The Charlie Kirk Show - From the Capitol to Christ
Aired: 2024-01-18
Duration: 36:46


=== Political Prisoner Testimony (14:49) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody, Siaka Masakwai joins us for an amazing conversation.
[00:00:03]  He's an American political prisoner.
[00:00:04]  That's a real heavy thing.
[00:00:05]  Listen to his testimony carefully, and he has a great, great call to action at the end.
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[00:01:28]  Joining us now is Siaka Masakwai.
[00:01:31]  He's a January 6th defendant.
[00:01:33]  He took a little step into the Capitol, step out, boom, air marshals tracked him, raided his home, and arrested him.
[00:01:39]  This is the current regime.
[00:01:40]  It's anarcho-tyranny.
[00:01:42]  If you rape, if you murder, if you steal, if you the government doesn't care, but if you dare to take a step into the people's house, they will hunt you down and try to destroy your life.
[00:01:52]  Well, we're not going to let that happen.
[00:01:54]  Joining us now is Siaka Masakai.
[00:01:55]  Siaka, welcome back to the program.
[00:01:57]  Good to see you, my friend.
[00:01:59]  All right.
[00:01:59]  What is the latest news that you have regarding January 6th?
[00:02:02]  And tell your story again, please.
[00:02:04]  Well, so I guess January 6th is we're seeing everything coming out.
[00:02:11]  It just looks like entrapment.
[00:02:13]  I went there January 6th for Trump's speech.
[00:02:17]  Went back to my hotel right after the speech and actually watched online or on TV MSNBC start to kind of say this narrative.
[00:02:27]  And this lady was like, well, you know, it's a sad mood and everything.
[00:02:30]  And I had just left a group of people laughing and having a good time.
[00:02:34]  So my impetus to go down to the Capitol was to go over there and get behind the camera person and call them liars, pretty much.
[00:02:41]  And when I got down there, you know, I ran into some friends.
[00:02:44]  We started doing an interview.
[00:02:46]  There people are singing a national anthem.
[00:02:48]  And then I just started recording things because I wanted to capture everything that was going on.
[00:02:54]  As you said earlier, walked towards this door that now is the infamous door that everyone broke the glass and went into.
[00:03:01]  I had no idea of this.
[00:03:03]  Walked over to the door.
[00:03:04]  Cops were standing kind of in the front of the or in the archway a little further back where they kind of stopped us from going any further.
[00:03:13]  As you can see, I have footage up and I'm looking around.
[00:03:16]  A cop in riot gear comes out and says, You guys need to go back out.
[00:03:21]  So all right.
[00:03:22]  In the video, you hear me say, We're being reasonable.
[00:03:25]  I turn around and tell everyone behind me, guys, go back the other way.
[00:03:28]  And went around, I went outside, reported a little bit more, and I left.
[00:03:33]  Then in June, on June 10th, 21, 415 agents came into my home around 5:45 in the morning with AR-15s, guns drawn, pointed at myself, my best friend, my godsons, three and six at the time.
[00:03:48]  They took my computer, my cell phones, my flash drives, and my MAGA hats.
[00:03:55]  And then for two years, I was never charged with anything.
[00:03:57]  I wasn't arrested that day.
[00:03:59]  For two years, they've had this stuff.
[00:04:00]  They wouldn't give it back.
[00:04:01]  They still haven't given it back.
[00:04:03]  And on November 30th of 2023, coming back from the movie premiere of Lady Ballers for Daily Wire, landing at Burbank Airport, they arrested me on the tarmac.
[00:04:16]  They separated me from my wife, who we had just recently been married a couple of years earlier and were about to have our first child.
[00:04:24]  And didn't they told her, well, he's being arrested based on January 6th.
[00:04:28]  I spent a night in jail.
[00:04:31]  Praise God.
[00:04:31]  I was able to get out the next day after spending all day locked up and chained from my wrist, ankles, and waist, like a drug trafficker or some type of sex slaver or something.
[00:04:44]  Then now, you know, we've been officially officially charged, arraigned, and charged with four misdemeanors, including knowingly trespassing a restricted area and staying, disorderly conduct in a restricted area, disorderly conduct in the Capitol, and parading in the Capitol.
