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Speaker 4: It's Monday, February sixteenth, twenty twenty six. Honored to be
Speaker 4: with you patriots across the country today. Massively busy media weekend.
Speaker 4: There was a lot going on. I have family in town.
Speaker 4: Was trying to focus, but there was just too much
Speaker 4: going on. And I will tell you, and we're going
Speaker 4: to get to it all. We've got new Epstein revelations,
Speaker 4: We've got updates in the Savannah Got three case.
Speaker 3: We've got all kinds of things. But the key.
Speaker 4: Storyline that I think we need to lead with because
Speaker 4: it was just too good not to lead it.
Speaker 3: It really and it matters more. I think it does matter.
Speaker 4: And by the way, that's what our show is always
Speaker 4: attempting to do.
Speaker 5: We want to focus on the civilizational stakes, the.
Speaker 4: Things that matter, the cultural things that matter, the political
Speaker 4: things that matter, the civilizational things that matter. Marco Rubio's
Speaker 4: speech at the Munich Security Conference was absolutely a barn burner.
Speaker 4: It was probably, as I said on X, the single
Speaker 4: best defense of Western civilization, in an appeal to Europe
Speaker 4: to get on board with the vision that America President
Speaker 4: Trump has put forward that I've heard in a generation,
Speaker 4: that I think has been articulated in a generation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's.
Speaker 5: First of all what it matters.
Speaker 6: This is the Munich Security Conference, annual event related to
Speaker 6: defense in the you know, during the past few years
Speaker 6: it's all been about Ukraine and such. Secretary Rubio goes
Speaker 6: and he gives a speech that's basically laying out the
Speaker 6: grand vision of what the Trump administration's attitude towards Europe is.
Speaker 6: And we'll have the clips here, but the big picture
Speaker 6: you're looking for is he's pointing out we're not hostile
Speaker 6: towards Europe. In fact, we quite literally want to mega
Speaker 6: make Europe great again. And so he's pointing out when
Speaker 6: we critic size NATO, it's always that we want NATO
Speaker 6: to be stronger. We want European countries to have better
Speaker 6: militaries so they will be better allies to us. We
Speaker 6: want to stop migration to Europe because we want European
Speaker 6: civilizations to survive, just as we want our own civilization
Speaker 6: to survive. And I think the most remarkad and he
Speaker 6: makes these historic appeals. He talks about World War Two,
Speaker 6: he talks about the Cold War War, we stood with
Speaker 6: Europeans against tyrannical anti civilizational forces. And I think the
Speaker 6: most amazing thing about it is at the end of it.
Speaker 6: He got a standing ovation from the Europeans.
Speaker 4: Which apparently is rare, but he what I think, the
Speaker 4: reason he did is because when we criticize Europe it
Speaker 4: is because we care. And he articulated that very well,
Speaker 4: and he did it over and over. He laced it
Speaker 4: throughout the speech. But let's just get into it. This
Speaker 4: was an amazing, amazing moment. I think whether it matter
Speaker 4: in the long term, will this have the desired impact?
Speaker 3: Who knows, But the standing ovation was a good was good.
Speaker 5: Let's run it into it. Let's do two forty six.
Speaker 7: National security, which this conference is largely about, is not
Speaker 7: merely a series of technical questions how much we spend
Speaker 7: on defense or where how we deploy it. These are
Speaker 7: important questions, they are, but they are not the fundamental one.
Speaker 7: The fundamental question we must answer at the outset is
Speaker 7: what exactly are we defending? Because armies do not fight
Speaker 7: for abstractions. Armies fight for a people, Armies fight for
Speaker 7: a nation. Armies fight for a way of life, and
Speaker 7: that is what we are defending. A great civilization that
Speaker 7: has every reason to be proud of its history.
Speaker 4: That to me is such a distillation of what I
Speaker 4: believe is what's ailing the West right now. We have
Speaker 4: lost our pride and self. We have lost our pride
Speaker 4: in our own culture and our own people and our
Speaker 4: own accomplishments. We have been plagued by a guilt built
Speaker 4: a white guilt, a guilt of our own success. We
Speaker 4: have believed lies that we are invaders, that were evil colonialists.
