A Shocking Account of The Regime’s Assault on Dissent with James O’ Keefe
Before being joined by James O’ Keefe from Project Veritas to share an honestly shocking account of his ongoing fighting with the Deep State, Unpiparty Regime, Charlie poses a shocking proposition of his own: Bernie Sanders, the Socialist from Vermont, actually be right about something. Charlie unpacks his insights following one of the Senator’s floor speeches and offers his take on how, if the GOP and the Conservative Movement at-large wanted to reclaim young voters from the vice-grip of socialist ideologies, they would take some of their messaging to heart and adopt it as their own. Next, James O’ Keefe joins to share the latest revelation in the fight for his first amendment right as a journalist to hold our government accountable. He goes into the latest details surrounding the FBI’s raid on his apartment and why their battle to suppress whatever is in Ashley Biden’s purportedly salacious diary must be so important to keep under wraps. If you want to support the important work being done by James and all of the patriots at Project Veritas, head to ProjectVeritas.com to learn how. And to learn more about the sponsors who, along with our Supporters and listeners like you, make The Charlie Kirk Show possible: https://charliekirk.com/show-sponsors Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hey everybody, was Bernie Sanders onto something?
Should we be worried that two people own more wealth than the bottom 40% of the country?
I want you to think about that and why that actually might affect markets in the future and actually make socialism more popular.
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First of all, Joe Manchin is signaling that he is going to vote for Katanji Brown Jackson.
Manchin backs Jackson as Democrats unite behind confirmation.
We're going to get into that story a little later on.
We also have James O'Keefe coming up later this hour about how the Department of Justice has illegally been targeting Project Veritas, a journalist nonprofit organization is being targeted by this regime.
But before we get into all of that, I actually want to lead with a story today that I almost guarantee you no conservative news or conservative podcast or conservative show is going to be leading with.
But it's a clip of Bernie Sanders.
So I saw this clip from Bernie Sanders, and I kind of have this automatic muscle memory built in, if you will, to oppose everything Bernie Sanders says.
I kind of have grown used to finding his swindling of socialism to be repulsive and necessary to reject.
And so when I saw this clip of Bernie Sanders basically complaining that we're living under an oligarchy, it made me take pause because we're talking a lot about oligarchies right now and oligarchs, especially with what's happening with Russia and Ukraine.
And it hit perfectly on a message that I've been trying to communicate for quite some time about what's coming next.
What are the conditions of the country going to look like?
So people ask me all the time, Charlie, why do young people tend to reject capitalism?
Why do they not believe in free markets?
Why do they not believe in private property rights?
Now, part of it, of course, is the university system and the government-run education system.
But there's another game at play here that we must recognize and we must realize.
Bernie Sanders and AOC and Elon Omar, they know how to make socialists.
They know the language to use.
They know the diction, which is the word selection to engage in.
So I want to play this tape here of Bernie Sanders talking about how we are living in a oligarchy.
He basically says, if anyone thinks we don't live in an oligarchy in this country is solely mistaken.
In our country, we have two people who own more wealth than the bottom 40% of the American population.
Play Cut 101.
And that is that the people on top, the very wealthiest people in our country, are doing phenomenally well and in fact have never had it so good.
But anybody who thinks that we don't have an oligarchy in this country is surely mistaken.
In our country today, we have two people who own more wealth than the bottom 40% of the American population.
So we fact-checked Bernie Sanders on this, and he's right.
Two people own more wealth than 40% of the American population.
Now, before we dive into where I think Bernie Sanders is actually making a pretty good point, I want to say this, that Bernie's personal policy portfolio has been enthusiastically enacted the last two years.
Lockdowns, stimulus checks, bailouts, increased government spending, $6 trillion of new government spending.
That has helped make and almost strengthen the oligarchy that he is criticizing.
So Bernie Sanders helps create the oligarchy.
He helps make billionaires richer than ever before by massive government intervention.
And then he complains about it.
And then he comes and he says that basically there's nothing out there for 40% of the bottom 40% of Americans.
And so if you tally up just the top 10 people during the pandemic, they doubled their wealth during the lockdowns.
Doubled.
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, they were the beneficiaries of the cheap money policy.
