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| Hey everybody, we reflect on Independence Day and we talk about the good news of a judge who strikes down a tyrannical pattern of behavior and also the Solicitor General of Louisiana. | |
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| Happy Wednesday. | |
| I want to begin by celebrating Independence Day. | |
| We did not broadcast live in observance of the holiday. | |
| Holiday literally comes from the idea of a holy day. | |
| That's where we get the word holiday from. | |
| And I do believe that Independence Day should be regarded in the holy. | |
| It's one of the most important days in human history. | |
| Thomas Jefferson wrote it: 56 people signed it, and they changed history forever. | |
| They said very clearly, when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them. | |
| A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to separation. | |
| I'm going to press pause before I continue. | |
| That right there is a universal claim. | |
| When in the course of human events, it means it is applicable today. | |
| And in some ways, the argument made in the Declaration of Independence is actually more relevant today than even back then. | |
| Thomas Jefferson goes on to say that if you are a tyrant, a despot, a dictator, and you are taking the liberty and the freedom away of a people, those people have a right to separate, to challenge. | |
| Thomas Jefferson continued by saying, We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. | |
| That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their powers and the consent of the governed. | |
| Time out. | |
| He's telling you what government should be, not what government is. | |
| Thomas Jefferson is saying here that governments are formed by you, the people, but he says something that is so profound that was never really put into place except maybe Athenian democracy didn't last long. | |
| Deriving their powers from the consent of the governed, not from King George, not from some monarchy, not from some oligarchy, but from you, the people. | |
| That whether any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness. | |
| And this is super important. | |
| Thomas Jefferson then uses an old Greek term that we should use again, which comes from prudentia or practical knowledge. | |
| He says, prudence, indeed, we don't teach prudence anymore because our government education system, it's all about technical knowledge and new fashionable trends, not about ancient classical wisdom to be able to tell the difference between the holy and the profane and good from evil. | |
| Prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes. | |
| It shouldn't be changed just because you don't like little things. | |
| It should be for significant and heavy reasons. | |
| And accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. | |
| But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, invinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism. | |
| Sound familiar? | |
| It is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security. | |
| Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies, and such now is the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. | |
| The history of the present king of Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. | |
| To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. | |
| It started universal and went very specific. | |
| What Thomas Jefferson wrote and what 56 courageous men decided to sign was a document that said human beings have a moral right to be free, that we are free in the state of nature, and that governments are formed to protect our rights. | |
| This is one of the most consequential, important moments in human history. | |
| And we are seeing the promise of 1776 be eroded every single day by the current regime in D.C., the Uniparty regime. | |
| They do not believe in the promise of 1776. | |
| They believe in a permanent Marxist monarchy, the protection of the Leviathan, of the administrative state. | |
| Unfolding in front of us today is the daily melee, the battle, the tension between what our founding fathers believed in 1776, as they say in this document, why does government exist? | |
| To protect our rights, and they're there because we gave them permission. | |
| The current Marxist monarchy doesn't believe that. | |
| They believe that the state is God. | |
| They believe that it is their role in history to continue with uninterrupted momentum to steamroll and to run us over. | |
| And we can continue to celebrate the promise of July 4th, 1776. | |
| And we should. | |
| We should study this. | |
| We should teach our children this. | |
| We need to pass down the significance of this. | |
| And today is July 5th, 2023. | |
| And it has to, I think it's worthy of noting before we get to a beautiful piece of news that happened yesterday, actually. | |
| That these wealthy men who signed this document, they very well might have signed a death warrant. | |
| You know, the radical left and even the uniparty people in D.C., they say, oh, America was not founded on godly principles. | |
| Why then was God mentioned four times in the Declaration of Independence? | |
| In fact, at the end of the document, it says, we appeal to the supreme judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do in the name of the authority of the good people of these colonies. | |
| This reads like a prayer. | |
| It reads as we are appealing to the ultimate power. | |
| This was a vertical appeal that we, the people, we appeal to who gave us life, who breathed us into existence. | |
