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00:01:09.000All right, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:36.000Well, after the assassination and the execution of Nemesio Oseguera El Mencho, the violence started escalating in the parts, the tourist areas, in the part of Puerto Vallarta, and escalated to the parts that they have enormous control, that is, Michoacan and the parts of Guerrero, and also in Jalisco.
00:01:51.000But this perplexed and it just caused a domino effect.
00:01:54.000And it started happening in the north borders in cities like Tijuana that we are located.
00:01:58.000What, you know, they started doing narco blockades, burning cars, burning businesses to send a message to the government and to tell them that we have presence on these particular neighborhoods or tourist areas and that we are going to terrorize the citizens and to let them know that they are critically hurt because the head of the snake was completely eliminated at this particular moment.
00:02:17.000And they started doing this in the part of Tijuana, you know, burning cars, burning businesses.
00:02:22.000Until now, yesterday, we were reporting on the ground more than 22 incidents happened.
00:02:28.000What it means, incidents between vehicles and also businesses that they were burned, sending a message strongly to the government of Mexico to tell them we have a lot of presence on these particular estates in the whole country and the whole territory.
00:02:42.000Now, a thing that is extremely important, just today, breaking news, the head of the military and the head of the Department of Defense in Mexico just made out a statement and an interview said that this was a clear collaboration with the United States of America in regards to the United States providing the intelligence to do the execution by the federal government of Nemesio Oseguera El Mencho.
00:03:06.000The violence right now, it was increasing last night.
00:03:09.000It's here in the city of Tijuana that is connected to San Diego.
00:03:12.000There was still burning of vehicles continuously in several areas.
00:03:16.000But until now, schools have been off limits.
00:03:20.000They closed the educational systems of elementary, junior high schools, high schools, and colleges.
00:03:25.000Businesses are closed for security reasons of the citizens.
00:03:28.000There has been multiple threats on social media groups by, you know, these, you know, particularly pages that they are in cahoots with the organized crime, telling the population that they're going to start shooting civilians after 10 o'clock at night.
00:03:43.000It is a huge national security threat.
00:03:46.000I, you know, I did a video on a report on a vehicle that was burned just steps away from the border, from the border wall.
00:03:53.000This tells you the level of audacity of the cartel, and they burned that vehicle in front of a post on the territory in the American territory.
00:04:01.000This post that has a huge camera from the U.S. customs that basically tells you that they did it on purpose just to tell the American government, we know that you provided the information for our leader to be executed.
00:04:12.000So, at this moment, the federal government has released statements that they will provide the security that it needs to be provided for tourists and also deployment of more military to the whole continent, to the whole country of Mexico.
00:04:26.000As far as where the CJGN cartel, the Cartel Jalisco new generation, where does it rank in terms of the most violent, most powerful cartels in Mexico?
00:04:39.000Nemesio Seguera El Mencho was one of the most violent ones and atrocious ones.
00:04:44.000That clearly he sent a message to the population and to the world of decapitations, dismembering bodies.
00:04:50.000And he's the one that is basically pointing out to the multiple hundreds of thousands of mass graves that they have been found in our country of Mexico, missing people, extraction of organs, you know, and all this atrocious acts towards women in the country.
00:05:07.000Oscar, I think that's really baffling me.
00:05:08.000So, 25 members of the National Guard killed, obviously, throughout the country.
00:05:12.000I'm reading the LA Times this morning.
00:05:14.000Mexican president Claudia Scheinbaum insists the country is at peace and remains calm after what's going on.
00:05:22.000What's her attitude towards all of this?
00:05:26.000It seems like she strikes a very strange tone with her remarks.
00:05:30.000And I guess the follow-up is: what's next?
00:05:32.000Is this a spasm of violence, or is this going to turn into a wider, I don't know what else to say besides war?
00:05:39.000Well, the Mexican people that we have common sense, and there's millions of us, we know who perpetrated and who did this mission and who initiated this mission.
