The Charlie Kirk Show - America Strikes Iran: The Live Reaction

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00:00:57.000 Hello, everybody.

00:00:59.000 I'm Blake.

00:01:00.000 We'll be having Charlie join us in about 10 minutes.

00:01:03.000 He's racing into the studio right now.

00:01:05.000 Welcome to the show.

00:01:07.000 If you're here, you all know what's going on.

00:01:10.000 About an hour ago, President Trump announced via Truth Social, how else?

00:01:15.000 He just said, quote, we have completed our very successful attack on the three nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.

00:01:25.000 All planes are now outside of Iranian airspace.

00:01:29.000 A full payload of bombs was dropped on the primary site for Doe.

00:01:34.000 All planes are safely on their way home.

00:01:37.000 Congratulations to our great American warriors.

00:01:41.000 There is not another military in the world that could have done this.

00:01:44.000 Now is the time for peace.

00:01:46.000 Thank you for your attention to this matter.

00:01:49.000 He then said a few minutes later, This is a historic moment for the United States of America, Israel and the world.

00:02:04.000 Iran must now agree to end this war.

00:02:08.000 Thank you.

00:02:09.000 So he says he'll be speaking at 10 p.m. Eastern.

00:02:11.000 That is about 40 minutes from now.

00:02:13.000 We'll obviously be watching those remarks live and then reacting to them afterwards.

00:02:18.000 Like I said, Charlie will be joining us.

00:02:20.000 We'll also have producer Andrew, probably Jack Posobiec, maybe some reporters.

00:02:24.000 We'll be getting them all right here.

00:02:26.000 So to highlight those places we struck, can we get our map of the locations in Iran?

00:02:32.000 The main one they were focused on is Fodro.

00:02:35.000 That is a location in central Iran.

00:02:39.000 It's one of those little red cylinder shapes.

00:02:42.000 That is a major underground facility where uranium enrichment for potential nuclear weapons was conducted.

00:02:50.000 The reason that was a big deal, the reason there was a lot of people in Israel and in the United States arguing for the U.S. to strike it is it's an underground facility, deep underground, so normal bombing.

00:03:02.000 For the most part, can't damage it.

00:03:03.000 So what they wanted was a U.S. big bunker buster bomb.

00:03:08.000 We have this 30,000 pound bomb that can go deep underground and detonate.

00:03:12.000 So it's capable of destroying locations that are hundreds of feet underground.

00:03:17.000 I saw some reports on X that we dropped, I believe they said 30 tons of bombs, which would basically amount to two of these.

00:03:31.000 So 60,000 pounds, 30 tons of those.

00:03:34.000 We also struck one of the other sites, Natanz.

00:03:37.000 That's another enrichment plant.

00:03:38.000 And then Isfahan.

00:03:40.000 That is a major city in Iran, but it had one of their nuclear facilities in it.

00:03:45.000 So those are the locations that they hit.

00:03:48.000 As Trump said, or wherever.

00:04:08.000 President Trump has signaled he wants this to be the end of America's intervention in this.

00:04:14.000 We've talked a lot about this on our program.

00:04:18.000 What would the results be if we intervened in Iran?

00:04:21.000 You have people who are campaigning for full regime change.

00:04:24.000 They want to topple the Ayatollah, that's the religious leader of Iran.

00:04:28.000 They want to overthrow the Islamic regime, install a new government. 0.94

00:04:33.000 Some of them want boots on the ground.

00:04:35.000 We have been arguing very strongly against that level of intervention on this show for reasons that you can anticipate.

00:04:42.000 Regime change has not gone well for us in the Middle East for the past 25 years.

00:04:47.000 Afghanistan failed. 0.80

00:04:48.000 Iraq was a bloodbath. 1.00

00:04:50.000 Libya was a disaster. 1.00

00:04:52.000 We don't really want to do another one of those in a country that is three times as big as Iraq, has four times as many people as Iraq did when we invaded it. 1.00

00:05:01.000 Lots of downside to that.

00:05:10.000 You can hit their nuclear facility, keep them from getting a nuclear weapon, show that we are dead serious about that, but then signal that is as far as we want to go.

00:05:20.000 Our goal is not to destroy your country.

00:05:23.000 Our goal is not to overthrow your government.

00:05:25.000 Our goal is you can't have a nuclear weapon and we won't let you.

00:05:29.000 And that's something President Trump has been saying.

00:05:31.000 For the past decade, he said in his very first speech as a candidate about 10 years ago, he said Iraq was a disaster, and he said Iran can't have a nuclear weapon.

00:05:42.000 And that would chart out to, I am willing to bomb Iran to stop their nuclear program, but I am not interested in regime change. 0.90

00:05:50.000 Now, one of the dangers is, once you've struck Iran, you don't have full control on whether the war escalates or not. 0.71

00:05:58.000 The Revolutionary Guard of Iran, that is a branch of their military, they have an ex-account, of course, everyone does, and they tweeted something in Persian that said, now the war has begun for us.

00:06:13.000 Now, Iran has done a lot of bluster. 1.00

00:06:17.000 I think a few days ago they said, what happens tonight will be remembered for centuries to come, and I don't remember anything else happening that night.

00:06:24.000 So there's room for bluster.

00:06:31.000 There's things that they can do to the United States.

00:06:33.000 We have bases in the Middle East.

00:06:36.000 They're closer to Iran than Israel is.

00:06:38.000 They've been lobbying a lot of ballistic missiles at Israel.

00:06:41.000 Some of those have gotten through.

00:06:43.000 They've killed a few dozen people in Israel.

00:06:45.000 they could start shooting some of those at our bases in the Middle East.

00:06:48.000 And if U.S. troops are killed, if U.S. troops are killed by the dozens, That's one of the risks to this.

00:07:00.000 And we'll be talking about all of that with Charlie when he gets in.

00:07:03.000 Charlie will be here.

00:07:04.000 He's racing down.

00:07:05.000 He's racing down the interstate here in Phoenix.

00:07:07.000 He will be in as soon as possible.

00:07:10.000 We'll probably have Andrew able to join us very soon as well.

00:07:14.000 But for the time being, you have me.

00:07:17.000 People are starting to respond to this.

00:07:19.000 Amusingly, the first line He said he was strongly supportive of this strike on Iran. 0.83

00:07:35.000 That guy has turned out pretty funny, and he's been quite the war hawk from Pennsylvania.

00:07:43.000 What else?

00:07:43.000 We have people weighing in.

00:07:45.000 Thank you for everyone who's tuning in and watching us.

00:07:47.000 Feel free to comment on our live chat.

00:07:49.000 Do you think this is a good idea?

00:07:51.000 Are you worried about further escalation?

00:07:53.000 Do you want us to back out now?

00:07:55.000 I'm being told we have Andrew.

00:07:57.000 Andrew, are you there?

00:07:58.000 I am, Blake.

00:07:59.000 Yeah, I am.

00:08:01.000 Tech difficulties looks like I'm a bit pixelated.

00:08:04.000 I apologize.

00:08:06.000 But huge momentous night.

00:08:08.000 We were all sort of bracing whether or not this was going to come over the weekend.

00:08:12.000 and here we are.

00:08:14.000 I can tell candidly by the idea But I would just caution everybody.

00:08:25.000 Give this some time to play out.

00:08:29.000 President Trump has earned our trust.

00:08:32.000 I think he's got some explaining to do.

00:08:36.000 I think the base wants to hear why he's decided to make this decision.

00:08:41.000 But I believe, you know, Charlie has been voicing this on X. This is what he decided to do.

00:08:52.000 He deserves our trust.

00:08:54.000 And I think the world is going to be absolutely fixated on his 10 p.m. Eastern address to the nation explaining his logic.

00:09:04.000 Already we're getting indications that President Trump is saying that diplomacy had ran its course.

00:09:08.000 There was no diplomatic off-ramp.

00:09:11.000 And this is why the U.S. decided to drop six.

00:09:16.000 We've confirmed six bunker busters on Fordow.

00:09:20.000 There was some speculation, Blake, you and I both know, that they were going to use two.

00:09:24.000 But apparently there's three entrances into Fordow, and they dropped two bunker busters on each of those entrances, completely destroying that nuclear facility.

00:09:35.000 The first bunker buster leaves about a 20 to 25 foot open hole, gaping hole.

00:09:42.000 The second bunker buster...

00:09:47.000 It's like, maybe you've been targeted by, you know, maybe you're part of the Iranian military with some of the spotty internet.

00:09:54.000 But, no, we'll work on making sure you stay plugged in.

00:09:57.000 As he was saying, yeah, Fordow, quite the complex.

00:10:01.000 It's kind of funny, of course, that it's this deep underground, you know, secretive nuclear facility, yet we also, like, seem to know everything in the world about it.

00:10:15.000 It doesn't speak that well for the Iranian state security, or maybe it speaks very well for our own military intelligence and, you know, the military intelligence of Israel.

00:10:24.000 We're starting to see clips here.

00:10:26.000 I'm not sure if that's something from the strikes, but I imagine the strikes would have happened at the nighttime.

00:10:31.000 No, that's just general wartime footage.

00:10:33.000 Yeah, because it's about, I want to say about 4 a.m. in Iran right now.

00:10:38.000 Or maybe 5 a.m.

00:10:40.000 They got hit at about 2.30 a.m.

00:10:43.000 Iranian time.

00:10:44.000 To make everything as maximally confusing as possible, Iran operates on a time zone that is a half hour off from everybody else.

00:10:50.000 So if something happens at 2.30, it's on the hour everywhere else.

00:10:54.000 Lovely country.

00:10:55.000 Definitely a bunch of sane people who run it.

00:10:58.000 But yes, so this was their big underground facility.

00:11:01.000 Now, a big debate that was happening before this occurred was, can the U.S. bunker busters destroy it?

00:11:07.000 And if they do, how far back does it actually set their nuclear program?

00:11:12.000 Iran has already claimed they were able to evacuate the most important things from this facility, which would be some of the equipment and the actual uranium itself.

00:11:21.000 They're using this to say that there's not a risk of general nuclear contamination from enriched uranium getting blown all over central Iran.

00:11:29.000 They're saying they got that out.

00:11:31.000 Now, if that's true and it's enough uranium to make a nuclear bomb then theoretically they could still build a nuclear bomb if they have the other facilities that you need for putting one together I'm not a technical expert on that but that's clearly something that we need to be worried about Blake, I mean, to your point, they call it a secretive nuclear facility.

00:11:53.000 We have three-dimensional maps of this place.

00:11:56.000 We know Mossad has already kind of infiltrated Iran at a very deep level.

00:12:04.000 And meanwhile, we're supposed to believe, as Iran is claiming they've evacuated all of the nuclear materials, that we wouldn't have seen that.

00:12:13.000 So I find that to.

00:12:21.000 And meanwhile, we know from the Iranian past's prologue that there's a lot of bluster. 0.99

00:12:29.000 They posture a lot to save face.

00:12:33.000 So that's my assessment there.

00:12:35.000 Alright, I think we have Charlie walking in in just a minute here, so he'll be joining us.

00:12:40.000 I'm sure he'll have a lot to say about this.

00:12:43.000 I mean, we can say he's been playing a role in all of this.

00:12:46.000 He was in D.C. I don't want to dish anymore, but he has definitely been weighing in on the right.

00:12:51.000 This has been a big debate within our movement.

00:12:53.000 Is this worth intervening?

00:12:56.000 How high are the potential benefits?

00:12:58.000 How great are the potential downsides?

00:13:01.000 And I think we can all agree, whatever our point of view going in, now it's happened.

00:13:06.000 Our job is to make sure that the results after this are what is best for America.

00:13:10.000 So even if you oppose this strike, Our job now is not to pout about it.

00:13:15.000 Our job is how do we make sure this works out the best for the American people?

00:13:20.000 And I think from my perspective, and I'm sure Charlie will say something similar, our perspective is we don't like the Iranian nuclear program. 0.85

00:13:27.000 If this disabled them, that's great. 1.00

00:13:29.000 But our goal is don't let this escalate.

00:13:33.000 Don't let this turn into a wider war in other countries.

00:13:36.000 Don't let this result in American boots on the ground in Iran.

00:13:40.000 Don't let it get a bunch of our people killed.

00:13:42.000 Yeah, and Blake, I believe that President Trump is going to rally his base around him.

00:13:48.000 We've let it be known on this show, Charlie has on social media, that we are not keen on another quagmire in the Middle East. 1.00

00:13:57.000 But here's the good news.

00:13:59.000 Neither is President Trump.

00:14:01.000 And I think President Trump has earned our trust that he assessed the situation.

00:14:06.000 He determined this was the best route forward.

00:14:09.000 And we have to believe that he has intel that we don't have as far as Iran's capabilities on striking our troops and striking back.

00:14:20.000 And by the way, Blake, I will just say that President Trump's tour through the Middle East and the Arab states recently is looming very large in my mind.

00:14:31.000 He consolidated a lot of support, a lot of financial partnerships and cooperation.

00:14:38.000 Plus, you've got the Abraham Accords. 0.70

00:14:39.000 This is an area of the country that we have a lot of support in, actually.

00:14:43.000 Hello, everybody.

00:14:44.000 I'm here.

00:14:44.000 I made it.

00:14:45.000 We had some technical challenges.

00:14:48.000 No, my home studio is not bombed tonight.

00:14:54.000 Hello, everybody.

00:14:54.000 Tonight's a very serious evening.

00:14:56.000 I first just want to say we have to, regardless of your opinion of this operation, which I do want to hear about, this operation was done seamlessly.

00:15:05.000 And you better believe the military capacity and military might of the U.S. military was on full display for the world to see.

00:15:11.000 This is an operation that really only the U.S. military can handle.

00:15:15.000 And not even the Russian military would be able to do something like this.

00:15:17.000 And I got to be honest, like, we did not even know what happened until it announced.

00:15:21.000 Now, I had my phone off because of Shabbat.

00:15:23.000 But now that I'm looking back at text, I was getting a little bit.

00:15:28.000 Trump getting shot.

00:15:29.000 The other Trump assassination. 0.95

00:15:30.000 No, no, no.

00:15:31.000 Exactly.

00:15:32.000 But don't get me started.

00:15:44.000 So, first of all, only the U.S. military would have been able to pull this off.

00:15:47.000 And, honestly, you know, we've kind of been, there's been some dumerism about the U.S. military.

00:15:52.000 Like, oh, it's super weak.

00:15:53.000 It's super woke.

00:15:54.000 Well, actually at the top levels for top level sophistication, like...

00:15:58.000 We still, for the most part, if it really matters, if it's like you have to fly the bomber that drops the bunker buster or you have to be the special forces who rescue the president when he's condemned, those guys are pretty good.

00:16:11.000 Yes, correct.

00:16:11.000 And it's not great to have only those guys be the absolute best if that's what's happening.

00:16:15.000 And God bless these pilots.

00:16:17.000 It's a very difficult operation and they crushed it.

00:16:19.000 And so now to the, and it's not at all to an easy assignment.

00:16:24.000 I sent out a couple tweets, and this is my personal perspective on this.

00:16:28.000 And the president's going to be going live in about 20 minutes, because his address is going to matter a lot.

00:16:32.000 It's going to be one of the most important presidential addresses of the last 10 years, and definitely one of the most, if not the most important, primetime presidential address in President Trump's career.

00:16:43.000 President Donald Trump has been clear for 20 years that Iran will not get a nuclear weapon.

00:16:48.000 For 20 years he has said that.

00:16:50.000 Iran will not get a nuclear weapon.

00:16:53.000 For some people that are criticizing President Trump, your criticisms would have more potency if President Trump did not try to have a diplomatic solution beforehand.

00:17:02.000 There was a 60-day diplomatic window, and Iran was just playing games.

00:17:06.000 They were just going, wishy and washy, I don't know if you want that.

00:17:09.000 And President Trump said, look, on day 61, you're not going to like what happens.

00:17:13.000 President Trump let Israel off the leash, and Israel did what Israel did. 0.89

00:17:18.000 And President Donald Trump, he was very, very patient.

00:17:22.000 He had a lot of restraint.

00:17:23.000 Now, understand, this is not yet a settled issue at all because some people are still calling for regime change.

00:17:30.000 Oh, go for the head of the snake! 0.99

00:17:32.000 President Donald Trump has actually said we are not going to do that.

00:17:36.000 We are not going to do regime change.

00:17:37.000 And for those of you just tuning in right now, I do want to hear from the audience.

00:17:41.000 Can you email me right now?

00:17:43.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:17:45.000 Did you vote for President Trump, number one?

00:17:47.000 And number two, do you support this operation tonight?

00:17:50.000 I'm curious.

00:17:51.000 I want to hear from you.

00:17:52.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:17:53.000 We're going to get probably 10,000 emails in the next couple minutes.

00:17:57.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:17:58.000 I have my email inbox up here, and I'm going to read them.

00:18:01.000 And so, it is very tempting and very easy to do armchair quarterbacking in an operation like this.

00:18:09.000 Oh, he should have done this.

00:18:11.000 Like, spare me.

00:18:12.000 He had the weight of the world on his shoulders.

00:18:14.000 Now understand how it is presented.

00:18:16.000 If Iran were to get a nuclear weapon and proliferate nuclear technology, the chances of them using it is one thing, but it changes how seriously you must take that nation immediately. 0.96

00:18:29.000 We have to take Pakistan a lot more seriously just because they developed a nuclear weapon. 1.00

00:18:34.000 So here you have a terrorist state that could potentially have a nuclear weapon.

00:18:40.000 When Trump speaks, you should absolutely listen.

00:18:43.000 President Donald Trump in November of 2011 said, quote, Iran's quest for nuclear weapons is a major threat to our nation's national security interests.

00:18:53.000 We can't allow Iran to go nuclear, period.

00:18:57.000 Now, the tweet that I sent that has gone very viral, I'm going to read for you right on air.

00:19:03.000 And it's very simple.

00:19:05.000 And by the way, no one should be, I don't like the, I think that we have a very moderate, very America first perspective here.

00:19:15.000 Number one is the rejoicing.

00:19:17.000 People that are just overly celebrating.

00:19:19.000 No, no, no.

00:19:19.000 Guys, you've got to have humility with this.

00:19:20.000 These things can escalate.

00:19:21.000 Americans can die. 0.99

00:19:23.000 Simultaneously, the people that are just doomerism.

00:19:25.000 Oh, this is World War III.

00:19:26.000 Guys, come on.

00:19:27.000 No, no, no, no.

00:19:27.000 Sometimes in life there's more than just a sloppy binary.

00:19:31.000 And especially in this situation, you must have a lot of heaviness and say, okay, first of all, weight of the world on his shoulders, sitting in the Oval Office looking at two separate options.

00:19:46.000 And he made the choice with prudence and decisiveness and practicality.

00:19:50.000 He saw this as a threat to United States national interest.

00:19:54.000 Here is my tweet.

00:19:55.000 Iran gave President Trump no choice.

00:19:57.000 For a decade, he has been adamant that Iran will never get a nuclear weapon.

00:20:01.000 Iran has decided to forego diplomacy in pursuit of a bomb.

00:20:04.000 This is a surgical strike operated perfectly.

00:20:06.000 President Trump acted with prudence and decisiveness.

00:20:10.000 Now, additionally, there was another This is how amazing these B-2 bombers are.

00:20:23.000 I think when Israel launched their initial strikes, there was people in Lebanon being like, oh, yeah, all these planes are flying overhead.

00:20:31.000 This was just like...

00:20:34.000 And by the way, we're live on Real America's Voice.

00:20:36.000 We have 47,000 on YouTube.

00:20:37.000 We're live on Rumble.

00:20:38.000 I want to hear from you.

00:20:39.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:20:41.000 Do you support what America did tonight?

00:20:44.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:20:45.000 I'm going to read the emails in a second here.

00:20:48.000 And so here's what Donald Trump said.

00:20:49.000 It was the truth social heard around the world.

00:20:53.000 And the truth social heard around the world is this.

00:20:55.000 We have completed our very successful attack on three nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordell, Natanz, and Estefan.

00:21:01.000 All planes are now outside of Iranian airspace, and our payloads of bombs was dropped on the primary site.

00:21:06.000 Bombs, all capitalized, by the way.

00:21:08.000 All planes are safely on their way home.

00:21:10.000 Congratulations to our great American warriors.

00:21:12.000 There is not another military in the world that could have done this.

00:21:15.000 Now is the time for peace.

00:21:16.000 Thank you for your attention to this matter.

00:21:19.000 I love that.

00:21:21.000 And by the way, President Trump doing this, he's also had another one following up.

00:21:28.000 Saying that Iran better not respond.

