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Speaker 5: All right, well, welcome to the studio. We are so
Speaker 5: honored to have the United States Secretary of Agriculture here,
Speaker 5: Brooke Rawlins, welcome.
Speaker 4: Thank you. I'm feeling a little overwhelmed right now, as
Speaker 4: you and I talked about before, I first met Charlie
Speaker 4: when he was eighteen. Oh yeah, we kind of grew up.
Speaker 4: I'm honestly older, but kind of grew up in the
Speaker 4: movement together. So this is a sort of full circle.
Speaker 6: Well, you know, I totally relate to that.
Speaker 5: When I first came into this studio after everything that happened,
Speaker 5: it was overwhelming for me basically for the first like
Speaker 5: couple months, and I had to like, you know, I
Speaker 5: had a job to do, and I had to sort
Speaker 5: of act like I was comfortable and I but you know, now.
Speaker 6: It's actually comforting. It's weird.
Speaker 5: I come in here, I see his chair, I see Jesus,
Speaker 5: you know, beautiful presence for her dad and his hat
Speaker 5: and beautiful he's yeah, and it actually brings me like comfort.
Speaker 5: So I get like, I try and relate to that
Speaker 5: as we have guests in the studio, and I know
Speaker 5: it can be overwhelming, but it's kind of just beautiful
Speaker 5: just to see all these reminders of him too.
Speaker 4: So it is, and I tell you that the work
Speaker 4: has to continue, and I just I feel, I feel
Speaker 4: his spirit. I'm so grateful to y'all. I'm grateful to
Speaker 4: Erica for being such a warrior for the country, but
Speaker 4: for him and his legacy, for his children. So to
Speaker 4: be a very small part of that is a real honor.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 3: The work must continue.
Speaker 7: You might remember the first time he ran into him,
Speaker 7: he got to be he had to be an insane
Speaker 7: go get her at eighteen, can you I only met
Speaker 7: him when he was.
Speaker 3: Twenty nine or thirty.
Speaker 7: Everyone I thought I ran into him. I just thought,
Speaker 7: this guy is high intensity. He's always done anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Andrew and everyone else are telling me, oh,
Speaker 3: he's massive, chilled out. He used to be far far
Speaker 3: more intense.
Speaker 4: Well, let me let me we have time for the
Speaker 4: quick story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course.
Speaker 4: So at that point, let's see, I'm probably I'm just thirty.
Speaker 4: I'm probably a little more than twenty years older than him,
Speaker 4: But I always felt more like a big sister. And uh,
Speaker 4: and so he was just starting turning point and we
Speaker 4: kept hearing about it. I was building the Texas Public
Speaker 4: Policy Foundation in Texas really kind of the first of
Speaker 4: its kind, idea that I didn't even know what a
Speaker 4: think tank was. But what I knew is I'd been
Speaker 4: Rick Perry's policy director and general counsel in my late twenties,
Speaker 4: and what I knew is that every day, all day,
Speaker 4: I would get lobbyist after lobbyist after lobbyists in conservative Texas,
Speaker 4: and it was never about doing what was right. It
Speaker 4: was never about we're cutting taxes because it's for freedom,
Speaker 4: or we're not going to regulate because we want to
Speaker 4: return power to the people. It was just here's what
Speaker 4: I need. I'm like, where's where's the lobbyist for freedom?
Speaker 4: Like I don't understand? So I left Rick Perry's office
Speaker 4: after a couple of years. It was a great experience.
Speaker 4: I hit twenty nine, maybe maybe thirty, and someone came
Speaker 4: to me with this idea of the Texas Public Policy Foundation,
Speaker 4: and I think because I had been on the inside,
Speaker 4: I fully understand stood. I couldn't have articulated it then,
Speaker 4: but I fully understood the opportunity to go in and
Speaker 4: to really make a difference in my state and just
Speaker 4: representing freedom like that was it, So I said, okay,
Speaker 4: so kind of that's where it started. So when Charlie
Speaker 4: came on the scene, I don't know how. For many
Speaker 4: years later, ten maybe fifteen, he of course, I think,
Speaker 4: somehow ended up in Texas to raise money for this
Speaker 4: new concept from this new kid, and so all the
Speaker 4: people that he would go to and he'd get the meetings.
Speaker 4: I don't know how, but he'd get the meetings, and
Speaker 4: then they would tell him go talk to Brook like
Speaker 4: she's kind of a little bit ahead of you, and
Speaker 4: go talk to Brook and you're wanting to build this thing.
Speaker 4: She's now built this pretty massive thing in Texas, but
Speaker 4: we want to see kind of how y'all can work together,
Speaker 4: what she thinks, etc. And so that's how we first met,
Speaker 4: was at eighteen nineteen year old Charlie building turning point,
Speaker 4: coming to Texas, sitting down, and then of course we
Speaker 4: became really good friends.
Speaker 5: I remember talking to him about you, and the way
Speaker 5: he would talk about you was always so like the
Speaker 5: big sister thing. It really it's apt because I remember
Speaker 5: it was always like there was a level of comfort.
Speaker 6: When it came to brook On Carlbrook, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And by the way, like, so Charlie ends up
Speaker 5: creating Turning Point and building it into this machine. And
Speaker 5: now you're in the administration, you're a cabinet official. So
Speaker 5: I figured that's where we should start. Well, we started
Speaker 5: with the story, which is actually better. But this was
Speaker 5: just from yesterday or two days ago. If you're watching
Speaker 5: this live, so forty nine.
Speaker 4: The US Department of Agriculture, we've canceled three hundred thousand
Speaker 4: dollars contract educating on food justice for queer and transgender
Speaker 4: farmers in San Francisco. A similar contract we canceled in
Speaker 4: New York again educating transgender and queer farmers on food
Speaker 4: justice and food equality. I'm not even sure what that means,
Speaker 4: but apparently the last administration wanted to put our taxpayer
Speaker 4: dollars towards that. We canceled a six hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 4: contract out of Louisiana that was studying the menstrual cycles
Speaker 4: of transgender men, a six hundred thousand dollars contract. We
Speaker 4: canceled another contract out of a university in the middle
Speaker 4: of the country that focused on getting more diversity, equity,
Speaker 4: and inclusion into our pest management industry. Again, these are nonsensical.
Speaker 4: It makes zero sense to use taxpayer dollars to fund these.
Speaker 4: I know these are just a few examples of the
Speaker 4: hundreds in the hundreds that we have found.
Speaker 6: Well believe cloud Show.
Speaker 7: I looked that up and it's so funny because it
Speaker 7: just captures the moment so well where I guess the
Speaker 7: actual study was like, we're gonna see how feminine hygiene products,
Speaker 7: whether some are healthy or unhealthy. But then, of course
Speaker 7: it was happening in peak woke, so they had to
Speaker 7: go and especially for the trans men who need to
Speaker 7: use these, you had to throw this into every single
Speaker 7: grant application.
Speaker 3: Yes, just got a vaporize. You just have to say
Speaker 3: that stuff.
Speaker 5: But when you're saying it out loud, it's the most obnoxious, obscene, absurd, ridiculous,
Speaker 5: Like you just said those sentences.
Speaker 6: Yes, TV, I do.
Speaker 4: What is even a BIPOC former me in San Francisco.
Speaker 7: I'm so like to this cabinet meeting and send it
Speaker 7: back to nineteen seventy five and so anyone can.
Speaker 3: Tell what you're talking about.
Speaker 6: This is obscene stuff.
Speaker 5: And I'm I mean, I'm proud of you and the
Speaker 5: job you're doing, but I'm also really embarrassed for you
Speaker 5: that you had to say that, right.
Speaker 6: Well, and you're your a professional, dignified woman.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about queer, bipoc, transgender mice and men in
Speaker 4: control and the president and to the President of the
Speaker 4: United States in the cabinet room. It was so bad, y'all.
Speaker 4: And just last week we just got a court ruling
Speaker 4: down USDA. Under the Biden, USDA actually prioritized grants and
Speaker 4: loans based on the color of your skin. How do
Speaker 4: how you were illegal, illegal, illegal, canceling all of that.
Speaker 4: It's just is and I feel like we're still just
Speaker 4: at the tip of the spear. I mean Snap fraud,
Speaker 4: the foods Okay.
Speaker 5: Cross, That's what I'm going to get into here, because
Speaker 5: I have a list here of these fraud initiatives that
Speaker 5: you're leading you. Okay, so twenty three state waivers. You've
Speaker 5: gotten twenty three states to sign on basically restricting junk
Speaker 5: food purchases with SNAP. Eight are already implementing. That's really
Speaker 5: good you. This one blows my mind. You have exposed
Speaker 5: three billion dollars in snap fraud across twenty eight states
Speaker 5: and with national losses projected at over six billion dollars, and.
Speaker 4: By the way, those are the Red states. Think about
Speaker 4: the Blue states.
Speaker 6: That's a whole other ed and they're just like not
Speaker 6: playing ball.
Speaker 4: The Blue states are not playing ball states.
Speaker 5: We need to bend them to our will. This shouldn't
Speaker 5: be okay, you have to play ball. Can we stop
Speaker 5: the funding? Can we stop sending them? I mean, I
Speaker 5: know it's a big political hot potato because it's like
Speaker 5: Snap benefits or whatever. We'll find play by the rules
Speaker 5: and we'll give the people that need it the money.
Speaker 5: This this is bananas. One hundred and eighty six thousand
Speaker 5: dead people, we're still collecting Snap benefits and more than
Speaker 5: three hundred and fifty five thousand cases of people illegally
Speaker 5: double dipping.
Speaker 4: Yes, and these are in the Red states. This is
Speaker 4: that we have. We don't even have California's data or
Speaker 4: New York states.
Speaker 5: It'll be quadrupled. How did this happen since President Trump
Speaker 5: took office? Four point three million fewer people you say Americans,
Speaker 5: but we'll say fewer people are off Snap. How are
Speaker 5: we doing that?
Speaker 4: Well? A couple of different things. First, I think this
Speaker 4: focus on the fraud has moved a lot of the
Speaker 4: fake people off of Snap. But I also think and
Speaker 4: this is the dream, right, the wages are increasing, there's
Speaker 4: more people working now than ever before. This is supposed
Speaker 4: to be the supplemental nutrition assistance program. It's only supposed
Speaker 4: to last for a certain amount of time for people
Speaker 4: that truly truly needed. It had become a year round
Speaker 4: welfare program everywhere qualified and a way of.
Speaker 7: Life icket with its SNAP with disability payments exactly what
Speaker 7: we expanded during COVID.
Speaker 4: We're now acquiring work requirements, so you unless you have,
Speaker 4: you know, a young child, you are required to look
Speaker 4: for a job or actually go find a job before
Speaker 4: you can get these these So we've changed the whole
Speaker 4: game on the SNAP program and across the whole administration.
Speaker 6: It's amazing.
Speaker 5: And then I mean you combine that with russ vote
Speaker 5: coming out just today, he's overhauling a trillion dollars with
Speaker 5: a federal grants mandating e verify. I have no idea
Speaker 5: how that will overlap with what you're doing at USDA, but.
Speaker 6: It's it's all good. It's amazing, it's all good.
Speaker 5: And you know, no more DEI nonsense, and you know,
Speaker 5: performance based reviews things can get.
Speaker 6: You can actually end things, which is amazing.
Speaker 5: So this is a really big story that I don't
Speaker 5: think a lot of people are are yet talking about.
Speaker 5: And I want to make sure people are taking note
Speaker 5: of it, and that is you are. You have this
Speaker 5: the Great American Cotton Plan, which people do not respect,
Speaker 5: how big our cotton industry is and how under assault
Speaker 5: it is.
Speaker 6: So I love that you're doing this.
Speaker 5: I think we have some graphics here we can throw
Speaker 5: up as you're talking about it.
Speaker 6: What's going on here?
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, what I realized a year and
Speaker 4: a half ago when I very unexpectedly ended up in
Speaker 4: this job, this was not on my big go card.
Speaker 4: Was not expecting it. The President made an announcement, and
Speaker 4: off to the races we went. My background is agriculture.
Speaker 4: I grew up on a farm. I studied agriculture in
Speaker 4: college at Texas A and M. But I had been
Speaker 4: doing really all policy in all those years, in building
Speaker 4: policy organizations alongside Charlie. So this was unexpected.
Speaker 5: What I we were not a policy organization. We're not
Speaker 5: think tank. We're battle tank.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love it. Well, I would say we're battle
Speaker 4: tank too, but part of the movement. As we're building
Speaker 4: the movement, changing hearts, and minds. But the point we'll taken.
