The "Inevitable" Hunter Biden Indictment? with Citizen Kane and John Solomon
Hunter Biden has been under investigation for half a decade, but no charges have appeared. It's easy to despair, but John Solomon of Just the News joins to lay out the evidence that charges for Hunter are imminent, and there may even be substantial allegations against "the Big Guy" coming very soon as well. Plus, the inimitable Kane of Citizen Free Press gives his take on the press's desperate efforts to take down Tucker Carlson.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Mr. Kane, welcome back to the program.
What's up, Charlie?
I've made the 90-degree turn towards the laptop, away from the monitor.
Let's talk.
So, Kane, I love the links that you're posting here.
I want to just get your big picture analysis in the last couple weeks on Tucker's departure.
You've been linking a lot to it.
What are you seeing?
What are you hearing?
How should we think about this?
Well, it's the defamation of Tucker Carlson.
They're certainly trying.
I caught the first 10 minutes of your excellent open this morning talking about those text messages.
Obviously, I saw that story on Drudge last night.
He's going big with it.
It's funny, you know, Drudge turns to the left, and now several years later, as some people would argue sooner, Fox News is kind of turning that way.
Obviously, someone is coordinating some leaks here.
There's a great town hall story that has four or five videos, quote-unquote, leaked Tucker Carlson videos from a Media Matters reporter on Twitter.
So that's, I would, I would tell people to look at that, but it's all backfiring because this sort of leaked audio stuff, leaked video from Tucker on, you know, on his set before broadcast before filming begins.
They show that Tucker's a real guy.
Regarding those texts, I'm with you 100%.
They did not show Tucker Carlson as a racist.
Let's ask Simon Ateba, the White House reporter who has been blacklisted by Karen Jean-Pierre.
Ask him if he thinks Tucker's a racist.
You know, you'll get a response that Fox News won't like.
And, you know, one other thing, a little birdie told me here recently that, well, this week, Lawrence Jones is filling in for Tucker at 8 p.m.
By the way, you were correct to mention that the 8 p.m. slot on Fox News is down 50%.
I just posted a story that the overall MSNBC beat Fox News in primetime ratings two nights ago.
Unbelievable.
That hasn't happened in a while.
I'll get back to the Lawrence Jones story.
Just that, you know, there's some he, him pronouns thing happening there.
And it just doesn't bode well for the future of Fox News.
Outside Jesse Waters, Laura Ingram, and a few other fighters, that network isn't really worth a lot.
Yeah.
And so let's dive into this.
How does this, so because you're, you're one of the top media sites out there for conservative patriots and Americans.
How do you think this changes the media landscape?
Does it make it harder for us to be able to penetrate the narrative?
Does it make it easier for us?
I mean, so that's the question.
Is Tucker not on cable TV and more like Rogan?
Does that allow us to reach a younger generation?
Or does it actually make it harder for us to be able to crush these pre-existing orthodoxies?
Your thoughts?
Yeah, that's a good, that's a good complex question.
You know, I thought of the Rogan theme because there was a quote from Tucker one night on his show, and he was like, you guys think my audience is big?
Joe Rogan has 12 million every day on Spotify.
So I know there's a part of Tucker that probably has a little bit of a desire to go that alternate route and reach a younger audience.
In terms of what it makes, you know, my first thought when you said, how does it make our job?
I thought you were leaning into sort of us presenting news.
And as a side note, it does make my job more difficult, right?
Because let's say I have an outstanding clip from Fox News.
Let's say it's you on Laura Ingram, or let's say it's Senator Johnson on Maria Bartaromo's show.
Now, if I present that video, I get pushback from a certain part of my audience just for showing it because it's from the Fox News platform.
So now going back to the meat of your question, which is, does this, how does this affect our ability to reach the MAGA audience and reach maybe an independent Republican-leaning audience if we all leave Fox News, if we all stop watching?
Well, it's, you know, it's going to hurt Fox's bottom line, number one.
Their numbers are way down.
I'm sure that's the reason.
Yeah, that's, I'm sure that's a huge part of the reason for this panic, right?
For this, this pushing out of text messages and Suzanne Scott leaking to the Wall Street Journal is because they're trying to recapture a part of their audience and say, look, we were the good guys.
It was Tucker who was the bad guy.
