Mark Meadows (3:52)

But we also know this help was offered multiple times, not just in January, but throughout the summer, with the D.C. mayor saying that the president stood by willing to offer National Guard assistance, other assistance, and often, in fact, every time was rebuked and said, no, we can go it alone. The president was very vocal in making sure that we had plenty of National Guard, plenty of additional support because he supports the rule of law, he supports our law enforcement and offered additional help, offered additional help.

Charlie Kirk (4:27)

Now, the media is doing their best to try and add drama and intrigue to this, But I think 80% of Americans see this for what it is, a rash political revenge campaign gone wrong. Liz Cheney is one of the Republicans that sponsored and voted for impeachment in the House Representatives. She doubled down on that claim over the weekend. But what's really on trial here is not Donald Trump. The Constitution and our justice system is on trial right now. Our norms, the tradition that we have in our country. Justice is supposed to be blind. That's why lady justice is blind. Justice is supposed to be deliberative. Some people make the comparisons between this impeachment and how the House of Commons works in Parliament. The Great Judge Ken Starr, who was just on our podcast and I encourage you to check it out. It was a phenomenal interview, said that's exactly why we are not a parliamentary system. We are a constitutional republic. Separation of powers and checks and balances. Democrats will use whatever power they have at their disposal to eliminate those people that are in opposition to them. A truism about life is that all important decisions require reasons. What is the reason the Democrats are doing this? Has any reporter asked that? The New York Times with this never ending piece about how the Democrats are now the defenders of the Constitution. Chris Hayes comes out in a piece in either the Atlantic or Vox. I get them confused all the time saying that the Republicans, they really are engaging in an assault on democracy. He is no longer the president. Republicans should be standing up even more forcefully against this. They should be submitting motions to acquit and to end this trial. Our 1. The House Democrat arguments are going to be very predictable. The House Democrat arguments are going to be as follows. I guarantee you this will be something we hear and I quote, we are now standing in the Senate where the terrorists and the insurrectionists were here because the president guarantee that will be said. The president sent them here. All of these arguments will be made. But the way a trial is supposed to work, with a fair judge overseeing it, not a liberal Democrat. Senator Patrick Leahy. What state is Leahy from? Vermont. One of the most liberal states in the country. Goes to show that the Democrats are warning us. Are we going to listen? You see, the Democrats are saying right now, for those of us that are willing to read between the lines, for those of us that see what's actually happening here, the Democrats are saying this is the way the justice system is going to be run. If you don't behave, if you don't do what you're told, or if you don't act in the controlled opposition behavioral pattern, this is what's going to happen to you. We're going to run our justice system with judges that are activists like Patrick Leahy. We're going to run our justice system where we can indict and convict you in less than 24 hours. We're going to run our justice system blaming you for the actions of other people. And of course, the Democrats would never want to be held accountable for the actions that they themselves did. The incitement that they engaged in. How did Kamala Harris not engage in incitement? By bailing out rioters from the Minnesota Freedom Fund. How is that not the subsidizing of incitement Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Maxine Waters, all engaged in fiery language that could be viewed as incitement. Eric Holder as well. But I'm going to defend them as I'm going to defend President Trump. That's colorful language in politics. Everyone uses it, both sides, and they use it equally. The threshold for incitement is not even close to what was reached. And I hope that Trump's defense team, in their opening statement, yes, goes against the constitutional argument, but also says, did you know? At 12:49pm, according to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Washington Post, people that did not attend the rally started to penetrate the first police barricades. Before Trump said anything, before he even finished his speech, there was already activity against police. If this was just a mob gone wrong, there would not be people with gas masks and walkie talkies saying that. I know the configuration of the building. They wouldn't be changing clothes in the trees, which is what they were doing very suspiciously. And yes, there were elements of people that did storm the Capitol that attended the president's speech. But the question is, was it incited by Trump or was it instigated by people that came there looking for a fight? And the honest answer is that it was not incited by President Trump. Incitement in the rule of when it comes to law is an incredibly high threshold. Alan Dershowitz talked about this at length on our podcast. The Democrats know this, but they also know another thing. Their donations will go up from their base when they do this. They're going to be able to do amazing amounts of cable television interviews feeling good virtue, signaling moral high ground. This is how a republic becomes an empire. It's happened before. The Democrats want to destroy the constitutional republic and create the Democrat empire. So Jamie Raskin, who is one of the House impeachment managers, he already started off with a lie. It took him like 10 words. And he said, donald Trump sent his lawyers here to prevent our arguments from being heard. No, he sent his lawyers there to defend himself. That's what lawyers are supposed to do. Every person is entitled to a defense. It's amazing to me how Democrats. By the way, the Democrats are the lawyer's party, okay? They are heavily funded by the Lawyers Guild. Many Democrats are lawyers themselves. Not that Republicans aren't. It just happens to be that Democrats tend to be more in the entire kind of legal industry than