The Charlie Kirk Show - January 27, 2025


Donald Trump's Foreign Policy Masterclass


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In this episode, Charlie talks about the return of illegal immigrants back to their country of origin and why this is a good thing. President Trump is right on track with his plan to send back millions of people that are here illegally.

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00:01:11.000 We are here in Washington, D.C., which is better yet...
00:01:15.000 Probably called the liberation capital.
00:01:18.000 This is the heart of the liberation.
00:01:21.000 The heart of where you getting your country back is headquartered.
00:01:26.000 It's a big fight.
00:01:27.000 As you know, there are arrests occurring and deportations happening in real time.
00:01:32.000 Hardened criminals, the worst of the worst, are being rounded up. 0.97
00:01:35.000 Child sex traffickers, rapists, drug criminals, smugglers are being rounded up in large numbers and they are being deported.
00:01:46.000 However, we must now talk about that next piece, deported to where and deported how.
00:01:53.000 So far, 2,681 terrible criminals, hardened, the worst of the worst, have been rounded up and are being sent back to their country of origin.
00:02:06.000 Now, this is a very important point.
00:02:09.000 The country of origin element requires a little bit of diplomacy and a little bit of creativity.
00:02:15.000 There are four people in particular that I want to point out of just kind of the example of the individuals that have been arrested, the first of which here on WhiteHouse.gov.
00:02:23.000 This person was arrested in Buffalo, New York, with suspected ties to the ISIS terrorist organization.
00:02:31.000 Next person was arrested in Los Angeles by ICE, Immigration's Customs and Enforcement, for being an MS-13 gang member wanted for murder.
00:02:39.000 Oh, that's nice.
00:02:40.000 He's just walking the streets.
00:02:41.000 Joe Biden never cared about rounding these people up.
00:02:45.000 The next guy, just walking the streets of Seattle, was convicted for the rape of a child.
00:02:50.000 Next guy, walking the streets of New Orleans, convicted of sexual abuse and kidnapping.
00:02:57.000 2,681 people arrested.
00:03:01.000 Now, once they're arrested, they're quickly processed and sent back to their country of origin. 0.94
00:03:08.000 And that is where things got very interesting over the weekend.
00:03:13.000 The return to their country of origin. 1.00
00:03:16.000 Now, Tom Homan, President Trump, and the entire immigration squad, Stephen Miller, have designed a plan to be able to deport millions of people that are here illegally.
00:03:30.000 So they started to round up people from Colombia, put them on an airplane, and sent them back to Colombia. 0.67
00:03:37.000 But the leadership of Colombia in Bogota...
00:03:41.000 The cross-dressing Marxist terrorist by the name of Gustavo Petro said, no, we are not going to receive these people that we sent out of our country that are making America more dangerous, less safe, and a harder place to live.
00:03:59.000 He's tried to dig in.
00:04:01.000 So here's the steps.
00:04:02.000 It's about six steps that occurred on Sunday afternoon.
00:04:05.000 You might have been watching the...
00:04:08.000 Washington Redskins versus the Eagles or the Bills and Chiefs.
00:04:13.000 Don't get me started.
00:04:13.000 I feel so bad for Josh Allen.
00:04:15.000 Separate topic for another time.
00:04:16.000 The refs stole it, but that's a separate issue.
00:04:19.000 But I was watching the real show.
00:04:21.000 The real show that involved our livelihoods and the future of our civilization was the show of President Donald Trump putting on a masterclass that will now be in the Trump library called the Columbian.
00:04:37.000 Masterclass, or a Sunday afternoon solving the world's problems.
00:04:43.000 President Donald Trump was golfing, meeting with friends, while he was putting forward, without a doubt, the most precise, well-orchestrated, step-by-step, thoughtful, and deep one, two, three, four, five, six moves to be able...
00:05:04.000 To send illegals back to their countries of origin. 0.99
00:05:07.000 Now, of course this is obvious, but it's worthy of repeating.
00:05:11.000 We are the incumbent superpower.
00:05:13.000 We are the strongest country on the planet.
00:05:15.000 We are the world's reserve currency status.
00:05:18.000 People want to invest in our nation.
00:05:20.000 You have Saudi Arabia saying we're going to go spend $600 billion to try to win favor with President Trump.
00:05:25.000 We are the desirable market.
00:05:28.000 Under Joe Biden and previous Democrat presidents.
00:05:34.000 We haven't acted that way.
00:05:35.000 We've acted as if we are equal with Colombia.
00:05:38.000 We are not equal with Colombia. 1.00
00:05:39.000 I have a lot of respect for the Colombian people.
00:05:41.000 I'm sure it's a beautiful country.
00:05:43.000 But America is not on an equal footing of Colombia.
00:05:46.000 They are a subservient nation to the United States of America.
00:05:50.000 Economically, militarily, in every possible conceivable way.
00:05:55.000 We hold all the cards.
00:05:56.000 So you would think...
00:05:59.000 That when the world's largest nation, when the superpower comes knocking and says, you're going to accept these couple dozen, that's all it was, which is a couple dozen criminals back into your country, Colombia would say, sir, yes, sir, whatever you need.
00:06:14.000 Because the Colombian economy is largely dependent on trade, commerce, and immigration with the United States of America.
00:06:22.000 Almost all of Central and South America.
00:06:25.000 Is dependent on friendly relationships with our nation.
00:06:28.000 We are still the richest.
00:06:29.000 We are still the most desirable place to put and deploy capital.
00:06:34.000 Their muscle memory was based on the Biden regime.
00:06:37.000 What do you mean we have to accept all these criminals?
00:06:39.000 We're an equal nation as you.
00:06:41.000 Okay.
00:06:41.000 So here's the six steps that occurred.
00:06:44.000 Step one, Trump sends the flights.
00:06:47.000 Step two, President Gustavo Petro says, no, we're not going to accept them.
00:06:54.000 Now, step three is worthy of a lot of time.
00:06:58.000 We're just going to press pause and read this piece by piece because it was a master class.
00:07:04.000 You see, President Donald Trump had a decision to make.
00:07:09.000 He could engage in private diplomacy or a public example.
00:07:14.000 In this particular instance, a public example was the only move.
00:07:20.000 Now, mind you, private diplomacy very well would have worked equally as effective.
00:07:25.000 But why is it that President Donald Trump decided to escalate this situation so quickly, so rapidly, with such overwhelming economic force?
00:07:37.000 The reason being is that if Colombia started playing games, then Nicaragua might start playing games.
00:07:44.000 And Honduras might start playing games.
