Can Joe Biden Survive a Primary? with Rep. Lauren Boebert and Sen. Ron Johnson
He's the 6-Hour President: Joe Biden is almost never seen in the morning, in the evening, or on the weekend. Yet now, he's running for a second term, and despite RFK Jr. polling surprisingly well, Democrats are determined to scuttle all primary debates. Charlie talks to Rep. Lauren Boebert about what this reveals about the Biden presidency, and also chats with Sen. Ron Johnson about the latest corrupt revelations about Hunter Biden. Plus, Charlie reacts to an appalling news story out of his home state, where black and white math students are once against being segregated by race.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Joining us now is Congresswoman Lauren Bobert.
Lauren, how are we doing?
Charlie, I am great.
It's great to be back on with you.
So, Lauren, so much happening right now from Colorado's third congressional district.
Let's start with the debt ceiling.
Really, a big surprise where for the regime, all of a sudden, House Republicans pass a debt ceiling resolution, and they're scrambling.
What's the latest from DC?
Well, House Republicans passed a plan to avoid this catastrophe by raising the debt ceiling.
Now, I had never voted on a debt ceiling increase before, but we did this by cutting wasteful government spending and getting America back to where it should be.
Joe Biden had said that he would not even negotiate.
And I'd like to remind Joe that America saw firsthand how strong the House Freedom Caucus was in January.
We aren't moved by media tack ads.
We're not moved by pressure from leadership.
We are moved by policy.
And that's exactly what we put forward when we first outlined the debt ceiling proposal that we had.
And so now Joe Biden and the senators need to come to the table and work with us for the good of the American people.
Americans are on our side, and the majority of Americans think that Biden's unwillingness to negotiate is absolutely ridiculous.
75% of Americans believe that the federal government spending is too high.
And the other 25% probably just haven't paid attention recently.
But Biden's campaign as a bipartisan deal maker was nothing but a lie.
And so now we have to make sure that we're putting pressure on the Senate to keep the cuts that we had.
We cut $500 billion in the student loan bailout, $60 billion in unspent COVID funding that would be taken out of that budget, the Green New Deal tax cuts.
We strengthened work requirements for welfare programs and so much more.
I'm very proud of the package that we were able to put together.
It's not completely perfect.
I would have loved to even seen more, but it was great to actually get to be able to pass that, send it over to the Senate, keep the pressure on them.
And now we have to force Joe Biden's hand at coming to the table, negotiating, and helping get our country back on track.
I mean, the Uniparty spending is unbelievable, Lauren.
It seems as if the current American Democrat regime wants an intentional fiscal destruction of the country.
We don't talk about the debt enough.
And, you know, this plan, I agree with you, is a step in the right direction.
I would have liked this in even more, but I mean, it's a lot better, okay?
It just, it is better.
That's a fact.
And I mean, these numbers are so high.
The dollars are worth less and less.
They're intentionally deteriorating our currency.
And so, if you were to kind of play this out, then how do you see this progressing?
Well, in a perfect world, they agree with our plan and add even more cuts.
But unfortunately, I have seen how often the Senate Republicans fold and give place to more spending and for the further detriment of our country.
So I think it's going to come back to us, and we are going to have to look at that and try to beef it up once again.
It has to be where it was before to get the amount of support that it had because it was really tough getting the majority of Republicans to vote on this and pass it in the first place.
So if this deal is even weaker when it comes back from the Senate, then that's going to be a very big problem.
So shifting gears here for a second, Joe Biden has announced reelection, saying there's no primary debates.
Do you think Republicans should follow suit?
No way.
We have President Trump leading the top of the ticket on the primary for the Republican Party.
And I think there's nothing better than a good President Trump debate.
That's where we see him shine and really show that he is a leader, that he's here to drain the swamp, as we all want to do so badly and hold these people accountable.
So I fully support a Republican primary.
And, you know, I'm the least bit surprised that the most popular president in American history is struggling to gain support and now doesn't want a primary.
He cannot sustain a primary.
And I don't know if we have enough of whatever it is they pump him full of to actually get him through a debate.
