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The Charlie Kirk Show begins in 10 seconds.

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As we come on the air, the old saying,

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elections have consequences is playing out in very real time

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in a very real way in cities all across our country.

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As the Trump administration makes good

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on one of Trump's most controversial campaign promises,

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a promise that was immortalized in that sea of signs

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at the Republican National Convention.

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Mass deportations now.

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One week into Trump's second term, it's no longer an abstract idea or controversial campaign

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promise or even a convention sign.

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The deportations are underway.

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What we're doing is we're targeting the worst first, right?

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That's who we're getting.

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We're focusing on those targets.

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We're not targeting people in schools.

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We're not targeting people in churches.

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We're targeting people who are the worst.

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You know, there's a chance they're

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going to go to some of those places,

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and this administration has kind of taken some of the handcuffs

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off of us in a way, right?

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We're leaving the discretion with our officers,

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and our officers are trained to make good decisions out there.

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Well, look, I went to Chicago a couple of times.

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met with the Black Pastors, met with the community. They were begging for ice enforcement action

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because of the crime in Chicago. I made a commitment to them that we'd be out there. I also made

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a commitment to the mayor of Chicago, that I'm coming to Chicago even though he said I wasn't

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welcomed. I wanted to make a point that ICE is going to do that job regardless of the little

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helpers we're now. As far as the local community, nothing but cheers walking through the airport,

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cheers walking through the streets. We stopped at a police station to take a nature break and

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And every uniform in that building walked up, shook her hands and thanked us for being there and helping them make their communities more safe.

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And as we are fighting hard to get birthright citizenship or automatic citizenship for the children of illegal aliens, that's another way.

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It's automatic citizenship for children of illegal aliens. That's the other term that they use, which is actually more accurate or more understandable.

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And it's ridiculous, we're the only country that has it, and certainly the only country that has it to that extent, and it wasn't meant if you look.

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It was really meant for children of slaves. This is what happened. The children of slaves, it was not meant for everyone to come into our country by airplane or charging across the borders from all over the world and think they're going to become citizens.

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It's not meant for that, it wasn't meant for that.

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I've also deployed troops to the border, and for the first time in history, we're locating

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and loading illegal aliens into military aircraft and flying them back to the places

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from which they came.

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And very importantly, America is respected again.

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We're respected again.

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Isn't that nice?

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And as you saw yesterday, we've made it clear to every country that they will be taking back our...

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People that were sending out the criminals that the illegal aliens coming from their countries were taking them back

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They're gonna take them back fast, and if they don't they'll pay a very high economic price

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And in a little while I'll be signing four new executive orders

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First is that of directing our new Secretary of Defense Pete Hexeth

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Who's gonna be great by the way to immediately begin the construction of a state of the art iron dome missile defense shield

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Which will be able to

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protect Americans. You know, we protect other countries, but we don't protect

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ourselves. And we're next to ensure that we have the most lethal fighting force in

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the world. We will get transgender ideology the hell out of our military.

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It's going to be gone.

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In addition, we will stop our service members from being indoctrinated with

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radical left ideologies such as critical race theory. We're going to stop it.

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It's already been stopped. It's already been halted. Totally halted.

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And finally, we will offer a full reinstatement to any service member who was expelled from

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the armed forces due to the COVID vaccine mandate.

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And we will restore them to their former rank with full pay.

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It's time for the United States to return to the system that made us richer and more powerful than ever before.

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You know, the United States in 1870 to 1913, all tariffs, and that was the richest period in the history of the United States.

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Relatively speaking, whether it's relatively, and that was all made through tariffs.

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They say, we have no income tax. The income tax came in in 1913.

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As I said in my speech last week, instead of taxing our citizens to enrich our nations,

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we should be tariffing and taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens.

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Does that make sense, right?

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Every day is a battle for your mind raging information coming from every angle with the will to deceive

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Fear not you found the place for truth the voice of a generation that still has the will to believe in the greatest

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Country in the history of the world. This is the Charlie Kirk show. Buckle up here

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We go

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All right, everybody, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show, Andrew Colvidt in for the one and

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only Charlie Kirk who's on assignment today.

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We'll leave it at that for the time being.

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Nevertheless, lots going on, always very, very much a privilege for me to be with all

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of you because there is so much breaking news.

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In the era of Trump, we are now on Trump time.

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The blizzard of Trump actions is continuing into the second week.

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It's really hard to keep up.

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Now, that's partly by design, right?

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Our enemies, our opponents, the lefties, the NPCs on the left, they're having a hard time

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keeping up and keeping track of everything to be outraged by.

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I think it's safe to say this is basically the first time the American people had ever

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seen the executive branch and the leaders of this country run the government almost

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like a tech startup.

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They move fast and break things on purpose because what has been built and constructed

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at the federal level especially are things worth breaking.

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It seems like the regime is most upset right now about all the freezes, freezes in hiring,

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freezes on federal grants, freezes on aid and loans, and foreign grants.

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Now, all of those things are good.

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There's freezes on visas.

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There's freezes on reentry.

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There's the border is completely frozen.

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So what is going on right now? What is happening? And by the way, there's going to be the first

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Caroline Levitt-led press briefing today at the White House, which is another very exciting thing

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So we're gonna take that live. We're actually gonna be talking to Brian Glenn in the next segment

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He's gonna be live from Pebble Beach as they call it inside the White House compound

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So what is going on let's try and keep track here

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We've got CNN headline all federal grants and loan disbursement paused by White House

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Now this one seems to have them very much in a tizzy. So reading from CNN, which is regime

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Controlled media says the White House budget office has ordered a pause on all federal grants and

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Loans according to an interior internal memorandum sent Monday potentially impacting trillions. Yes trillions with a T

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government spending and halting public programs that affect millions of

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Americans. Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related

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to obligation or disbursement of all federal financial assistance. So we

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don't even have a rest vote in yet at OMB and the acting OMB director is already

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putting out this memoranda.

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So, the memo specifies that the pause will not affect social security or Medicare benefits,

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and does not include assistance provided directly to individuals.

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Nevertheless, this is Trump bad, Trump hates people, Trump's gonna cause people to not

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be able to eat.

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That's false.

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And it will provide the administration time to review agency programs and determine the best uses of the funding for those programs consistent with the law and the presidential president's priorities.

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So the other thing that we have to look into is that this memorandum also says that it is in line with the executive orders last week. What were the executive orders about last week?

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This will be implicating DEI,

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Woke Gender Ideology,

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and the Green New Deal,

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and foreign aid and non-governmental organizations.

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Now, let's pause there.

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Non-governmental organizations,

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this would be like Catholic Charities,

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that's trying to help

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illegals game our immigration system,

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and a lot of other NGOs that are doing that.

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By the way, these NGOs folks,

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they go by the name of Refugee Resettlement,

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that this is such a good thing. They often quote scripture to completely game our immigration system

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and make money while doing it. That's right. So what they do is they charge maybe 20, 30%, 40%

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profit to the government to resettle refugees from places like Afghanistan and the Middle East,

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which Joe Biden put a prioritization on.

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To bring them here into your community into your homes and your parks and these NGOs get paid to do it. That's right

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So we're putting a pause on all of these things so that they can be reviewed

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and the president's priorities can be

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ensure that they're taking place.

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Now, the other big news story this morning,

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yeah, that we've got the B-roll right there.

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If you're watching on the stream of Catholic Charities

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talking about how you don't have to basically comply with ICE

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and you have to talk and you get a lawyer

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and the one will be paid for you by the taxpayers

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when you try and break into our country.

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Absolutely ridiculous.

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We need to fund all of these NGOs.

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And now the other big news story is that Christy Nome was photographed in New York City doing raids on gang members

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They got a

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Kingpin of trend a ragwup in New York City

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She's fully kitted out now. Some people don't like that. Some people think it's you know, like princess warrior stuff

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I get that, I get the pushback, you know, the whole girl boss movement is a little cringe,

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but here's my pushback to the pushback.

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It's great to see institutional prioritization at the top level of our government, including

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Kristi Noem, getting into the field showing that we mean business.

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So I'm all for it.

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I'm all for it.

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Go into the field, show the world that we mean business and we're not playing around

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Meanwhile, we've got border crossings plummeting.

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There are reporters that have been at the border for over a decade that have been covering the story at our border for over a decade.

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They've never seen numbers this low. They keep dropping.

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In fact, across all of our sectors yesterday, not one had over 200 border crossers attempt to get over the border.

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We have illegals coming back from trying to cross saying don't come you're not gonna get through everybody's getting caught

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You've got raids going on in Colorado getting trend a Oragawa people

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You've got raids with Tom Homan in Chicago and Dr. Phil. You've got raids going on in New York City

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And you've got people like Selena Gomez sobbing about this and then deleting it

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I'm going to get that clip if we can.

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Ryan, what clip is that?

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Sobbing about how they're attacking my people.

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Now, let's make a couple of things straight here.

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Let's get a couple of things straight.

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They're not going after schools and playgrounds

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and all this stuff like all this propaganda.

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Now, we reserve the right to do that

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if that's where the bad guys are.

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But right now, that's not what is happening.

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We're going for the worst first.

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We're getting murderers, rapists, pedophiles off the streets.

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These are public safety issues.

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These are public safety threats that we're

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getting off of the streets, and we're

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getting them out of our country.

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And people like Selena Gomez, go ahead and play Cut 91.

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This, I think Charlie's post on this

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did like 11 million views so far.

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Play Cut 91.

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All my people are getting attacked, the children, I don't understand, I'm so sorry, I wish I could do something, but I can't, I don't know what to do, I'll try everything I promise.

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We're not going to be cowed by tears anymore.

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Hollywood celebrities, AOC, crying on the border as we make our cities safer, as we make our

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communities safer, as we remove actual murderers and rapists from the communities of this country,

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we are not going to be cowed by crying celebrities anymore.

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Where were your tears for Lake and Riley?

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Where were they for Jocelyn Nungari?

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Where were they for Rachel Moran?

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Americans that die every year from fentanyl poisoning.

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I don't think so.

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We're going to secure our border.

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We're going to deport the legals.

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Mission is going forward, or when we get right back.

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You have worked so hard, and I know a lot of you have seen, obviously, his videos on

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TikTok and all the stuff he does on campus, but no one gets to see him from my angle except

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for myself and our children.

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And the sacrifices that he made this year, he's amazing.

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I'm very blessed.

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And I would not have been able to do any of it without Erica, and that's the real truth.

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I was going into battle, going into campuses, traveling the country, people that want us

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dead and they smear you and slander you and Erica is holding down the fort at home.

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And can you believe how good she looked?

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She had a baby six months ago.

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Can you believe that?

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I mean, it's unbelievable.

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And it's just this year has been so trying and difficult in more ways than one.

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A year ago, I gave the whole speech of, here I am, Lord, send me.

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Does anyone remember that whole thing that we did?

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Yeah.

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And it was kind of this joke that we had.

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As soon as I gave that message, we got so sick.

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We didn't even have Christmas.

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Last Christmas, we had Domino's Pizza for Christmas.

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Oh, yes, we did.

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I remember him getting off stage when I say, honey,

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do you realize what you just did?

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He's like, yeah, I just fucking was like, no, no, no, no.

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You said, here I am.

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That is a very powerful statement and God's like I see you and he just I mean it's been a wild year

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but Charlie is so obedient to God to the word of God and it's been so humbling to witness the way that God has used him this year

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because he made that declaration a year ago saying here I am I'm ready wherever you need me to be Lord I'll be and I'm your servant

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put me out there in the thick of it and you did it and it's but again now I say if you're going

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to stand on stage and say here I am make sure you tell me beforehand so I know what we're going

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up against so that we're we're prepared and and it we look back at this last year and we really

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left it all in the field and you guys saw that maybe on the video on election night where we

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did not even have words when they announced Donald Trump to become president of the United States

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Because who knows what our life would have looked like if Kamala Harris would have become president

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Who knows they would have come after turning point. They would have come after us personally

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And so we just say glory to God and the lessons that we learned throughout this last year

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You know, we welcomed our son to the world back in May

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this

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balancing that with two kids under two. Erica deserves every prize. She's the

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Patriot of the Year award. I'll tell you that. That's that that's the award she

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deserves.

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And just kind of juggling it all and keeping the marriage strong and keeping that bedrock strong and

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Still doing our best and we did a really good job. I only I think I missed

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Three Sabbaths this year only three times when we did not do the full Shabbat

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Which I'm a big believer in that all of you guys should honor a day for the Lord turn off your phone

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It says it very clearly in the scriptures for six days. You shall work on the seventh day you shall rest

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And we do a really bad job of that as American Christians.

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We do a horrible job of honoring the Sabbath.

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In fact, the word in Hebrew literally means shabbat,

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which means to stop, to cease all of activity.

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Can we we should speak about how our family we I could be traveling for six days

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But as long as we get one Sabbath, it makes up for all those six days

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No phones no technology just family and quality and it's quality over quantity and you know when

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GG sees you walk into the room

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She just be lines for daddy, but it's one of those things too. I mean people have asked like how do you do it when Charlie?

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Charlie Kirk Show, Andrew Colvin in for Charlie Kirk and breaking news. I'm allowed to disclose

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Charlie's actually traveling with the vice president today. He's with JD Vance, who is an

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American hero already can't wait to see all the things that JD accomplishes in his time

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serving this great country. Right now I'm joined by Brian Glenn, White House correspondent for

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Brian, uh, we have our first White House press briefing today with the new White House press secretary Caroline Levitt

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Phyllis in what's the mood like there? What what are the changes we can expect to see?

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I know the the entire country, especially the political class is going to be tuned into this event today

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For sure, you know, we just I just stepped, uh

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outside to do this hit with you. But I can tell you one thing, the crowd is growing inside that

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press room as it has been all morning. It seems like there is an elevated buzz around this press

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conference. Obviously, this is the first time we've had a press conference. We've seen Caroline

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Leavitt in this capacity in this official briefing room. And you know what, there's new media outlets

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a buzz in the air Andrew and I can expect this thing also to be filled with a

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ton of questions as you would imagine on all the media here they want to kind of

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be able to scrutinize a lot what President Trump has done this first I

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guess two weeks of his administration but I will say this though a little bit an

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addition that I've not seen in there before they do have these two video

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screens on either side of where Levitt will be standing perhaps I'll use that

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to back up some of the statements and kind of recap what has happened the last

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day 10 or whatever day we're on at this point it's been going so fast as we

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know but that's kind of some additional changes that I've noticed inside but as

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soon as we're done here we're going to move inside and be in ready position for

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this press conference schedule to start at one o'clock

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So Brian, a lot has been made about the seating arrangement that we can expect, right?

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I mean, in years past, we've seen New York Times, what we like to call the regime media,

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the legacy media outlets seated right up front.

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There's been a lot of news made about who Karin Jean-Pierre would call on, who she would

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not.

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can you do you have any insight yet about how that the seating arrangement is

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going to be our outlets like real america's voice

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attorney point usa we have our own white house co-correspondent as well in

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there

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do you do you have any insight on that yet

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i don't i will say this i think it is business as usual as far as seating goes

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for this particular

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uh... press conference now as we move forward i don't know what that would look

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could imagine after this first initial conference that the seating charts the

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seating arrangement the assignments will be scrambled up a little different

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putting a little bit more of maybe your conservative based media towards the

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front or maybe I should say the ones that are fair and unbalanced right up in

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front but to your point I have not heard any changes for this one but I can

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moving forward because this is very much a different administration as we know I

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mean it seems like forever that the previous press secretary really

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protected Joe Biden from any type of official scrutiny of anything that he

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did and of course they will use this pulpit today if you will to absolutely

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unleash on President Trump a lot of things like immigration Andrew it's been

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I would expect a fair amount of questions on that subject today, but I do expect some other

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documentation. I mean using these video screens, Andrew, is a great idea because instead of turning

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to the book, the binder, I guess, that would have all these answers, why not just show a video?

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Why not show just a PowerPoint presentation, if you will, about what this last few days have been

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in terms of the accomplishments, the executive orders, some of the changes that have happened

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within our government, within our military, these Senate confirmation hearings,

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all the stuff can be displayed on these monitors. And I think it gives a great visual

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conference. I agree. I think we need to be more creative in government. I think

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this administration is proving how creative you can be and not being

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fired by the way things have been. So last question here, Brian. I know you've

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got to get back there and prep for this briefing. 30 seconds. Give me a sense of

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how the resistance media, as I like to call them, the tone, the vibe shift, all

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these things we're hearing. What are they feeling like these days?

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Well, I think they sense there is a some additional faces in this room that they have not seen before

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I can probably give you a better answer after this press conference of what how perhaps we were you know

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Maybe treated a little differently. I have been I have been warned that you know

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You've got some people that are gonna try to make it tough, but I have not experienced that as of yet Andrew

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But I will let you know

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Well you keep an eye out for us, Brian, and ask some great questions.

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We know you will.

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Thank you, Brian Glenn.

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How do I get a wife like Erica?

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I know that's what you're all thinking.

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And the answer is you don't deserve it

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and I don't deserve it.

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It's by God's grace, that's the answer.

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But in all seriousness, you know, we get a lot of questions about dating and, you know, I'm sure a lot of people are wondering.

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I mean, I have a lot of thoughts on this, but there's this question of how does the church, how does the conservative movement win back young women and bring women back into this idea of, you know, traditional practices and roles?

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How should people think about that?

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I mean, I feel like it should be a duty of the church to help teach Titus to, to women,

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to understand how to be a biblical woman in society.

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I think it was Elizabeth Elliott that said,

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being a woman does not make me a better Christian or a certain Christian,

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but being a Christian makes me a very different woman.

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You're be the woman that your future husband deserves like be the woman that you know God wants you to be you

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Don't have to be out partying. Don't

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you know, be crazy thinking like I'm running out of time when you're God is the author of time.

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So just chill, you know, like you're gonna find you're human, God knows your timing,

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and I think that that's another thing right now that you see too, you know, young men and new women,

00:30:46.590 --> 00:30:51.370
you hear it all the time, like, where am I gonna find my future spells? How do I find my future spells?

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Maybe at America Fest.

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But maybe I know, so you never know. But it's, you know, it's one of those things where it's really important that you

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You have to have an environment where it's conducive towards swimming in a stream of significance where you, you know, you're around people that are pouring into you, that are loving on you, that are a conducive environment for you to be the person that you need to be.

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It's really important.

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It is not attractive, I mean Erica can support this, it's not attractive to women how much liquor you can drink or how many drugs you could do or how many women you've slept with, I think it's actually not interesting at all.

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It's the opposite, it's are you able to support the family and do difficult things and be able to bear an obligation?

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to be able to do this very challenging thing called life.

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And what we've done is we have created a condition

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where it's okay for men to kind of continue to stay

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in that infant stage.

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And that goes for both men and women.

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Women, you need to demand more out of men as well.

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And men, you need to demand more out of yourself.

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And I say this all the time, which is, I ask the question,

00:32:12.280 --> 00:32:14.000
Like, why are you drinking alcohol? It makes me feel good.

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Like, that's a really stupid reason, actually.

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I'm not saying if you want to drink, it's fine.

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I'm not trying to be a legalist about it.

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But to actually give me a good reason, is it going to help you succeed?

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Is it going to help you flourish? It can help you thrive?

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And the answer is this.

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The highest performing people that you guys like at this conference

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are people that actually don't drink alcohol.

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Tucker Carlson.

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Donald Trump.

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They don't drink alcohol, actually.

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And again, if you want to do it...

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Fine do it in moderation be responsible and all that I don't drink again

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I'm not trying to say it's because you know it makes you better right here's think your mornings are easier way easier to keep off

00:32:44.280 --> 00:32:45.900
wait by the way and

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Immediately you become more focused and a much more clear thinker about the problems in front of you

00:32:52.560 --> 00:32:58.540
And you never have to worry as if your mind and your being is going to be put in jeopardy

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By some substance you put into your body by the way

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you'll save a ton of money as well just so we're clear like a ton of money people say i'm broke like

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really how much you spend on liquor a week and the answer is probably a lot and going even deeper

00:33:12.540 --> 00:33:17.780
and beyond that um i think it's really important that we understand that the battle is between

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obviously your flesh and your inclination to try to do we want to do whatever you want to

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From the campus to the car, the bullhorn to the microphone.

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It's the Charlie Kirk Show.

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All right, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.

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My name is Andrew Colvet, honored to be with you.