Speaker 4: What I will say is I knew it was bad.
Speaker 4: I knew agriculture was was was in real tough shape.
Speaker 4: Big ag foreign adversaries buying farmland. The consolidation of our
Speaker 4: food supply chain by foreign owned companies is insane. How
Speaker 4: it happened, it still blows my mind, but we're hundred
Speaker 4: percent so today in Arizona we announced as part of
Speaker 4: that the Great American Cotton Plan for really the first
Speaker 4: cotton plant we planted in six ten seven in a
Speaker 4: Virginia settlement, our American Revolutionaries war cotton when George Washington
Speaker 4: was battling the Brits. This goes back to the very
Speaker 4: beginning and even before the beginning of our country. But
Speaker 4: what has happened over the last we'll say decade or
Speaker 4: so is the foreign fake synthetic material has become so
Speaker 4: prolific and so cheap that we have begun been moving
Speaker 4: away from Great American cotton for years. And then Joe Biden,
Speaker 4: of course, took his eye off the ball. Do you
Speaker 4: realize under Joe Biden's watch, we lost our market in soybeans,
Speaker 4: we lost our market in corn, We lost our market
Speaker 4: in beef and then they took over. We used to
Speaker 4: be the greatest exporter in the world of cotton. Brazil
Speaker 4: took that over in twenty twenty two. This is national
Speaker 4: security level implications. This isn't just good for the farmers
Speaker 4: and we want good cotton. If we begin to rely
Speaker 4: on these other countries for food, for fiber, for fuel,
Speaker 4: we lose our country. So today we announced a big,
Speaker 4: big plan to take it back. And it's part of
Speaker 4: the MAHA movement too.
Speaker 6: I was going to say, hold on.
Speaker 5: Alex Clark, New Year coming on, and she said, ask
Speaker 5: if this means, and we have this grab at the
Speaker 5: USDA is finally promoting natural fibers, yes, over petroleum based synthetics.
Speaker 5: So she took note of this from the MAHA standpoint.
Speaker 5: She said, ask if this means the FDA might look
Speaker 5: into the laws about what chemicals are allowed in clothes
Speaker 5: that haven't been updated since nineteen four. She's saying, the
Speaker 5: laws about what chemicals were put in our clothes haven't
Speaker 5: been updated since the forties.
Speaker 4: Since the forties. It's it is you look at this,
Speaker 4: it's FDA. But from my perspective, this administration, our cabinet
Speaker 4: is very unique and that we all sort of roll
Speaker 4: into each other's lanes. I mean, you've seen this with
Speaker 4: me and Bobby Kennedy for a year and a half now,
Speaker 4: I mean, who knew he was going to be my
Speaker 4: number one partner in all things? But he talks about, Hey,
Speaker 4: I waived, you know, I granted twenty three states waivers.
Speaker 4: They can't sell junk food anymore under SNAP And I'm like, Bobby,
Speaker 4: that was actually USDA, but I'm very glad you take
Speaker 4: all the credit for that. It doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 4: And so even though that is FDA, this will now
Speaker 4: be one of my top priority is digging in and
Speaker 4: understanding it. Mother of four children, I couldn't agree more
Speaker 4: with Alex's focus on what you're doing.
Speaker 5: I'm saying, she's saying, I've been hearing from so many
Speaker 5: moms that they are really into clean clothing. Seems like
Speaker 5: we're on the brink of another big movement.
Speaker 6: We are, so is this.
Speaker 5: But this could actually help cotton farmers, presumably, right, So
Speaker 5: if you start banning some of these petroleum based synthetics,
Speaker 5: if they're bad for people, correct, this would open up
Speaker 5: market space for cotton.
Speaker 4: Farm That's exactly right, And for the first time in
Speaker 4: one hundred years, Cotton begins to do this instead of
Speaker 4: doing this as we've offshored so much to the bad guys.
Speaker 5: Frankly, we've got just a couple of minutes left here
Speaker 5: in this segment with you. What is the most important
Speaker 5: thing that this real America's voice audience watching live needs
Speaker 5: to know about what you're doing.
Speaker 4: There are a lot of really important things. I mentioned
Speaker 4: national security. That's probably the most existential issue. But from
Speaker 4: my perspective, the biggest legacy issue is the work to
Speaker 4: make America healthy again. And I think a lot of
Speaker 4: people would be like, well, wait a minute, that's more
Speaker 4: Bobby I said, no, no, no. The only way we
Speaker 4: make America healthy again is by putting real food, which
Speaker 4: comes from real farmers, back at the center of every conversation,
Speaker 4: of every policy decision. USDA spends four hundred million dollars
Speaker 4: every day. Just let that soak in every day on
Speaker 4: just sixteen nutrition programs, school lunches, the Snap program, the
Speaker 4: Whig Program, etc. Imagine the market moving power just in
Speaker 4: that alone, right, the dietary guidelines. Yes, we want people
Speaker 4: eating real food. We want to open the aperture for
Speaker 4: young farmers to get in and grow lettuce and sell
Speaker 4: to the local school. But the opportunity to really change
Speaker 4: the trajectory of the nation under the health you know,
Speaker 4: putting farmers in real food back into the center of
Speaker 4: every piece of policy making changes the game forever for
Speaker 4: our country.
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Speaker 5: the issue that I've heard most about, and I know
Speaker 5: this you brought it up though you work with Secretary
Speaker 5: Kennedy a lot over at HHS every day. But is
Speaker 5: this issue and but I know you work with the
Speaker 5: epas well, that's right, and Lee Zelden over there. So
Speaker 5: this issue of glypha sate to the extent that it
Speaker 5: overlaps with you, there's been the allegations are they vary,
Speaker 5: but it's basically like the ADMIN has given, you know,
Speaker 5: a legal blank check essentially the immunity or something or
Speaker 5: working towards us for the Glypa sate and chemical manufacturers
Speaker 5: at the expense of kind of what MAHA wants. And Kennedy,
Speaker 5: Secretary Kennedy's come out against glypha sate. The farmers seem
Speaker 5: to like it, right, So what is the truth?
Speaker 6: What is fiction? Separate truth from fiction?
Speaker 5: Here are we giving immunity to glaphytate manufacturers? How does
Speaker 5: that impact your goals at MAHA? How does that impact
Speaker 5: HHS goals at MAHA.
Speaker 4: You know, I think Bobby has talked about this in
Speaker 4: a way that is really focused on You can't pull
Speaker 4: a crop protection tool like glypha sate and just go
Speaker 4: on as normal. It is decades, whether right or wrong,
Speaker 4: it is decades of use that has underscored, underwritten, and
Speaker 4: provided America's farmers and ranchers to become the bread basket
Speaker 4: for the world. So if you are to just pull
Speaker 4: the rug tomorrow and say sorry, no more glaphy sate,
Speaker 4: right or wrong again? You know, EPA has now for
Speaker 4: decades approved it, said it's not harmful if used correctly.
Speaker 4: The EU uses it. It's actually one of the few
Speaker 4: things that the EU has approved. They disapprove almost everything
Speaker 4: that is one that has been approved. Again for right
Speaker 4: or wrong. I think the questions are real. Who's funding
Speaker 4: the studies? Have they been updated? I mean, those are
Speaker 4: all really important questions, but the studies we have to
Speaker 4: date would say that used correctly, it has not proven
Speaker 4: to be detrimental if used correctly. Having said all of that,
Speaker 4: the way Bobby has questioned it, I don't disagree with.
Speaker 4: We have to have an off ramp and a forward
Speaker 4: leaning plan that allows us to rely more heavily on
Speaker 4: technology on AI potentially to use as pesticide. So you
Speaker 4: can't believe the technology that's out there today. There are
Speaker 4: drones that can do one fly over a say, a
Speaker 4: five hundred acre field of corn, and can within half
Speaker 4: a second send the information back to the farmer and
Speaker 4: back to the tractor and say, oh, actually where a
Speaker 4: crop protected or a pesticide may be necessary is in
Speaker 4: this one corner on row fifty seven at cornstock six.
Speaker 4: And so instead of just blasting the whole field, you
Speaker 4: can go in and really focus on where it's needed,
Speaker 4: whether it's glaphysate, something organic or not.
Speaker 3: That's how it's always been.
Speaker 7: I believe, like even with a lot of the glypa
Speaker 7: state harms, it's because people are using it at home
Speaker 7: and they're really overdoing it. They're not professionals, they don't
Speaker 7: know exactly how much they need and this seems like
Speaker 7: an even more extreme cases.
Speaker 5: Well listen, I mean, my instincts say, probably the world
Speaker 5: we like, we'd probably have better overall health if we
Speaker 5: weren't using glyphysate.
Speaker 6: That's my general instinct here.
Speaker 5: But I'm I also find the argument compelling that you
Speaker 5: can't rug pool the entire agg industry overnight. I mean,
Speaker 5: the shock would be dramatic and prices tried that.
Speaker 7: Sri Lanka did a ban on glyphys and everything else overnight,
Speaker 7: and food prices went up fifty percent in one year, I.
Speaker 4: Mean, and the leaders of the country, literally the president
Speaker 4: had to flee the country.
Speaker 5: They fled the country. So that's very compelling argument. But
Speaker 5: I love this idea of an off ramp and so
Speaker 5: so it kind of brings up this larger issue of tech.
Speaker 5: So one of my big pet peeves, and I mentioned
Speaker 5: this too briefly in the green room before you came on,
Speaker 5: is this whole I mean, I'm very aware that the
Speaker 5: president is being hounded by big AG, big hospitality. We
Speaker 5: need foreign workers, we need foreign workers, we need foreign workers.
Speaker 5: And he's a businessman and he wants the business and
Speaker 5: the economy to be rip roaring.
Speaker 6: I get it. So it's attention.
Speaker 5: I believe that there should be a more concerted effort
Speaker 5: from the federal government to implement tech in robotics to
Speaker 5: pick crops so that we don't have to have so
Speaker 5: many seasonal workers, so we don't have to have illegal
Speaker 5: immigrants coming over the border and transforming our country, which,
Speaker 5: by the way, is not just a crop problem or
Speaker 5: as food price problem. It's a DMV problem, a school's problem,
Speaker 5: a hospital problem, it's a traffic on the roads problem,
Speaker 5: it's a housing problem.
Speaker 6: So it's all connected.
Speaker 5: So what can you tell me about how you guys
Speaker 5: are focused at the USDA to address the robotics issue.
Speaker 5: Is there a moon shot that we can get where
Speaker 5: we help with the capital expenditures to implement robotics or
Speaker 5: to train up farmers, local farmers, even big, big agg
Speaker 5: on how to implement this technology more successfully.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there are a couple of different things. First of all,
Speaker 4: the USDA is a massive bmuth of an agency. The
Speaker 4: budget is astounding. A lot of it is food stamps
Speaker 4: and the welfare programs, but a lot of it is
Speaker 4: land grant research investments and into these sorts of opportunities.
Speaker 4: But as in all things, the private sector. This is
Speaker 4: where a lot of the guys in Silicon Valley have
Speaker 4: now pivoted to is agriculture and the idea that we
Speaker 4: can do what you're talking about. We're already seeing it
Speaker 4: in the dairy industry. If you were to go on MVP.
Speaker 4: Dairy is one of my favorite. I think they have
Speaker 4: a lot five thousand, maybe mama cows on milk. Those
Speaker 4: cows they walk out to the pasture, they have their
Speaker 4: fun time. When they're ready to be milked, they kind
Speaker 4: of know in their head.
Speaker 6: Well they have physical pain, Yes, you do it, that's right.
Speaker 6: So they're motivated that they walk back in.
Speaker 4: They literally walk into a stall, the technology hooks up.
Speaker 4: There's no worker, the technology hooks up. They get on
Speaker 4: a carousel. It's actually amazing. Y'all need to look this up.
Speaker 4: They zoom around on their carousel, they eat their alfalfa,
Speaker 4: they eat their food, then they finish. After one round,
Speaker 4: they back back off, they go back out to the pasture.
Speaker 4: It's completely self regulated. Thousands of dairy cattle. So the
Speaker 4: technology is incredible.
Speaker 5: The same thing I've seen robotics that go through these
Speaker 5: crop rows and they'll pick that's right. That's a quicker
Speaker 5: then you know some you know, no offense, but like
Speaker 5: some you know Guatemalan that came over the border illegally,
Speaker 5: they're actually going quicker, more efficiently, and you don't have
Speaker 5: all these knock on downstream social impacts, school impacts, DMV impacts.
