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Sept. 7, 2022 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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Special Masters, Mitch McConnell, and the Road to a Red Majority with Sen. Rick Scott and Mike Davis
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Securing The Midterm Majority 00:15:19
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Joining us now is someone who I believe is a leader.
He's led companies, led the state of Florida, one of the best states in the country.
And he has been calling out Senate Republican leadership for not leading in a rather eloquent op-ed.
Senator Rick Scott from Florida joins us.
Senator, welcome back to the program.
Thank you for joining us.
I'm going to play a piece of tape here that quite honestly infuriated me.
And I think it really upset you as well.
And I'll let you react.
Play Cut 44, Mitch McConnell.
There's probably a greater likelihood the House slips than the Senate.
Senate races are just different.
They're statewide.
Candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.
Senator Scott, why is the leader of the Republican Senate saying that we might not win the Senate?
What the heck is going on here?
Well, first off, you know, a lot of the Washington crowd, a lot of the Washington crowd, what they want to do is they want to pick the candidates.
The voters pick the candidates.
And actually, if you look at it, we got great candidates.
I'm the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
We've got great candidates around the country.
Look at JD Vance.
Here's a guy that did a movie about his life, and he understands the problems of addiction.
You got Mehmet Oz, a world-renowned surgeon and best talk show host in healthcare in the world.
You've got Herschel Walker, one trophy, successful business guy.
We got a lot of good people.
So we got to support him.
Yeah, I mean, that's actually a really good point.
So you got someone who won the Heisman Trophy, someone with a successful television program.
You got a really young, charismatic, articulate entrepreneur in Arizona, Blake Masters.
You got JD Vance, who's a best-selling author, has a lot of, and is phenomenal on the issues.
But then what's going on here?
Why is the leader saying it's about bad candidates and all of this?
Is it that he doesn't have candidates that can lose?
I mean, again, I'm not here to go after Mitch McConnell.
I think he's done some things right.
I think he's done some things absolutely terribly.
But why is he forecasting a loss?
I mean, if you're a head football coach before the game, you say, yeah, you know, I don't think we're going to win a game this year.
I mean, you'd be fired.
This is so deflating to our base, Senator.
What's going on?
I don't know why.
You know, he said what he said.
I know what I'm doing.
I'm going to support our candidates.
I'm going to be a cheerleader for our candidates.
I'm going to help our candidates raise money.
Look, the Democrats have outraced this year.
No question about it.
So we've got to raise our money.
But we're out.
We're doing everything we can to help our candidates.
I believe we're going to get a majority.
Look at the quality of our candidates.
Look at how bad Biden is, how bad the Democrats are.
So if we continue to raise our money, and I tell everybody, if you want to win, text win to 55404.
We will spend your money to get these people elected.
But we have every reason to believe we can win in Georgia, in Arizona, in Nevada, New Hampshire, all over the country.
And some sleepers, too.
We were talking about Colorado and Washington possibly as well.
So Senator, I want to focus on something you just mentioned that's really interesting to me, which is we're being significantly outraised.
I remember 10 or 12 years ago, New York Times op-ed after New York Times op-ed about how Republicans are benefiting from dark money.
Jane Mayer wrote an entire book on it called Dark Money, and they accused the Koch brothers of injecting all this cash.
And Republicans were always traditionally outspending Democrats.
It's now completely flipped.
Why is that the case?
Why is it that in a wave year with a very unpopular president where we have an unbelievable motivation?
Why is it that we are being outraised and outspent?
Well, what the Democrats did right years ago, 15, 17 years ago, they started a platform called Act Blue.
And so what they did is they shared their donor base and they've gotten a whole bunch of groups on there, not only just candidates.
And actually, they've done a really good job.
I think stuff like last quarter, just on Act Blue, they raised $500 million.
What?
So, yeah, it's hard to believe.
So what we've done, WinRed is a Republican platform.