Republicans. And that's not a perfect fit, but it's generally true. But someone should inform Jamie Raskin that the lawyers are not there to end a trial. They are going to try to do a motion dismiss. Every good lawyer in the country will try to dismiss a trial before it even begins. Every good lawyer. That's called protecting your client. Now, Jamie Raskin is playing a video that is incredibly misleading. Now, if there was a fair and impartial judge like John Roberts, I'm not saying John Roberts would be fair and impartial, but at least he'd be a judge, not a Democrat senator from Vermont. This nonsense wouldn't be allowed. It wouldn't be submitted as evidence. It is intentionally submitted for emotional appeal. Someone should tell Congressman Jamie Raskin as he just said this. But Jamie Raskin should have said, wait a second. The barrier started to get broke at 12:49. People came with the intent. And you cannot incite something when people come with the intent. If Jamie Raskin was honest, which he isn't, and I do feel for him, for his own personal loss and his own tragedy, I'm not attacking him because of that. However, as soon as you step up to impeach a private citizen, I'm going to have to cross examine you. I just want to make that very clear. It says here on his video, well, the Trump mob breaches the Capitol. Wait a second. There were people that had no affiliation with Trump that breached the Capitol. There were people there that were oath keepers. There were people that were there that did not necessarily align with any sort of political affiliation. And the way that Jamie Raskin is phrasing this, as we predicted, he's trying to make this overarching argument that every single person that was at the Ellipse then went to the Capitol. That is not true. There were hundreds of people on the east side of the Capitol. And Jamie Raskin knows this. He's just being dishonest. That were there before the president even arrived at the Ellipse, that were there with walkie talkies, mace gear. And how does Jamie Raskin justify the pipe bombs? How does Jamie Raskin explain, was it a mob that planted the pipe bombs? Of course not. There was preplanned deliberate activity to try and attack our government that was outside of the activity from the Ellipse. Did some of those people then get involved in it? Yes. That is a separate issue. You had a preplanned event that authorities did not do what they needed to do to prevent. They did not put up the right barriers, literally. And then President Donald Trump gets blamed for that. We're already starting to see that the argument being put forth by the House impeachment managers is one with no timelines, no nuance, no very, very deceiving. But we expected that. My advice to Trump's impeachment team is don't take this bait. Initially argue on the constitutionality of this, then get into the actual details of this. Every person is responsible for their own actions. Incitement is an incredibly difficult legal threshold to prove. You have to prove that that person came there with the intent to then mobilize a crowd to do something specific and they mention it specifically in the speech they gave. That's the threshold to be able to prove incitement. Alan Dershowitz mentioned this in our podcast interview that we had just a couple days ago. Look, conservatives are getting kicked off social media and it's not okay. So why exactly are we choosing to give these big tech companies all of our personal data? Now is the time to take a stand. Protect your personal data from big tech with the VPN I trust for my online protection. 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You get a three extra months free on a one year package that's E X P R-E-S-S VPN.com Kirk to get three extra months free expressvpn.com Kirk when lies do not go confronted, they get written down, they get spread, they metastasize, and then they become popular opinion. So every time we see something that is untrue, that is worthy of cross examination, we are going to stand up and we are going to do that. We're going to cross examine it. So a lot of people ask, they say, what is the true motivation of the left? We touched on this yesterday and part of it is Democrats are at war with human nature. They refuse to acknowledge that there is a divine order. The way God made us. He made male and female. He made light and dark. He made gravity. The democrats always seem as if they are pushing back against the natural order, that we are made in the image of God and there are the laws of nature and nature is God. Democrats and the left, going back to almost a Rossoian view of human nature, believe that human beings are malleable. Now, let me tell you something. One of the most important questions that people can answer when it comes to politics, when it comes to government, and it comes to philosophy, is do you believe that people are naturally good or naturally bad or neutral? The answer to that question is incredibly instructive to how you create public policy. So if you believe that human beings are naturally flawed by their nature, this is something that is articulated in the Bible very clearly. Original sin. We are going to screw up, and we're going to screw up repeatedly. We are going to lie, steal and cheat. Then you are going to believe that it is not government that can then improve the human condition, but instead religion, faith, family values, and the teaching of goodness. But if you believe that human beings are good in their natural state, something that Jean Jacques Rousseau believed in, something that Thomas Hobbes did not believe in, something that John Locke was a little bit neutral on, those are the three social contract theorists. Jean Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Thomas Hobbes. But if you believe people are naturally good, then anything that you see that is bad around you cannot be blamed on the people, but instead blamed on the system. Revolutionize the system around us, Give them more benefits, administer more checks, and that will make them better people. Then we can get back to a state of nirvana, a place of utopia. Jean Jacques Rousseau, he valued the infant over the adult, the primitive over the civilized. Boy, is that instructive to how the modern left and the democrats operate? One thing that the Chinese coronavirus and the lockdowns have taught me is that people do not want to be free. They want to. To be taken care