The Charlie Kirk Show - FINALLY—Some Good Election Integrity News From Georgia
Aired: 2021-02-24
Duration: 34:55

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody, finally some good news.
[00:00:02]  When it comes to election integrity, we are on top of the case of what's happening in Georgia.
[00:00:06]  That's right, good news.
[00:00:07]  Things are getting reformed and your pressure is working.
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[00:02:35]  I have some good news to share.
[00:02:38]  We're not there yet, but we're making progress.
[00:02:42]  There are some good things happening in the country, and you deserve the credit.
[00:02:47]  Those of you that listen to this program, that support this program, that get behind this program, those of you that are engaged and active and aware of what's happening in the country, you deserve credit.
[00:02:59]  Because right now, as we are doing this broadcast, the Georgia Senate has officially approved an election reform package, including absentee ballot signature match overhaul.
[00:03:10]  Now, this is not a perfect bill.
[00:03:12]  I have read the proposed piece of legislation.
[00:03:15]  But there are some phenomenal and real improvements within this proposed piece of legislation.
[00:03:24]  So the Georgia Senate has approved four measures Tuesday that make changes to the election process as a result to November's presidential election.
[00:03:35]  One of the bills that was proposed passed 37 to 18.
[00:03:39]  Now, mind you, I was a skeptic before I read this bill.
[00:03:45]  I said, oh, they're just probably just going to the motions.
[00:03:48]  There's some legitimately important components and positive components to this bill.
[00:03:57]  So, to set the baseline, we know that there was a record number of absentee ballots in Georgia.
[00:04:04]  Some say because of the China virus, but I would say that it was because of the political opportunists that use the China virus as a way to increase the amount of absentee ballots that were sent out.
[00:04:23]  So, no excuse absentee balloting in Georgia was up by 7%, more than 300,000 ballots, no excuse absentee balloting.
[00:04:41]  Records show that Georgians who voted with absentee ballots in the 2018 election was a fraction of that.
[00:04:50]  It was 1.3 million in 2020.
[00:04:55]  So, in 2018, when Brian Kemp got elected governor, 284,000 people in Georgia voted with an absentee ballot.
[00:05:04]  In 2020, 1.3 million.
[00:05:08]  1 million new absentee ballots that were used for counted votes.
[00:05:13]  Let me be clear.
[00:05:14]  This is not ballots that were sent out, these are counted votes.
[00:05:18]  So, you go from 284,000 to 1.3 million, and you're trying to tell me that every single ballot is counted perfectly and signature is verified properly.
[00:05:30]  No way.
[00:05:32]  The Georgia Senate realizes this, and it's because of you.
[00:05:36]  The Georgia Senate is hearing our outrage, our focus, and the pressure that we are putting on.
[00:05:42]  And we can't give up.
[00:05:43]  This is just past the Senate.
[00:05:44]  It's going to the House.
[00:05:46]  However, it's Senate Bill 67.
[00:05:48]  And for those of you watching around the country, those of you listening on radio, those of you listening on podcasts, I encourage all of you to rise up and email legislators in Georgia and give them positive encouragement.
[00:06:03]  Because here's what the bill says: it would require absentee ballot voters to put their driver's license or state-issued identification number on the ballot or include a photocopy of an accepted form of identification with their ballot request form instead of a signature.
[00:06:20]  Now, in an ideal world, this is why I said it's not perfect.
[00:06:23]  I would just try to get rid of absentee balloting unless you can prove that you need it.
[00:06:27]  That would be my ideal.
[00:06:28]  I'd rather demand people go vote in person.
[00:06:31]  You can expand the amount of time that they can vote, but voting in person is the most secure way of voting.
[00:06:38]  But in this new age of widespread absentee balloting and potentially H.R. 1 being passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate and signed by the President, Joe Biden, the states need to institute their own reforms on how absentee ballots must be counted.
[00:06:56]  So, let me say this again: Senate Bill 67, which just passed the Georgia Senate, will require when you fill out an absentee ballot, you must put your driver's license, a photocopy of your driver's license, or your driver's license identification number.
