The Charlie Kirk Show - Laken Riley's Killer Brought to Justice + The Military Crisis

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00:00:01.000 Fulfilling the mandate.

00:00:02.000 Liberation Day is coming.

00:00:03.000 The largest deportation force in American history.

00:00:06.000 Also, do you know that younger voters are favoring President Trump more than their parents?

00:00:09.000 And Captain Conrad joins us to talk about how we can't build ships anymore.

00:00:13.000 The most basic things we're not able to do.

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00:00:35.000 Here we go.

00:00:36.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:34.000 I've just dashed on over from the Trump transition team office.

00:01:39.000 Lots of amazing things happening.

00:01:41.000 I have to tell you, being on the inside, without sharing any confidential information, the sense of urgency, the focus, the energy to fulfill the mandate is amazing.

00:01:52.000 And today, interviews are continuing for positions of deputy and other positions in the government.

00:01:58.000 And the team that is doing the interviews Could not be in more alignment with President Trump's agenda.

00:02:05.000 There are real questions being asked, such as, do you share the president's worldview?

00:02:10.000 What was your favorite accomplishment of the president's in the first term?

00:02:15.000 So I had to dash on from that office to here to make sure that we do our broadcast together.

00:02:19.000 And then right afterwards, I will be heading back into the trenches to do our best.

00:02:25.000 The entire transition team is doing amazing.

00:02:27.000 Susie, Sergio, James Blair.

00:02:30.000 The team is doing phenomenal.

00:02:32.000 And they are in the trenches doing the work to fulfill the mandate.

00:02:36.000 To fulfill the mandate that you gave this president.

00:02:39.000 Those of you that registered voters and knocked on doors that made phone calls, you helped make this happen.

00:02:44.000 You delivered this victory.

00:02:47.000 And what does that victory mean?

00:02:49.000 We've gone through it in many different elements in many different regards, but I got to tell you about one individual in particular.

00:02:55.000 That is talking about fulfilling one of the most popular yet difficult promises in front of us.

00:03:01.000 And I want to begin today framing the importance that day one we fulfill the promise of mass deportations.

00:03:10.000 The American people were presented with a clear choice.

00:03:14.000 Kamala Harris wanted open borders. 0.97

00:03:16.000 Donald Trump wanted mass deportations.

00:03:18.000 Now, mass deportations is something that most Republicans were afraid to ever utter or mention.

00:03:23.000 Donald Trump ran on it, and he won a landslide popular vote victory with the promise of mass deportations.

00:03:32.000 Today is Wednesday, November 20th, and I'm telling you right now that this is going to be the biggest sticking point of the administration in the first 30 days, unless Joe Biden gets us into a nuclear war with Russia, of which is happening in real time.

00:03:47.000 The sticking point is going to be Donald Trump trying to fulfill the mandate and fulfill his promise to deport illegal foreigners that have come into our country.

00:03:59.000 Now, breaking news today, that maniac, Evil, evil person, 26-year-old from Venezuela, today was finally convicted of murder. 1.00

00:04:09.000 Malice murder, felony murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, Jose Ibarra, for murdering Lakin Riley in Athens, Georgia.

00:04:17.000 A gang member.

00:04:19.000 He was arrested while in the United States prior to Riley's murder.

00:04:23.000 However, Joe Biden decided not to deport him.

00:04:26.000 Since Joe Biden decided not to deport Jose Ibarra, a Trendy Araga member, he went and murdered Lake and Riley as she fought for her life on a jogging trail in Athens, Georgia.

00:04:40.000 Never needed to be here.

00:04:42.000 Came here because evil, deranged people want as many criminals as possible.

00:04:47.000 Biden and Harris celebrated when they learned that Lake and Riley was dead.

00:04:53.000 Every dead American, according to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, is progress.

00:05:00.000 She fought for 18 minutes.

00:05:02.000 She fought for her life.

00:05:04.000 This is going to be the big fight, everybody.

00:05:05.000 As we ramp up, we have the confirmation fights on one side, and we have the fights to deport the foreigners on the other side. 0.79

00:05:12.000 Let's play Cut 52.

00:05:14.000 Illegal alien accused of killing Lakin Riley.

