The Charlie Kirk Show - Praising God After Losing $5 Million

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

00:01:11.000 It's March 11th, 2026.

00:01:13.000 Honored to be with you all.

00:01:15.000 Welcome, Blake.

00:01:16.000 Howdy.

00:01:17.000 Well, we got a lot to get to today.

00:01:19.000 Massive, busy show.

00:01:21.000 Blake and I have been here since the wee hours of the dawn.

00:01:25.000 So we're excited to finally get into it.

00:01:27.000 Got to hit this big story.

00:01:29.000 As many of you know, my personal most important issue is deportations, immigration in general.

00:01:37.000 We call it the one switch you can flip that will fix all that ails you.

00:01:42.000 Many of the nation's problems, maybe not all, but many of the nation's problems originate from a failed immigration system flooding the country with people that don't share our values that end up becoming public charges that fill our streets, our DMVs, our hospitals, our schools.

00:01:59.000 And one of the central planks of President Trump's reelection bid was mass deportations.

00:02:05.000 It was at the RNC.

00:02:06.000 They had the signs, I think mass deportations.

00:02:07.000 Mass deportations.

00:02:08.000 And you could always get the sense that there was a little bit of a messaging bifurcation inside the administration.

00:02:16.000 There was the get the worst first, guys.

00:02:18.000 There was they all need to go, guys.

00:02:20.000 I am an all-they, they all need to go guy.

00:02:22.000 I believe Blake would be an all-the-Charlie very much.

00:02:26.000 I mean, he would talk about the 10 million people.

00:02:29.000 And it's remarkable that in the early days of the administration, they would poll different things.

00:02:34.000 You know, the press was trying to undermine the president and they were trying to poll mass deportations.

00:02:40.000 But consistently, mass deportations would poll very favorably.

00:02:46.000 However, fast forward to right now, you have Alex Predi, Renee Goode were two American citizens that were killed in their altercations with ICE agents.

00:02:55.000 That ended up dragging down some of the polling.

00:02:57.000 Certainly, it got spun in the news media very successfully by the left.

00:03:02.000 So there's no doubt that there has been consternation in Congress.

00:03:05.000 I think that's predictable.

00:03:06.000 It's large-scale deportations are just one of those things that inevitably creates its own opposition.

00:03:12.000 You get the photos of crying kids.

00:03:15.000 This kid's crying, so I guess we can't have borders or laws anymore.

00:03:19.000 And so what's happening today that we wanted to highlight, this came out just at the end of the show yesterday, Axios had one of their exclusives, and it's that reportedly White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair has been urging House Republicans to basically stop saying the phrase mass deportations, pivot the messaging to we're getting rid of violent criminals.

00:03:40.000 We're getting rid of the worst of the worst.

00:03:42.000 And they also cite there's a politico poll that says about half the country thinks mass deportations is too aggressive.

00:03:50.000 That includes about 20% of Trump 2024 voters.

00:03:55.000 And we wanted to highlight that because I think you and I and Charlie would have the same perspective, which is, above all, we just care about success.

00:04:03.000 We don't necessarily care about messaging.

00:04:06.000 So we think if it makes sense for the administration to pivot to, oh, we're getting rid of the worst of the worst, go ahead and do it.

00:04:14.000 What matters is reality.

00:04:16.000 And so I guess our caution to the administration would be don't let a pivot on messaging turn into a pivot away from securing the border, deportations, immigration security generally, because a lot of it has been a huge success.

00:04:31.000 You can go through the numbers.

00:04:32.000 Like, we've doubled the number of ICE arrests overall.

00:04:36.000 There's the new fee on H-1Bs.

00:04:38.000 There's the, what, 33% drop roughly in foreign students and visas.

00:04:43.000 They've greatly enhanced putting Americans first.

00:04:46.000 There's been not having us endlessly be the dumping ground of the third world.

00:04:49.000 There's been a full-on ban of some visas being issued to certain Muslim countries and other countries that fail to vet their population properly.

00:04:58.000 And let's just go into the numbers on the polls, though, here.

00:05:00.000 According to the latest poll on deportations, 64% of MAGA says that Trump's deportation approach is just right.

00:05:07.000 47% of non-MAGA Republicans think the same, with 21% of MAGA and 17% of non-MAGA say that it is too aggressive or it is not aggressive enough.

00:05:18.000 Apologies.

00:05:19.000 So here's the caution.

00:05:21.000 And I agree with Blake.

00:05:22.000 You want commas, not drama, right?

00:05:25.000 You want millions of people removed from this country.

00:05:28.000 You want it to be done quietly.

00:05:30.000 You want it to be done efficiently.

00:05:32.000 You want it to be done with no drama.

00:05:34.000 This was the problem with Minneapolis.

00:05:36.000 And I will say, you saw this from certain commentators like Joe Rogan, who ended up endorsing President Trump, saying that the immigration approach he thought was cruel.

00:05:45.000 He thought it was cold.

00:05:46.000 He thought some of the memes from DHS were too aggressive.

00:05:50.000 They were too performative.

00:05:52.000 All of those things could be true.

00:05:54.000 But again, keep the drama behind the scenes.

00:05:58.000 Get the job done with technical precision, with professionalism.

00:06:03.000 Do it without headlines.

00:06:04.000 And that is the key because we always knew.

00:06:07.000 I want you to take your mind back to Trump 1.0 with AOC at the border crying in her all-white outfit about kids in cages.

00:06:14.000 Well, the kids in cages were started under Obama.

00:06:16.000 As soon as Biden took over and there was 300,000, 350,000 migrant kids missing in the interior, there was zero tears from AOC.

00:06:25.000 We know this is performative.

00:06:26.000 We know that they do this to gin up sob stories and to turn the population against the president's agenda.

00:06:33.000 My warning is this.

00:06:35.000 There is no single tactic, no single policy plank of the Trump administration that is as popular as deportations, as immigration itself.

00:06:46.000 The issue is the border got cleared up really quickly, right?

00:06:49.000 And we even saw from the Fabrizio polling that people don't, it doesn't move the needle to talk about a secured border, but it's incredibly important.

00:06:57.000 And the second that border stops being secure, it will become a massive issue again.

00:07:02.000 And that's more to the point is, okay, whether it's popular or not, actually executing on mass deportations, and above all, it matters because it is of existential importance to the country.

00:07:12.000 If you want to see your future, just yesterday, the United Kingdom has moved to take famous Brits off the money.

00:07:20.000 They're going to take Winston Churchill off the money, Jane Austen off the money, and replace them with nature scenes.

00:07:25.000 And a clear reason they're doing this is they've brought in so much replacement-level immigration, they basically have to abolish their own history.

00:07:34.000 Many great Brits are white Christians, and that's, you know, they're offensive to Muslims who've come to the country, to, you know, oh, they helped colonize India.

00:07:44.000 They have a lot of Indians in the country.

00:07:45.000 It's basically they have to destroy their own.

00:07:48.000 They have to wage war on themselves.

00:07:50.000 And the mass replacement level immigration into America was the left's way of waging war on this country.

00:07:56.000 They're bringing in people hostile to American history, American values, American religion, and also people who are going to be a drag on the American state.

00:08:05.000 They're bringing in dependents.

00:08:06.000 They're bringing in, frankly, some of them are essentially parasites on America.

00:08:12.000 And that's all deliberate on their part.

00:08:14.000 They want to bring in people who will immediately go on the dole, who will immediately cause problems.

00:08:19.000 And you need to undo that or it will destroy America.

00:08:22.000 So if you need to say, we're focusing on the worst of the worst, but we're still sending letters to the businesses that say you're employing people illegally under the table.