Started, I think, right about three years ago.
We put significant dollars into getting new donors.
We've done really well with it.
But look, the Democrats, the Democrats have done it longer.
So they have more online donors than we have.
But these are individuals giving you $2 and $5 and $10.
The average donation is like $30.
So we've got to continue to invest.
We have to do it, the committees.
On the Republican side, we've raised the most money that way this cycle because we put a lot of effort into it.
Our candidates, you guys like Ron Johnson is doing really well.
Tim Scott has done well.
Marker Ruby has done well.
John Keene has done well.
But all over Canada, you got to invest in this to raise your money.
But we've got to do everything well.
But we can do it.
I'm optimistic that if we have enough money and we spend our money well, our candidates are running very good races.
We're going to get a majority.
And I'm very optimistic about it.
So another part of this, though, that I think is important, in your op-ed, you have Washington versus Republican voters.
Democrats also seem to just become the crony capitalist party.
They're willing to get all the Silicon Valley money, all the Wall Street money, and it kind of has dried up some of the traditional funding bases for some Republicans to be able to easily be able to raise money.
Is there some truth to that?
It seems like Schumer just has to push forward a crony Inflation Reduction Act bill, and he's able to raise, you know, I mean, hundreds of millions of dollars for his select committees.
Can you help navigate that for a little bit?
I'll give you an example.
Yeah.
So this now a month or maybe two months ago now, they passed the CHIPS Act, Democrat bill that basically is, here's how it's going to work.
It's 200, I think as a tool of like $280 billion.
The semiconductor industry, which makes a lot of money already, they're going to get a bunch of this money.
So as an example, Intel Corporation, which made $20 billion last year, their CEO made $180 million.
I have no problem people making money, but they're going to get $4 billion to build a chip plant.
Not exactly what we need right now.
We have an oversupply of chips in the world, and they're going to have a $4 billion tax write-off, and they're going to get a billion dollar tax credit, right?
So this is, it's just crony capitalism.
And I'm sure, I'm sure that people in the semiconductor industry are ecstatic with Democrats that are going to give them all this money.
They just want to bail out.
I mean, look at the student bailout.
This is just, it's just a giveaway.
So if you're a hard worker, decide, like if you're a plumber, electrician, you didn't go to college and run up all that debt, you're going to pay off the debt for lawyers and doctors that ran up a whole bunch of debt.
I mean, this is the most unfair thing, but they're going to go after these people to get this free student loan money and ask them for donations, I'm sure.
Yeah, I mean, it's just, you know, tyrants are able to keep power by free stuff and fear.
And it seems as if we're just vacillating between the two back and forth.
And that CHIPS Act is such a good example because that bill just kind of slipped through.
I don't know how many Republicans voted for it.
I think some did.
Is that right, Senator?
I think some Republicans voted for it.
Yeah, a few did.
But we have $30 trillion of the debt.
$30 trillion of debt.
We've got the highest inflation in 40 years, right?
Interest rates are going up.
It's making it harder to buy a home.
Who's getting hurt?
Poor families that are seeing their wages not stay up with inflation.
People on fixed income that can't afford their lives to have to go back to work.
That's who we're hurting with this excess government spending.
Excess, excess.
I mean, it's just think of it in the last in the last less than two years, 1.9 in the Build Back Better.
So it was 1.2, I think, for the infrastructure, which had very little to do with roads, bridges, airports, and seaports.
The $280 billion for CHIPS bill, the latest inflation, supposedly reduction act, which will increase inflation, which is a $700-plus billion dollar tax increase.
We take money out of people's pocket and we go have more government spending.
This makes no sense.
We're hurting all families, but especially I grew up, the poor.
I grew up in a poor family.
I lived in public housing.
The inflation is hurting them horribly right now, all across my state and across this country.
Yes.
So let me ask you, some people in our base and in our audience have some understandable concerns with some of the candidates that are put forward, differently than what Mitch would be saying.