[00:05:01]  And we pled not guilty on our arraignment.
[00:05:05]  We're citing selected prosecution because after two years of following, tracking, and seeing everything that I've been up to, this is what they decide to charge me with.
[00:05:16]  And yeah, we, you know, this is where the fight is right now.
[00:05:19]  And we're waiting to see if we can get our Brady material and get our 702s to see if they were watching before they had permission to.
[00:05:27]  There's just a now is just going to go through the process of the waiting game.
[00:05:31]  And I got to say, you know, from people like you guys, you personally, and Turning Point and Rob McCoy and Gina Carano, Daily Wired, Jeremy Boring, like the amount of people that have come and surrounded me in this moment, like I think is an example of what we can do for so many other January 6th people that are being plucked in the quiet of the night.
[00:05:52]  You know, they don't have kind of a low platform that I have, but this hopefully can put a message on look what your government's doing to you.
[00:05:59]  We have your back 100%, Siaka.
[00:06:01]  Let's play Cut 78, please.
[00:06:03]  Lazarus.
[00:06:04]  Lazarus.
[00:06:05]  Dave Lazarus, special agent, Nancy Pelosi's head of security.
[00:06:11]  Did Pelosi's security chief perjure himself on the very night of the release of this story?
[00:06:17]  The House has voted to oust the speaker.
[00:06:19]  We lost our speaker of the House moment McCarthy, his seat was vacated.
[00:06:23]  I lost my ability to release the video.
[00:06:27]  We were given permission to use a single screenshot.
[00:06:30]  Therefore, the Honorable Mike Johnson of the state of Louisiana, duly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives.
[00:06:35]  Of course, now we have a new speaker in place.
[00:06:41]  We now have permission to release the video.
[00:06:46]  Siaka, your reaction, bro, like, um, I actually was fortunate enough to meet Steve Baker at the America Project J6 celebration where we also got to hear the J6 prisoners sing the national anthem live at nine o'clock.
[00:07:02]  It was Charlie, if you haven't heard it yet, it's amazing.
[00:07:04]  And he told me about this story.
[00:07:07]  And when I finally saw it for myself, the first thing that I thought about is who made this employee lie to this level?
[00:07:15]  Because this lie paints a picture of that day that many of us know isn't the full or true picture.
[00:07:22]  So it's not, that's not the guy that made that decision.
[00:07:26]  The employee that works for the Capitol building isn't the one that made a decision to corroborate with a Capitol police officer and make up a story to put people behind jail or put people in jail for a long time in federal prison.
[00:07:39]  So the first thing I think about is we need to find out who made him do this, make this decision.
[00:07:45]  We need to hold him accountable for lying and then putting human beings and fellow Americans behind bars.
[00:07:52]  Again, federal prison based off a lie.
[00:07:55]  This is very important for everyone.
[00:07:57]  This is not a Democrat or Republican thing because the government is establishing a pattern.
[00:08:02]  The FBI, they're moving on misdemeanors for random people.
[00:08:06]  Steve told me they called him two days after they arrested me.
[00:08:09]  They're coming for him.
[00:08:10]  So they're coming for anyone and everyone that is going to question this regime.
[00:08:14]  And they'll even have employees of the government lie.
[00:08:18]  Who is authorizing that?
[00:08:19]  That's the questions we need to ask and get the answers to.
[00:08:24]  Steve Baker of the Blaze. was on that video.
[00:08:28]  How much of the January 6th tapes are we still missing?
[00:08:32]  So far, I know only 90 hours have been released.
[00:08:35]  And they're talking about within the next few months that the next 44,000 hours that are still held will be released.
[00:08:44]  So we still have still, in a sense, a treasure trove that haven't been released yet when you only have a small amount that has to tell a story.
[00:08:52]  Like I've been in Hollywood, you know, since 2004, so I understand story.
[00:08:56]  I also understand editing in order to tell a story.
[00:08:59]  And so now that we see this story is crumbling, that they told us for the last two years that they tried to paint regular citizens who were, you know, practicing their First Amendment rights as terrorists and traitors to this country.
[00:09:13]  The reason why most people were there was because they love their country.
[00:09:17]  Whether they're first generation like myself or people who have been here for generations, that's why they were there.