00:05:17.000 Hearing the verdict now.

00:05:18.000 Let's watch.

00:05:19.000 Count one, malice murder.

00:05:21.000 I find the defendant guilty.

00:05:23.000 Count two, felony murder.

00:05:25.000 I find the defendant guilty.

00:05:26.000 Count three, felony murder.

00:05:28.000 I find the defendant guilty.

00:05:30.000 Count four, felony murder, I find the defendant guilty.

00:05:33.000 Count five, kidnapping with bodily injury, I find the defendant guilty.

00:05:37.000 Count six, aggravated assault with intent to rape, I find the defendant guilty.

00:05:42.000 Count seven, aggravated battery, I find the defendant guilty.

00:05:46.000 Count eight, obstructing or hindering a 911 call, I find the defendant guilty.

00:05:52.000 Count nine, tampering with evidence, I find the defendant guilty.

00:05:56.000 Count ten, peeping Tom, I find the defendant guilty.

00:06:00.000 Jose Ibarra, a Tren de Aragua member, never should have been here.

00:06:06.000 Never should have been in this country.

00:06:09.000 Never needed to be here.

00:06:11.000 There was no purpose for him.

00:06:13.000 And yet a lack of the will of our federal government, in fact, a will to keep him here, is why Lakin Riley is dead today.

00:06:21.000 Donald Trump won the election on the promise of mass deportations.

00:06:25.000 And I could tell you, spending time in and around the Trump transition office, which is why we are still live here in Palm Beach, they are focused like a heat-seeking missile on mass deportations.

00:06:38.000 And they're going to be fought on every single possible front.

00:06:42.000 They're going to be fought legally.

00:06:43.000 There'll be protests in the streets.

00:06:45.000 You see, allowing foreigners to occupy our homeland... 1.00

00:06:49.000 It's critical to the Democrats' agenda, critical for future voters, critical for the great replacement as we native-born Americans are being replaced by foreigners, critical to allow the crime spree across the country. 1.00

00:07:01.000 And Liberation Day is coming.

00:07:04.000 Liberation Day where we will be able to liberate ourselves from the enemy occupation, the enemy occupation of the foreigner hordes that have been squatting on American turf, squatting on our soil. 1.00

00:07:19.000 Stephen Miller is the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and the Senior Advisor over the Department of Homeland Security.

00:07:26.000 Nobody understands this issue as intimately as Stephen Miller.

00:07:32.000 Stephen Miller understands exactly what is necessary to be able to act upon the largest deportation force in American history.

00:07:41.000 And yes, no matter what the left says, we are going to continue.

00:07:45.000 We are going to continue until our country improves.

00:07:48.000 This Venezuelan street gang is in 16 states, California, Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, Illinois, Wisconsin, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York. 0.94

00:08:03.000 Democrat leaders such as Katie Hobbs of Arizona, J.B. Pritzker in Illinois, Jared Polis in Colorado, Mara Healy from Massachusetts, Brandon Johnson, the mayor of Chicago, and Michelle Wu are going out of their way, and Gavin Newsom to say that they will protect illegals.

00:08:18.000 will get out of the way because Tom Homan is on his way.

00:08:20.000 These are invasion forces that have occupied and domiciled themselves on the American homeland.

00:08:27.000 And Liberation Day is coming.

00:08:28.000 Play Cut 42.

00:08:30.000 The moment that President Trump puts his hand on that Bible and takes the oath of office, as he has said the occupation ends, Liberation Day begins.

00:08:39.000 He will immediately sign executive orders, sealing the border shut, beginning the largest deportation operation in American history, finding the criminal gangs, rapists, drug dealers, and monsters that have murdered our citizens and sending them home.

00:08:54.000 No one will be allowed to enter the country illegally and ICE will be empowered in partnership with FBI, DEA, ATF, the National Guard to fully seal and secure the border with CBP and to find and identify the criminal threats that are inside this country and send them back home.

00:09:12.000 This is the fight that is necessary.

00:09:14.000 The fight in front of us.

00:09:16.000 The largest deportation force in American history.

00:09:20.000 Mass deportations will be enacted.

00:09:23.000 And every measure and every form of government will work collaboratively to get it across the finish line.