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As always, Charlie Kirk is deployed right now

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with Vice President JD Vance.

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I'm sure he's gonna have all kinds of updates for us tomorrow.

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I will just say, I've seen some of the pictures

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I wish I could, I wish I could share them with you all, but you know, these things complicate

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I want to welcome Josh Hammer onto the show next.

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He's a senior editor at Large at Newsweek,

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host of the Josh Hammer Show.

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Josh, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

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How you doing?

00:36:02.620 --> 00:36:03.840
Andrew, I'm doing great, my friend.

00:36:04.280 --> 00:36:05.480
You know, it is morning in America.

00:36:05.760 --> 00:36:08.700
As a famous man, one said about four and a half decades ago.

00:36:08.760 --> 00:36:10.820
And it's really great to be back on the Charlie Kirk show

00:36:10.820 --> 00:36:12.580
with you, my good friend Andrew Culver.

00:36:13.450 --> 00:36:18.810
Yeah, absolutely, Josh. I'm so glad to have you. I mean, there's just so much to discuss

00:36:19.390 --> 00:36:23.450
But you know that the real impetus for this was your op-ed and Newsweek

00:36:24.370 --> 00:36:26.250
And I thought it was a really

00:36:26.770 --> 00:36:33.510
Really fun title for an op-ed. First of all, the Cold Civil War is over. We won. Now, Josh

00:36:33.510 --> 00:36:35.470
I want to get I want you to make your argument here

00:36:35.470 --> 00:36:40.350
But I you know, I just want to say I'm not you know, I'm not popping champagne just yet

00:36:40.350 --> 00:36:41.450
There's a lot of work to do

00:36:41.880 --> 00:36:47.320
But I think the premise of your article holds, why do you say we won the Cold Civil War?

00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:48.720
What is the Cold Civil War?

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Make your case.

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And let me first say that the fact that the enemy is slayed at least for the time being I agree does not necessarily mean that it will not one day God forbid possibly rise like a phoenix from the ashes to create more chaos and mayhem and to sow the seeds of discourse here in America.

00:37:08.860 --> 00:37:16.200
So while I am definitely celebrating I agree that we should not rest on our laurels it is definitely time to keep the momentum going.

00:37:18.520 --> 00:37:21.660
very fun title. I'm glad you agree with me. I thought it was a very fun title as well,

00:37:21.780 --> 00:37:28.060
is that what we've seen thus far in the opening week or so of the second Donald Trump administration

00:37:28.780 --> 00:37:36.300
is the most transformative cultural paradigm shifting moment that I think we've seen probably

00:37:36.300 --> 00:37:42.180
in our lifetimes. And basically in the column, Andrew, I take a step back. Barack Obama declared war

00:37:42.970 --> 00:37:48.430
He declared war on America and instituted our modern American civil war, our cold civil

00:37:48.430 --> 00:37:49.970
roiling cold civil war.

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This happened because Barack Obama basically said that he was doing it.

00:37:53.010 --> 00:37:54.810
He famously said in February 2000 name.

00:37:55.160 --> 00:37:58.900
that he sought to fundamentally transform America, and one does not seek to fundamentally

00:37:58.900 --> 00:38:03.280
transform that which he loves or seeks to conserve. And we saw this time and time again

00:38:03.280 --> 00:38:07.000
throughout the Obama presidency, whether it came to Obamacare, the largest entitlement since

00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:13.660
Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, when it came to the issue of beating up on cops, of exacerbating

00:38:13.660 --> 00:38:18.920
racial relations, of having Eric Holder, his attorney general, use so-called disparate impact

00:38:18.920 --> 00:38:23.340
theory. That was kind of the predecessor to Ibram X. Kendi and anti-racism, whether it was all the

00:38:24.590 --> 00:38:29.850
the Iran deal. Barack Obama tried time and time again to declare war on the half America that

00:38:29.850 --> 00:38:34.850
he infamously called bitter clingers that Hillary Clinton 2016 referred to as deplorables.

00:38:35.430 --> 00:38:39.870
And that that civil war was stopped for four years by the Donald Trump administration,

00:38:40.350 --> 00:38:44.110
or at least three and a half years or so, until George Floyd met Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis,

00:38:44.370 --> 00:38:48.970
Minnesota. And we all saw what happened from there, the riots of the summer of 2020 in there.

00:38:49.370 --> 00:38:51.050
And then we got peak woke.

00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:55.700
The past four years prior to Donald Trump getting back in the Oval Office, the Joe Biden presidency,

00:38:55.880 --> 00:38:59.680
this was peak woke, Andrew, peak woke. He literally chose a vice president of the United States,

00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:02.980
Kamala Harris, because she was a quote unquote woman of color. He literally chose

00:39:02.980 --> 00:39:06.280
his one justice on the United States Supreme Court, Katanji Brown Jackson,

00:39:06.460 --> 00:39:09.320
because she is a quote unquote woman of color. Time and time again.

00:39:09.770 --> 00:39:14.630
as folks like Chris Rufo have reported, they weaponized all the various instrumentalities

00:39:14.630 --> 00:39:20.150
of the American administrative state and executive branch to implement so-called DEI to overtly

00:39:20.150 --> 00:39:23.870
discriminate against white people, against Christians, Jews, Asians, in favor of blacks,

00:39:23.990 --> 00:39:29.190
Hispanics, and so forth there. And just basically everything that we saw over the past four years,

00:39:29.550 --> 00:39:33.830
this was the moment that Woke reached, I think, its apotheosis.

00:39:34.440 --> 00:39:39.380
It's been slayed, it's been slayed because Donald Trump, Andrew, adopted a mentality to

00:39:39.380 --> 00:39:41.860
go back to the morning in America line that I was saying a few minutes ago.

00:39:41.940 --> 00:39:43.720
He adopted an old Reaganite mantra.

00:39:44.300 --> 00:39:48.300
And what Ronald Reagan famously said when he was asked for his approach to the Cold War,

00:39:48.640 --> 00:39:53.340
and he came into power in 1980, coming off the 1970s, you had differing opinions in 1970s,

00:39:53.360 --> 00:39:57.840
there was Henry Kissinger and Dayton, there was kind of the Cold War hawks back then.

00:40:02.280 --> 00:40:06.500
and they lose. People said that he was crazy, that he was a cowboy, he was a warmonger. But

00:40:06.500 --> 00:40:11.280
that mentality, Andrew, helped win the Cold War. I think Donald Trump has taken that exact same

00:40:11.280 --> 00:40:15.900
mentality to his second term in office. And I'm not entirely sure what the exact moment was.

00:40:16.300 --> 00:40:18.740
that galvanized him to adopt this Reaganite mantra.

00:40:18.920 --> 00:40:21.220
I suspect it was probably around the time that Joe Biden,

00:40:21.440 --> 00:40:23.780
Merrick Garland, and so-called special counsel, Jack Smith,

00:40:24.180 --> 00:40:26.040
started to incarcerate him, to prosecute him,

00:40:26.080 --> 00:40:27.700
try to throw him in jail, bankrupt him,

00:40:27.780 --> 00:40:28.780
ruin him of all his possessions,

00:40:28.940 --> 00:40:30.740
basically deprive him of his liberty and his livelihood.

00:40:31.100 --> 00:40:33.120
Maybe it was around the time that Thomas Matthew Crooks

00:40:33.120 --> 00:40:34.920
in Butler, Pennsylvania came within millimeters

00:40:34.920 --> 00:40:37.220
of assassinating him before a global television audience.

00:40:37.460 --> 00:40:39.220
But at some point, at some point,

00:40:39.460 --> 00:40:42.440
Donald Trump had kind of his Clarence Thomas 1991,

00:40:42.640 --> 00:40:45.280
Anita Hill moment, where he looked at all this radicalization

00:40:45.740 --> 00:40:47.600
and said, you know what, this is enough.

00:40:48.020 --> 00:40:50.080
I am over this, and you know what?

00:40:50.460 --> 00:40:51.800
To quote Barack Obama.

00:40:52.080 --> 00:40:57.160
get me my freaking pen, get me my freaking phone, because this crap ain't gonna fly anymore, come day

00:40:57.160 --> 00:41:02.620
one. And that was what we saw last weekend, and we saw all these executive orders. I mean, the DEI

00:41:02.620 --> 00:41:07.060
executive order alone, just focusing on that one executive order, and there's been so many amazing

00:41:07.060 --> 00:41:10.800
ones, it's hard to know even where to start, there's been the gender ideology, birthright citizenship,

00:41:11.080 --> 00:41:16.740
it's amazing stuff coming out of this White House. But just the DEI executive order, it doesn't just

00:41:18.110 --> 00:41:22.510
in the executive branch. It actually goes way past that. It instructs the attorney general

00:41:22.510 --> 00:41:27.390
and the secretary of education, the whole cabinet, to enforce Title VI and to interpret

00:41:27.390 --> 00:41:31.690
the Supreme Court's affirmative action case, students' fair omissions, so as to effectively

00:41:31.690 --> 00:41:38.050
ban DEI in any taxpayer support institution in America. This is the kind of stuff that

00:41:38.050 --> 00:41:40.270
wins culture wars overnight. So again,

00:41:40.680 --> 00:41:45.640
Let's not rest nor laurels. I understand like you know constant vigilance and let's keep our

00:41:45.640 --> 00:41:51.480
let's keep our foot on the gas pedal and keep on plowing full speed ahead. But for now for now

00:41:51.480 --> 00:41:57.000
what we have seen is the stuff of legends frankly. It kind of reminds me as I said in the column

00:41:57.000 --> 00:42:01.220
I remember when I was a kid learning about how the English took over what was then called New

00:42:01.220 --> 00:42:06.240
Amsterdam and then they renamed the New York City from Peter Stuyves in the Dutch in the 1600s.

00:42:07.950 --> 00:42:12.230
fight without firing a single shot because it was just a pure unmitigated demonstration

00:42:12.230 --> 00:42:15.530
of force and the enemy yielded at that demonstration of force.

00:42:15.750 --> 00:42:17.930
That's very much how I view what happened over this past week.

00:42:18.880 --> 00:42:22.020
I think that was extraordinarily well said, Josh.

00:42:23.200 --> 00:42:29.100
And I want to believe that all of this is going to happen without a single shot.

00:42:29.480 --> 00:42:35.820
And there's a lot of reason to believe that we have now become the dominant force in culture.

00:42:36.260 --> 00:42:40.460
And not just politically, which obviously we control the three branches of the government,

00:42:40.660 --> 00:42:46.160
but culturally, philosophically, ideologically, you can feel the momentum behind more of a

00:42:47.920 --> 00:42:53.440
this triumph in Americana, this manifest destiny, whether it be Greenland or Panama or Canada,

00:42:54.380 --> 00:42:59.300
or just retaking the border, Pete Heg said, saying, yeah, we're going to get operational

00:42:59.300 --> 00:43:05.020
control of our southern border. You've got ice raids. We are from a PR standpoint. This

00:43:05.020 --> 00:43:10.100
administration is doing a fantastic job projecting strength to the world. You saw this with Columbia

00:43:10.100 --> 00:43:14.400
and the little tiff that happened over the weekend, how quickly that was resolved. And

00:43:17.280 --> 00:43:24.080
And what I find particularly instructive and encouraging, Josh, is the polling.

00:43:24.660 --> 00:43:29.540
You've got Harry Enten at CNN going on in front of Casey Hunt or whatever the host is

00:43:29.540 --> 00:43:32.260
going like, hey, these numbers are extraordinary.

00:43:32.820 --> 00:43:38.140
And just for our audience's sake, consider this, Donald Trump is the only-

00:43:38.640 --> 00:43:42.940
President, in the history of the country that has a higher approval rating at the start

00:43:42.940 --> 00:43:48.880
of his second term than he ever did in his first term, a majority of all Americans support

00:43:49.480 --> 00:43:55.100
deportation of all, not some, not the worst first, which obviously Tom Homan, budget constraints,

00:43:55.240 --> 00:44:00.300
manpower constraints, is starting with the worst first, but a majority, a clear majority

00:44:05.710 --> 00:44:12.410
all illegals. This is a phenomenal, phenomenal showing. And it shows, Josh, that the the

00:44:12.912 --> 00:44:17.950
main street America, average America is seeing the changes already are seeing the momentum shift.

00:44:18.210 --> 00:44:24.790
And American malaise is out. America's self constraint is out. And so I do want to be

00:44:24.790 --> 00:44:29.170
really, really encouraged by this. There's a part of me that just, you know, I think can't get over

00:44:34.860 --> 00:44:36.700
Do you think this has staying power?

00:44:36.880 --> 00:44:40.160
Do you think we are at the beginning of an 8-12-year run?

00:44:41.560 --> 00:44:42.180
I do.

00:44:42.490 --> 00:44:47.150
I absolutely do. I think that J.D. Vance as vice president of the United States is kind

00:44:47.150 --> 00:44:51.030
of the natural heir to the throne. And we'll obviously have that debate, I presume, in the

00:44:51.030 --> 00:44:55.650
year 2028. But God willing, the next four years will go well. And J.D., who is literally

00:44:55.650 --> 00:44:59.410
only 40 years old, is kind of a logical successor there. And that's part of the reasons that

00:44:59.410 --> 00:45:02.870
Donald Trump tapped J.D. Vance in the first place, right? And because he's making a long

00:45:02.870 --> 00:45:03.750
term play here.

00:45:04.110 --> 00:45:06.950
I mean, look at his cabinet picks. I mean, you mentioned Pete Hegseth. Pete Hegseth

00:45:06.950 --> 00:45:11.630
is about 44, 45 years old. I mean, so many of these cabinet picks are very, very young

00:45:11.820 --> 00:45:20.640
This is a movement, Andrew, and what's so fascinating is that MAGA America first just being on the right of center right now in America more generally speaking

00:45:21.770 --> 00:45:28.370
This is cool. I mean, this is kind of the anti-establishment mentality. The same way that Barack Obama was what's considered a irreverence

00:45:28.370 --> 00:45:34.890
And back 1960s all the quote-unquote self-professed cool kids, you know, we're burning down college campuses the Vietnam War all that stuff

00:45:34.890 --> 00:45:36.870
Maga is basically that today

00:45:36.870 --> 00:45:41.810
I mean, this is kind of the middle finger to the establishment the Democratic Party is a rotting carcass

00:45:41.810 --> 00:45:47.590
It is filled with octogenarians, septuagenarians people who are literally two to three decades past their prime

00:45:47.590 --> 00:45:50.790
Joe Biden's obviously a perfect encapsulation of that there and there

00:45:50.800 --> 00:45:54.800
Republican Party is filled with young, up-and-coming people who have an inherent love for their

00:45:54.800 --> 00:45:55.300
country there.

00:45:55.800 --> 00:45:57.660
And that's being reflected in the popular culture.

00:45:57.820 --> 00:46:01.260
Look at all the people in these NFL playoffs and the college world playoffs who are doing

00:46:01.260 --> 00:46:03.520
the Trump dance in the end zone after getting a touchdown.

00:46:03.780 --> 00:46:08.580
Carrie Underwood going a cappella at the inaugural address there, just so many cultural moments.

00:46:09.180 --> 00:46:11.020
And these big tech oligarchs, I mean, just on and on.

00:46:11.810 --> 00:46:14.030
And Josh, I don't mean to cut you off.

00:46:14.150 --> 00:46:15.310
We're gonna have another segment with you

00:46:15.310 --> 00:46:17.890
to keep diving into this, but I completely agree.

00:46:18.650 --> 00:46:21.690
There was that New York magazine piece that just came out

00:46:21.690 --> 00:46:25.010
talking about all the young energy around the inauguration.

00:46:25.090 --> 00:46:26.150
They tried to make it look racist.

00:46:26.350 --> 00:46:27.530
We can talk about that when we're back.

00:46:28.170 --> 00:46:29.670
But Mac is cool, guys.

00:46:30.410 --> 00:46:30.870
Enjoy it.

00:46:31.050 --> 00:46:31.490
We'll be right back.

00:46:47.210 --> 00:46:50.010
you as a father and as the provider,

00:46:50.250 --> 00:46:52.590
you need to get your act together so much

00:46:52.590 --> 00:46:55.610
that your wife never has a financial pressure

00:46:55.610 --> 00:46:56.730
ever on the family.

00:46:57.150 --> 00:46:58.410
And if you have not done that,

00:46:58.690 --> 00:46:59.970
then you gotta get your act together.

00:47:00.210 --> 00:47:02.010
And let me tell the men out there,

00:47:02.330 --> 00:47:04.790
you do not spend a dime on video games

00:47:04.790 --> 00:47:07.270
or sports games or things for yourself

00:47:07.270 --> 00:47:09.530
until your wife does not have to worry about finances.

00:47:09.970 --> 00:47:13.130
You come last in the family when it comes to finances, period.

00:47:13.610 --> 00:47:14.290
That is your job.

00:47:15.080 --> 00:47:19.580
Your wife gets whatever she wants whatever she wants the kids get whatever they want and I hear all the time

00:47:19.580 --> 00:47:21.700
Like well, it's really hard to meet ends meet like let's go get a beer

00:47:21.700 --> 00:47:24.840
I keep no reason actually to do that like you are tasked with the provider

00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:27.640
Oh, what you want all the benefits of being called the head of the household

00:47:27.640 --> 00:47:32.400
But in other words responsibilities are the obligations and it comes a lot of responsibilities

00:47:32.400 --> 00:47:36.940
And so again, I speak very directly to young men Erica's the you know young woman outreach

00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:43.580
Part of this but young men need to be talked this way actually because they say oh, I want to be a dad like really are you earning enough money?

00:47:43.960 --> 00:47:46.900
Have you done the right work? Have you asked for a raise, asked for a promotion, got up earlier,

00:47:47.060 --> 00:47:50.160
stayed up later to make sure your family does not have any financial pressures or issues?

00:47:50.640 --> 00:47:52.780
People say, oh, you know, it's not that easy. I understand that.

00:47:53.020 --> 00:47:57.980
But then you need to come last in everything, in the sense where I'm not going to spend money on myself

00:47:57.980 --> 00:48:01.940
until my family is able to not have that kind of financial pressure. And guess what?

00:48:02.350 --> 00:48:06.130
you as men are a lot tougher and a lot more productive and can work a lot harder than you think.

00:48:06.430 --> 00:48:09.810
You can push yourself even harder. You could do a double-double. You could do an all-nighter.

00:48:09.890 --> 00:48:12.630
You could do the red-eye flight across the country. You could push yourself to be able

00:48:12.630 --> 00:48:15.890
to ride for the family, because here's the one thing I have found. Once you have kids,

00:48:16.270 --> 00:48:20.230
there is this primal thing that comes into you, where if you think you have worked hard before,

00:48:20.530 --> 00:48:25.070
when you have to go feed a child and provide for a family, you are willing to go to the ends

00:48:25.070 --> 00:48:27.690
of the earth and push yourself in ways that you never thought possible.

00:48:34.600 --> 00:48:40.640
You're listening to the future of America and the future is bright here is Charlie Kirk

00:48:41.930 --> 00:48:50.770
All right, everybody. I want to show you something here. Go ahead and throw up this image. This is Charlie just casually hanging out with the VP

00:48:51.430 --> 00:48:56.450
Go ahead and throw that up. I think it's depth. There's Charlie. This is breaking news

00:48:56.450 --> 00:48:59.810
Charlie's just sitting next to JD Vance there on Air Force two

00:49:00.376 --> 00:49:03.810
just casually plotting the the future

00:49:04.950 --> 00:49:10.510
Blizzard of other executive orders and actions that will take this country back

00:49:11.080 --> 00:49:16.440
Our movement is ascendant folks to the conversation that we were having with Josh

00:49:16.440 --> 00:49:20.960
We're gonna bring him back when we have radio rejoin in just a second. There is so much

00:49:20.960 --> 00:49:28.120
Positive momentum happening right now and it is impossible to separate the movement that Trump has sparked

00:49:28.120 --> 00:49:35.960
The ascendancy of it without also including this entirely new generation of young guns like Charlie Kirk

00:49:36.590 --> 00:49:40.130
like James Blair, like Sergio Gore, like J.D. Vance,

00:49:40.730 --> 00:49:43.230
Steven Miller, there's almost too many to name.

00:49:43.510 --> 00:49:46.850
Taylor Budowich, there's so many within this administration.

00:49:47.050 --> 00:49:48.730
They're staffing it from top to bottom.