They were the recipients of all of this massive government intervention.
Okay.
So we know why this has happened.
It hasn't happened because of free markets or capitalism.
It happened because when everyone was locked down, they went and purchased Amazon boxes.
Tesla saw a resurgence because of the green energy craze.
And so these companies were positioned to benefit tremendously from the circumstances.
Meanwhile, small businesses were shuttered.
Okay, Bernie doesn't mention that as part of his speech.
He's being dishonest, obviously.
But I think it's time the press time out.
We need to call a 30-second timeout, to use a March Madness term, as the wonderful games are going on right now.
We need to take a deep breath because things are happening so quickly right now in our country.
And we need to ask ourselves, okay, what comes next?
What comes next when people, young people in particular, believe they are being economically terrorized?
Do you think that when you have two people that have more resources and more money than the bottom 40%, do you think they're going to be more likely to embrace free markets or more likely to embrace Marxism?
Now, we would hope that they embrace free markets.
I'm a huge free market fan.
The market is the best way to organize society.
There are externalities.
There are things that need to be ironed out.
There are prudent arguments to be made for some forms of government taxation and regulation, very limited, might I add.
But markets improve the life of all people.
Markets are the best way to lift people out of poverty.
But we should ask ourselves the question, does this set of circumstances make markets more popular?
Of course not.
I could tell you right now, that line of argumentation from Bernie Sanders is highly persuasive to an average young person.
Why?
Well, let's take Phoenix, Arizona, for example.
Inflation in Phoenix, Arizona year over year is 23%.
Rents are going up by $750 a month.
By a means of policy, Bernie Sanders and his team of swindlers, and by a means of policy of this regime, they have made an intentional effort to starve students and young people, or let's just say college graduates, of home ownership, family formation, family formation, and capital accumulation.
If you wanted to create more Marxists, if you wanted to create new Marxists, this is the way to do it.
You lock down the country.
You make some people super rich and turn them into an American equivalent of Ukrainian oligarchs.
You know, I always chuckle when people criticize Ukraine and Russia for having oligarchs.
We have oligarchs ourselves.
It's Bezos.
It's Musk.
It's Zuckerberg.
It's the Google people.
We've talked before about we need to try to make it easier to have the conservatizing life events that the Brooking Institute, a left-wing institute, would say, by the way, buy a home, get married, have children.
So Bernie and his whole pack of liars and Marxists, they know exactly what's happening right now.
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They know what they're doing.
But here's where Republicans need to take this seriously.
Republicans need to not dismiss this as class warfare, because guess what?
It really isn't class warfare.
When you have two against 145 million, that's not healthy.
I say this as a free market, Milton Friedman-loving, Thomas Soule reading capitalist.
I'm telling you right now, there's something deeply wrong and unhealthy with two people that have more wealth than the bottom 40%.
Now, I'm not saying that they're not paying their fair share in tax.
I'm not getting into that.
I'm talking the kind of wealth they have, and I know the struggles that most of you listen to us right now are going through.
The nation.com, which is a far-left-wing commie rag, the pandemic made the rich $1.7 trillion richer.
We fact-checked it.
It's true.
Fortune.com, Elon Musk and the rest of the 10 richest doubled their wealth during the pandemic.
Why?
Because we engaged in policies that they were able to benefit from.
Cheap money, low interest, all these sorts of things.
So where does this lead?
Well, I'll tell you right now, if Republicans don't address this sort of dramatic and historic, never-before-seen wealth inequality, your children and grandchildren are going to embrace Marxism more enthusiastically.
That'll make AOC look like a moderate.
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United States billionaires got 62% richer during pandemic.
They're now up $1.8 trillion.
So I look at the wealthiest people in the country, the two wealthiest people, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, a combined net worth of $450 billion.
Now, when you're honest with yourself and you're not just looking at things in terms of team right and team left, is that healthy?
Is that sustainable?
Maybe you say, yeah, that's great.
I would love nothing more than to live under the tyranny of Jeff Bezos while he's able to launch rockets to Mars.
I actually don't want to live in that country, and you shouldn't either.
I don't want to live in a country where, according to Bloomberg Wealth, quote, nearly half of millennials live paycheck to paycheck.
