Hello Kash Patel, Goodbye Mitch McConnell

Hey everybody, Kash Patel is now FBI Director. What does that mean? Also, I recap my campus stop.
Oh, it is a really promising development that you're going to want to hear. That and so much more.
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We had a phenomenal campus visit yesterday at the University of South Florida, which is traditionally a very liberal school. We had over 2,000 students attend over the course of two and a half hours.
I took questions. We had some disagreements, and we had a phenomenal time.
We're going to be posting a lot of those clips there as we were there. On the front lines, we were throwing out these hats, by the way, these white 47 hats we were throwing out, which people can get at charliekirkstore.com.
Look at those crowds there. Before we get into the urgent breaking news here, this is an off election year.
There is no call to action of, you know, go vote for this. And the energy is greater today than it was on election day.
It was confirmation that the next generation is truly leading the charge of this great realignment. As we have mentioned, Gen Z is the most favorable pro-Trump generation other than Gen X.
And as we've mentioned, baby boomers are increasingly becoming more Democrat. Young people are moving to the right.
Young people are moving towards traditional, conservative, common sense American values. And what was striking, we had four or five questions from people in the audience that were liberal in nature, and you'll see those clips.
But there was no widespread protesting. There was no spark.
There was no opposition. There was no chanting.
There was no Antifa. We have largely vanquished the opposition.
It's not going to stay that way they will regather they will regroup they will reorganize but now is the time to accelerate and to make permanent the gains that we showed during this last election to make it a permanent realignment so yesterday was just further confirmation to solidify the gains. So we were throwing out these beautiful white 47 hats, which you guys can also get.
And the kids love them, by the way. Oh, they love them.
Because they're part of something greater than themselves. They're part of a movement of patriotic purpose.

It's my new way of describing why kids are getting involved here.

It's a patriotic purpose.

It gives them a purpose to fight for their nation.

And as we anticipated, we got a lot of questions on Doge.

And I want to give credit to Daisy and Ryan and Blake and the whole team.

When we kind of had our prep meeting, I said, guys, what am I going to hear on campus? They said, you guys are, you're going to get a lot of doge questions. And we were ready.
And you're going to love these campus interactions where these kids were like, they shouldn't cut that. And I had all this, oh, really? You shouldn't cut the $20 million that we spent on a Sesame Street movie in Iraq.
They had no idea the amount of waste of your money going to unnecessary government

programs. Yesterday was yet another promising development in the fight to save the republic.
Another promising development. One of the biggest wins so far for the Trump administration.
My friend and friend of this show, and I think he's joined the show well over 30 or 40 times. Kash Patel is the new director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The FBI has largely become the secret police of the Democrat Party in the deep state. The FBI was going after moms and dads and infiltrating Catholic masses.
It was going after school board moms. The FBI became an intelligence operation, largely after 9-11, not a law enforcement operation.
The FBI seemed slow and bureaucratic and indifferent towards some of the great crimes against humanity of child sex trafficking and pedophilia and illegal individuals in our communities breaking into homes in Trenda de Aragua and MS-13. The FBI seemed more interested in trying to crush the conservative movement and the Republican Party, and that changed yesterday.
Cash Patel is now the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Democrat Party knows the significance of this. They know the weight of Cash Patel running the FBI.
They know that playtime is over. This is Senator Peter Welch, part of the resistance, losing it over Kash Patel.
Playcut 260. Kash Patel is a crown jewel in this lawless rampage.

