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Charlie Kirk
Hey, everybody. Charlie Kirk here live from the Bitcoin.com studio. I explain in great detail what's going on in Texas with the legislatures and lawmakers fleeing. And then we have Senator Mark Wayne Mullen on breaking news out of the U.S. senate. Are we finally going to get Donald Trump's nominees? Email US as always, freedomarliekirk.com and subscribe to our podcast, that is the Charlie Kirk show podcast page and become a member today. Members.charliekirk.com that is members.charliekirk. com. Thank you guys so much for listening, as always. Means the world. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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Senator Mark Wayne Mullen
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie.
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Charlie Kirk
He's an incredible guy, his spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point usa. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Noble Gold Investments is the official gold sponsor of the Charlie Kirk Show, a company that specializes in gold IRAs and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble gold investments@noblegoldinvestments.com that is noblegoldinvestments.com and it's where I buy all of my gold. Go to noblegoldinvestments.com There is a lot going on in Texas. We covered this story last week. President Donald Trump is working with Governor Greg Abbott to redraw the congressional maps in Texas. The new proposal would add up to five Republican leaning districts ahead of the 2026 midterms shifting power in the US House. Now the the entire plan really hinges upon the idea that Hispanics will continue to vote Republican. This is all being done. Legally, this is completely kosher. And now the Democrats are starting to run away. Why are they running away? Well, Texas law requires 2/3 quorum, 100 of 150 members to conduct House business, and therefore they need at least 51 members to abstain. Over 50 Democrats have traveled to Illinois and some to New York and Boston, making the minimum quorum impossible and stalling the vote. Most have gathered thanks to the aid of my least favorite person In American politics, Governor J.B. pritzker, who is giving them a little bit of air cover. Now they're fleeing the state because in fact, in most States the police can force a lawmaker to attend a legislative session. So the only way to avoid being present is to flee the state entirely and therefore beyond their jurisdiction. So the Democrats are fleeing, and naturally of course, to my home state of Illinois. Well, at least we think they are. Maybe they just got stuck by J.B. pritzker's irresistible gravitational pull. Now, Illinois is quite a funny place to flee to. This, this, this is how you know the Democrats have really lost a step. Of all the states to flee to, you are going to flee to Illinois. Illinois, which is known for their ridiculous gerrymandering. I know it because I grew up as a political campaign volunteer working in the districts in the suburbs of Chicago and I kid you not, where I grew up outside of Wheeling, Illinois, literally there would be carve outs of little micro neighborhoods of across the street would be Illinois's 9th congressional district. We would be in Illinois's 10th congressional district. And then literally on stone throws away would be Illinois's 8th congressional district. All kind of weirdly conformed. It was like a gender reassignment surgery met a congressional map. So of all the places you look on screen, just some of the examples here, it looks like a Jackson Pollock painting. Look at the entire map. There's random streaks of color across your screen. That's where they're going to go to go fight gerrymandering. Illinois is the worst offender of all the states across the country. Again, just look at Illinois's 13th congressional district up on screen. It's basically a 15 mile wide strip connecting five different Democrat cities across 300 miles from East St. Louis through Springfield to Decatur to Urbana Champaign. The Chicago area is a massive mess. And I know this, I lived through it. The, the lines snaking all across random districts. Black district here, Hispanic district here. Let's show up some of the other pictures on screen guys, of the other maps. So Democrats are howling that. There you go. That in Illinois. We could, if you could zoom in on Cook County, Illinois is the Wuhan Institute of Virology of gerrymandering. They invented it and they brought it to the rest of the world. Good old Mike Madigan. Do you know who Mike Madigan is? Oh, Mike Madigan was Illinois speaker of the House. I don't know if he's still alive, but he got arrested finally after nearly 50 years of naked corruption running the entire Illinois House. Remember we used to say Illinois is not broken, it's fixed. A crook. He would hold the power over the Illinois gerrymandering maps as a way to try to prevent Republicans from getting more representation. Now, if you're a bit older, this might feel a little bit like, haven't I seen this movie before? And it should. Remember back in 2003, Texas did another redistricting effort and Democrats fled en masse to Oklahoma, then to New Mexico. But of course, in essence, they had to come back in 2021, Texas Democrats fled again, trying to block election integrity laws. They failed. Again, this will be a failed effort. And do you Remember back in 2011, Democrats fled Wisconsin when Scott Walker was governor to go to Illinois. In 2011, 14 Democrat state senators fled Illinois to block a vote on Scott Walker's union reforms. They had to cross state lines instead of facing a debate, and