The Charlie Kirk Show - July 18, 2025


ICE Is BACK ft. Secretary Kristi Noem

Topics
deportations and border security
Hosted by
Charlie Kirk
Mentioned
Donald Trump Joe Biden Christy Christine Ohm Alcatraz Turning Point USA Madam Elon Bass
Amnesty in Disguise is Still Amnesty Defeating the Slow-Motion Insurrection ft. Border Czar Tom Homan

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Over the weekend we did a members-only interview with Homeland Security Secretary Christine Ohm at our Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida. She is a dedicated law enforcement officer and has been with the Department of Homeland Security for over twenty-five years. She has served as the Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations for ICE since her appointment in 2006, and served as Director of the Office of Public Diplomacy and Liaison with the Bureau of Control and Investigations (OCI) from 2002-2006. She was the first woman to become a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and was appointed to the position of Director of ICE in 2006.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here live from the Bitcoin.com studio.
00:00:04.000 Over the weekend, we did some amazing members-only interviews at our Student Action Summit with Secretary Christine Ohm.
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00:01:13.000 Okay, everybody, we want to maximize our time now with yet another cabinet official with Donald Trump, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Christine Ohm, everybody.
00:01:38.000 So, Madam Secretary. 0.99
00:01:40.000 Yeah, well, yes, or Christy.
00:01:42.000 Or Christy.
00:01:43.000 You're doing amazing.
00:01:44.000 I mean, of all the different agencies that are delivering, we are at record deportation rates.
00:01:50.000 The border is secure.
00:01:52.000 What is happening on the border?
00:01:53.000 The border is secure.
00:01:54.000 For the last two months, we've had zero illegal aliens come into this country at all.
00:01:58.000 Zero even try.
00:02:00.000 So it's been fantastic.
00:02:01.000 And what was it a year ago?
00:02:02.000 Oh, I don't even know.
00:02:03.000 Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands a month.
00:02:06.000 We literally had 21 million people come into this country illegally over the last four years.
00:02:12.000 I mean, that's an interesting question.
00:02:14.000 You're in the Department of Homeland Security.
00:02:15.000 You're tasked with interior enforcement and obviously, I guess, border.
00:02:20.000 Do we even know how many illegals are in our country?
00:02:22.000 That is our estimate, is that those that we know about, those that we don't know about, known gotaways, and then the estimates based on what the traffic was, was that during the Biden administration, we had millions and millions come in, but we think we today could have upwards up to 21 million.
00:02:38.000 21 million.
00:02:40.000 And so, again, these are just approximations.
00:02:41.000 Yes.
00:02:42.000 And but 10 came across under Joe Biden-ish, is that right?
00:02:46.000 Correct.
00:02:47.000 And so can you, so how many were gotaways versus the kind of fraudulent asylum scam that was being run?
00:02:54.000 I wish I knew that exactly.
00:02:56.000 We know there are millions of gotaways that we don't have a record or a database on.
00:03:01.000 I would say that every day that we're out doing our operations, which are specifically targeted towards the worst of the worst, there's those that are with them that we had no idea that they existed, that they were individuals that are affiliated with them, people that are in the country, that when we go back in and run their IDs through CBP or through other entities, Interpool, or other countries that have them on their extradition lists, they're individuals that weren't on our radar.
00:03:27.000 So I think what's the most remarkable about this president is that since he's been in office for the last six months, we've removed over 600 known and suspected terrorists out of this country.
00:03:39.000 Which is incredible.
00:03:42.000 These are folks that are known terrorists.
00:03:44.000 And then if you go on and beyond the six that he has designated as foreign terrorist organizations as far as gangs and cartel members, tens of thousands of those individuals we've swept up off our streets.
00:03:54.000 We were talking today that just here in Tampa, some of the worst of the worst we've removed in the last several weeks have been child pedophiles. 0.77
00:04:02.000 Some that were producing child pornography and distributing it, a child rapist, a murderer, one that was guilty of sexual assault on a 12-year-old.
00:04:13.000 These are individuals that just here in this area that our HSI and ICE officers have been able to remove from the streets.
00:04:20.000 And so the fact that those individuals have been out on our streets for years perpetuating crimes is really unbelievable.
00:04:27.000 So how many terrorists on the watch list you said?
00:04:29.000 600 known and suspected terrorists that we have been able to sweep up and remove from the streets.
00:04:34.000 That's incredible.
00:04:35.000 Simultaneously chilling.
00:04:37.000 How many other terrorists are on the watch?