00:08:31.000 This is great.

00:08:32.000 Go for it.

00:08:32.000 They're doing that right now.

00:08:33.000 Keep doing that.

00:08:34.000 There are ways in which you can message effectively, that you can actually prosecute the case effectively that will be more in terms of total numbers of deportations than doing raids out on the street, right?

00:08:50.000 Because what we've learned, the learnings are that that becomes a cause du jour for the left.

00:08:56.000 The left-wing media will spin it up and make it a huge drama, and you'll get Karens from all over the country driving to Minneapolis to go put themselves on the front lines of a war they know nothing about and don't understand.

00:09:08.000 Go after the businesses.

00:09:09.000 Go after the visas.

00:09:11.000 Go after the overstays.

00:09:12.000 Go after the prisons at the local level with the blue cities, the blue states, and you will get commas, not drama.

00:09:18.000 And that is the key.

00:09:19.000 I think Mark Wayne Mullen can achieve that goal.

00:09:21.000 I think you follow the model that Homan has put forward in Minneapolis, where he's getting participation from local jails and prisons.

00:09:28.000 And that is the key.

00:09:30.000 But do not get soft.

00:09:32.000 Do not go squish on immigration.

00:09:34.000 It is the one unifying policy of the entirety of the coalition.

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00:10:41.000 Learn deeply.

00:10:42.000 Lead boldly.

00:10:43.000 Carry it forward.

00:10:46.000 This is a strike zone issue for us.

00:10:51.000 Rarely, everybody, do you get the trifecta?

00:10:53.000 An issue that is popular, an issue that is mandatory to save civilization, and an issue that is necessary to happen urgently.

00:11:05.000 And this qualifies all three.

00:11:07.000 We'll be right back.

00:11:08.000 Mandatory to save civilization.

00:11:10.000 That's in the end why you can't back off.

00:11:12.000 Massage it however you need to.

00:11:14.000 Message it however you need to.

00:11:16.000 I think we agree there was a little bit of, there was a lot of triumphalism early in Trump 2.0.

00:11:21.000 Understandably, he won really.

00:11:22.000 He won strongly.

00:11:23.000 You want to be assertive.

00:11:25.000 And I think sometimes that just rubbed some of those independent voters the wrong way.

00:11:29.000 But in the end, it is mandatory to save America that we not keep these 10 million people that Biden let in.

00:11:36.000 You cannot break into the country and get off scot-free.

00:11:39.000 That's not an option.

00:11:40.000 Sovereignty has to matter.

00:11:43.000 No exception.

00:11:44.000 They all have to go.

00:11:46.000 How we get there, the messaging we get there, that will, I guess you could say that you could massage that.

00:11:52.000 I think that's a fair word.

00:11:53.000 All right, so why this is important?

00:11:55.000 Okay, so we go to war, we have an excursion, there's a conflict, strikes against Iran, whatever word you want to use for it.

00:12:03.000 And guess what happens?

00:12:04.000 We get an Austin nightclub shooting from a Muslim, radical Islamist.

00:12:10.000 We get IEDs thrown at anti-Muslim protesters in New York City, but everybody, you know, Abby Phillips thinks that it was against Mayor Momdani.

00:12:22.000 You've got a consulate that gets shot up in Toronto.

00:12:27.000 So we've now imported a bunch of people that hate us, that don't share our values, and that if they get offended, they're going to turn their weapons on us.

00:12:35.000 That is failed immigration.

00:12:38.000 That is absolutely the reason why we should not be importing people that hate us.

00:12:43.000 Now, turning our attention to Abby Phillip and CNN, I watched this actually live.

00:12:49.000 I don't know why I did.

00:12:50.000 It was like the remote got changed, and all of a sudden it was on CNN.

00:12:55.000 And I couldn't believe the way they were talking about immigration and Muslim immigration.

00:12:59.000 The starting point for their conversation was, you're a bigot if you think there's a problem with Islam.

00:13:05.000 Well, listen, Charlie was very clear about this.

00:13:08.000 We'll maintain it.

00:13:09.000 There's a difference between macro and micro.

00:13:11.000 Yes, there are micro, independent instances where you meet very kind Muslims that are very nice and they're very respectful.

00:13:18.000 They're proud to be American.

00:13:19.000 I'm not saying that doesn't exist.

00:13:21.000 But on the macro, when you import millions of Muslims, don't be surprised when a few of them try and kill you.

00:13:29.000 That is the lesson of Western civilization and Muslim immigration.

00:13:33.000 And you look at the UK.

00:13:36.000 You have people from the United Arab Emirates refusing to fund students abroad to the UK because they might get radicalized and come back to the UAE as radical jihadists.

00:13:45.000 That's the problem.

00:13:47.000 And you see this in Melbourne.

00:13:48.000 Melbourne, Australia is now a hotbed of Muslim radicalization.

00:13:53.000 New York City.

00:13:55.000 These kids at Gracie Mansion were from Pennsylvania, living in a $2 million mansion.

00:14:01.000 It didn't matter.

00:14:01.000 They got radicalized because they were offended.

00:14:04.000 So now, I mean, if you contrast this, Blake, with what happened in World War II, did we have a bunch of Muslims screaming in the streets, upset at our foreign policy?

00:14:13.000 Well, no.

00:14:14.000 We didn't even really have that many, like, yeah, no, just no.

00:14:16.000 It was 97% support.

00:14:18.000 Yeah, well, that's very interesting.

00:14:19.000 So now we have to play the clip because everybody's talking about it, and she since apologized for it.

00:14:25.000 This is CNN's Abby Phillip claiming that the attempted New York City bombing was actually an attack against Mayor Momdani.

00:14:32.000 13.

00:14:33.000 Two Republicans say Muslims don't belong here after an attempted terror attack against New York's Mayor Zorhan Mamdani, and the House Speaker, Mike Johnson, says nothing really to condemn those comments.

00:14:45.000 She repeated this apparently two or three times during the broadcast.

00:14:51.000 And then this morning, she was finally forced to correct the record, show 188.

00:14:55.000 This is her apology.

00:14:56.000 I want to correct something I said last night.

00:14:58.000 The bombs thrown in New York City over the weekend by ISIS-inspired attackers was thrown into a crowd.

00:15:03.000 Well, there's, yeah, grammatically, it's a poor tweet.

00:15:05.000 Was thrown into a crowd of anti-Muslim protesters.

00:15:08.000 I hate it when bombs just get thrown.

00:15:10.000 And not specifically targeted at Mayor Mamdani.

00:15:12.000 That wording was inaccurate.

00:15:14.000 I didn't catch it ahead of time.

00:15:15.000 I apologize for the air.

00:15:16.000 So the question now has become, was she intentionally lying to her audience or was this a.

00:15:21.000 I think someone was.

00:15:22.000 I don't know that.

00:15:23.000 I think people, they fixate on the talking head.

00:15:26.000 And really the process is at CNN where CNN is laundering what occurred, which is that, okay, there was an anti-Islamic march.

00:15:34.000 And then while people were protesting it and trying to say, love is love, let everyone in here.

00:15:41.000 They got a very rude encounter with what the religion of peace often actually is, which is you had people whose parents were welcomed into this country who clearly had tremendous opportunities because they're able to live in a $2 million house.

00:15:55.000 This country treated them incredibly well, and their children got radicalized and tried to murder people.

00:16:00.000 I tend to think because you worked on Tucker Carlson's show at Fox, so you understood the process from producer getting that, transmitting that information to the host, Tucker in that case.

00:16:12.000 So the same thing is happening here.

00:16:14.000 But what I actually believe here is this is this is confirmation bias run amok.

