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I have Mr. Blake with me.
To co-pilot if necessary.
It has been a long week, but a good week.
A very exciting week.
This was a blast.
Andrew and Blake both deserve great credit for prepping me for the Gavin Newsom discussion.
Not an easy challenge.
For many reasons.
Yeah, you know, it was very fun.
It was different.
You know, okay, we're going against a major left-wing politician and he's going in with his own agenda.
You know, he's not doing this on a lark.
But also in a very friendly...
But it was friendly, yeah.
We were thinking, we can't just go in and say like, Gavin...
You're terrible, you're evil, and like, blow it up, because...
He invited us on.
That's impolite.
That's not chivalrous.
That's bad.
But at the same time, we do know he has his own agenda with this.
He very likely wants to run for president.
He very likely realizes he needs to pivot towards the center.
So even though we want to push our views, we don't want to just be laundering like, oh, Gavin, you're a great moderate now.
And I think we navigated that very well.
Yes, and made a lot of headlines.
Made a lot of news.
So thank you for the prep.
And by the way, we're going to be posting a podcast episode of my reaction of it in its...
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So let's get to the first one here.
Anthony.
Anthony, thank you for being a member.
What is on your mind?
Hey, Charlie.
I got a question.
So I get this asked a lot.
How do you guys select your campus tours?
Because from what I can tell, it's mostly the South, West Coast, and a little bit in the North.
You know, so great question.
It's not nearly as dynamic as you might think of an answer.
First and foremost, it's, is it close to Arizona?
So, because I like to be around my family.
Number two, the criteria, going to private schools is like impossible.
We just did a certain private school.
I'm not even allowed to say the name of the private school on air because they made us sign some agreement.
But you can guess what private school I was at.
Literally, there's like defamation clauses.
It's just insane.
There's a lot of loops.
Oh, it's so terrible, right?
This is why these schools need to be totally defunded.
But public schools are...
Yeah, it was not UCLA. So I'll let you guess which one it was.
It wasn't UCLA. Guess which other one it was.
Anyway, don't even say it on air, Blake, because it's like...
We can neither confirm nor deny.
Yeah, but I think literally I had to take down tweets and stuff.
There may be videos of it, but those could be deep fakes.
Yes, exactly.
But the essence is this, though.
Public schools, you're allowed to film.
You're allowed to talk to students.
Private schools, there's no filming allowed.
Tons of restrictions because we have to protect our brand.
It's outrageous.
But secondly...
Yeah, look, the Northeast is not always friendly to us, but sometimes there's a less sexy answer, Anthony.
In the winter, I'm not going to go to Boston until the weather gets better because I can't do an outdoor event in Boston right now.
Oh, come on.
It's fun.
It's nice this time of year.
Yeah, four degrees, five degrees, right?
But the other part of this, though, that's important is we try to hit, at least in the election, we were hitting states that had some sort of involvement in the election.
So all the schools in Nevada, all the schools in Arizona.
All the schools in Georgia.
And we're trying to pepper around.
So as the weather gets better, I'm doing Midwest schools.
We haven't announced all of our tour stops.
And I do have a special stop coming in the Northeast soon.
A very, very good one in the Northeast.
So thank you, Anthony, for being a member.
Deeply appreciate it.
Good to hear your voice.
Thanks, Charlie.
Scott is next.
Scott, thank you for being a member.
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Scott, what's on your mind?
Hey, Charlie.
How are you?
I want to talk about the fact.
Yeah, I mean, this is a real personal issue for me.
It affects our children.
But the federal bureaucracy here in Boise, the Social Security office, we call them and they don't even answer the phone.
And then we can try to go there in person.
They say, hey, you got to make an appointment by phone.
So to me, it's clear President Trump and people don't talk about this enough.
He is a revolutionary president, not incrementalist, but revolutionary.
He wants to make these big cuts in government.
I'm really concerned that establishment D.C. is going to slow down and kill his efforts.
So what percentage of the federal workforce do you think Trump, Doge, and the cabinet will be able to cut in the next 12 months?
So I don't know.
I want to make sure I manage and taper your expectations because removing federal workers is very hard.
But what they should be able to cut, based on the government running, 60 to 70 percent.
Now, as Blake astutely points out, If we want to really go after the deficit, though, eventually you have to go after entitlements.
Is that right?
Or you have to go after spending at least.
Not just headcount.
