Breaking News: President Trump announces a Ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Iran confirms to Reuters that a ceasefire has been reached, and no American troops have been reported killed in the process. Jack Pesobic joins the show to discuss the deal, and his thoughts on it.
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00:01:02.000Eastern, and we can report, and it has been verified both with sources inside the U.S. government and externally, there is a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran, brokered by President Donald Trump.
00:01:14.000President Donald Trump writes on Truth Social, quote, congratulations to everyone.
00:01:18.000It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a complete and total ceasefire in approximately six hours from now when Israel and Iran have wound down and completed their progress final missions for 12 hours at which point the war will be considered ended.
00:01:34.000Officially, Iran will start the ceasefire and upon the 12th hour, Israel will start the ceasefire and upon the 24th hour an official end to the 12 day war, 12-day war will be saluted by the world.
00:01:46.000During each ceasefire, the other side will remain peaceful and respectful.
00:01:49.000On the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will, I would like to congratulate both countries, Israel and Iran, on having the stamina, courage, and intelligence to end what should be called the 12-day war.
00:01:59.000This is a war that could have gone on for years and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn't and never will.
00:02:11.000This is a massive victory, everybody, as people woke up today with a lot of dooming.
00:02:16.000And I got to say that on this program, we took a big lot of incoming, a lot of incoming when he said, trust President Trump, trust the president, and trust his team and his ability to navigate all of this.
00:02:30.000And not only today did we get a very fake theatrical response from Iran with zero American troops killed.
00:02:39.000We are now getting a peace deal in the Middle East.
00:02:43.000We are getting a settlement in the Middle East, the likes of which we never could have imagined, that will now bring this to closure between Israel and Iran.
00:02:52.000There is some news circulating online where people say, oh, this is fake.
00:03:00.000Iran has confirmed to Reuters the ceasefire is happening.
00:03:04.000Don't believe the fake news, quote, Reuters reports that according to a source close to negotiations, Qatar's prime minister spoke with Tehran by phone and gained Iran's agreement to a U.S. ceasefire proposal.
00:03:16.000You're seeing Qatar as kind of being a central player in all of this.
00:03:48.000Jack, this is a remarkable victory for President Trump, for our agenda, for the American people.
00:03:53.000And I just got to say, there's a lot of people that are going to have to do some backpedaling and some apologizing for everything they said about President Trump, everything they said about our movement the last couple of days.
00:04:02.000Jack Poseobic, your thoughts on this historic ceasefire announcement that President Trump was able to broker?
00:04:09.000Well, Charlie, they said it couldn't be done.
00:04:11.000And just like so many other things, as President Trump has said throughout his career, under budget and ahead of schedule.
00:04:18.000So this is something where, of course, a peace deal between, or at least a ceasefire, I should say, not a full peace deal, but a ceasefire, hopefully, which leads to a peace deal.
00:04:28.000And I'm sure there's going to be much more work as we see coming through with Witkoff and President Trump's other ambassadors and envoys into that region as it goes through, that this is what President Trump had been working for all along.
00:04:42.000We know that there had been recalcitrants.
00:04:44.000Obviously, there are deep simmering resentments in the region.
00:04:49.000This has been a fight that's been going on for a long, long time, a lot longer than you and I have been alive, Charlie.
00:04:54.000But it was only through President Trump that perhaps this daylight was allowed to be brokered through.
00:05:01.000And, you know, the biggest losers here are the neocons.
00:05:04.000The biggest losers are the people who wanted this to get into a protracted war, who wanted this full-on regime change war in Iran.
00:05:12.000Senator Lindsey Graham is down there in the well of the Senate for all afternoon.
00:06:58.000We don't want any of the stuff that John Bolton and Lindsey Graham want, but we also don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
00:07:03.000How can we balance those two things together?
00:07:05.000And President Donald Trump, he was able to navigate this with incredible specificity, understanding the lack of appetite, including for himself, to have boots on the ground, while also saying that we are going to remove Iran's nuclear capability.
00:07:22.000Jack, should Donald Trump be considered for the Nobel Peace Prize?
00:07:27.000I believe the government of Pakistan just a couple of days ago nominated President Trump for it.
00:07:32.000So for once, I'm able to say that I agree with the Pakistanis.
00:07:36.000And I think that President Trump certainly should be in the room.
00:07:39.000Look, there's no president anywhere, certainly not Barack Obama, who got us into deeper and deeper war against this, who got the Nobel Peace Prize, but he got it on day one of his administration before he'd even done anything, before he had kicked off the regime change war in Libya, before he kicked off the Syrian civil war, which turned into yet another protracted regime change war, where, by the way, Americans died, where Americans died.
00:08:05.000And Charlie, we haven't seen any Americans killed here whatsoever.
00:08:09.000Look, they're calling President Trump, and I said this last week.
00:08:23.000And he's proven to the entire world that he is, in fact, the deal maker in chief.
00:08:28.000And by the way, can we just also say that some of the quote-unquote trusted voices have gotten this thing so wrong?
00:08:34.000It turns out, Jack, I mean, we have to take a little bit of a victory lap for here for this program and for what we've been doing on our podcast, what we've been doing together.