He's an instrument of Donald Trump's effort to destroy the Justice Department and the FBI so that he is absolutely and completely not only above the law, but beyond the law. Kash Patel, mark my words, will cause evil in this building behind us and Republicans who vote for him will rue that day.
Can we just get a still image of Peter Welch on screen, please? I mean, you want to talk about someone that has no presence? This guy looks like a retired professor from France who they just picked up on the side of the street. Do you hate Kash Patel? Yes.
What are your qualifications? None, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. No, no, no.
Get the one of him with the beret on. One of him outside the FBI building.
This is what they got. This is what we're up against.
This is the resistance brought to you by Peter Welch. Yeah, yeah.
Get that image there. I'm going to talk lacking a little presence there.
Look, I mean, you've got the octogenarian resistance that you got. You got the 85-year-old strong.
You got Dick Blumenthal. You got Peter Welch.
One thing the Democrats are right about is that fundamental change is coming to the FBI. Fundamental change.
Business as usual is over. No more is the FBI going to be inverted against the American people.
This is a seismic end to lawfare. Seismic.
We campaigned on this. We talked about this.
And they know that all of the dirty, evil deeds that was done largely by people like Adam Schiff, and this is the most important thing. One of the disappointing outcomes of the 2024 election is unfortunately Adam Schiff is a senator.
But remember this, Adam Schiff and Kash Patel have been dueling against each other for well, almost a decade. I would say over a decade, almost a decade.
Adam Schiff and Kash Patel are arch enemies. Why? Well, Adam Schiff was the one that was the driving legislative force behind Russiagate.
Adam Schiff was the one that went on TV and said that there was credible evidence that Donald Trump was a compromised Russian agent. And Kash Patel was the staffer for Devin Nunez, former prosecutor.
Without him, we never would have known about the FISA warrant abuse, and we never would have gotten to the bottom of a Russia gate. So Adam Schiff knows who Kash Patel is, because Kash Patel revealed Adam Schiff to be a pathological snake liar.
And Adam Schiff should be worried. U.S.
senators will not be exempt from this kind of racketeering operation. Play cut 262.
This is someone we cannot trust. This is someone who lacks the character to do this job, someone who lacks the integrity to do this job.
And no one is a bigger or more dangerous sycophant than Kash Patel. This political hack does not deserve to be in this building.
Our Republican colleagues intimidated by this president and and threats of primary challenges from MAGA world may vote to confirm him. But as my colleagues have said, they will have to live with that vote, be accountable for that vote.
I mean, do you want to see why we're drawing 2000 kids at a liberal campus? This is their this is what they have. This is this is their team team.
You got Danang Dick Blumenthal. You got the retired professor, the beret man, Peter Welch.
And you got Adam Schiff, who very well might be a criminal. Might be.
Elon Musk responded to our tweet saying Adam Schiff is a criminal. He's done some very dark deeds.
The Adam Schiff-Kash Patel duel has now resulted in Kash Patel being director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. And the investigators will be investigated.
And if they did something wrong, they'll be held accountable. The FBI has been behind almost every dark arts operation against the American people and against Donald Trump.
They are the ones that raided Mar-a- Lago. They are the ones that illegally spied on Donald Trump's campaign.
They are the ones that were the shock and awe troops against James O'Keefe and Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro. And now that very same organization is controlled by one of the finest patriots we have, Kash Patel.
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the cash patel adam schiff rivalry and i'm putting that nicely continues let's play cut 275 but adam schiff is the worst criminal in congress in the last 250 years and what's broke that we're going to talk about right now is um adam schiff met with a whistleower. Adam Schiff went to the podium day after day after day saying, I know nothing about this.
We're not going to discuss it. We're going to protect it.
And then he, Adam Schiff, led the prosecution of the impeachment trial in the Senate of President Donald Trump. Talk about someone who was conflicted out of the game because he was part of the hoax that brought Charmella in, manufactured that false accusation and then peddled it out to the world.
And he continued, you know, not surprising. He's lied about almost everything in his life.
But now he lied just to set up a presidential impeachment. And that's what I was talking about.
These disinformation campaigns. Understand that lies set up a presidential impeachment.
It was a prerequisite for one of the impeachment attempts against Donald Trump where he was impeached in the House and then acquitted in the Senate. Representative Madeline Dean has some choice words.
Play cut 257. I call upon the leaders to recognize that Kash Patel does not have the character, the integrity, the understanding and respect for the rule of law.
He doesn't have the capacity. What he has asked for is retribution, and he has called for it over and over again against, let me see here, he wants to come after any anti-Trump conspirators.
I suppose that might even include me, since I served on the second impeachment as one of the managers, a sad, solemn honor that I had. The Democrats are starting to lose it because they know what a properly run FBI can be.
And it's time for us to reform it top to bottom. There are a lot of unprosecuted crimes in this country.
The FBI should be focused on three or four things primarily. Number one, anything to do with the Mexican drug cartels.
That's number one. Number two, violent crime in the streets of our country, Chicago, Houston, wherever there is federal jurisdiction in the administration of this crime.
We need the FBI involved.

