The Charlie Kirk Show - The 'Seditious Six' + AI Amnesty

Episode Date: November 25, 2025

Is AZ Senator Mark Kelly about to face a court martial for his video encouraging U.S. troops to mutiny? The show reacts to the latest escalation in Washington, and talks to Mike Davis about whether AI... should be left open to regulation. 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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Starting point is 00:01:12 All right, so Blake, take us up to speed. There's been a lot since yesterday's show about this back and forth between Secretary of War, Pete Hagseth, and Senator Mark Kelly. So, well, let's just, let's start from the baseline. Most of you have seen this, but in case you haven't, this is the video that kicked it all off that six Democrats put out. They released on social media a few days ago. Let's just put it up 164. I'm Senator Alyssa Slotkin. Senator Mark Kelly. Representative Chris Delusio. Congressman Maggie Goodlander. Representative Chrissy Hulahan. Congressman Jason Crow. Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders. You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders. And so it went on a bit like that.
Starting point is 00:01:58 You must refuse illegal orders. Don't give up the ship, they said. So, as many people pointed out, that's definitely, it's not implying anything that's good. The best events you could make is they're worried Trump might make an illegal order, and they're saying people should defy it. But there's a very strong vibe that they are soliciting, encouraging some element of defiance of the administration's quite legal orders on his, Slotkin, his, Slotkin has even gone on the record saying
Starting point is 00:02:30 no, I'm not aware of any illegal orders so it's basically Well they have to say that basically Otherwise they are actively telling them to Defy orders right now But anyway Mark Kelly he is a retired fighter pilot But he still has
Starting point is 00:02:44 I can't remember his exact role With the military but he has the ability to be recalled So essentially he is still subject To military discipline in certain ways Or so the War Department says And so what we had is First, the Department of War put out an official statement. Let's put up 155.
Starting point is 00:03:01 The Department of War has received serious allegations of misconduct against Captain Mark Kelly, U.S. Navy, retired, in accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice. And there's a whole long thing that they may consider action in. And then Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, comes out, and he has his own tweet, 156. The despicable video urging Department of War troops to refuse illegal orders may seem harmless to his civilians.
Starting point is 00:03:26 but it carries a different weight inside the military. This was a politically motivated influence operation that never named a specific legal order. It created ambiguity rather than clarity. It used carefully scripted legal-sounding language, and it subtly reframed military obedience around partisan distrust instead of established legal doctrines. In the military, vague rhetoric and ambiguity undermine trust, create hesitation in the chain of command, and erode cohesion. the military has clear procedures for handling unlawful orders.
Starting point is 00:03:59 It does not need political actors injecting doubt. And so then he goes on in 158. He goes on to threaten an actual court martial against him. Is that a video or a photo? It looks like it's a video. Let's do 158. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is threatening to court-martial Democratic Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona. The Pentagon says they've received
Starting point is 00:04:25 allegations of misconduct against the retired Navy captain. This appears to all stem from that video that Senator Kelly made with other Democratic lawmakers, urging service members to remember that they have a duty to disobey illegal orders. And the Department of Defense, which now calls itself the Department of War, they posted a statement on X, saying that they have received serious allegations of misconduct against Captain Mark Kelly. He was a captain when he retired from the U.S. Navy. And they said, importantly, that a thorough review of these allegations has been initiated to determine further actions, which could include recall to active duty for court martial proceedings or administrative measures. So definitely, if email us what you think about this
Starting point is 00:05:05 at charliekirk.com, especially because this is Arizona Senator. Because I guess where do you think you're going to go from here? Do you think they'll go for it, Andrew? Well, so I think they've given themselves an out here or administrative measures, right? And so I think, I think what's going to happen is they're going to basically try and, you know, shame him into, in some way, shape, or form. And we have to, we talked about this actually before the show. I mean, I mean, I don't know, but I will tell you. They didn't shame Letitia James. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:32 And by the way, for those who are curious, the UCMJ, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, if you're wondering why it only applies to Mark Kelly, which is a question I had, it, it governs conduct for active duty members, reservists, and certain retirees. It does not apply to fully separated veterans, those who left without retiring after 20 plus years. So presumably he put in his 20 plus years retired in a full military retirement style and therefore he's still subject. If you take the 20 year plus retirement from the military, apparently you're still subject to the UCMJ. But yeah, I mean, I think he's saying that they're still subject to certain administrative measures. I am, listen, I find this to be egregious
Starting point is 00:06:13 what they did. You and I actually immediately, our immediate reaction was it was egregious. And I would also just say that there is a risk because I've been disgusted how all of them have gone on social media and been, I'm a victim, I'm a victim. I can't believe President Trump would say this about me and that he's, you know, he wants me to be executed. No,
Starting point is 00:06:34 he was rightfully offended. He was rightfully, I would say, upset, angered, P-Oed, you might say, which is the word I was going for. I stopped myself. But he was rightfully all of these things. He put on social media. He
Starting point is 00:06:50 truthed a Washington Examiner article. And it said that, yeah, listen, this is seditious behavior. If you were found guilty of seditious behavior, then guess what? One of the potential punishments is, you know, not so good things, as Charlie would say. And so, listen, I don't think anybody is thinking that this is going here. But I do think that there should be real consequences for this, save going so far as to make him an actual victim. That's what we have to warn for. And that's what we talked about before here. If you actually make him a sympathetic figure, And what they did was egregious. I don't think it was egregious enough that you could bring Mark Kelly into a court-martial docket, have him in his uniform, sitting up rigid straight, giving speeches how I only ever cared about serving my country, looking the part, all cinematic.