| And that tension played out in the Revolutionary War. | |
| These 56 signers from Samuel Adams to George Walton, you know, 55 out of 56 of them were Bible-believing church attending Christians, and they put everything on the line. | |
| They put everything on the line so that a new nation could be formed. | |
| We call that our birthday. | |
| Isn't that interesting that we call that our birthday? | |
| Not the ratification of the Constitution, not the ratification of the Bill of Rights. | |
| Why was that day, July 4th, 1776, our birthday? | |
| Because that was the beginning of the North Star of our nation. | |
| All men are created equal. | |
| We have a right to self-government. | |
| Do not get in our way. | |
| It is a universal claim that is just as applicable to our times today. | |
| It's because it was not written for the times. | |
| It was written to stand the test of time because human beings do not change. | |
| Human beings are going to be self-interested. | |
| If you do not pass down the values of virtue, prudence, temperance, and discipline, you will get into a state of chaos and disorder. | |
| This is why we should not have a competing Juneteenth Independence Day. | |
| It's one of the most important days in human history. | |
| The creation of the world, the transmission of the great moral app on Sinai, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Magna Carta, July 4th, 1776. | |
| That's not an exhaustive list, but those are some of the most important things ever to happen. | |
| Our individual sovereignty emanates from God, not from government. | |
| And that is a debated fact right now in D.C. In fact, they believe the state can do no wrong. | |
| And I'm going to, with this backdrop and this gratitude that we should feel that we live in the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world, that these 56 courageous, wisdom-filled, God-fearing men gave us this nation. | |
| Yesterday, we saw this play out where the deep state, the uniparty, the administrative state, they wanted to do something, and a certain judge delivered a July 4th gift saying you can't do that. | |
| And just remember, those 56 signers of the Declaration would be indicted for seditious conspiracy today if the Department of Justice had anything to say about it. | |
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| So on Independence Day, we saw this very, I don't even want to call it a debate, this collision, this clash play out. | |
| So on one side, you have the Marxist monarchy, the oligarchy. | |
| We've talked a lot about them, the Leviathan, the deep state of government, the Uniparty. | |
| And it's been reported, in fact, we were involved in this. | |
| The federal government went out of their way to demand that social media companies censor tweets of mine, censor social media posts of people they do not like, all under the guise of fighting disinformation or public health. | |
| Remember the standing weekly meeting that Yoel Roth from Twitter had with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. | |
| Remember when they showed up to Mark Zuckerberg and they said, hey, there might be some Russian disinformation. | |
| Basically, threatening these companies that if they do not censor, if they do not silence the accounts that they demand, that there might be retribution. | |
| So, there was a lawsuit that was filed against this. | |
| And on July 4th, of all days, on Independence Day, a federal judge issued a temporary injunction. | |
| So, we had a lot of good rulings last week on religious liberty, student loan amnesty. | |
| Thankfully, the bribe is what we call it, the student loan bribe, and on affirmative action. | |
| Now, a federal judge yesterday issued a preliminary injunction that blocks the Biden regime and his agencies and officials from meeting or communicating with social media companies around and about protected speech. | |
| The reason for this injunction is that we know from the Twitter files and elsewhere how the government has used these meetings to request that private companies police disinformation. | |
| It's a way of privatizing mass censorship. | |
| And by the way, it's just so fitting. | |
| We are actually in the final stages of preparing a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security for injuries that they put towards our social media accounts here on the Charlie Kirk Show. | |
| Now, this is a preliminary injunction, not a final ruling. | |
| But when an injunction like this strong comes down, it's basically a very, very strong hint about how a judge is likely to rule. | |
| The judge, Terry A. Doughty, a Trump appointee, wrote in his order yesterday that the plaintiffs, quote, have produced evidence of a massive effort by defendants from the White House to federal agencies to suppress speech based on its content. | |
| The press reaction to itself is just something else. | |
| The Washington Post writes up for several paragraphs saying that, oh, a Trump judge did this, and now you're trying to say that the federal government can't contact social media companies. | |
| The New York Times spin was even more glaring. | |
| Their main takeaway was that the decision was, quote, a ruling that could curtail efforts to fight disinformation. | |
| Whoa, whoa, whoa. | |
| Where in the United States Constitution is it the role of government to police citizen speech? | |
| What you guys call disinformation six months later gets proven to be a fact. | |
| The federal government said that it's disinformation to say that the virus came from a Wuhan Institute of Virology. | |
