The Charlie Kirk Show - I Just Got Back From Greenland: What I Saw

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, I went to Greenland.

00:00:02.000 That's right, I flew in the middle of the night with Donald Trump Jr. on Trump Force One to Nook, Greenland.

00:00:07.000 What I saw, what I learned, and why Greenland matters for America, here exclusively on The Charlie Kirk Show.

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00:01:50.000 I am back behind the microphone, back from Greenland.

00:01:55.000 Lots to share about that.

00:01:56.000 I first want to say we are going to cover the terrible tragedy that's happening with the California fires later this program.

00:02:02.000 Three friends of mine have already lost their homes.

00:02:04.000 It's a terrible situation.

00:02:05.000 We are going to cover it extensively.

00:02:07.000 But first, I want to give you, in this audience, an exclusive update of what I was up to this last 24 hours.

00:02:16.000 Donald Trump Jr., a very good friend of mine, gave me a call and said, Hey, do you want to come to Greenland?

00:02:21.000 Yeah, that sounds great.

00:02:22.000 So we boarded Trump Force One at 2 a.m.

00:02:28.000 on January the 7th.

00:02:29.000 I even hid this from most of my own staff.

00:02:32.000 Almost no one had any idea this was not to be leaked, not to be publicized.

00:02:36.000 At 2 a.m., we got on Trump Force One and flew from Palm Beach to Nook, to Nook, Greenland.

00:02:46.000 Six-hour flight, three-hour time change.

00:02:50.000 Let's get all the videos, guys, up there and all the pictures, please.

00:02:53.000 Landed around 11 a.m.

00:02:55.000 local time as the sun was rising.

00:03:00.000 The sunrise in Greenland this time of year is at 11 a.m.

00:03:06.000 Get off the plane.

00:03:07.000 And by the way, we are greeted by hundreds of people.

00:03:10.000 Hundreds of people that are just curious.

00:03:13.000 We then go to the top of a very sacred site in Greenland, the place where the first missionary actually ever came to Greenland from Europe in 1745. Yeah, that's it right there.

00:03:27.000 That's right as the sun is rising.

00:03:29.000 And all of a sudden we started to run into people with MAGA hats all throughout Nook, Greenland.

00:03:35.000 Now, mind you, the population of Greenland is 50,000 people.

00:03:39.000 In Nook, it's something like 30,000 people maybe.

00:03:43.000 And all of a sudden people are lining the streets asking Donald Trump Jr. for pictures and they have MAGA hats.

00:03:51.000 And there's people, by the way, there was a greeting group at the airport of hundreds of people.

00:03:57.000 What was striking is how many people in Nook Greenland watched the Charlie Kirk show, followed us on TikTok.

00:04:04.000 They said, oh, I follow you on TikTok.

00:04:06.000 Oh, I follow you on social media.

00:04:08.000 There's one of the people right there with the MAGA hat who was working at the airport and greeted us with a MAGA hat on right as the Trump Force One was coming in.

00:04:18.000 One of the ushers at the airport.

00:04:21.000 We then went to a restaurant and we were literally so...

00:04:25.000 We were so consumed by people, so overwhelmed, we had to go get a private room, and then we brought some of the local folks in.

00:04:32.000 There's Donald Trump Jr. just with some of the workers there, signing MAGA hats, taking questions, talking to people.

00:04:38.000 And we were there for three hours on the ground, and we learned a lot.

00:04:44.000 We learned a lot.

00:04:46.000 Number one, it is so hard to do it justice.

00:04:50.000 It's very, very hard to articulate.

00:04:53.000 It's hard to show the pictures of just how beautiful Greenland is.

00:04:58.000 I've been to Alaska.

00:04:59.000 I've been to all parts of Canada.

00:05:02.000 It is, objectively, one of the most pristine, overwhelming physical environments that I have ever seen.

00:05:11.000 It's untouched.

00:05:13.000 It's as raw nature as you can ever...

00:05:17.000 Fine.

00:05:18.000 That you can ever come in contact with.

00:05:20.000 It's like, you are here and there is the wild.