But my message is this, is look, we're now in a moment, we're 63 days out from the midterms.
And that if you live in a blue state like Colorado, that you might not agree with, you know, O'Day on every single issue, especially abortion.
But look at Michael Bennett and you look at the opposition.
Can you talk a little bit about how we need a coalescing?
If every single person, again, this won't happen, but if every single person who voted for Trump in 2020 showed up to the midterms, we win majorities like we've never seen before.
If the base shows up, talk about that.
Charlie, here's as simple as this.
In the Senate, whoever has a majority decides what we vote on.
We don't get, like, I can have the greatest bill in the world.
Chuck Schumer doesn't like it.
There's no vote.
I get votes on no bills that I care about.
So it's as simple as that.
We have got to get a majority.
And so Joe O'Day is a construction entrepreneur.
He's a hard worker.
He's lived the American dream.
Right.
And so would you like that?
Or would you like Bennett, who has voted with Chuck Schumer 100% of the time?
I mean, it's a pretty simple thing.
Yeah, and I get that.
I sympathize with the base to do the purity stuff.
That's really what primaries are for.
And we're involved in primaries.
But, you know, there's someone that emailed us.
They said, hey, look, Joe O'Day, at least he says he doesn't want public funding of abortions.
He does want some limitations.
And so, look, I'm 100% pro-life all the way through.
And you have that in one of your points as well of the new Republican Party.
But can you talk more about the technical side of this, the procedural?
If we're the minority, we're just screaming at the sky, right, Senator?
I mean, it's we all work for Schumer.
On the floor, we get no votes.
In the committees, we're not the chair.
The chair of the committee decides what we vote on in every committee.
So we have no power to force a vote on anything.
No bill that we like, unless it's a bill that Democrats like, do we get a vote on it?
So we have no power.
And they can cram through bad nominations, right?
They can cram through some bad judges.
And so we have to get a majority.
It's as simple as that.
But let's go back to Joe Day for a second.
You know where the Democrats are on abortion?
Abortion up until the moment of birth.
You don't have to keep a baby, a live baby alive.
The government will, your tax dollars will pay for abortions here and around the world, right?
And if you're a pro-life healthcare worker, you're forced to do abortions.
That's where the Democrats, they've all voted that way.
So we've got to rally behind our Republican nominees, get them the resources, and get them the votes.
This is about getting all of us out to vote.
We can all do something.
We can go campaign, we can vote, we can volunteer, make phone calls, knock on doors.
There's something every one of us can do to win in November.
We have to win in November, both the House and the Senate.
At this moment in time, and we can all wish it was different.
People say, oh, Charlie, I wish I can wish ourselves into oblivion.
I wish Donald Trump won in 2020.
I wish we didn't borrow $30 trillion in debt.
But here's what I know.
If we don't have one more Senate vote than they do, then committees overseeing the IRS, which I'm going to ask you about, committees overseeing Fauci, committees overseeing the FBI, it's all going to be Schumer's agenda.
And so just 30 seconds on just oversight, your thoughts.
Right.
So we will have no, whatever you believe in oversight, whether it's the homeland security, the fact that we don't have a secure border, whether it's what the IRS is going to do with 187,000 or 87,000 more IRS agents, whatever it is, we'll have no oversight of any committee that doesn't.
Yeah, none.
I mean, we're not getting them now, right?
Gary Peters will not do any investigation in the Biden administration, period.
He's the Democrat in charge of the committee.
So there's none.
Yeah, Gary Peters from Michigan.
He's one of the more forgettable senators out there, but he does everything he's told, right?
He just says, do this, block this, yes, sir, and he goes home.
That's right.
I am agreeing with what you're saying.
And I understand the differences of opinion on so many of these candidates.
But the moment in time, the question in front of us, the prudent operative question, is do we save the country with political power or do we save the country without political power?
That's the question in front of us the next 63 days.
