The Charlie Kirk Show - Jack Smith: The Prosecutor Becomes the Prosecuted?

Episode Date: December 19, 2025

Will Jack Smith's ultra-political prosecution of Donald Trump put him into the defendant's seat? Mike Davis of Article 3 Project reacts to Smith's House testimony and explains the legal authority for President Trump's bombing of Caribbean drug boats. Sen. Mike Lee explains his plan to change the filibuster so that the GOP can pass legislation without abolishing it completely. Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com!    Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's a community. It's a group of people that share something in common. But right now we have Mike Davis, the Article III project. Mike, welcome back to the show, my friend. There is all this news source. swirling. Chuck Grassley, I know you know Chuck Grassley, Senator Grassley, puts out this memo and basically says the FBI denied that they, or at least there's voices within the FBI asserting that they did not have probable cause to raid Mar-a-Lago. Then you got Jack Smith,

who goes in for an eight-hour closed-door testimony, making his case for why he, you know, embarked upon this special counsel political prosecution of President Trump. What is the truth. What did they learn yesterday? And, you know, what is going on behind the scenes with this FBI bombshell from Senator Grassley? Well, it's what we've been discussing on this show for over three years, Andrew. And that is that this was a political hit on President Trump in Mar-a-Lago. It was a political hit to get back the damning crossfire hurricane records that President Trump declassified via presidential executive order the day before he left office the first time, and they wanted to get back these records because they're so damning.

They knew these records were going to come out because President Trump sued Hillary Clinton in a civil lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida for Crossfire Hurricane for the Russian pollution hoax when Obama, Biden, Hillary, Brennan, Clapper, Commany, so many bad actors politicized and weaponized intel agencies to protect Hillary and her corruption, when she was Secretary of State and the Clinton Foundation was taking tens of millions of dollars in shady foreign donations. We're just learning today that there is evidence of quid pro quo foreign corruption with that, that the Biden Justice Department sat on. And then with Crossfire Hurricane, they wanted to take out President Trump's campaign.

And so if this damning evidence came out of Hillary Clinton's corruption because her server got hacked, that she wanted to be able to point to the Trump campaign and say, you can't believe this is a campaign dirty trick. This is a hoax. So the same thing with Hunter Biden's laptop in 2020. So the FBI knew they didn't have probable cause to do this raid to get back these crossfire hurricane records. You have this U.S. magistrate judge Bruce Reinhart and the Southern District. of Florida, who was on the Trump v. Hillary civil case. He had to recuse because he had 2017 Facebook post-trashing President Trump, so obviously he's not going to be a fair judge. Six weeks later, that judicial bias somehow magically disappeared when Jay Bratt from the Biden

Justice Department, who went on to work for Jack Smith, went to Bruce Reinhardt and got this unprecedented, unlawful home raid on Trump. When they knew. they didn't have probable cause. It's so damning. I've talked about this for a long time. They've opened up a new grand jury in Fort Pierce, Florida in the Southern District of Florida. My friend Jason Redding Cignonese is Trump's new U.S. attorney, and I have very publicly called for a grand jury to probe all of this and hold all of these lawfare Democrats and other bad actors accountable for this, because this is the biggest scandal in America. in history. Wow. So you've got, you know what will never cease to amaze me is that you have these

federal judges that just go on Facebook and like, Trump's terrible. Like, I mean, like, the fact that a judge would feel so, you know, loose to something, to say something political, publicly on a social media site, it's just, it's just damning. I mean, in and of itself, I just find it really crass in low class, actually. I don't know if you're trying to chime in here, but it's just like, you know, judges, you have this air of impartiality. You have an error of being above the fray. And then you just go on Facebook and like, Trump sucks. Like, okay. I don't know. It just seems beneath the office. Yeah. It is. It's also a violation of the judicial canons. But I would say this about that U.S. magistrate judge, Bruce Reinhardt. The timing of that

Moralago rate seems very fishy. He recuses in the civil lawsuit, six, weeks later, the recusal issue goes away, and all of a sudden Jay Bratt is down in Moralago sniffing around and coming up with a pretext to do the trade for presidential records that the president is allowed to have under the Presidential Records Act. Did Bruce Reinhart talk to Jay Bratt about this? How did Jay Bratt know that these documents were going to be produced in that civil lawsuit versus Hillary when it was? This whole thing needs to be investigated, and all of these bad actors need to be investigating, including these judges.

