The Charlie Kirk Show - SNL, Cartels, and Fetterman's Disappearing Act—Navigating Rumors and Real News
Aired: 2023-02-27
Duration: 34:49


=== Woody Harrelson SNL Script Truth (08:34) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show.
[00:00:01]  What's the truth behind the Katie Hobbs story?
[00:00:04]  What did Woody Harrelson say on SNL?
[00:00:06]  And finally, where is John Fetterman?
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[00:01:03]  I have not taken SNL seriously for quite some time, but we're going to lead today, lead this week with what happened on Saturday Night Live.
[00:01:12]  It's incredibly interesting, and part of it remains a mystery.
[00:01:15]  Woody Harrelson, who I actually really enjoy as an actor in both Cheers and many other movies, including young people would recognize him for his roles in the Hunger Games, delivered a monologue on SNL.
[00:01:30]  Now, usually these monologues are jokes at Republicans and Trumps.
[00:01:34]  And actually, part of his remarks did include some stabs at Donald Trump.
[00:01:39]  But Woody Harrelson decided to go a little off the reservation.
[00:01:42]  He decided to defect from the machine.
[00:01:46]  He might have just broke from the picket line.
[00:01:48]  And there's a little bit of a mystery here.
[00:01:51]  Was this pre-taped or pre-recorded?
[00:01:53]  Sometimes part of SNL Saturday Night Live's content is pre-recorded.
[00:01:58]  Sometimes it's pre-taped.
[00:01:59]  Sometimes it's actually live.
[00:02:00]  So it's a little bit unclear.
[00:02:03]  Did NBC know about this?
[00:02:04]  Did this slip through an editing booth?
[00:02:08]  Did they know what he was saying and say, let's just air it anyway because it'll make us interesting and different?
[00:02:14]  Woody Harrelson has always been somewhat of a free thinker.
[00:02:17]  He's always been somebody of somewhat of an interesting member of Hollywood.
[00:02:25]  It's heterodox in some of his opinions, contrarian, you could say.
[00:02:29]  So Woody Harrelson gets up on his monologue and he said, well, I kind of threw the script away and begins to criticize the government and the pharmaceutical industry for blocking affordable, off-patent antivirals like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin so that they could benefit and profit from the vaccines.
[00:02:50]  Now, some of you are asking, Charlie, is SNL really taped?
[00:02:54]  It depends.
[00:02:54]  Sometimes there are parts that are pre-taped.
[00:02:57]  By the way, you know this because sometimes they show you teasers of what they're going to say hours before it actually airs.
[00:03:04]  And it's just taped a couple hours ahead of time.
[00:03:06]  It depends on what it is.
[00:03:08]  Sometimes it actually is live, right?
[00:03:10]  Sometimes it is legitimately live.
[00:03:11]  Just like Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon and Letterman and Leno used to be, it would just be a couple hours prior.
[00:03:17]  They'd tape in the afternoon and then they would air and they would be able to kind of smooth over the edges.
[00:03:21]  The question is, was this live?
[00:03:22]  And if it was pre-taped, why didn't NBC kibosh it?
[00:03:26]  Because the response is actually what we're going to spend most of our time on.
[00:03:29]  We're going to play the entire tape, which is cut 10.
[00:03:32]  It's a minute long of Woody Harrelson saying a lot of things that are true on SNL.
[00:03:38]  And the response from the media has just been overwhelming.
[00:03:43]  He said something relatively benign, nothing that was that aggressive or that controversial.
[00:03:49]  So actually, we're going to go to cut seven.
[00:03:51]  This is Woody Harrelson hosting SNL on Big Pharma's response to COVID-19, Play Cut 7.
[00:03:59]  Okay, so the movie goes like this.
[00:04:02]  The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes and people can only come out if they take the cartel's drugs and keep taking them over and over.
[00:04:21]  I threw the script away.
[00:04:23]  I mean, who is going to believe that crazy idea?
[00:04:27]  Now, did he go off script?