[00:07:18]  Senator Larry Walker, who introduced the bill, said the change would make the absentee ballot counting process more efficient and secure.
[00:07:26]  Quote, you can sign your name on that little digital screen, and your signature oftentimes really doesn't look like your actual signature that you do on a daily basis.
[00:07:34]  He's right.
[00:07:36]  You could run into a situation where a family member mailed in the ballot request, which is totally legal, and so the signature would be a moot point.
[00:07:45]  This is a good change.
[00:07:46]  This would, in a lot of different ways, fix the signature verification issue in Georgia.
[00:07:52]  Prove who you are and put your driver's license ID number on it.
[00:07:56]  Now, what are the Democrats saying about this?
[00:07:58]  What is their response?
[00:08:00]  What are Democrats arguing to try and kill the bill?
[00:08:06]  Because we knew they would.
[00:08:08]  By the way, Republicans have such a strong majority in Georgia.
[00:08:11]  This passed 37 to 18.
[00:08:14]  Why this was not passed back in June of 2020 is a mystery to me.
[00:08:19]  Either they were taken by surprise, Brian Kemp didn't demand it, or maybe the Democrats had a better operation than we could have imagined.
[00:08:29]  Very well, Kelly Loffler and David Perdue might have won.
[00:08:32]  But what is the Democrats' reaction to this?
[00:08:35]  Well, Senator Jen Jordan from Atlanta said she has an issue with voters mailing their personal identification information to elections offices.
[00:08:43]  She said it makes voters' information more susceptible to fraud and violates privacy.
[00:08:50]  So Jen Jordan, who I don't think is a very smart person, who is arguing against a bill to stop voter fraud, that the measure itself will encourage more fraud.
[00:09:02]  So I have a question for Jen Jordan.
[00:09:06]  And I'm going to read her quote in just a second.
[00:09:07]  Jen Jordan, who's trying to kill this good bill, it's not a perfect bill.
[00:09:11]  It's not a great bill.
[00:09:12]  I would give it a six out of 10, but it's good news in Georgia.
[00:09:17]  They're doing something.
[00:09:17]  It's passing.
[00:09:18]  It's going to the legislature.
[00:09:19]  They're not doing nothing.
[00:09:20]  They're not saying it's perfect.
[00:09:22]  There's movement.
[00:09:25]  I have a question for Jen Jordan.
[00:09:29]  State Senator Jordan, if the ballots could potentially be manipulated for personal identification and violates privacy, then are you trying to say in the 2020 election, ballots were tampered with and people's personal information or their votes were tampered with?
[00:09:52]  Do you have reason to believe this, Jen Jordan?
[00:09:56]  Is there something you should tell us about Raphael Warnock's win?
[00:09:59]  Is there something you should tell us about Joe Biden in Georgia?
[00:10:03]  Are you trying to tell me that when people mail in a ballot, it might not be totally safe and secure?
[00:10:08]  Are you trying to tell me, state senator Democrat Jen Jordan from Atlanta, that mail and balloting is open to her own word, fraud?
[00:10:17]  She continued by saying, quote, there's nothing in this bill that actually addresses the protections that would need to be in place with respect to voter and consumer identifying information.
[00:10:33]  So Jen Jordan has just made the most elaborate and detailed case that voting by mail is not secure.
[00:10:39]  That whatever you put in the mail, it could be tampered with, it could be thrown away, it could be done, it could be used, it could be manipulated.
[00:10:45]  Jen Jordan is admitting to the world that voting by mail is open for manipulation.
[00:10:56]  Another state senator, David Lucas, a Democrat from Macon, who's not a very smart person, referred to Senate Bill 67 as, quote, malarkey.
[00:11:06]  Wonder where he got that one from.
[00:11:09]  And a result of Trump's inability to accept his election loss.
[00:11:13]  Lucas says he plans to, quote, fight the bill.
[00:11:16]  Wow.
[00:11:17]  Never knew that he would use such insurrectionist language.
[00:11:20]  Of course, I'm being sarcastic because if he says he's going to fight the bill, I thought that's the new threshold for incitement in America.