00:04:39.000 Well, and that's the issue is that how many are there that we don't know about?
00:04:42.000 And we've been, I've gone to, I think, 10 different countries now and visited with their presidents and their leaderships and talked to them about sharing security information, extradition agreements that we can negotiate with them on their worst of the worst.
00:04:57.000 Who can we return to them and what information can they give us?
00:05:01.000 How can we share the data, the biometric information that they may have, and how we can get them to cooperate with us in taking back their citizens or being a third country that we can utilize to help put people in that we want out of this country as soon as possible. 0.99
00:05:14.000 What is IceBlock and what can we do?
00:05:18.000 I think that's what it's called, right?
00:05:19.000 You mean as far as the app?
00:05:21.000 The app that they're using to...
00:05:21.000 Ice Watch, Ice Watch, whatever.
00:05:26.000 Like people are very fired up about this.
00:05:28.000 Well I can't really speak to all the specifics of what we're doing within the Department of Homeland Security against that app.
00:05:33.000 But I will tell you we're going at it from every method we possibly can.
00:05:37.000 Litigation.
00:05:39.000 We're also looking at prosecution with the Department of Justice on what they have the opportunity to do.
00:05:44.000 We need to better as a government partner with our private industry technology experts, private industry.
00:05:51.000 We have not done a good job working with them in the technology field to see what we can do to get in front of these kinds of advancements and how they use our technology against us and the operations that we have.
00:06:02.000 So that's one of the things that Elon and his team brought to the table so much that was so innovative was they were constantly giving us new technology that we could use to go out and to target the worst of the worst and get in front of them.
00:06:15.000 And then even activities such as that where they're exposing our ICE operations and our officers to danger.
00:06:20.000 One of the brilliant strategies that you are using is that it's not just about deportation but also self-deportation.
00:06:27.000 I love the ads.
00:06:28.000 Do you see them on TV?
00:06:28.000 Don't you love the ads?
00:06:31.000 And so how does that couple with self-deportation?
00:06:35.000 Correct me if I'm wrong, you'll actually give people $1,000 if they return back home?
00:06:39.000 Yeah, we think that right now we have over a million illegal aliens that have left the workforce here in the United States and have gone home already by self-deportation.
00:06:47.000 They said that from all of our intelligence analysts, from what we've done in other countries on why people are returning to their countries, is because of the CCOT videos and the videos of alligator Alcatraz.
00:07:01.000 That when you show the consequences.
00:07:03.000 We like alligator Alcatraz, everybody.
00:07:05.000 Yeah.
00:07:08.000 When you show the fact that there's consequences for staying here illegally and that you will have to leave and you won't ever get the chance to come back, that people are self-deporting.
00:07:17.000 So, yeah, if they want to go home, and I just had a press conference a little over, I don't know, an hour or two ago that talked about the fact that if you self-deport, we will buy you a plane ticket.
00:07:27.000 When you land there, we will give you $1,000 that you can use to help get your life started, to buy food or rent a place.
00:07:34.000 But also, as part of these trips to these countries, what I've done is negotiate in some of these countries and visit with these leadership teams and presidents about the fact that you can establish programs for your own people in your own country.
00:07:47.000 So Guatemala, Honduras, you know, Panama, some of these countries have started their own programs where they're loaning their civilians money so they can buy houses, giving them dollars so that they have education.
00:08:00.000 They have a training program that they can, when they come home, fill the jobs that they have there.
00:08:05.000 So now these individuals that are in our country illegally know I can get a ticket home and when I get there, my country will train me for a job. 1.00
00:08:13.000 I'll be able to get a loan for a house.
00:08:14.000 My kids will get a scholarship for an education.
00:08:16.000 I have a future in my own country and we believe that that's why they're going home and they're gaining momentum and doing that every day.
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00:09:25.000 Yeah, and so the Big Beautiful bill just passed.
00:09:29.000 What does that mean for your department specifically?
00:09:32.000 More personnel, more funding?
00:09:34.000 Because I was shocked to learn this.
00:09:36.000 Every government agency has basically grown in perpetuity.
00:09:39.000 But ICE has not grown since its beginning.
00:09:41.000 Is that correct?
00:09:42.000 That's correct.
00:09:43.000 In fact, I have one of the top three largest departments in the federal government, but one of the smallest budgets.
00:09:48.000 I think I'm in the bottom two or three.
00:09:50.000 I wonder why.
00:09:51.000 I don't know.
00:09:51.000 It was such a, you know, you would think Homeland Security would be our number one priority beyond our national defense, correct?