The thing about headcount is the federal government's budget is like $7 trillion at this point or something.
And the actual amount spent on just payroll for federal employees is, I think, maybe $250, $300 billion, if that.
And there is a pension component, too.
Exactly, exactly.
But most of the federal government's spending is...
Take in money, or print money, and then route it to something.
Now, contracts are also a big part of the budget.
Contractors are a big part.
That's big.
A lot of spending on contracts, but it's also spending on military equipment.
That is money that's going to make it.
And then, of course...
You know, grants.
So Department of Education, for example.
Department of Education doesn't have many employees, but it has a pretty big budget because it administers the student loan program, which is money going to people who are borrowing.
It's really money going to colleges.
They handle Title I grants.
So that's just tax money goes to a public school.
And that is where most spending is.
And that's really where a lot of savings could be, even just if you're looking for fraud, for waste.
You can find that out there.
I think one of the greatest things Doge could do would be use Grok to find, for example, obviously those PPP loans that happened during COVID. That's huge amounts.
Huge amounts of fraud.
And you can almost make an example out of it.
Find 10 really glaring examples.
And, you know, perp walk them.
That would be good moral support for the American people.
Well, and I just let's dive more into this.
It's a great question, by the way.
And I'm sorry about your experience in Boise with the Social Security Administration.
Hopefully that gets cleaned up.
And by the way, modernizing government is just something that needs to happen.
It's so antiquated.
It's so slow.
It's so non-responsive.
But Blake, let's dive into this more.
Post-COVID, a new baseline has basically been set in where there's this expectation of the size, scope.
And power the government that did not exist pre-COVID. It's almost doubled in size in five years.
Especially size.
This came up, we were talking about the other day, where they're trying to make a scandal out of the VA's budget.
And there's talk, okay, Trump might make cuts to the VA. Well, it would be cuts to the number of people who worked at the VA in 2019. Which was when Trump was president.
Trump was president, and he'd also already done big improvements to the VA at that time.
Like, it was working pretty well.
And since then, we have a lower number of veterans.
The number of veterans is declining.
So what we're trying to get back to 2019 baseline creates massive uproar.
So baseline budgeting is one of the original sins of Washington, D.C., which every year you have to go back to the prior year baseline.
You can't actually start at what's called zero-based budgeting and say, okay, every year, what do we need and why do we need it?
We talk about the previous Baseline.
My fear, though, is that the Senate and the House are not going to cut nearly as much as they should.
I mean, it's painful to cut.
The thing about cuts is someone has to be a loser when you reduce spending.
And so Washington, it fears any sort of pain.
Because power is their life force.
Power is their life force.
And it's just, you know, you're always the bad guy if you're the one who has to come in and say, you know, the endless money train is going away.
And, you know, I don't blame them for being wary to the extent that, you know, they want to get re-elected.
But at the same time, a huge amount of public trust has been put, has been invested in them.
But it's also the well-being of the nation.
The well-being of the nation.
And it's offensive that you have to worry, like, wonder, are they just going to keep spending until finally the hot potato explodes?
And then that person takes all the blame.
And it seems a lot of Washington has made that calculation.
You could say that we are on the verge of a fiscal collapse.
All I will say is I have never heard of a country that just borrowed forever and got away with it.
Eventually, a debt comes due.
And you know your history pretty well.
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Okay, your second question.
Charlie, so really it's a question that affects everybody here, but I want you to understand where it comes from.
You know, these Wuhan virus lockdowns had a lifelong negative impact on the life of our son.
That's why we're reaching out to Social Security for Disability.
And I want to do my part to expose these government lies.
Like, you know, Meghan McCain says, I want revenge.
And one of the biggest lies in the government's claim about us is they can control U.S. airspace and protect us from drones, like at Autzen Stadium.
And I can say for a fact...
The counter-drone systems can't protect Americans at stadiums, airports, and downtown areas, like the U.S. Capitol and the White House.
Now, this is the point, and this is really foolish, but you're a father, too.
So I'm willing to bet my life savings, okay, to get attention to this, $100,000.
By the way, I have all the respect in the world for Marc Andreessen, but he invested in the best counter-drone company called Andrel.
And I'm willing to bet that he can't stop me and my friends from crashing a drone in the stands at Autzen Stadium during a test when the stadium is empty, right?
And don't you want to know if you and your family and friends are protected at Autzen?