Starting point is 00:07:38 Yep. And you try to convict him of that. Maybe you do. I feel the only reason to do that is if you are dead certain you have good oppo on Mark Kelly and you want him to be J.D. Vance's 2028. opponent. Right. Well, there is good off. That would very quickly make him a front. I mean, I don't want to get into it too much, but I've just heard we are in Arizona after all. I heard there's quite a bit of opo on Mark Kelly. But listen, that's, I'll stop there. This is what really upsets me. And this is that Elise Slockin, who was CIA, by the way, what's the CIA really
Starting point is 00:08:09 good at Blake? Oh, I don't know, destabilizing foreign governments. You say that? I feel like they're pretty bad at it. Well, they might be bad at it, but they think they're pretty good at it. So So here's here, this is what frustrates me. And you said that they have to say this. But look at 159. Let's go ahead and play this cut. This is from the weekend. Alyssa Slokkin, admitting that Democrats lied about President Trump issuing illegal orders to the military, 159. Let's talk right now. Do you believe President Trump has issued any illegal orders? To my knowledge, I, I am not aware of things that are illegal, but certainly there are some legal gymnastics that are going on with these Caribbean strikes and everything related to Venezuela.
Starting point is 00:08:50 Oh, so there it is. He hasn't done anything illegal. We just out of the blue decided to throw up a flare. We're worried he might. We're worried you might. We're worried that there might be another pandemic. We're worried that there might be an economic collapse. We're worried about a lot of things. That doesn't mean you go out and make a video. I mean, this is what I think has a lot of people's hair on the back of their necks up. And that is the fact that out of the blue, these people just did this video and they are hinting at something. There's something very fishy, very underhanded going on here. You know, there's, there is a lot of people that are suggesting that this is seeding the ground for something terrible in the future or for some
Starting point is 00:09:33 other sort of color revolution-esque action. And I think that's why we're all like kind of, it got our attention because like something isn't right here. Something is very not very much not right and i understand the reaction that they're getting this is lane schoenberger chief investment officer and founding partner of y refi it has been an honor and a privilege to partner with turning point and for charlie to endorse us his endorsement means the world to us and we look forward to continuing our partnership with turning point for years to come now hear charlie in his own words tell you about why refi i'm going to tell you guys about yrefi dot com that is y r e fy dot com why
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Starting point is 00:10:48 That is Y-R-E-F-Y-F-Y.com. Private student loan debt relief, Y-Refi.com. All right, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. We've got a couple emails here, Blake. We got a bunch of good emails in that break. Freedom at Charliekirk.com. Freedom at Charliekirk.com. First, I want to shout out Nancy, who just messaged us to say that she was just baptized at the
Starting point is 00:11:09 age of 63 and she gives Charlie credit for that decision. Thank you very much. God bless you, Nancy. Wanted to shout that out. We got an email from one of our biggest fans, Steve at American Tactics AZ. He sends us a Bible verse every day along with a lot of responses. And he says, Senator Mark Kelly accused President Trump of calling for Kelly's execution. I claim Baldur Dash on that accusation as a lifelong resident of Arizona. This pathetic, excuse of an elected official, who is a transplant, has placed an enormous stain on the great state of Arizona. We need to bring Arizona back to full on red. Amen, Steve. We're working on that. Obviously, we're going to keep working. Yeah, I mean, he's, you know, what's funny about him is
Starting point is 00:11:55 I look at Mark Kelly, you know, here he is invoking the name of Charlie, you know, because President Trump said, you know, he's doing seditious things. So obviously one of the potential penalties is the death penalty. Okay. That's, that's, that's, I get it. That's inflammatory. That's, that's, that's probably the max it's probably not going to happen now grace sent us an email for him to bring up charlie's name is is i just i find it really despicable actually and so anyways go ahead grace well grace says come on guys charlie would demand we arrest in charge constitutional justice yes to death penalty i am calling for the military here's phyllis of course they should all be convicted of sedition they are all guilty of trying to undermine the president of united states