And the only reason that he won't have this debate is because the people who are actually running the country know that Joe Biden does not have the cognitive ability to get through the debate.
Biden even admitted in his White House correspondent speech that he talks for 10 minutes, Charlie, answers zero questions, and then walks away.
And we know what little questions he does engage in.
Well, they're already pre-screened.
We have the kindergarten pamphlet there for him with a picture of the reporter and describing who they are and what the question is that they're going to ask, and then his answer already prepared.
And if you can't even get through a question, a press conference at the White House, then you're certainly not going to be able to get through a debate.
And that means that you're not fit to be president of the United States.
And that's why I'm giving Joe Biden an open invite to a rehearsal debate whenever he's ready.
So some White House officials say it's difficult to schedule public or private events with the president in the morning, in the evening, or on weekends.
So basically like half the week.
The vast majority of Biden's public events happen on weekdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Only four public events before 10 a.m.
That vitamin B12 shot peaks right around 1 p.m.
Just a dozen public events after 6 p.m., mostly dinners and receptions with foreign leaders or fundraisers, 12 full weekends with no public events.
And so, Lauren, you ran in a very, very tight race.
You have another important election coming up in 2024.
I think that in your district, especially, one of the top issues is energy and the war on fossil fuels.
Talk about how Joe Biden and the Democrats are continuing a crusade against our natural resources and how that impacts your race.
Yes, well, we have been regulated into poverty in Colorado's third district by politicians and their terrible policies.
We know that America needs to be energy secure.
We have the cleanest, best resources, and nobody produces it better than we do.
And Democrats would rather virtue signal and be involved with child and slave labor in the Congo, where we have children mining with their bare hands for cobalt, sending those rare earth minerals to China, who owns the mines.
And then we're buying solar panels from them.
This energy is not reliable.
It's not affordable.
They think it's affordable because of the subsidies.
But all of this is doing is crushing America's economy.
It is killing jobs and it is making it harder for Americans to even pay their utility bills.
At one point, we had 20 million Americans who could not afford their utility bills.
This did not happen under President Trump.
It will not happen when President Trump is back in the White House because he will make sure that we are energy independent again, energy secure, and pursuing energy dominance.
We need to utilize the resources that we have, and we could literally send our energy to other countries, like our clean LNG, to Europe, and we could be exporting freedom, liberating these countries from these horrible dictators that they are currently bound to get their energy by.
So, what they're doing in every sense is destroying it.
They want to outlaw, they want to outlaw gas vehicles, gas stoves.
I saw in Colorado gas lawnmowers and weed whackers.
I mean, this is absolutely absurd.
Our energy grid is not able to support all of these electric items that they're wanting to force on the American people.
And like I said, Charlie, it's not reliable.
You know this.
But we have to get back to the point of creating those good-paying American jobs and getting our economy strengthened again.
And that starts with producing America's resources.
We are 100% behind you.
I know you're coming to our turning point USA Young Women's Leadership Summit.
You have a primary challenger.
We should all support Lauren Boebert.
She's doing a great job.
See you soon, Lauren.
Thanks so much.
Thanks, Charlie.
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So when I went to Wheeling High School in the suburbs of Chicago, I was taught, and this was the correct teaching, that if you have segregated anything, that's racist, that you should not segregate people based on race.
You see, we believe that people should be judged by character and that race means absolutely nothing.
That a moment in American history of racial segregation was rooted in tribalism and identitarianism.
It was sick.
It was wrong.
It was disgusting.
You see, I went to Wheeling High School.
That was a majority Hispanic high school.
No one talked about race.
No one cared about it.
And now 10 years later, they seem to be having a lot more racial conversations than we certainly had 10 years ago.
The left destroys everything it touches.
Same thing is happening all throughout District 214.
So there's a picture right there.
Restrooms, white and colored.
You show that to most Americans.
They'd say, that's terrible.
That's awful.
That's racist.
It's wrong.
It's neo-segregation.
Now, we've been warning for quite some time.
And of course, most people ignore our warning.