00:07:47.000 And Panama.
00:07:50.000 And you would have a regional resistance domino theory where all of these Central and South American countries would think that they could play games with the United States of America and Colombia was a perfect country to make a public example of it.
00:08:06.000 First of all, their leader is literally a cross-dressing Marxist terrorist who was responsible for the death of hundreds of Colombians. 0.65
00:08:13.000 And so President Donald Trump decided to escalate.
00:08:17.000 And the Colombian leadership was probably so taken aback.
00:08:21.000 The equivalent would be that if you're just kind of at a 1 out of 10 and President Donald Trump went to a 9 out of 10 right out of the gate.
00:08:30.000 This shows how well prepared the administration was when they came in.
00:08:36.000 How well prepared this team was.
00:08:38.000 Colombia's president assumed he could just say no.
00:08:41.000 No, we're not going to do this.
00:08:44.000 But this new Trump administration was ready.
00:08:47.000 Able, willing, prepared.
00:08:50.000 There was a list of actions that they were ready to take once a leader was dumb enough to F-A-F-O. And I'm going to read this entire truth social post from President Trump because it is so smart and so strategic.
00:09:07.000 And you better believe any of the other actors in the region that were even thinking of resisting.
00:09:13.000 Honduras, Guatemala.
00:09:16.000 Belize, Ecuador.
00:09:18.000 They were watching the Colombian masterclass example.
00:09:22.000 Oh boy, I don't know if I want that.
00:09:24.000 And Colombia became the momentary center of gravity.
00:09:29.000 It became the center of emphasis of all focus.
00:09:32.000 Where all the other regional countries were watching and saying, okay, Colombia, you want to pick a fight with the superpower?
00:09:40.000 I mean, Colombia, I don't think they have a navy.
00:09:43.000 It's not exactly a fight that they're going to win.
00:09:46.000 And this would never escalate to military conflict.
00:09:49.000 But economic conflict, they are beyond a subservient nation.
00:09:53.000 I mean, they're barely a second world nation, almost a third world nation.
00:09:57.000 They're right on the edge.
00:09:58.000 Certainly not first world.
00:10:00.000 And I'm going to read what President Trump authored because it sent a message, not just to that freak who's the president of Colombia, but to every other nation.
00:10:09.000 This is not just about...
00:10:10.000 Bullying other countries or starting flights.
00:10:13.000 This is about not getting taken advantage of and not being the dumping ground of the third world. 1.00
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00:11:22.000 Colombia refuses, and President Donald Trump responds.
00:11:26.000 And I want you to listen carefully because we're going to go through word by word.
00:11:28.000 This was not just something that President Trump sent off on a whim on a golf course.
00:11:32.000 This is something that President Trump sat down with his team and they thoughtfully had waiting in their back pocket.
00:11:38.000 They had all of this ready.
00:11:40.000 And they said, okay, who's going to be the first country to resist us?
00:11:43.000 Who's going to be the first country to say that you're not going to accept your own people?
00:11:48.000 And just time out, time out, time out.
00:11:49.000 Hold on.
00:11:50.000 If Colombia was willing...
00:11:52.000 To risk their entire economy over a couple dozen migrants, that shows you how dangerous these people actually are. 1.00
00:12:03.000 Secondly, I thought these were the most wonderful people.
00:12:07.000 These are dreamers.
00:12:08.000 They make our country stronger.
00:12:09.000 It exposes the big lie about mass migration.
00:12:14.000 Countries do not want these people.
00:12:16.000 In fact, I'm going to get into the Haiti example later, which is just so delicious.
00:12:20.000 Do you know that the Haitian president says the return of Haitians to his country will destabilize his country? 0.99
00:12:26.000 Yeah, that's the point.
00:12:28.000 Thank you for making our argument for us.
00:12:30.000 Oh, so the return of Haitians back to Haiti will destabilize Haiti. 1.00
00:12:35.000 Huh.
00:12:36.000 I thought that these were future Elon Musks.
00:12:40.000 I thought these people that were going to split the atom and they were going to create ChatGPT.
00:12:44.000 President Donald Trump wrote, this is so smart from him, I can't put this into words.
00:12:48.000 Even President Trump's critics and skeptics said this is next level.
00:12:54.000 Joe Biden would never do this, Barack Obama, George W. Bush.
00:12:56.000 This is creativity, stones, spine, direction.
00:13:01.000 President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social.
00:13:03.000 I was just informed that two repatriation flights from the United States with a large number of illegal criminals were not allowed to land in Colombia.
00:13:13.000 This order was given by Colombia's socialist president, Gustavo Petro, who is already very unpopular amongst his people.
00:13:22.000 Petro's denial of these flights has jeopardized the national security and public safety of the United States.
00:13:29.000 So I have directed my administration to immediately take the following urgent and decisive retaliatory measures.
00:13:37.000 Again, this is not something that was just authored on a whim.
00:13:40.000 This was President Trump's four years of thinking that he was able to deploy.
00:13:44.000 Emergency 25% tariffs on all goods coming to the United States.
00:13:48.000 In one week, the 25% tariffs will be raised to 50%.
00:13:52.000 A travel ban and immediate visa revocations on the Colombian government officials and allies and supporters.
00:13:59.000 Pause.
00:13:59.000 This means all of the oligarchs of Colombia, all of their drug criminals, they're not going to be able to visit their yachts in Miami.
00:14:08.000 They're not going to be able to go shopping on Fifth Avenue.
00:14:12.000 They're not going to be able to go to Beverly Hills.
00:14:15.000 What President Trump did with the travel ban and immediate visa revocations is so smart because he was going after the economy with the tariffs and then he's going after the lifestyle with the oligarchs.
00:14:24.000 And so all the oligarchs are probably working the phones.
00:14:27.000 Petro, what the heck are you doing?
00:14:29.000 I got kids that are going to University of Miami.
00:14:32.000 I got kids at Georgetown.
00:14:34.000 I got kids at Harvard.
00:14:36.000 And I can't go visit my kids.
00:14:40.000 What he went for is the lifestyle of the ruling class of the Colombian elite, which created internal turmoil.
00:14:47.000 He continues, visa sanctions on all party members, family members, and supporters of the Colombian government.
00:14:53.000 Sorry, Ms. Petro, which, by the way, is like some sort of a trans person, apparently.
00:14:58.000 I don't know.
00:14:59.000 You're not allowed to go shopping anymore in downtown New York.
00:15:04.000 You're going to have to go to Paris.
00:15:07.000 Continuing.