Starting point is 00:12:38 nothing will happen though they are all getting away with everything well i think this is i think you know i think this is why secretary hexeth is is sounding the the tone that he's sounding is because i think there is like a genuine fundamental just frustration within the base that these people keep getting away with it right we're going to have mike davis on in the second half of this hour we're going to be talking about leticia james combe uh looks like the doj is going to be appealing uh that court case that has been thrown out because of tech a technical basically on the legality of Lindsay Halligan's appointment as a first step. So they're going to be appealing that. But in general, there is a feeling of frustration that some of these
Starting point is 00:13:18 people, these wrongdoers, these people that have, I think, done illegal things, and it's been proven, and they keep getting away with it. This is a, this is a video, a social media video that was designed to be provocative and cute. But the problem is the underlying message here, Blake was that they were undermining and sowing doubt. And by the way, that we have to be, sedition is a dicey word to use. That's, as I like to point out to Charlie,
Starting point is 00:13:43 treason is defined in the Constitution. It's defined narrowly as you know, it has to be levying war against the United States or giving aid in comfort and you need at least two witnesses. That's all because our founders knew English history and in English history, treason and sedition, you know,
Starting point is 00:13:59 related laws were used a lot for domestic political reasons against just domestic foes and they were very worried about that and we saw that ourselves we saw that with January 6th where they were hunting around to bring a sedition case
Starting point is 00:14:13 against President Trump against his supporters in the end they settled for mostly just indicting hundreds and hundreds of his followers and convicting and sending them to prison and we were very angry at that we were very angry at that overreach
Starting point is 00:14:26 and quite plausibly that overreach is why Trump is president again it's important not to overreach there's both damage you can do to the country by really aggressively pursuing this and also damage you can do to yourself politically and you always have to take account for that well and here's what i will say you know when you talk about overreach there's a clip here from mark kelly listen i i find mark kelly to be pretty uh pretty despicable actually i i find i feel like i see right through mark kelly i don't see the strength that other
Starting point is 00:14:58 people see or this like stand-up servicemen that served his country and like i said there is an apophile on Mark Kelly in the state. But here's what's interesting. I do agree with you that I'm not sure how far we want to take this fight from a political standpoint. Listen, you in the base, you in the audience, you get what he was trying to do. He's undermining the president of the United States, sewing doubt, so in confusion. But he has this ace in the hole, and you got to acknowledge it. You got it when you're going to fight a battle. You've got to understand what you have in your favor, what is working against you? Play 161. Donald Trump called for my execution. I know a little bit about political violence. My wife Gavin was nearly assassinated. She was shot in the head because of political violence. She nearly died. These are the kind of threats that this president makes. Not just to me, some of my colleagues as well. Just this week, he did this. Threatened our lives said we should be hanged because of something we said.
Starting point is 00:15:59 So he's got this Trump card, if you will. And it is. what happened to his wife is is egregious terrible i mean especially in the wake of what happened to charlie i get it so you just have to be careful about the battle you're going to fight now that's why i say listen he's going to get investigated the white house is saying that they fully support it uh you cannot have a functioning military when you have elected leaders especially of the profile mark kelly and slokkin saying you know don't trust the commander in chief right that is sewing discord within the ranks the white house is supporting of this investigation i think we're going to find and an administrative solution.
