The Charlie Kirk Show - The Fate of Arizona with Kari Lake and Mike Lee
Aired: 2022-11-29
Duration: 38:24


=== Senator Mike Lee Joins Us (02:08) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey, everybody.
[00:00:00]  Today in the Charlie Kirk Show, we start with Senator Mike Lee for an important update from the U.S. Senate.
[00:00:05]  And then Carrie Lake joins us for the latest out of Arizona.
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[00:00:48]  Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
[00:00:50]  Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
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[00:00:55]  Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
[00:00:58]  I want to thank Charlie.
[00:01:00]  He's an incredible guy.
[00:01:01]  His spirit, his love of this country.
[00:01:02]  He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
[00:01:09]  We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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[00:01:30]  I've been texting with a friend of mine, a great patriot, someone who I am thrilled won a convincing reelection, one of the bright spots in an underwhelming midterm election cycle.
[00:01:41]  Senator Mike Lee joins us right now.
[00:01:43]  First, Senator, congratulations on a triumph of a victory against someone who is trying to deceive the voters of Utah.
[00:01:50]  Congratulations, Senator.
[00:01:52]  Oh, thank you so much.
[00:01:53]  It's good to have that behind us.
[00:01:56]  And it was a long and at times grueling campaign season, but we're glad that things worked out at the end.
[00:02:03]  And you campaigned very hard, and God bless the voters of Utah who made the correct decision.

=== The Marriage Amendment Battle (13:37) ===

[00:02:08]  Senator, you're very fired up about a specific measure, a specific law that's trying to be passed in the Senate and a measure within that law that is not getting enough media attention.
[00:02:19]  The floor is yours.
[00:02:20]  Walk our audience through it.
[00:02:22]  Okay, so the Respect for Marriage Act is something that recognizes same-sex marriage under federal law and requires states to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states as long as those states happen to recognize it.
[00:02:43]  The issue that we face with this is that that legislation passing would, through a combination of the overlapping impact of various federal statutes and Supreme Court precedents, produce a situation in which religious nonprofits could have their tax exempt status revoked by the federal government based on their religious beliefs about same-sex marriage.
[00:03:12]  So I wrote an amendment to deal with this.
[00:03:14]  This is a legitimate issue, an issue that's been of concern ever since the Supreme Court decided of Bergerfeld versus Hodges about seven years ago.
[00:03:24]  And in fact, it was acknowledged, Justice Alito, my former boss, raised it with Solicitor General Donald Durelli at oral argument.
[00:03:32]  He acknowledged it was going to be an issue.
[00:03:34]  And so as long as we're codifying it, it makes sense to put in place an amendment, affirmatively prohibit the government from taking any adverse action against an individual or group based on that religious belief.
[00:03:47]  So Senator.
[00:03:48]  This should be easy to pass.
[00:03:49]  Yeah, Senator, I'm so glad you're bringing attention to this because I actually had a conversation with a family member about this over the weekend where I was under the impression based on media reports because of this LGBTQ bill that is passed into the Senate, which by the way, no Republican should be voting for this, by the way, period, end of story, that there was some sort of bipartisan working committee.
[00:04:10]  What you are trying to warn people is that not so fast, that bipartisan whatever committee has actually not solved the problem that very well could result in the internal revenue service.
[00:04:22]  I hope everyone in the audience understands this.
[00:04:23]  This could empower the Internal Revenue Service to revoke tax-exempt status from any nonprofit that believes that marriage is between one man and one woman, a school, a hospital, a church, a parachurch ministry.
[00:04:38]  Is that correct, Senator?
[00:04:41]  Yes.
[00:04:42]  All of those things are possible.
[00:04:44]  And that's exactly the kind of thing that we should never allow in this country.
[00:04:48]  People shouldn't be threatened with their tax-exempt status if they run a religious nonprofit for sticking to a sincere religious belief about what marriage consists of.
[00:05:01]  That's not the government's role.
[00:05:03]  And the fact that they're insisting on passing this bill without that amendment in it should concern us all.
[00:05:09]  Now, my amendment would more or less render it harmless in that respect.
[00:05:16]  It would eliminate that risk.
[00:05:19]  It's interesting, though, that we've got 12 Republicans who have so far been joining up with Democrats.
[00:05:27]  Every Democrat, all 50 Democrats in the Senate are voting for this.
[00:05:31]  And then we've got 12 Republicans who have been with them.
[00:05:35]  If those 12 Republicans, or even three of those 12 Republicans, were to decide they would vote against the bill, unless at the end of the day, they incorporated my amendment, then it could happen.