00:21:30.000 So now really all eyes are on Iran at this point.

00:21:34.000 Iran has a lot of options.

00:21:36.000 I have heard estimates from people in the intel world that there could be upwards of 1,000 sleeper cells here in America.

00:21:43.000 Could be.

00:21:43.000 Again, that could be fear-mongering.

00:21:46.000 That could be BS.

00:21:47.000 It could be zero.

00:21:48.000 It could be 100.

00:21:49.000 but we don't know because Joe Biden had a wide open border.

00:21:52.000 And that, by the way, In some ways, you're almost kind of pinned up against a wall when you do something like this.

00:22:00.000 Like, hey, if you bomb Fordow, all of a sudden Joe Biden's open border invaders might come after you.

00:22:05.000 Number two, right now the prayers need to go for the American troops that are in U.S. bases within Iranian ballistic missile proximity.

00:22:16.000 Can we put up a map there, Blake?

00:22:18.000 There definitely is one in Qatar.

00:22:20.000 So the Qatar Air Base.

00:22:23.000 It's outside of Doha.

00:22:24.000 It's in the middle of the desert.

00:22:26.000 So, Qatar is one of the smallest of the Gulf states.

00:22:29.000 You can actually see Qatar right there on the southern part of your map.

00:22:32.000 It's right between the Persian Gulf.

00:22:34.000 From the northernmost point of Qatar to Iran, it's only like, what is that, Blake?

00:22:40.000 250 miles, maybe?

00:22:41.000 I'm approximating.

00:22:42.000 So, the American Air Force Base is very, very remote.

00:22:46.000 That is a juicy potential target for Iran. 0.99

00:22:49.000 Now, Iran actually has a warmer relationship with Qatar than they do Saudi Arabia, so that would be potentially a very risky thing.

00:22:57.000 Now, remember, though, this is a very important component.

00:23:00.000 When Donald Trump took out Soleimani in 2020, Iran did try to kill American troops.

00:23:07.000 It was not just performative.

00:23:08.000 In fact, I was talking to a high-level guy in the U.S. government last night.

00:23:14.000 And he says, Charlie, you might not remember.

00:23:16.000 When we took out Soleimani, as soon as we took out Soleimani, all the bases are on high alert.

00:23:21.000 So here's how this works.

00:23:21.000 All the bases go on high alert.

00:23:23.000 Right now, they have all the planes fully.

00:23:26.000 Literally, they have engines running.

00:23:28.000 They have cars ready to go.

00:23:30.000 You can tell when a ballistic missile is taking off.

00:23:32.000 And because of our technology, we can tell within a couple of miles where that ballistic missile is going to go.

00:23:37.000 So we have right now full radar capacity all over Iran.

00:23:42.000 As soon as a ballistic missile starts going, because the ballistic missiles have to go up and they go down.

00:23:46.000 They're different than javelins.

00:23:51.000 They can kind of go a little bit more horizontal.

00:23:53.000 These go up, they go down.

00:23:54.000 As soon as we have a vague idea.

00:23:57.000 That there might be a ballistic missile launch near Qatar, one of our bases, there will be an evacuation order.

00:24:04.000 Now, understand, when they struck one of our bases in Iraq in 2020 after we took out Qasem Soleimani, they literally hit a tent that a lot of service members would be sleeping in.

00:24:15.000 They hit their target, and they killed how many troops?

00:24:18.000 Zero.

00:24:18.000 Because our military was properly prepared.

00:24:21.000 So the prayer right now is if Iran tries to go after one of our military bases, that all of this preparation ends up kind of coming to fruition. 0.90

00:24:32.000 So what does that mean?

00:24:33.000 That means that they're going to be able to go into bunkers.

00:24:35.000 Now, by the way, some of the troops got concussions, but they didn't die.

00:24:38.000 And these bases are on the highest level alert.

00:24:41.000 Now, there are Patriot defensive missile systems as well that could be launched and intercept partially ballistic missiles.

00:24:48.000 Blake, you want to try to...

00:24:53.000 So this is U.S. military presence in the Middle East, basically as of right now.

00:24:57.000 They keep this pretty regularly updated.

00:24:59.000 Any of those red dots you can see?

00:25:02.000 Those are active, U.S.-controlled bases.

00:25:05.000 There's a bunch of them in Kuwait.

00:25:06.000 We have, I think, 13,000 troops in Kuwait.

00:25:09.000 That is, I bet, at the closest, those bases are maybe 100 miles from Iran.

00:25:15.000 Correct.

00:25:16.000 Blink of an eye.

00:25:16.000 Which is nothing.

00:25:17.000 Big legacy, obviously, from the Iraq War, both Iraq Wars. 0.58

00:25:20.000 Then, yeah, as you mentioned, that airbase in Qatar, that's a very large one.

00:25:24.000 We also have a base in Bahrain.

00:25:26.000 We have a base in UAE.

00:25:27.000 And any of these orange dots are places that have some kind of U.S. military presence.

00:25:31.000 So we have some troops in Saudi Arabia.

00:25:33.000 We still have troops in Iraq.

00:25:35.000 We have troops in southeastern Syria.

00:25:37.000 We have troops in Jordan.

00:25:40.000 We also have naval vessels.

00:25:42.000 We have the Carl Vinson carrier.

00:25:44.000 We have the Nimitz carrier, I believe, was on the way from the Indian Ocean.

00:25:48.000 And those can be vulnerable too.

00:25:50.000 Iran has a naval force that is actually designed for the level, like the huge gap between Iran's capabilities and our own.

00:26:01.000 They have a lot of motorboats.

00:26:02.000 They have...

00:26:04.000 Guys who can, frankly, do suicide attacks on our ships.

00:26:07.000 So if they decide to go very aggressive, you might see something where...

00:26:12.000 Some people roll their eyes at sleeper cells.

00:26:13.000 But let's just put it this way.

00:26:15.000 Forget sleeper cell.

00:26:16.000 What if there's just a sympathetic Iranian? 0.88

00:26:17.000 Like a sympathetic Mohammedan that's here, you know, potentially. 0.85

00:26:21.000 Radicals? 0.86

00:26:22.000 What if a guy just gets angry and he rents a U-Haul truck?

00:26:26.000 And he drives it through a 4th of July celebration.

00:26:29.000 Those are happening in a couple weeks.

00:26:30.000 And so, again, I'm not here to fear monger. 0.95

00:26:33.000 We're going through here, just factual threat analysis.

00:26:36.000 Now, we're getting tons of emails, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:26:39.000 And based on the chat, my team is saying it's about 50-50.

00:26:42.000 Let me tell you where I stand.

00:26:44.000 And you guys know.

00:26:45.000 And by the way, one day I'll tell you everything I did this week.

00:26:48.000 Blake knows.

00:26:49.000 But all I can say is that my position privately has been my position publicly.

00:26:54.000 I trust President Trump.

00:26:56.000 And I've been very consistent.

00:26:58.000 But I have and still do know that when you enter situations like this, they can escalate.

00:27:04.000 I've always been against a nuclear weapon.

00:27:05.000 No one wants a nuclear weapon.

00:27:06.000 If you want Iran to have a nuclear weapon, that's a completely irrational position.

00:27:08.000 I have no time for that.

00:27:10.000 Okay, the more important question, though, and we're going to see, okay, did this actually take out Iran's nuclear program completely?

00:27:20.000 We don't know.

00:27:21.000 Did it delay?

00:27:22.000 Did it buy us time?

00:27:24.000 That is a situation that is kind of unclear.

00:27:29.000 It's a little bit murky.

00:27:30.000 Number two, though, and I think this is a very important component, which is how many Americans might get caught in the crosshairs in response.

00:27:38.000 We should pray that that number is zero.

00:27:40.000 We should pray that that number is zero.

00:27:42.000 And then number three, which I think is critical and that I've kind of been insistent about, is can we make sure that...

00:27:52.000 Can we just say in, out, and done?

00:27:54.000 President Trump's truth social was basically a foreshadowing like he wants this to be like Soleimani.

00:28:00.000 I take your guy out.

00:28:01.000 You go launch some missiles.

00:28:03.000 We're done.

00:28:05.000 Here's where it might get very hairy, and this is where, for those of you at home, should pray, and we should keep a close eye on this.

00:28:09.000 By the way, this all might happen right now.

00:28:11.000 There might be Iranian response tonight. 0.59

00:28:13.000 We got President Trump speaking in 15 minutes, because President Trump said if you even lay a finger on a U.S. service member, they're going to have problems.

00:28:20.000 If they take out a U.S. service member and then President Trump responds with more bombs, that could end up being an escalation.

00:28:28.000 My premise has been this.

00:28:31.000 Is it going to be effective?

00:28:33.000 Iran claims they got all the Iranian out. 0.99

00:28:35.000 I think they're just a bunch of liars. 0.98

00:28:37.000 I mean, we don't know, right? 0.97

00:28:39.000 I mean, we're going to trust Iran's, you know, They said a lot of things in the last week. 0.99

00:28:44.000 By the way, I mean, first of all, can we just say, whether you're for or against this, the Iranian social media game is the worst in the history of the digital world. 1.00

00:28:57.000 I'm going to throw to Andrew.

00:28:58.000 Tonight there will be something that will be heard for centuries to come.

00:29:04.000 Really?

00:29:04.000 What?

00:29:05.000 Like, okay, they launched some missiles.

00:29:07.000 Like, okay, for centuries to come.

00:29:08.000 I mean, just give me a break.

00:29:10.000 And so the final point on this, and again, I've been very, very consistent, both privately and publicly, in all of my advocacy and my commentary.

00:29:19.000 My thing was this.

00:29:20.000 Exhaust every possible option before this because, again, I don't like the people that are rejoicing.

00:29:25.000 You should not enter into situations like war with pride.

00:29:28.000 Can we guys, can we get shock and awe?

00:29:30.000 Can we get the night we went into Iraq shocking on news reports?

00:29:34.000 Because we thought, oh my goodness, it's all the way.

00:29:36.000 When we drop bombs, it should be done with heaviness.

00:29:39.000 It should be done with humility.

00:29:41.000 I'm not saying we never should.

00:29:43.000 I'm not a dove.

00:29:44.000 I'm not an isolationist.

00:29:45.000 No one watching this program, I think, has that opinion.

00:29:47.000 But when you do it, you should not get a thrill up your leg like Chris Matthews when you're listening to Barack Obama.

00:29:53.000 It should not give you some sort of, you know...

00:29:59.000 Let me put it that way.

00:29:59.000 Andrew, I'll throw it to you here.

00:30:01.000 What is the chatter like online, especially amongst some of the MAGA online folks, like the MAGA youth folks?

00:30:10.000 Where is the sentiment?

00:30:11.000 Where is the chatter?

00:30:12.000 Andrew?

00:30:12.000 Yeah, I mean, there's some doomerism, Charlie, saying Trump's lost 80% of his base.

00:30:18.000 This is a betrayal.

00:30:19.000 You know, see, this is always how it's going to go.

00:30:23.000 I completely disagree with that sentiment.

00:30:26.000 I think there's a lot of people that are very online.

00:30:28.000 I totally agree.

00:30:30.000 Yeah, and I would also say X has become kind of a bot-riddled place right now.

00:30:36.000 Musk is aware of it, and there's a lot of reports that are suggesting that the bots are trying to sow division in MAGA.

00:30:42.000 I want to give you credit, Charlie.

00:30:44.000 You have...

00:30:48.000 Even at times when I would waver or when Blake would throw out contrarian positions, you have been steadfast.

00:30:54.000 And you have succeeded in frustrating both sides, remaining true to your beliefs that we should not rush into this with some sort of zeal or a fevered desire for war and just to drop bombs.

00:31:12.000 Some of our friends haven't...

00:31:17.000 A lot of our enemies have doubted your position.

00:31:21.000 And I just want to say it's been consistent and sincere.

00:31:25.000 And you've had the president's back in spite of that.

00:31:28.000 And I want to give you a hat tip because you don't get enough credit for that, Charlie.

00:31:33.000 Thank you.

00:31:34.000 It means a lot.

00:31:34.000 and it's been an unusual week because I've had friends in different camps annoyed and it seems that everyone that isn't And by the way, the show is doing better than ever as a result.

00:31:50.000 People seem that are very, I think, fair and nuanced and take measuring in the complexities has been, you know, very well received.

00:32:00.000 So that's very kind, Andrew.

00:32:02.000 Thank you.

00:32:02.000 And by the way, so tonight, my take is very simple.

00:32:05.000 We trust the Commander-in-Chief and his judgment.

00:32:08.000 We don't know all the intelligence that was in front of him.

00:32:11.000 Now, by the way, there has to also be an understanding that for those of you that are overly celebratory, I just want to try to humble you.

00:32:22.000 You don't know how tonight is going to end.

00:32:23.000 You might say, tonight is an awesome night.

00:32:25.000 It is in some ways so far, but we don't know how tonight's going to end.

00:32:28.000 Can we get some of the B-roll here?

00:32:30.000 Basically, Fordow looks like Mordor.

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00:33:36.000 And Trump is speaking in 10 minutes, by the way.

00:33:38.000 Yeah, so in 10 minutes we're going to take that live.

00:33:40.000 By the way, I'm texting with all the guys in the admin right now trying to get a pulse.

00:33:44.000 I'm texting with all the main...

00:33:49.000 We're going to get Jack Posobiec on here in a second.

00:33:51.000 And so the situation, and that's where we're seeing right now, we just want to make sure all that is real B-roll, by the way, as we're playing it.

00:34:03.000 So it looks very odd.

00:34:05.000 I don't know what that is.

00:34:06.000 It looks strange.

00:34:08.000 I mean, I don't know.

00:34:09.000 So what happens next?

00:34:14.000 Here's the best-case scenario.

00:34:16.000 The best case scenario is that on July 4th, everyone forgets about this.

00:34:24.000 It kind of just goes into our memory.

00:34:26.000 There is no real stickiness.

00:34:31.000 There is really no permanency to all of this.

00:34:33.000 And we get to say, okay, we move on.

00:34:36.000 Iran has been completely derailed.

00:34:39.000 A kind of worst case scenario is that this escalates and that it forces our hand in a situation that we might not like.

00:34:46.000 Iran, they're playing with fire here. 0.99

00:34:49.000 If Iran decides to get engaged and gets involved, boy, that will not be a good decision for them.

00:34:58.000 Can we get Netanyahu's speech here?

00:35:00.000 Netanyahu has said, quote, Congratulations, President Trump.

00:35:03.000 I do want to hear from you also, though, in the audience.

00:35:08.000 Supportive, not supportive.

00:35:09.000 And also, do you remain pro-Israel?

00:35:13.000 I am curious, has this changed your opinion at all of whether or not you are in favor of Israel?

00:35:19.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:35:20.000 I'm reading all the emails live.

00:35:22.000 I'm scanning through them.

00:35:24.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:35:25.000 So let's first go here.

00:35:25.000 This is actually a very important map.

00:35:27.000 This is in, they say, Farsi.

00:35:30.000 That's the dialect.

00:35:32.000 In Iran?

00:35:34.000 So this is Iranian state TV displaying a map of U.S. military bases in the Middle East, promising retaliation.

00:35:41.000 So these are a lot of sitting ducks.

00:35:42.000 But understand, they're sitting ducks.

00:35:44.000 But as soon as they know that there's going to be a launch, airplanes will get up in the air.

00:35:47.000 Back when they did this with the Iraqi retaliation, when they went after an Iraqi base, There were 15 planes that got up in the air, and they literally circled in the air, Blake, until the ballistic missiles hit, and they actually hit where the planes were.

00:36:05.000 Now, the most important and trickiest part was, where do you land the planes?

00:36:10.000 And so there were some close calls, actually.

00:36:12.000 So they were circling.

00:36:14.000 Fifteen planes were circling.

00:36:15.000 They hit the runways because they were going after all these guys that ballistic missiles were.

00:36:18.000 And so they had to go find runways that were long enough to be able to land like F-16s.

00:36:22.000 An untold amazing story of the response to Soleimani.

00:36:26.000 So here's Iranian state TV.

00:36:29.000 Mr. Trump, you started it and we will end it.

00:36:31.000 Look how many military bases there are within ballistic missile range.

00:36:34.000 So the U.S. has committed a crime against Iran.

00:36:40.000 By violating Iran's airspace, and it has no place in the West Asian region. 0.87

00:36:47.000 The President of the United States, you started it, and we will finish it.

00:36:52.000 Okay, great.

00:36:54.000 These guys are a lot of talk, by the way.

00:36:57.000 They've been nothing but talk since Israel has bombed them.

00:37:00.000 Blake.

00:37:00.000 I just want to flag.

00:37:01.000 We got this donation on Rumble from Sir Ianokai.

00:37:10.000 I don't know if this is true, but he's saying it.

00:37:12.000 Even though scary, they are happy America dropped the bombs.

00:37:16.000 He says 80% of Iran, I assume, don't support the current regime, love America, and want peace.

00:37:24.000 I think we would all be very happy if that's true.

00:37:27.000 I would caution.

00:37:28.000 I think it's very easy for people to believe this because who are the Iranians you're most likely to have contact with?

00:37:33.000 It's going to be the people who are most open to the West, most pro-Western, probably the most urbanized.

00:37:39.000 This is a country of 92 million people.

00:37:41.000 And I think you can easily imagine that, say, when you're talking about America.

00:37:45.000 Imagine someone who's like, I live in Brooklyn and everyone I know hates Trump.

00:37:51.000 Trump has a 0% approval rating.

00:37:52.000 There's no people who like Trump.

00:37:54.000 Yeah, okay, go.

00:37:56.000 Go to rural Ohio.

00:37:58.000 Go to the Dakotas.

00:37:59.000 Go to Montana.

00:38:00.000 Iran has its equivalent of all those places.

00:38:02.000 So, I'd say the emails are about 50-50 right now.

00:38:05.000 Support and oppose.

00:38:06.000 Now, if you email me freedom at charliekirk.com, I want to hear from you.

00:38:10.000 Please include your age.

00:38:12.000 Please include your age.

00:38:14.000 I'm curious if the age has any determining factor of whether you support or oppose this.

00:38:19.000 And you might say, Charlie, do you support or oppose this?

00:38:22.000 I support President Trump.

00:38:23.000 That's my answer.

00:38:24.000 I know the man.

00:38:25.000 He's the commander-in-chief.

00:38:26.000 He's the man for the hour.

00:38:27.000 And he's had the weight of the world on his shoulders.

00:38:30.000 So in a situation like this, I support my friend.

00:38:33.000 And he's had my back and I have his.

00:38:36.000 That's my perspective.

00:38:37.000 By the way, I also look at this and I say, and I understand the arguments of people that, you know, oh, don't intervene and all that.

00:38:43.000 I get it.

00:38:44.000 But boy, have we not exhausted so many diplomatic channels and options.

00:38:49.000 Here is Netanyahu 261 praising and congratulating.

00:38:54.000 President Trump.

00:38:55.000 Play Cut 261.

00:38:56.000 Congratulations, President Trump.

00:38:58.000 Your bold decision to target Iran's nuclear facilities with the awesome and righteous might of the United States will change history.

00:39:08.000 In Operation Rising Line, Israel has done truly amazing things.

00:39:13.000 But in tonight's action against Iran's nuclear facilities, America has been truly unsurpassed.

00:39:21.000 It has done what no other country on earth could do.

00:39:25.000 History will record that President Trump acted to deny the world's most dangerous regime the world's most dangerous weapons.

00:39:35.000 His leadership today has created a pivot of history that can help lead the Middle East and beyond to a future of prosperity and peace.

00:39:46.000 President Trump and I often say, "Peace through strength." First comes strength, then comes peace.

00:39:54.000 And tonight, President Trump and the United States acted with a lot of strength.

00:40:00.000 President Trump, I thank you.

00:40:03.000 The people of Israel thank you.

00:40:05.000 The forces of civilization thank you.

00:40:08.000 God bless America.

00:40:09.000 God bless Israel.

00:40:11.000 And may God bless our unshakable alliance, our unbreakable faith.

00:40:18.000 Interesting wardrobe choice, the red tie.

00:40:20.000 If you search Bibby's speech, he almost always wears a blue tie.

00:40:23.000 That matches the Israeli flag, of course.

00:40:25.000 He did wear a red tie when he met with President Trump in the cabinet room at one time.

00:40:30.000 Maybe I'm reading too much into it.

00:40:33.000 By the way, we are about 180 seconds out from the scheduled start of President Trump's speech that he will be giving here.

00:40:41.000 By the way, let me just say, I'm going to be listening to every word, every syllable.

