Trump's historic speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Wednesday night. President Donald Trump's incredible speech and the incredible response from the Republican Delegates and the massive turnout at the convention. Also, an exclusive update from a Democratic source who has spoken to Democrats in the past 24 hours, and a report from CNN's Van Jones on CNN's "The Van Jones Show" on what's going on with the Democratic National Convention and what it means for the future of the 2020 Democratic nomination race. Plus, a look at the latest on the assassination attempt on Trump and the aftermath of it, and how it may have changed the trajectory of the Democratic nomination process. All that and much more on this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show with Charlie and Blake! Subscribe to the show to get immediate access to all the latest news and analysis. Subscribe today using our podcast s promo code POWER10 for 10% off your first pack! Subscribe, Like, and Share on Apple Podcasts and become a Member! Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments, a company that specializes in gold and precious metals. Go to noblegold.investments.com/thecharliekirk Learn about Noble Gold Investing and all the great investments that can help you build your wealth in the 21st century. It's where I buy all of my gold and I can't wait to receive my gold! and I'll tell you how you can protect your gold and you can help me protect it! -Noble Gold Investments is the official gold and other precious metals! . I'll send you all of the best in the best investment opportunities in the world! by becoming a member of the Noble Gold Investor? I'll give you the best deal possible! I'm gonna send you the gold I can do that I can t do it in my own brokerage account, I'm not going to tell you where I'm going to send you a review, I'll chat about it, you can get some gold, I won't tell you what you can do it on the best place I'll talk about it in the next episode of the most awesome deal I'll get, and you get an amazing place that I'll do it, I can vouch for me, you'll get a discount on my best chance to win it at the best of my best place in the worst place I get it, AND I'll let you get the most of it all, and more!
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00:01:26.000Okay, let's play some pieces of tape here for those of you that might have been cutting in and out.
00:01:30.000Also, I just want to give you a little update here, some exclusive update.
00:01:33.000We have some, we're very well sourced in.
00:01:37.000Republican politics, but we're unusually well sourced also in some circles in Democrat politics because we have some adjacent donor connections that are very connected in Democrat society circles.
00:01:53.000While Donald Trump gives the Republican Party its most unity since 9-11, a source who has spoken to Democrats in the last 24 hours says the party is in a state of utter collapse.
00:02:03.000Kamala isn't ready and her staff is not ready.
00:02:06.000They don't know if Biden has her back.
00:02:08.000Democrat lawmakers are 100% certain that Biden is gone, yet haven't actually gotten Biden to submit.
00:02:16.000They're just confident that increasingly ugly tactics will force him out.
00:02:22.000One of the words Democrats are using, landslide.
00:10:04.000There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for others.
00:10:10.000This is the spirit that forged America in her darkest hours, and this is the love that will lead America back to the summit of human achievement and greatness.
00:11:28.000Under this administration, our current administration, groceries are up 57 percent, gasoline is up 60 and 70 percent, mortgage rates have quadrupled.
00:11:41.000And the fact is, it doesn't matter what they are because you can't get the money anywhere.
00:12:32.000At the heart of the Republican platform is our pledge to end this border nightmare and fully restore the sacred and sovereign borders of the United States of America.
00:13:56.000So we just finished up this just complete, I would say, roller coaster of a spectacle of a night.
00:14:05.000So I was inside the room for the entire thing from Tucker Carlson's amazing, and I would point out, by the way, Tucker's completely no notes, no teleprompter speech, to Hulk Hogan, just this incredible throwback to 80s, 90s, hopeful Americana.
00:14:24.000To the incredible Kid Rock and then Donald Trump's speech, of course, capping it off, which was just, again, this rollercoaster.
00:14:32.000The highs, the lows, the ups and downs, these incredible moments.
00:14:36.000Not a dry eye in the House, of course, when he brought out that uniform of Cori Compitore and comparatory.
00:14:45.000And then, of course, getting into, as you say, getting into policy, getting into the specifics, getting into what was going on.
00:14:51.000And folks who may have been watching my Twitter feed will know I've been going viral for this because I was seated pretty much right in front of Jake Tapper the entire night.
00:15:00.000And so I was giving live updates on what Jake Tapper and Dana Bash were doing.
00:15:04.000Most of the time they had their back turned.
00:15:06.000They looked very angrily at me at one point.
00:15:09.000A big smile and a thumbs up, because guess what, guys?
00:15:12.000It's all happening again, and you know it.
00:15:14.000So it was a great night, the vibe was huge.
00:15:17.000Yes, it was a long night, there's no question about that.