00:05:23.000 There's polar bears that walk around Nook.

00:05:25.000 Polar bears.

00:05:27.000 Very spiritual in many ways.

00:05:29.000 Incredibly so.

00:05:30.000 That's number one.

00:05:31.000 Number two, talking to the locals and getting to know them, they can't stand their current Danish masters. 0.98

00:05:40.000 They believe that Denmark, who is currently controlling of Greenland and of Nook, which is the largest city in Greenland, they are being mistreated.

00:05:50.000 They do not like the status quo.

00:05:54.000 And they want a change.

00:05:57.000 They say that when they go to Copenhagen, which of course is the capital of Denmark, they are told by local Danes, go back to your home of Nook.

00:06:07.000 You're not welcome here.

00:06:08.000 They want...

00:06:10.000 To be part of a country that respects them.

00:06:13.000 That gives them human rights.

00:06:14.000 Right now they said, quote, we feel like prisoners in our own land.

00:06:18.000 That we are being controlled by these Danish masters who treat us terribly. 1.00

00:06:25.000 And number three, which was the other take, where the people of Greenland are some of the sweetest.

00:06:31.000 They are some of the kindest and warmest people.

00:06:36.000 Incredibly authentic.

00:06:38.000 Now, you might be asking, but what is the reason that everyone is talking about Greenland?

00:06:43.000 Greenland is not just a fun issue to debate.

00:06:47.000 There are very serious geopolitical reasons as to why the United States of America should assume control or purchase or whatever process the president ends up doing back control of Greenland.

00:07:02.000 Number one, Greenland is the northernmost land in the Western Hemisphere.

00:07:07.000 And has critical military importance.

00:07:10.000 The shortest route from America to Russia is actually across the North Pole.

00:07:15.000 That's why we have actually a military base in northern Greenland, Thule Space Force Base, whose purpose is to monitor potential and possible missile launches.

00:07:27.000 Greenland is the world's largest island.

00:07:30.000 There are tons of resources buried under its ice cap.

00:07:33.000 We actually don't even know how wealthy As a side note, a young boy comes up.

00:07:39.000 He says, Charlie, Charlie.

00:07:41.000 I said, oh, hey, how are you?

00:07:42.000 I follow you on TikTok.

00:07:43.000 I need to show you something.

00:07:44.000 He shows me his phone.

00:07:45.000 He says, in my village three hours from here, when we just kind of go out into the countryside, we find rubies the size of baseballs.

00:07:55.000 I said, what?

00:07:55.000 He said, we have rubies the size of baseballs in my village.

00:07:59.000 Now, mind you, they're not as valuable as you might think because they need to be...

00:08:03.000 They need to be cut a certain way and they lose value, but they're very valuable.

00:08:05.000 And he says, the Danes don't let us mine our rubies, our gold, our lithium, or our gas.

00:08:13.000 He said it's time for a rebellion against the Danes.

00:08:16.000 The younger people of Nook, the younger people of Greenland, they want to be rich.

00:08:22.000 And oh my goodness, do they have wealth in Greenland.

00:08:27.000 Incomprehensible amounts of wealth.

00:08:29.000 We are talking that Greenland...

00:08:31.000 Could be the new Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Russia, Permian Basin, Marcellus Shale, and the Balkan, all mixed into one.

00:08:43.000 America should want those resources for our country, and Greenland should want them for their country.

00:08:50.000 We'd be far more willing and able to develop them than Denmark and the socialist Greta Thunberg environmentalists from Copenhagen.

00:09:00.000 In the long run, they will be developed by someone.

00:09:03.000 There are three options of who will control Greenland.

00:09:08.000 America, Russia, or China.

00:09:11.000 America, Russia, or China.

00:09:13.000 You're trying to tell me the Danish military is going to be able to fend off the Chinese Communist Party?

00:09:20.000 Greenland is so strategic, this is the third and final point, that during World War II, the United States occupied it just to keep Germans from seizing it.

00:09:30.000 After the war, we briefly proposed buying it back, but instead we gave it back.