00:49:49.110 --> 00:49:50.430
Obviously, Charlie's not staffing it,

00:49:50.530 --> 00:49:52.910
but he's within the larger movement

00:49:52.910 --> 00:49:54.230
on this show and this audience.

00:49:55.580 --> 00:50:01.700
The amount of transformational change that is possible with this new, young, vibrant

00:50:01.700 --> 00:50:07.660
core of leadership that is assuming control, both from a media standpoint and an actual

00:50:07.660 --> 00:50:14.020
power standpoint, the reins of actual power, it's impossible to fully comprehend or appreciate

00:50:14.020 --> 00:50:15.000
at this juncture.

00:50:15.440 --> 00:50:20.660
History will write about these days, history will write about these leaders, and they will

00:50:22.270 --> 00:50:29.430
back to the founder's intent, not to create some corrupt, muddled Frankenstein that the founders

00:50:29.430 --> 00:50:36.550
wouldn't even recognize, but they will restore the Americanism, the dynamism of our people

00:50:37.270 --> 00:50:40.790
in the truest sense of the word. And these are extraordinary days that we live in.

00:50:40.950 --> 00:50:47.650
These are extraordinary times. And it is a new dawn. More with Josh Hammer from a senior editor

00:50:50.940 --> 00:50:52.820
and download the Real America's voice app

00:50:53.380 --> 00:50:54.340
where we'll get back.

00:51:07.920 --> 00:51:13.780
Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk show Andrew Colvin in for the one and only Charlie Kirk who is currently flying on Air Force two with

00:51:13.780 --> 00:51:20.380
Vice President JD Vance very exciting times Josh. I want to throw this image up. This is from New York the New York magazine

00:51:21.840 --> 00:51:24.240
It's kind of personal for me actually throw up 94

00:51:24.900 --> 00:51:31.520
Image 94 the cruel kids table is the way the headline reads this is a cover cover piece for New York magazine

00:51:31.520 --> 00:51:33.440
by Brock Collier

00:51:33.870 --> 00:51:38.390
who is a trans journalist from the New York Magazine.

00:51:38.550 --> 00:51:42.450
I know this because Brock also applied for press credentials

00:51:42.450 --> 00:51:47.170
at the Turning Point ball, our inaugural Eve ball,

00:51:47.270 --> 00:51:49.010
and was there on the red carpet.

00:51:49.330 --> 00:51:52.090
There's pictures of our ball in this story.

00:51:53.170 --> 00:51:55.910
But the pushback is hilarious about this piece,

00:51:56.050 --> 00:51:56.790
but I think it's an interesting,

00:51:57.010 --> 00:51:59.390
and even the journalist in this piece, Josh,

00:51:59.610 --> 00:52:01.630
admits that we're winning.

00:52:01.920 --> 00:52:07.500
that we are culturally ascendant, that we are now dominating realms of culture that would have been

00:52:07.500 --> 00:52:14.040
hard to fathom just a few years ago. And I believe that they've cropped this picture to make it look

00:52:14.860 --> 00:52:20.400
more racist, like it's only white kids or something. There's a whole bunch of that going on here.

00:52:20.580 --> 00:52:24.920
But it's like, Josh, take this picture as just one instance. It's a bunch of young, successful,

00:52:26.960 --> 00:52:34.100
at a trendy cocktail party, and I guess if that's cruel, celebrating the dawn of a new

00:52:34.100 --> 00:52:41.160
administration, a new America, I guess cry harder libs as my instant reaction.

00:52:41.560 --> 00:52:44.080
What do you make of this, and what does this tell us?

00:52:45.560 --> 00:52:52.580
Well, first of all, Andrew, I'm pretty sure they did do exactly that, which you said they did, which is that they cropped out this photo they edited it.

00:52:52.720 --> 00:52:56.680
They photoshopped it to make it look just more monolithically white than it is there.

00:52:57.160 --> 00:53:06.760
But, you know, I think a normal American looks at this photo, whether it's been photoshopped or cropped or edited or not, and says, oh, wow, these are a bunch of, like, pretty...

00:53:06.910 --> 00:53:12.890
Good-looking young people having a great time. They're dressed nicely there. They're clanking their glasses. They're saying cheers there

00:53:12.890 --> 00:53:15.990
I'm sorry. I'm not seeing anything wrong with this picture, Andrew

00:53:15.990 --> 00:53:20.750
I'm just I'm simply just not seeing anything and I think what kind of the broader point is getting at here

00:53:21.200 --> 00:53:23.630
This is a point that I've made actually for a few years now

00:53:24.120 --> 00:53:26.860
I think this is part of the left's war on fun.

00:53:26.980 --> 00:53:29.520
I actually literally call the war on fun.

00:53:29.980 --> 00:53:31.920
You know, whether it's trying to call you a scold

00:53:31.920 --> 00:53:35.420
for driving in a gas guzzling pickup truck or an SUV,

00:53:35.880 --> 00:53:37.480
whether they're calling you a bad person

00:53:37.480 --> 00:53:39.120
for wanting to have numerous kids,

00:53:39.560 --> 00:53:41.480
you know, that whole be fruitful and multiply thing

00:53:41.480 --> 00:53:42.600
right there from the book of Genesis,

00:53:42.800 --> 00:53:45.000
God forbid you actually take God at his word

00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:47.300
and have three, four, five, you know,

00:53:47.400 --> 00:53:50.080
God knows how many children who are gonna consume oxygen

00:53:50.080 --> 00:53:52.100
and spit out carbon dioxide, you know,

00:53:53.550 --> 00:53:58.090
person, like they definitely hate that, Andrew. You know, God forbid you actually teach your

00:53:58.090 --> 00:54:02.330
children about religion, about the Bible, about the things that actually built this country,

00:54:02.350 --> 00:54:06.250
about the Founding Fathers, about the Constitutional Convention. You can't have any of that either

00:54:06.250 --> 00:54:11.910
there. I mean, the left has become just these pearl clutching bunch of overtly

00:54:17.680 --> 00:54:21.640
who is more successful than them that obviously gets back to the roots of socialism and Marxism

00:54:21.640 --> 00:54:26.320
is this whole idea of envy and class envy and individual envy that's definitely part of this

00:54:26.320 --> 00:54:31.960
as well there but they're just fundamentally just a bunch of just a red tag and frankly Andrew if

00:54:31.960 --> 00:54:36.140
I'm just being very blunt for a second here you know I was looking at this at this rally on the eve

00:54:36.140 --> 00:54:40.500
of the inauguration the left-wing rally there with kind of those pink hats whatever the women's

00:54:42.240 --> 00:54:43.380
a bunch of ugly people.

00:54:43.700 --> 00:54:45.140
I mean, I'm probably gonna get in trouble for saying that there,

00:54:45.220 --> 00:54:46.500
but like, these are just typically,

00:54:46.660 --> 00:54:47.580
obviously they're exceptions,

00:54:47.940 --> 00:54:49.760
but a bunch of like very ugly people, honestly.

00:54:50.680 --> 00:54:52.740
Josh, I mean, think about it, you know,

00:54:52.860 --> 00:54:55.320
and I think Matt Walsh made this point on Twitter.

00:54:55.580 --> 00:54:59.800
We like Matt a lot, and he had a great role to play

00:54:59.800 --> 00:55:02.680
in, you know, just his film and so many other things.

00:55:03.060 --> 00:55:05.780
But what reads is left wing now,

00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:07.720
besides like a bunch of purple haired,

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you know, nose piercing, you know,

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many obese or at least overweight young people screaming about some

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Injustice that they've invented it in a college laboratory

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I mean literally if young kids having fun if young kids, you know wearing a flannel and in the country

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You know listening country music what whatever I mean

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We are the fun movement and this it's a very fascinating point Josh and we'll throw back to you for 30 seconds to react

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You know

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It seemed like in 2008, this cultural ascendancy of the left

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promised all of these things, but failed to deliver.

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Instead, it delivered this dystopian, puritanical,

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scolding from the left about these invented injustices.

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And this movement, I believe, can actually

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deliver on the promise of lifting everybody

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and having fun.

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Final reaction, Josh Hammer.

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Well, you're totally right to take it back to 2008.

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I mean, that's where I started in my cold civil wars over op-ed, too,

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because it does go back to Barack Obama and his 2008 campaign.

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Andrew, if the left is going to have any chance of recovering,

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and thank God it's not my problem.

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I'm a man of the right, obviously.

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But if the left is going to have any chance of recovering here, Andrew,

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they have to disavow the entirety of the Barack Obama legacy

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and his post-presidential legacy.

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They need to go back to the old Democratic Party of Bill Clinton

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and his predecessors who, whatever their flaws were,

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not this woke breath.

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I agree.

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Josh Hammer, good man, follow him, follow his stuff.

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Caroline Levitt's press conference coming up next.

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the state of gratitude, and our posture before the election was the same as it is now. In

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one sense, God, what is your will? If your will is to see this country go into the judgment

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that we deserve, then we will praise you. Exactly. I don't know if you guys heard that

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or not, but as soon as I said judgment, some sort of oxygen tank exploded or something.

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And so, yeah, I mean, I just say thank you, and...

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Look, I I'm actually excited for off-election years because I love reading. I love studying

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I can finally get back to my hundred books a year

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Kind of got off that this last year because I was just too busy

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Reading the news and looking at polling and turnout data and precinct by precinct modeling and you're still listening to Prager

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I was still listening to pray by the way

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Can we all just say a prayer for Dennis Prager right now an American hero that I don't know if you guys notice or not

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But Dennis is hospitalized in a very serious condition

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And I can't say more than that, but Dennis is in a very serious circumstance right now

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and deserves our prayers that God might heal him and God might bring him back to this stage

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right here on America Fest at some point, because we need Dennis Prager in this country.

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Dennis Prager is an American hero, but you're right, I continued listening to Dennis and

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Larry Arndt, that is for sure.

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to being an incredible mother and phenomenal wife.

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She also runs a ministry in her spare time

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that helps you read the entire Bible in one year.

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You know what I'm talking about? It is called Bible in three six five dot com write it down go to the website right now

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Honestly, take out your phone. It is Bible in three sixty five dot com

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What she does is she makes it so easy for you to read the entire Bible in one year

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She will text you the verses she will email the verses and honestly if you've never read the Bible

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You should go read every single word of the word of God.

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It will change your life.

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It will heal you.

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It will challenge you.

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It will deepen you.

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And she will do it in micro bits of how do you do it?

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Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs, right?

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It's only about seven minutes.

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It's Bible in 365.com.

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It's free of charge.

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How many people have gone through it?

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We have over 180,000 that have gone through the program since

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180,000 people.

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Isn't that amazing?

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that have gone through the Bible in one year.

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Lives have changed, people have given their lives to Christ,

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marriages have been formed through it.

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Marriages have been formed through it, yes.

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But also too, I tell Charlie all the time, I'm like,

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look at this, because we get prayer reports

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and prayer requests, praise reports.

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And we get some that are like, thank you so much for...

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having this and I look at him and I'm like this is what it's all about like we get to be a part of

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people's faith journey that's so special I love it but no it's thank you it's a fun it's a fun

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minister and and the ministry is growing and she also runs proclaimed streetwear which is the best

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christian clothing line in the country they have a booth out there that you can support so she's

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an entrepreneur as much as anything else but I highly encourage you guys bible in 365.com tell

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That's in a very brief spark notes version. I started for the first time 2016

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I was like, you know what? I need to read the Bible cover. I never have before and I created a program and I was like

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I don't know who's gonna do it with me. So I asked one of my friends just to join me and she was very sweet

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She's my accountability partner and

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Every day we would check in what did you learn today? What did you know?

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Which commentary did you use for this?

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And we just kept diving deeper.

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And anyways, at the end of that, almost towards the end of that,

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unfortunately, my grandfather had passed away.

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And that was a very, it was a very rough moment for me

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because I loved him so much.

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And so once I read the full Bible in a year, I just prayed on.

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you know God what what direction do you want to take this and long story short I'm not going to

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get into the deep details of it but that's when proclaim was born that's when Jess and I decided

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we should invite a few more peoples we just invited

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You know the handful people that are in our community and our friends and then it just grew from such a small little and that's what's so beautiful is when you have those small little home groups or those little communities, accountability communities and then have it watch grow from there is really, really special.

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I mean, it's not me or anything. It's all God's God's hand. So I take no credit as we close here. Any final messages for the attendees here, the pastors here on faith night.

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That's tough because I feel like, and just like you,

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we have been given such a beautiful blessing

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on a platter, like on a silver platter,

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and it's up to us.

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to really just continue to build and be leaders and know that like we obviously were made for such a time as this but truly just own it and and be out there be the hands and the feet don't be afraid to talk about your faith be bold don't be afraid to say yes okay you voted for

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Donald Trump but more importantly you're a Christian and you're here for a purpose and like I say like your role is to make heaven crowded.

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That's why you're here.

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We're just here recruiting.

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I say that all the time.

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But your role is to make Heaven crowded.

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And so just for some encouragement, thank you.

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I mean, honestly, you guys being here is a huge testament.

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But just thank you for supporting my husband

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and being there for him and all of the members

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for the members only for Charlie's podcast.

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Thank you for supporting that because behind the scenes,

01:02:47.700 --> 01:02:51.340
I get to see the team get so excited when new members sign up

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and just to be able to see your support for his podcast

01:02:54.620 --> 01:02:56.040
and for his radio show.

01:02:56.620 --> 01:02:59.880
As a wife, I mean, I can't even put that into words.

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So truly from the bottom of my heart,

01:03:01.520 --> 01:03:03.980
thank you for being the reason why Amfest

01:03:03.980 --> 01:03:06.360
and Turning Point USA and my husband

01:03:06.360 --> 01:03:07.980
and the way they've been able to build things.

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Thank you for being a part of that.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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It is so great to be here with you all.

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This is literally insane.

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I'm so, so happy.

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I have wanted to speak at a ZPUSA conference for ages,

01:03:29.570 --> 01:03:31.410
and I'm so happy to be with you all now.

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But we have been listening to some absolutely legendary speakers this week on Trump, on

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our future, on DEI, on immigration, on gender identity politics, but for the next 10 minutes

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I want to talk directly about you guys because you are the foundation of our culture.

01:03:53.470 --> 01:03:56.310
Now, you're very important, you're super important.

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Now to just backtrack a bit for those of you who might not know this story

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Funny story a bit

01:04:05.560 --> 01:04:12.000
Three years ago. I attended TPUSA is YWLS as my first ever political event

01:04:12.000 --> 01:04:17.160
So to be on stage now with you literally just three years later is very very surreal

01:04:17.160 --> 01:04:21.320
I'm incredibly honored to be here and it feels so full circle because

01:04:22.710 --> 01:04:30.950
TPUSA came into my life, you know, during COVID, during 2020 at a time when so many of us felt isolated and lonely.

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You know, I had been effectively canceled by all of my friends.

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I had left my sorority due to the rabid politics, and I wasn't working in Hollywood after 10 years because I refused the vaccine.

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And one day after seeing a video that I did, whoo, yeah.

01:04:53.630 --> 01:04:58.970
But one day, after watching a video that I had done for PragerU, this random girl slid into my DMs.

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She said, number one, I think that we'll be best friends.

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Number two, would you please come to YWLS with me?

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And obviously, at that point in my life, I had nothing left to lose.

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I was like, I don't even know what I'm getting into.

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So I went and thank God I did.

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Because these events, what you guys are doing today,

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They gave me my best friends like that girl, but they more importantly actually not more importantly equal importance

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They gave me

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the confidence and the tools to get in the fight.

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And like so many of you guys,

01:05:30.560 --> 01:05:32.760
I just absolutely threw myself in.

01:05:32.860 --> 01:05:35.420
And it is not uncommon in this room with you guys

01:05:35.420 --> 01:05:37.660
and the amazing speakers that have been here this week.

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But I spent every single day over the last four years

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thinking about the 2024 election

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and working towards trying to change our culture.

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I mean, within months of YWL,

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I was already working for PragerU.

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I was working for Young Americans for Liberty.

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I was writing for, whoo, amazing!

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I was writing for the Foundation for Economic Education.

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I had gotten into law school.

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Thank God I didn't go.

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That would have been terrible for me.

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But I ended up moving to Nashville

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where I launched the comment section.

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But I...

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Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. Caroline Levitt has just taken the podium inside the

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Brady Briefing Room hearing reports that it is jam-packed. Let's go ahead and take this feed.

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CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Homeland Security Secretary Christine Noem,

01:07:06.500 --> 01:07:11.660
and Treasury Secretary Scott Besant. It is imperative that the Senate continues to

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confirm the remainder of the president's well-qualified nominees as quickly as possible.

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As you have seen during the past week, President Trump is hard at work fulfilling the promises

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that he made to the American people on the campaign trail.

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Since taking the oath of office, President Trump has taken more than 300 executive actions,

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secured nearly $1 trillion in U.S. investments, deported illegal alien rapists, gang members,

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and suspected terrorists from our homeland, and restored common sense to the federal government.

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I want to take a moment to go through some of these extraordinary actions.

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On day one, President Trump declared a national emergency at our southern border to end the

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four-year-long invasion of illegal aliens under the previous administration.

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Additionally, President Trump signed an executive order to end catch-and-release and finish construction

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of his effective border wall.

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By using every lever of his federal power,

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President Trump has sent a loud and clear message

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to the entire world.

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America will no longer tolerate illegal immigration,

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and this president expects that every nation on this planet

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will cooperate with the repatriation of their citizens.

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As proven by this weekend, when President Trump swiftly directed his team to issue harsh

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and effective sanctions and tariffs on the Colombian government, upon hearing they were

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denied a U.S. military aircraft full of their own citizens who were deported by this administration.

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Within hours, the Colombian government agreed to all of President Trump's demands, proving

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America is once again respected on the world stage.

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So, to foreign nationals who are thinking about trying to illegally enter the United

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States, think again.

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Under this President, you will be detained and you will be deported.

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Every day, Americans are safer because of the violent criminals that President Trump's

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administration is removing from our communities.

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On January 23rd, ICE New York arrested a Turkish national for entry without inspection

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On January 23rd, ICE San Francisco arrested a citizen of Mexico unlawfully present in

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the United States who has been convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a child aged 14

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years or younger.

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ICE St. Paul has arrested a citizen of Honduras who was convicted of fourth-degree criminal

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sexual conduct with a minor.

01:09:56.200 --> 01:10:01.780
ICE Boston arrested a citizen of the Dominican Republic who has a criminal conviction for

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second-degree murder.

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This criminal was convicted of murder for beating his pregnant wife to death in front

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of her five-year-old son.

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And ICE St. Paul also arrested a citizen of Mexico who was convicted of possessing pornographic

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material of a minor on a work computer.

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These are the heinous individuals that this administration is removing from American communities every single day and to the brave

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state and local law enforcement officers, CBP and ICE agents who are helping in the

01:10:31.850 --> 01:10:34.110
facilitation of this deportation operation.

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President Trump has your back and he is grateful for your hard work.

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On the economic front, President Trump took immediate action to lower costs for families

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who are suffering from four long years of the Biden administration's destructive and

01:10:50.820 --> 01:10:52.020
inflationary policies.

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President Trump ordered the heads of all executive departments and agencies to help

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deliver emergency price relief to the American people, untangle our economy from Biden's

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regulatory constraints, and end the reckless war on American energy.

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President Trump also signed sweeping executive orders to end the weaponization of government

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and restore common sense to the federal bureaucracy.

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He directed all federal agencies to terminate illegal diversity, equity, and inclusion programs

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to help return America to a merit-based society.

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President Trump also signed an executive order declaring it is now the policy of the federal

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government that there are only two sexes, male and female.

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Sanity has been restored.

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Before I take your questions, I would like to point out to all of you once again have

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access to the most transparent and accessible President in American history.

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There has never been a president who communicates with the American people

01:11:54.150 --> 01:12:01.430
and the American press corps as openly and authentically as the 45th and now 47th

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president of the United States. This past week President Trump has held

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multiple news conferences, gaggled on Air Force One multiple times, and sat down

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for a two-part interview on Fox News which aired last week. As Politico

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And that's because President Trump has a great story to tell about the legendary American

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revival that is well underway.

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And in keeping with this revolutionary media approach that President Trump deployed during

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the campaign, the Trump White House will speak to all media outlets and personalities, not

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just the legacy media who are seated in this room.