00:16:18.000 So if you show these images, I've got them in the chat here.

00:16:21.000 Look at Axios when they first described this event over the weekend.

00:16:25.000 Explosive device thrown outside New York City Mayor Mamdani's residence.

00:16:29.000 You can see ABC.

00:16:30.000 ABC made a bigger deal about Jake Lang, who was the anti-Muslim protester in front of the mansion than they did about the bombs going being thrown.

00:16:40.000 So what happened here was you had a bunch of confirmation bias with the producers that are 20-somethings that didn't check their work.

00:16:46.000 They believed the first story out of the legacy media because the legacy media is loath to point out the obvious that Islamic Americans, in this case, Muslims, have a terror problem.

00:16:59.000 They didn't want to bring that up.

00:17:00.000 And so she saw the initial reporting, ran with it, didn't think there was any problem with it.

00:17:04.000 I think it's confirmation bias, run amok.

00:17:06.000 And we see this, by the way, with the assassination of Charlie.

00:17:11.000 Legacy news media, like Jimmy Kimmel, went out and said it was MAGA who did it.

00:17:15.000 Do you know that there's still only like 30 or 40% of the American population that understands that it was a left-winger who killed Charlie?

00:17:23.000 You know, I wish I could entirely blame the left for that one.

00:17:27.000 Well, I wish I could too, but there is an apparatus, there's a machine of media that whitewashes over the sins of the left because they don't want to admit the truth.

00:17:37.000 That yes, you have a political violence problem on the left.

00:17:39.000 Yes, Muslims commit terror.

00:17:41.000 And we should be honest about this.

00:17:43.000 Instead of that, you see this in Canada.

00:17:45.000 You have a trans shooter and they call it a, what do they call it?

00:17:49.000 A person, like a mass person, a shooting person.

00:17:55.000 I forget, but the point is, they didn't want to admit that they were trans, okay?

00:17:59.000 This is a problem with the legacy news media.

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00:19:28.000 Welcoming back to the show, one of the fan favorites, one of our favorites is Kane over at Citizen Free Press.

00:19:35.000 Kane, welcome back, my friend.

00:19:37.000 We wanted to get you.

00:19:39.000 Yeah, we wanted to get your, by the way, we have a fancy new phone graphic for you there that we put together.

00:19:44.000 How about that?

00:19:45.000 Yeah, smoking the cigarette in the bad days.

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00:19:51.000 So, Kane, I wanted to get your vibe check on the citizen free press on the CFP nation there about what they're feeling about this Iran strike.

00:20:03.000 How's it going?

00:20:04.000 How much patience do they have?

00:20:06.000 Are people freaking out yet?

00:20:07.000 Or are we good?

00:20:08.000 Yeah, well, you saw probably in the stack yesterday the Quinnet Piak poll that showed that 85% of Republicans are supporting President Trump in the military operation.

00:20:19.000 And you probably also saw last week the poll from CBS that I put a couple headlines up about that showed that this was kind of, you know, the approval was sort of a time-based approval.

00:20:30.000 That if that if the operation lasted less than plural months, so we can assume that they were, you know, most readers were thinking eight weeks.

00:20:40.000 If it lasts less than eight weeks, it had a plus 52 rating, was 76 to 24.

00:20:46.000 And then if it lasted longer than eight weeks, in other words, if it became months, it dropped to a minus eight approval.

00:20:54.000 So now getting to the base, at least as it's represented by, you know, my audience at Citizen Free Press, it's 100% approval, man.

00:21:03.000 People, you know, look, as you well know, it's a super involved kind of news junkie website.

00:21:11.000 So the people who were in my open thread, the thousands of people who read it every day, they know everything that's going on.

00:21:16.000 If the president had a quote in the last hour, it's likely in the stack and they know about it.

00:21:21.000 So these people are fully aware that Trump wants to end this war quickly.

00:21:25.000 And you and I were texting last night.

00:21:27.000 And then, you know, I wake up today and there's that quote from Trump saying, I can, you know, most of the targets are gone.

00:21:34.000 I can end the war anytime I want.

00:21:36.000 So Trump is obviously very, very, let's just say he's very aware of how the base feels about forever wars and he wants to end it quickly.

00:21:47.000 So he's got no, you know, it's completely different.

00:21:50.000 For example, when I link to a tweet or something, an ex-post, and I happen to go over there and I read the replies, like there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of negativity towards the military operation there.

00:22:03.000 And you just don't see it on my site.

00:22:05.000 And again, I think it's because my readers are a bit more mature.

00:22:08.000 They understand that Trump does this, that he likes to handle his business and finish.

00:22:14.000 And they're giving the president, you know, they trust him, basically.

00:22:17.000 They're giving him the benefit of the doubt.

00:22:19.000 So is there any concern, though, if President Trump just declares victory when you don't have a regime toppled, right?

00:22:27.000 We're seeing that Ayatollah's son, who we haven't seen yet, because apparently he's been injured in some attack.

00:22:34.000 At least that's the assumption.

00:22:36.000 Is there, I mean, could you declare victory without replacing the regime?

00:22:41.000 I mean, for all intents and purposes, his wife was killed.

00:22:45.000 His dad was killed.

00:22:46.000 His daughter was killed.

00:22:47.000 I mean, this guy's not going to be friendly to us.

00:22:51.000 No, he's not.

00:22:52.000 No.

00:22:52.000 And I have the same thought regarding all of his family members that have perished.

00:22:56.000 You know, this guy is probably on a certain, to a certain extent, on a suicide mission.

00:23:00.000 Just to take the job is probably a suicide mission.

00:23:03.000 I mean, Israel hinted pretty aggressively yesterday that they're going to go after him.

00:23:08.000 You know, that, but to your point about can Trump declare victory when he doesn't have regime change, when he doesn't have complete, and, you know, and well, look, I don't think it'll stop him.

00:23:20.000 So there's the first thing.

00:23:21.000 I think Trump will still declare victory.

00:23:23.000 Will the people accept that declaration?

00:23:26.000 For the most part, I think they will.

00:23:28.000 I think people understand that regime change is really, really sticky and difficult.

00:23:32.000 And that's how you end up in a six-month war or a one-year, or in the case of Iraq, a multi-year war, right?

00:23:39.000 Really getting, so a slight little tangent I put in the stack yesterday that Israel, it was Netanyahu's direct message to the Iranian people talking about how there will be actions coming in the next few days/slash weeks that will really set them, will set the people up to take over the, you know, to do it themselves.

00:23:59.000 So, you know, the long-winded answer to your question about whether he can declare victory without regime change, I think the people will forget him.

00:24:07.000 I think, you know, just getting rid of the Ayatollah is enough of a headline that I really think that that will give him a positive, you know, will give Trump some benefit.

00:24:17.000 And, but yeah, I mean, if you ask Democrats, yeah, they're going to point out, you know, if regime change isn't successful, they're going to point that out at every opportunity.

00:24:27.000 So it's not going to be a clear-cut argument, but I think that if you ask me whether it's a successful, look, if we destroy how many thousand ballistic missiles in all of their launchers and destroy their manufacturing capabilities for these advanced weapons, I think all of that makes the operation a success.

00:24:45.000 If he wanted to end it today, I would consider it a success.

00:24:49.000 Well, the obvious thing that comes to mind is what if Iran says, actually, we're just not, we're not freeing up the Strait of Hormuz until maybe we get concessions from you.

00:25:00.000 A thing I worry about is a lot of people are saying he should declare victory and go home.

00:25:04.000 It is easier to start a conflict than to end one.

00:25:08.000 And you do need, to some extent, you need Iran's agreement.

00:25:11.000 They've been shooting missiles at the Gulf states.