Speaker 3: He's imperialists.
Speaker 5: He unironically touted colonialism during.
Speaker 4: The speech, which is an unambiguously overall good thing on
Speaker 4: the history of the world. It is I will defend colonialism.
Speaker 4: It's not that it was perfect. It's not that it
Speaker 4: was it didn't have brutality or cruelty involved. Of course,
Speaker 4: we're talking about a people that understood that you had
Speaker 4: to use force if you were going to get what
Speaker 4: you wanted in a mean and cruel world. So I'm
Speaker 4: not saying it was all perfect. But if you look
Speaker 4: at where especially the English colonials have went, even in
Speaker 4: Kenya in Africa, it's one of the most stable countries
Speaker 4: in all of Africa because it was settled by English.
Speaker 4: Same in India, same in America. You can look across
Speaker 4: the board and the British colonialists had a I would
Speaker 4: say overwhelmingly good, positive impact on the world. I don't
Speaker 4: think we got this as a clip, so I want
Speaker 4: to read it. This is a line that Secretary Rubio said.
Speaker 4: For five centuries before the end of the Second World War,
Speaker 4: the West had been expanding It's missionaries, its pilgrims, its soldiers,
Speaker 4: its explorers, pouring out from its shores to cross oceans,
Speaker 4: settle new continents, build vast empires, extending out across the globe.
Speaker 4: But in nineteen forty five, for the first time since
Speaker 4: the age of Columbus, it Europe was contracting. Europe was
Speaker 4: in ruins, half of it lived behind an iron curtain.
Speaker 4: The great Western empires had entered into terminal decline, accelerated
Speaker 4: by godless communist revolutions and anti colonial uprisings that would
Speaker 4: transform the world and drape the red hammer and sickle
Speaker 4: across the vast swaths of the map for years to come.
Speaker 4: And he basically says, it's time for us to undo
Speaker 4: that managed decline, and that's not necessarily bring back colonialism specifically,
Speaker 4: but certainly stop apologizing for it, stop acting like it's
Speaker 4: the worst atrocity to ever happen. And he calls out
Speaker 4: mass migration, and he calls out like demilitarization, Yeah, the
Speaker 4: managed decline. I thought he really honed in on it.
Speaker 3: It was very powerful play a cut two fifty three.
Speaker 7: For we in America have no interest in being polite
Speaker 7: and orderly caretakers of the West's managed decline. We do
Speaker 7: not seek to separate, but to revitalize an old friendship
Speaker 7: and renew the greatest civilization in human history.
Speaker 6: And then he goes on and basically says, yeah, to
Speaker 6: renew it. He talks about rearming fifty seven.
Speaker 7: Asking member states of NATO to be stronger is not
Speaker 7: a threat to say, well, if you're not stronger, then
Speaker 7: we're going to you know, it's to point out to
Speaker 7: everybody that it is a stronger alliance. We are collectively
Speaker 7: stronger when we are individually stronger on what our capabilities
Speaker 7: we bring.
Speaker 3: That was from a different Yeah, that was from after.
Speaker 4: But the part that I think was actually the next
Speaker 4: thought in this is he goes straight into mass migration.
Speaker 3: And I love that you saw this. JD. Vance hit it.
Speaker 4: President Trump has been hitting it repeatedly, and now you
Speaker 4: see Marco Rubio two fifty four.
Speaker 7: Mass migration is not was not is some fringe concern
Speaker 7: of little consequence. It was and continues to be a
Speaker 7: crisis which is transforming and destabilizing societies all across the West.
Speaker 4: We always say on this show that mass migration, unfettered
Speaker 4: mass migration is the switch that, when flipped, will fix
Speaker 4: basically all the ills. Not perfectly humans or evil humans
Speaker 4: are flawed. They're going to be flawed regardless of where
Speaker 4: they come from. But mass migration is absolutely at the
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Speaker 4: play one more clip from this UH speech because it's
Speaker 4: just so good two eighty five Marco Rubio.
Speaker 7: While we are prepared, if necessary, to do this alone,
Speaker 7: it is our preference and it is our hope to
Speaker 7: do this together with you, our friends here in Europe.
