The Charlie Kirk Show - The Congressional Omnibus Calamity with Sen. Rick Scott
Aired: 2022-12-14
Duration: 35:31


=== Lame Duck Congress Gifts (12:22) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody, Tana Charlie Kirk Show.
[00:00:01]  We go out through the omnibus and Senator Rick Scott joins us to talk about the outrage of a bill that is being passed through Congress.
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[00:01:14]  Right now, we are in the midst of what is called a lame duck Congress.
[00:01:21]  Emphasis on the lame.
[00:01:24]  If the federal government doesn't pass some sort of a massive spending bill by Friday, the government shuts down, where it really doesn't shut down because it will only fund then the essential services.
[00:01:36]  Of course, the obvious next question is: if the services are not essential, why are we funding them?
[00:01:42]  The government has shut down plenty of times the last couple of years.
[00:01:45]  It shut down, remember, with Donald Trump and Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi for nearly a month when they were negotiating the border wall.
[00:01:52]  And by the way, all of this is happening while we are being legitimately invaded on our southern border.
[00:01:59]  Thousands and thousands of people.
[00:02:01]  This all ties together, by the way.
[00:02:04]  Let's go right here.
[00:02:06]  2,400 crossings a day.
[00:02:09]  This is so while our country is being invaded, Congress is supposed to be putting together some sort of omnibus bill, play cut 62.
[00:02:19]  I've never seen anything quite like this.
[00:02:22]  Border Patrol officials telling ABC News they are at capacity and have to send migrants elsewhere along the border.
[00:02:28]  Unauthorized border crossings in El Paso are now averaging more than 2,400 arrests and detainments per day.
[00:02:36]  Today, adults carrying children through the river.
[00:02:39]  This ahead of next week's possible end of Title 42, a Trump-era policy that allows for the immediate expulsion of migrants without allowing them to seek asylum.
[00:02:48]  So they repealed Title 42, and it just irritates me so much.
[00:02:54]  Katie Hobbs, Mark Kelly, they ran nonstop ads funded by open border advocates pretending like they were on the side of closing the border.
[00:03:03]  They lied relentlessly on over-the-top advertising, on pre-roll YouTube advertising, on television.
[00:03:10]  I mean, Mark Kelly spent $80 million lying to Arizona voters, and unfortunately, it did work in some sense.
[00:03:18]  We're going to get into the Kerry Lake stuff, but there was a moving of the margin in that regard.
[00:03:25]  So under Title 42, authorities have expelled illegals, border jumpers, criminals at the U.S. border nearly 2.5 million times over the last three years.
[00:03:36]  80% of those have been under Biden.
[00:03:38]  They are rescinding Title 42, which basically opens up our entire southern border.
[00:03:46]  So the border is being invaded.
[00:03:48]  Our country is being overrun by illegals, but congressional leaders won't be bothered by that.
[00:03:54]  Senate Republicans and Senate Democrats have now said they have a deal.
[00:04:00]  The deal, they say, is first to extend the government spending for another week to give them more time and then to pass an omnibus spending bill that will keep the government funded until the end of the fiscal year, which is at the end of September next year.
[00:04:16]  That is a full nine months.
[00:04:19]  Now, this is all being led by the turtle, Mitch McConnell, because Mitch McConnell says, quote, I want to be on the road and going home to Kentucky on the 22nd or 23rd.
[00:04:30]  He won't be bothered to work past the 22nd or 23rd.
[00:04:35]  So this would give the Democrats a gift, a $1.7 trillion gift.
[00:04:44]  Now, Chuck Yu Schumer says that this will include another wave of Ukrainian funding.
[00:04:52]  Now, Biden has been asking for $37 billion, which would take us over $100 billion in spending for a war that does not involve America with a country we actually should be warm with, Russia right now against China.
[00:05:07]  Russia and Putin are evil and terrible for invading Ukraine.
[00:05:12]  But there is no reason whatsoever for us to be funding a proxy war in Ukraine.
[00:05:15]  And you might remember, I asked Senator Kramer, Republican from North Dakota, of whom I have respect for on several issues, I said, what is the limit of the money you will spend to Ukraine?