I mean, they can't protect the White House.
They can't protect, you know, DCA. I mean, this is something that people need to know about.
I'm serious.
I got it.
I agree.
Blake, they don't know about that.
We had a drone encounter in our family recently.
We're not talking about that yet.
Drones are a serious problem.
We had a very near miss of a drone with our family this week in a really serious way.
I don't want to get too much into detail there.
But anyway, the development and the proliferation of drones is very scary.
I don't think the U.S. government is nearly adequately prepared.
And I would imagine your...
Your contention is correct.
Blake, what are your thoughts on...
It's really scary because when you think, for example, the Ukraine war, a big reason actually that Ukraine hasn't collapsed actually is they could just get insanely cheap drones on each end and it makes it so hard to advance because you can just fly a suicide drone bomb into something.
And you kind of wonder.
We spend a trillion dollars on our military.
We have a ton of tanks, a ton of ships, a ton of planes, and it could be...
That the future of warfare is, oh, you can make, you know, a drone about yay big for a thousand bucks and it can carry a bomb wherever you want and just explode.
And...
It is changing warfare as we know.
Changing warfare changes security because, you know, imagine like the Secret Service and now instead of having to look for a sniper, any robot could just, you know, put a rifle on it and it can fly anywhere.
It's insane.
It's a great point and also that I don't want a fear monger, but...
What is preventing a couple terrorists equipping drones going to open air sports stadiums?
I don't think law enforcement is ready for that.
The biggest limiter on terrorism of all sorts has always just been not that many people want to do it.
But especially if you can do it with machines, it becomes easy.
At least in the past, doing something really bad was kind of a suicide thing.
But now it doesn't even have to be that.
You can build a machine that does it.
Okay, Shane.
Shane is here.
Thank you for being a member.
What is on your mind?
Hey, Charlie.
Real quick, I saw the poster behind you regarding Wisconsin, and since I live in Wisconsin, I wanted to know what that meant, the travel to Wisconsin and chase 100 ballots.
Yes.
Are you familiar with the upcoming Supreme Court race?
I am not, actually.
Okay, not your fault, but that is really illuminating.
Again, you're busy, a lot of stuff going on.
But this is why it's so important, why we're doing what we're doing.
This is the most important election of 2025. In fact, I think there's a Wall Street Journal op-ed that says that today.
And by the way, God bless you.
What's your name again?
Shane.
Shane, this is why I'm coming to Wisconsin.
A week from Monday.
This is the most important election happening in the country.
This year, it is for a Supreme Court seat that will determine the future of the entire Wisconsin Supreme Court.
You say, oh, so what?
That involves your congressional maps, your voter integrity measures, everything associated alongside of it.
So what we are doing is we're helping chase ballots, similar to what we kind of did back in November, to try and raise and drive awareness about this off-election, low-turnout election.
Blake, while I try to find this op-ed, can you talk about how it is a strictly turnout election?
This is not a persuasion election.
Exactly, exactly.
So when you look at any election, there's a certain amount of people who turn out for it.
And so I bet we can even look up here where it's like Wisconsin in the 2024 presidential race is going to be, let's see how many people voted in.
There's about 3 million.
Yeah, so about 3 million people.
Am I right?
Yeah, almost 3.3 million it looks like.
About the top of my head.
So 3.3 million people voted in 2024. Now let's check.
We had a 2023 Supreme Court race in Wisconsin.
I bet.
Let me just guess.
I bet a million people vote in it.
Let's go check.
I think it's a bit higher than that, but we'll check here.
About 1.8 million.
So literally about barely half as, maybe like 60% as many votes as in the presidential race.
And we lost that one, I believe.
Yeah, we got crushed.
Yeah, we lost by 10 points.
But if you had the number of people who voted in the 2024 presidential election come and turn out in that race, or even the number of people who voted in 2020 when we finished in second, ultimately.
If you had that many people turn out, you would win by a mile.
It's not even, oh, you would eke out a win.
You would crush them.
It is entirely a matter of turnout.
It is who gets their people to Care about this race that is not in a normal election cycle.
And so if you want to get involved, Shane, it's tpaction.com slash 100, part of our Commit 100 program.
We don't feel as if there's enough national attention right now on this Wisconsin Supreme Court seat.
That's why I'm going there next Monday.
We're bringing Donald Trump Jr. alongside.
We're doing the whole program.
