WEBVTT - Marco Rubio's Epic Munich Speech 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:04.680 My name is Charlie Kirk. 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:08.520 I run the largest pro American student organization in the country, 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:12.520 fighting for the future of our republic. My call is 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.360 to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:18.840 important thing for you is just feeling good, you're gonna 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:21.560 end up miserable. But if the most important thing is 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:26.040 doing good, you'll end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:27.880 You got to stop sending your kids to college. You 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:29.960 should get married as young as possible and have as 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:32.199 many kids as possible. Go start at turning point, you 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:34.680 would say college chapter. Go start aturning point youould say 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:36.680 high school chapter. 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Massively busy media weekend. 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:23.400 There was a lot going on. I have family in town. 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:25.920 Was trying to focus, but there was just too much 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:28.280 going on. And I will tell you, and we're going 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.640 to get to it all. We've got new Epstein revelations, 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:35.880 We've got updates in the Savannah Got three case. 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:41.959 We've got all kinds of things. But the key. 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:44.520 Storyline that I think we need to lead with because 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:46.120 it was just too good not to lead it. 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.280 It really and it matters more. I think it does matter. 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:51.480 And by the way, that's what our show is always 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:52.240 attempting to do. 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.360 We want to focus on the civilizational stakes, the. 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.880 Things that matter, the cultural things that matter, the political 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:01.800 things that matter, the civilizational things that matter. Marco Rubio's 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:07.240 speech at the Munich Security Conference was absolutely a barn burner. 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:11.760 It was probably, as I said on X, the single 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:16.480 best defense of Western civilization, in an appeal to Europe 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:20.359 to get on board with the vision that America President 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:23.920 Trump has put forward that I've heard in a generation, 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.200 that I think has been articulated in a generation. 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:27.040 Yeah, it's. 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:29.280 First of all what it matters. 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:32.600 This is the Munich Security Conference, annual event related to 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:34.720 defense in the you know, during the past few years 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:37.920 it's all been about Ukraine and such. Secretary Rubio goes 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.200 and he gives a speech that's basically laying out the 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:46.400 grand vision of what the Trump administration's attitude towards Europe is. 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:48.840 And we'll have the clips here, but the big picture 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:52.120 you're looking for is he's pointing out we're not hostile 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.480 towards Europe. In fact, we quite literally want to mega 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:59.600 make Europe great again. And so he's pointing out when 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:01.919 we critic size NATO, it's always that we want NATO 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:05.359 to be stronger. We want European countries to have better 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:08.440 militaries so they will be better allies to us. We 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:12.200 want to stop migration to Europe because we want European 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:16.280 civilizations to survive, just as we want our own civilization 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.400 to survive. And I think the most remarkad and he 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.720 makes these historic appeals. He talks about World War Two, 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.080 he talks about the Cold War War, we stood with 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:28.800 Europeans against tyrannical anti civilizational forces. And I think the 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:30.280 most amazing thing about it is at the end of it. 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:33.480 He got a standing ovation from the Europeans. 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.400 Which apparently is rare, but he what I think, the 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:40.200 reason he did is because when we criticize Europe it 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:44.280 is because we care. And he articulated that very well, 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:46.280 and he did it over and over. He laced it 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:49.600 throughout the speech. But let's just get into it. This 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:54.560 was an amazing, amazing moment. I think whether it matter 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.360 in the long term, will this have the desired impact? 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.240 Who knows, But the standing ovation was a good was good. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.480 Let's run it into it. Let's do two forty six. 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:08.720 National security, which this conference is largely about, is not 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.560 merely a series of technical questions how much we spend 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.200 on defense or where how we deploy it. These are 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:19.279 important questions, they are, but they are not the fundamental one. 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:24.200 The fundamental question we must answer at the outset is 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:28.839 what exactly are we defending? Because armies do not fight 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:33.200 for abstractions. Armies fight for a people, Armies fight for 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:37.240 a nation. Armies fight for a way of life, and 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:41.120 that is what we are defending. A great civilization that 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.480 has every reason to be proud of its history. 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:48.080 That to me is such a distillation of what I 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.640 believe is what's ailing the West right now. We have 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.960 lost our pride and self. We have lost our pride 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.080 in our own culture and our own people and our 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.240 own accomplishments. We have been plagued by a guilt built 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:04.120 a white guilt, a guilt of our own success. We 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:08.920 have believed lies that we are invaders, that were evil colonialists. 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:09.880 He's imperialists. 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:13.120 He unironically touted colonialism during. 