Liberate these cities. Number three is any sort of international drug rings, Chinese Communist Party spies.
We need to get them removed from the nation. And then number four, and probably most importantly, out of all the different things, is we must fire every FBI agent that was involved in the creation of the FBI being a surveillance operation and a lawfare machine.
Now, understand this. Understand that the FBI has been far off course really since J.
Edgar Hoover, which was around its charter. The FBI did some very suspicious things in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.
The key issue is trust, and it's very interesting. They'll joke in the FBI, not joke, but the FBI is, of course, the federal bureau of investigation, but they'll also say, what does FBI stand for? And I believe it's fortitude, bravery, and integrity.

I can't remember what the F stands for, but bravery and integrity, I think, are the other ones.

There has not been integrity to the FBI for quite some time.

Christopher Wray has lived above the law.

And remember who his predecessor was.

James Comey, who probably broke federal law multiple times, lying to Congress,

and was using the FBI when they sent Peter Strzok, Strzok, Smirk.

Let me think about this.

Almost eight years, that's right, eight years to the day of this week,

Thank you. and was using the FBI when they sent Peter Strzok's smirk.
Let me think about this. Almost eight years.
That's right. Eight years to the day of this week, right around this period of time, our FBI was sending FBI agents, Peter Strzok, to go and trap Patriot Lieutenant General Michael Flynn.
And eight years later, we have Kash Patel running the FBI. We crawled out.
We crawled out of a very deep hole. They wanted to take out our movement via a secret police.
That's what we were up against. We were up against a taxpayer-funded secret police.
We were in the abyss. They controlled everything.
And only a citizen, people-focused, grassroots, bottom-up reclamation project could make that happen. And understand, the FBI, there's so much DEI, transgender nonsense.
There's a lot that Kash Patel has to rip out. There's a lot of people that should not be agents there that are currently agents.
A lot of people that are agents there that shouldn't be agents. So it's going to require years of removing this cancer, removing this tumor.
But eight years later, we go from the FBI, literally the FBI walking through the Trump White House uninvited and entrapping the national security advisor. Eight years later, Cash Patel is running the FBI.
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Before we welcome our next guest, I just want to riff a little bit on this.

Yesterday, we got the great news that Mitch McConnell is not running for re-election.

Not a huge surprise.

Mitch McConnell has announced he will not be seeking re-election in 2026.

Cash is in, Mitch is out.