[00:04:29]  Was he saying something that wasn't actually on script?
[00:04:32]  Or was he talking about a hypothetical movie script that he would throw it away saying, there's no way that's actually true?
[00:04:38]  What you heard right there, again, was this kind of an offhand remark?
[00:04:42]  Was it spontaneous?
[00:04:43]  Was it scripted?
[00:04:44]  Who knows?
[00:04:45]  Woody Harrelson is saying something that's totally true.
[00:04:48]  The media is purchased by big tech.
[00:04:52]  They're purchased by Pfizer.
[00:04:55]  The entire media, if you look at one after the other after the other, they say, brought to you by Pfizer, brought to you by Pfizer.
[00:05:04]  And the response to Woody Harrelson saying just that little remark has been extraordinary.
[00:05:09]  Let me read some of these headlines here.
[00:05:11]  Variety Magazine, Woody Harrelson's Saturday Night Live monologue makes COVID conspiracy jokes.
[00:05:17]  Huffington Post, Woody Harrelson rambles about weed, anti-vax conspiracy, and SNL monologue.
[00:05:23]  Woody Harrelson spews anti-vax conspiracies in rambling SNL monologue.
[00:05:30]  Woody Harrelson spreads anti-vax conspiracies during SNL monologue.
[00:05:34]  Literally the same headline for the Rolling Stone and Daily Beast.
[00:05:38]  There's not an original thought that these people ever have.
[00:05:40]  Salon.com, SNL Open has something for everyone.
[00:05:45]  Trump riffs weed jokes, anti-vax sentiments.
[00:05:48]  Mashable.com.
[00:05:50]  Woody Harrelson delivered a strange anti-vax SNL monologue.
[00:05:54]  Raw story, who approved this?
[00:05:57]  Who let this happen?
[00:05:58]  Raw story asks.
[00:05:59]  Woody Harrelson torched for anti-vax SNL monologue.
[00:06:05]  Brought to you by Pfizer.
[00:06:08]  If you look carefully, news segment after news segment is sponsored and underwritten by Pfizer.
[00:06:14]  Let's play Cut 19.
[00:06:16]  This was them.
[00:06:16]  Actually, let's go Cut 22.
[00:06:18]  Brought to you by Pfizer montage.
[00:06:20]  Good morning, America, sports, you name it.
[00:06:22]  Pfizer is delivering you your news.
[00:06:24]  That's one of the things that Woody Harrelson said.
[00:06:26]  It's a fact.
[00:06:26]  He said that, will they buy up the media?
[00:06:29]  Play Cut 22.
[00:06:30]  Good morning, America, is brought to you by Pfizer.
[00:06:33]  CBS Health Watch sponsored by Pfizer.
[00:06:36]  Anderson Cooper 360.
[00:06:39]  Brought to you by Pfizer.
[00:06:40]  ABC News Nightline.
[00:06:42]  Brought to you by Pfizer.
[00:06:44]  And that's just a little bit of a taste.
[00:06:46]  How about Cut 19, The Grammys, which was the satanic, let's just say satanic event, spectacle, play cut 22.
[00:07:11]  I mean, it's just so flagrant.
[00:07:12]  It's so in your face.
[00:07:13]  So what did Woody Harrelson say exactly?
[00:07:16]  He said, let me tell you about a hypothetical movie script that might be so hard to believe and so hard to grasp, that the pharmaceutical companies get together, buy the media, and tell you to take their drugs.
[00:07:28]  And if they only, if you only take their drugs, then you're allowed out of your home.
[00:07:32]  Is that not what we just lived through the last three years?
[00:07:34]  How many members of the military were kicked out because they did not want to take the mRNA gene altering shot called the vaccine?
[00:07:42]  How many people lost their jobs because they didn't want to take the shot?
[00:07:47]  And then they say, well, you have to get another booster and you have to get another booster and you have to get another booster.
[00:07:53]  No, you see, Woody Harrelson, albeit a little clumsily, but truthfully, committed the crime of noticing.
