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00:01:09.000All right, welcome back to The Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:12.000It is February 5th, just days before the big game.
00:02:26.000The team has just done a tremendous job.
00:02:28.000Another piece of news here Erica Kirk was up with.
00:02:31.000Governor Greg Gianforte in the great state of Montana yesterday celebrating a new state partnership with that state to get a Club America chapter in every chapter, every high school rather, across that state.
00:02:45.000So add that to the list of Texas, add that to the list of Tennessee, Florida, Indiana, Nebraska, Oklahoma.
00:02:52.000So we're making huge, huge moves there.
00:02:56.000So thank you to the governor, Greg Gianforte, who's known Charlie since he was 18.
00:03:01.000So That's a long time relationship there.
00:03:05.000We've got thousands and thousands of high school chapters.
00:03:08.000That's the way you think about the ice walkouts, you think about the indoctrination of the Grammys and Hollywood and all that stuff.
00:03:15.000And meanwhile, Turning Point, we've got an All American halftime show celebrating faith, family, freedom, amazing content that's made for TV concert experience that's good for the whole family, celebrating faith, family, freedom.
00:03:29.000And then we've got high school chapters rolling out all across the country.
00:03:32.000So, um, I like to think that Charlie would be smiling down on us, and I believe he is.
00:03:38.000We want to get into some rather less positive news, unfortunately, for a few reasons.
00:03:45.000I actually think it has national importance, and that is the abduction of Nancy Guthrie, Savannah Guthrie's mom.
00:03:54.000So, Savannah Guthrie is the host of The Today Show, she's been hosting that show since 2011.
00:04:00.000She was a co host of the Third Hour, chief legal correspondent, later becoming a main co anchor in 2012.
00:04:08.000She previously served as a White House correspondent for NBC News from 2008 to 2011.
00:04:14.000And what's kind of tragic about this is it ties into another current event, in that she was supposed to be hosting the 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Italy.
00:04:23.000So obviously that's not going to be happening because her mother, Nancy, who lived in Tucson or lives in Tucson, where she grew up, where she grew up.
00:04:31.000So just down the road from us here, really close.
00:04:34.000Really close to the border, she was abducted from her house.
00:04:39.000It looks like sometime on Sunday, she failed to show up at church as she always did.
00:04:47.000And that was so striking to those who are used to seeing her that they immediately reported her as missing.
00:04:55.000And they went to check on her, missing.
00:04:57.000So when I heard this story, Blake, and it's going to sound weird, but you were the first person I thought of.
00:05:04.000And the reason I say that is because when Charlie was here and we were living through Biden's border invasion, we kept warning, you kept warning specifically about the rise of kidnappings in South America and how we were basically opening our doors to the same culture here.
00:05:22.000It's a long term thing, is that as the border between the US and Latin America would break down, I feared, and we don't know, just to clarify, we don't know all the facts here.
00:05:33.000So this is still speculative on our part, but they do think a kidnapping here.
00:05:43.000I believe her pacemaker has stopped updating with her Apple Watch, and so it seems like she's out of range of it.
00:05:50.000So, various reasons they think it's real.
00:05:52.000And a thing that this got us thinking of is in Latin America, a very common crime relative to the United States is kidnapping specifically for ransom.
00:06:03.000In Venezuela, for example, we have an image of this.
00:06:46.000In the US, missing people are usually like it could be a custody dispute or it could be someone kind of ran away and they just genuinely disappeared or like.
00:06:57.000Tragically, you have kidnappings that unfortunately end in murders, but you don't see too much kidnapping for ransom as a business model.
00:07:04.000And I just need to be clear for accuracy's sake we don't know who took her.
00:07:08.000They don't have any leads, they have no suspects.
00:07:11.000I mean, they are trying to get as much help from the community, ring cameras, all of those things.
00:07:18.000The FBI has been called in, Kash Patel is in.
00:07:22.000President Trump has spoken with Savannah Guthrie, saying that the full force of the federal government, law enforcement is going to be there helping.
00:07:37.000I'm sure Savannah Guthrie is a liberal person, probably not a supporter, but here in her time of need.