Speaker 5: So but if I'm a farmer and I'm thinking, okay,
Speaker 5: I get it. I'm maga through and through a voter
Speaker 5: Trump three times, and I want to be supportive of
Speaker 5: my culture. But I can't afford the local at least
Speaker 5: not not everybody for harvesteasonn' I can't afford all Americans
Speaker 5: or whatever break the bank. I need to get some
Speaker 5: of these seasonal workers. I really am drawn to robotics.
Speaker 5: I want to try this. Maybe I can save some
Speaker 5: money that I'm thinking the main barriers are capital expenditure, learning.
Speaker 6: Just you know, that's a farmer. You're up from sun
Speaker 6: up to sundown.
Speaker 4: You're in the average farmers fifty eight years old.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so how are you going to tea teach an
Speaker 6: old farmer new tricks?
Speaker 4: That's right?
Speaker 5: So, like, how do we bridge the knowledge gap, the
Speaker 5: capital expenditure gap, because a lot of these guys are
Speaker 5: barely hanging on right, And you know about this, I
Speaker 5: know it's near in due to your heart. We have
Speaker 5: so many farmers that are folding up in closing up shop,
Speaker 5: so that seems to be and I'm not talking.
Speaker 6: About Big AGG, although Big AGG should.
Speaker 5: Be the first one that is forced to adopt this
Speaker 5: stuff or at least incentivized strongly. So like, how do
Speaker 5: we bridge that gap? Yeah?
Speaker 4: There there is a really important opportunity to meet this
Speaker 4: moment in American history. Everything you have just described is
Speaker 4: a formula that allows us to really run at full
Speaker 4: speed toward real significant change. A USDA and an HHS
Speaker 4: and an FDA and a small business, you know, the
Speaker 4: small business Kelly Leftwarers now started investing a bunch of
Speaker 4: money in ag technology. Another conversation for another time. But
Speaker 4: we've offshored all of our fertilizer for the last thirty years,
Speaker 4: so we're relying on China and Russia for fertilizer now
Speaker 4: in the same well, that's exactly right. We're now about
Speaker 4: to break ground on what will be the largest ammonia
Speaker 4: plant in the world in Louisiana in about a month,
Speaker 4: so we're solving for that too. But the investment, first
Speaker 4: of all deregulating, which would allow our private sector. These
Speaker 4: Silicon Valley guys David Friedberg and others who are all
Speaker 4: in on agriculture and they see that as the next
Speaker 4: big frontier on how to fix that while at the
Speaker 4: same time making sure USDA instead of spending money on
Speaker 4: transgender men, you know the minstrel cycles, which you talked
Speaker 4: about at the top of our conversation, we're now spending
Speaker 4: money and investing on this sort of investment. It would
Speaker 4: be great if Congress wanted to lean in. And you know,
Speaker 4: we're shrinking government. I think our federal government is now
Speaker 4: the same size as it was.
Speaker 6: But this is really important to spend money.
Speaker 5: If the ROI means that we don't have the need
Speaker 5: for ten million illegals the next time a Democrat takes
Speaker 5: us exactly, Okay, like we got to cut off the
Speaker 5: incentive structure. Half of this is if the farms don't
Speaker 5: need the labor, they're gonna come over the border and yeah,
Speaker 5: they'll get restaurant work, they'll get hospitality work.
Speaker 6: Again, this is all assuming a Democrats.
Speaker 5: In office, but the farms won't need them, and that
Speaker 5: cuts off a huge, huge incentive.
Speaker 7: And we already said that happening with other jobs they
Speaker 7: would fill that. We brought in hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 7: truck drivers and now we're right clearly on the brink
Speaker 7: of having a ton of self driving vehicles.
Speaker 8: That's right.
Speaker 5: So we're going to create this permanent underclass that people
Speaker 5: can't get jobs for a job that doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I agree with you one hundred percent.
Speaker 6: We'll go one snap and they'll go on snap.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then we'll have to kick them off that too,
Speaker 5: when we find out the front. Okay, you mentioned China
Speaker 5: and Brazil as as let's just say, foes in the
Speaker 5: agriculture space or competitors. What are they doing that's so
Speaker 5: insidious and what are we doing to fight back?
Speaker 4: Well, we can start with farmland. China in nineteen eighty
Speaker 4: three owned about two thousand acres of our American farmland.
Speaker 4: Today they own almost two hundred thousand acres of our
Speaker 4: American farmland. They purchased Syngenta, which is basically there's no
Speaker 4: other purveyor of seeds and some of the other crop
Speaker 4: protected in the world. How did this happen to Smithfield?
Speaker 4: They purchased, which was the largest pork company in America,
Speaker 4: in the world, but in America that basically controls about
Speaker 4: a fifth of our pork in America now owned by
Speaker 4: the Chinese. Brazil with our meat processing, we have a
Speaker 4: beef price issue today in America, but part of that
Speaker 4: is because only four companies control about eighty five percent
Speaker 4: of the processing of our beef. Two of those are
Speaker 4: Brazilian owned. One of those is JBS, and I will
Speaker 4: call them out. I continue to do so. They are
Speaker 4: a company that has faced nineteen hundred indictments in Brazil
Speaker 4: for corruption. They are basically have child slave labor accusations.
Speaker 4: It's a couple of billionaires and it is a massive issue,
Speaker 4: and they keep taking our market share. I know I
Speaker 4: mentioned Brazil's taking soybean, corn, now cotton and beef. These
Speaker 4: are really really big national sup.
Speaker 5: Pressure from President Trump to on the taraf front on
Speaker 5: beef so that we lower beef prices.
Speaker 6: What's your position on that.
Speaker 5: I mean, I understand you've got you've got a boss,
Speaker 5: but I mean that is a tension though, right, I mean,
Speaker 5: the ranchers are probably hearing that going it is.
Speaker 9: It's a it is.
Speaker 4: The President is very focused on affordability and Obviously, we're
Speaker 4: all understand that's probably the top issue for the midterms.
Speaker 4: All other food prices have come down, Beef has not.
Speaker 4: Because we're at a cattle herd low of seventy five years,
Speaker 4: primarily because the left waged war on ranchers and cattlemen
Speaker 4: say it caused climate change. Climate change took away grazing,
Speaker 4: a lotments, et cetera. Exactly, there are a lot there
Speaker 4: are other reasons to drow on some other things, but
Speaker 4: it's a worldwide This.
Speaker 6: Is for ta Rico.
Speaker 5: He's like, we have a moral obligation to get rid
Speaker 5: of meat.
Speaker 6: We're gonna do the vegan thing.
Speaker 7: Well, literally crazy, I mean, it be kind of true
Speaker 7: that this will probably just solve itself eventually.
Speaker 3: A lot of us is just you gotta wait for
Speaker 3: the cows to be born.
Speaker 4: You have to wait for the cows to be born.
Speaker 4: And then also, not surprisingly, you have to ensure you're
Speaker 4: protecting and upholding what the ranchers need to do.
Speaker 8: Just that.
Speaker 4: So, on the one hand, you've got the beef price issue,
Speaker 4: and we're importing beef already, but how do you bring
Speaker 4: that price down? And how much? I mean, it's six
Speaker 4: fifty six seventy a pounds of beef, trying to get
Speaker 4: that back down to normal prices, which is five fifty
Speaker 4: five dollars. The good news is on like fuel, there
Speaker 4: are other sources of protein, so it's not like families
Speaker 4: are starving because.
Speaker 6: They can't afford six to fifty.
Speaker 5: You could relieve some pressure in the short term, but
Speaker 5: in long term, we got to keep our eyes on
Speaker 5: our own range and we have to incident.
Speaker 4: It's a national security issue, it really is. So that's
Speaker 4: what we're really working to do. The flip side, and
Speaker 4: this is good news for the long term. Tough for
Speaker 4: the short term is with make America healthy again. Everyone's
Speaker 4: eating more beef and they want They're willing to pay
Speaker 4: for it. So it's a supplying demand.
Speaker 6: I want, baby, that's right, I want. You know, I'm
Speaker 6: a red blooded American mail I had a lot of beef.
Speaker 6: I need beef. Some of my kids just love being
Speaker 6: Oh yeah no.
Speaker 4: And everyone's eating more beef, and so that's.
Speaker 6: Been a dot com.
Speaker 4: Are they supporters? I love those guys.
Speaker 6: That bends amazing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, product of the USA. For the first time, we
Speaker 4: two months ago said you can no longer you can
Speaker 4: sell in America. But you can't say you're a product
Speaker 4: of the USA unless you're born, sold good. I was
Speaker 4: gonna ask harvested, processed here, whereas others if it was
Speaker 4: one of the five, they could stick on a USA.
Speaker 4: So we're incentivizing our ranchers to build their herds.
Speaker 5: You're getting you're going after fraud, you're encouraging maha. We're
Speaker 5: getting rid of synthetics, we're promoting cotton. Well, we're not
Speaker 5: getting rid of synthetics. We're create a marketplace where cotton wins.
Speaker 6: Yes, and we.
Speaker 5: Should review some of the synthetics because yes, and then
Speaker 5: we're also protecting our home, our home home perf right
Speaker 5: with the ranchers and the farmers here.
Speaker 6: But it seems like you're checking all the boxes.
Speaker 4: Can we do one more that I think your audience
Speaker 4: will love?
Speaker 6: Absolutely so?
Speaker 4: The law fair piece of this is real. Obviously, the
Speaker 4: weaponization of government, we've all seen it, Charlotte, you guys,
Speaker 4: I the President certainly more than anyone. But what a
Speaker 4: lot of people don't know is that our farmers and ranchers,
Speaker 4: with the Democrats at every level federal, state, local, have
Speaker 4: been under assault, whether it's using emminent domain to take
Speaker 4: There was one hundred and seventy five year old farm
Speaker 4: in New Jersey, sixth generation Andy Henry. The city of
Speaker 4: I think it was Cranberry, New Jersey, tried to take
Speaker 4: their land, take it after trying to buy it and
Speaker 4: they said no, to try to take their land to
Speaker 4: build affordable housing. This is one hundred and seventy five
Speaker 4: year old farm before the Civil War. In Arizona.
Speaker 5: I just two nights about that housing because we imported
Speaker 5: seventy five million.
Speaker 6: People under the country since ninety Get this.
Speaker 4: There is a ranch I just posted about a couple
Speaker 4: of days ago, the Casey Murphy Ranch. And here in
Speaker 4: Arizona where the State of Arizona is trying to take
Speaker 4: to put solar panels on, not try to buy, not
Speaker 4: try to say can we work with you, but to
Speaker 4: take his ranch, his six ranch to put solar panels on. Yes, yes,
Speaker 4: it is one thing that's happening.
Speaker 6: It's such a sturge. It doesn't even look nice. Oh,
Speaker 6: it's awful.
Speaker 4: They're China, a.
Speaker 5: Big, beautiful farm, beautiful ranch. Yes, and then you replace
Speaker 5: it with a frigging soul and it's intermittent.
Speaker 4: It doesn't even work. You can't power a country on
Speaker 4: solar or wind like. It is really massively problematic for
Speaker 4: so many reasons. But the law fair against our farmers
Speaker 4: and ranchers is real.
Speaker 6: So many farm an annual basis. Well, is it slowed yet.
Speaker 4: It's it's beginning to slow. We've been losing tens of
Speaker 4: thousands on a yearly basis, but we are working. That's
Speaker 4: the other good thing about MAHA is that it incentivizes
Speaker 4: first generation or second generation have fifty herd of cattle,
Speaker 4: slaughter them, support and sell just to the local school
Speaker 4: or just to the local hospital. We've got a whole
Speaker 4: young farmer project that allows them to do that. Had
Speaker 4: two brothers in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the desert who
Speaker 4: got together wanted to become farmers. Dad's a doctor, mom's
Speaker 4: a professor. They now grow after ten years, two hundred
Speaker 4: fifty thousand leads of organic lettuce on three acres in
Speaker 4: the desert. They employ six people, legal workers, and they
Speaker 4: have made a life on three acres two hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty thousand head of lettuce. It is the most righteous
Speaker 4: heiding it.
Speaker 5: How do people plug into this stuff? They want to
Speaker 5: see how you could help them. Where do they go.
Speaker 4: They go to USDA dot gov. There are so many programs.
Speaker 4: It's a little bit, you know, challenging from a conservative
Speaker 4: free market perspective, but these programs are so.
Speaker 6: Important to good righteously now.