Scott Walker ended up winning. This is Cook. Yeah, that's the excerpts of Crook county. Put that up. 294. Does that make any sense to you? Especially on the upper right hand of your corner? Look at those little slivers. The deformity of these districts. There is no rhyme, no reason, no harmony. There is nothing behind it except pure, naked political power grabs. So Illinois has the worst of all of it. At first when I saw this, I thought it was a flood map. I thought it was like, this is different parts of Cook county that have different flood thresholds. So this is the state that is hosting the Texas Republicans. And I got to give some credit to the Texas Republicans. And let this be a message to Republicans across the country. More of this, More hardball. More being willing to use political power to stop the Democrats from running roughshod over us. More of this kind of energy. When they come back to Texas, if they violated laws, arrest them, fill their vacant seats. The main crux of this is something called coalition districts. It's basically intersectionality weaponized to reduce Republican representation. They combine minority groups to box out conservatives. And you can put 294 up on screen, on the upper right hand of your screen, you see, they'll do this and they'll kind of carve in. So traditionally, DuPage county in the service of Chicago was very Republican. So what they did, this was Judy Biggert's congressional seat. What they did after the 2010 census is they would configure enough of Chicago to go into DuPage to dilute representation. Or how about Illinois's 10th congressional district, which used to be represented by Mark Kirk, who became Senator, and then Bob Dole? No, they had to give. Some of Illinois's 10th congressional district was with some of Evanston. You get the point. They have to try and disfigure these districts in a way to dilute Republican voice and representation. Four of Texas's congressional districts were unconstitutional, the Department of Justice warned a couple years ago. Three, the 19th, 18th and the 33rd, they were unconstitutional coalition districts where black and Hispanic voters combined to form a majority. The 29th while a majority Hispanic was also unconstitutional, the letter said. It said, quote, it is well established so called coalition districts run afoul of the Voting Rights act and the 14th amendment. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dillon wrote, threatening legal action if Texas didn't bring the districts into compliance. Now here's the funny part. So the Department of Justice has called these coalition districts unconstitutional. Five years ago, Democrats would have been thrilled with the new Texas map. Can we put up the proposed Texas map? Five years ago, Democrats would have been like, yes, this is a great map, but do you know what changed? Donald Trump moved the Hispanic vote 10 to 15 points. So this new map actually gives more representation to Hispanics. Now it's a gamble. This is a Texas gamble. This will be known as the big ol Texas gamble. Win a big prize or lose everything. It's a big roll of the dice. It's the Texas gambit. And you could tell because what it is is, is more representation to Hispanics that voted very right wing in 2024. So be careful Texas Republicans, you have a little bit of caution. You really have no choice but to do this. But it is a gambit. It's not rock solid. Now if Hispanics keep on going our direction, we could eliminate the Democrat party in Texas for generations to come. So Democrats are either fighting this because they think the theater helps them or they know it's a real problem and it's just pure theater. That's why J.B. pritzker, he wants to run for president. And J.B. pritzker has never ran for anything in his life. So it'll be the first time the man has ever run. When he runs for president, it'll be quite a sight to see because he has never run. Ever. The man has never ever had anything even more than a light brisk of a pace walk. Man was born on third and thought he hit a triple. He's a nepotistic slob that ruined my home state. Besides that, he's a lovely person, even if you think it's a bit overhyped. AI is suddenly everywhere from self driving cars to molecular medicine to business efficiency. If it's not in your industry yet, it's coming fast. But AI needs a lot of speed and computing power. So how do you compete with costs spiraling out of control. Time to upgrade to the next generation of the cloud. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, or oci. 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Senator Mark Wayne Mullen
What?
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Charlie Kirk
That whole thing. Just don't just, just stay away. She's just big problems. Just the whole ensemble. Whiny, yammering the whole way she presents herself. Smug, terrible, nasty, cruel, wrong, dumb. The whole operation. Young men, better for you to become a Catholic priest. I'm just going to tell you right now, avoid that entire freight train because it is a coming the Jasmine Crockett shtick. Why A lot of young men are checking out of the dating pool because young ladies say I gotta act like. I mean, they don't say they want to act like Jasmine Crockett, but this whole thing she's got going here and apparently we're all Anglos now. Okay, I guess it's a badge of honor. I don't know. She calls. There's no longer white. You see, they're trying to change their. Their vocabulary. It's no longer white majority. We're Anglo majorities. Okay, yeah, I am a wasp. What are you gonna do about it, Jasmine Crockett? Does that make me bad? Does that make me racist? Play cut270 do what this legislature is.