00:07:43.000And, you know, they've even gotten a ransom note that now they can't say that it's 100% with 100% certainty that it is accurate, that it is authentic.
00:07:55.000But there are some reasons to believe that it probably is.
00:07:59.000Let's go ahead and play this from a local official.
00:08:35.000So those are things that are concerning.
00:08:37.000We immediately sent that information over to the sheriff's department, and they're, of course, looking into the legitimacy of it.
00:08:43.000It also included a dollar amount to deadline, and again, other specifics that only Guthrie's abductor might know.
00:08:49.000So that definitely raised some red flags.
00:08:52.000So, just to repeat, it says the alleged ransom note included a dollar amount, a deadline, and again, other specifics that only Guthrie's abductor might know.
00:09:06.000This is a blood splatter down, I believe, on the front porch of the home, which I've been told is sort of like low velocity blood splatter.
00:09:21.000So, something like maybe from a bloody nose.
00:09:24.000And, uh, You know, so it's as opposed to a gunshot or something like that, that would be like more high velocity splatter.
00:09:32.000So the hope is that she's still alive and that she is being held somewhere, hopefully held for ransom.
00:09:42.000So Saturday night, January 31st, 2026, at about 9 30, Nancy Guthrie, 84, arrives at her home in the Catalina Foothills area of Tucson, Arizona.
00:09:53.000So it's kind of outside of town, a little bit remote.
00:09:56.000She had spent the evening having dinner with family, including her daughter Annie, who drove her home.
00:10:01.000It is believed Annie is the last person to have seen her mother.
00:10:04.000Sunday, February 1st, so that was late at night.
00:10:07.0002 a.m. in the morning, Guthrie's pacemaker syncs with her Apple devices at home for the last time.
00:10:13.000Investigators believe she is taken out of range around this time.
00:10:17.00011 a.m. Nancy fails to arrive at regular church service, a member of which calls her family.
00:10:24.00011 10 family members arrive at her home to find it empty.
00:10:28.00012 15, Pima County Sheriff Department receives a missing person call.
00:10:33.000Deputies respond and find Nancy's car phone and wallet still inside the home.
00:10:38.000Blood drops are found leading outside toward the driveway.
00:10:44.000So I think that's a really important detail there that the doorbell camera had been removed.
00:10:50.000By Monday, Sheriff Chris Nanos says he believes Nancy Guthrie was taken against her will approximately between 9 30 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. Sunday.
00:11:25.000Another key that I think is, you know, a lot of people I haven't heard people bring up, but is that Customs and Border Patrol are involved, which again, it could just be.
00:11:39.000But we speculate on this for a reason because it is, just to cite other examples, is here in Phoenix, we've also seen a surge in sort of, we saw, especially during the Biden years, we saw the surge in international burglary rings.
00:11:55.000We saw international fencing rings, as it were.
00:11:58.000People would steal cars up in Scottsdale and they would be in Mexico in six hours and you're never going to see them again after that.
00:12:08.000There's an internationalization of crime in the United States that is entirely downstream of the fact that we have had a totally open border for so long.
00:12:18.000And we hope this isn't a manifestation of that.
00:12:20.000But at least in my opinion, it's hard for me to not immediately think of those kidnappings for ransom that have happened so often in Latin America.
00:12:28.000If you follow pro sports, a real thing is pro athletes who came from Venezuela or from the Dominican Republic, places like that, they have to worry about their family members getting kidnapped because they know they have a rich relative in the United States.
00:13:24.000We're going to have Senator Rick Scott on in the next segment.
00:13:28.000And Florida is a place where you mentioned Venezuelans, you mentioned all of this Latin American community that has gathered in Miami and South Florida.
00:13:38.000And they love it there because civilization, law and order, because they actually have a government that means business and isn't going to let crooks run the streets.
00:13:47.000Anyways, here's the video of Savannah Guthrie and her sister and her brother in law addressing the ransom note rumors, and they speak directly to their mom, Nancy, 465.
00:13:57.000We too have heard the reports about a ransom letter in the media.
