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Charlie Kirk Today | Rep. Andy Ogles: May 01, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today | May 1, 2026

We took a
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Little, you know, a different tack.
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Yesterday was a special.
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Erica had a message, that she wanted to deliver.
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I thought she did a great job.
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And then it was interesting for a lot of our real america's
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Voice audience.
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This was probably the first time
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That you had given the been given the opportunity
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To see in full, at least on these airwaves.
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The prove me wrong is from charlie and some of the clips
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Of charlie's interactions,
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And i thought it was a really poignant moment
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Because you were able to see the and compare and contrast
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In real time, the way that the current
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Rhetoric is being approached, often by our,
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Colleagues, our opponents are foes.
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What are we,
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Our fellow citizens, on the other side of the aisle
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Versus how charlie would approach it?
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And the contrast couldn't be more glaring.
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Let's just be honest.
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Charlie was a guy that would say, come up
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To the front of the line if you disagree.
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If you disagree, come up to the front of line.
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Ask your questions. that's what it was all about.
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It was about open discourse, open dialog, debate,
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Letting the differences
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Be aired in public and see which idea was better.
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See who could get to the top so that's different than, hey,
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I don't like you. i'm going to try and kill you.
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And unfortunately, that's
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What a lot of our public discourse has devolved into.
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And i thought erica gave a poignant, poignant address
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And remarks,
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You know, after
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What happened
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At the white house correspondents dinner,
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I think a lot of us, when we were
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In that room, realize this is getting absolutely out of hand.
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I mean, we've
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Realized it on the show for at least seven months
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With what happened with charlie.
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But when you see a room
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Full of the most
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Prominent journalists in the country
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Be exposed to a violence like that
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And to be exposed
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To just the raw energy, the the violent raw energy
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That you could feel in the room as even the secret service
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Were jumping over tables and climbing on chairs
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Around your head as you're huddled underneath a table.
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I think it brings it home.
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And i think this is an opportunity for the country
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To sort of reassess where we're at,
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And it's an opportunity for all of us to reassess
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Where we're at and
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And realize we have to double and triple down our efforts
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To end the scourge of political violence in this country.
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And so i was really proud of erica.
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I thought she did a great job.
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And she addressed some of the things, saying,
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Hey, listen, when you dehumanize people,
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That has a destination,
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When you believe that your political opponents
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Are actual nazis and fascists and tyrants,
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Then yeah, i guess you could tie yourself into a knot
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Ideologically and justify murdering them.
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And that's what cole allen did.
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Now, cole allen has been, we just found out, by the way,
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They did a, a review of the secret service
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Agent who was shot that was not friendly fire.
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It did, in fact, come from cole allen's gun.
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So he's going to be in some serious trouble.
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And then we have other breaking news
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That the attackers that went after savannah hernandez
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In minneapolis, that the astrue cisco family,
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All three have been charged, indicted federally,
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A grand jury returned three indictments or,
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All three indictments on all three, i should say.
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And so we're going to see justice pursued there.
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This is critically important.
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And, blake, i you know, you feel free to chime in here
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On this.
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It's critically important that the people that attack people
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For their political views or their ideological views
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Are held accountable in a very public way.
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Because if this is true, scott family would have gotten away
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With just a slap on the hand or a misdemeanor charge in
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Minneapolis, hennepin county, as we were expecting.
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Then what's to stop them from doing it again?
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And what's to stop other people
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That are similarly bent and minded to do it
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To other journalists and other reporters?
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So this was a huge, huge, huge news story yesterday
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That we wish we could have got to, go ahead.
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We, as we've said, there has to be
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We've said before,
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There has to be zero tolerance for assassination culture.
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And downstream of that, you have to have well,
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Let's call it muscular free speech enforcement.
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And that means that we have to set the norm,
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That you resolve differences through argument,
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Through debate.
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And it's not acceptable to treat it as some sort of sport
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To attack a reporter.
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You don't like to attack a speaker.
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You don't like to sucker punch these people to cause mayhem
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For their events to you, as we've seen a lot of pull a gun.
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But even just
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We've always seen these professors
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Who will trash our tables, who will rip up their stuff.
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There has to be pretty low tolerance for that as well.
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You need a very strong we've
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We've warned about the heckler's veto.
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Well, we need a we need a veto of the heckler's veto.