This could swing the House of Representatives, and Wisconsin is critical.
It is necessary for the future of our country to keep Wisconsin in contention if we lose.
So, Shane, yes.
I just want to drive home how much turnout matters.
If you had John McCain lost Wisconsin by 14 points in 2008, and if you had his number of votes in that Supreme Court race, you would win by like 20 points.
That's how much turnout matters.
Smaller population, way smaller turnout.
It is entirely a turnout race.
Thank you, Shane.
Appreciate it.
Next member.
Actually, yeah, Shane, go ahead.
I didn't even get to the actual question.
I didn't know you were going to go off on such a tangent on this.
I'm sorry.
I apologize for it being so important.
My actual question was regarding the prison systems and spending.
Like, prisoners, they get treated like hotel guests.
I mean, they get all of these freedoms, they get privileges, they get PlayStations, they get TVs, they get, you know, snacks and stuff.
And, you know, meanwhile, the taxpayers are paying for all of this, or the families of the inmates are paying for all of this.
I mean, like, I did a little bit of research, and, like, there's an organization called Prison Policy Initiative.
They estimate that in 2023, there was 182...
I just wondered if this is something you think Doge would be a good target for.
Blake, really quick.
Most prisons are state-funded, like the vast majority of prisoners.
There is a federal bureau.
There's federal stuff, but it's mostly state.
You'd want to look at what your state does.
I don't know the biggest drivers of cost increase.
It's just everything costs more money than it used to.
I do think you make an astute point, we'll talk about after the break, where Sam Bakeman-Fried, who's a total fraud and a terrible person, joined the great Tucker Carlson's podcast.
He was talking about all the amenities he was getting.
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How are you?
Thanks for supporting us.
Good.
I actually was just going to watch today, but your breaking news at the end of hour one immediately brought a question to mind.
Do you think the recent activity at ActBlue is related to USAID funding being cut off to many entities?
I know you are a big fan of Breaking Bad, so am I. And I always thought Democrats' big numbers in fundraising was suspicious, because there's a party of entitlements, and other than their big, big money donors, I couldn't see them getting that many people to make small donations.
Well, you remember what they did in Breaking Bad, the money laundering, to make it look like random donations were sent in to pay for Walter White's cancer treatment?
As soon as you said that story, I thought, oh my gosh, that could possibly be Act Blue knows what's coming because their funding's been cut off.
It very well could be.
I think you are bringing up a very good point.
The answer is we don't know.
You could be right.
That as USAID funding has been put in suspension, there has been a suspicious amount of closures and non-profits that are second-guessing.
The money is coming from somewhere.
The more sinister...
Accusation against ActBlue is that it's Chinese or Iranian-originated.
We don't have great evidence of that.
There are some on the Hill that say that they've seen intelligence that might suggest that.
But there also could be just good old-fashioned criminal activity.
It could be as old-fashioned as just they route so much money through it.
Who's to say someone didn't go, okay, I'm going to make it so 0.1%.
It could also be we suspect this is criminal activity and we deliberately keep our system feeble and not able to detect it because then we have plausible deniability.
Like, look the other way.
Don't think too hard about it.
There's so many different levels to it.
I do want to push back a little that, frankly, If you've been around liberals enough, I actually talked to a friend of mine at The Daily Caller where they investigated one of those people who had tons and tons of donations in their name.
And they reached him and were like, do you really donate that many times?
And the person said, yep, yep, I do.
I watch the news all day.
I get so worked up and I send him another $20.
Of course some of it is legitimate.
I don't want to say, oh, it's all fraud.
There's a lot of passionate Democrats out there.
They care a lot about politics.
So much of what you've done is we need to train conservatives to care as much as the enemy does.
And I will say that lots of room for fraud.
The tech of ActBlue is very, very good.
Meaning it's like Amazon.com for giving money.
It saves all your payment information.
It feels like it's really the user interface is very friendly.
It's not just like this old loading thing.
It's hard to describe.
If you actually go through the pages of ActBlue, it's very well constructed.
It is one-stop shopping.
It really reflects how, in the Obama era, 2008, they had just a total lockdown on Silicon Valley.
And they got all the smart 28-year-old tech guys come in.
Let's make them the slickest website, the slickest app.
And we're finally starting to catch up in that world.
It was so profound that...
Basically, every Democrat donor has their payment information saved.