00:09:58.000 Because the partnership is so incredible.
00:10:00.000 But yes, so we will have 10,000 new ICE officers funded through that bill, 5,000 new CBP officers.
00:10:06.000 Also, just what we need for training and equipment.
00:10:09.000 When President Trump during his first administration built the wall, he built the infrastructure of it, but the technology didn't get installed.
00:10:15.000 So the technology as far as surveillance equipment, what we need for drones, what we need for counter-drone activity, taking out weapon systems, our Coast Guard is getting a whole new force design.
00:10:27.000 They are the tip of the spear of our national security strategy.
00:10:30.000 It's under DHS?
00:10:31.000 It's under DHS.
00:10:32.000 So I have the Coast Guard Secret Service.
00:10:35.000 We have weapons of mass destruction under DHS.
00:10:39.000 We also have CISA, which is the cybersecurity agency.
00:10:42.000 It's huge.
00:10:42.000 Huge of the nation.
00:10:44.000 But our job is to not only have jurisdiction over every person that's in this country and who comes and goes, but also every product that comes into our country or leaves, all the ports of entry, all of the tariffs are collected by CBP and remitted to the federal government.
00:10:57.000 Federal, they have done a fantastic job in collecting and assessing that the appropriate duties are there when it needs to be adjusted because the president has made a new decision to do it.
00:11:09.000 Also, the companies will lie sometimes about what's in their containers.
00:11:11.000 Oh, absolutely.
00:11:13.000 Educate the audience.
00:11:14.000 Again, so shipping is a trust system.
00:11:16.000 Like it's very handshake, brotherly.
00:11:16.000 Yes.
00:11:19.000 But we've learned that there is some lying that goes on.
00:11:22.000 Very much so.
00:11:23.000 Customs and Border Protection is charged with not only just what comes in our ports of entry, but also what is coming in by air or freight, small packages.
00:11:32.000 So they are, some of the dollars out of this bill will be used for technology for scanning purposes.
00:11:38.000 That's so important, everybody.
00:11:40.000 Almost all the drugs in this country come through legal ports of entry.
00:11:44.000 And I think it's less than half of 1% of all shipping containers get scanned, right?
00:11:48.000 Because it's not possible to do it at scale unless you have technological equipment.
00:11:53.000 That's exactly right.
00:11:55.000 I was shocked by the shipping containers that don't get scanned ever.
00:11:58.000 When I learned that, I said, what do you mean?
00:11:59.000 So basically, it's just a numbers game.
00:12:02.000 So they know if they send 100 shipments, cargo shipments of cocaine, they'll probably get almost all 100 in.
00:12:08.000 Maybe one will get caught.
00:12:09.000 But that means 99 of them will go to the interior of the United States.
00:12:12.000 That's exactly right.
00:12:13.000 And so we will have the technology then to scan packages and shipping containers and air freight, and we will have the ability.
00:12:22.000 CBP is the oldest law enforcement agency in the nation.
00:12:25.000 Is that right?
00:12:26.000 Well, was it called?
00:12:27.000 I don't know.
00:12:28.000 It was combined with four different law enforcement agencies.
00:12:31.000 They were all separated before and combined into custom and border protection.
00:12:34.000 But they also, the reason it's so important that they collect those tariffs is because they're the first one to see that shipping container.
00:12:41.000 They do the inspection on it, that it is what it is, and that the duties are properly assessed.
00:12:46.000 And so they collect information and keep that case and that information so that if there is a violation or that those tariffs can be assessed importantly, and then they do the law enforcement side of it if there is a violation on what actually was in there.
00:12:58.000 So you think about it, if you're a company trying to scam the United States, you're shipping in heavy machinery and you say it's lettuce.
00:13:06.000 And, you know, that's a lot less of a tariff, so you don't have to pay as much.
00:13:09.000 So You actually have to have some integrity there.
00:13:11.000 So I want to now talk about our cities because that seems to be really where the rubber is hitting the road.
00:13:17.000 LA, Chicago, New York to a certain extent, Denver, and walk us through what we learned what happened recently in California, which is chilling.
00:13:27.000 This last week, it should have been the number one news story in the country.
00:13:30.000 And what did we learn about that?
00:13:33.000 And then also the fight to reclaim L.A. Well, are you talking about the marijuana?
00:13:39.000 With the young kids that are working there, they're shooting at ICE agents.
00:13:42.000 Yeah, it is.