[00:05:48]  But as long as they're willing to vote for the bill, regardless of whether it's in there, the Democrats are never going to support it, and the amendment will fail.
[00:05:57]  But this is kind of a do-or-die moment.
[00:05:59]  It's the make or break moment for religious freedom.
[00:06:02]  It matters.
[00:06:03]  Meanwhile, the bill's sponsors are claiming that they've got language that they've recently added to the bill that takes care of the problem.
[00:06:10]  Only problem is this.
[00:06:11]  It doesn't.
[00:06:12]  It appears to address the issue.
[00:06:14]  But in fact, all it says is that the bill can't be construed itself to revoke or deny a particular status under federal law.
[00:06:24]  That's not really the concern anyway.
[00:06:26]  The concern isn't that the bill itself does it.
[00:06:28]  The bill itself leaves intact and, if anything, accelerates a preexisting risk.
[00:06:33]  And so what they've written is deliberately deceitful, I think.
[00:06:38]  It's deliberately written in such a way as to convince people to lull them into a false sense of security that this problem has been dealt with.
[00:06:46]  It hasn't.
[00:06:46]  And that's why the Lee amendment needs to pass.
[00:06:48]  Yeah, this is so important.
[00:06:49]  So I'm going to name the senators that have voted for the gay marriage bill.
[00:06:55]  I don't even like calling it the gay marriage bill.
[00:06:56]  Whatever.
[00:06:57]  They call it the Respect for Marriage Act.
[00:06:58]  I think that's an insult to marriage, but that's my own personal belief.
[00:07:02]  This is the 12 people, okay?
[00:07:04]  Susan Collins from Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah, Tom Tillis of North Carolina, Roy Blunt of Missouri, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Todd Young of Indiana.
[00:07:22]  Now, Cynthia Lummis is a very, she's a liberty loving person.
[00:07:26]  I'm going to text her, Senator, after this, and I would imagine she's persuadable.
[00:07:30]  Some of these other people, I think, are a lost cause.
[00:07:32]  But let me make sure I understand this, Senator.
[00:07:34]  If even just a couple of these Republicans are, if they go along with the Lee Amendment, would that fix this, essentially?
[00:07:43]  Because this is such a big issue, Senator, that if we just say, oh, the election's over, this could be the end of religious liberty.
[00:07:49]  Anyone watching, your church could be attacked by the IRS because you believe in biblical marriage because of the consequence of this bill.
[00:07:56]  Senator, so what is the action item for our audience right now that are fired up to hear about this is happening in the Senate?
[00:08:03]  And to be clear, under the bill, they can't go after your church itself, but a religious nonprofit.
[00:08:09]  Yes.
[00:08:10]  They could.
[00:08:10]  They can't compel your church to perform a same-sex marriage, but this is bad.
[00:08:14]  It's still punishing people.
[00:08:16]  So here's the action item.
[00:08:18]  Many of these people, many of the 12 Republicans you mentioned, may well end up voting for my amendment, but that isn't enough.
[00:08:26]  If they believe in the amendment and they see the need for it, such that they're willing to openly say that they support it, then they should refuse to vote for the bill at the end of the process.
[00:08:40]  Yes.
[00:08:40]  If my amendment is not adopted.
[00:08:42]  That's how we know whether they're sincere in their support for the amendment.
[00:08:46]  Because otherwise they're saying, yeah, we supported it, but it wasn't that important to us.
[00:08:51]  The bill is fine just the way it's written.
[00:08:53]  And it's not.
[00:08:55]  That's exactly what needs to happen.
[00:08:57]  And I don't quite, I mean, I sort of do understand, but some of these people are from very red states, Indiana, Iowa, West Virginia, North Carolina, Wyoming.
[00:09:06]  I can't imagine that this would be potentially popular.
[00:09:09]  So, Senator, we're going to keep our eye on this.
[00:09:12]  I want to thank you for joining the program.
[00:09:14]  And what is the timeline on this?
[00:09:15]  Is this happening in real time?
[00:09:18]  Yes, it's happening in the next few hours.
[00:09:20]  The Senate will start votes on this measure at 3.45 p.m. Eastern Time today.
[00:09:28]  And we'll be voting for the next couple of hours after that.
[00:09:33]  We'll be voting on my amendment, the Lee amendment, on an amendment from James Lankford, an amendment from Marco Rubio, and then we'll have a vote on final passage on the bill.
[00:09:44]  We need everyone watching right now to blow up the switchboards, to email the Senate offices, be respectful.
[00:09:50]  But these 12 Republicans in particular, Collins from Maine, Murkowski from Alaska, Portman from Ohio, Romney from Utah, Tillis from North Carolina, Blunt from Missouri, Lummis from Wyoming, Burr from North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capital from West Virginia, Sullivan from Alaska, Ernst from Iowa, or Young from Indiana.