Speaker 5: And I exactly imagine what it must have been like
Speaker 5: day one where you open the hood at USDA and
Speaker 5: saw the woke and the corruption and the fraud and
Speaker 5: the waste.
Speaker 6: It must have been just shocked.
Speaker 4: On day one we canceled nine hundred, not nine, not
Speaker 4: ninety nine hundred DEI trainings just at USDA. Nine hundred
Speaker 4: were we.
Speaker 6: Were so things were way worse than I think people realize, and.
Speaker 4: We all knew it was bad. And I've been at
Speaker 4: this a really long time. No idea how truly corrupt
Speaker 4: and horrible it is. I know we started the conversation
Speaker 4: on snap. What we found in just the Red States
Speaker 4: is enough to make anyone weep. What we will find
Speaker 4: in the Blue states when we finally get our hands
Speaker 4: on that data.
Speaker 6: How are we going to get it?
Speaker 4: Well, we're in litigation right now. The next step is
Speaker 4: to cut the funding and then we have a real conversation.
Speaker 6: Good, So I think we should go hard.
Speaker 4: I agree, and the President really agrees with that too,
Speaker 4: which is the good news.
Speaker 5: Well, Brooke, I know you got to run. It's been
Speaker 5: wonderful having this conversation. People do not fully appreciate all
Speaker 5: that goes on in our government and especially at USDA,
Speaker 5: So thank you for a little peak behind the curtain here.
Speaker 6: Really fascinating.
Speaker 4: I feel like we have and are honoring our friend
Speaker 4: Charlie's legacy. And this was what he dreamed for, what
Speaker 4: he worked for his whole life, his young life, but
Speaker 4: his whole life, and it's coming to fruition.
Speaker 6: And he's a big reason that folks like you get
Speaker 6: a chance.
Speaker 4: That's exactly right, I would argue, maybe the biggest reason.
Speaker 5: So yeah, well, God bless you and thank you for
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Speaker 4: Thank you anytime.
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Speaker 5: next up on the Megan Kelly Network. Mark, great to
Speaker 5: see you. We have reports now that President Trump has
Speaker 5: been rush to the situation room. I don't know if
Speaker 5: that's just headlines trying to get clicks, but he is
Speaker 5: in the situation room reviewing the peace terms and the
Speaker 5: framework of a potential piece deal with Iran. First question
Speaker 5: is are you hopeful this can actually get done? And
Speaker 5: if it can, what are the implications.
Speaker 2: I'm hopeful in the sense that I hope it happens.
Speaker 2: I'm skeptical in the sense that it's hard for me
Speaker 2: to see the deal that the President's just outlined on
Speaker 2: truth social being agreed to by the Iranians. I've thought
Speaker 2: for a while that the words coming out of their
Speaker 2: mouth and a piece of paper saying they're giving up
Speaker 2: their nuclear program would be a bridge too far for
Speaker 2: them under the current circumstances where they don't seem cow
Speaker 2: and I would caution people that if the President does
Speaker 2: say I met with my team or signing the deal,
Speaker 2: even if Aron says they're signing the deal too. Although
Speaker 2: it would be a big step for them to acknowledge
Speaker 2: a commitment to get rid of the nuclear program, it's
Speaker 2: going to be hard to get that done, particularly when
Speaker 2: one of the first items in the deal is opening
Speaker 2: up the Straight which is great for the American economy
Speaker 2: and the American driver, but also takes that economic pressure
Speaker 2: off of Ron. So I'm skeptical that the deal actually
Speaker 2: will be agreed to by both sides. But that happens,
Speaker 2: we're all gonna have to watch to see whether Iran
Speaker 2: will continue to negotiate the terms of the specifics on
Speaker 2: nuclear and good faith, and history suggests we should all
Speaker 2: be skeptical about that.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think that's a really good point of
Speaker 5: caution here, Mark, because it is a step by step process.
Speaker 5: It's sort of like, hey, we're going to take one
Speaker 5: step of good faith forward. If you meet us there,
Speaker 5: we're going to take another one, and another one and
Speaker 5: another one. But if you don't, then the stick is waiting.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 5: We can we can blockade the straight again. We could
Speaker 5: even use kinetic military force again. We can roll this
Speaker 5: all the way back to the start of the process.
Speaker 5: So I do agree with you. That being said, I
Speaker 5: have been told, sources have told me that what's changed
Speaker 5: about this is that the moderates seem ascendant. The hardliners
Speaker 5: seem like they're getting more and more isolated. That could change.
Speaker 5: It's not that the hardliners are gone. And the other
Speaker 5: thing is that they actually are willing for the first
Speaker 5: time talking about concessions on nuclear talking about okay, okay,
Speaker 5: we'll stop, we won't pursue this, and we'll create a
Speaker 5: plan for you guys to actually get the dust right.
Speaker 7: Well, but we've I feel like we've been around the
Speaker 7: block on this a few times where it's it's the
Speaker 7: moderate rebels the moderate extremists. We've seen that in Syria,
Speaker 7: we've seen that in Libya. Certainly, Mark, I think you've
Speaker 7: probably you've probably been around the block on hopes in
Speaker 7: the in the Middle East a few times, and you
Speaker 7: might have some experience on how that tends to pan
Speaker 7: out well.
Speaker 2: Historically in Middle East generally is you suggest like and
Speaker 2: specifically Iran. It hasn't worked that great, but I think
Speaker 2: one of the encouraging things in the way the President
Speaker 2: has framed the deal, and we'll see in the actual
Speaker 2: document if that's the case. If Iran is not getting
Speaker 2: financial concessions up front, they're not getting any sort of
Speaker 2: unfreezing of assets, they're not getting sanctions taken off, they're
Speaker 2: simply being allowed to trade oil, which probably would involve
Speaker 2: some st ancients being taken off, but specifically for that purpose,
Speaker 2: then I think the pressure can remain on them. And
Speaker 2: the present and some of his advisors have dreamed from
Speaker 2: the beginning that the way to solve this is to
Speaker 2: get Iran and into the community of Nations to cross
Speaker 2: with For a time they were calling the Golden Bridge.
Speaker 2: So you're right to be skeptical about the Middle East.
Speaker 2: We're all right to be skeptical about Iran. But this
Speaker 2: is the present who struck the deal between Israel and Daza.
Speaker 2: That deal has been stalled out, but between that and
Speaker 2: the Abraham Accords, he's been made more forward progress in
Speaker 2: the region than any of his recent predecessors, and so
Speaker 2: maybe this will be a deal that the Iranians can
Speaker 2: be coaxed into and maybe if the so called moderates
Speaker 2: are ascended, there can be the kind of economic connection
Speaker 2: that really is the key for a lot of folks
Speaker 2: to say, you can ever deal with Iran and good
Speaker 2: faith as long as the religious extremists are in charge.
Speaker 2: But maybe this can change things if their economy is
Speaker 2: offered kind of a tie up with the US.
Speaker 5: Well, let's talk incentives here, then, Mark, because a lot
Speaker 5: of times deals get done when the incentives align.
Speaker 6: All right, So Iron's.
Speaker 5: Got these wells that if they have to shut them
Speaker 5: off because they run out of storage, you might not
Speaker 5: ever be able to turn them back on, right, Okay,
Speaker 5: that's a huge incentive. Even if you're a hardliner, and
Speaker 5: even if you sort of don't care about your own people,
Speaker 5: that is something to consider. It's a huge pressure point.
Speaker 5: So they're incentivized to at least open the straight back up.
Speaker 5: Whether or not they'll actually play ball in the nuclear
Speaker 5: we don't know, all right. And that's the one thing
Speaker 5: I'm a little bit skeptical with this deal, is like, Okay,
Speaker 5: why don't you let us have the nuclear then we'll
Speaker 5: open the straight I kind of want the points reverse. Secondly, though,
Speaker 5: politically here at home, we have to be realists about
Speaker 5: the political incentives. If we get gas under three dollars
Speaker 5: on average across the country again heading into November, that's
Speaker 5: a huge boon to the president and to the economy.
Speaker 5: Those things seem to be in alignment. Do you think
Speaker 5: that's enough to push this to the president's signing it?
Speaker 5: You know what I mean, It's like he's got to
Speaker 5: be a realist about this. Are you here hearing that
Speaker 5: he's as concerned about that as maybe I am?
Speaker 6: Or you might be.
Speaker 2: No, I mean, the order of operations is exactly what
Speaker 2: you said, but not only for the reasons you said,
Speaker 2: which is getting the nuclear done some people think will
Speaker 2: take many months and some people think will take years. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's a much different timetable than the President needs to
Speaker 2: be on both politically and economically for reopening the Straight.
Speaker 2: So this is why you're going to hear skepticism, including
Speaker 2: from some neocons and from some independent analysts, which is
Speaker 2: to say, opening the Straight has benefits for both sides.
Speaker 2: There's been a paradox that I think held up a deal.
Speaker 2: Both sides want the Straight open long term, but short term.
Speaker 2: Opening the straight is a disadvantage for both sides. Iran
Speaker 2: gives up its leverage over the present regarding gas prices
Speaker 2: in the midterms, and the President gives up leverage over
Speaker 2: Iran for what you said, which is now they're the
Speaker 2: pressure on them if to not have to shut down
Speaker 2: their oil facilities and do permanent damage goes away. So
Speaker 2: this is a sign of trust, a sign of good faith.
Speaker 2: Of course, even if they agree to it, one one
Speaker 2: drone or one attack on one ship can make a
Speaker 2: big difference. There's lots of questions in the oil industry
Speaker 2: and the shipping industry about even if they agree today,
Speaker 2: how soon insurers and captains can get moving again to
Speaker 2: move ships through and how soon that will impact prices.
Speaker 2: But the nuclear piece is just very complicated. And that's
Speaker 2: assuming that Iran is operating in some level of good faith,
Speaker 2: which the Vice President said last night. They are operating
Speaker 2: currently in good faith. I'd be great if they do.
Speaker 2: But even if they want to get this done, it's
Speaker 2: going to be a complicated process. And that again assumes
Speaker 2: that the hardliners don't reassert their power over the process.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think it's again all this caution is
Speaker 5: super warranted. I'm not trying to be glass at full
Speaker 5: rose colored glasses. I'm simply saying politically, getting this deal
Speaker 5: done makes all the sense in the world if it
Speaker 5: can be done right. In the caution, Yeah, in the
Speaker 5: caution that you're mentioning, Mark here about you know, we're
Speaker 5: not sure if the chain of command is being followed,
Speaker 5: you know, strictly in an essentialized way in Iran. You
Speaker 5: could have factions that are controlling different parts of the
Speaker 5: IRGC or the Revolutionary Guard, right, and they could spring
Speaker 5: an attack on one of these vessels completely outside of
Speaker 5: the chain of the command that has been established in
Speaker 5: this framework, and then what do you do.
Speaker 6: So there's lots of questions remaining.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Look, you're right about two things for sure
Speaker 2: that emphasized.
Speaker 6: One is.
Speaker 2: These ships aren't going to just go through. They're going
Speaker 2: to need to be safe. And just saying the blockades
Speaker 2: off and Iran is gonna let free passage go doesn't
Speaker 2: help the insurers get insurance in place, doesn't reassure the
Speaker 2: captains and crews, and doesn't keep a rogue element in
Speaker 2: Iran from striking. And we don't know what would happen
Speaker 2: in that instance. The other thing is, look, if the
Speaker 2: deal is anything like what the President said on Truth
Speaker 2: Social good for him because this is exceeds my expectations
Speaker 2: from a few hours ago about what the best possible
Speaker 2: deal would be for him and for the United States
Speaker 2: politically and geopolitically to get the process going. Because the
Speaker 2: status quo was untenable for the president, it was untenable
Speaker 2: politically and geopolitically diplomatically, He needed a change. And this
Speaker 2: is under the circumstances. Again, if the President's outline is correct,
Speaker 2: this exceeds what I thought was possible under the current circumstances.
Speaker 5: Well, and I think it could be legacy building certainly,
Speaker 5: but also this political the political ramifications are extremely huge. Blake,
Speaker 5: you have a question. I know we only got a
Speaker 5: minute a half left. We could take it on the
Speaker 5: other side of too well.
Speaker 7: I think another topic that's been taking up a lot
Speaker 7: of attention to Washington and online, but we haven't talked
Speaker 7: about it much on this show, and it's causing a
Speaker 7: rift between the President and Republicans in Congress, is this
Speaker 7: effort to get an anti weaponization fund going via the courts. Obviously,
Speaker 7: we know President Trump faced a lot of legal attacks.
Speaker 3: A lot of his allies faced a lot of legal attacks,
Speaker 3: and they've tried to engineer this.
