 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:01.760 people would be like, well, wait a minute, that's more 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.400 Bobby I said, no, no, no. The only way we 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.680 make America healthy again is by putting real food, which 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:12.000 comes from real farmers, back at the center of every conversation, 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:16.120 of every policy decision. USDA spends four hundred million dollars 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:19.160 every day. Just let that soak in every day on 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:23.160 just sixteen nutrition programs, school lunches, the Snap program, the 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.680 Whig Program, etc. Imagine the market moving power just in 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:29.280 that alone, right, the dietary guidelines. Yes, we want people 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:31.720 eating real food. We want to open the aperture for 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.280 young farmers to get in and grow lettuce and sell 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.360 to the local school. 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But is 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:22.840 this issue and but I know you work with the 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:26.359 epas well, that's right, and Lee Zelden over there. So 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:29.600 this issue of glypha sate to the extent that it 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:33.840 overlaps with you, there's been the allegations are they vary, 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:38.199 but it's basically like the ADMIN has given, you know, 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:41.919 a legal blank check essentially the immunity or something or 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:45.639 working towards us for the Glypa sate and chemical manufacturers 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.440 at the expense of kind of what MAHA wants. And Kennedy, 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:53.120 Secretary Kennedy's come out against glypha sate. The farmers seem 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:56.000 to like it, right, So what is the truth? 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:57.720 What is fiction? Separate truth from fiction? 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:03.760 Here are we giving immunity to glaphytate manufacturers? How does 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:06.600 that impact your goals at MAHA? How does that impact 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:07.959 HHS goals at MAHA. 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:13.199 You know, I think Bobby has talked about this in 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:20.360 a way that is really focused on You can't pull 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:24.119 a crop protection tool like glypha sate and just go 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:27.240 on as normal. It is decades, whether right or wrong, 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:33.080 it is decades of use that has underscored, underwritten, and 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:37.640 provided America's farmers and ranchers to become the bread basket 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.480 for the world. So if you are to just pull 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:42.960 the rug tomorrow and say sorry, no more glaphy sate, 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:46.760 right or wrong again? You know, EPA has now for 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.880 decades approved it, said it's not harmful if used correctly. 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:52.200 The EU uses it. It's actually one of the few 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:55.879 things that the EU has approved. They disapprove almost everything 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.040 that is one that has been approved. Again for right 0:18:58.119 --> 0:18:59.879 or wrong. I think the questions are real. Who's funding 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:02.160 the studies? Have they been updated? I mean, those are 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.679 all really important questions, but the studies we have to 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:08.440 date would say that used correctly, it has not proven 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:11.440 to be detrimental if used correctly. Having said all of that, 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:14.479 the way Bobby has questioned it, I don't disagree with. 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:20.080 We have to have an off ramp and a forward 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:23.720 leaning plan that allows us to rely more heavily on 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:30.879 technology on AI potentially to use as pesticide. So you 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:34.360 can't believe the technology that's out there today. There are 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:38.000 drones that can do one fly over a say, a 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:41.520 five hundred acre field of corn, and can within half 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:44.240 a second send the information back to the farmer and 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.879 back to the tractor and say, oh, actually where a 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:51.399 crop protected or a pesticide may be necessary is in 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:56.159 this one corner on row fifty seven at cornstock six. 0:19:56.680 --> 0:20:00.159 And so instead of just blasting the whole field, you 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:02.840 can go in and really focus on where it's needed, 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:04.800 whether it's glaphysate, something organic or not. 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:06.280 That's how it's always been. 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:08.080 I believe, like even with a lot of the glypa 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:10.359 state harms, it's because people are using it at home 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:13.960 and they're really overdoing it. They're not professionals, they don't 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:16.280 know exactly how much they need and this seems like 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:17.400 an even more extreme cases. 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:21.640 Well listen, I mean, my instincts say, probably the world 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:24.239 we like, we'd probably have better overall health if we 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:25.240 weren't using glyphysate. 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:27.160 That's my general instinct here. 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:30.119 But I'm I also find the argument compelling that you 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:34.199 can't rug pool the entire agg industry overnight. I mean, 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:38.000 the shock would be dramatic and prices tried that. 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:42.280 Sri Lanka did a ban on glyphys and everything else overnight, 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:44.840 and food prices went up fifty percent in one year, I. 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:47.760 Mean, and the leaders of the country, literally the president 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:48.720 had to flee the country. 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:52.639 They fled the country. So that's very compelling argument. But 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:56.000 I love this idea of an off ramp and so 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:59.200 so it kind of brings up this larger issue of tech. 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:02.240 So one of my big pet peeves, and I mentioned 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:04.600 this too briefly in the green room before you came on, 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:08.520 is this whole I mean, I'm very aware that the 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:12.719 president is being hounded by big AG, big hospitality. We 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:15.679 need foreign workers, we need foreign workers, we need foreign workers. 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:18.200 And he's a businessman and he wants the business and 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:19.560 the economy to be rip roaring. 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:20.760 I get it. So it's attention. 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:25.520 I believe that there should be a more concerted effort 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:30.879 from the federal government to implement tech in robotics to 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:32.800 pick crops so that we don't have to have so 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:35.320 many seasonal workers, so we don't have to have illegal 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:38.680 immigrants coming over the border and transforming our country, which, 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:40.399 by the way, is not just a crop problem or 0:21:40.480 --> 0:21:43.520 as food price problem. It's a DMV problem, a school's problem, 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:46.479 a hospital problem, it's a traffic on the roads problem, 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:47.720 it's a housing problem. 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:49.440 So it's all connected. 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:52.320 So what can you tell me about how you guys 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:56.879 are focused at the USDA to address the robotics issue. 0:21:56.920 --> 0:21:59.640 Is there a moon shot that we can get where 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:02.440 we help with the capital expenditures to implement robotics or 0:22:02.480 --> 0:22:05.560 to train up farmers, local farmers, even big, big agg 0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:09.240 on how to implement this technology more successfully. 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:11.760 Yeah, there are a couple of different things. First of all, 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:15.679 the USDA is a massive bmuth of an agency. The 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:18.639 budget is astounding. A lot of it is food stamps 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:20.679 and the welfare programs, but a lot of it is 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:27.000 land grant research investments and into these sorts of opportunities. 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:30.760 But as in all things, the private sector. This is 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:33.119 where a lot of the guys in Silicon Valley have 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:37.399 now pivoted to is agriculture and the idea that we 0:22:37.520 --> 0:22:39.280 can do what you're talking about. We're already seeing it 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:41.919 in the dairy industry. If you were to go on MVP. 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:43.560 Dairy is one of my favorite. I think they have 0:22:44.280 --> 0:22:47.560 a lot five thousand, maybe mama cows on milk. Those 0:22:47.720 --> 0:22:50.400 cows they walk out to the pasture, they have their 0:22:50.400 --> 0:22:52.199 fun time. When they're ready to be milked, they kind 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:53.040 of know in their head. 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:56.440 Well they have physical pain, Yes, you do it, that's right. 0:22:56.600 --> 0:22:58.640 So they're motivated that they walk back in. 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:02.480 They literally walk into a stall, the technology hooks up. 0:23:02.520 --> 0:23:05.080 There's no worker, the technology hooks up. They get on 0:23:05.119 --> 0:23:07.600 a carousel. It's actually amazing. Y'all need to look this up. 0:23:07.880 --> 0:23:10.200 They zoom around on their carousel, they eat their alfalfa, 0:23:10.200 --> 0:23:12.680 they eat their food, then they finish. After one round, 0:23:12.960 --> 0:23:15.159 they back back off, they go back out to the pasture. 0:23:15.200 --> 0:23:19.280 It's completely self regulated. Thousands of dairy cattle. So the 0:23:19.359 --> 0:23:21.320 technology is incredible. 0:23:21.359 --> 0:23:23.960 The same thing I've seen robotics that go through these 0:23:24.000 --> 0:23:28.640 crop rows and they'll pick that's right. That's a quicker 0:23:29.240 --> 0:23:31.959 then you know some you know, no offense, but like 0:23:32.000 --> 0:23:34.359 some you know Guatemalan that came over the border illegally, 0:23:34.359 --> 0:23:37.480 they're actually going quicker, more efficiently, and you don't have 0:23:37.520 --> 0:23:42.280 all these knock on downstream social impacts, school impacts, DMV impacts. 