00:15:08.000 Enhanced customs and border protection inspections of all Colombian nationals and cargo on national security grounds.
00:15:15.000 This, by the way, I think this one should hold.
00:15:18.000 This is his not-so-subtle way of saying, I'm going to find every little sliver of cocaine you maniacs are trafficking into Houston.
00:15:27.000 This is his way of saying, I am going to choke point and publicize that you guys are narco criminals. 1.00
00:15:34.000 That are poisoning the American body politic.
00:15:37.000 This is code.
00:15:38.000 This struck at the absolute core of the Colombian drug trade, which is a huge part of the black market of the Colombian oligarchs.
00:15:48.000 This is where it gets really aggressive.
00:15:50.000 I-E-E-P-A treasury, banking, and financial sanctions to be fully imposed.
00:15:57.000 Essentially, you can't transfer money into the United States.
00:16:00.000 All those remittances?
00:16:02.000 Not going to happen.
00:16:04.000 These measures are just the beginning.
00:16:06.000 We will not allow the Colombian government to violate its legal obligations with regards to the acceptance and the return of criminals they forced into the United States.
00:16:15.000 So at this point, the president of Colombia had a decision to make after all of these tariff threats.
00:16:23.000 And the president of Colombia, I think, got some really bad advice.
00:16:27.000 My gut is that some Democrat politicians or allies were advising the president of Colombia.
00:16:32.000 Be the resistance.
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00:16:34.000 Call it a blockade.
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00:17:38.000 Okay, so after President Trump issued that threat, the Colombian president thought he could go halfway.
00:17:44.000 He said, oh, I'll accept this flight, but not future flights and none of your other demands.
00:17:52.000 And President Donald Trump said, sorry.
00:17:55.000 Not good enough for us.
00:17:56.000 We will proceed as planned.
00:18:00.000 Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been incredible throughout this process, by the way.
00:18:05.000 He was 10 out of 10 yesterday, and Marco Rubio deserves a lot of credit.
00:18:09.000 He was behind the scenes, kind of being a little bit of good cop.
00:18:12.000 Understand, Marco Rubio speaks fluent Spanish.
00:18:15.000 So while this was ongoing, Marco Rubio was likely, I can almost say certainly, I don't have this factually known, but...
00:18:22.000 On the phone, speaking Spanish to the Colombian government, saying, are you guys out of your mind?
00:18:27.000 Are you out of your mind?
00:18:29.000 What are you doing exactly?
00:18:31.000 President Donald Trump has come in with salvo, salvo, salvo.
00:18:34.000 An economic tomahawk missile is what he was doing.
00:18:38.000 And Marco Rubio was diplomatically speaking to them as the Secretary of State, of which he should do, by the way, saying, you guys are loco.
00:18:47.000 Muy loco.
00:18:49.000 Stop it.
00:18:50.000 So the Colombian government, for about a three- to four-hour period thought, and I have a theory as to why, that they could win this standoff.
00:19:00.000 The Colombian government was probably getting some advice by American-funded NGOs or Democrat senators or staff or some allies or associates saying, dig in.
00:19:13.000 You can be the international resistance.
00:19:15.000 This is our moment.
00:19:17.000 And the argument that people like AOC were making on Twitter, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, was that Americans really want their coffee, their Colombian coffee, and this will break them.
00:19:29.000 Listen.
00:19:31.000 First of all, there's other countries that we get coffee from, number one.
00:19:35.000 Number two, Colombian coffee isn't that good.
00:19:38.000 Number three, if Americans want coffee, Colombians want a lot more than just coffee.
00:19:43.000 They are wholly dependent.
00:19:45.000 On the American economy.
00:19:47.000 So they tried to dig in.
00:19:49.000 So what did President Trump do?
00:19:51.000 He started implementing the policy.
00:19:53.000 This is where it got to be so, so smart.
00:19:57.000 Where President Donald Trump started to actually implement his threat.
00:20:01.000 The U.S. Embassy in Bogota started issuing visa cancellations in real time.
00:20:09.000 President Donald Trump said effective now will be a 50% tariff.
00:20:13.000 You guys want to play around?
00:20:15.000 You think you can stand up to us?
00:20:17.000 By the way, let's be perfectly clear.
00:20:19.000 What was our ask?
00:20:19.000 For those out there that say, oh, you shouldn't just bully other countries.
00:20:24.000 Hold on a second.
00:20:25.000 What was our ask?
00:20:26.000 Were we saying that we wanted access to their natural gas or minerals?
00:20:31.000 No, it was a very crisply delivered inquiry.
00:20:35.000 Will you take back your people that you sent to us?
00:20:40.000 They belong to you.
00:20:42.000 These are Colombian passport holders.
00:20:46.000 These are passport holders of the Colombian government.
00:20:51.000 Not that complicated.
00:20:52.000 And just think about this for a second.
00:20:55.000 Colombia is refusing to take their own people?
00:20:59.000 Carrie Lake from Voice of America, as she assumes leadership there, she should, again, she's kind of the international media arm of the American government. 1.00
00:21:08.000 If I'm a Colombian citizen and I travel to Germany, And I get in trouble in Germany.
00:21:15.000 Will the Colombian government receive me in return?
00:21:18.000 The rank-and-file Colombian citizens should be outraged about this.
00:21:22.000 That their own Colombian government won't take their own citizens when they're returning.
00:21:28.000 That their own Colombian government will say, sorry, you're not allowed back into your homeland.
00:21:32.000 If that's not a breakdown of the social contract, I don't know what is.
00:21:35.000 But we know what's really going on here.
00:21:37.000 We know what's going on.
00:21:39.000 That these are bad hombres.
00:21:42.000 These are the worst of the worst.
00:21:44.000 And Gustavo Petro, the socialist who runs Colombia, is upset that he now has to take care of his own people.
00:21:54.000 Guess what?
00:21:55.000 Playtime is over.
00:21:56.000 America is no longer the dumping ground of the third world. 0.75
00:22:00.000 Now, I will say the Democrats would have a really strong point here.
00:22:04.000 The Democrats would have an overwhelmingly strong point here if all of these leaders were celebrating the return of these people.
00:22:12.000 If Gustavo Petro would like to throw a parade when these people landed in Bogota, you'd say, okay, maybe the Democrats were not right, but at least they have a strong argument that these people are worthwhile having in a country.
00:22:25.000 No, it's the opposite.
00:22:26.000 They're doing the opposite of a parade.
00:22:28.000 They're doing a blockade.
00:22:30.000 They're trying to block the entrance of their own citizens to come back into their country. 0.98
00:22:35.000 They want nothing to do with them.
