The founders meant for Congress to be the strongest branch of government, but for years, it has instead been the most feeble branch instead. But this spring, that has changed. Kevin McCarthy is revealing the truth about J6, Jim Jordan is blowing the doors off government weaponization, and Congress has even exposed the web of lies created by Tony Fauci. Charlie explores the surprising but very welcome revival of America's first branch of government.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Congress Restores Balance of Power00:08:46
Return of Article 1.
Congress is finally getting back into gear.
The balance of powers is being restored.
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There's so much negativity in our news cycle.
There's so much that we can get distracted from and kind of down with.
But one thing I want to focus on today is how Article 1 of the United States Constitution is finally coming back to life.
Congress is finally leading the way.
In the Federalist Papers, James Madison, who is called the father of the U.S. Constitution, argues that the legislative branch will be by far the most powerful of all three branches.
That's what the founders intended.
It's what they wanted.
Since, of course, the legislative branch is one of the most directly accountable to the public, especially back during the construction and the beginning of our country.
Judges were appointed for life, and the president was only indirectly picked by the Electoral College.
Only the House was elected directly through a popular vote, while senators were picked by directly elected state lawmakers.
But I think we can agree, especially in the last decade, that Congress has actually felt like the weakest branch of government.
The president exercises absolutely enormous power.
Remember, Obama, I have a pen and I have a phone.
Judges make up laws whenever they want.
The president is able to appoint people of importance all throughout the government.
He can make and unmake regulations with a stroke of a pen.
If Biden wants us to have open borders, we're able to have open borders.
He just tells ICE and Border Patrol to buzz off and boom, you know, the borders stay wide open.
Our judges have power too.
They could just be able to issue a judgment.
And next thing you know, we're not able to enforce our borders.
We're not able to even be in the military if it wasn't for a vaccine mandate of an MRNA gene-altering shot.
Judges have a ton of power.
They have so much power, they basically invent constitutional rights out of thin air and throw out obviously constitutional legislation for being irrational.
So Congress has looked very feeble by comparison, especially in the last decade.
But what's been amazing is these last couple days is the revival and the strengthening of Article 1 of the congressional branch.
Now, mind you, Pelosi and Schumer actually wanted the legislative branch to be subservient to activist judges and to the executive branch, as long as it's controlled by far left-wing radicals.
The major stories that we are seeing right now in America, the major stories that are unfolding, all originate thanks to the fulfilling of a mandate of House Republicans, Kevin McCarthy.
We are finally seeing this constitutional vacuum be filled.
And the obvious story that has been taking up the most headlines, which we are going to start with today, is Kevin McCarthy fulfilling his promise to release the 40,000 plus hours of footage from what happened on January 6th.
You could teach a college-level class on media in modern America just on this last week.
Essentially, the people that have been telling us what happened on January 6th was an insurrection are now super mad that more and more footage of what happened on January 6th is being made public.
If it was as bad as you say it is, why are you so upset?
Why are you so angry?
Why are you so fired up?
Why are you so panicked that the American people might actually see it for themselves?
It's almost, it makes you wonder, did we have a January 6th committee that was supposed to look into this thing?
All the focus has been on Tucker Carlson, and that's great.
Tucker's a friend, love Tucker.
We should defend Tucker.
But McCarthy did something very courageous here as well.
McCarthy picked Tucker as his vessel.
And by the way, it also shows that Kevin McCarthy, he's a magnanimous man.
Tucker has been pretty harsh towards Kevin over the last year and a half.
Actually, really harsh.
And McCarthy wants to be speaker, and he knows the power comes from the base of the party.
And Kevin is making good and saying, hey, Tucker, here's the footage.
Play it.
Let the people see.
And that was a good move.
I tweeted something out, and I can't believe the tweet did as well as it did.
I basically said, what is the argument?
I am all ears.
What is the argument against allowing this footage to be made public?
The only argument is censorship.
The only argument is that we want less people to see.
We want less people to know what happened because there's a very fragile, artificial, synthetic, created narrative that was put on display by the January 6th show trial, who actually didn't even look at the footage.
That's what's so amazing.
I saw this story.
I just couldn't believe it.
Benny Thompson, who was the chairman of the January 6th committee, said, We didn't have access to that footage.