[00:10:07]  And by the way, McConnell could fix this in a second.
[00:10:10]  McConnell could just say, cut it out.
[00:10:12]  This could end up being, if we do not hold the line here and follow Senator Lee's lead, this could end up being one of the great defeats of religious liberty of a generation, if not in American history.
[00:10:22]  Senator, thank you for your courage and for shining a light on this today.
[00:10:26]  Thanks so much, Charlie.
[00:10:28]  All we need is three of those Republicans to vote no on the bill unless they adopt my amendment.
[00:10:32]  Thank you.
[00:10:33]  Cynthia Lummis, I think, will do that.
[00:10:34]  I'm going to contact her personally, and I encourage the audience to do the same.
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[00:11:42]  Somebody says, Charlie, how do I contact my senator?
[00:11:44]  You can easily call them, and there is, you just type into your search engine, United States Senate switchboard.
[00:11:53]  And you might say, Oh, Charlie, it doesn't matter.
[00:11:55]  No, no, no, it does matter when it comes to Republicans hearing from Republican constituents.
[00:12:01]  That absolutely does matter.
[00:12:03]  It does.
[00:12:04]  You're calling a Democrat.
[00:12:05]  I can't guarantee anything.
[00:12:07]  But again, you got 12 Republicans that are going out of their way to try to nationalize a new definition of marriage.
[00:12:18]  Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Rob Portman, Mitt Romney, Tom Tillis, Roy Blunt, Cynthia Lummis, Richard Burr, Shelly Moore Capito, Dan Sullivan, Joni Ernst, Todd Young.
[00:12:30]  They're going out of their way to redefine marriage in a national context, but it goes deeper than that.
[00:12:37]  It always does, obviously, right?
[00:12:39]  The Respect for Marriage Act, and what a gross definition, honestly.
[00:12:46]  You could call it anything.
[00:12:49]  They're so good at words, aren't they?
[00:12:52]  Branding leaves religious groups and organizations exposed to lawsuits or worse for practicing their beliefs or being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service.
[00:13:03]  And you might say, oh, Charlie, come on, give me an example.
[00:13:05]  Okay, I'll give you an example.
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[00:13:22]  If they say that marriage is one man, one woman, they could be open to a federal investigation.
[00:13:29]  Live action by Lila Rose could be open to a federal investigation.
[00:13:33]  Parachurch ministries, food shelters, food banks.
[00:13:37]  Republicans are the ones voting for this?
[00:13:39]  Potentially, yes.
[00:13:42]  The fight is not over.
[00:13:43]  You see, this lame duck session, they are going to try to capitalize on the entire movement being burned out.
[00:13:55]  They're going to try to capitalize on us being like, man, that's been quite a contentious election season.
[00:13:59]  Man, I don't know.
[00:14:01]  I'm kind of burned out.
[00:14:01]  No, no, no, no.
[00:14:02]  You got to light up the switchboards, be respectful, be polite.
[00:14:07]  And again, the Republicans that have voted to redefine marriage: Todd Young from Indiana, Joni Ernst from Iowa, Dan Sullivan from Alaska, Shelly Moore Capito from West Virginia, Richard Burr from North Carolina, Cynthia Lummis from Wyoming, who I'm going to work on.
[00:14:27]  I think she's a great woman, and I can't understand why she would do this.
[00:14:30]  Roy Blunt of Missouri, Tom Tillis of North Carolina, Mitt Romney from Utah, Rob Portman from Ohio, Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, and Susan Collins of Maine.
[00:14:42]  We got an email here.
[00:14:43]  Charlie, thank you for informing us about this marriage amendment.
[00:14:45]  I had no idea this was even going on.
[00:14:47]  Yes, that's the point.
[00:14:51]  They do this to try to capitalize on all the other news happening.
[00:14:57]  All the other news happening.
[00:14:58]  Now, some of you are emailing me, Charlie.
[00:15:01]  Who cares?
[00:15:02]  Marriage should be whatever people think it should be.
[00:15:04]  I disagree, but that's not even what we're talking about right now.
[00:15:09]  We could go on about the redefinition of marriage and what marriage is and what it should be in a governmental context.
[00:15:16]  Happy to have that conversation.
[00:15:18]  The more important issue in front of us is how this opens the door for lawsuits, for civil measures, for investigations, for audits, and revocations of thousands and tens of thousands of organizations out there: mental health clinics, adoption shelters.
[00:15:39]  And this has always been the agenda of the civil rights regime.