00:22:37.000 They want no association.
00:22:39.000 They believe them to be dangerous existential threats to their country.
00:22:44.000 So President Donald Trump starts to implement this policy.
00:22:47.000 And the president of Colombia probably said, oh, I'm going to be this stubborn person.
00:22:52.000 In fact, he said, if you've ever met somebody stubborn, I am the most stubborn person that you could possibly meet.
00:22:58.000 President Donald Trump says, okay, we're America.
00:23:00.000 You're Colombia. 0.82
00:23:02.000 We have cities that are wealthier than your entire country.
00:23:06.000 We're done.
00:23:07.000 And within hours...
00:23:08.000 The knee was bent.
00:23:11.000 Terms of surrender were brokered.
00:23:14.000 And just like that, in one day, Colombia and Gustavo Petro conceded to every single demand of the United States government.
00:23:28.000 This is big, everybody.
00:23:30.000 This is big.
00:23:32.000 We have not seen a president act like this.
00:23:35.000 In my lifetime, George W. Bush would never do this.
00:23:38.000 Barack Obama, and Biden, of course not, but the entire Biden staff, what Donald Trump did was mean.
00:23:46.000 And more importantly, what Donald Trump did was masculine.
00:23:52.000 The Biden regime was one of toxic femininity. 1.00
00:23:58.000 Feelings-based.
00:23:59.000 We can't offend the Colombian people.
00:24:02.000 We can't tell them what to do.
00:24:05.000 They might get upset with us.
00:24:07.000 No, the new ascendant masculine energy that is taking over the federal government in the best possible way is, no, no, we call the shots. 0.94
00:24:18.000 We're not going to allow our country to be a dumping ground.
00:24:21.000 Playtime is over.
00:24:23.000 Dad is home.
00:24:24.000 The statement writes as this last evening.
00:24:27.000 After all of this, the six steps, Trump sends the flights they refuse, Trump issues the threats, they dig in, Trump implements the threats, and then they capitulate.
00:24:36.000 It is full capitulation.
00:24:38.000 Quote, the government of Colombia has agreed to all of President Trump's terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on U.S. military aircraft without limitation or delay.
00:24:54.000 Based on this agreement, the fully drafted IEPA tariffs and sanctions will be held in reserve and not signed unless Colombia fails to honor this agreement.
00:25:03.000 Let me just pause.
00:25:04.000 This is a sword of Damocles hanging over the Colombian government.
00:25:07.000 They have to accept all of the narco criminals, all of the child sex traffickers, all of the illegals, or else tariffs will be issued at any time. 0.99
00:25:15.000 The visa sanctions issued by the State Department and enhanced inspections from Customs and Border Patrol will remain in effect until the first plane load of Colombian deportees is successfully returned.
00:25:27.000 Today's events make clear to the world that America is respected again, and President Trump will continue to fiercely protect our nation's sovereignty.
00:25:36.000 And he expects all other nations of the world to fully cooperate in accepting the deportation of their citizens illegally present in the United States.
00:25:47.000 We are behaving like a country with dignity.
00:25:50.000 We took decades of abuse because we were ruled by people who hate Americans.
00:25:58.000 And Gustavo Petro just happened to be in the middle of it.
00:26:01.000 And now you better believe that there are meetings happening all across the region.
00:26:06.000 In fact, we have this document from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation from Honduras.
00:26:14.000 An urgent, extraordinary meeting of presidents and heads of states of CILAC, C-E-L-A-C, which I believe is the Council of Latin American Countries, and agenda items, migration environment and Latin American and Caribbean unity.
00:26:30.000 In this regard, it is reported that said meeting has scheduled in a hybrid format.
00:26:34.000 It is also worth noting that His Excellency, Gustavo Petro Urego, president of Colombia, Incoming PPT of Selec has confirmed his participation in this call.
00:26:46.000 And the Caribbean, which includes Haiti.
00:26:49.000 So all of the regional actors are now meeting today saying, oh my goodness, we have to accept our own people.
00:26:55.000 We have to accept our own people that we try to dump on America. 0.98
00:26:58.000 I want you to just think how perverse and sick this is.
00:27:01.000 That these countries are freaking out.
00:27:03.000 That they have to steward their own people.
00:27:05.000 They thought that they could just leave them at the doorstep of America.
00:27:08.000 They thought they could dump them into your neighborhoods, dump them on your college campuses where they murder people like Laken Riley and Rachel Morin. 1.00
00:27:16.000 They thought they could dump them into the interior of the United States.
00:27:19.000 And now all of a sudden, it's coming back.
00:27:22.000 They're coming back and they don't know what to do about it.
00:27:26.000 What is the counter argument from the Democrats?
00:27:30.000 Well, here's the great J.D. Vance, who was just phenomenal this weekend.
00:27:34.000 He's looking more and more.
00:27:36.000 Like he might be the 48th president of the United States.
00:27:38.000 Let's play cut 18. Founded by immigrants. 0.86
00:27:40.000 Well, this is a country founded by...
00:27:42.000 This is a very unique country.
00:27:44.000 And it was founded by some immigrants and some settlers.
00:27:48.000 But just because we were founded by immigrants doesn't mean that 240 years later that we have to have the dumbest immigration policy in the world.
00:27:55.000 As J.D. Vance clearly says, we don't have to have the dumbest immigration in the world. 0.96
00:28:00.000 We are back, everybody.
00:28:02.000 We are back.
00:28:05.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here with New Year's Resolutions.
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00:29:07.000 I have a non-sarcastic, provocative question.
00:29:11.000 What do they teach in these schools of diplomacy and statecraft?
00:29:17.000 What is it that they actually teach in the Woodrow Wilson School of Diplomacy?
00:29:23.000 Here in Washington, D.C., where we are doing this broadcast, you have George Washington, you have Georgetown.
00:29:30.000 Where you have people that study to become diplomats.
00:29:33.000 What exactly is taught in these schools?
00:29:37.000 Because President Donald Trump just upended all of the established order and he made fools out of all of them.
00:29:44.000 The experts were losing their mind yesterday.
00:29:48.000 President Donald Trump is trying to start a trade war.
00:29:52.000 They are so short-sighted and they're still criticizing it.
00:29:55.000 Well, that was unneeded drama.
00:29:58.000 That was unneeded pandemonium.
00:30:01.000 That was unnecessary upheaval.
00:30:03.000 No, it was a necessary public example, and now all these other countries are going to have to take their own people. 0.54
00:30:10.000 Now, to be honest, I understand the argument if we were sending Nicaraguans to Colombia.