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Well the assembly assassin's veto.
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Yeah. here's a clip from erica yesterday.
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Some 30.
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It is when you stop talking, bad things happen.
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That's when violence happens.
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It's not 30 when we stop talking to each other,
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Bad things happen.
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This is why my husband created turning point usa.
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So we could have civil discourse
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And debate and open dialog.
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This is a moment for americans to come together and decide
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What kind of country we are going to be
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Before we lose our country altogether.
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In romans chapter 12 verse 21, it says, do not be overcome
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By evil, but overcome evil with good.
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Yep, the we will not be overcome by evil.
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We will overcome evil with good.
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That was what charlie did.
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That's what we must continue doing.
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That's our call as christians
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That we cannot let this country devolve
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Into a cesspool of violence and political assassinations.
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We just simply can't.
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What kind of country would our children
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Inherit and our grandchildren inherit
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If we let this happen now?
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So, i mean, it was a i think it was a poignant moment.
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We got a ton of emails from you guys in the audience.
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Blake has a few pulled up.
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Yeah. we just, we had, a lot of reaction.
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Some of it was, i.
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I a lot of people, it caught people off guard to do that.
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We haven't had air come on here too much.
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But so for example, williams erica's intro to the show
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Today was a statement that makes me proud.
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It is a message that charlie would have said
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About the hate that we see today.
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We got one from cara.
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God bless you.
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Erica left you and the kiddos and the turning
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Point family in prayer every single day.
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And she says charlie was big picture.
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And this was big picture as well.
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There's not just one thing that can heal us.
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It takes everything above fitted together.
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And, she really liked how when erica threw it to
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The old charlie something, you buckle up.
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Here we go.
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We've got
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Carlene.
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I just got done watching the video of erica
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On the charlie kirk show.
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I cannot imagine
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The anguish and heartbreak that she is going through.
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It is so frustrating to see how she has to fight
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For her existence and grieve.
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But she has been very brave, very true,
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And just a lot of a lot of appreciation for seeing a lot
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Of charlie stuff, which i think is worth us pausing.
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We've seen it,
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We've run out of
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Special episodes, but a lot of people out there who
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Watch primarily through rap, they don't necessarily see lots
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And lots of charlie debating on campus clips and stuff.
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And so it was good that we were able to show that.
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And we encourage all of you who like it
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And who do watch this primarily through ralph.
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We continue to have charlie debate, greatest hits released
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As podcast episodes on the weekend.
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We just had one of him debating pro-life issues.
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We've had him debating border issues.
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We encourage you to check those out,
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Because charlie's message is still out
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There, and people need to hear it.
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Totally.
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And we went to a lot of effort to make sure
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That all those episodes are up now.
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And so they check them out.
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Please take advantage of that.
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I want to play just a quick 10s of charlie,
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Just welcoming people who disagree.
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And this is the essence of turning point.
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This is charlie's legacy.
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It's a it's one we can't forget.
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It's one that needs to be pumped
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Into the bloodstream of this country.
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Sot 28 guys are welcome to ask anything.
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Open mic disagreement. most welcome.
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If you disagree come to the front of the line.
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If you disagree, come to the front of the line.
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If you disagree, go to the front of the line.
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You guys know how it works. you disagree.
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Go to the line. we'll have a great conversation.
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Go to the line. we'll have a great conversation.
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To build on this point that we made in segment one
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And kind of what erica was already talking about,
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There's a couple clips that i think really
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Just make it pop, bring it to life about the way
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That the media treats
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Left wing criminals and the way that they treat what happens
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When conservatives get attacked or, god forbid, killed.
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So i'm going to start where this show really should start.
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And that's with tyler robinson, the man who is standing
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Trial for the assassination of our friend charlie.
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And i want to take you back to how an abc reporter
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Described a blood thirsty murderer's
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Text to his lover, his trans
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Identifying gay furry lover.
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I guess it's not a furry
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25 watching in a way that i think many of us didn't
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Expect a very intimate portrait into this relationship
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Between the suspect's roommate, and the suspect
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Himself, with him repeatedly calling his roommate,
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Who is transitioning, calling him my love.
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And i want to protect you, my love.
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So it was this duality of someone who the attorney said
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Not only jeopardized the life of charlie kirk
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And the crowd, but was doing it in front of children,
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Which is one of the aggravating circumstances of this case.