00:08:40.000Jack, we kind of pitched a little bit of a perfect game here.
00:08:45.000We said it was likely that President Trump was going to strike.
00:08:47.000We even offered some caution, introductory elements of this.
00:08:51.000But President Trump here, he acted with incredible prudence and decisiveness.
00:08:56.000And now we have not just an end to U.S. involvement in the Middle East.
00:08:59.000This is an end to the war, a war that people thought was going to be the war to end all wars.
00:09:04.000Who would have thought 12 days ago, Jack, that Israel preemptively striking Iran would end 12 days later with zero American troops dead and no nuclear program for Iran?
00:09:13.000I hope you all understand this is not normal.
00:09:16.000This usually results in regime change, boots on the grounds, Marines in Tehran.
00:09:22.000Instead, President Donald Trump brought it right up to the brink, got what we wanted, and was able then to proceed for what was best for America and for Western civilization.
00:10:05.000So when you're watching the Charlie Kirk show, when you're watching Real America's Voice, when you're watching Human Events Daily, you're ahead of the mainstream media.
00:10:12.000And then Steve, even publicly, Steve Bannon over on War Room on the Saturday morning show, when we're up there, we're saying the party's on tonight.
00:10:20.000It's the only place in the world that you heard any of that.
00:10:23.000And so for people who are saying, oh, well, these guys, they're this way, they're that way.
00:10:26.000I said, guys, if you would listen to us and just us for the entire time, and I'm not saying you have to do that, by the way, go listen to anybody.
00:10:35.000But if you did listen to us, we told you what was going to happen, when it was going to happen, and generally, I think for pretty much every major piece of this before it happened, with the exception, and I will say with the exception of this peace deal, this ceasefire deal, because only President Trump could have done it in Trump time.
00:10:53.000And by the way, he makes this look so easy.
00:11:10.000And for all the people that were doubting President Trump, we never wavered on this program.
00:11:14.000And I want to even say more importantly, for those of you that never wavered, good on you.
00:11:17.000For those of you that trusted President Trump, for those of you that knew that President Trump had the wisdom and he had the experience and he had the wherewithal, God bless you because you understood exactly the high-stake situation here.
00:11:28.000And remember, we went through the list when President Trump struck Syria, no endless war.
00:11:33.000President Trump took out Solemani, no endless war.
00:11:36.000President Trump took out ISIS, no endless war.
00:11:39.000In fact, I could even say this was not even a war.
00:11:42.000And all these people that were attacking President Trump and so viciously attacking them, you were wrong.
00:12:12.000This guy, and now 24 hours later, the people that were honestly so flimsy against President Trump, I'm getting really fired up here.
00:12:20.000And Andrew, you could tell, Andrew, you and I were talking about this, that on X and some social channels, people had no trust in President Trump.
00:12:27.000What else does President Trump have to do to win your trust over?
00:12:48.000Yeah, I mean, Charlie, what I think about is just how many people President Trump has made fools of this week and last week.
00:12:56.000And what was unique about this is we're used to President Trump making fools of the foreign policy establishment or Democrats or the media talking heads.
00:13:07.000But this was a little bit different because it struck at this online debate about the position of Israel, about foreign interventions.
00:13:16.000And so it made fools of a new cadre of people.
00:13:20.000And one of the things that I'm really proud of our show and of Jack's show, War Room certainly, is that there was a lack of panic.
00:13:31.000And I'll never forget when you went on Jesse Waters on, it looks like June 16th.
00:13:36.000So about seven days ago, one week to the day.
00:13:39.000And it looked like there was just this, you know, is he going to strike?
00:14:31.000That's the sign of a healthy movement.
00:14:33.000But what's not a healthy position when you have a guy that you've been riding with for 10 years now that survived assassination attempts, impeachment attempts, that's done foreign interventions, by the way, with Soleimani and ISIS and the Moab, and he's gone toe-to-toe with Rocketman in North Korea.
00:14:51.000I mean, this guy has earned our trust that he is not a regime change president, that he is not a quagmire or nation builder president.
00:15:00.000And so there was a lot of groundwork that he'd done in the past decade that he deserved our trust.
00:15:07.000And so for people to so blindly throw that away and act like that he that he had somehow fundamentally changed, I mean, I get it.
00:15:14.000We've all got a little PTSD after the last decade, but that was kind of my point.
00:15:22.000It's just, and I'm sorry to interrupt, but like the people that were saying that, there was no reason to believe that somehow after Solomoni, after al-Baghdadi, after Syria, after all of his campaign promises, all of a sudden Donald Trump was going to re-emerge as John Bolton.
00:15:34.000Only you and your own delusion would lead you to that.
00:15:37.000And I was just trying to reconfigure people.
00:15:48.000And by the way, you could actually probably play out.
00:15:50.000Yeah, and by the way, Jack, you could make an argument.
00:15:52.000His regime change tweet yesterday was a little bit of a taunt and a threat to Iran to not go after U.S. service members because in the back of their head, they were thinking, oh, my goodness, potentially, you know, Donald Trump is going to execute regime change.