00:25:13.000 They're shooting missiles at Israel.

00:25:14.000 They've been shooting missiles at our bases.

00:25:17.000 What if the president declares victory and they say, we're going to keep shooting missiles?

00:25:21.000 Then Trump probably says, pulls it, well, we're not quite done yet.

00:25:25.000 I mean, I would imagine that Israel, let's talk about Israel first.

00:25:28.000 They've got to have a list of targets that's six weeks long, eight weeks long at least.

00:25:33.000 We probably have the same list.

00:25:35.000 I imagine Trump could say, I mean, look, the guy, you know, he jucks and jives.

00:25:41.000 He can move.

00:25:42.000 If Iran continued to target ships in the Strait of Hormuz, I imagine Trump would double back down and say, we're going back in for three days worth of strikes.

00:25:53.000 I don't fully understand the geography there, but I would imagine we started blowing up the ships, right?

00:25:59.000 Trump claimed we blew up 10 ships that lay mines yesterday.

00:26:05.000 So I would imagine that Trump would just sort of restart it.

00:26:08.000 But it's complicated, Blake.

00:26:09.000 You're absolutely correct.

00:26:10.000 It is not easy to end these things.

00:26:12.000 And so we're all sort of speculating how it's going to go.

00:26:15.000 But I'm just sort of saying that I think Trump has enough positive things in his favor that he could get away with it on an approval basis.

00:26:24.000 If it ended tomorrow or Friday, let's say, and they asked people, I think he'd probably get a 60-40 approval on the operation, maybe 65-35, and that would include Democrats.

00:26:35.000 Yeah, I think I'm guessing.

00:26:36.000 I think you're right.

00:26:37.000 You know, we had Robert Barnes on the show.

00:26:41.000 A lot of people got up in arms about that.

00:26:45.000 But I mean, his point was pretty clean cut.

00:26:47.000 He said, you know, the longer this war draws out, the more risk politically that President Trump is going to endure and absorb.

00:26:55.000 And I think that that point is fair, right?

00:26:58.000 I mean, we've seen that the fraying of the coalition is coming mostly with people that we brought into the coalition in 2024.

00:27:06.000 So new entrants into the coalition.

00:27:08.000 That would be Hispanic voters.

00:27:09.000 That would be African-American men.

00:27:11.000 That would be young voters.

00:27:13.000 Those are the parts of the coalition that is fraying the quickest.

00:27:16.000 And so to get in and get out quickly, I think there is political upside there.

00:27:21.000 And, you know, and I would just underscore the point with this, that President Trump is the best salesman we've seen politically in a generation.

00:27:28.000 I mean, he can sell this to the public, I have no doubt.

00:27:32.000 But yeah, there'll be a lot of, I would say, sniping from the left.

00:27:36.000 But remember this, that President Trump, we were critics of the way this effort was sold at the beginning.

00:27:43.000 I think they've done a much better job highlighting the ballistic missile capabilities, highlighting the launchers, the Navy.

00:27:49.000 And they can, I think, definitively and honestly say we've had success on those fronts.

00:27:54.000 Let's pack it in.

00:27:56.000 If they cooperate now, we're going to go home.

00:27:58.000 If they don't, we'll hit them again.

00:28:00.000 I think that's fair.

00:28:01.000 I think that's a fair assumption.

00:28:02.000 And I think that's likely to be the outcome.

00:28:04.000 You know, whether it is this week or next week, I think that's essentially the case that we'll make.

00:28:11.000 And look, the first one was a 12-day war, right?

00:28:16.000 And it surprised everyone.

00:28:17.000 When Trump, he made that visit over the Knesset and we brought our bombers in and we bombed and then Trump declared the war was over.

00:28:25.000 I sort of have felt from the beginning that this is a 21-day war.

00:28:29.000 So 21 days puts it at a week from this coming Saturday.

00:28:33.000 That gives them 10 to 11 more days of 24-hour sorties to hit as many targets as they can.

00:28:40.000 And then, you know, regarding Blake's point, which is likely, I mean, that's really the most likely negative scenario that could occur if we declare an end early, which would be they would continue to attack in the Strait of Ormuz.

00:28:55.000 And so we would have to have a backup plan in place.

00:28:58.000 But I really think it's going to end her.

00:29:00.000 And the other thing is with all of their missile defense degraded, Israel, and with our having done the heavy work with the bunker busters, Israel could probably operate it on their own after 21 days.

00:29:14.000 They could probably decide what targets they want to hit.

00:29:17.000 And a slight little aside, I would, if someone's going to go after the new supreme leader, which Israel has claimed they will, I want it to be Israel.

00:29:27.000 I'm fine with the fact that the CIA provided intelligence that located for that initial strike 10 days ago that located the Ayatollah.

00:29:39.000 And I'm happy for our intelligence to be involved in this next one.

00:29:42.000 But I would be more comfortable if it were Israel.

00:29:45.000 Yeah, I think a lot of people feel there is a there is it's kind of a distinction without a difference, but I think you're right.

00:29:50.000 I think a lot of people would agree with you.

00:29:51.000 Kane, there's a troubling potentially article out of Axios that suggests that the White House is going to pivot on messaging.

00:30:00.000 No more deport them all.

00:30:02.000 No more mass deportation talk.

00:30:04.000 We're just getting criminal illegals out.

00:30:06.000 Your take?

00:30:06.000 Yep.

00:30:07.000 My take is it's all about semantics, right?

00:30:09.000 You saw me in the stack a couple of weeks ago when I laid out the numbers of you have to start with how many illegal aliens are actually here.

00:30:17.000 And I'll try to do this quickly in 20 seconds or so.

00:30:20.000 Ann Coulter wrote a piece back 10, 15 years ago where she utilized an analysis that was done by Bear Stearns.

00:30:28.000 Bear Stearns is one of the investment banks that failed during the bailout.

00:30:31.000 In fact, they were the first one and they were taken over by JP Morris.

00:30:34.000 But anyway, Bear Stearns did this analysis in 2005 where they said and they analyzed state tax receipts and they went through all 50 states and they came up with a number that was close to 20 million.

00:30:45.000 So 20 million illegals in 2005.

00:30:47.000 We know that Biden, the official numbers are what, 7.5 million came in in his last four years and then there were gotaways.

00:30:54.000 So let's just be kind and add, call it 10 million to the 20 million.

00:31:00.000 So we have at least 30 million illegal aliens in this country.

00:31:03.000 Even with self-deportation, which DHS said was 2.2 million last year, in addition to what, 600, they said they physically deported over slightly over 600,000.

00:31:16.000 So the combined number was 3 million.

00:31:18.000 So let's say that we had that same success for these next three years, where we got 3 million each year, 2.2 from self-deportation and close to 800,000 from physical deportations.

00:31:31.000 The point is that would only add up to 12 million.

00:31:33.000 There are 30 million here.

00:31:35.000 So I have always objected to this language of deport them all.

00:31:39.000 I don't think it's possible to deport them all, and it kind of frightens people.

00:31:43.000 I think what that Axios article, now, first thing, I had some doubts about that article because it quoted one guy, right?

00:31:50.000 It was one, it was, I forget him all of a sudden, but it quoted one source who, having met with the private retreat of House Republicans, told them to change their messaging.

00:31:59.000 So that's why I said semantics.

00:32:01.000 I really think that they're just saying that the phrase mass deportations isn't polling very well anymore.

00:32:08.000 It's not a positive phrase that independents are reacting to, right?

00:32:12.000 They're looking forward to the midterms.

00:32:14.000 This is all about how the independents are going to vote in the midterms.

00:32:18.000 So it's a phrasing thing.

