The latest on what happened over the Potomac, breaking news here with Amber Smith, an analysis of Cash, Tulsi and Bobby Kennedy, and then Josh Parker who might be running for Congress in upstate New York joins the program.
00:00:00.000Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, latest of what happened over the Potomac breaking news here with Amber Smith, an analysis of Cash, Tulsi, and Bobby Kennedy, and then Josh Parker, who might be running for Congress in upstate New York, joins the program.
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00:01:27.000I want to dive right into our analysis about the tragedy that happened over the Potomac.
00:01:31.000We have a very special guest here to help us understand what exactly happened.
00:01:37.000Amber Smith, former helicopter pilot, author of Unfit to Fight, How Woke Policies Are Destroying the Military, and former senior Pentagon official to break down the breaking news.
00:01:47.000Amber, thank you for joining the program.
00:01:51.000There's some recent news here, at least some new video footage, that shows if the helicopter was almost not pursuing but accelerating into the airplane.
00:02:09.000So I was an Army helicopter pilot for almost eight years, well over 1,500.
00:02:15.000And based off everything that I have seen in terms of the audio and the video, including the one you just mentioned that just came out, is that the Army helicopter air crew most likely confirmed visual confirmation of the incorrect aircraft.
00:02:32.000So when Tower gave them the warning of traffic ahead, they were looking at the wrong plane, basically, and then likely never even saw the aircraft that they ended up And it's, you know, an incredibly tragic and horrific situation.
00:02:51.000But in Army aviation, especially when it comes to helicopters, things are moving a million miles an hour.
00:02:57.000You have a lot going on in the helicopter.
00:02:59.000We are learning a lot about some mismanagement of the national capital region.
00:03:05.000Airspace around Reagan, some of the helicopter corridors and the altitudes involved there and very minimal altitude separation requirements between these incoming landing planes to Reagan and the helicopter traffic around them.
00:03:21.000A big red flag that I have seen in all of this is how common it has happened that The tower at Reagan is allowing these helicopters to fly underneath or behind incoming commercial planes as they're coming into short final to land at the runways.
00:04:03.000Whose idea was it to have the Army do military exercises even remotely close to the airspace of Reagan?
00:04:13.000I mean, there's plenty of other places you could do Army training, theoretically, right?
00:04:17.000I mean, it's a big country, a lot of rural areas, not near Reagan Airport.
00:04:22.000Who made this decision and for what possible reason?
00:04:25.000And why did no one ever think in the months or the years leading up to this, hey, these near misses are probably a good reason to suspend these training exercises?
00:04:34.000Yeah, so my assessment off of this is that it is the AO, the area of operation for this helicopter unit.
00:04:43.000So this helicopter unit's mission is to conduct operations down that corridor that I told you about that flies basically down the Potomac River.
00:04:51.000And to my knowledge, it was a checkride.
00:04:54.000So this was not technically training, although I'm sure the training goes on there as well.
00:05:00.000So an annual checkride where they're doing all sorts of procedures and maneuvers.
00:05:05.000And I'm assuming, this is me assuming, I do not know if it is like a requirement.
00:05:11.000I'm assuming that they have to be checked out in this location because it is their mission.
00:05:20.000That's something that I want to see, because if that is a requirement of theirs, doing these types of operations, maybe being familiar with the route should be a requirement, but actually going out and doing something like APART, which is an annual flight evaluation, should not be in this proximity to one of the biggest metropolitan airspaces when it comes to the combination of helicopter.
00:05:53.000You wrote the book that really addressed this, Unfit to Fight, How Woke Policies Are Destroying Our Military.
00:06:01.000And so I don't want to blame any sort of particulars on this incident, but can you give us more examples on how these woke policies have weakened America's military preparedness?
00:06:15.000So the opposite of DEI, which we have heard the president talk about since inauguration, even before, is merit.
00:06:24.000So what we've seen in the Biden administration, they pushed all of this diversity, equity, inclusion into all of the federal government, not just the military.
00:06:34.000My book's focused on the military, but so the opposite of...
00:07:59.000This is government-wide, where I'm sure they're going to be looking into the FAA and what's going on with ATC, the air traffic controllers, and see why they're, you know, undermanned and still allowing full aviation operations to proceed.
00:08:12.000So there's a couple things that need to happen.
00:08:16.000One, you've already seen the executive orders going out that sort of...
00:08:19.000Squash what can be squashed with an executive order, removing some of the policies that were put in place for the Biden administration.