of. The predominant viewpoint of the academic and the political left is safety. Ism. Take care of me. Just make sure I'm protected. Liberty. Liberty's hard. I want to be safe. I want to be nurtured. Human nature is one that tells us that once people have freedom, they're going to complain. The Bible tells us this. When the Jewish people were freed from Egypt, they were in the desert, they were eating manna, and they started complaining. And you know what they said? They said, bring us back to Egypt because at least we had meat there. They would have rather have been well fed slaves than free people that had to contest for their own livelihood. The Chinese coronavirus taught us the exact same thing. People said, I would rather be locked up in my home, given $1,100 every six months rather than have to contest and be alert and aware and make my own decisions. But I'd rather have everything shut down because that makes me feel better. People want to be taken care of. And it all comes down to human nature. Now many Americans believe that human beings are naturally good. Do you know why they're able to believe that? Because America is so decent. Is that we have built a society that is so generous. The expectation is to help other people. That people are then convinced that all human beings are this way. We have a system that incentivizes goodness and rewards goodness. That young people believe that all people can act this way. And they think that America is not the best. They think America is the basement. The more I study about human nature, the more it fascinates me when I drive to the studio every day. That it's not a riot and it's not bedlam outside. It's amazing. It's actually incredible that our civil society has been able to hold itself together for as long as it has. And why is that? It's because this society, America was founded on things that never change. Wisdom is the knowledge of the things that are eternal. Aristotle famously said that there are two forms of intellectual Practical knowledge and eternal knowledge. What's practical knowledge? Where is Cincinnati? What's the capital of Tennessee? That is stuff that can change. I don't know if where Cincinnati can change. But basically things that are circumstantial. What's that guy's name? What did you have for dinner? Who won the Super Bowl? That's practical knowledge. But the ultimate intellectual virtue that Aristotle taught us was that are things that never change. Who are human beings in the state of nature? Do they want to be free? Is a. A. How do we develop reason and logic? What are the laws of nature? Where do we get them from? What the left is committed to do and the Democrats alongside of it. And you're seeing this in its impeachment right now is they're angry that these laws exist. And they believe that if they flex enough muscle and they get enough power then they can create heaven on earth that a utopia can be ushered in. Now that's not to say every Democrat believes that, but most of them do. You see, instead of acknowledging that you must have earned success in this country. Instead of acknowledging that men and women have biological differences, instead of acknowledging that a nation needs borders, instead of acknowledging that this country is one unlike any other, they think they can do better. It is making me increasingly frustrated when I see Jamie Raskin use the quotes of our Founding Fathers out of context. But it's Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, everybody. You see, I never knew Jamie Raskin would use so many racists to defend his impeachment. Did he just all of a sudden use slave owners to justify his impeachment? Why would Jamie Raskin use James Madison, the father of the Constitution, I believe the fourth president of the United States. That's right, the fourth president, father of the U.S. constitution, who's called a racist in many schools. And they're trying to now say James Madison should not be named for elementary schools or even James Madison University. Why would Jamie Raskin use a bunch of slave owners? The answer is it's Saulinsky. Use the enemy's own rules of Books against them. You see, Jamie Raskin thinks he can start to make conservative and Republican senators think about impeachment. If you can start to use a bunch of names, faces that matter to us. Jamie Raskin knows his audience. Jamie Raskin's not about to convince a bunch of AOC or Elon Omar's or Rashida Tlaibs. If he was talking to Rashida Tlaib or Ilan Omar, he would instead be using Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault and not the Founding Fathers of our country. Maybe Angela Davis, maybe Herbert Marcuse. The Democrats don't believe in the very quotes they're using from the Founding Fathers. They're trying to put the 1619 project into our curriculum every single day. Jamie Raskin was just going through all these quotes from John Quincy Adams, who I believe was our sixth president. That's right, sixth President Monroe was fifth. Quincy Adams was sixth. One of the smartest presidents, by the way, ever. Highly intellectual. See, we care about that stuff as conservatives. So when all of a sudden you put up a quote of John Quincy Adams, we kind of sit up in our chair. You could probably see Ted Cruz fixing his tie. But does Jamie Raskin actually care about that? Of course he doesn't. They see this as an opportunity to end a political movement that they're actually terrified of. What they are doing right now, what the Democrats are doing in real time, shows us that in their private meetings, in their strategy sessions, they see something in the polling, they see something in the data, they see something in the focus groups and they're trying to kill it and they're trying to label it. And what is the Saul Alinsky Rule 13? Find a target, pick it, polarize it, isolate it. I'm paraphrasing it. Donald Trump represents a set of ideas. Jamie Raskin and this guy right now, Joe Nagassi. I probably mispronounced that, which I'm. I think I'm an expert at mispronunciation, to be honest with you. A set of ideas that they don't like, that they know threaten their power, but they have to find a person that personifies it and they need to put the nail in the coffin. It's like the old Roman tradition where every soldier got a chance to stab the dead general of the other army. At some point it becomes exhaustive. Jen Psaki has something to say. So let's hear what that is.