00:09:34.000 We never should have given it back.

00:09:36.000 We should have insisted on a sale and assumed control of it.

00:09:40.000 Acquiring Greenland would give America a sense of growing vitality.

00:09:45.000 There would be a new American territory for ambitious Americans to go and develop.

00:09:50.000 And I could tell you in my short time there, but it was very thorough, there is so much opportunity.

00:09:55.000 You are talking about...

00:09:57.000 Places where resorts can be developed.

00:09:59.000 Entrepreneurs can deepen their roots.

00:10:02.000 The fishing, the wildlife, the hunting, the natural experience.

00:10:07.000 It is a perfect fit to the United States.

00:10:10.000 And people say, oh, you know, Charlie, America shouldn't expand.

00:10:14.000 Well, Alaska's part of the United States.

00:10:16.000 We purchased Alaska, and that was a good purchase for America.

00:10:21.000 Greenland, for the 21st century, would not just be good, it is essential.

00:10:26.000 It is integral, strategic location, defense against threats, access to key resources, preventing China's expansion, and economic and military advantage.

00:10:38.000 It was an honor to be able to see Greenland firsthand and right up close.

00:10:44.000 I never thought I would do it.

00:10:46.000 And I think the table is set for President Trump to make the art of the deal happen, the art of the possible.

00:10:55.000 And we might welcome Greenland as part of our American family.

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00:12:00.000 The people of Greenland are being terrorized by the Danish government.

00:12:08.000 And some people are saying, oh, you know, why do we want to expand the United States of America?

00:12:11.000 Look, we don't have a choice.

00:12:13.000 China is expanding.

00:12:14.000 And it's not a matter of even expansionism.

00:12:16.000 If you are against the acquisition of Greenland, then you should say, let's give Alaska back to Russia.

00:12:21.000 You must be consistent.

00:12:22.000 You should say, hey, we should just give the Louisiana purchase back.

00:12:25.000 To the French, Greenland is a small population of people that want to be great, that want their country back, that want to come to greatness.

00:12:35.000 And they were so complimentary of America.

00:12:38.000 They said, Americans, Americans are the nicest.

00:12:42.000 They are the kindest.

00:12:44.000 This is what the Greenlandic government said in 2021 when it scuttled the search for oil there.

00:12:51.000 Quote, the future does not lie in oil.

00:12:53.000 The future belongs to renewable energy.

00:12:56.000 The government said it wants to take co-responsibility for combating the global climate crisis.

00:13:01.000 So what they're saying is they want the people of Nook to remain poor because of climate change.

00:13:08.000 No growth.

00:13:09.000 Really, how are you going to power all of your AI data centers?

00:13:13.000 So basically, let's keep Greenland in the third world while they are sitting on liquid gold, and a lot of liquid gold.

00:13:23.000 By the way, you could structure a deal very similar to Alaska, where there is a trust, basically a universal basic income, where the people of Greenland could all get royalties off of the extracted oil, natural gas, and minerals.

00:13:38.000 It works in Alaska, and it could work in Greenland.

00:13:41.000 They have 50,000 people in Greenland, and they could all be partners in this deal.

00:13:46.000 And how about lithium or nickel, the key ingredients of technology?

00:13:51.000 Of the technology of the future.

00:13:53.000 This stuff does not just come ex nihilo and fall from the skies and the heavens.

00:13:57.000 What do you think your semiconductors are made of?

00:13:59.000 What do you think your phones are made of?

00:14:01.000 These environmentalists, they never want us to dig or search or exploit.

00:14:05.000 At the same time, they want to have an AI data center so you could go make an image of a cat dancing to YMCA. Well, what do you think actually powers the ability for you to be able to do that?

00:14:17.000 Rare Earth, by the way, is a huge component.

00:14:20.000 Do you know that the Chinese Communist Party controls 80% of all of the planet's rare earth minerals?

00:14:26.000 So here you have Greenland with wonderful people, strategically located, liquid gold, nickel, lithium, rare earth minerals.

00:14:35.000 It has 56,000 people.

