Charlie Kirk (4:15)

So governor, when does this become criminal? And I know that you're mentioning this, I mean, aren't they. I mean, what's the phrase, subverting our democracy? When do we start to ratchet this up? Because they are fleeing the state, not representing the voters that elected them. Governor Greg Abbott.

Governor Greg Abbott (4:33)

So under Texas law, this does not become criminal because that's not authorized as an action that can be taken by the House. However, what we've done this time that we've never done before, we're seeking another pathway that I believe is valid. I filed a lawsuit about this time last week in the Texas Supreme Court bypassing the trial courts, saying that we can get a writ of what's called quo warrento from the Texas Supreme Court saying that these offices have been vacated because they have been abandoned by because we have Texas House members who are not following the Constitution, the Texas Constitution specifically requires Texas House members to, quote, act on bills before them. And when you're abandoning your responsibility, when you have abandoned the state, you're not there to act on those bills. And so I think I filed this lawsuit in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court demanded a response last Friday. They're considering it as we speak right now. But, Charlie, the pathway that I'm seeking to go down is one that would allow the removal of these Texas legislators who have abandoned the state.

Charlie Kirk (5:42)

How is this playing out politically, domestically? If you were to listen as the national media, they call this gerrymandering, terrible, you know, cowing to President Trump. What are you hearing from Texas voters and what is the latest on the will and the fortitude of the Texas Legislature on the Republican side to get this done?

Governor Greg Abbott (6:06)

So, first of all, what we're hearing on the ground is what we hear on the ground every single time this happens. And that is Texans do not like people who don't show up for work. And Texans have to show up for work. If they didn't show up for work, they would get fired. And so they get angry when they see Democrats flee the state, not show up to the job they were elected to do and not get the job done. And so this always works to the detriment of the Democrat House members who flee the state. Second, this is a character flaw by these Democrats because one thing that is anti Texan is running from a fight. You know, Texas kind of got its beginnings with the Battle of the Alamo. And that was a place where people chose not to run from a fight, but to stay and fight. And, you know, the come and take it slogan, that was when Texans were willing to say to Mexico, if you want to take your cannon back, you got to come and take it from us. And they were willing to stand and fight. To the contrary to that, we have these Democrats who are running like scaredy cats off to some other state, and they have refused to stand and fight. So this is, this is going to be very harmful to them back home. And at the same time, I'm running TV advertisements and digital advertisements in districts of the missing Democrats pointing out how they're not showing up, not doing their job, not dealing with the flooding process that we have in Central Texas because of the horrific, deadly floods. And so this is going to hurt them a lot. Your other question. Listen, the legislature is fully committed to using every tool, and I can explain it in this context, but the tools already used by the Legislature to try to bring these Democrats back are far more, far stronger, far better than any House member that I've been involved with to try to bring runaway quorum breaking Democrats back to the state of Texas.

Charlie Kirk (7:58)

So if the seats are declared vacant, just make sure I understand. Does that lower the quorum threshold or would we have to wait until another election?

Governor Greg Abbott (8:07)

Two things. One is it does is my understanding that it does lower the quorum threshold. However, it also does something else. It triggers Article 3, Section 13 of the Texas Constitution that as soon as we get a decision, but that they have a bat in their seat, a ruling in our favor, and that lawsuit that I filed, I as governor am authorized to fill those vacancies and I do so by calling for an election that must take place within 20 days.

Charlie Kirk (8:36)

Got it. So that's very interesting for our audience here because this can move quite quick. What is your response then, Governor? Governor Newsom is declaring war. JB Pritzker is declaring war. Jasmine Crockett calls all of these maps racist. Can you defend this move? And of course I'm with you 100%. But talk about why you are doing this and the intent. Governor Greg Abbott, why are you doing this and why does it matter?

