The Charlie Kirk Show - Donald Trump, the Greatest Pro-Life President

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00:01:34.000 It is Friday, January 24th of the new Trump administration, and we are hitting the ground running as we are here in Washington, D.C. There's a lot happening here in the Imperial Capitol, the first of which is it is March for Life Day.

00:01:50.000 March for Life brings in, you could say, hundreds of thousands of people from across the country to march for the unborn, to march for the most vulnerable.

00:01:59.000 Now, for years, Republican politicians have been very skittish to engage on the issue of life.

00:02:05.000 As you know, in this program, we are 100% pro-life and fight for the unborn, not just on this program, but on college campuses, the most difficult place to advance such values and such a worldview.

00:02:18.000 For years, Republican politicians have talked a good game when it comes to abortion and pro-life, but they rarely ever did.

00:02:27.000 They rarely ever made any policy decisions that were consequential in the fight for life.

00:02:37.000 George W. Bush never even spoke at the March for Life.

00:02:41.000 George W. Bush put people that were sympathetic with a pro-abortion agenda on the U.S. Supreme Court, such as John Roberts.

00:02:48.000 Donald Trump changed all of that.

00:02:50.000 As you know, Donald Trump Was responsible for the reversal of Roe vs.

00:02:54.000 Wade and even owned it throughout the campaign.

00:02:58.000 Now, President Trump was not nearly as pro-life as some of you in this audience would have liked in some of his public statements.

00:03:03.000 But in his actions, President Donald Trump is and will be remembered as the most pro-life president in American history.

00:03:11.000 The most pro-life president.

00:03:13.000 To fight for those that can't fight for themselves in the clear moral struggle that is in front of us.

00:03:20.000 Today is March for Life, and many Republican politicians want you to ignore what is happening at the March for Life.

00:03:26.000 Oh, don't talk about that issue.

00:03:28.000 That issue's bad for us.

00:03:29.000 And look, to be perfectly honest, the vast majority of the country is not where I am on the issue of pro-life or abortion.

00:03:34.000 Totally understand that.

00:03:36.000 Totally get that.

00:03:37.000 All the more reason for the March for Life.

00:03:40.000 All the more reason to go march in the streets and to build up public support.

00:03:46.000 Yesterday began a series of executive actions and pardons by President Donald Trump to show his support for the pro-life community.

00:03:57.000 To show his commitment to delivering for pro-life patriots and people that have been wrongly scrutinized and criminalized.

00:04:09.000 There is this law that never should have existed.

00:04:12.000 It is anti-First Amendment.

00:04:14.000 And it was used intentionally by the Biden regime to go after faithful Christians who would pray outside of abortion clinics.

00:04:26.000 It is called the FACE Act, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.

00:04:32.000 Now, even if you are somewhat pro-abortion or okay with abortion, you should be 100% against the FACE Act.

00:04:40.000 The FACE Act basically carves out an unconstitutional island in America where people who want to say prayers outside of abortion clinics protected by the First Amendment are not allowed to do so.

00:04:55.000 Meanwhile, if you want to protest, which is illegal, outside of a Supreme Court justice's home, the Department of Justice will not come after you.

00:05:02.000 So the FACE Act was rarely ever used.

00:05:06.000 It says if you use physical force or threaten physical force to intentionally injure, intimidate, interfere with someone trying to get an abortion, okay, I get that, but that's not what actually ended up happening.

00:05:15.000 The third one was that interfere by exercising their First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship.

00:05:23.000 According to some anecdotal evidence from pro-life groups, the presence of people praying outside an abortion clinic can lead to a noticeable decrease.

00:05:31.000 In the number of abortions, with some claiming a drop of up to 28% in certain situations.

00:05:38.000 It has been a long-standing tradition for Christians to pray outside of abortion clinics.

00:05:44.000 The FACE Act makes it a federal crime to do a left-wing style protest in exactly one place, an abortion clinic.

00:05:53.000 Now, President Donald Trump was presented with these pro-life warriors.

00:05:58.000 Who were targeted by the Biden regime for exercising their First Amendment rights.

00:06:05.000 And to be clear, these people are on public property.

00:06:08.000 This is a legitimate and legal protest.

00:06:11.000 They're not blocking the door.

00:06:13.000 They're not doing anything of that sort of circumstance.

00:06:15.000 The FACE Act says you are not allowed to even voice your opinion in the proximity of an abortion clinic for praying.