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And on the other hand,
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He was, you know, speaking so lovingly about his partner.
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So very interesting.
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And, as peter said, riveting press conference.
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David, that's really sick.
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A touching portrait
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Who jeopardized the life, which no, he didn't jeopardize.
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He he stole charlie's life.
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He murdered him in cold blood.
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But that's the way that they do it.
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Do you see that?
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Like, compound this clip hundreds
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And hundreds of times over across the population setting?
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Do you see how this,
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Like, little propaganda starts
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Playing on the minds of
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Americans and how you start sympathizing
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With the violent criminals
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That are killing people?
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Or how about this one?
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Remember arenas
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Roots guy who was viciously stabbed in the neck
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While just trying to get home after work at a pizza parlor?
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She was a ukrainian refugee who survived the war in ukraine,
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Only to get killed brutally by a multiple convicted felon
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That was somehow walking the streets
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That never should have been there.
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Released by weak on crime democrat policies.
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Sot 24.
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When you are a mentally ill, you have a hard time
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Knowing that you are mentally ill.
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But also, i mean people like charlie kirk, van,
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They've been looking for opportunities to make this
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Some sort of like reciprocal george floyd situation.
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We don't know why that man did what he did.
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And for charlie kirk to say, we know he did it
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Because she's white when there's no evidence of
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That is just pure race, race mongering, hate mongering.
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It's wrong that he says that if something like
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That had happened the other way,
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There would be sweeping changes imposed on society.
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We don't know how to deal with people who are hurting
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In the way this man was hurting.
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Hurt people, hurt people.
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What happened was horrible, but it becomes an opportunity
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For people to jump on bandwagons.
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And then some, like charlie kirk,
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He should be ashamed of himself.
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No one mentioned the word race, white or black or anything
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Except him.
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Hurt. hurt people hurt people.
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And that's what they summed up.
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Just a lunatic stabbing a woman
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In the throat for no reason.
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Completely unprovoked.
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A crime we've seen over and over
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And over again in the country.
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Crime for the criminals is obscene.
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A crime that happens sadly, routinely.
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We've seen, if you want other proof
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That they love criminals. just what is it?
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Every other week on this show, we have to cover a new illegal
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Immigrant led into this country under biden.
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Immediately
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Allowed to come here as an asylum claim
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And they murder a random person.
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Never should have been here.
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Obviously a bad news.
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They were allowed in because on a fundamental level,
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When the left sees criminals and they see normal people,
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Their sympathy goes to that criminal.
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I guess they have an easier time
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Envisioning themselves as that criminal
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Than as the normal person who'd be their victim. listen,
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Sympathy for the criminals is cruelty to the victims.
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And i think we should hit
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Another theme of what erica said yesterday, that
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So much of what the press does to whip people up,
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To whip their own base, up to whip people like that
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Teacher who wanted to kill
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The president up, or frankly, like tyler robinson,
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Because he a lot of those, you know, trans shooters
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That we've seen,
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They're whipped up by this idea that there is an impending
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Genocide of trans people going on, that there's some
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That they're facing annihilation.
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They're whipped up by a press that uses that kind
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Of rhetoric.
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And as she pointed out,
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She was at she just she tweeted this last night.
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I'll read it.
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Many of the left wing journalists
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That attended the white house correspondents dinner
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Have spent years consistently calling president trump
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A nazi, a threat to democracy and hitler.
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And then they joyfully attended that evening's event.
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If they truly believe
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Their own rhetoric, then they are either
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Joyfully and willingly having dinner with hitler,
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Or they are lying to radicalize american citizens
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With narratives they know are grossly exaggerated.
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And we know it's it's basically it's the second point
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That deep down, they know their stuff is hysterical.
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They will claim trump as a dictator
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And then also trot out and say,
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We need to beat him in the next election.
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The dictators don't go up for normal election.
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Yeah, she's absolutely right.
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And i will tell you, you know, i to compare that to the van
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Jones clip where he's sympathizing
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With the killer of arenas of russia.
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Compare that to charlie kirk.
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The way he covered it.
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And we'll take this to break with sop 23.
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This was one of the coldest, most senseless murders
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I've ever seen.
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She had no interaction with this guy whatsoever.
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She was sitting right there in business,
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And you just takes out a knife and just decides to stab her.
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I do say this with some form of just, heaviness.