That's higher than a year earlier.
Let me say that again.
Millennials are getting poorer, according to Bloomberg Wealth, according to a new survey suggesting that some felt the financial pain of moving out of their parents' homes.
Now, mind you, I am on the younger side of millennials.
And even with that being said, so they're ages 25 to 40, I'm 28.
Half of them, that means there are people in their late 30s that are still living paycheck to paycheck.
According to Bloomberg Wealth, very few are saving.
Only 28% have any form of savings.
28%.
This is a study done by Bank of America and Georgetown University, Bloomberg Wealth.
So you might not believe the study, but I think, I mean, there's really not much of a political agenda behind this.
Well, I guess there could be, but I'm going to pretend the study is real for argument's sake, and you guys can disagree, freedom at charliekirk.com.
At least I know anecdotally this is consistent with what I'm seeing with the work we do at Turning Point USA.
Most say they are barely getting by financially.
And so conservatives ask me, and people say, so Charlie, why is it that these millennials don't believe in capitalism?
Say, well, it'd be help if they had some capital.
They don't have property to begin with.
So what exactly are they trying to conserve?
They were told to go to college and borrow money they don't have to study things that don't matter to go find jobs that don't exist.
An incredible amount of millennials are still living at their parents' homes, which is easy to make fun of them, but many of them studied completely nonsensical things in college and were lied to about going to college and never should have.
Millennials are living at parents' homes at the highest rates of any generation in history.
It's intergenerational living is what it's called.
And so the kind of siren of Bernie Sanders is very attractive to them.
They put their head up and they say, wow, that makes sense to me.
So what are Republicans talking about?
I don't really know.
But here's what Republicans need to do.
Don't worship the super rich.
Just don't.
Bezos had a good idea.
I'm not saying he didn't earn the money.
I'm not saying he didn't take all the money away.
What I'm saying, though, is we should be unafraid to say this is not sustainable.
It's not the country we want to live in.
And then, by the way, Jeff Bezos uses that money to go fund destructive social groups that are tearing the fabric of the country.
Fastcompany.com.
Most millennials think they'll never earn enough money to have nice things.
Fastcompany.com.
So what does Mark Zuckerberg spend his money on?
$450 million in the 2020 presidential election to help get Biden elected.
So why are Republicans worshiping the super rich again?
And why have we convinced ourselves that the beauty of entrepreneurship and free markets is somehow like a creepy, weird tech guy like Jeff Bezos?
No, the beauty of free markets and entrepreneurship looks a lot more like the local restaurateur in Austin, Texas, or in New York City, or in Wheaton, Illinois, that had to get closed down and locked down, live under mask mandates, and now have to try to compensate for the wage increases because we created all this money out of thin air.
Those are the people that I actually have a heart for.
I have a heart for the first generation Americans that are trying to start businesses.
Meanwhile, Bezos gets to go launch missiles or rockets into outer space or whatever he's doing.
So, what comes next?
If we don't, as a Republican movement, and I guess I'm part of that, even though I'm more of an independent or not right now, honestly, I mean, I'll never vote for a Democrat, but I'm so upset with the Republican Party in many ways.
But if Republicans running for office don't acknowledge that we're living in an oligarchy, an oligarchy of the national security apparatus, an oligarchy of the tech companies, an oligarchy economically, and then put sort of some form of plan or at least some form of a conversation to millennials in particular of how you're going to address that, then you're going to live through an economic revolution that I don't think any of us want to live through.
I'm talking about massively radical economic ideas will be contributed to the American zeitgeist soon, because when now you have 40-year-olds that don't own anything and they become 45 and 50, that's supposed to be the wealthiest time of your life when you hit the inflection point.
And according to Bloomberg, they're still living paycheck to paycheck.
And you wonder why they like Bernie Sanders.
They don't own anything.
So what exactly are they going to try to conserve?
We should make it easier to own stuff.
That's what conservatives should stand for.
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With us right now is James O'Keefe from Project Veritas, who is in the middle of one of the most revealing stories, I think, in a generation when it comes to press freedom and government overreach.
James, welcome back to the program.
Charlie, great to be with you.