Governor Greg Abbott (9:05)

What Texas is doing is 100% perfectly legal. And this is not the first time that Texas has done mid decade redistricting. This time we had the law and the facts change since we last did redistricting in 2021. The law that changes last year pursuant to a lawsuit filed by Democrats last year, the federal Court of Appeals came out and said that Texas is not required to maintain what are called coalition districts that were helping out Democrats and freed from that limitation that opened up the possibility of creating all these new districts. And then couple that with the fact that and the facts are that the racial minorities in the state of Texas are voting Republican now as opposed to Democrat. You saw that with Trump's big win in the state of Texas, the Hispanics in Texas, they don't want open border policies. They don't want boys and girls force. They support law enforcement as opposed to curtailing law enforcement. And so what we are authorized legally to do and that is to draw districts for political purposes so that the people of these congressional districts are going to be able to vote for the candidate of their choice, which they showed is Republican because every seat that we are drawing is a seat that Donald Trump won. And those candidates are trapped in a Democrat congressional seat who is a member of Congress hostile to the values of the people in that district. So we are just trying to fulfill the will and the demand from the people of the state of Texas.

Charlie Kirk (10:32)

Governor Abbott, we have your back 100%. Finally our side is fighting. Fight fire with fire. Do not give an inch, especially to these Democrat extortionists. Thank you so much. Governor Greg Abbott from the great state of Texas. Thank you.

Governor Greg Abbott (10:45)

You got it. Take care.

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Donald Trump (12:14)

Today we're declaring public safety emergency in the District of Columbia. And Attorney General Pam Bondi, who's fantastic, is taking command of the Metropolitan Police Department as of this moment. And I'll be making the appropriate notifications to Congress.

Charlie Kirk (12:32)

The 1973 Home Rule act for D.C. explicitly allows the president to take control of Washington, D.C. police for 48 hours, no questions asked, as long as he believes that special conditions of an emergency nature exist. President Trump says that's the case and that D.C. has a public safety emergency. In addition, the president can keep D.C. police federalized for up to 30 days as long as he notifies Congress and explains why right now 30 days is the cap unless Congress passes a new law. That said, it's not clear that anything that stops President Trump from controlling the police for 30 days, surrendering power for a day and then federalizing them again. But there may be other arguments. Mike Davis was recently arguing that D.C. home Rule act itself is unconstitutional. We'll have to wait and see what the arguments are there. But the legal questions aside is why is Trump doing this? You could say, quite reasonably, he has a lot on his plate. He's going to go, by the way, sit down with Vladimir Putin in Alaska this Friday. He's trying to fix Gaza. He's doing deportations and tariff negotiations and a lot more. So why is he looking to micromanage the nation's capital? Ronald Reagan ignored our nation's capital. George W. Bush ignored our nation's capital. Bill Clinton ignored our nation's capital. George W. Bush ignored our nation's capital. Barack Obama ignored our nation's capital. And Joe Biden ignored our nation's capital. Why? Because it's easy to ignore our nation's capital. Just homeless people, slums being slums and slum lords being slum lords. And it's okay if it has a higher crime rate than Mexico City and Bogota and Islamabad. No, it's actually not okay. President Donald Trump has always been a person very aware of symbolism. He's very visual. He cares a lot about the trappings of the presidency. That's why he liked putting on the military parade this summer, one that I supported. It's why he wants to build a big ballroom on White House grounds. A great nation should have a great presidential ballroom. So it really impacts President Trump to see the reality of our nation's capital city. We're supposed to be the world's greatest superpower, the leader of the free world. So why is our capital a joke, a mess, a disgrace? In 2023, Washington D.C. washington D.C. had 274 murders in a city with a population of only 700,000 people. That's a murder rate of 39 per hundred thousand. That's nearly the murder rate of South Africa, where we're now taking refugees from. Just so we're clear, and we should. In 2020, four murders were down, but the murder rate was still 27 per 100,000. That's higher than the murder rate of Mexico. And it's four times the US national average. Even if crime is dropping, the lower rates are still a complete and total humiliation and disgrace. Let's play cut 307.