[00:08:05]  Woody Harrelson didn't just notice, but he mentioned it.
[00:08:07]  And he didn't just mention it on some obscure podcast.
[00:08:11]  No, no, no, no.
[00:08:12]  Woody Harrelson did it at, he did it in one of the thoroughfares of narrative building, one of the shrines, one of the sacred temples of the left.
[00:08:29]  He did it in the building of 30 Rock.
[00:08:32]  He did it on SNL.

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[00:08:34]  No, no, no.
[00:08:34]  At SNL, you're supposed, there's a couple of rules when you go on SNL.
[00:08:37]  You can't be funny.
[00:08:39]  You must be obedient.
[00:08:41]  And you must mock the other side.
[00:08:43]  That's it.
[00:08:43]  Those are the rules.
[00:08:44]  Being funny has been, you have not been allowed to be funny on SNL for quite some time.
[00:08:48]  Remember, Dave Chappelle broke the rules?
[00:08:50]  He got away with it.
[00:08:51]  But Woody Harrelson going right into the SNL sacred shrine of the left, he didn't even do it that flagrantly.
[00:09:00]  It wasn't even that big of a deal.
[00:09:01]  It was a throwaway line.
[00:09:02]  He said, what about a hypothetical thing?
[00:09:03]  I'll throw the script away and the media comes after him like you wouldn't believe.
[00:09:07]  One headline after the other.
[00:09:11]  And there's many reasons for this.
[00:09:12]  The most obvious is that they have to try and show that the cost of defection is high.
[00:09:20]  For any other celebrity, for anybody else with a platform that might even think to say it's a little insane what we lived through the last year, no, we're going to ruin your life.
[00:09:28]  Now, Woody doesn't care.
[00:09:29]  He seems to be a free thinker.
[00:09:31]  I don't even know if our politics align.
[00:09:33]  He's probably really far on the left.
[00:09:34]  Not the point.
[00:09:36]  He's a truth teller.
[00:09:37]  He said something that's real.
[00:09:40]  And the media is trying to punish him for that.
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[00:12:21]  Listen to this.
[00:12:22]  Woody Harrelson.
[00:12:23]  This is a longer clip.
[00:12:23]  This is him on Bill Maher talking about ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.
[00:12:29]  Listen to this, play cut 10.
[00:12:31]  I think they've done a lot of studies about vitamin D and how important it was when the people who had low levels were much more vulnerable to COVID.
[00:12:42]  Why not tell people that?
[00:12:44]  Can't you make money selling vitamin D?
[00:12:47]  Is it that kind of what's the worst that could happen?
[00:12:49]  That's just it, man.

=== CIA Emails and Prison Allegations (05:08) ===

[00:12:50]  There was only one thing.
[00:12:52]  You know, ivermectin got made into a horse tranquilizer or horse, whatever it is.
[00:13:00]  Which it is, but also used by humans.
[00:13:04]  It used by millions and millions.
[00:13:08]  Hydroxychloroquine got made ridiculous.
[00:13:13]  And there was only one thing that could work, and that's the vaccine, right?
[00:13:18]  And so ultimately, because of that, billions of dollars was made.
[00:13:26]  The last people I would trust with my health is big pharma and big government, because neither one of those strike me as caring entities.
[00:13:37]  That is exactly what happened.
[00:13:40]  It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
[00:13:45]  It also just, it was so illuminating to me how strong, how well-funded, how organized the pharmaceutical cartel state that we live in, how effective their PR operation is to counter it.
[00:14:02]  This happened on a Saturday evening.
[00:14:05]  And by lunch on Sunday, there was a mess of articles countering, smearing, and slandering Woody.
[00:14:14]  One after the other, after the other, after the other.
[00:14:17]  And I do want to just mention a little bit about Woody's past because I do find it very interesting.
[00:14:23]  And then we are going to get to the Katie Hobbs story.
[00:14:25]  And then we're going to get to the Fetterman story.