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Starting point is 00:17:49 we're talking about the seditious six. So let's start there. Give us your take on it. Are you a maximalist? Do you want to go full court martial proceedings after Mark Kelly? Are you advising a more reserved approach are you a squish like me blake is blake is saying let's not make him a victim let's not make him a future presidential candidate here if that's possible what senator mark kelly is doing here by a wink wink nod nod to 18 year old military enlistees to decide what orders of the president of the united states the commander in chief are lawful versus unlawful and then to ignore what these 18-year-old enlistees think are in unlawful orders of the president of the United States,
Starting point is 00:18:34 you cannot get more dangerous than this. That is interfering with the chain of commands. Mark Kelly is trying to portray himself as some noble hero. He's trying to portray himself as some victim when he got called out on it. He should absolutely get court-martialed and held accountable for this. And he can raise his congressional speech or debate clause arguments for his defense, whatever he needs to do, but they need to make an example out of this guy. There's no chance this guy is going to be the president of the United States. He's a
Starting point is 00:19:07 clown, and he's really hurt his credibility by doing this far outside of the political circles. He's hitting real Americans and real America, the non-political people who think it's appalling that you have members of Congress calling on the military, calling on intel agencies to ignore the president of the united states you know i i tend to fall on your end of this uh mike i i think that you know i think this was a self-owned by them i think they got way out over their skis this was unsolicited by the way it's like came from out of nowhere i guess like you could make the argument the the the boat attacks i mean there's always one thing or another they could fixate on it it just stands out to me what a dangerous escalation is even even though i'm the squish on how
Starting point is 00:19:54 hard you prosecuted. We should not lowball how bad it was that they did this, how dangerous it is, and how they are egging on a destructive thing. And one reason I am wary of prosecuting him is I'm thinking if they actually induce members of the military to try doing this, to try
Starting point is 00:20:09 defying the president, you need to make sure you are in the strongest political position possible to defend against what would basically be a coup d'etat. I wrote a Fox News. I wrote a Fox News piece on this, Andrew, and I point this out if if the Supreme Court of the United States, the Trump administration is going to the Supreme
Starting point is 00:20:29 Court of the United States on the emergency docket and they are getting the smartest lawyers and judges at the lower court level reversed by the Supreme Court with like a 91 or 92% reversal rate. If these very smart Harvard lawyers and judges at the district or the appellate court level are getting the law wrong and the Supreme Court has to fix this 92% of the time, how the do we expect 18-year-old military enlistees to figure out what the law is? Such a good point, Mike. I mean, we have to, you have, if you are in the military, you have to follow the president of the United States on every order. And I can think of a time, for example, during Vietnam,
Starting point is 00:21:12 where there was a military officer who ordered the mass murder of the Vietnamese, burned down the villages. That's, that, that would be at the military commander level where you would say, can't do this because this is clearly a war crime. This is, you're, you're raping and killing children, women, children, you can't do this. That's, that's very clear. When you're dealing with the president of the United States, you better follow every order of the president of the United States unless you are, God damn sure it is wrong. For example, when President Trump ordered the strike on the Iranian nuclear facility, are you going to have some military officer or military enlist. He's saying, sorry, I can't do this strike. I'm going to expose this ongoing
Starting point is 00:21:59 military operation because I don't think President Trump has the lawful authority to take out this Iranian nuclear facility. This is a very dangerous game. These politicians are playing. And Mark Kelly not only should be ashamed of he's capable of shame, he should be held accountable for this. Well, you know what this reminds me of Mike as well. And Blake, it kind of reminds me of what Vindman did to Trump, right? It was basically this inside out, oh, we got this phone call, and guess what?
Starting point is 00:22:33 He was abusing his power and withholding military aid for political gain, right? And then all of a sudden, you know, Trump's in the throes of all this chaos. It undermines the entire term in so many ways. It does, it's such a slippery slope, because if you can start alleging that the president has done something illegal,
Starting point is 00:22:52 when he is given broad authority to command the armed forces, you could basically nitpick anything and start pulling away all authority from the executive branch to command the military. And then you do have the third worlding of the American military, where they would lead a military junta, where it would be a coup d'etat. Let me ask you this.