0:23:42.560 --> 0:23:45.520 So but if I'm a farmer and I'm thinking, okay, 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:48.720 I get it. I'm maga through and through a voter 0:23:48.760 --> 0:23:52.600 Trump three times, and I want to be supportive of 0:23:52.600 --> 0:23:56.119 my culture. But I can't afford the local at least 0:23:56.160 --> 0:24:00.000 not not everybody for harvesteasonn' I can't afford all Americans 0:24:00.080 --> 0:24:02.080 or whatever break the bank. I need to get some 0:24:02.119 --> 0:24:05.400 of these seasonal workers. I really am drawn to robotics. 0:24:05.440 --> 0:24:07.000 I want to try this. Maybe I can save some 0:24:07.080 --> 0:24:11.040 money that I'm thinking the main barriers are capital expenditure, learning. 0:24:11.320 --> 0:24:13.720 Just you know, that's a farmer. You're up from sun 0:24:13.800 --> 0:24:14.560 up to sundown. 0:24:14.960 --> 0:24:16.840 You're in the average farmers fifty eight years old. 0:24:16.960 --> 0:24:19.080 Yeah, so how are you going to tea teach an 0:24:19.080 --> 0:24:20.040 old farmer new tricks? 0:24:20.080 --> 0:24:20.560 That's right? 0:24:20.640 --> 0:24:23.720 So, like, how do we bridge the knowledge gap, the 0:24:23.800 --> 0:24:25.879 capital expenditure gap, because a lot of these guys are 0:24:25.880 --> 0:24:28.159 barely hanging on right, And you know about this, I 0:24:28.200 --> 0:24:29.480 know it's near in due to your heart. We have 0:24:29.560 --> 0:24:33.320 so many farmers that are folding up in closing up shop, 0:24:33.880 --> 0:24:36.640 so that seems to be and I'm not talking. 0:24:36.480 --> 0:24:38.200 About Big AGG, although Big AGG should. 0:24:37.920 --> 0:24:39.720 Be the first one that is forced to adopt this 0:24:39.720 --> 0:24:42.720 stuff or at least incentivized strongly. So like, how do 0:24:42.760 --> 0:24:43.840 we bridge that gap? Yeah? 0:24:43.920 --> 0:24:48.080 There there is a really important opportunity to meet this 0:24:48.160 --> 0:24:53.159 moment in American history. Everything you have just described is 0:24:53.440 --> 0:24:57.119 a formula that allows us to really run at full 0:24:57.160 --> 0:25:02.320 speed toward real significant change. A USDA and an HHS 0:25:02.400 --> 0:25:05.680 and an FDA and a small business, you know, the 0:25:05.720 --> 0:25:08.080 small business Kelly Leftwarers now started investing a bunch of 0:25:08.080 --> 0:25:11.600 money in ag technology. Another conversation for another time. But 0:25:11.600 --> 0:25:14.960 we've offshored all of our fertilizer for the last thirty years, 0:25:15.000 --> 0:25:17.639 so we're relying on China and Russia for fertilizer now 0:25:17.680 --> 0:25:21.040 in the same well, that's exactly right. We're now about 0:25:21.040 --> 0:25:22.720 to break ground on what will be the largest ammonia 0:25:22.720 --> 0:25:24.840 plant in the world in Louisiana in about a month, 0:25:24.880 --> 0:25:28.800 so we're solving for that too. But the investment, first 0:25:28.840 --> 0:25:31.919 of all deregulating, which would allow our private sector. These 0:25:31.960 --> 0:25:34.679 Silicon Valley guys David Friedberg and others who are all 0:25:34.720 --> 0:25:37.320 in on agriculture and they see that as the next 0:25:37.400 --> 0:25:39.840 big frontier on how to fix that while at the 0:25:39.840 --> 0:25:42.159 same time making sure USDA instead of spending money on 0:25:42.240 --> 0:25:45.360 transgender men, you know the minstrel cycles, which you talked 0:25:45.359 --> 0:25:48.560 about at the top of our conversation, we're now spending 0:25:48.600 --> 0:25:51.680 money and investing on this sort of investment. It would 0:25:51.680 --> 0:25:54.720 be great if Congress wanted to lean in. And you know, 0:25:54.760 --> 0:25:56.959 we're shrinking government. I think our federal government is now 0:25:57.000 --> 0:25:57.959 the same size as it was. 0:25:58.000 --> 0:26:00.200 But this is really important to spend money. 0:26:00.280 --> 0:26:03.800 If the ROI means that we don't have the need 0:26:03.840 --> 0:26:06.200 for ten million illegals the next time a Democrat takes 0:26:06.240 --> 0:26:08.840 us exactly, Okay, like we got to cut off the 0:26:08.840 --> 0:26:11.400 incentive structure. Half of this is if the farms don't 0:26:11.400 --> 0:26:13.800 need the labor, they're gonna come over the border and yeah, 0:26:13.840 --> 0:26:16.240 they'll get restaurant work, they'll get hospitality work. 0:26:16.480 --> 0:26:18.440 Again, this is all assuming a Democrats. 0:26:17.960 --> 0:26:20.639 In office, but the farms won't need them, and that 0:26:20.640 --> 0:26:22.680 cuts off a huge, huge incentive. 0:26:22.359 --> 0:26:24.359 And we already said that happening with other jobs they 0:26:24.400 --> 0:26:27.159 would fill that. We brought in hundreds of thousands of 0:26:27.280 --> 0:26:30.000 truck drivers and now we're right clearly on the brink 0:26:30.000 --> 0:26:31.760 of having a ton of self driving vehicles. 0:26:31.880 --> 0:26:32.280 That's right. 0:26:32.359 --> 0:26:34.440 So we're going to create this permanent underclass that people 0:26:34.520 --> 0:26:36.679 can't get jobs for a job that doesn't exist anymore. 0:26:36.760 --> 0:26:38.639 Yeah, no, I agree with you one hundred percent. 0:26:38.640 --> 0:26:40.399 We'll go one snap and they'll go on snap. 0:26:40.440 --> 0:26:41.919 Yeah, and then we'll have to kick them off that too, 0:26:41.960 --> 0:26:44.800 when we find out the front. Okay, you mentioned China 0:26:44.960 --> 0:26:49.359 and Brazil as as let's just say, foes in the 0:26:49.400 --> 0:26:53.320 agriculture space or competitors. What are they doing that's so 0:26:53.359 --> 0:26:55.760 insidious and what are we doing to fight back? 0:26:56.240 --> 0:27:00.680 Well, we can start with farmland. China in nineteen eighty 0:27:00.680 --> 0:27:03.320 three owned about two thousand acres of our American farmland. 0:27:03.720 --> 0:27:06.880 Today they own almost two hundred thousand acres of our 0:27:06.920 --> 0:27:11.840 American farmland. They purchased Syngenta, which is basically there's no 0:27:11.960 --> 0:27:14.880 other purveyor of seeds and some of the other crop 0:27:14.880 --> 0:27:18.640 protected in the world. How did this happen to Smithfield? 0:27:18.920 --> 0:27:23.520 They purchased, which was the largest pork company in America, 0:27:23.560 --> 0:27:26.480 in the world, but in America that basically controls about 0:27:26.480 --> 0:27:29.600 a fifth of our pork in America now owned by 0:27:29.720 --> 0:27:32.879 the Chinese. Brazil with our meat processing, we have a 0:27:32.880 --> 0:27:35.479 beef price issue today in America, but part of that 0:27:35.640 --> 0:27:38.680 is because only four companies control about eighty five percent 0:27:38.720 --> 0:27:40.959 of the processing of our beef. Two of those are 0:27:40.960 --> 0:27:44.160 Brazilian owned. One of those is JBS, and I will 0:27:44.200 --> 0:27:46.720 call them out. I continue to do so. They are 0:27:46.840 --> 0:27:50.399 a company that has faced nineteen hundred indictments in Brazil 0:27:50.480 --> 0:27:56.040 for corruption. They are basically have child slave labor accusations. 0:27:56.600 --> 0:28:00.720 It's a couple of billionaires and it is a massive issue, 0:28:00.760 --> 0:28:02.840 and they keep taking our market share. I know I 0:28:02.880 --> 0:28:07.280 mentioned Brazil's taking soybean, corn, now cotton and beef. These 0:28:07.320 --> 0:28:09.439 are really really big national sup. 0:28:09.280 --> 0:28:12.159 Pressure from President Trump to on the taraf front on 0:28:12.280 --> 0:28:14.400 beef so that we lower beef prices. 0:28:15.119 --> 0:28:16.119 What's your position on that. 0:28:16.160 --> 0:28:18.200 I mean, I understand you've got you've got a boss, 0:28:18.240 --> 0:28:20.719 but I mean that is a tension though, right, I mean, 0:28:20.840 --> 0:28:23.520 the ranchers are probably hearing that going it is. 0:28:24.080 --> 0:28:25.000 It's a it is. 0:28:25.600 --> 0:28:31.280 The President is very focused on affordability and Obviously, we're 0:28:31.320 --> 0:28:34.200 all understand that's probably the top issue for the midterms. 0:28:34.520 --> 0:28:37.320 All other food prices have come down, Beef has not. 0:28:37.400 --> 0:28:40.800 Because we're at a cattle herd low of seventy five years, 0:28:41.040 --> 0:28:44.440 primarily because the left waged war on ranchers and cattlemen 0:28:44.720 --> 0:28:47.760 say it caused climate change. Climate change took away grazing, 0:28:47.760 --> 0:28:49.840 a lotments, et cetera. Exactly, there are a lot there 0:28:49.840 --> 0:28:51.600 are other reasons to drow on some other things, but 0:28:51.840 --> 0:28:52.880 it's a worldwide This. 0:28:52.960 --> 0:28:53.640 Is for ta Rico. 0:28:53.720 --> 0:28:56.400 He's like, we have a moral obligation to get rid 0:28:56.440 --> 0:28:56.720 of meat. 0:28:56.720 --> 0:28:57.840 We're gonna do the vegan thing. 0:28:58.000 --> 0:29:00.640 Well, literally crazy, I mean, it be kind of true 0:29:00.640 --> 0:29:03.240 that this will probably just solve itself eventually. 0:29:03.320 --> 0:29:04.440 A lot of us is just you gotta wait for 0:29:04.440 --> 0:29:05.160 the cows to be born. 0:29:05.240 --> 0:29:06.680 You have to wait for the cows to be born. 0:29:06.760 --> 0:29:10.320 And then also, not surprisingly, you have to ensure you're 0:29:10.520 --> 0:29:14.160 protecting and upholding what the ranchers need to do. 0:29:14.320 --> 0:29:14.680 Just that. 0:29:14.960 --> 0:29:17.560 So, on the one hand, you've got the beef price issue, 0:29:17.600 --> 0:29:20.880 and we're importing beef already, but how do you bring 0:29:20.920 --> 0:29:22.760 that price down? And how much? I mean, it's six 0:29:22.920 --> 0:29:25.360 fifty six seventy a pounds of beef, trying to get 0:29:25.360 --> 0:29:27.480 that back down to normal prices, which is five fifty 0:29:27.520 --> 0:29:29.320 five dollars. The good news is on like fuel, there 0:29:29.360 --> 0:29:31.960 are other sources of protein, so it's not like families 0:29:31.960 --> 0:29:33.160 are starving because. 0:29:32.920 --> 0:29:34.040 They can't afford six to fifty. 0:29:34.240 --> 0:29:36.160 You could relieve some pressure in the short term, but 0:29:36.200 --> 0:29:38.160 in long term, we got to keep our eyes on 0:29:38.200 --> 0:29:39.560 our own range and we have to incident. 0:29:39.560 --> 0:29:42.840 It's a national security issue, it really is. So that's 0:29:42.880 --> 0:29:45.680 what we're really working to do. The flip side, and 0:29:45.720 --> 0:29:47.520 this is good news for the long term. Tough for 0:29:47.560 --> 0:29:50.480 the short term is with make America healthy again. Everyone's 0:29:50.520 --> 0:29:53.160 eating more beef and they want They're willing to pay 0:29:53.160 --> 0:29:54.600 for it. So it's a supplying demand. 0:29:54.680 --> 0:29:57.600 I want, baby, that's right, I want. You know, I'm 0:29:57.600 --> 0:29:59.520 a red blooded American mail I had a lot of beef. 0:30:00.480 --> 0:30:02.440 I need beef. Some of my kids just love being 0:30:02.600 --> 0:30:03.120 Oh yeah no. 0:30:03.240 --> 0:30:05.480 And everyone's eating more beef, and so that's. 0:30:05.320 --> 0:30:07.960 Been a dot com. 0:30:08.280 --> 0:30:11.080 Are they supporters? I love those guys. 0:30:10.840 --> 0:30:12.000 That bends amazing. 0:30:12.080 --> 0:30:15.080 Yeah, product of the USA. For the first time, we 0:30:15.240 --> 0:30:17.880 two months ago said you can no longer you can 0:30:17.920 --> 0:30:20.160 sell in America. But you can't say you're a product 0:30:20.160 --> 0:30:22.920 of the USA unless you're born, sold good. I was 0:30:22.920 --> 0:30:26.200 gonna ask harvested, processed here, whereas others if it was 0:30:26.240 --> 0:30:28.640 one of the five, they could stick on a USA. 0:30:28.800 --> 0:30:31.920 So we're incentivizing our ranchers to build their herds. 0:30:32.400 --> 0:30:35.760 You're getting you're going after fraud, you're encouraging maha. We're 0:30:35.760 --> 0:30:38.720 getting rid of synthetics, we're promoting cotton. Well, we're not 0:30:38.720 --> 0:30:42.000 getting rid of synthetics. We're create a marketplace where cotton wins. 0:30:42.160 --> 0:30:43.040 Yes, and we. 0:30:43.000 --> 0:30:45.920 Should review some of the synthetics because yes, and then 0:30:46.120 --> 0:30:50.440 we're also protecting our home, our home home perf right 0:30:50.840 --> 0:30:52.600 with the ranchers and the farmers here. 0:30:52.920 --> 0:30:54.800 But it seems like you're checking all the boxes. 0:30:54.840 --> 0:30:56.760 Can we do one more that I think your audience 0:30:56.800 --> 0:30:57.160 will love? 0:30:57.240 --> 0:30:58.160 Absolutely so? 0:30:58.320 --> 0:31:01.800 The law fair piece of this is real. Obviously, the 0:31:01.800 --> 0:31:05.160 weaponization of government, we've all seen it, Charlotte, you guys, 0:31:05.400 --> 0:31:08.160 I the President certainly more than anyone. But what a 0:31:08.160 --> 0:31:10.800 lot of people don't know is that our farmers and ranchers, 0:31:10.840 --> 0:31:14.360 with the Democrats at every level federal, state, local, have 0:31:14.480 --> 0:31:17.920 been under assault, whether it's using emminent domain to take 0:31:17.960 --> 0:31:19.800 There was one hundred and seventy five year old farm 0:31:19.880 --> 0:31:23.640 in New Jersey, sixth generation Andy Henry. The city of 0:31:23.720 --> 0:31:25.600 I think it was Cranberry, New Jersey, tried to take 0:31:25.640 --> 0:31:27.560 their land, take it after trying to buy it and 0:31:27.600 --> 0:31:29.800 they said no, to try to take their land to 0:31:29.840 --> 0:31:32.760 build affordable housing. This is one hundred and seventy five 0:31:32.840 --> 0:31:35.760 year old farm before the Civil War. In Arizona. 0:31:35.920 --> 0:31:38.240 I just two nights about that housing because we imported 0:31:38.360 --> 0:31:39.520 seventy five million. 0:31:39.320 --> 0:31:41.880 People under the country since ninety Get this. 0:31:42.160 --> 0:31:44.680 There is a ranch I just posted about a couple 0:31:44.720 --> 0:31:47.400 of days ago, the Casey Murphy Ranch. And here in 0:31:47.440 --> 0:31:51.440 Arizona where the State of Arizona is trying to take 0:31:51.720 --> 0:31:54.920 to put solar panels on, not try to buy, not 0:31:55.040 --> 0:31:57.400 try to say can we work with you, but to 0:31:57.520 --> 0:32:04.800 take his ranch, his six ranch to put solar panels on. Yes, yes, 0:32:05.120 --> 0:32:06.360 it is one thing that's happening. 0:32:06.520 --> 0:32:08.920 It's such a sturge. It doesn't even look nice. Oh, 0:32:08.920 --> 0:32:09.360 it's awful. 0:32:09.880 --> 0:32:10.920 They're China, a. 0:32:10.920 --> 0:32:14.280 Big, beautiful farm, beautiful ranch. Yes, and then you replace 0:32:14.320 --> 0:32:16.200 it with a frigging soul and it's intermittent. 