[00:11:28]  And, quote, taxpayers will pay for the legal action he intends to take.
[00:11:34]  So basically, state senator David Lucas from Georgia, the reason he's saying don't pass the bill is because I'm going to sue the state of Georgia if you pass the bill.
[00:11:44]  Therefore, taxpayers are going to have to pay a bunch of money.
[00:11:46]  So basically, he's trying to extort the entire Georgia Senate saying, I'm going to sue all of you endlessly if you do this.
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[00:13:07]  I just want to say we get so many emails from our listeners all across the country, all across the world even, at freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:13:15]  I encourage all of you watching on the live stream, listening on podcasting or radio, to always email us your thoughts.
[00:13:21]  I get them all here in real time.
[00:13:23]  The number one piece of feedback that we receive is: Charlie, you're making some great points.
[00:13:28]  I hope we'll win elections again.
[00:13:30]  I'm learning a lot, but all of this is a distraction unless we reform our elections.
[00:13:36]  I agree.
[00:13:37]  However, I'm not going to do that same show every single day.
[00:13:41]  I'm not going to just talk about the same things, but I am, and this is the one thing we will do, is we will be on top of the election integrity reform fight, metaphorical fight, media matters, more so than any other program.
[00:14:00]  You can look to us, you can count on us to be reading the bills, putting pressure on the lawmakers, encouraging, highlighting, and lifting up the members of these state houses that decide to use their constitutionally granted authority to positively reform our election system.
[00:14:26]  So, in Georgia, Lieutenant Governor Jeff Duncan just pushed four bills for reform.
[00:14:34]  Now, Senate Bill 67, which is the most positive of all of them, would require a dramatic overhaul with signature verification absentee ballot standards.
[00:14:47]  Lieutenant Governor Jeff Duncan called these common sense reform election common sense election reform.
[00:14:53]  Now, I would go even further than these bills.
[00:14:55]  I think they're a good starting point, and that's where you come in.
[00:14:58]  If you're listening to this and you say, What can I do?
[00:15:00]  Put focus, energy, and time in communicating with these lawmakers.
[00:15:08]  Tell them, hey, you're doing a great job.
[00:15:10]  Thank you for supporting this.
[00:15:12]  But now you need to do even more.
[00:15:15]  So, for example, Senate Bill 67 would say that you need to have a photocopy of your driver's license or your driver's license number on your ballot when you send it in.
[00:15:24]  Now, ideally, we would just reduce the number of absentee ballots.
[00:15:27]  For whatever reason, they're afraid to deal with that.
[00:15:30]  The rapid increase, the explosion of newly requested and submitted absentee ballots has to be addressed.
[00:15:40]  But if we are going to have absentee ballots at all, which we will, then this reform is necessary, and I applaud it.
[00:15:51]  Lieutenant Governor Jeff Duncan said the following: Quote, I am focused on maintaining confidence in our electoral process and making it easy to vote and difficult to cheat, Duncan said.
[00:16:05]  I am proud of this bipartisan package and the hard work of the individual bill sponsors.
[00:16:11]  I look forward to the entire package reaching the governor's desk.
[00:16:16]  There was also some other reforms that were passed, such as Senate Bill 184.
[00:16:21]  Senate Bill 40 allows election workers to open and tabulate absentee ballots before Election Day, basically preventing this months-long potential vote counting issue.
[00:16:36]  Also, Senate Bill 188, which requires counties to report the number of absentee ballot issued and returns on the number of in-person votes cast when the polls close.
[00:16:47]  So we know what we're dealing with on Election Night.
[00:16:51]  Very simple, very smart, and therefore it opens more transparency.
[00:16:56]  And finally, Senate Bill 184, which decreases the time after an election that counties can reconcile the votes from 60 days to 30 days.
[00:17:11]  The measure cleared the Senate with a 37 to 15 vote.
[00:17:16]  Senator Bill Kousert said, quote, when these measures become law, voters will have confidence and confirmation that their vote was indeed counted and counted quickly, with county election boards required to publicly post the total number of votes received before they begin tabulating.