00:05:49.000If it wasn't for the Trump administration, this that just happened would have been done.
00:05:54.000And all of this that has been happening in the country of Mexico, the dismantling laboratories, the extraction of criminal leaders and leaders of cartels are being extracted to the United States of America, you know, the execution of Nemesio Seguera El Mencho, all of this wouldn't be happening.
00:06:08.000Now, the Mexican president, she has an agenda and it's a leftist socialist agenda.
00:06:12.000And she needs to pander to her audience to say, we are not letting the gringo, we're not letting the white man to come and invade and intervene in our country, but we are collaborating so-and-so, and quote unquote.
00:06:23.000We are collaborating with the American government for them to provide information and for us to execute.
00:06:29.000And of course, she's saying that this, all this mission was executed by the federal government, but now she's obligated to say that the American government are providing the information.
00:06:49.000They have El Chapo Usman, they have El Mayo Sabada, they have Nicolas Maduro, all the extraction of information of how Mexico works and how corrupt all these dirty politicians that they're located in the Senate and Congress in Mexico.
00:07:01.000So the Trump administration basically knows the ins and outs of the government, and they need to bend the knee.
00:07:07.000When the Trump administration says we're going in is we're going in.
00:07:10.000Yeah, so my question is, Oscar, is does this signal a change of policy in Mexico?
00:07:24.000Well, the Mexican people are going to demand more now if they had the capacity to execute Nemesio Seguera El Mencho and why you're not going through several states and controlling these things that they're violently and critically controlled by the organized crime and the carter.
00:07:36.000So basically what the pressure of the American government is doing right now to Mexico is for the Mexican people to demand more from the Mexican government for them to execute this mission.
00:07:47.000If you were precise and if you, you know, we lost some good ones, we lost some military men on this mission.
00:07:53.000But if you went over there and you executed the mission, why you're not doing that on every state?
00:07:57.000So it's going to have an effect on the senators, on the opposition, on the conservatives, on the Christians, on the Christian senators and Christian congressmen that they are in our country to demand more from the opposition.
00:08:13.000Because the cartel is so interwoven with just basic businesses and the hotels, and there's this, it's hard to draw a line between official government business and cartels, right?
00:08:41.000And also, what the Trump administration has done is that they have given the courage to senators on the opposition and on the right of Mexico to go and basically on Congress and on the Senate and expose the left-wing political party and say you're corrupt.
00:08:54.000You're involved with the organized crime in the cartel.
00:08:56.000You know, one of the things that got viciously exposed is how this criminal organization had so much control over states and how they have the audacity to terrorize the citizens.
00:09:06.000And they're still doing it until this point.
00:09:08.000So it's basically exposing the, you know, the weaknesses of our government.
00:09:12.000And the Mexican people know that right now at this moment.
00:09:15.000So do you predict more violence in the days and weeks to come?
00:09:18.000I will not recommend American citizens to travel right now to several spots and several tourist spots.
00:09:23.000You know, it is kind of agitated and let this sink in for the next couple of days for the federal government to have more control over really rural and difficult and tough neighborhoods.
00:09:35.000I believe that it's going to escalate a little bit.
00:09:58.000Blake, you had one final thought, and I thought it was really important.
00:10:01.000I just want to close the book on the cartel thing.
00:10:04.000What was so insane is just the visual of literal cartel members.
00:10:08.000They're standing, they're wearing uniforms with their armored cars.
00:10:11.000They have armored cars, armed vehicles, heavy machinery, heavy weaponry.
00:10:16.000And all I can think is this is a country that borders the United States.
00:10:19.000And we've had 30 years plus of lots of adventures in the Middle East where we're often chasing people armed up just like that, but they're on at least the other side of the planet.
00:10:30.000They can't send rocket launchers super easily to the United States.
00:10:38.000And we see with them launching this, for lack of a better term, this insurgency where they're taking over huge chunks of central Mexico in demonstration of their leader being killed, killing dozens of Mexican National Guard.