He was the one who was texting these people.
I think you're right, Kane.
So, I just make sure everyone understands that's a super important point.
That you think that these leaks against Tucker is Fox's attempt to regain their audience?
Do they really understand their audience, Kane?
Is that where we're at?
They're desperate.
Yeah, I mean.
Yeah, they're desperate.
I didn't mean to cut you off in the middle of your question, but look, let's say you're Suzanne Scott and Lachlan Murdock, and you think, oh, maybe we're going to lose 20%, you know, if we fire Tucker.
They obviously had to be thinking about damage control.
And now when they see down 50% in the eight o'clock hour and they see that MSNBC is beating them in overall prime time, yeah, I would think that would push them to the panic stage, such as now they're just throwing anything and everything.
And that's why I implied perhaps that they're even bedfellows with Media Matters.
Like, who's supplying these clips to Media Matters, these quote-unquote gotcha clips on Tucker?
It's got to be inside people at Fox because, so yeah, so I think that Fox News is desperate.
They're putting this out to try to get, you know, just to try to get people to see their side and it's not working.
So that that's a that's a new point that I have not heard anybody make.
And quite honestly, Kane, I was making somewhat of the opposite point, which also they actually could both be true.
I was saying they might want to take Tucker out.
You're actually saying they're trying to rewind the narrative to the audience.
Like, hey, hey, guys, you would have fired him too.
But it's just this fundamental misunderstanding of who their audience actually is.
They think they're going to regain the audience based on that text message or a couple of off-the-cuff remarks.
It's the opposite.
It makes people angrier at Fox, Kane, doesn't it?
Yeah, from our base, without a doubt, it pisses people off.
We see through it.
We're the smarter consumers of media.
But I think Fox, you know, assumes a general dumbed down.
You know, I don't think they have a high opinion of the intelligence of the American people.
And I think they're their audience, obviously.
Yeah, I mean, I think they're grasping at straws.
I tried to put that part in there.
Like, I think they're panicked because instead of being a 20% drop in ratings, it's 50%.
So they, you know, they're they're and the other part, too, is they might be trying to.
Maybe they're really still pissed at Tucker and they're, they're upset that he's getting this much positive attention.
So they're just trying to bring down his, you know, bring down his reputation, help destroy him a little bit.
So he perhaps doesn't get the $100 million contract that he was offered yesterday.
But I agree with your point.
I don't think our points are conflicting.
You know, I don't really think they're opposite.
I think that Fox is just, they're beyond the misinterpreting stage and they're in the panic stage.
When you get panicked about things, you just start throwing things against the wall.
You're right.
You never make a good decision when you're in the midst of panic ever in life.
That's why you need to slow down and you need to use prudence and not hysteria.
And so basically they're seeing the ratings fall.
They're seeing, I mean, not just fall, collapse, down 60 or 70%.
They're seeing massive audience erosion that seems to only be accelerating the more information gets out.
And probably somebody says, hey, we need to try to tell the audience why we did this without doing that.
And so someone has the genius idea to leak a text message to the New York Times.
I mean, and we're also learning, Kane, that Fox has full-time people, four full-time people at Fox that collect dossiers on their talent.
I don't know if that's true, but it sounds like it's true.
And then they're working in harmony with Media Matters.
I mean, Kane, 30 seconds, and we'll talk about this after the break.
If you were Fox, I think the only way you could save this right now is not try to leak stuff on Tucker, is go take your Gulf stream down to Tucker's home in Florida or up in Maine and offer him $100 million a year and try to sweep this under the rug.
I don't think they can survive if they don't resign Tucker.
Your thoughts, Kane?
Yeah.
Well, first, I'm going to have to look up that story you just mentioned about four Fox spies.
That would not surprise me at all.
And yeah, you know, the rehiring of Tucker, he would probably laugh at them at this.
I'm sure he would laugh at them, but I'm saying that the only strategic move Fox has left to save the network.
And maybe they want to be RNC TV.
I don't know.
I'm not quite understanding the philosophy or the thought here.
Maybe they just want to truncate the network and go down 800,000 people at a 3.3 million.
And okay, Rupert Murdoch will be worth 8 billion instead of 18 billion, but maybe no more lawsuits and you get to go back to the Met Gala and no more boycotts and Dylan Mulvaney can do ads for you again.