00:06:27.000 President Donald Trump saw this, weighed all of the options, and issued full pardons for these pro-life warriors.

00:06:38.000 Now, one in particular, Bevelyn Williams, It's this amazing pro-life warrior who was released from prison.

00:07:01.000 A black woman who loves her family, loves her country, who was put in federal prison.

00:07:06.000 Does this look like the type of person who should be in federal prison?

00:07:09.000 Watch this.

00:07:10.000 It's cut 169. And to be clear, none of these people did any acts of violence.

00:07:31.000 Beverly Williams did not do any acts of violence.

00:07:33.000 She did not burn down a Wendy's.

00:07:35.000 She did not do any massive BLM-type protest.

00:07:41.000 But she got the most severe penalties imaginable.

00:07:45.000 And President Donald Trump, in a courageous action, stands with the pro-life faithful in this country.

00:07:51.000 She was a political prisoner because if you dare... 0.77

00:07:55.000 Do anything outside of an abortion clinic that is left-wing blasphemy.

00:08:00.000 It is against the national state-run religion of the Democrat Party.

00:08:04.000 She was going to be stripped from her loving child and husband for nearly four years.

00:08:09.000 And President Donald Trump deserves all the credit for this.

00:08:13.000 I did what I could to try to vouch and push for this, but President Trump got lots of phone calls and lots of people, including many senators, like Senator Josh Hawley, and he delivered.

00:08:24.000 Now, let me make a message to any pro-life warrior out there that might not have voted for Donald Trump, that might not have worked for Donald Trump.

00:08:33.000 And there are lots of them out there.

00:08:35.000 Some pro-lifers decided to say, I'm not going to get involved.

00:08:38.000 I'm not going to do anything to help Trump.

00:08:41.000 He's not as pro-life as I would like him to be.

00:08:43.000 He's not as pro-life as I am.

00:08:45.000 Well, now you can see the results of being able to have political power.

00:08:51.000 On one side right now, you have...

00:08:53.000 Abortion-on-demand websites being taken down on health and human services.

00:08:56.000 You have pro-life warriors that are being pardoned.

00:08:59.000 And more pro-life victories coming, by the way.

00:09:02.000 I don't want to leak any information.

00:09:03.000 But more pro-life victories coming.

00:09:06.000 On the other side, you would have Kamala Harris, who would definitely not pardon these people. 0.99

00:09:10.000 They would be in jail forever.

00:09:14.000 You would have more pro-life warriors and more pastors being put in jail.

00:09:18.000 It really was a binary.

00:09:20.000 But let this be a learning lesson.

00:09:23.000 For any of some of the self-righteous activists who refuse to do anything to lift a finger for President Trump, not only were you wrong, you were actively helping the enemy.

00:09:36.000 And some people say, oh, I was just honoring God.

00:09:39.000 Helping Kamala Harris is not honoring God.

00:09:42.000 Helping that former illegitimate regime that was gender mutilating our kids, keeping our borders wide open. 1.00

00:09:51.000 That does not honor God.

00:09:53.000 Instead, those of you who did step up with courage and clarity to help President Donald Trump despite all the noise around you, you guys can rest easy and see these victories be delivered.

00:10:08.000 Life is a gift from God.

00:10:10.000 And now we have the most pro-life administration in history.

00:10:14.000 J.D. Vance is speaking at the March for Life today.

00:10:16.000 Praise God.

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00:11:28.000 This is Liberation Week.

00:11:30.000 It's really going to be Liberation Month.

00:11:32.000 Think about all the changes that are happening.

00:11:34.000 J.D. Vance is going down to go speak at the March for Life.

00:11:37.000 President Donald Trump is on his way to go visit the terrible damage in North Carolina and then California.

00:11:44.000 For those of you that are news junkies that watch here on the Charlie Kirk Show, the pace is hard to keep up.

00:11:50.000 And yesterday, President Donald Trump just happened to do another thing that would be the number one news story on the planet.

00:11:57.000 He declassified all the MLK and JFK files.

00:12:00.000 Oh, sorry, forgot to mention that.

00:12:02.000 Not to mention signed other executive orders.

00:12:05.000 Now, I want to spend some time on this because, first of all, Kalen Doerr, who is a good friend, is like the White House digital director.

00:12:13.000 Have you seen how beautiful the White House website looks?

