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Project Veritas Corruption
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| So in just a second, we'll be joined by the great Candace Owens to talk about a separate topic, which is the Project Veritas topic. | |
| I've been texting with Candace, and we're both equally fired up about how James has been treated and has now been kicked out of Project Veritas. | |
| We had an entire hour conversation with Steve Bannon yesterday about Project Veritas and what is happening with James O'Keefe. | |
| James, who founded Project Veritas, has now been kicked out of his own organization on some real ticky-tack stuff, I got to tell you. | |
| And I have spent a lot of time on the phone and asking if there's something else that I'm missing. | |
| And we had the documents here yesterday, but the long and short of it is like, oh, well, we don't like how many black cars that you took, even though that they were for business. | |
| We went to the whole thing yesterday. | |
| And they said, well, there's this, you know, charter flight that is in question. | |
| Then have him repay it. | |
| If it's really that big of a deal, then have him repay it. | |
| And if he can't repay it, then just say it's a loan against the organization and set up a payment plan and charge reasonable interest. | |
| And there is protocols. | |
| This is all not without precedent. | |
| There's protocols for all these sorts of things. | |
| Yes, even with nonprofits. | |
| But the question is, is the country in a better place if James O'Keefe is then and put in exile and has to go start his own organization? | |
| No, it is just so wrong on so many levels that a founder of an organization slaves over it for 10 years, posts massive wins. | |
| Again, it's not like James O'Keefe was just shuffling papers around and writing stuff in journals that no one actually reads. | |
| He was out in the trenches capturing people on video, exposing some of the darkest deeds of deceit and treachery in our entire society and did it time and time and time again. | |
| You name a cabal of corruption. | |
| James O'Keefe was able to expose them. | |
| Pfizer, FDA, CDC. | |
| Remember the Hillary Clinton campaign? | |
| Remember Project Veritas action back in the 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign? | |
| James O'Keefe was able to get Jan Schakowski's husband, the union organizer, on camera saying that they have paid thugs going to Trump rallies. | |
| Yeah, people forget about that one. | |
| How about James O'Keefe defunding Acorn? | |
| I mean, the wins are so beyond that all of that should be factored in and should be put into context. | |
| Okay, the black car thing is ridiculous. | |
| Saying that you had some employee force them to clean your boat. | |
| Okay, I doubt that's true. | |
| If it's true, okay, then have him repay the equivalent labor sum to the organization. | |
| All this could be worked through. | |
| The black car thing is so unbelievably dumb. | |
| I can't even tell you it's you can't do business without transportation. | |
| It's part of his job. | |
| He travels 300 days a year. | |
| We already did the math. | |
| It's and if that's their opening salvo of why this entire thing basically got put into the public sphere, it's just laughable. | |
| They say $60,000 in losses, $60,000 in losses by putting together dance events for Project Veritas. | |
| First of all, I don't think they're losses, but we'll talk about that in a second. | |
| We have Candace Owens now, the great Candace Owens. | |
| Candace. | |
| Hey, Charlie, sorry, I was having some tech issues here. | |
| So I'm basically FaceTiming you, but that works. | |
| No problem. | |
| Candace, how should we think about the Project Veritas tragedy? | |
| Slimy. | |
| I mean, the backstabbing, it is a tragedy. | |
| I mean, for me, it felt strangely personal just because when I was really coming up in this movement, James O'Keefe was one of the first people that I met. | |
| I like so vividly remember him speaking down at the Horowitz Freedom Center when I met you that first time. | |
| And he was just such an incredible person, so impressive. | |
| And one of the things that's really left a mark on me is that he doesn't dabble in the dark side of politics. | |
| What I mean by that is that he's not one of these DC people that you see drunk, that you would see drunk every night at the Trump Hotel when Trump was in office. | |
| He was so dedicated to his work. | |
| He's so professional and he's well liked by everybody for a reason. | |
| And so when you watch somebody build something like Project Veritas from the ground up, and then once it's up, you see people that are so conniving and backstabbing and willing to essentially put things in the public that just look petty. | |
| I mean, talking about they actually went, I mean, whoever leaked to the Daily Beast, talked about petty and slimy leaking to William Sommer of the Daily Beast, who's one of the most despicable people at the Daily Beast, which is a despicable publication, that he once took a sandwich and ate it from a woman that was eight months pregnant. | |