00:14:02.000As a family, we are doing everything that we can.
00:15:02.000And I think, goodness, I think everything we've lived through too makes it harder for some reason because just these high profile cases where you're forced to sort of be strong in a public sense like that.
00:15:28.000And man, so the couple more clips here.
00:15:34.000This is Christy Nome saying DHS is assisting with the search for Nancy Guthrie, 466.
00:15:39.000They have asked us to help with some of our canine teams, and CBP has partnered with the other agencies involved.
00:15:47.000We're all just heartsick about this and hope she's found soon and that she's found safely and that we can get to the bottom of what really happened.
00:15:55.000And it looks like the search for Nancy has picked up back up at Guthrie's house.
00:16:01.000So I don't know if they're sweeping for more details here or more clues.
00:16:06.000The sheriff's department announced yesterday that they had cleared the crime scene at Nancy Guthrie's home and handed it back to the Guthrie family.
00:16:15.000Well, just a short time ago, A whole bunch of sheriff's deputies showed up there, along with Border Patrol agents, with dogs, and members of the FBI.
00:16:29.000And they put the tape back around that house, sealing it off.
00:16:34.000And we believe that there is a search ongoing in part of the area around the back of that property right now.
00:16:42.000We don't know exactly what they're all looking for, but certainly there is suddenly very intense activity back at Nancy Guthrie's house.
00:16:51.000So that's an interesting thing where they clear the house, they give it back to the family, and then they move back in and tape it all off.
00:17:00.000I want to show this image, though, kind of back to your earlier point 492.
00:17:04.000This is a map of Tucson's proximity to the border and corresponding border wall.
00:17:12.000So if you look at this map, the red portions of it are finished wall, new border wall from President Trump, orange are older border wall, yellow is like vehicle fence, green is damaged border wall.
00:17:25.000So it's a pretty, I mean, it stretches into New Mexico.
00:17:29.000A lot of that land where there isn't a border wall is either very second priority border wall area, very remote, or it's mountainous.
00:17:39.000But I do believe the plan is to complete it all the way through.
00:17:42.000So just something to keep in mind as we talk about that story.
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00:18:50.000Senator Rick Scott, I got to start with a question here that I did not prep you for, but we were just covering Savannah Guthrie.
00:18:57.000Her mom, Nancy, has been abducted in Tucson, Arizona.
00:19:02.000And it reminded me of a lot of conversations Blake here had with Charlie.
00:19:06.000Charlie mentioned on the show a couple of times that when you have an open border, you're going to have a rise in these abductions because it's very South American.
00:19:14.000It's very Mexican, like it's a cultural phenomenon in south of the border.
00:19:20.000Are a senator and formerly the governor of the state of Florida, where you have a lot of Latin Americans, a lot of Venezuelans, Cubans.
00:19:27.000You know, is this something that you see there?
00:19:30.000Now, to be fair, we don't know who did this, but is this something that you guys have to wrestle with in Florida, just with the types of populations that have moved in?
00:19:40.000Well, I mean, we're always cautious, but we have great sheriff's departments, we have great police departments, we don't have sanctuary cities in Florida, and we've got tough enforcement laws.
00:19:51.000So If you're convicted in Florida, you have to serve 85% of your sentence.
00:19:56.000And so I saw something on what CNN a couple years ago, and they said, oh, yeah, we don't commit a crime in Florida because they put you in jail.
00:21:21.000It is on steroids around here these days.
00:21:23.000And even logical, commonsensical things like ensuring that if you're going to vote in an American election, you ought to be an American citizen, they're going to just instinctively oppose.
00:22:16.000I wouldn't vote for Macron in France or Starmer in.
00:22:19.000In the UK, but I don't get to vote for them.
00:22:20.000So you can get to vote here if you're illegal.
00:22:23.000We have to use the talking filibuster.
00:22:26.000It's not changing the rules, it's enforcing the rules.
00:22:29.000It's just saying if you want to stop, if you want to slow down the process, you can go talk.