00:16:08.000Yeah, you never know also behind the scenes what phone calls he's making, what messages he's making to the Russians, to the Chinese, to Xi Jinping, to Vladimir Putin.
00:16:18.000We saw that the Iranian foreign minister was in Russia last night.
00:16:27.000He's constant communication with everybody, certainly talking to world leaders.
00:16:31.000So this idea that just because he's sending one message out publicly, that's the only thing he's thinking about is, guys, you're not always seeing the bigger picture.
00:16:40.000And I'm not making some argument for, you know, oh, 4D warfare or whatever, but you never know who he's talking to specifically in situations like this.
00:16:49.000And let's not forget for a second here that this was the man who walked into North Korea, who stepped across that line.
00:16:56.000Barack Obama was terrified of going, the binoculars up there.
00:17:00.000And, you know, he's looking, oh, the observation post.
00:17:02.000President Trump's a man who took Kim Jong-un's hand and walked directly into North Korea, crossing that line.
00:17:08.000And so he was willing to do so in the name of peace and normalizing relations between the world and North Korea.
00:17:16.000And so we know President Trump's commitment.
00:17:18.000He's put himself personally in harm's way in the name of peace.
00:17:23.000And so when you see different things that go out there, I always just say, he's the deal maker in chief.
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00:18:42.000And Jack, to your point, I think part of the Trump doctrine, the MAGA doctrine, is the unpredictability of it all.
00:18:49.000And this is what you saw at play with the base.
00:18:52.000The base had sort of, especially online on places like X, had created a myth of dovishness for President Trump that I don't think he's ever actually sort of put out there.
00:19:01.000He's like, yeah, listen, what I do works.
00:19:13.000And what the whole point of Trump's brinksmanship is that he's able to defy norms.
00:19:18.000He has to, you have to give him latitude, a very wide latitude and wide leash to even defy sort of the things that he's, you know, sort of promised or said.
00:19:29.000I know that may sound counterintuitive, but if you were to bring him back, if you were to sort of demand that he couldn't make those points, then you would take away his leverage, you would take away his brinksmanship and the thing that makes Trump Trump.
00:19:49.000And this was, again, on June 16th, in the middle of all of this fog, as the base, you could feel the base getting very unsettled, very unsettled.
00:19:58.000And you went on Fox, which, if we're just being honest, there's a lot of people on Fox that are a lot more hawkish about war.
00:20:05.000And Jesse asked you, well, hey, what about the base that sounds like they don't want this?
00:20:09.000And you threaded the needle brilliantly.
00:20:16.000I'm never personally going to forget this moment because the stakes were so high that night, Charlie, 377.
00:20:23.000President Trump understands his base extraordinarily well.
00:20:26.000He knows that his base does not want another Iraq.
00:20:29.000He does not want Libya, does not want a civil war or bedlam where the United States is left carrying the bag.
00:20:35.000But also, President Trump has been morally clear for a decade, Iran should not have a nuclear weapon.
00:20:40.000And President Trump has the talent and the expertise to be able to thread that needle.
00:20:45.000The generation that I represent, Jesse, the under 30 crowd, they absolutely are very war-weary.
00:20:51.000Many of them voted for President Trump on college campuses because they did not want to see a Joe Biden or George Bush philosophy where we get into this endless conflict where we're sending hundreds of billions of dollars.
00:21:03.000I think President Trump will be able to balance those two things while defending our allies, saying that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon without having to deploy a single American troop or even having America involved from the sky.
00:21:14.000President Trump can get that deal done while fulfilling the mandate that the voters gave him.
00:21:55.000And by the way, for all of the people that are, you know, anti-Qatar, and I get it, you know, there's money flowing from Qatar all over the places and not some good place.
00:22:01.000And yes, you know, they're warmer with the Iranians than they should be.
00:22:04.000If it wasn't for Qatar and our relationship with Qatar, we might not have been able to end this thing right now.
00:22:09.000Qatar played a central role in us being able to end this war.
00:22:17.000I'm thinking about, you know, there's been so much criticism, and Jack, you could probably weigh in on this even more, but like of President Trump seemingly cozying up to Qatar.
00:22:27.000Also, but think about the olive branch, Charlie, that he offered to Syria.
00:22:32.000So, I mean, but so Trump is playing this whole thing differently and counterintuitively, and those friendships and those olive branches are giving him extraordinary leverage in this region to pressure the Saudis, the Qataris, Bahrainis, all of them to get on board with this peace plan.
00:23:57.000As we know, by the way, President Trump scheduled to attend the NATO conference in The Hague tomorrow.
00:24:02.000And so this obviously will be a huge part of those discussions.
00:24:07.000But we're going to be really, you know, potentially up till midnight to see what's going on.
00:24:11.000Operations continuing between Iran and Israel.
00:24:15.000Also getting some reports of explosions in Baghdad right now.
00:24:20.000So in Iraq, a lot of questions as to actually how this goes.
00:24:24.000But I think the next 12 to 24 hours are going to be absolutely critical.