Jen Psaki (27:11)

Does the President have a message for local school officials on dealing with these kind of disputes that are already starting to arise between, you know, trans girls who are competing and CIS girls and a level playing field, particularly in high school sports, when it leads to college scholarships. Is there any kind of messaging or clarification that the White House wants to give on the executive order? I would just say that the President's belief is that trans rights are human rights and that's why he signed that executive order. And in terms of the determinations by universities and colleges, I would certainly defer to them.

Charlie Kirk (27:48)

You understand how immoral this is, right? Trans rights are human rights. Completely ignoring. You know what's amazing is that Jen Psaki calls herself a feminist. She's a fraud is what she is. How can you be a feminist and care about women's rights? How can you be a feminist and care about women advancement or achievement and not even want women's sports? It is the death of women's sports to compete up against a biological male. So here's the real answer to the problem is that you allow the men to think they're women and they still compete against the men. It's not that hard. You allow the man to say, I'm a woman now. But you say you're actually a man, so you're actually competing as the women. And then you say, you know what men's sports can become co ed. That's the answer. If you really can compete against men, then so be it. The problem with this is that it is destroying women's sports as we know it in this country, absolutely obliterating it. And it seems that it's intentional and what is Jen Psaki's answer to that? Well, the president believes that trans rights are human rights. That's a nice bumper sticker, but why don't you go to Greenwich, Connecticut and tell that to the mother who has a daughter who's been training her whole life to become a track and field champion and now has to go compete against some dude who thinks he's a woman from Hartford? That actually happened in Connecticut, by the way. Connecticut is a place where the Wokesters have taken over all the positions of influence. And you have women that are now forced to compete up against men. You have women's locker rooms that are now being infiltrated with men just because they say they're women.

Jen Psaki (29:33)

The

Charlie Kirk (29:36)