So, James, if I'm reading the reports correctly, and I've watched some of your media interviews, it seems as if the Department of Justice, the organization that has the power to lock people in jail for the rest of their life, secretly and illegally accessed your emails.
Is that correct?
That's correct, Charlie.
They issued secret warrants against Microsoft and got access to our emails, including emails eight months prior, before we ever heard out about this diary, this Ashley Biden, Joe Biden's daughter's diary.
The whole pretense for this, for all of this, was apparently that we came in possession of the president's daughter's diary.
This is the first time we've ever heard of the feds having jurisdiction in an issue involving an abandoned diary.
And of course, as you all know, journalists have a right to receive information from a source.
So source sends us the diary.
We actually paid for the rights to it, but we never published it for a couple of different reasons.
So now we found out that the feds were surveilling us and spying on us and issuing.
This is crazy, by the way.
I know it's hard to shock people these days, but this is the biggest abridgment on freedom of the press in the history of the United States.
The feds issued a gag order against Microsoft from telling anybody, even after the FBI raided my apartment.
This is extraordinary, Charlie.
How did you find out about this?
We found out because Microsoft Corporation tipped me off.
They drafted this motion.
This is a motion that Microsoft filed under seal with the feds, the Southern District of New York.
That's the New York division of the Department of Justice.
Filed a motion.
And in this motion, they're like, I'm going to read a quote here.
The government's justification for suppressing this is Microsoft Corporation, suppressing Microsoft speech turns on the supposed fear that if Project Veritas knew that we were being gagged about this, evidence might disappear, witnesses might flee, or the investigation might be jeopardized.
But this makes no sense.
This is quoting them because two months ago, the federal judge of New York ordered them to stop doing it, ordered the FBI to stop going through the phones, and they assigned a special filter team, a special master citing journalistic privilege.
So the moment Microsoft drafted this motion and showed it to the Department of Justice, guess what?
They backed down.
And then the gag was lifted, and we found out about this.
This is in the last 10 days.
Truly extraordinary CIA-level tactics, espionage against journalists.
And now people are hypothesizing that they raided my apartment to obtain through other means what they obtained through secret espionage.
This is not Ukraine.
This is not the Soviet Union or Russia or Moscow.
This is the United States of America.
And they do it.
Why?
Because they hate me?
Because of politics?
Because the FBI is Joe Biden's family guard.
It really is so horrible that even the ACLU on Wednesday of this week issued a statement condemning the Department of Justice's actions.
So I have so many questions here, just so I understand this correctly.
So while Trump is president and Bill Barr is the Attorney General of the United States, the Department of Justice.
I mean, just so I understand the timeline, maybe I'm messed up on this, but they issue the subpoena to Microsoft.
Is that the correct timeframe, or am I off on here?
They issued the subpoena in November of 2020.
Yeah, that's while Trump and Bill Barr are in office.
So who approved the that's a great that's a great question.
So so we're assuming that the attorney general of the United States.
I'm not sure that he did.
No, we don't know the answer to that, but but the search warrants were executed in November 2021 while Joe Biden was president.
And then the question becomes: did the Attorney General of the United States approve the raid against Joe Biden?
I know that I'm saying, though, that the Microsoft private secret subpoena happened under a Department of Justice that wasn't violated.
That is correct.
And I understand the question behind the question.
In other words, did the Attorney General Bill Barr, who's under the Trump administration or Republican, approve this?
But here's the deal: we don't know if either Attorney General, again, Merrick Garland is the current attorney general, or in that case, I'm not sure it was Barr.
I think it was the timing of this was a man I forgot his name was I had it in front of me, Jeffrey Rosenberg.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
He was the interim AG for that.
But we're presupposing that Washington justice knew about.
That's my personal opinion.
Well, but you would be speculating, of course.
That's the $64,000 or even $64 million question.
This is a Watergate-level deal because Merritt Garland expressly forbids in July of 2021.
He wrote a memo, you are not allowed to execute search warrants against journalists, obviously, without my approval.
And there are certain conditions for doing that.
So we're not certain that Washington DOJ approved of this.
And this is even the New York Times on Wednesday wrote an article saying it's highly unusual.
I mean, it's almost unprecedented for the federal Department of Justice to do this.