0:32:16.280 --> 0:32:19.080 It doesn't even work. You can't power a country on 0:32:19.200 --> 0:32:22.920 solar or wind like. It is really massively problematic for 0:32:22.920 --> 0:32:25.560 so many reasons. But the law fair against our farmers 0:32:25.560 --> 0:32:26.320 and ranchers is real. 0:32:26.360 --> 0:32:31.280 So many farm an annual basis. Well, is it slowed yet. 0:32:31.160 --> 0:32:34.760 It's it's beginning to slow. We've been losing tens of 0:32:34.800 --> 0:32:37.840 thousands on a yearly basis, but we are working. That's 0:32:37.880 --> 0:32:41.160 the other good thing about MAHA is that it incentivizes 0:32:41.240 --> 0:32:45.400 first generation or second generation have fifty herd of cattle, 0:32:46.120 --> 0:32:49.040 slaughter them, support and sell just to the local school 0:32:49.320 --> 0:32:51.400 or just to the local hospital. We've got a whole 0:32:51.440 --> 0:32:54.160 young farmer project that allows them to do that. Had 0:32:54.200 --> 0:32:57.160 two brothers in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the desert who 0:32:57.240 --> 0:32:59.800 got together wanted to become farmers. Dad's a doctor, mom's 0:32:59.800 --> 0:33:02.440 a professor. They now grow after ten years, two hundred 0:33:02.480 --> 0:33:06.040 fifty thousand leads of organic lettuce on three acres in 0:33:06.080 --> 0:33:10.440 the desert. They employ six people, legal workers, and they 0:33:10.480 --> 0:33:13.080 have made a life on three acres two hundred and 0:33:13.080 --> 0:33:15.440 fifty thousand head of lettuce. It is the most righteous 0:33:15.480 --> 0:33:15.800 heiding it. 0:33:15.920 --> 0:33:17.560 How do people plug into this stuff? They want to 0:33:17.560 --> 0:33:19.280 see how you could help them. Where do they go. 0:33:19.320 --> 0:33:23.480 They go to USDA dot gov. There are so many programs. 0:33:23.120 --> 0:33:26.080 It's a little bit, you know, challenging from a conservative 0:33:26.080 --> 0:33:28.920 free market perspective, but these programs are so. 0:33:28.840 --> 0:33:30.640 Important to good righteously now. 0:33:30.720 --> 0:33:32.920 And I exactly imagine what it must have been like 0:33:33.000 --> 0:33:35.400 day one where you open the hood at USDA and 0:33:35.520 --> 0:33:39.120 saw the woke and the corruption and the fraud and 0:33:39.400 --> 0:33:39.800 the waste. 0:33:39.960 --> 0:33:41.080 It must have been just shocked. 0:33:41.120 --> 0:33:44.040 On day one we canceled nine hundred, not nine, not 0:33:44.120 --> 0:33:48.760 ninety nine hundred DEI trainings just at USDA. Nine hundred 0:33:48.960 --> 0:33:50.000 were we. 0:33:49.920 --> 0:33:53.760 Were so things were way worse than I think people realize, and. 0:33:53.680 --> 0:33:55.479 We all knew it was bad. And I've been at 0:33:55.480 --> 0:33:59.240 this a really long time. No idea how truly corrupt 0:33:59.320 --> 0:34:01.800 and horrible it is. I know we started the conversation 0:34:01.840 --> 0:34:04.320 on snap. What we found in just the Red States 0:34:04.520 --> 0:34:07.880 is enough to make anyone weep. What we will find 0:34:07.880 --> 0:34:10.200 in the Blue states when we finally get our hands 0:34:10.280 --> 0:34:11.040 on that data. 0:34:11.120 --> 0:34:11.960 How are we going to get it? 0:34:12.040 --> 0:34:14.880 Well, we're in litigation right now. The next step is 0:34:14.880 --> 0:34:17.840 to cut the funding and then we have a real conversation. 0:34:17.920 --> 0:34:20.319 Good, So I think we should go hard. 0:34:20.840 --> 0:34:23.319 I agree, and the President really agrees with that too, 0:34:23.360 --> 0:34:24.360 which is the good news. 0:34:24.600 --> 0:34:27.640 Well, Brooke, I know you got to run. It's been 0:34:27.760 --> 0:34:31.560 wonderful having this conversation. People do not fully appreciate all 0:34:31.600 --> 0:34:34.240 that goes on in our government and especially at USDA, 0:34:34.400 --> 0:34:36.399 So thank you for a little peak behind the curtain here. 0:34:37.040 --> 0:34:37.680 Really fascinating. 0:34:37.680 --> 0:34:40.200 I feel like we have and are honoring our friend 0:34:40.280 --> 0:34:43.120 Charlie's legacy. 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First question 0:37:14.600 --> 0:37:17.480 is are you hopeful this can actually get done? And 0:37:18.000 --> 0:37:19.960 if it can, what are the implications. 0:37:20.280 --> 0:37:22.320 I'm hopeful in the sense that I hope it happens. 0:37:22.360 --> 0:37:24.480 I'm skeptical in the sense that it's hard for me 0:37:24.560 --> 0:37:27.640 to see the deal that the President's just outlined on 0:37:27.719 --> 0:37:31.200 truth social being agreed to by the Iranians. I've thought 0:37:31.200 --> 0:37:34.879 for a while that the words coming out of their 0:37:34.920 --> 0:37:37.239 mouth and a piece of paper saying they're giving up 0:37:37.239 --> 0:37:39.279 their nuclear program would be a bridge too far for 0:37:39.360 --> 0:37:42.799 them under the current circumstances where they don't seem cow 0:37:42.960 --> 0:37:45.160 and I would caution people that if the President does 0:37:45.200 --> 0:37:47.120 say I met with my team or signing the deal, 0:37:47.600 --> 0:37:50.280 even if Aron says they're signing the deal too. Although 0:37:50.280 --> 0:37:52.160 it would be a big step for them to acknowledge 0:37:52.719 --> 0:37:55.160 a commitment to get rid of the nuclear program, it's 0:37:55.200 --> 0:37:58.000 going to be hard to get that done, particularly when 0:37:58.400 --> 0:38:00.560 one of the first items in the deal is opening 0:38:00.640 --> 0:38:03.080 up the Straight which is great for the American economy 0:38:03.080 --> 0:38:06.720 and the American driver, but also takes that economic pressure 0:38:06.719 --> 0:38:09.840 off of Ron. So I'm skeptical that the deal actually 0:38:09.880 --> 0:38:12.320 will be agreed to by both sides. But that happens, 0:38:12.640 --> 0:38:14.640 we're all gonna have to watch to see whether Iran 0:38:14.760 --> 0:38:18.719 will continue to negotiate the terms of the specifics on 0:38:18.840 --> 0:38:21.960 nuclear and good faith, and history suggests we should all 0:38:21.960 --> 0:38:22.920 be skeptical about that. 0:38:23.600 --> 0:38:23.799 Yeah. 0:38:23.920 --> 0:38:25.480 I mean, I think that's a really good point of 0:38:25.480 --> 0:38:28.240 caution here, Mark, because it is a step by step process. 0:38:28.280 --> 0:38:30.560 It's sort of like, hey, we're going to take one 0:38:30.600 --> 0:38:33.040 step of good faith forward. If you meet us there, 0:38:33.520 --> 0:38:35.880 we're going to take another one, and another one and 0:38:35.920 --> 0:38:39.240 another one. But if you don't, then the stick is waiting. 0:38:39.480 --> 0:38:39.719 Right. 0:38:39.800 --> 0:38:43.160 We can we can blockade the straight again. We could 0:38:43.160 --> 0:38:46.560 even use kinetic military force again. We can roll this 0:38:46.600 --> 0:38:48.880 all the way back to the start of the process. 0:38:48.960 --> 0:38:52.400 So I do agree with you. That being said, I 0:38:52.560 --> 0:38:55.720 have been told, sources have told me that what's changed 0:38:55.760 --> 0:38:59.960 about this is that the moderates seem ascendant. The hardliners 0:39:00.080 --> 0:39:03.520 seem like they're getting more and more isolated. That could change. 0:39:03.560 --> 0:39:05.440 It's not that the hardliners are gone. And the other 0:39:05.480 --> 0:39:07.640 thing is that they actually are willing for the first 0:39:07.680 --> 0:39:11.880 time talking about concessions on nuclear talking about okay, okay, 0:39:11.920 --> 0:39:14.400 we'll stop, we won't pursue this, and we'll create a 0:39:14.440 --> 0:39:16.319 plan for you guys to actually get the dust right. 0:39:16.360 --> 0:39:18.040 Well, but we've I feel like we've been around the 0:39:18.040 --> 0:39:20.440 block on this a few times where it's it's the 0:39:20.480 --> 0:39:23.760 moderate rebels the moderate extremists. We've seen that in Syria, 0:39:23.880 --> 0:39:26.239 we've seen that in Libya. Certainly, Mark, I think you've 0:39:26.239 --> 0:39:28.400 probably you've probably been around the block on hopes in 0:39:28.440 --> 0:39:31.480 the in the Middle East a few times, and you 0:39:31.560 --> 0:39:33.640 might have some experience on how that tends to pan 0:39:33.719 --> 0:39:34.440 out well. 0:39:34.600 --> 0:39:37.440 Historically in Middle East generally is you suggest like and 0:39:37.600 --> 0:39:41.160 specifically Iran. It hasn't worked that great, but I think 0:39:41.200 --> 0:39:43.120 one of the encouraging things in the way the President 0:39:43.200 --> 0:39:45.680 has framed the deal, and we'll see in the actual 0:39:45.719 --> 0:39:48.720 document if that's the case. If Iran is not getting 0:39:48.840 --> 0:39:52.600 financial concessions up front, they're not getting any sort of 0:39:52.719 --> 0:39:56.719 unfreezing of assets, they're not getting sanctions taken off, they're 0:39:56.719 --> 0:39:59.680 simply being allowed to trade oil, which probably would involve 0:39:59.680 --> 0:40:02.560 some st ancients being taken off, but specifically for that purpose, 0:40:03.280 --> 0:40:06.280 then I think the pressure can remain on them. And 0:40:06.760 --> 0:40:09.120 the present and some of his advisors have dreamed from 0:40:09.120 --> 0:40:11.719 the beginning that the way to solve this is to 0:40:11.719 --> 0:40:13.760 get Iran and into the community of Nations to cross 0:40:13.760 --> 0:40:16.400 with For a time they were calling the Golden Bridge. 0:40:16.800 --> 0:40:19.919 So you're right to be skeptical about the Middle East. 0:40:20.120 --> 0:40:22.560 We're all right to be skeptical about Iran. But this 0:40:22.640 --> 0:40:26.480 is the present who struck the deal between Israel and Daza. 0:40:27.160 --> 0:40:29.960 That deal has been stalled out, but between that and 0:40:29.960 --> 0:40:32.719 the Abraham Accords, he's been made more forward progress in 0:40:32.760 --> 0:40:35.279 the region than any of his recent predecessors, and so 0:40:35.719 --> 0:40:38.640 maybe this will be a deal that the Iranians can 0:40:38.680 --> 0:40:41.719 be coaxed into and maybe if the so called moderates 0:40:41.719 --> 0:40:44.800 are ascended, there can be the kind of economic connection 0:40:44.880 --> 0:40:47.040 that really is the key for a lot of folks 0:40:47.040 --> 0:40:50.120 to say, you can ever deal with Iran and good 0:40:50.120 --> 0:40:54.040 faith as long as the religious extremists are in charge. 0:40:54.440 --> 0:40:57.160 But maybe this can change things if their economy is 0:40:57.200 --> 0:40:59.680 offered kind of a tie up with the US. 0:41:00.200 --> 0:41:03.080 Well, let's talk incentives here, then, Mark, because a lot 0:41:03.120 --> 0:41:05.200 of times deals get done when the incentives align. 0:41:05.280 --> 0:41:07.000 All right, So Iron's. 0:41:06.600 --> 0:41:08.560 Got these wells that if they have to shut them 0:41:08.600 --> 0:41:10.840 off because they run out of storage, you might not 0:41:10.880 --> 0:41:12.840 ever be able to turn them back on, right, Okay, 0:41:12.880 --> 0:41:15.840 that's a huge incentive. Even if you're a hardliner, and 0:41:15.960 --> 0:41:18.600 even if you sort of don't care about your own people, 0:41:18.960 --> 0:41:21.560 that is something to consider. It's a huge pressure point. 0:41:21.760 --> 0:41:24.919 So they're incentivized to at least open the straight back up. 0:41:25.080 --> 0:41:27.120 Whether or not they'll actually play ball in the nuclear 0:41:27.239 --> 0:41:29.200 we don't know, all right. And that's the one thing 0:41:29.200 --> 0:41:31.399 I'm a little bit skeptical with this deal, is like, Okay, 0:41:31.400 --> 0:41:33.080 why don't you let us have the nuclear then we'll 0:41:33.080 --> 0:41:37.400 open the straight I kind of want the points reverse. Secondly, though, 0:41:37.640 --> 0:41:40.120 politically here at home, we have to be realists about 0:41:40.120 --> 0:41:44.040 the political incentives. If we get gas under three dollars 0:41:44.080 --> 0:41:47.040 on average across the country again heading into November, that's 0:41:47.080 --> 0:41:50.879 a huge boon to the president and to the economy. 0:41:50.920 --> 0:41:53.399 Those things seem to be in alignment. Do you think 0:41:53.440 --> 0:41:56.759 that's enough to push this to the president's signing it? 0:41:56.800 --> 0:41:58.560 You know what I mean, It's like he's got to 0:41:58.560 --> 0:42:00.400 be a realist about this. Are you here hearing that 0:42:00.480 --> 0:42:02.560 he's as concerned about that as maybe I am? 0:42:02.719 --> 0:42:03.440 Or you might be. 0:42:03.840 --> 0:42:07.200 No, I mean, the order of operations is exactly what 0:42:07.280 --> 0:42:09.919 you said, but not only for the reasons you said, 0:42:09.920 --> 0:42:12.759 which is getting the nuclear done some people think will 0:42:12.800 --> 0:42:16.880 take many months and some people think will take years. Okay, 0:42:16.880 --> 0:42:19.239 that's a much different timetable than the President needs to 0:42:19.239 --> 0:42:23.000 be on both politically and economically for reopening the Straight. 0:42:23.400 --> 0:42:26.960 So this is why you're going to hear skepticism, including 0:42:26.960 --> 0:42:29.560 from some neocons and from some independent analysts, which is 0:42:29.600 --> 0:42:32.839 to say, opening the Straight has benefits for both sides. 0:42:32.880 --> 0:42:35.680 There's been a paradox that I think held up a deal. 0:42:35.880 --> 0:42:38.719 Both sides want the Straight open long term, but short term. 0:42:38.800 --> 0:42:42.000 Opening the straight is a disadvantage for both sides. Iran 0:42:42.080 --> 0:42:45.000 gives up its leverage over the present regarding gas prices 0:42:45.000 --> 0:42:47.839 in the midterms, and the President gives up leverage over 0:42:47.920 --> 0:42:50.920 Iran for what you said, which is now they're the 0:42:50.960 --> 0:42:52.560 pressure on them if to not have to shut down 0:42:52.560 --> 0:42:56.080 their oil facilities and do permanent damage goes away. So 0:42:56.920 --> 0:42:59.200 this is a sign of trust, a sign of good faith. 0:42:59.239 --> 0:43:01.799 Of course, even if they agree to it, one one 0:43:02.440 --> 0:43:05.000 drone or one attack on one ship can make a 0:43:05.000 --> 0:43:07.320 big difference. There's lots of questions in the oil industry 0:43:07.480 --> 0:43:10.120 and the shipping industry about even if they agree today, 0:43:10.600 --> 0:43:14.360 how soon insurers and captains can get moving again to 0:43:14.440 --> 0:43:17.480 move ships through and how soon that will impact prices. 