The Charlie Kirk Show - Joe Kent Ragequits + Why The Right Must Win AI

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00:01:09.000 All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:01:11.000 It's March 17th, 2026.

00:01:14.000 So listen, we've got a lot of breaking news happening this morning.

00:01:18.000 First up for bids is, of course, the resignation of Joe Kent.

00:01:23.000 He has issued a resignation letter, resigning from my position as director of National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.

00:01:32.000 He cites the war in Iran as his reason.

00:01:36.000 He said there was no imminent threat, that that was, you know, concocted narrative.

00:01:42.000 And he is out.

00:01:43.000 He is out at the counterterrorism center.

00:01:46.000 Blake, this is going to be used by a lot of people that don't like this conflict currently to attack the administration.

00:01:56.000 Ironically, and perhaps intentionally, DNI Tulsi Gabbard is scheduled to testify before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence tomorrow, as well as the House's counterpart committee.

00:02:13.000 So the timing seems to be rather intentional here.

00:02:16.000 It very well may be.

00:02:18.000 It's certainly the first high-profile departure from the administration that is explicitly over the Iran conflict.

00:02:25.000 It might not be the last one.

00:02:27.000 As you said, it's possible Tulsi could quit.

00:02:29.000 It's possible others could step aside.

00:02:32.000 Now, whether that's a good idea, even if you're a skeptic of the war, I think can be debated because what you do anytime you quit like this is you are stepping aside.

00:02:43.000 You're letting the president and probably the people who are most in favor of the change install someone else in your place.

00:02:50.000 So it's kind of a decision to give up on the administration, which we're one year in.

00:02:57.000 There's a lot of presidency to go and there's a lot of problems we genuinely still need to deal with.

00:03:02.000 And so I think even if you're worried about this war, even if you're concerned about it starting, even if you're concerned about how it will end, I don't necessarily see how it's useful to do a big gesture like this unless you've just decided you're totally out.

00:03:18.000 And I'm thinking back to how annoying it was in the president's first term when you had people doing these big public resignation jobs, mostly on the other side.

00:03:28.000 I remember Mattis quitting and then he became a big thorn in the side of the administration.

00:03:34.000 Tillerson, you had a lot of that.

00:03:36.000 And I don't think it, I don't think it made the president well disposed towards those people.

00:03:41.000 And in that sense, it kind of did help us over time because it was a lot of people on the more moderate wing of the party stepping out.

00:03:47.000 But if the people on the more anti-war wing are now the ones giving the president grief, I do wonder how that might affect the president's approach to things.

00:03:56.000 Yeah, I mean, obviously, Joe Kent is making a calculation here that this will become a PR issue for the administration, that he can accomplish more to stop the war if he does something like this.

00:04:11.000 I don't think that's going to happen.

00:04:12.000 Speculation is that he is potentially already scheduled to be on the Tucker Carlson show to discuss his reason for resigning.

00:04:22.000 You know, there is, interestingly enough, a tweet of his going around where he discusses, you know, that Iran has been trying to assassinate President Trump since the Soleimania attack in Trump 1.0.

00:04:34.000 So a lot of people are sort of throwing that back in his face saying, you know, what changed Joe?

00:04:41.000 Because it does seem like a country trying to assassinate our president is a pretty dramatic and I would say confrontational step. 0.64

00:04:52.000 So if Joe Kent was aware of the nature of these attacks and the seriousness of these attacks, I mean, you could justify an attack against Iran simply on that measure alone.

00:05:04.000 So I have mixed feelings here.

00:05:06.000 Listen, I am, I think I've been very clear that I am not 100% always rah-rah in favor of regime change, nor was Charlie.

00:05:16.000 As a matter of fact, we warn against it.

00:05:19.000 We want peace.

00:05:20.000 But when the decision was made by President Trump to go, then we are then in support of our troops.

00:05:26.000 We're in support of success in this war.

00:05:30.000 And we want it to be a good thing for the world.

00:05:32.000 But, you know, so listen, I actually think Joe Kent being a counter voice, a voice of restraint, can be a good thing to your point, Blake.

00:05:42.000 Maybe you could make the argument he could achieve more for the effort of peace by being in that position than being out.

00:05:49.000 But obviously, he's made the decision not to.

00:05:50.000 Now, Joe Kent, I want to be very clear, is somebody that has served his nation multiple deployments.

00:05:56.000 He lost his wife in the, I believe it was, I forget exactly which company.

00:06:02.000 I believe.

00:06:02.000 Yeah, it was Afghanistan.

00:06:03.000 Yeah, so he lost his wife there.

00:06:05.000 He's been through a lot.

00:06:06.000 I do believe he's a patriot.

00:06:08.000 But there's a lot of people that have come out against Joe Kent.

00:06:10.000 For those not aware of the inside baseball, Joe Kent was probably one of the most controversial figures within the Trump admin.

00:06:18.000 He's been accused of leaking documents multiple times.

00:06:22.000 I have no evidence to conclude one way or the other.

00:06:25.000 That's certainly the rumor, though, that he's been leaking.

00:06:29.000 And so you could make the argument that from the administration standpoint, that this is actually a good thing to sort of remove him from that position.

00:06:39.000 But yeah, now speculation is going to arise about the future of Tulsi Gabbard.

00:06:44.000 I tend to not believe that she's going to resign.

00:06:48.000 I think that she is a patriot who would probably make the opposite choice of Joe Kent.

00:06:53.000 But yeah, this is what tomorrow's hearings are going to be all about now.

00:06:58.000 Well, I think the House is.

00:06:59.000 Another stuff you have to look towards is if he's resigning dramatically, I mean, if he just wanted to step out, he could just say, I'm resigning and basically say nothing more.

00:07:10.000 He could resign without a public letter.

00:07:12.000 He could resign with a very brief one.

00:07:14.000 But instead, as you say, it's a longer one that is clearly intended to get attention.

00:07:19.000 He explicitly says why he's quitting.

00:07:22.000 I believe he even says, does he even mention, yeah, you know, he's talking about an echo chamber.

00:07:29.000 He's talking about he is explicitly blaming Israel for it and all of that.

00:07:34.000 Like this is an attention-getting move.

00:07:36.000 And you think of what's next.

00:07:38.000 And what I think we might see is, I think this is escalating the possibility we might see some sort of, let's just say it, third-party presidential run in 2028.

00:07:47.000 He might be positioning himself for something like that, positioning himself for a primary challenge in some sort of congressional or senate race.

00:07:56.000 What I would suspect is this could be a step towards some sort of more aggressively anti-war coalition that might break away from the president.

00:08:08.000 It might explicitly break away from MAGA.

00:08:10.000 And if that's going to take place, I wonder who else might join it.

00:08:14.000 And throwing that out there, I'd love, email us at Freedom at Charlie Kirk.

00:08:17.000 What do you make of this?

00:08:18.000 Because I know a lot of you would be Joe Kent fans in the past, but does this sour you on him or do you think he's in the right?

00:08:25.000 We would love to see what your takes are.

00:08:27.000 Yeah, and he specifically does.

00:08:28.000 He says, early in the administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign, deployed or designed to wholly undermine your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran.

00:08:44.000 This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States. 0.65

00:08:50.000 So he's pointing the finger squarely at Israel.

00:08:54.000 He's pointing the finger squarely at the neocon factions within the DC conservative establishment.

00:09:03.000 So big shot across the bow.

00:09:05.000 There's no doubt this is a big moment, and it's yet to be seen exactly how it's going to play out, what the ramifications are, but we're all over it.

00:09:14.000 All right.

00:09:15.000 So I want to get to some of your emails here.

00:09:19.000 We've got, you know, it says, this is from, I don't have the name, Gail.

00:09:26.000 I'm from Joe Kent's district in Washington State.

00:09:28.000 Joe lost his congressional race in a red district to a socialist.

00:09:32.000 Even a Trump endorsement could not wash the stink off of him.

00:09:35.000 Joe was a liberal.

00:09:37.000 Joe was a Democrat.

00:09:38.000 And then Joe was a Republican.

00:09:39.000 Joe wets his fingers and sticks him in the wind to see which way the wind is blowing.

00:09:43.000 I absolutely believe that they're trying to fracture the conservative voters and make a third party run.

00:09:48.000 So that's from one of Joe's near constituents.

00:09:51.000 Yeah, we have another one here, Kyrie.

00:09:55.000 I was not familiar with Joe Kent until now, but looking at face value, it appears he's trying to make a noticeable statement against the president's decisions and not simply bowing out quietly due to personal convictions.

00:10:07.000 That's not a good look.

00:10:08.000 Also, whenever someone blames Israel for their problems, they lose a level of respect from me and earn a level of suspicion.

00:10:16.000 Kim says, Dear CKS show, yes, I support Joe Kent as a third-time Trump voter.

00:10:21.000 I have no idea what he's doing right now.

00:10:24.000 Maybe more resignations are needed in order to send that message.

00:10:27.000 I'm feeling betrayed.