00:24:28.000But Charlie, to your point, this is something in the Wall Street, the Washington Post actually quoted me on this, this phrase, the regime change upsell.
00:24:38.000I said, look, President Trump has always been clear that he wants the denuclearization of Iran and that this operation was solely focused on the denuclearization of Iran.
00:24:50.000It's something that he said even when he came down the golden escalator 10 plus years ago now.
00:24:54.000However, there were those out there trying to upsell him on it.
00:24:58.000Lindsey Graham, Mark Levin, you just saw this cavalcade of people saying, well, you know, you can't let the regime stay in power, Mr. President.
00:25:08.000You've got to take them out because that's the way to do this.
00:25:13.000So there was this regime change, this idea of upselling.
00:25:16.000Like when you, you know, I compared it to when you go to the dentist for, you know, a cleaning and then they start trying to upsell you and pulling your wisdom teeth and all this other work or when your car has got, need some new tires, and then suddenly they want to put brakes and rotors and all this other work being done.
00:25:30.000And Shane Gillis actually has a whole new sitcom all about working in an auto shop, right?
00:26:00.000Compares it to World War II, compares it to Hitler.
00:26:03.000And within minutes after Lindsey Graham's speech and within minutes after three hours, almost exactly.
00:26:11.000So within three hours of Mark Levin going up and almost directly attacking president trump for calling for peace boom president trump has announced a peace deal in terms of this ceasefire so for those guys who are pushing the regime change upsell really does not look good on you really does not so we have blake here as well i'm going to throw to blake in a second here but andrew i want to kind of get back to you here the online chatter and the online vibe here i mean this is a major victory right that this is this is as big as it and good as it gets what does
00:26:41.000this mean politically andrew because what i'm reading online a lot of people are starting the big backpedal a lot of people that were attacking president trump and doubting president trump they're scrubbing tweets they're deleting tweets actually they're reconfiguring they're trying to manipulate audiences andrew what does this mean politically and also talk our audience through some of the incoming that we received for trying to tell people to remain calm and steady throughout these last couple of days yeah i mean i'll start with that last question first i mean charlie you've personally been called a warmonger and
00:27:11.000you've been called an isolationist both used as pejoratives so if you dared defend the president and and getting behind him and and charlie i hope i'm not sharing some stuff out of school here but you know you were very clear you were going to support the president's decision if he chose to move i don't know that you were you were not enthusiastic about any american involvement you were not i was very cautious i was very cautious very cautious you were very cautious but you said i think both publicly and privately i will defend you if you move right and
00:27:41.000and i mean that's essentially what it was i you've earned my trust you've had my back i'm gonna have yours i hope this all ends well right and so you know i don't think of that as being a warmonger or as a as a as a dove an isolationist and essentially there are shades of gray there's nuance here obviously everybody in this in this show jack i know you got something breaking here but everybody in the show wants to avoid quagmires and we want to focus on mass deportations like that's everybody on this show that's what we want but
00:28:11.000sometimes life comes at you quick and you got to be ready to deal with it jack what's up well so i do have this and this is out of uh my former colleague trey yingst and he just got it right here president trump spoke with qatar's emir informed him that the u.s got israel to agree to a ceasefire the president asked qatar to help persuade iran following that the vice president vice president vance coordinated directly with qatar's prime minister on the details this effort proved successful and following discussion with qatari pm the iranians agreed so
00:28:41.000it was israel first then it was between so the president uh president trump asked qatar then vance and qatar's prime minister worked directly on the details so again to charlie's point about this is why we have the open door there with the Qataris the deal was then coordinated at the highest level with the president and the vice president the Qatari emir and the prime minister here's the quote despite having been just this is the Qataris quote right despite having been just attacked a few hours earlier the Qataris have set aside their grievances
00:29:11.000and prioritized regional security to get the deal done and as we've all said a number of times this week blessed are the peacemakers blessed are the peacemakers amen hey I've been saying that all week and President Trump is blessed for trying to get to a place of reconciliation and for peace there's a lot more boy I if you wanted ratings I could tell you a lot more of the backstory that happened this last week but I don't I don't share or leak stuff that's not what I do but
00:29:41.000I will tell I will say this and Andrew to your point I told the president and his team if you guys do this we will have your back because I trust your judgment and I said that both publicly and privately because that's what you get out of here on this program what I say publicly I also say privately and vice versa this is a nice T up here 379 this is the left wing spin the left wing spin is now all of a sudden they want to impeach Donald Trump for bombing Iran now how are they going to possibly do this he is brokering peace in the Middle East in a way we've never seen before play cut
00:30:12.000379 I have worked in an administration that has had to communicate um you know I was in the Biden administration in the first year when the president made the decision to pull out of Afghanistan and I think you can tell a lot about the administration's actions from how they are communicating outwardly about it what do these comments today and also yet of this weekend from the vice president secretary of state right secretary of defense what do these comments tell you about the strategy um that the administration is
00:30:42.000employing here or or is there one at all yo they're making it up simon as they go along well okay so so jack what do they mean they're making it up first of all we have a peace deal i'm gonna go through the no's okay no more war no boots on the ground no regime change no endless war no aid to the persian rebels and no nuclear weapons for iran jack those six big no's i just said is a dream please respond msnbc
00:31:13.000here well i mean they're sitting up there and and if i miss my guess they're they're trying to compare this to like what biden was doing in afghanistan and the pullout and all the rest of it and it's it's it's it's ridiculous what they're doing here and it's gross it's it's just absolutely gross and so what we're what we're talking about is a president who's putting american lives first that's absolutely correct american treasure first i don't see any pallets of cash being sent over to tehran i
00:31:43.000didn't see any uh you know any of this capitulation and the jigpoa and all these different things by the way this opens the door right because iran has now shown rationality so they've and this this is clear by the way so iran has shown rationality and that opens the door so if we're talking about the foot in the door tactic now the upsell here is a broader nuclear deal for iran to perhaps keep this off the shelf completely uh a broader peace deal perhaps normalization at least
00:32:13.000stabilization within the region this opens the door for so many things that none of these talking heads saw going on and by the way it's not you know it's not the taliban being given nine billion dollars of american equipment the same way that joe biden left them and by the way general milley left them i uh i was there actually charlie it was at a a i believe was a turning point action reception where president trump talked about that and he uh he had some choice words for
00:32:43.000for general milley that have gone quite viral since uh since that day down there at uh Mar-a-Lago talking about this, because this shows the difference between a president who's an idiot and a president who knows how to achieve the commander's desired end state.