[00:09:25]  Let's find out the people who had the body cam that were telling people to go forward and leave.
[00:09:29]  Let's find out those people who were dressed in one outfit one minute and hiding behind trees, switching to Trump outfits and moving forward after.
[00:09:36]  Let's talk about the over 200 agents that no one wants to identify or the people who were there 15 minutes before Trump speech even ended.
[00:09:44]  I want to just repeat something.
[00:09:45]  You said only 90 out of 44,000 hours have been released.
[00:09:48]  Yes.
[00:09:49]  Speaker Johnson just hasn't fulfilled his promise, I guess.
[00:09:52]  You know, it's something that, and I'm not a huge fan of FDR overall, but he said something that made sense.
[00:10:00]  And like I said before, I've been in the Hollywood industry for a while, so I can tell story.
[00:10:07]  And so what I'm seeing a lot of times, especially with Republican and Democrat movements, everything we see in politics is not by accident.
[00:10:15]  So the political game will be played, I think, a lot of times, even before just a humanitarian game should be played.
[00:10:23]  And so there's a lot of people, even from a January 6th standpoint, that no one was talking about this for a long time.
[00:10:30]  You know, you have been somebody who's been consistent.
[00:10:32]  Turning point's been consistent, but from Fox News to a lot of the major names, no one talked about it.
[00:10:37]  That was for a reason.
[00:10:38]  Now they're talking about it because now it's politically expedient to help out.
[00:10:43]  So I look at it as from a political standpoint, I can't rely on them to do the ultimate right thing right away, but I can rely on us to talk, us to share the story and get people back on the right side of it.
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[00:12:12]  I want to just say this again.
[00:12:13]  Capitol Police Special Agent David Lazarus, who claimed he witnessed an altercation between Dunn and the Oath Keepers on several occasions.
[00:12:20]  However, the complete timeline of video evidence released by the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, with some of the few hours he released, clearly indicates that Lazarus was not in the vicinity of Dunn when the alleged altercation occurred, but was a quarter mile away in the Senate office buildings.
[00:12:35]  Lazarus did not arrive in the stairwell where Dunn was located until after the Oath Keepers had already left the area and can be seen exiting the Capitol Rotunda through the East Doors.
[00:12:45]  I mean, Siaka, did no one fact-check this guy's testimony?
[00:12:48]  I mean, this is the most simple 101 stuff.
[00:12:51]  Well, I mean, you got to look at the, I would say, the political will.
[00:12:56]  You have lawyers that weren't willing to defend a lot of these J6ers.
[00:13:00]  So when everyone, they're bulldozing this narrative down everyone's throat and not releasing the footage.
[00:13:06]  Who was going to fact-check?
[00:13:09]  Like, we can never expect, and I believe you can never expect evil to do the right thing.
[00:13:14]  So it wasn't going to come to this point until the light of day was shown on it.
[00:13:20]  Now this is where we are.
[00:13:21]  So of course they weren't going to do that because they're not going to hold themselves accountable to that level.
[00:13:26]  And we've watched it happen over the last, you know.
[00:13:29]  So Siaka, there's something I want you to riff on here.
[00:13:32]  I got in a conversation recently with someone who is not as conservative as I am.
[00:13:37]  He's a good guy, though.
[00:13:38]  And I said something.
[00:13:39]  I said, you know, our government is really treacherous and evil.
[00:13:42]  And he said, oh, no, I wouldn't go that far.
[00:13:44]  And I laid out the case and he conceded some points to his credit.
[00:13:47]  But Siaku, you're not a political guy.
[00:13:50]  Can you, your own government is attacking you.
[00:13:54]  You're not a drug trafficker.
[00:13:56]  You're not choreographing the movement of females across the southern borders that they could be sold into sex slavery.
[00:14:02]  You haven't burned down Wendy's in the spirit of Floyd Apalooza.
[00:14:05]  No, you took a couple steps into the Capitol and then you went out.
[00:14:09]  Can you comment on how it feels in your life to be targeted by a government that you probably once looked at at best positively, at worst neutrally?
[00:14:22]  I always like to tell people: you know, I was raised in Evanston, Illinois.
[00:14:26]  And yes, it's a liberal and it's actually far more liberal progressive than it was when I was growing up.