00:10:28.000 So she's feeling betrayed, I believe, by the decision to go into the conflict with Iran.

00:10:37.000 So yeah, listen, we've got people that are supporting Joe Kent's decision.

00:10:40.000 We have people that are upset with this, which is very common when it comes to issues of foreign policy.

00:10:46.000 I have said it.

00:10:47.000 Charlie has said it.

00:10:48.000 There is no issue that divides the coalition quite like foreign policy.

00:10:54.000 And then you combine that with the fact that we're making these strikes in cooperation, in coordination with Israel.

00:11:02.000 And it's a combustible situation.

00:11:05.000 There's just no way to get around it.

00:11:08.000 The other piece of news that's happening right now is there is rumors of a Senate takeover on the floor of the U.S. Senate for passage of the Save America Act.

00:11:19.000 So we heard that last night that these rumors are swirling.

00:11:25.000 The Hill reported that there could be a takeover.

00:11:27.000 Let's go ahead and play this.

00:11:28.000 Cut 20.

00:11:29.000 Now, word leaked earlier today, Senator, that Trump allies are planning a floor takeover.

00:11:37.000 Now, what does that mean?

00:11:39.000 I assume that's you.

00:11:40.000 What does that mean?

00:11:41.000 And how will that make it more likely that this becomes law?

00:11:47.000 I have absolutely no idea what a floor takeover means, but if a floor takeover means that we're going to make filibustering senators speak against this bill, heck yeah, I'm all for it.

00:11:56.000 Let's do it.

00:11:57.000 Let's take over the floor. 0.92

00:11:59.000 So it's basically that a few of President Trump's allies in the Senate are allegedly planning to hold the floor, which will stop everything else until something happens with the Save America Act.

00:12:10.000 So they're going to basically commandeer the Senate floor to force this motion forward.

00:12:17.000 Now, it is widely popular.

00:12:19.000 We've all talked about that.

00:12:21.000 About 84% of all Americans support voter ID in some way, shape, or form.

00:12:26.000 And the Democrats don't want to see this happen.

00:12:28.000 And it's very clear why they don't want to see something popular happen.

00:12:31.000 It's because this is core and central to the Democrat business model.

00:12:35.000 They need to offer incentives, opportunity, civic engagement to illegal immigrants in order to get more of them to come and more of them to stay. 1.00

00:12:44.000 They have lost the trust of native-born Americans, of citizens, and therefore they need to incentivize this transformation effort, this project to transform the electorate of the United States by encouraging illegals to be able to vote. 0.70

00:12:59.000 Now, we could have arguments until we're blue in the face about how many are actually voting in our elections.

00:13:05.000 I think there are some.

00:13:06.000 I think there are enough to be concerned about.

00:13:08.000 Potentially, there is a determinative amount of these people voting in some jurisdictions, regardless.

00:13:15.000 If you think there are none that are voting, why would you care that we pass voter ID then?

00:13:21.000 If the laws are so good, it's already illegal.

00:13:24.000 Why would we not simply pass something?

00:13:26.000 Because if it's not going to have an impact, well, their argument is that a lot of people, married women, black voters, minority voters, can't get ID that would prove that they're eligible to vote.

00:13:38.000 That's their argument. 0.97

00:13:39.000 Their argument is that married women are too dumb to go prove that their married name is now their legal name to vote by. 1.00

00:13:47.000 So, you know, Blake, I don't know what you make of those arguments. 0.97

00:13:52.000 I tend to find that this is another bigotry of low expectations argument from the left, and it holds no water, but they're not going to vote for this.

00:14:01.000 Yeah, I mean, they're not.

00:14:02.000 Like, look, either Republicans in the Senate want voter ID and want, you know, federal election security stuff, or they don't.

00:14:10.000 And they can either actually pass it or they cannot.

00:14:14.000 And I think even if this doesn't pass, I think we're really seeing very starkly the limits of what a Republican Senate is able to do as long as the filibuster is in place.

00:14:25.000 And maybe now isn't the time to get rid of it because we might only have Congress for the next six months, basically.

00:14:32.000 But on the other hand, like at some point, I think it's going to get thrown out and then you're going to have to have more seriousness about what we can pass.

00:14:41.000 We've seen over and over again that the Republicans can make very big promises and then they fail to pass anything because we have this fake Congress that needs a supermajority to do anything.

00:14:51.000 And I think at the least, this is forcing us to get closer to making Congress real.

00:14:59.000 And I prefer to take the long view.

00:15:01.000 The long view is, what are all the things that we can do when we have a fully real Congress that can pass things with 51 votes or 50 votes?

00:15:11.000 And this is just step one.

00:15:14.000 I like the SAVE Act.

00:15:15.000 I think it matters.

00:15:16.000 But I think there's a whole bunch of other things that we should also be building out for the day when we can have 50 votes to pass things.

00:15:22.000 Yeah, the question central to this morning's debate on the floor of the Senate is, is this more failure theater?

00:15:29.000 Is this performative?

00:15:30.000 Are they really serious?

00:15:32.000 And I have not seen the proof from Leader Thune that this is actually a serious effort.

00:15:36.000 I think he's trying to save face.

00:15:37.000 I hope I'm wrong.

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00:16:52.000 Coach Tuberville, Senator Tuberville, out of the great state of Alabama, and he's going to be leaving the Senate soon.

00:16:57.000 He's going to be the next governor of that state.

00:17:00.000 But there's work to do on the hill, and he's still, he's mixing it up.

00:17:03.000 Senator, welcome back.

00:17:05.000 Honored to have you.

00:17:06.000 Yeah, thank you.

00:17:07.000 You caused quite a stir this week with your The Enemy is Inside the Gates.

00:17:12.000 And it was a picture of the Twin Towers on fire next to Mayor Mamdani sitting on the floor for, I guess, some sort of Ramadan feast inside the mayor's mansion in New York. 0.57

00:17:25.000 The enemy is inside the gates.

00:17:27.000 I think you're at 17 million views on that tweet, Senator.

00:17:31.000 Tell us about it.

00:17:33.000 Well, first of all, I love this country.

00:17:36.000 My dad gave his life on active duty in the military.

00:17:40.000 I'm doing this job because, you know, I had a pretty good and successful career in coaching.

00:17:46.000 But I said, you know, I want to go help our country because we got a lot of problems and it's something we can fix.

00:17:52.000 Well, to come up here, you have to identify the problem.

00:17:56.000 And I've identified a lot of problems. 0.92

00:17:58.000 And one of them is these people from these third world countries that hate our country and they wish death to all Americans that don't believe in the Koran and their cult. 1.00

00:18:11.000 And we had better wake up.

00:18:12.000 There's a great example of this, Andrew, and it's in U of K, Italy, France, and Germany.

00:18:20.000 They have lost their countries to these third world people that want to preach and teach Sharia law. 1.00

00:18:27.000 And they want to bow down to the Quran, which is their Bible, that believes and preaches death to all infidels, which, by the way, an infidel is somebody that doesn't believe in what they believe in. 1.00

00:18:39.000 And so they want to kill all of us. 0.99

00:18:41.000 And what the hell are we thinking? 0.99

00:18:42.000 I mean, these people are a threat to our society and our way of life. 0.93

00:18:48.000 They've ruined Europe, and we're not going to allow them to do it here. 0.99

00:18:51.000 And you got this Mendami guy in New York. 1.00

00:18:55.000 He sits around on tiles and prayer rugs, and he's got a Quran on his desk.

00:19:03.000 And we're supposed to listen to him.

00:19:06.000 Give me a break.

00:19:07.000 I'm not going to do it.

00:19:08.000 And I'm going to fight against it every day.

00:19:10.000 Well, you're a brave man.

00:19:11.000 And, you know, I would say that all good Muslims want to take over Western civilization. 1.00

00:19:17.000 They are loyal to Mecca.

00:19:18.000 They pray to the East because they don't care about, they're not loyal to this country. 1.00

00:19:22.000 Let's put it that way.

00:19:23.000 Now, Chuck Schumer had an issue with your tweet here.

00:19:28.000 He said, this is mindless hate.

00:19:30.000 Muslim Americans are cops, doctors, nurses, teachers, bankers, bricklayers, mothers, fathers, neighbors, mayors, and more. 0.81

00:19:36.000 And mayors is right. 0.98

00:19:38.000 Islamophobic hate like this is fundamentally un-American.

00:19:41.000 I disagree, Senator Schumer. 0.94

00:19:43.000 And we must confront and overcome it whenever it rears its ugly head.

00:19:46.000 Okay, this is coming from a Jewish senator, which is ironic.

00:19:50.000 But then I want to contrast his statement with a very important clip.

00:19:54.000 This is an imam in Florida, cut 22. 0.69

00:19:58.000 There's nearly 7 million American Muslims right now.

00:20:02.000 Alhamdulillah.

00:20:03.000 Let's take gratitude in the fact that we're here in the great state of Florida.

00:20:09.000 Part of power building is building a pipeline of leaders.