So you say we need accountability here. I would agree, Mike Davis, Article III project. So you form a grand jury. What would accountability look like for somebody like Jack Smith? The accountability would be what we've been talking about for over three years. You open up a criminal probe under 18 USC. section 241 conspiracy against rights when you politicize and weaponize intel agencies and law enforcement to go after your political enemies for non-crimes that's the textbook definition of

conspiracy against rights jack smith is very well aware of this conspiracy against rights crime because it's one of the four charges he made against president trump for the non-crime of the non-crime of president trump objecting to a presidential election which is allowed by the electoral count act of 1887 and the First Amendment. Jack Smith can go into that closed-door hearing and say whatever he wants. He said he had all the goods. He had all the evidence to get President Trump. He didn't. This guy is a partisan scud missile who Democrats sent in to take out Republican presidential candidates. They'd sent in Jack Smith to take out former Virginia Governor Bob McDonald when he was a likely presidential candidate for Republicans. They

Jack Smith got a criminal conviction for fraud. It got overturned 8 to nothing by the Supreme Court of the United States. It would have been 9 to nothing, but Justice Scalia died, but Jack Smith didn't care. The damage was done. He took out Governor McDonald as a presidential candidate. Jack Smith got banished to the hay. He should have lost his law license after you get beat 8 to nothing at the Supreme Court. It's very hard to get beat 8 to nothing at the Supreme Court, particularly on a criminal case.

Beck Smith found the way. And they brought him back. The Biden regime brought him back to take out Trump at all cost. They failed because President Trump hired John Sauer than now the Solicitor General. And John Sauer raised the presidential immunity argument, which stopped the prosecutions in their tracks. But if John Sauer didn't do that, President Trump would be sitting in a prison cell right now instead of the White House. But it does strike me. Isn't that probably the best defense? Jack Smith could make is you can say it's politicized. I think we agree it felt politicized. But a lot of it is if they can cover it with enough measure of legal formality and, you know, getting evidence, he brings up, we have part of his statement and he said, I just brought the charges that a grand jury returns. So doesn't he have sort of a pretty strong defense of a grand jury agreed with us? You know, it's nonsense. Everyone knows a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich. And you a separate duty as a prosecutor to make sure that you have probable cause, to make sure that

there is a good faith legal basis for what you're doing, to make sure that you're not bringing not. Remember what Jack Smith did. He brought novel legal charges. He tried to throw Trump in prison for the non-crime of having presidential records, which is allowed by the Presidential Records Act. He tried to throw Trump in prison for the non-crime of objecting to a presidential election, which is allowed by the Electoral Count Act of 1887 and the First Amendment. Jack Smith politicized and weaponized intelligence and law enforcement to take out Trump, along with many, many others, and Jack Smith can raise that defense to the jury. This is Lane Schoenberger, Chief Investment Officer and founding partner of Y Reefi. It has been an

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United States as the commander in chief has the constitutional and statutory power and duty to protect our nation, including repelling an invasion. And that's exactly what's going on here. You have these narco boats bringing in fentanyl that's killing tens of thousands of Americans. And the president is well within his constitutional and statutory authority. He's well within his constitutional authority as the Commander-in-Chief, under the Commander-in-Chief Clause, even if there's not a declaration of war, because going back to our founding, everyone agrees that the president can repel an invasion into our country. And also, under the War Powers Act of 1973, a passed-by Congress over President Nixon's veto, many presidents do not consider the War Powers Act constitutional

because they think it constrains too much of the president's power to fight wars and to defend our country. But even if you think that the War Powers Act of 1973 is constitutional, what President Trump is doing is within his statutory powers under the War Powers Act of 1973. There's no legal issue here whatsoever. And I don't remember these Democrats, like Senator Mark Kelly, complaining when President Obama ordered extrajudicial drone strikes on American citizens abroad, including a minor. So if, and I supported that, if President Obama did drone strike Americans, President Trump can certainly bomb narco boats. Are there any limits on what he could choose to bomb, I suppose?

