From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

If there is one way we can define American art, certainly ambition is one of those words that we all agreed upon, which there were not too many that we all agreed upon, but that was definitely one.

This is your host, Scott Bertram.

Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network.

That was Christina Lam Chakalva, assistant professor of art at Hillsdale College.

We'll talk more later in the program with Christina about the history of American art.

First, we will listen to excerpts from a recent National Leadership Seminar lecture in Phoenix, Arizona for Hillsdale College by Charlie Kirk, founder and CEO of Turning Point USA and nationally syndicated radio host. His lecture is titled, Hitting the

Ground Running, the Trump Transition and Early Priorities. You can find this full lecture at Hillsdale's

Freedom Library at freedom library.hillsdale.edu. Charlie Kirk begins by asking the question,

how many branches of the government are there?

Most people on TV are missing what's really going on here. They're missing what is going to be the republic determining element of this entire thing. And it comes down to three major questions, big questions,

that are being debated in the media, but they're not getting down to the meat of the matter.

The first of which is so simple, and you can ask my daughter, who's two and a half years old,

then she knows the answer to this question. How many branches of government are there?

Pretty simple. We all know three. Yes, thank you. That's right. Good answer. And many branches of government are there? Pretty simple.

We all know three. Yes, thank you. That's right. Good answer. And yes, there's seven articles of the Constitution. Yes, we go through all that. But yes, there's three branches of government. Oh, easy answer. Is it really that easy? Are there three branches of the government? What Dr. Arn has been saying for longer than I have been alive and has been trying to get the American public to realize and recognize that there has been saying for as long longer than I have been alive and has been trying to get the

American public to realize and recognize that there has been an invisible, unelected, unknown

branch of government that has been operating unconstitutionally post Woodrow Wilson and no

one has had the moral clarity, the mandate, or the gusto to even mention it,

let alone challenge it, let alone deconstruct it.

And we can call that the administrative state, we can call that the shadow government,

the deep state. All of those are correct answers, by the way.

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