00:09:30.000 And it's going to be a massive information warfare project.

00:09:33.000 But in Lake and Riley's memory, we will carry on her fight.

00:09:38.000 In the memory of all the young ladies who will be murdered if we do not get this done.

00:09:44.000 What you just heard there is the incoming Deputy Chief of Staff of the White House, Stephen Miller.

00:09:49.000 Playtime is over.

00:09:50.000 And if a Democrat gets in our way, well, then Matt Gaetz very well might go arrest you.

00:09:56.000 If you are getting in the way of the execution of the federal laws, the American people want these foreigners removed from our homeland. 1.00

00:10:04.000 And that's what they're going to get.

00:10:06.000 The table is set to make sure another Lake and Riley situation does not happen again.

00:10:11.000 And federal law supersedes, by the way.

00:10:13.000 Federal law superseded to allow Texas not to secure the southern border.

00:10:16.000 Remember, the federal government had to cut the razor wire. 0.69

00:10:20.000 Not anymore.

00:10:21.000 The deportations will occur.

00:10:23.000 And if you're a foreigner, you might just want to get out of the country. 1.00

00:10:26.000 Self-deport.

00:10:26.000 Save yourself the humiliation.

00:10:28.000 Because Tom Homan, Steve Miller, ICE, ATF, the federal marshals, the National Guard, they are coming for you.

00:10:36.000 And you are not safe in this country.

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00:11:51.000 I want to continue on the immigration thing, but I'm amazing.

00:11:55.000 We all need a rest from polls.

00:11:57.000 Can we all agree we need some rest from polls right now?

00:11:59.000 There's just too many polls.

00:12:00.000 We have been pulled out the last two years.

00:12:02.000 However, I will say this is a great poll from The Economist.

00:12:06.000 And this is the work of Turning Point Action.

00:12:08.000 This is the work of all of you that get behind the work we are doing on college campuses.

00:12:12.000 This is the work of worldview formation that we do on our educational side of Turning Point USA. This is the power of TikTok.

00:12:19.000 This is the power of Instagram.

00:12:20.000 The power of X. According to The Economist, With 1,400 registered voters, Donald Trump, between ages of people 18 to 29, has a 19-point favorability rating.

00:12:34.000 57% of people ages 18 to 29 view Donald Trump favorably.

00:12:40.000 38% view him unfavorably.

00:12:44.000 Now, baby boomers, interestingly enough, baby boomers are negative three opinion of Donald Trump.

00:12:53.000 So Donald Trump and his incoming administration, we won the election, so some of this is just interesting.

00:12:58.000 It's not instructive.

00:13:00.000 It doesn't tell us anything about any immediate politics, but it does show that there very well might be a generational realignment happening.

00:13:10.000 And we just need to keep on capitalizing on it.

00:13:12.000 That's exactly why we are casting this vision at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action these next couple of years that will be the most bold and aggressive And boundary pushing that turning point has ever done.

00:13:28.000 You see, people are asking, Charlie, are you going into the White House?

00:13:31.000 Again, I was not offered.

00:13:33.000 However, I could have asked for something potentially.

00:13:36.000 No, I want to help on the outside.

00:13:38.000 I want to help on the outside to make sure that we capitalize on this once-in-a-century realignment.

00:13:45.000 There is a generational reconfiguration, and this could make...

00:13:50.000 The country profoundly conservative for the next generation.

00:13:54.000 When young people are more conservative than their parents, not just a little bit, but 22 points more conservative, that's a remarkable development.

00:14:04.000 And I'll say it once, I'll say it again.

00:14:06.000 If it was not for the youth vote, Donald Trump would not be president-elect.

00:14:11.000 We won the youth vote in Michigan.

00:14:12.000 We nearly won at Wisconsin.

00:14:14.000 We nearly flipped Center County.

00:14:15.000 We were 50-50 basically the youth vote in Pennsylvania.

00:14:18.000 We won the youth vote in Arizona, won the youth vote in Nevada, almost won it in Georgia, and almost won it in North Carolina.

00:14:24.000 Out of those seven swing states, if we would have gotten blown out with younger voters we did in prior elections, we'd be on the outside looking in.