[00:15:44]  They always go under the idea of civil rights.

=== Protecting Our Election System (15:10) ===

[00:15:46]  And what do they use?
[00:15:46]  They use force and power to make you conform to exactly how they want you to live.
[00:15:53]  It's not enough that you disagree with them, that you have different thoughts.
[00:15:57]  You must conform your actions.
[00:16:00]  So for example, if you are in adoption shelter, it says, we are only going to allow people to adopt that are in heterosexual monogamous relationships.
[00:16:13]  This bill very well might allow you now to be sued for that against your deeply held religious beliefs.
[00:16:20]  They're going to weaponize the government potentially if Republicans let this happen.
[00:16:25]  Weaponize the government to try to misconstrue and paint anybody that holds a view of traditional marriage as a bigot and necessary to then have to go under the force of government.
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[00:18:11]  Joining us now is Carrie Lake.
[00:18:16]  Hello.
[00:18:16]  Welcome back to the Instagram.
[00:18:18]  Yeah.
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[00:18:23]  You know what?
[00:18:24]  I wake up every day and, you know, I'm not going to say every day because it's been some difficult days, but really in the last couple of weeks, well, last week and a half, ready to fight for this country.
[00:18:36]  God never said this was going to be easy, Charlie, but he put us here at this moment for a reason.
[00:18:42]  He doesn't make mistakes.
[00:18:43]  He knows that we are the people to fight through this and save our country.
[00:18:46]  I truly believe that.
[00:18:48]  This is not hyperbole.
[00:18:50]  And I think that this election went down the way it did to wake up people to the fact that our elections are a joke.
[00:18:57]  I mean, what I saw yesterday was heart-wrenching to see these people stand up.
[00:19:00]  Given two minutes, by the way, yet we see Stephen Richer, whose main political goal was to make sure that I didn't get elected.
[00:19:08]  He's in charge of the elections and he had as much time as he needed to gaslight us and really spew off a bunch of nonsense.
[00:19:16]  And the people who were disenfranchised had two minutes to talk about what happened to them, express their concerns.
[00:19:24]  The buzzer went off and they were just treated like they didn't even matter.
[00:19:28]  It is our moment right now, Charlie, to prove that we love this country, to prove that we're in it for the fight.
[00:19:34]  Look at Brazil.
[00:19:36]  Look at China.
[00:19:36]  If we don't stand up right now, we will become China.
[00:19:40]  And I'm not talking about these heroic people in China.
[00:19:42]  I'm talking about we will become slaves because globalism, that's what it has in mind for us.
[00:19:48]  We become slaves to a system.
[00:19:50]  And we are Americans and we need to stand up and fight every day.
[00:19:53]  I am working hard with my legal team to have the very best case to win.
[00:19:59]  And there's no other choice but to stand up and fight.
[00:20:02]  And if we don't stand up and fight, what are we telling our grandkids and our children that we don't care about their future?
[00:20:09]  Oh, well, well, we stood up and voted.
[00:20:11]  Our system is messed up.
[00:20:13]  I guess we'll just won't vote anymore.
[00:20:14]  Who cares?
[00:20:15]  Well, no, we have to care because our children and our grandchildren and our future depends on it.
[00:20:20]  So I want to play a piece of tape here.
[00:20:22]  And so get CUT 24 ready to play.
[00:20:25]  This is one of the citizens that spoke at the meeting yesterday.
[00:20:29]  Stephen Richer says that these are conspiracy theorists, but it's actually this guy was a poll worker.
[00:20:36]  So Stephen Richer is calling his own volunteers conspiracy theorists.
[00:20:39]  I just, for the record, I want people to know that.
[00:20:42]  Bill Gates says that these are narratives of misinformation, even though the narratives are from your own trained poll workers of Maricopa County.
[00:20:50]  So it's not like some random person is coming in and making this stuff up.
[00:20:54]  And the math is very clear.
[00:20:56]  And the math, let me use a very appropriate word, is tragic, Carrie.
[00:21:00]  Tragic.
[00:21:02]  And it is wrong and it's unacceptable that this happened in this country.
[00:21:06]  Cut 24 says that 525 people at the end of the day were unable to vote.
[00:21:13]  So Stephen Richer and Bill Gates lied under oath where they said not a single person was disenfranchised and not able to vote.
[00:21:20]  Well, this person says 525 people in the course of a couple minutes were just disenfranchised and unable to vote at the end of the day.
[00:21:28]  Now, maybe he's got his numbers a little off, but even if he's off by half, really makes you think, what's going on here?
[00:21:34]  Play Cut 24.
[00:21:36]  Ladies and gentlemen of the Board of Supervisors, I was a poll worker.