Starting point is 00:23:13 These Democrats who pretend like they care about President Trump using the military, which what they think is unlawfully, President Obama ordered a, an extrajudicial drone strike on two American, on several American citizens, including a minor. I fully supported that drone strike of Obama, but there is doubt whether that was legal or not. You have David Barron, who's now a judge on the First Circuit Court of Appeals, who was running the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department at the time. OLC is the one that decides whether executive branch actions are lawful or unlawful within the executive branch. of course judges ultimately decide but it was judge david baron who told president obama that he
Starting point is 00:23:59 had the lawful authority to order a drone strike on american citizens including a minor extrajudicial killings was that legal was that illegal uh that's up for debate but you certainly don't want these drone officers these drone operators in the military to say you know i i just can't do this I just, I don't think that President Obama was, was being lawful here, so I can't do this. Those people would be court-martialed. They would be thrown in the brig, and that's exactly what should happen to Senator Mark Kelly for pushing this very dangerous game that they're playing because they don't like Trump. Into the brig. Well, I mean, that would be hard to run for president if he's in the brink. Yeah, I mean, listen. We were talking about if Trump would have to run. I know. I know. I remember that.
Starting point is 00:24:47 Listen, Mike, I tend to agree. I think there needs to be pretty stern. consequences here. So I'm very sympathetic to your argument. I do think that, you know, the punishment has to fit the crime here. And I think it's a pretty egregious crime. I'm open-minded to an administrative solution here. I don't want to create a victim out of this guy. But, you know, at the same time, I just, like, I am in this moment having flashbacks to Vindman. I'm literally having flashbacks because this is a slippery slope. This is the third worlding of the U.S. military. I want to change our attention here to the news that broke yesterday that James Comey and Letitia James that a judge had thrown out the case basically based on procedural issues
Starting point is 00:25:26 with Lindsay Halligan, so saying that she was not lawfully appointed to her position. Now, I'll play this clip. This is A.G. Pan Bondi saying, you know, we're going to appeal this right away, 190. Sure. We'll be taking all available legal action, including an immediate appeal to hold Leticia James and James Comey accountable for their unlawful conduct. I'm going to keep going on this. I'm not, you know, I'm not worried about someone who has been charged with a very serious crime.
Starting point is 00:25:58 His alleged actions were a betrayal of public trust. And James Comey's already taken a victory lap. Maybe she'll pump the brakes, as Caroline Levitt says, but $1.95, and this is James Comey. The message has to be sent that the President of the United States cannot use the Department of Justice to target political enemies. I don't care what your politics are. You have to see that as fundamentally un-American and a threat to the rule of law that keeps all of us free. I know that Donald Trump will probably come after me again, and my attitude is going to be the same. I'm innocent. I am not afraid. And I believe in an independent federal judiciary, the gift from our founders that protects us from a would-be tyrant.
Starting point is 00:26:45 would be tired Mike I see you shaking your head They can't stop acting like they're in a movie It's this virtue signaling holier than now Mike Davis It's worse that James Comey Got charged with lying To Congress
Starting point is 00:27:02 And obstruction of a congressional Investigation for the very thing He's complaining about He politicized and weaponized Intel agencies and law enforcement With the Russian collusion hoax with Crossfire Hurricane to take out President Trump his political enemy. He got caught lying about it.
Starting point is 00:27:23 The prior interim U.S. attorney was a giant wimp and didn't bring charges. Same with Letitia James with their mortgage fraud. And so Lindsey Halligan went in there, found the evidence, took it to a grand jury, a Democrat-controlled grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, outside of Washington, D.C., and even this Democrat grand jury found probable cause on both James Comey for lying to Congress and an obstruction of a congressional investigation and against Big Tish James, the New York Attorney General, who lied about having a second home in Virginia to get a better mortgage rate when it was an investment property.
Starting point is 00:28:03 The grand jury returned these indictments. Then you had this Democrats Obama Chief Judge of the Fourth Circuit pick a Clinton judge in South Carolina to come in and to dismiss these indictments. And they dismiss these indictments on the incorrect legal grounds. They essentially argue that the courts, after 120 days, the courts instead of the president of the United States or his attorney general, get to decide who the chief law enforcement officer is, the U.S. attorney in these districts. That is an incorrect reading of the statute.
Starting point is 00:28:39 It's a dangerous reading of the statute because you don't. have accountability. You don't have prosecutors who are accountable to the American people through their duly elected president of the United States. You have prosecutors who are picked by Democrat judges and Democrat hellholes like the D.C. suburbs or New Jersey to protect their political allies and go after their political friends. The Supreme Court will fix this. And in the meantime, the attorney general has many different tools to bring accountability for both Big Tish and James Comey, including indictments in the Southern District of Florida. Right now, in war-torn Ukraine, elderly Jews like Maria face a brutal winter and a constant search for food.