[00:14:27]  There's a lot of news and potential news over the last weekend.
[00:14:34]  So let me just go to cut eight.
[00:14:37]  This is who is Woody's family?
[00:14:39]  It's just interesting.
[00:14:41]  Play cut eight.
[00:14:43]  When you were seven years old, your father went off to prison, convicted of murder.
[00:14:47]  Well, he is in prison right now for the killing of a federal judge.
[00:14:54]  I think that it was not a fair trial, especially because the guy who supposedly hired my father to commit the murder was later acquitted on a retrial.
[00:15:07]  Woody, do you think your father is innocent of that second murder?
[00:15:12]  That's what I've heard.
[00:15:13]  I'm not saying my father's the same, but I think he's innocent of that.
[00:15:16]  And did Woody Harrelson's father work for the CIA?
[00:15:19]  Does Woody know something about how our government works?
[00:15:22]  Probably play cut nine.
[00:15:25]  You said once that you thought that your father was a CIA operative.
[00:15:31]  Yes.
[00:15:32]  Yeah, he was.
[00:15:33]  How do you know?
[00:15:34]  What proof?
[00:15:37]  See, I shouldn't get into this right now.
[00:15:39]  This is where we're going to get into trouble.
[00:15:41]  But this is something that you feel and that you're trying to work on?
[00:15:43]  Oh, I know, it's true, but yeah.
[00:15:46]  Does it make a difference?
[00:15:48]  That he was trained by the CIA?
[00:15:50]  Yeah, I think it makes a difference.
[00:15:53]  Just interesting.
[00:15:56]  We're getting a lot of emails about the Katie Hobbs story.
[00:15:58]  Let me just briefly mention this and then we'll talk about it.
[00:16:01]  We're getting hundreds, if not thousands, of emails on the Katie Hobbs.
[00:16:05]  Okay.
[00:16:05]  So there, over the weekend, there were allegations that began to surface and be made against Katie Hobbs, potentially and allegedly laundering cartel money and the entire racketeering scheme allegations.
[00:16:22]  Let me just say, yes, we've seen all the stuff that you have, and we're looking into it.
[00:16:29]  And apparently, the allegation is that she took money to also bribe judges.
[00:16:33]  Now, this is some pretty serious stuff.
[00:16:35]  Now, we're taking it very seriously, but to be clear, these are massive allegations brought against basically the entire state of Arizona and their public officials.
[00:16:45]  And so we need a lot of time to look into this, and we definitely are.
[00:16:48]  And some people aren't even mentioning it, but I have a duty and an obligation to you to let you know because this is a huge allegation.
[00:16:55]  Massive, if true, as they say, and if being the most important and operative word.
[00:17:02]  But as Wendy Rogers said in her statement, the allegations were not made in the appropriate venue for a criminal investigation to take place.
[00:17:09]  So for right now, they are allegations.
[00:17:12]  And a lot of people get allegations of things they didn't do.
[00:17:16]  I certainly don't.
[00:17:17]  But I believe every Democrat and establishment Republican should be profiled.
[00:17:22]  And we're realizing we know very little about so many of these people.
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=== Senator Oz Questions on Fetterman (15:04) ===

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[00:18:30]  So I want to play these pieces of tape here.
[00:18:32]  The woman who makes the allegations is Jacqueline Breger, an insurance agent who owns a farmer's insurance agency and has been a resident of Scottsdale since 1997.
[00:18:43]  She also works as an investigator with the Harris Thaler law firm.
[00:18:48]  She testified in front of the Senate Elections and House Municipal Oversight and Elections Joint Committee.
[00:18:56]  Let's listen to her allegations in her own words: play cut 20.
[00:19:00]  The Maricopa County database for the recorder's office and for the Superior Court were designed in 2014.
[00:19:06]  They were set up for outside infiltration so that falsified documents could be uploaded or legitimate documents removed.
[00:19:17]  Since 2004, elections within Pima County and Maricopa County have been manipulated through the infiltration of the county databases, resulting from bribes paid to executives at election service providers, including, but not limited to, principals at run back election services.