00:14:31.000 President Trump delivered the most unexpected American comeback story because younger voters Lifted him up to the White House.

00:14:39.000 Boomers were not as excited. 1.00

00:14:41.000 Again, many of you guys in the audience are boomers are exempt to that, but the data is the data.

00:14:46.000 Now, why is that?

00:14:47.000 Young people are insanely poor. 0.99

00:14:50.000 They're dollars worth next to nothing. 0.62

00:14:52.000 They can't afford homes.

00:14:53.000 They're tired of this totalitarian political correctness.

00:14:56.000 And Donald Trump is the coolest political figure for ages 18 to 29.

00:15:01.000 And it's not even close.

00:15:01.000 The Democrats don't have anybody like this.

00:15:04.000 From doing the Trump dance at the NFL, from going to UFC, Donald Trump is a symbol of cultural rebellion.

00:15:11.000 He is a symbol that you can do anything if you put your mind to it.

00:15:15.000 Donald Trump represents to this younger generation someone that can fight the man, fight the system, and still succeed.

00:15:24.000 Older voters have different opinions of him.

00:15:26.000 And younger voters are the ones that want the mass deportations.

00:15:30.000 In fact, younger voters are more on board for the deportation force than people in their 50s or 60s.

00:15:35.000 That's just public polling.

00:15:36.000 This is Tom Homan, who, by the way, will be at AmericaFest.

00:15:40.000 Tom Homan is now a confirmed speaker for AmericaFest, amfest.com.

00:15:45.000 Deportations are coming to a neighborhood near you.

00:15:47.000 Playcut 62.

00:15:48.000 I hear a lot of people say, you know, the talk of a mass deportation is racist.

00:15:52.000 It's threatening to the immigrant community. 1.00

00:15:57.000 It's not threatening to the immigrant community.

00:15:58.000 It should be threatening to the illegal immigrant community. 1.00

00:16:02.000 What would the largest deportation in American history look like to you?

00:16:07.000 Well, let me tell you what's not going to be first.

00:16:10.000 It's not going to be a mass sweep of neighborhoods.

00:16:13.000 It's not going to be building concentration camps.

00:16:16.000 I've read it all. 0.98

00:16:17.000 It's ridiculous.

00:16:18.000 But if mass deportation is not going to be, as you said, massive sweeps in concentration camps, what is it?

00:16:24.000 They'll be targeted arrests.

00:16:25.000 We'll know who we're going to arrest, where we're most likely to find them based on numerous investigative processes.

00:16:32.000 Let me tell you what's happening.

00:16:34.000 Is that ICE, Border Patrol, ATF, FBI, they have these lists that Biden has told them not to act upon.

00:16:41.000 We know who they are.

00:16:43.000 We even know where they live.

00:16:44.000 And ICE is waiting.

00:16:46.000 Waiting.

00:16:47.000 Waiting.

00:16:48.000 We are 61 days out.

00:16:50.000 We are 61 days out until the government gives a green light.

00:16:53.000 Day one, Donald Trump says, so help me God.

00:16:56.000 Donald Trump goes into the outer room of the Capitol, doesn't waste any time, and will sign executive order after executive order, allowing ICE to do their job, putting Remain in Mexico back in place, and allowing the securing of the southern border.

00:17:09.000 And that is exactly what younger voters demanded, and that is what they will get.

00:17:13.000 Without which, Donald Trump would not be president-elect.

00:17:18.000 Let me ask a question.

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00:18:16.000 Very interesting topic here.

00:18:17.000 We're going to talk about military preparedness and readiness.

00:18:20.000 People are so distracted with all the nonsense being thrown at Pete Hegseth.

00:18:24.000 By the way, we need Pete Hegseth more than ever.

00:18:26.000 But is our military ready to fight a war?

00:18:28.000 And why are we sending all of our sophisticated weaponry To a fight against Russia.

00:18:33.000 And why is Russia our enemy?

00:18:35.000 No one can answer that question.

00:18:36.000 Captain John A. Conrad, I think the fifth, if I'm reading this correctly, is our guest right now, proud alumnus of the New York Maritime College, best-selling author, entrepreneur, and U.S. merchant marine officer.