00:10:50.000It just almost actually strikes me as insane that we've had so many wars on the other side of the planet, and yet we haven't just said, okay, actually, we're going to drone strike anyone, like every armored vehicle that belongs to a cartel, blow it up.
00:11:08.000But if they don't want to help us, we're going to do it anyway because it's not acceptable for there to be a gangster actor in a neighboring country that has armored personnel carriers.
00:14:49.000Yale did a study of how like the vocabulary that white liberals use.
00:14:54.000And what they found is, yeah, white liberals, when they're talking to black people, they will actually deliberately down show their vocabulary.
00:15:02.000They will basically act like they're talking to children.
00:16:39.000I don't think you can escape that feeling like it could happen.
00:16:42.000This is the dark future of America is 100% that Gavin Newsom could run, be slick enough, have the right look, say the right things, and everyone will just sort of get behind it.
00:16:52.000It's like he's the politician utterly without qualities.
00:16:55.000He hasn't been a great governor of his state.
00:16:57.000By any objective measure, it's been a catastrophe.
00:17:00.000He has big headline disasters like burning down a big chunk of Los Angeles.
00:17:04.000And then he has the data-driven disasters.
00:17:30.000on top and on top of that they have every other problem in the world and so yeah it's but he could win Well, it's interesting.
00:17:38.000I got asked to write a piece, and I forgot to tweet it out, actually, but I got asked to write a piece for the California Post, which is like the New York Post, but for the West Coast.
00:17:48.000It was about Charlie, what he thought about California.
00:17:50.000And Charlie loved California, loved how beautiful it was.
00:17:53.000But he would always, when you lay in there, he goes, man, what a beautiful state.
00:19:17.000For those who don't know, I had a catastrophic fall in my home on November 12th of 2024, which left me paralyzed from the shoulders down and not breathing without a ventilator and not speaking.
00:19:40.000And here I am having an interview with you.
00:19:44.000So you can imagine for all those reasons.
00:19:48.000And finally, I just might note, when I watched the funeral service and other memorial services for Charlie, and I heard all these people describe themselves as Charlie's closest friends, I thought it was a great credit to Charlie,
00:20:14.000like kids who think, you know, they have five kids and each one thinks that they are the parents' favorite.
00:20:25.000Charlie did a good job, but I would just like to remind everybody, or maybe they didn't even know it.
00:20:34.000So remind might not be the actual verb.
00:20:38.000And that is that his last book on Shabbat, on taking a day in the name of God, up there to stop in the name of God, by honoring the Sabbath will transform your life, was dedicated to me.
00:21:54.000And we are going to get to your book, which is titled, If There Is No God, the Battle Over Who Defines Good and Evil.
00:22:02.000And the fact that you're even coming out with a book, Dennis, is a miracle and a testament to your character and your fortitude and your strength of will.
00:22:11.000But I want to read Erica Kirk's endorsement of the book.
00:22:18.000And it's a bit long, but I'm going to do it.
00:22:22.000She says, this book is a treasure to me.
00:22:25.000Dennis was more than a mentor to my husband, Charlie.
00:22:28.000He was a dear friend and one of the few voices who played a role in encouraging Charlie's moral courage.
00:22:34.000The two of them shared a rare bond blessed by countless conversations about faith, morality, and what it means to live with conviction in a world that has lost its compass.
00:22:43.000Reading If There Is No God feels like sitting at the table with both of them again.
00:22:48.000It carries forward the very message that both Dennis and Charlie lived, and Charlie died believing, that without God, there can be no good, and without truth, there can be no freedom.
00:24:51.000And the results have been the same throughout those 50 years.
00:24:58.000I would ask high school students or college students if they love their dogs, which everybody who has one does, and a stranger were drowning and their dog were drowning, who would they try to save first?