Speaker 7: For the United States and Europe, we belong together. We
Speaker 7: are part of one civilization, Western civilization. We are bound
Speaker 7: to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share,
Speaker 7: forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry,
Speaker 7: and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common
Speaker 7: civilization to which we have fallen heir.
Speaker 4: And I just love that he brings the word Christian
Speaker 4: in there. Known fact, when they were doing the European
Speaker 4: Union and they were kind of establishing some of their
Speaker 4: foundational documents, there was a debate about whether or not
Speaker 4: to include Christianity in there, something doctor James or talks about.
Speaker 3: They voted against that.
Speaker 4: So I don't know what defines the West if it
Speaker 4: isn't our common Christian heritage. Whether or not you agree,
Speaker 4: whether or not you believe, there's nothing that unites the
Speaker 4: West because there's different languages, there's different cultures, different food,
Speaker 4: different culinary traditions. What unites the West is our Christian roots.
Speaker 4: And Marco was very clear to put that in. So
Speaker 4: I don't believe the lies that This is my big point.
Speaker 4: What I loved about this and why I think it
Speaker 4: stood out is because Marco articulated a rousing speech, but
Speaker 4: a celebration of our history and our accomplishments of our values.
Speaker 4: So many people in that room have been fed up.
Speaker 4: Heap lies that they're supposed to be ashamed of themselves,
Speaker 4: and that we should be ashamed and we should manage
Speaker 4: our decline to let other the global South rise or whatever,
Speaker 4: let China rise. No, And it's a it's a choice.
Speaker 6: And I especially think it's this is a part I
Speaker 6: particularly like. Actually Rubio is, of course Cuban, Cuban heritage,
Speaker 6: Hispanic heritage. And I like that he's affirming that because,
Speaker 6: as we'll see, because we'll have clips from aoc here
Speaker 6: in just a moment, there's this popular there's actually kind
Speaker 6: of a conflict in Latin American civilization where some of
Speaker 6: them they really buy into this, like Indigenous People's movement,
Speaker 6: where like everything about it was terrible, and like Europe
Speaker 6: is awful and we need to like decolonize the world.
Speaker 6: And he's pointing out, no, like I am from Western civilizations. Well,
Speaker 6: Cuba is a part of Western civilization. He mentioned Venezuela
Speaker 6: in the speech. Venezuela is a part of Western civilization.
Speaker 6: It's not just Europe itself and America. It's the places
Speaker 6: that Europeans went, where they spread Christianity, where they spread
Speaker 6: spread European cultural norms, where they spread European languages and
Speaker 6: all of that. And it was really not to see
Speaker 6: him just step up and defend that all as a
Speaker 6: good thing, which it was, because would you rather have
Speaker 6: Mexico as it is or Mexico as a nation that
Speaker 6: sacrifices human beings?
Speaker 4: Well, an AOC tries to take a swing at Secretary
Speaker 4: of Rubio's address in Munich and Missus two fifty six.
Speaker 8: You are starting to see the ascent of the right
Speaker 8: even in places like Munich. Marco Rubio's speech was a
Speaker 8: pure appeal to Western culture.
Speaker 4: And that's a bad thing. Oh no, it's terrible. No,
Speaker 4: So this is another funny one. She basically references the
Speaker 4: actions we took in Venezuela and said, you know, we
Speaker 4: just did it because it's below the equator. It's not
Speaker 4: below the equator two seventy four.
Speaker 8: We look at what happened in Venezuela, for example.
Speaker 9: It is not a it is it is.
Speaker 8: Not a remark on who Maduro was as a leader.
Speaker 8: He canceled elections, he was an anti democratic leader. That
Speaker 8: doesn't mean that we can kidnap ahead of state and
Speaker 8: engage in acts of war just because the nation is
Speaker 8: below the equator, and.
Speaker 6: That they really it's very funny. It's like it's so
Speaker 6: funny that she gets wrong. Specifically, because it goes basically
Speaker 6: as close to the equator as you can get without
Speaker 6: actually touching it. I also love She's just a classic
Speaker 6: example so many politicians do that as soon as she
Speaker 6: mentions like madurolla, you just gotta lay that in.