There's another thing under the Trump administration that happened where they went after Google because they wanted to find out the names of the leakers.
But even in that case, it wasn't under seal.
They didn't gag Google from talking about it.
So the New York Times was able to fight back and they fought back successfully.
In my case, they issued a gag order against Microsoft Corporation.
And by the way, thank you to Microsoft for tipping me off about this.
They actually did the right thing.
I think they have their own self-interest there because they don't want their clients and vendors' emails being spied upon.
Yeah, it would be bad for us.
This is really totally.
Are you kidding me?
Yeah, I mean, I know it's hard to shock people.
Nothing shocks anybody, but this is probably a new Rubicon we've crossed in the United States because we're talking about a newspaper.
I just want to understand the timeline.
I'm not even trying to get into the Bill Bar thing.
I'm just trying to understand the timeline, which I think is actually really interesting.
So this is right near the election, right?
And there were these whispers about this diary.
So was this private subpoena issued to Microsoft under a gag order seal?
Which, by the way, that's what you would do if you, I don't know, if you were going after ISIS, like that's what you would use gag orders for, right?
Not journalists.
What was the pretense?
What have you got?
Do you have a copy of that?
Yes, I can speak.
I do.
I do.
I published all of this on my website and on our Telegram page, and it's all public information.
Now it's public because they lifted the gag.
So these are secret warrants.
And just so that your audience knows about how this works, is that you have to go to a, there's two co-equal branches of government: the Department of Justice, executive branch, and then there's judges, the judicial branch, and there's magistrate judges.
That's lower-level federal judges, not Article III judges.
They went to six different magistrates.
This is the Department of Justice and got these guys to stamp this secret warrant getting access.
And they listed certain crimes.
Again, I have not been charged with any.
No one's been charged with any crimes here.
But the warrants, which I've all published these, they're on projectveritas.com.
They say they list things like stalking and blackmail.
These are warrants that I have information related to these things.
Either my team did or somebody else did.
Now, here's the interesting thing, Charlie.
Those were listed for the secret warrants to spy on Microsoft.
And by the way, they didn't just go to Microsoft.
They went to Uber.
And for all we know, they went to other vendors.
Well, I'm sure we'll hear about that soon.
They went to Uber, contacted us this week.
The gags have been lifted.
So now these corporations are coming to me saying the feds approached them for their information.
And for all I know, what they're doing is that...
I have to interrupt, James.
Do they do this against the cartel?
Like, no, I mean, like, the Sinola cartel that brings in 107,000 overdosed SFNs and all like, that would be a pretty good use of gag order.
Like, your United States government, to be precise, in southern New York State, New York City, and the suburbs of New York City, is spending all their time, talent, and treasure spying on a media organization.
And for reasons I'm not going to speculate on that.
I'll get into that in a second.
But yeah, go ahead.
But let me just finish.
This is an important nuanced point.
They listed blackmail as one of the crimes.
By the way, when they came to my home and presented me with an updated search warrant that listed a reduced number of probable cause issues that none of them I haven't been charged, blackmail wasn't on there.
Stalking wasn't on there.
So they were phishing, throwing a bunch of stuff at the wall.
And then they got reduced to now it's like transporting documents across state lines, which is itself a chicken shit charge.
And I'm going to curse on the air because it is chicken shit.
Transporting documents across the country.
You might as well have to, you might as well incarcerate all the people in the newsrooms at the Washington Post and New York Times because that's an absurd thing to throw at a journalist, Charlie.
And I've never been angrier and I've never been more indignant.
And obviously the ACLU agrees with me and the New York Times agrees with me.
Why?
Because it can probably happen to them and they know that.
I want to tell our audience, go to projectveritas.com and make a donation.
Help James.
This is not normal.
And they're doing this because James is unbelievably effective, because James has a network of undercover journalists that have gone after Pfizer effectively, that have gone after the New York Times effectively, that have gone after every single major power source.
And James O'Keefe and Project Veritas, they are the glitch in the Matrix.
They're not supposed to exist and they don't back down.
And so I don't do this a lot, but you guys need to go to projectveritas.com and just help out James by his book, American Muckraker.
They are a 501c3 nonprofit, so you guys can get a tax deduction there.