00:25:17.000I know that they would all love to save both and so on, but they have to try to save one first.
00:25:25.000In virtually every instance, cut across economic, racial, religious lines.
00:25:35.000In virtually every instance, one-third of the group said they would save the stranger, one-third said the dog, and one-third didn't know what they would do.
00:25:48.000Two-thirds of Americans over half a century would not save, would not save, would not say that they would save the stranger.
00:26:00.000And that led me to the whole supposition of the book that what they were doing is substituting emotions for values.
00:27:44.000And remember, why ReFi doesn't care what your credit score is.
00:27:47.000Just go to yrefi.com and tell them your friend Andrew sent you.
00:27:53.000I really want to drive home for anyone who is a more recent listener or just didn't know how important your moral guidance was to Charlie when he would think about moral questions.
00:28:05.000Andrew, you know, you would mention this in private.
00:28:10.000He really looked up to you for moral reasoning like that and for framing things.
00:28:15.000So many things that you would say, and we would hear him repeat on campuses because you have that great way of distilling, like that difference, you know, using emotions instead of values and the subtle differences between them.
00:28:29.000I want us to play one of those clips just to illustrate that.
00:28:32.000We have Charlie citing you for a moral question, 487.
00:28:37.000I learned this from the great Dennis Prager, who says, stop focusing on intentions, focus on the actions.
00:28:42.000It's a much better way to judge whether or not something is right or wrong.
00:28:49.000Intentions, as I've said before, and there's a video that went viral.
00:28:52.000The Nazis thought they were doing good.
00:28:54.000They convinced themselves that they were doing good, when in reality, they were doing some of the greatest evil in the history of the species.
00:29:27.000It never occurred to me that I would not see Charlie again.
00:29:36.000And it broke my heart on every ground.
00:29:41.000Well, Dennis, even in the aftermath of Charlie's assassination, your subtitle, The Battle Over Who Defines Good and Evil, and you think about, I would say, the vast majority of people reacted as you would expect and hope to the tragedy and sadness and horror and shock.
00:30:01.000But there were some voices that reacted in glee and celebration.
00:30:07.000And I can't help but think of your subtitle in that book as the perfect distillation of why the battle of who gets to define good and evil matters so much.
00:30:17.000Well, if man determines, humans determine what is good and evil, then you can have moral inversions where the Nazis are good, are good guys and the Jews and others are bad guys.
00:30:36.000You have that now in the Middle East, where all of a sudden the Nazis of our time, the true Nazis of our time, Hamas, are the good guys.
00:30:55.000They're battling colonialism and Israel, a democracy with one-fifth of its citizens are Arab Muslims who thrive there and who supported Israel, by and large, in this war.
00:32:44.000People, I'll give you a great example.
00:32:47.000A woman called my radio show many years ago, said, you know, I just want you to know, Dennis, that I always vehemently disagreed with you on capital punishment.
00:33:02.000I was opposed to capital punishment and you were ardently for it.
00:33:09.000Well, I've come around now to your point of view.
00:36:48.000And I know one thing I think about, I know Charlie had wanted to do his Sabbath book even before your accident.
00:36:56.000I know he was planning it, but I also recall after it occurred, I know that really motivated him to make sure that was his next book that he would work on.
00:37:03.000And it moved him to complete it quickly.
00:37:06.000I don't know if that offers some solace to you or not, but I think I know Charlie drew some inspiration.
00:37:11.000He really wanted to get this Dennis-inspired book because he knew maybe you wouldn't recover and he wanted to make sure that he would have be able to carry on your legacy as well with his own work.
00:37:21.000And now I know none of us expected this, but we're glad that I guess you could return the favor.
00:39:29.000Everybody, please go get a copy today of Dennis' incredibly important new book, If There Is No God, The Battle Over Who Defines Good and Evil.
00:39:40.000Get it today, everywhere books are sold.
00:39:42.000Dennis Prager, God bless you, and we'll talk with you soon.