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Jasmine Crockett
Consistently been found to be guilty of doing, which is to make sure that they can do an overemphasis of Anglo voices in this state. Only from 40% of this state is Anglo. Yet somehow we have more than 60% of our seats that are elected by Anglo majority districts. As I said in 2021, as I argued against these maps, the math ain't mathing.
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Charlie Kirk
Okay, again. So first of all, this is just white hate, pure and simple. Naked hate of the white race. By the way, that's the connective tissue. Right? The Sydney Sweeney thing, The war on white people is so clear and I'm sorry, Jasmine Crockett, what do you have against white people so much? You talk about them all the time. All the time. Play cut 272. This is Josie Garcia trying to say that these seats are for blacks. Play. Play cut 272.
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Jasmine Crockett
Do you know how many black seats there are in Congress for the entire state of Texas, ma'?
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Senator Mark Wayne Mullen
Am? No, ma', am, I don't.
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Jasmine Crockett
I don't know if there is a black seat or there are. There are historically black serving seats, ma'. Am. And of the five that there are that represent the entire state of Texas, of the 30 and plus, three of them were set to be dismantled. So I'm just. I'm just curious. Of the four seats that were identified, three of them were historically black seats. One of them is a historically Latino seat. You don't see the race in there? No, ma', am.
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Senator Mark Wayne Mullen
Because I don't think a seat belongs to any race.
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Jasmine Crockett
Okay. Interesting.
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Charlie Kirk
First of all, that woman's got to stop chain smoking. Her voice is completely destroyed, and it's very unattractive. She smokes, like three packs a day. Again, what are we doing here? The reason why young men are staying single hour. I mean, how many more cuts can we play here? Like this. First of all, young men don't like to take orders from women. They. They definitely don't want to take orders from women like that. That's, like, supremely unattractive to men. At the core of the Democrat Party is a coalition of resentment, envy, and hate. None of this is racist. In fact, this actually expands representation to Hispanics. The entire project is actually about expanding voices to Hispanics that are now voting for Republican. Oh, and by the way, just so we're clear, Jasmine Crockett's district, you're getting eliminated. Sorry. You have to go be an influencer. Jasmine Crockett. What skill set does she have? I think we all know. Let's play another one. This is her yelling that the maps are racist. Okay. Anglo racism. 271.
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Jasmine Crockett
I don't think that it's an accident that Donald Trump picked up the phone, called down in Texas, told Abbott what he was going to do, and like a small, ridiculous child, he just fell in order. I don't think any of that was an accident. This is racist, what they are doing.
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Charlie Kirk
Give your life to Jesus. Because I'm convinced in the seventh circle of hell. That is just played on a repeat. It's just on total repeat. The shrill, the yelling, the, the screaming, the yammering, the catawalling, the great replacement of white people is far more sinister than any redistricting project that is at the core of the Democrat project. At the core. And Jasmine Crockett is just some circus act in that entire operation. But it's deathly serious. She you shouldn't take what she says seriously. It's just a joke. What she represents is very serious, which is the continue attempt to eliminate the white population in this country. I visit hundreds of campuses every year and I see it everywhere. Kids are struggling to deal with their emotions and it's taking a serious toll on their mental health. That's why I'm excited about Angel Studios newest family film, Sketch. It's a fun, creative story about a little girl who drops her sketchbook into a magical pond and suddenly all her wild, messy drawings come to life. It's beautiful, a little bit adventurous and yes, even a little scary. But at its core, it helps kids learn how to face, process and cope with their feelings in a healthy way. This is something I've been telling you about for a few months now. So if you're already a Premium Guild member, you have your two free tickets and if not, there's then become a premium Angel Guild member today and get two free tickets to see Sketch in theaters August 6th, plus access to Angel's full streaming library of high quality shows and films that your family will almost certainly love. If you're ready to see more movies like Sketch, movies that are fun, hilarious and meaningful, go to angel.comcharlie and become a premium Angel Guild member today. If you're ready to see more movies like Sketch, movies that are fun, hilarious and meaningful, go to angel.comcharlie and become a premium Angel Guild member today. Joining us now is Senator Mark Wayne Mullen from the great state of Oklahoma. Senator, you tweeted out, quote It's Saturday, August 2nd and I'm still voting. I'll stay in session. We're looking at three options to clear the jam with potus. Give us the latest on what is the jam and is the Senate going to stay in session all of August?