00:15:20.000I had to get the kids down, you know, shout out to the beautiful and lovely Tanya Tay for taking care of that and making sure the kids could be here and really participate in what I think a lot of people are coming out saying, a really, really historic night.
00:15:35.000I know this is gonna sound weird, but for whatever reason, these earphones are making my ear bleed.
00:16:08.000He is by far the most talented, articulate spokesperson when it comes to what is happening in this country as far as the resentments of the forgotten people against the ruling class.
00:16:19.000Let's first, though, start with Tucker Carlson riffing Cut 168.
00:16:24.000I watched the video of what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania about 15, 50 times.
00:16:31.000I think I was one of about 8 billion people around the world who watched it.
00:16:35.000And the more I watched it, the more it struck me that everything was different after that moment.
00:17:04.000But the effect that it had on Donald Trump, he was no longer just a political party's nominee, or a former president, or a future president.
00:17:24.000I thought he was on point, which is this one, which is all about representative government, play cut 170.
00:17:32.000The entire point from the famous escalator ride nine years ago until today of Donald Trump's public life has been to remind us of one fact.
00:17:42.000Which is, a leader's duty is to his people, to his country, and to no other.
00:17:50.000And another word for this is democracy.
00:17:54.000Democracy, in case you're a little sick of being beaten in the face with democracy on television, actual democracy is the proposition that the citizens of a country own that country.
00:18:04.000They're not renters, they're not serfs, they're not slaves, they are the owners of the country.
00:18:09.000And for that to be true, Their leaders have to represent them, which is another way of saying they have to do what the people want them to do, or a close approximation thereof.
00:18:23.000But if they completely ignore what people want, not just one year, but generationally, say for 50 years, then it may be, I don't know what, it's not a democracy.
00:18:34.000And so I think the entire Trump project, paradoxically, he's attacked as an enemy of democracy, is to return democracy to the United States.
00:18:42.000Let's pay attention to what people actually want.
00:18:47.000I really wish we had more unscripted speeches at the RNC.
00:18:52.000A friend of mine says... Blake, do you know what I would have given?
00:19:12.000But a friend of mine says the best speech advice he ever gave is like, no one should actually need a script for a speech because you shouldn't be on a stage talking unless it's something that you could just talk about at length for 15 or 30 or 50 minutes or three hours without prompting.
00:19:32.000For Tucker, he's extremely good at that on these topics.
00:19:36.000He was hitting the same things that he talked about in an article, I think he wrote it for Politico, all the way back start of 2016.
00:19:44.000That was the start of the sort of Tucker-Trump overlap, where he said, Donald Trump is shocking, vulgar, and right.
00:19:52.000And it's, you know, Tucker and Trump, much like a lot of other people, they went through phases of the relationship where Tucker, you know, he had that push and pull.
00:20:01.000Sometimes he was frustrated, sometimes he was elated, but it's come full circle back to this is Donald Trump's conservative movement, and as he said, The man who was attacked as a threat to American democracy is the man who can restore authentic American democracy, which is the ability of people to run their own country and decide the policies they want to live under, instead of being told, this set of policies decided by a bunch of Democrats in Washington is the only thing that's allowed by democracy.
00:20:32.000And I also just love that, that's just... Tucker was probably just practicing that in, like, the car on the way over.
00:20:38.000I can say from experience, a lot of viral Tucker speeches are just whatever he happens to have been talking about with someone 30 minutes beforehand, and certain parts of that definitely sounded that way in a good way.
00:20:51.000I want to thank Laura Catherine Rosemary, Natalie Xavier, Johnny, Avery, Jeff, and Tricia who all have just become members at members.charliekirk.com.
00:22:13.000And you hate to say it, but it is also true, is a fact, that you could take, I don't know, a mannequin, a dead person, and make him president.
00:22:22.000I'm just saying, theoretically possible.
00:22:25.000With enough... With enough cheating, that could happen.
00:22:32.000Just an incredible moment from Tucker Carlson right there, just riffing on all the qualities of leadership and then turning it into this hilarious joke about Joe Biden.
00:22:41.000But what he's talking about there is something very deep, something very natural.
00:22:46.000It's a spiritual, it is an essence and a vitality.
00:22:51.000That a leader has, and Tucker said, I think, in one of the other clips, that your leader in the ancient times, in Bronze Age times, if you will, to borrow a phrase, the leader would be the strongest warrior, the most capable chieftain, and that would become the leader of the army, the leader of the war band, they would become the one who's the undisputed head of the tribe.
00:23:16.000And in this case, the tribe that we're talking about is Americans.