00:12:16.000 It's very good.

00:12:17.000 I sent some very strong messages asking why their website looks better than ours.

00:12:21.000 It's beautiful.

00:12:23.000 It's very clean.

00:12:24.000 Andrew might be getting some of those messages, but not yet.

00:12:26.000 I'm kidding.

00:12:28.000 I love this website.

00:12:30.000 And so what you can do on whitehouse.gov is actually read all of the executive orders.

00:12:36.000 And there are some amazing executive orders that kind of slipped through the cracks that people did not cover the first or second day.

00:12:43.000 So I want to go through some of these because they're just amazing.

00:12:46.000 So we know about restoring a freedom of speech.

00:12:48.000 We know about the national emergency on energy.

00:12:51.000 But let me kind of go through some of these.

00:12:53.000 So President Donald Trump, on his first day in office, out of all the things that is going on, he signs an executive order that is this.

00:13:05.000 Putting people over fish.

00:13:08.000 Stopping radical environmentalism to provide water to Southern California.

00:13:13.000 Can we put this up on screen?

00:13:14.000 I'm going to send this in the group chat.

00:13:16.000 This one got no play.

00:13:17.000 The name of the executive order that will be in the archives 1,000 years from now, when historians are studying the United States of America, they're going to go through the presidential executive orders, and there will be an executive order that says putting people over fish.

00:13:32.000 Putting people over fish.

00:13:34.000 Stopping radical environmentalism to provide water to Southern California.

00:13:39.000 And it's a very good executive order.

00:13:41.000 That says, no more death, death will smelt.

00:13:43.000 This is great.

00:13:44.000 Within 90 days of this memorandum, the Secretary of Commerce and Interior shall report to me the progress made in implementing the policies in this memorandum.

00:13:51.000 The moral clarity of Trump is so clear, which is that actually human beings matter more than little goldfish.

00:14:01.000 President Donald Trump continued his executive order spree.

00:14:07.000 This is one of my other favorites on day one.

00:14:10.000 Promoting beautiful federal civic architecture.

00:14:13.000 This one got no play at all.

00:14:16.000 No play.

00:14:17.000 Everyone was talking about birthright citizenship or January 6th, and this one is very profound.

00:14:23.000 You can tell a lot about a society based on the type of buildings that you erect.

00:14:30.000 As you drive around this town, Washington, D.C., and you look at the Department of Energy or the Department of Education, They are indecipherable aesthetically from a federal prison.

00:14:44.000 They are the most ugly buildings.

00:14:48.000 And it's almost as if the building takes on the form of the meaning of the department.

00:14:54.000 Everything is very bureaucratic.

00:14:56.000 Everything is very linear.

00:14:58.000 There is no ascension towards the divine.

00:15:02.000 Now, I'm far from an expert in civic architecture, but I know two very basic rules.

00:15:07.000 You try to have structures that point up towards the divine, and the circle is the perfect shape because there is no start and is no finish.

00:15:15.000 Is that the Department of Education?

00:15:17.000 Is that not the most ugly thing you've ever seen?

00:15:21.000 Oh, that's the FBI. Is that not the most ugly thing you've ever seen?

00:15:24.000 And by the way, that's not even the ugliest in Washington, D.C. It looks like a file cabinet.

00:15:28.000 And in fact, the reason it looks like a file cabinet is actually of great significance and meaning.

00:15:36.000 Because a file cabinet is kind of like a bureaucracy.

00:15:39.000 And remember, bureaucrat comes from the French word, which means desk worker.

00:15:43.000 So the building takes on the form of the meaning.

00:15:46.000 It looks like a Soviet prison, which is what they want it to be. 0.88

00:15:51.000 It looks like the deep state, because that's what it is.

00:15:54.000 No window is better than the others.

00:15:56.000 We are all one.

00:15:57.000 It's very collectivistic.

00:15:59.000 It's very, dare I say, totalitarian.

00:16:03.000 It's the Borg.

00:16:05.000 196. Look at this beautiful feat of architecture.

00:16:08.000 Let's go to 196. Okay, I can do that.

00:16:11.000 I mean, that's pathetic.

00:16:14.000 That's the Department of Education.

00:16:16.000 President Donald Trump's executive order says, no, we're going to have marble.

00:16:20.000 We're going to have traditional architecture, not this garbage.