So anytime a guy goes on MSNBC, these Democrat donors are able to say, okay, I want to go give $10 to Beto O'Rourke or whatever.
Easy.
Done.
Elizabeth Warren.
It's all saved.
It's easy to use.
They make it seamless.
But I definitely think that there's a lot of suspicion there.
Thank you so much.
Really appreciate it.
Thank you.
Curtis, what is on your mind?
Thanks for being a member.
Well, yes.
Thank you, Charlie.
It's really a great honor to be able to speak with you.
And I wanted to briefly say I really appreciated your previous interview with Secretary of Ag, Burke Rawlings.
I'm a lifelong Eastern Oregon rancher, beef producer, family operation.
And it's so great to have this new administration coming in and wanting to hear from the grassroots producers.
And that's what I wanted to emphasize.
And let you and whomever else may be able to get our group.
We have a group out here that is in the high desert that oftentimes gets ignored, but there's very many natural resource issues that we want to, that we need to get through to the administration, both in the Interior Department and with the Secretary of Ag.
And one of the biggest problems that we have as beef producers is the meatpacking cartel that Rules the protein production, not only in the nation, but worldwide.
So my question is, we want to combine with the Make America Healthy Again and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s in HHS. We can combine and we just...
But the main thing, I guess, Mr. Kirk, that I want to get through is that...
The administration and the undersecretaries must get down here to the grassroots producers.
They cannot listen to the national organizations that are supposedly representing agricultural interests because they are all...
They are all corporately influenced.
And so my question to you is how best can we as grassroots producers, possibly through your platform, your connections, we would love to make that connection and have field hearings out here.
But more importantly, to get to the administration, Secretary Brooke Rollins, to hear the true family operations, farming operations of what would most benefit our rural communities and food security for America.
Thank you very much.
Where are you located?
I'm in Eastern Oregon.
Don't count Eastern Oregon as the socialist side of Oregon, please.
You guys should join Idaho.
That's a longer-term project.
That's what we call a Project 2029 item.
Project 2100, maybe.
We are very envious of Idaho.
I think we should create a state of Jefferson, actually, with eastern Washington and eastern Oregon.
But anyway, go ahead.
I love the state of Jefferson.
I love that.
And self-determination and self-government.
I would be willing to lend a voice to that one day.
Just please, don't put Pullman there.
The college campus, you can carve it out.
By the way, producer Andrew is from a cattle rancher family in northern Nevada, and he says you're 100% right.
Happy to send this clip to Brooke directly, which is what I will do, which is one of the benefits of being a member.
And I do want to compliment you.
We use the term grassroots a lot.
You actually are grassroots in what you are doing.
Not just metaphorical.
You're actually the grassroots.
Right.
We truly are a family operation.
And my biggest passion, Charlie, is God has blessed me to be a lifelong...
Rancher and beef producer.
But if things don't change, my grandchildren will have no opportunity to provide beef and protein to the country.
So that's my passion that drives me.
So thank you very much.
Well, that is an admirable passion.
I also have someone in the Department of Agriculture that I know that is not Brooke Rollins, that is from Idaho.
His name is Todd.
He's a rock star that I would be comfortable connecting you with.
He's terrific.
Oh, please do.
We're looking for any connection that we can get our truthful message to, so I so appreciate that.
No, this guy's Todd.
He's a rock star, and he actually owns something.
I don't know.
We'll connect you.
Thanks.
I really appreciate it.
Thanks so much.
Thank you.
Okay, Daisy, let's make sure we follow up on that and we get him connected.
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All right, who's next?
What do we got here?
Stan.
Stan, thank you for being a member.
What's on your mind?
Charlie, nice to talk to you.
How are you?
Good.
How are you?
I'm fine.
I was living in Dallas, Texas.
I was looking for one of your chapters online a few months ago and couldn't find one in Dallas.
And I saw there was one in Rockwall with a small amount of, looks like to me, some young kids.
And I can help be the voice of reason if I have the opportunity.
To find some chapter that they would benefit from my experience and knowledge.
Well, thank you, sir.
I actually will be in Dallas tomorrow.
So you should come by the event, actually.
I would love to see you as a member.
We can get you all accommodated.
Speaking at a...
Let me see.
Where am I at here tomorrow?
Mikey!
Let me see here.
I want to make sure I get these details right.
Hold on one second.
You said, obviously, Dallas, Texas.
So let me see what I got here.
Yes.