Our staff looked at it.
We didn't look at it.
You're trying to tell me that you put a January 6th committee on cable television in prime time in the middle of all the other news that was happening, and you did not even bother to go look at the footage?
The answer is yes.
Why would they look at the footage?
The truth is a threat to the narrative that this was the worst event since the American Civil War.
Just a reminder, here's Chuck U. Schumer, Play Cut 66, demanding censorship.
And by the way, this is a threat.
This is a direct threat to Fox News, to Tucker Carlson, to Rupert Murdoch.
And he mentions Murdoch for a reason.
This is an Alinsky rule.
Schumer and his, it's not Schumer, it's his staff.
This is an Alinsky rule.
You must name the target.
Fox News is too abstract.
Schumer staffer slid in Murdoch for a reason.
Play cut 66.
These lies continue tonight.
Rupert Murdoch, who has admitted they were lies and said he regretted it, has a special obligation to stop Tucker Carlson from going on tonight now that he's seen how he has perverted and slimed the truth and from letting him go on again and again and again.
Not because their views deserve such opprobrium, but because our democracy depends on it.
This reads like a direct threat.
That's not just a call for censorship.
That is him isolating the target.
Go read Solinsky's Rules for Radicals.
Find the target, isolate it, personalize it, polarize it.
Murdoch.
They're going above Tucker now.
They are going straight for the head of the Fox News family.
And, you know, some of you in our email inbox, you know, you have some harsh things to say about Fox.
Here's a fact.
America would be a less free country if it was not for Fox News.
It's just true.
And I know that as a fact.
You go talk to any foreigner.
Go talk to somebody in the UK.
Go talk to somebody in Germany that's a conservative.
They wish they had a main cable television source that at least had some voices like Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingram and Jesse Waters.
I got my start going on Fox News.
You can have plenty of complaints about it.
That's fine.
I'm not going to defend everything they've ever done.
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But it is a fact that they are the last major, and I'm talking about on cable television, the main canon of cable television on DirecTV, ATT, and all that, the last dissident voice.
And by the way, they've actively shut down those kind of equivalents in other countries.
It is a moral good for the country that Tucker Carlson is able to get in front of millions of people every single night.
That is a good thing.
And Schumer knows it's a threat to him.
He's freaking out.
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Media montage, cut 75 of how the media has been treating Tucker Carlson, play cut 75.
The idea of Tucker Carlson being in that mob that day and not wetting his pants is hard to imagine.
He is an unserious man who is doing serious damage.
Tucker Carlson took a page from George Olwell's 1984.
It feels like a Soviet system or, you know, the way the Nazis would build a Potemkin village.
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Tucker Carlson's doing the same thing with the footage from 1.6.
Filmmaker Ken Burns, who used to be a real respectable person, said that Tucker Carlson is recreating history.
That's actually, we just played a little piece of that.
The same way the Nazis would build a Potempkin village.
But here's the power of the footage.
We don't have to speculate whether or not it is persuasive.
We don't have to wonder if it's turning people to believe something differently about that day.
We don't have to ask the question of, well, well, this really went over people in the middle.
We actually have video evidence of how powerful the video evidence actually is.
What I love about the Joe Rogan experience is how candid it is.
It's real.
It's the most successful podcast of all time by far.
Joe Rogan deserves a ton of credit for that.
He's entertaining.
He's smart.
He asks great questions and he has fabulous guests.
But also, it's just this long form kind of guys hanging out.
And then you can see how they react.
And by the way, there's a lot of Christians in the audience.
I know I've promoted Joe Rogan's podcast before.
I get emails.
Charlie, he swears all the time.
Yeah, he's a little bit, he's definitely more R-rated at times.
That's fine.
But Joe deserves Joe had a lot.
Let me just say this about Joe Rogan.
Joe Rogan had a lot more courage than most American pastors when it came to COVID over the last couple of years.
And you should think about that.
But Joe, anyway, had Michael Malice on his program, and they started playing the Tucker Carlson Kevin McCarthy tapes.
They started to play the tapes, and the reaction is very powerful.
So here's Joe Rogan.
He's not an ideologue or a political type.
He has been critical, very critical on Trump, very critical on Biden.
He's what you would call a free thinker.