It's not just our warning, but anybody on team reality and team decency and team humanity says, hey, segregation is coming back to the country.
So there's black-only dormitories all across the country.
There are black-only graduation ceremonies from Grand Valley State University to Columbia University where white people are not allowed to participate in the graduation ceremony.
And now in the suburbs of Chicago, not far from where I went to high school, it is just the next step.
AP Calculus, so advanced placement calculus, at Evanston Township High School says that there is a course, and it goes through the description of the course, but this code for the course is restricted to students who identify as black.
And they also have a Latinx or Latinx.
Essentially, math classes at Evanston High School, they have a black-only math class.
They have a white-only math class.
And they have a Latin-only math class.
And if you dare oppose this segregation, they call you a racist because they say blacks need to have environments where they are not influenced by whites, that there's so much white supremacy.
The answer is neo-segregation.
Now, this is why I've never bought this idea that the party switched after the 1960s or 70s.
Because white Democrats who are implementing the policy of segregation at Evanston High School are doing the exact same thing that their grandparents did in the 1950s and 60s, where they said blacks go to this restroom and whites go to this restroom.
White Democrats have not changed.
They remain bitterly racist.
They hate black people.
They have for quite some time.
They think black people are stupid.
Why else would they have to say that you have your own class?
Now, this is considered to be progress.
This is not an exaggeration, everybody.
I'm not doing this because for ratings or anything.
Neosegregation is happening all across the country.
What do we stand for?
What does this new coalition stand for?
Russell Brand, Joe Rogan, Bobby Kennedy Jr., Bill Maher, Elon Musk, Glenn Greenwald, Tucker Carlson, we think segregation is wrong and evil.
We do not think the melanin content in your skin should dictate or determine where you go to class, how you learn math, where you go to school, how you graduate, or where you live.
We are going to be entering into a country, it's like we're already there, but it's going to be institutionalized, where blacks live in one area and whites live in one area.
It's against everything that Martin Luther King argued for, but they've never liked Martin Luther King.
They never liked the deracialization of America.
They never liked the idea that we're going to detribalize America.
And by the way, you want to know what's coming next, and this is not an exaggeration.
The next iteration will be whites paying taxes to black people as reparations.
It's going to happen next.
And just so we're clear, the advanced placement criteria says students who identify as black.
So you could just identify as whatever you want.
It's the postmodern dream.
There is no truth.
There is no objective reality.
There's just power struggles and individual will.
If you don't believe me, you can go to the Evanston Township High School website, and it says it right there, black only.
And by the way, this is not the only class.
Algebra is this way.
I'm going through it.
Almost every single class ends with this one.
Algebra 2, by the way, says only blacks allowed.
This one says only Latin X allowed.
These people want more racism.
Racism is a cottage industry.
Segregating people based on the color of their skin creates more of the boogeyman that does not currently exist, but then you're going to get legitimate and actual racism.
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Joining us now is the great senator from Wisconsin, Senator Ron Johnson.
Senator, welcome to the program.
Let's dive right into it.
I see here new emails show Tony Blinken lied to the U.S. Senate under oath about meeting with Hunter Biden.
Senator, tell us about it.
Well, Charlie, well, what he lied about is that he said he didn't ever email Hunter Biden.
Now, remember, Senator Grass and I were investigating Hunter Biden late 2019, early 2020.
Remember December 2019, the FBI took possession of his laptop.
2020 was COVID.
It wasn't easy to do an investigation.
People wouldn't come in for interviews.
But, you know, a number of people from the State Department did come in for interviews.
We actually had a interview scheduled with Anthony Blinken.
Remember, he was Deputy Secretary of State.
And at some point in time, he decided to cancel that.
The election happens, and then lo and behold, because he wanted to become Secretary of State, he decided to come in for an interview.
And so we transcribed that interview, asked him all kinds of questions.
We were primarily concerned about the May 27th meeting that he had scheduled with Hunter, which got canceled because Bo Biden died, I think, three days later.
But then the follow-up meeting, a luncheon meeting that occurred in July of 2021, or of 2020.