[00:05:27]  And he famously said on our program, we could find that tape.
[00:05:30]  I really can't put a number on it.
[00:05:31]  There is no limit.
[00:05:32]  And apparently, that was an honest answer.
[00:05:35]  We are now in excess of $100 billion while our country is posting a $1.3 trillion budget deficit.
[00:05:46]  We are nearly $30 trillion in debt.
[00:05:49]  We have $250 billion that we are borrowing every month.
[00:05:54]  Last month in October was the largest single month deficit in American history.
[00:05:59]  And we are entertaining sending another $100 billion to Ukraine.
[00:06:04]  Now, before I go any further, this is so maddening.
[00:06:08]  This gets me so fired up.
[00:06:10]  I understand.
[00:06:12]  I sympathize.
[00:06:14]  However, I disagree with Republicans who didn't show up to go vote for Dr. Oz or Herschel Walker.
[00:06:22]  They see garbage like this.
[00:06:24]  They see nonsense.
[00:06:26]  They see Washington, D.C. crony deals grinding them down, and they say, forget it.
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[00:06:46]  And they say, we need to do a big report to figure out why did Republicans not show up in the record numbers in the midterm elections?
[00:06:54]  Why is it that some of these candidates weren't able to get across the finish line?
[00:06:59]  Here's a good starting point.
[00:07:01]  When you're about to give Democrats a nine-month, $1.7 trillion gift just weeks away from a new Republican Congress from taking over, it is beyond demoralizing.
[00:07:14]  It is an unadulterated insult to all of you that gave money, knocked on doors, made phone calls.
[00:07:23]  And now some of you might say, well, Charlie, you told us to go vote for senators and do all that.
[00:07:28]  That's true.
[00:07:29]  I still think despite all of that, there are more positives than negatives with having a Republican Senate, also playing defense against HR1 and all of this.
[00:07:37]  However, I will not mislead you.
[00:07:42]  I'm going to shoot straight with you, as honestly and as bluntly as I possibly can.
[00:07:47]  What is being discussed with this omnibus bill with Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer is a gut punch to every taxpaying, law-abiding, patriotic American citizen.
[00:08:01]  They are on the precipice.
[00:08:03]  They are on the verge of passing a nine-month gift.
[00:08:07]  So now when Republicans, House Republicans come into power in January, they have no leverage, no negotiating power for nine months.
[00:08:18]  It will eat up one-third of the new Republicans' term.
[00:08:23]  So who needs House Republicans to be able to oversee a budget where it extends it all the way to September of next year?
[00:08:31]  Instead, they should say, okay, we'll give you 30 days.
[00:08:35]  30 days?
[00:08:38]  Why do you need a nine-month, $1.7 trillion?
[00:08:42]  Or they should really say, we're not approving anything.
[00:08:44]  Even worse than that, Mitch McConnell has leverage.
[00:08:49]  They want a nine-month deal.
[00:08:50]  Why doesn't Mitch McConnell say, hey, we are going to require a border wall?
[00:08:55]  Oh, because for Mitch McConnell and for Senate leadership and for Republicans that we send to the Senate, sending money to Zelensky is much more important than sending money to prevent the 2,400 people that are crossing into our country every single day.
[00:09:17]  I don't agree with it, but I sympathize with the sentiment of people saying, forget it.
[00:09:25]  Forget it.
[00:09:27]  I'm not doing this any longer.
[00:09:29]  I'm not voting.
[00:09:30]  I don't agree with it.
[00:09:31]  I think it's the wrong attitude.
[00:09:32]  It's the wrong behavior.
[00:09:35]  But when McConnell and the Uniparty gut punches us time and time again, what do you expect?
[00:09:43]  Hey, Zelensky is going to get more money.
[00:09:46]  But to secure our country from an invasion of the cartels of 2,400 people a day, you're on your own, pal.
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[00:11:49]  The RNC should also serve to hold members accountable.
[00:11:54]  I know this is a foreign concept for the leadership class of the Republican National Committee, but why are they not saying no?
[00:12:04]  Stop it, turtle.