[00:21:40]  And what I will say that I've seen is voters this cycle have in fact been disenfranchised because we as poll workers were not taught how to check out voters at our poll centers.
[00:21:54]  And then at my poll center, where we literally had at 7 p.m. on election day, 675 people waiting in line.
[00:22:03]  Of those 675, do you know how many came in?
[00:22:07]  150.
[00:22:09]  That's 525 people, Carrie, at the end of the day that were not processed.
[00:22:15]  Yet Stephen Richer and Bill Gates said everyone who wanted to vote was able to vote.
[00:22:18]  Carrie, your thoughts.
[00:22:20]  They punished Election Day voters.
[00:22:22]  And our Constitution talks about Election Day.
[00:22:25]  It names Election Day as the day that we vote.
[00:22:28]  And they were fine with extending that voting day by what, 27 days?
[00:22:32]  Well, we get mail-in ballots for 27 days ahead of Election Day.
[00:22:36]  Election Day rolls around.
[00:22:38]  The equipment doesn't work.
[00:22:39]  The systems don't work.
[00:22:40]  The printers don't print the ballots correctly.
[00:22:42]  And they refuse.
[00:22:44]  The courts refused to extend voting by just three hours to help people who got disenfranchised.
[00:22:51]  The courts refused.
[00:22:53]  And yet they're happy to extend Election Day for a month ahead of Election Day, but they refused to extend it for three hours to try to help some of these people who got confused, maybe.
[00:23:04]  They were told bad information.
[00:23:06]  The vote didn't count.
[00:23:07]  They wanted to make sure that they could get through and vote.
[00:23:10]  They refused to extend it by three hours, yet they extend the vote counting for two weeks.
[00:23:15]  It's just a mess.
[00:23:17]  Because the type of person that was voting on election day was your supporter, Carrie.
[00:23:23]  Yep.
[00:23:23]  The MAGA supporter.
[00:23:24]  And Stephen Richer is behind a pact, started a pack.
[00:23:28]  He and Bill Gates, the two people who we saw a lot of yesterday, started a pack with the sole purpose to stop MAGA candidates.
[00:23:36]  But then we learned that the only candidate that they spent money to try to stop was yours truly.
[00:23:42]  So their entire mission was to stop someone like me because they know that when I got into office, we were going to restore honesty to our elections.
[00:23:51]  We were going to uncover any corruption.
[00:23:53]  And these people are so afraid of our movement, Charlie.
[00:23:56]  And so everybody who's in our movement, who loves this country, needs to take that as a badge of honor and step forward and continue in this fight.
[00:24:05]  We don't have the option to back away and feel this gut punch and say, oh, well, it's time to just roll things up and we're just going to throw our hands up.
[00:24:15]  No, this is the time where we really need to step in, lean in, and fight for this country.
[00:24:21]  The Secretary of State, the referee, the chief administrator of the elections, was your opponent.
[00:24:26]  The chairman of the board of the supervisors in the largest county by far in Arizona was on the record saying that the only way to save the Republican Party is quote humiliation at the ballot box.
[00:24:39]  Stephen Richard, the county recorder, was involved in a super PAC against you.
[00:24:44]  So you add all that together, you say, wow, the referees of this election don't really want Kerry to win.
[00:24:51]  Now, the Washington Post and Yvonne, who writes there, has been actually doing a very accurate job detailing what's been going on here, had in there that it's our show, the Charlie Kirk Show, and our Twitter account that is the problem here.
[00:25:07]  And you too, Carrie, that basically Maricopa County was saying, and the Washington Post is just putting together people's statements.
[00:25:13]  I thought it was a very fair piece, saying that it's our fault that people were not able to vote on Election Day.
[00:25:20]  So I want to play another piece of tape here.
[00:25:22]  This is Cut 45.
[00:25:23]  Steve Galardo, Maricopa County supervisor, saying this election was fair, safe, and accurate.
[00:25:31]  Play Cut 45.
[00:25:33]  They don't want to let the voters know the truth.
[00:25:36]  And that's what's so frustrating about this.
[00:25:38]  Our elections were safe, secure, accurate.
[00:25:41]  Everyone had the right to exercise the most fundamental right they have, the right to vote.
[00:25:46]  And when you have folks that are throwing rocks at the system, but not wanting to tell the voters the truth, that's unconscionable.
[00:25:53]  Shame on her.
[00:25:54]  Shame on her.
[00:25:55]  The voters spoke.
[00:25:56]  They decided.
[00:25:57]  Ballots were counted.
[00:25:59]  And this election was safe, secure, and accurate.
