Sen. John Thune is the new Senate Majority Leader, and he's in charge of the Republican majority in the United States Senate. This is a huge moment in our nation's history, and it's a moment that will have a profound effect on the direction of our country and the future of the country. Charlie and I discuss how important it is that the majority leader is someone who is willing to fight for the President's agenda and stand up for our values. We also discuss why it's important to have a new majority leader in place, and why the current one is not up to the job of being the next majority leader and why we should be worried about who the next one is going to be! This is an action packed episode, and you won't want to miss it! If you like what you hear here, please consider supporting us at charliekirk.support.co/support to help support The Charlie Kirk Show and all things Charlie Kirk. You'll get access to all kinds of amazing resources, including our Sponsorships, our social media platforms, and much more! Thank you for supporting the show, Charlie, you are the greatest! You are so much more than you could ever ask for! - Charlie and his staff at Charlie's Note: We appreciate all the support, and we are so grateful for all the love and support you're giving us a chance to spread the word of Charlie's message. to the world. Thank you Charlie, the truth, the word out there. - Teddy, and all around the world! - Teddy and all of his supporters everywhere! - Charlie, thank you, Teddy, Mark Wayne Mullen, and the rest of his team at Turning Point USA, and everyone else! - Thanks for listening to Charlie, and thank you so much for listening and supporting Charlie, Thank you, and God bless you! - P.S. - Thank you and God Bless You, Thank You, God bless, Blessings, and Much Blessings! - Blessings - Eternally Thank You. Teddy, Cheers, Kristy, Eternally, Amy, Evelyn, Sarah, Matt, AJ, and Sarah, Johnathan, and Mike, and Jack, Kristian, and Joe, and EJ, and Katie, etc., etc. - EJ & Jack, EJ. - CHEERS! - E. & Kacie, AJ & A.J.
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00:03:24.000To show us that you will support President Trump, fill his cabinet, confirm his judges, pass his agenda, do recess appointments, keep the Senate operational for 24 hours.
00:03:33.000If Chuck Grassley has to go take a nap, that's fine.
00:04:10.000Of all the votes that they take, this is one of the most important votes that they take.
00:04:18.000Since Republicans vote with the party 98% of the time, what matters is who are they actually putting in charge of the United States Senate?
00:05:28.000Thune did not win when people had to voice their support for John Thune.
00:05:32.000The only way that they are able to keep business as usual in the Senate is to not have you see who's actually supporting business as usual in the Senate.
00:05:43.000And in some ways, that should give you some hope and some optimism.
00:05:47.000That should give you some confidence and encouragement.
00:05:51.000In some ways, it's actually a very good thing because they're terrified of you because you care and the American people have awoken from their slumber.
00:06:01.000This is not the result that any of us wanted, but it was the high probability result.
00:06:08.000Some people said, oh, Charlie, Rick Scott's going to win no matter what.
00:06:10.000I said, I don't think you realize how much the U.S. Senate Is in contradiction to the needs, wants, and interests of the American people.
00:06:21.000But they're increasingly getting nervous that they might face primary challenges.
00:06:25.000The Senate is not an insular good old boy club.
00:06:31.000It should be a representative of the citizens.
00:06:34.000However, it does operate as a country club.
00:06:37.000Secret ballots, work a couple hours a day, Kind of go work out in the gym.
00:08:37.000Because he is far away from a primary challenge.
00:08:40.000He is distant from the accountability of the American people.
00:08:44.000And so for John Thune, they say, okay, even if he gets to be really upset, if Charlie Kirk and Tucker Carlson and the whole gang want to primary Mr.
00:08:55.000Thune, he is detached from the accountability.
00:09:23.000And by the way, Senator Thune, you're always welcome on this program.
00:09:26.000If you want to be in front of a big audience, this is where this stuff really happens anymore.
00:09:29.000It's no longer just on the cable news chatterbox, where you go on and you get a couple softball questions about how much money you're sending to Ukraine.
00:09:48.000Will you pass a bill to Allow for Department of Homeland Security to do their job?
00:09:59.000These are all very important questions.
00:10:02.000Are we going to have real spending cuts?
00:10:03.000If Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, by the way, who's in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency, If they highlight hundreds of billions of dollars of wasteful spending, DOGE, are you going to have the wherewithal and the fortitude as Senate Majority Leader to capitalize on those cuts?
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00:19:34.000balanceofnature.com promo code CHARLIE. Joining us now is a great man who I'm thrilled that he is nominated to be ambassador to Israel, Governor Mike Huckabee.
00:19:57.000I heard that he's had a very serious accident.
00:20:00.000Dennis Prager is one of the great minds of our day.
00:20:05.000Unquestionably one of the most important thinkers and articulators of strong conservative movement.
00:20:13.000Dennis and I co-hosted a trip that took a group of pastors to Auschwitz and then to London to see the bunkers of World War II and finally to the Reagan Library because we wanted to help people understand Exactly what happened with particularly John Paul II,
00:20:33.000Margaret Thatcher, and Ronald Reagan, and why that they were so instrumental, and quite frankly, John Paul II maybe more than anyone, in helping to bring about the complete collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe Communism.