00:32:59.000So now I want to throw it to Blake here.
00:33:01.000Blake, you're kind of our historical mastermind here.
00:33:04.000Blake, can you summarize the roller coaster in the context of five years of Iran and Trump, from the drone to Soleimani to the Iranian nuclear deal to assassination threats to bombing nukes, bombing nuclear sites to now a peace deal?
00:33:19.000Blake, this is a roller coaster likes of which we've never seen between Persia and the United States.
00:33:26.000I think if you, hopefully when all is said and done, we'll look back on this as the Trump experience, the Trump tactics, the Trump strategy at its best, at its most successful.
00:33:39.000And I think we can all freely admit, it can be pretty stressful to go through the same way riding a roller coaster can be stressful.
00:33:46.000As you say, you say everything very publicly what you're going to do.
00:33:50.000President Trump is a little different.
00:33:51.000President Trump, he is a businessman who's used to negotiation, who's used to having a public face as well as private intentions.
00:34:00.000So President Trump is the kind of guy who can do things like say, I'm giving you two weeks, but actually I've already decided to hit you tomorrow.
00:34:08.000He can say, I'm willing to go as much as it takes, willing to do anything.
00:34:12.000I'm willing to overthrow your government because actually I want you to just come to the table so we can get this done.
00:34:18.000And we've seen this now over nearly a decade.
00:34:22.000President Trump said on his first day running for office that he hated the Iraq war and he didn't want Iran to get a nuclear weapon.
00:34:31.000And I think that is where he was at his most clear-cut, his most honest, his most like his, it was the best guide to everything that's happened since.
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00:37:41.000Yeah, you know, this is, as the president is saying, this is the 12-day war.
00:37:45.000This is exactly what peace through strength looks like.
00:37:48.000When you're able to use strength in a decisive way, you're able to declare what victory looks like before you even use strength.
00:37:56.000You're able to also declare the terms of, I wouldn't say surrender, but the terms of de-escalation.
00:38:06.000And that's exactly what took place here.
00:38:09.000The president positioned himself through deterrence.
00:38:12.000He had the assets in the area to be able to deliver on what needed to be done.
00:38:18.000He delivered on those assets precisely.
00:38:22.000And then he had enough restraint, even when the Ayatollah, which we knew they had to say something, shot back at us, they had enough fear of President Trump and his leadership that they actually gave us a heads up that, hey, this is what we're going to do.
00:38:40.000Just understand it's coming, and then we're probably in a good spot.
00:38:43.000And the president immediately responded by saying, appreciate the heads up.
00:38:50.000And we look forward to hopefully having good relationships with you moving forward and leave it up to the Iranian people if they want regime change.
00:38:59.000That's what leadership looks like when President Trump is pulled off.
00:39:42.000Hopefully, we could possibly see text and culture on this by Wednesday, Thursday, and could even possibly start voting in Votarama as early as Friday.
00:40:06.000They want to make the bill better, and we all do, but we can't allow perfection to get in the way of good because the fact is when this bill comes to the floor, you're going to have two options.
00:40:16.000A, vote to move forward with the Trump-era policies, or B, you vote no and say, hey, I prefer to stay with Biden policies.
00:40:23.000That's not a good place for any Republican to be.
00:40:37.000I want everyone, I want to hear from you, freedom at charliekirk.com, but I think this is an important theme, everybody, because this will not be the last trial.
00:40:44.000Andrew, how many times did I tell you, I was like, guys, I've been through this for 10 years.
00:40:48.000I've seen this cycle play out, and it always ends up okay, and it goes up and it goes down, and it's just kind of like, okay, what's going on here?
00:40:57.000Actually, I don't know if we still have Andrew because we had Senator Mullen.