Speaker 7: I think it's about one point seven one point eight
Speaker 7: billion dollar fund for people who say that they have
Speaker 7: been the target of weaponized law air from the DOJ
Speaker 7: in the past. The President is hoping to get this.
Speaker 7: Republicans are pretty skeptical. Obviously. Democrats are saying it's completely
Speaker 7: beyond the pale. As of this moment, a federal judge
Speaker 7: is holding it up. But I thought, maybe going on
Speaker 7: the other side, Mark, if you have thoughts on the
Speaker 7: overall situation of him attempting to get this, is it
Speaker 7: as unprecedented as it looks, and is it going to
Speaker 7: be the sort of thing that becomes a distraction over
Speaker 7: the course of this summer.
Speaker 2: Like if your excellent summary and narrative of the situation
Speaker 2: left that one key fact, which is it's not just
Speaker 2: Democrats who object to this. A lot of Republicans object
Speaker 2: to it too, including Republican senators who are now holding
Speaker 2: up the president's a desired reconciliation package to fund homeland
Speaker 2: security because they don't want any part of this. And
Speaker 2: sometimes in an election year with an unpopular president, and
Speaker 2: the president's pull numbers are currently not good. You see
Speaker 2: objections that are based on politics, and there's no doubt
Speaker 2: that Republican senators in the main think the politics of
Speaker 2: this are bad, but they also don't like the substance
Speaker 2: of it. For the reason you suggested this is not
Speaker 2: normal what was done here. It would take a while
Speaker 2: to explain all the reasons that are not normal. Have
Speaker 2: presidents controlled money before and doled it out to their cronies, Sure,
Speaker 2: but the nature of how this came about and the
Speaker 2: nature of what it is is politically toxic. Again, not
Speaker 2: in the view of democrats only, not in the view
Speaker 2: of reporters, but in the view of a lot of Republicans.
Speaker 2: And so whatever the disposition of it is in the courts,
Speaker 2: and as you said, a district court judges held it up,
Speaker 2: there'll certainly be appeals. I don't believe this thing will
Speaker 2: ever happen in anything like the form it's in. I
Speaker 2: believe Republican senators are going to make the President either
Speaker 2: significantly change it or kill it.
Speaker 6: Mark, I have to ask you about this.
Speaker 5: I'm sort of convinced there's not a whole lot of
Speaker 5: significance here, but I do find it interesting that Jill
Speaker 5: Biden is now trying to set the record straight on
Speaker 5: the infamous debate night. You know, she gets up on
Speaker 5: stage and said, you answered all the questions, Joe, which
Speaker 5: was probably untrue. But she's now admitting that she was worried.
Speaker 5: Did he have a stroke? Was he drugged?
Speaker 6: You know? Was he sabotaged?
Speaker 7: Which sounds equally implausible to me, to be honest, because
Speaker 7: she had to see him every single day.
Speaker 5: He was never like oh god, she says, are they
Speaker 5: going to think that he was always like this? Jill,
Speaker 5: We have news for you. He was always like this,
Speaker 5: and we saw it with our own two eyes.
Speaker 2: Your thoughts, Mark, I think the biggest thing that was
Speaker 2: revealed is the Bidens don't have c SPAN, because if
Speaker 2: they did, Jill Biden would have seen this. I find
Speaker 2: this whole thing really troubling. It's a fun story, and
Speaker 2: I know I predicted you guys would ask me about
Speaker 2: it because it's fun and it's interesting, But they're two
Speaker 2: fundamental things. Jill Biden's job is to protect her family,
Speaker 2: protect her husband, So her lying about this, I just
Speaker 2: I chalk it up to whatever. But it's troubling that
Speaker 2: she had an opportunity not to respond to the heat
Speaker 2: of the moment, but to write a book to think
Speaker 2: about what she wanted history to think her view of
Speaker 2: this was. And obviously she didn't think her husband was
Speaker 2: on drugs or having a stroke, or she would have
Speaker 2: done something differently on the night of the debate. So
Speaker 2: I find that all just kind of annoying. What I
Speaker 2: continue to be more troubled by is the dominant media's
Speaker 2: reaction to this is, oh, my goodness, look what Jill
Speaker 2: Biden is saying, and then say what doesn't make sense
Speaker 2: because right after the debate she said he did such
Speaker 2: a good job. No, the reaction should be, you know what,
Speaker 2: now's time for us to come clean on the role
Speaker 2: we played in the cover up, because anyone who looked
Speaker 2: at that night and was surprised, or as Jill Biden said,
Speaker 2: oh my god, he must be having a stroke. If
Speaker 2: that was the product of a stroke, then the guy
Speaker 2: had strokes on a regular basis for seven years and
Speaker 2: he's a medical miracle for having lived through it. So
Speaker 2: I mean, to me, that's just depressing to once again
Speaker 2: watch the media be like, oh, we're figuring it out now.
Speaker 2: We caught Jill Biden in a lie. She obviously didn't
Speaker 2: think he was having a stroke. No, it's an opportunity
Speaker 2: to say, once again, we failed you, the American people.
Speaker 2: We should have told you this sooner. But obviously Jill
Speaker 2: Biden's not telling the truth. And obviously we didn't tell
Speaker 2: you the truth because we act surprised on Debate Night two.
Speaker 7: And you're right, and we should come clean, not just
Speaker 7: for moral reasons, but we really went through something incredibly
Speaker 7: dicey with that.
Speaker 6: Which is, yeah, we don't who was actually the.
Speaker 7: President nine In twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four, President
Speaker 7: Trump has raised the question did President Biden's pardons Was
Speaker 7: he actually aware of that all of them at any point?
Speaker 7: Whereas policies were his executive orders? Were they actually routing
Speaker 7: through the president or through this small cabal of people
Speaker 7: who had access to him? And I think we actually
Speaker 7: do need to get to the bottom of that or
Speaker 7: it raises serious questions about the nature of our system.
Speaker 7: Even if you it's not just President Trump's jokes about
Speaker 7: having the auto signature machine in the Rose Garden, it
Speaker 7: really raises concerns about our system.
Speaker 2: Amen, And it raises questions about the people around the president,
Speaker 2: the cabinet, the senior white hot staff, his family. It
Speaker 2: raises questions about the president himself. And I'll say again
Speaker 2: what I said at the time. Joe Biden was not
Speaker 2: as far gone as his critics said, but he was
Speaker 2: not as with it as his defenders said. And people
Speaker 2: in that state have good days and bad days, and
Speaker 2: he had some good days. He had good days. So
Speaker 2: you look at the state of the Union. He gave
Speaker 2: that the year of the presidential race. He had good days.
Speaker 2: But it also I go back to the media. It
Speaker 2: raises questions about the media, about the American Medical Association,
Speaker 2: about members of Congress. All these members of Congress say, now, oh, privately,
Speaker 2: I saw how bad he was, or I had no idea.
Speaker 2: I'm sick of people being asked, did you have any idea?
Speaker 2: Of course they had an idea, because they all have
Speaker 2: c span so unlike the Bidens. And so it's troubling
Speaker 2: about the whole system, not just that we had a
Speaker 2: commander chief in place who obviously couldn't do the job
Speaker 2: and was inclined to run again, but about the entire
Speaker 2: society's failure to say, the emperor has no clothes. You
Speaker 2: know the Emperor has no clothes is a is a
Speaker 2: great parable and it's often used. I can't think of
Speaker 2: a more apt moment to use it. We all saw
Speaker 2: the president was naked. We all saw it.
Speaker 6: And yet, with.
Speaker 2: Few exceptions, conservative media being one of them, me being another,
Speaker 2: no one would say it. Even the congressman from a
Speaker 2: Minnesota whose name I always forget, who ran for president briefly,
Speaker 2: even he pulled his punches, he wasn't totally honest about
Speaker 2: what was happening. And then yet, you know, every other
Speaker 2: member of Congress, and then only because he was a
Speaker 2: threat to the party's chances in the in the election
Speaker 2: down ballot. Only then did Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer
Speaker 2: and others speak out. Not because they said, oh my god,
Speaker 2: we're yeah, oh my god, we're endangering the health and
Speaker 2: safety of America. No, we spoke They spoke out because,
Speaker 2: oh my god, we could lose to Donald Trump, and
Speaker 2: down ballot candidates could lose too. It's a it's just
Speaker 2: a horrible, horrible failure of accountability across the board.
Speaker 5: Well, and Mark, I will just tell you we had
Speaker 5: Brooke Rawlins in studio yesterday and we played the the
Speaker 5: interview earlier. When you hear their stories, not just what
Speaker 5: we shared on the show, because you know, they come
Speaker 5: in and we greet them and has it gone and
Speaker 5: they're telling us, like when we got under the hood here,
Speaker 5: the amount of fraud, mismanagement and comp it was like
Speaker 5: a bunch of kids running around with no you know,
Speaker 5: teacher around Like I'm telling you under the Biden And
Speaker 5: obviously some of that is filtered through a political lens.
Speaker 5: I'm biased, I admit it, but it's crazy how much
Speaker 5: fraud was going on, how much grift was going on.
Speaker 5: And listen, I get that that's always sort of baked
Speaker 5: into the cake politically, but it's shocking. And when you
Speaker 5: hear stories like this, and when you look back at
Speaker 5: the four years of Biden, you realize just how uh
Speaker 5: you know the country was not being run. Well, I
Speaker 5: think that's fair to say, Mark, I know you gotta
Speaker 5: I got you gotta art here.
Speaker 6: So I'll let you go.
Speaker 5: But thank you for making the time this morning, and
Speaker 5: we appreciate it as always, my friend.
Speaker 2: Thanks guys, great to see you both looking forward pleasing.
Speaker 5: All right, So a big busy hour where you've got
Speaker 5: our eyes on President Trump and this Iranian peace deal. Listen,
Speaker 5: whatever you make of it. If you want to see
Speaker 5: regime change, you want to see I get it. But
Speaker 5: this is a good deal if we can get it done.
Speaker 5: And so all eyes are on Iran, because all eyes
Speaker 5: will then be on the US where they should be.
Speaker 5: All right, if you want to be focused domestically, if
Speaker 5: you want to be focused on the mid terms, you
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Speaker 5: in right here to this show and be a part
Speaker 5: of the show. Ask whatever questions you want. Seems like
Speaker 5: every week, Blake, we have some question go viral? Good
Speaker 5: or for ill?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 5: This week we have Daisy with us, the one and
Speaker 5: only Daisy who takes care of us here. Yes, she
Speaker 5: did have a baby, and yes the baby is exceptionally cute.
Speaker 6: And I'm like a tough babies.
Speaker 3: Phase of baby that like maximal cute phase you talk about.
Speaker 5: It's a I'm a tough grader with babies. If I
Speaker 5: don't think your baby's cute, I probably just won't say anything.
Speaker 6: You know, Daisy's baby's pretty cute.
Speaker 8: Thank you. I appreciate it. Unfortunately, none of these people
Speaker 8: will ever he see what she looks like. But she
Speaker 8: is very cute.
Speaker 5: Wow, exactly. So we're gonna keep the susher reps. But
Speaker 5: that's all right. We are we got to ask us anything.
Speaker 5: So we have a first caller. Do we have it ready?
Speaker 8: Jonathan is first.
Speaker 5: Jonathan, Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. Please unmute yourself.
Speaker 5: Hey it goes well, it's Friday, you know what I mean?
Speaker 7: Yeah, so I.
Speaker 3: Have a few questions here.
Speaker 6: First, Uh, is there gonna be a Student Action Summit
Speaker 6: this year?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 6: Good question.
Speaker 5: We actually do Student Action Summit every other year, so
Speaker 5: that people don't know that, and I don't know it's
Speaker 5: come up before in private conversations, but it's an every
Speaker 5: other year thing. So this year just happens to be
Speaker 5: our off year. We're doing Women's Leadership Summit in what
Speaker 5: just next week?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 8: Yes, San ANTONIOO.
Speaker 5: So that's the summer programming this year, but it will
Speaker 5: be back next year and never fear.
Speaker 4: Okay, good.
Speaker 5: Can you sell tickets for us to get lunch dinner
Speaker 5: with some of the speakers at the invest.
Speaker 6: Man that'll be interest.
Speaker 8: Some of them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what's that, like a like a VIP thing or something. Yeah,
Speaker 5: maybe raffle or or some sort of say that again, like.
Speaker 2: Some extra ticket we can buy to get lunch dinner
Speaker 2: with some of the speakers.