[00:12:06]  You are not going to pass a $1.7 trillion spending bill with not a dime of new spending for the U.S. southern border, but we are going to give Mr. Zelensky, the time man of the year, unlimited amount of our taxpayer dollars.

=== Earmarks vs Defense Budget (15:10) ===

[00:12:22]  Question: Is Ukraine a state?
[00:12:24]  Does Ukraine vote?
[00:12:26]  Is Ukraine part of our country?
[00:12:28]  Ukraine is in a far off and distant land fighting a proxy war, a family conflict that is increasingly murky, not defined, should be ended via the brokering of peace of a stronger country.
[00:12:42]  Is Ukraine even an ally of the United States?
[00:12:45]  What is success?
[00:12:46]  What does success look like in Ukraine?
[00:12:48]  We've asked these questions for months.
[00:12:49]  No one can ever answer it.
[00:12:50]  And they say, well, Ukraine is winning the war.
[00:12:53]  Is that true?
[00:12:54]  I don't know.
[00:12:55]  If Ukraine is winning the war, then why is it that Russia seems to continue to control the eastern parts of Ukraine?
[00:13:04]  These are just very simple questions.
[00:13:06]  So also involved in this omnibus bill will be easier banking access for marijuana dispensaries across the country.
[00:13:15]  The SAFE Act would legalize bank access for marijuana companies, even though the drug supposedly remains illegal.
[00:13:22]  Also included in this is the Electoral Count Act, which is a Democrat priority that sharply limits what grounds lawmakers can object to the certification of electoral votes.
[00:13:35]  You have to wonder what is Mitch McConnell and the Republican strategy here.
[00:13:41]  Right now, we control neither the House or the Senate.
[00:13:45]  That will change in literally a couple of weeks, within days, within 20 days.
[00:13:51]  He can't delay for 20 days.
[00:13:53]  Also, here's a strategy: shut down the government and hand it off to the new Congress.
[00:13:59]  Shut down the government, hand it off to the new Congress.
[00:14:02]  Have them work it out.
[00:14:04]  You guys are a lame duck enterprise.
[00:14:08]  You're done.
[00:14:10]  But no, they want their crony deals.
[00:14:12]  They want their pork.
[00:14:13]  They want their spending.
[00:14:15]  Senator Shelby from Alabama, who's getting the most pork of anybody, he's retiring.
[00:14:22]  He will not be a senator in a couple of weeks.
[00:14:24]  Said, I am pleased to confirm that Chairman Lehi and Chair Delaro and I have reached a bipartisan, bicameral framework that allows us to begin the difficult work of reaching agreement across 12 separate bills.
[00:14:38]  If all goes well, we should be able to finish an omnibus appropriations package by December 23rd.
[00:14:46]  These are all people that are retiring.
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[00:16:06]  Joining us now is Senator Rick Scott, who is a hard no on this bill.
[00:16:12]  Hopefully, we can prevent it from becoming a law.
[00:16:14]  Senator, welcome back to the program.
[00:16:16]  I mean, Charlie, you should just be furious, and your audience should be furious about what goes on up here.
[00:16:20]  The Democrats keep spending, spending, spending, and we've got to say enough's enough.
[00:16:25]  $31, almost $32 trillion for the debt.
[00:16:27]  When are we going to say, you know what?
[00:16:29]  That's too much.
[00:16:30]  We've got to change.
[00:16:31]  And so they're going to give it.
[00:16:33]  Charlie, there's going to be probably close to a $2 trillion spending bill next week.
[00:16:38]  We've seen it.
[00:16:39]  We don't know.
[00:16:40]  We don't know the top number.
[00:16:41]  We don't know what's in it.
[00:16:42]  We know nothing.
[00:16:44]  We know nothing.
[00:16:44]  Now, what we do know is Republicans in the House are opposed to it.
[00:16:49]  But we don't know anything up here right now.
[00:16:51]  So we can't keep caving into these Democrats.
[00:16:54]  It's Pelosi, Schumer, end-of-year spending bill.
[00:16:57]  That's exactly what it is.
[00:16:58]  Yes, so, but Senator, you're going to have to help me understand this.
[00:17:02]  Some of your Republican colleagues are the ones that are allegedly brokering this and negotiating it.