| They say that it was disinformation. | |
| When we said that schools being closed were going to be bad for children, they said it was disinformation. | |
| When we said that the Hunter Biden laptop was legit, in fact, we lost our Twitter account. | |
| I lost my Twitter account for a week because I talked about the Hunter Biden laptop at the behest of the federal government in the midst of an election. | |
| So what they call disinformation, just give a little bit of time, it turns out to be then soon an irrefutable fact. | |
| Why is the federal government playing air traffic control over what we can say and can't say? | |
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Fighting Media Censorship
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| They're the traffic cops now of speech. | |
| They've sometimes said disinformation can be true things weaponized against democracy. | |
| If you speak out against trans stuff, they said you could be spreading medical disinformation. | |
| Even though our own CDC, the Center for Disease Control and NIH, were spreading legitimate disinformation over the last couple of years. | |
| So we've had a tradition in this country, the government does not get involved in domestic speech, period. | |
| And it's worked. | |
| Even though we've had Operation Mockingbird and we've had all sorts of different stuff. | |
| The state of our media and our regime at this point, their modern day pravda, hilariously, pravda means truth in Russian. | |
| Awfully ironic. | |
| Standing up to demand more censorship. | |
| The very same agencies that Republicans like Lindsey Graham and others created post 9-11 are now being used against patriots who dare challenge the regime. | |
| We were so scared after 9-11, oh, they're going to start bombing more buildings. | |
| And we gave away all this freedom, all this liberty. | |
| Patriot Act, Department of Homeland Security, FBI. | |
| And these agencies went from law enforcement to intelligence agencies where they're bored and they hate you. | |
| This federal judge said, no, no, no, no, you're not allowed to do this. | |
| A victory for liberty and freedom. | |
| And wait till I play some pieces of tape. | |
| The regime, they are furious that a federal judge would come in and say on July 4th, you can't do that. | |
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| Joining us now is Senator Schmidt, who started the case, Missouri v. Biden. | |
| Senator, welcome to the program. | |
| I want to say congratulations because this was a good injunction. | |
| It hasn't seen itself all the way through. | |
| But Senator, why don't you walk through this case and why you decided to start this process while you were Attorney General of Missouri? | |
| Sure. | |
| It's great to be with you, Charlie. | |
| Well, yesterday was a big win for free speech and, I mean, a crushing defeat for censorship. | |
| I mean, it's got to hold, but it's a very, very positive injunction that, you know, if the government wants to challenge it, they'll go to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. | |
| And I'm sure this case may or may not make it. | |
| Well, it may or may not make its way all the way to the Supreme Court, but this is the most important free speech case in a generation at least. | |
| And so when I was AG, we filed this lawsuit, Missouri versus Biden, that alleged that a bunch of different Biden administration agencies essentially were suppressing speech, mostly with conservatives. | |
| But you saw it play out whether it was the origins of COVID. | |
| I had an opportunity to take Anthony Fauci's deposition. | |
| So after I was elected to the Senate, before I was sworn in, we took his deposition. | |
| We could talk about that if you want to. | |
| It's just mind-boggling. | |
| Origins of COVID, Hunter Biden laptop theory. | |
| We took the deposition of Elvis Chan, who was the FBI agent that essentially was having monthly then weekly meetings, warning these social media giants of a Russian hack and leak operation involving the Hunter Biden laptop, even though they had the laptop in the fall of 2019. | |
| And so you saw that. | |
| You saw whether it was the efficacy of masks, transmissibility of COVID with the vaccine. | |
| I mean, all these, the myriad of these agencies colluding with big tech to censor speech in violation of the First Amendment was the reason we filed the lawsuit. | |
| And of course, if you read the judge's ruling yesterday on the injunction, I mean, it's pretty strong language. | |
| And it shouldn't be lost, Charlie, that this was sent out on the 4th of July on Independence Day. | |
| I mean, that is not an accident here. | |
| And so the judge, you know, this is a federal judge, not me saying it, not you saying it, a federal judge saying that the case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in U.S. history and comparing it to this Ministry of Truth, which, of course, we allege in this vast censorship enterprise. | |
| And so the government doesn't get to censor speech and they can't outsource it either. | |
| And so I was proud to bring the lawsuit and we were able to get, you know, pretty deep into discovery. | |
| And that evidence essentially ruled the day yesterday. | |
| And what it says is that these agencies from the CDC to the FDA to DHS to White House officials can no longer do this. | |
| I mean, there's an order now on the books preventing them from engaging in this kind of activity. | |
| And now the Senate will try to hold their feet in the fire, but it's a big win. | |
| It is. | |
| And there's other components that I want to kind of talk about here. | |