00:16:26.000 Promoting beautiful federal civic architecture.

00:16:28.000 One of my favorite executive orders from President Trump.

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00:17:35.000 Joining us now is Speaker Newt Gingrich.

00:17:38.000 Mr. Speaker, welcome to the program.

00:17:40.000 So much to discuss, but first, I want to make sure that we discuss your new film coming out, which will premiere on PBS on January 14th at 10 p.m.

00:17:50.000 Eastern.

00:17:50.000 I want to play the trailer and then get some of your remarks on it.

00:17:53.000 Play Cut 191, please.

00:17:56.000 Immigrants have come to America from around the world for many reasons.

00:18:00.000 Some fled famine and poverty, others sought religious freedom, and some came to the possibility of a better life.

00:18:07.000 My name is Henry Kissinger and I came to America in 1938. The promise of freedom and opportunity continues to be a powerful draw for those who make their journey to America.

00:18:21.000 Mr. Speaker, tell us about this project.

00:18:24.000 Well, I think I was inspired by Calista because her grandmother came to the United States legally from Poland through Ellis Island, as did something like 12 million other people.

00:18:36.000 And so we believe deeply in legal immigration, and we are strongly opposed to illegal immigration.

00:18:43.000 And we wanted to make the case that...

00:18:46.000 People who have come here legally, some famous like Henry Kissinger, others like Maria Dome, who had been adopted from a Siberian orphanage and went on to become the first woman certified by the Marine Corps as a combat infantryman.

00:19:01.000 All of them in their own unique way has made America a better, wealthier, more secure country.

00:19:07.000 And it's important that we find ways to strengthen legal immigration at the very same time that we control the border and we deport people who are here illegally. 0.88

00:19:17.000 So that's why we did it.

00:19:18.000 We're very proud that PBS picked it up and that people can find it streaming at pbs.org.

00:19:24.000 And I think they'll find that it's a very educational and at the same time a very interesting show.

00:19:31.000 I love the premise and what an applicable segue to what we are now seeing and living through.

00:19:38.000 I want to get into the deportations and of President Trump, what he's doing immigration-wise.

00:19:44.000 But, Mr. Speaker, I have to get your historical analysis first.

00:19:46.000 Let's just take an even greater step back and look more macro.

00:19:50.000 On Monday, President Donald Trump took the oath of office in the Capitol Rotunda in the most triumphant political comeback in American history.

00:19:57.000 Put this into words in a historical...

00:20:05.000 You know, when Coles and I were in the rotunda, listening to the speech, it hit me that it's the most revolutionary inaugural address in American history.

00:20:15.000 The next morning I went and read Jefferson's first and second inaugurals, Andrew Jackson's first inaugural, and Franklin Delano Rosso's first inaugural.

00:20:24.000 Sure enough, Donald Trump...

00:20:26.000 On Monday, gave the most revolutionary speech.

00:20:30.000 If you read it and think about it, it's about cultural change.

00:20:33.000 It's about political change.

00:20:35.000 It's about economic change.

00:20:37.000 It's about governmental change.

00:20:39.000 And it's about changes in our role in the world.

00:20:41.000 All those in 30 minutes, clear, decisive.

00:20:44.000 And then what's amazing is, instantaneously, he began implementing it with hundreds of executive orders.

00:20:51.000 He has, in the last five days, I think done...

00:20:55.000 Almost as much as Franklin Roosevelt did in 100 days.

00:20:59.000 In fact, I told him that if he keeps this up for 10 days, he will have passed Franklin Roosevelt's 100 days.

00:21:05.000 And he shows no sign of slowing down.

00:21:07.000 And if you saw him speaking to Davos by television, he laid it out for the business leaders of the world.

00:21:15.000 You want to create jobs in America? 0.85

00:21:17.000 You're going to have low taxes.

00:21:18.000 You want to create jobs overseas and try to sell in America?

00:21:21.000 You're going to have a tariff.

00:21:23.000 I think that was probably a huge...

00:21:29.000 The head of Saudi Arabia has pledged $600 billion in investments in the United States.

00:21:39.000 And I think Trump has decided he's going to be probably the most consequential president other than Washington and Lincoln that we've had in American history.

00:21:50.000 And he's certainly working at it pretty hard the first week.

00:21:54.000 Mr. Speaker, I agree with all of that.

00:21:56.000 I want to get your take on the lack of something.