[00:17:07]  Senator Shelby, for example, who is retiring, he is saying that a deal has been struck.
[00:17:13]  You're saying you don't even know what the deal is.
[00:17:16]  Is that right?
[00:17:17]  Yeah, I don't know what I don't know what the deal is.
[00:17:19]  I don't know what the number is.
[00:17:20]  I don't know what's in it.
[00:17:22]  None of us do.
[00:17:23]  I mean, just a few people negotiate these things, and we just have got this.
[00:17:27]  I mean, why would we, when we have Republican, an incoming Republican House, why would we do a spending bill right before they take over?
[00:17:37]  Yeah, well, that's but I haven't seen it.
[00:17:38]  No, I have no idea.
[00:17:40]  Is it getting rid of IRS agents?
[00:17:41]  Of course not.
[00:17:42]  Yeah, so but it's even worse than that.
[00:17:45]  It's it's a nine-month extension of the worst of the federal government.
[00:17:51]  And so we have a new Republican House coming in on January 3rd.
[00:17:55]  This robs the next Republican House of one-third of their term.
[00:18:00]  And so, Senator, I have to wonder: what are your Republican colleagues thinking?
[00:18:05]  You know, what they do is they, you know, they put this at the end of the year.
[00:18:10]  They say, oh, if you don't vote for this, government will shut down right before Christmas.
[00:18:14]  Wouldn't you feel bad?
[00:18:15]  And by the way, don't you want to get home for Christmas?
[00:18:18]  That's what they do.
[00:18:19]  So I think we've got to, I mean, we've got to, we can't cave.
[00:18:23]  We can't give in.
[00:18:24]  What we need to be doing is we need to do a continued resolution, which I'm not for those, but we ought to do a continuing resolution.
[00:18:31]  Let's say through February 3rd or something like that.
[00:18:34]  Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, Mike Braun, and I went down, tried to push that yesterday on the Senate floor to do give the new, give a new Congress.
[00:18:44]  This Congress decided not to pass budgets.
[00:18:46]  That's wrong.
[00:18:47]  They didn't do it.
[00:18:47]  So let's give the new Congress the opportunity to pass a budget.
[00:18:51]  Yeah, I mean, so let's just talk some numbers.
[00:18:53]  So if you guys all do that, Senator Johnson, Senator Braun, Senator DeLee, I'm sure Senator Paul would be on board.
[00:19:00]  What are the numbers?
[00:19:01]  Do they need to get 60 votes?
[00:19:03]  So essentially, they need to get 10 Republicans to cave.
[00:19:06]  They've got to get 10 Republicans.
[00:19:07]  Yeah, they have to get 10 Republicans to go along with them.
[00:19:12]  And we just can't keep caving like this.
[00:19:14]  This is so, yeah, that's what's going to happen.
[00:19:16]  Now, we don't.
[00:19:17]  So here's the vote.
[00:19:17]  Here's what we're going to happen this week.
[00:19:20]  The first vote was going to be: should we do a short-term continuing resolution for one week to put this in the position to pass the omnibus?
[00:19:29]  That's the first vote.
[00:19:31]  And so, first off, I don't think we ought to be doing a short-term CR.
[00:19:36]  So, but second, let's say that passes, all right?
[00:19:39]  Then we shouldn't be doing an omnibus next week, right before Christmas, that nobody's ever read.
[00:19:44]  I mean, they were going to want to do this by, what, Wednesday or worst case, Thursday next week.
[00:19:49]  I mean, it's going to be thousands of pages.
[00:19:51]  It'll have unbelievable number of earmarks.
[00:19:55]  So, we ought to, we can't keep doing this.
[00:19:58]  I think we ought to do, let's.
[00:19:59]  give the new Congress the opportunity.
[00:20:01]  Let's give, you know, we've got a Republican, we'll have a Republican House.
[00:20:04]  Let's give them the opportunity, not Pelosi.
[00:20:07]  Why would we give Pelosi the opportunity to choose what's going to be in this bill?
[00:20:11]  Why wouldn't we do, you know, the Republicans in the House the opportunity, and we'll work with them.