| I mean, how small does this seem? | |
| Leaking the financials and I guess hoping that people are so ignorant that they would think that $60,000 spent on a corporate event that's entitled The Project Veritas Experience, an event that I was invited to, you know, so that employees can relax. | |
| You want employees to be able to relax and to enjoy the atmosphere, especially given how under pressure employees of Project Veritas are. | |
| We watched James O'Keefe be dragged out of his home in the middle of the night wearing boxers. | |
| I think I'm okay as somebody who personally donates a lot of money to Project Veritas, as I do. | |
| I'm okay with James O'Keefe letting loose at a $60,000 party for him and his employees. | |
| They deserve that. | |
| They've earned that. | |
| Why is it that you see this clearly? | |
| The audience does, but all of a sudden they're bored. | |
| James's board took the knives out to get rid of him. | |
| Does this have something to do with Pfizer, Candace? | |
| Am I reaching too far? | |
| You know, I think a lot of people are starting to ask questions because it's just, it's such an incredibly stupid move, right? | |
| And to think that they were just going to pull one over, take his company, and people were just going to trust the Project Veritas brand that they had made the right decision without some heavy allegation, which is what I think I was waiting for. | |
| I thought if they did something this outrageous, they're going to release some information about James O'Keefe that's even going to move me to their side. | |
| Instead, they release these petty grievances. | |
| I mean, essentially, they employed the tactic of show me the man, I'll show you the crime. | |
| They clearly wanted him out. | |
| And then we're meeting with employees saying, well, what has he done? | |
| What has he done? | |
| Well, you know, I was eight months pregnant and I was really hungry and he was under stress and he came by and ate my sandwich. | |
| And they're okay, good. | |
| No, we're going to include that in our report. | |
| And yeah, so it makes you wonder what was really driving this. | |
| My personal opinion is it was probably just a personality, a disagreement. | |
| People on the board think that they have the right to choose who leads the organization. | |
| And they probably didn't, a few of them clearly didn't like James O'Keefe and they sit out to go, well, guess what? | |
| We're the board and we're going to show you what it means to have real power. | |
| What they forgot is that the power is always with the people at the end of the day. | |
| I don't care what he rebrands Project Veritas as. | |
| He can call it Project James O'Keefe. | |
| I called my husband and I said, make sure we never give a single rent set. | |
| They are one of two organizations I actually give a lot of money to. | |
| And so I was personally affected by it because I know James personally, financially impacted by it, because now I instantly said, I'm pulling that money and we're going to give it to somebody else. | |
| And that money will follow James O'Keefe wherever he goes. | |
| So it was a foolish decision made by probably a few board members who didn't like him. | |
| One minute remaining, Candace. | |
| The board members are saying they're going to be bigger than ever, that they don't need James. | |
| This is literally leaked emails say, We're going to show the world this is a great opportunity. | |
| I mean, Candace, this is delusional. | |
| Right. | |
| Yeah, they're going to show the world why they hate people on Wall Street, right? | |
| What people think they can do when they feel that they have enough power amassed and they no longer have to listen to people. | |
| They don't have to listen to their customers, so to speak. | |
| They don't have to listen to their donors because we're so big and we're so bad and we're so recognized that despite the fact that people are genuinely upset by this, we don't have to worry about it because we've amassed a lot of power for ourselves. | |
| That's exactly the wrong thing, but the wrong group. | |
| People that support Project Veritas are the people who hate these sort of unchecked power structures, right? | |
| And so I think what they're going to run up against is a wall. | |
| They are about to get checked. | |
| They're going to see that because James O'Keefe is so well respected and so liked, as he should be, because he's so hardworking and he built this location from the ground up, at personal risk to himself, by the way, because it's exceptional, right? | |
| We, you and I have organizations that we run. | |
| They are not at such a tremendous personal risk. | |
| James O'Keefe could go to prison, right? | |
| Because the FBI and the DOJ have it out for him. | |
| And he has done that. | |
| And he has remained a person of remarkably high caliber morale. | |
| And the fact that they are doing this to him, it's just not going to go well for them. | |
| Project Veritas for me, it's over. | |
| It's canceled. | |
| It's done. | |