We could talk about the future of the Republican Party and votes I agree with and votes we disagree with every other day.
But now Labor Day to Election Day, we are in a window of prudence.
Senator, I want to just expand on something with you.
If the majority goes Republican, can you give some guarantees of the type of oversight that we will see?
Because I think that is a way that some Republican-based voters will say, okay, now I can see why we want to have a 51-49 majority.
Can you talk about the priorities of things that will be investigated, people that will be subpoenaed, please?
You know, first off, Charlie, let me make sure on the quality of our candidates, guess what?
Every Republican Senate candidate believes in a secure border.
They believe in the funding of the police.
They don't believe in IRS agents.
They don't believe in more IRS agents or critical race theory, a bigger government.
So think about that.
There's the contrast.
That's why we have to do it.
So when we get the majority, Ron Johnson from Wisconsin should be the chair of the subcommittee that will be doing the investigations.
I intend to be on that committee.
Ron Johnson will be hell-bent on doing proper investigations.
Yeah, so let's just pause there.
So if you live in a state where you have a candidate that you're like, I don't know, you could nationalize it.
You could say, do I want a bulldog like Ron Johnson to be able to investigate people like Fauci, the CDC, and all these different things?
Accountability And Digestive Health 00:04:48
What are the other investigations?
Are you going to investigate Garland or Maorkis?
What are the other things that the Senate Republicans pledge to investigate?
Just take the Mara-Lago rating.
We have to require, and we will be able to do it if we have a majority.
We have to require complete transparency by Christopher Ray and Merrick Garland.
We've got to understand exactly all the background of all the, you know, exactly what Hunter Biden's been doing.
We need to understand exactly what Fauci and the NIH has been doing.
So we need to go piece by piece into real oversight.
But our job is to our job is to do oversight.
It's not like it's mean-spirited, intentional.
Our job is to do oversight.
That's why the committee was set up.
That's why Congress is there.
We review the executive branch.
There's nothing, like, there's no political agenda here.
Give Americans the facts and let Americans make the best choices.
Yeah, and it's just there's like no oversight happening.
We get oversight in five-minute increments, right?
We get five minutes to ask questions and then no one, they don't take you seriously.
They don't write your, they don't respond to letters, right?
Senator?
I mean, they don't care.
Charlie, Maorca says, oh, the border's secure.
Yeah.
And so we have, we have five minutes.
They can just go up there.
He tells complete lies, okay, about the border.
It's a complete lie what he says about the border.
There's nothing I can do about it.
They don't have to respond to what I ask them in writing.
I mean, if we don't have majority, we don't have any subpoena power, which we have no, there's no subpoenas of the Biden administration been done since Biden got elected because we, because Gary Peters, the Democrat chair of the committee, won't do any.
When we get a majority, our job is to oversee the executive branch of government.
That's our job.
It's not like it's a mean-spirited job.
It's just our job.
We need to go do our job and hold these government agencies accountable.
87,000 new IRS agents.
Currently, if there is no political power that is retaken in Washington, D.C., no one will oversee them.
No one will know who's hiring them.
And by the way, we should try to reverse it.
We should try to reverse the 87,000.
I mean, can you talk about that, Senator?
Well, first off, I'm going to try this month.
We need to have a vote this month if we can to get rid of the 87,000 new IRS agents and also stop this bailout of the student loan bailout.
That's so unfair.
It's illegal.
It's illegal.
First off, it's unfair.
Second, it's illegal.
They didn't have any power to do this.
Now, ultimately, what we end up having to do is go through the court process and see what the courts decide because that's how our government is set up.
So we need to be doing that.
We've got to figure out how to do it where somebody has the legal standing to file the suit to make sure we can go and stop this.
But what we ought to do is this should be a vote by Congress.
This shouldn't be a decision by the Biden by himself, making just deciding, oh, I'm going to go spend $500 billion here and have these people pay for these people's college education.