And so we want to ask him, you know, what did he and Hunter talk about and what he told us?
No, it's just golf and grandkids.
It's going to be golf and grandkids, just like Lois Lerner.
Remember that?
Not Lois Lord, Loretta Lynch with Bill Clinton.
Just golf and grandkids.
Right.
So again, they talked about Boeing.
So how can you really press them too hard on that when you're talking about the tragedy of losing a brother?
But during that interview, we asked him point blank: I mean, what kind of communications did you have with Hunter?
I mean, did you talk to him on the phone?
He said he really didn't.
We asked him, well, do you communicate him through email and text?
And he said no.
Now, what we've seen because of the Hunter Biden laptop is we have emails where Anthony Blinken was emailing Hunter Biden and probably even worse, his wife, Evan Ryan is her name.
She worked for the State Department, also under Obama.
She was, it looks like, acting as a conduit, communicating between Hunter and Anthony Blinken using her personal email account.
There's one particular exchange where she was trying to set up a phone call between the Karen Tremontano and the folks of Blue Star Strategy.
That's a Democrat lobbying firm.
These are people who used to work in the Clinton administration that were lobbying on behalf of Burisma to the Obama administration.
And let's face it, they knew Hunter Biden was involved in that as well.
So now that we know he point-blank, bold-faced lied to us about emailing Hunter, why wouldn't he be honest?
I mean, what's the big deal?
Say, yeah, I email him occasionally.
But he didn't say that.
He lied to us, which calls into question all of his testimony, which, quite honestly, I didn't believe it back then, but there wasn't any documents we had to disprove it.
Now we're going to be asking for his documentation, his email, his text records.
We're going to delve into this further.
Is it time to send a criminal referral?
Are you able to do that for lying to Congress, to the Department of Justice?
Yes.
But we will first give him a chance to give us our records or give us his records so we can review them.
So again, we'll give him an opportunity to provide us the information that we need if he wants to proclaim his innocence.
But I think that would certainly be a potential step.
It is becoming more and more clear that Tony Blinken is not just some sort of career diplomat, that he's kind of the conduit, or at least was.
He was the lynchpin of the Hunter Biden laptop story, and he faced zero consequences.
And so it's very important to really figure out who was, was he operating, of course he wasn't operating by himself, but who was really calling the shots?
And it really begs the question then, Senator, is he Secretary of State as a reward?
Was that the payoff, if you will, for doing all this clandestine activity during the 2020 election?
Well, I like Jonathan Turley's comment where he's talking about people in the Biden administration as a bunch of made men.
They prove their loyalty by doing things like what appears Anthony Blinken did in making sure that 51 former intelligence officials wrote probably as fraudulent a letter ever perpetrated on the American electorate in history.
Remember all the Russian collusion hoax and the Democrats screaming that that was a stolen election.
Blinken and Biden and their 51 intelligence officials interfered in the 2020 election to a far greater extent than anything Russia could ever hope to have achieved.
It's a massive fraud.
Where's the outrage by the mainstream media?
Well, we know there won't be any outrage, but we're going to do everything we can to hold at least Anthony Blinken and those 51 former intelligence officials.
They should all have their security clearances revoked.
None of them should be working for the federal government or ever work for them in the future as well.
I mean, again, this is so egregious.
This is such a massive fraud.
And it absolutely impacted the election.
We've seen polls that had the public known just about Hunter Biden's laptop that Joe Biden would not be president and we would not be on this current path of destruction that the Biden administration has put America on.
I think that damaging their reputation is necessary.
I mean, they trade on their reputation, board seats, think tank opportunities.
These 51 intelligence agents, they knew what they were signing was incorrect, and it was all a con job.
And then, Senator, as you well know, it was used as basis for social media censorship.
So I lost access to my Twitter for a week because they said, well, according to Politico, 51 intelligence officials say that this looks like Russian disinformation.
And so I'm all for stripping their security claims.
What is the process for that?
And I can't imagine that any Democrats are taking this seriously.
They probably are perfectly fine with it.
No, that's the problem.