[00:26:02]  Mr. Chairman, in my opinion, the 2022 election is over.
[00:26:07]  Your thoughts.
[00:26:08]  Shame on you, Steve Gallardo.
[00:26:10]  You are actually part of Katie Hobbs, the governor selects transition team.
[00:26:15]  So you've got a conflict of interest, sir, and we don't give a damn what you say.
[00:26:20]  We have freedom of speech and we're going to use it, okay?
[00:26:23]  And so, Steve Gallardo, you can shove it, buddy.
[00:26:26]  We are going to get the message out from the people who are disenfranchised.
[00:26:31]  The way you have run elections, and this is a message to him and the board of supervisors, is such a sham that the people of Arizona have lost all faith in our election system.
[00:26:40]  And even if 10 people were disenfranchised, but when people lose their faith in the election system, you've got a real problem.
[00:26:49]  We have to fix this.
[00:26:51]  And I don't, it's not about me, Charlie.
[00:26:54]  It really isn't.
[00:26:55]  It's about my kids and my grandkids, your kids, your grandkids someday.
[00:27:00]  If we don't stand up and fix this, and we've got to push these people who have conflict of interest, they have ulterior motives.
[00:27:08]  These people are disgusting.
[00:27:10]  What I saw yesterday was absolutely disgusting.
[00:27:13]  They stood up there and I believe they lied.
[00:27:17]  They lied to the people.
[00:27:18]  And then when the people had a chance, their one chance to stand up and express their concerns, they gave them two minutes.
[00:27:26]  It was one of the most sad, disgusting chapters in our history.
[00:27:31]  I totally agree.
[00:27:32]  So Bill Gates said that everyone who wanted to vote was able to vote.
[00:27:35]  Peggy emailed us, Charlie, for the first time since 1981, I was not able to vote.
[00:27:40]  Cars were parked two miles down 7th Street.
[00:27:43]  I can't walk a mile.
[00:27:44]  I'm physically unable to the back of the line.
[00:27:47]  I tried my best to have people help me, but people at the voting center said I have to go to the back of the line.
[00:27:54]  I checked for New River and there weren't any locations.
[00:27:56]  There's only two locations within a square mile of my home.
[00:28:00]  I went home crying, was not able to vote for the first time since 1981.
[00:28:06]  Church had only 30 parking spaces, and the voting line was three and a half hours.
[00:28:12]  How many people carry that?
[00:28:16]  That breaks my heart to hear that.
[00:28:18]  That breaks my heart in this country that our sacred vote has been trampled like that.
[00:28:23]  We heard from a woman eight and a half months pregnant.
[00:28:25]  She said, I couldn't wait to wait two hours in line.
[00:28:30]  And you know what?
[00:28:31]  Had that woman got it up there, she might have found out her ballot got spit back out and spit back out and thrown into drawer three, which we're finding out now.
[00:28:39]  Those uncounted ballots got mixed in in many locations with counted ballots.
[00:28:44]  The whole system is a joke.
[00:28:47]  And either our courts help us out right now, or I fear we lose this country.
[00:28:51]  This is the biggest story in the country right now.
[00:28:54]  And the fact that we're lucky that one reporter, you talked about Yvonne with the Washington Post, we should be honored that they're covering it.
[00:29:02]  Every news outlet in the country should be covering this.
[00:29:05]  I totally agree with that.
[00:29:06]  And honestly, they've been doing a good job.
[00:29:08]  They've been covering it.
[00:29:09]  I mean, it's Washington Post.
[00:29:10]  Well, one, but one.
[00:29:12]  That's just one, Charlie.
[00:29:13]  Where's our local news?
[00:29:14]  Yeah.
[00:29:14]  And honestly, even in the Washington Post, they're talking about the lines.
[00:29:17]  They're talking about, you know, the potential disenfranchising.
[00:29:20]  But where's the New York Times?
[00:29:22]  Where's the, I mean, the local papers.
[00:29:23]  Where's the Arizona?
[00:29:24]  No, the Arizona Republic.
[00:29:26]  You know what the Arizona Republic has on the front page today?
[00:29:28]  They say that Steve Bannon, Charlie Kirk, and Real America's Voice needs to be taken off the Native American Gila Reservation television network.
[00:29:36]  I'm not kidding.
[00:29:37]  That is the front page story.
[00:29:39]  People are waking up to the lies of the fake news.
[00:29:43]  They honestly don't deserve to have their broadcasting license.
[00:29:46]  They've been lying that they're not covering this story.
[00:29:49]  I'm actually, I'm fine with it because what I'm realizing is that the people who were asleep and didn't want to dig into what happened in 2020 because it was just too, it was, it's too much for them.