[00:17:33]  These are some very positive good reforms.
[00:17:36]  Every state, if you live in Pennsylvania, if you live in Michigan, if you live in Wisconsin, you live in Arizona, and if you live in Georgia, support these reforms and support even more.
[00:17:45]  And I am pleased, it's the best news I have for you in the last couple weeks, is this.
[00:17:50]  These legislators are taking the cue from you.
[00:17:54]  Don't stop.
[00:17:55]  And so one of the main reasons why there was an increase in the absentee ballot requests was because of the Chinese coronavirus.
[00:18:04]  But there was a, let's say, a perfect storm that occurred when we have the Chinese coronavirus that offered an opening for increased absentee ballot requests.
[00:18:20]  Remember, 284,000 people voted by absentee ballot in Georgia in 2018, and 1.3 million voted by absentee in 2020.
[00:18:32]  1 million more people voted doesn't include requests.
[00:18:36]  Now, Stacey Abrams never conceded to Brian Kemp in 2018, raised a bunch of money from Hollywood elites and tech liberals, hired the best lawyers imaginable in Washington,
[00:18:52]  D.C., came into Georgia and sued Brad Raufensberger, the Secretary of State of Georgia, alongside the governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, who's now up for re-election, they signed what is called a consent decree.
[00:19:08]  Now, this is very confusing.
[00:19:12]  It can be very confusing because there's another consent decree that was approved many, many years ago.
[00:19:23]  And so the real frustrating part of all of this is that there is a consent decree that was put forward in 1982.
[00:19:34]  In 1982, I'm reading from Politico.
[00:19:37]  The Democrat National Committee filed a lawsuit, charging the Republican National Committee with seeking to discourage black voters from voting through targeted mailings, warning about penalties for violating election laws and by posting armed, off-duty law enforcement officers at the polls in minority neighborhoods.
[00:19:56]  To extend the decree, the Democrat National Committee needed to show that the Republican National Committee violated the terms of the pact.
[00:20:04]  The Democrats pointed to a series of incidents from the 2016 election in which they alleged people who claimed or appeared to be working for the RNC were engaged in poll watching.
[00:20:15]  Instead, Vasquez, an Obama-appointed judge, this is back in 2018, lifted the decree, said, You're free now, RNC, to do election integrity efforts anywhere you want, especially in Georgia, in the South.
[00:20:32]  So, simultaneously, while this was happening, Stacey Abrams was running for governor against Brian Kemp, never concedes.
[00:20:40]  And the frustrating thing is because the prior consent decree that was lifted by an Obama judge actually allowed Republicans to get more involved in election integrity than ever before.
[00:20:53]  In addition, Stacey Abrams sues, sues, sues Republicans run for the Hills.
[00:20:59]  Raufensperger and Kemp, they settled.
[00:21:06]  In law, when you settle, you don't admit guilt.
[00:21:10]  You don't say that I did nothing wrong.
[00:21:12]  It's a separate agreement that is formed to end the lawsuit.
[00:21:17]  However, I would venture a guess that Brian Kemp and Rauffensperger were nervous for the fight that Stacey Abrams is bringing to Georgia's door.
[00:21:26]  Rauffensperger and Kemp were worried that Stacey Abrams, with her seeming, her seemingly unlimited pool of money, a media that adores her, and changing demographics in Georgia, Kemp and Rothensberger said, boy, I don't want to get into some sort of scandal.
[00:21:46]  Let's settle, settle with her.
[00:21:47]  What does she want?
[00:21:49]  What she wanted was relaxed signature verification standards in Georgia.
[00:21:54]  What she wanted was voter signature checks that were quite honestly outrageous.
[00:22:03]  And so Senator Lindsey Graham back in December said, quote, Stacey Abrams conned Georgia election officials, leading to a Democrat presidential win there.
[00:22:14]  This is before the Georgia runoff.
[00:22:16]  So now there's two Democrat senators in Georgia and Joe Biden won.
[00:22:21]  So this was a legal settlement that happened.
[00:22:24]  Get this in March of 2020, the month the Chinese coronavirus really started to become a primary news item.