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I promise you, whoever replaces Don Lemon has the same exact views as Don Lemon and the same exact views of everybody else at CNN.
And that's not true for Tucker Carlson.
He's really designed for the internet.
I hope he goes there.
He's going to, unless they've paid him off to like the, I mean, if I was a person in a position of power and a wild card like Tucker Carlson got released from Fox News and maybe Rumble makes a deal with him or something like that.
Do you have any idea how big that would be?
With us is Citizen Kane from citizenfreepress.com.
Kane, I have you chomping at the bit.
Let it loose.
Well, okay.
So you went, your last comment right before the break was, does Rupert Murdoch, is he happy to shrink his network from 3 million viewers to 800,000?
You know, look, again, I don't think they anticipated that this was going to happen.
Tucker brings a completely different audience to Fox News that no other of their primetime anchors does.
It's a younger audience.
It's an internet savvy audience.
As Joe Rogan just showed it, stated in that last clip, he's sort of built for the internet, right?
So it, you know, that's in a way, that's probably responsible for a bigger part of this boycott, right?
If Tucker's audience is this young, meme-making, internet-loving audience and you sack him, now you've pissed off the most active people in the modern community.
Target demo, right?
That's what they always say, the desired target demo on cable news.
And if you look at the, if you go actually a level deeper, that's the biggest collapse on the 8 p.m. hour is 25 to 44, which is what advertisers look at the most.
Right.
It's the one that's the most valuable.
And I saw that.
I look at those media daily media reports.
And I try to look at those every day and scan down and see the numbers.
And yeah, you do.
You pay attention to that demographic and it's down big.
So it shows that those reader, excuse me, those viewers are pissed off.
They're holding a grudge and they're going to boycott.
Look, our boycotts are doing pretty well.
I saw a number.
I've been paying attention to all the Bud Light numbers.
I saw total Bud Light sales down 26% for the month of April.
I saw that this morning.
That's substantial.
26% is hugely substantial to a beer company.
So obviously this part of the MAGA base is happy to do boycotts and successful at them.
And again, we have the best meme makers, as we know, and all of this sort of works.
So, you know, something else I want to get to with Fox is, you know, what will they plan to, that comment from that guy with Joe Rogan was dead on.
If you replace Don Lemon, it's going to be another Don Lemon.
There really isn't another Tucker Carlson except for maybe Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon and, you know, and a few other independent people, because I think the independence of what you guys do on your platforms sort of gives you some freedom to say things.
Election Night Cause And Effect00:02:24
Yes, because we don't have that kind of corporate sort of Damocles hanging over us where we're going to get a call because Hyundai got mad because I went after Dylan Milvaney or something, right?
Like, I don't care.
Hyundai's not going to advertise with us, probably.
I don't know.
But so, but Kane, I want to kind of just build this out a little bit.
We only have two minutes remaining, but I think this is a cause and effect.
Not everything in life is cause and effect, but this is.
This is the house that was built when Fox called Arizona preemptively on election night, based on everything that I have learned from this audience and other people.
That was a shock and awe, where they were brazen.
They were public.
There were 23 million people watching.
And Fox was the first network for dates to call Arizona before all the drops were in.
It seems as if they were always trying to catch up and win back their audience and overcompensate and undercompensate.
It has, if they would have handled that election night better and understood their audience, they would be in a better spot.
What I'm getting at, Kane, is that their disconnect to their audience goes all the way back to the night of election 2020.
Minute remaining, your thoughts came.
Yeah, that's absolutely right.
No one has forgotten election night 220.
That call, that Arizona call, people bring that up in comments on Citizen Free Press all the time.
And let's not forget how late they were to call Florida that night.
So they're late to call Florida for Trump.
They are super, you know, part of it is that disconnect within Fox News, right?
We learned that because there were anchors at Fox who were very upset that their decision desk had made that call.
So there was that split within there.
But yes, they've been fighting this battle for two years.
They didn't understand their audience two years ago.
They still don't understand their audience and they're not likely to learn it.
And I look forward to seeing Tucker dance on their grave.
I hope Suzanne Scott gets fired because some of her texts come out in the SmartMatic trial.
So I'll leave it with that.