00:13:43.000 You know, we have had a lot of big operations that we have focused on a huge background of investigative work that has gone into criminal activity and a lot of these enforcement actions that we're taking through ICE and HSI.
00:13:58.000 This marijuana grow facility has been on our radar because there's been several tips and various individuals who have notified us that there was criminal activity ongoing in this operation.
00:14:08.000 It was something that we should be looking at and investigating.
00:14:11.000 When we put the op down, we did scoop up, I think originally about 150 illegal aliens that were there, but those with criminal activity as well and backgrounds.
00:14:22.000 And then also now it's gotten to be over 300.
00:14:25.000 I think we have 320 since then.
00:14:28.000 And then we have identified now 14 unaccompanied children that were there, that were working, that were being exploited, either we believe by slavery or child sexual exploitation as well, we believe could have been happening there as well.
00:14:44.000 And so that kind of investigative work to build those cases and to go into an operation like that is incredibly important beyond the fact then we have a bunch of violent, crazy people that were working there attacking our law enforcement officers and trying to kill them.
00:14:57.000 Discharging a weapon.
00:14:58.000 Discharging weapons, throwing rocks through the windshields of their vehicles, which we all know how deadly that can be, and violently attacking them.
00:14:58.000 Yes, absolutely.
00:15:05.000 So we will track them down and we will prosecute them with the Department of Justice and bring them to justice.
00:15:12.000 So the can you I want to talk about the cities, but you brought up something that I think our audience asks a lot about.
00:15:19.000 Can you bring us up to speed on the courts and the deportation process you have to work through right now?
00:15:26.000 Because our audience is a little bit unsure.
00:15:29.000 It's a decision, it's an appeal, it's Supreme Court, it's an injunction.
00:15:33.000 Well, there's always a federal judge that has an opinion that will throw out a decision that is trying to stop the Trump agenda to make our streets safer again.
00:15:42.000 We had a decision just come out of, that affected California that talked about the fact that we couldn't go in without reasonable suspicion and sweep up an individual that we thought was an illegal alien.
00:15:53.000 And so we had to have a suspected reason or a case as to the fact that we were going in after them and trying to bring them into our detention or into our possession.
00:16:03.000 I will tell you that we were doing that anyways.
00:16:06.000 We were always building reasonable suspicion.
00:16:08.000 Every single case that we're pursuing, we are doing that and going after an individual that we know is breaking our laws in this country and bringing them into justice and making sure that we're following the rule of law.
00:16:19.000 What drives me a little bit crazy is that we have the news and we have these liberals, we have these socialists, Marxists, communists that are out there trying to stop President Trump from keeping us safe and they're making up stuff every single day.
00:16:37.000 To stay in front of their lies is incredibly difficult.
00:16:40.000 So we'll appeal this judge's decision and we'll win because the facts on the ground in California have always been that we've been operating under reasonable suspicion.
00:16:48.000 And every single individual is getting due process and we're following everything by the letter of the law, every single individual that's coming into our possession that we are working with to get them out of our country and using our opportunities to prosecute these individuals too.
00:17:04.000 So but is there an expedited removal?
00:17:06.000 Like do we have to give a couple years of due process to a foreigner that's here? 1.00
00:17:10.000 When we have final removal orders they can be removed.
00:17:13.000 There's a hearing process that you go through or a paperwork issue.
00:17:16.000 It depends on what the decision is.
00:17:18.000 But on final removal orders, your due process looks very different.
00:17:21.000 There's nothing about due process that guarantees you that you're going to get a hearing.
00:17:24.000 Yes.
00:17:25.000 There's nothing about that that guarantees you will getting a hearing.
00:17:28.000 You will just get your due process and be removed from this country. 0.94
00:17:31.000 How many would you approximate people have final removal orders?
00:17:35.000 We know that 70% of the people that we've arrested so far have criminal charges against them they've been convicted of or are pending.
00:17:43.000 Wait, so the other 30% and those in the balance of it are those that have final removal orders that overstayed and didn't show up for their hearings or ignored their hearings and that the consequences of that is leaving our country.
00:17:54.000 And so basically what happens is that then these final removal orders accrue over time.
00:17:59.000 Yes.
00:18:00.000 So then I guess the question is would the people who came through under Biden, are they actually harder to remove because they don't have final removal orders?
00:18:09.000 Some of them are, but we're adding integrity back to our programs that Biden abused so much.
00:18:13.000 You know, for instance, he granted asylum to millions of people.
00:18:19.000 Yeah, absolutely.
00:18:19.000 And he perverted many of our programs.
