WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.760 That dynamic of the speech, I mean, Jack, I think you would agree, was what made this 00:00:05.760 --> 00:00:09.660 not only a historic moment, because we can all feel that the country is on the verge 00:00:09.660 --> 00:00:17.240 and in the midst of something truly transformational in a positive sense, but the context, doing 00:00:17.240 --> 00:00:22.440 all of that, the salt and the wound, as Joe Biden and Barack Obama- 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:25.340 And mind you, we knew that Joe Biden just pardoned his family. 00:00:25.630 --> 00:00:26.730 But Trump did not. 00:00:27.010 --> 00:00:27.830 That's what's so remarkable. 00:00:28.130 --> 00:00:30.470 But it was this incredible juxtaposition 00:00:30.850 --> 00:00:34.190 of seeing essentially the. 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:40.120 hegemonic force and power structure of the previous regimes right there having 00:00:40.120 --> 00:00:45.260 to swallow these very harsh words. It was a regime change. It was a regime change. 00:00:45.740 --> 00:00:50.840 And it was incredibly powerful and a different politician would 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:55.680 have used that moment and softened his language, pulled his punches, Trump 00:00:55.680 --> 00:00:59.660 pulled no punches. Trump, I mean maybe a little bit, he likes to say that Melania 00:01:01.780 --> 00:01:05.100 paragraphs that were a little bit stronger it was strong as it was 00:01:05.100 --> 00:01:06.280 and to see 00:01:06.784 --> 00:01:08.840 joe biden have to sit there and listen to it 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:11.060 brock obama hillary and bill clinton 00:01:11.660 --> 00:01:13.540 and the whole they've george bush 00:01:14.144 --> 00:01:16.820 uh... it was a really incredible i think 00:01:16.820 --> 00:01:18.840 one of the truly historic 00:01:19.630 --> 00:01:24.310 pictures, just from an optics standpoint, that we will ever live to witness. 00:01:24.550 --> 00:01:26.850 And to see it in such a tight frame, too. 00:01:27.250 --> 00:01:31.070 Again, on TV, you do not understand how tight of a space that is. 00:01:31.210 --> 00:01:34.310 I mean, these guys are breathing down each other's necks inside that space. 00:01:34.670 --> 00:01:37.650 Charlie, had you ever been that close to Obama and Hillary before? 00:01:38.110 --> 00:01:40.830 No. I actually had never seen Obama in person. 00:01:41.050 --> 00:01:41.530 What was that like? 00:01:42.110 --> 00:01:46.190 It was it was something I mean it's hard to it's hard to kind of put in words 00:01:46.190 --> 00:01:52.390 They just look different, but similar in person. I guess the way you could say and I mean 00:01:52.390 --> 00:01:54.870 Hillary just is such a disgusting person 00:01:55.570 --> 00:01:57.890 And then seeing George, I've met George W. Bush before, 00:01:58.490 --> 00:01:59.910 but just you have to look at it, 00:01:59.990 --> 00:02:02.030 that ensemble of people will never happen again. 00:02:02.250 --> 00:02:02.970 It'll never ever. 00:02:03.550 --> 00:02:05.550 Like that particular ensemble of people 00:02:05.550 --> 00:02:06.770 will never be re-graded. 00:02:06.970 --> 00:02:08.750 No, Michelle, I don't know. 00:02:09.030 --> 00:02:10.010 I don't know what's going on there. 00:02:10.590 --> 00:02:11.810 Maybe some Jennifer Aniston would have some words. 00:02:11.810 --> 00:02:13.270 Trouble and parrot, I don't know. 00:02:14.210 --> 00:02:16.490 Da-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na. 00:02:16.490 --> 00:02:17.510 Okay, strange story. 00:02:17.910 --> 00:02:20.250 All right, so I'm not to go into too much detail. 00:02:20.370 --> 00:02:22.070 My wife came with me on this trip. 00:02:22.570 --> 00:02:24.990 And her friend made dinner reservations for us. 00:02:25.850 --> 00:02:28.530 And so on the, I guess it was the Saturday night 00:02:28.530 --> 00:02:31.210 before inauguration, I was at a restaurant in DC. 00:02:31.930 --> 00:02:33.930 And all of a sudden, like I would say half, 00:02:34.510 --> 00:02:36.390 because this whole town has been pretty magnified 00:02:37.030 --> 00:02:38.170 during inauguration, right? 00:02:38.310 --> 00:02:39.050 I mean, just pure numbers. 00:02:39.190 --> 00:02:39.750 Total taker. 00:02:39.870 --> 00:02:42.030 Yeah, I mean, it's got to be 60, 40 conservative. 00:02:42.910 --> 00:02:44.770 And yeah, there's very little protest. 00:02:44.930 --> 00:02:45.930 I haven't seen a single protest. 