But James is being openly not just targeted, but this is what you would do in like a RICO case, just so everyone's clear.
Like, this is what they did to try to take down the mob, you know, 30 or 40 years ago.
And what is the crime of James O'Keeffe?
No crime.
The only crime is that he's exposing the regime.
And so I don't want to hear this anymore from people that, well, you know, in America, we're, you know, a generally free, we're a very unfree country right now.
This is not supposed to happen.
James, so I know you got to be careful the way you answer this, but what is in the diary?
Why is why are the most powerful people in the world so worried this is going to become public?
You know, I was on Sean Hannity's show this week, and Sean wanted me to speak about what's in the diary.
And I've made the decision not to do that.
And people can criticize me for that.
I'm not.
I'm sure they will.
But I've made the journalistic decision that I'm not going to opine about what's in this material.
There's some private things that have occurred.
She talks about her father and her relationship with her father, but I have not been able to corroborate whether that happened.
So I don't want to speak to that.
I think I'd rather focus on what I think is the much bigger existential issue here that has come from this, which is the espionage from the federal government against a media.
But as you rightfully point out, it's beyond espionage.
It's CIA-level intelligence operation where they spy on you and then they raid you to create, to get the information in a legal way.
I mean, this is just like something out of a bad 1980s.
I want everyone to recognize and realize that there are legit criminals right now that are trafficking guns, children, that are doing the most heinous things imaginable.
And the Southern District of New York is too busy sending secret warrants under gag orders and then later raiding the apartments of journalists.
And so, James, where does this all stand?
You're kind of in this legal battle right now against the government.
Where is that kind of playing out right now?
What does it look like?
Well, I want to clarify one fact.
And by the way, I'm not ashamed to talk about any of this, which might be unusual, but I've nothing wrong.
I'm an American journalist.
I'm protected by the Supreme Court of the United States to receive information from a source.
Nikki V. Bopper makes that clear in 2001.
So I'm not ashamed to say anything to anybody.
You mentioned where it stands, November 8th was when Joe Biden's daughter's lawyer, this is 2020.
November 8th, they apparently reached out was the date.
And November 23rd is when the secret warrants were authorized by the Southern District of New York.
And our team thinks that that's just not enough time to go to Washington, D.C. and get permission from the Attorney General of the United States.
We don't, we would, we, I'm speculating here, but I think it's safe to assume that they did not do that.
The Southern District of New York has been called the sovereign district of New York for good reason.
They often make these decisions autonomously.
So in a two-year time period, they got these secret warrants and they proceeded to go to six different magistrate judges, effectively the whole magistrate judge bench in New York City, federal court, and got permission to go after Microsoft Outlook and obtain my emails going back to January 2020, which is eight months before this diary ever came across my desk.
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This is insane.
That means they have all my emails going back two years ago.
So where it stands now is we filed a motion with the federal judges, the Article III judge who's on the bench for life, a woman by the name of Annalisa Torres.
And Annalisa Torres, to her credit, back in November, assigned a special master.
What does that mean?
It means a special overseer over the FBI, which is very rare.
And in fact, I can't think in modern history when that's ever been done for a media company.
The federal judge Charlie cited First Amendment concerns and journalistic privileges.
So the federal judge appointed by Barack Obama effectively called us journalists.
Good for her.
But then after that happened, this is why this is so insane.
Two months, a month later, the Southern District of New York goes behind the federal judge's back and continues to gag Microsoft from talking about the secret warrants.
So where it stands now, on Wednesday of this week, we filed a motion with the federal judge asking the names of the people who did this and other relief that we are seeking in the court system.
That motion is on the federal judge's desk.
And we are very curious to see how federal judge Annalisa Torres' responds here in the coming days, Charlie.
I think this goes even deeper.
I think we're going to learn even more.
I don't know who's involved.
I have my own speculation.
But this is scary stuff, everybody.
When you have a truth teller and a journalist and you have the back end private warrants to go get people's personal communications, that sort of stuff should be done for like members of al-Qaeda or ISIS, not for an American journalist who's just trying to tell the truth.
James, thank you so much for joining us.
We're out of time.
Project Veritas.com.
Thanks, Charlie.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
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