Okay, I will be in Plano at the Renaissance Dallas at the Plano Legacy West Hotel speaking at a pro-life event tomorrow evening.
So if that is your deal, we'd love to have you come by and we can get you a ticket.
I'll be there.
Great.
Okay.
Daisy, get them connected.
You see, that's the benefit of being a member.
We always look out for our members.
Daisy will reach out.
And Daisy, that is her hometown.
So thank you, sir.
We'd love to have you.
And also, we can connect you with some local Young Patriots.
And yes, it's a Nick Vujicic, Kevin Freeman, and also a Lieutenant General Mike Flynn event.
Great.
It's a pro-life fintech event from Dallas, Texas.
Don't worry.
I'm speaking once the sun sets down, once Shabbat ends.
I know all of you keeping score.
Okay, what do we have here?
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
And we have a ton of chapters in Dallas.
We have a ton.
Okay.
Ted, Ted, thanks for being a member.
What's on your mind?
Hey, Charlie.
Calling from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and I have a question for you on, obviously, the border situation and the tariffs.
Do you think that Trump would be open to ending the tariffs if we in Canada had an actual leader willing to talk seriously about the border issues?
Or is this now more about him?
Seeking to weaken our economy, bring us along as the 51st state.
Where do you stand on mitigating this?
First of all, I do not want you guys as the 51st state.
Way too many libs.
But you seem great.
But as far as his strategy, I can't read his mind, and I've never heard him say this in private or public, but I actually think he would be happy with the same treatment of a free trade agreement with some of our allies.
I actually think what bothers him the most is that we get tariffed and we do not have reciprocal tariffs against us.
And I think that should be the goal, especially with Canada or Mexico.
Now, when it comes to our adversaries like China, I think we should tariff across the board.
But yes, tariffs can have a cost to them.
However, certain tariffs for certain industries, we might have to joust a little bit with the Canadians when it comes to certain, like 95% of our fertilizer comes from Canada.
Probably not smart to tariff that.
Blake, where do you stand on this?
Yeah, I don't know entirely what his agenda is, and I think it would be helpful if he was more public with it, but I think it's not really Trump's way to just overtly tip exactly what he's going for.
There's always some...
The weave sort of applies to his diplomacy, too.
What was he going for with North Korea?
What's he going for with Russia?
It's always a little bit beneath the surface.
I think...
I think he'd probably play ball more if there was a better government than Justin Trudeau, but I've also entertained the possibility he may like Justin Trudeau as a foe that he can spar with, and he'll maybe miss him once he's gone.
I guess I don't want to jump to conclusions about what his intent is, because I'm not entirely sure, so I don't want to speak for him.
I will say the only part of Canada that will willingly accept is Alberta.
You gotta be careful with that.
Remember, they have first passed the post, so I don't...
What do you mean?
So, when they hold an election, there's like four major parties in Canada, I guess like kind of three at the national level, and it's just whoever gets the most votes gets the seat in their parliament.
So what I'm saying is, I'm not sure if we suddenly shifted them to just Republicans and Democrats.
I kind of think Alberta would still be a blue state.
You do?
Yeah.
Really?
My gut feeling.
I've changed my opinion.
They can keep it.
They can keep it.
All right.
Will, thanks for being a member.
What's on your mind?
Members.CharlieKirk.com.
Hey, Charlie.
So I know with confirmations coming to kind of wrapping up, the next thing is going to be moving legislation.
Of course, that's going to bring up whether we should nuke the filibuster.
It seems like both parties.
I'm not to the point yet, but I do think that there might be some things that they could change in the Senate rules to hopefully get legislation passed.
I believe now you've got to have three-fifths of members for cloture if they were to make it three-fifths of members present so everybody would actually have to stay on the floor, stay in town, couldn't go out to eat with lobbyists.
Is anything like that being discussed that you're aware of?
Yes.
I will.
I will say I actually am in favor of keeping the filibuster for major spending bills that are non-reconciliation.
I know that some people are going to disagree with that, but I think the filibuster prevented some of the most sinister stuff of Joe Biden from being passed in Biden's term.
So I just want to make sure I actually am a pro-filibuster guy in that sense.
That being said, of course we will be out of power.
Again, sometime in the future, hopefully a long way off, and the filibuster is a guarantor to slow down the process and to make sure that crazy ideas like adding D.C. and Puerto Rico in states can't just happen with a 50-person vote.