[00:19:36]  Continue in Cut 21.
[00:19:39]  Public officials who have received bribes include multi-state office holders, state house and state senate, local office holders, county supervisors, judges in the Maricopa Supreme Court, judges of some city courts, including two presiding judges.
[00:19:54]  In the Superior Court of Maricopa County and Pinnell County and Pima County, at least 25% of the active judges have accepted bribes in exchange for protecting the racketeering activities.
[00:20:06]  By way of example, Mesa City Prosecutor Prosecutor's Office routinely files charges and convicts innocent individuals who knowingly or unwittingly pose a threat to the racketeering enterprise.
[00:20:19]  So Wendy Rogers has addressed this, the great Wendy Rogers.
[00:20:22]  She said, as chairman of the Senate Committee on Elections, I want to address a concerning issue that came up during the February 23rd Senate elections and House Municipal Oversight and Elections Joint Meeting.
[00:20:34]  Several weeks ago, a representative, Representative Liz Harris, requested to host an elections presentation before the House and the Senate.
[00:20:41]  Both chambers agreed, and the presentation took place during the above-mentioned meeting in the Senate.
[00:20:47]  As part of the presentation, a speaker invited by Representative Harris alleged that several public officials had violated criminal law.
[00:20:55]  Any claims as serious as those presented to us should have been immediately turned in to Arizona law enforcement officials and not brought before the legislature.
[00:21:04]  This was not the appropriate venue to discuss what could potentially be criminal activity.
[00:21:09]  To our knowledge, none of the peoples named had charges filed, have prosecutions pending, nor had any convictions made against them.
[00:21:17]  Wendy Rogers continued by saying, if any of the allegations presented are in fact true, there's evidence to support these claims.
[00:21:24]  And if there's evidence to support these claims, the legislature most certainly is not the proper authority to pursue charges.
[00:21:30]  We are here to pass laws.
[00:21:32]  The executive is charged with enforcing the laws we pass.
[00:21:36]  Now, that is a rather sober response by Wendy Rogers, someone who is an amazing grassroots hero.
[00:21:44]  Very measured response.
[00:21:46]  Now, look, the root of these allegations go back to John Thaler, the aforementioned law company.
[00:21:53]  There's some questions, certainly, around this.
[00:21:57]  Now, many of Thaler's critics regarding this say that a large number of Thaler's allegations were first made in a federal lawsuit against his wife, Brittany Thaler.
[00:22:08]  That federal lawsuit was dismissed last fall, and the judges had rather harsh words for Mr. John Thaler, saying essentially that his lawsuit was completely unsubstantiated.
[00:22:18]  His critics say that, well, the lawsuit says that Brittany started her involvement in racketeering and fraud from the age of eight, working with her mother.
[00:22:27]  Thaler then also claimed that his entire marriage to Brittany was fraudulent and that she engineered meeting him and marrying him as a plot to undermine his work.
[00:22:36]  He claims that in order to suppress his investigation, Arizona public officials colluded in kidnapping that of his own son.
[00:22:42]  There's a lot going on here.
[00:22:44]  And then the title of John Thaler's report is Racketeering, Bribery, and Corruption.
[00:22:50]  In his words, how the Mormon Church and Mexican Drug Cartels Conspired to Hijack Arizona and then plotted the abduction of McKinley Harris Thaler to prevent discovery and disclosure.
[00:23:01]  Okay, so a lot going on here.
[00:23:02]  We're going to continue to look into it.
[00:23:04]  And those are certainly some explosive allegations, if true.
[00:23:10]  But we're going to need more evidence in order to substantiate that.
[00:23:14]  Let me ask a very simple question that no human being should have to ask in America.
[00:23:19]  Where is Pennsylvania's junior senator?
[00:23:22]  Not where is he literally.
[00:23:24]  We actually know where he is.
[00:23:25]  He's still in the hospital.
[00:23:27]  But where is he mentally?