00:32:20.000 I don't think it means that anything has to change about the underlying way that we go about it.

00:32:26.000 And the last point, I'll try to do this in 20 seconds too before I throw it back.

00:32:31.000 It's a complicated thing.

00:32:33.000 We do not see these really ugly scenes in red states.

00:32:37.000 Because the red state jails and sheriffs are cooperating with us.

00:32:37.000 Why?

00:32:42.000 It's these blue states, these sanctuary states, where we get no cooperation.

00:32:46.000 We don't know when these people are getting out of jail.

00:32:48.000 So we sort of have to go grab them on the streets.

00:32:50.000 So that's sort of why Minnesota happens.

00:32:53.000 So I say continue to port as many as you possibly can, criminal or quote unquote non-criminal, even though it's a criminal violation to come into this country illegally.

00:33:05.000 Deport as many as you can.

00:33:06.000 Let's try to do 3 million a year.

00:33:09.000 And I'll be happy.

00:33:10.000 I'll be thrilled if we got rid of 10 million illegal aliens at the end of four years.

00:33:14.000 Thrilled.

00:33:15.000 Yeah, I think, you know, we made this point earlier, Kane.

00:33:18.000 I think there's a couple of things we could do that will actually increase numbers and get more actual deportations with less drama.

00:33:25.000 Number one, Mark Wayne Mullen has proven that he can work across the aisle.

00:33:29.000 He can quell some of the just the knee-jerk resistance from Democrats, sanctuary cities.

00:33:36.000 Get them to cooperate.

00:33:37.000 Follow the Tom Holman model in Minneapolis where you get state and local counties, prisons to cooperate, jails, to cooperate.

00:33:45.000 When they pull these people over for a traffic stop, whatever.

00:33:48.000 There's a detainer request.

00:33:49.000 Get them out.

00:33:50.000 That's how Obama achieved the numbers that he did with not nearly half as much energy devoted to deportations.

00:33:58.000 All right.

00:33:58.000 So that's one.

00:33:59.000 Go after the employers.

00:34:01.000 Then three, you increase the incentive for self-deportations.

00:34:05.000 All right.

00:34:06.000 Up the number.

00:34:07.000 This is a simple market analysis.

00:34:09.000 When you put a price on something, you'll get this many customers.

00:34:12.000 If you drop the price or you make it more attractive, you'll get more customers.

00:34:16.000 So let's see how we can do this to actually save money.

00:34:19.000 You know, we got all this money that funded the One Big Beautiful Bill, funded ICE, ICE addition ICE agents, judges, that sort of thing.

00:34:27.000 Let's see how much we can get just from self-deportations.

00:34:31.000 I think that is a truly, truly untapped resource yet.

00:34:35.000 I think we've seen some, but there's much more to go.

00:34:37.000 So I'm all for creativity.

00:34:39.000 I think you can actually apply additional pressures.

00:34:42.000 I've heard ideas like going after the international airports.

00:34:46.000 I mean, listen, LA, New York, they get a ton of business through international airports.

00:34:51.000 Well, if you're not going to be enforcing immigration law in your local municipalities, your local cities, well, then maybe we shouldn't be supporting your international tourists either.

00:35:01.000 You know, I'm just, maybe that seems harsh to some people, but there are other levers to pull here to bring these sanctuary cities to heel.

00:35:08.000 People, and this is my final warning.

00:35:10.000 I'm monologuing a bit, but this is my final warning.

00:35:12.000 If you do not give the base something to vote for in the midterms, they will not show up.

00:35:18.000 And midterm elections are base elections.

00:35:20.000 Those are turnout elections.

00:35:21.000 You need your most reliable people generating enthusiasm, generating activity and energy so that people show up to the polls.

00:35:29.000 Final two minutes here.

00:35:31.000 Blake, I don't know if you have a thought on that, but I just think it's so essential for the country to deliver on this.

00:35:38.000 Yeah, you make that point again and again, and it's important.

00:35:41.000 Like, the politics, it's almost like to zoom out, it's you look at the politics and say, make it work.

00:35:48.000 You've got to make it work politically because the thing itself is essential.

00:35:52.000 I mean, it's just like we should view it at least as important as whatever's going on with Iran.

00:35:57.000 You know, you would say, does the base or not so much?

00:36:01.000 Does the public really want to bomb Iran?

00:36:03.000 Well, the polls say pretty ambivalent about it.

00:36:06.000 But if they were close to getting a nuclear bomb, if the threat was of a serious nature, the president just has to do it.

00:36:13.000 He has to do it.

00:36:14.000 And then you sell it because you had to do it.

00:36:16.000 Same thing with deportations.

00:36:18.000 This is an existential threat to the country.

00:36:21.000 You've got to make the people who are here illegally go home and you sell it however you can.

00:36:27.000 You have to approach it with that attitude.

00:36:29.000 Amen.

00:36:29.000 Yeah.

00:36:30.000 Final minute to you.

00:36:31.000 Expediency.

00:36:32.000 Yeah, expediency.

00:36:33.000 I like the point.

00:36:34.000 You know, you mentioned something about Obama deportation numbers.

00:36:37.000 So that triggered something in my head.

00:36:39.000 That's the big mystery, right?

00:36:41.000 We've seen it.

00:36:42.000 How did Obama deport so many?

00:36:44.000 How did Biden deport so many?

00:36:46.000 It turns out there's a fudging of the numbers there.

00:36:48.000 Of course.

00:36:49.000 And you can look this up.

00:36:50.000 And I want the audience, if they aren't aware of it, to look it up.

00:36:52.000 What it was is the border was wide open with Obama and Biden, correct?

00:36:58.000 So they had a huge number, a huge pool, millions in this case, of fresh people at the border every year that they were able to, many of which, whose asylum claims were denied or whatever, they were able to quickly deport those.

00:37:11.000 So that's how their numbers got stacked.

00:37:13.000 That's how Obama was able to deport three and a half million.

00:37:17.000 Trump doesn't have the benefit of any of that because the border is effectively shut.

00:37:23.000 And any, you know, any traveling migrant from Central or South America knows that the border is shut.

00:37:28.000 So they're not showing up.

00:37:29.000 So we don't have those easy deportations.

00:37:32.000 So that's, I just thought, that number always astounded me.

00:37:36.000 Like, how the heck?

00:37:37.000 Deeper in the numbers, Kane, a lot of those were just prison transfers, jail transfers, too.

00:37:42.000 So citizen, check it out today.

00:37:45.000 Kane, you're the man.

00:37:46.000 We'll talk to you.

00:37:47.000 Thank you, guys.

00:37:48.000 Thanks, brother.

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00:39:00.000 I wanted to highlight a story that maybe you've heard of, maybe you haven't, but there's a massive show on Amazon Prime that's hosted by Mr. Beast.

00:39:09.000 Now, if you don't know who Mr. Beast is, then we've got a whole other person.

00:39:12.000 You don't have any kids under the age of 15, probably.

00:39:15.000 Mr. Beast is wildly popular with young people on social media, YouTube.

00:39:20.000 And now he hosts a game called Beast Games on Amazon Prime Video.

00:39:24.000 And we have, holy whoa.

00:39:26.000 Yes, 470 million YouTube subscribers.

00:39:29.000 Yeah, it's big.

00:39:31.000 That would be the second largest country or third largest country in the world.

00:39:34.000 Yes, he's very popular, very popular.

00:39:36.000 And one of the contestants on season two, the runner-up, in fact, is a gentleman named Corey Sims, and we have him on the show now.

00:39:44.000 Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show, Corey.

00:39:46.000 Thank you so much.

00:39:47.000 It's truly an honor and a blessing to be on your show.