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I don't like politicizing situations
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Like this, but it just necessitates it
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Because there are so many dynamics at play here
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Based on the information evidence we have.
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The attacker did say, i got that white girl
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Out of one.
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And the attacker
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Racialized it in his own telling of the situation.
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And we all know this.
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Any honest observer of your program knows this,
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Including van jones,
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Even knows this deep down, which is that,
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Of course, if a random white person on a subway
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Took out a knife and stabbed a black girl senselessly
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To death, there would be a massive media coverage.
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There would be policy changes.
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There would be people having to apologize for this.
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We saw this in george floyd.
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And yet, for whatever reason, the situation has not garnered
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Even a fraction of that kind of outrage or backlash.
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Even a fraction of that kind of outrage or backlash.
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Without further ado.
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Rep andy ogles, republican from tennessee house freedom
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Caucus member.
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Welcome back to the show, congressman.
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Absolutely. thanks for having me.
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So i know we got a lot of ground to cover.
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And but i want to start because we haven't had a chance
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To address it on the show yesterday.
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We did a special with erica kirk
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And the supreme court, case broke.
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And so we're kind of catching up here,
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But the vra section to the vra has been basically gutted
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And by the supreme court based on the louisiana maps.
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But this could have implications across
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Especially the south,
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Where you have
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These minority racially gerrymandered districts.
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And now your colleague in the senate, marsha
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Blackburn, has called for a new map.
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If you could throw that up, folks, a new map of tennessee.
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And you will notice conspicuously, it's all red.
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The map is all red.
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So what is your take on this?
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And, what's your reaction
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To senator blackburn suggestion here?
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It's a beautiful map.
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You know, i think what you can do is
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Look at new england states and what we've seen
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Historically over the last several decades.
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The democrats will use every tool, every weapon
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That they have at their disposal
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To undermine the republic and to undermine republicans.
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And so when you look at the map in new england,
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It's all blue. why?
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Because they've remaindered those districts.
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And so now, with this supreme court ruling, we truly in
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The south have the opportunity
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To take back the house of representatives to
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To increase our margins and look to the midterms.
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We know the democrats are going to lie, cheat and steal.
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We just know that. right?
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And so whether or not we hold the house,
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Whether or not we save the republic,
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Whether or not
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We're able to implement donald trump, president trump's
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Agenda and vision for the country,
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Which is amazing, by the way,
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Could literally
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Come down to that single seat in tennessee in district nine.
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And so, absolutely,
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We need to look at how can we support the cause,
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How can we save the republic, and how can we implement
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President donald trump's agenda?
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The other
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Insight here, and jeremy carl has a great tweet on this.
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I recommend everybody check it out.
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But you you could be encouraging more
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Moderate republicans.
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Are any of these worries for you?
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Well, i mean at the end of the day
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This literally if we lose the house, on day one,
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The democrats,
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Instead of doing the business of the american people,
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Instead of trying to
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To make us a better country, secure our borders,
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Have a strong military,
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All of the things that americans want,
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They're going to focus on impeaching president trump.
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Why? because they're crazy.
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They're leftist, they're loony,
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And they're more interested
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In stealing elections than saving the country.
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So that being said, we have an opportunity.
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And this is republicans operate from a space of fear.
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We have an opportunity
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In front of us today to pick up eight, ten, 12 seats.
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Then right behind it, we have a census
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Where we're going to pick up eight, ten, 12 seats.
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And so this idea that,
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You know, we're not going to do the right thing,
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The proactive thing, the aggressive thing
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Because of what might happen.
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I think is an argument that sets us up for failure.
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We can take good and ensure that we hold the house
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In this next congress, which literally will be pivotal
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In saving the country and just had votes called.
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I was getting notes from your team in the break
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That they're, ushering you down to the to the floor here
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In just a second for votes, but.
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So we'll make this quick.
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Belmont university i'm going to play the clip
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And get your reaction.
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Sot 19. radio.
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Hey, it is not welcome on campus.
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The public has to our.
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Why not?
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No one.
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I guess we can go out this morning.
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Man belmont used to be this, you know, christian university
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Upstanding and tennessee red state conservative court. no.
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And by the way, charlie broke a scoop earlier.
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Congressman, where it was, they renamed their dei program
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To hub hope, unity and belonging.