00:14:37.000 So you're not talking about potentially assuming 56 million people.

00:14:41.000 56,000 people.

00:14:42.000 And by the way, if the Democrats all of a sudden say, oh, I don't know, you guys let 10,000 people a day into this country illegally.

00:14:50.000 I think 56,000 people in a separate territory is perfectly legitimate if we're going to get liquid gold, natural resources, strategic placement.

00:15:05.000 I mean, it's nothing but benefits, but there is this other component.

00:15:10.000 It makes America dream again.

00:15:11.000 That we're not just this sad, low-testosterone, beta male, slouching in our chair, allowing the world to run over us.

00:15:20.000 It is the resurrection of masculine American energy.

00:15:26.000 It is the return of manifest destiny.

00:15:30.000 Gulf of America.

00:15:31.000 We're taking back the Panama Canal.

00:15:33.000 And we're going to do whatever it takes to have Greenland be part of the United States of America.

00:15:39.000 And look, you can let the locals make decisions about their sovereignty.

00:15:42.000 Do a referendum.

00:15:43.000 If there is a referendum, the Danes will lose.

00:15:46.000 I guarantee that.

00:15:47.000 If there is a referendum, the Danes will lose.

00:15:50.000 The Greenlandic people love America.

00:15:52.000 They're wearing MAGA hats on the side of the street cheering.

00:15:55.000 How hard is it to get a MAGA hat in Greenland?

00:15:57.000 It's pretty remarkable.

00:15:59.000 This is about strengthening.

00:16:01.000 And solidifying the United States of America.

00:16:04.000 We've tried many times to try to purchase Greenland.

00:16:07.000 It's not a new idea.

00:16:09.000 But also, the Danes should sit this one out.

00:16:13.000 How many hundreds of billions of dollars have we spent on European security and defense over the years?

00:16:19.000 On NATO? On our military bases?

00:16:22.000 We pay for all of their national defense.

00:16:25.000 And Denmark is a small country.

00:16:27.000 Small, nice, fine, whatever.

00:16:30.000 I think they're technically a Scandinavian country.

00:16:32.000 I think they are.

00:16:33.000 Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark.

00:16:34.000 I think they are.

00:16:35.000 It's probably nothing against Denmark.

00:16:37.000 But the Danes are not going to stand up to the Chinese Communist Party.

00:16:40.000 That's a joke.

00:16:41.000 Not going to stand up to this behemoth in the East.

00:16:46.000 For the well-being of the people of Greenland, come under the United States of America. 1.00

00:16:51.000 You'll be wealthier.

00:16:52.000 You'll be happier.

00:16:53.000 You'll be protected.

00:16:54.000 You'll be safer.

00:16:56.000 You are living through history, everybody.

00:16:59.000 And we will cherish your homeland and protect it from all the enemies around the world.

00:17:04.000 And we will make Greenland great again.

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00:18:11.000 Joining us now is Senator Ron Johnson from the great state.

00:18:16.000 Senator, thank you so much for joining the program.

00:18:20.000 Lots to cover here.

00:18:21.000 Senator, first, I want to talk about some news within the United States Senate.

00:18:24.000 Are you in the opinion that we should have one major omnibus bill or two separate spending bills?

00:18:29.000 Listen, I'll go with whatever works.

00:18:32.000 I personally think it'd be easier to get the border funding passed because I think the tax bill...

00:18:40.000 Settling on, I think, the major sticking point is going to be what spending level are we going to agree to within the conference?

00:18:46.000 We've got big spenders in our conference as well.

00:18:48.000 I don't think anybody voted for President Trump to maintain Biden's spending levels, and I want to talk a little bit about that.

00:18:54.000 But I think the easiest thing to do would be two packages, quite honestly, so we can get that border funding right away.

00:19:01.000 Before the news media starts talking about what it looks like to deport somebody, could have a few individuals waver on their support for that.

00:19:09.000 So I'd rather get the border funding done and then take our time.

00:19:15.000 Part of the tax thing, I'd really like to simplify and rationalize their tax code.