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Senator Mark Wayne Mullen
Well, President President Trump actually did did a pivot on it. He was done with it. The reason why is he got tired of negotiating with Chuck Schumer in bad Faith and said screw it. I'm paraphrasing that word, by the way. And in late Saturday night he said I'm not going to be held host from I'm not going to deal with this. We're going to work on changing the rules over August. Send everybody home except those that are going to work on it. So there's a group of us working on the rules change. When we get back in September, we're going to propose it to the conference and go straight. Go straight to votes. But there's a lot that took place and the three options really, or one, we strike a deal. The President Trump really wanted to strike a deal because it's very complicated to get to the recess appointments. We can talk about that so we can break that down. It gets a little wonky. But he wanted to get a deal. He thought he had a deal. We had 61 that are reported out of committee on the House or on the Senate floor ready to be voted. That was bipartisan, meaning they came out of the committee with Democrat and Republican support. He said, let me clear the deck on that one. We'll work with you on some other. Your pet projects. And then let's work on. Quit on. On a package that would get away from us having to confirm 1200 people and clear the deck for 300 to 400 individuals that are really individuals we shouldn't be voting on to confirm. At first we were told by Angus King that they would accept it and, and then their price tag on that because everything comes with the negotiating. They had 800 million in. In funding that was being held up by FY25 appropriations. That was part of kind of the rescission packages that was coming through. In return, let the money go through. We had tentatively said we would try doing something like that with President Trump negotiating. I mean, President Trump for three days, Charlie was extremely engaged with negotiating. Talked to him multiple times. JD Vance was involved in it. Everybody was all hands on deck. They came back with another offer. President Trump didn't like it, but he said, well, let's negotiate. His. He. He was. As he was getting on the plane, he called me and he says, hey, get this deal done. Let's do it and let's move on. He says, I got nominees that are waiting that need to get paid. And so we went to go back and negotiate. They came back three times, and every time they kept dropping number and raising the price to the point where President Trump told him to go pound sand, said, forget it. Go tell Schumer to pound sand. I'm not negotiating. You guys go home. Let's change the rules. So that's where we ended up.
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Charlie Kirk
So. So, Senator, I'm not going to question the President's wisdom or judgment here, nor yours, but I'M going to, I'm going to have to get a little bit deeper into this and I want you to further explain it because, because look, I'm not thrilled with this and obviously Chuck Schumer is to blame, but there's 160 nominees lingering. A term is only four years and we're seven months into this one with huge chunks of the government unstaffed. This is pure dysfunction. And Senator, understand my compassion to what you're have to with this, but I think it's kind of outrageous we have to wait till September. So walk me through this on a deeper level, because waiting another 30 days to change the rules, I mean, we have very important positions that need to happen now. Very important ambassadorships. Is it. Did Chuck Schumer get what he wanted here? But by kind of blowing it all up and by delaying. Make the case and explain further, please.
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Senator Mark Wayne Mullen
So the President, President right now can already put these people in position. They just can't hold the title, but they can do the job as long as the President has deemed them to do. A special envoy, like for instance, Steve Witkoff, he can, he can go ahead and put these people in position, but they're working essentially without pay. So if you go ahead and you do the recess appointments, like I know you've talked about, we've talked about about, it's a much more complicated process of that because what it takes.
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Charlie Kirk
That's correct. I'm not even, I'm not even getting into that. Yeah, I'm not.
