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There was a lot of chatter that certain House Republicans were very, very upset that Charlie

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Kirk, who isn't even an elected member of Congress, got to sit in a better seat.

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Not just Charlie Kirk, plus wife.

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Charlie Kirk, plus wife!

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How dare we?

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How dare we?

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Let's show some of these pictures.

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We're allowed to sit closer than some of them.

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So obviously we know that the outdoor service ceremony was canceled by the way, right decision. Would you agree Andrew?

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I tell you what I

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The I think it was absolutely a hundred percent one thousand percent the right decision

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But Charlie you're bringing up another sort of controversy. Was it because of the weather or were there other concerns?

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And so I just want to flag that in case we want to go back to it because I would like to

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Well, no, I'm just saying that if you even walked outside and in the cold the wind it was people would have died

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No, like people do not appreciate how bone-chillingly cold now for me a Chicago and I was like, okay

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Just wear more clothing

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But you don't understand there's people from all across the country that are coming in that'll drive in from Georgia and South Carolina

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That are not used to this some old person would have died Donald Trump saved lives before he was even in office

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So it got moved into the Capitol rotunda

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It was actually my first time ever in the rotunda, believe it or not. I've done the capital thing. Wait, what?

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Yeah, I've never been in the capital. Wait, you've never been in the capital rotunda?

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Yeah, I've been in the capital. I was in the area where the State of the Union is administered, the house chamber.

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Right. I've been in the Senate chamber, but never the rotunda.

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But that's like, like you walk in, you've just never done the tourist thing, seen the paintings.

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So I have to give a little inside baseball here. I got to do a tour in which speaker Johnson, I know.

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We like him. Okay ish. All right. He's doing some good stuff

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He gave us a private tour a little bit. He's gonna get so much hate mail. I know I'm gonna get freedom at Charlie Kirk calm

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I yeah, let me have it. I listen

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I got an opportunity to do a private tour and then speaker Johnson address address the tour. Okay, and

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They actually took us

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inside the area where they were setting up the luncheon

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and where they were going to do the actual swearing in

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and I got to see the rotunda and all that stuff.

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So I wasn't like Charlie exclusive.

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by any means.

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But it was very, very cool.

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And I will tell you, Charlie, you

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had this experience, I'm sure, as well.

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It's way smaller in person.

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That whole space is way smaller in person

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than it appears on TV.

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The Rotunda?

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Yeah, it's extremely tight.

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And so there was kind of the war over ticketing.

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So let's kind of show the picture of the Rotunda

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from the interior.

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So as things got announced, there was a nonstop.

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Fight from donors influencers elected officials of who actually gets in the rotunda now. This is very complicated

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because the Presidential Inaugural Committee,

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otherwise known as JASIC, does not control all the tickets.

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It is a joint committee between the Senate, the House,

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and the incoming administration.

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So, as soon as you decide to go in the rotunda,

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you are 100% in Article 1 land,

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within the House and the Senate.

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So therefore, if you look at the picture,

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before you even get to like,

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you know some of Trump's friends outside of the dais and I'll get to the dais in a second

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it's all senators yeah so the senators hogged all of the ticket you're in you're in controlled

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territory there they control that so just put this in perspective there were about 680 seats

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in the retunda about 400 of them were for congress so there was only 230 tickets allocated for

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Trump and his team family and even some select donors. So that huge war over actually who gets ticketing

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There was an overflow room where people like Theo Vaughn were and Logan Paul and Megan Kelly and all the governors

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All the governors were in the overflow room, right?

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So super honored and thank you to

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Susie and thank you to everyone who worked so hard on this for approving not just myself, but also Erica big big lift and that's

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big deal right it was a huge honor and actually was a huge honor for all of us

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that work on all of our yeah exactly the fact that we had a literal seat at the

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table value was huge and by the way not just us all the grassroots all the

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activists it was a testament to how hard we've all worked and how hard the team

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has worked turning point action turning point USA

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I mean it really was a huge honor I was so touched to be able to just be

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There was no

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difference between how you entered. I entered alongside of

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Katanji Brown Jackson,

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Brett Kavanaugh,

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Clarence Thomas, the whole Supreme Court walked in as I walked in.

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Literally, like we were just kind of walking in together. There just there was no guard.

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There was not, I mean, there was just all kind of one line as you enter into the, like from outside into

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the, into the Capitol. By the way, I need to tell my CCP story.

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Okay, it's an exclusive story. I haven't told which actually plays into this morning, but okay

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Have you have you debriefed this yet with our I guess we I guess we don't have any national security confirmed

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No, no, I I have told Mike waltz about this. It's a very serious issue

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Okay, so I'll get the CCP story later in the program because it's it's worth it

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but anyway honor to have been included and so I started to get

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text messages while I'm sitting in there that this woman tweeted

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saying that some anonymous Republican lawmaker was mad that I had better tickets than them.

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Now, mind you, Eric Swalwell was literally right behind me. Now,

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I think I deserve great praise because I went through high road virality, high road virality.

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I said, here we are at a presidential inauguration. And I wanted so badly when it was over to take

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and say, hey, Congressman Swalwell, are you accepting the pardon?

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Are you accepting the pardon?

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Because he was on the J6 Committee.

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I decided not to do it.

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See, I had the same situation, although it was with other Republicans when we were at

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the ball.

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And I was like, you know, this would really go viral with a certain, I don't know, maybe

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Congresswoman from South Carolina or certain other conservative talkers that, but, you

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know, I was like, you know what, it's a day for unity.

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It's a day for the president.

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It's not a day for that.

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It's not a day for that, right, Charlie?

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It wasn't a day for that.

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It wasn't a day for that.

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Here were these lunatics.

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Brad Schneider, I don't know who these other people,

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Eric Swalwell, that was when Donald Trump said,

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and God saved my life, and all the Democrats were sitting.

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It turned into a mini-state of the union vibe,

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where like half the room would stand and applaud,

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and half the room would kind of sit.

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But it was because of the rotunda, the noise echoes and actually had a really good energy to it.

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Well, on TV, how did it feel?

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On TV, it played like a massive applause line where he said,

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I've, you know, became convinced that God saved my life to make America great again.

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It was a huge moment, like chills moment.

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And so when you sent that picture, I mean, I was getting like live feed,

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but I saw the picture in our chat, I was like, you know, you're like...

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We're getting this up. I was like, okay, you know like and it was a it was a I think I think it did like I'm almost two million

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It's like people saw that picture by the way after it about five minutes after so I would stand up for almost every applause line

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I think some staffer texted him like Charlie Kirk is roasting you stand up and it was it was

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It was it was hilarious to kind of see as it was happening