00:23:20.000And yes, there has been this process that has been and exactly as Tucker says, subverted to change that because in the past, of course, You know, you may have had other processes, you may have had trial by combat and all these, you know, other ancient Bronze Age things, but these days we don't quite do that anymore.
00:23:37.000Maybe we should, I don't know, because, you know, we were founded by people that actually would conduct duels to the death.
00:23:44.000So I want to remind, this is not that long ago that we're talking, I'm going to go all the way back to the Bronze Age.
00:23:49.000But the idea that a leader is someone that people will follow Instinctually people someone that people will follow when you see them in moments of crisis Standing strong showing resolve showing bravery.
00:24:05.000Those are the qualities of a true natural leader versus the qualities of someone who is told to be a leader and That is the absolute difference that you're seeing right now.
00:24:16.000Obviously, he's drawing the line between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, but everybody knows this.
00:24:20.000Think of a team you've been on, maybe when you were younger and played sports, and you had a bad coach who just yelled at everybody and wasn't sure why they weren't following what he or she was saying.
00:24:29.000Or think about a job you've had where you've had a really bad boss, and they keep telling you over and over, I'm the leader, I'm the leader.
00:24:36.000Well, you know, to quote the great philosopher Tony Soprano, if you have to keep telling everyone you're the boss, you aren't.
00:25:32.000Or even just, even in, like, World War II, you would still, you know, a general would occasionally get hit.
00:25:38.000Like, you'd have to lead close enough.
00:25:39.000You could get hit by an artillery shell, by a sniper.
00:25:43.000When was the last time a US like general was even wounded in action?
00:25:48.000I think it was maybe during Vietnam maybe in the Gulf War, but it's very rare for military leaders for politicians it used to have a You used to have that level of accountability, but you also used to be easier to lose your job.
00:26:04.000This is something that is so compelling about Iraq.
00:26:07.000Could it at least be that if something really bad happens in America, if we have a botched military withdrawal, if we have a blown open border, if we have a massive pandemic that's badly mismanaged, could some people in DC at least Have to go on unemployment for a while?
00:26:28.000You can sort of just, even if you're a colossal screw-up, you can bounce from think tank gig to think tank gig and then just pop back up like a zombie in the next administration.
00:26:37.000And I think that's driving such a huge sense of decline and decay in America.
00:26:42.000And it's one reason you're allowed to have someone like Joe Biden around forever.
00:26:48.000He should at least have some accountability for Running for president repeatedly and losing each time and being attached to all these failed policies.
00:27:15.000And yet he just hangs around like this zombie of Washington.
00:27:20.000And so much of Trump's appeal is the desire to actually say, no, there should be real accountability for this kind of damage to America.
00:27:29.000We should have new leaders and the people who are failed leaders should not be getting paychecks from the American people until their end of time.
00:30:12.000Yeah, Charlie, and the angel moms, the angel family members that were here as well.
00:30:17.000I mean, it was so many times where The political speaker, I actually said this to Vivek Ramaswamy when he came by on my show the other day, where I said, Vivek, you know, I said, yo, it was the best and I caught myself and I said, well, you gave the best political speech of the night.
00:30:34.000But so many times, these moments from the everyday Americans, whether it be the mother
00:30:41.000whose son was killed by a violent criminal led out by Alvin Bragg, to the mother from
00:30:48.000Southern California whose son was killed by fentanyl, sent over by the cartels in the
00:31:20.000He decided deliberately to choose someone who was a deplorable, who had a deplorable background, someone from a part of the country that nobody cares about anymore, and someone who could speak for everyday Americans Because he knew their lives, he knew their background, and I'm not trying to make this a pitch for JD or something.
00:31:39.000I'm just saying that the entire convention was centered around the idea of lifting up people that have been forgotten, lifting up people whose stories aren't usually told in mainstream media, or even in narrative fiction that we see.
00:32:15.000And so again, it's the idea of the power of narrative, which of course, then Trump used himself by telling, and I'm sure we'll get to it, but telling And what he says for the only time that he'll ever tell the story about the day he was almost killed.
00:32:59.000My first political convention was all the way back in 2000 in Philadelphia, believe it or not, the Republican Convention.
00:33:04.000So 24 years now, and not that I've gone to every one, but Um, since I went to the original.
00:33:10.000That's, that's, it's more that one came to me because I'm from Philadelphia.
00:33:13.000And, you know, back then it was, these were stately affairs, very formal, a lot more, a lot more focused on motions and the floor and, you know, the voting and these types of things.