0:43:17.960 --> 0:43:21.200 But the nuclear piece is just very complicated. And that's 0:43:21.239 --> 0:43:25.000 assuming that Iran is operating in some level of good faith, 0:43:25.120 --> 0:43:28.280 which the Vice President said last night. They are operating 0:43:28.320 --> 0:43:30.759 currently in good faith. I'd be great if they do. 0:43:31.440 --> 0:43:33.160 But even if they want to get this done, it's 0:43:33.160 --> 0:43:37.000 going to be a complicated process. And that again assumes 0:43:37.000 --> 0:43:40.760 that the hardliners don't reassert their power over the process. 0:43:41.520 --> 0:43:44.400 Yeah, and I think it's again all this caution is 0:43:44.440 --> 0:43:47.200 super warranted. I'm not trying to be glass at full 0:43:47.280 --> 0:43:51.279 rose colored glasses. I'm simply saying politically, getting this deal 0:43:51.360 --> 0:43:53.640 done makes all the sense in the world if it 0:43:53.719 --> 0:43:57.080 can be done right. In the caution, Yeah, in the 0:43:57.120 --> 0:44:00.680 caution that you're mentioning, Mark here about you know, we're 0:44:00.719 --> 0:44:04.880 not sure if the chain of command is being followed, 0:44:05.160 --> 0:44:07.840 you know, strictly in an essentialized way in Iran. You 0:44:07.880 --> 0:44:11.160 could have factions that are controlling different parts of the 0:44:11.200 --> 0:44:15.680 IRGC or the Revolutionary Guard, right, and they could spring 0:44:15.719 --> 0:44:18.160 an attack on one of these vessels completely outside of 0:44:18.160 --> 0:44:20.200 the chain of the command that has been established in 0:44:20.239 --> 0:44:21.840 this framework, and then what do you do. 0:44:22.120 --> 0:44:23.680 So there's lots of questions remaining. 0:44:24.000 --> 0:44:27.000 Yeah, yeah, Look, you're right about two things for sure 0:44:27.040 --> 0:44:27.719 that emphasized. 0:44:27.719 --> 0:44:28.239 One is. 0:44:30.120 --> 0:44:32.040 These ships aren't going to just go through. They're going 0:44:32.120 --> 0:44:35.359 to need to be safe. And just saying the blockades 0:44:35.360 --> 0:44:38.280 off and Iran is gonna let free passage go doesn't 0:44:38.520 --> 0:44:42.080 help the insurers get insurance in place, doesn't reassure the 0:44:42.120 --> 0:44:45.560 captains and crews, and doesn't keep a rogue element in 0:44:45.560 --> 0:44:48.480 Iran from striking. And we don't know what would happen 0:44:48.760 --> 0:44:51.640 in that instance. The other thing is, look, if the 0:44:51.680 --> 0:44:53.959 deal is anything like what the President said on Truth 0:44:54.040 --> 0:44:58.799 Social good for him because this is exceeds my expectations 0:44:58.800 --> 0:45:01.480 from a few hours ago about what the best possible 0:45:01.520 --> 0:45:03.480 deal would be for him and for the United States 0:45:03.719 --> 0:45:07.960 politically and geopolitically to get the process going. Because the 0:45:08.320 --> 0:45:11.200 status quo was untenable for the president, it was untenable 0:45:11.280 --> 0:45:14.960 politically and geopolitically diplomatically, He needed a change. And this 0:45:15.080 --> 0:45:18.880 is under the circumstances. Again, if the President's outline is correct, 0:45:19.200 --> 0:45:23.160 this exceeds what I thought was possible under the current circumstances. 0:45:23.320 --> 0:45:26.160 Well, and I think it could be legacy building certainly, 0:45:26.200 --> 0:45:32.200 but also this political the political ramifications are extremely huge. Blake, 0:45:32.239 --> 0:45:33.640 you have a question. I know we only got a 0:45:33.680 --> 0:45:35.000 minute a half left. We could take it on the 0:45:35.040 --> 0:45:36.200 other side of too well. 0:45:36.239 --> 0:45:39.960 I think another topic that's been taking up a lot 0:45:39.960 --> 0:45:42.160 of attention to Washington and online, but we haven't talked 0:45:42.160 --> 0:45:44.520 about it much on this show, and it's causing a 0:45:44.600 --> 0:45:47.759 rift between the President and Republicans in Congress, is this 0:45:48.040 --> 0:45:53.440 effort to get an anti weaponization fund going via the courts. Obviously, 0:45:53.480 --> 0:45:56.320 we know President Trump faced a lot of legal attacks. 0:45:56.320 --> 0:45:58.440 A lot of his allies faced a lot of legal attacks, 0:45:58.719 --> 0:46:02.000 and they've tried to engineer this. 0:46:03.000 --> 0:46:05.399 I think it's about one point seven one point eight 0:46:05.440 --> 0:46:08.319 billion dollar fund for people who say that they have 0:46:08.400 --> 0:46:12.480 been the target of weaponized law air from the DOJ 0:46:13.040 --> 0:46:14.960 in the past. The President is hoping to get this. 0:46:16.120 --> 0:46:20.919 Republicans are pretty skeptical. Obviously. Democrats are saying it's completely 0:46:20.960 --> 0:46:24.120 beyond the pale. As of this moment, a federal judge 0:46:24.160 --> 0:46:27.400 is holding it up. But I thought, maybe going on 0:46:27.440 --> 0:46:30.359 the other side, Mark, if you have thoughts on the 0:46:30.400 --> 0:46:33.239 overall situation of him attempting to get this, is it 0:46:33.280 --> 0:46:37.279 as unprecedented as it looks, and is it going to 0:46:37.320 --> 0:46:39.680 be the sort of thing that becomes a distraction over 0:46:39.719 --> 0:46:41.040 the course of this summer. 0:46:41.320 --> 0:46:43.880 Like if your excellent summary and narrative of the situation 0:46:43.960 --> 0:46:46.239 left that one key fact, which is it's not just 0:46:46.280 --> 0:46:49.480 Democrats who object to this. A lot of Republicans object 0:46:49.480 --> 0:46:52.400 to it too, including Republican senators who are now holding 0:46:52.520 --> 0:46:56.760 up the president's a desired reconciliation package to fund homeland 0:46:56.800 --> 0:46:59.400 security because they don't want any part of this. And 0:47:00.200 --> 0:47:03.719 sometimes in an election year with an unpopular president, and 0:47:03.760 --> 0:47:06.359 the president's pull numbers are currently not good. You see 0:47:06.400 --> 0:47:08.960 objections that are based on politics, and there's no doubt 0:47:09.000 --> 0:47:11.799 that Republican senators in the main think the politics of 0:47:11.800 --> 0:47:13.920 this are bad, but they also don't like the substance 0:47:13.960 --> 0:47:15.920 of it. For the reason you suggested this is not 0:47:16.080 --> 0:47:18.600 normal what was done here. It would take a while 0:47:18.640 --> 0:47:20.520 to explain all the reasons that are not normal. Have 0:47:20.640 --> 0:47:25.080 presidents controlled money before and doled it out to their cronies, Sure, 0:47:25.680 --> 0:47:28.960 but the nature of how this came about and the 0:47:29.080 --> 0:47:32.160 nature of what it is is politically toxic. Again, not 0:47:32.200 --> 0:47:33.839 in the view of democrats only, not in the view 0:47:33.880 --> 0:47:36.440 of reporters, but in the view of a lot of Republicans. 0:47:36.800 --> 0:47:40.240 And so whatever the disposition of it is in the courts, 0:47:40.239 --> 0:47:42.520 and as you said, a district court judges held it up, 0:47:42.719 --> 0:47:45.279 there'll certainly be appeals. I don't believe this thing will 0:47:45.280 --> 0:47:48.480 ever happen in anything like the form it's in. I 0:47:48.520 --> 0:47:51.520 believe Republican senators are going to make the President either 0:47:51.760 --> 0:47:53.520 significantly change it or kill it. 0:47:54.080 --> 0:47:55.520 Mark, I have to ask you about this. 0:47:56.280 --> 0:47:58.480 I'm sort of convinced there's not a whole lot of 0:47:58.480 --> 0:48:01.680 significance here, but I do find it interesting that Jill 0:48:01.719 --> 0:48:05.520 Biden is now trying to set the record straight on 0:48:06.000 --> 0:48:08.920 the infamous debate night. You know, she gets up on 0:48:09.000 --> 0:48:13.080 stage and said, you answered all the questions, Joe, which 0:48:13.200 --> 0:48:18.280 was probably untrue. But she's now admitting that she was worried. 0:48:18.280 --> 0:48:20.280 Did he have a stroke? Was he drugged? 0:48:20.960 --> 0:48:22.360 You know? Was he sabotaged? 0:48:22.400 --> 0:48:25.000 Which sounds equally implausible to me, to be honest, because 0:48:25.000 --> 0:48:26.239 she had to see him every single day. 0:48:26.520 --> 0:48:28.600 He was never like oh god, she says, are they 0:48:28.600 --> 0:48:31.120 going to think that he was always like this? Jill, 0:48:31.360 --> 0:48:33.840 We have news for you. He was always like this, 0:48:34.200 --> 0:48:35.840 and we saw it with our own two eyes. 0:48:36.360 --> 0:48:38.560 Your thoughts, Mark, I think the biggest thing that was 0:48:38.600 --> 0:48:42.000 revealed is the Bidens don't have c SPAN, because if 0:48:42.040 --> 0:48:44.799 they did, Jill Biden would have seen this. I find 0:48:44.800 --> 0:48:47.239 this whole thing really troubling. It's a fun story, and 0:48:47.280 --> 0:48:49.600 I know I predicted you guys would ask me about 0:48:49.600 --> 0:48:52.160 it because it's fun and it's interesting, But they're two 0:48:52.239 --> 0:48:56.160 fundamental things. Jill Biden's job is to protect her family, 0:48:56.200 --> 0:48:59.160 protect her husband, So her lying about this, I just 0:48:59.239 --> 0:49:04.359 I chalk it up to whatever. But it's troubling that 0:49:04.400 --> 0:49:06.560 she had an opportunity not to respond to the heat 0:49:06.600 --> 0:49:08.399 of the moment, but to write a book to think 0:49:08.400 --> 0:49:10.799 about what she wanted history to think her view of 0:49:10.840 --> 0:49:13.719 this was. And obviously she didn't think her husband was 0:49:13.719 --> 0:49:15.279 on drugs or having a stroke, or she would have 0:49:15.280 --> 0:49:17.920 done something differently on the night of the debate. So 0:49:18.320 --> 0:49:20.480 I find that all just kind of annoying. What I 0:49:20.480 --> 0:49:24.560 continue to be more troubled by is the dominant media's 0:49:24.600 --> 0:49:27.239 reaction to this is, oh, my goodness, look what Jill 0:49:27.280 --> 0:49:29.399 Biden is saying, and then say what doesn't make sense 0:49:29.440 --> 0:49:31.319 because right after the debate she said he did such 0:49:31.360 --> 0:49:34.239 a good job. No, the reaction should be, you know what, 0:49:34.320 --> 0:49:36.799 now's time for us to come clean on the role 0:49:36.840 --> 0:49:39.799 we played in the cover up, because anyone who looked 0:49:39.800 --> 0:49:43.399 at that night and was surprised, or as Jill Biden said, 0:49:43.520 --> 0:49:45.560 oh my god, he must be having a stroke. If 0:49:45.560 --> 0:49:47.719 that was the product of a stroke, then the guy 0:49:47.760 --> 0:49:50.799 had strokes on a regular basis for seven years and 0:49:50.840 --> 0:49:53.440 he's a medical miracle for having lived through it. So 0:49:53.480 --> 0:49:56.360 I mean, to me, that's just depressing to once again 0:49:56.400 --> 0:49:59.000 watch the media be like, oh, we're figuring it out now. 0:49:59.040 --> 0:50:01.640 We caught Jill Biden in a lie. She obviously didn't 0:50:01.640 --> 0:50:04.440 think he was having a stroke. No, it's an opportunity 0:50:04.480 --> 0:50:07.280 to say, once again, we failed you, the American people. 0:50:07.280 --> 0:50:09.640 We should have told you this sooner. But obviously Jill 0:50:09.680 --> 0:50:11.799 Biden's not telling the truth. And obviously we didn't tell 0:50:11.800 --> 0:50:14.520 you the truth because we act surprised on Debate Night two. 0:50:14.719 --> 0:50:17.040 And you're right, and we should come clean, not just 0:50:17.160 --> 0:50:21.239 for moral reasons, but we really went through something incredibly 0:50:21.280 --> 0:50:22.160 dicey with that. 0:50:22.200 --> 0:50:25.480 Which is, yeah, we don't who was actually the. 0:50:25.440 --> 0:50:30.080 President nine In twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four, President 0:50:30.160 --> 0:50:33.880 Trump has raised the question did President Biden's pardons Was 0:50:33.920 --> 0:50:37.319 he actually aware of that all of them at any point? 0:50:37.400 --> 0:50:40.880 Whereas policies were his executive orders? Were they actually routing 0:50:40.920 --> 0:50:44.920 through the president or through this small cabal of people 0:50:45.280 --> 0:50:49.400 who had access to him? And I think we actually 0:50:49.400 --> 0:50:51.080 do need to get to the bottom of that or 0:50:51.320 --> 0:50:54.200 it raises serious questions about the nature of our system. 0:50:54.239 --> 0:50:57.640 Even if you it's not just President Trump's jokes about 0:50:57.640 --> 0:51:01.640 having the auto signature machine in the Rose Garden, it 0:51:01.680 --> 0:51:04.120 really raises concerns about our system. 0:51:04.120 --> 0:51:08.760 Amen, And it raises questions about the people around the president, 0:51:08.880 --> 0:51:11.719 the cabinet, the senior white hot staff, his family. It 0:51:11.840 --> 0:51:14.520 raises questions about the president himself. And I'll say again 0:51:14.840 --> 0:51:17.640 what I said at the time. Joe Biden was not 0:51:17.719 --> 0:51:20.279 as far gone as his critics said, but he was 0:51:20.320 --> 0:51:23.520 not as with it as his defenders said. And people 0:51:23.560 --> 0:51:25.520 in that state have good days and bad days, and 0:51:25.560 --> 0:51:27.520 he had some good days. He had good days. So 0:51:27.640 --> 0:51:29.600 you look at the state of the Union. He gave 0:51:29.640 --> 0:51:32.840 that the year of the presidential race. He had good days. 0:51:33.120 --> 0:51:34.840 But it also I go back to the media. It 0:51:34.920 --> 0:51:38.920 raises questions about the media, about the American Medical Association, 0:51:39.000 --> 0:51:44.680 about members of Congress. All these members of Congress say, now, oh, privately, 0:51:44.719 --> 0:51:47.480 I saw how bad he was, or I had no idea. 0:51:47.840 --> 0:51:51.040 I'm sick of people being asked, did you have any idea? 0:51:51.200 --> 0:51:52.960 Of course they had an idea, because they all have 0:51:53.040 --> 0:51:57.520 c span so unlike the Bidens. And so it's troubling 0:51:57.560 --> 0:51:59.600 about the whole system, not just that we had a 0:51:59.600 --> 0:52:02.040 commander chief in place who obviously couldn't do the job 0:52:02.280 --> 0:52:06.520 and was inclined to run again, but about the entire 0:52:06.719 --> 0:52:10.800 society's failure to say, the emperor has no clothes. You 0:52:10.840 --> 0:52:12.680 know the Emperor has no clothes is a is a 0:52:12.680 --> 0:52:15.000 great parable and it's often used. I can't think of 0:52:15.040 --> 0:52:17.759 a more apt moment to use it. We all saw 0:52:17.840 --> 0:52:19.680 the president was naked. We all saw it. 0:52:20.320 --> 0:52:21.200 And yet, with. 0:52:21.320 --> 0:52:25.040 Few exceptions, conservative media being one of them, me being another, 0:52:25.800 --> 0:52:28.800 no one would say it. Even the congressman from a 0:52:29.040 --> 0:52:33.200 Minnesota whose name I always forget, who ran for president briefly, 0:52:34.160 --> 0:52:37.840 even he pulled his punches, he wasn't totally honest about 0:52:37.840 --> 0:52:41.399 what was happening. And then yet, you know, every other 0:52:41.440 --> 0:52:43.799 member of Congress, and then only because he was a 0:52:43.880 --> 0:52:46.600 threat to the party's chances in the in the election 0:52:46.760 --> 0:52:49.840 down ballot. Only then did Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer 0:52:49.840 --> 0:52:52.160 and others speak out. Not because they said, oh my god, 0:52:52.200 --> 0:52:55.799 we're yeah, oh my god, we're endangering the health and 0:52:55.840 --> 0:52:59.319 safety of America. No, we spoke They spoke out because, 0:52:59.320 --> 0:53:01.040 oh my god, we could lose to Donald Trump, and 0:53:01.280 --> 0:53:04.120 down ballot candidates could lose too. It's a it's just 0:53:04.160 --> 0:53:07.920 a horrible, horrible failure of accountability across the board. 