00:30:16.000 That would not be a morally clear argument.
00:30:19.000 I would get that.
00:30:21.000 I would understand the argument if we were sending...
00:30:24.000 Mexicans to Brazil. 0.70
00:30:25.000 We're sending people back to their own country, the country they were raised in, the country that they were schooled in, the country they are citizens of. 0.90
00:30:34.000 And so for all of the international diplomatic corps expert class, what exactly are you experts in?
00:30:41.000 You're experts in appeasement?
00:30:43.000 You're experts in bending the knee?
00:30:45.000 Because they actually do not have any perspective to protect America at all costs.
00:30:54.000 These diplomats, it's not as if they're dumb.
00:30:57.000 It's as if they don't actually want America to succeed.
00:31:01.000 What this does is it suggests that diplomacy is mostly fake.
00:31:06.000 They have fake expertise.
00:31:08.000 That is exactly what I wanted to get at.
00:31:11.000 Is that all of this schooling, all of this time in colleges, all of this time where they're pretending that they're working in the State Department.
00:31:21.000 What really matters is instinct, very basic rules of interaction, and the most important thing, the will.
00:31:28.000 A common theme here on the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:31:31.000 Do you have the will to do what is necessary?
00:31:34.000 The feminine, toxically feminine perspective is to, well, we don't want to offend people, and I guess Colombia is a country, and, well, why don't we just keep their rapists and their criminals and their child sex traffickers? 0.92
00:31:49.000 Whereas President Trump says, this is stupid.
00:31:53.000 Why are we putting up with this?
00:31:55.000 We're not going to get ripped off.
00:31:56.000 We're not going to do stupid things.
00:31:58.000 You look out for your own country and your own people, and you don't need to be a lifelong State Department diplomat.
00:32:05.000 So for all of these lifelong State Department diplomats, I hope you guys understand that you have no credibility in the eyes of the American people.
00:32:13.000 The same way that we lost such credibility for public health officials during COVID, the same way that we lost credibility for people like Fauci and Birx, the same way that we lost credibility for all of the six feet to stop the spread and wear a mask when you shower, we are now losing credibility for all of our permanent State Department diplomatic corps, for Anthony Blinken, for even some of the Kissinger stuff.
00:32:39.000 I mean...
00:32:40.000 All of the criteria that has been built for diplomacy has just been upended in the last 24 hours.
00:32:46.000 It has all changed.
00:32:47.000 It is a permanent stark contrast.
00:32:51.000 What they're experts in is deteriorating borders, weakening the currency, and allowing a bunch of foreigners into the country. 1.00
00:32:57.000 Okay, that doesn't take a lot of skill.
00:32:59.000 What you just saw an amazing display of was President Trump rolling back the Great Reset.
00:33:07.000 Was President Trump rolling back all of this globalist push that was authored by, that was written by, that was published by the permanent State Department Corps?
00:33:19.000 The same people that brought you the Iran deal, the same people that brought you the Russian-Ukrainian war, the same people that brought you all of the major conflicts, the Iraq war, the conflict in Libya, the conflict in Syria. 0.59
00:33:33.000 Here you have a guy who was once president, a billionaire businessman, Who broke every single rule of Washington yesterday.
00:33:40.000 Threatened tariffs, implemented tariffs, revoked visas, said we're going to put on sanctions.
00:33:46.000 Every established dogma of D.C. was upended in the last 24 hours.
00:33:52.000 And he won, not just a little bit, a triumphant, full capitulation, absolute bend-the-knee surrender.
00:34:00.000 He broke all of the rules and it worked.
00:34:02.000 So what does that say about the rules?
00:34:05.000 Maybe these...
00:34:06.000 Couple thousand professional State Department diplomatic corps that we always kind of bow to as if they're the ones that keep us safe.
00:34:13.000 They're all frauds.
00:34:14.000 They're all fake.
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00:35:19.000 J.D. Vance.
00:35:21.000 How lucky are we to have J.D. Vance as vice president?
00:35:25.000 Now, just for fun, I had to kind of go back in my email inbox just to make sure I remembered the arc.
00:35:34.000 We went all in for J.D. Vance for U.S. Senate when it was unpopular, when people would call us names.
00:35:42.000 We went all in for J.D. Vance for the U.S. Senate on like day one.
00:35:48.000 And we used to get hundreds of angry emails of people who thought they knew better than us.
00:35:54.000 J.D. Vance is the worst.
00:35:56.000 You should be endorsing other candidates.
00:35:58.000 Why are you behind J.D. Vance?
00:36:00.000 We should actually look.
00:36:02.000 I think J.D. Vance joined the program at least 10 to 15 times.
00:36:05.000 At least.
00:36:06.000 In fact, the running joke is that I talked to J.D. Vance more on the show than off the show during the campaign.
00:36:13.000 J.D. Vance was on the program all the time.
00:36:16.000 In fact, his very famous cat lady remark, one of which was said on our program, we recognized his gifts early on.
00:36:25.000 I saw the talent and I said, this is the guy.
00:36:29.000 This is the one.
00:36:31.000 Now, I don't have a lot of gifts, but one of the gifts that I do have is spotting talent early.
00:36:37.000 I have a tendency to be able to do that.
00:36:39.000 And I could go through the list of some of the people, and you guys know the names, but from Ana Paulina on, a lot of the most talented people in the conservative movement got their start in the kind of turning point ranks.
00:36:53.000 And we liked him early.
00:36:55.000 But he's become so much better since then.
00:36:58.000 Yeah, and Blake's reminding me.
00:36:59.000 Including my wife, by the way.
00:37:01.000 I interviewed her for a job and I said, I think I'm going to move you up in what you're interviewing for.
00:37:07.000 J.D. Vance has become such a warrior for our cause in the past six months.
00:37:13.000 J.D. Vance sat down for his first lengthy interview with CBS News.
00:37:18.000 Margaret is her name.
00:37:21.000 Now...
00:37:21.000 I wouldn't actually know her name was Margaret if it wasn't for J.D. Vance's very infamous I-don't-care-Margaret exchange and quip.
00:37:30.000 But let me just press pause and say J.D. Vance is acting and looking like the vice president that Donald Trump needs, the vice president that Donald Trump deserves, and maybe beyond that, even the 48th president.
00:37:44.000 We're a long way from that.
00:37:45.000 We shouldn't even think or talk too much openly about that, but he's a rock star.
00:37:50.000 He gave an amazing speech at the March for Life.