00:33:29.000And it's, it was, I don't know if you want to call it perdition.
00:33:32.000I don't know if you want to call it serendipity.
00:33:34.000I don't know if you call it, or providence rather.
00:33:37.000But this idea that the first time he has a major speaking event after the shooting is also his presidential acceptance speech and he's up there, he's telling the story, the uniform comes out.
00:33:53.000I struggle to even begin to put it into words.
00:33:55.000Just a tremendous wave of emotion that He blasted everyone in the entire room.
00:34:52.000So I was just saying, I wanted to send my friend who's been watching CNN, and he was summarizing it this way to me.
00:34:58.000He says, CNN is a back and forth where Van Jones is basically, Trump is 2008, Obama, he's the messiah, he's God's anointed, he has the energy, he has the momentum, it's Jover, I'm calling it, give up, I know the vibes, just, it's all over.
00:35:15.000And then David Axelrod comes in to say, well it was a long speech, and that's CNN apparently right now.
00:37:57.000You know, it was amazing, actually, as we were walking out of the event, and we were just, you know, heading over to where the set is over here.
00:38:06.000I happened to be, I was with my family.
00:38:07.000We were getting some of the balloons for the kids, and a lot of people move in at once, and I bump into somebody.
00:38:16.000I was holding my toddler, my three-year-old, and I said, oh, I'm so sorry.
00:38:19.000And I turn over and it's of course it's Senator Ron Johnson.
00:38:22.000I kid you not, just one of those serendipitous moments.
00:38:26.000And it was Senator Johnson, of course, and he's told the story so many times now, who
00:38:45.000And of course he is, because that's Donald Trump, it's that dark humor, it's that black humor that he always uses, that he just says the most inappropriate thing.
00:38:52.000Although, usually he says it about someone else.
00:38:55.000Here this time, he says it about himself.
00:38:59.000And it's an incredible thing to see, but it also is, by the way, part of policy.
00:39:04.000I mean, Charlie, can you imagine the state of the party right now when just a few years ago
00:39:12.000the idea of talking about saying something like mass deportation on the stage would get you
00:39:17.000would get you uh booed it might get you censored it might get you banned and it would
00:39:21.000certainly get you kicked out of the rnc now our our leader is cheering it on the entire crowd that
00:40:58.000Video, audio, and photographs collected by the New York Times of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at an election rally shows how a clear threat emerged minutes before the shooting and how law enforcement failed to protect Mr. Trump.
00:41:10.000I mean, that's the New York Times saying it.
00:41:12.000Donald Trump did not criticize law enforcement.
00:41:15.000He did not criticize the Secret Service.
00:41:17.000He did not say, why did they not put me off stage?
00:41:20.000Like, for a guy who gets attacked all the time for saying that he just, you know, lashes out, he was filled with gratitude and joy, not with
00:41:33.000I mean, it's been this way for a long time.
00:41:36.000You know, they They say he's a threat to democracy while they do everything possible to undermine democracy by forcing him out of the race, forcing him into a jail cell, rigging the process as much as possible.
00:41:50.000And now here they would say he's the one who's injecting hate or darkness into the race, yet they do that a lot more than him.
00:41:59.000Donald Trump has been, for the most part, very positive energy this race.
00:42:31.000And while we're talking about headlines, by the way, apparently the headline on CNN right now, since I have it up, is, Top Biden Officials Believe He Must Drop Out.
00:42:39.000So we've gone from the media to Democrat lawmakers to Biden officials, which means we might have the 25th Amendment getting invoked by this time next week, Charlie.
00:42:50.000Boy, I want to get into that into great detail.
00:43:22.000Did I love every single little piece of it?
00:43:25.000Look, I'm not going to sit here and go through all of that, but in terms of the top lines of the things that people will remember from this, it was perfect.
00:43:33.000And so the Democrats are going to be looking at this saying, what are we going to do?
00:43:39.000Any potential Democrat, by the way, contender who's thinking about maybe getting their name in the ring, getting their hat in the ring in Chicago and just a couple of weeks time in August here is suddenly realizing
00:43:51.000that they've got to go up against a massive unified front from the Republicans. I mean you even
00:43:58.000had like like Lauren Boebert was standing next to Mike Johnson and all of this it was just
00:44:03.000this huge kumbaya we are going to get together and save America moment that was so much bigger
00:44:09.000than the party so much bigger than any one specific person with with Donald Trump simply at the head
00:44:15.000of everything so the Republicans got what what they needed. The Democrats are in an absolute state of
00:45:23.000Oh man, so we've been talking to some people we know who are more in the middle of the political divide, so they actually talked to Democrats as well, and it's wild because people make confident predictions, yet it seems they don't necessarily have a strong basis for this.