00:40:46.000 And you're going to want to tune in here right when President Trump is done because we can decode and kind of give you a little bit of an interpretation of what's going on, I think, better than anybody else.

00:40:56.000 Because, I mean, look, I've known the man for 10 years and I've spent a lot of time with him.

00:40:59.000 I just saw him last week.

00:41:01.000 And so this is going to be one of the most important, one of the most high stakes, one of the most pressure-filled, one of the most important speeches in President Trump's career.

00:41:13.000 In fact, I could make an argument.

00:41:15.000 This is one of the highest stakes foreign policy primetime addresses since Barack Obama addressing the nation when he took out Osama bin Laden.

00:41:23.000 Do you remember where you were in that?

00:41:24.000 I remember where I was.

00:41:25.000 So, true story, I was in Greece on a study abroad, so I was asleep when it happened.

00:41:29.000 I remember watching it.

00:41:30.000 It was big league stuff.

00:41:33.000 And then, so since that address, Barack Obama addressing the annihilation of Osama bin Laden, the whole country cheered. 0.77

00:41:40.000 I think this is the largest, let's just say the biggest, not largest, the biggest, highest stakes moment of foreign policy.

00:41:49.000 The stakes are a lot higher than Obama.

00:41:51.000 Obama could just spike the football. 0.64

00:41:53.000 He's dead.

00:41:54.000 I'm saying that was very memorable, very historic.

00:41:57.000 Now, it's very interesting.

00:41:58.000 Will President Trump do this from the Oval?

00:42:00.000 Will he do this from the East Room?

00:42:02.000 Jack, I might cut you off at any time here.

00:42:04.000 We have the legendary Jack Posobiec here.

00:42:06.000 Jack got right into the chair.

00:42:09.000 Jack, just from a military standpoint first, we have plenty of time to break apart all of the politics here.

00:42:14.000 Jack, what are you seeing and hearing?

00:42:16.000 Phenomenal precision on behalf of the U.S. military.

00:42:18.000 If I cut you off, it's because President Trump will go live.

00:42:21.000 Jack.

00:42:21.000 Well, Charlie, of course, and yes, we're all waiting to hear President Trump go live.

00:42:24.000 It does certainly seem like an incredible precision strike by the U.S. military.

00:42:29.000 And of course, Charlie, this is what those pilots train for.

00:42:31.000 This is what those military aircraft train for every single day.

00:42:35.000 the refueling capabilities, the operational security that was done here.

00:42:40.000 Of course, this is in many ways a routine run, at least in terms of training, but also not routine in terms of the target and in terms of the height But of course, with the air defenses degraded, as we've been reporting all week with Iran, it seemed like a time that President Trump was able to make his decision.

00:43:03.000 He did make his decision.

00:43:05.000 And of course, the question has always about the safety of those pilots seems to have been a completely successful run.

00:43:14.000 As far as myself, you know.

00:43:22.000 We knew that it would take more than one of these bombs.

00:43:26.000 We're told that it was six so far in the initial reports.

00:43:30.000 And of course, we're also hearing about Tomahawk missiles launched at a few other of the nuclear sites from submarines within the region.

00:43:38.000 So, you know, really wanna hear what data Did this completely take out Fordo?

00:43:44.000 Does it need to be hit again?

00:43:46.000 What's really the situation on the ground?

00:43:48.000 And of course, whether or not Iran responds is going to be the big question.

00:43:53.000 NBC saying that President Trump is expected to address that very question because there's a lot of...

00:44:05.000 A lot of bases that are going to be on edge tonight.

00:44:07.000 And for folks that are sitting out there, I think that they know, those folks that are in uniform, the men and women are in uniform right now, they know that they have a commander-in-chief who absolutely has their back.

00:44:18.000 They have a secretary of defense and Pete Hegseth who always puts the warfighter first.

00:44:24.000 And that's exactly who they are going to be listening to when they tune into the president's words.

00:44:30.000 So, by the way, at any moment here, we might throw to President Trump.

00:44:34.000 It's 7 to 1. I know the White House very well.

00:44:37.000 I said he's going to be late.

00:44:38.000 My guess is...

00:44:42.000 I don't know.

00:44:42.000 Tonight's a big night, but I don't think he's going to be sharp at 7. I think at least 10 to 15 minutes.

00:44:46.000 He won't wait too long.

00:44:47.000 He wants those ratings, too.

00:44:48.000 At 11.30, people start going to bed.

00:44:50.000 I know, but this is big.

00:44:51.000 This is big.

00:44:52.000 They've got to make sure every word is correct.

00:44:54.000 And so, by the way, the emails were getting freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:44:58.000 The younger you are, the emails we're getting, the more critical you are of this operation.

00:45:03.000 The older you are, the more supportive.

00:45:05.000 And so that is playing out freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:45:08.000 And by the way, in our podcast all week, and you guys can subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast, we're going to be covering this in great detail with unbelievable specifics.

00:45:16.000 You guys can subscribe.

00:45:16.000 We'll be doing a giveaway in a little bit, by the way, for everyone that subscribes.

00:45:20.000 We've been talking about the age and generational difference, that like over 40, you're more sympathetic.

00:45:26.000 Under 40, not sympathetic.

00:45:28.000 Guess what?

00:45:29.000 I'm 31. I'm here to keep the coalition together, guys.

00:45:31.000 By the way, no doomerism.

00:45:33.000 People say, oh, World War III, you know, Trump's in his support.

00:45:35.000 Guys, hold on.

00:45:36.000 This is June of Trump's, forget my thoughts, President Trump, one of the most important addresses in American history.

00:45:43.000 Let's watch.

00:45:43.000 Thank you very much.

00:45:46.000 A short time ago, the U.S. military carried out Massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime, Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.

00:46:01.000 Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise.

00:46:09.000 Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat. 0.84

00:46:17.000 posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror.

00:46:21.000 Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success.

00:46:29.000 Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.

00:46:35.000 Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. 1.00

00:46:39.000 If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier. 0.99

00:46:44.000 For 40 years, Iran has been saying, death to America, death to Israel. 0.98

00:46:49.000 They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs. 0.99

00:46:55.000 That was their specialty.

00:46:57.000 We lost over a thousand people, and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and around the world have died as a direct result of their hate.

00:47:06.000 In particular, so many were killed by their general, Qasem Soleimani.

00:47:13.000 I decided a long time ago that I would not let this happen.

00:47:17.000 It will not continue.

00:47:19.000 I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.

00:47:23.000 We worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before.

00:47:28.000 And we've gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel. 0.91

00:47:33.000 I want to thank the Israeli military for the wonderful job they've done.

00:47:38.000 And most importantly, I want to congratulate the great American patriots who flew those magnificent machines tonight and all of the United States military on an operation the likes of which the world has not seen in many, many decades.

00:47:52.000 Hopefully, we will no longer need their services in this capacity.

00:47:56.000 I hope that's so.

00:47:58.000 I also want to congratulate the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Raisin Cane, spectacular general.

00:48:06.000 And all of the brilliant military minds involved in this attack.

00:48:10.000 With all of that being said, this cannot continue.

00:48:13.000 There will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days. 0.92

00:48:21.000 Remember, there are many targets left.

00:48:25.000 Tonight's was the most difficult of them all, by far, and perhaps the most lethal.

00:48:31.000 But if peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed, and skill.

00:48:40.000 Most of them can be taken out in a matter of minutes.

00:48:43.000 There's no military in the world that could have done what we did tonight, not even close.

00:48:49.000 There has never been a military that could do what took place just a little while ago.

00:48:54.000 Tomorrow, General Cain, Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth will have a press conference at 8 a.m. at the Pentagon.

00:49:02.000 And I want to just thank everybody, and in particular, God.

00:49:08.000 I want to just say we love you, God, and we love our great military.

00:49:12.000 Protect them.

00:49:13.000 God bless the Middle East.

00:49:15.000 God bless Israel.

00:49:17.000 And God bless America.

00:49:18.000 Thank you very much.

00:49:20.000 Thank you.

00:49:21.000 Okay, well, first of all, what a visual.

00:49:25.000 You got J.D. Vance.

00:49:27.000 You got Marco Rubio.

00:49:28.000 You got Pete Hegseth.

00:49:28.000 What a difference between Tony Blinken and Lloyd Austin and Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.

00:49:34.000 So that was very fast, as I would expect.

00:49:37.000 It was short.

00:49:37.000 It was straight to the point.

00:49:39.000 It was exactly what I would expect from President Trump.

00:49:42.000 Now, we're getting the full transcript.

00:49:43.000 We're going to replay some of the more details of the speech here.

00:49:48.000 Look at that lineup right there.

00:49:49.000 That's Team America.

00:49:51.000 You got J.D. Vance, you got Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, you got Pete Hegseth.

00:49:54.000 And by the way, I am the most vocal person that says no endless wars.

00:49:59.000 At the moment we're at in right now, this is not by any means yet showing that we're going to get into a whole other endless war.

00:50:05.000 It can get there.

00:50:07.000 You can always run the risk.

00:50:08.000 That's always been my contention.

00:50:10.000 But I have full faith in President Trump to navigate this.

00:50:13.000 It might say, oh, Charlie, what evidence do you have to support that?

00:50:15.000 Donald Trump took out ISIS without getting us an endless war.

00:50:17.000 ISIS.

00:50:18.000 Donald Trump bombed the Houthis without getting us into an endless war.

00:50:22.000 Donald Trump took out Soleimani without getting us into an endless war.

00:50:25.000 Donald Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem without getting us into an endless war.

00:50:29.000 And so the elements and the details around this are Donald Trump decided to act with the authority given to him to go take out Iran's nuclear facility.

00:50:42.000 I want to try to get to Jack here in a second, but first, I want you guys to email us, freedomatcharliekirk.com, your thoughts on President Trump's address.

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00:51:10.000 Okay, Jack, your thoughts?

00:51:11.000 Jack, on President Trump's address and this very important night.

00:51:15.000 Well, Charlie, you know, and I'm looking at the transcript now.

00:51:19.000 President Trump saying we've gone a long way into eliminating this threat, saying that I decided a long time ago I would not let this happen.

00:51:28.000 I will not let it.

00:51:30.000 And it's true, Charlie, and we've been highlighting online, you've been highlighting online as well, how President Trump's statements going back to the 1980s are directly targeting Iran and not allowing them to have a nuclear weapon one way or the other.

00:51:45.000 Now, of course, Steve Witkoff was pursuing the diplomatic route.

00:51:49.000 President Trump has decided that that diplomatic route was not bearing fruit or certainly wasn't bearing fruit as quickly as he had hoped, and that's why he authorized this strike.

00:51:58.000 Trump has gone back even to day one when he came down the escalator.

00:52:04.000 And people have, of course, focused more on his statements about mass deportations, and certainly we support that. 1.00

00:52:11.000 And he also said, though, on that very same day, it was kind of overlooked, but he also said in that initial speech 10 years ago this week, 10 years ago this week, I'm looking at the date, that he was.

00:52:25.000 So 10 years ago, he made that promise to the American people on day one.

00:52:29.000 And as of today, he is coming out and reporting that he has obliterated the nuclear weapons program of Iran. 0.70

00:52:36.000 All right, so now I want to try to get into some of the politics here and break it into our team here.

00:52:40.000 We got Blake, we have Andrew, we have Jack Posobiec.

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00:53:01.000 So let's talk about the politics here.

00:53:03.000 Andrew, what are you looking at online?

00:53:04.000 It seems as if people are getting ahead of themselves.

00:53:07.000 There's people that are getting really fired up.

00:53:09.000 Andrew, your thoughts?

00:53:10.000 Yeah, Hakeem Jeffries, the first Dem leader statement that I've seen, he's saying Donald Trump promised to bring peace to the Middle East.

00:53:17.000 He has failed on that promise to risk.

00:53:21.000 The risk of war is now dramatically increased, and I pray for the safety of our troops.

00:53:25.000 President Trump misled the country.

00:53:28.000 Blah, blah, blah.

00:53:29.000 So, President Trump's enemies in Congress, Hakeem Jeffries, are pouncing.

00:53:36.000 Democrats pounce, Charlie.

00:53:38.000 Notably, we've seen John Fetterman is in support of the strikes and praised them pretty quickly.

00:53:46.000 I think there's a lot of support that's consolidating around President Trump right now.

00:53:50.000 A lot of people saying, we trust him, wait and see.

00:53:53.000 That's basically the gist.

00:53:55.000 There is some dumerism, losing all of his base.

00:53:58.000 What I'm saying is it's less than I would have predicted.

00:54:01.000 And so I think that's a good sign that – I think President Trump is going to rally the base around him.

00:54:10.000 I think President Trump has earned our support.

00:54:12.000 If this gets drawn out and messy, obviously...

00:54:18.000 But I think President Trump is going to get the base around him.

00:54:22.000 I think this press conference with Hegseth in the morning is going to be telling.

00:54:26.000 I think the messaging that we see out of the White House for the next week is going to be really important, and they need to be on their game.

00:54:33.000 But, you know, listen, we didn't want this.

00:54:36.000 We didn't want war, but we trust the president, and we certainly don't want Iran to have nukes.

00:54:43.000 We're going to see how it plays out in the next couple days, Charlie.

00:54:45.000 But I predict that he's going to win the base.

00:54:50.000 Andrew, your internet's breaking up a little bit, but I think we got the last part of that.

00:54:54.000 And so, now, there's some people that are doing super chats.

00:54:58.000 Some are pretty hostile.

00:54:59.000 Some are definitely hostile.

00:55:00.000 I mean, look, we have to get the variety of opinion here.

00:55:02.000 I can read some of them.

00:55:03.000 Yeah, read some of them.

00:55:04.000 By the way, these are not Blake's opinions.

00:55:06.000 These are people that pay for it.

00:55:07.000 I'm just going to read.

00:55:07.000 A lot of these are from YouTube.

00:55:08.000 I'll thank you.

00:55:09.000 Blackest Panther says, this is the same excuse they used to get us to invade Iraq.

00:55:14.000 It's a reasonable argument.

00:55:15.000 I think it's a little different.

00:55:16.000 It is different.

00:55:17.000 The nuclear program is at least real.

00:55:18.000 100% real.

00:55:19.000 No one disputes it as real.

00:55:21.000 The weapons of mass destruction were sequestened.

00:55:25.000 Not a thing with Iraq. 1.00

00:55:26.000 So we should at least acknowledge that.

00:55:29.000 And can I make one other differentiation?

00:55:31.000 President Trump has said no ground troops.

00:55:33.000 Iraq was a purely ground, like a majorly ground troop.

00:55:35.000 And so far that hasn't happened, and we would definitely all oppose that.

00:55:39.000 ASFX donated $10.

00:55:41.000 He says, I thank God that Trump is supportive of the idea that people who chant death to America should not have nukes.

00:55:48.000 Thank you for that.

00:55:50.000 Let's see.

00:55:53.000 Ricky, thank you for $5.

00:55:54.000 I can't read yours because you have a swear word in it, and this is a family-friendly broadcast.

00:55:59.000 Debbie, thank you for $10.

00:56:02.000 Mad Max, somewhere in whatever location you believe he is right now, John McCain's ghost is laughing because Trump chose Israel first.

00:56:13.000 That is a take we're going to see.

00:56:15.000 I think Trump is choosing America first.

00:56:18.000 You can argue about...

00:56:26.000 Vicky Burton just gave us $20.

00:56:28.000 Thank you very much for that, Vicky.

00:56:30.000 And it's extremely difficult to scroll through YouTube, so I can't actually get to all of these.

00:56:37.000 Overkill, thank you for $2.

00:56:38.000 He says, Trump is the one who ripped up the nuclear deal.

00:56:41.000 That's another perspective, is we had the nuclear deal with Iran.

00:56:44.000 Was it wise to get rid of that?

00:56:48.000 Again, different opinions on that.

00:56:50.000 Some said Iran was breaking the deal.

00:56:52.000 Some said it just wasn't a very good deal in the first place.

00:56:55.000 And we gave Iran a ton of money in return for nothing. 0.93

00:56:58.000 Wouldn't be the first time we gave a country a ton of money in return for nothing.

00:57:02.000 So that's a highly believable take.

00:57:04.000 But again, thank you to everyone for your donations.

00:57:07.000 And I think Charlie wants to say something here.

00:57:08.000 No, no.

00:57:09.000 Any others?

00:57:10.000 Or no?

00:57:10.000 I mean, a ton just keep coming in now.

00:57:14.000 Barbara Metz, $5.

00:57:15.000 Trump is 1,000% for America.

00:57:19.000 RR, $5.

00:57:20.000 He says, Israel dog-walked us into another conflict.

00:57:23.000 There is no sugarcoating this.

00:57:25.000 James Lawrence, $5.

00:57:27.000 U.S. has been taken advantage of for too long.

00:57:30.000 This move is more than just correcting Iran's mistakes. 0.78

00:57:33.000 Full display.

00:57:34.000 actually I'm not sure if that's pro or anti Dhruv Rajan $20 thank you I worry that Trump I believe is destroying his bench Tulsi Gabbard JD Vance Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio have lost their anti-war credibility who So, a wide spectrum of opinion that we're getting here.

00:57:59.000 So, online things are getting pretty hot.

00:58:01.000 And, look, I've been around this for 10 years.

00:58:04.000 I've been in this space.

00:58:06.000 And a general rule.

00:58:08.000 Is when things get really hot and people get really excited, just take a deep breath because it's usually not as bad as you think it is.

00:58:14.000 And no, this is not the end of the coalition and things are not falling apart.

00:58:20.000 And look, the track record of President Trump is phenomenal here.

00:58:25.000 Whether it be Soleimani, al-Baghdadi, the Houthis.

00:58:29.000 And you can all share those concerns.

00:58:31.000 I share some of those concerns.

00:58:33.000 And a lot of...

00:58:38.000 President Trump has phenomenal instincts, though.

00:58:40.000 And President Trump also has a commitment.

00:58:45.000 He doesn't want to invade Iran.

00:58:48.000 He doesn't want to have a ground invasion.

00:58:51.000 He also is not calling for regime change.

00:58:54.000 Lindsey Graham, you hear that screaming?

00:58:55.000 He's mad.

00:58:56.000 Oh, no, we want regime change.

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01:00:06.000 Jack, what are you seeing online?

01:00:10.000 Is it dividing the MAGA faithful online?

01:00:14.000 It's getting a little hot, I can say.

01:00:16.000 Definitely there's been a little bit of a heat up here.

01:00:19.000 Jack, just give us kind of like an analysis.

01:00:21.000 Not your own opinion.

01:00:22.000 Just give us an analysis of what's happening here.

01:00:24.000 Yeah, Charlie, I'm seeing that split that you're talking about.

01:00:33.000 Some people are totally supportive.

01:00:37.000 Some people are saying that 100% behind this, that this was great.

01:00:41.000 Other people.

01:00:42.000 And by the way, you know, these are some some folks who are diehard.

01:00:45.000 I'm talking about diehard MAGA faithfuls.

01:00:47.000 I'm not talking about like the never Trumpers or some of these other buckets here.

01:00:50.000 I'm talking about just people that I'm you know, that I know have have always supported Trump, you know.

01:00:57.000 Full support, you know, making fun of Obama.

01:00:59.000 Some of the memes are flying, you know, Obama crying.

01:01:02.000 And it says, when Trump destroys the facilities you helped pay for.

01:01:06.000 Okay, that one's actually pretty funny.

01:01:08.000 But, you know, but then you're also seeing a lot of people saying that, you know, you know, this is difficult.

01:01:15.000 This is difficult.

01:01:16.000 This is dangerous.

01:01:17.000 You know, it's going to be very, you know, the, A lot of folks saying, hey, can we can we focus now back on deporting illegal aliens and saying, look, you know, this foreign policy contest was obviously the biggest foreign policy test of President Trump going forward.

01:01:40.000 And so and so now can we get back to domestic?

01:01:46.000 Other people say, you know, a lot of people actually asking about what the, you know, what the actual SITREP is, the tactical report, strategic report, what happened at the basis.

01:01:55.000 You're seeing a lot of interest in that.

01:01:57.000 You know, we haven't seen, you know, a lot of released footage from the, you know, from this as well.

01:02:02.000 But a lot of Gen Z, you know, I got to say, Charlie, it echoes what you're saying in that YouTube chat.

01:02:07.000 Gen Z very much saying, why are we putting... 0.92

01:02:19.000 They didn't live through the war on terror.

01:02:21.000 They didn't live through so many of these things that a lot of other people have been through.

01:02:25.000 They've only lived through, you know, they lived through a world that's in the shadow of 9-11.