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Because according to recent polling from Gallup, Americans' trust in mass media has fallen

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to a record low.

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Millions of Americans, especially young people, have turned from traditional television outlets

01:12:56.670 --> 01:13:02.770
and newspapers to consume their news from podcasts, blogs, social media, and other independent

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outlets.

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It's essential to our team that we share President Trump's message everywhere and adapt this

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White House to the new media landscape in 2025.

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To do this, I am excited to announce the following changes will be made to this historic James

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S. Brady briefing room, where Mr. Brady's legacy will endure.

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This White House believes strongly in the First Amendment, so it's why our team will

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work diligently to restore the press passes of the 440 journalists whose passes were wrongly

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revoked by the previous administration.

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We're also opening up this briefing room to new media voices who produce news-related

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content and whose outlet is not already represented by one of the seats in this room.

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We welcome independent journalists, podcasters, social media influencers, and content creators

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to apply for credentials to cover this White House.

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And you can apply now on our new website, whitehouse.gov, slash new media.

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Starting today, this seat in the front of the room, which is usually occupied by the

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My team will review the applications and give credentials to new media applicants who meet

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our criteria in past United States Secret Service requirements to enter the White House complex.

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So in light of these announcements, our first questions for today's briefing will go to

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these new media members, whose outlets, despite being some of the most viewed news websites

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in the country, have not been given seats in this room.

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And before I turn to questions, I do have news directly from the President of the United

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States that was just shared with me in the Oval Office from President Trump directly,

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an update on the New Jersey drones.

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After research and study, the drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers

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were authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and various other reasons.

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recreational and private individuals that enjoy flying Jones.

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In meantime, in time, it got worse due to curiosity.

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This was not the enemy.

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a statement from the President of the United States

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to start this briefing with some news.

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And with that, I will turn it over to questions.

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And we will begin with our new media members,

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Mike Allen from Axios, Matt Boyle from Breitbart.

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Mike, why don't you go ahead?

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Thank you very much.

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Caroline, does the President see anything fishy

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about a deep sea,

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either its origins or its cost?

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And could China's ability to make these models quicker

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generation data centers? Sure the president was asked about deep-seek last night on Air Force One

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when he gaggled for I think the third or fourth time throughout the weekend with members of the

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traveling press corps. The president said that he believes that this is a wake-up call to the

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American AI industry. The last administration sat on their hands and allowed China to rapidly

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develop this AI program and so President Trump believes in restoring American AI dominance and

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We took very strong executive action this past week to sign executive orders to roll

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back some of the onerous regulations on the AI industry.

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Alright everybody, as Caroline Levitt continues, we'll take it for the stream, radio will be

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right back.

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looking into what those may be, and when I have an update, I will share it with you,

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Mike.

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Caroline, you say restore U.S. dominance.

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Is there a fear that the U.S. either is falling or has fallen behind?

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And how would the President make sure U.S. stays ahead?

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First of all, thank you to you and President Trump

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for actually giving voices to new media outlets

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that represent millions and millions of Americans.

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The thing I've got a two-part question for you.

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The first is, can you expand upon what steps

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the White House is going to take

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to bring more voices, not less,

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which is what our founder, Andrew Breypart,

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believed in into this room, where they rightly belong?

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Yeah.

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Absolutely. And as I said in my opening statement, Matt, it is a priority of this White House

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to honor the First Amendment. And it is a fact that Americans are consuming their news media

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from various different platforms, especially young people. And as the youngest Press Secretary

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in history, thanks to President Trump, I take great pride in opening up this room to new media

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voices to share the President's message with as many Americans as possible. In doing so,

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part, which are widely respected and viewed outlets, have an actual seat in this room

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every day.

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We also, again, encourage anybody in this country, whether you are a TikTok content

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creator, a blogger, a podcaster, if you are producing legitimate news content, no matter

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the medium, you will be allowed to apply for press credentials to this White House.

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And so we encourage people to apply, again, as long as you are creating news-related content

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of the day and you're a legitimate independent journalist, you're welcome to cover this White

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House.

01:18:34.160 --> 01:18:37.420
And secondly, Caroline, you said – you laid out several of the actions that President

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Trump has taken, obviously it's a stark contrast to the previous administration of break-back

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speed from President Trump.

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Can we expect that pace to continue as the first 100 days moves along here and beyond

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that?

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Absolutely.

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There is no doubt President Trump has always been the hardest working man in politics.

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I think that's been proven over the past week.

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This president has again signed more than 300 executive orders.

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He's taken historic action.

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I gaggle the board Air Force One to mark the first 100 days of this administration, 4 p.m.

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last Friday, or first 100 hours, rather.

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And this president did more in the first 100 hours than the previous president did in the

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first 100 days.

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to work at this breakneck speed so I hope you're all ready to work very hard. I know that we are.

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Seek Miller. Thanks Caroline. A question that we've asked your predecessors of both parties in

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this job. When you're up here in this briefing room speaking to the American public, do you view

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yourself and your role as speaking and advocating on behalf of the President or providing the unvarnished

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to the American people.

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I commit to telling the truth from this podium every single day.

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I commit to speaking on behalf of the President of the United States.

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That is my job.

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And I will say it's very easy to speak truth from this podium

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when you have a President who is implementing policies

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that are wildly popular with the American people,

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and that's exactly what this administration is doing.

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It's correcting the lies and the wrongs of the past four years,

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many of the lies that have been told to your faces

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in this very briefing room.

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I will not do that.

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But since you brought up truth-seek,

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I would like to point out,

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while I vow to provide the truth from this podium,

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we ask that all of you in this room

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hold yourselves to that same standard.

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We know for a fact there have been lies

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that have been pushed by many legacy media outlets

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in this country about this President, about his family,

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and we will not accept that.

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We will call you out when we feel that your reporting

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is wrong or there is misinformation about this White House.

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So yes, I will hold myself to the truth.

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and I expect everyone in this room to do the same.

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And Caroline, just on a substantive question.

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Yesterday, the White House Office of Management

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budget directed across the board,

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freeze, except for individual assistance,

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we understand, to federal grants.

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It's caused a lot of confusion around the country.

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Head start providers, services to homeless veterans,

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Medicaid provider states saying they're having trouble

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accessing the portal.

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Can you help us clear up some of the confusion,

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to folks and also is that uncertainty how does that uncertainty service the

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president's voters well I think there's only uncertainty in this room amongst

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the media there's no uncertainty in this building so let me provide the

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certainty and the clarity that all of you need this is not a blanket pause on

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federal assistance and grant programs from the Trump administration

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individual assistance. That includes, I'm not naming everything that's included, but just to

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give you a few examples, social security benefits, Medicare benefits, food stamps, welfare benefits,

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assistance that is going directly to individuals will not be impacted by this pause. And I want

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to make that very clear to any Americans who are watching at home who may be a little bit

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All right, welcome back to Charlie Kerr's show,

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Andrew Colvin in for Charlie Kerr.

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Caroline Levitt continues her press briefing.

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She's making major news, including

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about who from the new media is going

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to be allowed inside the briefing room, about drones,

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so much more.

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We'll have analysis on the other side.

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More Caroline Levitt.

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Executive order direct.

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O&B to do just this. And the reason for this is to ensure that every penny that is going out the

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door is not conflicting with the executive orders and actions that this president has taken. So what

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does this pause mean? It means no more funding for illegal DEI programs. It means no more funding

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for the Green New Scam that has cost American taxpayers tens of billions of dollars. It means

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no more funding for transgenderism and wokeness across our federal bureaucracy and agencies.

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no more funding for Green New Deal social engineering policies.

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Again, people who are receiving individual assistance,

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you will continue to receive that.

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And President Trump is looking out for you by issuing this pause

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because he is being good steward of your taxpayer dollars.

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Thanks Caroline.

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Sure.

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How long is this pause going to last?

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And how is the Trump administration recommending

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that organizations that rely on federal funding

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make payroll, pay their rent in the meantime?

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It is a temporary pause in the Office of Management and Budget is reviewing the federal funding

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that has been going out the door. Again, not for individual assistance, but for all of these

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other programs that I mentioned. I also spoke with the incoming director of OMB this morning,

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and he told me to tell all of you that the line to his office is open for other federal government

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agencies across the board. And if they feel that programs are necessary and in line with the

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budget will review those policies. I think this is a very responsible measure. Again,

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the past four years we've seen the Biden administration spend money like drunken sailors. It's a big

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reason we've had an inflation crisis in this country and it's incumbent upon this administration

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to make sure again that every penny is being accounted for honestly.

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Why oppose this pause with so little notice? Why not give organizations more time to plan

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funding?

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Are these for a period of time?

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There was notice.

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It was the executive order that the President signed.

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There's also a freeze on hiring, as you know, a regulatory freeze, and there's also a freeze

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on foreign aid.

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And this is, again, incredibly important to ensure that this administration is taking

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into consideration how hard the American people are working.

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And their tax dollars actually matter to this administration.

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million dollars that was about to go out the door to the World Health Organization, which

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is an organization, as you all know, that President Trump, with the swipe of his pen

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in that executive order, is no longer wants the United States to be a part of.

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So that wouldn't be in line with the President's agenda.

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Doge and OMB also found that there was about to be 50 million taxpayer dollars that went

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out the door to fund condoms in Gaza.

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That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money.

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dollars. It doesn't affect meals on wheels for Head Start or disaster aid. Again, it does not

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affect individual assistance that's going to Americans. To follow up on Nancy, do you think

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there'll be a list of who is affected and how much money is affected? How will these contractors

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and organizations know if they are actually having their funding frozen? And then secondly,

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if you're willing. Can you just clarify, is the end goal of this to essentially challenge

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Congress or to prove that the President can withhold federal funding? In other words,

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is this an attempt to pick a fight to prove that he can do this?

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No, absolutely not. As it says right here in the memo, which I have and I'd encourage all of you

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to read it, it says the American people elected President Trump to be the President of the United

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and gave him a mandate to increase the impact of every federal dollar.

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This memo requires federal agencies to identify and review all federal financial assistance

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programs and supporting activities consistent with the President's policies and requirements.

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The American people gave President Trump an overwhelming mandate on November 5th,

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and he's just trying to ensure that the tax money going out the door in this

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very bankrupt city actually aligns with the will and the priorities of the American people.

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You look great, you're doing a great job.

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You talked about transparency.

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And some of us in this room know how just transparent

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President Trump has been the last five or six years.

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I think you'll do the same.

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My question is, do you think this latest incident

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with the President of Columbia is indicative

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of the global powerful respect they have

01:26:54.580 --> 01:26:56.380
for President Trump moving forward,

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not only to engage in economic diplomacy

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with these countries, but also,

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world peace

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Absolutely. I'll echo the answer that the President gave on Air Force One last night

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when he was asked a very similar question by one of your colleagues in the media.

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This signifies peace through strength is back. And this President will not tolerate

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illegal immigration into America's interior. And he expects every nation on this planet,

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again, to cooperate with the repatriation of their citizens who illegally entered into

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And as you saw, the Colombian government quickly folded and agreed to all of President Trump's

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demands.

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Flights are underway once again.

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All right, Caroline Levitt, really a phenomenal showing, her first press conference, a whole

01:27:49.690 --> 01:27:53.250
new press conference, whole new press corps, whole new rules, lots of news being made.

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We're going to cover it more in the break, and we'll be back.

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John Eastman at some point.

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We'll see when we're able to get him on.

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Hang tight.

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Can I have some of these?

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The President is open to deporting individuals

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who have broken our nation's immigration laws.

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So if they are here illegally,

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then certainly he is open to deporting them.

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And that's what this administration

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is hard at work at doing.

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We receive data from DHS and from ICE every single day.

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From what we hear on the ground,

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ICE agents are feeling incredibly empowered right now

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because they actually have a leader in this building

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who is supporting them in doing their jobs

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that they were hired to do,

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and deport illegal criminals who have invaded our

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nation's borders over the past four years.

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That's what the President is committed to seeing.

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Peter.

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The Press.

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Just very quickly, just following up on the

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question on immigration.

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First, President Trump, during the course of the

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campaign in 2024, said the following about

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illegal immigration.

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He said, they're going back home where they belong,

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and we start with the criminals.

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There are many, many criminals.

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NBC News has learned that ICE arrested 1,179 undocumented

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immigrants on Sunday, but nearly half of them,

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no prior criminal record besides entering the country illegally.

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Is the president still focused exclusively,

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which is a civil crime, it's not criminal.

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It's federal crime.

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So I'm asking though, he said he was gonna focus

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on those violent offenders first.

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So his violent offenders no longer.

01:29:31.370 --> 01:29:33.230
the predicate for these people to be deported.

01:29:33.290 --> 01:29:36.250
The President has said countless times on the campaign trail.

01:29:36.410 --> 01:29:37.410
I've been with him at the rallies.

01:29:37.570 --> 01:29:39.210
I know you've been there covering them, too, Peter,

01:29:39.650 --> 01:29:42.770
that he is focused on launching the largest mass deportation

01:29:42.770 --> 01:29:45.630
operation in American history of illegal criminals.

01:29:46.030 --> 01:29:48.190
And if you are an individual, a foreign national,

01:29:48.490 --> 01:29:50.590
who illegally enters the United States of America,

01:29:50.950 --> 01:29:52.530
you are, by definition, a criminal.

01:29:52.810 --> 01:29:54.750
And so therefore, you are subject to deportation.

01:29:54.870 --> 01:29:55.670
I apologize for interrupting.

01:29:55.830 --> 01:29:57.650
So to be clear, it's not that violent criminals

01:29:57.650 --> 01:29:59.370
do not receive precedence in terms

01:30:00.650 --> 01:30:03.230
The President has also said two things can be true at the same time.

01:30:03.370 --> 01:30:07.190
We want to deport illegal criminals, illegal immigrants from this country, but the President

01:30:07.190 --> 01:30:14.070
has said that, of course, the illegal criminal drug dealers, the rapists, the murderers,

01:30:14.150 --> 01:30:19.070
the individuals who have committed heinous acts on the interior of our country and who

01:30:19.070 --> 01:30:24.050
have terrorized law-abiding American citizens, absolutely those should be the priority of

01:30:24.050 --> 01:30:24.270
ICE.

01:30:24.390 --> 01:30:27.590
But that doesn't mean that the other illegal criminals who entered our nation's borders

01:30:27.590 --> 01:30:28.630
are off the table.

01:30:29.870 --> 01:30:33.770
question about the confusion that still exists across the country right now as it relates to the

01:30:34.140 --> 01:30:36.160
the freeze or the pause, as it's described.

01:30:36.840 --> 01:30:39.300
President Trump, of course, ran one of the key policy items,

01:30:39.380 --> 01:30:41.260
was that he was going to lower prices, lower the cost of

01:30:41.260 --> 01:30:43.500
everything from groceries, as he often said.

01:30:44.060 --> 01:30:46.440
But in many of the cases, it would seem that some of these

01:30:46.440 --> 01:30:49.120
moves could raise prices for real Americans.

01:30:49.260 --> 01:30:51.720
And everything from low income heating, that program,

01:30:51.900 --> 01:30:54.640
childcare programs, will nothing that the President's

01:30:54.640 --> 01:30:56.760
doing here, in terms of the freeze in these programs,

01:30:57.180 --> 01:30:59.260
raise prices on ordinary Americans.

01:30:59.950 --> 01:31:03.190
particular actions are you referring to that would reference L. Heap right now

01:31:03.190 --> 01:31:06.650
that's the low-income heating program for example we can talk about there's no

01:31:06.650 --> 01:31:08.830
clarity so I could refer to a lot of them we don't know what they are

01:31:08.830 --> 01:31:12.350
specifically can you tell us that L. Heap the lie heap is not one of those

01:31:12.350 --> 01:31:16.470
affected so you're asking a hypothetical based on programs that you can't even

01:31:16.470 --> 01:31:20.230
identify what I can tell you just be just there since you guys haven't

01:31:20.230 --> 01:31:23.970
identified let's do it together just for Americans at home Medicaid is that

01:31:23.970 --> 01:31:24.330
affected

01:31:24.840 --> 01:31:27.640
I gave you a list of examples, social security,

01:31:27.960 --> 01:31:31.460
Medicare, welfare benefits of food stamps

01:31:31.460 --> 01:31:34.260
that will not be impacted by this federal pause.

01:31:34.420 --> 01:31:36.100
I can get you the full list after this briefing

01:31:36.100 --> 01:31:37.500
from the Office of Management and Budget.

01:31:37.820 --> 01:31:39.840
But I do want to address the cost-cutting

01:31:39.840 --> 01:31:41.660
because that's certainly very important

01:31:42.340 --> 01:31:44.960
and cutting the cost of living in this country.

01:31:45.700 --> 01:31:47.740
President Trump has taken historic action

01:31:47.740 --> 01:31:49.240
over the past week to do that.

01:31:49.620 --> 01:31:51.408
He actually signed a memorandum

01:31:54.390 --> 01:32:01.210
Which took a number of actions. I can walk you through those. He also repealed many honoris biden administration

01:32:01.732 --> 01:32:06.710
Regulations we know over the past four years American households has been essentially taxed

01:32:06.710 --> 01:32:12.570
$55,000 in regulations from the previous administration president trump with the swipe of his pen

01:32:12.570 --> 01:32:16.830
Rescinded those which will ultimately put more money back in the pockets of the American people

01:32:16.830 --> 01:32:20.730
So deregulation is a big deal and then when it comes to energy

01:32:20.730 --> 01:32:23.510
I mean the president signed an executive order to declare a

01:32:23.560 --> 01:32:25.620
national energy emergency here at home,

01:32:25.860 --> 01:32:27.680
which is going to make America energy dominant.

01:32:27.880 --> 01:32:31.000
We know that energy is one of the number one drivers

01:32:31.000 --> 01:32:33.740
of inflation, and so that's why the President

01:32:33.740 --> 01:32:35.280
wants to increase our energy supply

01:32:35.280 --> 01:32:36.580
to bring down costs for Americans.

01:32:36.800 --> 01:32:38.540
The Trump energy boom is incoming,

01:32:38.920 --> 01:32:40.220
and Americans can expect that.

01:32:40.320 --> 01:32:40.740
Please shut up.

01:32:41.120 --> 01:32:41.500
Thank you.

01:32:42.140 --> 01:32:43.480
Caroline, I think some of the confusion,

01:32:43.600 --> 01:32:45.860
I think, may be here with this pause on federal funding.

01:32:46.020 --> 01:32:47.900
You've made it clear you're not stopping funds

01:32:47.900 --> 01:32:49.240
that go directly to individuals,

01:32:49.340 --> 01:32:50.960
but there certainly are lots of organizations

01:32:52.780 --> 01:32:56.960
pass along a benefit. Meals on wheels for one. They provide meals for over 2.2

01:32:56.960 --> 01:33:00.980
million seniors. What is the President's message to Americans out there, many of

01:33:00.980 --> 01:33:04.920
whom supported him and voted for him, who are concerned that this is going to

01:33:04.920 --> 01:33:09.040
impact them directly, even if, as you said, the funding isn't coming directly to

01:33:09.040 --> 01:33:12.260
their level? I have now been asked and answered this question four times. To

01:33:12.260 --> 01:33:17.100
individuals at home who receive direct assistance from the federal government,

01:33:41.450 --> 01:33:47.770
All right, everybody. Caroline Levitt continues at the White House press podium. This is amazing

01:33:47.770 --> 01:33:52.650
content, so I want to go back to it right now. More Caroline Levitt, White House press briefing room.

01:33:53.500 --> 01:33:56.740
governments spending, which is exactly what the American people elected President Trump

01:33:56.740 --> 01:33:56.980
to do.

01:33:57.020 --> 01:33:58.780
And one question on immigration, Caroline, on immigration.

01:33:59.260 --> 01:33:59.360
Thank you.

01:33:59.360 --> 01:34:04.120
Of the 3,500 arrests ICE has made so far since President Trump came back into office, can

01:34:04.120 --> 01:34:05.060
you just tell us the numbers?

01:34:05.200 --> 01:34:08.920
How many have a criminal record versus those who are just in the country illegally?

01:34:09.300 --> 01:34:12.340
All of them, because they illegally broke our nation's laws and therefore they are

01:34:12.340 --> 01:34:14.160
criminals, as far as this administration goes.

01:34:14.300 --> 01:34:17.800
I know the last administration didn't see it that way, so it's a big culture shift in

01:34:17.800 --> 01:34:21.340
our nation to view someone who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal, but that's

01:34:21.340 --> 01:34:22.120
exactly what they are.