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Well, but basically doing dei
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Under another name, trying to get away from,
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The trump administration cracking down on that.
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Your reaction to first the violence
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And the shouting
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That you experienced on a college campus.
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And, and just the violence, the rhetoric, all of it.
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Your reaction, sir?
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Well, i mean, you know, universities should be
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Institutions of learning
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Where you hear both sides of any conversation
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And what you saw there on display was individuals
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Who were, so one sided in their belief
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That they weren't willing to sit down
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And have a conversation about what you didn't see
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Were the 70 or so students, or maybe closer to 80 or 90
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That were in a room.
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We sit down together and we had conversation,
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And some of that debate was spirited.
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But that's okay.
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I mean, that's what john quincy adams talked about
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When he said he loved the house.
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That's where you argued and debated.
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It was a raucous chamber.
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And so but you want that dialog into what you have is
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You have
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You had a handful of students who i don't think are, quite
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Frankly, representative of belmont university.
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You know, nashville is unique in that
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We have lipscomb university, we have belmont, we have,
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Vanderbilt and tsu and meharry.
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We have three medical schools.
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We have this concentration of
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Universities that really contribute
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So much to our community.
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But then you have these isolated pockets
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Who stand in a hallway
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And they act like three year old children.
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Look, i would let my child behave that way.
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And so when they get called names, look,
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If you act like an idiot, someone calls you an idiot.
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Probably. stop adding acting like an idiot, right?
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If you act like a leotard in the hallway
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And someone calls you a leotard, you know
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You brought it upon yourself.
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You have a member of congress in the hallway.
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Literally saying, sit down and talk with me.
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I want to hear your side of this conversation, but
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I also expect you to sit down and hear my version.
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They weren't
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Interested in that, but that is indicative of the left.
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You have to agree with them.
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Or they call you racist, or they call you a bigot
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Or heaven forbid, like charlie, like the president.
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They try to shoot you.
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Well said
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Sir, i know you got to get away and get to go.
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Go get some, votes down there, which is kind of your job.
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So we'll let you do it.
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But, you i just want to give one quick
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Shout out before i let you go.
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You have been leading the charge.
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And what i think
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Is the existential threat to the united states,
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And that is reforming legal immigration.
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And so i, i'm i'm grateful for you for doing that.
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You've even called for the repeal of heart celler,
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The 1960s
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Era immigration, bill that basically
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Transformed the country.
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And nobody really had any idea what it was going to do.
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As a matter of fact, they promised
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It wouldn't do what it's done.
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And that's right, the erasure of american society
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And the invasion level immigration,
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Which was compounded in 1990 when they expanded green card
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Holders from 500,000 years to 1.2 million a year.
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We have we have been,
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Absolutely subjected to invasion level immigration.
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And you're doing a great job.
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We need to change the overton window in congress,
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Because all of us out here, we get it.
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Do a net zero immigration moratorium.
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We're all in. we do poll after poll.
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Everybody wants it.
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We're sick of all the immigration.
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We're done. we've had a big meal.
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We need time to digest.
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But your colleagues in congress,
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They cannot figure it out that we're done with it.
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And, beating the drum.
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And to your point, it is forced invasion.
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It's no longer immigration. it's an invasion.
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We have to call it what it is.
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And you can look at the the literally
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The rape of europe right now,
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If we don't wake up,
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That's coming to new york,
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That's coming to chicago, it's coming to nashville.
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And i'm not going to let that happen on my watch.
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Yeah, well, we're still letting in too many people.
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Candidate.
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So, so god bless you for banging the drum
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Because it isn't overton window any.
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Anybody in d.c.
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Thinks it's beyond the pale to say, oh,
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We don't need this many immigrants.
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We got an ai revolution coming down the pike.
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We're going to we're going to create
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A permanent underclass of these people,
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Because there's not going to be any jobs from farm sector to,
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You know, many entry level jobs, many labor jobs,
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All of it's going to be wiped away in about ten years.
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And so we better be taking care of americans first.
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And, congressman, i just want to salute you
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For doing that
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And leading the charge on that,
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Because we need to change the thinking in washington.
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What's possible.
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And hopefully this vra scotus ruling will help us get you
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Some reinforcements in congress that can get that done.
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All right. so we got to pray. thank you so much.
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Rep. Andy Ogles: May 01, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today

May 1, 2026 | 23:29

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