01:02:30.000 You know, they probably don't even have any direct memories of 9-11 itself.

01:02:34.000 And so, you know, you're seeing a lot of that backlash among Gen Z. Can you read some of Sean Davis' tweets here?

01:02:41.000 Very sharp commentary, please.

01:02:43.000 Blake.

01:02:44.000 Yeah, so we have Sean, and I'll acknowledge Andrew said these were his thoughts as well, so I want to get here.

01:02:50.000 America is now in a very difficult and dangerous spot.

01:02:53.000 Our next steps depend entirely on the response of a regime we were told is suicidal, insane, and an imminent threat to us and everyone else.

01:03:03.000 That means we now have to pray.

01:03:06.000 Those claims about them being suicidal and aggressive, which were used to justify our attacks, were wrong and that no retaliation occurs.

01:03:13.000 A thing I don't hear a lot, this is now me talking, you know, like modern Iran, the reason Iran is Shia, it was founded by kind of a...

01:03:22.000 I don't know how else to describe it, like an apocalyptic Islamic movement. 0.98

01:03:26.000 There was a founder of modern Iran claimed he was the Mahdi, who's kind of a messianic figure in Islam, that he is basically the...

01:03:40.000 Multiple Muslims since have claimed to be that figure, but the founder of modern Iran claimed he was that, and then he lost a big battle, and he really believed it.

01:03:49.000 I think he died an alcoholic, basically, as a result.

01:03:52.000 So yeah, their legacy is they follow a religion that kind of has a vision of what the end of the world will be like, and it involves a messianic Islamic figure destroying the enemies of Islam. 0.74

01:04:05.000 We do have to worry.

01:04:06.000 Will they embrace this apocalyptic ideology in the face of U.S. strikes?

01:04:11.000 Or will they think, okay, things are getting a little too hot.

01:04:14.000 Let's take the hand that is offered to us.

01:04:17.000 And we can hope they do.

01:04:19.000 But I feel like America's offered them a hand quite a few times.

01:04:22.000 President Trump signaled repeatedly, I would like to not bomb you.

01:04:26.000 Please do not make me bomb you.

01:04:29.000 Now he decided he had to bomb them.

01:04:32.000 By the way, that's the other part here, everybody.

01:04:34.000 I hope everyone in the audience is internalizing this.

01:04:36.000 The people that say, oh, I'm against the bombing, which, by the way, totally respectable position. 0.99

01:04:40.000 And if you have concerns, I get it.

01:04:41.000 I share some of them.

01:04:42.000 But if you're just inherently against this, let me just kind of press pause.

01:04:47.000 Trump exhausted a diplomatic channel on multiple occasions, and Iran was not interested in it.

01:04:54.000 Why was Iran not interested?

01:04:55.000 Because they really thought for whatever reason, President Trump was not...

01:05:01.000 Now, I also have to simultaneously caution everybody in the audience that is cheerleading the bombing of this facility, which is, by no measure is this a death blow to the nuclear program.

01:05:16.000 A nuclear program is a mindset.

01:05:19.000 It's going to set them back significantly, maybe years.

01:05:23.000 I mean, the facilities are not child's play.

01:05:26.000 The Persian people are very smart, though.

01:05:29.000 What did you say, Andrew?

01:05:30.000 It's a huge point, Charlie.

01:05:32.000 I think that what you're saying is spot on because this is the problem that we've been talking about.

01:05:39.000 Can you actually stop the nuclear program without a regime change?

01:05:43.000 And if you can't, then we're just getting deeper into a regime change, and that's been the argument the whole time.

01:05:49.000 I mean, you've got guys like Bridge, right, that are saying that, you know, they're actually a rational actor.

01:05:56.000 They posture, but...

01:05:59.000 So this has been the conflict that we've been struggling through because there's no good options in Iran.

01:06:06.000 It's 92 million people.

01:06:07.000 There are proud people, strong people.

01:06:09.000 It is a mindset, and I totally agree with the point you're making.

01:06:14.000 Sorry I chimed in.

01:06:15.000 No, no, it's great.

01:06:15.000 No, it's fine.

01:06:16.000 So here is the—do you want the bleaker, bearish view here outside of Americans getting killed from an Iranian perspective? 0.91

01:06:27.000 There is a reading here.

01:06:29.000 I don't think it's likely.

01:06:30.000 I'd probably give it a 30% to 40% chance that they are backed up against a wall and this becomes an internal rallying cry. 0.98

01:06:37.000 The Ayatollah and his gang of crazy people stay in power. 1.00

01:06:42.000 And they say, oh, America, you think you could take out our nuclear program? 0.92

01:06:46.000 This is now priority number one.

01:06:48.000 We're going to do it anyway.

01:06:50.000 We're going to enrich uranium. 0.87

01:06:52.000 If you bomb us, we'll reconfigure. 0.91

01:06:54.000 If you bomb us, we'll reconfigure.

01:06:55.000 There will be no stopping us.

01:06:58.000 Now, if that is their attitude, that will force the Israelis' hand to try to take out oil fields and take out electricity. 0.78

01:07:05.000 But I just want everybody to understand, a nuclear program is at its core a mindset.

01:07:10.000 Now, yes, this is a timeline changer.

01:07:13.000 What President Trump did tonight is a timeline disruption.

01:07:17.000 However, can you guys get Tom Cotton?

01:07:19.000 Tom Cotton was on Sean Hannity's program, and Sean Hannity's program was really good about an hour ago, and Tom Cotton said something that was just not right.

01:07:26.000 He said something on Fox.

01:07:28.000 He got a little bit too excited.

01:07:29.000 Do you know what Tom Cotton said?

01:07:31.000 He said this has completely wiped out all of Iranians' nuclear program.

01:07:36.000 That is not correct.

01:07:38.000 What it has is it knocked out their nuclear capabilities.

01:07:40.000 So I'm going to educate you guys on something.

01:07:42.000 There's two different words here, and they matter.

01:07:44.000 Nuclear program.

01:07:46.000 Nuclear capability.

01:07:47.000 Those are not the same thing.

01:07:49.000 So one would be like, let's just use a football analogy.

01:07:51.000 If you bomb a practice field, you've just bombed a football field's football capability.

01:07:57.000 But they still have a football program that they can adjust.

01:08:00.000 A football team is the players, it's the coaches, it's the general knowledge.

01:08:05.000 You know what a great example of this is?

01:08:06.000 When the Marshall football team died in the plane crash.

01:08:09.000 Do you remember when the Marshall football team died in the plane crash back in the 70s or 80s?

01:08:13.000 The program actually was still alive.

01:08:14.000 They decided to, you know, we're going to bring more people on there.

01:08:17.000 It was a great movie.

01:08:17.000 What's that movie called?

01:08:18.000 We Are Marshall.

01:08:19.000 We Are Marshall.

01:08:20.000 And so we got to read a lot of these Super Chats. 0.98

01:08:22.000 But I just want all of you guys to understand that this, by the way, this might have delivered just about a demoralizing death blow where the Mullers are like, we're done. 0.90

01:08:30.000 This is like, we still all the, by the way, they took 20 years building Fordo and a ton of money.

01:08:35.000 Now, here is the kicker.

01:08:37.000 And then let's get there.

01:08:38.000 What is the most important ingredient, everybody?

01:08:40.000 The most important ingredient.

01:08:42.000 Money.

01:08:43.000 If Donald Trump keeps the heavy sanctions on, it's going to be very hard for Iran to finance a nuclear capability.

01:08:51.000 So you've got nuclear program, nuclear capability.

01:08:54.000 Their capabilities have now been significantly neutered.

01:08:57.000 Their program is still alive.

01:08:59.000 Let's go to some super chats here, Blake.

01:09:04.000 Sorry, I just want to get these because people pay for them, so we should acknowledge them.

01:09:07.000 Let's get some ones on Rumble. 0.94

01:09:09.000 Schoenek gave $10 on Rumble.

01:09:11.000 He said, this is completely different.

01:09:13.000 Trump hit them so hard, they have to reconsider.

01:09:16.000 This isn't like Obama in all of the regulations.

01:09:20.000 I assume he meant sanctions there.

01:09:21.000 Thank you, Schoenek.

01:09:22.000 We have Casper Milk Toast donated $20 on Rumble.

01:09:26.000 Thank you for covering this.

01:09:27.000 I am an active duty service member, age 36. I support this incursion.

01:09:32.000 That's a very valid input.

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01:09:37.000 Trump recognized God's involvement.

01:09:39.000 That is a strong foundation to start at.

01:09:43.000 And R-Hirsch707 gave $5.

01:09:46.000 I don't get what the big deal is.

01:09:49.000 Trump should tell the media and Iran it was peaceful protests.

01:09:53.000 L-O-L.

01:09:54.000 And also Sir Ianokai, who gave $100 early, gave another $10 and said he's not pissed, he's not happy, he's plain wait and see, and he trusts Trump.

01:10:04.000 So thank you for that $10.

01:10:05.000 Mike Camoro gave $50 and said, quote, not a Christian unless you support Israel, says the, quote, Christian supporting wars based off of a Schofield Bible, not an actual Bible, from a, man, I'm not even...

01:10:26.000 What is this?

01:10:26.000 Someone is very angry, basically says it's not Christian to support this war.

01:10:31.000 First of all, I'm going to go do a whole podcast on the Schofield Bible.

01:10:33.000 This is like Reddit gone wrong.

01:10:35.000 It's a total cope, okay?

01:10:36.000 You don't know what you think you know about the Schofield Bible.

01:10:39.000 Okay, anyway, it's not a separate Bible.

01:10:41.000 It's not.

01:10:42.000 They're like, oh, it is what's called a...

01:10:47.000 Does that make sense?

01:10:48.000 So it's like it interprets passages?

01:10:49.000 People think it changed the Bible?

01:10:51.000 Oh, man.

01:10:52.000 No, it is the Bible.

01:10:54.000 Okay, anyway.

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01:11:02.000 Boy, they might want to surrender to avoid that one. 0.65

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01:11:10.000 John Galt gave us what I believe is $20 Australian, which I think you can take and trade in at the bank for real dollars.

01:11:17.000 And he said Israel was too excited to wait the two weeks, so not only did they dictate the actions to D.C., but also the timing.

01:11:24.000 Where is American sovereignty in all of that?

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01:11:28.000 I think that is...

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01:11:38.000 Do we think Putin knew this was coming?

01:11:41.000 I suspect he had his reasons, and I want to acknowledge some people have said, you know, is Russia going to react very hostilely to this?

01:11:49.000 Will China react hostilely to this?

01:11:50.000 Both of those countries have a relationship with Iran, but I think a thing we've seen...

01:12:02.000 I think the most telling thing is Hezbollah, which is the closest thing they have to a client of Iran.

01:12:08.000 They're a Shiite militia.

01:12:09.000 They've been directly under Iran.

01:12:11.000 We've helped them in conflicts with Israel before.

01:12:13.000 And once this started, they said, We're not going to strike Israel over this.

01:12:19.000 We are neutral in this one.

01:12:22.000 And I think everyone else has had kind of a similar reaction to that.

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01:14:03.000 Can we also commend Hegseth and everyone in the Adman for not having a single leak about this?

01:14:09.000 Super impressive.

01:14:10.000 That's right.

01:14:10.000 After all the signal gate or whatever, all that nonsense.

01:14:14.000 So let me just chime in here.

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01:14:25.000 If you have any concerns, Has President Trump not earned the benefit of the doubt here?

01:14:32.000 That doesn't mean you have to agree with everything.

01:14:33.000 That doesn't mean you have to agree with all the components here.

01:14:35.000 But has President Trump not earned the benefit of the doubt at this moment?

01:14:40.000 After all that we've been through, after all of the components, has this not, have you not, has Donald Trump not shown you and demonstrated that he is not for foreign wars?

01:14:53.000 Syria? 0.58

01:14:53.000 ISIS? 0.58

01:14:54.000 Go through the list here.

01:14:55.000 Yeah, like we've done multiple strikes.

01:14:57.000 I was with, I remember I worked with Tucker at this time.

01:15:00.000 2017, we had that Assad gassed his own people.

01:15:04.000 We need to, this crossed the red line.

01:15:05.000 We've got to overthrow it.

01:15:06.000 There was a lot of pressure on Trump to do a full regime change air campaign.

01:15:10.000 And instead he said, okay, we've got to show we don't tolerate this.

01:15:14.000 And so he did a limited missile strike and that was it.

01:15:18.000 And then a couple years later, they kind of whipped up, oh, we've got to do regime change in Syria again.

01:15:22.000 He did another wave of missiles and that was it.

01:15:26.000 Soleimani.

01:15:27.000 He took out Soleimani.

01:15:28.000 There was some, I think, as you said, they fired some rockets at our guys.

01:15:32.000 I don't think anyone died, but, you know, there was menacing gestures.

01:15:36.000 Some people wanted us to escalate from that.

01:15:38.000 Trump didn't.

01:15:40.000 Summer 2019, they shot down one of our robots in the Persian Gulf, and some people said, this was an attack on America.

01:15:46.000 We had to topple the Iranian government over this.

01:15:49.000 And Trump shrugged and said, no, we're not going to do that.

01:15:53.000 And then, of course, ISIS.

01:15:55.000 You know, he went in, was decisive about it, but then dialed back.

01:16:00.000 Afghanistan.

01:16:01.000 Some people wanted to extend that war forever.

01:16:03.000 He pursued getting U.S. troops out, paving the way for a full withdrawal, and of course Biden botched some many aspects of that, but I think we agree it's a good thing we don't have thousands of troops still getting shot at in Afghanistan.

01:16:15.000 Trump has repeatedly shown he is not a fan of open-ended, no-objective, long military campaigns.

01:16:24.000 When he does use military force, he prefers it to be shortened duration.

01:16:29.000 Pretty strong and decisive, and just go for your thing, shoot your shot, and get out.

01:16:34.000 And obviously there's hazards to this.

01:16:37.000 This is definitely the biggest intervention we've done, but as you say, I think he's earned some trust from us.

01:16:44.000 Also, breaking news, unrelated, but big, Fred Smith, the head of CEO, has passed away.

01:16:52.000 CEO of?

01:16:53.000 FedEx.

01:16:54.000 Oh! 0.60

01:16:55.000 Yeah, so Fred Smith was a great guy.

01:16:56.000 I've actually always wanted to meet him.

01:16:59.000 So, phenomenal, phenomenal guy.

01:17:01.000 Another one here, $49.99.

01:17:03.000 No matter what you think, there's risk of people dying between both action and inaction.

01:17:07.000 One might come sooner than later.

01:17:09.000 One might cost many more deaths by doing nothing.

01:17:13.000 Okay, so let's get the map up here.

01:17:16.000 Can we do a map break here?

01:17:17.000 Can we just kind of show the entire...

01:17:23.000 And also, let's get the situation room pictures up.

01:17:26.000 There's Marco Rubio, who is both NSC and Secretary of Defense.

01:17:29.000 There's Raisin Cain, Susie Wiles.

01:17:31.000 It's amazing.

01:17:32.000 Susie Wiles, who's an amazing person, goes from running campaigns to in situations like that. 0.76

01:17:35.000 I just like how Susie Wiles is so much left.

01:17:38.000 It just felt like every chief of staff we had in the first term was this major character, and there was always this conflict.

01:17:45.000 Suzy Wiles, there's not constant leaks involving her. 1.00

01:17:48.000 We're not getting all these stories where Suzy Wiles is screaming at Trump or yelling at someone. 1.00

01:17:53.000 That's what we got with Kelly.

01:17:55.000 And then Kelly leaves and he starts trashing Trump afterwards.

01:17:59.000 We're not getting constant drama from the chief of staff this time around.

01:18:02.000 Totally.

01:18:03.000 And let's get that map break of the Middle East here.

01:18:07.000 And by the way, I want to keep on hearing from you guys.

01:18:09.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com if you are just tuning in.

01:18:12.000 Okay, so can we get one of the entire Middle East, not just of Iran, but we'll start there.

01:18:15.000 So that's a very big country, Blake.

01:18:17.000 Very big.

01:18:18.000 Right?

01:18:19.000 So we bombed several different sites there.

01:18:23.000 Walk us through kind of where in Iran these sites were.

01:18:27.000 And what does each one of the sites represent as the significance?

01:18:32.000 Exactly.

01:18:32.000 The places we hit are basically about in the middle of Iran.

01:18:37.000 If you looked at it where it says Zagros Mountains and Alborz Mountains, the northernmost one is about where those two words are meeting.

01:18:45.000 That's the main one we hit, Fordo.

01:18:48.000 Then there's another one, Nahans, I think is what it was.

01:18:54.000 And then Isfahan a little more to the southeast.

01:18:56.000 And that's the core about where the people of Iran are.

01:18:59.000 Iran is about 92 million people.

01:19:02.000 Most of them live in the western half of the country.

01:19:05.000 It's very mountainous.

01:19:07.000 It's very rugged.

01:19:07.000 But you have these fertile valleys.

01:19:09.000 Whereas the further east you go, you get into just the desert.

01:19:14.000 Not a lot of people who live there.

01:19:15.000 So kind of if you were in the bottom sort of There's one or two cities and then not much else.

01:19:26.000 big desert uh but yeah so you're kind of bombing a string of sites in the mountains where it's still 92 million people in an area about two and a half times the size of Texas.

01:19:39.000 That's more densely populated than Texas, actually.

01:19:42.000 So lots of people there, pretty spread out.

01:19:44.000 So you have a good way of thinking in a contrarian fashion.

01:19:47.000 What do you have to say to people that say, I didn't vote for this.

01:19:51.000 This is an administration ender.

01:19:53.000 This is the end of the coalition.

01:19:54.000 I mean, this is June of the first year.

01:19:57.000 Blake, how would you respond to that?

01:19:59.000 Yeah, so I can say that myself as someone who...

01:20:04.000 You don't have opinions that differ.

01:20:05.000 That's fine.

01:20:06.000 But what I can say is, first of all, we just don't know how this is going to go yet.

01:20:12.000 We don't know how Iran is going to reply, and if they do reply, we don't know how President Trump will react to it.

01:20:17.000 So we are putting our trust in him.

01:20:19.000 It's not an administration.

01:20:21.000 Currently what has happened so far is the United States dropped some bombs on three sites in Iran.

01:20:30.000 We don't know what the death toll is, but if it reflects what we've had so far, maybe a few dozen people.

01:20:36.000 We have dropped some bombs on Iran. 1.00

01:20:39.000 That is our level of commitment.

01:20:40.000 We have not landed troops on the southern shore of Iran.

01:20:44.000 We haven't had paratroopers land in Tehran.

01:20:47.000 We are not doing daily bombing campaigns on all of Iran's cities.

01:20:51.000 We have not turned this into our equivalent of the Ukraine war.

01:20:55.000 We have flown some bombers over.

01:20:58.000 We dropped bombs on three sites.

01:21:01.000 That's it.

01:21:02.000 That is a very limited level of involvement.

01:21:05.000 We should genuinely be worried if this escalates into a bigger thing.

01:21:09.000 But so far it has not.

01:21:11.000 So far it has not.

01:21:12.000 And we have some level of control over whether it does.

01:21:15.000 Not 100%.

01:21:16.000 That's why we have some worries.

01:21:18.000 But it has not exploded into anything big yet.

01:21:21.000 So people...

01:21:25.000 They didn't vote for endless wars.

01:21:26.000 They didn't vote for U.S. boots on the ground.

01:21:28.000 So far, we don't have those things.

01:21:30.000 We don't have a regime change war.

01:21:31.000 We don't have boots on the ground.

01:21:32.000 We don't have an open-ended conflict with no clear objective.

01:21:36.000 President Trump's objective was blow their nuclear program to smithereens.

01:21:39.000 So we bombed their nuclear program.

01:21:42.000 And that is the extent of what we have done so far.

01:21:45.000 That's it.

01:21:46.000 And so I just, I have to say, I want to try to introduce some caution into all of this.

01:21:53.000 Let me kind of read some frontline reports from the Middle East.

01:21:57.000 This is from some Israeli intelligence officers.

01:22:00.000 Secondhand information, not first.

01:22:02.000 Quote, reports out of Iran are that officers are refusing to fire missiles because Israel has been striking launch sites immediately after they fire.

01:22:10.000 That is true.

01:22:10.000 No, this is rational.

01:22:12.000 This is actually rational.

01:22:13.000 No missile attacks in Israel today for the first time since Israel first attacked Iran last week.

01:22:18.000 Iran's ability to fire any missiles is severely degraded.

01:22:22.000 U.S. assets in the Middle East are likely not going to be attacked.

01:22:26.000 Now, that's a very bullish interpretation, but that is actually a very rational and interesting thing.