[00:14:32]  But we were raised that America was great.
[00:14:34]  We were raised that this country was working towards something better than humans have ever seen when it comes down to governance.
[00:14:42]  And leaving a country, or my family left a country where they actually locked people up and killed opposition leaders.

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[00:14:50]  And to be in this situation now and to know this is not what it's supposed to be.
[00:14:55]  You know, I had this conversation yesterday with a good friend of mine I went to high school with.
[00:14:59]  I'm like, stop talking about teams and look at it in the fact that our government is using all the resources that it has to terrorize their citizens.
[00:15:11]  To terror, like, I haven't been always, you know, been a Christian or been trying to do the right things.
[00:15:16]  I've done things where I've got put in jail for that I deserve to be.
[00:15:21]  But to have your government paint a picture, then use all the force of our own tax dollars to then frame you as a terrorist, a traitor to your country, a traitor to a country is deserving of death.
[00:15:37]  And that's in our Constitution.
[00:15:39]  So when you watch people kind of sit back and go, well, you know, yeah, you shouldn't have been there or yeah, you're a traitor.
[00:15:46]  It's like, no, you don't understand what is happening right now in the movement that is going on because it's fun today because you think that this is your team working it.
[00:15:55]  When Trump does win, are the complaints going to be the same when people believe that maybe he's moving too heavy-handedly?
[00:16:02]  Because the standard has already been set.
[00:16:06]  The FBI can go after misdemeanors now, which they've never done in history.
[00:16:10]  To have that feeling on top when you're just trying to make your way, when you've already been canceled because you didn't believe in the shot when you backed a certain president, when you want to speak out against killing and assassinating babies in the womb, now the government's going to put themselves on top of you with guns in your face, come in and take your property, wait two years.
[00:16:37]  Sorry.
[00:16:39]  Everyone should be mad.
[00:16:42]  And it's not just about me, you know?
[00:16:46]  This is about the direction of where we want our kids to grow up.
[00:16:51]  Everyone should be mad that our government's moving like this.
[00:16:55]  I'm sorry.
[00:16:56]  How can people support you and help you out here?
[00:16:58]  You're being persecuted by our own government.
[00:17:00]  And as Dennis Prager said, and Dennis Prager is a very precise man, he said, I never thought I'd live in a country with political prisoners.
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=== Church Support and Faith (12:08) ===

[00:18:25]  I know you're allowing this to strengthen you, and we have your back, but there have been a fair amount of January 6th defendants that have now killed themselves and committed suicide because of the weight and the pressure.
[00:18:36]  Our government has no disregard for their citizens.
[00:18:38]  In fact, I believe firmly our government hates the people that they claim to represent.
[00:18:43]  Siaka, your reaction.
[00:18:45]  Like you said, before growing up, I used to not think that.
[00:18:49]  And now, as I watch how things are moving, there's no reasonable conclusion to why they're moving like this on citizens outside of a strong disdain for it.
[00:19:00]  I don't understand it.
[00:19:03]  But, as I was talking to your producer earlier, this This has just reaffirmed the glory of God to me, from the evening of being locked up to getting a Bible that night and literally falling asleep with it in my arms.
[00:19:18]  To talking to the prisoners the next day at the holding cell in the marshal's office and ended up being asked to pray for them and myself before we went in front of the magistrate.
[00:19:31]  To having good godly friends looking after Charlotte when I wasn't able to be with her, to just the church, you know, church Godspeak, and how they showed up at the hearing just for my bond hearing.
[00:19:43]  There was at least 15 people and watching that work.
[00:19:47]  It's just, honestly, after just their arrest, let alone this last month, I've seen the Lord work in such amazing ways that, and they also mentioned how Jesus said, look, you know, the servant isn't greater than the master.
[00:20:03]  If you're going to work in his name and in his favor, you're going to be persecuted.
[00:20:09]  So to watch these things happen, but yet watch the Lord work, it sucks and it emotionally can hit you in the gut, but there's a glory on the other side and there's a light on the other side that it just warms you and gives you peace.
[00:20:22]  And you realize you're more blessed that if you have to be at this place, I'd rather be here with the Lord on my back and behind me and in front of me and around me than kind of be where I used to be alone in this darkness away from him.