Sure. I mean, there are limits. You have to show that, that they're, you know, if the president is bombing things that are not a danger to the United States, then sure, there could be limits on that. But it's the, the president has very broad discretion. He has very broad power and very broad discretion as the chief executive officer and as the commander in chief as it relates to controlling our military, protecting our country, protecting shipping lanes, protecting our allies. He has broad powers. Remember, if you look at the constitution, the Congress has the power to declare war, not make

war, right? So there's a difference there. And the founders actually debated that. If you go back and look at the Federalist papers, they intentionally change that language from make war to declare war to give the president more leeway, more running room to protect our country. Yeah, I mean, I'm mostly just worried that, you know, if the future elections don't go our way, that they're going to try and, you know, throw Secretary Hegseth and the gulag. I doubt they would. I think there's probably a, I mean, there's, I guess I shouldn't say they won't because there's really no limit to the damage the left might do to the country in a fit of peak. But I think historically, at least, there would be a very strong bipartisan hesitancy to have our military leaders be second-guessing actions they take because they're just going to get prosecuted for it. You sound rational.

At that, because at that point, if they're going to throw out that, they could do it for probably any other military action as well. I think you would need a more clear-cut unanimity on it being something completely. unacceptable, you know, massacre a village in Vietnam or something. Where they had evidence that was clear that they were only civilians, for example. Mike, we've got only about a minute and a half left in this segment,

but I wanted to play this cut from Judge Janine, or I guess, U.S. attorney Janine, Piro, 2.91. There certainly was an effort to, you know, misclassify, mischaracterize certain categories of crime. And it was an attempt to make crime look lower

than it was. And the investigation that we conducted over a period of several months based upon the report of the deflation of numbers, was very thorough, as you indicated, over 6,000 reports were looked at, over 50 witnesses, and those witnesses were rank and filed from the top down. But the bottom line here is this. Now we're in a situation with President Trump and the Attorney General Pam Bondi, where every case is being looked at, every case is being reviewed by my office. My question is quick here, Mike. What can you do, I guess, state level, other states are probably cooking the books on crime stats as well, but at least in D.C. there is some federal control. How do you fix this? Who can you hold accountable? I would open a criminal parole because if you are making false statements to the federal government with your crime statistics in order to get, for example, more grant money, you could be charged for that. You could be charged for fraud. You could be charged for conspiracy. You could be charged by- Janine Piro do that?

She could. I think that she should look more closely at this. Mike Davis, thanks for the time, my friend. We'll see you soon. Thank you. You know, I've been thinking about how much culture is shaped by what we choose to watch because whether we realize it or not, the stories we invite into our homes shape the way we see the world. That's why what Angel Studios is doing matters. And right now they're having their biggest sale of the year. For a limited time, you can get an Angel Guild membership for as low as 6-9.

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There has been a raging debate online. And then I think Mark Wayne Mullen, one of your Senate colleagues, who also comes on this show often, sort of seemed like he was now open to the idea of nuking the filibuster. I had all these questions. You got Mitch McConnell, you got Susan Collins, Murkowski.

I don't know what you could even get accomplished if you do nuke the filibuster. And then you came out with this tweet, 308, you say the chronic abuse of the Senate 60 vote cloture standard must come to an end now. The Senate GOP must immediately start fighting cloture abuse by, among other things, requiring senators to debate. So lay out how this is distinct from just nuking the filibuster. Look, these are all ways that we're focused on to try to end filibuster abuse and cloture abuse. And first, let me explain what cloture is and what the filibuster is. The Senate from the very beginning of its existence for nearly two and a half centuries has had, as a general rule, unlimited debate that you all.