00:08:26.000The implementation of that is ongoing.
00:08:32.000You need to change things immediately, culturally, to merit-based.
00:08:37.000And that needs to be from the top down, from president we're seeing, sec def, and then through the commands all the way down.
00:08:48.000This is going to be a significant task.
00:08:53.000The work is just getting started, so you can issue the executive order, but now you need to ensure that it's going to be implemented all the way through the ranks, all the way down to the rank and file, through all the commanders that chose to implement and enforce the vaccine mandates.
00:09:12.000The ones who chose to kick out the 8,000 troops that were...
00:09:18.000Combat proven and wanted to stay in the military and just didn't want to take an unproven vaccine.
00:09:24.000So you're going to have to get through all of those people to ensure there's not sabotage going in along the ranks.
00:09:30.000That's going to be that cultural aspect that I talked about.
00:09:33.000That is what is going to be incredibly challenging.
00:09:36.000The other part that needs to be done is accountability.
00:09:41.000When there is no accountability in a culture that is running rampant with DEI and lawlessness, no one is going to change.
00:09:50.000So when still there's some accountability for the leaders who have created the damage, have fostered this environment that has hurt the military and weakened the military and damaged our national security because of it, that accountability is essential to making the military hole again.
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00:11:16.000Yesterday was a huge day of hearings on Capitol Hill.
00:11:21.000Yesterday is why we worked so hard to get President Donald Trump elected.
00:11:26.000You might remember I said for a while that you are not voting for Trump or Kamala Harris.
00:11:31.000That you are voting for 5,000 people that will staff your government.
00:11:35.000You are voting for the people that will run your agencies.
00:11:37.000You're voting for the people that will bring change throughout the cabinet.
00:11:41.000You're voting for people that are going to go about and fulfill the mandate.
00:11:47.000Yesterday, in real time, what we saw were three changemakers, three disruptors that are going to go into their respective agencies and not do business as usual.
00:12:01.000We had Kash Patel, who's going to lead the FBI. Phenomenal selection.
00:12:07.000Bobby Kennedy for HHS to make America healthy again.
00:12:12.000Tulsi Gabbard to be the custodian of our nation's secrets.
00:12:27.000They are despised by entrenched and permanent Washington.
00:12:31.000Tulsi Gabbard is going to bring reform and transparency to the distrusted intel agencies that have been running coups and nonsensical operations against the American people.
00:12:42.000Bobby Kennedy will bring trust and integrity back to our public health authority.
00:12:47.000Asking the question is, why is our childhood vaccination schedule 72 shots?
00:12:51.000Why is it that our kids are so obese and overweight?
00:12:54.000Why is it that we are a sloppy and slovenly country?
00:12:57.000Should we really prescribe Ozembic to the entire country?
00:13:00.000Why is that 50% of our kids are obese or overweight by the age of 15 and only 3% of Japanese kids are?
00:13:08.000Why can't we even ask these fundamental questions?
00:13:57.000of the people that are trying to get in the way.
00:13:58.000But let's just summarize some of the highlights yesterday.
00:14:02.000Bobby Kennedy had a second hearing articulating the grievous condition of America's health care.
00:14:12.000Play cut 134. Today, Americans' overall health is in grievous condition.
00:14:17.000Over 70% of adults and a third of children are overweight or obese.
00:14:24.000Diabetes is ten times more prevalent than it was during the 1960s.
00:14:28.000Cancer among young people is rising by one or two percent a year.
00:14:33.000Autoimmune diseases, neurodevelopmental disorders, Alzheimer's, asthma, ADHD, depression, addiction, and a host of other physical and mental health conditions are all on the rise, some of them exponentially.
00:14:49.000The people who are against Bobby Kennedy are those that are purchased by Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, and Eli Lilly.
00:14:58.000A healthy population is a threat to permanent Washington.
00:15:03.000A healthy population questions social distancing.
00:15:07.000A healthy population doesn't take an mRNA gene-altering vaccine just because they're told to take it.
00:15:12.000A healthy population is one that challenges tyranny.
00:15:51.000You want a class of indentured servants, of fat, lazy people, because they're easier to control.
00:15:59.000Couple that with a third world invasion, and you have a recipe towards world domination via the United States of America.
00:16:07.000Bobby Kennedy is about making America happy again, healthy again, to get us back on a trajectory.
00:16:16.000Where we have national readiness for our United States military to restore trust post-COVID. When I hear a doctor on TV, well, doctors say I inherently am distrustful of such statements.