And we can't forget my good friend Dan Bongino, which I think, if you look at the Dan Bongino contract deal and the Tucker deal was within 72 hours, which looks as if a complete editorial shift, somebody in that New York office, somebody on Avenue of the Americas, I think it's 1211.
It's all public right there, said, Hey, these MAGA people, they're going to keep watching.
We don't need them.
Somebody had an arrogant attitude and they took out the ban hammer and they're going to pay a very deep price.
I don't know how this is going to end, but it will change media as we know it.
Teaching Free Speech Values00:02:47
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Hunter Biden Justice Department00:10:59
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John, tell us the latest on the details on the Hunter Biden IRS whistleblower story.
That story has gone quiet.
You're the best at breaking these kinds of stories through your sources and your phenomenal award-winning reporting.
Tell us about it.
Thank you, Charlie.
Yeah, listen, there's a lot going on behind the scenes.
Right now, there is a proffer, an offer of testimony being drafted that will be conveyed to the House committees later this week.
Last week, the big development was this whistleblower couldn't even tell his lawyers what he knew and certainly couldn't tell Congress until the House Ways and Means Committee voted to accept him as a whistleblower and to pierce the tax privacy laws that prevent him from talking about anything that isn't a public tax case.
And so now that happened.
Jason Smith, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, he got a vote.
They've authorized it.
The IRS agent's able to tell his lawyers what he knows.
His lawyers are able to make an offer of testimony to Congress.
I would expect that this agent would be testifying before Congress in the next couple of weeks behind closed doors, and that by Memorial Day, we'll know exactly what it is that he has as evidence to back up his claim.
His claim is that the career people at the FBI and IRS were ready to indict Hunter Biden a long time ago on tax charges, political appointees of the Justice Department.
The Biden Justice Department blocked it.
And then Merrick Garland went out and said there is no political interference, which he knew to be false, he said.
And so that's why he approached the Justice Department Inspector General.
He's been investigating this for about eight weeks now.
And now Congress, and I think the American public will get the goods, the receipts, the proof before Memorial Day on the current schedule that Congress is on.
A very big book.
Meanwhile, Hunter Biden could very well be indicted in the next few days.
The legal team around Hunter Biden believes that an indictment is inevitable and that the Justice Department's in the final phases of doing that.
There was a meeting last week.
It didn't result in a plea deal or a bargain.
And so I think the Hunter Biden team, based on my reporting, seems resolved that there could be criminal charges.
Again, you won't know until the grand jury does it.
And of course, unlike Nancy Pelosi, we're going to give Hunter Biden the presumption of innocence, something that Nancy Pelosi and Democrats have deprived President Trump.
But at the end of the day, this case seems to be moving forward.
It's going to be a narrower case, though, than what a lot of the agents believe could have been brought a year or two ago.
Well, John, that's some huge news.
Have you shared that publicly yet?
I mean, I've been talking about it last few days.
Okay, that's great.
And I've been, I haven't seen that.
So, but I'm a little cynical, John.
I'll believe it when I see it.
So, what leads you to believe?
Yeah, what leads you to believe this will happen?
And I think you've kind of alluded to it.
Is it just going to be a paperwork slap on the wrist, go clean up the side of a highway for a couple days type thing where you check the box, but you don't go all the way, where they just do like 1% of the 100%, you know, 1% of the crimes where they say, oh, you know, we're equal opportunity.
And, John, is it, and this is how sinister my calculation gets, is it a way to go do Hunter because they want to do a DOJ with Trump later on, where they say, hey, look, both parties are after DOJ.
We're not targeting him.
Your thoughts?
Yeah, listen, all of those are possible dynamics here.
Let's start with how do we know what's going on?
We know from the Hunter Biden team that there was a meeting last week.
These meetings typically occur just before an indictment decision is made.
They call them the Hail Mary meeting.
The defense team comes in and tries to convince the Justice Department why you shouldn't charge my client or why you should charge him with lesser crimes or maybe get a plea deal.
That meeting occurred last week.
There are reports out there that the government is looking at two or three felony charges against Hunter Biden related to taxes, one charge related to his gun application that we know a lot about, then some misdemeanors.
My sources tell me that those reports are generally accurate.
Obviously, things can slide around.
Here's the big concern that people in the know have.
And we may get an answer from the IRS whistleblower if he gets a chance to testify.