00:21:33.000And thoughtful advocate for the State of Israel.
00:21:35.000You are now nominated as the U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
00:21:40.000And I could tell you right now, if Dennis was on the radio today, he would be cheerleading with pom-poms that Governor Mike Huckabee is the U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
00:22:39.000I really believe it was the hand of God, but please continue.
00:22:42.000Well, it was, but, you know, God's hands sometimes need a little help down here, and He calls on us to be His hands and His feet, and you guys have been just that.
00:22:52.000I'll tell you, this has been a kind of a shocking 24 hours for me.
00:22:57.000And it was almost exactly 24 hours ago when President Trump gave me the call.
00:23:03.000It wasn't something I'd been lobbying for.
00:23:06.000But when he asked, quite frankly, the one position...
00:23:10.000That the president could have asked me to do that I was willing and really ready to do because of my passion for the state of Israel, which goes all the way back to 1973.
00:23:21.000That's when I made my first trip to Israel.
00:23:23.000I was still a month shy of my 18th birthday.
00:23:30.000And since that time, I've been probably a hundred times to Israel.
00:23:34.000I've taken tens of thousands of people to visit Israel, gotten to know most of the government officials there.
00:23:41.000I've walked from Dan to Beersheba and have been throughout the country and It's a place I just truly love, and I believe it is a special place because God made it special.
00:23:54.000And so without any apology in saying this, you know, I'm a simple guy.
00:24:37.000Well, I was there when the embassy was moved on that incredible day.
00:24:41.000I wept because for years I'd been praying some president would actually have the courage to do this.
00:24:47.000And every president, and it goes back, Democrats and Republicans, Bill Clinton, George Bush, it didn't matter who, all said they were going to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
00:27:00.000You are actively involved in diplomacy, in high-stakes negotiations, in representing American interests, not just Israel, but you are really at the tip of the spear for all Western Arab communications because it has to go through the prism of American-Israeli relations.
00:27:17.000And so this is not just kind of, okay, Governor Huckabee, you know, get a nice suntan down in Jamaica.
00:27:24.000You are going to be on the front lines of some of the most consequential geopolitical decisions.
00:27:31.000Well, it is a very strategic role because so much of world peace is made or is broken in that little area of the Middle East, particularly that sliver of real estate we called Israel, no bigger than the size of New Jersey.
00:27:45.000Israel occupies 1 644th of the land mass of the countries that are controlled by Muslim leadership.
00:27:54.000I mean, that's staggering when you think about it.
00:27:56.000So for every inch Of Israeli land and real estate, there are 644 pieces of land controlled by Muslim countries.
00:28:08.000When people say, Israel needs to give up some land to attain peace, they have no idea what they're talking about.
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00:31:13.000Well, so Elon Musk has now been appointed to the Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE as they call it.
00:31:22.000Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk are going to run the first ever government agency with a self-destruct button.
00:31:32.000Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will have full audit authority of the federal government to find waste, to find duplication of costs, to eliminate them.
00:31:41.000And to expose to the American people how the government has been wasting your money.
00:31:45.000This is something I'm so excited about.
00:31:47.000It takes someone like Ilan and Vivek that have the public's trust, that have this massive platform to be able to show the waste, publicize the waste, and then be able to cut it.
00:31:58.000Transparency is the agenda that Trump fought for.
00:32:01.000The Senate does not believe in transparency.
00:32:03.000The Senate believes in secret ballots.
00:32:05.000The Senate believes in black box budgeting.
00:32:08.000If anybody is against the Department of Government Efficiency like Pocahontas is, they are running a scam.
00:32:16.000Elizabeth Warren has been very chippy on Twitter saying, oh, you know, Pete Hegseth can't serve because he's a Fox and Friends host.
00:33:07.000The Department of Government Efficiency is one of the most exciting developments and promises made, promises kept by President Donald Trump.
00:33:16.000He said he was going to empower Elon and empower Vivek.
00:33:20.000He said he was going to deploy them to the front lines.
00:33:23.000He said he was going to give them the authority and the capacity to find costs and cut costs.
00:33:32.000The creation of DOGE, again, will be the first federal program whose goal is to eliminate itself.
00:33:40.000It exists to shrink government, not grow it.
00:33:42.000This is a profound historic step back to the founders' vision for America.
00:33:50.000Back to the original intent and the original structure that Madison, Hamilton and Jay intended.
00:33:58.000And the Senate is not going to like a lot of this, but too bad.
00:34:03.000We are liberating the consciousness and the awareness and the visibility of our government to lead a citizen reclamation of what was once ours.
00:34:14.000Donald Trump was the tip of the spear and Elon and Vivek are following right after.
00:34:19.000Then we have Governor Noem at DHS. We have Lee Zeldin at EPA. Got Elise Stefanik at the UN Ambassadorship.
00:34:26.000We got Tom Homan doing the Border Czar.
00:34:29.000I mean, this is a team that is going to swarm DC. And look, you're not going to win every battle.
00:34:33.000Some of these guys are going to have oppo dropped on them.
00:34:36.000And, you know, look, you're going to have a little war of attrition.
00:34:38.000You don't storm the beaches of DC and everyone's going to last six months or a year.