00:16:30.000Bobby Kennedy, Tulsi, and Cash must be confirmed by Republican senators.
00:16:42.000They represent the citizens taking back their government.
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00:18:05.000And I think he'd be a great replacement for Elise Stefanik up in New York 21. Possible candidate, just a rock star, founder and CEO of Parker Communications.
00:18:16.000He's in his mid-20s, like 26, 27. And, by the way, he's being considered by...
00:18:22.000All the very serious power brokers to potentially fill Elise's seat because she's going to the UN. And again, he's the father of four at 27, was on Shark Tank, had an amazing maple syrup business, really, really powerful Parker Communications Company with hundreds of employees.
00:18:39.000And it's Josh Parker who joins us now.
00:19:14.000And, you know, so we're obviously sad to see her go, but we are proud of the fact that she is going to be one of the most important voices on the global stage.
00:19:22.000I'm here at the north border, the U.S.-Canadian border.
00:19:27.000Charlie, most people don't realize that the northern border is actually in crisis.
00:19:32.000So this is known as the Swanton sector up in upstate New York.
00:19:36.000And in 2024, there were more illegal immigrants who crossed the Swanton sector.
00:19:43.000In the previous 17 years combined, that is a 550% increase.
00:19:49.000And Charlie, these are not just friendly Canadians.
00:19:51.000These people came from 97 different countries of origin.
00:19:55.000And again, Charlie, it's not just people, but it's also drugs.
00:20:01.000We have seen a 29% increase in the amount of drugs being smuggled across the northern border.
00:20:07.000And this is a shocking statistic, but 75% Of the terrorists, the illegal immigrants on the terror watch list who cross into our country, cross the northern border, not the southern border.
00:20:20.000So, as you know, this is the result of four years of Joe Biden's failed open border policies.
00:20:26.000And Congresswoman Stefanik has done a great job of bringing light to this issue.
00:20:30.000But we need to stand with President Trump to secure our northern border and our southern border.
00:20:35.000And that's why I think you'd be a phenomenal congressman for that district.
00:20:38.000I want to play this piece of tape here where you did a ride-along.
00:20:41.000And again, I want everyone to understand, you might think, oh, you know, who's coming across the border?
00:20:44.000There are some savage terrorists here.
00:20:50.000I want you guys to watch carefully here on Real America's Voice and on our streaming platforms of the people that are running across the northern border.
00:20:56.000These are stone-cold killers, some of them.
00:20:58.000Terrorists, ISIS, people that want us harm.
00:21:00.000When you think of our border invasion, you think of Guadalajara.
00:21:04.000You think of the southern border, where I live in Arizona.
00:21:10.000From all fronts, the northern border gets almost no coverage whatsoever because I think it's just a bunch of, you know, very nice-talking Canadians that are trying to exchange, you know, dollars for maple syrup or whatever.
00:21:55.000Yeah, and, you know, it's very unsettling.
00:21:58.000it's a hopeless feeling when you're at work and there's illegals walking by your house and you have no idea what these people are going to do their intentions this has always been a problem you've always seen people growing up here and things like that you'd see maybe one or two every six months okay maybe yes not 10 a night yeah that's what we were we were up to like 10 12 a day yeah now now what country of origin are these josh i I think that's an important question.
00:22:35.000It is critically important to understand that, again, 75% of illegal immigrants on the terror watch list cross the northern border, not the southern border.
00:22:46.000So we don't know exactly where all of these people are coming from, but we do know that it's 97 different countries of origin.
00:22:53.000And talking to the farmer who lives on the border in that video, He was telling me, and he showed me videos of young men, military-age men, crossing into the border.
00:23:03.000And the point that he made is that what they'll often do is they'll send a group of five or six migrants who want to be caught.
00:23:41.000It's an issue that we didn't used to have to face.
00:23:43.000And it's just terrible for upstate New York and for our whole country.
00:23:48.000Because again, when I talk to Border Patrol agents here on the northern border, they say they are so scared every day that a terrorist is going to cross into our country and cause the nation harm.
00:24:01.000And they're sure that if that happens, it's going to be through the northern border, not the southern border.
00:24:05.000So talk about how that impacts your hometown.
00:24:09.000I mean, New York 21, Elise Stefanik's been doing a great job.
00:24:12.000She's going to represent everybody really well at the UN. But your hometown is very rural, and with it being very MAGA. But also, there's a lot of drug issues.
00:24:25.000You have a lot of issues of depressed wages.
00:24:31.000In some ways, it's a picture of forgotten America.