00:45:40.000So I've been hearing there are Democrat lawmakers, like real figures in the party, who say 100% Joe Biden is gone.
00:47:08.000She can't keep staff because she's a horrible boss and her team is all messed up.
00:47:13.000So we have these very junior staff on Kamala's team who are suddenly about to be tasked with trying to run either a presidential campaign or, you know, at least a campaign for the nomination for the next month.
00:48:16.000I do actually, I do, and I'll tell you why.
00:48:18.000Because Kamala Harris, so number one, she comes with all the baggage of the Biden administration, plus the fact that she was the one who was put in charge of the two biggest failures of the Biden administration.
00:48:35.000Remember, she's the one who went over to the Munich conference and said, Ukraine will be in NATO, Ukraine will be in NATO, we will stand up for this.
00:48:42.000And then Putin invades like two days later, literally two days later.
00:48:45.000This is going to be played again and again, and it's going to be shown that her weakness was one of the things that led to the decision matrix of crossing the border, crossing the Rubicon in Ukraine.
00:48:56.000The other part of this is that she does not have the legacy name recognition, the legacy
00:49:03.000goodwill that Joe Biden enjoyed with many segments of the Democrat Party from being
00:49:07.000Obama's wingman, from being the guy who was ride or die with Barry O, the guy who was
00:49:12.000always there, this totally fake bromance that they led people to believe that existed between
00:49:53.000You want to talk about what Tucker Carlson was saying about the difference between leadership versus someone who's good at subverting the system.
00:50:00.000I think, yeah, she knows a lot about subverting the system.
00:50:04.000So Blake, in closing here, let's kind of recap the week.
00:50:21.000You know it's hard to say because actually I would say you know in what has been a very a very surprising election year a very surprising election month a very surprising election week I think we'd say all of those are we might literally be at the point where the narrative of this year is passing 2016 which I would have never thought was possible yet I would say the one part that was just not a shock at all was What I saw this week in Milwaukee, I would have said, okay, they took a shot at Trump, so that's going to unite the party.
00:50:54.000They're going to be a very positive energy.
00:50:57.000People will be grateful that their candidate is alive, that their candidate is here to give the speech, that the man that they indicted, that they censored off the internet, that they took a shot at, that they sued, that they took the companies of.
00:51:10.000That all of this failed and he's there to receive the nomination and everyone's there.
00:51:28.000This is exactly the convention Republicans wanted to hold.
00:51:33.000It's the exact convention they planned to hold.
00:51:36.000And especially looking at what's going on with the Democrats right now, they have every reason to feel very confident going into this fall's election, and now they just, for the next 90 days, they just need to execute.
00:51:48.000Well, and I also say there was, Jack, and this is from a viral question, I want your take on that too, there was no viral scandal that distracted from the main thing.
00:51:56.000I mean, there was little things here or there, but Jack, that's a big deal, right?
00:51:59.000Conventions sometimes get derailed with online chatter.
00:52:07.000There was no speaker that said something they shouldn't have done, or no—you know what I'm saying?
00:52:10.000It was beautifully produced, and the main thing kept to be the main thing.
00:52:15.000Yeah, the narrative that was put out, and by the way, this is why CNN is out there saying, oh, well, the speech was long, because they don't have anything else.
00:52:24.000They don't have that one serious gaffe.
00:52:37.000And so to be able to put on an event like this, For several days, which I know, Charlie, is something that you and the entire team at Turning Point and at Turning Point Action do time and again, several times a year, multiple times a year, when you consider all of the events that Turning Point does.
00:52:54.000It's not something that's easy to do, and especially when you know the eyes of the world are on you, and you have so many speakers.
00:53:00.000I mean, this was jam-packed with speakers, and the idea that you've only got one, and there were times in the past, by the way, especially some of those You know, and look, it's just true.
00:53:10.000With those everyday American stories, you never know because these aren't people that do, you know, presentation on a regular basis.
00:53:19.000You're kind of rolling the dice with some of those sometimes, and in the past, there have been a few that don't really work out so well.
00:53:26.000Every single one of this, just pitch perfect, no gaffes, no flaws, everything on message, total execution, and in a way, it showed that this is a group of people that has competence in the face of the incompetence that is being described in the current administration of our government.
00:56:56.000I want to just thank the tech team for all the late nights, and everyone that has worked so hard in the studio, the streaming, and everything.
00:57:02.000It's been a very difficult week, I know.