00:20:15.000 I want to see, inshallah, one day governor of the state of Florida is a Muslim.

00:20:19.000 Everybody say inshallah.

00:20:20.000 The House has Muslims in there.

00:20:22.000 Say inshallah.

00:20:23.000 Senators, Muslim senators say inshallah. 0.71

00:20:27.000 They have a plan, Senator, and they are executing it.

00:20:31.000 You're exactly right.

00:20:32.000 They have a plan, Andrew, and we don't.

00:20:34.000 What we're doing is we're worrying about all the small things in our country, and we're not watching the gates of people coming in. 0.75

00:20:44.000 Joe Biden almost ruined this country with 10 or 15 million illegal immigrants, a lot of them criminals. 0.99

00:20:49.000 President Trump's doing his best, but he's fighting the Democrats every day to get these people out.

00:20:55.000 Chuck Schumer, the Democrats, I was the color of the week last week.

00:20:58.000 In other words, they passed my name around.

00:21:00.000 Hey, go after Coach.

00:21:02.000 But he had something to say about some of our future and potential voters.

00:21:06.000 Listen, President Trump got 77 million votes.

00:21:09.000 He got a lot of African-American vote.

00:21:12.000 He got a lot of union votes.

00:21:14.000 And so they can't win if a guy like President Trump starts stealing their voting base.

00:21:20.000 Who's their new voting base? 0.99

00:21:21.000 Their new girlfriend is illegal aliens and Muslims. 0.99

00:21:25.000 Muslims that believe in Sharia law and the Quran.

00:21:27.000 Now, listen, I've got some good Muslim friends, but they love this country.

00:21:31.000 They want to make this country better.

00:21:33.000 And they're not out there preaching hate and kill all Americans.

00:21:37.000 If you go along with what we're doing in this country and believe in our Constitution, our laws, hey, I'm all for you.

00:21:42.000 I don't care if you're Muslim, Catholic, Baptist, makes me no difference.

00:21:46.000 I want Americans to live in this country, not people that are going to try to kill other Americans.

00:21:51.000 That's not going to happen.

00:21:52.000 Yeah, I think that's well said, Senator, and we're with you 100%.

00:21:58.000 You know, Charlie always made the distinction between micro and macro.

00:22:02.000 He believed that macro Islam was not compatible with American values or with the West at all.

00:22:08.000 Micro, yes, there's individual Muslims that are wonderful people and they're great Americans. 0.99

00:22:15.000 But again, a lot of those are bad Muslims. 1.00

00:22:17.000 I don't mean that as a pejorative. 0.99

00:22:19.000 I mean that as a compliment to them.

00:22:20.000 If you're a good Muslim and you take the word of the Quran verbatim, then we are infidels that need to be subjugated, conquered, and controlled. 1.00

00:22:29.000 Yeah, like quite clearly, like the text of the historic core Islamic documents is far more in favor of religiously motivated violence than anything you can find in the New Testament.

00:22:41.000 And it's not even close.

00:22:43.000 And big picture, it's really standing out to me that it's like we have a surge in this, oh, we must be maximally welcoming.

00:22:51.000 We need more Islamic migration. 1.00

00:22:53.000 Basically, every time there's a surge of Islamic terror, you can even look at the polls. 0.98

00:22:58.000 America literally became substantially more pro-Islam in the immediate aftermath of 9-11 because the line went out from the Bush administration, from the levers of power, that the religion of peace, these are a handful of extremists.

00:23:12.000 We're actually very pro them otherwise.

00:23:14.000 And it's become such a rote thing.

00:23:16.000 It happens every single time.

00:23:19.000 But we're clearly not being rewarded with lots of moderation.

00:23:23.000 We're being rewarded with aggression, with an attitude of conquest.

00:23:28.000 And if we want to see the end result of that, you can look at the UK where they now just elect members of parliament whose sole issue is Gaza.

00:23:36.000 Like, you're in Britain.

00:23:38.000 Yeah.

00:23:41.000 Senator, I don't know if you want to react to that, but we've also had four radical Islamists attack Americans in the last month.

00:23:48.000 So there's that too.

00:23:49.000 Yeah.

00:23:50.000 And Andrew, it's coming.

00:23:51.000 We've got a lot more coming.

00:23:53.000 We're just seeing a small part of it right now.

00:23:57.000 President Trump, he ticked them all off when he went into Iran.

00:24:00.000 The Democrats can't stand it because I think they have more in common with the Iranians. 1.00

00:24:07.000 I'm talking about the Democrats, Chuck Schumer, and all the Democrats, than they do with Americans, because they would rather fight for these people in terms of money and power and all those things.

00:24:19.000 But, you know, the thing about it is we got people in this country that have been indoctrinated right and left.

00:24:24.000 We got people up in the state of Alabama.

00:24:26.000 We had a school.

00:24:28.000 It was a Muslim school right outside of Birmingham.

00:24:32.000 They wanted to enlarge it, but they were teaching Sharia law and the Quran in that school.

00:24:36.000 And I said, no, no, no, no.

00:24:38.000 And we had fortunately a lot of school members that's parents went to a school board meeting and blocked this expansion of this nonsense that they preach.

00:24:48.000 So it's going everywhere.

00:24:50.000 We got hundreds and hundreds of mosques all over this country.

00:24:53.000 We have people praying in the streets.

00:24:55.000 Now, they can't pray in the streets in these Muslim countries, but they're doing it in our streets in New York and Detroit and California. 0.90

00:25:03.000 It's nonsense. 0.88

00:25:04.000 And so we have to take our country back over.

00:25:07.000 Again, if they're going to take Europe back over, they're probably going to have to fight in the streets to get it back. 0.79

00:25:12.000 We don't want to get to that point.

00:25:13.000 Let's stop it right now.

00:25:14.000 Let's stop this nonsense.

00:25:16.000 If you're going to be in this country, be an American, go by our Constitution, go by our laws.

00:25:21.000 If you can't do that, it's time for you to hit the gates.

00:25:24.000 Amen.

00:25:25.000 I want to turn our attention really quick, Senator, to the Save America Act.

00:25:29.000 It's the vote or the debate is happening right now in the Senate.

00:25:35.000 Tell us what you know.

00:25:36.000 What can we expect today?

00:25:37.000 Well, this is more of a show week.

00:25:40.000 We can't get it passed.

00:25:41.000 And it's probably one of the most crucial pieces of legislation, single pieces, that we will face.

00:25:49.000 When I go back to Alabama, people look at me and say, Coach, please tell me my vote is going to count.

00:25:54.000 Please tell me I'm not going to get canceled out by a non-citizen in this country. 0.99

00:25:58.000 And it makes you feel bad.

00:26:00.000 Up here, you know, it's almost a 90% vote from people all over the country, Democrat and Republicans, that you need to get this passed.

00:26:09.000 You need to be a citizen to vote for our leaders in this country.

00:26:12.000 We can't get anything done.

00:26:13.000 We even have Republicans that are not going to vote for it.

00:26:16.000 Talking filibuster is not going to work.

00:26:18.000 The only way we can do it, we've got to bust the filibuster, 51 votes, get this done, pass everything we can for President Trump between now and the election next year, and we can take this country back over.

00:26:29.000 But if we don't get this passed, we are doomed.

00:26:32.000 We will lose the midterms.

00:26:34.000 President Trump will be fighting for his life when it comes to staying in office.

00:26:37.000 It'll be a disaster for the American people and a disaster for the 250 year, 50th year of our country. 0.93

00:26:44.000 Well, it just feels like this is more failure theater, though.

00:26:47.000 If we can't get it passed, it feels like leader Thune's just trying to save face.

00:26:52.000 And there's no option.

00:26:54.000 10 seconds.

00:26:55.000 The big thing, the big thing is they said we got to keep the filibuster.

00:26:59.000 It's tradition.

00:27:00.000 And I tell them, listen, folks, I don't work for the tradition.

00:27:04.000 I don't work for the Senate.

00:27:04.000 I work for the people of this country.

00:27:07.000 And it's time to wake up and smell the roses.

00:27:10.000 This is not going to work the way we're doing it.

00:27:11.000 Amen, sir.

00:27:13.000 You are a patriot.

00:27:14.000 We have your back 100%.

00:27:15.000 Thank you for saying the hard things and the true things and being fearless.

00:27:19.000 And we're going to miss you in the Senate, but I know the state of Alabama is lucky to have you as their next governor.

00:27:24.000 So we got your back there, too.

00:27:26.000 So, coach, we'll see you.

00:27:28.000 We'll see you soon, I'm sure.

00:27:29.000 God bless you.

00:27:29.000 Thank you.

00:27:30.000 God bless.

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00:28:42.000 So, President Trump has been asked about Joe Kent, and his answer was pretty clear.

00:28:49.000 But he basically says, it's a good thing that Joe Kent is no longer in the administration.

00:28:54.000 When somebody is working with us that says they don't think Iran was a threat, we don't want those people.

00:29:01.000 So, President Trump, defiant in this moment, Blake, your take on his reaction, kind of what we might have done.