00:18:21.000 We had a program called Temporary Protective Status, which he gave to certain countries.
00:18:26.000 So 500,000 Haitians just came in.
00:18:29.000 And so President Trump has made the decision to take away temporary protective status for many of these countries so that now that they can begin to be removed from our country, if they want to apply for asylum, if they truly believe that they think that they should have a right to access our asylum programs, then they can apply for that and they can go through that process and we'll see if they qualify under what the actual statute says, what the law says, not how Joe Biden interpreted it.
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00:19:53.000 Yeah, so correct me if I'm wrong.
00:19:54.000 The asylum criteria was very short under Biden.
00:19:58.000 It's like say the magic words, hocus, pocus, you're into America, right?
00:20:01.000 Exactly.
00:20:01.000 Magic.
00:20:02.000 Where now you guys have now really lengthened it.
00:20:05.000 That if somebody actually is seeking asylum, they will then be granted it.
00:20:09.000 But it's no longer just like say the magic words.
00:20:12.000 Yeah, we will grant asylum according to how it was defined by the law and by Congress.
00:20:16.000 And that is that you have to feel like as though your life is threatened from your government in your home country.
00:20:22.000 Going there would be a determining factor of whether you lived or died.
00:20:26.000 So that's key.
00:20:27.000 So it's not gang violence.
00:20:30.000 Poverty.
00:20:30.000 Correct.
00:20:31.000 Correct.
00:20:31.000 Not an economic factor.
00:20:33.000 So it was, and you know, I tell people all the time, you don't like the law, fine.
00:20:38.000 Go change it.
00:20:39.000 Go talk to Congress.
00:20:40.000 Go win a national authority.
00:20:41.000 I didn't get this job to decide what the law is.
00:20:45.000 My job is to uphold the law.
00:20:46.000 And President Trump has told me, he said, nobody gets treated better than anybody else.
00:20:51.000 The rule applies equally to every single individual.
00:20:53.000 And there's no way that people who are in this country breaking our laws should be treated better than our American citizens.
00:20:59.000 And I totally agree.
00:21:05.000 And the self-deportation is so important to this.
00:21:08.000 And so the challenge for the cities, now going back to the contention, how are you dealing with, and I know you have private stuff you can't say, so feel free to navigate the question however you can.
00:21:18.000 Well, and that's one thing, Charlie, I think people should know is because people do, the Department of Homeland Security, the position is a national security position.
00:21:26.000 So a lot of what we have and what we do is difficult to talk about, but we'll be extremely transparent in everything that we can talk about just because it's important for the American people to understand that President Trump is doing what they asked him to do.
00:21:40.000 Amen.
00:21:41.000 How are you, in the capacity you can talk about it, navigating these mayors and the sanctuary cities where they are protecting foreign criminal nationals? 0.72
00:21:53.000 These are neo-Confederates that are building their own states within the Union. 0.73
00:21:58.000 Well, when they violate the law, that is up to the Department of Justice to do prosecutions.
00:22:02.000 Our job is to go out there and enforce federal law, and we can do that in these cities.
00:22:07.000 Just many times when our officers are out there conducting operations, if they are in a sanctuary city or a sanctuary state, they often have to do it without backup.
00:22:15.000 So no local police?
00:22:16.000 Which means many times the local police will not be there to have their backs in an operation.
00:22:20.000 There are some cities.
00:22:21.000 Some police want to be there, though.
00:22:23.000 If you talk to the officers that are on the ground, they want to be there and be supportive of these efforts.
00:22:28.000 They recognize that we're going after people who have perpetuated violence in their neighborhoods.
00:22:32.000 And they know that our ICE officers and HSI, and we're working in task forces, so we've got ATF and DEA guys out there helping us too.
00:22:40.000 And in many states, you do have state law enforcement that are partnering with us.
00:22:44.000 But you get into Illinois and you get into California or into New York City, it's extremely frustrating because you get into New York City, they're big talkers that they're going to be big partners with us, but then we go run an op.
00:22:57.000 They're not going to be there to have our backs.
00:22:59.000 They're not going to be there to secure the perimeter or at least make sure that that one or two block radius is going to be okay.
00:23:05.000 But in New York, at least if you say there's an officer that needs help, they will respond.
00:23:11.000 They will come and back us up if an officer gets in danger, but often that's too late.
00:23:16.000 If you get to LA, that's questionable at times.
00:23:19.000 I was out on an op with our LA agents one morning, and they were with us.
00:23:25.000 I don't even know if I should talk about this.