Democrats seem completely uninterested. They just don't even care about what the consequences could be. They don't care about what the backlash could possibly be. And maybe that's the unspoken truth of that story we read in the Time magazine article. We are going to govern more radical than ever before because we control how elections are done, how people communicate, and how people are organized. Therefore, we're gonna do whatever we want and you're not gonna be able to stop us. What if the Democrats are basically telling us elections don't matter anymore? What if the Democrats are so prideful that they believe that they have fix the system, that they've interfered with it so significantly that your voice might just be nothing more than a venting mechanism, not an actual system to enforce representative government? Our constitutional republic is based on the idea that we trust how we elect our leaders. If you no longer trust the way that we elect leaders in our country, then do we even have a system of government to represent us? This is why every Republican out there must take a definitive stand of how we do elections in this country. From signature verification to auditing the voter rolls in Maricopa county, we are putting on a ton of pressure to actually find out what happened with the voting systems here in Arizona. Every state should be doing the same. Every single state. And what is the Democrats big call to action? Let's go impeach the private citizen. Not worry about school closures. Not worry about opioid deaths, not worry about immigration. Where, by the way, the Biden administration has said they are not going to deport illegals that are rapists, but they will potentially spy on you and infiltrate you. If you're a Christian rapist, no deportation. Christian, you're getting spied on. As the China virus spread across the globe in the spring of 2020, Noble Gold investors flocked to precious metals as a financial safeguard. Gold is up more than 30% since March of 2020. Silver surged more than 50% over the same period, reflecting the correlation among precious metals during the time of financial volatility. But providing financial protection is not the only role that precious metals play in this fight. Precious metals also have broad applications in the medical field that go well beyond the dental uses most people associate with their value. But providing financial protection is not the only role that precious metals play in this fight. Gold and silver nanoparticles are an essential part of virus research and prevention. As the China virus mutates, science will have to adapt its prevention methods accordingly, and precious metals will continue to stay in demand. As for me, I will continue to trust the team at Noble Gold, a leading authority in the precious metals industry. If you have the kinds of questions I do about your financial mix and how to best leverage precious metals as a hedge against market uncertainty, I encourage you to visit noblegoldinvestments.com and call their team for a free Gold Guide. Call Noble Gold today and tell them Charlie Kirk sent you for a special gift with all qualifying transfers. I want to praise Texas Governor Greg Abbott. I have disagreed with him on quite a lot, but this is breaking yesterday and it didn't get as much press as I think it deserved. Texas Governor Abbott working on legislation to prevent social media platforms from canceling conservative speech, also known as I'm doing what Ron DeSantis did because it was really popular. However, this sort of movement from Texas is very promising and Governor Greg Abbott deserves credit for this. In fact, we're gonna send out a tweet praising these governors because they need the reinforcement and they need the encouragement that this is the right thing to do. It is the right thing to support these governors that are standing up against this social media tech tyranny. Let's play Senator Kennedy from Louisiana.

Senator Kennedy (33:47)

President Trump, I think, would be fair to say, is unconventional and he has said things that I've disagreed with both in substance and the way he said them, but he does have the right to say them. I didn't agree. It wasn't my preferred way of expressing oneself. When Senator Schumer, on the steps of the Supreme Court, threatened Supreme Court justices, I didn't agree with Congresswoman Waters when she threatened appointees of the Trump administration. I don't think they ought to be

Charlie Kirk (34:20)