I think he loves liberty.
I really do.
Certainly entertains some wild theories on his program.
The point being is that look in real time the power of this footage.
This is why Chuck Yu Schumer has to threaten Murdoch.
This is why they have to try to take things off the air.
This is why they have to try to call for censorship because they know that the truth will set people free of the lies.
Watch in real time Joe Rogan explain.
I didn't know any of this.
This is new.
Play Cut 79.
Right.
You're not supposed to go into the Capitol building.
Grant.
I thought it's certain times you want.
Not like that.
Yeah, not like that.
Not like that.
But when you see the people taking him around essentially on a tour, that's not what I thought it was.
Not even defending them.
It's just forget about it.
Let's look at what actually happened.
We didn't know that happened.
Right.
We had a version of it.
It was just chaos and the cops ran away.
And the cops were cops were murdered.
Yeah.
I would have never imagined that this.
I'm shocked to see that.
That's so wild.
And so I think people are just starting to recognize that it's not what you thought it was.
I just wrote down some of the quotes here so I don't forget them.
Wild, shocked, never imagined.
Joe Rogan right there.
That's a swing voter.
How many people voted in the 2022 midterms under the belief that January 6th was one of the most violent insurrections, insurrections in our country's history?
Would this footage have been persuasive to maybe bring down the political divisions in our country?
No, they needed the narrative because they wanted to be able to use the intelligence agencies and be able to build a media movement against Trump supporters and against the America First Movement.
Joe Rogan, I never would have imagined.
I'm shocked.
This is wild.
I think people are beginning to wake up.
The truth has that effect, actually.
It tends to be when you let the truth go free, all of a sudden these pesky little lies start to shatter.
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So Matt Taibbi is one of the top left-wing journalists from Rolling Stone.
He did some very intense and successful investigative journalism during the Bush years.
And I haven't always agreed with Matt Taibbi.
His politics are probably a lot different than mine.
He's written 10 books, but I would never go out of my way and say Matt Taibbi is dumb or unethical.
He's a civil libertarian.
He certainly has principles.
He seems to be an old school liberal.
But the media and the machine and the Democrat Party, they really hate Matt Taibbi.
Now, you might remember Matt Taibbi was one of the people, one of the journalists that received the Twitter files and made them public via Elon Musk.
There's some question of who his sources are as well.
We'll get to that in a second.
He was the first one to actually begin to publicize the Twitter files.
Now, again, this is all about Congress doing its job.
This is all about the revival, the return of Article 1.
But finally, Congress is no longer just passively sitting by spectator sport no more, finally in the arena.
So I'm going to play a couple pieces of tape here and we'll comment on them of Matt Taibbi testifying in front of Congress.
There is so much news happening right now in front of Congress.
Play Cut 99.
The FTC has extraordinarily serious concerns about Twitter's handling of consumers' data and that there's something going on between congressional Republicans and Elon Musk.
Mr. Chairman, Americans can see through this.
Musk is helping you out politically and you're going out of your way to promote and protect him and to praise him for his work.
This isn't just a matter of what data was given to these so-called journalists before us now.
There are many legitimate questions about where Musk got the financing to buy Twitter.
That is Stacey Plaskett, who is not a smart person or a good person.
She is from the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Is that right?
She's a delegate from the U.S. House of Representatives from the Virgin Islands and an at-large congressional seat.
Do they get a vote from the Virgin Islands?
That's interesting.
I know that you might have a delegate.
I think you could be involved in oversight.
I'm not sure if they actually are able to vote on legislation.
Anyway, that's a separate issue.
So they want to take Elon Musk out.
That's very clear.
The same way they want to take Rupert Murdoch out.
They want to take Tucker Carlson out.
They personalize and find the individual target, and they throw everything they possibly can relentlessly towards that.
But wasn't that really interesting?
She says the alleged journalist or the so-called journalist, you might have firm disagreements with Matt Taibbi.
He is not a so-called journalist.
He's probably one of the most accomplished actual journalists of the last 20 years.
Play cut 98.
Ranking Member Plaskett, I'm not a so-called journalist.
I've won the National Magazine Award, the I.F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism, and I've written 10 books, including four New York Times bestsellers.
I'm now the editor of the online magazine Racket on the independent platform Substack.