Imagine, if we got rid of the filibuster and we lost in the future, which is totally conceivable, because I know everyone says, oh, you know, we're never going to be beat.
No, no, no, hold on.
Things go in cycles.
They go back and forth.
Imagine the Democrats with a Democrat president.
Could be like, okay, D.C. is a state.
Puerto Rico is a state.
And we're going to be looking back like, well, we got rid of the filibuster for what exactly?
But getting rid of the filibuster for a reconciliation bill?
Fine.
That's a very specific thing.
The Democrats start that precedent.
We cannot predict how radical the Democrats are going to be when that time comes, not if.
There will be a moment in our lifetime where we no longer control the U.S. Senate.
We literally just got back control.
I hope that never happens.
You have to plan for that.
Blake, what is your thoughts?
Yeah, so what's funny with the filibuster is, as I've mentioned to you before, the filibuster is fake.
Like, the filibuster could be eliminated at any time, and it's maintained because both parties in the Senate have an interest in just not voting on things that they nominally support.
So, you know, with Mitch McConnell, it was, oh, we can use the filibuster as an excuse to not do border stuff.
With Democrats, it's, you know, Joe Biden doesn't necessarily want to pack the Supreme Court because he thinks they'll get blown up.
It's a thing that protects the majority party from votes it does not want to take.
But it is still true, as you say, that if you get rid of it, it is the Pandora's box.
Takes the first move on abolishing the filibuster.
Won't get as much out of it as the second party to take office after it's gone.
I also just want to say that there has been a decade-long erosion of the filibuster.
It actually started with Harry Reid, if you might remember.
Harry Reid, of all people, started the erosion of the filibuster for circuit and district court judges.
And then it marched forward when we used the abolition of the filibuster to put Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court back in 2017, then also with Brett Kavanaugh, then also with Amy Coney Barrett.
And so we've seen the slow erosion of the filibuster.
I think we've eroded it enough.
Look, it would be very tempting right now because we control the House and the Senate.
Get rid of the filibuster.
Simple up or down vote.
I think that would be a mistake.
I think it would be a tragedy.
If you were going to do it, I would say you should do it immediately after an election to get the most out of it.
Yeah, but then the Democrats will do it to us.
They will, but if you were going to do it, you'd want to get the most out of it.
You don't want to do it right before an election and then you lose power and they get the full.
And by the way, it's not just a matter of doing it.
I don't think the Senate would put up with it.
So it's not even a realistic thing right now.
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We have to go fast.
Carol, what's on your mind?
Thanks for being a member.
Charlie, I saw, you know, the bits and pieces with Governor Newsom.
It was brilliant.
Thank you.
But I was just so intrigued by your statement about, what don't you think?
First of all, you gave a definition for politics that I don't think a lot of people really understand that, unfortunately.
So that was really cool.
And then you were just talking about Trump and blending with media.
They can't catch up.
So I just wanted you to...
Talk about that more.
Well, thank you.
That's great feedback.
Yeah, I mean, I had to educate Governor Newsom on what politics was.
Politics is the highest form of community because it blends morality and sociability.
That's not a Charlie Kirk quote.
That is an Aristotle quote from the politics because he was like, well, who's going to make these decisions?
And I said, well, that's what politics is.
It is the decision of community, morality, and sociability.
And I thought I actually did quite well on the book banning segment.
Because that's supposed to be his strongest little talking point.
And I think it came apart.
Thank you, Carol, for mentioning that.
I encourage everyone to check out my conversation with Gavin Newsom.
Carol, overall, did you think it was a good idea very quickly for me to speak with Governor Newsom?
Yes, I sure did.
He's trying to figure out how this has all happened.
They're lost.
He's trying to figure it out.
And so you're...
You're kind of exposing where they're at and the whole thing.
And you were just so honest.
I mean, you were telling him.
And so he had to answer.
And look what happened.
So you're actually, by doing that interview, you started some conflict within the Democrats.
Big time.
You're smart, Carol.
And it's a conversation that they need to have.
I'm sorry.
We had to cut off, Carol.
Carol, if you're listening, I apologize.
Carol, you're a very sweet person.
Signed hat as an apology.
So sorry about that.
Okay, let's get to the next question here.
Elizabeth, thanks for being a member.
What's on your mind?
Yes.
Hi, Charlie.
How are you today?
How are you?