00:37:53.000 He very quietly was working the phones to of course make sure that Pete Hegseth became the Secretary of Defense.
00:38:01.000 He is loyal.
00:38:03.000 He's smart.
00:38:04.000 He's capable.
00:38:05.000 He's humble.
00:38:06.000 He's phenomenal.
00:38:07.000 And what an upgrade from what we had during that last administration.
00:38:11.000 Here's J.D. Vance with Margaret from CBS News.
00:38:15.000 She's trying to think.
00:38:17.000 What is the best one to play here?
00:38:18.000 Let's just do the longer one.
00:38:20.000 Let's play cut two.
00:38:21.000 All these immigrants or all these refugees have been properly vetted. 1.00
00:38:24.000 In fact, we know that there are cases of people who allegedly were properly vetted and then were literally planning terrorist attacks on our country.
00:38:32.000 That happened during the campaign, if you may remember.
00:38:35.000 So clearly not all of these foreign nationals have been properly vetted.
00:38:37.000 No, but there are 30,000 people in the pipeline.
00:38:39.000 Afghan refugees.
00:38:40.000 But my primary concern as the Vice President, Margaret, is to look after the American people.
00:38:45.000 And now that we know that we have vetting problems with a lot of these refugee programs, we absolutely cannot unleash thousands of unvetted people into our country. 1.00
00:38:54.000 It's not good.
00:38:55.000 These people are vetted.
00:38:56.000 Just like the guy who planned a terrorist attack in Oklahoma a few months ago, he was allegedly properly vetted.
00:39:01.000 And many people in the media and the Democratic Party said that he was properly vetted.
00:39:05.000 Clearly he wasn't.
00:39:06.000 I don't want my children to share a neighborhood with people who are not properly vetted.
00:39:11.000 And because I don't want it for my kids, I'm not going to force any other American citizens' kids to do that either.
00:39:16.000 He has a superpower.
00:39:17.000 And I could tell you, as somebody who does this for a living, who debates all the time, I debate professors, I debate college kids, whoever wants to come up.
00:39:25.000 He has a superpower that I have to work hard towards achieving, and it seems as if he has this natural.
00:39:32.000 He has like that natural Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth swing.
00:39:39.000 It's just, you look at it, you say, wow, that is, it's like Wayne Gretzky.
00:39:42.000 When you saw Wayne Gretzky on ice, you're like, okay, he works his tail off, but there's something that he was born with that you can't coach.
00:39:50.000 It's called talent.
00:39:52.000 J.D. Vance has a superpower.
00:39:55.000 Where he is able to remain remarkably calm, as if his heart rate is uninterrupted, as if he's on beta blockers, measured, despite hostile incoming enemy inquisition and fire.
00:40:12.000 I'm telling you, that is next level stuff.
00:40:16.000 He is able to stay cool, calm, collected in almost an effortless way.
00:40:22.000 Watching J.D. Vance.
00:40:24.000 Debate?
00:40:25.000 Because it basically does become a debate, let's be honest.
00:40:28.000 Be interviewed by Margaret Brennan is like watching Michael Jordan in Game 6. You just can't teach that.
00:40:36.000 Let's put up a screen on Margaret Brennan.
00:40:39.000 This is the face of liberalism in America.
00:40:42.000 Angry.
00:40:43.000 Nasty.
00:40:45.000 She looks pleasant.
00:40:47.000 And she got so outclassed by J.D. Vance.
00:40:49.000 I mean, it's just a completely different level.
00:40:52.000 It's like...
00:40:54.000 A kid on the varsity high school basketball team trying to go up against Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
00:40:58.000 It's not the same category.
00:41:00.000 It's such a category difference.
00:41:02.000 And Margaret really thought that she got him because she's got a bunch of 26-year-old Ivy League-educated producers. 0.99
00:41:09.000 Ooh, we're going to own J.D. Vance.
00:41:11.000 Say that we're a nation of immigrants.
00:41:12.000 You think that's the first time J.D.'s ever heard that?
00:41:14.000 J.D. continued with this interview.
00:41:18.000 Let's play Cut 13. Lowering prices for consumers.
00:41:22.000 We've seen all of these executive orders.
00:41:25.000 Which one lowers prices?
00:41:26.000 We have done a lot.
00:41:28.000 And there have been a number of executive orders that have caused already jobs to start coming back into our country, which is a core part of lowering prices.
00:41:36.000 More capital investment, more job creation in our economy is one of the things that's going to drive down prices for all consumers, but also raise wages so that people can afford to buy the things that they need.
00:41:47.000 And you ask specifically, what executive order is going to help lower prices?
00:41:51.000 All of the stuff that we've done on energy to explore more energy reserves, to develop more energy resources in the United States of America.
00:41:59.000 One of the main drivers of increased prices under the Biden administration is that we had a massive increase in energy prices.
00:42:06.000 Donald Trump has already taken multiple executive actions that are going to lower energy prices.
00:42:10.000 And I do believe that means consumers are going to see lower prices at the pump and at the grocery store.
00:42:15.000 Margaret has become a meme.
00:42:18.000 .
00:42:20.000 Because in one of the segments, J.D. Vance says, I don't care, Margaret.
00:42:25.000 He is able to be so firm when it comes to the policy positions of the Trump administration, defend it eloquently and smoothly, while also being incredibly likable and appealing.
00:42:39.000 Getting behind J.D. Vance in 2000 and what was it, 21?
00:42:45.000 Yeah, that's right.
00:42:45.000 2021, we endorsed J.D. Vance very early.
00:42:48.000 It's kind of like buying Bitcoin in 2013. It's a lot of upside.
00:42:54.000 It's a lot of upside.
00:42:56.000 People hear him and go, wait, this guy is great.
00:42:59.000 He got vilified so much earlier and it's got even better.
00:43:04.000 And everyone around me knows how much I believe in J.D. Vance.
00:43:07.000 I mean, I went all out twice for him.
00:43:09.000 First on the Senate thing and then on the vice presidential selection.
00:43:13.000 And do you know who deserves the credit here?
00:43:16.000 President Donald Trump deserves the credit.
00:43:18.000 For selecting him as the vice president.
00:43:20.000 It was an incredibly risky, unconventional, rule-breaking move.
00:43:28.000 There was so much pressure against that choice.
00:43:33.000 And he did it.
00:43:35.000 The establishment was against him.
00:43:37.000 The uniparty was against him.
00:43:39.000 And President Trump trusted his instinct.
00:43:42.000 And what a rock star, loyal, talented number two he has.