| James O'Keefe, please reappear and let us know where you want to send the funds to because I'd rather be a small organization that we can actually trust. | |
| And we cannot trust one that wheels and deals behind the backs of its own founder and chief executive officer. | |
| And we'll support James in whatever he does. | |
| Additionally, you make a great point. | |
| The very same people that shut down all of our factories the last 30 years, the merger and acquisition, McKinsey types, came and swooped in and they did a hostile takeover where they buy a manufacturing company in Ohio and they say, oh, sorry, we're sending it to Wuhan, China. | |
| And they thought that they could do that to Project Veritas. | |
| Like, oh, who needs O'Keeffe? | |
| Yeah, we're not going to put up with that. | |
| Okay. | |
| We're not going to put up with this kind of corporate Raider, Wall Street, Harvard-educated, consultant-elite sort of mentality where, like, oh, well, we can really get more business efficiencies. | |
| Like, okay, enough of the buzzwords. | |
| Okay. | |
| James O'Keefe is a hero. | |
| He's the life force. | |
| There is no Project Veritas about James O'Keefe. | |
| It's nothing more than a shell. | |
| I don't care how many consultants you staff it with. | |
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| James O'Keefe would have an HBO show right now doing the types of things that he does if he was doing the things that he does against right of center entities. | |
| The left, who doesn't really believe in rules in the first place, tries to create rules that only people on the right have to live by. | |
| They're allowed to selectively edit. | |
| They're allowed to have their boar at having his own show on HBO. | |
| They're allowed to do all this stuff. | |
| They're allowed to embarrass Republicans. | |
| The thing about James and me is that we both refuse to allow for the left to define us. | |
| Candace, he is the heir apparent to all things Breitbart. | |
| He's done such unbelievable work over the last decade, and the board just kind of threw that away for just petty stuff. | |
| Yeah, you know, it really makes you. | |
| I would love to take a look at exactly who is sitting on his board and how he arrived at those decisions, because it does seem like there seems to be something more nefarious going on. | |
| Because I could see one or two people being like, I don't like him as a person. | |
| And, you know, we talked about how, you know, he's frustrated, he's angry. | |
| How would you feel if you woke up every day and the Department of Justice is trying to put you behind, put you behind bars? | |
| I mean, it's so ridiculous to think that he's supposed to be cheery and not paranoid and not concerned about who's working for him, knowing that the Department of Justice is working against him. | |
| So there does seem to me to be something more behind this. | |
| And I think that with time, we're going to learn more because James is speaking out. | |
| I mean, there's nothing more heroic than him refusing to sign a severance, which let me suggest to every single person: if something like this at this capacity goes on, you don't sign that severance. | |
| You don't sign your voice away. | |
| He needs to do exactly what he did and speak about what happened so people can understand what's going on because a threat to Project Veritas obviously is a threat to all of us, right? | |
| They are the troops on the ground when you really think about it. | |
| And to, as you mentioned previously, to embed themselves in Pfizer at a time when globally, globally, you weren't even allowed to say anything against Pfizer online without having your entire livelihood threatened, without being threatened to be deplatformed, without having your account suspended. | |
| And he was embedding individuals in Pfizer, speaking to employees at Pfizer and getting them to release information about the vaccine in which our government was insisting that every single person get. | |
| I mean, James O'Keefe is a hero. | |
| There's nothing the board can do about that. | |
| And shame on them for being so arrogant to assume that they were going to be able to persuade the public onto their side by releasing what really amounted to just petty group $14,000 in a private jet. | |
| I've looked at that and I said, what was it? | |
| A prop plane? | |
| I mean, I don't even understand $14,000 on a private jet doesn't even make sense to me. | |
| And again, he is someone that, as a donor, I am totally fine with James O'Keefe, who is hated by the Department of Justice, to be flying around private. | |
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James O'Keefe's Worth
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| I am happy for him to be taking Black cars. | |
| I assumed James O'Keefe would be taking Black cars. | |
| One thing that I said when I covered that thing, $150,000 across 18 months on Black cars. | |
| Yeah, my advice to him would be to get a full-time driver for the same price. | |
| He deserves it. | |