[00:20:37]  You know, because those are crazy times too.
[00:20:40]  Romans 8, 28, we know that in all things, God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
[00:20:47]  He works all things out for his good for those who love him.
[00:20:52]  So, Siaka, you're looking this at viewing this as a blessing.
[00:20:56]  Can you talk more about Godspeak run by Pastor Rob McCoy, my pastor?
[00:21:00]  Every church in the country should be doing this, but most churches are not very courageous.
[00:21:05]  They run to the hills.
[00:21:06]  What a great ministry opportunity, right?
[00:21:08]  Because, you know, I hear from these social justice warrior people, you know, we stand with the immigrant and we stand with the felon and they have prison ministries.
[00:21:15]  And okay, great, fine.
[00:21:17]  But, you know, the lack of the church's compassion towards January 6th defendants has just been so telling to me.
[00:21:24]  Most pastors and churches, they don't care, but talk about how I'm sure that was just a stimulus for you, the love that you felt from Godspeak Calvary Chapel.
[00:21:33]  That is the love of Jesus Christ, isn't it?
[00:21:36]  So, I mean, what else could it be?
[00:21:38]  You know, Godspeak has been one of those churches.
[00:21:42]  I first even heard of Godspeak in 2020 when they stayed open.
[00:21:46]  And my buddy was like, let's go up there and support them.
[00:21:49]  And we were actually supposed to come and see you at Jack Hibbs Church instead.
[00:21:54]  And so my buddy mentioned that this church is being persecuted.
[00:21:57]  Do you want to go there?
[00:21:58]  And I'll be honest with you.
[00:22:00]  And this is before I got baptized and everything.
[00:22:04]  My buddy goes, they're going to give out tickets for people.
[00:22:07]  So I don't know.
[00:22:07]  And I go, wow, well, I go, what do you think Jesus would do?
[00:22:10]  He said, Jesus would go to the church that's being persecuted.
[00:22:12]  So I'm like, all right, you know, I guess we got to go there.
[00:22:16]  So we didn't get to come see you over at Jack's church.
[00:22:18]  We had to go over there.
[00:22:19]  And that's when I got my first, the first Bible that I've ever really owned for myself.
[00:22:25]  And the service went on and I'll sit next to this older lady who had just driven in from Arizona that day because the Lord told her she needed to be there.
[00:22:35]  After the service ends, she opens up Ephesians 6 in her Bible that's like has all these stickers and are highlighted like crazy.
[00:22:43]  And she points, she goes, open up your Bible here, points out Ephesians 6, 10, armor of God, and wants to circle in my book, but circles in her.
[00:22:50]  And she goes, you're going to need this.
[00:22:53]  The Lord told me to tell you you're going to need this.
[00:22:56]  And that was August of 2020.
[00:22:59]  After that, we find out I've got put on the censorship list of September of 2020 in California, the Secretary of State censored list.
[00:23:07]  I get a ticket for not wearing a mask in West Hollywood in February, and then I get raided in June.
[00:23:12]  But I meet my now future wife in September, who happens to be going to Godspeak because her church shut down.
[00:23:21]  So she asked me, Hey, do you want to go to church?
[00:23:23]  I'm like, Yeah, okay.
[00:23:24]  You know, I haven't gone to church consistently since I was 12.
[00:23:27]  So we started going to church together in November or in just September of 21, or yeah, 21.
[00:23:35]  So just to see that it went from just wanting to stand for freedom to all this stuff happening.
[00:23:41]  And then the woman that now is my wife and they're going to have our first child together was actually going to the church because the church was standing up.
[00:23:50]  So then, you know, I started going, started going to Godspeak there.
[00:23:54]  We were able to connect with that community so much so that we had 13 people in that church alone run for local office.
[00:24:02]  I was fortunate enough to be one of them because Charlotte also was doing Patriot Academy, Rick Green's Patriot Academy.
[00:24:08]  I went to that and started getting even more turned up about what the right thing to do and getting involved and running for a local office.
[00:24:15]  So I ran for state assembly in 22.
[00:24:17]  We had 13 people in Godspeak run for local office.
[00:24:22]  Godspeak, to me, was the church that I believed that I was missing and why I didn't really buy into it growing up because I was like, they're not active.