| The first of which is we do not know how deep the censorship actually goes. | |
| Thanks to Elon Musk and the Twitter files, we can almost connect two separate, otherwise separate pieces, right? | |
| Which is the complaint that you started, Missouri v. Biden. | |
| Then we have all out here Twitter files, standing meetings of the FBI with Yoel Roth. | |
| We have communications of the FBI with Twitter. | |
| We also have Zuckerberg, who went on Joe Rogan's program, who said, oh, yeah, the FBI just kind of showed up and told us that there was going to be potentially Russian disinformation stuff and to be on the lookout for it. | |
| Very suspicious. | |
| And so, Senator, I'm going to play a piece of tape here of the spin from Pravda, CNN, where they say, oh, it's just communicating. | |
| It's just communicating. | |
| And then I want you to respond to this, why CNN is so wrong here, because this is the party line. | |
| By the way, Senator, you're really onto something with this complaint because the ferocious response from the media on this means that we're hitting a nerve, a central nerve of something that they're awfully protective over. | |
| Play cut two, please. | |
| But the ruling itself is the opposite of judicial conservatism. | |
| This is one of the most aggressive, far-reaching rulings you'll ever see. | |
| What this judge is purporting to do is to micromanage, really, the day-to-day interactions between essentially the entire executive branch, all these agencies that are listed as defendants, and the leading social media companies. | |
| And in the actual temporary injunction, the judge basically says, you're not allowed, administration, to talk to these social media companies about any protected free speech except for cybersecurity threats, national security threats, criminal threats. | |
| But where's the line? | |
| Well, the line is called the United States Constitution. | |
| Senator, your response. | |
| No, absolutely, Charlie. | |
| Look, this is, it's a remarkable. | |
| Look, I'm 40, 48. | |
| I just turned 48. | |
| So I'm Gen X. | |
| So I grew up in an era where liberals and organizations like the ACLU, right, defended the First Amendment, I mean, in free speech. | |
| And now it's conservatives that are pushing back and saying, wait a minute, we can have a robust debate. | |
| We can agree or disagree, but you don't get to censor speech. | |
| The government doesn't get to censor speech because they deem it to be, quote, misinformation or disinformation. | |
| And now you see these same legacy media outlets like the New York Times, who yesterday, you know, had a headline saying this will prevent the government from combating disinformation. | |
| I mean, Woodward and Bernstein are dead at this point, right? | |
| Like this is just, they are now, the very amendment that protects their ability to write these stories and issue editorials that protects them, they could care less because it's as long as it's sort of the content that they want or the viewpoint that they want. | |
| And they turn now into completely sort of parroting the talking points of the current regime as opposed to defending people to speak their mind. | |
| And I think it's important to take a step back, Charlie. | |
| The reason why the First Amendment is so important is the founders understood, and it's appropriate, you know, just coming off the 4th of July. | |
| They knew human nature. | |
| They had seen what governments have done. | |
| Every tyrant in the history of the world has tried to aggregate power. | |
| One of the ways you do that is you quell dissent. | |
| And when the power of the government comes in and says, you can say this and you can't say that under penalty of law or the power of the federal government doing that with these myriad agencies, that's a very dangerous thing because the First Amendment protects that pressure release bail, right? | |
| We have a bunch of different viewpoints spread across the continent. | |
| And in order to avoid political violence, it's very important for people to feel like they can go into the town square and speak their mind, express themselves, or the virtual town square now. | |
| And so, but the Democrats, you know, and the left want to narrow that bandwidth of what's acceptable speech. | |
| And so you see this is the reason why political correctness, you know, people pushing back against that. | |
| It's the same reason why they find these kinds of instances of censorship so offensive because they understand viscerally that we need to be able to, you know, express ourselves and the government has no business in regulating that. | |
| But yeah, you're right. | |
| The legacy media, CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, they're losing their minds because they know that they've been in on this, whether it was in 2016, whether it was in 2020, whether it was during COVID. | |
| They've all been working closely together. | |
| They don't like that this could get broken up. | |
| And now we have evidence. | |
| Let's just take one example. | |
| Hunter Biden laptop. | |
| I lost my Twitter account during the Hunter Biden laptop thing for a week because we now can say factually and assuredly, the federal government was basically saying, hey, take this down, take this down, take this down. | |
| And by the way, I was put on a Twitter blacklist and we're even looking at legal action, Senator, just from our own personal perspective, especially with this injunction, I think, will only make it more likely that we could potentially get some sort of relief from losing our social media accounts because we participated in wrongthink. | |