Speaker 5: Just use as a normal American accent for everything else.
Speaker 4: If you can understand what the heck she means here,
Speaker 4: please send us an email Freedom at Charliekirk dot com
Speaker 4: two eighty six.
Speaker 8: I think what we identify is that in a rules
Speaker 8: based order, hypocrisy is vulnerability, and so I think what
Speaker 8: we are seeking is a return to a rules based
Speaker 8: order that eliminates the hypocrisies around when too often in
Speaker 8: the West we'd look the other way for inconvenient populations
Speaker 8: to act out these paradoxes.
Speaker 6: Don't you just this is getting way ahead of things.
Speaker 6: But wouldn't it just be amazing to see like Ruby
Speaker 6: o versus aoc on like.
Speaker 3: A VP debate stage. Yeah, let it run for president?
Speaker 3: Yeah for having listened to this, just.
Speaker 5: Imagine imagine route.
Speaker 6: You know, obviously they're both kind of representatives of a
Speaker 6: certain subgroup, and then just one of them just an
Speaker 6: unabashed defender of Western civilization and the other just doing.
Speaker 4: Feel terrible about alone and just be invaded. Invade is harder, Daddy,
Speaker 4: That's like the contrast. Shit, even I think on X,
Speaker 4: I think she was you.
Speaker 6: It was like got mad because he made he made
Speaker 6: a reference to the different you know, cultural strands going
Speaker 6: into America. New Amsterdam was Dutch and there were French
Speaker 6: fur traders. And he's like, and the cowboy goes back
Speaker 6: to Spanish cold, which it did. And she's like, tell
Speaker 6: the Mexicans that, And it's like, where do you think
Speaker 6: they got the horses from?
Speaker 3: Again? Your thoughts? What the heck she means to anyone?
Speaker 8: Should the US actually commit US troops to defend Taiwan
Speaker 8: if China were to move? You know, I think that, uh,
Speaker 8: this is such a you know, I think that.
Speaker 4: This is a.
Speaker 8: This is of course, a very long standing policy of
Speaker 8: the United States, And I think what we are hoping
Speaker 8: for is that we want to make sure that we
Speaker 8: never get to that point, and we want to make
Speaker 8: sure that we are moving in all of our economic
Speaker 8: research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation.
Speaker 8: And for that question to even arise.
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Speaker 4: Mike Lee, Senator Mike Lee, the great Senator out of
Speaker 4: the state of Utah, at a state that really struggles
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Speaker 4: Senator Mike Lee. Senator, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
Speaker 4: Honored to have you.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, it's an honor to be with you
Speaker 1: as always.
Speaker 4: Well, Senator, you have been leading the charge on the
Speaker 4: Save Act and you published an article kind of on
Speaker 4: x explaining why we need the Save America America Act
Speaker 4: and then I'm going to play you some clips of
Speaker 4: some of the detractors and what they're saying. But let's
Speaker 4: start there. Why do we need to save America Act?
Speaker 1: We need to save America Act in a nutshell because
Speaker 1: an existing federal law, a National Voter Registration Act or MVRA,
Speaker 1: sometimes not as the Motor Voter Law, passed in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety three, allows people to register to vote in almost
Speaker 1: every state simpler by going to a DMV filling out
Speaker 1: a form, checking a box saying yes, I'd like to
Speaker 1: register to vote, and then signing their name saying yes,
Speaker 1: I'm eligible to vote, meaning I'm a citizen and otherwise
Speaker 1: legally allowed to vote. And a couple of decades after
Speaker 1: this law was enacted, in a little known ruling and
Speaker 1: State of Arizona versus Inner Tribal Council, the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: interpreted that same law as saying that states may not
Speaker 1: under the MVRA, concluding if the states had been preempted
Speaker 1: from either inquiring into the possibility of a need to
Speaker 1: verify citizenship on the part of somebody who would applied
Speaker 1: to register to vote using an MVRA form. In other words,
Speaker 1: states may not ask for proof of citizenship in that context. Well,
Speaker 1: even since that ruling a few years ago, even since
Speaker 1: that ruling, a lot of other things have gotten worse
Speaker 1: that have made that problem really compound in the order
Speaker 1: of magnitude of a problem that it creates. Remember, in
Speaker 1: the four year period between twenty twenty one to twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, we had ten or fifteen million people cross
Speaker 1: our borders unlawfully. We've now gotten excess of somewhere in
Speaker 1: the range of about thirty million non citizens residing in
Speaker 1: this country. We've got trend over the last twenty five
Speaker 1: years of more and more states issuing driver's licenses to
Speaker 1: non citizens. Nearly every state does that. About nineteen states
Speaker 1: issue driver's license even to people who are known illegal immigrants.