00:19:19.000 Primary goals prevent a massive automatic tax increase from occurring in 2026. I mean, that ought to be incentive enough.

00:19:26.000 But as long as we're doing that, if we can simplify a rationalized tax code, that'd be a good thing.

00:19:30.000 But we must agree on dramatically lower spending levels than what we're spending right now.

00:19:35.000 This is absurd that we haven't returned to some pre-pandemic baseline.

00:19:41.000 In 2019, Charlie, we spent $4.4 trillion.

00:19:46.000 Then we have the spending spree during 2020, that was $6.6 trillion.

00:19:50.000 Last five years, we've averaged $6.5 trillion.

00:19:53.000 We've never returned to pre-pandemic level baseline, which is absurd.

00:19:57.000 It's ridiculous.

00:19:58.000 It's just not justified.

00:20:00.000 Yeah, so what is the appetite right now in the U.S. Senate to cut spending?

00:20:04.000 Is there anybody in the Democrat Party that's interested in this because we're borrowing a trillion dollars every hundred days?

00:20:09.000 No, and my concern is we're not going to have enough Republicans that are willing to do it either.

00:20:14.000 Again, it's so easy to just say, oh, well, that's what we spent last year, and boy, if we don't spend at least that amount, we're going to be accused of starving women and children.

00:20:23.000 So I'm trying to make the case.

00:20:25.000 I'm trying to actually tell the American public, these are the numbers, because I think we have a general sense that the federal government is totally out of control, but nobody knows specifically.

00:20:35.000 That's what I'm saying.

00:20:36.000 $4.4 trillion in 2019. Last five years, now $6.5 trillion.

00:20:42.000 Charlie, that's absurd.

00:20:43.000 It's like a family who makes $100,000, right, or spends $100,000.

00:20:48.000 They have an illness.

00:20:49.000 All of a sudden, they have $50,000 worth of medical bills, so they spend $150,000.

00:20:53.000 That individual gets cured, but they continue to spend $150,000 and borrow the money to do it.

00:21:00.000 I mean, nobody would do that.

00:21:02.000 That's exactly what the federal government's doing.

00:21:04.000 So I think we explain this.

00:21:06.000 I've come up with a couple different options.

00:21:09.000 For example, if you go back to 1998, that's the last year we had, the first year we had a surplus since 1969. This was Bill Clinton's spending.

00:21:17.000 And you take Social Security and Medicare off the table, you just plug those in at Biden's 2025 numbers and interest, but inflate all of Bill Clinton's spending to account for population growth and inflation, we'd be spending $5.5 trillion, and we have a balanced budget.

00:21:35.000 So does anybody argue that Bill Clinton didn't spend enough money on all this other crap?

00:21:39.000 If you go back to Obama's 2014, did the same thing, that'd be $6.2 trillion.

00:21:45.000 Even if you use 2019 and inflate it, again, based on population and inflation, you'd be at about $6.5 trillion, which is $800 billion less than what Biden says he's going to spend right now.

00:21:58.000 So why would we lock into Biden numbers?

00:22:00.000 And be arguing over saving $100 billion or so.

00:22:03.000 I mean, it's so inadequate.

00:22:04.000 We need to dramatically lower the baseline spending level back to what it was prior to the pandemic.

00:22:10.000 I totally and completely agree.

00:22:12.000 If you were to say just some of the, and I know you've detailed some of this, but where can we find some agreement in the Republican Conference of where to cut?

00:22:20.000 Is there any appetite to cut some of the Pentagon budget?

00:22:24.000 Certainly is on my part.

00:22:25.000 I think we need to really...

00:22:26.000 Look, where do we spend our money?

00:22:28.000 I mean, we've got these massive platforms that can be taken out with asymmetric warfare.

00:22:34.000 We've got these Abram tanks. 0.58

00:22:36.000 They have to kind of run out of their hole in Ukraine, fire a couple shots, and run right back because they're vulnerable to the drones.

00:22:43.000 Drones that cost thousands of dollars, not millions.

00:22:46.000 So again, the Pentagon, they're not keeping up with warfare right now.