00:22:01.000 I expected more resistance.

00:22:03.000 President Donald Trump signed an executive order challenging birthright citizenship.

00:22:08.000 If he would have done that back in 2017, he would have been met with 500,000 protesters in Washington the next day.

00:22:15.000 President Donald Trump freed the January 6th prisoners, all of them.

00:22:19.000 And all we got were a bunch of whiners on cable TV. Where is the rank and file?

00:22:24.000 Where is the infantry resistance of the American left?

00:22:28.000 Are they in hibernation or have they been eliminated?

00:22:32.000 Well, you know, I think a couple of things.

00:22:34.000 First of all, his nine-year project to get back here is unlike anything in American history.

00:22:41.000 They did everything they could to stop him.

00:22:44.000 And he's here.

00:22:45.000 And maybe the most iconic moment was when he was shot.

00:22:49.000 And stood up with his fist up in the air yelling fight, fight, fight.

00:22:53.000 I think it took something out of his opponents to realize that you're dealing here not with a normal politician.

00:23:00.000 You're dealing with a citizen who has become a juggernaut of history.

00:23:04.000 Second, the fact that he won by more than two million votes and that he carried every single swing state, all seven of them, I think demoralized the left.

00:23:13.000 Here they had thrown everything they could at him.

00:23:16.000 And here he is standing triumphant.

00:23:19.000 And then they're watching, you know, to go back to General Thompson's phrase, they're watching shock and awe.

00:23:25.000 I mean, he's hitting them from so many different angles every day.

00:23:30.000 They're getting 20 or 30 things to be outraged about daily, and I think they're just mystified.

00:23:36.000 I think the elite media knows that they're in deep trouble.

00:23:39.000 They're declining economically.

00:23:40.000 They're getting people laid off.

00:23:42.000 Frankly, programs like yours or like Joe Rogan or like Fox News, all of these have become dramatically more important than the traditional elite media.

00:23:53.000 And the result is that their revenue is going down.

00:23:57.000 Their employment is going down.

00:23:58.000 You look at the layoffs at places like the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times.

00:24:05.000 This is a different world.

00:24:07.000 Now, let me be very clear, and you sort of said this at the beginning.

00:24:11.000 All we got so far is a ticket to the dance.

00:24:15.000 We haven't realigned America.

00:24:17.000 We haven't won massive majorities like Franklin Roosevelt.

00:24:21.000 And so we've got to perform.

00:24:23.000 We've got to do well enough to keep the House in 26. We've got to do well enough to elect another Republican president in 28. And until we've done that...

00:24:33.000 I think we're still in a gray zone where Trump's personality is carrying us, but we haven't yet quite solidified the country as a new MAGA-oriented traditional American country, which is where Trump is taking us.

00:24:48.000 I think that is extremely wise, and President Trump does have a Washington-like quality, where Washington was larger than life.

00:24:57.000 He would march straight into battle, as you well know, be shot at, and even shot.

00:25:01.000 And there was almost an aura around him that made him largely culturally and politically invincible.

00:25:08.000 You said something, though, that historians would scoff at in prior years, and now they're maybe reconsidering.

00:25:15.000 You said he is attempting or on pace to be in the same sentence as Washington and Lincoln.

00:25:24.000 Please make that case.

00:25:25.000 Well, I think Washington and Lincoln will always be preeminent.

00:25:28.000 Washington...

00:25:32.000 Lincoln held the country together through a four-year civil war.

00:25:35.000 So they're in a little different class.

00:25:36.000 But if you go one layer below to Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Franklin Roosevelt, I have no doubt that Trump is going to end up...

00:25:45.000 If he continues at this pace for four years and keeps the House and elects a successor, I have no doubt he will end up in a zone just below Washington and Lincoln and above people we've historically thought of as great presidents.

00:25:59.000 And I think that if you watch his authenticity, I watched it the other night on Hannity, and they've known each other for 30 years.

00:26:07.000 He's so calm.

00:26:09.000 He's so relaxed.

00:26:10.000 He's so much comfortable with himself that I think this is a very important moment.

00:26:16.000 You know, Clist and I made two movies, one about John Paul II called Nine Days that Changed the World where he went back to Poland and the other movie about Reagan called Rendezvous of Destiny.

00:26:26.000 And Reagan and John Paul II meet for the first time and they've both been shot.

00:26:31.000 And part of their conversation is why did God spare us?