00:18:48.000 Captain Conrad, welcome to the program.

00:18:51.000 Thank you for having me, Charlie.

00:18:52.000 I love the hat.

00:18:53.000 So, Captain, tell us one thing in particular.

00:18:56.000 We know that military readiness and preparedness is declining.

00:19:01.000 How does that go to something as fundamental and necessary as our ability to build ships?

00:19:08.000 Our shipbuilding is absolutely in a disaster zone area right now.

00:19:14.000 China has 250 times the shipbuilding capacity of the United States.

00:19:20.000 Even Russia has something like 46 icebreakers.

00:19:23.000 Our icebreaker program is 10 years behind.

00:19:27.000 We just cannot get those ships built.

00:19:31.000 And this is part of the master plan.

00:19:34.000 And the master plan designed by the neocons, designed by the globalists who control the International Maritime Organization in London, they first went after the U.S. merchant marine.

00:19:46.000 And the merchant marine's down to 80 ships internationally compared to China's over 5,000 ships.

00:19:53.000 Then they went after the Coast Guard.

00:19:55.000 No one looked at, when the hurricane came in North Carolina, what happens when hurricanes come in?

00:20:00.000 Coast Guard helicopters, big orange birds laying down in rescue.

00:20:04.000 Where were they this time?

00:20:05.000 Mainstream media did not answer that question.

00:20:09.000 That's why, you know, private citizens, patriots had to go in.

00:20:13.000 Well, it's because the 70% of the Coast Guard helicopters were grounded.

00:20:18.000 And now that the Coast Guard's nearly dead, they're going after the Navy.

00:20:22.000 Why is this?

00:20:23.000 Because Navy ships are very expensive.

00:20:26.000 Air Force bombers are very expensive.

00:20:28.000 What they want to build, what the industrial complex wants to build, is they want to build studies, they want to build algorithms, and they want to build very small things that are super expensive, like HIMARS, like Javelin missiles.

00:20:41.000 Because that's where the profit is.

00:20:43.000 If you build a ship and you've got to put $10 billion into a dry dock, well, you have to hire thousands of workers and you've got to maintain that dry dock for 10, 20 years.

00:20:55.000 Well, if you just did a study on why the shipbuilding gave it to McKinsey or Deloitte, why shipbuilding isn't there, You have a $10 billion study where you get to pocket $9.9 billion of that.

00:21:09.000 And then you get to do a new study on why it's broken.

00:21:12.000 And better yet, let's get the army in charge.

00:21:15.000 Because when you have thousands of tanks, you can lose that money a lot quicker than if you're building just 10 ships for the same price.

00:21:23.000 So, Captain, but help me understand.

00:21:25.000 It's not for a lack of resources.

00:21:27.000 Our military budget is nearly a trillion dollars.

00:21:30.000 It's $800 billion, not counting all the graft that we send overseas.

00:21:35.000 And so, why is it that Russia... 0.81

00:21:39.000 Which is a poor country spends about $100 billion a year on defense.

00:21:46.000 In fact, it's $84 billion.

00:21:47.000 So they spend one-tenth of what we spend on defense.

00:21:51.000 Why is it that Russia is able to build ships more efficiently than the United States?

00:21:58.000 Help me understand this.

00:22:00.000 Well, the number one reason is the bureaucracy, the number of rules and regulations involved with this.

00:22:07.000 So they have two ways that they can control things, and one is to suck all resources out.

00:22:13.000 So that's what happened to my merchant marine.

00:22:15.000 We used to be the Department of the Maritime Administration, the Commandant in charge of that, used to be bigger than the FAA in DOT. Now it's down to 300 employees in DC working on policy.

00:22:28.000 FAA has over 40,000 employees. 0.99

00:22:32.000 So they just suck out. 0.97

00:22:33.000 And the media, mainstream media, it doesn't cover shipbuilding. 0.99

00:22:36.000 It doesn't cover merchant marine stuff.

00:22:38.000 And where that apathy is, where the ignorance is, that's where they can just pull out.

00:22:45.000 And pull out shipbuilding. 1.00

00:22:47.000 So they pulled out commercial shipbuilding.

00:22:49.000 Navy has, you know, people know the Navy.