| But Senator, I think you hit something very powerful. | |
| We only have about three minutes remaining here, but they're going to do this again in 2024. | |
| They're using active measures to interfere with the 2024 election. | |
| Department of Justice going after Justice going after Trump is one of the reasons they're so angry. | |
| Again, this is just speculation, but it makes you wonder, were they planning a censorship 2.0 campaign where they had like that 51 Intel agencies using that as a reason? | |
| And now this federal judge says, no, no, no, you're not even allowed to talk to these agencies. | |
| It makes you wonder, did they have a political plan? | |
| It's the playbook. | |
| It's worked, right? | |
| This playbook has worked now. | |
| And you mentioned it. | |
| If it wasn't for our lawsuit last year, last spring, and then the Twitter files, all of this stuff would still be quote unquote a conspiracy theory, right? | |
| They'd be able to dismiss all it. | |
| So you've got to be courageous. | |
| You've got to push back. | |
| In the Senate now, I'm actually pushing legislation that I filed that says, look, if you've engaged in this kind of activity, social media company, you lose your Section 230 protection liability. | |
| We also ought to have a private right of action, quite frankly, against government officials who engage in this kind of expression of speech. | |
| So there's more to do, but we've got to expose the number one, which we've done. | |
| We have to stop it, which we've now been able to do. | |
| And we've got to stay on offense here. | |
| There isn't, I mean, there's so many important issues. confronting our country, but I can't think of anything more important than this fundamental idea of being able to speak your mind. | |
| It's just, we're endowed with this right, and government's job is to protect that right, not to infringe upon it. | |
| And you hit this earlier, is that the socialists and the far left wingers, they used to kind of be running around in neurotic circles saying, we're being censored by the government. | |
| We're being censored. | |
| In fact, when I got my start 10 years ago, it was far left wing groups on campus that would always tell me that the FBI is infiltrating the International Workers Association. | |
| I'd kind of roll my eyes, like, okay, yeah, whatever. | |
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Escaping Woke Banks
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| Now they seem thrilled to do it. | |
| They say, oh, yeah, now that we control the intel agencies, we can crush the fascists. | |
| We can crush the right-wingers. | |
| It's deeply unhealthy for our country. | |
| And in fact, how successful would our political movement be if we didn't have intel agencies getting in the way of our politics? | |
| The fact that we're able to win the elections that we are and build the consensus that we are, it's remarkable because not only are we up against the media, up against the billionaire oligarchs, up against all these incredible plutocrats, we have a federal government that is whispering in the ears of the main channels of communication saying, shut up Charlie Kirk, shut up Dan Bongino, put him on blacklists. | |
| Really is amazing. | |
| And Senator Schmidt deserves the credit from Missouri. | |
| He started this legal complaint when he was attorney general of Missouri. | |
| He has some other big wins that he's going to share as well. | |
| This is a win. | |
| This is a win, everybody, that this federal judge on Independence Day said, no, you cannot do that. | |
| I want to tell you guys about something every single one of you can benefit from, and you guys need to change. | |
| It's who we use when we go to get mortgages. | |
| Look, I balance a lot of stuff. | |
| I'm traveling all the time, my show, and I recently needed to get a mortgage to get something figured out. | |
| And it was a tough one. | |
| And I didn't want to go to those woke banks. | |
| I, you know, I did previous, my last mortgage we did. | |
| It was with a woke bank, and they were just, they were bureaucratic and they donate the BLM and the gay agenda and all that stuff. | |
| And I said, what can I do to actually, and I said, of course, duh, hello, andrewandtodd.com. | |
| They're Christian. | |
| They're conservative. | |
| Our worldviews are aligned. | |
| They're fabulous people. | |
| When I needed a mortgage, of course, I went to my friends, Andrew Delray and Todd Avakin at Sierra Pacific. | |
| And look, this is the first time I used them because, you know, we were just recently started doing stuff on the show and partners. | |
| I said, okay, let's see how it is. | |
| You know, we do a lot of things. | |
| Together is blown away. | |
| They respond within minutes. | |
| They walk me through everything. | |
| They took care of all those details I didn't have time for. | |
| And I said, boy, guys, I now see how great you guys actually are. | |
| Responsive. | |
| And yes, no more of this woke stuff. | |
| Stop using the woke banks. | |
| Oh, I want to refinance my home and I'm going to go to a bank that hates me. | |
| Stop doing that. | |
| Instead, go to andrewandodd.com. | |
| So if you or someone you know is moving from blue states to red states, androidandod.com. | |
| Have an aging family member that needs financial relief because maybe a reverse mortgage, andrewandtodd.com. | |
| Are you self-employed and finding it hard to qualify? | |
| Or first-time homebuyer? | |
| AndrewandTodd.com. | |
| Again, what I love, again, I'm just friends with them. | |