Speaker 1: And so all of this means that it's more easy
Speaker 1: than ever and more likely than effort. Somebody could go
Speaker 1: and apply for a driver's license, whether they mean to
Speaker 1: or not. They can check that box, sign their name
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the forum, and presto, they are
Speaker 1: now registered voters in the United States. So the same
Speaker 1: America Act was introduced to close that loophole, a loophole
Speaker 1: created by existing federal law. And you know, they look.
Speaker 1: The validity, the vitality of our constitutional republic depends on
Speaker 1: the security of our elections. Our elections cannot be secure
Speaker 1: as long as we've got that gaping loophole in there.
Speaker 1: We've got to close it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you say here in your write up here,
Speaker 4: you know, it's basic common sense, completely agree. You say,
Speaker 4: we require documentation proving our identity and eligibility to board planes,
Speaker 4: by alcohol, receive welfare cash checks, by firearms, by hunting
Speaker 4: and fishing licenses, pickup tickets, and participate many political activities,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 3: And it's it is just this.
Speaker 4: Wild thing where we have this carve out that seems
Speaker 4: to defy all.
Speaker 3: Common sense and all logic.
Speaker 4: This is a twenty twenty four clip from Colorado Secretary
Speaker 4: of State Jenna Griswold where she sent out thirty thousand
Speaker 4: mailers to illegals tell him.
Speaker 3: The register to vote. It's a true story two forty five.
Speaker 10: In twenty twenty two, your office sent out mailers to
Speaker 10: thirty thousand non citizens inviting them to register to vote.
Speaker 2: They, of course, are not eligible.
Speaker 10: To register to vote. That same year, your office used
Speaker 10: Colorado's ballot tracking system to send messages to specific Colorado's
Speaker 10: encouraging them to vote when in fact they had already voted.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that seems like a full proof system that
Speaker 4: they have over there. And then this is a colleague
Speaker 4: of yours in the Senate, Sir, It's Alex Padilla, and
Speaker 4: he says he has some harsh words for your Save
Speaker 4: Act here two eighty three.
Speaker 9: Absolutely nonsensical. I mean to insist on bringing your birth
Speaker 9: certificate or a passport. Most a lot of Americans don't
Speaker 9: even have a passport, because that everybody travels internationally. It's
Speaker 9: the equivalent of a show me your papers law to
Speaker 9: be able to exercise your fundamental constitutional right to vote.
Speaker 4: Senator Mike Lee, your response to your colleague in the
Speaker 4: Senate there, show me your papers.
Speaker 1: That's paranoid fantasy, and that's the sort of rage baiting
Speaker 1: that we've got to resist, like the plague in this country.
Speaker 1: He's absolutely wrong. He couldn't be any more mistaken. First
Speaker 1: of all, insofar as he's playing that you've got to
Speaker 1: show up with your birth certificate or a passport at
Speaker 1: the tunnel voting, that's not true. You do have to
Speaker 1: prove citizenship or the tone of voter registration because Remember,
Speaker 1: the Save America Act requires two things. Document your citizenship
Speaker 1: at the time you register to vote, and then thereafter
Speaker 1: having registered to vote. Once you've done so, on the
Speaker 1: day of voting, at the moment you vote, you're supposed
Speaker 1: to show up at the polling place with some sort
Speaker 1: of government issued ID, not the full documentation of your citizenship,
Speaker 1: but just some sort of government issued photo ID to
Speaker 1: prove that you are who you say you are, to
Speaker 1: prove that you are the same person listed on that
Speaker 1: voter registration that you previously registered for. This is not
Speaker 1: that hard. And as far as this being a fundamental right, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is. That is a fundamental incident of citizenship. Of
Speaker 1: citizenship and citizenship and the vote that comes with it
Speaker 1: means less when we allow people who are not citizens
Speaker 1: to vote. And that's a real problem insofar as suggesting
Speaker 1: that constitutionally protected right like the right to vote cannot
Speaker 1: ever be accompanied by documentation requirements, that's nonsense. We do
Speaker 1: it all the time. You know, you're also constitutionally protected
Speaker 1: in your right to own, possess, and guests purchase a firearm.