00:22:52.000 They can't hide the Navy from mainstream media.

00:22:56.000 So if they want to destroy the Navy and put more money into studies in the Army, like we said, What they had to do is the exact opposite.

00:23:03.000 So FAA has 40,000 people, the shipbuilding and repair arm of the US Navy.

00:23:09.000 It's called NAVSEA. They have 83,000 people employed in that.

00:23:14.000 And those 83,000 people have not delivered one single ship on time and on budget this century.

00:23:24.000 So Captain, how many of them have been fired because of that?

00:23:27.000 Sorry to interrupt, but we have tight breaks here.

00:23:29.000 How many have been fired because of that, Captain?

00:23:31.000 None have been fired.

00:23:32.000 There's absolutely no accountability for all of this.

00:23:35.000 We just had sabotage of welds at our biggest shipyard, HII, which does our aircraft carriers, our submarines.

00:23:42.000 And not only has no one been fired, but they classify the reason for the sabotage.

00:23:47.000 So we don't even have good info.

00:23:49.000 That's what they do.

00:23:50.000 They classify it, hide it from journalists like you and me, and then there's no accountability.

00:23:56.000 So, Captain, let's go even deeper.

00:23:58.000 Thank you.

00:23:58.000 Of course, there's no accountability.

00:23:59.000 I was with Pete Hegseth this morning, who I think is just amazing.

00:24:04.000 He's thinking about this correctly and creatively.

00:24:07.000 What can he do to fix this on day one?

00:24:10.000 Pick good people.

00:24:11.000 What orders can he do to do something as simple as building ships?

00:24:16.000 Yeah, I absolutely love Pete.

00:24:18.000 And Mike Waltz is early on that.

00:24:20.000 He's, you know, an army guy, but he realized this problem and he's creating the Ships for America Act in Congress and now in the National Security Council.

00:24:27.000 So that's a big part.

00:24:28.000 They got to get Wall Street.

00:24:29.000 Wall Street money is pouring into China.

00:24:31.000 It's got to be closed off and redirected into the U.S. State Department has to get involved.

00:24:36.000 But what Pete Exit has to do...

00:24:38.000 First is fire these 83,000 people.

00:24:42.000 Not all of them.

00:24:43.000 Some of them are working on ship repair.

00:24:44.000 But what you have is dozens and dozens of people who walk around in clipboards looking for DEI infractions, looking for health and safety infractions, looking for toxic chemicals inside paints.

00:24:57.000 And you have state people too.

00:24:59.000 You know, California won't let the firefighting foam that we need to get our ships out and safe On the highways. 0.83

00:25:07.000 So you just have to cut off these people and, you know, what they did is every time there's a new rule change, say they want, you know, more women bathrooms or trans Transgender safe spaces onboard an aircraft carrier.

00:25:23.000 Well, they make a change order.

00:25:24.000 And every time you make a change order, it's like the factory and Tesla going down.

00:25:29.000 And if you moved, you know, pieces around every fifth car, it messes up the whole production line.

00:25:34.000 The Ford class carrier had 16,000 change orders.

00:25:39.000 This is what's slowing it down because all these bureaucrats, DEI, health and safety, some of them are weapons too, but they're all making these change orders.

00:25:48.000 And every time you do, it just sucks away time.

00:25:52.000 And time is precious in manufacturing, especially heavy manufacturing.

00:25:57.000 This kind of goes down to a fundamental fault error, a first principle error in the military.

00:26:05.000 What does the current military think it exists to do?

00:26:08.000 Well, they're conquest. 0.68

00:26:10.000 So you have to look at the Navy versus the Army.

00:26:14.000 You have to go back to Mahanian principles. 1.00

00:26:16.000 This is what Teddy Roosevelt, the great white fleet. 0.78

00:26:19.000 Teddy Roosevelt, you know, beat Cuba.

00:26:21.000 He was a colonel, but he was really about the Navy because the Army goes and it destroys homes.

00:26:26.000 It conquests.

00:26:27.000 It takes over land.

00:26:29.000 So if you want to take over someone and...

00:26:32.000 You do an army.

00:26:33.000 What the Navy does is control trade, control choke points.

00:26:36.000 And this is essential.