0:53:08.280 --> 0:53:10.200 Well, and Mark, I will just tell you we had 0:53:10.280 --> 0:53:13.920 Brooke Rawlins in studio yesterday and we played the the 0:53:14.000 --> 0:53:17.840 interview earlier. When you hear their stories, not just what 0:53:17.880 --> 0:53:20.120 we shared on the show, because you know, they come 0:53:20.120 --> 0:53:22.000 in and we greet them and has it gone and 0:53:22.040 --> 0:53:24.719 they're telling us, like when we got under the hood here, 0:53:25.160 --> 0:53:28.319 the amount of fraud, mismanagement and comp it was like 0:53:28.400 --> 0:53:31.200 a bunch of kids running around with no you know, 0:53:31.280 --> 0:53:34.200 teacher around Like I'm telling you under the Biden And 0:53:34.440 --> 0:53:37.040 obviously some of that is filtered through a political lens. 0:53:37.040 --> 0:53:41.120 I'm biased, I admit it, but it's crazy how much 0:53:41.320 --> 0:53:43.799 fraud was going on, how much grift was going on. 0:53:44.280 --> 0:53:46.120 And listen, I get that that's always sort of baked 0:53:46.160 --> 0:53:48.839 into the cake politically, but it's shocking. And when you 0:53:48.880 --> 0:53:51.319 hear stories like this, and when you look back at 0:53:51.320 --> 0:53:54.080 the four years of Biden, you realize just how uh 0:53:54.520 --> 0:53:56.759 you know the country was not being run. Well, I 0:53:56.760 --> 0:53:58.680 think that's fair to say, Mark, I know you gotta 0:53:58.760 --> 0:54:00.600 I got you gotta art here. 0:54:00.760 --> 0:54:01.480 So I'll let you go. 0:54:01.560 --> 0:54:03.360 But thank you for making the time this morning, and 0:54:03.360 --> 0:54:04.800 we appreciate it as always, my friend. 0:54:04.800 --> 0:54:07.160 Thanks guys, great to see you both looking forward pleasing. 0:54:08.040 --> 0:54:10.960 All right, So a big busy hour where you've got 0:54:11.000 --> 0:54:16.520 our eyes on President Trump and this Iranian peace deal. Listen, 0:54:16.600 --> 0:54:18.120 whatever you make of it. If you want to see 0:54:18.160 --> 0:54:20.719 regime change, you want to see I get it. But 0:54:20.840 --> 0:54:23.239 this is a good deal if we can get it done. 0:54:23.760 --> 0:54:26.720 And so all eyes are on Iran, because all eyes 0:54:26.760 --> 0:54:29.200 will then be on the US where they should be. 0:54:29.360 --> 0:54:31.640 All right, if you want to be focused domestically, if 0:54:31.680 --> 0:54:33.480 you want to be focused on the mid terms, you 0:54:33.560 --> 0:54:36.879 want this deal done. Okay, So pray for peace, Pray 0:54:36.920 --> 0:54:40.040 for President Trump. Pray that the right people would rise 0:54:40.080 --> 0:54:43.000 to the occasion in Iran and they would come to 0:54:43.040 --> 0:54:45.640 the four and that the hardliners would be pushed out, 0:54:45.680 --> 0:54:48.319 the naysayers would be pushed out on both sides. By 0:54:48.360 --> 0:54:51.040 the way, on our side as well, we want peace, 0:54:51.400 --> 0:54:53.960 We want domestic tranquility. 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Good 0:56:33.800 --> 0:56:34.279 or for ill? 0:56:34.840 --> 0:56:35.000 Uh? 0:56:35.160 --> 0:56:38.040 This week we have Daisy with us, the one and 0:56:38.080 --> 0:56:41.600 only Daisy who takes care of us here. Yes, she 0:56:41.680 --> 0:56:44.680 did have a baby, and yes the baby is exceptionally cute. 0:56:44.880 --> 0:56:47.040 And I'm like a tough babies. 0:56:46.800 --> 0:56:49.919 Phase of baby that like maximal cute phase you talk about. 0:56:49.920 --> 0:56:51.880 It's a I'm a tough grader with babies. If I 0:56:51.880 --> 0:56:53.920 don't think your baby's cute, I probably just won't say anything. 0:56:54.160 --> 0:56:56.399 You know, Daisy's baby's pretty cute. 0:56:56.440 --> 0:56:59.600 Thank you. I appreciate it. Unfortunately, none of these people 0:56:59.600 --> 0:57:01.040 will ever he see what she looks like. But she 0:57:01.120 --> 0:57:01.840 is very cute. 0:57:01.840 --> 0:57:04.239 Wow, exactly. So we're gonna keep the susher reps. But 0:57:04.280 --> 0:57:08.320 that's all right. We are we got to ask us anything. 0:57:08.440 --> 0:57:10.280 So we have a first caller. Do we have it ready? 0:57:11.360 --> 0:57:12.360 Jonathan is first. 0:57:12.480 --> 0:57:15.880 Jonathan, Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. Please unmute yourself. 0:57:18.240 --> 0:57:20.720 Hey it goes well, it's Friday, you know what I mean? 0:57:21.760 --> 0:57:22.520 Yeah, so I. 0:57:22.480 --> 0:57:23.760 Have a few questions here. 0:57:24.400 --> 0:57:27.400 First, Uh, is there gonna be a Student Action Summit 0:57:27.440 --> 0:57:27.880 this year? 0:57:28.800 --> 0:57:28.880 No? 0:57:29.080 --> 0:57:29.680 Good question. 0:57:29.800 --> 0:57:33.320 We actually do Student Action Summit every other year, so 0:57:33.680 --> 0:57:36.280 that people don't know that, and I don't know it's 0:57:36.280 --> 0:57:38.919 come up before in private conversations, but it's an every 0:57:38.920 --> 0:57:41.160 other year thing. So this year just happens to be 0:57:41.160 --> 0:57:44.560 our off year. We're doing Women's Leadership Summit in what 0:57:44.720 --> 0:57:45.320 just next week? 0:57:45.400 --> 0:57:45.560 Right? 0:57:45.680 --> 0:57:47.520 Yes, San ANTONIOO. 0:57:47.680 --> 0:57:51.040 So that's the summer programming this year, but it will 0:57:51.080 --> 0:57:52.439 be back next year and never fear. 0:57:52.880 --> 0:57:53.400 Okay, good. 0:57:53.840 --> 0:57:55.920 Can you sell tickets for us to get lunch dinner 0:57:55.920 --> 0:57:58.320 with some of the speakers at the invest. 0:57:58.480 --> 0:58:00.160 Man that'll be interest. 0:58:02.440 --> 0:58:02.880 Some of them. 0:58:03.160 --> 0:58:06.240 Yeah, what's that, like a like a VIP thing or something. Yeah, 0:58:06.240 --> 0:58:11.880 maybe raffle or or some sort of say that again, like. 0:58:11.960 --> 0:58:14.440 Some extra ticket we can buy to get lunch dinner 0:58:14.440 --> 0:58:15.400 with some of the speakers. 0:58:15.680 --> 0:58:17.760 You know, I kind of love I kind of love 0:58:17.840 --> 0:58:21.080 this idea. Let let me kick it around. 0:58:21.560 --> 0:58:21.720 Uh. 0:58:21.840 --> 0:58:24.000 Some speakers obviously would be more willing to do such 0:58:24.040 --> 0:58:24.920 things than others. 0:58:25.320 --> 0:58:27.000 But that's a fun idea. I like that. 0:58:27.160 --> 0:58:29.120 We've done in the past, We've done a lot of 0:58:29.960 --> 0:58:33.240 like win roundtables with speakers where you have, but we 0:58:33.360 --> 0:58:35.600 like film conversations with them, right, and I think that 0:58:35.760 --> 0:58:37.080 I think that a lot of them would be willing 0:58:37.120 --> 0:58:37.240 to go. 0:58:37.400 --> 0:58:39.720 I was gonna saying we filmed it, Would you be 0:58:39.840 --> 0:58:43.240 less inclined to participate in something like that or more inclined? 0:58:44.120 --> 0:58:46.000 I really wanted to be that. 0:58:46.200 --> 0:58:47.600 Oh cool, See there you go. 0:58:47.680 --> 0:58:51.000 That's always interesting to kind of hear your take on it, uh, 0:58:51.240 --> 0:58:53.520 the audience's take on it, if that's something they'd want. 0:58:53.520 --> 0:58:55.720 Some people maybe want more privacy. I don't know, but 0:58:55.760 --> 0:58:56.760 I think that'd be really fun. 0:58:57.440 --> 0:58:59.520 Uh. Let me kick it around with the team and 0:58:59.560 --> 0:59:00.440 we'll see we can do. 0:59:00.560 --> 0:59:02.760 Who are you hoping to have a ampest this year? 0:59:02.760 --> 0:59:04.200 Who would you want? Who would you want to get 0:59:04.240 --> 0:59:06.000 lunch a dinner with U? 0:59:06.280 --> 0:59:10.080 Probably Tucker Carlson and uh officer. 0:59:09.840 --> 0:59:12.040 Katum, Officer Tatum. 0:59:12.200 --> 0:59:15.800 Oh wow, that's quite the spectrum you got there. Blake 0:59:15.920 --> 0:59:17.720 used to Blake knows Tucker very well. 0:59:17.760 --> 0:59:19.280 He's very personable at dinner. 0:59:19.320 --> 0:59:23.120 He's a very charming lad. Whatever you think I mean. 0:59:23.120 --> 0:59:24.920 I know Tucker's made a lot of news for some 0:59:24.960 --> 0:59:27.720 of his hies and interviews probably continue to make he 0:59:27.880 --> 0:59:31.640 is a remarkably charismatic and charming individual in person. 0:59:32.240 --> 0:59:34.760 I can tell you if you hear it throughout the 0:59:35.800 --> 0:59:37.280 wherever you are exactly. 0:59:37.480 --> 0:59:40.520 I probably it's I think it's like trademarked at this point. 0:59:41.560 --> 0:59:43.560 Do you have any other questions, Jonathan? 0:59:44.400 --> 0:59:46.960 Is there any other big rhinos we're looking to defeat. 0:59:46.680 --> 0:59:49.680 This year that rhinos we need to defeat? Well, the 0:59:49.680 --> 0:59:51.840 big one we really want to take out. You're thinking 0:59:51.880 --> 0:59:54.880 the same guy as me, the Lady Graham, Lindsey Graham 0:59:54.960 --> 0:59:57.760 of South Carolina. He's kind of the white whale of rhinos. 0:59:57.800 --> 0:59:59.160 He survives every reelection. 0:59:59.320 --> 0:59:59.560 Bid. 1:00:00.000 --> 1:00:01.240 I think we've tried to take him out two or 1:00:01.240 --> 1:00:04.080 three times at this point, but it's like a cockroach 1:00:04.120 --> 1:00:04.720 of Washington. 1:00:04.760 --> 1:00:06.200 He's very difficult to bring down. 1:00:06.480 --> 1:00:10.480 Yeah, I think listen, if Lady Graham went away, that 1:00:10.520 --> 1:00:12.520 would be great. I mean, and just a note of 1:00:12.960 --> 1:00:15.920 you know, optimism and positivity. Right, we have all these 1:00:16.120 --> 1:00:18.120 priorities that we want to get past that we can't 1:00:18.160 --> 1:00:20.400 because of this sixty vote threshold in the Senate. But 1:00:20.560 --> 1:00:23.120 if you think about it, and really you need about 1:00:23.120 --> 1:00:26.840 fifty plus one with JD to nuke the filibuster. But 1:00:26.840 --> 1:00:28.920 we can't get there because we don't have enough votes. 1:00:29.240 --> 1:00:32.200 But think about Tillis is going away, probably replaced by 1:00:32.200 --> 1:00:34.520 a Democrat, so that's not super helpful, but at least 1:00:34.520 --> 1:00:35.000 he's going away. 1:00:35.000 --> 1:00:35.959 He's a thorn in our side. 1:00:36.520 --> 1:00:40.200 You've got now, you've got Cassidy in Louisiana he lost 1:00:40.280 --> 1:00:43.640 his primary. Cornyn he lost his primary. So these are 1:00:43.720 --> 1:00:46.760 good developments and the Senate is getting better and better. 1:00:46.840 --> 1:00:47.000 Now. 1:00:47.080 --> 1:00:51.360 I want to keep your eyes on Mike Mike Rogers, No, no, 1:00:51.720 --> 1:00:54.600 Mike Collins. I was mixing two names together, and then 1:00:54.680 --> 1:00:58.080 Rogers and that's in Georgia and then Rogers in Michigan. 1:00:58.160 --> 1:01:01.440 Those are two races that I am watching very very closely. 1:01:01.600 --> 1:01:03.800 So we gotta get rid of us off now. The 1:01:03.800 --> 1:01:06.160 odds are not in our favor because it's tough to 1:01:06.200 --> 1:01:08.520 take down an incumbent. George is basically a fifty to 1:01:08.560 --> 1:01:10.600 fifty state right now. But that's a race that I 1:01:10.640 --> 1:01:13.360 would love to have Sam with Michigan. So we're keeping 1:01:13.360 --> 1:01:17.280 our eyes on those races. And you know what we've 1:01:17.320 --> 1:01:20.040 seen though. Another thing that we should mention is what 1:01:20.120 --> 1:01:22.760 happened in Indiana. You know that was that was a 1:01:22.840 --> 1:01:26.080 state level state senators that have gotten the way of redistricting, 1:01:26.360 --> 1:01:28.080 and we took out all the rhinos there. So it 1:01:28.120 --> 1:01:31.120 is it is prime rhino season, rhino hunting season, and 1:01:31.240 --> 1:01:33.320 we got to keep our eye on that. And it 1:01:33.480 --> 1:01:35.880 just I again to encourage the audience. We're getting better 1:01:35.880 --> 1:01:38.080 and better and better both at the House level and 1:01:38.520 --> 1:01:39.360 in the Senate level. 1:01:39.440 --> 1:01:42.320 So and we would be remiss to not talk about 1:01:42.360 --> 1:01:45.240 Tyler mentioned we really want people to travel here in October. 1:01:45.680 --> 1:01:47.120 Do we want to go into that a little more. 1:01:47.200 --> 1:01:50.120 Yeah, go to tpaction dot com. You can volunteer. We're 1:01:50.160 --> 1:01:52.840 actually hiring right now. I think we had a class 1:01:52.880 --> 1:01:55.920 of thirty two new ballot chasers here in the office 1:01:56.280 --> 1:02:00.280 yesterday training up to become ballot chasers here in Arizona. 