00:43:47.000 defending him every single day.
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00:44:50.000 Joining us now is a great man, Senator Rick Scott.
00:44:56.000 Senator, so good to see you again.
00:44:58.000 Senator, we were celebrating together Pete Hegseth's swearing-in ceremony at the White House on Saturday.
00:45:05.000 It was great to see you there.
00:45:06.000 Your reaction of Pete Hegseth becoming Secretary of Defense, even though it required a tie break.
00:45:12.000 Your reaction, Senator?
00:45:13.000 Well, Pete's going to do a great job.
00:45:15.000 I mean, you know what I like about Pete is he actually fought in a war.
00:45:19.000 He volunteered to do this.
00:45:21.000 He led troops.
00:45:23.000 He knows what it's like to be a warfighter.
00:45:25.000 He knows people have lost their lives.
00:45:27.000 He knows people have been injured.
00:45:29.000 So he's going to, one, make sure that we don't have DEI, we have the best people.
00:45:33.000 And number two, he's going to make sure we're not sending people in harm's way if we don't have a plan to win.
00:45:39.000 We're going to start winning instead of doing all these things where we just send our troops all over the world and have no plan.
00:45:45.000 We limit what they can do.
00:45:47.000 Pete's not going to let that happen.
00:45:48.000 So I'm really excited for him.
00:45:50.000 And so the confirmation fights are ongoing.
00:45:54.000 That one was a nail-biter. 1.00
00:45:56.000 What is the schedule this week for both votes and hearings?
00:46:00.000 What can we expect this week?
00:46:02.000 So the...
00:46:03.000 At this point, Obama had 13 cabinet members confirmed, and President Trump has four.
00:46:10.000 We'll have the Treasury Secretary confirmed tonight, and what we're going to be doing is we're going to be doing these all week.
00:46:16.000 We did the right thing by staying over the weekend.
00:46:19.000 Finally, the Democrats relented because they wanted to go home, but we didn't slow down our process.
00:46:25.000 So, unfortunately, it's going to take us longer because of the Democrats' obstruction, but President Trump has picked great people.
00:46:32.000 We are staying here to get his confirmations done.
00:46:34.000 They can slow down from a time standpoint, but they can't prevent these nominees from being confirmed.
00:46:40.000 So, Senator, I have been skeptical of Leader Thune on certain things.
00:46:46.000 I will say, though, I think he's moving at a rapid pace, and we have to give credit where credit is due.
00:46:51.000 Would you agree, Senator Scott, that Leader Thune has been operating at a very favorable pace, even one that is making the Democrats uncomfortable?
00:47:00.000 Absolutely.
00:47:01.000 So he's done the right thing.
00:47:03.000 One, he's bringing up bills, all right, that are Republican bills.
00:47:08.000 The first one is Lake and Riley.
00:47:09.000 We actually got some Democrat votes on that.
00:47:12.000 This week, we have the ICC bill that would have sanctions for people that support the ICC when they went out and indicted Netanyahu.
00:47:21.000 But with regard to nominations, he's doing it as quickly as he can with the Democrats' obstruction.
00:47:30.000 So maybe they'll eventually relent, but the only way they're going to relent is if we make them stay here and Leader Thun is doing that, so I'm very appreciative of what he's doing. 0.72
00:47:40.000 And Senator, you deserve a lot of credit for that, though, of really setting the pace and setting the standard of what...
00:47:46.000 We wanted to see and what productivity we wanted to see out of the U.S. Senate.
00:47:51.000 So, Senator, I want to now go to a separate topic here, which is talking about the California to Florida disasters.
00:48:00.000 I know that there's a big contrast here between what we're seeing in California.
00:48:04.000 Why is it that Florida is able to have such efficient, rapid response to hurricanes, and California seems it can't get out of its way when it comes to dealing with natural disasters?
00:48:15.000 Here's the difference.
00:48:17.000 In Florida, we know that it's our responsibility to take the lead.
00:48:22.000 So as an example, I had wildfires when I was governor.
00:48:25.000 I had four hurricanes.
00:48:26.000 And we didn't say, oh, let's wait and see if the federal government shows up and see if they'll help us solve this problem.
00:48:31.000 We went and solved the problem on our own, realizing the federal government can provide some financial resources, but they're not going to lead this.
00:48:40.000 They're not going to lead us out of this problem.
00:48:41.000 So if you look at North Carolina and look at California, their governors have thought, oh, the federal government's going to do all this.
00:48:48.000 We don't have to do it.
00:48:51.000 You look at California.
00:48:52.000 I don't know why they have wildfires.
00:48:55.000 One, they didn't have enough water.
00:48:57.000 Whose responsibility is that?
00:48:58.000 The governor's.
00:48:59.000 Number two, the reservoirs were not full.
00:49:02.000 Whose responsibility is that?
00:49:03.000 The governor.
00:49:04.000 So what you have to do is, one, you have to take responsibility to prevent it.
00:49:08.000 So in Florida, we've had some small wildfires, but we actually do prescribed burning in our forests.
00:49:15.000 To make sure we don't have a situation where we can get wildfires.
00:49:19.000 And then on top of that, when we do, which he had twice down in the Everglades when I was governor, we went and put them out quickly.
00:49:26.000 We put all resources, state and local resources.
00:49:29.000 We didn't wait for the federal government to show up.
00:49:31.000 In California, they think somebody else is going to solve their problems.
00:49:34.000 No one's solving your problem.
00:49:36.000 You've got to do this yourself.
00:49:37.000 The federal government can provide you some financial resources, but they don't have a whole bunch of first responders that they can send to solve your problem.
00:49:44.000 I think that is so well put.
00:49:47.000 What is your reaction to the president who wants to kind of change up FEMA, who wants to change the way that FEMA's done?
00:49:53.000 As someone who's dealt with FEMA and been in the weeds, what is the better way that we could run the Federal Emergency Management Authority or agency?
00:50:00.000 Well, number one, we need to make sure everyone understands the first responsibility is local, then state.
00:50:07.000 And then the federal government can provide some resources.
00:50:10.000 So I'll give you an example.
00:50:12.000 When I became governor, I had no idea why it was like this.
00:50:15.000 The federal government paid 75% and even more for debris pickup in our state when we had a hurricane.
00:50:21.000 I never understood why they did that, but they did.
00:50:24.000 But what that allowed is a whole bunch of fraud.
00:50:28.000 So I actually finally, it took me six years, I finally got a bill to crack down on that.
00:50:32.000 I finally got it passed in December.
00:50:35.000 Billions of dollars of fraud.