[00:30:02]  A lot of people just said, you know what, let's move past that.
[00:30:05]  Well, that's what happens when we ignore problems.
[00:30:07]  When you ignore a problem like corrupt elections like we saw in 2020, they fester and grow, metastasize.
[00:30:15]  And we're seeing it happening now in 2022.
[00:30:18]  Look, it's not even about my race.
[00:30:19]  It's not about me.
[00:30:21]  It would be so much easier for me to just cut and run and do something different.
[00:30:26]  But we can't afford to do that.
[00:30:29]  And I am really hoping to reach some people out there who are Democrats, who love this country.
[00:30:35]  It's not about who won and lost right now.
[00:30:37]  It is about the state of our elections.
[00:30:39]  And if we don't have fair and honest elections, if we don't get in there right now and deal with this, we won't have a country anymore.
[00:30:45]  We'll look at what's happening in China and we won't be on the protest side of what's happening in China.
[00:30:50]  We'll be on the front side, like decades ago when people were really, I believe, enslaved.

=== Certifying A Sham Election (07:27) ===

[00:30:56]  They're working in factories.
[00:30:58]  They make nothing.
[00:30:59]  What's happening in China is a wake-up call for America because that's what they have in mind for us.
[00:31:03]  The clock is ticking.
[00:31:04]  There's a couple day window from certification.
[00:31:07]  You've talked about whistleblowers.
[00:31:08]  You've talked about some things coming forward.
[00:31:10]  I want to build that out with you because we're getting a lot of emails right now, freedom at charliekirk.com, where people are saying, okay, what now?
[00:31:17]  What now?
[00:31:17]  What's next?
[00:31:18]  What's the plan?
[00:31:18]  What now?
[00:31:19]  But Carrie, you should be applauded for your courage and for your focus and your tenacity.
[00:31:26]  This is the whole ballgame, everybody.
[00:31:28]  You know, someone says, Charlie, I'm tired of hearing about Arizona.
[00:31:30]  So that means you're tired of hearing about America.
[00:31:32]  Arizona is the railhead.
[00:31:34]  It is the state that will define all other states.
[00:31:37]  It's all coming down right here to state 48.
[00:31:42]  Rents are soaring at unprecedented highs.
[00:31:45]  If you're renting or have a friend or family member, that is, now is a great time to make the move to homeownership.
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[00:31:54]  Andrew Del Rey and Todd Avakian at Sierra Pacific Mortgage have helped so many people make that leap from renting to owning with lots of programs that offer first-time buyers assistance with little to no down payment needed.
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[00:32:18]  They're helping you create a plan to help you reach your goals.
[00:32:21]  Give them a call or go to their website, andrewandTodd.com.
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[00:32:32]  I highly recommend you take action now.
[00:32:34]  And if you knew someone paying rent, tell them about Andrew and Todd.
[00:32:37]  Go to andrewandodd.com and tell them the Charlie Kirk show sent you.
[00:32:44]  So, Carrie, walk us through the timeline and the procedure.
[00:32:48]  And is it fair to say that you have a pending, very strong, focused, and sharp, sharp legal complaint coming down the pike?
[00:32:56]  Yes, we do.
[00:32:57]  We have to follow the statute here in Arizona.
[00:33:00]  And that says that you can't challenge an election until it's been certified.
[00:33:03]  And even though I wish we would have had some courageous individuals stand up and say, I'm not going to certify this sham election, we need to investigate.
[00:33:10]  We need to figure out what went wrong.
[00:33:12]  And frankly, I think we need a redo with actually an independent group running the election, an independent group who is not full of ulterior motives.
[00:33:23]  But we have to wait until this election is certified.
[00:33:27]  And that will be, I believe, the 5th or 6th of December.
[00:33:31]  And then we will be ready to bring forth our case.
[00:33:34]  I believe we have about five business days after it's been certified to put forth our case, in which time we will.
[00:33:41]  And we have a great case.
[00:33:43]  We have excellent attorneys working on this case.
[00:33:46]  I will tell you, there are some patriotic attorneys out there who realize the importance of our case.
[00:33:52]  And they are on the case with me.
[00:33:54]  They realize this may be the most important case of their legal career, of their lifetime, because of what is on the line here.
[00:34:02]  And unfortunately, you mentioned we have the Washington Post covering this.
[00:34:05]  We need more media to cover this.
[00:34:07]  I agree.
[00:34:07]  History is not going to look kindly on the yellow journalists that are out there, these propagandists.
[00:34:13]  So we have a great case.
[00:34:14]  I'm not going to go into all the details.
[00:34:16]  You know, we're still working on it.