allow as long as any senator wants to debate, debate will continue. Now, starting about a century ago, I think it was maybe in 1917, they came up with a means by which they could bring debate to a close. Initially, it required a three-four supermajority that was later lowered to a two-thirds supermajority. It's now a three-fifths supermajority and has been there for about 50 years. meaning in a 100-vote Senate, you've got to have 60 votes from 60 different senators to bring debate to a close, then and only then can you bring debate to a close? So the whole point of this cloture rule, it's not to create a de facto 60-vote threshold for passing legislation itself. It often has that effect, but really the purpose of it is to extend debate in Lester until you get 60 votes to bring debate to a close.

here's what it's metastasized into, though. What it's turned into is something very interesting. It's turned into people saying, well, I don't want to vote for it. I won't support cloture. Therefore, I don't have to debate it. And I can kill it simply by refusing to support cloture. But then we don't require them to debate. And so this allows them a cheap and easy way of creating a de facto 60 vote threshold for passing legislation. That's not how it's supposed to work. The point is this. If we enforce the cloture rule, we could end cloture abuse and we could end this perpetual tail-chasing model in which even when Republicans control the Senate and the House and the White House, as we currently do, we just take all sorts of things off the table. We can't accomplish this. We can't accomplish that. Why? Well,

because we don't have 60 votes. There are other ways that break through this. You enforce the rules by them to debate, and then the minute they stopped debating, either because you've physically exhausted them or because they have exhausted their right to continue speaking. We have a number of rules about that, including you can only speak twice on the same legislative day, on the same discrete legislative matter, if they have exhausted either themselves physically or their right to speak, that moment you can call the vote. And that vote is cast as simple majority threshold, and you can get a lot past. We haven't been doing that. We need to get back into that business. Yeah, that's, so you're basically, you know, you've seen these

Senator Cruz, did the, the marathon, you had Cory Booker do these marathon. Is that kind of what, if we change the rules, I have a question about how you would actually change it, but if we actually started enforcing in-person, you know, IRL debate on the floor of the Senate, that's what you would basically start seeing, is you'd start seeing 50 senators doing marathon debate to try and outlast their opponent, basically. That's right. That's right. The problem with today's filibuster is that it's not really a filibuster. It's not Jimmy Stewart speaking until he collapses on the Senate floor. So at no point have Democrats this year, while we've held the Senate and the House and the White House, at no point of Democrats been forced to go down to the floor and talk

without stopping to defend their terrible policies until they have to go to the bathroom or get some sleep or until everybody who wants to speak and debate on it have exhausted their ability to do so. That is what most Americans justifiably understand the filibuster to be, and it's not happening because we're not enforcing our own rules. Yeah, I'm seeing this could have the beneficial side effect. It might force some earlier retirements by some guys who just say, I'm not up for this eight hours. You'd start having to elect in the primaries based on like youth and vigor because we need a guy that can actually like stand on the Senate floor to block. It's like drafting a hockey team.

This guy's not quite as based on the policies, but he has great stamina. Yeah, great stamina. This is what we've done with Supreme Court. It's like, what are they, 37? Yeah, let's do that. Younger, younger, yeah. That's interesting. So how would you go about changing the rules?

What needs to happen? Could this be a majority leader Thune? Could he get this done? Essentially, yes. So that's the beauty of this thing, Andrew, is that no rules change. is required. We don't have to do anything to change them because the rules not only already allow this, the rules already contemplate that this is what a filibuster is. So remember, Democrats have been able to use just the mere concept of a talking filibuster to grind things from a halt.

And we've allowed them to do that because we haven't enforced it. So yes, if we adopted this standpoint, the majority leader in a consultation with whoever is sitting in the presiding officer, officer's chair at the moment, decides that we're going to begin enforcing this. And the minute, they're not there to debate, either because they physically don't want to or because they can't, because they've exhausted their right to do so under our existing rules, then you call the question, meaning you call the vote on that matter. And when there's nobody there debating it, the passage of that legislation is, at a simple majority.