00:26:36.000 And they concluded that God had spared them from the assassins so they could defeat the Soviet Empire. 0.56

00:26:41.000 And they agreed on an alliance which worked to defeat the Soviet Empire.

00:26:46.000 I think President Trump thought very deeply.

00:26:49.000 I know Speaker Mike Johnson said after the second assassin was captured, Trump realized how really deep a problem and threat this was.

00:26:57.000 And he and Trump went off to a room and prayed for two hours.

00:27:01.000 Now, I think you're seeing a man who has been profoundly shaped by realizing that God saved him and that therefore he owes a different quality of duty than he would have thought.

00:27:14.000 A year ago.

00:27:15.000 And I've known Trump a long time.

00:27:17.000 This is a more sober, more serious, more considerate person than he was before these assassination attempts.

00:27:25.000 I think that's exactly right.

00:27:27.000 And he looks as if he has a centeredness that, I don't want to say it was lacking in the first term, but it is deepened and strengthened.

00:27:37.000 He feels present, ready.

00:27:40.000 In total command and control of every room that he comes into.

00:27:44.000 There's almost nothing that can surprise you once you've been shot, literally.

00:27:48.000 At that point, what bad news article are they going to write about you?

00:27:52.000 He's faced 700 years in federal prison.

00:27:54.000 They tried to take his business empire away from him.

00:27:56.000 And that word duty has been lost in American political virtue for quite some time.

00:28:05.000 And the media deep down almost knows that Not only they've lost, but he kind of won in such a way that no matter how much they complain, they can't possibly stop him at this point, unless there's legislative issues, which we're going to talk about.

00:28:22.000 Mr. Speaker, please plug the film one more time.

00:28:26.000 Journey to America, you can find it on PBS.org.

00:28:29.000 It's a great portrait of nine people who have made America a much better country.

00:28:37.000 All right, everybody.

00:28:38.000 It's playoff time.

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00:29:55.000 It's at Arrowhead, right?

00:29:56.000 Obviously, yeah, because the Chiefs are number one seed. 0.65

00:29:58.000 I think he's going to go crazy.

00:29:59.000 The last time the Bills in a playoff...

00:30:03.000 Went to the Kansas City Chiefs, if I'm not mistaken, was in 2022, was in that very famous playoff game, very famous playoff game, where Josh Allen tied it and went to overtime, and then the Chiefs went down, and they actually changed the playoff rules because of it.

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00:31:15.000 That's what they were doing.

00:31:17.000 I'm kidding.

00:31:18.000 I like Patrick Mahomes is a good guy.

00:31:20.000 His wife's a winger.

00:31:21.000 But I'm just exhausted with like how much.

00:31:23.000 By the way, have you noticed how the Taylor Swift op was very de-emphasized?

00:31:26.000 Have you noticed that?

00:31:28.000 Does she still go to games, Daisy?

00:31:29.000 It's very de-emphasized.

00:31:31.000 It was like the number one thing, and now, yeah, well, let's see how many losers she's picked. 1.00

00:31:37.000 She picked Biden.

00:31:38.000 I mean, she picked Kamala. 0.99

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00:31:59.000 Mr. Speaker, what could go wrong at this point?

00:32:02.000 What are the potential cautionary pitfalls you've been and seen a lot of presidencies that this administration needs to be cautious of and aware of?

00:32:10.000 Well, look, I think, first of all, you have to have a certain level of humility.

00:32:17.000 President Kennedy had a sign on his desk that said, oh, Lord, your ocean is so big and my boat is so small.

00:32:24.000 And even if you're as big as President Donald Trump, the world is much, much bigger.

00:32:29.000 So you have to be cautious.

00:32:31.000 You have to worry about not starting a nuclear war with Russia.

00:32:34.000 You have to worry about what North Korea is going to do.

00:32:36.000 You have to make sure that the Chinese communists don't think they can cross the Taiwan Straits. 0.69

00:32:42.000 You've got to worry about the Iranians who are religious fanatics and try to help the Iranian people who are not religious fanatics. 0.94

00:32:48.000 I mean, there are a lot of things out there that make the world complicated.

00:32:52.000 We're undertaking a brand new struggle where we have defined criminal organizations like the cartels as terrorist groups.

00:33:01.000 That involves a whole series of decisions.

00:33:04.000 And Mexico is a big country.