But there is in the discussions in the Washington Press right now, the suggestion is that the tax charges are going to involve transactions of about $20,000, $30,000 on business expenses that weren't declared as income, like in the 2018 timeframe.
So a small amount of tax evasion alleged and more recent in the last five years.
We know from my reporting two years ago, we made public, Congress confirmed this email, that there's an email from January of 2017, the week that Donald Trump was about to become president, where Hunter Biden's business partner, Eric Schwerin, someone that Congress is trying to get to cooperate, wrote Hunter Biden to say, hey, Hunter, you never declared $400,000 of income and not any income, the income from that controversial deal from Burisma Holdings in Ukraine.
And it's three years later, Hunter, you got to get right.
You got to declare the income and pay some taxes.
$400,000 would be a much more serious charge.
That's not in the current discussions.
And yesterday, Congressman Scott Perry from Pennsylvania wrote a letter to all the committees in Congress, Senate and House saying, hey, look at this.
There's this email saying he did this.
The discussions are about this.
I think there might be a protection racket going on.
Maybe they let the statute of limitations expire or they're trying to protect Hunter Biden.
Please investigate.
And that is circulating around today with a lot of fervor.
A lot of people asking the right question now.
Why isn't that Burisma stuff on the table, according to the media?
Did the statute of limitations be allowed to expire?
That could be a big scandal going forward.
This sounds like a lot of paperwork stuff, and I'm not making it insignificant, but what about the influence peddling?
I mean, and is any of this actually going to point to the big guy, or it seems as if they're angling it in such a way where they could just kind of go, okay, paperwork.
You know, he could plea down to a couple felonies and then again, get community service, you know, a slap on the wrist where they could say, we'd been there, done that.
I mean, it just seems so clear to me.
I'm not getting my hopes up here, John, that this is going to be the accountability of the Biden crime syndicate.
Again, we're talking about that 2018 window again, right?
And that's why there's a red flag here.
A lot of that influence peddling stuff, right, occurred in 13, 14, 15, 16, when Joe Biden was still vice president and still had juice, right?
And Hunter Biden was, by his own admission in his own email, trading on his name, right?
He writes his colleague one time, they're not interested in my skills.
They're interested in my last name.
He knew what he was doing.
Those aren't on the table either.
And that raised, I think that further accentuates the concern that some Republicans in Congress in the know have that maybe the most serious stuff, the influence peddling stuff, the earlier tax issues with Burisma, if those emails are to be believed, that they're off the table because Justice Department did something like let the statute of limitations expire.
And therefore, Hunter Biden couldn't be hit harder with these sort of allegations from before.
That is the question that lawmakers like Ron Johnson, Chuck Grassley, James Comer, and Jim Jordan are currently trying to answer.
When we see, if there is an indictment and we see what it is, we'll know what the government focused on.
And then the real questions will begin, which is why weren't these other issues, which have been in the public for three years now, why aren't they addressed in this indictment?
I suspect, and again, I don't know anything, but I suspect the IRS whistleblower may be able to provide us an answer about why some of the more explosive stuff that we currently know about isn't in the discussion on the indictment.
Maybe the whistleblower can give us some visibility into that.
That means the Hunter Biden scandal will become more than influence peddling.
There'll now be a question of whether there was a protection racket or a cover-up going on.
Expect that to happen in the next couple of months, that debate to flip on its end.
Yeah, I sure hope that develops.
Really quick before the break, what's the latest on Blinken, Mike Morrell, and that entire story?
There are two dynamics going on.
First, the House Judiciary Committee is waiting for Blinken to answer questions.
What did you do with Mike Morrell?
Mike Morrell's already given his side of the story.
He triggered me to write this letter.
He sent me the key passage, right?
The USA Today article that put Russian disinformation into the letter.
Where they're waiting for answers.
Meanwhile, Chuck Grassy, Ron Johnson dropped the bombshell letter yesterday saying, hey, you gave us some testimony back in 2020, Anthony Blinken, just before you became Secretary of State, and you lied to us.
You told us you didn't have written or text or email communications with Hunter Biden.
We found in communications, and we also saw communications to your wife, who was working with you at the State Department.
You lied.
We want your records.
Turn them over.
That happened just last night.
That's extraordinary.
John, stay right there.