That is a really, I mean, it does strike me. When I saw you tweet this out, Senator, I was like, this is, I mean, you do think of the Senate being the premier legislative body in the world, that you think of all this vigorous debate that happens on the Senate floor, but it's really not like that. It's a bunch of grandstanding for clips, and so you can post them on social, and you can, you know, take cheap shots at your opponents without them answering back. And then you don't really do. debate. That's the whole point of cloture is that you just, you, you stave off actual vigorous debate. And it

wouldn't the Senate be benefited by this back and forth of ideas? I mean, it does, it does strike me that this is, you're, you're sort of getting it back to its original purpose. No, that's exactly right. No, I will be clear. There are times when real debate does happen on the Senate floor. Sometimes it's in slow motion. But sometimes there's no debate going on at all, which brings back It brings us back to how we would do this. The only real catch here, what's difficult about this, I don't mean to describe this as easy and I don't mean to suggest that the minute we decided to do this, we could and would immediately pass everything that we wanted without any hitch or without any difficulty.

That's not true. But it gives us the opportunity to do that. And I think in many cases, we would be able to pass things that we wouldn't otherwise be able to do. But here's the catch. The catch is that Republicans would need as the majority party in the Senate would need to show up and spend significant time on the Senate floor. The Republican leadership calls together. Yeah, right. I mean, but that is what we signed up for. We've often been told, as senators, you know, if you don't want to fight fires, don't become a firefighter.

And if you don't want to cast difficult votes at inconvenient times, don't become a lawmaker. don't come to the United States Senate. If we decided as a conference we're going to do this, there's a lot more that we could accomplish. And we could do it this way without having to change a single rule. It really is the natural fulfillment of what the filibuster is supposed to be. Right now, we don't have real filibusters. We just have chronic cloture abuse.

And then we deceive the public into thinking that the reason we can't do some of the things that we want to do, is because we don't have 60 votes. Well, it's been over 100 years since Republicans have had 60 votes in the Senate, that three-fifths super majority. And we can't blame it all on the filibuster. We can blame it on the 17th.

You can blame it on the 17th. But that's, you know, I hadn't even, yeah, I haven't even thought about that, Senator, that we have, it's been over 100 years since we've had 60 Republican senators, 100 years. I mean, if we think we're ever going, so my big thing, Senator Lee, is that I want immigration before.

That's what I think that I think it is the switch that you could flip that would solve a ton of our problems. That's me personally. I think there's a lot of energy for that in the base. But we're never going to get there with this Democrat Party. But here's my concern is that even if we got there, we nuke the filibuster, we don't have enough votes to do anything important anyways. So the question is, you know, will Senator Thune, have you pitched this to Senator Thune, Leader Thune, have you pitched this to the President, to the White House? Is this something that could actually gain momentum and traction and become a thing? I have pitched it to the president.

I've pitched it to Leader Thune. I've pitched it to Senate Republicans. I've pitched it to the White House staff. And I have yet to hear anyone identify a reason why it couldn't work. Sometimes people will point out correctly what the difficulty could be. And the difficulty is exactly what I just described it as, which is that it would require attendance and prolonged it. attendance at inconvenient hours, but nobody has explained any reason why it wouldn't work.

And while there are some difficulties inherent in that, I think we owe that to the American people. At a time when we've had millions upon millions of people coming into our country illegally over the last four years, at a time when our laws are making it very difficult, that is becoming obvious in litigation pending now in the District of Columbia over our ability to deport those individuals who came in unlawfully, given the now huge backlog we have in our immigration courts. We've got to have reform in that area. We need permitting reform. We need regulatory reform.

We need to pass the Raines Act. All these things could benefit from this strategy. I think it's brilliant. I think I don't see a good example or a good reason to not do it, as you said. And senators should be pulling long hours. Our U.S. senators should be pulling very long hours. Senator Mike Lee, a really amazing idea. Thank you for making the time.