[00:24:32]  They sit back and say, oh, just kind of let it to me, just let it happen.
[00:24:36]  God will take care of it.
[00:24:37]  There wasn't the stand, you know, contend for the faith attitude that now I've started to see and started to learn more about and seeing, yes, this is the way to move.
[00:24:47]  This can give people purpose.
[00:24:49]  And I watched Godspeak lead the way in that to the point where I got baptized to Godspeak myself.
[00:24:54]  And man, it has just been from their impetus of what turning point faith is and my wife being, she's, you know, the leader of turning point faith out there in Thousand Oaks to watching what you guys have done to activate the pastors.
[00:25:10]  And I always said like this on a campaign trail, can you imagine what our country would be like if at least one person in every church or synagogue ran for local office?
[00:25:20]  We wouldn't be having these arguments.
[00:25:22]  We wouldn't be having a prop one in California pass that you can kill a baby up to nine months and you can now have the death of a baby go unsolved after 28 days.
[00:25:33]  You know, Siaka, what a beautiful testimony.
[00:25:36]  God works all things out for his good in an amazing way.
[00:25:40]  Did COVID and J6 bring you closer to Jesus?
[00:25:43]  Oh, oh, man.
[00:25:45]  COVID, COVID turned me to the truth of who God was.
[00:25:49]  J6 showed me the peace of Jesus.
[00:25:53]  COVID told me, like, man, look at the amount of lies in the world that are going to be told.
[00:25:59]  You need to find truth.
[00:26:00]  And that's who God was to me.
[00:26:01]  And, you know, I went to program for my alcoholism.
[00:26:04]  So I saw God save my life personally.
[00:26:07]  And then now I can go back and see how he did before.
[00:26:10]  And so in 2020, that was like, no, you have to stand for something more than just being comfortable in your house.
[00:26:17]  And that's where like who God was kind of came out there.
[00:26:21]  But then the love of Jesus Christ, that just flourished when you started getting canceled and attacked and put on the cover of, you know, LA Times lying about you and getting guns in your face.
[00:26:34]  And then in that little moment, finding that church and finding a woman that was at that, that goes to that church.
[00:26:43]  And we started our spiritual journey together and read through the whole New Testament together.
[00:26:47]  So it was the first time I got to literally not a blurb, but I got to read Jesus' words firsthand was with my wife.
[00:26:55]  And we did all that together.
[00:26:56]  Just, I mean, we could be here for hours discussing the amount of the amount of just glory that he's shown and how much that he exists.
[00:27:07]  And he wants to be there for us.
[00:27:09]  And especially now, especially when we've gone so far, we're not too far from the Jews in Exodus or that in, you know, in Leviticus or in Kings that were turning away from God and wondering why everything fell apart.
[00:27:23]  Then they turned back.
[00:27:25]  And the Lord even back then said, hey, come to me.
[00:27:28]  Just as long as you come to me and you're repentant, I'll get you.
[00:27:34]  And so that hope was just so, it became so much more palatable.
[00:27:38]  Man, Charlie, I couldn't.
[00:27:42]  Sometimes I just, I can't put it all into words, but it's just been so beautiful.
[00:27:46]  It's been some next level stuff, Charlie.
[00:27:49]  Next level.
[00:27:49]  The shortest prayer in the Bible is Lord Help Me.
[00:27:52]  That's it.
[00:27:54]  It was a storm going on.
[00:27:56]  We love Peter.
[00:27:57]  Peter's all over the map.
[00:27:59]  And it was just, Lord, help me.
[00:28:00]  Yeah.
[00:28:01]  Not this long, elaborate thing, not this, you know, I'm on the catechism, all that stuff's fine.
[00:28:05]  Just Lord, help me.
[00:28:06]  Wow.
[00:28:08]  Have you seen the movie Nefarious?
[00:28:10]  No, by Steve Dace, but I've been meaning to.
[00:28:13]  Did that make an impact on your life?
[00:28:15]  Yes, there is a scene.
[00:28:17]  It made, again, it makes the, everything that's happened, it made the gospel even more true because it says in there and it's based off the screw tape letters.
[00:28:26]  It's inspired by that with, you know, screw tape letters by, why does the name escape me right now?
[00:28:33]  By C.S. Lewis.