That's completely unfair and, as you said, illegal.
And just by a stroke of a pen.
Senator Rick Scott, we are 63 days out from the midterms.
Thank you.
Keep supporting the good guys like Vance and Masters.
We're going to keep on making sure the Republican base, conservative base, knows the stakes.
I understand they've been very burned by establishment Republicans, but nothing good will happen if we are in the minority post-November.
Period.
We've got to get the majority.
That's right.
Thanks, Charlie.
Have a great day.
Thanks, Senator.
Appreciate it.
Bye-bye.
The ability to hold the Democrats accountable to stop this Marxist insurrection that's happening, which is happening all across the country.
The only way to do that is with political power.
What good have we done from the Senate minority the last year and a half?
We have a lot of press releases.
And trust me, I've done show after show about the weakness and the fecklessness of the Republican Party.
How do you fix that?
You get the majority back with a Vance and a Masters and a Lee and a Cruz.
And all of a sudden, you change the Republican Party.
You change it for the better.
And by the way, we have communication channels.
We have grassroots activism.
We have War Room.
We have this program that did not exist in prior Republican Congress.
The agenda will be a MAGA America First agenda if we win.
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Okay, we're going to really shift gears here because we've got Mike Davis, who's been amazing.
Over the last couple of hours, there's been news about a special master that has now been appointed in the Trump Mar-a-Lago raid court case.
Here to help us unpack this is Mike Davis from the Article 3 Project.
Mike, you've been terrific on all of your commentary on this.
Welcome to the program.
Mike, what is a special master and what is the significance of this?
So a special master is someone who is appointed by a judge to assist the judge usually with the discovery matter.
And Judge Cannon, Eileen Cannon, from the Southern District of Florida, a federal judge down there, has said that she wants to appoint a special master to do the review of President Trump's raided records.
The Biden Justice Department had this unprecedented, unnecessary, unlawful home raid of a former president who happens to be the current president's chief political enemy.
They took 11,000 documents from this home raid, and they went to a biased magistrate judge, Bruce Reinhart, who just recused from President Trump's civil lawsuit against Hillary Clinton on June 22nd and got him to authorize this home raid.
Somehow his bias, his clear judicial bias under 28 USC 455A and Canon 2 and Canon 2, we have the judicial cannons magically disappeared over that six-week period where his clear bias went away.
He had a 2017 Facebook post bashing Trump.
So the Biden Justice Department went down, they judge shopped for this judge, got this unprecedented home raid warrant.
And now Judge Cannon, I think, is on to them because if you look at her order where she ordered this, she said that she's going to appoint a special master, she talks about, quote, the swirling allegations of bias and media leaks in this case.
She talks about how the structure and operation of this raid was improper.
The same prosecutors who ran the Russian collusion raid are now doing this home raid of President Trump to get back these Russian collusion documents.
There's not a wall.
There's not a good wall between the prosecutors and the people who are reviewing the documents.
Two documents, two privileged documents, at least two privileged documents got through this privilege review to the prosecutors and they didn't wall off the prosecutors from this investigation.
The judge talks about the politicized circumstances of the raid.
She talks about how this was extraordinary, exceptional, and how Trump has been cooperating with the Biden Justice Department, how Biden was the one who authorized this home raid, and that this home raid raises serious legal issues, including the fact what we've been talking about, Charlie, from day one.
The president has the absolute constitutional power to declassify anything he wants.
He has the sole statutory power to take personal records with him to Bar-a-Lago.
So, let me ask you, Mike, is it fair to say the special master is a metaphorical babysitter for the Department of Justice, that it's a check and balance almost, that there is an erosion of trust, Department of Justice is out of control, and the special master, of whom, unless I've missed the report, we don't know who the identity of the special master is.
They're almost going to be kind of looking over the shoulder of the DOJ throughout this process.
Is that a fair way to describe it?