[00:20:17]  And I mean, I have to wonder, I mean, for the chief negotiators here, you know, Senator Shelby, I'm just getting the, I'm gleaning and looking at this.
[00:20:26]  I just don't think he cares.
[00:20:28]  I mean, he's retiring, right?
[00:20:31]  And so for him, there's really no way to hold him accountable.
[00:20:34]  And Senator, I think it should just be a kind of a standing rule for the Republican conference.
[00:20:39]  You shouldn't allow retirees to negotiate multi-trillion dollar spending bills on their way out because there really is no skin in the game.
[00:20:48]  There is no check and balance, right?
[00:20:49]  It's kind of.
[00:20:51]  There's none.
[00:20:51]  I mean, and by the way, this supposedly has 7,500 earmarks, billions of dollars of earmarks.
[00:20:58]  $7,500.
[00:21:00]  $7,500.
[00:21:02]  7,500 earmarks.
[00:21:04]  I mean, this is your money.
[00:21:07]  This is your money.
[00:21:09]  Would you spend your money like this?
[00:21:10]  Of course not.
[00:21:11]  You shouldn't be spending somebody else's money like this.
[00:21:14]  7,500 earmarks.
[00:21:16]  And also in this is all this other nonsense.
[00:21:18]  There's the SAFE Act, which would legalize bank access for marijuana companies.
[00:21:23]  There is the Electoral Count Act.
[00:21:26]  And so, Senator, let's just kind of narrow the universe here.
[00:21:29]  Do you think it's likely under the current kind of parameters that there are going to be 10 Republican defectors?
[00:21:36]  I mean, McConnell has said he wants to get home for Christmas.
[00:21:38]  So that's one.
[00:21:39]  Of course, everybody wants to get home for Christmas.
[00:21:42]  But the way to do this is let's do a continuous.
[00:21:44]  We're not going to have a country to go home to Christmas for if you keep on spending money like this.
[00:21:48]  And by the way, surely, inflation's not going away.
[00:21:52]  You saw it's still up over 7%.
[00:21:54]  And so that means if you're a poor family, if you're a family struggling, like mine was growing up, if you're on fixed income, what you've seen is you've seen what, but over a 14% increase in your cost of living since Joe Biden got elected.
[00:22:08]  You know what's caused by?
[00:22:10]  It's caused by spending.
[00:22:11]  Yes.
[00:22:12]  Because up here, the Democrats can't stop spending and we can't go along with it.
[00:22:16]  Yeah.
[00:22:17]  And I just, so if McConnell says yes, and then let's say, obviously Shelby will say yes, and then Blunt and then a couple other retirees.
[00:22:27]  I mean, we're going to be right near that number.
[00:22:30]  But I just, there has to be a reckoning at some point where this is more than just performative theater.
[00:22:37]  Like, this is real stuff, Senator.
[00:22:39]  We have a one, and you know this, $1.3 trillion deficit this year, and we're doing a $1.7 trillion extension.
[00:22:47]  This is not sustainable.
[00:22:49]  $31.5 trillion for debt.
[00:22:52]  Look at what's happened.
[00:22:53]  Look at what our interest expense is going to be.
[00:22:55]  I bet this year our interest expense will be bigger than our defense budget.
[00:23:00]  So the interest expense.
[00:23:01]  So just the price of the money that we previously borrowed will be more than the entire defense budget.
[00:23:08]  So it's $800 billion.
[00:23:10]  Yeah, it should be over because it's $31.
[00:23:13]  If you look at, I mean, it depends on what happens at interest rates, but interest rates are continuing to move up.
[00:23:17]  It looks like the Federal Reserve is going to raise them up another half a point today.
[00:23:22]  Interest rates continue to move up.
[00:23:24]  I mean, that means that we're going to spend an unbelievable portion of our budget just spending money on interest.
[00:23:33]  Not on making sure we have a lethal military, just on interest.
[00:23:36]  Nothing to care about.
[00:23:38]  Unbelievable.
[00:23:40]  Just to serve.
[00:23:40]  But the divorce is right now.
[00:23:42]  Is all this money, one, we don't know the number, but why are we doing 7,500 earmarks?
[00:23:47]  7,500 earmarks.