00:29:07.000 I mean, I think that's about the least surprising thing ever.

00:29:10.000 And, you know, that's why I brought it up at the start.

00:29:13.000 If your goal is to influence President Trump in one direction or another, because he is a guy who can tilt different ways, there's no substitute for proximity.

00:29:23.000 He's a person who cares, who listens most to the people who are around him the most.

00:29:27.000 He's the person who prioritizes loyalty, people who stay on the team.

00:29:34.000 And so, if you're going to make a big stunt of leaving and kind of denouncing the process, even if his letter is still worded, so it's not blaming the president.

00:29:42.000 You know, it's like these bad advisors have led the president astray.

00:29:45.000 Like, the president is going to see what he really meant there.

00:29:48.000 And yeah, now he's he's out.

00:29:50.000 And I guess to the extent you, you know, we care about more pro-peace people influencing the president.

00:29:57.000 That's one less voice down.

00:29:58.000 And he's pretty annoyed at the way he went out.

00:30:00.000 And I think that might affect his attitude going forward.

00:30:03.000 Yeah, I got another constituent or a near constituent.

00:30:07.000 He was never in Congress, but Vernon says, I live in Joe's district and attended a half dozen of his town halls during his campaign.

00:30:15.000 I spoke several times with him, and my impression is that he is genuine and a patriot.

00:30:19.000 Mail-in voting in Washington cheated him twice against the socialists, so I was happy to see him get a position in the administration. 0.93

00:30:25.000 I feel like he is just against any war and believes we should be helping our own country.

00:30:30.000 Okay, that's fine.

00:30:32.000 Rogers says, Ugh, so frustrating.

00:30:35.000 Joe Kent tells you Republicans is like herding cats.

00:30:39.000 It's very, it's very, very true.

00:30:42.000 A lot of you got a lot of emails about the Muslim conversation we just had with Coach Tubberville.

00:30:50.000 Rogers says, exactly, all good Muhammadans want to take over all toward the caliphate. 0.99

00:30:55.000 Yep.

00:30:56.000 Well, a lot of reaction here.

00:30:59.000 So thanks for sending your emails in.

00:31:01.000 I want to tell you about a story here that's just, I'm so frustrated about it.

00:31:06.000 Small aside, this illegal immigrant, Israel Flores Ortiz, 18, turning 19, he's charged with nine counts of assault and battery for allegedly groping multiple girls at a Fairfax high school in Virginia in the hallways.

00:31:22.000 And we're not just talking, you know, groping on the on top, we're talking all over the place.

00:31:29.000 And it's really disgusting.

00:31:31.000 I was just so infuriated by this story.

00:31:33.000 I wanted to make sure we got to it.

00:31:34.000 Here's the news report: Cut 21.

00:31:37.000 Fairfax County leaders allowed him, allowed him to attend high school.

00:31:42.000 And parents say he groped female classmates for months.

00:31:47.000 Prosecutors have now charged him with nine counts of assault and battery.

00:31:52.000 He came to the United States illegally from El Salvador in 2024.

00:31:57.000 He enrolled as a junior in high school.

00:31:59.000 Victims say he would creep up behind them in crowded hallways and grab them between their legs.

00:32:05.000 DHS and ICE are asking the nation's sanctuary leaders to turn him over for deportation.

00:32:12.000 But the new laws under the Democrat governor don't allow that.

00:32:16.000 Israel Flores Ortiz is currently being held without bond at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, which is operated by the county sheriff's office.

00:32:25.000 According to its website, it does not honor ICE administrative detainers.

00:32:30.000 So here's a story where an illegal immigrant who came in under Biden now goes to a high school.

00:32:36.000 He's a grown man at 19 years old, and he's coming up behind young American women and grabbing them between the legs.

00:32:45.000 And we can't get rid of this person because the Democrats said they were going to be moderates and we're going to put in Spanberger and look at her. 0.70

00:32:53.000 She looks so normal and she wins. 0.95

00:32:56.000 And now the first thing that they did was say that we're not going to cooperate with ICE and DHS.

00:33:02.000 And so now young American women at a high school where they should be safe and protected and nurtured are getting groped between the legs by an illegal and we can't get rid of them.

00:33:14.000 I mean, that's the entire point.

00:33:16.000 Like, that is the point.

00:33:17.000 Like, there is no rock bottom to this.

00:33:20.000 We have seen this in country after country.

00:33:22.000 We mentioned the UK.

00:33:23.000 The UK is a good harbinger of this.

00:33:25.000 Even though they have a lower immigrant population than us, they're more deranged in what they put up with there, which is they had a huge number of Muslims from the most backward part of the world come in. 1.00

00:33:36.000 These Muslims were literally targeting young girls who are native to Britain and like gang raping them. 1.00

00:33:44.000 And police knew about this and covered it up to make sure that it would continue to happen. 0.98

00:33:49.000 They continue to cover it up to make sure that it continues to happen.

00:33:53.000 And they lie about it and they continue to bring in more and more of them while these guys will like gloat on TikTok about how awesome it is that they're taking over the UK.

00:34:02.000 And so same deal here.

00:34:03.000 Like it would be trivial.

00:34:05.000 It would be trivial for the left to accept, oh, actually, yeah, okay, criminals, you can send them back.

00:34:13.000 Like, we won't let you go into these certain areas.

00:34:15.000 Like, they could choose a moderate position.

00:34:17.000 They affirmatively refuse to do so. 0.97

00:34:19.000 They want unlimited criminals from the third world to come to America and continue to prey on Americans, hurt Americans, rape Americans, kill Americans, because it would be easy to stop that. 1.00

00:34:29.000 And they do not want it stopped, period. 0.97

00:34:31.000 Yeah, they don't want it stopped.

00:34:33.000 And then you combine that with the Save America Act, which they are vehemently coming out against, despite the polling, because again, their whole system requires them to import more and more foreign-born voters, get them on the rolls, get them taking your welfare so they'd never leave, and then not allowing ICE to deport the illegals, even the criminals. 0.66

00:35:00.000 So this is a good point, Blake.

00:35:02.000 You know, we have this conversation about the worst first and the criminal thugs.

00:35:06.000 That's who we're focusing on versus we're getting all of them out.

00:35:09.000 This is what happens when you give them an inch.

00:35:12.000 They will take a mile.

00:35:13.000 If you just say we're going to get the worst first, they won't even honor that.

00:35:17.000 They will pass laws like they did in Virginia where you can't even get the worst out.

00:35:23.000 There is no definition of the worst first where a 19-year-old man who's groping the crotches of young girls at a high school is not the worst first. 0.51

00:35:32.000 This is sexual assault. 0.97

00:35:33.000 This is disgusting.

00:35:34.000 We don't do that in America.

00:35:35.000 And if you do that in America, you get thrown in prison.

00:35:38.000 And now we can't even get him out of the country.

00:35:40.000 This is the insanity of the left.

00:35:42.000 This is the world that they want to create where it's always systemic oppression.

00:35:46.000 They're always the victims.

00:35:48.000 No, the girls that he groped were the victims.

00:35:51.000 The little girls are the victims.

00:35:52.000 Their parents, their families are the victims. 0.82

00:35:54.000 This monster needs to be put on a plane straight to Seacott and let Bukele deal with him, okay? 1.00

00:36:00.000 It's an El Salvadorian illegal that is an absolute monster and a criminal and needs to be removed immediately, not put on some voter roll. 1.00

00:36:08.000 That's what they want to do. 0.98

00:36:08.000 They want to put this guy on the voter rolls to go harass more young women. 0.98

00:36:12.000 So when you're tempted to doom and gloom and look at like the podcaster wars or whatever we're calling it, just remember that Democrats are unacceptable.

00:36:22.000 Just remember that.

00:36:23.000 Because the burn it all down folks that want to go vote tell you to vote for Democrats right now because we've got to rebuild the GOP in a more ideologically pure image. 0.99

00:36:32.000 It's garbage. 1.00

00:36:33.000 Because when you do that, they're genuinely losers. 1.00

00:36:36.000 They don't care. 0.99

00:36:37.000 They are losers that are not part of the process to even improve the GOP. 0.99

00:36:43.000 I wasn't expecting this, I have to say. 0.99

00:36:46.000 But death of recess, it stopped me in my tracks.

00:36:50.000 This isn't about dodgeballs and jungle gyms.

00:36:52.000 It's about control.

00:36:54.000 The modern American classroom didn't just happen.

00:36:56.000 It was intentionally designed.

00:36:58.000 It was standardized and centralized.

00:37:00.000 And once you see who built it and who protects it, everything clicks.

00:37:04.000 Billions of dollars are flowing through education bureaucracies every year.

00:37:08.000 Test scores collapse.

00:37:09.000 And somehow the answer is always more money and less parental authority.

00:37:13.000 The documentary breaks down how organizations like the NEA amassed enormous influence, how radical gender ideology entered classrooms, and why something as basic as recess, movement, freedom, childhood, you know, had to go.

00:37:28.000 That's not random.