Donald Trump (15:20)

We're formally declaring a public safety emergency. This is an emergency. This is a tragic emergency. And it's embarrassing for me to be up here. You know, I'm going to See Putin. I'm going to Russia on Friday. I don't like being up here talking about how unsafe and how dirty and disgusting this once beautiful capital was with graffiti all over the walls. It's another part of it, by the way, because we're talking about safety, but we're also talking about beautification. We have the most beautiful, potentially capital in the world. We always had. But people come from Iowa, they come from Indiana, they come and then they get mugged. Not going to happen. Keep coming because within, by the time you get your trip set, it's going to be safe again and it's going to be clean very quickly.

Charlie Kirk (16:07)

Think of all the high schoolers that go to Washington D.C. for the first time. What are we putting on display? Why is it that Tokyo, New Delhi, Havana, Cuba are safer than Washington D.C. substantially safer. You can walk the streets of Tokyo at night. You can walk the streets of Seoul, South Korea at night. You can walk the streets of Kuala Lumpur, you can walk the streets of Singapore. But the fact that you cannot walk the Streets of Washington D.C. or New York City or Chicago is an indictment and a failure of our ruling class. Our ruling class has cared more about sending javelins and missiles to Ukraine while they have to walk over drug overdosed bodies on the way to go make a vote on the Senate floor. D.C. has long been ignored and it is a perfect example of national decay, of collapse of the lower morale. Oh, it doesn't matter. It does matter. Roll in the tanks, bring in the drones, send in the Marines. We're federalizing Washington D.C. it's hard to believe it was even possible, but the Democrat run states are now more pro abortion than ever and will only get worse unless you join me standing for life. This is Charlie Kirk and we're saving babies right now with preborn. Ultrasounds save lives. That's why Preborn gives free ultrasounds to girls and women. It's the truth they truly deserve and it doubles the chance that she'll choose life. $140 gives five mothers a free ultrasound and saves babies. $280 can save 10 babies. And just $28 a month can save a baby a month. For less than a dollar a day and a $15,000 gift will provide an ultrasound machine that will save lives for years to come. Ultrasounds save lives. It's the truth they truly deserve and it doubles the chance that she'll choose life. Whether you want to save one baby or five or hundreds, that opportunity is just a phone call or click away. Call 833-850-2229 or click on the preborn banner at charliekirk.com that's 833-850-2229 or click on the pre born banner at charliekirk.Com Email us. As always, freedom charliekirk.com I want to play another piece of tape here of President Donald Trump announcing the takeover of Washington D.C. and understand this, you get what you put up with. There are political issues you can control and there are political issues you cannot control. And what is most frustrating about the current American moment is that we are overwhelmingly met with political issues that we can control. Our failure is an act of the will or a lack of the will when it comes to crime. We saw this on the southern border. All you had to do was have it make a decision that you wanted a border. We were told by James Lankford from Oklahoma, well, you know, we need to have some bipartisan deal that allows 5,000 people a day to come across wrong. You need to have the willpower. You need to dive deep and dig deep to have the fortitude, the wherewithal, the spine, the cojones, the chutzpah to achieve what you want to achieve. And we've just put up with crime for the last 40 years because we're afraid of being called racist. Because, you know, youths are going to do youth things. Crime is a choice. Putting up with crime is a choice. We don't have to live like this. Let me repeat one of my core political philosophies. This is not Republican or Democrat. If you cannot walk the great American cities at night safely without having to look over your shoulder, then your political leader should all be fired. That ruling class has failed. I don't care if the Republican, I don't care if they're Democrat. Degradation is a choice and it's time for us to clean it up. And the liberals, they have no idea how to respond to this. Oh, Donald Trump's a racist and that doesn't work anymore. It's not 2016. Oh, Donald Trump's a fascist and that doesn't work anymore. It's not 2020. What new talking point do you have? What is your objection to rolling in the tanks, bringing in the drones, sending the Marines? What is your objection exactly? Do you not want to live in a safer city? Deep down, they're cheering for him. By the way, deep down, a lot of these libs actually want this to happen. But on television they're going to performatively say this is the wrong thing. It's time for us to get aggressive on crime. We need more people in jail. Write that down. We do not have enough people incarcerated in America. We need mass incarceration. People always say, oh, we have a mass incarceration problem. We have an under incarceration problem. We just happen to be a very violent country. Get over it. Put them in jail for life. If you're going to start shooting up schoolyards, you're going to start getting kids caught in crossfire. A job of a political leader must be the safety of their citizens. If you're a mayor of a major city, your job is to police the streets, to fix the streets and clean up the homeless. And since Muriel Bowser is not done her job, has not done her job. In Washington D.C. the tanks are going to be rolling. Play cut 309.