01:22:31.000 So let me kind of explain to you how this works.

01:22:33.000 So there's a ton of Iranian ballistic missile launchers in the interior of Iran, a ton of them, right?

01:22:41.000 And so we don't know where they all are.

01:22:43.000 And so there's a ton of these launchers on...

01:22:55.000 So a lot of these are like hidden in the hills and they're hidden in the trees.

01:23:00.000 I mean, it's a massive country, right?

01:23:02.000 Put that map back up.

01:23:04.000 I mean, could you imagine trying to just find a launcher in Texas?

01:23:08.000 By the way, just so we, you know, driving from like Galveston to El Paso could take you like 10 hours.

01:23:16.000 Now, two and a half times that.

01:23:17.000 That's like driving from Houston to Reno.

01:23:21.000 With probably a crappier road network, too.

01:23:24.000 Right, exactly.

01:23:24.000 So, as soon as one of these launchers goes up and it surfaces, then we now know from the air where it is, and then Israel takes it out.

01:23:37.000 Okay.

01:23:37.000 So therefore, if they want to take out American bases or try to take out American All caps, as is his way.

01:23:54.000 Thank you.

01:24:00.000 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States.

01:24:03.000 Yes.

01:24:04.000 And so, by the way, that's a very predictable truth from Trump.

01:24:08.000 And that's, by the way, that's exactly what he should be saying, and he means every single word.

01:24:14.000 So that's interesting intelligence.

01:24:16.000 Let me read some other stuff here, some other reports that I'm getting.

01:24:34.000 That's good, right?

01:24:35.000 They'll get annoyed about that one. 0.77

01:24:37.000 That's right.

01:24:39.000 Do we have shock and awe, by the way, from 2003?

01:24:43.000 Do we have that?

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01:26:12.000 So we know that Iran's ability to enrich uranium has been deterred.

01:26:17.000 This is from a top-level military source.

01:26:19.000 Let me read this here.

01:26:20.000 Those saying they fear another Iraq and Afghanistan are not paying attention.

01:26:25.000 Nobody here, this is from a top-level military source, has any plans of going This is what they also say.

01:26:35.000 Charlie, please tell your audience that Israel has assassinated hundreds of scientists who ran the program. 0.89

01:26:42.000 It's not just the facilities that were destroyed.

01:26:45.000 And Russia and the Chinese Communist Party won't be so fast to help them again after this.

01:26:51.000 They are set back, in all caps, decades if it's not totally destroyed.

01:26:55.000 I don't think that's I'm not sure I shared that view, but okay.

01:27:01.000 Let me go one more.

01:27:02.000 And of course, they will do what they can to rebuild.

01:27:04.000 They are an ideological regime.

01:27:07.000 They don't care about their economy except as it helps them build weapons capabilities.

01:27:11.000 Remember, I told you about the money.

01:27:12.000 That's why they've been having rolling blackouts for years.

01:27:15.000 Electricity is the gut punch to Iran. 0.98

01:27:18.000 Remember that.

01:27:19.000 For years, even though they are one of the most energy-resource-rich countries in the world.

01:27:23.000 That's a great point.

01:27:23.000 All their resources go to the war machine against Israel and the West.

01:27:28.000 Thoughts on that?

01:27:30.000 I mean, I hope they're right.

01:27:32.000 Well, decades.

01:27:32.000 Put the decades thing aside.

01:27:33.000 But also, like, hundreds.

01:27:35.000 I mean, maybe.

01:27:36.000 They've definitely taken out some nuclear scientists.

01:27:38.000 Have they taken out hundreds?

01:27:40.000 I'd be interested in seeing the full list of names.

01:27:43.000 That's quite the job.

01:27:44.000 That's quite the operation.

01:27:48.000 In the end, the truth is, the dark reality of it is, the nuclear bomb was invented 80 years ago in a country. 0.97

01:27:56.000 We were able to invent the atomic bomb without having computers.

01:27:59.000 So what is the history of Iran?

01:28:01.000 Why is it called Iran and not Persia?

01:28:03.000 Oh, so Iran actually is like, I believe their historic name going back 2,000 years.

01:28:10.000 It actually comes from the same word.

01:28:13.000 It literally basically means land of Aryans.

01:28:15.000 So actually like, you know, the Nazis kind of got that Aryan label from like ancient Yeah.

01:28:21.000 So they're an Indo-European people.

01:28:23.000 So they're...

01:28:27.000 So it is related to English, to Italian, French, all the languages we speak.

01:28:32.000 And it goes all the way down to India.

01:28:34.000 So you have Indian languages, Persian languages, and then European languages.

01:28:38.000 So it's not a Semitic language the way Hebrew is or Arabic.

01:28:41.000 That's interesting.

01:28:42.000 So you mean Farsi?

01:28:42.000 Yeah, so Farsi is just another term for Persian.

01:28:45.000 Okay.

01:28:46.000 Forest Province.

01:28:48.000 And Yeah, Persian. 0.85

01:28:52.000 You could call it Persian.

01:28:53.000 Usually they'll just call it Persian.

01:28:55.000 They also speak Persian in Afghanistan.

01:28:56.000 Not everyone, but like the largest group of people there.

01:29:01.000 So Persian, Persia, that's just to name it.

01:29:03.000 There's like Persis is a region in Iran, and that's where the ancient Greeks kind of got their name for them.

01:29:10.000 So the ancient Greeks called them Persia, and obviously we have a great heritage from the ancient Greeks, and so that just kind of became the Western name for them.

01:29:18.000 But generally their own name for themselves was some, I'm not exactly sure how they pronounce it, but basically Iran.

01:29:25.000 And about 100 years ago, the Shah of Iran actually said, I think we should be called the Iran in the West.

01:29:32.000 And then his successor, the famous Shah who got overthrown, he said...

01:29:38.000 I don't care that much.

01:29:39.000 And then he got overthrown and they went back to preferring Iran a lot.

01:29:43.000 So what's very funny is if you're in L.A. and you know the Persians there, they often prefer to be called Persians because they see that as a way of showing they're not in line with the regime, which pushes the Iranian name.

01:29:54.000 So I don't know.

01:29:56.000 It'd be kind of cool.

01:29:56.000 If we did end up overthrowing their government, it'd be bad.

01:29:59.000 But one of the plus sides, maybe we can call it Persia again, which I kind of prefer as a name myself.

01:30:05.000 I like Persia.

01:30:06.000 Yeah, that's cool.

01:30:07.000 Persians, if you play a video game, if you're playing Civilization, you play as the Persians. 0.81

01:30:12.000 You don't play as the Iranians. 1.00

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01:31:33.000 So I want to read some of these emails here.

01:31:36.000 Mandy says, Charlie, I'm a Trump supporter, wife, mom of three.

01:31:39.000 Tough decisions, but I trust that they are made not lightly.

01:31:42.000 I could tell you right now, these are not made lightly.

01:31:45.000 This has been an enormous amount of pondering.

01:31:48.000 This is not just an overnight decision that went into this.

01:31:52.000 Now, there's another email from a friend from Chicago, Charlie.

01:31:57.000 I'm 100% in support of Israel, but I think Trump needs to pull back.

01:32:01.000 The job is done.

01:32:02.000 Get in and out.

01:32:03.000 So, I mean, you kind of look at the dynamics here.

01:32:08.000 This potentially could escalate in a way that nobody wants.

01:32:12.000 The $10 trillion question is, what is Iran going to do?

01:32:17.000 Now, Blake, let's walk through this.

01:32:19.000 Trump's saying he'll retaliate if we're hit.

01:32:21.000 Is worrisome.

01:32:22.000 But let me just ask.

01:32:24.000 So if 100 U.S. troops die, does a president need to respond to that?

01:32:28.000 What did Reagan do with the barracks bombing?

01:32:32.000 That's instructive here.

01:32:33.000 So for those who don't remember, there was a civil war in Lebanon.

01:32:36.000 In the 80s.

01:32:37.000 Yeah, in the 80s, which I was going to say about 30 years ago.

01:32:40.000 It is over 40 years ago now.

01:32:42.000 So civil war in Lebanon, and we kind of had the humanitarian send U.S. troops to try to keep order.

01:32:50.000 Very much just a humanitarian mission.

01:32:53.000 And as such things go in the Middle East, it didn't go well for us.

01:32:57.000 One of the first big suicide bombers in the Middle East, they were not a super common practice at the time, but a guy drives a truck bomb into the barracks where the Marines are in Beirut and detonates it and kills, I want to say, did he kill 300 U.S. troops?

01:33:13.000 It was 283.

01:33:15.000 I only know that because I looked it up the other day.

01:33:18.000 And then other people as well.

01:33:19.000 One of the most devastating suicide bombs of all time.

01:33:23.000 And the response of Reagan was, this is not what we signed up for and we will pull our troops out.

01:33:28.000 Now, a big difference there is that's a non-state actor who did it.

01:33:33.000 There was no government we could really overthrow.

01:33:35.000 Yeah, so that's the barracks bombing right there, 280.

01:33:40.000 So 283.

01:33:42.000 U.S. service members die.

01:33:44.000 How did Reagan respond when 283 Marines, I think, died?

01:33:48.000 Like I said, he responded by, we withdrew our troops there.

01:33:53.000 We were like, we don't want tons of U.S. troops dying in what is ultimately just a humanitarian mission.

01:33:58.000 Similarly, in Somalia, we intervened there again on a humanitarian mission.

01:34:03.000 And then a large number of U.S. troops got killed in the whole Black Hawk Down incident in Mogadishu.

01:34:08.000 And our response was, let's pull back on.

01:34:12.000 That was early in Clinton's presidency.

01:34:13.000 Yeah, I think 93. And so again, we withdrew from that because our thought was, we're here on a humanitarian mission.

01:34:21.000 We're not here to get hundreds of U.S. troops killed.

01:34:23.000 But again, same deal.

01:34:27.000 Somalia was in a state of essential anarchy.

01:34:29.000 It was warlords.

01:34:30.000 there was not a regime we could go and just get overthrow as retaliation it would be different here if there's And that is, I would say, it's risky.

01:34:46.000 I understand why President Trump said this.

01:34:48.000 But at the same time, when he says, if you attack us, I'll retaliate much worse, it commits us.

01:34:53.000 I think that it's rhetorical deterrence.

01:34:56.000 That's probably the best argument.

01:34:57.000 It is, but it's also...

01:35:00.000 So build that out further.

01:35:01.000 I interrupted you.

01:35:01.000 So now you're saying that if we get hit, he must respond.

01:35:04.000 Exactly. 0.96

01:35:05.000 So that is what's dicey, is that he has said, if you hit us, I will hit you back and hard.

01:35:11.000 And previously, when he'd said nothing, I think you could say it's pretty likely he would hit you back, but he has...

01:35:21.000 He's kind of prevented some agency.

01:35:23.000 Now we're committed.

01:35:24.000 If Iran says, okay, we're going to lob a bunch of missiles at you, to maintain his credibility, he's going to have to respond more intensely than they hit us.

01:35:34.000 So he can't even keep it tit for tat.

01:35:36.000 He's said he will respond much more forcefully than whatever they hit us with.

01:35:42.000 They hit us.

01:35:43.000 You know, one U.S. troop dies.

01:35:45.000 Ten U.S. troops die.

01:35:46.000 He's now said, I'm going to pulverize you if you do that.

01:35:49.000 So then suddenly we're bombing Iran a bunch more. 0.85

01:35:52.000 And then what do they do back to us?

01:35:54.000 That's how you can potentially get into that escalatory thing where they do one thing.

01:36:00.000 We go back at them.

01:36:02.000 They go back at us.

01:36:03.000 Yes.

01:36:03.000 And that's the way you end up.

01:36:05.000 All of a sudden you wake up one day and you're like.

01:36:07.000 Suddenly there's U.S. troops in Iran.

01:36:08.000 Yeah.

01:36:09.000 Which, by the way, is logistically, I don't even know where you would invade.

01:36:13.000 There's not like a port.

01:36:16.000 Tehran is hundreds of miles into the interior of that country.

01:36:20.000 I mean, you could not design a country harder to invade than Iran. 0.88

01:36:25.000 Maybe Afghanistan. 0.95

01:36:26.000 Well, that's true.

01:36:27.000 But, no, but the difference in Afghanistan, a bunch of people in Huts, this is a great people.

01:36:30.000 These are very sophisticated people.

01:36:32.000 Cities with 20 million people.

01:36:34.000 Now imagine how much urban warfare...

01:36:37.000 Now imagine urban warfare in a city of 20 million people.

01:36:41.000 Let me go a step further.

01:36:42.000 So the IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, General Guard, whatever.

01:36:49.000 Guard Corps, probably.

01:36:50.000 Has 600,000 active people.

01:36:53.000 Do you know how many people they have on call?

01:36:55.000 It's going to be 10 times as much.

01:36:57.000 20 million.

01:36:58.000 That's like every dude in Iran. 0.97

01:36:59.000 The point being is that they're like...

01:37:03.000 I mean, you could be fighting a 20—and they're all armed.

01:37:06.000 Like, they have a conventional army in Iran.

01:37:08.000 So nobody wants this.

01:37:10.000 And by the way, President Trump doesn't want it either.

01:37:12.000 He's been very clear.

01:37:13.000 He wants to get in and out.

01:37:14.000 And he knows, look, you bomb a foreign country, you are introducing risk. 0.99

01:37:19.000 You are introducing an element of unpredictability here that no one will be able to control.

01:37:24.000 Let's go back in the history books.

01:37:26.000 This is on British television.

01:37:28.000 The Invasion of Afghanistan, 2001.

01:37:31.000 Play cut 278.

01:37:33.000 Good evening.

01:37:34.000 American and British forces have begun attacking the Taliban in Afghanistan tonight in a wave of military strikes aimed at crippling their air defenses and wiping out their military aircraft.

01:37:45.000 The attacks began just before half past five this evening, half past nine in Kabul, when 50 cruise missiles were launched from submarines and ships in the Arabian Sea, supported by what's been described as the most sophisticated bombers and strike aircraft in the American arsenal.

01:38:01.000 And so let me just kind of give another viewpoint here.

01:38:06.000 From that broadcast in 2001 to 2025, it's been 24 years.

01:38:11.000 I'm 31 years old.

01:38:14.000 Basically, as a 31-year-old, almost all memory that I have of war has been quagmire, death, lies, and deception in that region.

01:38:25.000 For those of you watching this right now, over the age of 50, you're like, how is it that so many young people can be skeptical?

01:38:32.000 That's why.

01:38:33.000 Because we turn the corner, there's just another conflict in this region that almost everybody in this audience will not join.

01:38:45.000 They will not visit.

01:38:46.000 They will not know where it is.

01:38:48.000 And again, I'm not even saying that there is a...

01:38:56.000 Trump did it.

01:38:57.000 He's the commander-in-chief.

01:38:58.000 We have to trust his judgment.

01:39:00.000 He has earned our judgment.

01:39:01.000 By the way, that is the biggest takeaway I'm getting from Trump supporters is cautionary approval.

01:39:07.000 That's probably the best way I could summarize it.

01:39:09.000 It's like, look, you're leading us into this.

01:39:11.000 You've earned it.

01:39:12.000 We got it.

01:39:12.000 We have some concerns.

01:39:14.000 Cautionary approval, I would say, is the consensus of the audience.

01:39:17.000 I don't even have cautionary approval.

01:39:19.000 I just say, President Trump has earned it.

01:39:21.000 He's a friend of mine.

01:39:21.000 He made a decision.

01:39:22.000 Let's see what happens.

01:39:23.000 And by the way, he has proven time and time again, it'd be one thing if all of a sudden he had five, six, seven, eight, nine different iterations of messes.

01:39:31.000 And he knows what he is doing.

01:39:33.000 We're at 96 members here tonight.

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01:39:45.000 Jack Posobiec is with us.

01:39:47.000 Is that right?

01:39:49.000 I'm here.

01:39:50.000 Jack, you left us to go on Bannon Show.

01:39:51.000 Now I'm trying to get Bannon on here.

01:39:53.000 It's all a mess.

01:39:54.000 So, Jack, how do we go forward here to keep MAGA together in the midst of all this?

01:40:01.000 Well, Charlie, look, you know, there's obviously divided opinion on this, and, you know, I'd be remiss as calling balls and strikes if I didn't say that.

01:40:09.000 But, Charlie, let's remember that MAGA has always been a coalition focused on the domestic policy, the domestic agenda.

01:40:18.000 What are the, even Kayleigh McEnany, who's someone who is massively in favor of these strikes all throughout the week, has said that the issue that President Trump polls highest on has consistently been.

01:40:32.000 And prior to that, these ICE raids that have been ramping up, I think, 500% earlier in the week was a number that I had seen come out.

01:40:39.000 A lot of the videos coming out of Los Angeles and other major cities.

01:40:41.000 President Trump also putting out a major tweet saying that he would be focusing on major cities with these ICE raids.

01:40:47.000 Look, you got to ramp up the domestic agenda.

01:40:49.000 And I think that's something that brings everybody, you know, people who were against this in the bases, people who were, you know, potentially, you know, Gen Z was against this.

01:40:58.000 I think if you ramp up that domestic agenda and really focus on this, as well as, by the way, getting the funding to the domestic agenda through this big, beautiful bill, that's going to be something that works very much to put everybody at ease to understand that, yes, this is President Trump.

01:41:14.000 This has always been President Trump.

01:41:16.000 He's always been focused on his promises.

01:41:18.000 One of his promises was on Iran and that he came down that escalator and he said, I'm going to end Iran's nuclear program. 0.95

01:41:23.000 And he also said, I'm going to conduct mass deportation.

01:41:26.000 So he's done one and he's going to do the I want to confirm this.

01:41:31.000 Iran's atomic agency says the country will carry on with its nuclear activities despite U S attacks on key facilities.

01:41:39.000 Okay.

01:41:40.000 So this is what now remember back to our program, which is why you guys should subscribe to our podcast.

01:41:45.000 Cause we're, we're one of the only shows that's been telling you this.

01:41:48.000 Remember back on Friday, on Thursday, Friday, we were talking about how a nuclear program is a mindset.

01:41:55.000 And so they, They, insofar that the regime breathes, there is still a nuclear program. 0.68

01:42:03.000 And so this has not deterred, and we'll say, I mean, this could be rhetorical BS.

01:42:07.000 This could just be, we're going to get you, and then they realize all their, they realize all their, We have to bomb the nuclear program in their hearts.

01:42:16.000 The NASA Fire Information System detected a significant heat-generating event near the Fordow nuclear facility, the New York Times reported.

01:42:23.000 One detection was about 30 minutes before President Trump announced the U.S. strikes.

01:42:27.000 I don't know what that means.

01:42:28.000 That's a little strange.

01:42:29.000 Well, 30 minutes before we announced, that would be after they supposedly believed we hit it.

01:42:35.000 So it could be a follow-up hit.

01:42:36.000 It could be something within the plant blew up.

01:42:40.000 Okay, so this Trita Parsi, founder and former president of the National Iranian Council on MSNBC, says, quote, I think the most important thing to understand in this situation is that Donald Trump has now ensured that Iran will be a nuclear weapons state in five to ten years from now, particularly if there is regime change.

01:42:59.000 Nothing motivates a country more to actually go for nuclear deterrence than having being bombed.

01:43:06.000 You do not know how a population is going to respond when you bomb them.

01:43:10.000 It could break their will, or it can strengthen their will.

01:43:13.000 Anyone who tells you is incorrect.

01:43:15.000 Now, the argument probably to bomb Fordow, the best case argument is this.

01:43:20.000 It buys you a lot of time, and this regime is probably not going to last another decade.

01:43:24.000 They've had multiple waves of major protests against them, and I think some people believe it's a very weak regime that could just get toppled.

01:43:34.000 You know, at a nudge.

01:43:36.000 I think that's optimistic.

01:43:38.000 And even if they get toppled, you know, maybe you get your Islamic regime toppled by just a secular but militant regime. 0.79

01:43:46.000 Like, there's kind of this assumption that anyone who's against the Ayatollahs might be pro-us, but— Not even close.

01:43:53.000 So Jack is there.

01:43:55.000 Jack, talk about how...

01:44:00.000 Oh, I saw Steve for a second.

01:44:02.000 Jack, talk about how there's a chance regime change could lead to an IRGC government, a military dictatorship.

01:44:08.000 Well, Charlie, that's exactly right.

01:44:10.000 And, you know, what you're saying, I think, in terms of the technology.

01:44:14.000 You know, the mindset of the nuclear program, I think, is exactly right because it's a technology.