00:02:46.170 --> 00:02:47.430 Jack, you had to go hunting for them. 00:02:47.850 --> 00:02:50.190 Anyways, the point is, all of a sudden, half the, 00:02:51.980 --> 00:02:58.340 Starts clapping and you hear one woman cheer and it was Barack Obama eating at the same restaurant as me 00:02:58.340 --> 00:03:02.000 Like whizzes by I feel the air behind my head 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:07.580 And I'm like trying to figure out why people are cheering and then my wife's friend goes Barack Obama 00:03:07.580 --> 00:03:11.560 Just like exited so I turn and I never even saw the guy 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:16.540 I just felt the air past me heard the cheers and apparently he whizzed right back past me 00:03:16.540 --> 00:03:18.660 It was a very DC moment. I will say 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:27.640 And so, all that to say, I got attacked for having good seats, but it wasn't just me, it was also Erica, and they were really sweet to include her. 00:03:28.020 --> 00:03:32.880 Because all the other congressional spouses, this is what made them really mad, all the congressional spouses were in the overflow room. 00:03:33.720 --> 00:03:42.380 So the congressional spouses were in the overflow room, and Erica got in, and she deserves it, because we were all part of this kind of historic and triumphant moment. 00:03:43.220 --> 00:03:47.200 And it was just larger-than-life breathtaking and 00:03:48.320 --> 00:03:54.580 Yeah, that's seat gate where a lot of and then Jim banks senator Jim banks we have that we have this tweet, so 00:03:55.320 --> 00:03:58.320 Let's go actually I just saw senator Jim banks like five minutes 00:03:58.320 --> 00:04:03.740 Jim banks is part of this new guard that you've been talking about that really has it okay throw up 166 00:04:03.740 --> 00:04:04.900 I know you had it before 00:04:05.740 --> 00:04:08.420 But so this is Julia grace 00:04:09.890 --> 00:04:14.630 Brufke, and Julia Grace is a senior Washington reporter, 00:04:16.290 --> 00:04:16.870 sort of known. 00:04:17.430 --> 00:04:18.850 She's with the Daily Beast. 00:04:20.890 --> 00:04:21.670 She's fine. 00:04:21.850 --> 00:04:22.410 Everything's fine. 00:04:23.050 --> 00:04:25.110 She's actually used to work at the Washington Examiner, 00:04:25.150 --> 00:04:25.750 believe it or not. 00:04:26.210 --> 00:04:28.130 So she says, Charlie Kirk has better seats 00:04:28.130 --> 00:04:29.570 than every member of Congress. 00:04:29.930 --> 00:04:32.930 Tells you how little Trump team thinks of Congress. 00:04:33.110 --> 00:04:34.730 One GOP lawmaker tells me. 00:04:36.140 --> 00:04:39.380 let's go to 167, Jim Banks chimes in and says, 00:04:39.780 --> 00:04:42.020 Charlie Kirk has done more than most members of Congress 00:04:42.020 --> 00:04:45.100 combined to get us to this point today, which 00:04:45.100 --> 00:04:48.760 was, I thought, a really nice thing for Jim Banks to sort 00:04:48.760 --> 00:04:49.080 of say. 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:49.600 Organically. 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:50.420 I didn't ask him to do that. 00:04:50.420 --> 00:04:50.580 Yeah. 00:04:51.080 --> 00:04:53.180 And you retweeted it because I thought it was a great point, 00:04:53.420 --> 00:04:56.220 and you thought it was a great point, and good for Jim Banks. 00:04:56.420 --> 00:05:00.620 And I would say Jim Banks is a really good barometer of when 00:05:00.620 --> 00:05:02.840 we get into confirmation talks, when we get into 00:05:03.540 --> 00:05:08.500 How do we get the president's agenda across the finish line? Jim Banks is a perfect 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:11.980 embodiment of this new guard Bernie Moreno 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:18.720 Yeah, these guys get him again. No, these guys these guys are our get it done guys 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:25.220 These guys are totally on the team. They're not this vestige of the past of a bygone Republican Party that you know 00:05:25.220 --> 00:05:25.880 Nobody's just 00:05:26.410 --> 00:05:29.290 you know, taking the time to raise $50 million to primary, right? 00:05:29.550 --> 00:05:32.090 So, but these guys are, these guys are with it. 00:05:32.230 --> 00:05:33.690 And Jim, Jim's totally on the team. 00:05:34.010 --> 00:05:35.930 And, and I love that he did that for you. 00:05:35.990 --> 00:05:39.910 But let's, let's show a picture of your seating location, Charlie. 00:05:40.630 --> 00:05:41.470 164, let's go. 00:05:41.530 --> 00:05:42.830 We dropped an arrow. 00:05:43.470 --> 00:05:46.250 Now, if you think they were mad, just to be clear, 00:05:46.670 --> 00:05:48.910 if the original dais would have stood. 00:05:50.320 --> 00:05:51.900 the tickets would have been even better. 