[00:28:34]  I'm sorry.
[00:28:35]  And in that movie, there's a moment the atheist cries out to the Lord.
[00:28:41]  All he says is, God, help me.
[00:28:44]  And everything stopped.
[00:28:46]  And I'm not, it's not taking the movie away at all because you have to go through it to understand like when this move, this moment even happened.
[00:28:53]  But it was just that little prayer, that little prayer that opened up the floodgates of the Lord to come back into his life when he was completely too smart for religion, if you will, too smart for God.
[00:29:06]  Right.
[00:29:07]  They say like the foolishness of God confines the wisdom of the wise.
[00:29:12]  And it's so interesting how to watch that happen and to even watch.
[00:29:16]  I don't want to just go back on me, but to watch how people have surrounded in a moment where I really thought I was like, well, that's it.
[00:29:23]  I'm going to be locked up and go by the wayside like so many other people from January 6th had, you know, happened.
[00:29:29]  But then to come out and see that support, you're like, whoa.
[00:29:34]  And to see the moment where Paul, you know, Paul talks about the walls coming down when he's in prison after just worshiping.
[00:29:41]  And I was able to, when I'm in there and that first night praying the Lord's Prayer over, getting the Bible, reading the Bible in there, the next day worshiping the Lord, just praying while I'm in jail, actually to the point where in that little two by four room where you get to speak to your lawyer, I wasn't expecting my lawyer to show up because he was in Florida.
[00:30:01]  He comes busting in with his bags and he's like, we're here.
[00:30:05]  I got you.
[00:30:05]  I got a lawyer for LA.
[00:30:07]  We're going to get you out today.
[00:30:08]  Great.
[00:30:09]  He leaves.
[00:30:10]  I'm sitting in this room and I fall to my knees.
[00:30:13]  And the only thing I can do with my hands just kind of cuffed is put my hands up and just sing that Brandon Lake song, gratitude.
[00:30:21]  Because I was like, I don't know what other prayer to say at this point.
[00:30:25]  So let me just do this.
[00:30:28]  Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here.
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[00:31:30]  I'm going to read a tweet here, Siaka, if that's okay.
[00:31:33]  And I want to get your reaction to it.
[00:31:35]  Just only one part of it.
[00:31:37]  So there's this Christian author, Beth Moore, who has a big following, allegedly.
[00:31:43]  And she's attacking Trump.
[00:31:46]  She's attacking Trump and all this.
[00:31:47]  And I don't want to pick on her too much, but I do want to, because I think this is really, I think it involves you.
[00:31:53]  She's attacking Trump supporters.
[00:31:55]  And she says that all Trump supporters want is a bully, someone who's verbally abusive, purposefully divisive, all these things.
[00:32:03]  And I hear your story, Siaka, okay?
[00:32:05]  And I want to connect these dots.
[00:32:07]  And I say, no, no, no, no.
[00:32:08]  We want, for one thing, justice.
[00:32:10]  One of the reasons why I'm more in support of Trump than ever before is look how you're being treated.
[00:32:15]  Look how he's being treated.
[00:32:16]  700 years in prison.
[00:32:18]  Can you riff on that from a Christian perspective, Siaka?
[00:32:21]  You know, Jesus said he didn't come here to bring peace, right?
[00:32:26]  And that's something that we were like, me and my wife, as we were reading, we were just thinking, man, like, what does that mean?
[00:32:31]  Come here to separate mothers from daughters, fathers from sons.
[00:32:36]  And what it meant was Jesus is the truth, right?
[00:32:38]  When he says, I'm the truth, the way, and the life.
[00:32:40]  He's the truth.
[00:32:42]  And it's so clear when someone makes a statement like that, they don't understand why people enjoy Trump and why people and Christians are backing him.
[00:32:52]  It's not because he's perfect.
[00:32:53]  It's not because he has a spotless record in his past.
[00:32:56]  It's because he's telling the truth.
[00:32:58]  It's because he's saying things that our culture has needed to be said for a long time.
[00:33:04]  It's because he's inspired individuals like yourself, like myself, and so many others to stand up for truth in their spot.
[00:33:10]  They don't, they can't handle that.
[00:33:12]  And so when I hear someone make a statement like that, it's really disheartening because then I know you have not talked to a Trump supporter.