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:17.760 The speech, which is an unambiguously overall good thing on 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:21.560 the history of the world. It is I will defend colonialism. 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:23.720 It's not that it was perfect. It's not that it 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.800 was it didn't have brutality or cruelty involved. Of course, 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:30.960 we're talking about a people that understood that you had 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:32.440 to use force if you were going to get what 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:34.760 you wanted in a mean and cruel world. So I'm 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:36.920 not saying it was all perfect. But if you look 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:40.400 at where especially the English colonials have went, even in 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.000 Kenya in Africa, it's one of the most stable countries 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:46.240 in all of Africa because it was settled by English. 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.760 Same in India, same in America. You can look across 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:54.520 the board and the British colonialists had a I would 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.960 say overwhelmingly good, positive impact on the world. I don't 0:05:57.960 --> 0:05:59.360 think we got this as a clip, so I want 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.760 to read it. This is a line that Secretary Rubio said. 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:05.960 For five centuries before the end of the Second World War, 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:10.880 the West had been expanding It's missionaries, its pilgrims, its soldiers, 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:14.640 its explorers, pouring out from its shores to cross oceans, 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:19.760 settle new continents, build vast empires, extending out across the globe. 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.800 But in nineteen forty five, for the first time since 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:26.440 the age of Columbus, it Europe was contracting. Europe was 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.560 in ruins, half of it lived behind an iron curtain. 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:34.520 The great Western empires had entered into terminal decline, accelerated 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:38.800 by godless communist revolutions and anti colonial uprisings that would 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:41.600 transform the world and drape the red hammer and sickle 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.880 across the vast swaths of the map for years to come. 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.159 And he basically says, it's time for us to undo 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:52.760 that managed decline, and that's not necessarily bring back colonialism specifically, 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:56.560 but certainly stop apologizing for it, stop acting like it's 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:00.800 the worst atrocity to ever happen. And he calls out 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:05.960 mass migration, and he calls out like demilitarization, Yeah, the 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:09.160 managed decline. I thought he really honed in on it. 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.239 It was very powerful play a cut two fifty three. 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:16.800 For we in America have no interest in being polite 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:22.240 and orderly caretakers of the West's managed decline. We do 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:26.280 not seek to separate, but to revitalize an old friendship 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.400 and renew the greatest civilization in human history. 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.320 And then he goes on and basically says, yeah, to 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:35.520 renew it. He talks about rearming fifty seven. 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.880 Asking member states of NATO to be stronger is not 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.080 a threat to say, well, if you're not stronger, then 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:43.960 we're going to you know, it's to point out to 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:47.280 everybody that it is a stronger alliance. We are collectively 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.600 stronger when we are individually stronger on what our capabilities 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:50.960 we bring. 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:54.600 That was from a different Yeah, that was from after. 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:59.520 But the part that I think was actually the next 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.840 thought in this is he goes straight into mass migration. 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.400 And I love that you saw this. JD. Vance hit it. 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:10.200 President Trump has been hitting it repeatedly, and now you 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:12.400 see Marco Rubio two fifty four. 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:17.680 Mass migration is not was not is some fringe concern 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.840 of little consequence. It was and continues to be a 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:26.600 crisis which is transforming and destabilizing societies all across the West. 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:30.200 We always say on this show that mass migration, unfettered 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:36.400 mass migration is the switch that, when flipped, will fix 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:41.040 basically all the ills. Not perfectly humans or evil humans 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.080 are flawed. They're going to be flawed regardless of where 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:47.959 they come from. But mass migration is absolutely at the 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.679 core root of so many of the problems ailing the 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:56.520 West today, and it needs to be addressed. Candles were 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.760 lit on Bondai Beach by families, by children, by people 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:02.840 of faith to celebrate a festival of Light, a festival 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:06.840 from Bible times, one that Jesus himself celebrated. 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All right, I want to 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:09.720 play one more clip from this UH speech because it's 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:13.160 just so good two eighty five Marco Rubio. 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:18.559 While we are prepared, if necessary, to do this alone, 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:22.480 it is our preference and it is our hope to 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:27.000 do this together with you, our friends here in Europe. 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:32.079 For the United States and Europe, we belong together. We 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:37.160 are part of one civilization, Western civilization. We are bound 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.120 to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:48.400 forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:52.720 and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:56.160 civilization to which we have fallen heir. 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.240 And I just love that he brings the word Christian 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.960 in there. Known fact, when they were doing the European 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.160 Union and they were kind of establishing some of their 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.400 foundational documents, there was a debate about whether or not 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:11.079 to include Christianity in there, something doctor James or talks about. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:12.720 They voted against that. 