Speaker 1: And yet if anyone who's ever purchased a firearm from
Speaker 1: an early licensed firearm. Steeler knows that you've got to
Speaker 1: fill up forms, you've got to provide documentation showing who
Speaker 1: you are, and you've got to wait while they process that.
Speaker 1: So this is absolute nonsense. Look, our objective here, andrews
Speaker 1: to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.
Speaker 1: The Save America Act accomplishes both of those purposes. That
Speaker 1: Democrats want only one of them, and that's a problem.
Speaker 4: So then the question then becomes, Senator, how do we
Speaker 4: get this over the finish line? The House to save
Speaker 4: the has passed the Save Act. I know it's gone
Speaker 4: back to the House for different amendments, but Thune has
Speaker 4: now become a co signer of the bill. You've got
Speaker 4: this filibuster issue. You have been advocating for nuking the
Speaker 4: zombie filibuster. What does that mean? Is that still what
Speaker 4: you're pursuing and what would it entail?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So the zombie solibuster is the name that I
Speaker 1: have administered, that I've given to the process by which
Speaker 1: filibustering for often happens these days. A filipbuster refers to
Speaker 1: the long standing Senate tradition and principle, backed up by
Speaker 1: Senate rules, that protects open ended theoretically unlimited debate, subject
Speaker 1: to certain exceptions. But from the very beginning of the Republic,
Speaker 1: since the Constitution was ratified and the Senate first began
Speaker 1: its operations in the late seventeen hundreds, there have always
Speaker 1: been there's always been an understanding that you've got to
Speaker 1: speak to filibuster. Over the last few decades, we've gotten lazy,
Speaker 1: we've gotten weak, some of these muscles have atrophied due
Speaker 1: to non use of those muscles, and we've gotten accustomed
Speaker 1: to the idea that you can filibuster without actually going
Speaker 1: to the Senate chamber and standing up, seeking recognition, obtaining recognition,
Speaker 1: standing up and speaking. That's what it's supposed to entail.
Speaker 1: So what we mean when we say it's time to
Speaker 1: fitch the not the filibuster, is just enforce existing Senate rules.
Speaker 1: Make senators speak if they want a filibuster, and when
Speaker 1: they exhaust themselves either physically or under the Senate rules
Speaker 1: to speak, then we call the question, and the question
Speaker 1: is called it a simple majority vote. They shouldn't get
Speaker 1: the chance every single time to just say, well, I
Speaker 1: don't like this, and you don't have sixty votes to
Speaker 1: achieve culture without me. Its vulture is a vote under
Speaker 1: Rule twenty two of the Senate that allows you to
Speaker 1: force debate to a close even if a subset a
Speaker 1: minority of senators want to continue speaking. You can force
Speaker 1: debate to a close if you could get the sixty votes.
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean it's the only way to pass
Speaker 1: a bill. Sometimes you can get there through exhaustion, and
Speaker 1: that's what I'm advocating here. That's the way we're going
Speaker 1: to pass the Save America Act.
Speaker 4: Do you feel any momentum with Leader Thoon that he
Speaker 4: would be willing you say? Here in your Twitter you
Speaker 4: said Senate Rule nineteen enforce the talking film buster by
Speaker 4: inter aliot. Do you do you feel like he's going
Speaker 4: to do this? Is he on board? Is there any momentum?
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll never speak for a colleague, but I will
Speaker 1: say this, I have aggressively made the case to lead
Speaker 1: your Phone and to my colleagues about the need to
Speaker 1: do this, and I'll say that he's got another advisement.