impeached, and that's the basis of the argument is just because you disagree with how someone might have said something does not mean that they should be impeached and so now this congressman is overseeing the impeachment proceedings from the House manager position and he's going to keep on going on and on. Okay, let's get to some questions here. You guys can email us in real time. Freedomarliekirk.com okay. Hi Charlie, I'm a 52 year old grandmother who for the first time in my life, thanks to President Trump and great shows like yours, have begun following politics. That being said, I'm still somewhat ignorant when it comes to certain topics. That's okay. I heard you say earlier that you live in a blue state, you should move to a red state. Can you tell me if Georgia is red or blue? Does it automatically make us a red state if our governor is Republican? I live in Walker, Colorado, so moving to Tennessee would be easy. What about Tennessee? Red? Yes, Tennessee is red. 0% income tax. Georgia TBD. Two Democrat senators sent their electors to Biden. Georgia's got some problems, no doubt. But great question and thank you for emailing it in. Freedomarliekirk.com okay, let's get to a question here. This is a good question. Hey Charlie, listening to you and enjoy your show today. You shared that bitcoin is worth over $46,000. Years ago someone paid me $10 in Bitcoin. So how do I cash in on this? You have to go find your bitcoin wallet. If you identify your wallet, that $10 in Bitcoin is probably worth a couple thousand dollars right now. Right Connor? If that math is right. So Hope, go find that bitcoin and go find someone to sell it to. You're sitting on something very, very valuable. Okay, let's get to some more questions here. Hey Charlie, love your show. I'm a proud sponsor of Turning Point usa. Thank you. Haley wanted to share this quote that is so fitting to this impeachment sham. Quote we must reject the idea that every time a law is broken society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. Ronald Reagan. Well said. Haley from Spokane. Well good job. Cameron says this. Why do we send our military overseas to fight for freedom yet give it so up easily in our own country. Great question. That is why we should push back against the foreign wars, the foreign endless wars and the nonsense that is happening with the permanent military occupation of that we have seen with the war industrial complex. Basically war incorporated in our country. Hi Charlie. When you said that a republic becomes an empire reminds me of Star wars at the end of the Revenge of the Sith. Really the whole prequel trilogy leading up to the Emperor took power feels similar to Joe Biden. Well, I wasn't using a Star wars analogy. I was using a Roman history analogy. When famously Julius Caesar transitioned the Roman Republic to become the Roman Empire. After the three headed Roman ruling coalition disintegrated because one guy died. And then Julius Caesar declared a civil war against Pompey. And then the Roman civil war was really began after Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon. They fought, ended up in the Middle East. Julius Caesar actually got Cleopatra involved. Fun fact. Went all the way down to the Nile to what is now Cairo. Got Cleopatra involved. And actually, it's actually Alexandria I think was the big city back then, won the Roman civil war. Julius Caesar comes back. Needless to say, he lived a full life and argued for temporary war powers. There's nothing as permanent as temporary war powers when it comes to a, comes to a person in power. Then the Roman Republic became the Roman Empire. You see how it worked before the Roman Empire is that every Roman council served one year. So Cicero served one year and it was a rotating head from the Roman Senate. Cicero, a best selling author before he was killed. Cicero famously said the more laws, the less justice. One of the guys that really was one of the chief architects of Western civilization as we know it. If you don't know who Cicero is, I encourage you to read his writings. They're pretty incredible. And so then Julius Caesar lived and was killed by the Roman Senate. Obviously dramatized in the Shakespearean play Julius Caesar. After Julius Caesar died, I think it was a couple. It was either Caesar Augustus or Augustus himself. But Julius Caesar was right before the times of Christ. And I think that Caesar Augustus was the Caesar when Jesus walked the earth anyway, then there was just a succession of bloodline and it became almost a pseudo feature feudal system. Eventually you had a bunch of nonsense. Caesar Augustus and then you had one more. And then Nero, who was a total disaster. One of the worst emperors ever. Then you had the five good emperors. The last of the five good emperors which is known as what? The Pax Romana, which means the peaceful times of Rome. The last of the five good emperors was Marcus Aurelius. And then what's the one thing that good emperors always have crazy sons. And so then you had Commodus fell apart. Bunch of Roman emperors, I can't remember. The Eastern Roman Empire was founded which was known as Byzantium. Constantine, of course King Constantine. Jesus named it after himself. Constantinople, which ended up being the center of all Christian Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition, while then Rome took more of the Catholic tradition, and then I think that was like in 321. Anyway, that's enough history for today. Okay, thanks, Kyle. Okay, let's see here. Peter says, hey, Charlie, do you have any updates from the Maricopa County, Arizona audit? That's why you should tune in to the Charlie Kirk show tomorrow because we have Congressman Paul Gosar coming in. Let's go here to. Why is the hearing to sign the constitutionality, the impeachment allowed to proceed with the prosecution as their opening statement? I don't know, but that's not unusual. Typically in a court of law, the prosecutor. I could be wrong here, but usually they have to kind of basically say, who kind of called us to this