[00:23:48]  That's what's supposed to be in this bill.
[00:23:50]  Okay, so Senator, we have a very action-oriented audience.
[00:23:53]  What can people do?
[00:23:54]  Who are the senators that need to be called?
[00:23:57]  Every senator.
[00:23:58]  Who are the ones that are real?
[00:23:59]  I mean, Senator Shelby doesn't obviously seem to be persuadable because he's on the way out, but there has to be a few, right?
[00:24:04]  I mean, that are at least open-minded, correct?
[00:24:08]  You don't have to call.
[00:24:09]  I'll tell you who you don't have to call him.
[00:24:10]  You have to call Mike Brown.
[00:24:12]  You don't have to call Mike Lee.
[00:24:13]  You don't have to call Rand Paul.
[00:24:14]  You don't have to call me.
[00:24:15]  You don't have to call Ron Johnson.
[00:24:17]  All right.
[00:24:18]  But I don't know how everybody else is.
[00:24:19]  I mean, I don't know what I think.
[00:24:21]  I think Kennedy has said he's not going to support it.
[00:24:23]  Holly said he's not going to support it.
[00:24:26]  Cruz, of course, won't support it.
[00:24:30]  But everybody else, I have no idea what they're going to do.
[00:24:33]  Yeah.
[00:24:33]  I mean, and the fact that we don't have any idea, I mean, so is McConnell.
[00:24:38]  How does this work then, Senators?
[00:24:39]  Give us a little bit of inside baseball if you can.
[00:24:41]  So here's what will happen.
[00:24:42]  Yeah, go ahead.
[00:24:44]  They will put it up.
[00:24:46]  What I just was told is we're going to vote on it first because the whole entire Republican, all the Republican members are supposedly against it over in the House.
[00:24:57]  So they're going to try to pass it in the Senate first so they can act like it's bipartisan.
[00:25:01]  Now will probably be, I would assume it'll be the earliest they can get it done would be next Wednesday.
[00:25:08]  The first fight will be Friday or Saturday.
[00:25:11]  We'll have to vote over a continuing resolution for another week.
[00:25:14]  That's the first vote.
[00:25:15]  That would be the first fight.
[00:25:16]  And then the second one will be, well, the omnibus passed next week.
[00:25:20]  So, but I mean, why aren't they telling us what's in it?
[00:25:24]  What is the reason they won't tell us what's in it?
[00:25:26]  What is the reason they won't tell us the amount?
[00:25:29]  Right.
[00:25:30]  I mean, I haven't seen, I've been told there's 7,500 earmarks, but I haven't seen them.
[00:25:35]  How many bridges of nowhere are there in there?
[00:25:38]  But who designated this negotiating committee?
[00:25:41]  Is that McConnell?
[00:25:42]  Did he just empower?
[00:25:44]  Yeah, I mean, it's the head of appropriations, Republican and Democrat.
[00:25:50]  And so far, my understanding is the House head of appropriations on the Republican side has not signed off on it.
[00:25:57]  And I think they're holding a press conference today to talk about it in just a few minutes to talk about how bad it is.
[00:26:04]  So, Senator, I don't think this is helping them.
[00:26:07]  No, and so in closing here, Senator, you worked super hard to get us the Senate majority.
[00:26:10]  I think you deserve a lot of credit for the effort and the money you raised.
[00:26:13]  And I wish we did have it.
[00:26:14]  But Senator, I got to be very honest with you.
[00:26:16]  Just reading the audience and reading the room, one of the reasons why in some of these states, some Republican voters had a tough time stomaching Republican candidates is garbage like this.
[00:26:27]  And I'm sure you agree.
[00:26:29]  This doesn't enthuse our ranks at all.
[00:26:32]  Right.
[00:26:32]  I mean, let's do what we've what we tell our voters we believe in.
[00:26:36]  We believe in fiscal responsibility.
[00:26:39]  We believe in watching your money.
[00:26:40]  It is your money.
[00:26:42]  We want to get inflation down.
[00:26:44]  We want to get debt down.
[00:26:45]  So are we doing it?
[00:26:46]  When I was governor, I reduced the state debt by a third.
[00:26:49]  I mean, I made sure our government grew slower than our population base every year, right?