Now, when politicians die or leave the national stage, now that's a time to be charitable. So we'll concede this point.
Mitch McConnell blocking Merrick Garland was a great deed. We got to be honest.
It was the best thing he ever did. It possibly got Donald Trump elected.
And can you imagine Garland, the guy who just did four years of lawfare for Biden on the Supreme Court for life? It would have been unimaginably awful. Blocking that nomination was McConnell's doing, and we're grateful for that.
Well, we got that out of the way. Everything else has been a pile of garbage ever since.
In his last act, he has now voted against Bobby Kennedy for HHS secretary, against Tulsi Gabbard, against Pete Hegseth. Mitch McConnell has been a cheerleader for the endless stream of money in the Russian-Ukrainian war.
He's the old breed of maximal interventionism. He wanted forever war in Afghanistan, forever war in Iraq, unlimited money for Zelensky in Ukraine.
He's a man trapped in the past, trapped in a time when American wealth and power seemed unlimited. But that era is past.
And it thanks to men like Mitch McConnell, who threw our strength away on useless conflicts that hurt the country on behalf of foreign oligarchs and a narrow cabal in Washington, D.C. It was Republicans like Mitch McConnell who spent decades talking a big game about securing the border, but never actually did anything about it, unless it was a chance to do a backdoor amnesty for millions of illegals.
It was Republicans like McConnell who let DEI rot slowly to destroy our military until it lost wars to the Taliban and Houthi rebels. It was Republicans like McConnell who sat around while our manufacturing base was redomiciled away to China.
So we should ask ourselves, what has the reign of Mitch McConnell been like for the people of Kentucky? Well, it's not good. And joining us now is someone who might be running for the U.S.
Senate. He's getting a lot of attention and a lot of chatter.
I like what I'm seeing. I like a lot of it.
And that is the chairman of Morris Industries and possible candidate for U.S. Senate in Kentucky, Nate Morris.
Nate, great to meet you here on the program. Please introduce yourself to our audience.
Charlie, it's great to be with you. And I appreciate all the love on social media.
And we had a fantastic day yesterday at CPAC. I started my discussion with the news that Mitch McConnell was retiring.
And as you know, this is a big moment for Kentuckians. Mitch McConnell has been in the Senate for nearly 40 years.
And we we need change. And we we have a chance for the first time in a generation to rip control back to the people that Mitch McConnell has been strangleholding, our people, his cronies and the people around him.
And this is a chance to get it right and have a fresh start. Obviously, I'm an outsider, Charlie.
I'm a businessman. I'm an entrepreneur.
I've never held elected office before. I was in one of the toughest industries in the world, which is the trash business, the Tony Soprano industry.
And I know how to fight and I know how to get tough. And obviously, this is something that I'm taking a look at.
So let's let's kind of talk more about the McConnell mafia. You have you have spared no punch.
You've basically pulled no punches. And McConnell has run Kentucky for multiple decades.
How will you be profoundly different than what the McConnell-Hunta has done to Kentucky? Well, I think first and foremost, I'm an outsider, Charlie, and I've been inspired by President Trump. He's a business guy.
He wasn't a politician. Obviously, I'm very close to our new vice president, J.D.
Vance, very inspired by his leadership and what he's doing with the country. And I feel like as an entrepreneur and someone that's created jobs, built a company, starting with $10,000 on a credit card, and I ended up taking that company public on the New York Stock Exchange.
I've got a lot that I can bring to Washington and bring the fight to the swamp. And that's what's compelled me to say, hey, I got to take a look at this, and this might be the moment to do it.
What are the top issues that you think are facing the people of Kentucky that the prior leadership oligarchy has not been addressing? Well, I think first and foremost, the border crisis, Charlie. I mean, we've seen our borders been out of control for many years and politicians on both sides of the aisle failed to secure our border for decades now.
We've got to get it right. And if we lose our border, we lose our country.
And I also think that the news that's coming out of Europe, the blank checks that have been going to Ukraine have got to stop. We've got to end these senseless wars.
We've got to win through strength, but we've got to have a commitment to peace at all costs and do it the way that great diplomats have done it in the past

and use our leverage like President Trump is doing by exerting as much leverage as a dealmaker

and getting the best deal for the country. So I want to I want to talk more.
Let's actually

play cut to 80 a message that you gave at CPAC. Let's play cut to 80.
Hey, Nate Morris here.