[00:22:34]  So if Kemp and Rothensperger might have just waited another couple months, do you think they would have signed that consent decree?
[00:22:39]  Probably not.
[00:22:41]  Because they would have been under pressure.
[00:22:42]  People say, wait a second, we're about to have a bunch of mail and voting.
[00:22:45]  So I'm going to make the argument to defend Kemp and Rothensberger.
[00:22:53]  I don't actually believe this argument, but I'm going to do this as devil's advocate.
[00:22:58]  I think Kemp and Rothensperger, at the best possible scenario, believed that absentee ballots would not be above their 2016 or 2018 levels because they signed this in March.
[00:23:11]  They thought that this was a nuisance.
[00:23:13]  They wanted it to go away.
[00:23:14]  They thought they would deliver Republican Senate seats and they thought they would easily deliver the state for Trump, even though they didn't like Trump, and that this annoyance from Stacey Abrams, signature verification issues, who cares?
[00:23:26]  We're going to get rid of it.
[00:23:29]  Not a big deal.
[00:23:30]  280,000 people vote by absentee.
[00:23:32]  A lot of them are Republicans.
[00:23:33]  A lot of them are old people.
[00:23:35]  Instead, what happened, Kemp and Rothensperger for wanting to dismiss something that they considered to be irrelevant, that they considered to be an annoyance, ended up being critical to the future of the Republic.
[00:23:52]  So Rothensberger and Kemp punted.
[00:23:57]  They deferred.
[00:23:59]  They said, okay, just tell the lawyers to settle.
[00:24:01]  What does she want?
[00:24:01]  She wants relaxed signature checks.
[00:24:04]  We don't really care about that.
[00:24:05]  Not a lot of people vote by mail.
[00:24:07]  When in reality, Kemp and Rothensberger, around April and May, as the virus raged and vote by mail was talked about more and more, Kemp and Rothensperger should have called the special senate, the Georgia House and Senate in June of 2020 and said, hey, guys, just so everyone knows, we signed a document back in March believing absentee ballot requests would be X, but it really looks like they're going to be Y.
[00:24:37]  We got to fix this.
[00:24:40]  Instead, Kemp and Rothensberger did something cowardly.
[00:24:48]  It's human nature to act in a cowardly fashion.
[00:24:52]  It's hard to admit you might have done something that would result in a Democrat winning.
[00:25:01]  Instead, Kemp and Rothensperger ignored the issue.
[00:25:06]  All throughout the summer, as Nancy Pelosi started to talk more and more about absentee ballots that needed to be sent to every person, as we started to see more and more stories of how Secretary of State's offices were ramping up ballot distribution, Kemp and Rothensperger kept their mouth closed.
[00:25:22]  Now, of course, the consent decree was public, but unless you are in the nitty gritty of Georgia politics, you would not have put one and two together except Kemp and Rothensberger knew what was happening and they refused to say anything.
[00:25:34]  So worst case scenarios, Kemp and Rothensperger were bought and paid for, and they didn't actually want Trump to win, Loffler to win, Purdue to win.
[00:25:43]  I think that's not as likely as this.
[00:25:45]  I refuse to blame a conspiracy on what could be blamed for cowardice.
[00:25:50]  They're weak people, Kemp and Rothensperger.
[00:25:54]  They don't really have a lot of courage.
[00:25:57]  So instead of calling a special session of the Georgia House of Representatives and the state Senate, they crossed their fingers and they said, I hope Republicans still win.
[00:26:14]  That's why we lost Georgia.
[00:26:16]  It's that simple.
[00:26:18]  If we would have had the signature verification standards that were in place before the March of 2020 Abrams consent decree that even Senator Lindsey Graham said that conned Georgia election officials, Purdue, Loffler, and Trump would have won Georgia.
[00:26:32]  The Senate would be in Republican hands and the balance of power in D.C. would look a lot different.
[00:26:39]  And this is one of the things that the Senate Bill 67 is fixing right now in Georgia, which is a positive development.
[00:26:46]  But what's the lesson here?