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Senator Mark Wayne Mullen
Okay, so you got. So, so, so the recess appointments was going to cause a lot of complications. So to, to, for the, for us to stay in, it was going to open the floor essentially for the Democrats to constantly take these votes. Republicans were willing to do it 100%. We were willing to do it. It was going to take a vote of Rama for us to do it, essentially because we're going to have to keep the four occupied. And at the meantime, they could continue to put in these ridiculous votes that was going to make the Republicans take a vote on them. The President didn't want those votes to be taken. And so the solution was, is if we do go into recess, then the Democrats have a political play that they could play the entire month of August, which wouldn't move the needle at all. Since these people can already do their job, they're just going to do it without pay. By the way, if we do it underneath recess appointments, they're still going to do it without pay. If we go back and we go ahead and change the Rules. What happens at that point, we can start clearing the slate rather than having to go through a recess appointment over and over again. Because, remember, recess appointments mean we got to recess for a minimum of 10 days. If we can change the rules, then we continue to move forward steadily and get all these people confirmed. Now talk real numbers. This time in 2017, we only had 55 nominations confirmed for President Trump. And 2017 versus today, right now, as we speak, we've already confirmed 136. So we're way past double what President Trump had in 17. He's happy with where we're at. We wouldn't have ever went, we would have never made a motion to adjourn if President Trump didn't want us to. Because I'm telling you, Charlie, he. He was on the phone with us almost every other hour. It was Lindsey Thune, or it was Lindsey Thune, Lindsey Graham, Leader Thune, myself, Katie Britt, Eric Schmidt and Jim Rich was all talking with the president multiple times a day, for sure.
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Charlie Kirk
No, I get that. And Senator, I'm not trying to question the wisdom of the president here. It just looks like the president just got so ticked off with Chuck Schumer said, forget it. Just threw up his hands like, I'm not going to negotiate with the terrorists. And I understand that that's the best.
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Senator Mark Wayne Mullen
Thing that can happen. He was willing to tell. Tell Chuck Schumer to go pound sand. That's not the way normal politics works. Normal politics is, as you know, negotiate, negotiate, negotiate, negotiate, and then you get to a 50, 50. President Trump had a clear stopping point. Chuck Schumer pushed him too far. And President Trump was willing to tell him, go pound sand. I don't. I'm not so desperate that I have to have these appointments. I will work around you by appointing these people as a special envoy. I'm not going to give you one single penny. And because you've done this, now, you're going to force us to go change the House rules or the Senate rules. So when he comes back and says we're using a nuclear option. No. We're able to pin it on Schumer and say no, because you have filibustered every single one of President Trump's nominees, which is unheard of. It has never been taken, it's never happened in the history of the United States. You have forced us to make this change. So it gives President Trump all month to make the case to the American people that Chuck Schumer took the nuclear option. And now we're going to make that now we're going to make the rule change to make the Senate work more efficient, which is honestly the best outcome. I would make the argument because we're doing the rule change, we can fix this for the, for the long term.
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Charlie Kirk
Hold on. But so two things. What will the rule change be? And if I'm drawing on memory of some of our other conversations, doesn't the rule change require 60 votes or 67 or some goofy number?
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Senator Mark Wayne Mullen
Yeah, so it would technically used to require 67. Chuck Schumer changed it when he was in office. And Mitch McConnell actually made a speech in 2017 and said because you did this, you have forever changed the norms of the Senate. And so Mitch McConnell was the one that warned Schumer for making the change. He did make the change and now it put us in this situation. So now we can do 51 and we can do a simp. Now we'll have to overrule the parliamentarian, which is fine. We'll have the votes to overrule the parliamentarian. Chuck Schumer did that prior to 2017. So we will simply have to overrule the parliamentarian by a simple vote of 51 and then we can do the rule change at 51. What the rules change would be, we have several options. One, if we got to look at the tier so outside the President's cabinet and outside of second tier individuals and outside of judges. So those would be, those would be still set at 30 hour debates. Everybody else below that we have two options. Easiest option is that we make that we take the motion from a two hour debate down to a 15 minute debate and we're able to stay in executive session day. What happens right now is after every vote we go automatically back to legislative session and we have to go back into executive session which requires us to have two extra votes. So every nominee takes four votes. Each vote will take about 35 minutes to do plus a two hour debate. So you got four hours plus on every person. If we take away the executive calendar from the, from the legislative calendar, have to go in and out, we can stay in it all day and we can just simply vote to in culture, 15 minute debate vote. The other option on that one. And so we go from four votes to two votes. The other option on that one is to assume that the nominee that comes out of the committee to the floor would be a non debatable and we could move them straight to the floor. And for a 4 vote that is a tougher option because that takes role change actually out into the Committee too and a lot of committee chairmen are territorial about that. But you could do it. I think the more likely option will be that we will do a similar vote which will mean that anybody that comes out of the committee with a bipartisan vote can can go straight to the four for a vote and anyone else would take a 15 minute debate.