1:02:00.400 --> 1:02:02.400 We're also doing bowot chasing in Nevada. I w'en doing 1:02:02.440 --> 1:02:04.360 bollot chasing in New Hampshire. So three states you can 1:02:04.400 --> 1:02:06.640 actually get full time work in. But if you can't 1:02:06.640 --> 1:02:09.160 do that and you want to volunteer some time, we're 1:02:09.160 --> 1:02:12.040 gonna be doing huge, huge groups of volunteers. We'll train 1:02:12.080 --> 1:02:13.640 you up, we'll put you in the field, we'll give 1:02:13.640 --> 1:02:15.840 you a hotel room, and you get to go be 1:02:15.880 --> 1:02:17.760 a ballot chaser for a couple of weeks a month 1:02:18.040 --> 1:02:20.800 during election month that we now unfortunately have. 1:02:21.120 --> 1:02:24.320 I actually remember a couple. I think it was in 1:02:24.480 --> 1:02:27.400 twenty twenty four. There was a couple who called in 1:02:27.960 --> 1:02:30.160 and they were members. They called on Ama and they 1:02:30.280 --> 1:02:32.520 were asking Charlie a question. But they told him about 1:02:32.680 --> 1:02:36.120 how they were coming to HQ to be ballot chasers 1:02:36.120 --> 1:02:38.520 from California, and Charlie was like, you have to come 1:02:38.560 --> 1:02:40.280 to the studio. Comes out. It was there. I think 1:02:40.280 --> 1:02:43.640 they're twenty year anniversary when they came, and so they 1:02:44.640 --> 1:02:46.360 they got to come not only be balllot chasers, but 1:02:46.400 --> 1:02:48.480 they also had an amazing Charlie gave them the tour 1:02:48.520 --> 1:02:49.120 of the studio. 1:02:49.240 --> 1:02:49.440 It was. 1:02:49.480 --> 1:02:50.560 They were so sweet. 1:02:50.800 --> 1:02:52.320 I actually had one of them. 1:02:52.680 --> 1:02:55.560 One of the ballot chasers came by yesterday that DM 1:02:55.640 --> 1:02:58.360 me and said, Hey, I'm gonna be training for bow chasing. 1:02:58.400 --> 1:02:59.200 Can I come? Say? 1:02:59.240 --> 1:02:59.360 Hi? 1:02:59.640 --> 1:03:02.160 Said of course, so you never know what happened. 1:03:02.200 --> 1:03:04.680 Yes, she was in the studio yesterday. Come be a 1:03:04.720 --> 1:03:07.400 ballot chaser in Arizona or New Hampshire or Nevada and 1:03:07.480 --> 1:03:10.560 help us win the midterms. All right, next question, we've 1:03:10.560 --> 1:03:14.800 got who is it is it David, Yes, David, Welcome 1:03:14.800 --> 1:03:16.560 to the Charlie Kirkshow please um mute yourself. 1:03:17.440 --> 1:03:18.560 Hi. How are we doing today? 1:03:18.760 --> 1:03:20.600 I'm doing great? How about you, sir? 1:03:20.720 --> 1:03:20.880 Good? 1:03:21.640 --> 1:03:22.960 I'm doing okay. 1:03:23.120 --> 1:03:24.160 My question is. 1:03:26.000 --> 1:03:31.480 We're in California. What do you think about, uh, the 1:03:32.120 --> 1:03:33.880 veteran who lost his life. 1:03:35.200 --> 1:03:38.160 With the Trump flags? Yeah, and. 1:03:39.560 --> 1:03:44.680 When we as conservatives a kind of swing back and 1:03:44.720 --> 1:03:47.080 we run into violence because I see you guys, you 1:03:47.120 --> 1:03:47.480 guys do. 1:03:49.200 --> 1:03:49.439 Yeah. 1:03:49.480 --> 1:03:53.360 Well, we just had a report yesterday of somebody who's 1:03:53.400 --> 1:03:57.000 arrested in San Antonio for making threats against Erica Kirk 1:03:57.160 --> 1:04:00.360 in our event. We've been monitoring that very clear. I 1:04:00.360 --> 1:04:02.200 want to assure you, so if you saw those news reports, 1:04:02.240 --> 1:04:06.320 please know, uh, we we have every confidence that that 1:04:06.360 --> 1:04:09.440 event is going to be extraordinarily safe. We've got great 1:04:09.480 --> 1:04:13.000 security precautions in place, monitoring all the threats as we 1:04:13.040 --> 1:04:15.720 always do. We've got great partners in law enforcement federally 1:04:15.760 --> 1:04:16.320 and locally. 1:04:16.800 --> 1:04:17.760 So all that is good. 1:04:18.520 --> 1:04:20.840 But yeah, I mean, it's it's an unfortunate reality of 1:04:21.280 --> 1:04:24.120 our daily life that we have to be aware of 1:04:24.280 --> 1:04:27.400 crazy people doing crazy things, whether they're motivated from bad 1:04:27.400 --> 1:04:30.720 actors or online or just political disagreements. There is no 1:04:30.880 --> 1:04:34.240 doubt that the left is getting more and more violent 1:04:34.400 --> 1:04:38.080 in the rise of assassination culture is ever present. David 1:04:38.120 --> 1:04:42.080 has asked about this incident that happened in southern California 1:04:42.680 --> 1:04:46.040 where a veteran who was sort of known, it turns 1:04:46.080 --> 1:04:48.160 out in the neighborhood for what they called the Trump House. 1:04:48.160 --> 1:04:50.640 So yeah, lots of flags out, was very proud about 1:04:50.640 --> 1:04:53.000 a support of the president, pro Trump house, big pro 1:04:53.040 --> 1:04:53.560 Trump house. 1:04:53.600 --> 1:04:59.600 He got assaulted by an individual suspect, the suspect also 1:04:59.680 --> 1:05:02.280 about they've been reporting on that fellow. 1:05:03.240 --> 1:05:04.400 He appears. 1:05:04.440 --> 1:05:09.000 The suspect is Thomas Caleb Butler yep, and he apparently 1:05:09.080 --> 1:05:12.080 had a history of violence, including towards his own family. 1:05:12.680 --> 1:05:14.760 I'm sure Jack Pisobik would make much of the fact 1:05:14.760 --> 1:05:16.600 that there's a photo of him wearing a Star. 1:05:16.400 --> 1:05:19.560 Wars Sure that picture, that's the one that's going around. 1:05:20.240 --> 1:05:22.480 And he played with legos apparently, so he was a 1:05:22.480 --> 1:05:24.880 big Lego guy and a big Star Wars guy. 1:05:25.480 --> 1:05:27.480 I don't know that there's any connection to those things. 1:05:27.960 --> 1:05:30.240 Jack was calling for a boycott of Star Wars, so 1:05:30.280 --> 1:05:33.040 he likes that fact. I don't see any necessary connection 1:05:33.160 --> 1:05:35.800 to it. But he was he had a long history 1:05:35.800 --> 1:05:38.760 of mental health problems. And the other thing that's interesting 1:05:38.760 --> 1:05:41.160 about the story, and why I'm not jumping to conclusions, 1:05:41.160 --> 1:05:43.280 why I'm not tweeting out a storm about it, is 1:05:43.320 --> 1:05:47.200 that apparently it's been reported that he liked the Trump 1:05:47.200 --> 1:05:50.160 House and was positive about the Trump House at some point, 1:05:50.760 --> 1:05:54.040 and that he also was more on the conservative side, 1:05:54.040 --> 1:05:58.920 at least historically. Now, the interesting part here is that 1:05:59.000 --> 1:06:04.240 he the wife, I guess the victim's wife, tried to intervene, 1:06:04.320 --> 1:06:07.760 he started hurling abuse at her, shouting at her, and 1:06:07.840 --> 1:06:11.240 called her a pedophile or a pedophile protector, one of 1:06:11.280 --> 1:06:14.320 the two. So that makes me think it's all some 1:06:14.480 --> 1:06:17.920 sort of like Epstein brainwarp things. 1:06:17.920 --> 1:06:19.680 It could be, and a lot of these people, there's 1:06:19.720 --> 1:06:21.040 just a lot of very troubled people. 1:06:21.040 --> 1:06:23.560 And that's why we talk more generally, why it's so. 1:06:23.760 --> 1:06:27.840 Irresponsible what a lot of leaders in this country have 1:06:27.960 --> 1:06:31.800 done when we talked about this with Ice. For example, 1:06:31.840 --> 1:06:36.600 when if Democrats or Republicans, but if individ if politicians 1:06:36.640 --> 1:06:40.080 go out and say our leaders are the equivalent of Nazis, 1:06:40.200 --> 1:06:44.280 ices the Gestapo, they're trying to do a new Holocaust. 1:06:44.560 --> 1:06:48.920 This Epstein class, they're abducting children and they're cannibalizing them. 1:06:49.080 --> 1:06:53.120 Some of the insane stuff they've said. They know that 1:06:53.160 --> 1:06:55.720 they're not being literal. A lot of people know they're 1:06:55.720 --> 1:07:00.200 not being literal, but especially vulnerable individuals will take that 1:07:00.240 --> 1:07:02.800 a lot more literally. We've seen that with the transgender 1:07:02.920 --> 1:07:05.640 motivated shooters. That seems to have played a role in 1:07:06.320 --> 1:07:10.080 tragically what happened to Charlie. That these people hear these 1:07:10.080 --> 1:07:12.000 things that if we don't want to mutilate kids, that 1:07:12.040 --> 1:07:14.600 means we're perpetrating a genocide. And when you say that 1:07:14.720 --> 1:07:17.640 to unstable people, they will think, well, I don't like genocide. 1:07:17.840 --> 1:07:20.000 I need to stop the genocide. I'm going to pick 1:07:20.040 --> 1:07:20.960 up a gun and use it. 1:07:21.240 --> 1:07:21.439 Yep. 1:07:21.600 --> 1:07:25.280 And we absolutely need to call out all rhetoric of 1:07:25.280 --> 1:07:29.200 that nature because it can destroy this country. As for 1:07:29.920 --> 1:07:33.240 ourselves as individuals, as always, there's no substitute for just 1:07:33.480 --> 1:07:37.200 being ready and being prepared yourself. In Red States, you're 1:07:37.240 --> 1:07:40.080 allowed to I'm highly armed. Yeah, have you're allowed to 1:07:40.120 --> 1:07:41.920 have guns in your home. You should have guns in 1:07:41.920 --> 1:07:46.400 your home because in the end, get yeah, the cops 1:07:46.400 --> 1:07:48.400 want the cops wind not get there, or I've you know, 1:07:48.440 --> 1:07:51.720 I used to not have a gun. And what changed 1:07:51.760 --> 1:07:55.560 my mind was when the Floyd riots happened in Minneapolis 1:07:55.840 --> 1:07:59.200 and the police pulled out of downtown Minneapolis and they 1:07:59.200 --> 1:08:01.160 just ditch it, and they like a few blocks just 1:08:01.200 --> 1:08:03.720 get burned down. People lost their homes, lost their business, 1:08:03.720 --> 1:08:05.040 and the cops just didn't show up. 1:08:05.160 --> 1:08:07.560 They gave up, they abandoned it. And I thought to myself. 1:08:07.880 --> 1:08:11.480 I thought to myself, I will never be caught in 1:08:11.520 --> 1:08:14.400 a situation where I am helpless because the police have 1:08:14.440 --> 1:08:15.000 abandoned me. 1:08:15.160 --> 1:08:15.560 Period. 1:08:15.960 --> 1:08:18.040 And that's a good mentality to have. 1:08:18.400 --> 1:08:21.040 Well, Mike's a big fan of the rooftop Koreans. 1:08:21.120 --> 1:08:23.760 Rooftop Koreans, you know, it's not that you it's not 1:08:23.840 --> 1:08:25.720 that we despise the police. It's not that we want 1:08:25.720 --> 1:08:27.280 to get rid of police. But we have to remember 1:08:27.320 --> 1:08:29.479 that the left does like to get rid of police. 1:08:29.479 --> 1:08:32.280 The left does like to create anarchy and to unleash 1:08:32.320 --> 1:08:35.439 mobs on people. And sometimes the only person who can 1:08:35.439 --> 1:08:37.719 stand up to a mob and protect your family is yourself. 1:08:37.960 --> 1:08:40.360 Well, I will just say we already were armed in 1:08:40.360 --> 1:08:42.800 our home, but ever since bringing home our baby, I'm like, 1:08:43.360 --> 1:08:47.280 we have to have ready for any situation. If anyone 1:08:47.320 --> 1:08:51.040 were to come into my house, I know they would 1:08:51.080 --> 1:08:53.240 not be okay. My husband would not tolerate that. 1:08:53.360 --> 1:08:55.719 He is a Taylor Swift fan, but she is based. 1:08:55.960 --> 1:08:59.559 Don't let that fool we exist. Elizabeth, You're up next. 1:09:00.120 --> 1:09:00.719 Mute yourself. 1:09:02.640 --> 1:09:03.639 Yes, Hi, everybody? 1:09:03.640 --> 1:09:07.760 How are you todays? Elizabeth? How are you well? 1:09:07.760 --> 1:09:08.120 Thank you. 1:09:08.520 --> 1:09:10.679 The reason that I was calling is. 1:09:13.080 --> 1:09:18.440 The judge Diana Hagen in Utah stepped down on May eighth. 1:09:18.520 --> 1:09:21.160 She was credibly accused of having an affair with lead 1:09:21.280 --> 1:09:25.800 Council David Raymond. They were working on the redistricting case 1:09:25.840 --> 1:09:28.559 and we lost the seat to Democrats in that. And 1:09:28.680 --> 1:09:33.640 also I had questions about parkin Writer Vhocal where they 1:09:33.680 --> 1:09:37.240 we did the primaries in August just for the congressional seats. 1:09:37.840 --> 1:09:40.960 So my first one is with the Utah case, that's 1:09:41.080 --> 1:09:44.200 obvious corruption. Can we get that overturn based on the 1:09:44.320 --> 1:09:46.120 fact that she was having an affair with the lead 1:09:46.200 --> 1:09:51.080 council and the Harkeneder Vhocal case, they found that the 1:09:51.120 --> 1:09:54.800 original congressional seats were wrong and they had to redo them. 1:09:55.080 --> 1:09:57.519 And so if they did a second primary in August 1:09:57.600 --> 1:10:00.240 just for the congressional seats, could that be something that 1:10:00.240 --> 1:10:01.840 we could do in other states. 1:10:04.000 --> 1:10:05.400 So I've heard about this Utah. 1:10:05.640 --> 1:10:08.720 Yeah, that's very interesting, and that is all true what 1:10:08.760 --> 1:10:11.680 you said that the judge did end up resigning in 1:10:11.760 --> 1:10:14.240 the you know, their governor Cox and a lot of 1:10:14.320 --> 1:10:16.680 other state level leaders, I think even Mike Lee have 1:10:16.760 --> 1:10:20.759 called for an independent investigation. But I am being told 1:10:21.120 --> 1:10:24.439 credibly that no, we cannot overturn the current core ordered 1:10:24.439 --> 1:10:27.760 congressional redistricting map for twenty twenty six. I don't know 1:10:27.760 --> 1:10:31.320 if that's a legal issue or a timing issue. You 1:10:31.320 --> 1:10:34.479 could expect that those will get redone for twenty twenty eight, though, 1:10:34.840 --> 1:10:37.120 and so it's too late for twenty twenty six for 1:10:37.160 --> 1:10:39.559 whatever reason. I will poke some holes in that and 1:10:39.600 --> 1:10:41.840 see that. But that's what I've been told, because when 1:10:41.880 --> 1:10:44.320 I saw that news come out, I instantly candidly fired 1:10:44.360 --> 1:10:46.720 off text messages to everybody in Utah that I knew 1:10:46.800 --> 1:10:48.639 and asked, can we can we get this overturned? 1:10:48.640 --> 1:10:49.360 And they said it's too. 1:10:49.280 --> 1:10:50.400 Late, disarred? 1:10:51.000 --> 1:10:52.400 Could she be disbarred? 1:10:53.160 --> 1:10:56.479 And the lawyer, yeah, I mean it's absolutely depends on 1:10:56.560 --> 1:10:57.599 Utah state process. 1:10:57.640 --> 1:10:59.200 Yeah, it's probably going through the process. 1:10:59.240 --> 1:11:01.840 That's why they wanted the independent investigation probably to come 1:11:01.920 --> 1:11:03.880 up with some findings that they could then leverage to 1:11:04.200 --> 1:11:07.800 exact some justice and accountability there. 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All right, Our next question is it's actually 1:13:43.439 --> 1:13:44.479 want me to read it, so you go. 1:13:44.520 --> 1:13:45.679 This was from Mick, he said. 1:13:45.840 --> 1:13:48.360 I asked about how conservatives have struggled with having cultural 1:13:48.600 --> 1:13:51.639 icons until very recently. This week, several artists dropped out 1:13:51.640 --> 1:13:54.000 of performing at the America two fifty Festival. 