[00:26:49]  The lesson here, and it's a great lesson for life.
[00:26:51]  It's not just a good lesson for politics, is when you see a problem, when you see something that is wrong that you might be responsible for, don't hope that incident into completion.
[00:27:14]  Do not.
[00:27:15]  There's a great quote.
[00:27:16]  I use it often.
[00:27:17]  Hope is not a strategy.
[00:27:20]  Kemp and Rothensperger used hope as a primary strategy.
[00:27:24]  Instead of admitting they should have probably not signed the consent decree, or they didn't have to do that, just alerting people that they signed the consent decree and calling a special session.
[00:27:33]  Are you trying to tell me if Kemp and Rothensperger, if they would not have called the White House operator and said, Mr. President, we got a problem in Georgia.
[00:27:42]  I need you to tweet out that the Georgia Senate needs to convene.
[00:27:45]  You're trying to tell me that people would not, that those state senators and those state reps would not have come for a special session in Atlanta?
[00:27:54]  I visited with the president back in July of 2020 in the White House, and I remember talking to him about the mail-in-balloting issue, and it was a primary concern for him.
[00:28:02]  He understood this was a problem.
[00:28:04]  The question is: why was the Republican Party, why were our leaders absent on this discussion?
[00:28:12]  I did not know that Stacey Abrams signed a consent decree in March of 2020.
[00:28:17]  I did not know that.
[00:28:18]  We were focused on other things, like the Chinese coronavirus, lockdowns, the market going from nearly 30,000 on the Dow to 18,000 on the Dow.
[00:28:28]  That was probably the top news story in March 2020.
[00:28:32]  But while that entire news cycle was happening, Kemp and Rothensberger were signing documents handing over the keys to Georgia's political future to a woman who never won the Georgia governor's race, who was financed by tech elites.
[00:28:48]  It happened like that.
[00:28:50]  And it was so preventable.
[00:28:54]  It's all about leadership.
[00:28:56]  What a leader like Kemp does is around June, instead of getting nervous and hoping things will result, he should have just called Time Out and said, We got a problem, everybody.
[00:29:08]  And our problem is that we are about to have the most amount of people ever vote by mail in the history of Georgia, not just by a little bit, by the way, one million more people with this new signature stuff.
[00:29:20]  But instead, Kemp and Rothensperger, like all weak leaders, were prideful as well.
[00:29:28]  Georgia's a Republican state plus four or five points in a presidential year.
[00:29:32]  Georgia's not a battleground state.
[00:29:36]  So they had a lethal combination of pride and cowardice.
[00:29:46]  They were afraid and they were cocky.
[00:29:50]  So this bill in Georgia is aiming to fix some of it, and it's a positive development, but it's not enough.
[00:29:56]  But the biggest lesson here for all of us in your life or your political engagement is when you see a problem, address it and take responsibility for it.
[00:30:05]  Hope is not a strategy.
[00:30:08]  We'll win back those Georgia Senate seats.
[00:30:10]  We will.
[00:30:11]  And this bill will start to get us in the right direction.
[00:30:13]  Okay, this clip is too good to resist.
[00:30:16]  Kevin McCarthy and Liz Cheney.
[00:30:20]  Why Liz Cheney is still a leader in the Republican Party is beyond me.
[00:30:24]  With two very different answers.
[00:30:26]  Kevin is a funny guy.
[00:30:29]  I consider him a friend.
[00:30:31]  I don't agree with him on everything, but I think he's doing the best job that I have seen since Newt Gingrich to have all the coalitions together and give grassroots conservatives a voice.
[00:30:40]  Best since Newt Gingrich.
[00:30:42]  And he deserves credit for that.
[00:30:44]  Let's play cut 46.
[00:30:47]  Kevin McCarthy and Liz Cheney.
[00:30:49]  Just for a group believer, if you want to leadership, especially Congresswoman Cheney, do you believe President Trump should be speaking, or former President Trump should be speaking at CPAC this weekend?
[00:30:57]  Yes, he should.
[00:30:58]  Congressman Cheney?
[00:31:00]  That's up to CPAC.