00:39:50.000 I truly am so grateful.

00:39:51.000 Thank you.

00:39:51.000 Awesome.

00:39:52.000 Well, you can already, the audience can probably already hear why you've been invited on the show just by your tone.

00:39:58.000 So you are a Navy veteran, and you competed for 42 days on this high-stakes reality competition hosted by Mr. Beast.

00:40:10.000 You really caught people's attention, not only because you were the runner-up.

00:40:14.000 Apparently, I didn't see the finale, but apparently it could have gone either way for $5 million.

00:40:20.000 But you caught people's attention because the way you conducted yourself on the show, you were respectful, you prayed, you didn't backstab.

00:40:28.000 Apparently, explain the show for the audience and how you conducted yourself, why you chose to conduct yourself that way.

00:40:36.000 Absolutely.

00:40:36.000 So that's a great question.

00:40:37.000 So Beast Games is a really interesting social experiment, so to speak.

00:40:42.000 It's kind of put you up against people.

00:40:45.000 You're obviously competing to win $5 million.

00:40:49.000 So you either get the option and the choice to be a hero and do the right thing, or most likely, which most people end up doing, is unfortunately the money gets into their face and they turn into the villain, unfortunately.

00:41:02.000 Me, I played the game exactly how I live my life, you know, with integrity, with honesty, and most important, just always knowing that God is watching me in everything that I do.

00:41:12.000 So I always try to do the right thing, no matter what.

00:41:15.000 Well, I think you're a guy that Charlie would have really appreciated.

00:41:20.000 And I know I know that you probably have some thoughts about Charlie and his legacy.

00:41:28.000 But talk about this point about $5 million and what that did to people.

00:41:32.000 We live in a time of social media influencers that are chasing clicks.

00:41:36.000 Seems like, you know, principles and values, their faith seems to go out the window the second there is money to be had.

00:41:44.000 You were looking at $5 million.

00:41:46.000 You got to the final two.

00:41:48.000 Explain what that dynamic is like, right?

00:41:52.000 Of being, you know, in front of $5 million, having a chance to get it, having the temptation to be conniving, backstabbing.

00:42:01.000 What is the point?

00:42:02.000 Explain the game a little bit and then that temptation of the money.

00:42:05.000 Absolutely.

00:42:06.000 First, I just want to say I was heartbroken what happened to Charlie.

00:42:10.000 Truly, truly, tears in my eyes sad.

00:42:12.000 And that was just a horrible thing to happen.

00:42:15.000 And Beast Games, back to your question about Beast Games, it was more like it's just one of those competitions where people get the option to either lie to each other, be honest with each other.

00:42:26.000 And me, I just played the game with all the integrity I could, just trying to be doing the right thing, saying the right things, so to speak.

00:42:32.000 And by the grace of God and only by the grace of God, I made it all the way to the end.

00:42:38.000 The final challenge, it was me against Tyler.

00:42:41.000 And it was just one of those weird challenges where it was based on chance, unfortunately.

00:42:46.000 If it would have been more physical or mental, it might have been a little bit something different.

00:42:50.000 But it was based on chance and kind of like bluffing, lying and stuff like that, which obviously I'm not good at.

00:42:56.000 That's why I just kind of started spinning the suitcases around because I didn't want him to see if I was lying or not, obviously.

00:43:03.000 So it's one of those things.

00:43:04.000 Interesting.

00:43:05.000 All right.

00:43:05.000 So we have a clip from you after you lost.

00:43:09.000 Came second best.

00:43:12.000 But again, it was a game of chance.

00:43:13.000 Here's Sot 17.

00:43:16.000 It still was one of the best experiences ever, man.

00:43:21.000 It's awesome.

00:43:27.000 When I met your wife and your boys, come on, man.

00:43:30.000 That was awesome.

00:43:33.000 No, not at all.

00:43:35.000 You're going to make them so proud.

00:43:38.000 I love you guys so much I'm really happy for Tyler If somebody could have won other than me, I'm happy that it was him.

00:43:51.000 Yeah, I'm going to love the Lord in the good times and the bad times.

00:43:55.000 cory has officially been eliminated and this hurts very dramatic I mean, how long was that drop?

00:44:10.000 Yeah.

00:44:11.000 It's probably about probably 20 feet, maybe.

00:44:14.000 Not too far.

00:44:15.000 I mean, so again, for those in the audience that maybe weren't aware of this show or didn't follow it, this is a really big deal.

00:44:15.000 Wow.

00:44:23.000 You have now come out with a book, and I love the title, What 5 Million Can't Buy.

00:44:29.000 This image 184.

00:44:30.000 You came out with it.

00:44:31.000 How has your life changed?

00:44:32.000 What did you learn?

00:44:34.000 I mean, I'm assuming you've got a whole big new social media following.

00:44:38.000 And what are your plans?

00:44:39.000 And what do you want to do with that?

00:44:41.000 Absolutely.

00:44:41.000 So first and foremost, I just always want to shine God's amazing light on everybody.

00:44:46.000 That's my mission in life.

00:44:48.000 And I wrote the book.

00:44:49.000 It was completely inspired by God.

00:44:52.000 One morning I woke up after I came back from Beast Games and I was laying in bed and he put it in my spirit.

00:44:57.000 He said, write a book.

00:44:58.000 So of course I'm going to be obedient.

00:45:00.000 I'm going to listen to whatever he tells me to do.

00:45:02.000 So I just started writing.

00:45:03.000 And honestly, the whole writing process, you know, reflecting on everything that happened, the emotions and everything, it really helped me even draw closer to God through that entire thing.

00:45:12.000 It was truly remarkable.

00:45:12.000 It was just amazing.

00:45:14.000 And now I just, I want to go out.

00:45:17.000 My whole platform is just to shine his amazing light and help people, inspire people, inspire people with their faith, their character, their integrity, and just help people as much as I can.

00:45:29.000 I guess you probably feel that questions like this, but obviously a lot of people who are on Beast Videos, his platform, like they become fan favorites, they become notable in their own right.

00:45:39.000 And they're often requested to come back and follow up videos.

00:45:43.000 Is there any chance of that sort of thing happening?

00:45:46.000 A lot of people have been messaging me saying, I'm sure Mr. Beast will bring you back to one of his challenges and stuff.

00:45:51.000 And I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

00:45:53.000 Whatever, everything's according to God's plan.

00:45:55.000 So whatever he has planned for me, I'm more than happy to do it.

00:45:59.000 Well, I know that Mr. Beast has a huge following with young people.

00:46:05.000 And you now have a platform in some ways, not too dissimilar from Charlie, you know, to reach the next generation.

00:46:13.000 Final minute here, Corey.

00:46:16.000 What's your message to them?

00:46:18.000 What resonates with them?

00:46:19.000 What are they asking you?

00:46:20.000 One minute.

00:46:21.000 Absolutely.

00:46:22.000 So my main thing is just to inspire hope with people.

00:46:25.000 And the most important thing I could tell anybody, especially kids, the young Gen Z, always trust in God.

00:46:33.000 Always have faith in God.

00:46:35.000 Always trust his timing.

00:46:37.000 And always know that he is working behind the scenes, always for your good.

00:46:42.000 Amen.

00:46:43.000 Corey, congratulations on winning $17,000.

00:46:48.000 Thank you.

00:46:49.000 Mid of a gap.

00:46:50.000 Yeah, he's very harsh like that.

00:46:52.000 $5 million, $17,000.

00:46:54.000 Small gap.

00:46:55.000 Small gap, but, you know, God is faithful.

00:46:59.000 You're right.

00:47:00.000 And we've certainly seen that in our own ways, despite things not working out the way we wanted them to either.