[00:33:19]  I told her that was my response.
[00:33:20]  You know, I'm tweeting back at her.
[00:33:22]  I said, come with me to a MAGA rally.
[00:33:24]  You're welcome, Beth Moore.
[00:33:25]  Just check all of your biases and just come join a MAGA rally.
[00:33:29]  And yet, and there will be some anger and stuff, but mostly it's motivated by love and how we've been lied to.
[00:33:34]  Yes.
[00:33:35]  You know, and I said this yesterday.
[00:33:37]  It's like we've been lied to so much that the American people didn't get a chance to enjoy probably the funniest fun president we've ever had.
[00:33:46]  I've been to a few rallies and it's a comedy show.
[00:33:50]  And he's right.
[00:33:51]  Most of the politicians can't do what he does.
[00:33:54]  He'll have you laughing.
[00:33:55]  You may not agree with everything, but he has a jovial spirit.
[00:33:58]  And you said it, it is nothing but love.
[00:34:00]  And that jovial spirit echoes throughout any rally.
[00:34:04]  I was here with the Trump rallies in 2020 that went on from June all the way till a week after the election.
[00:34:10]  And we were singing, dancing.
[00:34:12]  Dennis Prager's in the middle of the street being, you know, doing that, I forget what they call it, but the Jewish dancer.
[00:34:18]  And we have a live band and we have people flying planes overhead.
[00:34:22]  That's what it is.
[00:34:24]  It's a life movement.
[00:34:26]  And when you can't take, don't take the time and you're only watching what the television screen, which is run by a certain group of people, want to show you.
[00:34:35]  Of course, you're going to think, oh, they only want this.
[00:34:37]  That sounds like you've been digesting CNN and MSNBC when it comes down to that.
[00:34:42]  You've been programmed.
[00:34:43]  You've been programmed.
[00:34:44]  Seeka.
[00:34:45]  There it is.
[00:34:46]  And a lot of people have.
[00:34:47]  So repeat the website.
[00:34:49]  And just your final plea here, Siaka, because you are a political prisoner.
[00:34:53]  And Siaka, if you haven't had a chance to read Darkness at Noon by Arthur Kessler, I encourage you to read it.
[00:34:59]  It's all about political prisoners in the 1950s, and it's really powerful.
[00:35:03]  But you are a political prisoner, and you're using it as a blessing.
[00:35:09]  You are the first generation of political prisoners.
[00:35:11]  I hope you know that.
[00:35:12]  We've never had it before in American history.
[00:35:15]  Even through our nastiest times, we have not had a thousand plus people that have been put in prison because of their views.
[00:35:22]  First of all, thank you again for having me on, Charlie.
[00:35:24]  If you guys feel it and moved in your heart, go to defend Siaka, S-I-A-K-A.com.
[00:35:30]  This is not just about me.
[00:35:32]  If anything, we can use this in order to put a light on what our government is doing to the average person, which they're not supposed to, which is why this country was established in the first place.
[00:35:42]  Again, it's not a right or left thing.
[00:35:44]  This is a government against its people.
[00:35:46]  And right now, the weight of the government is being used against individuals like myself and many others in worse positions that you may not know that some have been locked up since January 6th.
[00:35:58]  So this is a plea.
[00:35:59]  If you want to support me, please come up and go to defendsiaka.com.
[00:36:03]  I also do updates, January 6th updates, to keep you informed of what's going on with other cases and with our government in itself.
[00:36:11]  So go out there, support.
[00:36:13]  And guys, please be bold.
[00:36:15]  Move with Christ.
[00:36:16]  Be as Christ was and be bold with your belief.
[00:36:19]  Don't be afraid anymore.
[00:36:20]  Don't be afraid anymore.
[00:36:22]  You should go become a pastor, Siaka.
[00:36:24]  So pray about that.
[00:36:26]  Be careful.
[00:36:27]  Pray about that.
[00:36:29]  Oh, your lips.
[00:36:30]  Oh, man.
[00:36:31]  You have excellent fortitude.
[00:36:32]  God bless you, man.
[00:36:33]  Thank you.
[00:36:33]  Thank you, sir.
[00:36:34]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
[00:36:35]  Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:36:38]  Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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