00:37:29.000 That's systemic.

00:37:30.000 Institutions protect themselves.

00:37:32.000 They do not protect your kids.

00:37:34.000 And that's why this documentary exists on Angel Studio streaming platform, Angel Guild.

00:37:39.000 Angel Guild is willing to distribute films that challenge powerful systems when legacy media won't touch them.

00:37:45.000 So right now, go to angel.com slash Charlie and watch Death of Recess right now.

00:37:52.000 If you're a parent or plan to be, you need to see this.

00:37:54.000 That's angel.com slash Charlie and watch Death of Recess.

00:38:01.000 Got a lot of feedback from a lot of people on our little rant about this illegal groping young girls at the Fairfax Virginia High School.

00:38:11.000 I think a lot of you share my irritance, my irritation about that.

00:38:15.000 It's more than that, though.

00:38:16.000 It's anger.

00:38:18.000 Americans have been victimized by wave after wave of illegal immigration.

00:38:24.000 We did not have to do this.

00:38:26.000 This was a choice that we made.

00:38:28.000 And by the way, it's not just legal immigration.

00:38:30.000 It's legal immigration that needs to be reformed. 0.54

00:38:32.000 That's something that we talk a lot about.

00:38:35.000 I'm getting a lot of feedback, by the way, as well from the audience about Coach Tuberville basically calling out the Senate saying, we're not going to get the Save America Act passed.

00:38:44.000 So we need to be willing to blow up the filibuster to do it.

00:38:48.000 And I think he seems to think we have 50 votes.

00:38:51.000 I think we need to do that and some legal immigration reform.

00:38:53.000 How about it?

00:38:55.000 We're waiting for our next guest here.

00:38:56.000 While we're waiting, I'm going to play some clips from a debate for Senate in Kentucky.

00:39:03.000 Nate Morris is who we've endorsed in that race.

00:39:06.000 He's a great American.

00:39:07.000 And he was going after some of these exact issues.

00:39:11.000 Let's play Cut 11.

00:39:13.000 Well, look, there's one candidate on this stage that's been very clear about immigration from the beginning, and that's this campaign.

00:39:18.000 I've called for a full moratorium on any new immigration until we deport every single illegal that came into this country under Joe Biden.

00:39:25.000 Folks, we were invaded.

00:39:26.000 They've all got to go back 100%.

00:39:29.000 And we shouldn't give a dime of your taxpayer money to any illegal.

00:39:32.000 There are people on this stage like Andy Barr that have let illegals run wild into our country, naturalize them, and given them all kinds of opportunities that should have gone to American citizens. 0.95

00:39:42.000 Perfectly said by Nate Morris.

00:39:44.000 That's why Charlie endorsed him.

00:39:45.000 That's why we're endorsing them.

00:39:46.000 Blake, what do you think that it's going to take to get immigration moratorium, this idea of it mainstreamed within the conservative political establishment?

00:39:57.000 It's very mainstream with the base.

00:39:59.000 There's an old line about scientists that science moves forward one funeral at a time, that there are people who are stuck in old ideas.

00:40:09.000 They don't update.

00:40:10.000 I mean, in general, we have a very old Congress.

00:40:13.000 How often do people who are really old completely change their worldview, completely adopt new ways of thinking? 0.97

00:40:21.000 And the answer is, I mean, there are some exceptions, but the answer is it doesn't happen a lot.

00:40:24.000 Most of the time, people get pretty set in their ways by middle age, by later age.

00:40:29.000 And so the main way this is going to happen is we're going to be getting new lawmakers.

00:40:33.000 So that's why we need to champion guys like Morris.

00:40:36.000 And, you know, think about as much as we complain about Congress, they're so much better than they were a decade ago.

00:40:41.000 And that was the process of getting in new guys, that you have JD Vance come into the Senate.

00:40:46.000 You have Tuberville come into the Senate.

00:40:49.000 You have guys who are more, I don't know, hip with the new ideas of the younger base.

00:40:55.000 And people rise in esteem.

00:40:57.000 Stephen Miller goes from this 30-something Senate staffer to this senior aide in the White House.

00:41:03.000 That is what gradually brings it about.

00:41:05.000 So even if it's not everyone coming around to it yet, I think you'll eventually get there because it's an idea whose time has come.

00:41:12.000 Yeah, well, I think this is interesting too.

00:41:13.000 It plays off of our sort of, it wasn't a debate, but it was a back-to-back yesterday with Paul Danz and Mark Lynch that are working to unseat Lindsey Graham in South Carolina.

00:41:24.000 I have gotten so much feedback.

00:41:25.000 We posted both of those debates on my ex-feed.

00:41:29.000 It was both those interviews on my ex-feed, but they're back-to-back.

00:41:32.000 I had people coming out of the woodwork, people that I haven't heard from in a long time, repost that back-to-back.

00:41:38.000 I want to hear from you in the audience.

00:41:40.000 Who do you want to see be the next senator from the state of South Carolina?

00:41:44.000 Do you like Paul Danz?

00:41:46.000 Do you like Mark Lynch?

00:41:47.000 I don't know, Blake, if you have an opinion after interviewing both of them, but I think that's an interesting one.

00:41:54.000 I think I have my favorite.

00:41:56.000 You know, I think they both had their pluses.

00:42:00.000 I haven't super deeply investigated the differences between them.

00:42:03.000 I think they both made good points.

00:42:05.000 I think organically, I'm probably a little bit closer to Dan's attitude.

00:42:11.000 I mean, he was helming Project 2025.

00:42:12.000 I really liked Project 2025.

00:42:15.000 He's got that legal bureaucrat mindset when he's talking, when he's saying stuff, oh, we need to have American graduate students again because we've had too many foreigners coming to us. 1.00

00:42:26.000 That's something I've talked about.

00:42:27.000 That's something you're not going to hear a lot of political candidates talk about.

00:42:30.000 So he's certainly, I think, closer to my approach to things.

00:42:36.000 But I don't want to make an endorsement yet because I think they both had merits.

00:42:42.000 Well, I think that there's a lot to like about both of them.

00:42:47.000 I loved Mark Lynch going after radical Islam. 1.00

00:42:50.000 He pulled no punches.

00:42:52.000 I think he's a man of God.

00:42:53.000 I think he's got great character.

00:42:56.000 I love that Paul Danz is very fiery and he wants to prosecute evildoers.

00:43:01.000 I think that's a huge boost of energy that we need in the Senate.

00:43:05.000 Going after people like Fauci, going after fraud, going after illegal immigrants. 0.99

00:43:10.000 I love all that.

00:43:11.000 And the Project 25, 2025 thing is, you know, listen, I don't necessarily think it was the best thing during the campaign.

00:43:19.000 Obviously, President Trump tried to distance himself from it, but there's so much good in Project 2025.

00:43:25.000 There are so many good ideas that would genuinely make the country a better place.

00:43:29.000 And the fact that Paul Danz was the architect of those plans is definitely a, I would say, a positive in his direction.

00:43:38.000 I also like that he's younger.

00:43:40.000 You know, you think about South Carolina, Blake, and you've got a state where, you know, we have a safe Republican seat, at least now, and we've been wasting it for how many years on Lindsey Graham?

00:43:54.000 Like the Democrats would never do that.

00:43:56.000 You would get an actual, like, rock-ribbed, true believer if you were a Democrat.

00:44:01.000 But what do we get?

00:44:02.000 We get these squishes that talk out of both sides of their mouth, and they don't represent the grassroots.

00:44:08.000 Well, I think it's time to fix that in South Carolina.

00:44:12.000 I, too, am not sure I'm ready to endorse.

00:44:14.000 I will say I like both of them.

00:44:17.000 I think I, I mean, maybe I should just say it.

00:44:19.000 I would probably be leaning towards Dance.

00:44:21.000 That's where I'm at.

00:44:22.000 But I like both of them.

00:44:23.000 So it's up to the voters to decide.

00:44:25.000 I want to hear what you guys think.

00:44:26.000 Send us an email, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:44:29.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:44:31.000 Let us know who did you prefer after our back-to-back.

00:44:34.000 Jeffy, you say that just because we instantly get two emails.

00:44:37.000 One from Janie says, Mark Lynch, definitely.

00:44:39.000 And then one from Gerard says, I'm for Paul Dance, like right like that.

00:44:43.000 Yeah.

00:44:43.000 So clearly, each of them has some appeal to different people.

00:44:47.000 That's the problem in South Carolina. 0.85

00:44:48.000 You got to get to a runoff.

00:44:50.000 One of these men, if they dropped out, I think would really put a lot of energy in the sales of the other gentleman.

00:44:57.000 Mark Lynch has more money.

00:44:59.000 So that's going to be in his favor.

00:45:01.000 But I think Paul Dance, to me, feels a bit more like the grassroots guy.

00:45:06.000 So we'll see what happens there.

00:45:08.000 Send us your emails, freedom at charliekirk.com.

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00:46:12.000 We got Rich Barris on.