Speaker 1: I've had extensive conversations with President Trump as well. He
Speaker 1: loves the idea, and I believe he's having conversations with
Speaker 1: later Phone as well. So all with them, this sound
Speaker 1: of my voice. Reach out to your senators, encourage them
Speaker 1: to pass this. Tell them it matters. And if not us,
Speaker 1: who if not now? When this thing matters. If we
Speaker 1: want to hold onto these majorities in twenty twenty six,
Speaker 1: we've got to act. We got to show our voters,
Speaker 1: our own base, we're willing to stand up for them.
Speaker 1: This is important to them, it's important to the Republican
Speaker 1: Party most of all, it's important to the republic well.
Speaker 4: And by the way, Senator President Trump truthed out that
Speaker 4: we will have voter ID in the mid terms whether
Speaker 4: Congress passes this bill or not. I'm not exactly sure
Speaker 4: what he means that. I'm assuming some sort of executive order.
Speaker 4: But President Trump is taking this very seriously, and hopefully
Speaker 4: your senator is as well. And Senator Mike Lee, I
Speaker 4: totally appreciate that. Blow up their phones, melt the phones.
Speaker 4: This is the time to act. We need to pass
Speaker 4: the Save Act. Senator God bless you. Thank you for
Speaker 4: coming on, thank you for making the time. We'll talk
Speaker 4: to you again soon.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 4: But Obama apparently confirmed that there's aliens or did he?
Speaker 3: Or did he?
Speaker 4: This is our aliens real email us Freedom at Charliekirk
Speaker 4: dot com. We want to pull up the email. I
Speaker 4: want to I want to see responding. Okay, and did
Speaker 4: you think that Obama was saying this or not? Two
Speaker 4: seventy two?
Speaker 5: Are aliens real?
Speaker 11: Uh? They're real, but I haven't seen them and and
Speaker 11: they're not being kept in it fifty one there's no
Speaker 11: underground facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they hit
Speaker 11: it from the President of the United States.
Speaker 3: Okay, Blake, what do you think he was saying?
Speaker 6: It sounds exactly like it was like a speed round
Speaker 6: of questions, And so they asked him if aliens are real,
Speaker 6: and he said, yeah, I think they're real, but I
Speaker 6: don't have.
Speaker 5: Secret info about them.
Speaker 3: I think is what he was saying. I am you,
Speaker 3: I am yeah, Okay, Look, I mean I.
Speaker 6: Guess the alternative is he kept the secret, you know,
Speaker 6: NonStop over a nearly twenty year period, and then he's like, yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm just gonna admit they're real on this podcast.
Speaker 3: Why not? Okay?
Speaker 5: Everyone else kept the conspiracy secret.
Speaker 4: I mean he did just go are they real? Yes,
Speaker 4: but he hasn't seen him. Well, it's so great because.
Speaker 6: Obama truly is this avatar of a type of person
Speaker 6: who was so prominent in America in the early two thousands.
Speaker 5: Kind of this.
Speaker 6: It's funny because I want to say, like white nerd,
Speaker 6: and he's not white, but he kind of yeah, and
Speaker 6: he's very spiritually like those people where they would you know,
Speaker 6: they'll run the numbers and they'll say, well, actually, I
Speaker 6: mean there's trillions and quadrillions of stars and planets, so
Speaker 6: the odds that there's no aliens anywhere.
Speaker 3: In the universe, he responded.
Speaker 4: He so this goes mega viral over the weekend. You've
Speaker 4: got Epstein names getting released, You've got the Munich Security Conference,
Speaker 4: there's all these feuds and in FI and this somehow
Speaker 4: pierces the this pierce is everything. It becomes like a
Speaker 4: massive story. He says, I was trying to stick with
Speaker 4: the spirit of the speed round. But since it's gotten attention,
Speaker 4: let me clarify statistically, the universe is so vast that
Speaker 4: this is this is what you're saying.
Speaker 3: Told you The universe is so vast that the odds
Speaker 3: of are good that there's life out there, but distances
Speaker 3: between solar systems are so great that the chances we've
Speaker 3: been visited by aliens is low. And I say, no
Speaker 3: evidence during saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials
Speaker 3: have made contact with us.