| So I could tell you, I have no other reason to say this except that it's true. | |
| They're fabulous. | |
| They work hard. | |
| We go out to dinner together. | |
| They're great people. | |
| So don't depend on those woke banks, the big banks. | |
| They do a terrible job, by the way. | |
| They're funding all the destructive stuff. | |
| They want centralized bank digital currency. | |
| They're all part of the great reset. | |
| This is a group of men. | |
| Get rid of that. | |
| This is a group of guys. | |
| They do a great job and stop depending on woke banks for what I needed. | |
| I saw it firsthand. | |
| They got it done for me. | |
| And it was very complicated. | |
| It was a thicket. | |
| It was a maze. | |
| It was a labyrinth. | |
| And they said, oh, you got to do this and this, and I'll make this phone call. | |
| We'll do this and this paperwork. | |
| And again, these other banks that I deal with, it's like, here's 955,000 pages to sign, and they don't call you back and they don't work weekends. | |
| I had a problem with one of the things on the process because it was one thing that wasn't filled out. | |
| And they respond on a Sunday within minutes. | |
| You're trying to get a response from a woke bank on a Sunday. | |
| You'll say, sorry, no response. | |
| So check it out. | |
| It's AndrewandTodd.com, 888, 888, 1172. | |
| That's how you call them. | |
| And say, Charlie Kirk sent you. | |
| You might actually get them on the phone. | |
| Again, they're value-aligned, honest, trustworthy, wonderful people. | |
| I use them. | |
| You should use them too. | |
| Super responsive, blown away. | |
| And I could say, if they're good for me, they're good for you. | |
| Love these guys. | |
| AndrewandTodd.com, 888, 888, 1172. | |
| And finally, some of you might say, oh, Charlie, bad time to buy a home. | |
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| I don't know about that. | |
| You should look what's happening. | |
| Commercial real estate is one thing. | |
| Private single-family home ownership, it might actually stabilize and go up in the next year. | |
| If you're young, it might be the time to get in. | |
| Think about it, pray about it. | |
| But most importantly, go to AndrewandTodd.com for all your mortgage needs. | |
| Great guys, AndrewandTodd.com. | |
| Senator, you also were the driving force behind the student loan decision as well. | |
| Tell us about that. | |
| Yeah, it's interesting. | |
| Late last week, that was a huge win for taxpayers and the rule of law. | |
| And then we got the 4th of July ruling on the free speech case. | |
| So it's been a good case for the things we believe in. | |
| But yeah, look, there's just, I think there's a couple of arguments here. | |
| One is there's a fundamental fairness argument. | |
| There's just, it's fundamentally unfair for the working class guy or gal who made a different decision in life or they paid off their loans or they never took them out in the first place to then be stuck with the student loan tab that's not been paid by the tenured theater professor, right? | |
| There's just a fundamental fairness and people understand that the polling would indicate that. | |
| And that was a driving force here. | |
| But the legal argument here is there's just no statutory authority or constitutional authority at all that gives this administration just the ability with a stroke of a pen to wipe away a half a trillion dollars worth of debt, maybe up to a trillion. | |
| I mean, the estimates are, you know, vary, but you think about that. | |
| It's a huge win for taxpayers to not have to soak that up. | |
| And then thirdly, this was, look, everybody, this is a cynical political ploy by Joe Biden to get votes. | |
| And now he's scurrying to make it look like this wasn't just, you know, something to get votes to get younger people who have debt, you know, more enthusiastic about his campaign. | |
| I mean, that's all this ever was. | |
| And so it's unconstitutional. | |
| It's interesting, Charlie, too. | |
| So not many people pay attention to, nor what I expect into your first speech on the Senate floor. | |
| So I was elected last fall. | |
| The first speech that I gave, and these are two very important issues that relate to these two cases: are, you know, this is the greatest country in the history of the world. | |
| We celebrated it yesterday. | |
| Ben Franklin, when he walks out of the Constitutional Convention and asked about what kind of government you have, he says, of course, a republic if you can keep it, because it's hard work, right? | |
| And the Constitution provides those guardrails to keep it. | |
| But the two biggest threats, in my view, are a supercharged administrative state and a tax on free speech. | |
| That's what my speech was about. | |
| And here we go, right? | |
| You've got the administrative state. | |
| Nobody ever, Congress never voted on this student loan debt forgiveness scam. | |
| And if it's such a good idea, let Congress vote on this stuff. | |
| And it wouldn't just extend there. | |
| It's all this green, you know, Green New Deal nonsense that they try to push through these agencies. | |
| So I think it's a big win for separation powers. | |
| It's a big win for the rule of law. | |
| It's a big win for taxpayers again, a half a trillion dollars. | |
| So, yeah, we led that fight when I was AG and then the Supreme Court ruled on it last week. | |
| It was excellent. | |
| And congratulations on that. | |
| And Senator, can you respond? | |
| Joe Biden, hours after the decision, he said he's going to do his own thing again. | |