[00:23:30]  Is he processing information?
[00:23:32]  What is going on with John Fetterman?
[00:23:35]  And let me just say this again.
[00:23:36]  There are a lot of what could be called rumor mill stories over the weekend, but I do not shy away from them because quote unquote rumor mill stories, stories that the media told us to ignore, sometimes come true, like Jeffrey Epstein trafficking young girls to islands in the Caribbean.
[00:23:54]  Oh, that's a rumor mill.
[00:23:55]  That's a conspiracy.
[00:23:56]  You can't touch that.
[00:23:57]  Or how about that there is some virus that is coming onto the mainland?
[00:24:01]  I was one of the first people to ask Mike Pence to his face about COVID.
[00:24:05]  I did it in a campaign bus in January of 2020.
[00:24:09]  Andrew was there.
[00:24:10]  We were in Iowa, and we just asked Mike Pence, like, hey, what's this COVID thing?
[00:24:14]  And it was a very, like, oh, we got it under control.
[00:24:16]  We're working to the Chinese.
[00:24:18]  I got it all.
[00:24:18]  It's all about, boom, the whole civilization changes.
[00:24:21]  And so I entertain these things.
[00:24:23]  I'm not saying I believe all of it.
[00:24:25]  I don't even know.
[00:24:26]  We're just asking questions.
[00:24:27]  Isn't that what you should do in the media?
[00:24:28]  Simply ask questions.
[00:24:30]  Okay, so there were a lot of these sort of stories that started to surface over the weekend.
[00:24:34]  And one of them was an allegation that John Fetterman is past the point of sentience.
[00:24:41]  Let's just say that.
[00:24:42]  Past the point of being able to actually do his job.
[00:24:45]  Now, there is a disturbing pattern of evidence that has been going to the surface about John Fetterman.
[00:24:53]  First of all, John Fetterman is in the hospital under the guise of being treated for depression.
[00:25:00]  Now, is that actually the case?
[00:25:02]  Or is it that he has such serious brain damage from the stroke?
[00:25:07]  And I feel sorry for him for that.
[00:25:08]  No one should have to go through it.
[00:25:10]  That he is now unable to do his job.
[00:25:13]  There are several simultaneous suspicious things happening with John Fetterman.
[00:25:19]  And there is a media campaign right now where they say, well, John Fetterman deserves his privacy.
[00:25:26]  I respectfully disagree.
[00:25:29]  I think that some medical, obviously treatment, should be kept private.
[00:25:34]  But if you are a senator from Pennsylvania, the people have a right to know if you're healthy enough to be able to do your job.
[00:25:43]  Are you able to deliver constituent services?
[00:25:46]  Can you work with your colleagues?
[00:25:48]  Are you actually able to inform yourself about major pieces of legislation that could affect the people that you represent?
[00:25:56]  So while I'm all for medical privacy and I think that medical privacy should be respected with John Fetterman, I do think we should have a right to know as things progress.
[00:26:08]  We should get a daily update on how is John Fetterman doing.
[00:26:12]  Right now, here's what we know.
[00:26:14]  He's off indefinitely and his wife took off to Canada to avoid the quote media circus.
[00:26:20]  Now, the people and the defenders of John Fetterman have suggested he could be out for a month for inpatient treatment for depression.
[00:26:28]  That's an odd prediction to make that you need a whole month off to treat depression.
[00:26:33]  Not saying that's never happened before.
[00:26:35]  He could be having a mental breakdown.
[00:26:37]  That sounds terrible.
[00:26:39]  It's awful.
[00:26:39]  We should have compassion for people like that.
[00:26:41]  But he is a U.S. senator.
[00:26:43]  The threshold that someone should have to, let's just say, endure criticism, not criticism, but just questioning, should be rather high if you're one of 100 that is going to determine the future of the country.
[00:26:57]  Should we get rid of the Electoral College?
[00:26:59]  Should we add DC and Puerto Rico as a state?
[00:27:01]  Should we get rid of fracking?