00:05:52.400 --> 00:05:54.920 Meaning that because of all the capital mixed up 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:55.480 in the house. 00:05:55.660 --> 00:05:56.660 You mean, had it been outside? 00:05:57.020 --> 00:05:59.300 Had it been outside, I would have been two or three rows 00:05:59.300 --> 00:06:02.800 back from the people that were on the dais with Trump inside. 00:06:03.520 --> 00:06:04.800 I don't know if I understand what you're saying. 00:06:04.820 --> 00:06:07.160 So like for example, where Elon was 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:08.780 and where the cabinet was. 00:06:08.780 --> 00:06:09.640 You would have been three rows behind him. 00:06:09.640 --> 00:06:10.800 I would have been like in that group. 00:06:10.900 --> 00:06:11.240 Oh wow. 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:12.300 If it would have been outside. 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:16.540 and so that's amazing yeah heads would have really explored but because it went 00:06:16.540 --> 00:06:20.540 inside it was like hey I really want Erica there it was kind of some like 00:06:20.540 --> 00:06:23.240 yeah sure and I just like I want to be in the room I don't care if I have a 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:27.420 terrible ticket and well apparently wasn't terrible enough no no I'm not 00:06:27.420 --> 00:06:30.680 saying it was terrible no no I just I'm saying that was actually awesome I saw 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:34.240 everything I love that Swalwell was behind you I was super honored and it was 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:35.800 just treated so well and 00:06:36.300 --> 00:06:41.560 Again, it was just kind of blown away because last inauguration. I was like looking up in the cheap seats 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:46.980 I was like, oh, I see a little dot. Yeah, exactly. Well, I mean, it's it's a whole new day in Washington 00:06:46.980 --> 00:06:50.760 I will tell you a little vibe check on the ground jack you could be good on this 00:06:50.760 --> 00:06:55.200 I just feel like this city even in Trump 1.0 in the first term 00:06:56.240 --> 00:07:00.940 It's I don't feel at all conspicuous being loud and proud of my what I'm thinking 00:07:00.940 --> 00:07:08.400 I don't hold back opinions at the like restaurant or like a coffee. I'm just I'm out and proud and I don't even 00:07:08.640 --> 00:07:14.500 I you know before well, it's like the resistance is quiet. There's yeah, it's just like everybody's not existent 00:07:14.500 --> 00:07:21.220 It's not like see but I but I worry that that's I worry if that's a if that's a false sense of security because 00:07:21.220 --> 00:07:28.660 It's totally possible this town is still this town. All right, you know the the the cockroaches are dug but the vermin are on the run 00:07:28.660 --> 00:07:29.300 They're very 00:07:30.280 --> 00:07:36.600 We're getting a lot of them fired a lot of them are unnoticed a lot of them know that they are probably 00:07:37.620 --> 00:07:38.480 You know gotta 00:07:39.540 --> 00:07:44.620 Listen the present has been around a lot longer than any of I totally agree. I totally agree 00:07:44.620 --> 00:07:51.380 But they they legitimately do feel threatened for their future and they're not gonna pop their head up just they are and that's why 00:07:51.380 --> 00:07:54.820 So they're all because they don't know where to fight. Yeah, they're all turtling right now 00:07:54.820 --> 00:08:00.000 They're sort of waiting. They're sort of in you know, kind of in like receive mode. Okay 00:08:00.400 --> 00:08:03.040 What do I do? How do I hunker down? How do I, you know, 00:08:03.180 --> 00:08:05.700 let's leak some stuff on Hegseth. Let's leak some stuff on Tulsi. 00:08:06.020 --> 00:08:08.480 Let's, you know, see if we can get that going there, get, you know, 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:12.060 Murkowski Collins came out, you know, as McConnell going to vote. Who knows? 00:08:12.260 --> 00:08:15.560 Whatever. Um, is J.D. going to have to come back to town to be the tiebreaker? 00:08:15.780 --> 00:08:20.760 Whatever. Point being is, is it's a muted response, far muted. 00:08:20.980 --> 00:08:23.660 Obviously you're not seeing the Antifa riots like we saw in 2017. 00:08:24.200 --> 00:08:29.000 The limos burning, the attack on the deplorable, et cetera, et cetera. That said, 00:08:29.740 --> 00:08:34.820 I'm just saying guys, we haven't quite hit you know, stay frosty. Stay frosty is what I always say. 00:08:34.820 --> 00:08:42.780 And I think that's a good word, but I will tell you just the fact that we're even this far is just such a dramatic, dramatic shift.