00:23:26.000 I guess I'm going to.
00:23:28.000 They were with us.
00:23:29.000 LAPD was with us on the op there, providing backup and support.
00:23:35.000 And as soon as the governor found out that I was there, he pulled the officers off.
00:23:40.000 He's a good person.
00:23:41.000 As soon as he found out that I was there with them that morning, he pulled the officers off.
00:23:45.000 And then after that, he hasn't provided any agents or officers to go with us.
00:23:50.000 So now, if you look at what's going on out there with CBP and ICE, the raid they did on that park, that was amazing.
00:23:58.000 Awesome.
00:23:59.000 That was an amazing raid because that was a known park for where MS-13 gang members.
00:24:05.000 Very well known.
00:24:06.000 Yes.
00:24:07.000 Very well known for where we have a terrorist organization.
00:24:10.000 And the mayor showed up and tried to kick CBP out. 0.52
00:24:14.000 And I love what Bovino did, our CBP officers said, we will go anywhere we want to go because we own the city and we're protecting it for the people who live here, not you.
00:24:23.000 This is not a thing for you, I know, because this is, DOJ, we ought to start arresting these mayors.
00:24:27.000 You cannot have these neo-Confederate little areas in the country. 1.00
00:24:31.000 We can't put up with it.
00:24:33.000 You can't have a country, again, I'm very careful saying that, but if you have repeated instances, I mean, what you're saying is that if there's an officer who's in a life-threatening situation and you want local police, sorry, pal, you're on your own.
00:24:46.000 As if we're like, I don't know, from the consulate of Uruguay or something.
00:24:51.000 That's how they treat you, right?
00:24:52.000 Well, and we want the Department of Justice to win these cases and to be able to enforce the consequences.
00:24:57.000 I think what Mayor Bass has just proposed as far as paying individuals who are illegal aliens to help them evade ICE law enforcement officers, I believe that would be prosecutable. 0.56
00:25:09.000 So we've got to get you on stage here in about two and a half minutes.
00:25:12.000 We've got to talk to the most important thing you've done, though.
00:25:15.000 The thing where I was so thrilled.
00:25:17.000 She finally stood up to the TSA.
00:25:19.000 I'm sorry, but I'm telling you, I am, you will be the greatest DHS secretary in the history of, I think we should get rid of the TSA, abolish it, privatize it.
00:25:32.000 You don't have to comment on it.
00:25:34.000 You can just smile.
00:25:35.000 But what you did with the shoes is a breakthrough for humanity.
00:25:40.000 The deportations are fine. 1.00
00:25:41.000 The shoes, big.
00:25:43.000 It was so, I think the first day I had the job, I said to TSA, okay, tell me, like legit, we're just making this up on the shoes, right?
00:25:51.000 I mean, do we really have to take off our shoes?
00:25:53.000 I really want to know if you're just, why, if this actually adds anything to our security, if it actually keeps us safer in airplanes.
00:26:01.000 Every single thing that we do at TSA, I've questioned.
00:26:04.000 And when they came back and showed how we'd advanced in our technology and our multi-layered screening process and what we've done, clearly we didn't have to be taking off our shoes.
00:26:14.000 So we've got a lot of reforms coming through TSA.
00:26:17.000 I'm excited about that.
00:26:18.000 You know, I always pick your brand out.
00:26:19.000 I know.
00:26:20.000 Everybody.
00:26:20.000 I have a theory politically that President Trump's one of his legacy will be like, you used to wait 30 minutes at the airport, and now you wait only 90 seconds to get through the security line.
00:26:31.000 Imagine the quality of life improvement.
00:26:35.000 Well, so what's possible with what I'm working towards is what's possible at these airports is that you walk in the door with your carry-on bag, you just walk through a screener and keep going and go right to your plane.
00:26:45.000 I'm not kidding.
00:26:46.000 So that's where we're going, and we'll get there.
00:26:49.000 That would be so liberating.
00:26:51.000 Yes.
00:26:51.000 Christy, I could say, Governor, Secretary, you're doing an amazing job.
00:26:55.000 You got a tough job.
00:26:56.000 We're behind you 100%.
00:26:57.000 We're praying for you.
00:26:59.000 And honestly, the success of your mission is, I think, the most important for President Trump's agenda.
00:27:03.000 God bless you.
00:27:04.000 Thank you so much.
00:27:04.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:27:06.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:27:07.000 Everybody, email us as alwaysfreedom at charliekirk.com.
00:27:10.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:27:11.000 God bless.