[00:27:02]  Should we pass the Green New Deal?
[00:27:03]  All of these are questions that senators have to entertain.
[00:27:06]  And if you're not able to be able to really have a sentence together, should we add judges to the Supreme Court?
[00:27:12]  These are not just unheard of concepts.
[00:27:16]  These are in front of senators right now.
[00:27:19]  So how long should it take to treat depression in a hospital environment?
[00:27:25]  It's not like he's recovering from surgery.
[00:27:27]  So presumably he could be better tomorrow or he might never return.
[00:27:32]  Again, this is one of the most powerful people in America.
[00:27:35]  If this was just some random person, then I would say, okay, guys, just leave him alone.
[00:27:39]  I mean, but I don't think we should leave this story alone.
[00:27:44]  He ran and lied to the people of Pennsylvania and said, I am mentally okay.
[00:27:49]  He had doctors that vouch for him.
[00:27:51]  Remember during the race against Oz?
[00:27:54]  The race against Oz, he had doctors go and say, Fetterman can do his job.
[00:27:58]  He just has to read a little prompter.
[00:27:59]  He's got to read a teleprompter.
[00:28:02]  He had to do interviews with closed captioning.
[00:28:04]  But come on, what are you?
[00:28:05]  Against the disabled?
[00:28:10]  This should be a very basic fact.
[00:28:12]  If you can't read, write, have conversations, or put together sentences, being a senator is not for you.
[00:28:23]  There are other things in life, obviously, that you can do.
[00:28:28]  To be a U.S. senator of the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world, the strongest country with a lot of threats, invasion on the southern border, Chinese Communist Party, proxy war in Ukraine, you're trying to tell me that Fetterman at this point is able to materially understand the implications of what's happening in Ukraine.
[00:28:50]  That's laughable.
[00:28:51]  And that puts our national security at risk.
[00:28:54]  So I hope that he does not have to suffer health-wise.
[00:28:59]  No one should have to deal with that.
[00:29:00]  At the same time, what the heck is going on?
[00:29:02]  His wife has fled the country.
[00:29:04]  And that's a little exaggeration.
[00:29:05]  She left the country to bring his kids to Canada.
[00:29:07]  Some people, she fled the country, but she left the country to go to Canada with her kids to talk about quote-unquote tough stuff.
[00:29:12]  The whole story is so weird and bizarre that it warrants attention.
[00:29:20]  Isn't it interesting?
[00:29:21]  And it's also depressing, but it should be motivating for those of us that are conservatives and that vote Republican.
[00:29:29]  It's really something where people who are not able to conduct basic interviews are able to become president of the United States and then be able to become a senator.
[00:29:38]  It shows the Democrats invested hundreds of millions of dollars post-election of Donald Trump in 2016 into building a community organizing machine.
[00:29:49]  They go block by block and precinct by precinct.
[00:29:52]  They relax the signature verification threshold so that when they flood the box with a lot of ballots, they really don't get looked at and they just throw them through the machines.
[00:30:01]  I said this at the wonderful Lincoln, Nebraska event that I did on Saturday evening, which is right now, we need to be actively organizing and building a machine.
[00:30:14]  It's less about who the candidate is and more about whether or not we are going to have the machinery necessary to win in 2024.
[00:30:24]  What are we actively doing today to try and build the machine?
[00:30:29]  Are we registering voters?
[00:30:31]  Are we taking back precinct committee positions?
[00:30:33]  At turning point action, over the weekend, we helped sign up hundreds of people to become precinct committeemen.
[00:30:41]  The RNC is not doing any of that.
[00:30:42]  The RNC is a complete waste of time currently.
[00:30:44]  I hope they change their pace, but I see no path forward for the RNC.
[00:30:51]  They're too weighed down.
[00:30:53]  Maybe that'll change, but we try to do our part there.
[00:30:57]  It does not matter like it used to who you run for office.
[00:31:01]  It matters whether or not they're a rhino or grassroots conservative in the sense where it helps to actually have a fighter when they go to the U.S. Senate.