00:50:36.000 I probably saved the federal government over a billion dollars of fraud just in one hurricane, Hurricane Irma.
00:50:42.000 So you could take that for each piece of this.
00:50:45.000 The states need to be responsible.
00:50:48.000 The local governments need to be responsible.
00:50:50.000 Quit relying on the federal government to solve all your problems.
00:50:53.000 Otherwise, why do we have governors?
00:50:54.000 Why do we have mayors?
00:50:55.000 So I think what President Trump's in a position is to say, wait a minute, the federal government can't do everything.
00:51:00.000 They can do some things, but they can't do everything.
00:51:03.000 And the federal government is just on a piggy bank for everything that the local or state government wants done.
00:51:09.000 He knows we have $36 trillion for the debt.
00:51:11.000 We're running $2 trillion deficits.
00:51:13.000 We've got to get our fiscal house in order.
00:51:15.000 And part of it is stop wasting money.
00:51:18.000 So there's a better way to do, you know, after disasters, a better way for the federal government to be a partner.
00:51:24.000 Because what they do is, oh, it's just like the bridge in...
00:51:28.000 In Baltimore, the federal government is paying 100% of that.
00:51:30.000 There was a bridge built at the exact same time in Florida.
00:51:33.000 Why don't we have the problem?
00:51:34.000 Because when we built the bridge, we built barriers.
00:51:36.000 If a ship hit the edge, it didn't knock down the whole bridge.
00:51:41.000 But in Baltimore, they didn't want to do that for some reason.
00:51:44.000 And now the federal government somehow became, you as a taxpayer, in any other state, you're now responsible for building 100%.
00:51:51.000 100% building that bridge in Baltimore.
00:51:54.000 That makes no sense to the rest of the country.
00:51:56.000 Why isn't Baltimore responsible first?
00:51:59.000 Why isn't Maryland responsible first?
00:52:02.000 What a wise point.
00:52:04.000 So, Senator, I saw another tweet from you that I want to make sure we mention in our time together here.
00:52:08.000 You are enthusiastically supporting our mutual friend, Vivek Ramaswamy, for governor of Ohio.
00:52:14.000 I agree with you on that.
00:52:16.000 Tell us why you think Vivek will make such a great governor.
00:52:19.000 Well, I've gotten to know him over the last few years.
00:52:22.000 What a great guy.
00:52:24.000 Successful business guy.
00:52:25.000 I like business people that run for office, since that was my background.
00:52:29.000 Here's a guy that was very clear of things he wanted to accomplish to fix this country.
00:52:35.000 I've been working with Rigaudet Doge for the last few months, and now I'm excited.
00:52:40.000 I hope he decides to run for governor.
00:52:44.000 We need to have a really good governor.
00:52:46.000 A good friend of mine now is the governor of Indiana, Mike Braun, who did a great job in the U.S. Senate.
00:52:50.000 So governors matter.
00:52:52.000 If you want better jobs, if you want better schools, if you want better law enforcement, governors matter.
00:52:57.000 Vivek will do a great job in Ohio and continue to make sure Ohio is a leading state for education, for jobs, and for public safety.
00:53:08.000 Senator, I completely agree, and I'm behind Vivek Ramaswamy in whatever he does, and so I think he'll make a terrific governor of Ohio.
00:53:17.000 Last point here I want to dialogue with you, Senator, is this Colombian story the last 24 hours.
00:53:25.000 It's a very simple ask.
00:53:26.000 You have to accept the people that were released from your country, which illegally entered our country, back into your country. 0.99
00:53:33.000 What do you make of President Trump upending all of the traditional diplomatic rules and achieving a major accomplishment and victory for the American people?
00:53:42.000 Well, there's two new sheriffs in town.
00:53:45.000 One, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State.
00:53:47.000 And Donald Trump is president, right?
00:53:49.000 They clearly have let Petro, the president of Colombia, know that he is not going to play games, right?
00:53:57.000 So, you know, he prevented planes from landing with the illegal immigrants, and so immediately they went to work. 1.00
00:54:05.000 I talked to Marco about it a couple times yesterday.
00:54:07.000 They immediately went to work and said, okay, so if that's the plan you're going to have...
00:54:12.000 Then these are the things that are going to happen to you.
00:54:14.000 And he quickly capitulated.
00:54:16.000 He's even going to send the presidential plane to come get illegal immigrants to come here. 0.98
00:54:21.000 What they did to Petro is exactly what we need to be doing to every place.
00:54:26.000 Here's one thing I don't get.
00:54:28.000 If Mexico is allowing illegal immigrants from other countries to come through their country to come to our border, they should take every illegal immigrant back. 1.00
00:54:37.000 And they should be the ones that have to send them back to Colombia or Venezuela or wherever. 0.97
00:54:42.000 They're the ones that are allowing this to happen.
00:54:45.000 If not, we should hold Mexico accountable. 0.98
00:54:48.000 But any country that allows their citizens to come into our country illegally, you have to, one, take them back, and two, you are responsible for allowing this to happen. 1.00
00:54:59.000 And Petro is clearly responsible for what these individuals are doing.
00:55:03.000 He's made sure there's more drugs being produced.
00:55:05.000 Look, he was a cartel member.
00:55:09.000 I mean, here's a guy that wants more drugs to be sold.
00:55:15.000 And whoever his buddies, Diaz-Canel in Cuba, Maduro in Venezuela, Ortega.
00:55:20.000 So he is not our friend.
00:55:23.000 The people of Colombia, they're our friend.
00:55:25.000 They want to do business with us.
00:55:27.000 Florida, in particular, does a lot of business with Colombia.
00:55:29.000 But we can't do business with a president of Colombia that is a terrorist, which is exactly what he is.
00:55:36.000 No, and that's not an exaggeration.
00:55:39.000 I mean, he is responsible for the death of hundreds of Colombians. 0.97
00:55:42.000 He's also a Marxist and deeply unpopular.
00:55:46.000 I don't think he's going to last beyond the senator.
00:55:48.000 Thank you for your leadership.
00:55:49.000 Looking forward to having you on with some regularity.
00:55:52.000 And again, it was wonderful to celebrate with you at the White House to see Pete Hegseth get sworn in.
00:55:56.000 Thank you, Senator.
00:55:57.000 That was great.
00:55:59.000 Bye-bye, Charlie.
00:55:59.000 Have a great day.
00:56:00.000 Bye-bye.
00:56:01.000 Thank you.
00:56:01.000 Keep up the great work.
00:56:02.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:56:03.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.