00:24:33.000I mean, it is the North-North country.
00:24:35.000Talk about the depression that has been invited into your community and how an open border of people we don't even know, Pakistani, Indian, 97 countries, has contributed to the jeopardization of your hometown, the North country.
00:25:10.000And what comes behind that, behind losing economic opportunity, drugs and despair?
00:25:16.000And so we have seen drugs come across our northern border, and we have a major opioid crisis here in New York 21. This is a beautiful part of the country.
00:25:29.000We love hiking the Adirondack Mountains.
00:25:31.000But slowly, that way of life that we have known for a long time has been slipping away over these last four years.
00:25:38.000And so it is so critically important that we deliver on President Trump's To put American businesses, American farmers first, to create jobs in economically depressed areas like New York 21, to continue to support our military.
00:25:55.000You know, we're home of Fort Drum and the 10th Mountain Division, which is the most deployed division of the Army since 9-11.
00:26:02.000And so continuing to build on the gains that Congresswoman Stefanik has had for these last 10 years, reverse some of the negative results of the Biden administration.
00:26:13.000And that's what I would do if I'm honored to be able to serve my friends, my neighbors, my family here in New York 21. I'm going to go to Washington and fight for them and fight for the president.
00:26:24.000This district voted overwhelmingly by over 20% for President Trump.
00:26:29.000And so we need to go and deliver on the mandate, bring our jobs back, fight crime, get rid of drugs, and secure both our northern and southern borders.
00:26:38.000So, Josh, I want you to just talk more about yourself for a second here.
00:26:41.000I mean, you've actually built a business in the district.
00:27:06.000You've actually laid down your roots, where you were born, where your parents are, where your ancestors are from, even though it's more difficult.
00:27:16.000Even you could have probably earned more money if you would have moved to Yonkers with your kids.
00:27:21.000That is part of the MAGA. The MAGA creed in the best possible way.
00:27:26.000Like, no, I want to live where my parents are.
00:27:29.000I don't want to have to go through this kind of forced urbanization.
00:27:35.000Talk about how you built the maple syrup business into a national brand, your family, and why your home is worth fighting for, not fleeing.
00:27:46.000So my background, as you know, I was born and raised here in upstate New York, about 20 minutes from the Canadian border.
00:27:52.000It's, again, where I'm choosing to raise my four beautiful children with my wife, Allie.
00:27:56.000And when I was 15, I started a company making maple syrup.
00:28:00.000I learned how on a school field trip when I was 11, I just thought it was cool that I could tap the trees in my front yard and make it into syrup.
00:28:07.000And so I was able to turn that passion into a business, grow it from a couple of maple trees to ending up getting on Shark Tank, selling into about 8,000 stores across the country.
00:28:19.000It's the American dream that I could start with basically no money, no connections, and then be able to grow it into this national brand.
00:28:27.000I was blessed to be able to sell that business in 2020. And then in 2021, I started another company, a construction company, a totally different industry.
00:28:36.000And in four years, was able to build it to about 100 employees doing work all over the country.
00:29:05.000You know, we should be able to have the economic opportunity here in New York 21 to be able to build a good life as our parents did, as our grandparents did, to be able to build businesses, to be able to, you know, work at the factory for the 30 years and retire and be able to raise our family here in this beautiful place.
00:29:25.000And again, swim in the lakes and hike the mountains, play sports.
00:29:28.000Do all those things that we've done for generations here in upstate New York.
00:29:48.000I think that you and I both agree that good people with common sense and real-world experience need to go to Washington and actually stand up.
00:29:56.000For what we believe in, or else we're not going to have a country anymore.
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00:34:02.000Again, we don't want to get too aggressive until we kind of know the parameters of how these people are voting, but this shouldn't even be a close call.
00:34:19.000In fact, you can make an argument that Bobby Kennedy will actually increase people's trust in our public health authorities.
00:34:25.000I will honestly, if Bobby Kennedy comes out after lots of scientific trials and says these vaccines are legit, that would increase my trust to the public health institutions, not this current cartel of criminals in the cabal that's currently running our public health authority.
00:34:39.000Look, we don't want to have to fight Bill Cassidy if we don't want to.
00:34:43.000But if Bill Cassidy is truly running again, the man who voted to impeach and convict Donald Trump, if he wants to be a senator ever in his future, I certainly hope for his own sake he votes for Bobby Kennedy.
00:34:55.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:34:57.000Email us, as always, at freedom at charliekirk.com.