| You know, I'm okay with James O'Keefe having somebody open the door for him every single day for what he has sacrificed for this movement. | |
| He's earned it. | |
| And the FBI raids his apartment. | |
| He's currently, you know, the Southern District in New York. | |
| He's got everybody coming after him. | |
| And the board has to publicize saying, well, you know, we don't like that you travel 300 days a year. | |
| Candace, you know what it's like to travel 300 days a year. | |
| It's not fun. | |
| It's not glamorous. | |
| It's not sexy. | |
| Okay. | |
| And the fact that you get a black car, like get over yourself, you could Monday morning quarterback from your armchair because you travel 20 days a year. | |
| You don't understand what it does to you. | |
| It destroys you. | |
| 100%. | |
| I mean, it's absolutely exhausting. | |
| And people that haven't worked at that pace don't understand it. | |
| And this, again, sacrifices that are being made. | |
| James O'Keefe has never been married, doesn't have any children. | |
| You know, when I got married and I had children, I started saying it's not worth it for me to travel publicly to, I don't give, you know, I barely give any speeches anymore because of this reason, because I don't want to lose a night with my kids, two nights with my kids, you know, traveling all across America. | |
| It's just not worth it to me anymore. | |
| And at some rare circumstances, someone would say, okay, well, we'll send you a private plane. | |
| A friend has a private plane. | |
| So can you speak at this event? | |
| And you say yes to that. | |
| And I say yes to that, not because I'm a brat, but because I have a family now. | |
| And so people just need to understand the sacrifices that he is making day in and day out and to appreciate the fact that he deserves honestly much more than a driver and a few occasional private planes. | |
| You know, I mean, I don't understand what the problem is here. | |
| Again, he built this organization from the ground up. | |
| And there were a lot of other things that they had on there that just seemed so petty. | |
| And I also want to say, remarkably socialist. | |
| It was an appeal to socialism. | |
| It was an appeal to saying, and I find that sometimes conservatives don't recognize this. | |
| You know, we are free market capitalists. | |
| We believe that once you work hard and you become successful, you should be allowed to enjoy more things in life. | |
| And you will find within this movement that sometimes people go, oh no, you know, I see a conservative. | |
| I was talking about this offline just now with Andrew. | |
| I see a conservative wearing it has a designer bag. | |
| They sold out. | |
| What does that mean? | |
| What are you saying? | |
| I thought we were free market capitalists. | |
| Well, there's a lot of envy and jealousy. | |
| We're out of time, Candace. | |
| That's such an important point. | |
| James O'Keefe has been underpaid for a decade. | |
| He's worth billions of dollars to the movement. | |
| I don't care if he took a private jet. | |
| It's irrelevant. | |
| He should still be at Project Veritas. | |
| God bless you, Candace. | |
| We'll talk soon. | |
| Thank you. | |
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Cartel Control Exposed
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| Joining us now is the terrific Andy Biggs. | |
| He has some news to share about things happening on the southern border. | |
| It is a tragedy. | |
| Andy, welcome back to the program. | |
| Fill us in. | |
| What's going on? | |
| You know, I got to tell you, Charlie, it is almost inconceivable to think that it can keep getting worse, but it gets worse by the month. | |
| And this administration is doing things to distract. | |
| So, for instance, they're going to tell you that, well, the encounters between the ports of entry went down significantly last month. | |
| And they did. | |
| But the reason why is because they're funneling people through a parole program, which is contrary to U.S. law, and getting them into the, they're going through ports of entry, trying to get him there. | |
| And then they're going to release them into the interior immediately with work permits and they're gone. | |
| It's a de facto amnesty program that's happening right now, Charlie. | |
| And guess what? | |
| The cartels aren't going to put up with that. | |
| So that's why we fully expected them to drop by about 150,000. | |
| They dropped between ports of entry by about 100,000. | |
| The cartels are not going to put up with that. | |
| So they're going to, because they control the border. | |
| I mean, I don't know what else to tell you. | |
| We've got testimony in recent weeks. | |
| The sector chiefs, these are in the Biden administration sector chiefs. | |
| They themselves admit the southwest border, which is from McAllen, Texas to San Diego, is controlled not by U.S., not by our own sovereign forces, but by the cartels. | |
| And Charlie, this, you know, we could talk ad nauseum, you know, almost infinitely about how bad this situation is. | |
| Terrible. | |