[00:34:18]  We've got whistleblowers who have come forward.
[00:34:20]  I believe we've got at least one smoking gun in there.
[00:34:23]  And we feel very confident in our court case.
[00:34:26]  Of course, we always have to pray that we get a judge who loves this country, a judge who will be fair, a judge who will understand what's at stake.
[00:34:34]  So, I mean, look, I want you to imagine black inner city voters in Atlanta, Georgia, facing machine malfunctions and two three-hour lines all across the city or Philadelphia or Detroit or Chicago.
[00:34:47]  There would be nationwide coverage and calls for a revote.
[00:34:50]  But if it happens in Wickenburg or Anthem or in Surprise, nobody cares.
[00:34:55]  I want to play a piece of tape here, Kerry, because we're talking about certification, but it doesn't feel like this has been a certification vote.
[00:35:01]  This feels like a hostage situation because here's Ron Gould of Mojave County saying that if I don't vote to certify, I'm going to be arrested and charged with a felony, of which I have a question.
[00:35:16]  Who is the one threatening him with arrest or a felony?
[00:35:19]  Breaking what law?
[00:35:20]  Because you have questions about an election?
[00:35:22]  Is this from the AG?
[00:35:23]  Is this from the Secretary of State?
[00:35:24]  Is this from the federal government?
[00:35:26]  No one really knows.
[00:35:27]  PlayCut 41 of what has become, in his own words, a certification under duress.
[00:35:33]  Play cut 41.
[00:35:35]  I vote aye under duress.
[00:35:38]  I found out today that I have no choice but to vote aye or I'll be arrested and charged with the felony.
[00:35:44]  I don't think that that is what our founders had in mind when they used the Democratic process to elect our leaders.
[00:35:51]  I'll be arrested and charged with a felony.
[00:35:53]  Carrie, that's not a certification vote.
[00:35:55]  That's not democracy.
[00:35:56]  That's if you don't certify an election, I'm going to put you in handcuffs.
[00:36:01]  You know, I think when you do something under duress, it does, it can't stand up legally.
[00:36:06]  That's what I understand.
[00:36:08]  I'm not a lawyer, but I would be curious to ask a lawyer that's exactly.
[00:36:13]  I wish, though, and I know in Cochise County, they're threatening to not certify, and they've got these, you know, dirty attorneys with the Democrat Party down there threatening them.
[00:36:22]  And Katie Hobbs, the Secretary of State, is threatening them, threatening them to certify what they know to be a bad election because she wants to steal this.
[00:36:32]  So she's threatening Cochise County to certify.
[00:36:36]  I wish that one person and one of these board of supervisors would stand up and say, then come on and arrest me.
[00:36:42]  Bring it.
[00:36:43]  I have to agree with you, but I also want me out.
[00:36:46]  Who is the one threatening arrest and who would be the one actually administering the charging paperwork?
[00:36:52]  I don't understand this.
[00:36:53]  I mean, is Katie Hobbs going to go send troops out?
[00:36:57]  Not troops, but like police officers.
[00:36:59]  The Sheriff's Department.
[00:37:00]  I don't think the Sheriff's Department in Mojave County would really arrest Ron Gould if he would have said, no, I'm not going to certify this.
[00:37:08]  I don't think the Sheriff's Department run under Mark Daniels down in Cochise County, a true patriot, is going to arrest somebody who says, I'm not going to certify this because the election is a mess.
[00:37:18]  And hundreds of thousands potentially were disenfranchised.
[00:37:23]  Yes.
[00:37:24]  So I hope somebody somewhere, we need a few more people to step up and be incredibly courageous in this gap right now.
[00:37:31]  This story is not over.
[00:37:32]  It's not.
[00:37:33]  Carrie, I look forward to looking at your legal complaint.
[00:37:36]  And also, we're going to be rallying the troops at AmericaFest.
[00:37:39]  Yeah, I want to talk about AmericaFest.
[00:37:40]  Thank you for the invite to AmFest.
[00:37:42]  I'm looking forward to it.
[00:37:43]  It's going to be my first big speaking appearance since the November 8th sham election.
[00:37:49]  And I'm really looking forward to it.
[00:37:50]  We're hoping to get a bunch of our supporters out there.
[00:37:54]  Everything happening historically in America right now is happening right here, right now in Arizona.
[00:38:00]  And Charlie, I think this is going to be the most important political event perhaps ever.
[00:38:05]  Can't wait.
[00:38:05]  Carrie Lake, God bless you.
[00:38:06]  We have your back.
[00:38:10]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
[00:38:11]  Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:38:14]  Thank you so much for listening.
[00:38:16]  God bless.
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