Speaker 6: Really, let me be Claire, let me be a c Yeah,
Speaker 6: it's that's the truth of it.
Speaker 4: We're gonna hear this alien.
Speaker 5: For ages that I'll have to this video mask off.
Speaker 5: It's like they are they managed to.
Speaker 6: Have these sweeping, you know, conspiracies of silence that suck
Speaker 6: in hundreds thousands, if not millions of people, and then
Speaker 6: it's just blown open because he he just gets loose
Speaker 6: during a podcast episode. I'm pretty skeptical. Let's see what
Speaker 6: the emails say. Uh yeah, Lisa says. Lisa says she
Speaker 6: believes that people are seeing angels and demons. That's to
Speaker 6: take Others have said, I think Tucker's talked about you
Speaker 6: know that posture.
Speaker 4: Elizabeth says. No, I loved ET and Close Encounters of
Speaker 4: the Third Kind. No, there are not aliens. They do
Speaker 4: make for really great science fiction movies.
Speaker 6: Jennifer says, if there are aliens, they are not what
Speaker 6: we see depicted in Star Wars. I believe that the
Speaker 6: Bible said God created man in his image. To say
Speaker 6: we have super smart, powerful aliens would go against that.
Speaker 5: You know that gets there.
Speaker 6: There's some fun like Christian sci fi out there that
Speaker 6: will dwell on the question.
Speaker 5: Like Okay, if aliens exist, would we.
Speaker 6: Have to evangelize them? Or like would God have to
Speaker 6: also do an incarnation for them?
Speaker 3: You know what's interesting is that see us loose wrestled
Speaker 3: with this.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've been reading the Space trilogy, so I read
Speaker 6: that Hideous Strength over Christmas. Now I'm reading Perilandra. I
Speaker 6: want to recommend that to everyone watching. It's a very
Speaker 6: interesting book, Parlandra. The plot is it's before it's pre
Speaker 6: spaceflight sci fi, so we don't know anything about the planet.
Speaker 6: So it takes place on Venus, which we could not
Speaker 6: actually visit. It turns out, but he has Venus as
Speaker 6: a habitable planet, and the main character basically intervenes on
Speaker 6: the planet at the moment where like each planet kind
Speaker 6: of has its own creations by God, and so he
Speaker 6: arrives on the planet and it's newer, it's a younger
Speaker 6: planet than Earth, and so He basically arrives in its
Speaker 6: version of the Garden of Eden right when Satan shows
Speaker 6: up to try to make its version of eve Fall,
Speaker 6: and he has to like interven it. It's crazy book
Speaker 6: and it's not. It's on two hundred pages, so I'll
Speaker 6: tell everyone to check that book out.
Speaker 3: What's called Perlandra and it's written by C. S.
Speaker 9: Lewis.
Speaker 3: I didn't really Suit says aliens are real.
Speaker 4: They're called dema rats, you know, with the rest, but
Speaker 4: they come from the depths of Hell.
Speaker 5: I had no absolutely not interesting.
Speaker 4: I'm surprised to see so many people say that aliens
Speaker 4: aren't real. I actually am in the vast expanse that
Speaker 4: is space. And by the way, as a Christian, I
Speaker 4: don't feel like that challenge is my faith at all. Actually,
Speaker 4: because God is the ultimate creator, He's infinitely creative, and
Speaker 4: I don't think that would make us less special.
Speaker 3: I think that's basically where C. S. Lewis sort of
Speaker 3: ultimately lands.
Speaker 4: So I'm I admit, admittedly, I'm I'm, I'm it's very interesting.
Speaker 6: The Space trilogy kind of the core concept is what
Speaker 6: if there was life on every other planet, but Earth
Speaker 6: was the only one that fell and so like we
Speaker 6: had to have the incarnation to save us. Everyone else
Speaker 6: did not sin it some very interesting stuff, and Strength.
Speaker 4: Says demons are among us. They can appear as anything.
Speaker 4: Aliens and demons is just connecting. Listen, there's a lot
Speaker 4: of people that think that.
Speaker 3: Sort of thing.
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