You know, we see the corruption in the FBI and the Department of Justice and Intel agencies.
The Democrats couldn't care less because it favors them.
But remember, the FBI had possession of Hunter Biden's laptop in December 2019.
These people talk to each other at the highest levels.
You don't think those folks didn't realize that the FBI probably had that computer laptop?
The other thing, Charlie, Senator Grassley and my report relied on Treasury records through 2019.
So that's, you know, we released our report in September 2020, which showed the vast web of foreign financial entanglements that proved that President Biden would be highly compromised, right?
So now James Comer, he's getting new Treasury records.
The Bidens knew they were under investigation in 2019, certainly during 2020, but now James Comer is getting evidence that they continued their grifts.
I mean, they were so brazen, they were so confident that the deep state that the mainstream media would cover for them, that they could just keep right on profiting, selling influence, bargaining in the Biden name, engaging in conflicts of interest.
It literally is astounding.
But again, that just shows the complicity in corruption and compliance of the mainstream media.
It's a big problem we have in this country.
It's not a level playing field.
It's not a fair fight.
Yeah, that's needless to say.
And so, you know, there's, Senator, what is your thought just more generally?
And you're nonstop on this, and you have great endurance and perseverance.
But some people are just getting overly cynical that they're never going to be held accountable because you're right, the grift only accelerated.
And, you know, this involves so many family members, you can't even count them on two hands.
And so do you have some hope that there's going to be legitimate accountability or justice for any person in the audience out there that says, yeah, this is fine.
But when are we going to start to see some form of criminal prosecution where you have Donald Trump getting indicted in New York for a paperwork issue that's being called a felony?
I see the comments on my Twitter feed, and they're all criticizing me for not prosecuting him.
I don't have the power to do that.
I would suggest that the first line of accountability is exposure, exposing the truth, showing these people for the low-life, sleazy, corrupt individuals that they are.
That's some pretty significant accountability.
Now, are you ever going to be able to get Merrick Garland to charge any of these folks?
I highly doubt it.
We'll certainly make the case.
It's interesting that it seems like the only people that get prosecuted and then convicted of lying to Congress would be conservatives.
Isn't that surprising?
So, again, public exposure is a pretty significant step toward accountability, and that's my job.
I'm going to tenaciously pursue, uncover, and expose the truth.
And truth has its own power.
So, Senator, you were willing to ask questions about the vaccine, and I want to thank you for that.
Took a lot of courage.
We're now seeing the media go after Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling him a nut for any sort of vaccine skepticism.
And he had this thing on ABC where they heavily edited the entire interview and video.
You know, Jake Tapper comes out and literally says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. running for president is a nut.
And so, Senator, I know you've been looking into Pfizer, AstraZeneca, you know, a lot of these companies for lying.
What is the status of some of those investigations as you look into the kind of the story behind the mRNA vaccine?
Well, first of all, let me suggest to the mainstream media types that are going to continue to savage Bobby Kennedy: watch the documentary Vaxed.
Read the books, Dissolving Illusions, Turtles All the Way Down.
Familiarize yourself with the VARS report.
Yes.
The vaccine adverse event reporting system.
We're over 35,000 deaths associated with the COVID-19 vaccine.
25% of those deaths are occurring on the day of vaccination or within day one or two.
Over one and a half million total adverse events.
And of course, VAYERS doesn't prove causation, but again, 25% occurring on day zero, one, or two.
And it dramatically understates the number of adverse events.
So I would just ask the news media: familiarize yourself with some facts before you attack Bobby Kennedy or people like me.
Your eyes just might be opened.
I will continue to do my oversight.
Again, we will continue to expose the truth.
I'll be continuing to write oversight letters, if nothing else, to act as a foundation.
Should we get the majority and I become chairman of the permanent subcommittee investigations, and I would have the subpoena power to start hauling these people in before Congress and start asking them some pretty tough questions.
And that's federal health officials, that's people like Fauci, Walinski, all these people that are covering up what the VAER system is basically telling us about vaccine injuries.
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It is.
Why can't we ask questions?