meeting. It is the prosecution that usually starts. Is that right, Connor? I think that's right. Or otherwise the defense is gonna say, what am I defending here? Why are we here? So it's kind of the tell us why you called this meeting to order type thing to kind of use illustration. So someone says, so what if the worst actually happens and they impeach Trump? Well, it would be a convicting Trump. He's technically already impeached, but I know what you mean. So what does it mean? What would happen to him? Since he's not president right now? Would he then be able to be criminally prosecuted? Probably. But just so we're clear, this entire thing is gonna get tied up in the Supreme Court. Win or lose, Trump is gonna sue this thing and he wants to get a full acquittal of the entire process because you can't impeach a private citizen and the Chief justice is not even here. And so even if they were to find him guilty, the entire process is probably gonna get tied up in the Supreme Court very, very soon. Good question. Though someone says here, dear Charlie, I love your show every day. You're the next generation's Rush Limbaugh for sure. Well, that is a. That is a high bar. But thank you for the kind words. Thanks so much for all you do. Almost two years ago, our family moved from the somewhat annoyingly Democrat state of Pennsylvania to the ridiculous state of California. Anyway, yesterday you mentioned the stimulus bill about being one third a bailout for Democrat states like me. Please enlighten us how the states are actually going to use this money. The way I see it, the most hurt people financially are everyday folks. You're right. The paycheck to paycheck, people who have lost their jobs or fear they will soon. You're right. Tell us how the California government is hurting us so much, or is this bailout just going to rebuild the cities they let burn? The government doesn't need to spend any more money of our tax dollars to at dinners, at French laundry or freezers full of luxurious ice cream. I like this person. As much as it's sad the Los Angeles was allowed to burn like that, I'm not sure it's right to make the whole country pay. What will Newsom do with that money? Basically, they're gonna bail out pension funds. That's the biggest thing. They're gonna bail out structural deficits from these cities and states, which is mostly pensions to retired teachers and retired government employees. That's where the money is going. It's not going anywhere else. It's not gonna help out working people. It's not going to help people that are living paycheck to paycheck. It's going to bail out pensioners and people that are in basically people that receive government handouts. That's who it's going to bail out. Thank you, Becky, for your question. I'm gonna give away some books. By the way, if I take your question, you subscribe to the Charlie Kirk show and email us in your subscription freedomarliekirk.com Here's a question. Hey Charlie, did you watch the Mike Lindell docu series that he released? If so, what are your thoughts? I said this in my podcast and I received a lot of hate mail, but I didn't say anything negative. I just said I didn't watch the whole thing. So I plan on finishing it and I will tell you my thoughts. So don't send me hateful emails. I mean, you can. I don't care. I mean, it's not that big of a deal. We're not immune to criticism here. In fact, sometimes criticism has helped us actually improve our program. But I don't like unwarranted criticism. So I watch the first 45 minutes. People say that the last 45 minutes are the best. So I'm going to check that out. Thank you, Giovanni. It's a great. So you know what's amazing to think? What was the last time we talked about Peter Strzok and Lisa Page and all these guys that spied on the president? That's what they should be doing in impeachment over or just an entire congressional inquiry, but they get away with it. Here's one. Hey Charlie, we are in Southern Illinois. I have an eighth grader. We are demanding our representatives oppose this legislation. What are they talking about? What we're talking about is the radical indoctrination curriculum that is being passed through Illinois right now. We have spoken out definitively against this. George Will has a great piece. I can't believe I say this, actually. I think this was probably published somewhere else besides the Marshall News Messenger. That's my guess. My guess is that it was syndicated. But George Will writes here. And again he became so vehemently anti Trump. I used to love George Will. George Will was so thoughtful, he was so smart. He had a great approach to things. And then he just went off the reservation with Trump. Anyway, he has a great article here and I quote, in Illinois, indoctrination could replace education. Just so you guys know, our program here was the first program to warn against this Illinois indoctrination education. We were the first one and it went viral. I think that Instagram video has well over a million views, right? It's huge. He writes, quote, the worst governed state. Illinois had triple the population loss of the state with the second highest out migration between 2010 and 2020 is contemplating another incentive for people leaving the state or for flight. On February 16, a joint committee of the state legislature will decide whether to turn turn into a legal requirement the state Board of Education recommendation that until a slight rewording would mandate that all public teachers embrace and and encourage progressive viewpoints and perspectives. If the board's education policy is ratified, Illinois will become a place congenial only for parents who are comfortable consigning their children to education. That is political indoctrination audaciously announced and comprehensively enforced. If anyone is watching this in Illinois, please email us right now. Freedomarliekirk.com first of all, I love hearing from you guys here. Freedomarlicirk.com so thank you. Jolene corrected me. Tiberius was emperor when our Lord and Savior was crucified.