Yeah, I mean, they're just going to be, they're going to be working.
This special master will report to Judge Cannon, and this special master will make sure that the Biden Justice Department is doing the review properly.
This special master will check the Biden Justice Department's homework.
And if the Biden Justice Department has nothing to hide here, there shouldn't be a problem.
If they're not cheating or lying like they've been doing throughout this investigation, where they lied that Merrick Garland did not personally approve this raid, he did.
They lied that President Trump had nuclear documents to try to justify this raid.
He didn't.
They lied that President Biden, the Biden White House, was not involved with this raid.
That's a lie.
President Biden had to waive Trump's claim of executive privilege, and he did it through Deputy White House Counsel Jonathan Sue.
There have been constant leaks and lies, including from a grand jury, which is illegal.
This special master is Judge Cannon's way of trying to get this investigation under control.
Yeah, no, and it's not just super quick, I want to play a piece of tate here from the snake, Andrew Weissman, but this is not normal.
Special masters are very rare.
Is that correct?
They are rare.
No, I will say that a judge just appointed a special master in the project.
That was going to be my other point, is that we now have two babysitters for the DOJ because of two political investigations.
That really is interesting, isn't it?
That should tell you everything you need to know.
Go ahead.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has completely politicized and weaponized the Department of Justice.
What he's doing is unprecedented.
When Republicans take over the House in January, they need to impeach him.
I totally agree with that.
I don't think he's going to make it to January.
I think he's going to resign ahead of the tsunami of oversight.
I could be wrong.
I don't think he has it in him to just kind of come to committee after committee after committee after committee.
Let's play Cut 38.
The left is losing their mind over the fact that the Department of Justice now has a babysitter because we can't trust our own government.
Play Cut 38.
That special master will do their own independent review.
This really could open the door to months of litigation.
And the precedent, as I said, is horrendous.
They're losing their mind really quick here, one minute, Mike.
What is it about a special master?
They're saying it's going to delay things.
It's about speed.
When I've read their commentary, I say, wait a second, why the rush all of a sudden?
Are you trying to prevent a political outcome here?
Every piece of commentary is about the expediency, which I think reveals something deeper.
Obstruction Of Justice Debate 00:06:41
Your thoughts, Mike.
This is totally politicized.
The Biden administration waited 18 months to go get these records.
Attorney General Merrick Garland deliberated for weeks before he judged up with this biased judge to order this unprecedented, unnecessary, and unlawful home raid.
Even when the biased judge authorized the home raid, they waited three days to execute.
There is no issue.
There was no issue for them waiting for 18 months.
Now, all of a sudden, they're concerned about timing on this case.
What they're really concerned about is this special master is going to blow apart their hoax here.
And their hoax is that they authorized this rate to go get President Trump's declassified personal copy of the Russian collusion crossfire hurricane records that are so damaging for Obama, Biden, Hillary, James Clapper, Susan Rice, Brennan, the FBI, the Intel community.
That's what this is all about.
It's the desecration of our institutions.
It really is.
So, look, there's two aspects to this.
Just kind of we talk about the midterms here, and we'll get back to Mike Davis in a second, which is if you live in a blue state and you have a candidate that can win, is it worth taking a risk to potentially win that race to be able to help the broader cause?
Now, I say this from Illinois, having been burned by Republican candidates all the time.
However, sometimes candidates can surprise you.
Sometimes candidates can end up being more conservative.
Ron Johnson surprised all of us.
He's been an unbelievable senator.
He is worthy of all of our support.
Now, if you live in a red state, your calculus, I think, is completely and totally different, to be honest with you.
I think your calculus is totally different.
That's where primaries matter.
That's where you have to draft better candidates.
There's a lot of races out here that are sleepers that if we show up and if we rise up, we could win.
Now, someone here, Joe, emailed us freedom at charliekirk.com.
Charlie, if I had a GOP representative running that was pro-choice, I would not vote for them.