I want to keep you for another segment and also just remind people about your very important book, Hidden Headlines, a Seymour Clues Mystery.
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So many people coming.
We had hundreds of people in Philadelphia too, Charlie.
It was so amazing to meet with parents.
And there was this parent, I think her name was Jilly.
And she said to me, I grew up with my parents telling me, like Ronald Reagan used to say, there's a silent majority America.
And I truly believe that, but we can't be silent anymore.
Silence is complicity.
And I just, it struck me as someone just in everyday life trying to manage two children to say that and realize that the moment in America to fight for freedom, for liberty, for the America that we've had, but might not have in the future is upon us.
It was really a touching moment to meet so many great parents on the front line saying, I'm going to protect my children from silliness.
I'm going to get America back to common sense.
But sales are great.
And the great folks at Brave Books are amazing.
Bravebooks.us, go check it out, folks.
They are great, great people.
So, John, several other stories that we could talk about here, but I want to close the loop on the Hunter Biden paternity issue.
What is the latest here of his daughter, his kid in Arkansas?
What is the whole situation there?
Well, listen, the mother feels like the mother of Hunter's child in Arkansas feels like he is not showing the rest of his income to us because he might be making a lot more money and trying to cheat the child or the court out of money.
So the judge agreed in this sense and said, listen, Mr. Biden, you have to produce these records, including all sources of income and all gifts you got and anyone who bought your photos and how much you got for them.
And so Hunter Biden now will have to reveal whether he's gotten any gifts that he's been living off of.
Maybe he's freeloading it.
We don't know.
I don't want to assume anything, but the judge wants to know.
Those records won't only be important to the paternity case, but as you pointed out in the Fox News clip, they could be important to congressional investigators.
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And I want to tell you about something else.
I think it will break today, Charlie.
So I'll kind of lean into this a little bit.
People always ask Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden.
Well, what about Joe Biden, right?
I think later today, we're going to learn about the existence of an FBI document that alleges a pay-to-play influence peddling scheme, meaning not tax evasion, which Hunter Biden is expecting to potentially be indicted for, but actually Joe Biden and the family trading policy for money.
We understand there's an FBI document that's been out there.
I think that's going to burst out into the scene later today or tomorrow.
One of the many whistleblowers, not the IRS whistleblower, but an FBI whistleblower.
That could have a profound effect because it'll turn the attention where it ultimately needs to be.
Hunter Biden is not the ultimate public interest here.
It's President Joe Biden and what he may have done to sell his office.
I think we're going to get some explosive allegations in a few hours.
I sure hope so, John.
And you're welcome back anytime.
Thank you so much, John.
And for the great work.
Thank you.
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These DNC paid TikTok stars.
I could do a whole hour on this.
There is an operation.
The Democrat Party is funding these young people to spew Democrat talking points, and they're so shallow.
They're so stupid.
Get your kids off TikTok, everybody.
If you have a kid or grandkid on TikTok, why?
Why are you allowing it?
Why are you putting up with it?
It's garbage.
These people are getting tons of money from the Democrat Party.
Chris and Harry, I don't know.
I get them confused.
Chris Mowry and Harry Stitzen.
It's like they're made in a laboratory.
It's like they're made just for the purpose of brainless lip-syncing videos on the CCP app, TikTok, PlayCut 13.
What the Republican Party doesn't understand about Gen Z is we don't like you.
You claim you want to appeal to Gen Z, but you call us stupid.
You say we're dumb.
You say we're indoctrinated.
I promise it's a losing strategy.
And Gen Z is watching the Republican Party extremely closely as they destroy our environment, take rights away from women, do nothing about kids being shot in schools.
And if they think they can give the middle finger to our generation and get away with it, they're sorely mistaken.
Yeah, sorely mistaken.
You're a real tough guy.
You're welcome on the program anytime, by the way.
I'd love to have a conversation with you.
I won't pay you, unlike the Democrat Party, but I will let you talk and defend your position.
Can you talk more than 15 seconds on an edited TikTok video with stupid music over it with little subtitles?
Probably not.
Not exactly a bright group of people.
Get off TikTok.
You'll be a happier person for it.
Welcome anytime.
What is it?
Harry and Chris?
Yeah, real rocket scientists there.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
Thanks so much for listening.
God bless.
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