That's a pretty simple, you know, that's a simple question that people aren't able to answer.
Senator, thank you for your leadership and stay on it.
I know that a lot of people are growing cynical, but we need to reveal, as you say, and really make public the corruption that's been happening in our government.
Senator, thank you so much.
Thank you, Charlie.
First Republic Bank has collapsed.
Now, we're still learning as to why what went wrong at First Republic Bank because at each one of these bank failures, we're getting excuses.
Silicon Valley Bank, it was because of crypto.
What was the main reason here?
It could be commercial real estate, as we've predicted, but it's not exactly clear.
First Republic had total assets of $229 billion and $130.9 billion worth of deposits.
This is the second largest bank failure in history.
How is this not a massive story that everyone's talking about?
Because they don't want to create a bank run, just so we're clear.
The media is ignoring this story.
They're de-emphasizing it because they do not want to create behaviors of a bank run because fractional reserve banking means that at any moment our entire banking system can collapse.
So now JPMorgan swoops in and they're buying First Republic and JP Morgan's assets are up.
I'm a free market guy, but I want to make sure we're all very clear.
This is not in the best interest of markets or what we consider to be capitalism.
This is something closer to fascistic oligarchy, where we're going to have only a couple companies to choose from.
And I could prove it to you.
We're only going to have a couple banks.
We already only have a couple cell phone companies, Verizon, T-Mobile, ATT.
We only have two actual hardware cell phone companies, Samsung and Apple.
We only have a couple major news networks.
We only have a couple major streaming networks.
We only have a couple mass delivery systems of consumer products, Amazon and Walmart, Target.
We've already seen this corporate consolidation, this almost perfect fascistic oligarchy that has been basically taking over the entire country.
This is not the best interested American worker, best interest of entrepreneurs, and this is not free market.
You only have a couple soft drink beverage companies, Pepsi-Cola and Coca-Cola.
You only have a couple of home good companies, Home Depot and Lowe's.
You only have a couple rideshare services, Lyft and Uber.
What we're getting at is that what they call free markets is really bigger and bigger companies merging and acquiring merger and acquisitions, smaller companies, to then create an entrenched, permanent, woke corporate oligarchy.
And that's exactly where banking is going.
We are going to see dozens, maybe hundreds of small and regional banks fold that then they have to get rolled into the woke major banks.
For example, the biggest banks are JP Morgan, Wells Fargo.
Those are the big ones.
JP Morgan and Wells Fargo.
And so now First Republic is selling all of its assets to J.P. Morgan, and JP Morgan's stock is up.
Either that or when these banks fail, they get bailed out by the biggest funds and asset managers.
This is what is driving the new alignment, the realignment.
Two things can be simultaneously true.
In fact, it's necessary that they are simultaneously true.
You can love the promise and the wealth that markets and entrepreneurs are able to create, that Milton Friedman beautifully articulated and Thomas Sowell articulated, while simultaneously believing that the mass, just unstopped, like unadulterated consolidation of corporate power is bad for all people.
I don't want to live in a country where we only have two or three companies in every genre of market selection.
Okay, here are your two companies for banks.
Here's your three companies for cell phones.
Here's your three companies.
That's not good for anybody, largely because you don't have enough competition and they get bloated, inefficient.
But more broadly, that I think is really important is that then their politics are a lot easier to control.
They become woke publicly traded super PACs that are selling you potato chips, soft drinks, or offering you mortgages because these HR departments are already captured by people that go to Stanford and Brown and Yale, and they're all on birth for the men can, they're all on board for the men can give birth black only dormitory crowd.
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And then they fund transgenderism and BLM and CRT and ESG radicalism.
I do not say this lightly.
I say this with a fair amount of study, prayer, and reflection.
We need a new Teddy Roosevelt trust-busting moment.
We just do.
We need somebody to come in and start to break up these companies and start to say, for the sake of markets, for the sake of entrepreneurs, for the sake of the muscular class, for the sake of the working man and woman, woke, internationalist, monopolistic, fascist oligarchies are at odds with human flourishing and liberty.
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