00:22:34.000But this idea that you don't have to talk and we have to wait for 60 votes to show up is wrong.
00:22:40.000So we're going to keep talking about it.
00:22:42.000You saw the president posted about it last night that if the Democrats want to slow something down, you're going to have to talk on the floor.
00:22:50.000But we have got to get things passed that are good for this country.
00:22:54.000You know, we've got to secure a border.
00:22:55.000We've got to get Homeland Security funded.
00:23:30.000Obviously, we have reconciliation, but when you actually look at the history, it started in like 1917 when they really kind of started using this, but it was used very sparingly.
00:23:40.000But in our modern era, it's we just think 60 votes, you got to have 60 votes.
00:23:45.000And basically, in our divided world, we can't get 60 votes on anything.
00:23:49.000Explain to the audience what it's like in the Senate.
00:24:02.000Well, number one, if this is important to you, you need to call your senator and let them know that the Save America Act or any other bill you think is important has to get passed and you've got to use the talking filibuster to get it done.
00:24:13.000So, all we're going to do is require the Democrats to do what they should do.
00:24:16.000The filibuster was simply a decision by the Senate to say, okay, at some period of time, we're going to stop talking and we're going to vote.
00:24:25.000I think Clarence Thomas got two votes.
00:27:15.000So, you know, I guess they're just going with, you know, black people and married women are too dumb to get voter ID and, you know, Republicans are racist.
00:28:01.000How could you want to defund ICE when you have stories of Lakin Riley or Jocelyn Ngari or Rachel Moran or you hear the stories of these little girls being raped and then you're saying you don't want ICE to have the ability to get rid of these criminals?
00:28:18.000This is the craziest thing in the world.
00:28:19.000No, and Senator, I mean, listen, again, I just want to reiterate out of abundance of caution, we do not know who abducted Nancy Guthrie.
00:28:28.000But if we find out that it was cartel related or if it was people that shouldn't be in this country, it's going to add a really important wrinkle to this.
00:28:38.000Really quick question for you, Senator, on the DHS funding, where do we stand?
00:29:05.000Look, there's some wonderful people who want to come in this country, come in legally, as we have a process for that, and we can improve that.
00:29:12.000But no, the Democrats will not fund ICE.
00:29:31.000And so I'm just going to hang our hat on your assurance that you're going to get this done because I believe it is existential to get in the SAVE Act passed for the future of this country.
00:29:40.000You know, we had Coach Tubberville on saying that, you know, the Republic as we know it could be over if we don't get election integrity, basic measures like an ID.
00:31:11.000What it should be, Jack, is an appreciation of excellence in people that really harness their craft and what country is able to achieve that excellence collectively, if you will, in the best way.
00:31:22.000And I mean collectively in the most non communistic, non Kamala Harris way possible.
00:32:46.000But there's an even more revealing thing.
00:32:48.000And I think this shows how we really have not defeated the woke abomination that's been around forever.
00:32:55.000It's still lurking, always wants to jump back.
00:32:57.000This is an Associated Press news report on the extremely pressing fact that Sweden has sent a Winter Olympics team to the Winter Olympics, and they are too Swedish.
00:33:09.000Immigration from Africa and the Middle East is changing the demographics of Europe's top winter sports countries, but that hasn't really translated to their largely white rosters heading to the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
00:33:21.000For instance, Team Sweden is almost entirely made up of ethnically Swedish athletes, which is hardly a reflection of the country's diversity, as Sweden has welcomed historic numbers of asylum seekers in recent decades.
00:33:32.000Experts also believe that more needs to be done by winter sports to improve accessibility, specifically for immigrants and underserved communities.
00:35:35.000If something as simple as changing a name can do.
00:35:40.000Anything to make someone feel more comfortable.
00:35:44.000It's really unfortunate that the term ice has an ice skating.
00:35:47.000Like I'm here on this sheet of ice and saying that it's kind of like, oh, disheartening that something so negative has taken that name from us.
00:35:59.000But that is something so minute in comparison to the struggles and the atrocities that people are facing back home.
00:36:08.000And my heart's really with the people back in the US.