00:47:06.000 So God bless you.

00:47:07.000 And I will pray for you that your fruit would be great and that your ministry would be great and that God's name would be made great through you.

00:47:16.000 God bless you, man.

00:47:17.000 Thank you.

00:47:17.000 We'll see you around.

00:47:18.000 God bless you guys.

00:47:18.000 Thank you so much.

00:47:19.000 Thanks, guys.

00:47:20.000 Thank you.

00:47:21.000 That's a fun one.

00:47:24.000 I just love how he has his 53,000 followers on Instagram.

00:47:28.000 I know it's some of that is for those who do not follow the beast.

00:47:34.000 It's like anyone who's just on his videos can people become famous because they're in one random video if they're.

00:47:39.000 He has that kind of power.

00:47:40.000 Yeah, that's right.

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00:48:42.000 So the news this morning just broke that Howard Schultz, the former CEO and founder of Starbucks, announced that he and his wife Sherry are relocating from Seattle, Washington, Camie, Washington, where they've lived for 44 years.

00:48:58.000 And they're moving to where?

00:49:00.000 Miami.

00:49:01.000 Florida.

00:49:02.000 They all moved to Florida.

00:49:03.000 Yeah, as they enter their retirement phase.

00:49:05.000 Okay, so I mean, so it's just very funny here.

00:49:08.000 Like, the timing is almost perfect because Washington, despite being a blue state, it was one of the handful of states with no state income tax.

00:49:19.000 Very notoriously, I believe people in South Washington would live in Washington, pay no income tax, and they would drive and do their shopping in Oregon, which has no sales tax.

00:49:30.000 And it's a blue state.

00:49:33.000 You kind of just have to pass an income tax or you're not properly progressive anymore.

00:49:36.000 Yeah, you can't get kicked out of the club if you don't.

00:49:39.000 So Washington is just now enacting a state income tax.

00:49:44.000 One of their lawmakers was assuring people that rich people are not going to leave.

00:49:48.000 That's not going to happen.

00:49:49.000 And lo and behold, today, Howard Schultz announces he is relocating to Florida almost certainly to escape the burden of that.

00:49:59.000 Yeah, so it's 9.9% tax on income over a million dollars.

00:50:03.000 So it's 10% tax is a legit to put on.

00:50:07.000 So he has this statement here.

00:50:10.000 He says, you know, he talks about how 1979 they drove across the country.

00:50:15.000 Now they're a golden retriever.

00:50:17.000 Yeah, started a new job, place called Starbucks.

00:50:20.000 Back then, the Pike Place Starbucks only sold what, whole bean coffee.

00:50:24.000 Today, it's the most visited Starbucks in the world.

00:50:27.000 So they talk about growing it and the Schultz Family Foundation, critical work to help others in the community.

00:50:33.000 But the reaction online has been nothing, let's just say subtle.

00:50:38.000 You've got Mike Cernovich saying this.

00:50:40.000 He's scum, that he has been, he went all in on the woke and the riots, and that this guy's going to go to Florida and that all these rhinos are going to cozy up to him because he's got money.

00:50:51.000 And we need to stop bowing before bail.

00:50:53.000 Pretty intense commentary from him.

00:50:55.000 What does Rufo say?

00:50:56.000 Well, I think Chris Rufo has a very adroit take because it's one we've seen over and over.

00:51:00.000 Howard Schultz spent decades virtue signaling for every new demand of progressivism.

00:51:07.000 And now he's leaving the rest of us.

00:51:09.000 Chris Ruffo lives in Washington, of course.

00:51:11.000 He's leaving the rest of us to deal with the consequences.

00:51:14.000 A truly dishonorable end to his tenure as a Washingtonian.

00:51:19.000 And that really is worth emphasizing that Seattle was one of the nicest cities in America.

00:51:24.000 It was an iconic city in America.

00:51:26.000 You got, it was kind of the city of the 90s.

00:51:28.000 We got all of that grunge music out of Seattle.

00:51:32.000 And now I feel like Seattle's probably most notorious for being the city that had CHOP and the city that has a ton of homeless people.

00:51:40.000 And it basically became ungovernable.

00:51:43.000 Well, and they're just getting more and more radical.

00:51:45.000 They have essentially a communist mayor.

00:51:47.000 I call her communist.

00:51:48.000 She says she's a socialist.

00:51:49.000 They've got fraud out the yin.

00:51:51.000 Huge amounts of fraud.

00:51:53.000 They were, I mean, they were a tech hub of the United States.

00:51:55.000 They still have it.

00:51:55.000 I mean, Microsoft is up there.

00:51:57.000 Amazon or Boeing movie.

00:51:58.000 Yeah, they're the state of Boeing.

00:52:00.000 Boeing went downhill.

00:52:01.000 They're the state of Amazon.

00:52:02.000 They're the state of Microsoft.

00:52:05.000 But you don't hear about new tech stuff coming out of Seattle nearly as much.

00:52:08.000 It's not the city it once was.

00:52:10.000 And that's substantially because progressivism has a way of ruining the things that are driving prosperity in America.

00:52:18.000 Yeah, the prosperity comes, they get progressive, they kill future prosperity.

00:52:22.000 It's a pretty common.

00:52:24.000 And by the way, if you are a major tech company like Microsoft, you can afford the regulatory burdens, the tax burdens.

00:52:31.000 But if you're a startup, they kill you in the crib.

00:52:34.000 You can't get off the ground anymore.

00:52:36.000 So, well done, Howard Schultz, for helping contribute to create the problem that has mired Seattle in a malaise of its own making and then fleeing for the sunnier shores and your $44 million penthouse that you have just purchased in Miami.

00:52:53.000 And a bonus warning, which is, in addition, Starbucks is, they're not moving their HQ.

00:52:57.000 They're just building a bonus HQ of sorts in Nashville.

00:53:02.000 So we've got the billionaire moving to Florida.

00:53:04.000 We have the major corporation massively expanding in a red state.

00:53:08.000 We've seen that happen over and over because the red states are more business friendly.

00:53:12.000 The red states have lower taxes.

00:53:14.000 We have to make sure we do not fall for this.

00:53:16.000 Do not allow Starbucks to lobby for a bunch of blue nonsense in Tennessee.

00:53:21.000 Do not allow your new billionaire arrival to abruptly campaign for all the things that ruined the state he just abandoned because they will do both of those things.

00:53:30.000 Exactly.

00:53:30.000 Well, and by the way, this is what bothers me when you see like Hewlett-Packard moving to Dallas or whatever, or Texas.

00:53:36.000 Maybe it was Austin.

00:53:38.000 They're going to bring all their woke ideologies.

00:53:39.000 You have to, I mean, I'm crazy on this.

00:53:42.000 I would completely say, hey, if you want to relocate to a new state, you don't get to vote for five years.

00:53:47.000 Maybe 10.

00:53:48.000 I think those ideas are.

00:53:49.000 It is of existential importance, arguably for the entire planet, that we not allow the red states of America to be ruined because they're basically the only engines of continued innovation and prosperity.

00:54:02.000 Arguably in the Western world, Europe is stagnant.

00:54:04.000 Red states.

00:54:05.000 Canada's committing suicide, literally.

00:54:06.000 Red states are literally the last firewall for freedom in the West.

00:54:10.000 I have a friend in Austin, and he says the most important thing is that Texas remain Republican.

00:54:14.000 If Texas stops being Republican, it's over.

00:54:16.000 We have one little quick story from another red state.

00:54:18.000 Erica Kirk is in Arkansas.

00:54:21.000 We're announcing a new partnership with the state of Arkansas for Club America chapters to be working like we've done with some of the other states.