Donald Trump (21:25)

We're going to be removing homeless in campins from all over our parks, our beautiful, beautiful parks, which now a lot of people can't walk on. They've been very, very dirty. Very. A lot of problems, but we've already started that. We're moving the encampments away, trying to take care of people, getting rid of the people from underpasses and public spaces from all over the city. There are many places that they can go and we're going to help them as much as you can help. But they'll not be allowed to turn our capital into a wasteland.

Charlie Kirk (22:02)

Washington D.C. has become a dumping ground for the third world and a safe haven for criminals. That is our nation's capital. We're not talking about the liberation of Toledo, Ohio, of course, which we should try to liberate all American cities. This is not the liberation of Portland, which we should do. This is our nation's capital. And do you know how disgusting it is when I drive the city, the streets of D.C. and you pass the Saudi embassy, for example, big beautiful building, and there's just homeless encampments all around it. It's embarrassing. So you have. Basically, we have to accept that the sheiks of Qatar and the ruling class of Saudi Arabia and the prime Minister of Japan, they see what we see and it's humiliating. They see this. We're supposed to believe that these foreign leaders, you go down Embassy row in Georgetown, you go down Embassy row in Washington, D.C. you got one after, you got Spain, you got Portugal, you got Croatia, one after the other, boom, boom, boom. They see the graffiti. It's not a good look for a superpower. And we're just supposed to put up with it because we're afraid of being called racist. That Dog doesn't hunt anymore. This is President Donald Trump saying, once we liberate DC and by the way, I guarantee the crime is gonna go whoop. It's gonna go way down. And then the media will say, oh, it's only going down because he brought in the military. Exactly. We need full military occupation of these cities until the crime desists, period. We need a desisting of crime in our cities. We're not gonna put up with it. I want to be able to walk Magnificent Mile in Chicago without having to look over my shoulder. Do you know crime is so bad in Chicago that if you get a fender bender, there's a new thing that the youths are doing? Remember, we have a big teenage problem of crime in our country, that teenagers will bang the back of your car as a fender bender. You come out to go trade insurance and then they steal your car in Chicago. The new guidance is that if you get a fender bender, drive to the nearest police station to trade insurance just in case they're there to steal your car. It's a real thing. It's happening all the time, by the way. Get a burner. We advertise it all the time here on our program. I don't want to live in that country. You shouldn't either. Simple fix. You steal a car, 25 years in prison. I don't care if you're a teenager. I don't care if. Well, I was raised without a dad. Well, you're going to go meet a new dad in jail. We're done. We're not putting up with it. We need more prisons and we need more prisoners. Enough of this. And honestly, I was once part of this whole prison reform thing. I look back at it and I just cringe at myself. It's a totally wrong premise. We are soft on crime in this country. We need discipline.

Governor Greg Abbott (24:50)

We need.

Charlie Kirk (24:51)