Speaker 5: You know, I kind of love I kind of love
Speaker 5: this idea. Let let me kick it around.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: Some speakers obviously would be more willing to do such
Speaker 5: things than others.
Speaker 6: But that's a fun idea. I like that.
Speaker 8: We've done in the past, We've done a lot of
Speaker 8: like win roundtables with speakers where you have, but we
Speaker 8: like film conversations with them, right, and I think that
Speaker 8: I think that a lot of them would be willing
Speaker 8: to go.
Speaker 5: I was gonna saying we filmed it, Would you be
Speaker 5: less inclined to participate in something like that or more inclined?
Speaker 2: I really wanted to be that.
Speaker 6: Oh cool, See there you go.
Speaker 5: That's always interesting to kind of hear your take on it, uh,
Speaker 5: the audience's take on it, if that's something they'd want.
Speaker 5: Some people maybe want more privacy. I don't know, but
Speaker 5: I think that'd be really fun.
Speaker 6: Uh. Let me kick it around with the team and
Speaker 6: we'll see we can do.
Speaker 8: Who are you hoping to have a ampest this year?
Speaker 8: Who would you want? Who would you want to get
Speaker 8: lunch a dinner with U?
Speaker 3: Probably Tucker Carlson and uh officer.
Speaker 6: Katum, Officer Tatum.
Speaker 5: Oh wow, that's quite the spectrum you got there. Blake
Speaker 5: used to Blake knows Tucker very well.
Speaker 3: He's very personable at dinner.
Speaker 5: He's a very charming lad. Whatever you think I mean.
Speaker 5: I know Tucker's made a lot of news for some
Speaker 5: of his hies and interviews probably continue to make he
Speaker 5: is a remarkably charismatic and charming individual in person.
Speaker 8: I can tell you if you hear it throughout the
Speaker 8: wherever you are exactly.
Speaker 5: I probably it's I think it's like trademarked at this point.
Speaker 5: Do you have any other questions, Jonathan?
Speaker 6: Is there any other big rhinos we're looking to defeat.
Speaker 7: This year that rhinos we need to defeat? Well, the
Speaker 7: big one we really want to take out. You're thinking
Speaker 7: the same guy as me, the Lady Graham, Lindsey Graham
Speaker 7: of South Carolina. He's kind of the white whale of rhinos.
Speaker 7: He survives every reelection.
Speaker 6: Bid.
Speaker 7: I think we've tried to take him out two or
Speaker 7: three times at this point, but it's like a cockroach
Speaker 7: of Washington.
Speaker 3: He's very difficult to bring down.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think listen, if Lady Graham went away, that
Speaker 5: would be great. I mean, and just a note of
Speaker 5: you know, optimism and positivity. Right, we have all these
Speaker 5: priorities that we want to get past that we can't
Speaker 5: because of this sixty vote threshold in the Senate. But
Speaker 5: if you think about it, and really you need about
Speaker 5: fifty plus one with JD to nuke the filibuster. But
Speaker 5: we can't get there because we don't have enough votes.
Speaker 5: But think about Tillis is going away, probably replaced by
Speaker 5: a Democrat, so that's not super helpful, but at least
Speaker 5: he's going away.
Speaker 6: He's a thorn in our side.
Speaker 5: You've got now, you've got Cassidy in Louisiana he lost
Speaker 5: his primary. Cornyn he lost his primary. So these are
Speaker 5: good developments and the Senate is getting better and better.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 5: I want to keep your eyes on Mike Mike Rogers, No, no,
Speaker 5: Mike Collins. I was mixing two names together, and then
Speaker 5: Rogers and that's in Georgia and then Rogers in Michigan.
Speaker 5: Those are two races that I am watching very very closely.
Speaker 5: So we gotta get rid of us off now. The
Speaker 5: odds are not in our favor because it's tough to
Speaker 5: take down an incumbent. George is basically a fifty to
Speaker 5: fifty state right now. But that's a race that I
Speaker 5: would love to have Sam with Michigan. So we're keeping
Speaker 5: our eyes on those races. And you know what we've
Speaker 5: seen though. Another thing that we should mention is what
Speaker 5: happened in Indiana. You know that was that was a
Speaker 5: state level state senators that have gotten the way of redistricting,
Speaker 5: and we took out all the rhinos there. So it
Speaker 5: is it is prime rhino season, rhino hunting season, and
Speaker 5: we got to keep our eye on that. And it
Speaker 5: just I again to encourage the audience. We're getting better
Speaker 5: and better and better both at the House level and
Speaker 5: in the Senate level.
Speaker 8: So and we would be remiss to not talk about
Speaker 8: Tyler mentioned we really want people to travel here in October.
Speaker 8: Do we want to go into that a little more.
Speaker 5: Yeah, go to tpaction dot com. You can volunteer. We're
Speaker 5: actually hiring right now. I think we had a class
Speaker 5: of thirty two new ballot chasers here in the office
Speaker 5: yesterday training up to become ballot chasers here in Arizona.
Speaker 5: We're also doing bowot chasing in Nevada. I w'en doing
Speaker 5: bollot chasing in New Hampshire. So three states you can
Speaker 5: actually get full time work in. But if you can't
Speaker 5: do that and you want to volunteer some time, we're
Speaker 5: gonna be doing huge, huge groups of volunteers. We'll train
Speaker 5: you up, we'll put you in the field, we'll give
Speaker 5: you a hotel room, and you get to go be
Speaker 5: a ballot chaser for a couple of weeks a month
Speaker 5: during election month that we now unfortunately have.
Speaker 8: I actually remember a couple. I think it was in
Speaker 8: twenty twenty four. There was a couple who called in
Speaker 8: and they were members. They called on Ama and they
Speaker 8: were asking Charlie a question. But they told him about
Speaker 8: how they were coming to HQ to be ballot chasers
Speaker 8: from California, and Charlie was like, you have to come
Speaker 8: to the studio. Comes out. It was there. I think
Speaker 8: they're twenty year anniversary when they came, and so they
Speaker 8: they got to come not only be balllot chasers, but
Speaker 8: they also had an amazing Charlie gave them the tour
Speaker 8: of the studio.
Speaker 11: It was.
Speaker 8: They were so sweet.
Speaker 6: I actually had one of them.
Speaker 5: One of the ballot chasers came by yesterday that DM
Speaker 5: me and said, Hey, I'm gonna be training for bow chasing.
Speaker 6: Can I come? Say?
Speaker 12: Hi?
Speaker 8: Said of course, so you never know what happened.
Speaker 5: Yes, she was in the studio yesterday. Come be a
Speaker 5: ballot chaser in Arizona or New Hampshire or Nevada and
Speaker 5: help us win the midterms. All right, next question, we've
Speaker 5: got who is it is it David, Yes, David, Welcome
Speaker 5: to the Charlie Kirkshow please um mute yourself.
Speaker 4: Hi. How are we doing today?
Speaker 6: I'm doing great? How about you, sir?
Speaker 4: Good?
Speaker 6: I'm doing okay.
Speaker 9: My question is.
Speaker 11: We're in California. What do you think about, uh, the
Speaker 11: veteran who lost his life.
Speaker 6: With the Trump flags? Yeah, and.
Speaker 11: When we as conservatives a kind of swing back and
Speaker 11: we run into violence because I see you guys, you
Speaker 11: guys do.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, we just had a report yesterday of somebody who's
Speaker 5: arrested in San Antonio for making threats against Erica Kirk
Speaker 5: in our event. We've been monitoring that very clear. I
Speaker 5: want to assure you, so if you saw those news reports,
Speaker 5: please know, uh, we we have every confidence that that
Speaker 5: event is going to be extraordinarily safe. We've got great
Speaker 5: security precautions in place, monitoring all the threats as we
Speaker 5: always do. We've got great partners in law enforcement federally
Speaker 5: and locally.
Speaker 6: So all that is good.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean, it's it's an unfortunate reality of
Speaker 5: our daily life that we have to be aware of
Speaker 5: crazy people doing crazy things, whether they're motivated from bad
Speaker 5: actors or online or just political disagreements. There is no
Speaker 5: doubt that the left is getting more and more violent
Speaker 5: in the rise of assassination culture is ever present. David
Speaker 5: has asked about this incident that happened in southern California
Speaker 5: where a veteran who was sort of known, it turns
Speaker 5: out in the neighborhood for what they called the Trump House.
Speaker 5: So yeah, lots of flags out, was very proud about
Speaker 5: a support of the president, pro Trump house, big pro
Speaker 5: Trump house.
Speaker 7: He got assaulted by an individual suspect, the suspect also
Speaker 7: about they've been reporting on that fellow.
Speaker 3: He appears.
Speaker 7: The suspect is Thomas Caleb Butler yep, and he apparently
Speaker 7: had a history of violence, including towards his own family.
Speaker 7: I'm sure Jack Pisobik would make much of the fact
Speaker 7: that there's a photo of him wearing a Star.
Speaker 5: Wars Sure that picture, that's the one that's going around.
Speaker 5: And he played with legos apparently, so he was a
Speaker 5: big Lego guy and a big Star Wars guy.
Speaker 6: I don't know that there's any connection to those things.
Speaker 5: Jack was calling for a boycott of Star Wars, so
Speaker 5: he likes that fact. I don't see any necessary connection
Speaker 5: to it. But he was he had a long history
Speaker 5: of mental health problems. And the other thing that's interesting
Speaker 5: about the story, and why I'm not jumping to conclusions,
Speaker 5: why I'm not tweeting out a storm about it, is
Speaker 5: that apparently it's been reported that he liked the Trump
Speaker 5: House and was positive about the Trump House at some point,
Speaker 5: and that he also was more on the conservative side,
Speaker 5: at least historically. Now, the interesting part here is that
Speaker 5: he the wife, I guess the victim's wife, tried to intervene,
Speaker 5: he started hurling abuse at her, shouting at her, and
Speaker 5: called her a pedophile or a pedophile protector, one of
Speaker 5: the two. So that makes me think it's all some
Speaker 5: sort of like Epstein brainwarp things.
Speaker 7: It could be, and a lot of these people, there's
Speaker 7: just a lot of very troubled people.
Speaker 3: And that's why we talk more generally, why it's so.
Speaker 7: Irresponsible what a lot of leaders in this country have
Speaker 7: done when we talked about this with Ice. For example,
Speaker 7: when if Democrats or Republicans, but if individ if politicians
Speaker 7: go out and say our leaders are the equivalent of Nazis,
Speaker 7: ices the Gestapo, they're trying to do a new Holocaust.
Speaker 7: This Epstein class, they're abducting children and they're cannibalizing them.
Speaker 7: Some of the insane stuff they've said. They know that
Speaker 7: they're not being literal. A lot of people know they're
Speaker 7: not being literal, but especially vulnerable individuals will take that
Speaker 7: a lot more literally. We've seen that with the transgender
Speaker 7: motivated shooters. That seems to have played a role in
Speaker 7: tragically what happened to Charlie. That these people hear these
Speaker 7: things that if we don't want to mutilate kids, that
Speaker 7: means we're perpetrating a genocide. And when you say that
Speaker 7: to unstable people, they will think, well, I don't like genocide.
Speaker 7: I need to stop the genocide. I'm going to pick
Speaker 7: up a gun and use it.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 7: And we absolutely need to call out all rhetoric of
Speaker 7: that nature because it can destroy this country. As for
Speaker 7: ourselves as individuals, as always, there's no substitute for just
Speaker 7: being ready and being prepared yourself. In Red States, you're
Speaker 7: allowed to I'm highly armed. Yeah, have you're allowed to
Speaker 7: have guns in your home. You should have guns in
Speaker 7: your home because in the end, get yeah, the cops
Speaker 7: want the cops wind not get there, or I've you know,
Speaker 7: I used to not have a gun. And what changed
Speaker 7: my mind was when the Floyd riots happened in Minneapolis
Speaker 7: and the police pulled out of downtown Minneapolis and they
Speaker 7: just ditch it, and they like a few blocks just
Speaker 7: get burned down. People lost their homes, lost their business,
Speaker 7: and the cops just didn't show up.
Speaker 3: They gave up, they abandoned it. And I thought to myself.
Speaker 7: I thought to myself, I will never be caught in
Speaker 7: a situation where I am helpless because the police have
Speaker 7: abandoned me.
Speaker 6: Period.
Speaker 3: And that's a good mentality to have.
Speaker 6: Well, Mike's a big fan of the rooftop Koreans.
Speaker 7: Rooftop Koreans, you know, it's not that you it's not
Speaker 7: that we despise the police. It's not that we want
Speaker 7: to get rid of police. But we have to remember
Speaker 7: that the left does like to get rid of police.