01:34:22.670 --> 01:34:23.810
I'm going with the worst worst.

01:34:24.130 --> 01:34:24.990
They all have a criminal record.

01:34:25.090 --> 01:34:25.750
And welcome to the bravery.

01:34:25.770 --> 01:34:27.410
If they broke our nation's laws, yes.

01:34:27.730 --> 01:34:28.310
They are criminal.

01:34:28.730 --> 01:34:28.810
Yes.

01:34:29.010 --> 01:34:29.310
Thank you.

01:34:29.830 --> 01:34:32.090
On stripping security details for figures

01:34:32.090 --> 01:34:35.870
like John Bolton, Pompeo, Brian Hook,

01:34:36.070 --> 01:34:38.790
Senator Tom Cotton said that he's seen the intelligence.

01:34:39.510 --> 01:34:42.030
And the threat from Iran is real for anyone

01:34:42.030 --> 01:34:44.510
who played a role in the Soleimani strike.

01:34:45.590 --> 01:34:47.170
He voiced concern it wouldn't just

01:34:47.170 --> 01:34:49.550
impact those individuals, potentially their family.

01:34:50.950 --> 01:34:54.110
innocent bystanders, friends, anyone who's near them when they're out in public.

01:34:54.930 --> 01:34:58.890
Is the president open to reconsidering his decision?

01:34:59.820 --> 01:35:01.940
The President was asked and answered this yesterday,

01:35:02.540 --> 01:35:04.060
and he was firm in his decision,

01:35:04.160 --> 01:35:05.980
despite some of the comments that you had referenced.

01:35:06.280 --> 01:35:08.440
And he's made it very clear that he does not believe

01:35:08.440 --> 01:35:10.700
American taxpayers should fund security details

01:35:10.700 --> 01:35:12.760
for individuals who have served in the government

01:35:12.760 --> 01:35:14.060
for the rest of their lives.

01:35:14.140 --> 01:35:15.920
And there's nothing stopping these individuals

01:35:15.920 --> 01:35:18.380
that you mentioned from obtaining private security.

01:35:18.580 --> 01:35:19.820
That's where the President stands on it.

01:35:19.900 --> 01:35:20.740
I have no updates on that.

01:35:20.780 --> 01:35:23.620
Is there any concern that this decision might...

01:35:25.030 --> 01:35:29.890
jeopardize the administration's ability to hire the best advisors for these

01:35:29.890 --> 01:35:31.570
kinds of positions in the future.

01:35:31.790 --> 01:35:34.890
No, in fact I've talked to the presidential personnel office who has told me

01:35:34.890 --> 01:35:39.270
directly that there is such an influx of resumes for this administration that

01:35:39.270 --> 01:35:42.270
it's incredibly overwhelming. There is no lack of talent for the Trump

01:35:42.270 --> 01:35:45.930
administration. Reagan, would you take any responsibility if anything happened to

01:35:45.930 --> 01:35:48.110
these people? Would he feel at all that his decision

01:35:48.730 --> 01:35:49.810
was a factor in that?

01:35:50.010 --> 01:35:51.510
The President was asked to answer this yesterday.

01:35:51.750 --> 01:35:52.210
I defer you to his colleagues.

01:35:52.210 --> 01:35:52.630
Thanks, Caroline.

01:35:53.270 --> 01:35:54.570
Reagan, since you're in the back row,

01:35:54.710 --> 01:35:57.050
I hear the back row hasn't gotten much attention

01:35:57.050 --> 01:35:59.210
in the last four years, so I'm happy to answer your question.

01:35:59.390 --> 01:36:00.070
And I can project.

01:36:01.070 --> 01:36:03.630
Does the President intend to permanently cut off funding

01:36:03.630 --> 01:36:06.470
to NGOs that are bringing illegal foreign nationals

01:36:06.470 --> 01:36:08.270
to the country, such as Catholic Charities?

01:36:09.110 --> 01:36:12.090
I am actually quite certain that the President signed

01:36:12.090 --> 01:36:13.730
an executive order that did just that,

01:36:13.810 --> 01:36:14.650
and I can point you to that.

01:36:14.990 --> 01:36:21.350
One more parallel. President Trump issued an executive order on increased vetting for refugees in visa applications.

01:36:22.370 --> 01:36:26.770
Part of that order was considering an outright ban for countries that have deficient screening processes.

01:36:27.400 --> 01:36:31.520
Has the President considered yet which countries might fall into this category, or countries

01:36:31.520 --> 01:36:34.500
like Afghanistan or Syria, under consideration for a full ban?

01:36:34.700 --> 01:36:39.940
Yeah, so the President signed an executive order to streamline the vetting for visa applicants

01:36:39.940 --> 01:36:44.040
and for illegal immigrants in this country who are coming, of course, from other nations.

01:36:44.440 --> 01:36:49.380
It also directed the Secretary of State to review the process and make sure that other

01:36:49.380 --> 01:36:54.480
countries around the world are being completely transparent with our nation and the individuals

01:36:54.480 --> 01:36:55.680
that they are sending here.

01:36:56.750 --> 01:37:00.490
The Secretary of State has been directed to report back to the President.

01:37:00.670 --> 01:37:01.790
I haven't seen that report yet.

01:37:01.930 --> 01:37:03.150
We've only been here for a few days.

01:37:03.510 --> 01:37:03.650
Thank you.

01:37:03.790 --> 01:37:04.230
My pleasure.

01:37:04.790 --> 01:37:10.290
One on the freeze in federal funding, who advised the President on the legality of telling

01:37:10.290 --> 01:37:13.830
government agencies that they don't have to spend money that was already appropriated

01:37:13.830 --> 01:37:14.410
by Congress?

01:37:14.950 --> 01:37:17.570
Well, as the OMB memo states, this is.

01:37:18.040 --> 01:37:24.740
Certainly within the confines of the law so White House counsel's office believes that this is within the president's power to do it

01:37:24.740 --> 01:37:25.980
And therefore he's doing it, okay

01:37:25.980 --> 01:37:30.600
So they disagree with lawmakers who say that they don't have the power to freeze this fight again

01:37:30.600 --> 01:37:34.020
I would point you to the language in the memo that clearly states. This is within the law

01:37:34.250 --> 01:37:37.990
And all that happened on Friday night, the administration fired several inspectors

01:37:37.990 --> 01:37:42.030
general without giving Congress the 30 day legally required notification that

01:37:42.030 --> 01:37:46.890
they were being fired. I think only two were left at DHS and the DOJ. And then

01:37:46.890 --> 01:37:50.990
yesterday we saw several prosecutors, I believe 12, fired from the Justice

01:37:50.990 --> 01:37:54.910
Department who worked on the investigations into the president. As you

01:37:54.910 --> 01:37:58.130
know, they are career prosecutors. Therefore, they are afforded civil

01:37:58.130 --> 01:37:59.150
service protections.

01:37:59.800 --> 01:38:02.720
How is the administration deciding which laws to follow

01:38:03.280 --> 01:38:04.440
and which ones to ignore?

01:38:04.980 --> 01:38:06.960
So it is the belief of this White House

01:38:06.960 --> 01:38:08.200
in the White House Council's office

01:38:08.200 --> 01:38:11.000
that the president was within his executive authority

01:38:11.440 --> 01:38:12.200
to do that.

01:38:12.360 --> 01:38:14.540
He is the executive of the executive branch

01:38:14.540 --> 01:38:16.620
and therefore he has the power to fire anyone

01:38:16.620 --> 01:38:19.400
within the executive branch that he wishes to.

01:38:19.840 --> 01:38:22.400
There's also a case that would before the Supreme Court

01:38:22.400 --> 01:38:25.500
in 2020, Scala Law LLC versus the customs,

01:38:27.630 --> 01:38:31.530
Bureau of Protection, I would advise you to look at that case, and that's the legality

01:38:31.530 --> 01:38:32.870
that this White House was wrestling on.

01:38:32.890 --> 01:38:36.590
So you're confident that if they bring lawsuits against you, the prosecutors who are fired,

01:38:36.610 --> 01:38:37.770
that they will succeed?

01:38:37.850 --> 01:38:38.530
We will win in court.

01:38:38.650 --> 01:38:42.730
And did he personally direct this, given they worked on the classified documents investigation

01:38:42.730 --> 01:38:44.690
and the election interference investigation?

01:38:45.070 --> 01:38:49.410
This was a memo that went out by the Presidential Personnel Office, and the President is the

01:38:49.410 --> 01:38:50.330
leader of this White House.

01:38:50.530 --> 01:38:50.750
So yes.

01:38:51.110 --> 01:38:51.870
Yes, Caroline.

01:38:52.050 --> 01:38:52.350
Hello.

01:38:53.010 --> 01:38:53.210
Caroline.

01:38:53.410 --> 01:38:53.550
Caroline.

01:38:53.930 --> 01:38:54.550
Thank you.

01:38:58.640 --> 01:39:04.920
President Trump ended funding for UNRWA and also designated the Houthi's a

01:39:04.920 --> 01:39:08.020
foreign terrorist organization. Both were decisions that the previous

01:39:08.020 --> 01:39:11.740
administration had reversed. So here's my question. Will there be an

01:39:11.740 --> 01:39:16.000
investigation into who gave the previous administration this terrible

01:39:16.000 --> 01:39:16.360
advice?

01:39:17.610 --> 01:39:18.470
That's a very good point.

01:39:18.630 --> 01:39:20.810
I haven't heard discussions about such an investigation,

01:39:20.810 --> 01:39:22.250
but it wouldn't be a bad idea,

01:39:22.290 --> 01:39:25.250
considering that the Houthis certainly are terrorists.

01:39:25.670 --> 01:39:29.890
They have launched attacks on US naval ships across this world.

01:39:30.050 --> 01:39:32.310
And so I think it was a very wise move

01:39:32.310 --> 01:39:34.330
by this administration to re-designate them

01:39:34.770 --> 01:39:36.250
as a terrorist group, because they are.

01:39:36.330 --> 01:39:37.730
And I think it was a foolish decision

01:39:37.730 --> 01:39:39.730
by the previous administration to do so,

01:39:39.810 --> 01:39:40.590
as for an investigation.

01:39:41.050 --> 01:39:42.890
I'm not sure about that, but it's not a bad idea.

01:39:43.250 --> 01:39:43.610
Josh.

01:39:44.050 --> 01:39:44.990
Thank you for the question.

01:39:45.150 --> 01:39:45.570
I appreciate it.

01:39:46.890 --> 01:39:50.990
plan for his tariff agenda. He spoke a lot about this yesterday and there's a

01:39:50.990 --> 01:39:54.730
couple of dates coming up that he's spoken to. Number one, February 1st, he's

01:39:54.730 --> 01:39:58.390
alluded to both the potential for tariff for Canada and Mexico, but also China to

01:39:58.390 --> 01:40:03.050
take effect on those days. Whereas, what's he thinking about that? Should those

01:40:03.050 --> 01:40:06.070
countries expect that? Again, he was asked and answered this question this past

01:40:06.070 --> 01:40:09.270
weekend when he took a lot of questions from the press and he said that the

01:40:09.270 --> 01:40:12.350
February 1st state for Canada and Mexico still holds.

01:40:12.880 --> 01:40:15.280
about the China 10% tariff that he also had used

01:40:15.280 --> 01:40:18.100
about last Tuesday going into effect on the same day.

01:40:18.180 --> 01:40:20.300
Yeah, the President has said that he is very much still

01:40:20.300 --> 01:40:21.800
considering that for February 1st.

01:40:21.840 --> 01:40:24.880
Yesterday he talked also about sectoral tariffs on,

01:40:24.900 --> 01:40:27.080
for instance, pharmaceuticals as well as semiconductor

01:40:27.080 --> 01:40:30.420
computer chips dumped with steel, aluminum, and copper.

01:40:30.620 --> 01:40:31.640
What's the timeline on those?

01:40:32.180 --> 01:40:34.220
Is that a similar sort of coming days thing?

01:40:34.660 --> 01:40:36.440
Yes, when the President talked about that in his speech

01:40:36.440 --> 01:40:38.380
yesterday, that actually wasn't a new announcement.

01:40:38.480 --> 01:40:40.780
That was within a presidential memorandum

01:40:42.190 --> 01:40:45.790
stays here in the White House on his America-first trade agenda.

01:40:46.090 --> 01:40:48.090
So there's more details on those tariffs in there.

01:40:48.170 --> 01:40:51.170
As far as a date, I don't have a specific date to read out to you,

01:40:51.170 --> 01:40:53.630
but the President is committed to implementing tariffs

01:40:53.630 --> 01:40:55.630
effectively just like he did in his first term.

01:40:55.850 --> 01:40:57.450
Finally, he also was asked on the plane

01:40:57.450 --> 01:41:00.490
when he gagged about the potential for a universal tariff.

01:41:00.570 --> 01:41:01.950
He was asked maybe about 2.5 percent.

01:41:02.130 --> 01:41:02.890
There was a report about that.

01:41:02.990 --> 01:41:04.830
He said he wanted much bigger than that.

01:41:04.930 --> 01:41:07.270
Should we understand that these tariffs would add up?

01:41:07.670 --> 01:41:10.070
You know, in other words, you might have country-specific tariffs

01:41:11.400 --> 01:41:17.180
might have sectoral tariffs like on pharmaceuticals as well as a potential universal tariff on

01:41:17.180 --> 01:41:17.700
top of that.

01:41:17.780 --> 01:41:20.400
Could be stacked on one or the other, or would one sort of?

01:41:20.860 --> 01:41:21.940
Take precedence over and up.

01:41:22.180 --> 01:41:24.560
All I can point you to is what the President has said on this front.

01:41:24.680 --> 01:41:26.560
The February 1st date for Canada in Mexico,

01:41:26.760 --> 01:41:29.220
also the China tariff that he has discussed.

01:41:29.400 --> 01:41:31.360
He rejected the 2.5 percent tariff.

01:41:31.440 --> 01:41:33.160
He said that was a little bit too low.

01:41:33.300 --> 01:41:34.200
He wants it to be higher.

01:41:34.600 --> 01:41:36.600
I'll leave it to him to make any decisions on that front.

01:41:37.060 --> 01:41:37.900
Bill, I'm in line.

01:41:38.060 --> 01:41:39.840
What the Mexicans and Canadians have done so far,

01:41:39.920 --> 01:41:41.620
do you have any comment on whether that has met the bar

01:41:41.620 --> 01:41:42.580
or what he wants to scour the front?

01:41:42.680 --> 01:41:43.100
No, thank you.

01:41:43.220 --> 01:41:46.520
I won't get ahead of the President again on...

01:41:47.150 --> 01:41:49.870
advocating to foreign nations on what they should

01:41:49.870 --> 01:41:52.350
or shouldn't do to get away from these tariffs.

01:41:52.490 --> 01:41:54.030
The President has made it very clear, again,

01:41:54.130 --> 01:41:56.750
that he expects every nation around this world

01:41:56.750 --> 01:41:59.430
to cooperate with the repatriation of their citizens.

01:41:59.590 --> 01:42:01.590
And the President has also put out specific statements

01:42:01.590 --> 01:42:04.510
in terms of Canada and Mexico when it comes

01:42:04.510 --> 01:42:06.570
to what he expects in terms of border security.

01:42:06.870 --> 01:42:09.450
We have seen a historic level of cooperation from Mexico,

01:42:09.510 --> 01:42:11.390
but, again, as far as I'm still tracking,

01:42:11.490 --> 01:42:13.450
and that was last night talking to the President directly,

01:42:13.750 --> 01:42:15.190
February 1st is still on the books.

01:42:15.690 --> 01:42:16.370
Thank you, Caroline.

01:42:16.710 --> 01:42:20.130
Quick programming note and then a question on taxes.

01:42:20.690 --> 01:42:21.910
Well, in terms of programming,

01:42:22.090 --> 01:42:23.990
should we expect to see you here every day?

01:42:24.230 --> 01:42:26.070
How frequently will these press meetings be?

01:42:26.310 --> 01:42:27.330
It is a good question, April.

01:42:27.530 --> 01:42:29.430
So, look, the President, as you know,

01:42:29.650 --> 01:42:30.970
is incredibly accessible.

01:42:31.390 --> 01:42:33.910
First day here, he wanted all of you in the Oval Office.

01:42:34.270 --> 01:42:35.850
You got a 60-minute press conference

01:42:35.850 --> 01:42:37.050
with the leader of the free world.

01:42:37.090 --> 01:42:39.590
While he was simultaneously signing executive orders,

01:42:39.770 --> 01:42:40.910
I may add that's pretty impressive.

01:42:41.350 --> 01:42:43.150
I don't think the previous office holder

01:42:44.910 --> 01:42:49.770
thing off. So look, the President is the best spokesperson that this White House has, and

01:42:49.770 --> 01:42:54.710
I can assure you that you will be hearing from both him and me as much as possible.

01:42:54.830 --> 01:42:59.010
And then a question about tax cuts. You know, the President has promised to extend the tax

01:42:59.010 --> 01:43:04.290
cuts from the previous term. I'm curious, you know, does the President support corresponding

01:43:04.290 --> 01:43:09.290
spending cuts, as some Republicans have called for in Congress, and will the new Treasury

01:43:14.120 --> 01:43:15.000
during the first administration.

01:43:15.220 --> 01:43:18.240
The President is committed to both tax cuts and spending cuts.

01:43:18.720 --> 01:43:21.040
And he has a great team negotiating on his behalf.

01:43:21.160 --> 01:43:23.060
But there's no better negotiator than Donald Trump.

01:43:23.320 --> 01:43:25.900
And I'm sure he'll be involved in this reconciliation process

01:43:25.900 --> 01:43:26.840
as it moves forward.

01:43:27.460 --> 01:43:28.020
Hi, everybody.

01:43:29.020 --> 01:43:32.760
Caroline, the announcement that he made last night

01:43:32.760 --> 01:43:35.800
on the iron dome, it said the President

01:43:35.800 --> 01:43:39.500
had directed that the United States will build this iron dome.

01:43:40.040 --> 01:43:41.560
When you read into the executive order,

01:43:42.090 --> 01:43:48.870
it seemed short of that. It asked for a series of studies and reports back. Can you tell us

01:43:48.870 --> 01:43:54.550
whether the president has directed this? And if he is just concerned on this issue, why the

01:43:54.550 --> 01:44:02.690
suspensions that we saw listed by OMB included so many different nuclear programs, nonproliferation

01:44:08.370 --> 01:44:13.190
First of all, when it comes to the Iron Dome, the executive order directed the implementation

01:44:13.752 --> 01:44:15.110
of an Iron Dome.

01:44:15.170 --> 01:44:21.790
It also, as you said, kind of directed research and studies to see how the United States can

01:44:21.790 --> 01:44:24.530
go about doing this, particularly the Department of Defense.

01:44:24.990 --> 01:44:29.970
When it comes to the other question that you asked about those specific programs, again,

01:44:30.170 --> 01:44:32.330
I would say this is not a ban.

01:44:37.740 --> 01:44:42.300
Going out from Washington D.C. is an aligned with the President's agenda and as the Office

01:44:42.300 --> 01:44:47.820
of Management and Budget has updates on what will be kick-started once again, I will provide

01:44:47.820 --> 01:44:48.360
those to you.

01:44:48.540 --> 01:44:51.740
This will clarify for a second what you were saying before on Medicaid.

01:44:52.360 --> 01:44:56.560
It wasn't clear to me whether you were saying that no Medicaid would be cut off.

01:44:56.680 --> 01:45:00.760
Obviously, a lot of this goes to states before it goes to individuals and so forth.

01:45:01.560 --> 01:45:06.300
Are you guaranteeing here that no individual now on Medicaid would see a cut off because

01:45:06.300 --> 01:45:06.920
of the policy?

01:45:06.960 --> 01:45:09.060
I'll check back on that and get back to you.

01:45:09.440 --> 01:45:09.720
John, for the one.

01:45:10.080 --> 01:45:10.960
Thanks a lot, Caroline.

01:45:11.340 --> 01:45:16.660
As you know, in the first week that the President was in office, signed an executive order as

01:45:16.660 --> 01:45:20.240
it relates to birthright citizenship, trying to eliminate that.

01:45:20.720 --> 01:45:27.440
About 22 state attorney generals have said that this is unconstitutional.