[00:26:55]  So, because you ought to get more efficient every year in everything you do in life, not the federal government.
[00:27:00]  I mean, they grow this, they're growing spending like crazy.
[00:27:03]  And on top of that, they're making it mandatory.
[00:27:05]  So we don't even vote on it.
[00:27:07]  There's so it's, I think it's now 70% of our budget we don't even vote on every year, just automatically who's going to spend more money.
[00:27:15]  It would never lead your personal life like this.
[00:27:17]  It's all kabuki theaters.
[00:27:18]  I'll just kind of close with this.
[00:27:20]  If you're saying you don't know what's in the bill, imagine how angry the audience is.
[00:27:24]  I mean, you're a U.S. senator who's very well respected and works his tail off.
[00:27:30]  I mean, this is beyond treachery at the highest level.

=== Fight the Treachery Now (02:36) ===

[00:27:33]  And I hope you guys fight it, and I hope we light up the switchboard.
[00:27:36]  I'm going to fight it.
[00:27:36]  Don't worry.
[00:27:37]  There's a bunch of us going to fight it.
[00:27:38]  I hope so.
[00:27:38]  This is outrageous.
[00:27:39]  Senator, thank you so much for joining us.
[00:27:41]  All right.
[00:27:42]  Bye-bye.
[00:27:42]  See you, Charlie.
[00:27:43]  Bye-bye.
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[00:29:07]  We're getting a fair amount of emails here.
[00:29:09]  One in particular, Charlie, I did not vote for Herschel Walker in Georgia.
[00:29:14]  I intentionally decided not to vote.
[00:29:17]  You had some harsh words for us last week, which I understand, but now I feel vindicated.
[00:29:23]  The Uniparty always wins.
[00:29:25]  And that is the sad truth.
[00:29:28]  Another one here, controlled opposition.
[00:29:30]  Charlie, they want to go home for Christmas.
[00:29:32]  Are you kidding me?
[00:29:33]  Of course, this is going to pass.
[00:29:34]  Everything passes.
[00:29:35]  There will be enough defectors.
[00:29:37]  There will not be enough defectors.
[00:29:38]  These Republican senators on your show are just spitting in the wind.
[00:29:42]  I believe in not giving up.
[00:29:43]  Everyone needs to contact their congressman.
[00:29:45]  The cynic in me says it will make a difference.
[00:29:47]  My senator, luckily, will be voting no.
[00:29:50]  So look, someone says here, this is one of my favorite emails.
[00:29:54]  It's just so important.
[00:29:55]  They said, Charlie, I'm really struggling to understand here.
[00:29:58]  How on earth could a Republican senator come on your show and say, quote, I have no idea what's going on?
[00:30:03]  I'm sorry.
[00:30:04]  I'm not laughing at Senator Scott.
[00:30:06]  I'm laughing because it's so tragically well put.

=== Controlled Opposition Wins (03:18) ===

[00:30:09]  My question is, how is that possible?
[00:30:11]  What are these people paid to do exactly?
[00:30:14]  Well, it's not his fault, but it's just, it's really sad.
[00:30:17]  Email is freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:30:20]  Okay, there's two stories I want to get to that on the Richter scale of insanity.
[00:30:25]  I think it is a tie.
[00:30:27]  It is very close.
[00:30:29]  The first is this.
[00:30:30]  I saw the story a couple days ago and I've been wanting to hit it.
[00:30:33]  But this is exactly, this is to be totally predictable.
[00:30:38]  It shouldn't shock you, but it should anger you.
[00:30:42]  The Cambridge Dictionary has updated their definition of what a woman is.
[00:30:49]  Now, by reading their definition, within 10 seconds, you can easily tell that in their definition is a logical fallacy.
[00:30:59]  It's called circular reasoning.
[00:31:02]  I have to give credit where credit is due.
[00:31:04]  The brilliant Matt Walsh enlightened me to this, and it was so obvious.
[00:31:07]  He was in front of my face the whole time.
[00:31:09]  And he did this in his brilliant film, What is a Woman?
[00:31:12]  And by the way, Matt Walsh will be at AmericaFest this weekend.