| So, Andy, a question I have about the cartels. | |
| Let's try to personify it. | |
| You're an expert on this. | |
| We both live in Arizona. | |
| I'm still learning about it because I'm new to Arizona, but who are they exactly? | |
| And are they in communication with U.S. officials? | |
| Are there cartel members on both sides of the border? | |
| Give us kind of a cartel education. | |
| First thing you need to know about the cartels, they're crime families, highly organized, more ruthless than the mafia ever thought about being. | |
| And there's right now there's a, and they fight for what we call a plaza. | |
| They call a plaza. | |
| And there are different areas along the border where a different family, different cartels are going to own it. | |
| The biggest and strongest is still the Sinaloa cartel because it was founded in the Sinaloa state, the state of Sinaloa. | |
| Now, they control that. | |
| So last week, I got a friend sent me a picture of a shootout in San Luis, Arizona, which is just across from San Luis, Mexico, which is just across from San Luis, Arizona. | |
| Charlie, three police cars shot up. | |
| The police officers murdered by cartels in a gunfight. | |
| That's what's going on right there at our border. | |
| And the question: our cartel members throughout the country are on our side of the border. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| I got a briefing four years ago that told me there was not a community of any size in this country that did not have a Mexican cartel presence there. | |
| That's to facilitate the illegal immigrants, the human trafficking, the sex trafficking, and the drug trafficking. | |
| So this might be too deep, but I'm just curious. | |
| So every clandestine criminal operation needs some sort of front-facing legal enterprise to launder their money and or have some sort of proxy conduit to legitimate politics and business. | |
| What is that for the cartels? | |
| I'm just curious. | |
| Well, the cartels have, you know, we've actually caught them doing different and various businesses. | |
| Like one of them was running a horse racing. | |
| He bred horses. | |
| And so they found him that way. | |
| What you're seeing, though, is since most of the transaction, the money transactions taking place across the border, they're getting the lion's share of it there. | |
| But when they come here, they're using employment. | |
| So they're placing these people in employment in what may otherwise have been legitimate businesses. | |
| They're giving them fraudulent documentation to go in there. | |
| Then you also have the illegal actors. | |
| So just so you know, just a week ago, some of the meat packers were caught up and they had these children, illegal alien children, unaccompanied minors who had come over. | |
| And I think the youngest was age 11, and they were bringing these kids in to do cleanup work after hours. | |
| So we have legitimate U.S. businesses that are facilitating this, but then you have a lot of it just taking place across the border, but they indenture these people and that's what goes on. | |
| It's effectively modern day slavery. | |
| It totally is. | |
| And the sophistication of the technology that is used, I think when some people think of cartels, they kind of just think as, you know, pedestrian gangbangers in their mind, right? | |
| No, this is highly sophisticated business people that have been obviously corrupted into the darkest shadows of our civilization. | |
| But, you know, these are people that are using pinpoint technology. | |
| They're using like comprehensive logistics to be able to put this through. | |
| There's command and control centers. | |
| Charlie, you're absolutely right. | |
| So what they'll do is they're going to give a phone. | |
| And the U.S. government actually provides phones for some of these people. | |
| They're going to give a phone so they can track these people. | |
| And then they're going to charge those people for the phone to boot. | |
| I mean, but they'll track these people so they know where they're going. | |
| And they just have this amazing ability to provide control. | |
| In the Phoenix metro area, Charlie, there are hundreds and hundreds of stash houses controlled by cartels. | |
| And they'll come in and they'll buy these houses. | |
| And we used to know, I mean, you know, 10 years ago, you could go in and we knew where a lot of these were. | |
| They were identified. | |
| Today, they're much more sophisticated in how they're purchasing these properties. | |
| And it's just amazing. | |
| They got them in Rio Grande Valley. | |
| You've got them any, you know, in Houston where these illegal migrants are going, but they control them with the technology that's available today. | |
| You're exactly correct. | |
| They're highly, they're highly teched up. | |
| You know, even with, even when you go down to Nogales or the Vical Mountains down there by Casa Grande, they have spotters up there that have high-tech gear and equipment. | |
| I've seen them. | |
| Yeah, they got guys on hills with highly sophisticated binoculars. | |