So he's not a so-called journalist.
He's an actual journalist.
But look what happens next when they try and force them to reveal their sources.
By the way, did the Democrats ever try to force the New York Times to reveal their sources about how they probably illegally obtained Donald Trump's tax returns, the private confidential tax returns of a sitting president when that story was published in October of 2020?
Would anyone ask them to reveal their sources?
Of course not.
Play cut 97.
Well, conclusion is that he is, in fact, your source.
Well, you're free to conclude that.
Well, sir, I just don't understand.
You can't have it both ways, but let's move on.
No, he can.
He's a journalist.
Well, he can't because either Musk is the source and he can't talk about it, or Musk is not the source.
And if Musk is not the source, then he can discuss.
No one has yielded.
The gentlelady is out of order.
You don't get to know it.
She's out of order.
The gentleman has not recognized it.
You're not recognizing him.
He has not said that.
What he has said is he's not going to reveal his source.
And the fact that Democrats are pressuring him to do so is such a matter of time.
The gentlelady has not yielded you time.
These people should never be near power ever again.
I'm talking about the Democrats.
I hear from people all the time, Charlie, you know, why can't we win?
Why can't we, you know, everything's terrible.
Pause.
At least those clowns.
I was going to say something else.
Are not near power.
Well, they're near power, but they're not in power.
You're out of order.
What's your source?
Is it Elon Musk?
They want Musk.
They want him personally.
But again, as I've said before, Musk is a tricky one.
Musk is tricky because Musk simultaneously represents everything they hate.
Rich, white, billionaire buying free speech, a platform to make a free speech, but he also simultaneously represents everything they're supposed to love.
He's an electric vehicle guy.
He's the guy that is popularizing all these cobalt batteries to be implemented across the country.
He's the guy.
So they're torn and they don't know what to do.
But the real reason they hate Musk, and this is exactly why they hated Donald Trump so much.
And I learned this from the great Rush Limbaugh, is that Trump used to be on their team.
Musk used to be on their team.
They hate defectors.
It drives them nuts.
That's why they hate J.K. Rowling.
It's why they hate, I don't know if Rupert Murdoch was ever on their team, but anybody that was ever in their orbit, wearing the jersey, going to the cocktail parties.
One of the reasons why Donald Trump personally made so many rich people angry is that they used to consider Donald Trump a soft ally for social liberalism, an easy $100,000 donation to whatever weird Democrat cause they want to go into New York.
But no, no, no, no.
Elon Musk, because he's a free thinker, because he's smart, Elon Musk, who's created some unbelievably impressive companies, says, yeah, it's not a good thing that free speech is being eroded.
It's bad for humanity.
I'm going to do something about it.
Can't do that.
The question on Elon Musk, though, and it's a legitimate question, we brought this up before, is that is Elon Musk too big to fail?
Is Elon Musk the new equivalent of Goldman Sachs and Citibank?
Is he too big to fail?
Because Tesla, the boring company, the solar panel company, he's got a lot of things going on.
And what really bothers the media, as the great Rush Limbaugh would tell us, is that if they feel as if they have created somebody, they want to be able to control that somebody.
And Elon Musk, in a lot of different capacities, was kind of a creation of the Tony Starkification of mass media.
This guy's Iron Man.
He's kind of like a pseudo-superhero.
He invents stuff in his sleep and he wakes up and he's going to have us levitating.
And they don't like that if they can't control that.
And then all of a sudden, Elon Musk uses his wealth to go purchase what really has been an intelligence asset, a class and ideology traitor may be the biggest enemy to the left.
You know why?
They need to make an example out of Elon Musk because they're terrified that there might be more defectors coming soon, that there might be other entrepreneurs, billionaires, millionaires.
That's why they hate Joe Rogan and they try to cancel him.
If you dare deviate from the loyalty to the party by an inch, they're going to come after you and they're going to come after you hard.
J.K. Rowling used to be revered.
And you type J.K. just what today?
Every day, these maniacs have a new story about Jake.
They literally can't help themselves every single day.
Type in J.K. Rowling into Google every single day, one hour ago, about her issue on the trans, literally every day, these miserable people, Washington Post, deadline, websites I've ever heard of.
I'm miserable.com talk about how J.K. Rowling is an evil person.