[00:31:02]  I've been clear in my views about President Trump and the extent to which Bolling exaggerates fell on January 6th.
[00:31:10]  I don't believe that he should be playing a role in the future departing for the country.
[00:31:16]  On that high note?
[00:31:21]  Good for Kevin.
[00:31:22]  And Kevin says, yes, I believe he should, because Kevin is smart.
[00:31:25]  Liz Cheney is bought.
[00:31:27]  Big difference.
[00:31:28]  I'm not saying Liz Cheney is dumb, but she's purchased by the corporations.
[00:31:31]  She is a spokesperson for every major company that does business with China.
[00:31:36]  By the way, Liz Cheney has never found a country that she does not think we should occupy, invade, or overthrow their sovereign government.
[00:31:42]  And by the way, Liz Cheney has this whole thing about how we can't end any wars.
[00:31:46]  We are going to get into that and do a future episode of the Charlie Kirk Show.
[00:31:49]  But Kevin McCarthy's smart.
[00:31:50]  He knows that there is no way to take back the House of Representatives without President Trump and his supporters.
[00:31:56]  He knows that the road to the Speaker, the House office goes through Mar-a-Lago.
[00:31:59]  He knows that.
[00:32:01]  Whether Kevin McCarthy wants that or not is irrelevant.
[00:32:04]  The fact that he's willing to admit it is a positive thing.
[00:32:07]  It really is.
[00:32:07]  And again, I think Kevin McCarthy has done the best job.
[00:32:10]  Again, I don't agree with him on everything of any person that's in leadership in the House of Representatives.
[00:32:16]  And no, Jim Jordan is not in leadership, to put together the coalitions and give a voice to grassroots conservatives since Newt Gingrich.
[00:32:23]  I think that is something that we should talk about even more.
[00:32:26]  But Liz Cheney saying, no, I don't think he should be able to speak at CPAC.
[00:32:29]  You see, if Liz Cheney had her way about the speaker's selection at CPAC, it would be Mitt Romney and former generals that invaded Iraq and executives at Halliburton.
[00:32:41]  We'll handle Liz Cheney more at a different time.
[00:32:44]  I would actually love to interview her.
[00:32:46]  I would ask Liz Cheney just a very, very simple questions.
[00:32:49]  Is there any war in American history you regret that we got engaged in?
[00:32:54]  What country do you not want to invade?
[00:32:56]  Do you ever think that the war in Afghanistan should be ended?
[00:33:00]  Do you think that the war in Iraq was a mistake?
[00:33:03]  What success did we achieve in the war in Iraq?
[00:33:08]  How much was your family paid by Halliburton?
[00:33:10]  Very simple questions that I would love to have Liz Cheney answer.
[00:33:14]  Let's get to some more sound here.
[00:33:17]  Let's go to cut 38.
[00:33:18]  AOC doing some live stream.
[00:33:22]  But the United States is running concentration camps on our southern border.
[00:33:29]  And that is exactly what they are.
[00:33:33]  They are concentration camps.
[00:33:35]  And if that doesn't bother you.
[00:33:41]  What does her shirt say?
[00:33:42]  Something the land?
[00:33:45]  Well, AOC, if the United States is running concentration camps, then who's running the camps?
[00:33:52]  And if you could...
[00:33:54]  Do you see how subtle that is?
[00:33:56]  AOC says the United States, she doesn't say the Biden administration noticed that.
[00:34:00]  Back when Trump was doing it, it was Donald Trumpist, as if he's the one that designed the camp.
[00:34:05]  By the way, they're not concentration camps.
[00:34:07]  Let's be very clear, okay?
[00:34:08]  They're detention facilities for unaccompanied minors.
[00:34:10]  And by the way, those are going up.
[00:34:12]  And Joe Biden, if you're watching this, which you're not, but if someone who could speak to him would say, what do you have to say about AOC accusing you of running concentration camps?
[00:34:25]  Once you build the guillotines, once you foment the mob, they will come for you next.
[00:34:30]  Charlie Kirk here, host of the Charlie Kirk Show.
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