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Starting point is 00:30:26 How do people follow you and track you and support the work you're doing? Article 3project.org, article number 3project.org. Follow us on social media. Donate what you can afford, but take action. That's the most powerful thing your audience can do is action, action, action. And thank you guys. Yeah, absolutely. We're going to be talking one of your initiatives on AI. I have a lot of questions, Mike. Article 3 Project, Mike Davis, there is a back and forth going on. I mean, it first flared up during the one big beautiful bill about this moratorium on states putting forth any regulation. So at that time, we brought in Stephen Miller, Stephen and Charlie had a big conversation about it, ended up going viral. And it was about this idea of can states like California or New York,
Starting point is 00:31:11 issue regulations when it comes to AI and basically we're saying we don't want them to do that we don't want the woke states the Democrat led states to be leading the charge on this you disagree with this position now lawmakers are once again trying to to stuff it into the NDAA I believe so Mike give us your perspective on it I'm I'm all ears no I don't necessarily disagree with Stephen Miller on the need for a federal standard for AI I guess as the tech companies are the only companies in America who think they need federal preemption, but I'm not necessarily opposed to federal preemption. They're not asking for federal preemption with federal rules of the road. They're asking for AI amnesty like they did with Section 230 back in 1996 where these small tech platforms
Starting point is 00:31:58 had Section 230 amnesty and then antitrust amnesty. And then we got Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple that crush competition, shutter small businesses and cancel conservatives and others with whom we disagree. We can't repeat the mistakes of Section 230 with AI. And so I understand that we need to be competitive across the world and compete with China and compete with other adversaries. But we also need federal rules of the road if we're going to have federal preemptions. So state and local governments cannot touch AI. For example, I call this the four Are we going to have protections for children from online abuse? Are we going to have protections for conservatives so we don't get canceled by these AI platforms? Are we going to have protections for communities? So we make sure that we don't, for example, jack up the water and electricity prices in these small communities. So the working class have to foot the bill for these AI. data centers that consume all this water and electricity? Are we going to have zoning protections
Starting point is 00:33:13 in communities so we don't put AI data centers in the middle of neighborhoods? These big tech oligarchs, the AI bros, say no, that they should have full amnesty from state and local and then no federal rules of the road so they can just do whatever the hell they want like they did on Section 230. And my response to that is hell no. Why would we let meta, for example, and Google, for example, who hate us as conservatives run us over and make trillions of dollars on the backs of conservatives, children, content creators, and communities? If you're not going to protect the four Cs, they don't have 60 votes to get this done. They thought they had 60 votes four months ago at the end of June at the beginning of July. They thought this thing was going to pass and must pass legislation.
Starting point is 00:34:05 And then the Article 3 project kicked into gear and it went down 99 to 1, including the lead sponsor, Ted Cruz, voting against his own bill. I'll tell the AI pros the same thing. If you try to do this again, we'll kick your butts again. And if you're going to get 60 votes, you're going to protect the four seats. Yeah, this is a Trump truth social 169. He says, you know, investment in AI is helping to make the use. U.S. economy, the hottest in the world. This is image 169. Thanks, guys. But overregulation by
Starting point is 00:34:38 the states is threatening to undermine this growth. Some states are even trying to embed DEI ideology into AI models producing woke AI. Remember black George Washington? We must have one federal standard instead of a patchwork of 50 state regulatory regimes. So I, and actually, by the way, in the final line there, Mike, he says we can do this in a way that protects children and prevent censorship. So is the middle ground here spearheading a federal effort to make sure that we have AI, a regulatory regime at the federal level so we don't have this patchwork? It sounds like you're open-minded to that.
Starting point is 00:35:12 Yeah, and I'm working with the president and the vice president and their teams on that right now, but they're going to protect children, conservatives, communities, and creators, or they're not going to get this done. It's very easy to go on conservative media and get people to light up their two home state senators and their U.S. House rep. And then all of a sudden, this AI amnesty that they think they're going to jam through it 4 o'clock in the morning goes down 99 to 1. So if they want to play this game again, I'll kick their asses again. I'm convinced, Mike. I think you're right.
Starting point is 00:35:47 I think there's some money involved in some of this push to keep getting this bill that went down in flames back into the NDAA. I think you're right. I think we need to scrap it. I think we need to get it in the federal level. I think that's the key here. I think because we can't. As he says, you know, if it's content creators, get your pound of flesh out of it. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:36:06 Mike Davis, Article III Project. Thank you, man. We appreciate you. Thank you, guys. We'll see you soon. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.

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