[00:31:15]  The film that Matt Walsh put forward on the Daily Wire is so smart because it asks a very simple question that hyper-academic people cannot answer.
[00:31:23]  They can dance around it, they could pretend what it is, but they cannot answer the question, which is what is a woman.
[00:31:28]  And the only answer that they give that they think is satisfactory, which in itself is a logical fallacy, is they answer the question with the definition, meaning a woman is whatever a woman wants to be.
[00:31:40]  And so then you have to say, I got that part, but what is the woman?
[00:31:44]  That doesn't answer it.
[00:31:46]  We understand you think anyone can be that thing, but what is the definition itself?
[00:31:50]  It's very simple.
[00:31:51]  What is the thing that you say that anyone can be?
[00:31:53]  Well, now the new Cambridge definition says that a woman can include anyone who identifies as a female.
[00:31:59]  But then what is a female?
[00:32:00]  And they say a female is anyone who wants to be a woman.
[00:32:03]  They refuse to ever answer what that is.
[00:32:07]  So they say, then if you actually dive deeper, some of the smarter ones will say, well, it's a cultural tradition of what a woman is.
[00:32:14]  Play cut 64.
[00:32:16]  This is the Cambridge Dictionary, which has redefined its definition of woman as a beyond adult female human being, which it formerly was.
[00:32:25]  It's now an adult who lives and identifies as female, though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth.
[00:32:31]  Yeah, but what is that?
[00:32:33]  What is that thing, a female?
[00:32:35]  Let's go to, there's another story I have to cut here.
[00:32:39]  But look, here's the thing.
[00:32:40]  The definition says someone who lives and identifies as a female.
[00:32:43]  So Cambridge can't tell us what the definition of a female is.
[00:32:46]  And they say, well, it's belonging or relating to a woman.
[00:32:48]  It's 100% circular.
[00:32:50]  And they know this because as soon as they lean in on what actually the definition is, it exposes the fraud of the entire trans deal.
[00:32:57]  Okay, that's story number one.
[00:32:59]  And by the way, if you send your child to a government school or most private schools, they will be using the Cambridge dictionary.
[00:33:09]  And the Cambridge Dictionary now uses the trans definition for a woman.
[00:33:16]  Okay, that's story number one.
[00:33:18]  Story number two: this story, this is incredible.
[00:33:22]  This was kind of hiding in the news cycle, and we didn't find this till recently.

=== Erasing Ben Carson's Legacy (02:04) ===

[00:33:27]  A few weeks ago, a school board for Detroit Public Schools has voted to remove and scrub Dr. Ben Carson's name off the district of Ben Carson High School of Science and Medicine.
[00:33:42]  It's important to remember that Ben Carson isn't merely a successful surgeon.
[00:33:46]  He's a world-class one.
[00:33:47]  He's the surgeon who performed the first ever successful separation of twins conjoined at the back of the head.
[00:33:53]  He's also the exact kind of figure that children in Detroit's troubled schools in the heavily black communities should be encouraged to look up to.
[00:34:01]  Carson grew up in a broken, poor home with a single mother.
[00:34:05]  According to his own memoirs, he struggled with violent impulse as a child and even attempted to stab his mother.
[00:34:11]  But all those accomplishments are nullified because they say that Trump served in the Trump Carson served in the Trump administration.
[00:34:19]  It's very sad.
[00:34:20]  Ben Carson is a dignified and humble figure, but they don't want young blacks to look up to somebody like Dr. Ben Carson, someone who promotes reading, virtue, character, courage, justice, temperance, prudence.
[00:34:34]  Honestly, Detroit schools don't deserve an alumnus as wise, humble, and accomplished as Ben Carson.
[00:34:44]  It makes you think, since Detroit is removing Ben Carson's name from one of its high schools, if only Ben Carson was a drug addict who robbed a woman at gunpoint and died on a sidewalk, maybe then they had erect statues of him instead of erasing his memory.
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[00:35:07]  We continue.
[00:35:08]  Congressman Byron Donalds joins us in the next hour.
[00:35:18]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
[00:35:19]  Email me your thoughts as always: freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:35:23]  Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.
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