01:44:19.000 So nuclear programs are a technology.

01:44:21.000 The capability, the infrastructure, that's all been taken out.

01:44:24.000 That's been set back potentially for years.

01:44:26.000 We don't know exactly how long.

01:44:28.000 But getting rid of the technology is tricky because it is a technology.

01:44:33.000 You would almost akin it to trying to get rid of Bitcoin, right?

01:44:36.000 You could get rid of, you know, a lot of the infrastructure for Bitcoin, but some of it would exist somewhere and it could be reconstituted.

01:44:43.000 If that regime were still in power.

01:44:46.000 And so there's another line here, too, that looking at these strikes, this is something that we saw in Iraq.

01:44:52.000 This is something that we saw in Afghanistan.

01:44:55.000 So let's just, you know, total devil's advocate here.

01:44:58.000 Let's say the regime falls, the Ayatollah is assassinated or he's overthrown and there's a power vacuum.

01:45:05.000 Some one of those scenarios takes place.

01:45:07.000 There's a real possibility that there is a power vacuum.

01:45:11.000 There are multiple successors who claim to be the next Ayatollah, and yet perhaps, just perhaps, the military, the IRGC of Iran, says we want to be in charge.

01:45:26.000 They install their own supreme leader, someone who is completely outside of the current system, whatever you want to call the system in Iran right now.

01:45:37.000 Basically creates a military dictatorship that is much, much, much more aggressive than the current leadership of Iran and works to launch their ballistic missiles, bomb the Straits of Hormuz, mine the Strait of Hormuz, go after merchant shipping, go after U.S. bases. 0.51

01:45:57.000 All of these things are on the table.

01:45:59.000 And by the way, all of these things have happened within this region in just the last 50 years.

01:46:05.000 So this isn't like something that, you know, that we're just shooting from the hip here.

01:46:09.000 These are all things that have taken place within the Middle East, Central Asia region over the course of the last 50 years or so, and certainly in the post World War Two environment.

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01:46:27.000 Blake, we might have to throw to Steve here, but can we...

01:46:34.000 Yeah, so a friend of mine sent me a message that got me thinking.

01:46:36.000 He said, thinking everything can be done with air power is an error we've been making since Korea.

01:46:43.000 And it got me thinking about that, because it's true.

01:46:45.000 In Korea, we have the United States Air Force.

01:46:48.000 It was one of the most powerful things ever.

01:46:50.000 It was a lot of stuff we had from World War II.

01:46:52.000 And we basically fought China to a draw, and China had essentially no planes.

01:46:56.000 And yet it just ended up being a draw.

01:46:58.000 We couldn't bomb our way through to winning that war.

01:47:01.000 Vietnam.

01:47:02.000 Unlimited amounts of U.S. air power.

01:47:04.000 You'll see that figure sometimes.

01:47:05.000 We dropped more bombs on North Vietnam than we dropped on Germany and Japan in World War II.

01:47:10.000 But we couldn't bomb that entire country into submission.

01:47:14.000 Since then, our bombs have gotten a lot better.

01:47:16.000 We have smart bombs.

01:47:17.000 We can make sure whatever bomb we drop is going to hit its target.

01:47:20.000 But the offset to this is they're more expensive.

01:47:23.000 They take longer to make.

01:47:24.000 We don't have the ability to just produce a million bombs really easily.

01:47:29.000 And so what you get is, if you want to see the outcome, you can go look at Ukraine and Russia, for example.

01:47:35.000 You can drop bombs.

01:47:39.000 You can hit power plants.

01:47:40.000 You can hit dams.

01:47:41.000 You can hit tanks.

01:47:41.000 You can hit infantry.

01:47:42.000 You can hit missile launchers.

01:47:44.000 But after a while, you just start to run out.

01:47:46.000 And okay, it's a country of 93 million people.

01:47:49.000 And you don't have perfect knowledge of everything.

01:47:51.000 You don't have the ability to hit everything.

01:47:53.000 And after a while, you just have to admit, are you actually able to bomb this country until they surrender?

01:47:59.000 Are you able to bomb them until their government gets overthrown?

01:48:02.000 There's not a great track record on that.

01:48:05.000 Even with Saddam Hussein, we did shock and awe, but to knock him out of power, we had to send 150,000 troops into that country.

01:48:13.000 And you're going to hear people who claim we can keep this entirely limited to an air war and achieve all of our objectives.

01:48:21.000 And if our objective is just damage their nuclear program, maybe we can do that.

01:48:26.000 But if you allow these people to get their hooks in where they say...

01:48:40.000 I'm not sure you can get that done with only planes dropping bombs.

01:48:44.000 And that's how you end up with, God forbid, U.S. troops end up in Tehran.

01:48:49.000 And there is kind of this modern cope that we're able to just do it with air power.

01:48:53.000 Yeah, it's the thought of, oh, you can just fly planes and they can't hit us and no one gets shot down and no one dies.

01:48:58.000 Yeah, there's no casualties.

01:48:59.000 and it's kind of a fiction of the modern military pedestrian mind.

01:49:05.000 So I want to read an email here.

01:49:09.000 This is by no means the majority, but I would say a lot of younger people are emailing us something similar.

01:49:15.000 Charlie, I supported Donald Trump and voted for him.

01:49:17.000 I will be voting for anyone that is explicitly anti-Israel next election. 0.86

01:49:21.000 So Jack, I know this is not the primary thing on people's mind, but what has the last week done, in your opinion, for the Israel advocacy or the people have the belief pro or against?

01:49:37.000 Has it improved people's opinion?

01:49:52.000 For the older generation, I think it's something where they're generally pro-Israel.

01:50:00.000 So baby boomers and Gen X writ large. 0.91

01:50:04.000 Then you cut down to millennials.

01:50:05.000 That's kind of 50-50 in Gen Y. But for Gen Z in particular, they've shifted in a big way.

01:50:13.000 I saw one poll from last week, over 50% anti-Israel.

01:50:17.000 And I think that's going to continue moving in that direction because Gen Z particularly views Israel as the aggressor in many of these cases.

01:50:29.000 Now, again, you can argue about that.

01:50:32.000 Personally, I have my own thoughts on that.

01:50:34.000 But that's how it's viewed.

01:50:36.000 I'm just saying that's the observation of Gen Z. And so as such, they say, why does all this have to happen right now?

01:50:45.000 They have serious questions about the intelligence.

01:50:48.000 They have serious questions about what's really going on.

01:50:51.000 And they go on TikTok and they look at videos coming out of Gaza every day of dead kids.

01:50:56.000 Now they see bombing in Iran.

01:50:58.000 And they say, what is this?

01:50:59.000 Why isn't anyone coming in?

01:51:02.000 Why isn't anyone doing anything to fix the economy in the United States, to fix the health situation in the United States, to fix housing without having to sell off all of our public lands, which is a conversation we were having the other day, at least behind the scenes.

01:51:18.000 And they're saying, when is our government going to do something for us?

01:51:24.000 And whenever I talk to Gen Z and I talk to Gen Z all the time, I have them on the program.

01:51:27.000 That's exactly what that's the first words out of their mouth any day of the week.

01:51:32.000 And it seems like they feel that they're not heard.

01:51:35.000 They feel that other people's interests always seem to come ahead of theirs.

01:51:40.000 Yeah, and so, Jack, if you were to give advice to the pro-Israel advocates and community, and also a warning, what would they be?

01:51:48.000 Because I think that there is a cautionary tale here that, like, hey, the last couple of weeks have not necessarily improved American sentiment of Israel.

01:51:59.000 But secondly, what would your advice be?

01:52:02.000 My first advice would be listen.

01:52:04.000 Just listen and don't lecture.

01:52:06.000 Just listen.

01:52:07.000 You know, this is the difference between effective communication and ineffective communication.

01:52:13.000 As we were talking about on ThoughtCrime, I guess that was yesterday, actually.

01:52:17.000 It feels like quite a few days ago, but it was actually just yesterday.

01:52:20.000 But in effective communication, you're listening.

01:52:23.000 You're being responsive.

01:52:24.000 You're actually hearing what another person's interests are and another person's side is.

01:52:28.000 And so if you're trying to meet Gen Z where they are, then actually listen to them and don't tell them how they should think.

01:52:35.000 Listen to what they think and why.

01:52:37.000 Find out what the context is.

01:52:39.000 Find out what their situation is.

01:52:40.000 Because they are a generation, again, and I'm just going to go back to the context here. 0.70

01:52:45.000 One of their earliest memories, if they even have a memory of it, is 9-11.

01:52:50.000 And then since then, they've been in a country that's been at war.

01:52:55.000 And George W. Bush obviously escalated wars.

01:53:00.000 Barack Obama was elected saying that he was going to end wars.

01:53:03.000 He did not.

01:53:04.000 He escalated wars.

01:53:06.000 Then you had President Trump.

01:53:08.000 First term said, you know, worked very hard to get us out of the Middle East.

01:53:11.000 And then Joe Biden comes in and boom, we have 10-7, we have the Ukraine war launch off.

01:53:16.000 And so a lot of Gen Z is saying, is someone just going to stop these wars and do something for us?

01:53:24.000 And unfortunately, they get these lectures and they get these talking points and they don't have anyone who listens.

01:53:31.000 So, Blake, can you go through some of the super chats and some of the people that have paid really quick?

01:53:35.000 Of course, of course.

01:53:36.000 Again, thank you to everyone who's been donating.

01:53:38.000 If we don't get to yours, we're still extremely grateful.

01:53:42.000 Master Doc donated five pounds.

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01:53:46.000 Please, America, stand with us.

01:53:48.000 We Israelis really need this.

01:53:50.000 We can't do this without you guys.

01:53:52.000 Please think of our people.

01:53:54.000 I'm not sure if that one might be sarcastic or not.

01:53:58.000 Let's see.

01:53:59.000 Jackson donated $5.

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01:54:06.000 Excited to be a new member.

01:54:07.000 Thank you very much for joining.

01:54:09.000 Alex Evans donated $5.

01:54:12.000 What if we rebuild the enrichment sites into Bucky's and Costco locations?

01:54:16.000 Not until we get a Bucky's here in Phoenix.

01:54:18.000 We are getting one.

01:54:19.000 Bucky's is taking over the world.

01:54:20.000 Buc-ee's is amazing.

01:54:21.000 I feel like if you go to Buc-ee's, you... 1.00

01:54:29.000 It is incredible.

01:54:32.000 Let's see.

01:54:34.000 Jose Lopez donated $10.

01:54:36.000 He wrote, Thank you very much.

01:54:49.000 Noise-like donated $20.

01:54:52.000 He said, is it possible that Trump might want to support Muslim soon?

01:54:56.000 That would be good.

01:54:57.000 No, I would disagree.

01:55:00.000 I would prefer that we not support Islam. 1.00

01:55:03.000 But if Islam wants to stop waging war on the United States, the radicals, I would certainly be grateful. 1.00

01:55:10.000 Mr. Magic 211 donated $5.

01:55:13.000 The real strategic win here is the clear message to China.

01:55:16.000 Trump won't hesitate to act if they make a move on Taiwan.

01:55:20.000 That's definitely something that's in the back of many people's minds.

01:55:24.000 Jesus is the Way donated $2, and he says, run for president, Charlie.

01:55:27.000 I love you.

01:55:29.000 Hopefully not in that way.

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01:55:35.000 Revelation 3.9, We're not going to read that one.

01:55:40.000 Guys, you don't need to do the...

01:55:43.000 Come on, guys.

01:55:46.000 Let's see.

01:55:47.000 I like this one.

01:55:48.000 Eric Norris, $2.

01:55:49.000 I've seen more Iranians okay with this than Americans. 0.93

01:55:52.000 I've seen people say this, but again, I want to caution people.

01:55:55.000 The Iranians you know are not necessarily representative of Iran writ large.

01:56:01.000 If there are people who know English, if there are people in America, That's not the same as your ordinary rural Iranian. 1.00

01:56:07.000 So I wanted to say really quick, we're live here on Real America's Voice, according to our team, which is great.

01:56:12.000 Hello, everybody that is just watching.

01:56:13.000 You probably already heard the news from, obviously, the United States has bombed Iran.

01:56:18.000 I want to hear from you guys.

01:56:18.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:56:20.000 Do you support this?

01:56:21.000 Are you in favor?

01:56:23.000 What are your concerns?

01:56:24.000 Email us, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:56:26.000 Also, a special thank you to Rob and Parker Sig.

01:56:30.000 Phenomenal.

01:56:31.000 Guys and what they're doing at Real America's Voice, they've been holding it down really great today.

01:56:34.000 And sorry for all the technical issues.

01:56:36.000 Sorry to cut you off there, Blake.

01:56:37.000 But I do want to just introduce a question here.

01:56:39.000 How do we keep the coalition together?

01:56:41.000 It's very important, Jack.

01:56:43.000 We have to keep this coalition together.

01:56:44.000 People are getting very spicy online.

01:56:46.000 I have a prediction.

01:56:48.000 And my Elon prediction, I think, is going to be turned out right.

01:56:51.000 I think the prediction is, by mid-July, this is going to be kind of a non-issue.

01:56:55.000 We're going to be moving on.

01:56:56.000 Jack, what now?

01:56:57.000 This is a very important question, Jack.

01:56:59.000 Jack, what now?

01:57:00.000 Does Donald Trump have to do to really fulfill the mandate for the base for people that might be concerned on immigration, on border?

01:57:10.000 Cernovich had a tweet about this.

01:57:12.000 Jack, what needs to happen?

01:57:14.000 Well, Charlie, look, you know, and I read Cernovich's tweet as well, and, you know, we've all been pushing for it.

01:57:20.000 We've all been pushing for it every single day.

01:57:21.000 Stephen Miller champions it every single chance he gets anywhere near a microphone, one minute on or even one second on mainstream media.

01:57:30.000 And that is mass deport all the illegals that are in the United States right now. 0.98

01:57:37.000 Make and fulfill the promise and the mandate that was sent to the American people regarding this question of the massive invasion crisis and the massive migrant crisis that is affecting the American people, the people who live within the confines of the United States of America, who face so many issues in terms of economics, jobs, wages, labor, housing, health care, etc., writ large, not to mention security.

01:58:06.000 issues of having all of these all of these transnational gangs operating throughout our country. 0.98

01:58:12.000 By the way, not to mention potential even sleeper cells and many people have pointed to this.

01:58:18.000 We'll see how true that is, and we'll probably find out very quickly if so, or, you know, hopefully Kash Patel and the boys over at FBI can make short work of them if that does come to fruition.

01:58:30.000 But, you know, really politically speaking, what I'd love to see and what I have loved seeing is the ramp up.

01:58:35.000 Of the ICE raids and these mass deportations because the domestic agenda is really going to come into focus now for the MAGA coalition going forward between now and those critical midterms.

01:58:47.000 The most important thing, it's called Project 10 Million.

01:58:49.000 Jack, we need 10 million deportations in this first term.

01:58:52.000 We have a million self-deportations.

01:58:55.000 We are on pace.

01:58:56.000 We're getting about a what?

01:58:58.000 1,000 to 2,000 deportations a day right now-ish?

01:59:01.000 Is that about-ish, maybe?

01:59:03.000 Arrests, maybe.

01:59:04.000 Well, arrests.

01:59:04.000 That doesn't include self-deportations.

01:59:06.000 I'm saying we have a million self.

01:59:08.000 Right.

01:59:08.000 So when we have nothing on the border, it's Project 10 million.

01:59:12.000 I like measuring stuff or else, oh, success is 10 million illegal alien invaders. 0.93

01:59:17.000 People say we need all 21 million.

01:59:18.000 We don't have the logistical capacity for that yet.

01:59:21.000 10 million is a big dent.

01:59:22.000 That helps demographically, right?

01:59:24.000 But like 10 million would be a major victory.

01:59:25.000 That would be a big one.

01:59:26.000 And that's, frankly, that's one of the... 0.99

01:59:38.000 Ridiculous.

01:59:39.000 So Jack, what do we now, we need to pass the big beautiful bill, Project 10 Million.

01:59:43.000 We need to write it down, by the way, because if we don't measure it all of a sudden, we're going to end up in the summer of 2026, or the summer of 2027, be like, how many people have we deported?

01:59:52.000 Like 2 million?

01:59:53.000 So what then?

01:59:55.000 I'm going to actually do the math in a second.

01:59:56.000 Because self-deportation is huge.

01:59:58.000 I think over 3 to 4 million can end up being self-deportation.

02:00:01.000 But Jack, go through the list here.

02:00:03.000 Education, you know, spending cuts, tax cuts, DREG, economy, inflation, DEI.

02:00:09.000 I mean, we have to now, we have to pitch a perfect game.

02:00:12.000 Because look, I support President Trump 100%.

02:00:14.000 You do too.

02:00:14.000 We're not laying, we're not, no criticism.

02:00:16.000 But some people in the chat and some people in the emails are getting pretty fired up, right?

02:00:20.000 We have to pitch a perfect game here, Jack.

02:00:22.000 We do.

02:00:23.000 And if there's a man who can pitch a perfect game, it is President Trump.

02:00:26.000 So no hits, no walks.

02:00:30.000 And so when we're looking at this, by the way, getting the no taxes on overtime, the no taxes on tips, and we've also seen it floated a couple of times here about, and we know that Secretary Lutnik, as well as a few others,

02:00:46.000 floated this idea of dropping taxes on anyone under, I believe one of the thresholds they were looking at was $150,000, so I guess it would be potentially $300,000 or so, maybe $250,000 for joint filing for married couples, dropping income taxes federally writ large for everyone under $150,000.

02:01:12.000 And again, Charlie, this is a huge part of what won Trump, the swing states, was the economic agenda.

02:01:18.000 And this is something that, you know, we talked about for, I've talked about for a long time.

02:01:22.000 I've always said the two biggest issues for MAGA are trade and immigration.

02:01:26.000 So you deliver on trade and immigration, and of course, economics is all a function of trade, then that's going to do a lot to keep the MAGA coalition together, not just for now, but even after Trump's term in office going into 2028.

02:01:40.000 And so, by the way, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is calling for impeachment of Donald Trump.

02:01:45.000 Yeah, that's.

02:01:45.000 And by the way.

02:01:46.000 So it's a day that ends in Y. And so, just so we're clear, a lot of presidents exercise military action without prior congressional approval.

02:01:57.000 The War Powers Act is pretty broad in its scope, right, Blake?

02:02:01.000 It might not...

02:02:03.000 Yeah, and a lot of it is like if the president does...

02:02:09.000 It restricts, like, open-ended commitment of the U.S. to conflicts.

02:02:14.000 And so, really, like, one bombing strike, I can't imagine that actually does violate the War Powers Act.

02:02:19.000 What it would be is if he's bombing them every single day and all of that, then you actually have to, like, get congressional approval to keep things going long-term.

02:02:30.000 You know one of the biggest lies being sold to American people right now is that you're in control of your money, especially when it comes to crypto.

02:02:36.000 But the truth, most of these so-called crypto platforms are just banks in disguise, fully capable of freezing your assets the moment some bureaucrat makes a phone call.

02:02:45.000 That is not what Bitcoin was built for.

02:02:47.000 That's why I use Bitcoin.com.

02:02:50.000 I just did a major transaction on it.

02:02:52.000 They offer a self-custodial wallet which means you hold the keys.

02:02:56.000 You control your assets.

02:02:57.000 No one can touch your crypto.

02:02:59.000 Not the IRS or not a rogue bank.

02:03:01.000 not some three-letter agency that thinks it knows better than you do.

02:03:04.000 This is how it was intended by the original creators of Bitcoin, peer-to-peer money, free from centralized control, free from surveillance, and free from arbitrary seizure.

02:03:13.000 So if you're serious about financial sovereignty, go to Bitcoin.com, set up your wallet, take back control, because if you don't hold the keys, you don't own your money.

02:03:21.000 Bitcoin.com.

02:03:22.000 Freedom starts here.

02:03:31.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

02:03:32.000 We're here live on Real America's Voice.

02:03:34.000 By the way, you can listen to all of our commentary if you subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.

02:03:38.000 That's the Charlie Kirk Show podcast page by following the QR code.

02:03:42.000 We're going to be doing live commentary all week on this.

02:03:44.000 This is a major, major day.

02:03:46.000 So pull up some of those, Blake.

02:03:48.000 But, Jack, let me throw it back to you.

02:03:50.000 So, Jack, from a military standpoint, I want to get the map of all of our military bases up.

02:03:55.000 What are the precautionary measures that U.S. troops have to go through in preparation to an Iranian ballistic missile attack against a United States base in the region?