00:26:37.000 We see absolute failure of the Navy in the Red Sea.

00:26:40.000 Well, this is helping spark that inflation.

00:26:43.000 Inflation is two things. 0.92

00:26:45.000 One is the vast spending these Democrats are doing is absolutely ridiculous.

00:26:49.000 The other is reduction of supply because the supply chains are broken.

00:26:54.000 So what a Navy does is it controls shipping.

00:26:56.000 It controls trade.

00:26:57.000 And when the Navy has a battle out to sea, No civilians die, but you don't expend those small weapons.

00:27:04.000 You don't expend, you can't control other countries.

00:27:08.000 So the neocons do not want a navy.

00:27:11.000 They've been, again, they destroyed the merchant marine, then the coast guard, now the navy, because they don't want to control trade.

00:27:19.000 They want the globalists to control trade, the big ship owners in Europe, the Chinese shipping.

00:27:24.000 They don't want the Navy.

00:27:26.000 They don't want the Merchant Marine.

00:27:28.000 They don't want U.S. Congress anywhere near this trade because 90% of all trade goes on the ocean.

00:27:34.000 And especially now that Donald Trump is talking about tariffs, you see the papers like Financial Times and Economist going absolutely crazy on him.

00:27:43.000 But they don't realize that tariffs are absolutely essential when you have adversaries.

00:27:51.000 During times of peace, you don't need tariffs.

00:27:52.000 Bring on the free trade.

00:27:54.000 But the enemy gets a vote.

00:27:56.000 Iran, China, Russia, they aren't allowing that free trade.

00:28:00.000 They aren't allowing the ships to go through the choke points, and we don't have a Navy strong enough to support it.

00:28:06.000 Really quick, Captain, what percentage of our critical infrastructure that we need, such as drones, etc., are made in a foreign land? 1.00

00:28:16.000 What our military uses is not made in America.

00:28:18.000 Do you have an estimation on that?

00:28:20.000 I don't have an estimation on that, but it's also, it's not only the foreign land, it's our allies.

00:28:26.000 You know, China's pulling market share away from shipbuilding, away from South Korea.

00:28:31.000 It's pulling it away from Japan. 0.94

00:28:33.000 And every time I've seen, I watch all the House Armed Services Committee, whenever they give the Navy trouble on this and say, you are not, you're not, you're not doing good here.

00:28:42.000 The Navy Emeralds always have the same answer and they said, our allies are our strength.

00:28:47.000 Well, where are our allies in the Red Sea?

00:28:49.000 Where's Canada?

00:28:50.000 You want missile defense.

00:28:52.000 Those missiles come over the ocean from China and Russia.

00:28:55.000 Canada does not have one single destroyer.

00:28:57.000 That's why the Canadian Navy is not in the Red Sea.

00:29:00.000 We need those allies to do 4% GDP spending on defense because...

00:29:08.000 The Navy's all alone, and you think, well, we got a large Navy.

00:29:11.000 Well, the Chinese Navy is larger, and when you add in those allies, they don't show up.

00:29:16.000 They haven't showed up in the Red Sea, and the ones that have, France and Italy, have said, we are not going under United States command.

00:29:23.000 They've been their own separate, protect their own ships, because we have all these woke policies, and we're protecting everyone's ship.

00:29:30.000 The Navy's protecting Russian... 1.00

00:29:32.000 And Chinese ships in the Red Sea right now and not protecting U.S. flagships.

00:29:37.000 And our partners are saying, this is absolutely ridiculous what Jake Sullivan is doing here.

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00:30:41.000 That is patriotmobile.com slash charlie or call 972-PATRIOT. Captain, am I wrong to believe that we are sleepwalking into World War III with Russia? 0.55

00:30:51.000 Absolutely.

00:30:52.000 Russia, China, you know, we...

00:30:54.000 It's worse than that.

00:30:55.000 It's really worse than that, Charlie.

00:30:58.000 If China takes Taiwan and we decide we are going to do something, we don't have the ships.

00:31:06.000 Everyone thinks you can just put all of this military equipment on aircraft and get it over there.

00:31:11.000 Well, the entire cargo capacity of the entire Air Force, including civilian partners like FedEx and UPS, is less than the cargo capacity of one Chinese mega-container ship.