I'm standing live here at CPAC. I just heard the news that Mitch McConnell is retiring.
One of the things that we cannot have in Kentucky is another puppet for Mitch McConnell. The candidates that are looking at this race, Andy Barr and Daniel Cameron, have refused to call out Mitch McConnell for the sabotage of President Trump's agenda.
We cannot have a Mitch McConnell puppet filling his seat. This is a seat that belongs to the people.
And we need to send someone to Washington who's going to fight with President Trump. And Kentucky is one of the reddest states in the country, is it not? Absolutely.
President Trump has iconic status in Kentucky and we love President Trump. His leadership has inspired many.
But right now, Charlie, we've got a real crisis potentially in this race shaping up. We've got two solely owned subsidiaries of McConnell, Inc., and Andy Barr and Daniel Cameron that are looking at this race.
Daniel, as you know, just announced yesterday that he'd be getting in the race. And that's another reason to say as an outsider, I've got to step up potentially and do something and get involved because we cannot have McConnell Inc.
continuing to have their grasp on Kentucky. So, yeah, I mean, there's Andy Barr who actually called me over the weekend and he wants to talk.
I don't know him very well. I know that he lost his wife tragically and that was terrible a couple of years ago.
And then Daniel Cameron, who I've only met once or twice, just educate our audience because this is a very important thing. We don't want another member of the McConnell mafia going to the Senate.
I have nothing negative to say about either one of these guys. Andy, I'll call back, I guess.
So tell me more, like, what exactly do these people stand for and what is disturbing about it? And so just educate the audience on the significance of the seat. Well, first off, they're both very nice men, both of them.
But I will say there's a stark contrast. And, you know, someone like Daniel Cameron is the son Mitch McConnell never had.
And he has made his entire career through McConnell Inc. And Andy Barr, there's a clip that went viral a few days ago on social media calling Mitch McConnell his mentor, is a 50-plus-year-old man calling Mitch McConnell his mentor.
So I think that the contrast of what we need today is not a rubber stamp for Mitch McConnell, not McConnell 2.0, not another 40 years of Mitch McConnell. We've got to take a different track.
We know the direction we've been going in Kentucky with who we sent to the Senate in this seat has not worked. And we've seen evidence of that over the last few weeks as Mitch McConnell has done everything he can to sabotage President Trump's agenda.
That is well said. Closing thoughts here, Nate.
I mean, you're an outsider. You're thinking about getting into this race and understand the significance of it.
The people of Kentucky are some of the greatest. I had an aunt there.
She actually just passed away a couple of weeks ago. It was terrible.
I actually was in Louisville a couple of weeks ago. I love the people of Kentucky.
They're wonderful patriots. I think they deserve better.
I think they deserve better than a warmongering, sending money overseas, open border, performative Republican. And instead, they want a true fighter.
Just talk more about what you're weighing. And I mean, you've built a really incredible business.
And this would be a serious life change for you, would it not? Well, Charlie, I got pretty good at taking out garbage and cleaning up messes. And I think that's, that's probably where I'd start in Washington, but look, I I'm proud that I'm a ninth generation Kentuckian.
I grew up in a single parent home. Most of my family were factory workers at the Ford plant in Kentucky.

And I bring a unique perspective.

I grew up going to union halls and I'm a new kind of Republican that's focused on the working

class and focused on the American worker.

And that's what we need in Kentucky.

Someone that's not going to forget the hardworking people of our commonwealth and the jobs that

they have to do and giving them more opportunity to make a better life for themselves.

And I'm a product of that.

I had so much have to do and giving them more opportunity to make a better life for themselves. And I'm a product of that.
I had so many people help me. And I feel like there's going to come a day where I've got to give something back and help some others as well.
Nate, can't wait to see what you do. It is time for the McConnell era to end.
And you seem like a great guy. Let us know what happens.
And we will not tolerate a McConnell disciple, a member of that mafia, to be the U.S. senator.
We won't put up with that. Thanks so much, Nate.
Thank you, Charlie. Look, this is very important, guys.
This is the end of an old guard. It is the collapsing of a regime.
McConnell was doing the bidding of Biden and his foreign policy aims and ambitions for quite some time. You got to be fair, though, for whatever reason, maybe it was the Holy Spirit or just McConnell showed us what he did with Merrick Garland.
You got to be fair, was was a cause set in motion. That was that was good.
That was the best McConnell ever. Everyone has a moment in their career that was very good.
And then from there, it was just all downhill. It was when he peaked.
It was peak McConnell was when he decided not to fill that Supreme Court vacancy. And from there, it's just been this collision course.
In fact, senators have told me that McConnell, even when asked, hey, Mitch, we really need your vote, we really need your vote. No.
He walks out of the room. He's become a very bitter person.
His whole life was about holding on to political power, and now he's losing that. And he's just going to be remembered as a complete disgrace, a sellout to the people of Kentucky.
No to Pete Hegseth. No to Tulsi.
No to Bobby Kennedy. A terrible legacy.
And the people of Kentucky deserve a lot better. And for those of you in Kentucky, I want to hear from you.
Who do you guys want for the U.S. Senate? Do you guys want more of the same? Do you want a McConnell-Junta member? Or do we want a changemaker, someone that is going to actually represent the values of the phenomenal state of Kentucky, one of the greatest states of Kentucky? I think, and Blake can fact check me on it, Kentucky has the most, there's a term for it, like rivers or running water of any state.
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We only play this music when we talk about El Rushbo, the doctor of democracy, the greatest ever. This music is sacred.
It is holy. We only play it when we are doing a hat tip to the trailblazer himself.