Speaker 7: The left does like to create anarchy and to unleash
Speaker 7: mobs on people. And sometimes the only person who can
Speaker 7: stand up to a mob and protect your family is yourself.
Speaker 8: Well, I will just say we already were armed in
Speaker 8: our home, but ever since bringing home our baby, I'm like,
Speaker 8: we have to have ready for any situation. If anyone
Speaker 8: were to come into my house, I know they would
Speaker 8: not be okay. My husband would not tolerate that.
Speaker 6: He is a Taylor Swift fan, but she is based.
Speaker 6: Don't let that fool we exist. Elizabeth, You're up next.
Speaker 6: Mute yourself.
Speaker 10: Yes, Hi, everybody?
Speaker 6: How are you todays? Elizabeth? How are you well?
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 9: The reason that I was calling is.
Speaker 10: The judge Diana Hagen in Utah stepped down on May eighth.
Speaker 10: She was credibly accused of having an affair with lead
Speaker 10: Council David Raymond. They were working on the redistricting case
Speaker 10: and we lost the seat to Democrats in that. And
Speaker 10: also I had questions about parkin Writer Vhocal where they
Speaker 10: we did the primaries in August just for the congressional seats.
Speaker 10: So my first one is with the Utah case, that's
Speaker 10: obvious corruption. Can we get that overturn based on the
Speaker 10: fact that she was having an affair with the lead
Speaker 10: council and the Harkeneder Vhocal case, they found that the
Speaker 10: original congressional seats were wrong and they had to redo them.
Speaker 10: And so if they did a second primary in August
Speaker 10: just for the congressional seats, could that be something that
Speaker 10: we could do in other states.
Speaker 3: So I've heard about this Utah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's very interesting, and that is all true what
Speaker 5: you said that the judge did end up resigning in
Speaker 5: the you know, their governor Cox and a lot of
Speaker 5: other state level leaders, I think even Mike Lee have
Speaker 5: called for an independent investigation. But I am being told
Speaker 5: credibly that no, we cannot overturn the current core ordered
Speaker 5: congressional redistricting map for twenty twenty six. I don't know
Speaker 5: if that's a legal issue or a timing issue. You
Speaker 5: could expect that those will get redone for twenty twenty eight, though,
Speaker 5: and so it's too late for twenty twenty six for
Speaker 5: whatever reason. I will poke some holes in that and
Speaker 5: see that. But that's what I've been told, because when
Speaker 5: I saw that news come out, I instantly candidly fired
Speaker 5: off text messages to everybody in Utah that I knew
Speaker 5: and asked, can we can we get this overturned?
Speaker 6: And they said it's too.
Speaker 9: Late, disarred?
Speaker 6: Could she be disbarred?
Speaker 5: And the lawyer, yeah, I mean it's absolutely depends on
Speaker 5: Utah state process.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's probably going through the process.
Speaker 5: That's why they wanted the independent investigation probably to come
Speaker 5: up with some findings that they could then leverage to
Speaker 5: exact some justice and accountability there. Yeah, it actually in
Speaker 5: a state like Utah, would have some faith that it
Speaker 5: would actually.
Speaker 7: Get Yeah, and even if I can't overturn it directly,
Speaker 7: it's possible that they'll It seems like they're going to
Speaker 7: possibly just repopulate the Supreme Court change their Supreme Court
Speaker 7: rules to get a new result if they can bring
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Speaker 6: This was from Mick, he said.
Speaker 5: I asked about how conservatives have struggled with having cultural
Speaker 5: icons until very recently. This week, several artists dropped out
Speaker 5: of performing at the America two fifty Festival.
Speaker 6: I think they call the American State Fair.
Speaker 5: Yeah, state Fair, and many of those names were from yesteryear.
Speaker 5: With your experience hosting the All American halftime Show, can
Speaker 5: you give some insight advice to those planning an event
Speaker 5: like that and keeping the artists on board. Okay, this
Speaker 5: is a really big topic right now on social media.
Speaker 6: So it looks like Martina.
Speaker 8: McBride and Brett Michaels, Brett Michaels, Commodorus, Morris Day, Young MC,
Speaker 8: and Martina McBride have all dropped out so far, Flow
Speaker 8: Rider and Vanilla Ice are still in. Oh boy, you're
Speaker 8: interested in those Ice baby.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So my take on this is very simple, as we
Speaker 5: did host the All American halftime show. But I will
Speaker 5: tell you it was hard. It was really hard. Lining
Speaker 5: up the artist was hard. We would get a yes
Speaker 5: from some artists and then their managers would get involved
Speaker 5: and they were like, don't go up against the big
Speaker 5: bad football league, and they don't want that because it
Speaker 5: could cause them problems down the line. So you have
Speaker 5: to kind of respect that you have to work with
Speaker 5: the artists that you can work with. And I'll see
Speaker 5: it again, Kid Rock has my undying support. I'm a
Speaker 5: huge fan now because he just had the guts to
Speaker 5: do it and not many people do have the guts
Speaker 5: to do it. Now when it comes to this State Fair.
Speaker 5: What really is appalling to me, as to your point,
Speaker 5: is that a lot of these guys are washed up,
Speaker 5: has been stars from yesteryear's and we're still getting the
Speaker 5: run around from them.
Speaker 6: They're still telling us, oh, I can't get mine. I
Speaker 6: thought this was nonpartisan and all this stuff. Well it is.
Speaker 5: It's a celebration of the country, you idiots, And so
Speaker 5: we shouldn't have to be prostrating ourselves as conservatives before
Speaker 5: the altar of pop culture to like throw us your crumbs.
Speaker 3: Please, please please.
Speaker 5: What we should do is it should be a celebration
Speaker 5: of Americana. I don't care if the artists are famous.
Speaker 5: Give me banjo players, give me bluegrass, like.
Speaker 3: Just get not famous performance.
Speaker 6: That's what I'm saying. No, I don't see these guys.
Speaker 7: I don't think you need to get star power for
Speaker 7: something like this. I think, honestly there's probably a lot
Speaker 7: of criminally underrated and underappreciated people, especially Yeah, you mentioned
Speaker 7: banjo players. You can probably find a virtuoso banjo player,
Speaker 7: fiddle player, someone just stuff that's very associated with classic America,
Speaker 7: and you could probably get them, put them up there
Speaker 7: and they'll just kill it and everyone will think that
Speaker 7: was awesome, that was really cool. I don't usually see
Speaker 7: something like that versus getting these guys out.
Speaker 3: But it's been part of.
Speaker 7: The struggle with the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, and
Speaker 7: we got put in a tough spot. One of the
Speaker 7: things that we got stuck with is they started America
Speaker 7: two fifty a decade ago to prep for this, but
Speaker 7: then the lead up to this was we had four
Speaker 7: years of Biden during the George Floyd era. They staffed
Speaker 7: it full of people who they're like, you know what,
Speaker 7: two hundred and fifty years of America should be a
Speaker 7: chance to do. Let's celebrate white guilt. Let's talk about
Speaker 7: how America is bad and everyone should feel really bad.
Speaker 7: So they created this Freedom two fifty thing to very
Speaker 7: accelerated try to make fun stuff people would actually like,
Speaker 7: like the big State Fair. They're doing that IndyCar race
Speaker 7: in DC. Yeah, the UFC's more fun stuff that really
Speaker 7: vibes with the American public. But it's short notice. They
Speaker 7: have less money than they really deserve to have.
Speaker 5: It.
Speaker 3: It's a bummer.
Speaker 7: I talked to my parents about what the Bice Centennial
Speaker 7: was like in nineteen seventy six, and they said it
Speaker 7: was like it was the fourth of July all year long,
Speaker 7: just in the little touches that really stood out. My
Speaker 7: dad remembered that they painted the fire hydrants in his
Speaker 7: town the American flag to mark the bi centennial.
Speaker 8: Well, I think that I have two things. One I
Speaker 8: would love to know you talked about how this started
Speaker 8: under a different administration. If that was the situation we're
Speaker 8: dealing with, and they were posed to hoist host to
Speaker 8: America to fifty, freedom to fifty, I wonder who would
Speaker 8: line up to celebrate there, because it's not even like
Speaker 8: they are wanting to celebrate America. It's a lot about
Speaker 8: we want to change America. We don't like the way
Speaker 8: America is negative, negative, negative, So I wonder who would
Speaker 8: even want to be there celebrating two fifty years of America.
Speaker 8: It'd probably be at a festival of crying liberal tears.
Speaker 3: That could get an invocation.
Speaker 8: The only white people can succeed in this kind.
Speaker 3: We could get a benediction from Reverend right and they
Speaker 3: could do all.
Speaker 8: It'd probably be more of a reprimation reprimate What word
Speaker 8: am I saying? Reprimand yes, then it would be a celebration.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So that was not we dodged able.
Speaker 7: I think whatever issues we have, one of the things,
Speaker 7: and Charlie was very excited about this. Was that we
Speaker 7: were having the World Cup, We're having the two and
Speaker 7: fiftieth anniversary, We're having the Olympics. It's a big run
Speaker 7: of big America pageantry celebration and it would have just
Speaker 7: been excruciating to have Kamala Harris as president for all
Speaker 7: three of those things.
Speaker 5: And we should say just really quick quickly. You know,
Speaker 5: Spin magazine seems to be the starting point for a
Speaker 5: lot of this controversy. They called it a Trump sort
Speaker 5: of aligned event or Trump backed event. It's not, to
Speaker 5: Blake's point, this is a commission that's been put together
Speaker 5: that has liberals on, it has democrats on, it has
Speaker 5: conservatives on it, right, and these were lower tiered people.
Speaker 5: Here's what I would say. I am not going to
Speaker 5: any of these name me all the acts that dropped.
Speaker 8: Out, Brett Michaels, Martina McBride, loser they Martina, I know
Speaker 8: one of HER's back in the day, the Common Doors losers,
Speaker 8: I'm sorry, Morris Day and young MC users.
Speaker 5: I will never not that I really do, to be
Speaker 5: perfectly honest, but if you are a fan of these people,
Speaker 5: stop supporting their music. Absolute cowardice, moral cowards. This is
Speaker 5: an event for the whole country. It's supposed to bring
Speaker 5: people together. Instead, you've used it as an opportunity to
Speaker 5: humiliate the country and embarrass everyone up yours. That's my
Speaker 5: personal opinion, but yeah, that's my big take. Screw trying
Speaker 5: to get in tight with these like has beens, of
Speaker 5: these stars of yes year. No, we're not going to
Speaker 5: be told what to do by you losers. Okay, get
Speaker 5: some people that celebrate the country. Get I don't care
Speaker 5: what it is like. Get line dancing, Get banjo players, bluegrass,
Speaker 5: get jazz performers, get anybody that will do it, and
Speaker 5: just celebrate great music. Get great, great music. We don't
Speaker 5: care if we know your name. This it needs to
Speaker 5: be about America, not about these losers. That's my opinion.
Speaker 8: Well, think about it's called the Great American State Fair.
Speaker 8: There's so much more to a state fair than just
Speaker 8: like they might have a concert at night, but there's
Speaker 8: it's about being together.
Speaker 4: It's about food.
Speaker 8: Yes, it's about family, fun, being outside just traditions. There's
Speaker 8: so much more to it.
Speaker 7: It's so last minute, but this is a nimble administration.
Speaker 7: They should do some sort of great American Deep Fry Competition.
Speaker 7: What is the best food you can deep fry?
Speaker 6: Deep fried? Better deep deep?
Speaker 7: You've seen deep fried hot dogs, but we need like
Speaker 7: deep fry an entire hamburger. With all of that, I'm
Speaker 7: sure I'm deep fry deep fry egx Benedict deep fry.
Speaker 5: I don't know what it is. Anyways, that's my take
Speaker 5: and I'm sticking to it. I literally have nothing but loath,
Speaker 5: loathing and condemnation for the cowards that are embarrassing the country.
Speaker 5: But you know what, moving on, moving on, we have
Speaker 5: an America to celebrate, and this is still the greatest
Speaker 5: country in the history of the planet Earth. And I
Speaker 5: don't care that these people think we're systemically oppressive. They're
Speaker 5: They're wrong, they're illiterates, they're historically inaccurate, they don't know
Speaker 5: what they're talking about. So that's my that's my spiel.
Speaker 8: Who we got next, we have Maddie.
Speaker 5: Maddie Welcome to the Charlie kirschhup. Please um mute yourself, Maddie.