00:46:13.000 Now, Rich, I told everybody in the audience that I, you know, I've been used to, if I want to get depressed, I call you and I say, how bad is it, Rich?

00:46:22.000 And you're sort of famous for that now on the internet.

00:46:25.000 But you and I were texting yesterday.

00:46:28.000 Let me say you're notorious for it now on the internet.

00:46:30.000 Notorious.

00:46:32.000 Yeah.

00:46:32.000 So, and then I basically were texting yesterday and you're like, listen, I actually feel pretty good today.

00:46:37.000 And I was like, okay, well, you're coming on the show then.

00:46:40.000 You got to make up for the last time.

00:46:42.000 So give us some good news.

00:46:44.000 What's your good news?

00:46:46.000 I just think the Democrats are in this crazy transition time.

00:46:50.000 All right.

00:46:51.000 And whether how much this will help Republicans going into November, I think is debatable, reasonably debatable.

00:46:57.000 But I would tell Republicans who are worried about the coalition, and you know I am, that Democrats are a mess and they have a very difficult time holding things together and not overreacting or, you know, they're like honing a good message right now.

00:47:16.000 But what they do with that message, if and when they win with it, is totally different, Andrew.

00:47:22.000 They don't agree on it at all.

00:47:24.000 They don't even know which way they want to go for, you know, a nominee, which is things that, you know, parties normally work out.

00:47:31.000 And sometimes it works out for the best.

00:47:33.000 We saw that with Barack Obama.

00:47:34.000 He came out as a stronger candidate in 08 when they went through that process.

00:47:38.000 Republicans certainly came out with the stronger candidate in Donald Trump when they went through a similar process. 0.98

00:47:43.000 I think the difference is now is that Democrats are just crazy. 0.97

00:47:48.000 I mean, there's no nice way to put it. 0.95

00:47:50.000 I try to always sound objective, but the fact is they're way outside the mainstream with average American voters.

00:47:57.000 So it means they need to pay all that more attention to their message and be all more disciplined with that message.

00:48:05.000 A great example of that is, I was talking ironically with a reporter from CNN yesterday, and I used a similar example, which was they thought with, you know, with getting, for instance, gay marriages, right?

00:48:21.000 All right.

00:48:22.000 They were able to move the Overton win on Overton window on that. 0.99

00:48:26.000 But then they misinterpreted it and they took it as, all right, now we're just going to chop off the genitalia of little kids too. 0.99

00:48:31.000 Like they just thought they had all this and they went into the, they went too far and they went into the trans movement and they just went nuts. 0.99

00:48:38.000 They have a tendency to do that.

00:48:41.000 They're not the old Democratic Party they used to be.

00:48:44.000 So, you know, but Rich, but like that, you're talking about 2028.

00:48:49.000 What about the midterms?

00:48:50.000 I mean, there's, you know, you've had Joe Kent leaving this morning, announcing his departure from the administration.

00:49:00.000 President Trump says, good.

00:49:01.000 You know, we don't want those guys around.

00:49:03.000 I mean, it was predictable response, you know.

00:49:05.000 But, you know, there is, we've got Iran going on. 0.91

00:49:09.000 We've got affordability.

00:49:10.000 There's economic things to consider.

00:49:12.000 Most people just care about how much money they have in their wallet at the end of the month.

00:49:17.000 Okay, so this bodes well for 2028.

00:49:19.000 Is there any good news for the midterms?

00:49:21.000 Well, you said stay positive.

00:49:23.000 What am I positive about?

00:49:25.000 Look, I'm just not.

00:49:26.000 I'm just, guys, I mean, I tried to scream and yell for almost a year now about how to fix 2026.

00:49:34.000 There is still roughly an 18% chance historically that Republicans could turn it around so much that they even win the National House popular vote, but it is just 18%.

00:49:46.000 I think that there have been decisions made that sent the Republican Party on a course.

00:49:51.000 You know, we have a habit of saying, you know, it's eight months from now.

00:49:54.000 It's nine months from now.

00:49:55.000 It's still a lot of time.

00:49:56.000 But the truth is there are macro.

00:49:58.000 You know, we can start to get a macro view of things and look back at previous election cycles when, you know, parties had reasons.

00:50:09.000 There was like a real mitigating factor that contributed to them being able to turn it around or overperform.

00:50:15.000 Democrats, a great example.

00:50:16.000 In 22, they overperformed, but there were key things that happened that year that allowed them to overperform in certain places.

00:50:23.000 That was their get out the vote, which is a big deal.

00:50:26.000 I mean, here's, you want positivity?

00:50:28.000 I'll give you positivity.

00:50:29.000 Seriously.

00:50:30.000 And this isn't, you know, glazing.

00:50:32.000 You have people like you guys and Tyler out there, you know, with chase the vote.

00:50:37.000 This is enormously important.

00:50:39.000 Democrats are much more decentralized, which I know is weird.

00:50:39.000 All right.

00:50:42.000 It's kind of ironic.

00:50:43.000 You have the party of centralized government who decentralizes their get out the vote.

00:50:47.000 But in fact of the matter is Republicans still do have a playbook that worked for them in 24.

00:50:54.000 You know, the Democrats still have a ground game.

00:50:56.000 It's incredible.

00:50:58.000 They have a larger ground game by far.

00:51:00.000 By far.

00:51:01.000 Yeah.

00:51:01.000 But, you know, but look what happens when you have just a few competent groups that put together efforts like you guys and others.

00:51:11.000 And Elon's back on the train, right?

00:51:14.000 He's going to be around.

00:51:15.000 That was a major concern because, of course, he definitely played a role in 24.

00:51:19.000 So, you know, there's we're not helpless, is what I'm saying.

00:51:22.000 We're not Rich, I want to get your reaction to this new YouGov economist generic ballot here.

00:51:30.000 So it, what the, and I want to highlight it because if you look at the dates on February 16th, because they run this poll every week, it was Democrats plus seven.

00:51:40.000 Now it's down to Democrats plus two.

00:51:42.000 Are you seeing similar trends in some of the other polls in your own internal polls?

00:51:47.000 Yeah, I think I was just bringing up two morning consult.

00:51:50.000 They had a much narrower margin.

00:51:52.000 It is widening again.

00:51:54.000 I think there's widened back to D plus eight in the days following that.

00:51:58.000 I think it might be, honestly, Andrew, it may be a little bit of a war, you know, a rally around the flag still effect.

00:52:04.000 You know, I was looking at it in our polling.

00:52:06.000 I did see a tightening.

00:52:08.000 We're also seeing a bit of a widening out again.

00:52:10.000 But here is honestly the difference.

00:52:13.000 We're starting already, us anyway, not everyone, but over here.

00:52:18.000 The real widening comes from a likely voter model.

00:52:21.000 The registered voter, the Democratic advantage on registered voter samples is not that big.

00:52:26.000 It's really not.

00:52:27.000 And some weeks, it's two points.

00:52:28.000 That's it.

00:52:30.000 So where are they coming up with these bigger leads from?

00:52:32.000 And why are they outperforming in a lot of these races we saw this year and last year?

00:52:37.000 It's just a matter of who's turning out to vote.

00:52:39.000 If Republicans vote, it changes the entire equation.

00:52:43.000 And suddenly things get very, very close, very quick.

00:52:46.000 But that's been their challenge.

00:52:48.000 That's been their challenge.

00:52:49.000 Yeah, well, that's why we got to chase the vote.

00:52:51.000 You have to chase the vote.

00:52:52.000 So Harry Enton, your favorite, had a segment on CNN basically saying 90% of the Republican base support the war in Iran.

00:53:02.000 What are you seeing on that front?

00:53:04.000 Look, you know, first of all, you know, it's funny, somebody like Harry Enton would suddenly be an authority on the MAGA base, or the polls that he chooses to cherry-pick would suddenly be an authority on the MAGA base.

00:53:15.000 There's like two pollsters in the entire country who know how to poll MAGA, and that's about it.

00:53:20.000 The rest of them get lucky sometimes and don't other times.

00:53:24.000 We may be the one who's been polling MAGA as asking people, are you or are you not MAGA?

00:53:30.000 longer than anybody else.

00:53:31.000 The fact is, MAGA has shrunk.

00:53:34.000 So, you know, you can get into certain numbers, but we were trying to stay positive today, right, Andrew?

00:53:38.000 So I won't.

00:53:39.000 We're trying.

00:53:40.000 But, you know, there is a purification through subtraction going on, which I think is important for people to understand.

00:53:46.000 And the people that have been subtracted are what I'm calling like, you know, all the winning parts, right?

00:53:53.000 The younger voters, the younger, especially black men, Hispanics, right? 0.97

00:53:58.000 And by the way, I think we don't talk enough about how much better Donald Trump did with younger women in 2024.

00:54:04.000 They have been one of the widest.

00:54:07.000 I agree.

00:54:07.000 Yeah, we just ignore that.

00:54:09.000 They have slipped the most in our polling.

00:54:13.000 Some of it had to deal with Epstein.

00:54:15.000 Some of it the war.