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Charlie Kirk
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Senator Mark Wayne Mullen
Yeah, I agree. And by the way Charlie, one of these I'm going to grow up and be able to explain things as easy as you can because this stuff gets. This stuff gets wonky. I yes you can expect wholesale change. And what's interesting about this is we got a bunch of old guards in the Senate and when I say old guards I mean they, they protect the establishment like this like you do this and bow down to it. Like when I used to walk into Joe, I know walk into a map. But but anyways my, my point is Mitch McConnell's the one leading the lead leading the the change on this. He. He stood up in conference and my mind you there's a few people that still listen to Mitch really heavy he stuff and made in conference and made the argument why we have to do this change. So, yes, you're going to expect real change. Our goal is to be able to make the Senate work more efficiently. Now, to keep in mind, there's a lot of Democrats that want the change too, because they're tired of the same thing. They see what's happening with Chuck Schumer. They understand that this is, you know, we're not always. I hope we do, but traditionally speaking, we're not always going to have a Republican president and this is going to be pushed on them too. So they would like to have change so we can move this along. 80% of our time right now in the Senate is used on executive calendars trying to get these noms across the finish line and that's on both sides. And, and I don't, I mean, listen, I wasn't a supporter of Biden at all. Neither were you. But the fact is they still knew need their people because we still need government to operate well.
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Charlie Kirk
And here's the thing. You need your people, especially if you have a Senate majority. Now, if you're not in the majority, then with a whole different game advising consent. But, but, but we have the majority. We won. We won. Dave McCormick's a U.S. senator. We won elections to be able to do this. And it is an overcompensation because, Senator, I think you would agree. This is the last question. All of these archaic Old Crow ancestry rules are back when the U.S. senate, unfortunately, your colleagues actually wanted what was best and now they want something completely different. The Senate, it was a club built on honor and it was built on mutual respect. I think that is gone. And the rules need to reflect the new character or lack thereof of the US Senate. Final thoughts, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen.
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Senator Mark Wayne Mullen
Thousand percent correct. Charlie. We used to. There was decorum in the Senate that put America first. That's why the Senate is elected to six years, because you don't have to constantly be having to play politics back home because politics do play a role in legislation.
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Charlie Kirk
The.
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Senator Mark Wayne Mullen
The Senate was supposed to be somewhat above that, but you have Chuck Schumer that is literally afraid of his own shadow right now. The fact is he knows he can't work with us because he's up for reelection and he's afraid AOC is going to run against him and beat him in his seat, which is absolutely accurate. So therefore it puts him in a. In a. In a. In a. In an ability. An inability to be able to negotiate. Then you have Cory Booker, who is clearly running for president in 2020. 8. And you have Chris Murphy, who is running for president in 2028. They aren't willing to negotiate. And most of this stuff takes unanimous consent for us to be able to move forward. So the only option we have is to make these changes. And so therefore we will make these changes by, when we come back in September, I think it's September 2nd, we will, we will immediately proceed with a package that we're going to be working on all, literally all month, trying to get prepared and ready to vote on the, on the rules change so we can start moving forward. By the way, the President is, I can't express this enough, Charlie, how much he's involved in this. He is, he's put a team on it that's working with us.
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Charlie Kirk
And I'm not questioning any of those decisions or wisdom. I'm expressing skepticism that we're going to be able to get systemic change. So I need you guys to keep the pressure on and forget the Democrats. We won the. But we keep on having these deadlines. But my goodness, man, by the one year election of Donald Trump's victory in November, if we don't have that 160 number to be zero, you will have a stolen presidency via personnel.
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Senator Mark Wayne Mullen
Well, yeah, we can't get to zero because we're constantly confirming more people. They're constantly sending people over to us. So we, we have 150 that were waiting on paperwork to be sent back to us from the White House, plus 160 that we have. So this is going to be an ongoing process, but we should have the backlog caught up.
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Charlie Kirk
Fine. Yes. Yeah, great. So how about anyone that was submitted in January should be done in the next couple, like the next 30 to 60 days, right? Someone that had their nomination form signed by the President, United States on January 26th. Come on, we got to get through that. Senator, thank you so much. And our eyes are watching the Senate. We know it's not easy right now. Thank you, Charlie.
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Senator Mark Wayne Mullen
Thank you.
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Charlie Kirk
Time to play hardball. Same thing with the redistricting fight in Texas. The Democrats, they don't want what's best. They're gumming up the works. They're experts at that. They are delay, bureaucratic obstructionists, run them over. We won the election, they didn't. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email us. As always, freedom. Charliekirk.com thanks so much for listening and God bless. For more on many of these stories and news, you can Trust, go to charliekirk.com.