And I respect that.
I really do.
But there is a counterargument to that.
I see it both ways.
Trust me, I wouldn't be enthusiastic about voting for a pro-abortion candidate.
But I'm going to give you the other side of the coin because I'm torn on it: is that a pro-choice senator, Susan Collins, gave us Brett Kavanaugh, who then ended up voting for, who ended up voting for the repealing of Roe versus Wade.
So in a very bizarre calculus, pro-choice senators actually gave us pro-choice justices that gave us pro-life victory.
Now, I know that doesn't satisfy the purity test, of which I hold myself to as well.
I mean, I would have a very difficult time.
If I lived in Colorado, it would be very difficult for me to be a campaign to vote for a candidate like Joe O'Day.
But I'm not saying don't vote for him.
I'm saying that there's a moral argument on both sides.
Okay, back to Mike Davis here.
Mike, welcome back.
So I want to ask a question.
You've been going after Hillary Clinton here, and because out of nowhere, Hillary Clinton, it reminds me of the Shakespearean drama, Doth Lady Protest Too Much, Methinks, something in Old English, where she's all of a sudden defending herself against classified information.
Oh, yeah, the lady doth protest too much, methinks.
What is she talking about here, Mike?
She says she had no classified information.
Like, okay, no one's talking about you, Hillary.
Aren't you going for a hike in the woods or something?
Your thoughts on Hillary Clinton all of a sudden defending herself.
So President Trump had the absolute constitutional and statutory power to take these records to Mar-a-Lago.
That's very, very clear.
And I don't even think the Biden Justice Department and the Democrats are even disputing that anymore after we've been pounding that message for the last five weeks.
Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, had an illegal home server as Secretary of State with our nation's most classified materials, including, I think it was seven email threads that the FBI found with top secret secure access program TSSAP classifications, which is above top secret.
Those are the most classified Department of Defense classifications you could have.
She had an illegal home server as Secretary of State.
It was hacked by our enemies.
When she got caught, she bleach-bitted the server and took a hammer to the phone.
So you have an espionage act violation.
You have theft, misuse, destruction of government property.
You have obstruction of justice.
The three crimes that they are improperly using to go after Trump on this home rate, Hillary Clinton actually did.
She was not the president of the United States.
She'll never be the president of the United States.
The president has different laws that apply to him.
The president, the former president, have different laws that apply to him than any other person on the planet.
So I don't know where Hillary's coming up with this tweet, but this is the same Clinton administration that they stole $190,000 worth of furniture and rugs and flatware out of the White House when they left.
the White House to go back to their trailer in Arkansas.
So I don't think that she should be popping her head up right now.
It's probably good that she just goes for a hike in the woods, like you said, Charlie.
Yeah, so she out of nowhere starts defending herself.
I put that in quotes.
The whole thing is kind of a joke.
And you got to wonder if there's more examination under her and all this.
So let me just kind of broaden this for a second here.
We've got a minute and a half remaining here.
Mike Davis from the Article 3 Project.
Is it fair to say that this is them sending the metaphorical librarian after Donald Trump for an overdue library book, raiding his home for that, and being willing to try to take a political candidate off of the field for paperwork disputes?
Is that an oversimplification?
One minute, Mike.
No, it's actually, yes, it's the librarians calling the police for the overdue library book that's not overdue, and the book doesn't belong to the library.
The law is very clear on this.
It's very clear on this.
And this is a political raid on Biden's chief political rival for two purposes.
One is to eliminate him, eliminate Trump as a presidential contender against Biden or whoever they prop up when Biden can't make it.
And it's also to get back these declassified crossfire hurricane records that Trump has that are so damning for the Obama, Biden, Hillary regimes.
It's well said.
Mike Davis, Article 3 Project.
Thanks so much.
Thank you.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
Email me your thoughts as always.
Freedom at charliekirk.com.
Thanks so much for listening.
God bless.
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