01:45:27.680 --> 01:45:30.660
A federal judge has just agreed with their argument.

01:45:30.840 --> 01:45:35.340
What's the administration's argument for doing away with birthright citizenship?

01:45:35.770 --> 01:45:39.390
The folks that you mentioned have a right to have that legal opinion,

01:45:39.810 --> 01:45:43.570
but it is in disagreement with the legal opinion of this administration.

01:45:44.090 --> 01:45:47.570
This administration believes that birthright citizenship is unconstitutional,

01:45:47.970 --> 01:45:51.010
and that is why President Trump signed that executive order.

01:45:51.750 --> 01:45:55.190
A legal immigrants who come to this country and have a child

01:45:55.190 --> 01:45:57.950
are not subject to the laws of this jurisdiction.

01:45:58.370 --> 01:46:00.310
That's the opinion of this administration.

01:46:05.100 --> 01:46:11.700
Administration and we are prepared to fight this all the way to the Supreme Court if we have to because President Trump believes that this is a

01:46:11.700 --> 01:46:15.140
Necessary step to secure our nation's borders and protect our homeland

01:46:41.840 --> 01:46:46.500
Davos last week on Bloomberg television saying that President Trump is right and if Europe

01:46:46.500 --> 01:46:49.480
wants to keep itself safe they should increase their defense spending.

01:46:49.840 --> 01:46:55.060
I would just add that there was no greater ally to our European allies than President

01:46:55.060 --> 01:46:56.360
Trump in his first term.

01:46:56.700 --> 01:47:02.160
The world for all nations in Europe and of course here at home was much safer because

01:47:02.160 --> 01:47:05.940
of President Trump's peace through strength diplomatic approach.

01:47:06.930 --> 01:47:10.890
Thank you, Caroline, and it's great to finally be called on as well in the briefing room.

01:47:10.990 --> 01:47:11.650
I appreciate that.

01:47:12.390 --> 01:47:15.830
Of course, we know President Trump just got back from North Carolina and California meeting

01:47:15.830 --> 01:47:17.490
with victims of natural disasters.

01:47:18.170 --> 01:47:22.410
There's the two-year anniversary of the East Palestine-Ohio toxic train derailment.

01:47:22.490 --> 01:47:27.330
Does the President have any plans to go visit the victims of that toxic spill or just visit

01:47:27.330 --> 01:47:27.730
in general?

01:47:28.160 --> 01:47:32.520
Not no plans that I can read out for you here, if that changes I will certainly keep you posted.

01:47:32.740 --> 01:47:37.000
What I can tell you is that President Trump still talks about his visit to East Palestine,

01:47:37.140 --> 01:47:42.940
Ohio. That was one of the turning points I would say in the previous election campaign where

01:47:42.940 --> 01:47:48.720
Americans were reminded that President Trump is a man of the people and he as a candidate visited

01:47:50.570 --> 01:47:52.950
derailed by the trained derailment, no pun intended,

01:47:53.350 --> 01:47:54.770
and he offered support and hope.

01:47:55.010 --> 01:47:56.990
Just like I saw the President do this past week,

01:47:57.350 --> 01:47:59.510
it was a purposeful decision by this President

01:47:59.510 --> 01:48:01.450
on his first domestic trip

01:48:01.450 --> 01:48:03.970
to go to North Carolina and to California

01:48:03.970 --> 01:48:06.150
to visit with Americans who were impacted

01:48:06.570 --> 01:48:09.010
by Hurricane Helene and also by the deadly fires,

01:48:09.410 --> 01:48:10.990
a red state and a blue state,

01:48:11.230 --> 01:48:12.730
both of which feel forgotten

01:48:12.730 --> 01:48:15.270
by the previous administration and the federal government.

01:48:15.630 --> 01:48:18.590
That has now ended under President Trump.

01:48:19.850 --> 01:48:24.550
Americans first, whether they're in East Palestine and Pacific Palisades or North Carolina.

01:48:25.550 --> 01:48:26.910
Thank you, Caroline.

01:48:27.190 --> 01:48:31.710
On California, could you please clarify what the military did with the water last night

01:48:31.710 --> 01:48:33.990
as referenced in the President's Truth Social Post?

01:48:34.150 --> 01:48:36.490
The water has been turned back on in California.

01:48:37.130 --> 01:48:39.500
And this comes just days after President Trump-

01:48:39.500 --> 01:48:46.480
visited Pacific Palisades, and as you all saw, applied tremendous pressure on state and local

01:48:46.480 --> 01:48:52.500
officials in Pacific Palisades, including Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, to turn on the water

01:48:52.500 --> 01:48:58.260
and to direct that water to places in the south and in the middle of the state that have been

01:48:58.260 --> 01:49:03.080
incredibly dry, which has led to the expansion, the rapid expansion of these fires.

01:49:03.340 --> 01:49:08.520
Could you clarify what the military's role was, where the water came from, and how it got there?

01:49:08.780 --> 01:49:14.080
And the Army Corps of Engineers has been on the ground in California to respond to the

01:49:14.080 --> 01:49:15.880
devastation from these wildfires.

01:49:16.240 --> 01:49:21.600
And I would point out that just days after President Trump visited the devastation from

01:49:21.600 --> 01:49:23.260
these fires, the water was turned on.

01:49:23.380 --> 01:49:27.300
That is because of the pressure campaign he put on state and local officials there who

01:49:27.300 --> 01:49:29.020
clearly lack all common sense.

01:49:29.140 --> 01:49:33.620
And I will never forget being at that roundtable with the President last week and hearing the

01:49:38.000 --> 01:49:39.760
their government has just gone insane.

01:49:40.240 --> 01:49:41.840
Before President Trump showed up on the scene,

01:49:42.020 --> 01:49:44.600
Karen Bass was telling private property owners

01:49:44.600 --> 01:49:46.580
that they would have to wait 18 months

01:49:46.580 --> 01:49:48.720
to access their private property.

01:49:49.060 --> 01:49:51.380
So this administration, the president and his team

01:49:51.380 --> 01:49:52.500
that's on the ground in California,

01:49:52.860 --> 01:49:54.880
Rick Grinnell, who is designated to oversee

01:49:54.880 --> 01:49:58.680
this great crisis, will continue to put pressure

01:49:58.680 --> 01:50:01.020
on Karen Bass and state and local officials

01:50:01.020 --> 01:50:03.280
to allow residents to access their properties.

01:50:03.420 --> 01:50:04.720
This is a huge part of it.

01:50:07.210 --> 01:50:10.690
part in their own clearing out of their properties, they should be able to do that.

01:50:10.830 --> 01:50:12.010
It's the United States of America.

01:50:12.470 --> 01:50:13.310
What happened to our freedom?

01:50:13.470 --> 01:50:16.250
Clearly, it's gone in California, but not anymore under President Trump.

01:50:16.450 --> 01:50:16.810
April.

01:50:17.150 --> 01:50:17.450
Caroline.

01:50:17.910 --> 01:50:18.770
Welcome to the briefing room.

01:50:18.930 --> 01:50:19.210
Thank you.

01:50:19.450 --> 01:50:20.250
Several questions.

01:50:20.570 --> 01:50:21.370
One on the pause.

01:50:25.470 --> 01:50:30.890
preferably colleges and universities have those monies held back temporarily at this moment.

01:50:31.170 --> 01:50:35.130
Again, I have not seen the entire list because this memo was just sent out,

01:50:35.250 --> 01:50:38.690
so I will provide you all with updates as we receive them, okay?

01:50:40.330 --> 01:50:47.750
Also, secondly, when it comes to immigration, there is this southern border focus. What happens

01:51:08.140 --> 01:51:10.080
and Levitt's first press briefing room,

01:51:10.200 --> 01:51:11.320
we head back to the White House.

01:51:11.740 --> 01:51:14.780
And lastly, as we're dealing with anti-DEI,

01:51:14.900 --> 01:51:17.500
anti-wrote efforts, we understand this administration could.

01:51:17.980 --> 01:51:20.280
It's thinking about celebrating Black History Month.

01:51:20.520 --> 01:51:21.120
Have you got any?

01:51:21.530 --> 01:51:26.930
Word on that anything that you can offer to us as far as I know this White House certainly still intends to celebrate

01:51:26.930 --> 01:51:33.850
And we will continue to celebrate American history and the contributions that all Americans regardless of race religion or creed have made

01:51:33.850 --> 01:51:37.790
To our great country and America is back Christian. Thank you. Thanks Caroline

01:51:38.296 --> 01:51:42.250
Just real quick. You mentioned the inflation executive order the president signed

01:51:42.250 --> 01:51:50.270
But a crisis of skyrocketed since President Trump took office. So what specifically is he doing to lower those costs for Americans?

01:51:50.890 --> 01:51:51.790
glad you brought this up.

01:51:51.960 --> 01:51:56.360
because there is a lot of reporting out there that is putting the onus on this White House

01:51:56.360 --> 01:52:00.840
for the increased cost of eggs. I would like to point out to each and every one of you

01:52:00.840 --> 01:52:06.000
that in 2024, when Joe Biden was in the Oval Office or upstairs in the residence sleeping,

01:52:06.160 --> 01:52:14.740
I'm not so sure, egg prices increased 65 percent in this country. We also have seen the cost of

01:52:14.740 --> 01:52:20.280
everything, not just eggs. Bacon, groceries, gasoline have increased because of the inflationary

01:52:21.290 --> 01:52:22.370
of the last administration.

01:52:22.970 --> 01:52:24.110
As far as the egg shortage,

01:52:24.370 --> 01:52:25.630
what's also contributing to that

01:52:25.630 --> 01:52:26.950
is that the Biden administration

01:52:26.950 --> 01:52:28.330
in the Department of Agriculture

01:52:28.330 --> 01:52:32.090
directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens,

01:52:32.450 --> 01:52:35.530
which has led to a lack of chicken supply in this country,

01:52:35.870 --> 01:52:36.910
therefore a lack of egg supply,

01:52:36.990 --> 01:52:37.930
which is leading to the shortage.

01:52:38.390 --> 01:52:40.090
So I will leave you with this point.

01:52:40.460 --> 01:52:45.340
This is an example of why it's so incredibly important that the Senate moves swiftly to

01:52:45.340 --> 01:52:49.300
confirm all of President Trump's nominees, including his nominee for the United States

01:52:49.300 --> 01:52:53.400
Department of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, who is already speaking with Kevin Hassett,

01:52:53.500 --> 01:52:57.660
who is leading the economic team here at the White House on how we can address the egg shortage

01:52:57.660 --> 01:53:04.360
in this country. As for costs, I laid out the plethora of ways that President Trump has addressed

01:53:04.360 --> 01:53:09.120
saving costs for the American people over the past week. He looks forward to continue to doing

01:53:10.060 --> 01:53:11.260
Thank you very much.

01:53:11.440 --> 01:53:11.680
Thank you very much.

01:53:11.680 --> 01:53:11.900
Thank you very much.

01:53:11.900 --> 01:53:12.220
Thank you very much.

01:53:12.220 --> 01:53:12.240
Thank you very much.

01:53:12.240 --> 01:53:12.520
Thank you very much.

01:53:12.520 --> 01:53:12.620
Thank you very much.

01:53:12.620 --> 01:53:12.780
Thank you very much.

01:53:12.780 --> 01:53:12.820
Thank you very much.

01:53:12.820 --> 01:53:13.120
Thank you very much.

01:53:13.240 --> 01:53:13.600
Thank you very much.

01:53:13.620 --> 01:53:14.800
Thank you very much.

01:53:14.960 --> 01:53:16.420
Thank you very much.

01:53:18.920 --> 01:53:26.380
All right, Caroline Levitt has just concluded her first White House press briefing, making

01:53:26.380 --> 01:53:27.780
major news.

01:53:28.400 --> 01:53:34.860
First and foremost, she's going to be allowing new media to apply for press credentials.

01:53:35.320 --> 01:53:42.560
She including podcasters, bloggers, new media, alternative media, Real America's Voice,

01:53:48.190 --> 01:53:48.670
uh

01:53:49.870 --> 01:53:53.390
Reporters on site. I mean this this is major major breaking news

01:53:53.390 --> 01:53:59.810
mixing up the seating arrangements you called on a mixture of new voices and legacy news media voices

01:54:00.490 --> 01:54:06.930
No surprise that there seemed to be an oversized amount of concern about

01:54:07.480 --> 01:54:11.080
as they call them undocumented migrants. That stuff's not going to fly anymore.

01:54:11.320 --> 01:54:14.400
These are illegal criminals who entered and broke into America

01:54:14.400 --> 01:54:18.160
against our wishes, against our laws. They will be removed, all of them.

01:54:18.580 --> 01:54:21.960
Caroline Levitt put a instant, you know,

01:54:22.780 --> 01:54:27.648
mic drop moment to those questions saying that they are definitionally

01:54:32.520 --> 01:54:39.840
She addressed the she blew up really the if you look at regime media this morning. It's all about the

01:54:40.320 --> 01:54:43.620
freezes on funding for certain federal agencies.

01:54:44.080 --> 01:54:46.800
She assured the audience and all those watching

01:54:46.800 --> 01:54:51.300
that this would not impact any individual financing

01:54:51.300 --> 01:54:52.840
from the federal government assistance.

01:54:53.660 --> 01:54:56.560
She assured that it would not impact Medicare.

01:54:57.220 --> 01:54:59.220
It would not impact Social Security.

01:54:59.780 --> 01:55:03.020
So basically a tour de force from Caroline Levitt.

01:55:03.080 --> 01:55:04.300
Congratulations to her.

01:55:04.460 --> 01:55:07.480
A really tremendous showing in her first

01:55:08.540 --> 01:55:12.700
Briefing, it was amazing, very, very competent job.

01:55:12.900 --> 01:55:17.860
She handled the questions that were very,

01:55:19.380 --> 01:55:21.700
there were some resistance media in that room,

01:55:21.920 --> 01:55:23.080
make no mistake about it.

01:55:23.120 --> 01:55:25.620
She handled them, it was an absolute master class.

01:55:26.560 --> 01:55:32.500
And I'm really excited to see that personally.

01:55:32.640 --> 01:55:34.220
I wanna play one of these clips back.

01:55:38.370 --> 01:55:45.250
Aliens clip. I'm not sure which number that is currently, but I want to play it back really quickly because I think it was a high watermark where it showed

01:55:45.810 --> 01:55:51.890
That Caroline Levitt will not be cowed by the old-school legacy media and the same old games

01:55:51.890 --> 01:55:57.190
They played to keep our country paralyzed. Let's go ahead and play cut 96 or 95 95

01:55:58.000 --> 01:56:03.000
The first week that the president was in office signed an executive order as it

01:56:03.000 --> 01:56:06.500
relates to birthright citizenship trying to eliminate that.

01:56:06.860 --> 01:56:12.100
Well 22 a state attorney general said that this is

01:56:12.100 --> 01:56:15.980
That was the birthright citizenship clip we're going to get to that in the next

01:56:15.980 --> 01:56:20.360
hour with John Eastman you guys want to not want to miss that conversation at all

01:56:20.360 --> 01:56:22.100
but suffice to say

01:56:22.940 --> 01:56:30.100
This was absolutely not business as usual. This is a new sheriff in town a new tone a new tenor

01:56:30.100 --> 01:56:31.320
I'm here for it

01:56:31.320 --> 01:56:37.940
I think all of you in this audience are very appreciative of this new approach to handling the legacy news media hour three comes up next

01:56:37.940 --> 01:56:40.780
Jack the so book on real America's voice. We'll be right back

01:57:05.010 --> 01:57:11.230
State of gratitude and our posture before the election was the same as it is now in one sense

01:57:11.930 --> 01:57:18.570
God, what is your will if your will is to see this country go into the judgment that we deserve

01:57:18.570 --> 01:57:22.670
Then we will praise you exactly. I

01:57:22.670 --> 01:57:28.150
Don't know if you guys heard that or not, but as soon as I said judgment some sort of oxygen tank exploded or something

01:57:30.250 --> 01:57:31.130
Very cosmic

01:57:33.380 --> 01:57:36.730
And so, yeah, I mean, I just say thank you, and...

01:57:36.730 --> 01:57:42.710
Look I I'm actually excited for off-election years because I love reading. I love studying

01:57:42.710 --> 01:57:45.310
I can finally get back to my hundred books a year

01:57:45.310 --> 01:57:48.950
Kind of got off that this last year because I was just too busy

01:57:48.950 --> 01:57:54.890
Reading the news and looking at polling and turnout data and precinct by precinct modeling and you're still listening to Prager

01:57:54.890 --> 01:57:56.390
I was still listening to pray by the way

01:57:56.390 --> 01:58:01.990
Can we all just say a prayer for Dennis Prager right now an American hero that I don't know if you guys notice or not

01:58:01.990 --> 01:58:04.850
But Dennis is hospitalized in a very serious condition

01:58:05.290 --> 01:58:11.550
Um, I can't say more than that, but Dennis is in a very serious, um, circumstance right

01:58:11.550 --> 01:58:16.130
now and deserves our prayers, uh, that God might heal him and God might bring him back

01:58:16.130 --> 01:58:20.130
to this stage right here on America Fest at some point, because we need Dennis Prager

01:58:20.130 --> 01:58:20.690
in this country.

01:58:20.850 --> 01:58:22.810
Dennis Prager is an American hero.

01:58:23.490 --> 01:58:24.770
Um, but you're right.

01:58:25.450 --> 01:58:25.790
I did.

01:58:26.070 --> 01:58:28.890
I continued listening to Dennis and Larry Arndt.

01:58:28.950 --> 01:58:29.510
That is for sure.

01:58:34.920 --> 01:58:38.420
Being an incredible mother and phenomenal wife,

01:58:38.840 --> 01:58:41.600
she also runs a ministry in her spare time

01:58:41.600 --> 01:58:45.280
that helps you read the entire Bible in one year.

01:58:46.060 --> 01:58:52.560
You know what I'm talking about? It is called Bible in three six five dot com write it down go to the website right now

01:58:52.560 --> 01:58:56.520
Honestly, take out your phone. It is Bible in three sixty five dot com

01:58:56.520 --> 01:59:01.940
What she does is she makes it so easy for you to read the entire Bible in one year

01:59:01.940 --> 01:59:07.320
She will text you the verses she will email the verses and honestly if you've never read the Bible

01:59:07.680 --> 01:59:10.480
You should go read every single word of the word of God.

01:59:10.620 --> 01:59:11.560
It will change your life.

01:59:11.660 --> 01:59:12.420
It will heal you.

01:59:12.540 --> 01:59:13.580
It will challenge you.

01:59:13.640 --> 01:59:14.500
It will deepen you.

01:59:14.640 --> 01:59:17.560
And she will do it in micro bits of how do you do it?

01:59:17.600 --> 01:59:19.560
Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs, right?

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It's only about seven minutes.

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It's Bible in 365.com.

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It's free of charge.

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How many people have gone through it?

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We have over 180,000 that have gone through the program since

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180,000 people.

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Isn't that amazing?

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that have gone through the Bible in one year.

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Lives have changed, people have given their lives to Christ,

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marriages have been formed through it.

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Marriages have been formed through it, yes,

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but also too, I tell Charlie all the time,

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I'm like, look at this,

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because we get prayer reports and prayer requests,

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praise reports, and we get some that are like,

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thank you so much for...

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Having this and I look at him and I'm like, this is what it's all about like we get to be a part of people's faith journey

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That's so special. I love it. But no, it's thank you. It's a fun

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It's a fun minister and and the ministry is growing and she also runs proclaims streetwear

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Which is the best Christian clothing line in the country. They have a booth out there that you can support

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So she's an entrepreneur as much as anything else, but I highly encourage you guys Bible in 365 calm

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Tell them the story of how that that kind of came to be

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That's in a very brief spark notes version. I started for the first time 2016

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I was like, you know what? I need to read the Bible cover. I never have before and I created a program and I was like

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I don't know who's gonna do it with me. So I asked one of my friends just to join me and she was very sweet

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She's my accountability partner and

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Every day we would check in what did you learn today? What did you know?

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Which commentary did you use for this?

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And we just kept diving deeper.

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And anyways, at the end of that,

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almost towards the end of that,

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unfortunately my grandfather had passed away.

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And that was a very rough moment for me

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because I loved him so much.

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And so once I read the full Bible in a year,

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I just prayed on...