00:54:16.000 They don't like the war.

00:54:17.000 Maha.

00:54:18.000 Maha is big, huge.

00:54:19.000 Rich.

00:54:20.000 Rich, I got to pause it right there, my brother.

00:54:22.000 Thank you for coming on.

00:54:23.000 I know a little scheduling faux pas, so thank you, my friend.

00:54:26.000 We'll talk with you guys.

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00:55:37.000 All right, I want to welcome to the show now Wynton Hall.

00:55:40.000 He's the author of a new book, Code Red, about AI.

00:55:43.000 It's getting all kinds of traction.

00:55:46.000 If you haven't heard about it yet, the stories from this book are going viral.

00:55:50.000 His interviews are going viral.

00:55:53.000 It's interesting as well because Winton is a former ghostwriter and he's a social media director at Breitbart.

00:55:58.000 And it's like him and Joshua Lysik are like the revenge of the ghostwriters.

00:56:02.000 The guys that the brains behind these books are now coming out with their own books and they're, of course, doing extraordinarily well.

00:56:08.000 So welcome to the show, Wynton Hall.

00:56:10.000 It's an honor to have you.

00:56:11.000 Oh, it's a great honor to be here.

00:56:13.000 Thank you so much.

00:56:14.000 Yeah, longtime Breitbart behind the scenes guy.

00:56:19.000 And now you're kind of emerging.

00:56:20.000 Why did you start with Code Red, this AI story, the left, the right, China, and the race to control AI?

00:56:28.000 Yeah, it's a great question.

00:56:30.000 You know, I've enjoyed a long career in writing many, many, many books.

00:56:35.000 And this one, I felt like I needed to come out of the shadows because we don't have a lot of time, and particularly for conservatives, to get ready for the 5D political chess game that's about to emerge with this AI acceleration.

00:56:48.000 I think President Trump and Vice President Vance are doing an exceptional job at the national level with their leadership.

00:56:53.000 But I think at the grassroots, we have to understand that AI is not just a tool.

00:56:58.000 It is political power, and that power is going to decide whether we indoctrinate or educate our kids. 0.95

00:57:05.000 It's going to affect how we erase or create jobs.

00:57:08.000 And obviously, right now, we're seeing in the Iran and Venezuela conflagrations the way it's AI warfare is affecting the battlefield.

00:57:18.000 So we've got to be ready.

00:57:20.000 And I just don't think we are.

00:57:22.000 You know, Elon Musk says a supersonic tsunami is what AI is, heading at humanity.

00:57:28.000 We've seen Dario Amade just recently say that we got 12 months to five years until half of white color entry-level jobs are wiped out.

00:57:35.000 And we're hearing Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleiman say 18 to 12 months.

00:57:43.000 So if you thought there was a tsunami offshore and you saw it from the beach and you said, I only have this limited amount of time, you do everything you can to try to get people as prepared as possible.

00:57:53.000 And that's really why I took on Code Red with this one.

00:57:56.000 Yeah, Winson, I think this is the sort of thing.

00:57:58.000 A lot of people are aware of AI.

00:58:00.000 A lot of people are using it.

00:58:00.000 They use it casually.

00:58:01.000 They're seeing it and come into their workplaces.

00:58:04.000 But people I talk to who are really in the know, they'll say the biggest issue in America right now, the biggest issue in this admin right now, it's not Iran, it's not even immigration.

00:58:13.000 One of the things they tell me, the biggest question right now is, is AI basically going to be woke?

00:58:19.000 Is AI going to have left-wing assumptions baked into it or not?

00:58:24.000 And we saw a flare-up of that with the fight over Anthropic, which a lot of people in DC were paying attention to.

00:58:30.000 I don't know how much that penetrated the normal, the normie sphere, as it were.

00:58:34.000 But can you explore that?

00:58:36.000 Can you break down how important that really is?

00:58:39.000 Oh, it's such a brilliant and important question.

00:58:41.000 So you have to understand that the Anthropic folks are very deeply politically involved.

00:58:47.000 First of all, their donations since 2020, $200 million to Democratic causes.

00:58:54.000 Okay.

00:58:54.000 So this is a highly, highly ideologically engaged group.

00:58:59.000 The second thing is that when you look at the bias point that you brought out, the very first chapter of Code Red is on the hidden persuasion of AI.

00:59:08.000 And right now, literally five minutes or so before I got on, we just put it up on Breitbart's lead story and it's breaking from Code Red, which is that Google Gemini has smeared seven GOP senators and Vice President Vance and Secretary Rubio as in violation of their quote hate speech policies and yet zero Democrats.

00:59:32.000 Now, that's their Google Gemini AI.

00:59:36.000 And so what I did in the a lot of the, you know, I spent two years investigating this book, but even just recently looking at it, this is no question.

00:59:44.000 Peer-reviewed academic journal literature has concluded numerous times that leading LLMs, that is large language models, are overwhelmingly biased toward a leftward direction.

00:59:54.000 And I explained why and the training data and all the rest of it.

00:59:58.000 This is as good as it's ever going to get for right-of-center conservative people in terms of woke bias because they know the big tech companies know that you have the House, the Senate, and the White House, and they have huge regulatory override ability to affect their business.

01:00:14.000 The minute that Democrats get into power, if and when that happens, the big tech elite are going to default to their scan and ban censorship, you know, blacklist and demonetize instincts that we saw under the Biden years.

01:00:28.000 So this is, that's why I call it a code red moment.

01:00:31.000 Two reasons.

01:00:32.000 One, an alert, an alarm.

01:00:34.000 And two, that our side of the ball, the conservative side, the red team politically, has to have a code.

01:00:39.000 We have to have a set of principles.

01:00:40.000 We have to have a set of solutions.

01:00:42.000 And that's why I really try to not just write a doomer screed, but really lay out what we can do on a personal level as well as the politics.

01:00:49.000 Yeah, that's all remarkable.

01:00:51.000 And I'm thinking there's a writer, there's a blogger on Substack who has a series of posts that I'm sure you're familiar with, Arcto Theorem.

01:00:59.000 And he had a whole breakdown where he's asking each of the AIs, he's giving them a bunch of resumes and then asking these AIs, who would you hire?

01:01:08.000 And without telling them to do this, without instructing them to do this, the AIs are naturally, for example, engaging in racial discrimination.

01:01:15.000 Like they'll discriminate against white American, against white people or against men, against straight people, because that is just what's going into the pot on these AIs is all of the discrimination, all the woke stuff we've had, and people don't even know about this.

01:01:29.000 And if you're just asking an AI to do this for you, if you could say, oh, AI, hire 50 engineers for me, it's going to do that, even if you might not even be thinking about it.

01:01:38.000 That is exactly right.

01:01:40.000 And the bias is baked in, as you rightly point out.

01:01:43.000 And the corpus of most modern LLM enterprise level chatbots, AI, you're talking about a couple of bases of information.

01:01:52.000 One, Wikipedia, which we know is far left and is constantly smearing conservatives and then locking their pages so that they're not allowed to edit and correct them.

01:02:02.000 Number two is Reddit, which leans left.

01:02:04.000 The three is peer-reviewed academia, which obviously we know about university bias and the problems we have in education.

01:02:11.000 Obviously, Charlie fought against that better than anybody.

01:02:15.000 And the other thing, of course, is something called the Common Crawl, which is the open, open internet, a huge data set there.

01:02:23.000 The final thing, though, is that they have these very lucrative deals with left-of-center publishers.

01:02:29.000 There are only a few people that are in the center that have these kind of deals.

01:02:33.000 And think about this.

01:02:34.000 If I give you $50 million to buy the archives of, let's say, the New York Times or the LA Times or Time Magazine or The Nation or The Atlantic, that does two things, right?

01:02:46.000 One, it's a subsidy to a left-leaning outlet to be able to stay in business and make payroll.

01:02:52.000 But the other thing it does is it bakes in all those years and years and years of biased left-leaning reporting by those organizations into the training data.

01:03:02.000 So it's garbage in, garbage out, and that feedback loop, that self-reinforcement feedback loop becomes very, very toxic for just getting straight factual information.

01:03:13.000 And so one of the things I do in Code Red is I literally lay out all the contracts.

01:03:17.000 Here's the money flow, just old style, you know, follow the money kind of journalism and let people just know the kind of bias and how big of money is flowing between these companies and the far left builders.

01:03:32.000 So, Winson, another thing that we're getting, we get emails sometimes, I know this is popping up more on the right, is this hostility towards data centers, hostility towards some of the infrastructure that goes into AI.

01:03:44.000 So you having analyzed it, what do you think the right posture of conservatives should be towards AI?

01:03:51.000 Like it feels to me like it's probably a doomed venture to just say, oh, let's push back on the development of it.

01:03:58.000 It seems more important that we need to control and influence and make sure it does not go in that disastrous direction.

01:04:04.000 And so you've got about a minute and a half if you can answer that.

01:04:07.000 And like, what should the administration be doing to bring AI to heal, so to speak?