00:22:51.000 They're coddling to the military-industrial complex.

00:22:55.000 The 155-millimeter shells, this is a prime example.

00:22:58.000 Russia produces those things, about 4.5 million of them, at about $600 a pop.

00:23:03.000 The West can only produce about 2 million shells.

00:23:06.000 We get charged $6,000, 8,000 euros in Europe.

00:23:11.000 That's how we're getting hosed, I'll use that word, by the military-industrial complex.

00:23:16.000 So yeah, no, we've got to take a real serious look at that.

00:23:19.000 So, Senator...

00:23:20.000 Let's now dive into the very curious developments of John Fetterman.

00:23:27.000 John Fetterman, who seems to be very hard to pinpoint here.

00:23:32.000 Here he is in this interview admonishing his fellow Democrats for opposing the Lake and Riley Act.

00:23:38.000 Let's play cut 64. We have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of migrants here illegally that have convicted of crimes. 0.96

00:23:49.000 And I don't know why.

00:23:50.000 Who wants to defend to allow them to remain in our nation after that? 0.82

00:23:54.000 And now, if you're here illegally and you're committing crimes and those things, I don't know why anybody thinks that it's controversial that they all need to go. 0.99

00:24:04.000 Do you think that this was one of, if not the biggest issue for this election?

00:24:09.000 Well, I think if we can't, you know, there's 47 of us in the Senate, and if we can't pull up with seven votes, if we can't get at least seven out of 47, if we can't, then that's the reason why we lost.

00:24:24.000 That's one of them.

00:24:25.000 That's one of why we lost, in part.

00:24:27.000 Senator, what is going on with Mr. Fetterman?

00:24:29.000 Well, first of all, he comes from a swing state like I do, and he realizes that, you know, obviously they lost the Senate seat in Pennsylvania.

00:24:38.000 He'll be up for re-election eventually.

00:24:41.000 I think, again, he's smart enough to realize that that was a big issue in this election.

00:24:46.000 And by the way, who could oppose, literally, what rational individual can oppose deporting criminals?

00:24:53.000 Well, Democrat Party, in total, they did oppose that because they wanted an open border.

00:24:58.000 They elect George Soros prosecutors, but a lot of those prosecutors lost as well.

00:25:03.000 So, you know, Fetterman, in a swing state, sees when the tide...

00:25:07.000 And he's a smart enough politician to at least not buck these major trends where, again, you can't defend opposing a bill that's going to deport criminals.

00:25:16.000 So it's hard to tell whether or not it's authentic.

00:25:19.000 Do you think that there will be more Democrats that potentially might signal similarly and John Ossoff or others?

00:25:26.000 Your thoughts on this?

00:25:28.000 Well, listen, I think vulnerable Democrats, those are up for reelection in 2026. They may vote.

00:25:34.000 I'll be surprised if we get more than six, because if we get seven, the bill passes.

00:25:40.000 I'm not sure the Democrat Party is going to let it pass.

00:25:43.000 I mean, again, I can't explain that.

00:25:44.000 I mean, I can't explain liberalism.

00:25:47.000 I can't explain the way the Democrat Party is taking such a strong turn to the left here.

00:25:52.000 But that's who they are right now.

00:25:56.000 Let's play cut 95, Senator Fetterman, of whether or not he might support some of Trump's nominees.

00:26:01.000 Play cut 95. But I want to sit down and have a conversation, and I'm really glad that I've done that.

00:26:07.000 And some of these nominees, I'm going to vote for already.

00:26:11.000 In fact, you know, whether it's our colleague Rubio, Representative Stefanik, or even Sean Duffy, you know, I expect to vote for him as well, too.

00:26:20.000 And Brooke Rollins for agriculture, again. 1.00

00:26:23.000 So there's a lot of them I can say right now here on Fox.

00:26:26.000 I'm going to vote for them.

00:26:28.000 And there's others, you know, that we're going to go through the process.

00:26:31.000 I'm open to hear from everyone.

00:26:34.000 And I don't know why that's controversial.