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the whole time I was doing that interview with senator Lee I was like Blake's probably sitting here just spinning is twiddling his thumbs going why it won't work and that like bothered me to feel your energy. I appreciate that the senator wants more real debate in the Senate. It's sort of a funny thing. You can read about these great debates in the United States House and the United States Senate in the 1800s. You have this speech on the Senate floor that's so fiery by Charles Sumner that this guy from South Carolina comes in and beats him over the head with a cane in front of everybody because the senators would be there in debate in person. And they don't anymore. You get this myth because of C-SPAN that they're doing that, but they're not. They're just speaking to

an empty hall and some yawning tourists. Yeah, I think you imagine it more like, like, you know, the Oxford Union debates. Yeah, and they still do that. They still do that in the UK. They have prime minister's questions. The PM goes in. Everyone's there and it's, they still have a tradition of you have

the people there to debate. I would love to see. We've lost that. It would be good to restore that. That said, I think this is just a slightly different dress-of-way to nuke the filibuster. I mean, yeah, it's it, but I actually do think I was compelled by a return to what it should be, what it was supposed to be.

And I actually think Leader Thune should keep, like, just totally reform it. So they have to go back and forth. I stick to my position. It's worth getting rid of if you have good legislation that you will pass. If you don't, what's the point? Yeah, well, immigration is the North Star. I'm telling you. Go ahead and throw up.

I don't know if this is this B-roll or is this have audio. Anyways, 3-10. This is from Tyler Boyer, C-O-O-Turning Point Action. and he this is him entering the venue this morning 310 uh and it's just beautiful presentation uh it's got images of charlie uh there's some like i don't even know they put decals on the floor and they look like they kind of glow or whatever so that's just that's one of the entry points into am fest and it's uh i mean it's phenomenal so tonight we're going to have Russell Brand, Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, Erica Kirk is going to welcome us in and more.

And then tomorrow, obviously, day two, lots of speakers, tons of breakouts. If you want to check out the agenda, you can go to TPSA.com slash agenda. If you want to see everything that's going on, we're going to have the thought crime crew together at 1.30 tomorrow? 1.30, I think. Yeah, 1.30 local, 3.30 Eastern. So we're going to be doing that from Expo Hall. we got this big trailer so jack cliff maloney me tyler you uh and then we'll probably do some q and a a q and a tv with the students which will be really fun and then we've got a prove me wrong

uh at that same location i'm meg and kelly's doing it michael knolls is doing it uh lots of different folks are going to be doing that we're capturing all that content the back and forth with the students so keeping charlie's uh legacy of doing that alive at that at amfest and i think last year was the first year he actually did it prove me wrong inside the expo hall so i think so yeah i don't think that many people were trying to prove them wrong on anything. It was like, it was fun questions. I was like, you know, which team is better? Sports questions, football questions, ragging on his, his Chicago Bears.

What time do we begin the stream today? Because we've had a few questions about that. The stream is probably going to start, I believe, at around 445. So, or 4.30. Eastern. Yeah, because we've got Pastor John on Machu Klu is going to, start us. And then we've got, yeah, so we've got, so it's updated. Erica Kirk, Ben Shapiro, Russell Brand, Michael Knowles, Tucker Carlson. And then there's a concert tonight with Nate Smith.

And that is starting, probably, I would say we're probably straight at the stream at 430. And then programming begins at 450. And I'll get, again, that's local time. So keep it on Eastern. 630 begins at 645 probably is when the programming begins Eastern. So you're going to check it out and you can get that on rumble.com for streaming if you want to watch it on real america's voice real america's voice will also have it and uh it's going to be a great weekend it's going to be a phenomenal phenomenal weekend and i think to some of the themes we were talking about before blake that i i just think the movement is hungry for a moment where we get to see all these disparate voices these competing competing viewpoints come together in one big event that's big enough

to hold them all that's the goal now it's it's not big enough to hold them all that's the amazing thing. And that's always what Charlie wanted. He wanted the stadium event. We had that. He wanted the event. He wanted to grow so huge. Phoenix itself wasn't big enough. Yeah. And we are going to announce some big news about that for next year. But we're not ready yet. Okay. There's there's stuff going on behind the scenes about the Super Bowl halftime show. Actually, I said that wrong. The halftime show, the All-American, forgive me. That is not our branding. The physically large game Half-time show, I apologize. And so there's news that we'll have there.

There's news about next year. And if you want to get tickets and you weren't able to for Amfest this year, go to Amfest.com to pre-order your tickets for next year with a discount. We will see you tomorrow from the floor of America Fest. Talk to you then. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.