00:41:00.000We might throw him back here, but we do.
00:41:02.000But what are the lessons here for everybody that doubted President Trump, for everyone that didn't trust President Trump?
00:41:08.000What are the lessons here that people need to derive, which is that maybe when you read truth socials, there might be something else going on?
00:41:15.000And has this man not earned your trust yet, Andrew?
00:41:18.000Yeah, I think about two things, tariffs and the Iran strikes.
00:41:24.000Those are really the two moments where this trust in the president has been stressed, where even some of the base, even some of his supporters start screaming.
00:41:57.000I mean, there's still a part of me in the back of my mind that's kind of waiting for the next, you know, the six-hour mark, the 12-hour mark.
00:42:04.000But yeah, I mean, Trump, once again, I go back to this idea that you have to let Trump sort of defy your expectations to get to the point that we want to get to.
00:42:17.000He has to sometimes stretch the limits of what everybody's comfortable with.
00:42:21.000And, you know, everybody thinks they've got Trump figured out.
00:42:43.000I was going to say, I just want to know, you know, and for the Human Events Daily audience out there, has anyone done a wellness check on Lindsey Graham?
00:42:52.000Has anyone, I think he's in D.C. He might be down in South Carolina.
00:42:56.000I just want to make sure, is Lindsey Graham going to be all right?
00:42:58.000You know, I'm concerned about him as an elected official of our nation.
00:43:02.000I want to make sure that the people of South Carolina are well represented.
00:43:06.000Does anyone want to do a wellness check on him or the other neocon warmongers out there who were foaming at the mouth?
00:43:15.000There were people out there who were calling, go all the way, Mr. President, go all the way, go all the way to Tehran, take them all out, wipe this out, with no plan whatsoever.
00:43:25.000They don't even know the ethnic makeup of the country.
00:43:27.000They don't even know the size of the country, the population.
00:43:30.000They have no plan whatsoever for what would come next.
00:43:33.000And they just kept demanding more and more and more.
00:43:35.000And President Trump has very smartly shut them all down.
00:43:40.000Shut them down decisively and quickly.
00:44:35.000Well, I don't want us to jump to too many conclusions on it.
00:44:38.000First of all, President Trump's term is not over.
00:44:41.000You never want to just declare anything official or done or complete as long as there's still history yet to be written.
00:44:49.000And there still is history yet to be written for the Trump presidency.
00:44:53.000But I do think we can say that what Trump has been doing is a huge historical break from especially the norm that has existed in the post-Cold War era.
00:45:08.000That's kind of when you can say the modern phase of American history began.
00:45:11.000The Cold War ended, and we had Clinton, Bush, Obama, and then also sort of Biden in between the two Trump terms.
00:45:19.000And what that era was defined by was a few things.
00:45:22.000It was defined by, as you said, long wars, because America would get committed to...
00:45:33.000It was America was trying, it was on the operating on the assumption that the end of history had arrived and therefore it could bend.
00:45:41.000Everywhere in the world was progressing towards this end state and we could drag them to it.
00:45:47.000It was America as a quasi-globalist entity because we sort of equated globalist values with American values.
00:45:56.000You got American troops going on these long humanitarian interventions with no end mission, with no real military objective.
00:46:05.000We got open-ended forever wars in the Middle East.
00:46:08.000We got this assumption of unlimited American power that caused us to recklessly race into things.
00:46:14.000And so that's how we got Afghanistan and trillions of dollars spent, thousands dead, no good result.
00:46:20.000Iraq, trillions spent, thousands dead, a mediocre at best result.
00:46:25.000We got interventions in Libya where the idea was we have good intentions and that can make up for having no serious plan, no easy way to make this a good outcome, and we can ignore all of the bad outcomes that happen instead.
00:46:39.000President Trump has thrown out all the assumptions that drove that.
00:46:43.000And instead, what we've gotten is a return to a more old-fashioned way of doing things for America, which is when you do a military intervention, there should be a goal in mind.
00:46:55.000If it's going badly, back away quickly.
00:46:58.000But ideally, you're just not going to let it go badly.
00:47:01.000And that is a way America used to do things.
00:47:04.000Even relative idealists like Woodrow Wilson, who's overall a pretty globalist guy, he would do things like, oh, there's stuff going on in Mexico.
00:47:20.000It's an underrated way to behave like a businessman because businessmen do not commit indefinitely to something that is going to lose them money.
00:47:29.000They want to get value for what they do.
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00:48:09.000So, Jack, I want you to plug all of your stuff, but Jack, can you also remind the audience they might see some reports that there are ongoing airstrikes?
00:48:16.000However, that's within the 12-hour timeframe.
00:48:18.000This is a little confusing for people.
00:48:20.000Right, and so can you do that and also plug your stuff, Jack?
00:49:05.000Strikes are hitting in Iran, in Tehran.
00:49:08.000We also saw, I mentioned earlier there were some strikes on Baghdad.
00:49:11.000It looks like those were on Iranian proxies.
00:49:13.000So I would guess that would be Israel.
00:49:16.000Their drones, we're told, are hitting Iranian proxies right now.