00:26:37.000 I mean, I wish that was the way that this would proceed, that we would have more discussions and dialogues like this and be open-minded.

00:26:47.000 I mean, Senator, you voted for some nominees of other parties before.

00:26:51.000 Can you speak to that?

00:26:53.000 I'm not putting you on the spot for that, but I'm saying there should be some yielding to an incoming administration, correct?

00:27:00.000 Well, that pretty much used to be the tradition of the Senate is, okay, elections matter.

00:27:04.000 A president should decide who wants to serve in their cabinet.

00:27:08.000 And as long as there's nothing disqualifying, you go ahead and confirm that nominee.

00:27:12.000 For one thing, you want to work with those department heads.

00:27:15.000 So you don't want to start off a relationship and say, I'm going to vote against you.

00:27:19.000 So again, the bias always was, if it's a qualified individual, elections matter.

00:27:24.000 You'd go ahead and vote for confirmation and try and work with that department head for the benefit of our constituents and for the benefit of America.

00:27:31.000 I stopped doing that with the Biden administration because the nominees were just wacko, radical leftists. 0.98

00:27:37.000 And in the end, you say, I can't support that at all.

00:27:43.000 So it's changed.

00:27:44.000 It's become very partisan.

00:27:46.000 That is unfortunate.

00:27:47.000 But what Fetterman's talking about right now is pretty much the way that the senators has always traditionally looked at confirmations.

00:27:54.000 And there's been a lot of bipartisan support for cabinet heads.

00:27:59.000 In closing here, Senator, is there any red flags that you are seeing from Pete to Tulsi to Bobby Kennedy Cash?

00:28:06.000 Some senators are saying that all of Trump's nominees seem poised to be confirmed.

00:28:10.000 Would you agree with that assessment?

00:28:11.000 I think so, because the default position, particularly on the Republican side, is elections do matter.

00:28:16.000 Trump had a convincing victory, and it's up to Trump to decide who he wants serving his cabinet.

00:28:22.000 Whether you like that individual or not, you're not the president.

00:28:26.000 He is.

00:28:26.000 And so our duty is pretty much to get in line and go ahead and confirm his nominees, barring some really disqualifying factors.

00:28:34.000 So I think that's the attitude of most Republican senators, and I do expect them to get confirmed.

00:28:38.000 What is the importance of the upcoming Wisconsin Supreme Court race, Senator?

00:28:43.000 It's vital.

00:28:43.000 Anybody who wants to run for president as Republican in 2028 better help support our...

00:28:51.000 Candidate for the Supreme Court.

00:28:53.000 If you want to maintain a majority in the House, if that court remains liberal, they will redistrict the federal, and we'll probably lose a couple of House seats, and we may never get the 10 electoral votes for Wisconsin again.

00:29:06.000 So it's absolutely crucial.

00:29:08.000 America has to focus on this.

00:29:09.000 Democrats will.

00:29:10.000 Democrats will send tens of millions of dollars, as they have in the past, to be the same support from conservatives and from Republicans.

00:29:18.000 Senator Johnson, thank you so much.

00:29:20.000 Excellent work as always.

00:29:21.000 Thank you.

00:29:21.000 Have a great day.

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00:30:26.000 The Mark Zuckerberg news is very big.

00:30:31.000 I did not get a chance to comment on it.

00:30:32.000 For those of you that missed the program yesterday or do not quite know the news, Mark Zuckerberg announced sweeping policy changes, saying they're getting rid of their fact-checking department, that this election was about more speech, not less speech, that they're changing their content moderation team to go from California to Texas.

00:30:50.000 These are dramatic changes.

00:30:52.000 And before I get into the details here, and I've had a chance to sit down with Mark Zuckerberg.

00:30:56.000 I'm getting to know Mark Zuckerberg.

00:30:58.000 People say, do you trust him or not?

00:30:59.000 I said, I'm getting to know him.

00:31:00.000 I found him to be very sincere when I sat down with him.

00:31:03.000 But it's going to be a growing relationship over these years.