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I stand corrected. Thought it was Caesar Augustus was around that time period. Maybe there was a layover. But thank you for correcting me, Jolene. I appreciate that. But yes, in Illinois, if you're there, you guys have to get involved in this and your school board contact your legislatures. This is going to change state of Illinois permanently and there will be no going back. William says hi Charlie. How come we don't have a million patriots at Arizona and D.C. to fight this fight? And so look, I want to tell you we are pushing, we are pressuring, we have Gosar coming on. We are on top of this to find out what happened in Arizona. Hey Charlie, I've subscribed to Your show and listened daily. And my kids know that when the baby goes down for a nap, it's time for Charlie Kirk. Thank you, Abigail. You're so kind. I'm wondering how the impeachment trial is even allowed to continue if the Chief justice isn't attending. Looking forward to hear your answer, Abigail. You're exactly right. This entire impeachment trial is a sham. It's illegitimate from the start. This is not an impeachment trial. This is just the Senate calling something that is not an impeachment trial an impeachment trial. This is a show trial. And tomorrow, I'm going to go into a deep and detailed history of what a Soviet show trial actually is. Where do we get that term from? What does it mean? A show trial is something that is very real and ruined millions of people's lives. So thank you, Abigail, for that. Let's go to a question here. Hi, Charlie. I'm speaking to our school board meeting tonight in North Carolina. Awesome. That's what every patriot should do. We are still very much closed while schools within miles around us are open. What would you say to them? My seventh grader has stepped into the school building three times in almost a year. The isolation is crushing. Thank you for being a bright light. Well, first of all, I want to encourage you, Ashley, and every person should be going to their school board meetings. Number two, I would say this as calmly as possible. Say exactly that. My seventh grader is being crushed by isolation. We know the way this virus operates. Please let my kid back in school. And then I would make this argument. I am a shareholder in this local school. I'm a shareholder. I'm a taxpayer. You work for me. And it's about time that we open our schools fully. We understand how this virus operates. And it is unfair and immoral to subject an entire generation of children to a virus that will statistically not kill them at any greater risk than driving to school or other activities if they're in seventh grade. So, Ashley, I want to encourage you. I want to thank you for going and doing that. We need more Americans to step up and go to their school board meetings. So tell me how it goes. Ashley, I'm very, very curious. Hey, Charlie. Enjoy listening to your coverage daily. Thank you. I'm halfway through 1984 after you and Isabel recommended over and over how much Big Brother raps. History is terrifying, but we're seeing it today. I encourage everyone to go read 1984. Anyway, here's my question. Can you clarify the vote that Senator Rand Paul was talking about last week, what was the vote that the Senate did where Senator Rand Paul said the impeachment was dead on arrival? It's a great question. Thank you Taylor. What Senator Rand Paul was saying and what he did was a vote that basically asked the entire Senate, do you think this is constitutional? Now the vote 55 said yes, 45 said no. But basically it was a preview that 45 senators are going to vote in favor of acquittal because they believe that this impeachment is unconstitutional in nature. So that's the answer to that question. Quincy says thank you so much for being a strong voice for all of us. I come to you for level headed sound facts. You and your team are awesome. I listen every day. Thank you Quincy. Hi Charlie, I'm from Illinois. I contacted my legislatures and none of them called or emailed me back. This should not be allowed. My small business in Illinois has been hit so hard. I'm the only one left in my family that lives in Illinois and do not have the ability to move at this point. What can I do to make change when I've been told my business will be attacked and shut down? Look, you have to just keep fighting for your business. I'm so sorry to hear that. I would just keep contacting these legislators and come up with a plan and try to leave Illinois. I left Illinois. I want to believe in the greatness of Illinois. But it comes to a point where you're paying 6% property tax on commercial, you're paying 3% on residential, your schools are closed, 5% income tax, 10% sales tax, anti gun measures, anti Christian, pro progressive indoctrination education measures. The whole state is locked down. They just legalized weed. You just gotta say time out and I feel for you but do what you can because there are states that are wide open and they're robust right now like Florida. Thanks to the great Governor Ron DeSantis. Email us your questions freedomarlicirk.com Illinois Mom Hey Charlie, thanks for being such a great source of information. I'm a homeschool mom in Illinois and the radical legislation being pushed for teachers is incredibly scary. I've been pushing back on it both with my voice to our leaders and on social media. The next thing coming down the line is legislation for sex ed starting in kindergarten and teaching gender theory in first and third grade. Illinois needs to fight now or never. All the best Hannah. I completely agree. They are taking the California model and they're implementing it into the once great state of Illinois. Hi Charles. If they pass the brainwashing legislation in Illinois. We're moving out as soon as My oldest is 18. Three more years here will be awful because my youngest are five or six. But we'll do our best to teach them the right way at home. Sarah, you're exactly right. If they pass this, you should not fund this government under any sort of moral consciousness that you conscious that you have. It is absolutely terrible. Hi Charlie, Heard on the podcast the other day. Thank you for listening to our podcast that either way this impeachment goes, it will end up in the court, one side or the other. Can you please explain what you meant by that? Yes, thank you, Dylan. What I meant is that the constitutionality of this will be challenged in court. Regardless of all the slideshows they're showing and all this stuff, the constitutionality of this will be actually challenged in court. Whether or not this process should be allowed to be happening at all. Is it constitutional? And I don't think it will be. Let's go to Joshua. Hi Charlie. I'm in Illinois watching the stream. I'm in high school. It's already very far left. I got forced to change my icon from Trump. Illinois has flipped in such a very scary and dangerous way. If this podcast that we do means something to you guys, do me a favor, go to charliekirk.com support and support us if you can. Thanks so much for listening everybody. You can email us your questions. As always, freedomarliekirk.com if you want to support us, go to charliekirk.com support and please get involved with Turningpoint USA. You'll love every minute of it. God bless. Speak to you soon.