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:16.280 So I don't know what defines the West if it 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:20.400 isn't our common Christian heritage. Whether or not you agree, 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:24.000 whether or not you believe, there's nothing that unites the 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:27.240 West because there's different languages, there's different cultures, different food, 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:33.800 different culinary traditions. What unites the West is our Christian roots. 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:36.160 And Marco was very clear to put that in. So 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:39.040 I don't believe the lies that This is my big point. 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.000 What I loved about this and why I think it 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:46.640 stood out is because Marco articulated a rousing speech, but 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:50.600 a celebration of our history and our accomplishments of our values. 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:52.800 So many people in that room have been fed up. 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.880 Heap lies that they're supposed to be ashamed of themselves, 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:58.559 and that we should be ashamed and we should manage 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.840 our decline to let other the global South rise or whatever, 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:06.319 let China rise. No, And it's a it's a choice. 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.320 And I especially think it's this is a part I 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:13.480 particularly like. Actually Rubio is, of course Cuban, Cuban heritage, 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:16.640 Hispanic heritage. And I like that he's affirming that because, 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.360 as we'll see, because we'll have clips from aoc here 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.520 in just a moment, there's this popular there's actually kind 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:26.280 of a conflict in Latin American civilization where some of 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:31.679 them they really buy into this, like Indigenous People's movement, 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.520 where like everything about it was terrible, and like Europe 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:36.760 is awful and we need to like decolonize the world. 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:41.000 And he's pointing out, no, like I am from Western civilizations. Well, 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.840 Cuba is a part of Western civilization. He mentioned Venezuela 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.240 in the speech. Venezuela is a part of Western civilization. 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.360 It's not just Europe itself and America. It's the places 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.679 that Europeans went, where they spread Christianity, where they spread 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.880 spread European cultural norms, where they spread European languages and 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.440 all of that. And it was really not to see 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:02.680 him just step up and defend that all as a 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:06.000 good thing, which it was, because would you rather have 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.559 Mexico as it is or Mexico as a nation that 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:10.120 sacrifices human beings? 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:14.479 Well, an AOC tries to take a swing at Secretary 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:18.320 of Rubio's address in Munich and Missus two fifty six. 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:22.760 You are starting to see the ascent of the right 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:29.240 even in places like Munich. Marco Rubio's speech was a 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:34.040 pure appeal to Western culture. 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:38.120 And that's a bad thing. Oh no, it's terrible. No, 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:44.720 So this is another funny one. She basically references the 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.840 actions we took in Venezuela and said, you know, we 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:50.320 just did it because it's below the equator. It's not 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.800 below the equator two seventy four. 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.880 We look at what happened in Venezuela, for example. 0:13:56.520 --> 0:14:01.360 It is not a it is it is. 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:06.199 Not a remark on who Maduro was as a leader. 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:09.040 He canceled elections, he was an anti democratic leader. That 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:12.920 doesn't mean that we can kidnap ahead of state and 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.440 engage in acts of war just because the nation is 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:19.040 below the equator, and. 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.840 That they really it's very funny. It's like it's so 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:26.960 funny that she gets wrong. Specifically, because it goes basically 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.360 as close to the equator as you can get without 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:32.200 actually touching it. I also love She's just a classic 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:34.600 example so many politicians do that as soon as she 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:40.880 mentions like madurolla, you just gotta lay that in. 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:43.480 Just use as a normal American accent for everything else. 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.320 If you can understand what the heck she means here, 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.160 please send us an email Freedom at Charliekirk dot com 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:49.760 two eighty six. 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.360 I think what we identify is that in a rules 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:59.320 based order, hypocrisy is vulnerability, and so I think what 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.840 we are seeking is a return to a rules based 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:07.880 order that eliminates the hypocrisies around when too often in 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:12.640 the West we'd look the other way for inconvenient populations 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:16.520 to act out these paradoxes. 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.120 Don't you just this is getting way ahead of things. 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.080 But wouldn't it just be amazing to see like Ruby 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:23.440 o versus aoc on like. 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.960 A VP debate stage. Yeah, let it run for president? 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:31.880 Yeah for having listened to this, just. 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:33.160 Imagine imagine route. 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.760 You know, obviously they're both kind of representatives of a 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.680 certain subgroup, and then just one of them just an 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.640 unabashed defender of Western civilization and the other just doing. 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:47.760 Feel terrible about alone and just be invaded. Invade is harder, Daddy, 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:49.680 That's like the contrast. Shit, even I think on X, 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:50.440 I think she was you. 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.480 It was like got mad because he made he made 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:54.680 a reference to the different you know, cultural strands going 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:56.760 into America. New Amsterdam was Dutch and there were French 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.120 fur traders. And he's like, and the cowboy goes back 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:02.280 to Spanish cold, which it did. And she's like, tell 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:05.240 the Mexicans that, And it's like, where do you think 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:06.400 they got the horses from? 