| I mean, these people are relentless, and I think you're pinpointing the threats to our liberty perfectly. | |
| The administrative state, it's so bloated, it's so now militarized against the American people, and then an out-of-control executive. | |
| Thankfully, we were thanks to President Donald Trump winning the presidency and doing what he said he was going to do. | |
| We have kind of this firewall right now of federal judges and Supreme Court judges. | |
| But, Senator, can you comment? | |
| That is a temporary measure. | |
| That is not going to win us. | |
| You know, that's not a guarantee it continues. | |
| And, Senator, you're probably involved. | |
| I don't know if you're on the Judiciary Committee or not in the Senate. | |
| Chuck Schumer and all these guys, they're putting radicals on the federal bench right now. | |
| So, your thoughts as we close up. | |
| Yeah, look, and they don't want to stop there with the radicals that are trying to put on the bench. | |
| I mean, one of the most regular things they do in the Senate is vote no on these crazy nominees that they put forward. | |
| But I would say, too, to highlight this, and you're, you know, you're rightfully that conference is going to be great. | |
| Um, hope I can get down there. | |
| We're checking on that today. | |
| But I think why it's so important for the movement to stay energized here is the Democrats, we kind of lose sight of this a little bit because we won the House and have a slim majority there. | |
| But let's just say they take the House somehow, some way in the next four or five years. | |
| The truth of the matter is, right now, in the United States Senate, they're a vote away, one vote away from ending the filibuster, packing the United States Supreme Court, adding states to the union, federalizing our elections, and having to open borders and amnesty. | |
| That's not conjecture. | |
| They said this, that that's what they want to do if they ever just have to have 51 votes to go do it. | |
| So, we've got to stay vigilant here. | |
| Obviously, 2024 is a big year. | |
| We got to win the presidency to take back control of this administrative state and dismantle it. | |
| But from a legislative perspective with judges, we've just got to have a firewall to make sure that they stop putting these radicals on the court. | |
| Well, and it goes to show, you know, some people say, Charlie, where's the hope? | |
| You should have some hope after the last week. | |
| You show up, we win elections, you can get good judges that can then say no to this Marxist monarchy that is declaring war on the Constitution daily. | |
| Senator, great job. | |
| I hope to see you at our event in Florida. | |
| Thank you so much. | |
| Thanks, Charlie. | |
| Thanks for all you do. | |
| Missouri v. Biden continues a very important case, which is now being led by the Solicitor General of Louisiana, someone running for Attorney General. | |
| Liz Morell joins us now. | |
| So, Liz, thank you for joining the program. | |
| Tell us the latest and congratulations on the temporary injunction, but how do you anticipate this playing out after that groundbreaking news? | |
| Well, you know, it is. | |
| It's really historic day. | |
| I think it was appropriate that the opinion came out on the 4th of July. | |
| I would expect the government's going to appeal. | |
| I was expecting that to happen today, but that won't change the historic nature of this opinion and how important it is, I think, for the country. | |
| So, the elements of this we're still figuring out and discovering how deep has this censorship regime really gone? | |
| It's interagency, and it seems as if there's a very cozy inside-out relationship between the federal government and private social media companies. | |
| Charlie, it's well beyond cozy. | |
| Um, this is the most extensive collusion and you know, system that I've ever seen. | |
| It's a massive federal government enterprise that was created from the White House down through CISA, through the FBI, through HHS, through the Census Bureau, through the CDC. | |
| We've got 20,000 pages of documents showing the government's collusion and also their threats to big tech coming straight from the White House. | |
| So, the judges' injunction said this was evidence of one of the worst attacks on free speech in U.S. history. | |
| Can you elaborate more on that? | |
| Well, you know, it's really shocking when the federal government engages in a conspiracy to violate one of the most, if not the most fundamental right in our Bill of Rights, and that is the First Amendment. | |
| You know, they have unequivocally, undeniably admitted and given documents that they did not dispute to us that show that they were essentially violating people's rights by censoring their speech, deciding what we could see and think and believe. | |
| They even created a whole category called cognitive infrastructure at CISA to embrace redesigning our thoughts. | |
| CISA is part of the Department of Homeland Security, has a $3 billion budget and 2,700 employees. | |
| What are they supposed to be spending their time doing? | |
| You know, I think they're supposed to spend their time guarding pipelines, things like the electrical grid, hardened infrastructure from attacks. | |
| That may be cyber attacks. | |
| That may also be heart attacks. | |
| So that's what CISA was created to do. | |
| It certainly was not created to engage in a massive conspiracy to violate people's fundamental rights to free speech. | |
| Well, they don't even guard the pipelines. | |
| Remember the Dakota Access Pipeline protests? | |