Honestly, we need the humiliation of criminals. We need order. You don't live in a nation if you can't walk the streets of San Francisco at night. You don't live in a country when young teenage girls can't walk the streets of la. How is that a free society? You are appeasing the criminals. Stop coddling criminals because. Because they happen to be a protected class. We don't believe in protected classes anymore, by the way. We're done with that. Game over. No more protected classes. We are all citizens made of the image of God. Oh, you're a protected class because, you know, different skin color ain't wrong. That regime was defeated back in November. That whole worldview Was gone, over, done, kaput, sayonara. Instead, a new worldview has ascended, which is we're not going to make accommodations for criminals. We're going to do mass deportations. If you're black and you commit a crime, you go to jail. If you're white and you commit a crime, you go to jail. Human equality doesn't matter. Doesn't matter your background. We are all treated equal under the law, and that is a biblical principle. So once we liberate Washington D.C. and we will liberate it now, again, I want to say President Donald Trump, he's got to go play to win here. The one piece of caution we'd have to say is that if we just kind of do this symbolically, we will lose. The criminals will win. We got to go hard. We got to go big league. We're talking National Guard, tanks, every street. You need military. And if people are afraid, oh, well, Donald Trump is a fascist because he's bringing in the military. Well, you're an anarchist. We're not fascist. We're order. Call them a name right back. You're an anarchist. You want the criminals, the thugs, the gang members and the worst of society to run the streets of D.C. we're not going to put up with it. By the way. Spare me the lecture. You guys militarized Washington D.C. after January 6, but you wouldn't move them a couple blocks north to the criminals because you acted as if, oh, all the people on January 6th are the greatest threat ever because they went in with a pocket constitution. Go say a prayer. The US Capitol. Once we liberate dc, you better believe it. Chicago, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco. We got a big military. We should be willing to use it. Play cut 316 and we're going to.

Donald Trump (27:15)

Have the same thing here. But then I'm going to look at New York in a little while. Let's do this. Let's do this together. Let's see. It's going to go pretty quickly. And if you, if we need to, we're going to do the same thing in Chicago, which is a disaster. We have a mayor there who's totally incompetent. He's an incompetent man, and we have an incompetent governor there. Pritzker is an incompetent. His family threw him out of the business and he ran for governor. And now I understand he wants to be president, but I notice he lost a little weight, so maybe he has a chance. You know, you never know what happens. But Pritzker is a gross incompetent guy, thrown out of the family business.

Charlie Kirk (27:56)

JB Pritzker was born on 3rd and thought he hit a triple. If your city is a third world hellhole, look at that. He's a mile wide. JB Pritzker. I always laugh. I'm running for president. As I say commonly, I would love to see that. The running part. We need an El Salvadorian reset. El Salvador went from the most dangerous country in the western hemisphere to one of the safest, if not the safest. Crime is a choice. We are deciding and choosing to put up with it. We are deciding and choosing to allow our streets to be littered with criminals and the worst of society. And President Donald Trump is saying no more. He is exercising his willpower. And Brandon Johnson, Muriel Bowser, Karen Bass. Mom, Donnie. If he's going to be the next mayor of New York City, watch out. This is what we are elected to do. Crime is a choice. And we want the streets of America to be as clean as Tokyo. If you guys have private student loan debt, this is the best way out. They are phenomenal supporters of our student action summit, America Fest, our campus tours. Many clients are not able to make the minimum monthly payment on their private student loans when they first contact Yrefi. If you go to yrefi.com you can read testimonies from other people who have been where you are and how they've successfully escaped. Do you have a co borrower or why refi can get them released from the loan. You can give mom or dad a break. Go to yrefi.com, you can even skip a payment every six months up to 12 times without penalty. You don't have to ignore that mountain of student loan statements on your kitchen table anymore. Call 888yrefi34 or go to yrefi.com that is yrefy.com may not be available in all 50 states, so go to yrefi.com if you have distressed or defaulted private student loans, they can get you out of debt. So if you know anybody in your life that might have student loan problems, private student loan problems, check it out right now@yrefi.com that is yrefy.com I get called a lot of things. The one thing I wish people would call me more is is an entrepreneur or a builder. And I gotta give credit to this one young lady. She is very annoying. She follows me around the country. She sends her little clowns and her trolls and her circus acts and her court jesters at all of our events from the UN F America thing. But she is obsessed with me. However, she has more so than most accurately depicted what we've been able to do here because she does describe us as a builder. Now, this is a former Bernie Sanders type. She's got very crass language. She's got quite a way to herself that is unappealing. I mean, if you look at her, you're like, whoa, give me the American Eagle ad back. Like, I don't want that, please. More American Eagle, less this, please. Like, that's not what I want. I want the sorority videos, not this. And. But to her credit, she has accurately diagnosed the problem, and she is a girl. For the record, I have no reason not to believe it. Jesse was kind of playing with words here. So Jesse Watters did a summary of this. I wish we had more of the CNN interview, but this is some of the best parts where CNN dispatched one of their reporters who looks like Ruben Gallego. I don't know why Ruben Gallego is doing street interviews for cnn, but he's doing side work. So Dollar Store Ruben Gallego basically was doing interviews for CNN at our Student Action Summit, and we knew that this whole story was gonna populate, which is, oh, wow, Charlie's so successful and Turning Point's so successful, and therefore the left is trying to infiltrate. We knew the story was coming, and Jesse Waters caught onto it. Play cut 258 Croucher leaderless.