01:04:12.000 That's one of the more positive recent developments.

01:04:15.000 President Trump and Vice President Vance did an amazing job with their ratepayer protection pledge, which what they did was they sat down with the heads of all of these large AI and tech builders and hyperscalers, and they said, look, we do not want working class communities to have to foot the bill for higher energy prices in the form of their electric bills, their water bills, just because you want to build some giant data center in their backyard.

01:04:42.000 That's exactly the right posture.

01:04:44.000 And not only will this pledge that President Trump brokered, not only will it make those big tech behemoths pay for upgrading those infrastructure pieces and the electric overflows, it will actually potentially lower the costs of local communities, water bills, and electric bills because they're going to do a lot of modernization of their rickety grids.

01:05:10.000 And so I think that's the kind of proactive leadership we need, which is exactly what you said, which is, look, AI is a reality.

01:05:17.000 99% of us use it, even though 64% of us don't even realize sometimes when we're using it because it's baked into our weather apps and other devices.

01:05:25.000 But I think if we can get ahead of those landmines and avert them, we're going to be able to hopefully navigate our way through one of the biggest and most disruptive, fast-moving technological innovations we've ever encountered.

01:05:38.000 All right, Winton, you freaked me out right at the beginning.

01:05:41.000 And Blake kind of stepped in for me there.

01:05:44.000 So you're saying we've got, what, 18 months till like, you know, the job apocalypse comes?

01:05:50.000 Well, I hate to figure it out anymore, Andrew.

01:05:52.000 Actually, there are some estimates it's as few as 12 months.

01:05:56.000 But here's the reality, okay?

01:05:58.000 And we all have to understand this 5D chess game that's being played here.

01:06:03.000 And I walked through in code read the whole economic chapter here.

01:06:07.000 You have forces all the way from Elon Musk to Dario Amade at Anthropic to Mustafa Suleiman at Microsoft AI, and they are all giving you these very, very dire job apocalypse wipeouts.

01:06:20.000 They're doing that because of something called agentic AI.

01:06:23.000 What is that?

01:06:23.000 It's AI that actually can do the work.

01:06:26.000 This is not what most people are used to, a chatbot.

01:06:28.000 It's an AI agent.

01:06:29.000 It can take real action.

01:06:30.000 It can open up a browser, it can open up a bank account, and it can do that autonomously over a task threshold.

01:06:36.000 That is accelerating very, very quickly, okay?

01:06:39.000 And it's scaling the white-collar job, cognitive work, not moving atoms in the world, blue-collar work.

01:06:46.000 Ironically, those folks are less at risk of automation.

01:06:51.000 The real question is this.

01:06:53.000 Are they bluffing to raise capital, to say, hey, we're creating this labor-replacing technology?

01:06:58.000 It's going to be the trillion-dollar opportunity.

01:07:01.000 Are they doing it to raise capital?

01:07:05.000 Are they, number two, just ideologically driven to want to scare people toward universal basic income and wealth redistribution?

01:07:13.000 Or number three, are they just genuinely worried about human civilization and they're just trying to alarm every alert everybody?

01:07:19.000 I think the reality is that there really is going to be real major job disruption.

01:07:25.000 Doesn't mean that you're going to necessarily lose your job, but what Jensen Wong at NVIDIA has said for a long time, you won't lose your job to AI.

01:07:35.000 You'll lose your job to someone who has mastered and knows how to use AI.

01:07:40.000 A lot of people hear that, though, and they go, that still sounds like I'm losing my job.

01:07:43.000 So what is the best way to be prepared?

01:07:45.000 Number one, I think that you should future-proof yourself and understand your industry's use of the technology.

01:07:50.000 Number two, if you're a parent or a grandparent, you have absolutely got to understand the implications of AI and the risks to eroding critical thinking, cognitive offloading, certainly the AI companions and AI girlfriend physical risks.

01:08:06.000 But the best thing you can do is this.

01:08:09.000 The future is not going to be about teaching our children to find jobs.

01:08:14.000 It's going to be teaching our children to create jobs.

01:08:18.000 And what do I mean by that?

01:08:19.000 I mean entrepreneurship.

01:08:20.000 So if we build the trivium, the classics of education that Torley and others have educated for so well, you know, logic, grammar, and rhetoric.

01:08:28.000 Number two, we then give them the tools of entrepreneurship to understand how to create opportunity, create a small business.

01:08:34.000 And then third and finally, keep them abreast of AI.

01:08:37.000 You've really built a little bit of a moat to the degree that you're going to be able to around your child or your grandchild so that they're going to be able to navigate this.

01:08:46.000 I had somebody yesterday who has a middle school child, and they said, what do I even tell my child to major in in college if they're going to college?

01:08:55.000 And that's the problem here.

01:08:58.000 This train is moving at warp speed.

01:09:01.000 And so the answer is no one knows the answer to that in six years.

01:09:04.000 And so the best thing you can do is prepare them to be able to create a job, not to just have to fill out a resume.

01:09:09.000 Winton Hall, author of the new book, Code Red, a really important offering.

01:09:16.000 I mean, listen, we've talked about AI on the show for years now.

01:09:19.000 And I think this is, you've given one of the most concise and compelling presentations of this.

01:09:25.000 Everybody check out Code Red, Winton Hall with our friends over at Breitbart doing great work.

01:09:30.000 Congratulations.

01:09:31.000 And, you know, future proofing is now going to be in my lexicon.

01:09:36.000 So thank you, sir.

01:09:37.000 Well, thank you.

01:09:38.000 And thank you for what you do and for what you do to keep Charlie's legacy alive.

01:09:42.000 We're so grateful for it.

01:09:44.000 Thank you, Wynton.

01:09:45.000 God bless you, man.

01:09:45.000 We'll talk to you soon.

01:09:47.000 All right.

01:09:48.000 Blake, we've got a lot of emails you guys.

01:09:51.000 We asked for emails.

01:09:52.000 We're emailing like a storm today.

01:09:53.000 Yeah, we asked for emails about the Kent thing and about the South Carolina race.

01:09:57.000 A lot are pouring in.

01:09:57.000 So I thought we could take a few minutes to read a few of them.

01:10:01.000 This is one I think is pretty good.

01:10:02.000 This is Lucas Talking about Kent, he says, I would like to hear Kent justify how allowing an Islamic death cult to become an imminent threat with nuclear material is a good idea. 1.00

01:10:15.000 And he says later, Trump has my full support.

01:10:18.000 If this action exceeds three months, I'll be pissed.

01:10:21.000 Two months rather annoyed.

01:10:23.000 One month disappointed, but not surprised. 1.00

01:10:26.000 The most unfortunate part of the whole thing is now that Kent resigned with a stupid, selfish letter, the media and libtards in Congress will run with it and fill the media cycle with this story. 0.98

01:10:37.000 And I think that's the attitude of a lot of people that even if they're skeptical of the war, especially if it goes along, they also trust the president and they're mad that someone in our own coalition is sort of doing this big stunt that seems to damage the administration. 0.98

01:10:53.000 We got a lot of emails about Dan's versus Lynch.

01:10:56.000 David says, leans slightly for Dan's, but would be happy with Lynch if not anyone but Lindsay coming from a lifelong Republican.

01:11:06.000 Kara said Dans came across as rough and easily rattled, but if he becomes more polished and succinct, otherwise I have no preference right now. 0.91

01:11:16.000 Do you have any favorites on your end, Andrew?

01:11:20.000 Patrick says Mark Lynch has Christian family values, honor and sacredness, living, sacraments.

01:11:26.000 So there's a lot of emails that you guys are sending off that seem to resonate with Mark Lynch's just his presentation.

01:11:35.000 He did seem a little bit more polished, a little more put together.

01:11:38.000 Obviously, he's a successful businessman, has that sort of pedigree.

01:11:42.000 So a lot of that that I'm seeing, I just think it's tough because I think genuinely they're both would be great candidates.

01:11:51.000 I tend to lean towards Dan's.

01:11:53.000 I think they're both great, just to be clear.

01:11:55.000 And I think the most important thing, because people are saying, you know, someone says, Chris says the problem in South Carolina is two or three go against Limpsey.

01:12:02.000 Limpsey is what he calls him.

01:12:03.000 And then the pool is diluted and he comes out with the majority.

01:12:06.000 We should have one candidate before.

01:12:08.000 I don't know that's necessarily the case.

01:12:09.000 I think he needs 50%.

01:12:11.000 If you get him below 50%, you go to a runoff.

01:12:13.000 I think the important thing is we can't have these two candidates hate each other.

01:12:16.000 They should pledge right now that they'll be supporting the other over Lindsay when this goes to a runoff.

01:12:22.000 I think that's the most important thing.

01:12:23.000 He needs to go to a runoff.

01:12:24.000 And my last pitch for Dan's, he's just younger, and I hate to say it, but we want somebody in office that's going to have a nice runway here for many years to come.

01:12:36.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - March 17, 2026

Joe Kent Ragequits + Why The Right Must Win AI

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