| They couldn't even do that. | |
| So I want to play a piece of tape here and get your response. | |
| This is on MSNBC, Ryan Riley, arguing the FBI isn't policing social media enough, play cut six. | |
| I think that, you know, you have to take a step back and acknowledge what the reality is about how the FBI has been interacting with this. | |
| And just look at January 6th itself, for example, right? | |
| It's not as though the FBI has been going in and saying, hey, take down this post, hey, take down this post. | |
| That's what they're alleging, but there's just not a lot of evidence to support that. | |
| If you look at the reality, it's like the FBI is not very good at monitoring social media. | |
| Just look at what happened on January 6th. | |
| There are all of these warning signs, red flags going up all over the place, and they weren't prepared. | |
| They didn't do enough. | |
| But Liz, help me understand. | |
| Is there not an email of the White House to the social media company, take down this post? | |
| Yes. | |
| Yes. | |
| I mean, that's, you know, it kind of reminds me of the old saying, are you going to believe me or your lion eyes? | |
| I mean, we've got the documents from these, from the White House, and they did not dispute the correctness or the accuracy of any of those communications. | |
| So they were threatening big tech. | |
| They were going on television and linking their threats to Section 230. | |
| So they were threatening their immunity by overtly going on television and suggesting that if they didn't do more, and then they set up these entire pipelines for sending information to the tech platforms and telling them exactly what to take down. | |
| That included Hunter Biden's laptop. | |
| It included a parody account of Joe Biden. | |
| I mean, these are things that are very clearly protected speech. | |
| Without a doubt. | |
| And so this is a new argument. | |
| Walter Isaacson now says that the government has free speech rights. | |
| This is unbelievable. | |
| Walter Isaacson is an author and the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute. | |
| And he says the government has to have the right to its own free speech, as if the government's rights are being defended. | |
| Government has rights? | |
| What? | |
| Play cut seven. | |
| I think Judge Daughty's decision goes too far. | |
| We're in the press. | |
| We're always used to people from the government saying, hey, don't print that. | |
| The social media companies didn't just play along. | |
| They colluded and tried to stop some of the flow of information. | |
| So I think this is a little bit of a corrective, but I clearly feel that in the end, the decision will be refined somewhat because government has to have the right to have its own free speech to push back when they see things on social media that's anchored dangerous. | |
| Okay, this guy runs the Aspen Institute, which by the way, they did tabletop exercises between the FBI with the FBI to censor quote-unquote Russian disinformation. | |
| Liz, I've heard a lot of things. | |
| I've never heard anybody in public commentary say the government has a right to speech. | |
| So there is such a thing as government speech, but the government doesn't have a right to, they have the government doesn't have First Amendment rights. | |
| So the government can engage in speech that's a category of speech called government speech, but it's not protected by the First Amendment. | |
| So the government doesn't have constitutional rights. | |
| People have constitutional rights to be protected from the government. | |
| And I think that's what continues to be lost in this discussion is this new narrative that I think you're identifying, Charlie. | |
| And that is that the government is actually out there claiming that it has a right to censor our speech. | |
| That is a shocking shift away from the First Amendment. | |
| Well, yeah, and as if the government is the aggrieved party here, as if they're the ones that deserve special privileges and rights. | |
| No, no, we give our liberty, the sovereign, through the consent of the governed to you, not the other way around. | |
| And Liz, in closing here, isn't that what's really being decided here? | |
| What is the form of government? | |
| They want this Marxist monarchy untouched, where if you dare question it, they say, well, we have a right as the government. | |
| And this Aspen Institute, lunatic, he's considered to be an intellectual. | |
| It's one of the most moronic, dangerous things I've heard anybody say, Walter Isaacson. | |
| Isn't this a question of what type of form structure of government we're going to have, a constitutional republic or some sort of unrecognizable technocratic oligarchy? | |
| It absolutely is. | |
| I mean, that goes to the heart of what the government claims that it can do and should do in this case. | |
| You know, I think this idea that government should be able to censor our speech and decide what we can hear and think and that would create a category of critical infrastructure called cognitive infrastructure is absolute attack on the First Amendment of this and it's terrifying. | |
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| Liz Murle, thank you so much and best of luck in your candidacy for to become Attorney General of Louisiana. | |
| Thanks so much. | |
| Thanks, Charlie. | |
| Thanks so much for listening. | |
| Everybody, email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com. | |
| Thanks so much for listening and God bless. | |
| For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk. com. | |