I'm all right.
Actually, I'm very upset because, long story short, my father died in a nursing home during COVID in April of 2020. And when it first happened, we assumed that, like everyone else, oh, a nurse had gotten COVID and it spread throughout.
We didn't find out until months later that...
Andrew Cuomo literally and deliberately put COVID-positive patients into nursing homes.
And I want people to understand, every single person with a family member in a nursing home got a phone call on March 9th saying we are shutting down the nursing homes for their safety and you cannot come see your family.
So they locked me out because I may or may not have COVID. And then...
15 days later, they deliberately put COVID-positive patients into nursing homes.
He was told, if you do this, thousands of people will die.
How is this man still politically viable and running for the mayor of New York City?
Well, largely because the Democrats are almost nobody else.
And the Democrat Party is not a party, it is a machine.
And you plug in place pieces, and they've looked at their roster and they're like...
Well, why'd we get rid of this Cuomo guy again?
Cuomo is a lot like Gavin, actually, in that he's a canny political operator.
He got pushed.
They got him out on Me Too, right?
Yeah.
They got him out on Me Too instead of the mass murder because Murphy, Governor Murphy, and Governor Wolf in Pennsylvania both did the exact same thing he did.
But if they got Cuomo out on it, they would have had to take out the other governors on this.
So did Whitmer up in Michigan.
So like four governors did this.
No one's being held accountable.
There was an investigation by the Department of Justice under the Trump administration when Biden came back, came in, unfortunately.
The first thing they did was they squashed that investigation.
And I don't know if, are they going to start that up again?
That's a good question.
I don't know.
New York State was 15,300 people.
It was like 9,000 people in New Jersey and 8,000 people in Pennsylvania.
Rachel Levine, whatever her first real name is, she also did the same order in Pennsylvania for Governor Wolf.
She pulled her mother out of the nursing home the day before that order was going to take place.
And we don't have a ton of time.
I want to say you're not alone, and you know who else is like a dog with a bone on this?
Janice Dean.
Janice Dean is the Fox News weatherwoman, and both of her parents died because of Cuomo's mismanagement of the nursing homes.
I would love to see that criminal investigation relaunched.
I'm very sorry for your loss.
God bless you.
We've got to move to the next question.
Thank you, though.
Thank you.
Thank you, Charlie.
Okay, I want to read this last one.
Okay.
Hey, Charlie, I can't unmute for some reason.
With the transparency of this administration, where are the JFK and MLK Jr. files?
And will we hear anything about the 2017 Vegas shooting?
I never asked you, what is your thought on the Vegas shooting?
I am mostly not on board with the Vegas theory.
Just the questions?
I just, I think people have a bias to demand, like, big causes for things.
And so...
I remember...
It is bizarre.
When I was with Tucker...
I know, that's why I'm asking if you were...
When I was with Tucker, we had a guy who...
He was saying...
I think he was on the National Security Council.
And he was trying to say, like, we have evidence that it was a joint ISIS-Antifa operation.
And to be honest, when I heard that, I'm like, oh, this person is crazy.
And I think the boring answer is, like, people...
Some guy had, like, ennui because he's this, like, fading...
Boomer who was like a professional gambler.
And he decided to go out in this spectacular way.
And people...
It had to be more than that.
They had to find a better motive than this guy.
It was just like a horrible psycho who decided to kill a ton of people.
And it does go against our usual things.
It was an older guy than most shooters.
Usually they're young.
But I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that just a lunatic would decide to gun down a lot of people.
And I think what stands out is if someone else did it, it's just...
Why?
No, I'm not even...
I'm not shocked at your opinion.
And it's persuasive.
There is a lot of witness, testament, expert, official narrative.
Thank you for all you do.
I think, though, at least we can agree.
Release all the files.
Yeah, release every file we have, of course.
Privately and publicly, my advice to the administration is I'm very consistent, guys.
You guys got to start putting these files out.
We need Epstein.
We need JFK. We need MLK. We need Malcolm X. Vegas shooting.
Just do a website.
Put them all up.
No redaction.
Any document from a year that starts...
Just put them up.
Go.
Any document from a year that starts with 1-9 should just be published.
All of it.
Just like, no more hiding.
Like, let's just get them up.
That's my own personal opinion.
I know they're working on that, but I think the American people voted for it, and that's what they deserve.
And that's also what the president has demanded, by the way.