Governor Greg Abbott (31:58)

Their new plan, Create a transgender Charlie Kirk.

Unknown (32:02)

I think that, you know, as much as I disagree with Charlie Kirk, I believe that what he's doing has worked, and that's why I'm here to replicate what he's doing. I'm not here to, you know, disrupt Charlie Kirk's events. I'm here to say that there are alternative ideas and that we need to build the same thing that he has because he is good at it.

Charlie Kirk (32:20)

Well, we are good at it because we build. You see, that's what people miss. People think it's just the campus thing or just this program. This is two hours my day. And then I go to the day job of managing a thousand people, and we have to raise a hundred million dollars a year, and we have 500,000 donors. People say, oh, you know, if I was just supported by wealthy people, that's part of it. We're very thankful to our wealthy contributors and amazing donors, but it's also the 500,000 people that donate to us. Jesse Waters continues. Play cut 259 the DNC, they're already.

Governor Greg Abbott (32:51)

Trying to coup trans Charlie.

Charlie Kirk (32:54)

Is the DNC supporting this?

Unknown (32:56)

No, not currently.

Charlie Kirk (32:57)

Why not?

Unknown (32:59)

If Ken Martin's watching this, text me back. But really, I mean, I think it's disappointing that we haven't been able to see the DNC really get off the ground since the election because I think a lot of things have happened internally that have been distractions to the actual ground game that we need right now.

Charlie Kirk (33:15)

There are so many more clips from that CNN exchange that we could mine, but I love this. About time that the left realizes and wakes up that while you guys have been ridiculing us, we've been building, as we like to say, at Turning Point usa. We did not come up with this, but Sun Tzu did. No, he didn't. But that's okay. It's wrongly attributed to Sun Tzu. That's fine. It's hilarious. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win. I remember the ignoring phase. Ah, it's nothing. Charlie is nothing. Forget him. And then I remember the laughter. Oh, it's so funny. Look at Turning Point. What do they think they're doing now? Many of those people are applying for jobs from us, for the record. And then the fighting. Oh, we loved the fighting. And then the victory. But look, it goes in cycles. But for Z, I think that's her name. Is her name Z prominently profiled on cnn? She seems that she actually gets it more than most, where she's like, hey guys, this guy's awful, but he's built something. And again, I haven't built anything. We have built it at Turning Point usa. Z, Cohen, Sanchez, for the record, you will not be seeing her in American Eagle at anytime soon. But Z, Cohen, Sanchez, she's onto something. She's onto something very powerful, which is the left struggles to build anything. And by the way, she had her own little counterfeit clown show back in the spring and it fell apart. Why? Because they had a oppression Olympics woke falling apart because someone did microaggressions that they didn't like and the whole thing fell apart. People like to talk about the platform we built, but they don't know about the chapters, the high school groups, the events. A lot of people want to do the stuff we do, but they don't want to work as hard as we worked. 300 days of travel a year for a decade straight. 3,000 days on the road, you can never really relax. Well, at least when it's not on the Sabbath. Good luck. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email us. As always, freedomcharlick.com thanks so much for listening and God Bless. For more on many of these stories and news you can Trust, go to charliekirk.com.