Speaker 8: Hi, I actually have two questions, if that's okay. Yeah, sure,
Speaker 8: So I'm actually going.
Speaker 11: To WLS next week.
Speaker 6: Wait.
Speaker 8: I was just curious if you knew if there's going
Speaker 8: to be any Bible study or like worship event something
Speaker 8: like that. Yeah, so I will be there. I'll see
Speaker 8: you there. I said earlier that none of these people
Speaker 8: will see my baby. If you're at WLS, you might
Speaker 8: because she'll be with me. It's a girl's event, so
Speaker 8: the first one I have to bring.
Speaker 6: Her at this event. There are so many babies.
Speaker 8: That's what I was like, this is the perfect conference
Speaker 8: to bring her to. It's so many moms, kids, friends,
Speaker 8: It's so sweet to just see everyone getting along together.
Speaker 8: But yes, there will be worship on Sunday morning and
Speaker 8: faith based speakers on Sunday. I think, honestly, I'm really excited.
Speaker 8: I'm also not only bringing my baby. I'm bringing my
Speaker 8: mom because I was like, Mom, I have to work,
Speaker 8: so you can take my baby and enjoy the enjoy
Speaker 8: the conference. But you know, we have Erica, Kaylee mcnaaney,
Speaker 8: Judge Shanine, Alex Clark, Alibi Stucky, Riley Gaines, Dana Losch,
Speaker 8: Savannah cris Leye, Kristen Hawkins, so many more, and it
Speaker 8: is so fun. Is this your first time?
Speaker 11: It'll actually be my second.
Speaker 8: Okay, Okay, well I think it's I really am happy
Speaker 8: with the way the event is going. This the direction. Yeah,
Speaker 8: it's it's really holistic, empowered, redeemed. I think that's the slogan,
Speaker 8: and it's really being able to see the way that
Speaker 8: WLS is kind of transformed over the years. And I've
Speaker 8: been watching all of Charlie's speeches back the last couple
Speaker 8: of weeks leading up to WLS and just seeing all
Speaker 8: the different topics that he covered and how the event
Speaker 8: has transformed. I'm really excited. I think it'll be great.
Speaker 5: Yep, it's gonna be great. She had a second question, right, yep, Yeah,
Speaker 5: what's your second question.
Speaker 4: I'm just curious, do you think women voters are going
Speaker 4: to hurt the Republican Party more than usual in the midterms.
Speaker 7: Just with how many men I know staying home instead
Speaker 7: of voting.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's definitely tough.
Speaker 7: This is this is the thing Charlie always struggled about
Speaker 7: Fought four. He pointed out women are more likely to
Speaker 7: just they're good at checking boxes, they're good at fulfilling
Speaker 7: obligations compared to men, and one of those obligations is voting.
Speaker 7: So young women are more likely to vote. And we
Speaker 7: also know they're more likely to vote Democrat. In fact,
Speaker 7: as much as hey we've made of young men turning
Speaker 7: to the right, a lot of it is young men
Speaker 7: have moved five points to the right, and young women
Speaker 7: in some elections they've moved ten, fifteen, twenty five points
Speaker 7: to left. If you're an unmarried young woman, they're very
Speaker 7: left wing. A lot of them still vote, and it
Speaker 7: could definitely be a hazard.
Speaker 5: Well, and yeah, to Blake's point, they vote more often,
Speaker 5: more more reliably, and they vote more and more left,
Speaker 5: and they've gotten more and more radical.
Speaker 6: So yeah, it is a problem.
Speaker 5: It's a definite problem, and I think it's doubly compounded
Speaker 5: because a lot of young men, if you look between
Speaker 5: Epstein and what's happened in Iran, they're giving in denihilism.
Speaker 5: And that's part of our job here is to say,
Speaker 5: don't give into the black pilling and the domerism. Don't
Speaker 5: do that, young men. Things are progressing in many ways,
Speaker 5: and this administration is head and shoulders above what Kamala
Speaker 5: would have been. So don't give into the black pilling,
Speaker 5: stay the course, keep the faith. This country is worth
Speaker 5: fighting for. So we need the men to show up
Speaker 5: because the women probably will. And that's the sad reality
Speaker 5: of it, and they're getting more and more radicalized. I'm
Speaker 5: telling you one of the reasons I love WLS is
Speaker 5: because it's not a feminist celebration conference. There's some some
Speaker 5: haters online that'll call it that. It's not that at all.
Speaker 5: It's like, how do I be a better mother? How
Speaker 5: do I raise my kids? How do I be more godly?
Speaker 5: And that's it, and how do we be more healthy
Speaker 5: as a country. It's beautiful things. So anyways, come to
Speaker 5: what WLS. Check it out. It's going to be very,
Speaker 5: very worthwhile women to step up, all right. Next up,
Speaker 5: we have oh wait, I wanted to.
Speaker 8: Really quickly WLS question the WLS. We have some really
Speaker 8: really cute hats and shirts.
Speaker 6: That are going launching new merch.
Speaker 8: There's going to be some WLS exclusive merch there, but
Speaker 8: we will have this hot there Godfamily Country and Forever Kirk.
Speaker 8: Those are both on charliekirkstore dot com. And if you're
Speaker 8: not gonna be WS you can still get one. They
Speaker 8: are really they're well made, such nice quality. We literally
Speaker 8: just got the boxes in my office like ten minutes ago.
Speaker 5: So so if you're well WLS you can get these,
Speaker 5: but you can also get them at Charliekirkstore dot com.
Speaker 6: Charliekirkstore dot com. Right, I got the r O right.
Speaker 5: Charliekirkstore dot com. Mighty, all the work she can handle.
Speaker 5: She'll be getting those orders out to you all very soon. Yes,
Speaker 5: so check it out all right? Uh, Rain, you are
Speaker 5: on the Charlie Kirk Show. Please ummute yourself.
Speaker 6: Welcome.
Speaker 9: Hey, I'm so happy you'll called on me. Okay, do
Speaker 9: y'all remember me?
Speaker 12: I'm the one that had the bracelet after the Charliekirk memorial.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, it's good to hear from you again, Rain, Yes.
Speaker 12: Hey, okay, So I can't believe mask in this question,
Speaker 12: but I want to get involved so badly.
Speaker 9: I want to help y'all with ballot chasing.
Speaker 6: Great, So what are the.
Speaker 9: Prerequisites or what is the criteria? Like?
Speaker 12: Okay, so I have an emotional support animal, a little
Speaker 12: cavalier King Charles Spaniel by the day, by the way,
Speaker 12: So like, would it be okay if like I brought
Speaker 12: my mom to the hotel room with Charlie.
Speaker 6: Are you talking about volunteer? I do.
Speaker 9: I want to stay as long as I can.
Speaker 12: I just don't want to be away from from him,
Speaker 12: and I would bring my mom with me. I mean
Speaker 12: we would drive from Baton Rouge from Louisiana.
Speaker 9: I want to help. I want to get involved very badly.
Speaker 6: I love that.
Speaker 5: So, yeah, we're going to be doing our volunteer efforts,
Speaker 5: probably starting in September October time period. Would you want
Speaker 5: to come to Arizona is that kind of what you're thinking?
Speaker 6: Or New Hampshire probably.
Speaker 9: With y'all over there in Arizona.
Speaker 8: Your dog will love October for Arizona weather.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So if you just go to the tpaction dot com website,
Speaker 5: they have they have a fill out the sign up
Speaker 5: form here. Yeah, tpaction dot com. Maybe our team, our
Speaker 5: crack team in the studio can put tpaction dot com
Speaker 5: there and you just click that.
Speaker 6: Yep. Tpaction dot Com.
Speaker 5: There's a kind of a Hamburger menu bar in the
Speaker 5: upper right hand corner.
Speaker 6: Just click get.
Speaker 9: Involved, upper right get involved.
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, and it has a little sign up form
Speaker 5: and so what are you interested in?
Speaker 6: The options?
Speaker 5: And I'm gonna read all the options just for those listening,
Speaker 5: all the things that you can get involved in. Become
Speaker 5: a precinct leader, join a TP Action coalition. So we
Speaker 5: have like a mom's coalition, a rancher's coalition, farmer's coalition,
Speaker 5: Hispanic coalition, all those kinds of things. You could attend
Speaker 5: a turning point action event, becoming a pole watcher, joining
Speaker 5: Younger Republicans Club, getting involved with the county GOP, knocking
Speaker 5: doors for local candidates, become a precinct registered to vote,
Speaker 5: become a precinct chair, all these things.
Speaker 6: So you just help, y'all. Yeah, so.
Speaker 5: You could do any of those, but probably knocking doors.
Speaker 5: It would be the box that you would check. And
Speaker 5: then we'll get you in our our volunteer pipeline. And
Speaker 5: then when we're ready to get you in a hotel
Speaker 5: room and get you out. And yes, you could probably
Speaker 5: bring your I mean, I haven't checked with Tyler yet.
Speaker 5: I'm sure we've had this.
Speaker 8: No, Tyler said, yes, they're encouraged, friends, families, babies, dogs, Yep.
Speaker 5: So we'll take you all and yep. So Tpaction dot Com.
Speaker 5: It's right there on the screen. You can get involved.
Speaker 5: And so that is the same for Rain, but it's
Speaker 5: the same for all of you watching. We know that
Speaker 5: there is tens of thousands of you watching all over
Speaker 5: the country. Get involved today, go to tpaction dot com
Speaker 5: help us win, And just a note here, I love
Speaker 5: your spirit Rain. It's so encouraging because if you log
Speaker 5: online sometimes you get a bunch of the black pail
Speaker 5: Blake types and you get the people that are, you know,
Speaker 5: the country's last and.
Speaker 6: Blake's looking at right.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 6: But here's the thing here.
Speaker 5: I was asked this question in interview yesterday and and
Speaker 5: it bears repeating. The question was, you know, how do
Speaker 5: you filter through the noise online? And I would just
Speaker 5: simply suggest to you this. You know the tree by
Speaker 5: its fruits, you know who's doing good work, because they
Speaker 5: want to build this country up. They want to fight
Speaker 5: for this country. They want to actually contribute to good things.
Speaker 5: They want to get out in the field and knocked doors.
Speaker 5: They want to send text messages, they want to send postcards.
Speaker 5: All of these things are tremendously important because if you're building,
Speaker 5: if you're working towards something, you're part of the solution.
Speaker 5: So be part of the solution. Do not give into
Speaker 5: the nihilism, do not give into the dooming, do not
Speaker 5: give into the black pilling. That is one of my
Speaker 5: repeat messages here. You do not fight because you know
Speaker 5: you're gonna win. You fight because it's the right thing
Speaker 5: to do.
Speaker 6: So thank you.
Speaker 7: Right, all right, real quick, we have one one last
Speaker 7: question from Sam.
Speaker 3: We're going to read it.
Speaker 7: I am a college student, and many students I know
Speaker 7: hate the current administration. They blame them for covering up Epstein,
Speaker 7: and they seem to forget the Biden administration held onto
Speaker 7: those files and did nothing for years. How can the
Speaker 7: administra and the Republicans message better on this topic. That's
Speaker 7: a very tough question because it's on We only have
Speaker 7: a minute, and it is unfair. President Trump has released
Speaker 7: a huge number of files, vastly more than any administration
Speaker 7: did before. You can read incredibly embarrassing emails involving the
Speaker 7: former president of Harvard, involving Elon Musk, involving Les Wester.
Speaker 7: They've actually a lot of people have been humiliated, some
Speaker 7: people have lost their jobs. There's been a lot of
Speaker 7: transparency on this, and we know certainly that the president
Speaker 7: himself is not involved in anything untoward because the bind
Speaker 7: administration and the Obama administration had all of these files
Speaker 7: and didn't release anything and didn't charge President Trump or
Speaker 7: Donald Trump when he was not in the White House,
Speaker 7: so we know there's nothing there. Unfortunately, I think a
Speaker 7: lot of people it's just in the zeitgeist. People will
Speaker 7: repeat things that are false just because it feels fun
Speaker 7: to say.
Speaker 8: I guess.
Speaker 5: I mean, it is the number one accusation that gets
Speaker 5: hurled at everybody.
Speaker 6: No pedophile, pedophile, it's critical pedo theory.
Speaker 7: It's pedophilia pervades the universe and all of our leaders.
Speaker 3: It's a brain rot. It's challenging.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is challenging, but we do need to keep
Speaker 5: messaging on it because a lot of people believe it.
Speaker 3: Can't abandon it.
Speaker 8: You're not blackpil.
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