02:04:07.000 Yeah, Charlie, well, a lot of that, you know, fortunately has already been done.

02:04:10.000 And so these are going to be some of the messages that Secretary Hegseth sent out to the force earlier in this week, as well as force dispersal.

02:04:19.000 So what do we mean by force dispersal?

02:04:20.000 That means, so in a Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor, let's go back to Pearl Harbor.

02:04:25.000 As, you know, December 7th, 1941, as a successful, quote-unquote, military strike of the Japanese on a naval base.

02:04:32.000 Well, one of the reasons it was so successful in large was because of the fleet sitting there tied pier side, tied dock side.

02:04:42.000 So you had so much of it right there at the Pearl Harbor Air, excuse me, Navy base, obviously in Hawaii that weren't able to get off.

02:04:50.000 And so those kamikazes, the bombers, everything that, Interestingly enough, a number of the aircraft carriers were actually out on maneuvers on that day, and that's one of the reasons that the United States Navy switched to aircraft carrier strike following Pearl Harbor.

02:05:11.000 But so since then, one of the strategies has always been disperse your assets.

02:05:16.000 So get your ships over operating in different areas, move your aircraft over, get them to different places.

02:05:22.000 If you've got civilians, Billions, obviously many of these bases.

02:05:27.000 I had a family member who was living on the Bahrain naval base at one point.

02:05:32.000 They're not there currently, but had their entire family there and was living on base.

02:05:38.000 So a lot of these families have gotten out.

02:05:40.000 And at the same time, though, there are still people that are within range there.

02:05:45.000 So you're going to be looking for what's our force protection level?

02:05:49.000 What are we looking for in terms of air defense to make sure that those are all manned?

02:05:53.000 you're going to be put on high alert.

02:05:55.000 And so hopefully all non-essential personnel have been evacuated at this point or at least safe places, simply just outside of the base and getting to places.

02:06:06.000 And this is what, by the way, a lot of the embassies in any of these areas are focused on a regular, You'd call it a NEO or a noncombatant evacuation operation.

02:06:24.000 And we haven't seen a NEO in any of the locations really around the Gulf since the start of this conflict.

02:06:31.000 Now, there have been limited evacuations, but not a full-scale NEO.

02:06:35.000 And so that tells me that they're expecting potentially some reprisal, but not anything, at least at this point.

02:06:42.000 That would resemble a full-scale war.

02:06:44.000 CNN is saying two bunker busters were dropped on Natanz.

02:06:48.000 Navy submarines launched 30 Tomahawk cruise missiles, and there were two bunker busters.

02:06:55.000 They're saying they dropped a dozen bunker busters.

02:06:58.000 The link says two.

02:06:59.000 Yeah, on Natanz, but they're saying we dropped a dozen on Fordow.

02:07:03.000 A dozen bunker busters.

02:07:05.000 We have several Bunker Busters.

02:07:07.000 We have that 30,000 pound one that's very powerful.

02:07:11.000 We have lesser ones, so maybe there's an aspect of that.

02:07:14.000 Like, maybe each of them dropped a heavy end of one.

02:07:16.000 The ordinance question and the battle...

02:07:32.000 I'm not sure.

02:07:33.000 I'm going to go with the president on what he said, because that's the only real official word that we have thus far.

02:07:37.000 Perhaps Secretary Hegseth or his office will put out something a little bit more clarifying or definitional in terms of what came out, because there's a lot of strange details.

02:07:51.000 And when I say strange, I mean, they're sort of, you know, one person says it was 12, one person says it was six, one person says it was two.

02:07:57.000 And so I'm really waiting to hear some kind of official word, you know, if we get one or not on what specifically was dropped.

02:08:04.000 But then writ large, of course, Charlie, as you've been saying, you know, we really do need to figure out what the battle damage assessment here is of these facilities, in particular, the facility of Fordo.

02:08:13.000 And that's going to be hard to do.

02:08:15.000 You know, it's almost like it's almost like bombing a pyramid and then trying to figure.

02:08:24.000 And so this is something where whether or not Mossad has that network still in place within Iran is going to be very critical, and whether or not CIA has assets as well, because you really need that human intelligence to understand what was lost, whether the centrifuges were taken out, how much of this thing is, you know, still.

02:08:49.000 You know, recoverable in any way.

02:08:51.000 So a lot of these questions are directly tied to the amount of ordinance used.

02:08:56.000 And by the way, this is a process called battle damage assessment.

02:08:59.000 It is an art, it is a discipline, and it would follow any military strike, large or small, as you're going through.

02:09:05.000 And so, you know, when I'm asking these questions, these are the same questions I would ask about any strike package or target package that were being put together in the military, because that's what we do every single time.

02:09:15.000 Blake, let's get to some of the super chats here.

02:09:17.000 But first, I want to just encourage you guys.

02:09:19.000 Email us your thoughts.

02:09:20.000 I'm reading them live here on air.

02:09:22.000 I want to get a good sense of where you're at.

02:09:24.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

02:09:25.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

02:09:26.000 Blake.

02:09:27.000 All right.

02:09:27.000 Let's get a few more.

02:09:27.000 Bobby Gonzalez says, Charlie swayed me away from the left.

02:09:32.000 Picking up W's all over the place.

02:09:33.000 I'm going to send you a signed hat, Barbie. 0.98

02:09:35.000 Bobby.

02:09:36.000 Bobby Gonzalez.

02:09:37.000 Bobby.

02:09:37.000 All right.

02:09:38.000 I'm glad it wasn't Barbie.

02:09:38.000 Shoot an email if you're Bobby Gonzalez because that was a YouTube one.

02:09:42.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

02:09:43.000 Bobby.

02:09:44.000 Not Barbie.

02:09:44.000 I don't want to see any emails from Barbie.

02:09:46.000 We did get a Barbie sub, didn't we?

02:09:49.000 Barbie's a legit name.

02:09:50.000 Yeah, it is Barbara.

02:09:52.000 Susie gave $5.

02:09:53.000 Charlie, I love everything you say.

02:09:54.000 Always correct.

02:09:55.000 Maybe you should be the next president.

02:09:57.000 Well, are you old enough to run in 28?

02:09:59.000 Not that you would, of course, run against her.

02:10:01.000 I would be old enough only on the October before the election.

02:10:06.000 That's old enough.

02:10:06.000 I would be running as a 34-year-old.

02:10:08.000 Oh, boy.

02:10:09.000 I'm not running for office, by the way.

02:10:11.000 I did the math the other day.

02:10:13.000 Someone was like, are you old enough?

02:10:14.000 I'm like, I don't know.

02:10:16.000 I would be 35 by the election and 35 by the inauguration.

02:10:19.000 Karen donated $5.

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02:10:28.000 Thank you very much.

02:10:29.000 I pray that my great-grandchildren will experience a more peaceful world one day because of President Trump's decision today, June 21st, 2025.

02:10:37.000 Now is the time to move forward with calm emotions and pray for God's direction.

02:10:41.000 Amen, Scott.

02:10:43.000 Do we have some more here?

02:10:45.000 Tika Lynn, $10.

02:10:47.000 Israel does not need our help. 0.99

02:10:49.000 It is the Lord who is their help.

02:10:50.000 We are blessed through Israel.

02:10:52.000 They are one of our allies.

02:10:53.000 Anyone who fights them fights against the Lord Jesus.

02:10:56.000 Larry the Lemon donated $10.

02:10:59.000 Thank you, Larry.

02:10:59.000 He says, I am about to go active duty army.

02:11:02.000 I don't really care about me dying, but it is my friends and family I am worried about.

02:11:08.000 We care about you dying, and we will do our best to make sure that does not come to pass.

02:11:14.000 Vivine, sorry if I said that incorrectly.

02:11:18.000 She donated $31 Australian.

02:11:21.000 Continue your consistent and courageous act of speaking honestly, even when it is difficult or sensitive.

02:11:27.000 Peace on earth.

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02:11:30.000 Raquel Petri, Jesus lives forever.

02:11:33.000 Amen.

02:11:35.000 Do we have any others?

02:11:36.000 Yes, we have a few.

02:11:39.000 Let's see.

02:11:40.000 Jason H. Hey Charlie, I am going to serve in the military and I am worried that I may fight in an endless, useless war.

02:11:46.000 We are all worried about that.

02:11:48.000 We do not want that to happen.

02:11:52.000 Jackson asks, how many new members will get the signed hat?

02:11:54.000 Does everyone who signs up as a member?

02:11:56.000 Everyone as a member gets one.

02:11:57.000 Members.CharlieKirk.com I like this guy.

02:12:08.000 Ben says, Charlie, come visit the cyber city in Chongqing, China.

02:12:12.000 You are going to want to see how much China has progressed infrastructure-wise while the Biden-Harris administration have made America lag behind.

02:12:19.000 I think that would be a fun trip if we ever got Charlie to go to China and, like, see what it looks like.

02:12:24.000 Oh, I want to.

02:12:25.000 By the way, one day I want to go to Iran.

02:12:28.000 I want to see it.

02:12:29.000 Isfahan is, you know, where we bomb one of those sites, Isfahan is like one of the religious centers of Iran. 0.98

02:12:34.000 It's got some very fascinating stuff.

02:12:36.000 I would love to see that, too.

02:12:38.000 Probably not anytime soon, though.

02:12:41.000 Adam donated $10.

02:12:42.000 I would much rather we go this route and stop Iran from creating a nuclear bomb than see them erase Israel. 0.99

02:12:47.000 Iran has a very evil ideology. 0.99

02:12:49.000 Wait, wait, wait, wait. 0.52

02:12:51.000 Chat, chat, yes or no?

02:12:52.000 Should we send Blake to Iran?

02:12:57.000 Guys, what do you think?

02:12:58.000 You could be the Charlie Kirk Show ambassador.

02:13:00.000 Oh, dear.

02:13:02.000 Blake, you're going to have to grow your beard out again.

02:13:04.000 We have a ton of Rumble chats, too.

02:13:06.000 But let me just read one important email here, freedom at charliekirk.com, because there's reports that Iran now claims they're going to accelerate themselves towards a nuclear bomb.

02:13:15.000 This could potentially be a series of bombing campaigns over months and years.

02:13:20.000 That is the most boomer, bearish. 0.96

02:13:25.000 Dooming interpretation.

02:13:26.000 If Iran just keeps on saying they want a nuclear bomb, this has to be a series of these types of campaigns. 0.73

02:13:34.000 Blake, keep going.

02:13:34.000 I want to hit those rumblers.

02:13:36.000 Kolarow, one of the guys who brought up the Schofield Bible earlier, he says, Schofield notes are still wrong.

02:13:42.000 Well, they might be, but thank you for acknowledging their notes.

02:13:45.000 They act as if it's like the.

02:13:49.000 It's not.

02:13:49.000 It is the New King James Version with notes by Schofield.

02:13:54.000 Just saying.

02:13:56.000 Yuan Yuan 512 donated $10 on Rumble.

02:13:58.000 Love President Trump.

02:13:59.000 God bless America.

02:14:00.000 Farm Life 2012 said, Trump knew the MAGA movement's future would be hurt.

02:14:05.000 He would not have taken this action if he didn't believe it was absolutely needed for our, the United States, not Israel's, safety.

02:14:12.000 Thank you for that, Farm Life.

02:14:15.000 Showank says, as long as the Strait of Hormuz is not blocked, then let's negotiate.

02:14:22.000 Fatal Investing donated $10.

02:14:24.000 He says, I'm Gen Z here.

02:14:26.000 Sorry, but this is a major blow for me.

02:14:30.000 I will support him and hope he continues with the agenda, but I will be abstaining from the 2026 and 2028 elections.

02:14:39.000 I'm sorry.

02:14:40.000 This has consequences.

02:14:42.000 And I'm from Pennsylvania.

02:14:44.000 So that is an interesting take to have.

02:14:48.000 I'm impressed by the maturity to say I will see if this succeeds, but I just believe it has to have consequences so I won't vote.

02:14:55.000 I wonder how many people feel that way.

02:14:57.000 Guys, it's the summer of 2025.

02:14:59.000 If we're talking about this in the summer of June next year, then I'll give you some credence to that.

02:15:05.000 Todd12, he donated $5 twice.

02:15:08.000 He says, what you're saying is screw the Iranian people and they should or can never be free again?

02:15:13.000 I don't think we're saying screw the Iranian people.

02:15:15.000 No, not at all, actually.

02:15:16.000 We're actually cheering for the Iranian people.

02:15:18.000 We just don't want to forcibly take out the Ayatollah because you might get something much worse. 0.85

02:15:22.000 And a lot of refugees.

02:15:24.000 Some people have said that, though.

02:15:26.000 And Charlie, I know you got that phone call and that's going pretty viral.

02:15:30.000 And I want to be clear that I certainly don't feel that way towards The Iranian people at all, as a matter of fact. 0.99

02:15:37.000 I don't think that, you know, they bear, or any regime's people bear responsibility for its actions.

02:15:45.000 They really don't.

02:15:45.000 Of course not.

02:15:46.000 No, I mean, like, yeah, someone called into our show.

02:15:47.000 The episode will air on Sunday, but it's on, it's the non, it's on podcast.

02:15:55.000 Literally, like, a guy wanted to drop a neutron bomb on Iran.

02:15:58.000 Neutron bombs!

02:15:58.000 Like, it's crazy.

02:15:59.000 We got our first Tucker 2028 message, Midwest Griller.

02:16:05.000 I wonder if we'll see that friction point grow or recede.

02:16:09.000 I think it's going to be fine.

02:16:11.000 He was very correct on the Elon Musk prediction.

02:16:15.000 He said that would get resolved by November and it got resolved by the following week.

02:16:18.000 I was a little bit shorter.

02:16:22.000 I said bye.

02:16:24.000 I'm saying you were super correct.

02:16:26.000 You were given a six month window and you were right within a week.

02:16:29.000 That was impressive.

02:16:30.000 I was not nearly as optimistic on that one.

02:16:35.000 Thank you very much again.

02:16:36.000 All the donations, we appreciate all the different takes.

02:16:39.000 And we're seeing, this is what I feel like one of the biggest ranges of opinion we've seen.

02:16:43.000 We're seeing sharply against this.

02:16:45.000 We're seeing sharply in favor.

02:16:47.000 We're seeing a lot of wait and see or I trust Trump, even if I'm skeptical.

02:16:52.000 We're really seeing.

02:16:57.000 Eric Day, $20.

02:16:58.000 My wife and I support Trump.

02:17:00.000 Thank you, Charlie and team, for all you do.

02:17:02.000 In God we trust.

02:17:04.000 Amen.

02:17:04.000 That's the truest thing.

02:17:05.000 We put our trust in the Almighty that this will work out to his benefit and the benefit of those who follow him.

02:17:14.000 SM said, Trump just fractured his base.

02:17:16.000 He didn't have the margin to do this, and it will cost him.

02:17:19.000 Get AIPAC influence chokehold out of the GOP.

02:17:24.000 That's a podcast topic for another time.

02:17:26.000 We're not going to address that tonight.

02:17:28.000 Any others?

02:17:30.000 More if I can do.

02:17:31.000 There's so many.

02:17:33.000 Let me ask to the audience, freedom at charliekirk.com, because I learned so much.

02:17:37.000 By the way, you know how many emails we have?

02:17:38.000 We have 4,000 emails in just the last 30 minutes.

02:17:42.000 I mean, and I have them all pulled up here, so I can kind of get it, because I can read the subject line, I can read a lot of this.

02:17:46.000 So guys, email me freedom at charliekirk.com.

02:17:48.000 If this escalates further, would you support that?

02:17:50.000 Or do you want this to kind of be a one and done?

02:17:53.000 Do you guys want this to be just kind of over?

02:17:58.000 Or do you want this to kind of, would you be okay with this escalating more and more?

02:18:03.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

02:18:05.000 Jack, can you read some of the stuff you're messaging me?

02:18:07.000 I don't know.

02:18:08.000 Just some of the stuff that Iran's state news agency says that Fordow facility did not notice any signs of a major explosion.

02:18:14.000 This could just be COPE.

02:18:16.000 This could just be Iranian propaganda.

02:18:19.000 but what is this?

02:18:20.000 Yeah, no, Charlie, I mean, like...

02:18:25.000 So thanks to the Internet, we have the ability to read both sides.

02:18:30.000 And so I'm reading what the U.S. is putting out.

02:18:32.000 I'm reading what Iranian sources are putting out, Israeli sources.

02:18:35.000 And it seems like Iran is doing everything they can to downplay this.

02:18:40.000 And certainly that's being done for internal consumption.

02:18:45.000 The Com Province Crisis Management Center is saying there's no threat to the residents of Com or the surrounding areas.

02:18:54.000 There's a report where they're saying that the Iran State News Agency is saying the traffic in the city and along the Kalm-Isfahan Highway is reportedly flowing normally.

02:19:05.000 No traces of contamination following strikes on U.S. nuclear facilities.

02:19:11.000 And sort of back and forth, they're saying that, let's see, let's see, let's see.

02:19:16.000 Okay, so this is Iranian MP says, there's no serious damage to Fordow.

02:19:20.000 Only ground structures were damaged, which are easy to restore.

02:19:23.000 No radiation emissions were recorded.

02:19:25.000 The evacuation was carried out in advance.

02:19:27.000 And so they're really putting out as much as possible that saying, hey, there's no fire, there's no debris.

02:19:33.000 So they're really doing as much as they can to downplay this.

02:19:36.000 But at the same time, they're also publicly stating They're putting up the same maps that we are of all the U.S. military bases within range of Iranian forces.

02:20:00.000 And just again and again, pretty much exactly what you would expect them to be saying right now.

02:20:04.000 Let's go to cut 286 to the CNN report here, 286.

02:20:09.000 Here's the latest developments on this major breaking news that we're following, breaking news in Iran.

02:20:16.000 American bombers have struck three, not one, not two, but three nuclear sites, major nuclear sites, inside Iran.

02:20:25.000 Those sites, Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz, they're considered the heart of Iran's nuclear ambitions.

02:20:32.000 Israel had struck targeted, Israel had tried to target them in the past, but a U.S. official tells CNN that the U.S. used not one, not two, but six B-2 bombers and 12 Bunker Buster bombs.

02:20:47.000 And that was just at the Fordow site.

02:20:50.000 Sources tell CNN that the U.S. told Iran, through back-channel discussions, that the strikes would be contained.

02:20:58.000 And no further strikes were planned, at least not yet.

02:21:01.000 Okay, Israeli Army Radio reports the U.S. did not attack the enrichment facility in Istvahan that Israel had attacked, but another site that was carved into a mountain where enriched material was hidden.

02:21:14.000 That makes you, that actually makes me worry a little bit.

02:21:17.000 It's good if they found a spot where material was hidden, but I feel like, okay, if there's one site where they were hiding stuff and we found it, Where are they hiding things?

02:21:28.000 And we didn't find it.

02:21:29.000 Again, the Persian people are very smart.

02:21:31.000 This is not the Taliban.

02:21:33.000 This is not the Taliban, okay?

02:21:35.000 The Persian people were once great people with very high IQs.

02:21:38.000 Let me read to you from a top reporter who will remain nameless but very well sourced.

02:21:42.000 By the way, just so you know, from this, the text I got at 4.20 a.m., which I didn't read because my phone was off, from a different source, hey, I think it's happening tonight.

02:21:55.000 Again, my phone was off, so now it's happened.

02:21:58.000 Our sources are good.

02:22:00.000 That's why you should watch our program, right, Jack?

02:22:02.000 Because you and I have the best, we have great sources here, and Andrew would agree.

02:22:07.000 What did the reporter say?

02:22:08.000 I really hope I am wrong, but I think Israel is now going to push for regime change, and now Trump will own it. 0.70

02:22:16.000 And remember, Andrew, what have we been pushing all week?

02:22:19.000 No regime change, no regime change, no regime change.

02:22:22.000 Was Andrew here or is Andrew gone?

02:22:25.000 I'm here, but choppy.

02:22:28.000 Oh boy.

02:22:30.000 We'll try here.

02:22:31.000 But remember, people said, oh, no one's pushing for regime change.

02:22:34.000 I think it's fair to say that we actually saw where this argument was going in advance.

02:22:39.000 Now, by regime change, what do we mean?

02:22:42.000 If the people want to rise up and do it themselves, legit, respect, we'll cheerlead them on, we'll give them moral support, we'll pipe internet, whatever.

02:22:49.000 We're talking about forcibly displacing a leader with military assassination.

02:22:55.000 Andrew?

02:22:56.000 Yeah, here's the problem, Charlie, if you can hear me.

02:22:59.000 Yes, we can.

02:23:01.000 Okay.