[00:31:12]  But when you have somebody like John Fetterman that is able to win, put in quotes, significantly more than Dr. Oz, and you can say whatever you want about Dr. Oz.
[00:31:23]  Dr. Oz is a very smart person.
[00:31:26]  He accomplished some unbelievable stuff in his life.
[00:31:29]  Do I think Dr. Oz was a grassroots conservative?
[00:31:32]  No, of course not.
[00:31:34]  That was never the contention.
[00:31:36]  Do I think that Oz would be doing a much better job as a United States senator than Fetterman?
[00:31:41]  I mean, that's not even a question.
[00:31:43]  And Oz, being a literal surgeon like Oz was, that's really hard.
[00:31:49]  I mean, people's lives are in your hands.
[00:31:51]  I have a lot of respect for that.
[00:31:52]  I do.
[00:31:54]  And so where we're at with the Fetterman situation, really, we have more questions than answers.
[00:32:02]  Here is Cut 18.
[00:32:04]  Fetterman's wife, Giselle, and their children flee to Canada.
[00:32:09]  Again, fleeing to Canada is a little bit, I think that's too strong.
[00:32:11]  Let's just be accurate.
[00:32:13]  They visited Canada.
[00:32:14]  Very short clip.
[00:32:15]  Play cut 18.
[00:32:17]  One's zip lining over the falls and August got stuck.
[00:32:23]  They're trying to rescue him now.
[00:32:26]  So one of her kids was ziplining at Niagara Falls.
[00:32:29]  It's also not the best time of year to visit Niagara Falls.
[00:32:32]  It's kind of strange.
[00:32:34]  But the Giselle brings her kids up there.
[00:32:39]  Now, look, maybe her kids are having a really tough time and just want to get away.
[00:32:43]  There's probably a lot of explanations to this.
[00:32:45]  But if your husband is actively in the hospital, why are you going thousands of miles away?
[00:32:51]  Or at least 1,300, 1,400 miles away?
[00:32:54]  Why are you doing that?
[00:32:55]  From Washington, D.C., it's at least 1,000 miles from Washington, D.C. Why are you doing that?
[00:33:00]  It's very strange, very odd.

=== August 18th Replacement Deadline (01:46) ===

[00:33:03]  Does John Fetterman going to remain as a senator?
[00:33:06]  If John Fetterman has to resign, what is the process there?
[00:33:10]  Well, if, according to certain sources I've read online, it's not clear.
[00:33:14]  Somebody could look it up at the Pennsylvania Constitution.
[00:33:16]  If it's before August, there's a special election.
[00:33:18]  If it's after August, then Governor Shapiro, who's awful, will be able to appoint a replacement.
[00:33:23]  There's something like there's a cutoff date associated with it.
[00:33:26]  I'm not sure if that's technically true, but is it August 18th as the do or die date?
[00:33:31]  Okay.
[00:33:31]  So if Fetterman makes it post-August 18th, then Shapiro is able to appoint a replacement.
[00:33:39]  A question that needs to be asked is: Is Fetterman so deteriorated because of strokes and because of other things that might have happened to him that they're now trying to run out the clock to August 18th?
[00:33:54]  The entire balance of the U.S. Senate is determinative on this now.
[00:34:00]  It's a legitimate question.
[00:34:04]  What is happening to John Fetterman?
[00:34:07]  Are they trying to cover it up?
[00:34:08]  Can John Fetterman maybe clarify and maybe do an interview?
[00:34:14]  Can he just come out and say, here's how I'm doing?
[00:34:17]  And meanwhile, his wife goes to Canada and she tells her kids we talked about some really tough stuff.
[00:34:23]  Something is not right here.
[00:34:25]  And we deserve better.
[00:34:27]  Our politics and our government deserve better than this entire circus.
[00:34:35]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
[00:34:36]  Email me your thoughts as alwaysfreedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:34:40]  Thank you so much for listening and God bless.
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