| They have drones in the air that are able to track where is border patrol. | |
| Now, Andy, I'm just curious. | |
| I mean, the elements of our government, they don't seem empowered to try to go break up these cartel rings to try to go find the flow of money. | |
| It seems like they might do some things on the edges or the fringes. | |
| I've said for quite some time, and this is just a suspicion, that I think that there are people elected to office in the Democrat Party that are doing a wink and a nod with these cartels via political donations or on-the-ground support. | |
| Is that a bridge too far? | |
| Is that too much speculation? | |
| Well, we haven't seen evidence of it overtly with, you know, like people in Congress. | |
| We have not seen anything like that. | |
| But there have been cases. | |
| I mean, there's constantly internal affairs at CBP are investigating cases of bribery. | |
| And there's been local elected officials that have been engaged as well along the southwest border. | |
| And so it's happening. | |
| But part and parcel to this is just an overall. | |
| Some of the Democrats are just indifferent to this. | |
| Others, they want an open border. | |
| They want to get rid of the sovereign state of the United States of America. | |
| They think that we should be going to kind of government. | |
| And this all plays into that. | |
| And when you talk about drones, the number that was testified to just two weeks ago in Congress in a hearing I was at, I can't even remember. | |
| It was unbelievable. | |
| Like 30, 40,000 drone incursions in one small sector of the border from the cartels. | |
| So, so they've got the technology. | |
| They're using the billions of dollars that they make to confront themselves. | |
| And this administration is at best indifferent. | |
| No, no, no. | |
| They're active accomplices of the deterioration of our country and sovereignty. | |
| Andy, in closing, you're bringing a whole all-star team, the 18th platoon down to the border. | |
| Tell us about it. | |
| So the Judiciary Committee is having a board. | |
| We're having hearings tomorrow. | |
| Everybody starts getting into Yuma today. | |
| But tomorrow, we're going to actually have hearings. | |
| We're going to see the hospital that's being eroded because of the illegal immigration that's taxing it in Yuma. | |
| We're going to see the two places in Yuma that you got to see. | |
| You guys see Morelis Dam. | |
| You got to see the Kokopa Reservation. | |
| Then we're going to go over to San Luis. | |
| And so you'll see all of that. | |
| They're going to get a feel for it. | |
| We're going to have local officials testify. | |
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| We're going to have farmers, ranchers, business people. | |
| You're going to have Border Patrol agents. | |
| All of this is going to try to elevate this. | |
| It's an official hearing, Charlie. | |
| And the Democrats have said they're going to boycott an official field hearing of the House Judiciary Committee. | |
| Congratulations for doing that. | |
| I'm thrilled. | |
| Andy, stay on the case. | |
| This is just, it really is a shame. | |
| 7,000 to 8,000 a day is what I'm told. | |
| People that are just walking right into the country. | |
| And it's so sad. | |
| You know, Andy, I'll just say this in closing how the Democrats lie. | |
| I met a swing voter here in Arizona that said, oh, yeah, the reason I voted for Mark Kelly is because he's going to build that wall and secure the border. | |
| That is the power of deceptive advertising. | |
| And it's so sad. | |
| Andy, keep fighting. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Thanks, Charlie. | |
| Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here. | |
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| We have the great Ed Henry with us live from East Palestine, Ohio, where Trump is right now. | |
| Ed, how are you doing? | |
| We're doing great, Charlie. | |
| I'm here with my co-host, Karen Herk, Karen Turk from American Sunrise. | |
| In the distance, out there are some police cars. | |
| We believe Donald Trump is behind that area there. | |
| His motorcade should come through in a little while. | |
| There's a fire department up there, and they're part of an important part of this Ohio disaster story because federal officials in the Biden administration were so late in coming here. | |
| We're now hearing Pete Buddha Judge is finally going to come tomorrow after Donald Trump is here on the ground. | |
| But the federal officials are now trying to blame fire department officials, volunteer fire people locally for not following protocols somehow because they're trying to cover up their own mistakes. | |
| And so you see the police, you might be able to see sirens down there, and there's a long line of people. | |
| This is Trump country, eastern Ohio, right near the Pennsylvania border. | |
| And in fact, I want to bring in a patriot here. | |
| She made a sign, Charlie, that I know you like. | |
| So, on one side, ma'am, you're Laura, right? | |
| Laura, correct. | |