02:23:02.000 Is that you don't know where this leads.

02:23:04.000 You hit their nuclear sites. 0.97

02:23:06.000 If they strike back, we have to then hit them back.

02:23:11.000 And at that point, if nuclear weapons is a mindset, like you said, if the only way to get rid of nuclear is to take out the regime, the leaders of the nation.

02:23:21.000 So you don't know where this goes.

02:23:23.000 You cannot predict how they will respond.

02:23:26.000 At this point, you may have radicalized them.

02:23:30.000 There was a mention that Polymarket, the odds of them trying now to develop an actual weapon has now gone up because now they know that they are – And that's the big risk here.

02:23:46.000 And that's why we've been against this the whole way.

02:23:48.000 And by the way, Charlie, if you wouldn't have spoken up so loudly, some other voices like Jack, Bannon, Tucker, saying, hey, no regime change, do you think these insane people in D.C. would have stepped back even an inch?

02:24:03.000 No, they would have, like, it only would have gathered momentum if nobody would have pushed back.

02:24:08.000 And so now that you've unleashed Pandora's box, there's no way to fully predict what's going to happen next.

02:24:14.000 So, Blake, let me ask you a question.

02:24:16.000 By the way, email us, freedom at charliekirk.com, and subscribe to our podcast at the Charlie Kirk Show podcast page.

02:24:21.000 We're getting a lot of emails here.

02:24:23.000 So let me ask you a question, Blake.

02:24:25.000 Do you give any credence at all to the idea they might already have a nuclear bomb?

02:24:31.000 I doubt it.

02:24:32.000 I feel like if they had it, they'd announce it.

02:24:36.000 They would say, we have a nuclear bomb.

02:24:39.000 Do anything at your own risk because the value of any weapon like this is its deterrent power.

02:24:46.000 There's not a lot of value in having nuclear weapons secretly.

02:24:49.000 The closest you get is Israel's never really publicly admitted they have nuclear weapons.

02:24:54.000 I think maybe they did once a few years ago, but for a long time theirs was secret.

02:24:59.000 But that was a lot about not getting sanctioned.

02:25:02.000 They had their reasons for doing it.

02:25:05.000 I don't think there's a lot of value in Iran if they're just concealing that they have a nuclear weapon. 0.76

02:25:10.000 The entire point of this is the deterrent value, the ability to check people trying to overthrow the regime.

02:25:18.000 So, breaking news from the New York Times, just kind of awesome military stuff that you'll love.

02:25:22.000 The bombers that did this flew non-stop for 37 hours from their base in Missouri.

02:25:28.000 So the bombers they had in Guam was just a total diversion.

02:25:31.000 All the way from Missouri.

02:25:33.000 That's a long flight.

02:25:35.000 So there's three pilots, three, four pilots.

02:25:38.000 Apparently, inside a B-2 bomber, there's a bed and a toilet.

02:25:42.000 I was literally about to ask, do they have to wear a diaper? 0.92

02:25:44.000 No, I mean, it's insane, actually.

02:25:46.000 I bet they take drugs, though.

02:25:49.000 They have to.

02:25:49.000 Focus drugs.

02:25:50.000 Like Adderall equivalents.

02:25:52.000 You have to.

02:25:53.000 Jack's our military guy.

02:25:55.000 Jack, come on.

02:25:55.000 They've got to take something for focus.

02:25:58.000 I mean, you know, there's go pills.

02:26:02.000 You know, there's things like that.

02:26:03.000 I mean, I wouldn't say drugs, but, you know, there are certain, you know, there are certain certain supplements that have been known to be.

02:26:12.000 Andrew knows this friend, our former Intel friend.

02:26:16.000 I'll never forget this.

02:26:18.000 And we were doing a book tour.

02:26:21.000 Remember the COVID thing, Andrew, we did?

02:26:22.000 Like, the book tour with MAGA Doctrine?

02:26:24.000 And he was like, hey, take this pill.

02:26:26.000 I always take it whenever I land in country, and it really helps me focus.

02:26:30.000 Remember, I took it.

02:26:31.000 I did not sleep for two days.

02:26:33.000 I remember.

02:26:33.000 I literally could not sleep.

02:26:35.000 I was like, what is going on?

02:26:35.000 And I remember taking this pill.

02:26:37.000 Jack, that stuff's insane.

02:26:39.000 So, Charlie, let me ask you this, though.

02:26:40.000 Unbelievable.

02:26:41.000 So after you took the go pills, Did you crash right after those two days?

02:26:49.000 Oh, like wrecked.

02:26:50.000 For like a whole day.

02:26:51.000 You were just like out, right?

02:26:53.000 I was done.

02:26:53.000 Yes.

02:26:54.000 Yeah, that's basically how they're designed.

02:26:57.000 I have no idea what the science is on this, but it's like you're up for two days.

02:27:02.000 You're just up and you're not like you're not like.

02:27:07.000 It's not like drinking an energy drink or something like that or like, you know, pre-workout where you're just like, oh, and I want to go.

02:27:12.000 You're just awake.

02:27:13.000 No, no, no.

02:27:14.000 That's exactly right.

02:27:15.000 You're wired but not tired.

02:27:17.000 Wired but not tired.

02:27:19.000 Afterwards, you pay the price.

02:27:19.000 So like coffee and caffeine reduce your body's production of adenosine, where this does something totally different.

02:27:27.000 This is like we.

02:27:30.000 Anyway, it's very hard to explain.

02:27:32.000 Didn't they give that to the Nazi soldiers?

02:27:35.000 They were all on...

02:27:38.000 Blake, what were the Nazis on?

02:27:40.000 I think they had either amphetamines or even maybe meth.

02:27:46.000 I can't remember the exact specifics.

02:27:47.000 They were up for three days straight.

02:27:49.000 Yeah, they would take stimulants for big operations.

02:27:52.000 I'm reading now, in addition to the bed and toilet, they also have a microwave.

02:27:56.000 The plane is heavily automated, so one guy can go.

02:27:58.000 Imagine if the operation got screwed up because of a hot pocket.

02:28:01.000 Like, he bites into it and it's too hot.

02:28:04.000 No, the microwave blows up.

02:28:05.000 Mr. President, we were not able to bomb Fordow tonight.

02:28:09.000 Why?

02:28:10.000 Well, sir, somebody decided to keep the hot pocket in the microwave for too long.

02:28:15.000 It made him yank on the controls and they went into a tailspin and crashed.

02:28:19.000 There's only 21 of these bombers in existence.

02:28:23.000 A little surprising.

02:28:24.000 I thought there'd be more.

02:28:25.000 They're $2 billion apiece.

02:28:28.000 I don't think any other country has a similar type technology.

02:28:31.000 Does Russia do? 0.57

02:28:31.000 I think they have something. 0.57

02:28:33.000 Other countries are getting more stealth aircraft.

02:28:35.000 I don't know if they have stealth strategic bombers.

02:28:37.000 You get stealth fighters for sure.

02:28:38.000 I don't know if anyone has a big bomber like we do.

02:28:40.000 It is a pretty incredible aircraft.

02:28:44.000 It's something.

02:28:45.000 And they used it in Serbia, Yugoslavia, I think, back in the 90s.

02:28:49.000 And it's a lot of our UFO sightings from the 70s and 80s are apparently from when we were testing it.

02:28:54.000 Is that right?

02:28:55.000 Yeah.

02:28:55.000 That's funny.

02:28:57.000 Email us, freedom at charliekirk.com.

02:28:59.000 The wingspan is 172 feet.

02:29:02.000 172 feet, just to put that in perspective.

02:29:03.000 It's incredible.

02:29:04.000 Okay.

02:29:05.000 We're going to wrap this in a second, but I do want to – Oh, let's see.

02:29:11.000 Ryan, send them to me if we've got them.

02:29:14.000 I'm going to read this tweet that I wrote because I liked it.

02:29:16.000 I tweeted it.

02:29:18.000 And I think it's important.

02:29:19.000 Let me read this for everyone on air because I like the way I worded it.

02:29:22.000 It's right here.

02:29:25.000 Okay.

02:29:26.000 In times like this, I find a lot of people say stuff they'll end up regretting.

02:29:31.000 Hyper-emotionality should be dismissed.

02:29:34.000 Rejoicing because we dropped a bomb should be met with humility.

02:29:38.000 Dooming should be met with cautionary optimism.

02:29:40.000 The world is not over.

02:29:41.000 Our best days are ahead.

02:29:43.000 What?

02:29:44.000 Someone just asked if our white-blue U.S. flag is Epstein-inspired.

02:29:52.000 No.

02:29:52.000 People, guys, Yeah, they paid $20 for that.

02:29:57.000 Alright, your loss, our gain.

02:29:59.000 Thanks for making us laugh.

02:30:01.000 I will literally take those $20 and, oh, buy everyone pizza.

02:30:05.000 Excellent.

02:30:06.000 Excellent.

02:30:06.000 Not everyone is so deranged.

02:30:08.000 Llove78 says, God bless President Trump, our country, and our armed forces.

02:30:13.000 I trust and support Trump.

02:30:14.000 Thank you, Charlie, for all you do.

02:30:16.000 In Jesus, I trust.

02:30:18.000 We have Karens2121 says, This was never about a nuke.

02:30:23.000 It was always about installing a friendly regime.

02:30:25.000 Saddam 2.0.

02:30:29.000 Shonek has sent us several donations over the course of the night, so thank you.

02:30:33.000 I think he's over $50 at this point.

02:30:36.000 He says, if this escalates further, they need to get hit a heck of a lot harder.

02:30:41.000 We asked if you would support it if it was escalated.

02:30:44.000 And he says, F-A-F-O, no nuke.

02:30:48.000 So that's one vote for going as far as we need to.

02:30:54.000 Let's see.

02:30:57.000 Hein115 says, God bless America for standing with Israel in fulfilling his, God's plan, and promises of salvation.

02:31:05.000 Charles Ambergy says, My name is also Charlie.

02:31:08.000 I've been going to Trump rally since I was 17. You have been a huge inspiration.

02:31:11.000 All I want is a Charlie Kirk signed hat.

02:31:14.000 Thank you for everything.

02:31:15.000 So I guess he should send an email to freedom at Charlie Kirk to get that hat.

02:31:20.000 Or sign up as a member.

02:31:21.000 That's the other way to do it.

02:31:22.000 Sean Porter, $99, $100.

02:31:25.000 Thank you very much, Sean.

02:31:26.000 I would love to see this work out.

02:31:28.000 I have my reservations about it.

02:31:30.000 I voted for Trump the first time this last election as an 18 year old, but I voted for peace.

02:31:36.000 I hope that happens.

02:31:37.000 Glad to be a new member.

02:31:38.000 Cole and others have asked, how do you think Iran will retaliate?

02:31:44.000 I don't know.

02:31:45.000 We don't know.

02:31:48.000 Sadly, we're in that part where we have to wait and see.

02:31:51.000 The ball is in their court right now.

02:31:55.000 Landon donated $20.

02:31:57.000 He says, I am mixed, but I have full support for Trump.

02:31:59.000 I am 23. I voted for Biden back in 2020.

02:32:03.000 But you, Charlie, and my family convinced me to go MAGA, hashtag Vance2028.

02:32:10.000 Another, I can't see what theirs was, but they said, what if this attack cements Israel as a regional power in the Middle East?

02:32:18.000 Would this help?

02:32:18.000 The U.S. size down our own footprint in the region.

02:32:22.000 Perhaps the Abraham Accord countries could take up responsibility for regional security.

02:32:27.000 He is an age 39 Fallujah veteran.

02:32:29.000 I think that would be the best case outcome would be if we could step away from the Middle East because we have allies who are ready to step forward. 0.99

02:32:37.000 that would be great.

02:32:38.000 If Saudi Arabia...

02:32:41.000 Yeah, they should militarize.

02:32:42.000 And if they sign the Abraham Accords, that would be great. 1.00

02:32:44.000 I think UAE already did, correct? 0.96

02:32:47.000 But Saudis haven't. 1.00

02:32:48.000 That's all complicated.

02:32:49.000 I think they would like to, but there's issues.

02:32:52.000 They couldn't do it while there's still a war in Gaza because they have some nominal support there.

02:32:56.000 It's complicated.

02:32:57.000 But none of the Sunni countries in the Gulf are eager to flip out over a Shia government that hates them getting hit.

02:33:05.000 That's one of those internal Islamic disputes.

02:33:08.000 Brenda?

02:33:09.000 I am a MAGA boomer and a member.

02:33:11.000 When it comes to all things military, for the good of our country, it's complicated.

02:33:15.000 I continue to trust President Trump, and I'm taking a wait-and-see attitude.

02:33:20.000 Mr. Green, any thoughts on Iran saying Fordow has been completely emptied and evacuated?

02:33:26.000 Iran says a lot of things.

02:33:28.000 That's our take on that.

02:33:29.000 Yeah, I mean, honestly, they have fooled themselves so many times on social.

02:33:33.000 You shouldn't believe anything they say at this point.

02:33:35.000 Chialin, hello from Taiwan.

02:33:37.000 Donated 330 in whatever Taiwan's currency is.

02:33:41.000 I appreciate American people and President Trump's efforts to make the world a more peaceful place.

02:33:47.000 And that's the ultimate goal here, is peace.

02:33:50.000 President Trump is not a conqueror.

02:33:51.000 He is not a warmonger.

02:33:53.000 He took this because he believes it's necessary to prevent We hope that he is correct.

02:34:02.000 Saggy, thank you for $30 with no message.

02:34:06.000 Edward, $10.

02:34:07.000 I don't know if this has been asked already, but what has been going on with Candace?

02:34:11.000 I love listening to her, but it seems she has gone, he says off the deep end, she has her own opinions.

02:34:17.000 Candace is a great friend and I won't say anything negative about her.

02:34:21.000 Jennifer, $20.

02:34:23.000 As a Jewish person, I am thankful for President Trump, for the freedom of the Iranian people and the long-term safety of the U.S. and the world, and for Israel's survival.

02:34:31.000 God bless the U.S.A.

02:34:36.000 Kyle, $10, says, represent the October birthdays.

02:34:41.000 You're an October birthday, right?

02:34:43.000 I am.

02:34:43.000 That's right.

02:34:44.000 Been following your work, Charlie, for several months.

02:34:46.000 Thank you for helping save this country.

02:34:47.000 Thank you, Kyle.

02:34:49.000 We got Charles.

02:34:51.000 We have Joe Spinella.

02:34:52.000 Five dollars.

02:34:53.000 I regret my vote.

02:34:54.000 Voted Trump 16-20-24.

02:34:57.000 Let me just pause.

02:34:58.000 We're almost done.

02:34:59.000 Well, no, no.

02:34:59.000 I want to pause.

02:35:00.000 Be careful with that statement.

02:35:01.000 What's his name?

02:35:02.000 Joe.

02:35:02.000 Joe, because if all of a sudden the economy's booming in December and we're getting spending cuts and the border's secure and we're on Project 10 million, be careful just saying you regret it.

02:35:11.000 This just might be one night you don't like.

02:35:13.000 Just be careful with such a statement like that.

02:35:16.000 That's all I'm going to say.

02:35:17.000 And then Donna says, Charlie, you're awesome.

02:35:19.000 Thank you.

02:35:20.000 What a marathon.

02:35:21.000 Well done, Blake.

02:35:21.000 Thank you very much, everybody.

02:35:23.000 We're very grateful.

02:35:24.000 Let's get some final thoughts.

02:35:26.000 Jack, then Blake.

02:35:27.000 Let's go Blake, Jack, then I'll finish.

02:35:29.000 Blake, final thoughts tonight to summarize this historic evening.

02:35:31.000 Again, it's very easy to get amped up in emotions.

02:35:35.000 Military adventures, they're exciting.

02:35:37.000 We can admit that.

02:35:38.000 They're high emotion.

02:35:40.000 This has been a debate that's been unfolding.

02:35:42.000 For years, really more than a decade, this has been going back and forth.

02:35:45.000 It escalated a lot since 10-7, and it escalated a lot just in the last few weeks.

02:35:51.000 There's high passions.

02:35:53.000 The truth is, we don't know what will happen yet.

02:35:56.000 President Trump has intelligence we don't have access to.

02:36:00.000 I think he's at least earned the benefit of the doubt for now because we've had military ventures before and they did not escalate beyond our control.

02:36:10.000 We are hoping that...

02:36:14.000 Jack, final thoughts?

02:36:16.000 Summarize the evening.

02:36:17.000 Please, Jack Posobiec.

02:36:18.000 Sure, and for folks looking to get my thoughts on anything else, 1776 at humanevents.com, 1776 at humanevents.com.

02:36:26.000 We're going to be putting stuff out throughout the weekend on this, probably be up tomorrow.

02:36:31.000 But summarizing the evening, look, President Trump had signaled earlier in this week that strikes were on the table.

02:36:38.000 He has signaled for decades that an end to the Iranian nuclear program was one of his key goals in running for office, even the very first time all the way back 10 years ago this week.

02:36:52.000 President Trump, though, has been resolute on two things for that entire decade.

02:36:56.000 One of them was the Iranian nuclear program.

02:36:57.000 nuclear program, that's now been wiped out.

02:37:00.000 Number two, illegal immigration.

02:37:03.000 A lot of people are talking about the fracture in the base right now, the division, the skepticism that some have.

02:37:10.000 And as healthy as that is, the best way that I believe to move forward is to keep the promise on illegal immigration, the 30-plus that are here right now, 30-plus million, deport. 0.98

02:37:24.000 Every last one of them.

02:37:26.000 Continue the ball moving.

02:37:28.000 Charlie, you've mentioned the 10 million plan by 2026.

02:37:31.000 I think that's a fantastic goal between self-deportations and the ICE raids.

02:37:36.000 So we want to see that going.

02:37:38.000 We want to see absolutely that same type of movement.

02:37:40.000 President Trump has been resolute on the Iran nuclear question, and now it's time for President Trump and everyone to support his efforts on illegal immigration as well.

02:37:49.000 It was a late Saturday night.

02:37:50.000 My Shabbat got interrupted, but for good reason, everybody.

02:37:53.000 A couple final thoughts.

02:37:54.000 President Trump has earned our trust and our support.

02:37:57.000 Take a deep breath.

02:37:57.000 If you don't like this, you might say something you regret.

02:38:00.000 It happens when you get too emotionally.

02:38:01.000 And if you're out there celebrating and this is the greatest night ever, I also want to humble you.

02:38:05.000 You don't know how this is going to turn out.

02:38:07.000 President Trump acted with the intel in front of us.

02:38:09.000 He's been consistent his entire life.

02:38:11.000 And tonight he acted on that consistency.

02:38:14.000 Blake, you have one final thought here?

02:38:16.000 It's for you.

02:38:16.000 You have to wish Michael DeForia a happy birthday and tell him to keep grinding.

02:38:20.000 Happy birthday, Michael DeForia, and keep grinding.

02:38:25.000 Stay measured in times like this.

02:38:27.000 You take a deep breath.

02:38:28.000 You look around.

02:38:29.000 You touch some grass.

02:38:30.000 You get off your phone if you get a little too emotional.

02:38:33.000 President Donald Trump acts with phenomenal discretion and decisiveness and prudence.

02:38:40.000 And we're going to see where this goes next.

02:38:42.000 If you guys want one of these beautiful hats signed, you guys can get in the running to get one.

02:38:46.000 If you subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast and email me proof of subscription, freedom at charliekirk.com, or you can guaranteed and get one if you become a member, members.charliekirk.com.

02:38:57.000 Members.charliekirk.com.

02:38:59.000 Final thing I'll say is this, is God bless our troops.

02:39:02.000 There's a lot of skepticism of our military, but boy, they performed beautifully tonight.

02:39:07.000 37-hour trip from Missouri.

02:39:09.000 That is top-tier stuff.

02:39:11.000 So keep our troops in your prayers right now because a lot of our troops are literally on military bases where they could be basically attacked by an Iranian ballistic missile.

02:39:22.000 Thank you guys so much.

02:39:23.000 I want to hear from you throughout the night.

02:39:25.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

02:39:26.000 We might stream tomorrow if Iran responds.

02:39:30.000 We might be back in the chair.

02:39:32.000 And I hope not.

02:39:33.000 I hope I will see you Monday.

02:39:34.000 So in the meantime, subscribe to our podcast.

02:39:36.000 Thank you to the studio team for dropping your Saturday plans and coming in.

02:39:39.000 It means a lot.

02:39:41.000 God bless you guys.

02:39:42.000 God bless our troops.

The Charlie Kirk Show - June 22, 2025

America Strikes Iran: The Live Reaction

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