00:31:07.000 that i appreciate basically mark and the facebook team joel kaplan and everybody who joel i do know very well to stand up to the government to stand up to these regimes and say no we are going to protect freedom of speech we're going to protect freedom of discourse let's play some pieces of tape here this is cut 51 hey everyone I want to talk about something important today, because it's time to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram.

00:31:35.000 There's been widespread debate about potential harms from online content.

00:31:40.000 Governments and legacy media have pushed to censor more and more.

00:31:43.000 A lot of this is clearly political.

00:31:45.000 But there's also a lot of legitimately bad stuff out there.

00:31:49.000 Drugs, terrorism, child exploitation.

00:31:51.000 These are things that we take very seriously and I want to make sure that we handle responsibly.

00:31:56.000 So we built a lot of complex systems to moderate content.

00:31:59.000 But the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes.

00:32:03.000 And we've reached a point where it's just too many mistakes and too much censorship.

00:32:07.000 So we're going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms.

00:32:16.000 We got to give Elon so much credit here.

00:32:19.000 He took the risk and stood up for freedom of speech.

00:32:21.000 And this is a movement now three years later.

00:32:24.000 We are going to have the most open internet that we've had in a decade.

00:32:27.000 And the trend was a more controlled, a censored and censored internet.

00:32:32.000 We were going towards totalitarianism online.

00:32:35.000 And Elon Musk bought Twitter.

00:32:38.000 And because of his purchase of Twitter, President Trump was then able to win a triumphant landslide victory.

00:32:44.000 And here we are, fast forward three years later, where you have Facebook sounding like Elon Musk.

00:32:50.000 And in fact, Mark Zuckerberg went as far to say in his comments, X has it right, we want to follow more of the model of X. They are ready to show that this is not just talk, but this is action.

00:33:11.000 Real follow-through.

00:33:12.000 Accounts restored.

00:33:13.000 No more fact-checking.

00:33:15.000 No more suppression of political posts.

00:33:18.000 You must trust, but verify.

00:33:20.000 And I could tell you this last year.

00:33:21.000 I mean, I said this to the Facebook team.

00:33:23.000 I said this to Mark.

00:33:24.000 TikTok was way more viral for us than Instagram this last year.

00:33:28.000 It wasn't even close.

00:33:30.000 Daisy and the team did a great job running Instagram, but TikTok was as hot as a pistol.

00:33:34.000 I mean, TikTok was billions and billions and billions of views.

00:33:37.000 One of the reasons why is Facebook made a decision that they were going to dampen down all political content this year.

00:33:45.000 That it wasn't going to be as easy for political content to go viral on Facebook.

00:33:48.000 Mark Zuckerberg made his announcement, so sorry, never mind, we're going to go back.

00:33:52.000 And that's a good thing that you're going back.

00:33:54.000 These should not be political actors, and there does need to be some proof that the atonement for the $400 million given to Joe Biden to get him elected in 2020, you've got to get over that.

00:34:07.000 But I can say this is phenomenal development.

00:34:10.000 Phenomenal.

00:34:11.000 Mark Zuckerberg is reading the room, and the trend is our friend.

00:34:14.000 We should welcome that.

00:34:16.000 By the way, some people are saying, oh, you know, I don't trust him.

00:34:18.000 I'm not asking you to trust him.

00:34:19.000 You should welcome when people come in your direction.

00:34:23.000 That is key.

00:34:24.000 You should not be bitter or walled off where you say, oh, you weren't with me when.

00:34:28.000 It's a different thing of having people in your inner circle versus saying he's in control of the biggest platform on the planet.

00:34:37.000 He's saying something we agree with.

00:34:38.000 He's doing things allegedly that we agree with.

00:34:41.000 He wants to fight regime censorship around the world that I applaud.

00:34:46.000 And as somebody who has 4 million followers on Instagram and a couple million followers on Facebook, I can tell you that a free and open Facebook and meta is very, very good for the cause of America First and Liberty and the cause that we care about on this program.

00:35:00.000 Email me your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:35:02.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - January 08, 2025

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