My friend Scott Hennon, I was on his program this morning,

reminded me this was to the week.

I want you guys to remember this music, but I have so many memories.

It's like all coming back at me.

It's like listening to songs of your youth.

That song right there where El Rushbo would come on with a talent on loan from God with half his brain tied behind his back just to make it fair.

Four years ago, Rush Limbaugh passed away. We were in political exile.
i'm using this as an opportunity to show you how far we have come everybody

and how much gratitude we should express to our Lord and our Savior, to the Almighty, to the divine providence. Not only did Joe Biden become president, but then we lose Rush.
Donald Trump was in exile. Our entire movement was in darkness.
And we were without our North Star, our guiding light, the great El Rushboe. We needed Rush during that period of time.
We were aimless. And we as a movement weren't sure where to go.
The great El Rushboe, time and time again, during the times of Obama, let us through it. During the times of the first Trump term, let us through it.
Let us through the impeachments. Let us through Kavanaugh.
Rush was the fulcrum. He was the trailblazer.
He was the trendsetter. He was the pacemaker.
It's almost like God put all that burden of that time on the back of a new generation, focusing us to own it, to get strong. It was on us and it was heavy.
So I was subpoenaed by the January 6th committee. We had lawfare coming in every possible direction.
It was dark. And now today doesn't look as dark.
Now today we are looking around at the victory that Rush made possible. Understand Doge, Elon, Rubio, Besson, Hegseth, Trump, JD, all follow in the footsteps of the great Rush Limbaugh.
Four years ago to this week, he passed away. Here's just a montage of one of Rush's broadcasts.
Before I play that one, actually, it's one of my favorite Rush statements. Understand, what he was saying here was so ahead of his time.
This is before woke political correctness. He was so ahead of his time.
Play cut 279. Why? Because I'm wearing these ribbons.
I care more than any of you about anything. And these ribbons say so.
I want you people sitting at home and you people in the audience, look down at your lapel right now. I want you to do this.
Put the camera back on me. Do this.
When you look down, what do you see? You don't see anything because you're not wearing any ribbons. It means you're a bigot.
It means you're a racist. It means you're a sexist.
It means you're a homophobe. It probably means you're a white guy.
It probably means you're a European and you and you alone are responsible for all the ills of America. But I'm not because I'm wearing these ribbons.
I care more than you. This was 20 years ahead of the virtue signaling political correctness,

bend the knee, mandatory woke stuff.

He understood the optics.

He was funny.

He was charming.

He was lighthearted.

And he was wicked smart.

He was on top of all of it early.

He saw it all with clarity across the landscape.

He wasn't crazy.

He was early.

And they tried to take him out.

Cancel culture came for Rush many times.

Remember Sandra Fluke? They tried to take him out and Rush held the line, never apologized. Montage, one of Rush's last broadcast, play cut 283.
My point in all of this today is gratitude. My point in everything today that I share with you about this is to say thanks and to tell everybody involved how much I love you from the bottom of a sizable and growing and still beating heart.
I wasn't expected to be alive today. You have an expiration date.
A lot of people never get told that, and so they don't face life this way. I've learned what love really is during this and his last words on radio 285 the odds are that there are a lot of people coal miners a lot of people that voted for biden who had no idea what he's going to do and what's yet to come.
That's why I say they're going to overstep

and it isn't going to take them long

and it isn't going to be pretty

when all kinds of people start to figure it out.

He didn't start it, but he'll be happy to finish it.

He saw it all.

God bless you, Rush.

We're in a much better time in America.

Thank you.

Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

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