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you know God what what direction do you want to take this and long story short I'm not going to

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get into the deep details of it but that's when proclaim was born that's when Jess and I decided

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we should invite a few more peoples we just invited

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You know the handful people that are in our community and our friends and then it just grew from such a small little and that's what's so beautiful is when you have those small little home groups or those little communities accountability communities and then have it watch grow from there is really really special.

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I mean it's not me or anything it's all God's God's hand so I take no credit as we close here any final messages for the attendees here the pastors here on faith night.

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That's tough because I feel like, and just like you,

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we have been given such a beautiful blessing

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on a platter, like on a silver platter,

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and it's up to us.

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To really just continue to build and be leaders and know that like we obviously were made for such a time as this

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But truly just own it and and be out there be the hands and the feet

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Don't be afraid to talk about your faith be bold. Don't be afraid to say yes

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Okay, you voted for Donald Trump, but more importantly you're a Christian and and you're here for a purpose and like I say like your role

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Is to make heaven crowded?

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That's why you're here.

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We're just here recruiting.

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I say that all the time.

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But your role is to make Heaven crowded.

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And so just for some encouragement, thank you.

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I mean, honestly, you guys being here is a huge testament.

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But just thank you for supporting my husband

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and being there for him and all of the members

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for the members only for Charlie's podcast.

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Thank you for supporting that because behind the scenes,

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I get to see the team get so excited

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when new members sign up.

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And just to be able to see your support for his podcast

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and for his radio show.

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As a wife, I mean, I can't even put that into words.

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So truly from the bottom of my heart,

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thank you for being the reason why Amfest

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and Turning Point USA and my husband

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and the way they've been able to build things.

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Thank you for being a part of that.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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It is so great to be here with you all.

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This is literally insane.

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I'm so, so happy.

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I have wanted to speak at a ZPUSA conference for ages,

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and I'm so happy to be with you all now.

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But we have been listening to some absolutely legendary speakers this week on Trump, on

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our future, on DEI, on immigration, on gender identity politics.

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But for the next 10 minutes, I want to talk directly about you guys, because you are the

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foundation of our culture.

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Now, you're very important, you're super important.

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Now to just backtrack a bit for those of you who might not know this story

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Funny story a bit

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Three years ago. I attended TPUSA is YWLS as my first ever political event

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So to be on stage now with you literally just three years later is very very surreal

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I'm incredibly honored to be here and it feels so full circle because

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TBUSA came into my life, you know, during COVID, during 2020 at a time when so many of us felt isolated and lonely.

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You know, I had been effectively canceled by all of my friends.

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I had left my sorority due to the rabid politics, and I wasn't working in Hollywood after 10 years because I refused the vaccine.

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And one day after seeing a video that I did, whoo, yeah.

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But one day after watching a video that I had done for PragerU this random girl slid into my DMs

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She said number one

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I think there will be best friends number two would you please come to YWLS with me and obviously at that point in my life

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I had nothing left to lose. I was like I don't even know what I'm getting into

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So I went and thank God I did because these events what you guys are doing today

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They gave me my best friends like that girl, but they more importantly actually not more importantly equal importance

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They gave me

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the confidence and the tools to get in the fight.

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And like so many of you guys,

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I just absolutely threw myself in.

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And it is not uncommon in this room with you guys

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and the amazing speakers that have been here this week,

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but I spent every single day over the last four years

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thinking about the 2024 election

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and working towards trying to change our culture.

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I mean, within months of YWL ask that first TBUSA event,

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I was already working for PragerU.

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I was working for Young Americans for Liberty.

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I was writing for, whoo, amazing!

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I was writing for the Foundation for Economic Education.

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I had gotten into law school.

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Thank God I didn't go.

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That would have been terrible for me.

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But I ended up moving to Nashville

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where I launched the comment section that I...

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The hardest working radio show in the business, the Charlie Kirk Show.

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All right, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk show Andrew Colvin in for the one and only Charlie Kirk who is hanging out with JD Vance today

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I can't wait to get updates from him on the ground

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But in the meantime after that very raucous a masterclass by Caroline Levitt actually

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We devoted the entire second hour to that. I'm excited that John Eastman was able to join us in the third hour top of the third hour

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so without further ado John Eastman senior fellow at Claremont Institute and

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And all things constitutional scholar, legal scholar, we're so honored to have him.

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Welcome Mr. Eastman to the show.

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Thank you, Andrew, for having me on and get my regard as a Charlie.

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I will.

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I will.

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Now, first, before we get into birthright citizenship, which you have written extensively

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about, I think your writings on it are the most clear-minded.

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detailed I have seen out there. So I wanted to bring you on for that. But please tell

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us about your legal defense. Throw that URL up there. You are, of course, a victim of

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political persecution and prosecute for daring to represent the president. Give us an go

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.com slash Eastman. Please give us an update really quick.

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Well, you know, despite the resounding victory that President Trump was delivered by the

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American people back November, the left doesn't seem to have gotten the memo.

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They're still proceeding full force with the criminal indictments in Georgia and in Arizona.

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We're still dealing with the California bar attempted disbarmy.

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And you know, I think the left, they're bound and determined to get people's scalps to scare

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on clients or causes that the left disagrees with.

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This is a threat to our rule of law,

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our adversarial system of justice,

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our constitutional rights,

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and that's why I'm fighting it so hard, you know,

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and there's a new documentary movie about all this

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called the Eastman Dilemma, Lawfare or Justice.

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people can watch it for free right now before it goes up on the paid platforms and just by

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going to EastmondDilemma.com and I hope people watch it and circulate it and you know have

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viewing parties with their friends and neighbors because people need to understand what's going on here.

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Well, I mean we have your back 100% John and what they've tried to do to you is just

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Unconscionable and on behalf of a nation that is healing and I think ascendant once again

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We we you know we have your back and we were just you know

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I apologize on behalf of all of us what you had to endure and you're a great American and we have your back

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So John

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You know you have written and go ahead and throw this graphic up guys birthright citizenship a fundamental

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Misunderstanding of the 14th amendment. Now. This was one of the president's executive orders right out the gate

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I a hundred and a thousand percent agree with this executive order

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But this was instantly challenged believe in Seattle

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there was a press briefing right after and

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One of the quotes was that this judge had never seen such a brazenly

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institutional executive order in his time serving on on so I found that laughable John now you are

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the expert here I want you to walk our audience through in the time we have with you why is the

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14th amendment why should it not apply to illegals frankly it should go further than that but we

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but this executive orders deals with with illegal immigrants the children there of

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so make the case explain the history the floor is yours.

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Well, I think Senator Hiroma from Hawaii on her tweet about this indicates the problem.

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She eliminated the key words from the 14th Amendment.

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She said, all persons born here are citizens.

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Well, the clause she omitted from that is all persons born in the United States and subject

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to the jurisdiction thereof.

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our citizens. And so the the fight is what that phrase means. And we don't have to speculate

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about it. The drafters of the language, the people that proposed the 14th Amendment,

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the folks who ratified it all understood it meant complete jurisdiction,

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not what they called mere territorial or partial jurisdiction. And if I can explain the difference

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with an analogy, suppose somebody from Great Britain is visiting the United States on a student

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They're subject to our laws while they're here, that's subject to the territorial jurisdiction.

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But they don't owe allegiance to country. They're not they're subject to our more complete jurisdiction that was intended by that clause

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We can't charge them with treason if they take up arms against us, although that would probably be a crime as well

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We don't draft them into our army. They don't get to vote while they're here

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They're not subject to that more complete jurisdiction

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They've never sworn an oath of allegiance to us and so President Trump's executive order picks up on that original

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understanding of the phrase and it's not just you know

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my reading of those debates. The U.S. Supreme Court said the same thing in 1872 and 1884.

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The leading treatise writer of the day, Thomas Cooley, said exactly the same thing

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in his treatises in the 1870s.

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The Attorney General of the United States and formal Attorney General opinions for the State

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Department said the same thing in the 1880s. Children who were born here while their parents

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were temporarily visiting were not citizens. The U.S. Congress, after a Supreme Court decision,

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awarded citizenship to the child of a lawful permanent couple from China. They were permanently

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You're talking about the case, Wong Kim Arc, right?

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Wong Kim Arc, 1898, and a lot of the critics of Trump's order

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are relying on that case.

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But it dealt with the children of lawful, permanent residents,

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green card holders in today's formulation.

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But the clerk repeatedly says they were permanently

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domiciled in this country.

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And so that distinct whether that case

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itself went too far or not. It clearly didn't go any further than that.

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It clearly doesn't address children of temporary visitors here,

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and it clearly doesn't address people who are here illegally in the first place.

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So, so Wong Kim Arc does not settle the question, as many are now claiming.

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Honest scholars for decades have recognized that.

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If it did settle the question and anybody born on the U.S. soil was a citizen,

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then why did Congress need to offer citizenship in the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 to all

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Native Americans who were born on U.S. soil? The fact is they needed to do that under the

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naturalization power because they were not guaranteed citizenship under the 14th Amendment

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and neither are temporary visitors, neither are

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illegal immigrants to this country. And I think President Trump's executive order is going to force

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the court to finally resolve that issue in the way that the framers of the 14th Amendment actually

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intended. Well, and I want to pause on this, the Native American piece of this, because I think

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this does not get enough play in this debate. So the framers basically had a discussion about

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But there was a debate about this, and they basically said, of course they don't get citizenship.

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There was actually a debate of whether or not they needed to add more language.

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And they basically said, of course not, because they're only partially under our jurisdiction.

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They owe allegiance to the tribal nations at the time, which is, so they did not benefit

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from this.

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would they not be automatically made citizens by the 14th Amendment when they were clearly born

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on American soil? And the answer lies in this distinction that you're making about partial

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versus complete jurisdiction, which is kind of a wonky in the weeds argument, but it makes

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all the difference in the world. And I think just looking at social media, I can tell that

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to these arguments. It's always like, well, of course, they're subject to the jurisdiction

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of the United States. They're in this, they're in the country, they're subject to our jurisdiction.

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One minute, John, that's such a lazy half-truth.

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Well, yeah, no look and they even make a silly argument. Well, if they're not subject to our jurisdiction, then we can't deport them for violating our laws

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That's just utter nonsense. The distinction between territorial jurisdiction and complete jurisdiction is what they intended

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It's easy enough to understand for normal people and that's what the 14th amendment says

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And by the way, you know the notion that our leading enemies on the world stage Russia with Burt tourism in Miami

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100 grand stay a month in a luxury hotel, have a kid, and then get that kid citizenship

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to come back in the United States years later is utter nonsense.

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And President Trump recognizes the nonsense of it, and he acted swiftly to deal with it.

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No, I think that's well stated John. I you know, there's so much more and I'm actually going to take you through the break

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Here because there's actually a lot to unpack and I want to make sure our podcast audience gets all all the details here

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But I put John's URL there give send go

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Com slash Eastman, please consider supporting John. He's an American patriot an American hero

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And he deserves your support for everything. He's gone through on all of our behalf. We'll be right back with more with Johnny

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All right, everybody, for the stream and podcast, I want to go through a couple of facts here

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for you, John.

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Now, these are not as much in the legal weeds here, but I just want everybody to understand

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the impact of granting automatic birthright citizenship to any child born on USO.

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What that is, in 2023, there was between 225,000 and 250,000 babies born to illegal immigrants

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in the United States.

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That's more than the babies born in all but two US states, if you take them individually.

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That's also more than the total number of babies born to legal non-citizens.

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So we have a whole category for legal citizenship, right?

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The babies born of that category is not as much as the babies of illegals.

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That's how big the problem has become.

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Especially within the Indian community, of mothers lining up for preterm C-sections

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to beat President Trump's February 20th cutoff date.

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That's right, they're lining up.

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Some of these mothers are as early as seven months gestation.

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This is a verified reporting.

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France, New Zealand and Australia have all abandoned birthright citizenship in the past

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few decades.

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Ireland was the last country in the European Union to follow the practice, and they ended

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it in 2005.

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So and here's one last point I want to make, John, I'm going to throw it back to you before

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we welcome back radio.

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They call it and you can you know the pronunciation better than I but it's juice solely which is kind of the old Latin term for it

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The legal term it was a tool that was used by colonialist to incentivize settlers to the new world

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That's why if you look at the map right now most of the countries that have birthright citizenship are in the Western Hemisphere

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But a little bit seedier version of that reading is that it was used to displace native populations

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in the new world. It was trying to bring settlers from the old world to the new,

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to displace those people and to create a new civilization. And my contention

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of birthright citizenship today wants

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to displace native-born Americans with new people that are less systemically-raised or

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what have you.

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They want to break the systemically-raised cultural back of America is what they see

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of it.

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So my point to you is this is not some in the weeds thing.

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This is having a fundamental cultural, civilizational, legal impact here and now.

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Look, I agree. Birthright citizenship is one of the three primary magnets for illegal immigration.

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You know, getting a job and making a better life for your family is probably the primary one, but birthright citizenship is one of the top three.

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and they think they get the holy grail of United States citizenship by merely having their children

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born here. It's just not true. That's not what the 14th Amendment said. But look, the idea of

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youth solely, that's the old English common law, then it had two components. If you're born on the

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king's soil, you are the king's subject, and you can never leave as a king's subject.

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you're irrevocably the king's subject. He has control over you for the rest of your life,

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if you're born on his soil. That was youth solely. We repudiated that with the Declaration of

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Independence in explicit terms at the end. We hereby absolve all allegiance to the king.

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I mean, they could not have been more clear that they were rejecting youth solely,

02:20:16.610 --> 02:20:22.710
this birth citizenship notion. And it was birth subject ship. It was an outgrowth of feudal Europe.

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and we rejected it. We instead form governments based on mutual consent of the governed.

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And what birthright citizenship does is let people whom we have never given

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consent to join our political community, to demand it unilaterally by their own actions,

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even if they are in violation of our laws at the time they're doing it.

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That completely destroys consent of the governed, the cornerstone principle of our system of government.

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That's I've never heard that that point made John and that's that's really really profound and actually and we only have a minute here

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Before we welcome radio back, but the framers of the Constitution never actually defined

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citizenship.

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So the point that's very interesting here is that the 14th Amendment, during the debates

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they say, this is going to clarify this once and for all of who can be a citizen and who

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cannot be.

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And it's just amazing if you read back into the writings of that time.

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It's rather sparse, but they're very clear that, of course...

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this would not include foreigners. Of course, this would not include people that owed allegiance to

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other nations, including Indians. It was specifically to right the wrong of slavery and the children

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born of slaves and to rectify that historic wrong. It was not to reward people who broke our laws.

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And I believe that the language is very clear in that. And I want to give you a chance to respond

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when we welcome radio back about the 1866 Civil Rights Act, for example. So that's where I'm

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Welcome back everybody. This is Charlie Kirk's show. I'm Andrew Colbert filling in for Charlie as he's

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To the 1866 Civil Rights Act this was of course the

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Amendment was borrowed and that language was perhaps a little bit

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in the United States and not subject to foreign power would be considered

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Sentence structure might have kind of screwed up our interpretation of this

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Really tells us about the original intent

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attempting to codify the 1866 civil right act. So some people have made much of the fact that the language in the 66 civil right act, more clearly bars citizenship to people that are subject to foreign powers.

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The reason the language was changed is because the controversy over whether Native American tribes were foreign powers or domestic powers and their domestic powers.

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So they changed the language to be not subject to the jurisdiction thereof to cover both

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domestic powers like Indian tribes and foreign powers.

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And that was all it was designed to accomplish.

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And there was a whole debate about this.

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Well, don't we also need to say, and Indians not tax like we do with the 66 Civil Rights

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Act.

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And they said, no, that's already covered by the subject to the jurisdiction clause because

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they're not subject to the complete jurisdiction.

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clause of the Constitution does not guarantee you automatic citizenship?

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Well, I mean, I think it should be very clear to everybody that the framers of the 14th

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they intended by this. Now, I want to take this to our current day. Do you expect

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the current Supreme Court

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including Amy Coney Barrett and all of this,

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will they support the president's EO

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or do you expect there to be a split court

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or ruling against this?

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I don't know the answer to that.

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The Supreme Court has never addressed this issue square on.

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Wong Kim Ark, as we pointed out, the 1898 case,

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it was limited to the children of

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permanently domiciled parents. They weren't citizens. We wouldn't let them become citizens.

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They had exhibited their allegiance to this country as far as we let them go. And in a footnote

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in dicta, in another case in the 1980s, they suggested that anybody born on the soil

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is subject to the jurisdiction there is citizens, but they never grappled with the question in that

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Richard Posner in the 7th Circuit out of Chicago some years ago basically said

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our reading of the 14th Amendment is right and the government needs to get

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back on board with understanding what the what the amendment actually requires.

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Other leading scholars not just me but my colleagues at Claremont Institute like

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Ed Ehrler and Tom West but Yale law professor and political science

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professors Roger Smith and Peter Schuck. I think Roger Smith is now at

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the late Lena O'Grally at the University of Texas Law School, a number of very prominent scholars

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that have actually done the work and looked at the original understanding and look at the

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original documents and the original debates have all come to the same conclusion that birthright

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citizenship does not extend to people who are to use the language of the day, temporary sojourners,

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temporary visitors, that would include tourists, that would include people on student visas or

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And, and then of course people who had never had any permission to be here in the first place.

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Well, yeah, and I, you gotta man, imagine that the.

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14th Amendment framers, the drafters of that amendment, had no idea that even air travel

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was going to be a thing.

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They had no idea that human beings were going to be able to crisscross the earth as they

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do now.

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And finally here, John, I just want to give you a second to react to this blizzard of

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activity from President Trump.

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I know you've been with him in very intimate settings.

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What do you make of it?

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the floor is yours yeah yeah no it's uh it's shock and awe it's uh it's really

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stunning i mean i knew i knew they were working on a lot of major initiatives

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that they wanted to put in in place quickly but but even i couldn't have

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imagined how how broad and how quick uh the turnaround that they have launched

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in in our government look our government's been on autopilot getting

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further and further out of control for nearly a century

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And it was going to take a monumental effort to reverse that.

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And Trump's done it in a week.

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I mean, it's just, it's really stunning and, you know, more power to him.

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But I don't think he would have had that ability.

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uh to do that if he hadn't seen the true depth of depravity of the deep state in his first term

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and then had an election stolen from him in his second term that just gained him the resilience

02:27:29.660 --> 02:27:34.720
in the tenacity to do the kind of things he's doing this the past week i have trouble keeping it up

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and i'm and i'm you know i kind of know a little bit about what's going on and it's it's just uh

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Thank you for your time.

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Thanks for being flexible with us today.

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God bless you, sir, and we got your back more coming up.

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have even more reason to be grateful.

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And yes, we fight for change.

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And yes, there are challenges that we will face.

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But we still live in the freest nation on Earth, a place

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that

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A place that millions of people from around the world dream of coming to.

02:28:44.880 --> 02:28:48.320
Our daily struggles are still somebody's dream life.

02:28:48.800 --> 02:28:55.140
There are people around the world, especially women, who would literally kill to be in this room with us.

02:28:55.360 --> 02:29:01.340
Who would kill for the opportunity to be able to speak publicly about their values.

02:29:02.030 --> 02:29:09.390
And for me, that overwhelming sense of gratitude, that matters more than the daily squabbles

02:29:09.390 --> 02:29:14.710
that we see online, the social media slanders, the debates, the hit pieces, whatever they

02:29:14.710 --> 02:29:16.910
throw at us, that matters more.

02:29:17.450 --> 02:29:26.350
That gratitude is what gives me the peace and the perspective, and more importantly the strength, to focus on what actually matters.

02:29:26.850 --> 02:29:34.210
But not only those three things, this also gives me my purpose, which in my life is my second key to resilience.

02:29:34.750 --> 02:29:42.750
Because when you are driven by something that is bigger than yourself, these daily wins and losses matter less.

02:29:47.690 --> 02:29:52.790
likes or clicks or viral moments those will not sustain you I learned that the

02:29:52.790 --> 02:29:59.170
hard way for me purpose is waking up every single day with the goal of

02:29:59.170 --> 02:30:03.970
making the world a little more sane to empower every single one of my viewers

02:30:03.970 --> 02:30:08.770
to feel a little bit more confident in their values to leave a lasting legacy

02:30:08.770 --> 02:30:10.610
that's what I think about every single day

02:30:11.080 --> 02:30:18.180
It is the determination to one day be able to tell my future children that I stood firm in my beliefs that I was not

02:30:18.180 --> 02:30:25.860
bullied into silence that I fought to make the world better and that I did it joyfully that I showed up on my show every single day joyfully

02:30:25.860 --> 02:30:27.460
because it mattered

02:30:33.360 --> 02:30:34.280
And that

02:30:35.390 --> 02:30:40.070
That is the kind of purpose that makes you literally unshakable.