00:33:06.000 And it's a country that has large sections of it being run by criminal gangs.

00:33:11.000 So that's going to be a major concern.

00:33:14.000 The biggest concern for, I think, for the president, the thing he has to focus on is the economy.

00:33:21.000 It's vital to him to keep the House in 2026, and it's going to be a real fight.

00:33:27.000 If the economy is growing, if there's a sense of a Trump boom, then I think he's got a good chance of keeping the House.

00:33:33.000 If the economy is still floundering...

00:33:35.000 Then I think there's a real likelihood we'll lose the House, and you'll end up with a Nancy Pelosi environment of Democrats obstructing, blocking, investigating, and possibly impeaching. 1.00

00:33:45.000 So this is the central decision point, and that requires, in my judgment, passing a very, very strong bill, I think by Memorial Day, as Speaker Johnson said, or certainly no later than July the 4th, because it's got to go into effect.

00:34:01.000 Now, the early reports...

00:34:03.000 $500 billion committed for artificial intelligence.

00:34:06.000 The Saudis committing $600 billion.

00:34:08.000 These are great things.

00:34:10.000 But to get the average American on board, they've got to see the taxes change, the regulations change, the economy growing.

00:34:17.000 If that happens, and with people like you, and I have to say, you were extraordinarily helpful and important in the last presidential campaign, and I think you made a significant difference.

00:34:28.000 Particularly in reaching out to younger Americans.

00:34:30.000 So with the help of the entire team that elected him president, we have a chance to make sure we not only keep the House, but we actually increase our margin.

00:34:38.000 There are 13 Democrats in seats that Donald Trump carried.

00:34:43.000 There are another 21 Democrats that are in seats he got within 5%.

00:34:46.000 They're going to vote very strangely, very much against the American people.

00:34:51.000 And we have a real chance to beat them and to substantially increase the majority that Speaker Johnson has to work with.

00:34:58.000 Thank you for those kind words, Mr. Speaker.

00:35:00.000 My inclination has been for two bills, but can you convince our audience otherwise?

00:35:05.000 I'm not against one.

00:35:06.000 I mean, I'm far from a legislative expert.

00:35:09.000 Why do you think one bill would be the best solution?

00:35:12.000 Well, let me just say, as part of the background, that I've engineered this before.

00:35:17.000 We were the only Congress in 100 years to pass four consecutive balanced budgets, pass welfare reform, pass tax cuts, pass food and drug administration reform, invent Medicare Advantage.

00:35:29.000 We did all that with a Democratic president.

00:35:31.000 Why?

00:35:31.000 Because we followed Ronald Reagan's principle, Abraham Lincoln's principle, which is you start with the American people.

00:35:37.000 President Trump...

00:35:39.000 If he will campaign for about 10 weeks and go into the districts I just mentioned, the 34 that are vulnerable Democrats, he will pass a big bill.

00:35:48.000 I don't think you can do that twice in the first six months of the year.

00:35:51.000 And I think it's desperately important that that be the tax cuts, deregulation, energy, affordability bill.

00:35:59.000 I think you can throw in things for immigration.

00:36:02.000 He's frankly going to do a lot on immigration without a bill.

00:36:06.000 And I think people say, oh, we want to...

00:36:08.000 Quick early victory.

00:36:09.000 No, I want a decisive victory that shapes the economy for next year to give us a chance to keep the House.

00:36:16.000 Anything less than that is a failure.

00:36:18.000 And I think the Senate is so cumbersome and so difficult to work just structurally.

00:36:23.000 That even though John Thune's going to be a very good majority leader and very cooperative with Trump, frankly, he would have a very hard time getting two big bills through the Senate in six months.

00:36:35.000 So if I have to choose, I want one really big bill, as Trump described it, one big, beautiful bill.

00:36:41.000 And I think that's the safest if you want to keep a majority in the House.

00:36:44.000 And it's the safest if you want the Trump presidency to be successful.

00:36:48.000 Very persuasive, Mr. Speaker.

00:36:51.000 I yield to the experts, and no matter what, we'll be helping.

00:36:56.000 Whatever the team decides, we'll be there to support, and we'll be there to make sure it happens.

00:37:00.000 Mr. Speaker, thank you so much.

00:37:01.000 Great to be with you.

00:37:02.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:37:04.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - January 24, 2025

Donald Trump, the Greatest Pro-Life President

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