1:13:54.040 --> 1:13:57.000 I think they call the American State Fair. 1:13:57.080 --> 1:14:00.000 Yeah, state Fair, and many of those names were from yesteryear. 1:14:00.120 --> 1:14:02.880 With your experience hosting the All American halftime Show, can 1:14:02.920 --> 1:14:05.800 you give some insight advice to those planning an event 1:14:05.960 --> 1:14:08.600 like that and keeping the artists on board. Okay, this 1:14:08.680 --> 1:14:11.320 is a really big topic right now on social media. 1:14:11.439 --> 1:14:12.800 So it looks like Martina. 1:14:12.479 --> 1:14:18.240 McBride and Brett Michaels, Brett Michaels, Commodorus, Morris Day, Young MC, 1:14:18.360 --> 1:14:21.679 and Martina McBride have all dropped out so far, Flow 1:14:21.760 --> 1:14:24.599 Rider and Vanilla Ice are still in. Oh boy, you're 1:14:24.600 --> 1:14:27.439 interested in those Ice baby. 1:14:27.560 --> 1:14:27.800 Yeah. 1:14:27.920 --> 1:14:31.519 So my take on this is very simple, as we 1:14:31.600 --> 1:14:35.280 did host the All American halftime show. But I will 1:14:35.320 --> 1:14:38.280 tell you it was hard. It was really hard. Lining 1:14:38.360 --> 1:14:41.120 up the artist was hard. We would get a yes 1:14:41.160 --> 1:14:43.759 from some artists and then their managers would get involved 1:14:43.760 --> 1:14:45.719 and they were like, don't go up against the big 1:14:45.720 --> 1:14:48.120 bad football league, and they don't want that because it 1:14:48.120 --> 1:14:49.640 could cause them problems down the line. So you have 1:14:49.680 --> 1:14:51.120 to kind of respect that you have to work with 1:14:51.200 --> 1:14:54.760 the artists that you can work with. And I'll see 1:14:54.760 --> 1:14:58.080 it again, Kid Rock has my undying support. I'm a 1:14:58.160 --> 1:15:01.920 huge fan now because he just had the guts to 1:15:02.000 --> 1:15:04.040 do it and not many people do have the guts 1:15:04.040 --> 1:15:07.160 to do it. Now when it comes to this State Fair. 1:15:07.920 --> 1:15:10.880 What really is appalling to me, as to your point, 1:15:11.160 --> 1:15:12.880 is that a lot of these guys are washed up, 1:15:12.920 --> 1:15:15.840 has been stars from yesteryear's and we're still getting the 1:15:16.120 --> 1:15:16.920 run around from them. 1:15:16.920 --> 1:15:18.880 They're still telling us, oh, I can't get mine. I 1:15:18.920 --> 1:15:21.240 thought this was nonpartisan and all this stuff. Well it is. 1:15:21.320 --> 1:15:24.080 It's a celebration of the country, you idiots, And so 1:15:24.160 --> 1:15:27.360 we shouldn't have to be prostrating ourselves as conservatives before 1:15:27.360 --> 1:15:30.960 the altar of pop culture to like throw us your crumbs. 1:15:30.560 --> 1:15:31.719 Please, please please. 1:15:32.160 --> 1:15:34.160 What we should do is it should be a celebration 1:15:34.320 --> 1:15:37.080 of Americana. I don't care if the artists are famous. 1:15:37.280 --> 1:15:40.080 Give me banjo players, give me bluegrass, like. 1:15:40.640 --> 1:15:42.400 Just get not famous performance. 1:15:42.400 --> 1:15:44.519 That's what I'm saying. No, I don't see these guys. 1:15:44.560 --> 1:15:47.160 I don't think you need to get star power for 1:15:47.280 --> 1:15:49.559 something like this. I think, honestly there's probably a lot 1:15:49.600 --> 1:15:54.240 of criminally underrated and underappreciated people, especially Yeah, you mentioned 1:15:54.240 --> 1:15:58.120 banjo players. You can probably find a virtuoso banjo player, 1:15:58.240 --> 1:16:02.759 fiddle player, someone just stuff that's very associated with classic America, 1:16:02.840 --> 1:16:04.439 and you could probably get them, put them up there 1:16:04.479 --> 1:16:06.559 and they'll just kill it and everyone will think that 1:16:06.640 --> 1:16:08.719 was awesome, that was really cool. I don't usually see 1:16:08.720 --> 1:16:11.760 something like that versus getting these guys out. 1:16:11.800 --> 1:16:12.880 But it's been part of. 1:16:12.800 --> 1:16:15.280 The struggle with the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, and 1:16:15.280 --> 1:16:17.200 we got put in a tough spot. One of the 1:16:17.200 --> 1:16:20.160 things that we got stuck with is they started America 1:16:20.160 --> 1:16:23.640 two fifty a decade ago to prep for this, but 1:16:23.720 --> 1:16:26.320 then the lead up to this was we had four 1:16:26.400 --> 1:16:29.200 years of Biden during the George Floyd era. They staffed 1:16:29.200 --> 1:16:30.880 it full of people who they're like, you know what, 1:16:30.920 --> 1:16:32.560 two hundred and fifty years of America should be a 1:16:32.640 --> 1:16:34.920 chance to do. Let's celebrate white guilt. Let's talk about 1:16:34.920 --> 1:16:37.000 how America is bad and everyone should feel really bad. 1:16:37.280 --> 1:16:40.679 So they created this Freedom two fifty thing to very 1:16:40.720 --> 1:16:44.519 accelerated try to make fun stuff people would actually like, 1:16:44.520 --> 1:16:46.800 like the big State Fair. They're doing that IndyCar race 1:16:46.840 --> 1:16:50.759 in DC. Yeah, the UFC's more fun stuff that really 1:16:51.000 --> 1:16:54.760 vibes with the American public. But it's short notice. They 1:16:54.800 --> 1:16:56.840 have less money than they really deserve to have. 1:16:57.080 --> 1:16:57.120 It. 1:16:57.320 --> 1:16:57.920 It's a bummer. 1:16:58.000 --> 1:17:00.600 I talked to my parents about what the Bice Centennial 1:17:00.680 --> 1:17:03.519 was like in nineteen seventy six, and they said it 1:17:03.560 --> 1:17:05.840 was like it was the fourth of July all year long, 1:17:06.040 --> 1:17:09.200 just in the little touches that really stood out. My 1:17:09.280 --> 1:17:11.600 dad remembered that they painted the fire hydrants in his 1:17:11.680 --> 1:17:14.400 town the American flag to mark the bi centennial. 1:17:14.840 --> 1:17:17.680 Well, I think that I have two things. One I 1:17:17.720 --> 1:17:19.360 would love to know you talked about how this started 1:17:19.439 --> 1:17:22.479 under a different administration. If that was the situation we're 1:17:22.520 --> 1:17:25.360 dealing with, and they were posed to hoist host to 1:17:26.000 --> 1:17:29.280 America to fifty, freedom to fifty, I wonder who would 1:17:29.280 --> 1:17:31.400 line up to celebrate there, because it's not even like 1:17:31.479 --> 1:17:34.280 they are wanting to celebrate America. It's a lot about 1:17:34.320 --> 1:17:36.680 we want to change America. We don't like the way 1:17:36.680 --> 1:17:39.960 America is negative, negative, negative, So I wonder who would 1:17:39.960 --> 1:17:42.080 even want to be there celebrating two fifty years of America. 1:17:42.120 --> 1:17:46.920 It'd probably be at a festival of crying liberal tears. 1:17:46.960 --> 1:17:47.960 That could get an invocation. 1:17:48.479 --> 1:17:50.040 The only white people can succeed in this kind. 1:17:50.160 --> 1:17:51.960 We could get a benediction from Reverend right and they 1:17:51.960 --> 1:17:52.479 could do all. 1:17:52.560 --> 1:17:56.240 It'd probably be more of a reprimation reprimate What word 1:17:56.280 --> 1:17:59.200 am I saying? Reprimand yes, then it would be a celebration. 1:17:59.400 --> 1:18:01.599 Yeah, So that was not we dodged able. 1:18:01.680 --> 1:18:04.400 I think whatever issues we have, one of the things, 1:18:04.400 --> 1:18:06.280 and Charlie was very excited about this. Was that we 1:18:06.280 --> 1:18:08.240 were having the World Cup, We're having the two and 1:18:08.320 --> 1:18:11.880 fiftieth anniversary, We're having the Olympics. It's a big run 1:18:12.080 --> 1:18:16.120 of big America pageantry celebration and it would have just 1:18:16.160 --> 1:18:19.800 been excruciating to have Kamala Harris as president for all 1:18:19.840 --> 1:18:20.639 three of those things. 1:18:20.800 --> 1:18:23.240 And we should say just really quick quickly. You know, 1:18:23.360 --> 1:18:25.720 Spin magazine seems to be the starting point for a 1:18:25.760 --> 1:18:29.040 lot of this controversy. They called it a Trump sort 1:18:29.080 --> 1:18:32.240 of aligned event or Trump backed event. It's not, to 1:18:32.320 --> 1:18:34.599 Blake's point, this is a commission that's been put together 1:18:35.000 --> 1:18:37.200 that has liberals on, it has democrats on, it has 1:18:37.360 --> 1:18:40.320 conservatives on it, right, and these were lower tiered people. 1:18:40.720 --> 1:18:43.120 Here's what I would say. I am not going to 1:18:43.320 --> 1:18:46.120 any of these name me all the acts that dropped. 1:18:45.800 --> 1:18:51.519 Out, Brett Michaels, Martina McBride, loser they Martina, I know 1:18:51.640 --> 1:18:56.639 one of HER's back in the day, the Common Doors losers, 1:18:56.920 --> 1:19:00.360 I'm sorry, Morris Day and young MC users. 1:19:00.800 --> 1:19:03.680 I will never not that I really do, to be 1:19:03.720 --> 1:19:05.960 perfectly honest, but if you are a fan of these people, 1:19:06.240 --> 1:19:11.439 stop supporting their music. Absolute cowardice, moral cowards. This is 1:19:11.479 --> 1:19:13.280 an event for the whole country. It's supposed to bring 1:19:13.320 --> 1:19:15.600 people together. Instead, you've used it as an opportunity to 1:19:15.680 --> 1:19:19.000 humiliate the country and embarrass everyone up yours. That's my 1:19:19.080 --> 1:19:23.200 personal opinion, but yeah, that's my big take. Screw trying 1:19:23.200 --> 1:19:25.960 to get in tight with these like has beens, of 1:19:26.000 --> 1:19:28.880 these stars of yes year. No, we're not going to 1:19:28.920 --> 1:19:32.000 be told what to do by you losers. Okay, get 1:19:32.000 --> 1:19:35.200 some people that celebrate the country. Get I don't care 1:19:35.200 --> 1:19:38.440 what it is like. Get line dancing, Get banjo players, bluegrass, 1:19:38.520 --> 1:19:41.640 get jazz performers, get anybody that will do it, and 1:19:41.680 --> 1:19:45.120 just celebrate great music. Get great, great music. We don't 1:19:45.120 --> 1:19:46.720 care if we know your name. This it needs to 1:19:46.760 --> 1:19:49.360 be about America, not about these losers. That's my opinion. 1:19:49.439 --> 1:19:51.800 Well, think about it's called the Great American State Fair. 1:19:51.960 --> 1:19:53.840 There's so much more to a state fair than just 1:19:54.120 --> 1:19:55.760 like they might have a concert at night, but there's 1:19:56.160 --> 1:19:57.280 it's about being together. 1:19:57.360 --> 1:19:58.479 It's about food. 1:19:58.600 --> 1:20:04.559 Yes, it's about family, fun, being outside just traditions. There's 1:20:04.560 --> 1:20:05.120 so much more to it. 1:20:05.200 --> 1:20:07.800 It's so last minute, but this is a nimble administration. 1:20:07.960 --> 1:20:10.960 They should do some sort of great American Deep Fry Competition. 1:20:11.240 --> 1:20:13.280 What is the best food you can deep fry? 1:20:14.080 --> 1:20:16.760 Deep fried? Better deep deep? 1:20:19.080 --> 1:20:21.000 You've seen deep fried hot dogs, but we need like 1:20:21.400 --> 1:20:24.200 deep fry an entire hamburger. With all of that, I'm 1:20:24.280 --> 1:20:29.160 sure I'm deep fry deep fry egx Benedict deep fry. 1:20:30.360 --> 1:20:32.200 I don't know what it is. Anyways, that's my take 1:20:32.360 --> 1:20:36.280 and I'm sticking to it. I literally have nothing but loath, 1:20:36.479 --> 1:20:41.160 loathing and condemnation for the cowards that are embarrassing the country. 1:20:41.240 --> 1:20:44.240 But you know what, moving on, moving on, we have 1:20:44.280 --> 1:20:46.599 an America to celebrate, and this is still the greatest 1:20:46.640 --> 1:20:49.160 country in the history of the planet Earth. And I 1:20:49.600 --> 1:20:53.040 don't care that these people think we're systemically oppressive. They're 1:20:53.080 --> 1:20:57.160 They're wrong, they're illiterates, they're historically inaccurate, they don't know 1:20:57.200 --> 1:21:00.000 what they're talking about. So that's my that's my spiel. 1:21:00.040 --> 1:21:01.719 Who we got next, we have Maddie. 1:21:01.840 --> 1:21:04.639 Maddie Welcome to the Charlie kirschhup. Please um mute yourself, Maddie. 1:21:05.000 --> 1:21:08.840 Hi, I actually have two questions, if that's okay. Yeah, sure, 1:21:09.640 --> 1:21:11.320 So I'm actually going. 1:21:11.080 --> 1:21:13.000 To WLS next week. 1:21:13.080 --> 1:21:13.320 Wait. 1:21:13.960 --> 1:21:16.000 I was just curious if you knew if there's going 1:21:16.080 --> 1:21:20.559 to be any Bible study or like worship event something 1:21:20.600 --> 1:21:23.479 like that. Yeah, so I will be there. I'll see 1:21:23.479 --> 1:21:25.800 you there. I said earlier that none of these people 1:21:25.840 --> 1:21:27.840 will see my baby. If you're at WLS, you might 1:21:27.880 --> 1:21:30.840 because she'll be with me. It's a girl's event, so 1:21:30.840 --> 1:21:32.120 the first one I have to bring. 1:21:31.920 --> 1:21:34.760 Her at this event. There are so many babies. 1:21:34.400 --> 1:21:36.719 That's what I was like, this is the perfect conference 1:21:36.760 --> 1:21:41.160 to bring her to. It's so many moms, kids, friends, 1:21:41.200 --> 1:21:44.040 It's so sweet to just see everyone getting along together. 1:21:44.080 --> 1:21:46.760 But yes, there will be worship on Sunday morning and 1:21:47.080 --> 1:21:51.639 faith based speakers on Sunday. I think, honestly, I'm really excited. 1:21:51.640 --> 1:21:53.439 I'm also not only bringing my baby. I'm bringing my 1:21:53.479 --> 1:21:55.120 mom because I was like, Mom, I have to work, 1:21:55.200 --> 1:21:58.040 so you can take my baby and enjoy the enjoy 1:21:58.040 --> 1:22:02.200 the conference. But you know, we have Erica, Kaylee mcnaaney, 1:22:02.840 --> 1:22:08.040 Judge Shanine, Alex Clark, Alibi Stucky, Riley Gaines, Dana Losch, 1:22:08.120 --> 1:22:10.680 Savannah cris Leye, Kristen Hawkins, so many more, and it 1:22:10.800 --> 1:22:12.559 is so fun. Is this your first time? 1:22:13.520 --> 1:22:14.920 It'll actually be my second. 1:22:15.360 --> 1:22:19.000 Okay, Okay, well I think it's I really am happy 1:22:19.040 --> 1:22:23.080 with the way the event is going. This the direction. Yeah, 1:22:23.120 --> 1:22:27.759 it's it's really holistic, empowered, redeemed. I think that's the slogan, 1:22:27.880 --> 1:22:30.559 and it's really being able to see the way that 1:22:30.680 --> 1:22:33.599 WLS is kind of transformed over the years. And I've 1:22:33.600 --> 1:22:36.439 been watching all of Charlie's speeches back the last couple 1:22:36.439 --> 1:22:39.800 of weeks leading up to WLS and just seeing all 1:22:39.800 --> 1:22:41.800 the different topics that he covered and how the event 1:22:41.880 --> 1:22:43.880 has transformed. I'm really excited. I think it'll be great. 