02:30:40.490 --> 02:30:46.950
No matter what storms come your way, whether they are personal or professional or political, that keeps you rooted.

02:30:47.810 --> 02:30:54.490
But of course, and you guys are probably guessing this, we are still missing one component, and it is arguably the most important.

02:30:55.110 --> 02:30:57.330
And that is family and community.

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As I navigate life, I have had to learn that individual friends come and go, politicians will come and go, people will disappoint you, and sometimes alliances shift.

02:31:10.840 --> 02:31:16.260
The figures that I once trusted might fall short. Everyone goes through this. It's not just me.

02:31:16.870 --> 02:31:23.110
But on the other side of all of those changes and all of those disappointments is a better us if

02:31:23.110 --> 02:31:27.910
We stick to the values and the principles that act as our guiding compass

02:31:28.440 --> 02:31:33.590
Our values our faith our families are the bedrock of our lives

02:31:33.590 --> 02:31:38.410
They are the constants that keep us grounded amidst the chaos. They are our anchors

02:31:38.410 --> 02:31:42.730
They remind us who we are and why we fight for what we do

02:31:43.470 --> 02:31:53.830
So when the world feels uncertain, when people let you down, remember that it is not these fleeting moments or fleeting figures that define you.

02:31:54.370 --> 02:32:02.650
It is the legacy that you build through your actions, through your convictions, and through the love that you cultivate with those around you.

02:32:03.450 --> 02:32:09.590
That is the foundation of your life. That is what you should be investing in every single day.

02:32:10.040 --> 02:32:18.320
So yes get involved in politics come to events like this and vote and find things that you believe in

02:32:19.088 --> 02:32:23.960
But spend time with the people that you care about build strong connections because with that community

02:32:23.960 --> 02:32:30.800
You are then truly unstoppable that gives you the strength to then go tackle everything else

02:32:30.800 --> 02:32:35.460
I mean guys one of the biggest lies that I was told as a young woman

02:32:36.170 --> 02:32:41.510
Was it getting married and then later starting a family would ruin my life that it would hold me back

02:32:41.510 --> 02:32:48.390
That I would be literally settling and guys. I heard that from the left and the right. I heard that from people that I once respected

02:32:49.390 --> 02:32:51.830
But I just want to tell you today wholeheartedly

02:32:52.310 --> 02:32:57.130
And then my husband that is somewhere standing offstage. I don't know where he is. There he is

02:32:58.060 --> 02:32:59.520
That he has made me

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Oh my god, you're getting a standing we've standing ovation that you have made me bolder and braver and

02:33:06.180 --> 02:33:11.060
More ambitious than I have ever been in my entire life because of your love

02:33:11.060 --> 02:33:16.880
He and our family and our communities. They form the basis of my life

02:33:17.464 --> 02:33:18.920
And it is within these

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Stops here

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All right, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Andrew pulpit in

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Neff

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Hey, Andrew, how's it going over there? I hope you're hope your connections able to survive for the next hour

02:33:53.480 --> 02:33:55.320
But we'll do our best we'll do our best

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So let's go through, I know it's having technical difficulties all of a sudden. I have no idea why

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Let's go through this Caroline Levitt Presser

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Let's just go ahead and play cut 95

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The first week that the president was in office signed an executive order as it relates to

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birthright citizenship, trying to eliminate that.

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Now 22 state attorney generals have said that this is unconstitutional, a federal judge

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has just agreed with their argument.

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What's the administration's argument for doing away with birthright citizenship?

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The folks that you mentioned have a right to have that legal opinion,

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but it is in disagreement with the legal opinion of this administration.

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This administration believes that birthright citizenship is unconstitutional,

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and that is why President Trump signed that executive order.

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A legal immigrants who come to this country and have a child

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are not subject to the laws of this jurisdiction.

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That's the opinion of this administration.

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Administration and we are prepared to fight this all the way to the Supreme Court if we have to because President Trump believes that this is a

02:35:08.780 --> 02:35:12.320
Necessary step to secure our nation's borders and protect our homeland

02:35:13.560 --> 02:35:18.380
Like I thought that was the appropriate place to start here given the conversation with John Eastman

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What's your take on?

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President Trump and this administration's odds of success at the Supreme Court

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I have some friends who have clerked at the Supreme Court, all the Supreme Court justices

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have clerks.

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They're very important in the whole process of creating opinions, creating the rulings

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that they give.

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And they can give a lot of insight into how the Supreme Court works because it's a bit

02:35:42.050 --> 02:35:42.810
of a black box.

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And unfortunately what they told me is, is they're skeptical on the birthright citizenship

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one.

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maybe like two votes is the most likely and you're probably under 50% on the third vote,

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which they believed would be Gorsuch.

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So you're looking at a tough uphill battle. You're thinking, well, maybe Sotomayor will

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die or have to retire, you could replace her, maybe Roberts will retire, maybe you get that

02:36:11.960 --> 02:36:17.000
fifth vote from Gorsuch. But another thing that can be said is if this becomes a public

02:36:18.750 --> 02:36:25.350
it being made very clear that the new conservative consensus is this was wrongly decided. You can

02:36:25.350 --> 02:36:31.312
start getting all those people to start writing the papers, giving the lectures, writing the

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You know universal birthright citizenship is a misreading of the Constitution and

02:36:40.720 --> 02:36:44.240
Supreme Court just says it's not even saying they respond to public opinion

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They're human beings and they can be influenced by what the

02:36:49.664 --> 02:36:54.540
wider zeitgeist is what the growing consensus is and you can maybe

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Influence them in that direction. It will also matter if they start getting clerks who have been you know raised in that

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sentiment

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in the federal society and those groups that raise conservative guys.

02:37:06.730 --> 02:37:11.290
That said, overall, I don't think our odds are great, but it's already, it would be better

02:37:11.290 --> 02:37:17.690
for us to get an explicit Supreme Court ruling on this than to have the existing situation

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where we're just going off a 150 year old Supreme Court decision that everyone is just

02:37:24.350 --> 02:37:26.330
taking for granted that it means this.

02:37:28.560 --> 02:37:32.780
explicitly lay out the supposed reasoning, because then that reasoning can be attacked.

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We can make it a new litmus test for future Supreme Court justices and so on.

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Yeah, I'm worried you might be right.

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I find that disheartening.

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Let's go ahead and play cut 96.

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This White House believes strongly in the First Amendment, so it's why our team will work diligently to restore the press passes of the 440 journalists whose passes were wrongly revoked by the previous administration.

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We're also opening up this briefing room to new media voices who produce news-related content and whose outlet is not already represented by one of the seats in this room.

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Alright, so I'm going to respond to this, but you know, I think this is massive, massive news, and as somebody that...

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Part of my job is working with mainstream news media, legacy news media.

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I, you know, for those who don't know, I serve as the spokesman for Turning Point when Charlie's

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not available or chooses not to participate. So I have to interact with these people a lot.

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And I will just tell you that there is a huge amount of them that are wildly unimpressive and that

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have their job simply because they've climbed through a pecking order and towed the party line.

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There's editorial constraints involved.

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For example, you have to call January 6 an insurrection at some of these outlets.

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You have to say that the 2020 election was the most secure election in the history of elections.

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These are things that they are forced to say in print

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or on air at many of the legacy news media outlets.

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That is wildly out of step with the people that just elected Donald Trump as their 47th

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president.

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So there is a fundamental disconnect between the people and the news agencies and the news

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outlets that are allowed into that room, or at least historically.

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Caroline Levitt is blowing up an old paradigm.

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It needed to be blown up.

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It needed to be reset.

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It needed to be reformulated.

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all for it. I think Joe Rogan should be in that room. I think Russell Branch should be in that

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room. I think Charlie Kirk should be in that room. And if Charlie doesn't want to do it,

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me or Blake will do it for him. But I'm so thrilled that we already have a Turning Point USA

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White House correspondent. She's a true journalist, a real cut in the mold that

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that of truth and honesty integrity. Yes, she has a POV, but don't for a second think

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that these other journalists don't have a POV because they are absolutely water holders

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of the regime media. They have been an enemy of the people because they have been an enemy

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of truth. Now I don't understand they need to be arrested.

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Some of you in the in the audience will disagree with me on that

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I'm simply saying that it is time for the scales of of coverage and justice and truth to be rebalanced

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And this is a fundamental step in the right direction

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This was just a mic drop moment. I'm gonna play this is Caroline Levitt on illegal immigrants

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one of the themes from this was that legacy news media cared so much about illegal immigrants

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They call them undocumented migrants. Well, that is a a

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A sleight of hand trick that they use to make you feel compassion for people that broke our laws and are not here under our welcome.

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They will be removed. Caroline Levitt made that very clear, 97.

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Can you just tell us the numbers how many have a criminal record versus those who are just in the country illegally all of them because they

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Illegally broke our nation's laws and therefore they are criminals as far as this administration goes

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I know the last administration didn't see it that way

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So it's a big culture shift in our nation to view someone who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal, but that's exactly what they are

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Blake your thoughts on Caroline's mic drop moment pretty cut and dry as I would see it

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Yeah, it's it gets at the most appealing thing about this early administration or second most of the most appealing thing is how aggressive

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They've been how they clearly came in with a plan. We're going to do lots of stuff

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We're going to do this this blitzkrieg this shock and awe strategy

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It's all going to overwhelm the 24-hour news cycles ability to keep up with it

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but the other thing is just this total attitude shift and

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For you or I, you know, we grew up in this very, we came of age in this very defeated, late George W. Bush, and then later McCain, Romney era, where conservatives were very, they were very overawed, rhetorically, they always kind of were apologetic, they kind of needed permission for the opinions they would hold, and

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it made them very it made them naturally weak when you basically need permission to do anything from

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your enemies shocker they won't give you permission to do it so if you're going to be a winning party

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you just have to be a lot more assertive and that's not just assertive in policy it's assertive

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in every single dimension of politics so they're vastly more gung-ho just yep they're illegal

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And they just have to play ball with it and it's why even you know

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I've said it behind like I think the the Gulf of America thing is kind of silly and I'm probably not going to call it that myself but

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Like the cheer Cajones to make that push we're like yep

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We're going to be renaming things because you know the left renames things all the time and you guys all cheerlead it

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We can do that too. It's this very aggressive posture

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That is the sort of thing that gets you wins the more aggressive party in politics tends to get what it wants

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Yeah, I think that's right Blake and I want to go back to what you just said this assertive tone this change

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You saw this also with the JD Vance interview with Margaret Brennan at CBS over the weekend where he said, you know, frankly Margaret

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I don't care. I you know, I don't give a damn with some of the means means that we're coming out

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Let's go ahead and play. I believe it was this cut cut to

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Well, Margaret, I don't agree that all these immigrants or all these refugees have been properly vetted in fact

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We know that there are cases of people who allegedly were properly vetted and then we're literally planning terrorist attacks on our country

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That happened during the campaign if you may remember so clearly not all of these foreign

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People in the pipeline

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Afghan refugees, but my primary concern as the vice president Margaret is to look after the American people and now that we know

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That we have vetting problems with a lot of these refugee programs. We absolutely cannot unleash

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Thousands of unvetted people into our country. It's not good. These people are vetted

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Just like the guy who planted terrorist attack in Oklahoma a few months ago

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He was allegedly properly vetted and many people in the media and the Democratic Party said that he was properly vetted

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Clearly he wasn't

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I don't want my children to share a neighborhood with people who are not properly vetted and

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because I don't want it for my kids, I'm not going to force any other American citizens

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kids to do that either.

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Well, it didn't have that line, but it was still very, very good, you know, the peachy Kenan who's come on this show actually recently because her

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House almost burned down in Los Angeles

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She she made a really interesting point Blake about that look that legacy news media that look that Margaret Brennan

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Where she kind of it's just the elitist smug tone where they try and get in like a point and and sneer at you

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And it's basically like this that her her observation with that this is a look that these you know

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elitist journalists have been giving conservative

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politicians, leaders for a long time. And it basically says, you're so dumb, like, you don't deserve to be here. And it's, and it's worked for years. And that's why I think this tone shift is so powerful. It's, it, it, you know, we go back to this politics downstream of culture of vice versa question. Yeah, that's the look, look at all these

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When we talk about what this is doing to the culture, we are seeing a re-ascendance,

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a re-emergence of this powerful masculine energy that wants to protect the country,

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and we won't be cowed by these women anymore.

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Yeah, it's ornate. And just the sniping questions, all of that. And I think that

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that will also be a boon from the way they've changed the White House

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You know the White House press briefings to incorporate more podcasters and the like and you know, what's funny is if you watch

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Joe Rogan

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Interview someone it actually often comes off as more professional than you know that that weekend interview was he's able to probe at someone

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He's actually able to interrogate someone's premises. He can actually be a pretty aggressive even hostile interviewer

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But he's also at the same time. He's more professional. It doesn't come off as a lecture

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It's such a different situation

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Gonna head to break more with Blake Neff. We're gonna go into more Caroline Levitt press conference. Don't go anywhere

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The right I heard that from people that I once respected

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But I just want to tell you today wholeheartedly that my husband that is somewhere standing offstage, I don't know where he is, there he is!

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That he has made me, oh my God, you're getting a standing ovation.

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That you have made me bolder and braver and more ambitious than I have ever been in my entire life because of your love.

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He and our family and our communities, they form the basis of my life.

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And it is within these communities that we create the most meaningful change, and this

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is why I said that I wanted to talk directly to you and about you guys.

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Because real change starts at home.

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There's so much that we can do online and in politics and there's so much that we can do and obviously to be as they

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Have shown us that over the last four years because they've been so incredible

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but at the end of the day

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Change starts with your values and your personal integrity and your family and the life that you build together

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Because when it comes down to it in my opinion the best way to win is to live a great life

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That pisses them off because you're so happy and because you're so successful, that is the way to win.

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So focus on that, embrace gratitude, stay grounded and rooted in your values, be a good person and build a rich community.

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Because nobody can take that away from you, no matter whatever happens in a given election cycle, no matter what the mainstream media is spewing, no matter what happens with your job or the daily troubles that we all face.

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Because here's the truth, you might not have control over the world or the circumstances that you were born into or these political outcomes, but you do have control over yourself.

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You have control over the way that you approach and respond to the world and that is your personal

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Responsibility, that's my personal responsibility

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so make the choice to live a life of

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Purpose of joy and of resilience and fight the good fight

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But not just for the political winds, but because at the end of the day, it's not really about the headlines or the applause

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It is about staying true to yourself and leaving behind something meaningful for those who matter most because

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It's true because that is how we win not just in politics, but in my opinion also in life

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Might know more of my story than others but for those who don't

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I did not have the most conventional or stable upbringing.

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It was turbulent. It was confusing. It was often dangerous for a young child.

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One of my brothers passed away at a very young age.

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Another brother of mine is a diagnosed schizophrenic. He was homeless for many years with me as his primary contact.

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Parents are divorced. I emancipated myself at 15 years old, if that tells you anything about what I went through.

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As a child, I constantly asked myself, why me?

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Like, why is this going on?

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And those feelings of helplessness and anger were loud.

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But at 14 years old, and I'll never forget this,

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my mom handed me a journal and she told me

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to write down 10 things every single day

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that I was grateful for.

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And these are like the bare essentials, you know,

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a home, a roof over my head, food on the table,

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a mom who loved me.

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And as silly as that sounds, and even when I'm saying it,

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I'm like, oh my god, that was so silly what I was doing.

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It was transformative.

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My outlook completely changed, and suddenly, the world

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as a teenager seemed a lot less dark.

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Because grab.

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Charlie Churchill, Andrew Pulvitt in with Blake Neff.

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Blake, I don't even want to play the clip.

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You can just, the floor is yours,

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take a bow on the UFO thing,

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and I want to get into eggs, all right?

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Okay.

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All right, yes.

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All right, now let us just all remember

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at the start of the year,

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we had those mysterious sightings of all the drones.

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No, it wasn't even at the start of the year,

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it was the end of last year.

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All those drones in New Jersey,

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we debated it on the show, what are the drones?

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I told you guys, it's just people freaking out. It's just a panic. Everyone's going to

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forget about it once there's something new on television. And it was true. Everyone forgot

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about it once something new was on television, but they came back to it today in the press

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conference. The Caroline Levitt delivered an update and it was approved FCC flights

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And then just, you know, people got excited and they were all looking in the sky and they started seeing things because normally you don't look at the sky.

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But it was all normal. All right. All right people freaking out. I like Lake Lake was right. All right. Blake was right

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We're gonna we'll give it to you Blake. All right

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We're gonna move on to the eggs thing because yes, you take the Bob like the the eggs thing

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I think is actually hilarious because I think it's a big self-own

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Admitting that they are in fact losing on every single front. So what is the left doing?

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They're like, well Trump's been in office for six seven days and he hasn't lowered the price of eggs

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So like I'm sorry, but if that's

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What you're you're clinging to and you spent the last four years defending how high the price of eggs is gone

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I think you should sit this one out, but let's go ahead and play the clip

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Looks like yep clip 101. This is Caroline Levitt setting the record straight

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Egg prices have skyrocketed since President Trump took office, so what specifically is

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he doing to lower those costs for Americans?

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Really glad you brought this up, because there is a lot of reporting out there that is putting

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the onus on this White House for the increased cost of eggs.

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I would like to point out to each and every one of you that in 2024, when Joe Biden was

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in the Oval Office or upstairs in the residence sleeping, I'm not so sure, egg prices have

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prices increased 65% in this country. We also have seen the cost of everything, not just

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eggs. Bacon, groceries, gasoline have increased because of the inflationary policies of the

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last administration.

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Well, and what she doesn't mention there is the fact that a hundred million

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chickens were killed because of an outbreak of avian flu bird flu so that the whole point here is

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These are adversarial media. We get it. They're gonna try and play gotcha games with her

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But there's really no gotcha to be had the the price increase that you're seeing in eggs right now was a process set in motion

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by the previous administration

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both inflationary pressures and spending, but also because a lot of birds have been killed,

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that lay eggs.

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Therefore, the supply has gone down, the price is gonna go up.

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Now, whether or not Trump can fix that remains to be seen.

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I would think there's some things we can do, but growing 100 million new and raising 100

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new chickens to lay eggs is gonna take a little bit of time.

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I mean, this is like Harry Sisson to that Parker kid.

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They're all posting about eggs online.

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They think it's like this big own on President Trump.

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Is that really all they have?

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Yeah, it's definitely a retread. They just have to dig up. Well, it worked on Biden.

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But contextually, the reason it worked on Biden was a few things. It worked on Biden

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because Biden very obviously did stuff to cause massive inflation. He let a million

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people into the country. He continued COVID lockdowns while continuing to give tons of

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stimulus to try to offset it. And then most importantly, the Biden administration massively

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all of 2021, there's no signs any inflation is going to happen. Definitely not. Ignore what

02:55:10.530 --> 02:55:14.490
all of your friends are saying. Ignore the menus at the restaurant. They just lied about it for

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ages. Then they belatedly admitted it was happening and then passed a bill that they

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called the inflation reduction act that did nothing to reduce inflation and was in fact

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The reason it worked on Biden was that everything in his terrible administration came together

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to force this giant inflation narrative. Whereas, okay, Trump, egg prices are going up. I suspect

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they will do their best to handle that, but it's not fitting into this wider, you know,

02:55:45.640 --> 02:55:48.380
epidemic of failure that was the Biden administration.

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All right, Blake last question 10 seconds here 15 seconds give the first week of the Trump administration a grade

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Honestly, I'm just gonna say 10 out of 10 they they actually came out

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They did the stuff that I wanted a Trump administration to do in its first week. They have done I can't confirm

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It's all going to work out long term. We'll see on birthright. We'll see all the auditions

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But they are doing what I wanted them to do week one

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Maybe

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Mr.

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I still think Gulf of America is a little whatever

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But I'm gonna get a t-shirt made for the audience as matter of fact you get that at Charlie Kirk comm slash store coming out soon

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Thanks, that's all we've got Blake Neff. See you tomorrow Charlie. We'll be back in the chair