They want them to reveal that Musk was the source.
If he is, they have new legal ammunition to take him off the chessboard.
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But Jim Jordan rightfully defended the right for them to maintain their sources.
Congress has been very busy.
Dr. Redfield went in front of Congress, and Dr. Redfield was the former head of the CDC.
He talked about how he personally had different opinions about where the virus came from than from the criminal Anthony Fauci.
There are several pieces of tape here, but I want to make sure I get the best order.
So let's start with cut 92.
It's a lengthy piece of tape.
Former CDC director, excluded from a February 2020 call with Fauci, Collins, and others, play cut 92.
I didn't know I was excluded.
I didn't know there was a February 1st conference call until the Freedom of Information came out with the emails.
And I was quite upset as the CDC director that I was excluded from those discussions.
Why would they do this?
Because I had a different point of view.
And I was told they made a decision that they would keep this confidential until they came up with a single narrative, which I will argue is antithetical to science.
Science never selects a single narrative.
We foster, as my colleague here just said, we foster debate.
And we're confident that with debate, science will eventually get to the truth.
This was an a priori decision that there's one point of view that we're going to put out there and anyone who doesn't agree with it is going to be sidelined.
And as I say, I was only the CDC director and I was sidelined.
Because he wasn't going to be obedient to what the regime needed to say.
They needed to say that the virus came from a wet market.
Why?
Because if it came from a lab in China, Donald Trump would have grown in political strength.
COVID would have went from a way to get rid of Donald Trump to a way to actually where Trump could have secured a major electoral victory.
That one piece of information, in my opinion, was the most important piece of information to politically put in jeopardy.
Let me build it out for you.
Donald Trump was known for being very strong against China.
He would have then put tariffs.
He would have put sanctions and he would have rallied especially industrial Midwestern mainstream support for justice against the CCP.
But the argument to hold the CCP accountable kind of weakens.
It loses its teeth if it's like, oh, it's just from a bat in the mountains.
There's nothing the CCP could have done about it.
I want to read a quote from Jim Jordan: quote: So three days after they say it came from a laboratory, they changed their position.
And the only interviewing event was a conference call with Fauci and Collins.
And again, a call that Redfield was not allowed to be on.
And then three months later, Shazam, they got $9 million from Dr. Fauci.
Isn't that something?
Cut 91, former CDC director, Bombshell.
Bombshell, this is illegal.
No doubt that your government funded gain of function research.
Play Cut 91.
Dr. Fauci was affirmatively told in an email that NIAID had a monetary relationship with the Wuhan Institute through EcoHealth Alliance.
He was told this in January 27th of 2020.
Do you think that Dr. Fauci intentionally lied under oath to Senator Paul when he vehemently denied NIH's funding of gain of function research?
I think there's no doubt that NIH was funding gain of function research.
Is it likely that American tax dollars funded the gain of function research that created this virus?
I think it did, not only from NIH, but from the State Department, USAID, and from DOD.
I can't tell you how big this is, everybody.
I was called a conspiracy theorist.
I was kicked off social media.
I was smeared.
I was slandered.
Tucker was all of us because we would say, hey, you know, our government is funding gain of function research.
And we would just be obliterated.
And now you have the former head of the CDC.
This is not just some schlep that they picked off off the side of the street that stayed at a Holiday and Express last night.
This is not just some random guy that has some theories.
The head of the CDC is saying the Department of Defense, the State Department, NAID, NIH is involved in gain of function research, which then it begs the question: are they still involved in gain of function research?
The answer is, of course, they are.
Even though it is illegal for them to do it.
So they outsource it to China.
They go to another country.
They do it in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Was the virus leaked intentionally or unintentionally?
We may never know, but it certainly came from the laboratory.
It didn't come from some bat in the Himalayas like they try to tell us and lie to us and propagandize to us.
This is massive stuff.
Congress is doing its job.
And the Democrats are just kind of sitting there keeping their mouth shut.
They're such a joke.
What a fraud the Democrat Party is to the country.
When I say that I don't think the Democrats love America the way we do, I look at this way.
You think it's okay that we're funding gain of function research?
You could have a super pathogen that could kill tens of millions of people, but no, can't criticize science.
Give me a break.
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