00:31:23.000 And we only have 80 merchant marine ships in service.

00:31:28.000 They have 5,000.

00:31:29.000 The Pacific's huge.

00:31:30.000 And everyone thinks you can Berlin airlift.

00:31:32.000 But during the Berlin airlift of Kennedy's time, it was a short hop from Berlin to Western Germany.

00:31:39.000 Now you have to do thousands of miles over the Pacific.

00:31:42.000 So we can't get supplies over.

00:31:45.000 And even if you did, even if we had 10 times the cargo capacity in the Air Force, where are those aircraft refueling?

00:31:52.000 The air tankers have to refuel at forward air bases in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Guam, Tinian, those places.

00:32:02.000 Well, you need big oil tankers to deliver that jet fuel over there. 1.00

00:32:07.000 The DOD only has access to 10 oil tankers, so we can't possibly get our supplies over there.

00:32:13.000 But what is so dangerous about that is we have 200,000 to 300,000 servicemen and dependents in South Korea, in Okinawa, Japan, We have Marines, Army, everyone.

00:32:24.000 We can't resupply them without these true things.

00:32:28.000 And if China has air superiority in the thing, if they can shoot down commercial airlines, well, we don't have the ships to pull these service members out. 0.85

00:32:39.000 So it's an enormous problem.

00:32:41.000 Captain, what does Trump need to do to make a peace deal happen?

00:32:45.000 And can a peace deal happen?

00:32:47.000 With Russia specifically, are you asking?

00:32:49.000 Between Russia and Ukraine.

00:32:51.000 Well, what they don't understand is that Russia is—they want us to focus on the land war.

00:32:57.000 The mainstream media wants us to focus on the land war, again, because they can sell them tanks.

00:33:01.000 They can sell them javelin missiles.

00:33:03.000 But that is not Putin's main concern.

00:33:06.000 That Crimea is the choke point. 0.56

00:33:09.000 It is Russia's New Orleans. 0.93

00:33:12.000 So you have the entire inland waterway system of Russia is vast.

00:33:16.000 It moves 70 million tons of cargo and 17 million people a year.

00:33:21.000 And all of those rivers and the Caspian Sea, they all come down through Crimea to get out to market.

00:33:29.000 Vladimir Putin, when the Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal, he said they were putting billions of dollars into this inland waterway system because all of their agriculture, a lot of their oil, all comes down these rivers.

00:33:42.000 And so this war would have been very easy to stop Putin early on.

00:33:47.000 You take out that Crimea bridge, you close down the waterway, and that's what chokes the economy of Russia. 0.61

00:33:54.000 They would have came to the bargaining table very quick.

00:33:58.000 But Jake Sullivan said, no, we are not attacking that Crimea bridge.

00:34:02.000 We are not stopping them.

00:34:03.000 The Ukrainians tried to shell barge traffic from Mariupol.

00:34:08.000 But if you see the map now, it's all along that Sea of Azov because that is the...

00:34:14.000 The point that Putin wants, he is worried about NATO closing down this waterway and absolutely putting a chokehold on the economy.

00:34:24.000 And this is why mainstream media and Jake Sullivan have not told you about the importance of the bridge.

00:34:29.000 And the Navy thinks they've more of a descent sinking of ships, but they do not want your attention on the volume of traffic coming down this waterway.

00:34:38.000 So that's one lever that Trump has, that if you don't listen, Putin, We will shut down that waterway.

00:34:45.000 We will send the missiles and blow up that bridge.

00:34:49.000 You know, that's just my suggestion.

00:34:51.000 But obviously, you have amazing people.

00:34:53.000 Thank you.

00:34:53.000 Pete Hegseth there, and Mike Waltz at National Security Council.

00:34:58.000 Mike's a Green Beret, and with Bruce Kimbrell and the Navy, they created the Ships Act.

00:35:03.000 Thank you so much.

00:35:04.000 Excellent.

00:35:04.000 Excellent job.

00:35:05.000 Thank you.

00:35:06.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:35:07.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:35:10.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - November 20, 2024

Laken Riley's Killer Brought to Justice + The Military Crisis

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