00:49:19.000Look, this is the reason that President Trump put out, and we walked you through this, this timeframe of the ceasefire, that it's going to be a phased ceasefire.
00:49:28.000Because look, when you're running military operations like this, communications are what they are.
00:49:36.000And there's even stories about one of the biggest Revolutionary War battles that were fought even after Yorktown took place.
00:49:43.000So communications do break down after war, you know, in wartime.
00:49:48.000And look, if you've got fighters up, if you've got assets out in the ground, some of these operate without communication.
00:49:54.000So of course the enemy can't track them.
00:49:56.000But then that also means you don't get the ability to run down to them and say, hey, guys, by the way, call it off.
00:50:01.000And so I would expect to see more strikes from potentially both sides.
00:50:05.000Now, interestingly enough, the Iranians would have an easier way of stopping their strikes because their strikes are predominantly missile-based.
00:50:14.000And so presumably the commanders are in direct communication with Tehran.
00:50:18.000Whereas with Israel, you've got fighters, you've got Mossad, you've got drones, you've got all sorts of other stuff going on.
00:50:23.000So it might be harder for them to be able to call it off.
00:50:25.000That may be the reason that we saw the phase in the ceasefire for President Trump's tweet.
00:50:29.000But either way, expect a few more attacks like this tonight.
00:50:34.000And then really tomorrow is what we're looking for to see if this ceasefire holds.
00:50:38.000And so a phased ceasefire is a smart and understandable way to put that.
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00:53:22.000Iranians, I think this is a new opportunity to actually pursue the path of peace.
00:53:26.000As I said yesterday, what the Iranians have showed through their support of terror networks, through their now failed effort to build a nuclear weapon, is that they're just not very good at war.
00:53:36.000And I think the president really hit the reset button and said, look, let's actually produce long-term peace for the region.
00:54:44.000What the President is saying very clearly, Brett, is if the Iranian people want to do something about their own leadership, that's up to the Iranian people.
00:54:51.000What the American national security interest here is very simple.
00:55:24.000Nuclear program severely diminished and damaged.
00:55:26.000Also, no boots on the ground, no regime change, no nation building.
00:55:31.000But Andrew, what do we have to do to keep the coalition together, to keep what we have built?
00:55:37.000Young people, muscular class, moms, parents, first-time voters, traditional conservatives, more hawks.
00:55:44.000What now, now that we have a ceasefire, how do we get a MAGA movement ceasefire?
00:55:49.000Yeah, I think a couple lessons learned, Charlie, over the years is, first of all, we have to avoid putting purity tests on people that should be our friends that maybe stepped a little out of line in the last week.
00:56:03.000We need to be, to a certain extent, we need to welcome those people back.
00:56:07.000If it was just, those are passionate moments, we get it.
00:56:10.000But once again, Trump is going to push you.
00:56:30.000I know, assuming this peace deal holds, we're going to be putting a lot of focus and attention on mass deportations, the big, beautiful bill to get the resources for those mass deportations, but also Maha.
00:56:42.000All the attention that this group deserves, the Maha moms, that's a really big part of our coalition.
00:56:50.000I was talking with Rich Barris this morning.
00:56:52.000He's going to be coming out with a poll.
00:56:54.000It might be dated now, given that this peace deal has come up.
00:56:57.000But, you know, he's seen some drop off on younger voters that are disappointed in the fact that President Trump struck Iran.
00:57:03.000Hopefully we're going to be able to bring them back.
00:57:05.000We've got some great talking points, Charlie, that it was some of these things that probably resulted in peace.
00:57:12.000You didn't like it in the moment, but now in retrospect, you see the wisdom of some of the actions President Trump was taking.
00:57:18.000So let's just hope that these memories can be shortened, that people's nerves that were frayed, you know, everybody calms down.
00:57:28.000Charlie, I can't wait for your fall campus tour.
00:57:31.000If anybody challenge you on this, you're going to be able to say, hey, look at, you maybe didn't like that tweet about regime change, but maybe that was the tweet that actually forced them to accept the peace deal from Qatar, you know?
00:57:45.000So there is plenty of meat on our base.
00:57:52.000President Trump tweeting about regime change the day before got some people fired up, understandably, but maybe that is all of a sudden what got Iran a little bit worried.
00:57:59.000That, hey, does this, for this guy's going to go for the head of the snake, maybe we just do a little bit of theatrics.
00:58:03.000Can you build that out a little bit more, Andrew?
00:58:05.000No, remember, Charlie, he said in that one truth, he said, I know exactly where the supreme leader is.
00:58:11.000He's in hiding, but it's not, you know, he's not hidden from us.
00:58:30.000I tend to believe that there is still some capacity there in Iran.
00:58:36.000But hopefully, this is a turning of the page.
00:58:38.000The confrontation, the coming to the head has happened, and the Supreme Leader understands he's against the ropes.
00:58:45.000Remember, there is wargaming going on, the likes of which we're not aware of, right?
00:58:50.000They probably have an exact count or a precise count of how many short-range, mid-range, and long-range ballistic missiles around had left.
00:58:58.000Israel probably is doing the same calculations with the Iron Dome.