| Come on in. | |
| Your husband tells us all about you. | |
| I love the Wevil People sweatshirt. | |
| Trump 24 or before, but there's a surprise on the other side. | |
| No more, Joe. | |
| Tell Charlie Kirk what you think about the fact that Joe Biden has, you love Charlie. | |
| You love Charlie. | |
| We love you guys. | |
| Thank you for coming. | |
| Joe Biden's been in Ukraine handing out more money. | |
| No, that's why. | |
| No, no more, Joe. | |
| He's not doing what the president of the United States is supposed to be doing. | |
| President Trump, which I believe is still our president, you're not going to tell me he didn't win 2020. | |
| I'm telling you, he didn't. | |
| So here we are now. | |
| And Joe's across the other side of the world. | |
| We need him here. | |
| We need him now. | |
| I can tell you're emotional about it. | |
| Well, how would you feel if you lived here? | |
| These are good, God-fearing people. | |
| These are God-fearing people. | |
| Most of them, I can't speak for some of those people, but you know, we deserve it. | |
| We're Americans. | |
| Did he forget that we're Americans? | |
| What does America mean to him? | |
| Karen, we've talked to people who their children, you know, are getting rashes, Charlie, all over their body. | |
| The air, they don't know if the air is safe, the water's safe. | |
| And most of them are praising Donald Trump for actually being able to say something. | |
| And now federal officials are getting involved, but only because he took action. | |
| That's right. | |
| If President Trump didn't decide to come here, they would have just forgotten about us. | |
| Wrote us off. | |
| Charlie, I wonder if you have a question, but we just talked to Senator JD Vance. | |
| He came by because he's going to meet with President Trump, but he's here in a few moments. | |
| And we're in East Palestine, as you mentioned. | |
| And JD Vance was saying that he wants to see hearings. | |
| He wants to see action because it's now been 19 days. | |
| And finally, we hear Pete Butterjudge, the transportation secretary, is coming tomorrow. | |
| They feel like it's too little, too late, Charlie. | |
| Well, Ed, this is great. | |
| We're about a minute and a half before the end of the segment here. | |
| I just want to hear either from the people on the ground in East Palestine or from what you are hearing. | |
| Just talk about the hope that Donald Trump gives them and the contrast because Joe Biden, you know, he became president. | |
| I put in quotes saying, oh, yeah, I'm middle-class Scranton Joe. | |
| He has completely forgotten this part of the country. | |
| Also, how do they feel about him going to Ukraine versus visiting their community? | |
| Totally. | |
| Randy, let's bring you in because what Charlie Kirk is saying is a lot of what your wife was saying: that Joe Biden's over in Ukraine. | |
| We only have a minute, but what kind of hope does Donald Trump bring even out of office? | |
| Every time the name is mentioned, he brings hope. | |
| You know, it's almost like I don't know how to put it exactly, but everybody rises up when Donald Trump comes into the picture. | |
| It's been that way ever since he's come on the scene. | |
| I want to know something. | |
| Just one simple thing: how can you bring 25 million illegals into this country and then leave these people in a benefits? | |
| They get hotel rooms. | |
| What are we? | |
| $80,000 a year is what it costs for. | |
| I'm a lot of these guys don't make $80,000 here. | |
| You know, this place needs to be evacuated. | |
| They need to be put up in them hotels in New York where they're spending five illegal immigrants right now. | |
| You hear this message loud and clear, Charlie. | |
| I turn this way because there's a whole bunch of people here. | |
| They got a big sign. | |
| Thank you, Donald Trump. | |
| And we're going to show you that on the way out, Charlie. | |
| Thank you, Donald Trump. | |
| You're on with Charlie Kirk right now in Real America's Voice, guys. | |
| They are waiting for Trump. | |
| It shows you the hope people have. | |
| They've given up on Biden. | |
| They have hope, Charlie, with Donald Trump. | |
| Thank you, Ed. | |
| Great job. | |
| Live from East Palestine, Ohio. | |
| I am thrilled that Donald Trump is visiting East Palestine, Ohio. | |
| Those are his voters. | |
| Those are his people. | |
| And when Donald Trump becomes president again, that part of America will be forgotten no longer. | |
| And him going there shines a light on not just the hypocrisy, but the hierarchy and the cruelty that the current American ruling class has towards the Midwestern muscular class. | |
| They forgot about them a long time ago. | |
| They shipped their jobs overseas and they don't like them. | |
| But there is hope in the heartland again. | |
| Thanks to Donald Trump and his movement. | |
| Thanks so much for listening, everybody. | |
| Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com. | |
| Thanks so much for listening, and God bless. | |
| For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com. | |