1:22:44.080 --> 1:22:46.439 Yep, it's gonna be great. She had a second question, right, yep, Yeah, 1:22:46.439 --> 1:22:47.360 what's your second question. 1:22:48.000 --> 1:22:51.040 I'm just curious, do you think women voters are going 1:22:51.120 --> 1:22:55.759 to hurt the Republican Party more than usual in the midterms. 1:22:55.800 --> 1:22:58.719 Just with how many men I know staying home instead 1:22:58.720 --> 1:22:59.439 of voting. 1:23:00.200 --> 1:23:01.360 I mean, it's definitely tough. 1:23:01.400 --> 1:23:03.880 This is this is the thing Charlie always struggled about 1:23:03.960 --> 1:23:06.960 Fought four. He pointed out women are more likely to 1:23:07.080 --> 1:23:11.160 just they're good at checking boxes, they're good at fulfilling 1:23:11.320 --> 1:23:14.120 obligations compared to men, and one of those obligations is voting. 1:23:14.240 --> 1:23:17.000 So young women are more likely to vote. And we 1:23:17.080 --> 1:23:20.400 also know they're more likely to vote Democrat. In fact, 1:23:20.680 --> 1:23:23.519 as much as hey we've made of young men turning 1:23:23.560 --> 1:23:25.479 to the right, a lot of it is young men 1:23:25.479 --> 1:23:28.559 have moved five points to the right, and young women 1:23:28.600 --> 1:23:32.519 in some elections they've moved ten, fifteen, twenty five points 1:23:32.560 --> 1:23:34.599 to left. If you're an unmarried young woman, they're very 1:23:34.680 --> 1:23:37.920 left wing. A lot of them still vote, and it 1:23:37.960 --> 1:23:39.080 could definitely be a hazard. 1:23:39.439 --> 1:23:42.160 Well, and yeah, to Blake's point, they vote more often, 1:23:42.240 --> 1:23:45.080 more more reliably, and they vote more and more left, 1:23:45.200 --> 1:23:46.679 and they've gotten more and more radical. 1:23:47.240 --> 1:23:48.559 So yeah, it is a problem. 1:23:48.640 --> 1:23:52.320 It's a definite problem, and I think it's doubly compounded 1:23:52.360 --> 1:23:55.040 because a lot of young men, if you look between 1:23:55.200 --> 1:23:59.440 Epstein and what's happened in Iran, they're giving in denihilism. 1:23:59.479 --> 1:24:01.080 And that's part of our job here is to say, 1:24:01.080 --> 1:24:04.360 don't give into the black pilling and the domerism. Don't 1:24:04.360 --> 1:24:08.200 do that, young men. Things are progressing in many ways, 1:24:08.400 --> 1:24:11.679 and this administration is head and shoulders above what Kamala 1:24:11.720 --> 1:24:14.280 would have been. So don't give into the black pilling, 1:24:14.400 --> 1:24:17.439 stay the course, keep the faith. This country is worth 1:24:17.439 --> 1:24:19.720 fighting for. So we need the men to show up 1:24:19.760 --> 1:24:22.839 because the women probably will. And that's the sad reality 1:24:22.840 --> 1:24:24.760 of it, and they're getting more and more radicalized. I'm 1:24:24.800 --> 1:24:27.280 telling you one of the reasons I love WLS is 1:24:27.320 --> 1:24:30.559 because it's not a feminist celebration conference. There's some some 1:24:30.640 --> 1:24:32.920 haters online that'll call it that. It's not that at all. 1:24:33.080 --> 1:24:34.680 It's like, how do I be a better mother? How 1:24:34.720 --> 1:24:37.759 do I raise my kids? How do I be more godly? 1:24:38.320 --> 1:24:40.400 And that's it, and how do we be more healthy 1:24:40.439 --> 1:24:44.240 as a country. It's beautiful things. So anyways, come to 1:24:44.240 --> 1:24:46.720 what WLS. Check it out. It's going to be very, 1:24:46.840 --> 1:24:49.920 very worthwhile women to step up, all right. Next up, 1:24:50.120 --> 1:24:52.360 we have oh wait, I wanted to. 1:24:52.080 --> 1:24:57.120 Really quickly WLS question the WLS. We have some really 1:24:57.280 --> 1:24:58.879 really cute hats and shirts. 1:24:58.680 --> 1:25:00.840 That are going launching new merch. 1:25:00.960 --> 1:25:03.479 There's going to be some WLS exclusive merch there, but 1:25:03.479 --> 1:25:07.559 we will have this hot there Godfamily Country and Forever Kirk. 1:25:07.600 --> 1:25:11.280 Those are both on charliekirkstore dot com. And if you're 1:25:11.280 --> 1:25:12.960 not gonna be WS you can still get one. They 1:25:13.000 --> 1:25:17.200 are really they're well made, such nice quality. We literally 1:25:17.240 --> 1:25:19.960 just got the boxes in my office like ten minutes ago. 1:25:20.080 --> 1:25:23.519 So so if you're well WLS you can get these, 1:25:23.560 --> 1:25:26.759 but you can also get them at Charliekirkstore dot com. 1:25:26.880 --> 1:25:29.960 Charliekirkstore dot com. Right, I got the r O right. 1:25:30.439 --> 1:25:34.880 Charliekirkstore dot com. Mighty, all the work she can handle. 1:25:35.000 --> 1:25:37.479 She'll be getting those orders out to you all very soon. Yes, 1:25:37.640 --> 1:25:40.519 so check it out all right? Uh, Rain, you are 1:25:40.560 --> 1:25:42.479 on the Charlie Kirk Show. Please ummute yourself. 1:25:42.520 --> 1:25:42.880 Welcome. 1:25:43.320 --> 1:25:48.080 Hey, I'm so happy you'll called on me. Okay, do 1:25:48.160 --> 1:25:48.880 y'all remember me? 1:25:48.920 --> 1:25:52.160 I'm the one that had the bracelet after the Charliekirk memorial. 1:25:52.320 --> 1:25:55.360 Yes, yes, it's good to hear from you again, Rain, Yes. 1:25:55.320 --> 1:25:59.360 Hey, okay, So I can't believe mask in this question, 1:25:59.400 --> 1:26:01.120 but I want to get involved so badly. 1:26:01.760 --> 1:26:03.879 I want to help y'all with ballot chasing. 1:26:04.120 --> 1:26:06.160 Great, So what are the. 1:26:06.040 --> 1:26:09.960 Prerequisites or what is the criteria? Like? 1:26:10.160 --> 1:26:13.639 Okay, so I have an emotional support animal, a little 1:26:13.640 --> 1:26:17.559 cavalier King Charles Spaniel by the day, by the way, 1:26:19.200 --> 1:26:21.320 So like, would it be okay if like I brought 1:26:21.360 --> 1:26:23.799 my mom to the hotel room with Charlie. 1:26:24.000 --> 1:26:27.240 Are you talking about volunteer? I do. 1:26:27.400 --> 1:26:29.040 I want to stay as long as I can. 1:26:29.080 --> 1:26:31.439 I just don't want to be away from from him, 1:26:32.200 --> 1:26:34.040 and I would bring my mom with me. I mean 1:26:34.080 --> 1:26:36.880 we would drive from Baton Rouge from Louisiana. 1:26:37.360 --> 1:26:40.639 I want to help. I want to get involved very badly. 1:26:41.640 --> 1:26:42.120 I love that. 1:26:42.200 --> 1:26:45.759 So, yeah, we're going to be doing our volunteer efforts, 1:26:45.800 --> 1:26:50.080 probably starting in September October time period. Would you want 1:26:50.120 --> 1:26:53.280 to come to Arizona is that kind of what you're thinking? 1:26:53.360 --> 1:26:56.080 Or New Hampshire probably. 1:26:55.760 --> 1:26:58.040 With y'all over there in Arizona. 1:26:58.160 --> 1:27:00.960 Your dog will love October for Arizona weather. 1:27:01.120 --> 1:27:01.360 Yeah. 1:27:01.479 --> 1:27:06.240 So if you just go to the tpaction dot com website, 1:27:06.640 --> 1:27:09.000 they have they have a fill out the sign up 1:27:09.040 --> 1:27:14.800 form here. Yeah, tpaction dot com. Maybe our team, our 1:27:14.840 --> 1:27:17.320 crack team in the studio can put tpaction dot com 1:27:17.320 --> 1:27:18.880 there and you just click that. 1:27:19.200 --> 1:27:20.720 Yep. Tpaction dot Com. 1:27:20.720 --> 1:27:23.680 There's a kind of a Hamburger menu bar in the 1:27:23.720 --> 1:27:24.759 upper right hand corner. 1:27:25.160 --> 1:27:26.040 Just click get. 1:27:25.880 --> 1:27:29.080 Involved, upper right get involved. 1:27:29.080 --> 1:27:31.200 Okay, Yeah, and it has a little sign up form 1:27:31.400 --> 1:27:33.640 and so what are you interested in? 1:27:34.080 --> 1:27:34.639 The options? 1:27:34.640 --> 1:27:36.879 And I'm gonna read all the options just for those listening, 1:27:36.920 --> 1:27:38.719 all the things that you can get involved in. Become 1:27:38.760 --> 1:27:41.920 a precinct leader, join a TP Action coalition. So we 1:27:41.960 --> 1:27:44.880 have like a mom's coalition, a rancher's coalition, farmer's coalition, 1:27:45.000 --> 1:27:48.000 Hispanic coalition, all those kinds of things. You could attend 1:27:48.000 --> 1:27:50.559 a turning point action event, becoming a pole watcher, joining 1:27:50.560 --> 1:27:54.120 Younger Republicans Club, getting involved with the county GOP, knocking 1:27:54.200 --> 1:27:57.479 doors for local candidates, become a precinct registered to vote, 1:27:57.960 --> 1:27:59.759 become a precinct chair, all these things. 1:28:00.479 --> 1:28:04.840 So you just help, y'all. Yeah, so. 1:28:06.439 --> 1:28:09.719 You could do any of those, but probably knocking doors. 1:28:09.920 --> 1:28:11.720 It would be the box that you would check. And 1:28:11.760 --> 1:28:15.640 then we'll get you in our our volunteer pipeline. And 1:28:15.720 --> 1:28:17.840 then when we're ready to get you in a hotel 1:28:17.920 --> 1:28:19.559 room and get you out. And yes, you could probably 1:28:19.600 --> 1:28:21.519 bring your I mean, I haven't checked with Tyler yet. 1:28:21.560 --> 1:28:22.599 I'm sure we've had this. 1:28:22.960 --> 1:28:26.840 No, Tyler said, yes, they're encouraged, friends, families, babies, dogs, Yep. 1:28:27.000 --> 1:28:32.080 So we'll take you all and yep. So Tpaction dot Com. 1:28:32.120 --> 1:28:34.599 It's right there on the screen. You can get involved. 1:28:34.640 --> 1:28:37.680 And so that is the same for Rain, but it's 1:28:37.720 --> 1:28:39.880 the same for all of you watching. We know that 1:28:39.920 --> 1:28:42.320 there is tens of thousands of you watching all over 1:28:42.320 --> 1:28:45.400 the country. Get involved today, go to tpaction dot com 1:28:45.560 --> 1:28:48.280 help us win, And just a note here, I love 1:28:48.320 --> 1:28:52.519 your spirit Rain. It's so encouraging because if you log 1:28:52.600 --> 1:28:54.880 online sometimes you get a bunch of the black pail 1:28:54.960 --> 1:28:57.439 Blake types and you get the people that are, you know, 1:28:57.520 --> 1:28:58.559 the country's last and. 1:28:58.760 --> 1:28:59.880 Blake's looking at right. 1:29:00.160 --> 1:29:00.200 No. 1:29:00.360 --> 1:29:02.080 But here's the thing here. 1:29:02.479 --> 1:29:04.920 I was asked this question in interview yesterday and and 1:29:04.960 --> 1:29:08.200 it bears repeating. The question was, you know, how do 1:29:08.240 --> 1:29:11.560 you filter through the noise online? And I would just 1:29:11.600 --> 1:29:14.120 simply suggest to you this. You know the tree by 1:29:14.120 --> 1:29:17.320 its fruits, you know who's doing good work, because they 1:29:17.400 --> 1:29:19.360 want to build this country up. They want to fight 1:29:19.400 --> 1:29:22.599 for this country. They want to actually contribute to good things. 1:29:22.600 --> 1:29:24.240 They want to get out in the field and knocked doors. 1:29:24.280 --> 1:29:26.560 They want to send text messages, they want to send postcards. 1:29:27.160 --> 1:29:30.559 All of these things are tremendously important because if you're building, 1:29:30.600 --> 1:29:32.880 if you're working towards something, you're part of the solution. 1:29:33.040 --> 1:29:35.439 So be part of the solution. Do not give into 1:29:35.479 --> 1:29:37.640 the nihilism, do not give into the dooming, do not 1:29:37.680 --> 1:29:39.240 give into the black pilling. That is one of my 1:29:39.360 --> 1:29:42.479 repeat messages here. You do not fight because you know 1:29:42.520 --> 1:29:44.160 you're gonna win. You fight because it's the right thing 1:29:44.160 --> 1:29:44.360 to do. 1:29:44.439 --> 1:29:44.880 So thank you. 1:29:44.960 --> 1:29:47.840 Right, all right, real quick, we have one one last 1:29:47.920 --> 1:29:48.599 question from Sam. 1:29:48.600 --> 1:29:49.320 We're going to read it. 1:29:49.400 --> 1:29:51.240 I am a college student, and many students I know 1:29:51.280 --> 1:29:54.639 hate the current administration. They blame them for covering up Epstein, 1:29:54.680 --> 1:29:57.000 and they seem to forget the Biden administration held onto 1:29:57.000 --> 1:29:59.479 those files and did nothing for years. How can the 1:29:59.479 --> 1:30:02.960 administra and the Republicans message better on this topic. That's 1:30:02.960 --> 1:30:06.360 a very tough question because it's on We only have 1:30:06.400 --> 1:30:09.120 a minute, and it is unfair. President Trump has released 1:30:09.360 --> 1:30:13.000 a huge number of files, vastly more than any administration 1:30:13.040 --> 1:30:17.599 did before. You can read incredibly embarrassing emails involving the 1:30:17.640 --> 1:30:21.599 former president of Harvard, involving Elon Musk, involving Les Wester. 1:30:21.920 --> 1:30:23.880 They've actually a lot of people have been humiliated, some 1:30:23.880 --> 1:30:25.840 people have lost their jobs. There's been a lot of 1:30:25.840 --> 1:30:29.839 transparency on this, and we know certainly that the president 1:30:29.920 --> 1:30:33.280 himself is not involved in anything untoward because the bind 1:30:33.360 --> 1:30:37.479 administration and the Obama administration had all of these files 1:30:37.880 --> 1:30:40.720 and didn't release anything and didn't charge President Trump or 1:30:40.760 --> 1:30:42.679 Donald Trump when he was not in the White House, 1:30:43.040 --> 1:30:46.880 so we know there's nothing there. Unfortunately, I think a 1:30:46.880 --> 1:30:49.880 lot of people it's just in the zeitgeist. People will 1:30:49.920 --> 1:30:52.880 repeat things that are false just because it feels fun 1:30:52.880 --> 1:30:53.200 to say. 1:30:53.240 --> 1:30:53.759 I guess. 1:30:54.120 --> 1:30:56.479 I mean, it is the number one accusation that gets 1:30:56.520 --> 1:30:57.280 hurled at everybody. 1:30:57.280 --> 1:31:00.000 No pedophile, pedophile, it's critical pedo theory. 1:31:00.280 --> 1:31:05.479 It's pedophilia pervades the universe and all of our leaders. 1:31:05.520 --> 1:31:07.400 It's a brain rot. It's challenging. 1:31:07.520 --> 1:31:09.160 Yeah, it is challenging, but we do need to keep 1:31:09.200 --> 1:31:11.640 messaging on it because a lot of people believe it. 1:31:11.640 --> 1:31:12.280 Can't abandon it. 1:31:12.320 --> 1:31:13.120 You're not blackpil. 1:31:17.400 --> 1:31:19.479 For more on many of these stories and news you 1:31:19.479 --> 1:31:21.479 can trust, go to Charliekirk dot com.