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:10.480 Again? Your thoughts? What the heck she means to anyone? 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:15.080 Should the US actually commit US troops to defend Taiwan 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:20.920 if China were to move? 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All right, without further ado. 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.280 Mike Lee, Senator Mike Lee, the great Senator out of 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:37.000 the state of Utah, at a state that really struggles 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:40.359 sometimes electing politicians mandate, it hit a gold mine with 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.960 Senator Mike Lee. Senator, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:44.760 Honored to have you. 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:46.720 Thanks so much, it's an honor to be with you 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:47.280 as always. 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:51.639 Well, Senator, you have been leading the charge on the 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:56.280 Save Act and you published an article kind of on 0:18:56.680 --> 0:19:00.720 x explaining why we need the Save America America Act 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:02.760 and then I'm going to play you some clips of 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:05.520 some of the detractors and what they're saying. But let's 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:08.160 start there. Why do we need to save America Act? 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:11.159 We need to save America Act in a nutshell because 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:15.159 an existing federal law, a National Voter Registration Act or MVRA, 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.560 sometimes not as the Motor Voter Law, passed in nineteen 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:23.800 ninety three, allows people to register to vote in almost 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:27.960 every state simpler by going to a DMV filling out 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:30.320 a form, checking a box saying yes, I'd like to 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:33.520 register to vote, and then signing their name saying yes, 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:37.320 I'm eligible to vote, meaning I'm a citizen and otherwise 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:42.280 legally allowed to vote. And a couple of decades after 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:46.040 this law was enacted, in a little known ruling and 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:51.200 State of Arizona versus Inner Tribal Council, the Supreme Court 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:54.840 interpreted that same law as saying that states may not 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:58.960 under the MVRA, concluding if the states had been preempted 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:03.800 from either inquiring into the possibility of a need to 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:07.800 verify citizenship on the part of somebody who would applied 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:11.359 to register to vote using an MVRA form. In other words, 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:16.200 states may not ask for proof of citizenship in that context. Well, 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:20.960 even since that ruling a few years ago, even since 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:23.320 that ruling, a lot of other things have gotten worse 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:27.600 that have made that problem really compound in the order 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:32.480 of magnitude of a problem that it creates. Remember, in 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:36.119 the four year period between twenty twenty one to twenty 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:40.119 twenty five, we had ten or fifteen million people cross 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:44.800 our borders unlawfully. We've now gotten excess of somewhere in 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:48.280 the range of about thirty million non citizens residing in 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:51.560 this country. We've got trend over the last twenty five 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:54.159 years of more and more states issuing driver's licenses to 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:58.400 non citizens. Nearly every state does that. About nineteen states 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:03.439 issue driver's license even to people who are known illegal immigrants. 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:06.800 And so all of this means that it's more easy 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:10.040 than ever and more likely than effort. Somebody could go 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:12.399 and apply for a driver's license, whether they mean to 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:14.959 or not. They can check that box, sign their name 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:18.720 at the bottom of the forum, and presto, they are 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:21.400 now registered voters in the United States. So the same 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:24.800 America Act was introduced to close that loophole, a loophole 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:28.800 created by existing federal law. And you know, they look. 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:35.119 The validity, the vitality of our constitutional republic depends on 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:39.280 the security of our elections. Our elections cannot be secure 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:41.520 as long as we've got that gaping loophole in there. 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:42.320 We've got to close it. 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:46.199 Yeah, and you say here in your write up here, 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:49.360 you know, it's basic common sense, completely agree. You say, 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:52.760 we require documentation proving our identity and eligibility to board planes, 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:56.359 by alcohol, receive welfare cash checks, by firearms, by hunting 0:21:56.359 --> 0:22:01.359 and fishing licenses, pickup tickets, and participate many political activities, 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:02.440 you know. 0:22:02.520 --> 0:22:03.879 And it's it is just this. 0:22:03.960 --> 0:22:07.280 Wild thing where we have this carve out that seems 0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:09.120 to defy all. 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:10.359 Common sense and all logic. 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:14.200 This is a twenty twenty four clip from Colorado Secretary 0:22:14.200 --> 0:22:17.600 of State Jenna Griswold where she sent out thirty thousand 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:19.520 mailers to illegals tell him. 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:21.920 The register to vote. It's a true story two forty five. 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:25.840 In twenty twenty two, your office sent out mailers to 0:22:25.920 --> 0:22:29.320 thirty thousand non citizens inviting them to register to vote. 0:22:29.359 --> 0:22:31.080 They, of course, are not eligible. 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:34.120 To register to vote. That same year, your office used 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:37.840 Colorado's ballot tracking system to send messages to specific Colorado's 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:41.040 encouraging them to vote when in fact they had already voted. 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:43.879 Yeah, that's that seems like a full proof system that 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:46.720 they have over there. And then this is a colleague 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:51.600 of yours in the Senate, Sir, It's Alex Padilla, and 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:54.200