00:59:02.000These are two fighters that we don't know what round of the fight that they both thought they were in.
00:59:06.000Were they in the third round or were they in the 12th round and both of them were ready to cry, uncle?
00:59:10.000President Trump probably had a lot of that information and knew that he could get both parties to the table.
00:59:20.000And so, you know, I think that there is a real chance, and we should all pray for that, that we could see a turning of the page, an end of one chapter, the beginning of a better chapter with our relations with Iran.
00:59:32.000I think that's completely on the table at this point.
00:59:34.000Yeah, and so, and let's just, and also, Andrew, if the people of Persia decide to organically rise up, then that's something that we'll cheer for.
00:59:43.000That's something that we're going to cheer on, right?
00:59:46.000And to the people that say there's been moving of the goalposts, this is what I want to say.
00:59:50.000We have always been against regime change, top-down regime change.
00:59:55.000We have always been pro if the Iranian people want to do it from the bottom up.
00:59:59.000But what we did not want, and I think Jack, you and I talked about this, we did not want, you know, a 2014, you know, made on coup repeat where the CIA was embedded and sowing discord.
01:00:18.000Or by the way, a repeat of the last time the United States pushed for change in Iran back in the 1950s when we overthrew the Democratic Republic that Iran had been working towards and Mosedeg because he was nationalizing British petroleum and nationalizing the oil, the oil fields there when the United States of America overthrew the last Democratic.
01:00:49.000I said, who overthrew the democracy in Iran, Lindsay?
01:00:52.000You seem to be loosening up that part.
01:00:54.000And in fact, the CIA has even publicly acknowledged this, that it was us who overthrew the Prime Minister Mossadegh in the 1950s.
01:03:05.000It's very funny we still give the Nobel Peace Prize so much weight because there have been a lot of very dumb Nobel Peace Prizes out there.
01:03:15.000So, but, you know, they don't give it enough for just very straightforward.
01:03:19.000Like, what's the goal in Alfred Nobel's will?
01:03:22.000And it was to improve harmony among nations and lead to reducing the size of standing armies, I think was the exact line.
01:03:30.000And if we can achieve that out of this, if we can actually bring this 45-year conflict towards some sort of permanent resolution, that would be a huge win for hundreds and hundreds of millions of people.
01:03:45.000And if we're able to achieve that before this administration is done, he absolutely should get a Nobel Peace Prize.
01:04:20.000Helps you think through the problems, the pitfalls, all those things.
01:04:24.000It's a whole nother thing to doomer on a guy that's been riding with you for 10 years and you've gone up and down a thousand roller coasters.
01:04:32.000And just, you know, because Israel is a part of the equation, you just completely go into brain rot mode.
01:04:39.000So you can question, just don't go doomer mode.
01:05:13.000Trump said something mean and hurt my feelings.
01:05:16.000And then it was, there's a checkbox that says, I will hereby trust the plan, stand with Donald J. Trump, and will not doubt the 45th and 47th president of the United States.
01:05:46.000It's about understanding that we have a coalition and that we don't want to rip apart a winning coalition that delivered a popular vote victory in an electoral landslide.
01:05:56.000And something Republicans, the popular vote, we hadn't won since 2004 with George W. Bush in the middle of a war that he started dumbly.
01:06:05.000So the point is, this is a really precious thing that we have, and we respect how important and special it is, how historic it is.
01:06:15.000And we don't want to rip it apart because people press the panic button.
01:07:11.000By the way, how about perp walking some of the people that were working to overthrow our actual duly elected president back in 2016, 2017, the first term, going after that corruption, going after the election integrity issues, one of the things that I think a lot of people have wanted to address for a long, long time and just hasn't been able to get done.
01:07:34.000Tim Dylan had a great segment on his show earlier this week that I caught where he was saying, look, guys, we didn't put people in office to just write novels.
01:07:43.000We put people in office to get things done.
01:07:46.000And that guy, you know, he wasn't like some Trump endorser, but he pointed out, he said, you can't just be up there talking about stuff.
01:08:09.000We have all of the economic issues to look at.
01:08:12.000President Trump, by the way, guys, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime and funding for deportations.
01:08:19.000That's in the Big Beautiful Bill, which by the way, Charlie, I'm told if it goes well, if it goes well, we could be seeing the Big Beautiful bill being passed before July 4th, which I remember, that was exactly when President Trump said it would be done.
01:08:34.000Also, there's, and I'm just going to say, because it's been raging sort of in the background of all of this here, there's this question.
01:08:42.000Senator Mike Lee has this new addendum that he wants to put in, this amendment to the Big Beautiful Bill regarding the use of our public lands.
01:08:51.000I know, guys, we've been chatting about getting into this issue on one of our thought crime episodes or as a debate, but that's something where I know has been absolutely raging.
01:09:00.000So I'd love to see that put to rest as well.
01:09:03.000And look, we're going to hear both sides.
01:09:05.000I don't want my national parks being given over to some nameless, faceless corporation.
01:10:08.000So anyway, just as a favor, altogether we could beat the New York Times then, everybody, if you guys subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.