00:54:28.000 And she actually spoke at a high school here.

00:54:30.000 Another red state down.

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00:55:55.000 Alex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Breitbart.

00:55:58.000 He's also got his own show, The Alex Marlowe Show.

00:56:01.000 Alex, welcome back.

00:56:02.000 Lots to get to today.

00:56:04.000 I want to start.

00:56:05.000 I want to talk politics because that's the question of the day.

00:56:08.000 I mean, it seems like the war is being executed extraordinarily efficiently and well.

00:56:14.000 Progress is obviously there.

00:56:15.000 We've destabilized that the military apparatus, their naval fleet.

00:56:20.000 Everything is destroyed in that sense.

00:56:22.000 Still some more work to do, but the politics of it is still in question.

00:56:26.000 PlaySat 19.

00:56:27.000 You know, I took a look at all the polling, averaged it all together, and we have now reached the year mark.

00:56:33.000 We have now reached the year mark in which he has a negative net approval rating.

00:56:38.000 So we have been talking about this for a long period of time.

00:56:41.000 According to my average of polls, what we've been looking at is every day since March 12th, 2025, President Trump has been underwater, and we've been counting up the days.

00:56:50.000 We've shown this slide a number of times, and we have now reached the point in which Trump has been swimming with the fishes for a year.

00:56:58.000 He's underwater.

00:56:59.000 There is a little bit of bleed on some of the coalition with the Iran strikes.

00:57:04.000 What do you make of it?

00:57:05.000 Yeah, first of all, gentlemen, always nice to see you.

00:57:07.000 I always miss it when I'm away.

00:57:08.000 It has been too long.

00:57:09.000 But when we were on together right after the initial raid on Iran, Rich was on with us and he was saying that flat out this is going to be unpopular.

00:57:17.000 And I don't think anyone was going to deny that.

00:57:19.000 Because even if Trump draws it inside straight and does a great job dismantling Iran's nuclear capabilities, it's just there's not that many constituents that wanted to see a war play out.

00:57:28.000 And it does create a lot of complications economically when people want us to focus at home and on things like affordability.

00:57:35.000 And it's going to drive prices up.

00:57:36.000 It's going to drive gas prices up.

00:57:38.000 And it brings up other issues like we haven't fully restocked our strategic oil reserves, which Biden drained for his political purposes.

00:57:46.000 And so there's a lot of complicated downstream effects.

00:57:49.000 And I do think one thing the administration could do a little better is to point out the nuclear threat of Iran.

00:57:54.000 And I think we just kind of acted like that was over.

00:57:57.000 And I think that was a big mistake: is that Iran was pursuing a nuclear weapon.

00:58:00.000 They were the most likely to get it of anyone in the world who wants it.

00:58:04.000 And if they did get it, they've been calling us the great Satan forever.

00:58:07.000 If they did that, then of course they would want to use it, but also creates all these complications like all these other countries who don't have nuclear weapons would say, well, if Iran's got one, we got to go get one.

00:58:16.000 And it could really put us on the brink of Armageddon.

00:58:18.000 And this never came up.

00:58:19.000 I don't know why this never came up, that we didn't point out that this was a real threat of all the fake threats we hear about.

00:58:25.000 We never heard about this real one.

00:58:27.000 And so it just puts the president politically behind the eight ball.

00:58:30.000 But he assumes that in a couple months' time, he'll have won.

00:58:33.000 He'll declared victory.

00:58:35.000 Remember, they've got a cardboard cutout leading their country right now, which is sort of hilarious.

00:58:39.000 He's like the Yeti or the Chupacabra.

00:58:41.000 We've never seen him before.

00:58:42.000 No one knows where he is.

00:58:43.000 He doesn't give speeches.

00:58:44.000 He doesn't give interviews.

00:58:45.000 And so if Trump can declare victory and then come home quickly, he could still net out in the end.

00:58:50.000 But it's a tough political proposition.

00:58:52.000 It just is.

00:58:53.000 Yeah, and apparently we haven't seen him because he was injured in an Israeli bomb strike.

00:58:58.000 So a missile strike.

00:58:59.000 So we're not exactly sure where this guy is or in what condition he's in.

00:59:03.000 But, you know, I heard somebody refer to him as the Hunter Biden of Iran, which I thought was funny.

00:59:10.000 I mean, so yeah.

00:59:11.000 And here's my take on it.

00:59:13.000 It's no secret.

00:59:14.000 We have been a little bit reticent about going to war.

00:59:16.000 Charlie was reticent about regime change.

00:59:19.000 We share those concerns.

00:59:20.000 But once the president hits go, we've got his back.

00:59:24.000 We're going to trust him to make these tough decisions.

00:59:26.000 And I do agree with you, Alex.

00:59:28.000 There is a story to tell.

00:59:29.000 Blake Blake has framed it this way, that it could be the last Middle East conflict that we have to wage, right?

00:59:36.000 If it's conducted the right way.

00:59:38.000 And I think that geopolitically, you see how this could really put the screws to China and the CCP.

00:59:43.000 You could see how this could help us from a geopolitical strategic standpoint.

00:59:47.000 You could see how what we did in Venezuela, taking the head of the snake there, could end up bringing Cuba back into good stead with the United States.

00:59:56.000 All of these things could be really powerful and could pay dividends for generations.

01:00:00.000 The concern, though, is short term, right?

01:00:03.000 And so I want to bring up this graphic here.

01:00:06.000 Oh, yeah, we do have a picture of the cardboard cutout, but I don't know what status our computer is in right now.

01:00:13.000 We had a little bit of, oh, there it is.

01:00:14.000 This is mind-blowing.

01:00:15.000 I mean, how could this be real?

01:00:17.000 Is that what they're praying to?

01:00:18.000 They're praying to a false idol now.

01:00:20.000 It's very, very weird.

01:00:21.000 They got a bigger hand.

01:00:22.000 The golden calf was made of gold.

01:00:26.000 He doesn't want to poke his head out of hiding because it does seem like Israel has intentions to take him.

01:00:31.000 He's kissing it.

01:00:32.000 They kiss the cardboard cutout of a guy.

01:00:34.000 No one knows this guy is.

01:00:35.000 He's a ghost.

01:00:36.000 He doesn't exist.

01:00:37.000 And James Carville's out there saying, oh, he's a big threat.

01:00:41.000 He's even more radical.

01:00:42.000 It's like, we don't know anything about this.

01:00:43.000 He doesn't do interviews.

01:00:44.000 Carville's not up on his podcast.

01:00:46.000 This Ayatollah is not, you know, he's not out there creating content for people.

01:00:50.000 He's just behind the scenes if he even exists at all.

01:00:52.000 Totally.

01:00:53.000 I think the whole thing's bizarre.

01:00:55.000 But what else is new from the Iranian regime?

01:00:58.000 Let's go ahead and show image 187.

01:01:00.000 All right.

01:01:00.000 So this is a pooled survey data, strength in numbers, very sight polls, and they've conducted it from May of 2025 through February of 2026.

01:01:09.000 And this is a graph of among Trump supporters.

01:01:13.000 Okay, so every bar you're seeing here is a Trump supporter, like a cohort with over 65, family income over 100,000, white college, white non-college.

01:01:23.000 And if you look down at the bottom, the groups that he's losing support most with are going to be AAPI, so Pacific Islanders, yeah, and Asians, Hispanics, 18 to 29-year-olds, make under $50,000, 30,000 to 44-year-olds, and blacks.

01:01:42.000 These are Trump voters that he's bleeding support with.

01:01:47.000 It does seem like these would be the people that we brought into the coalition most recently.

01:01:52.000 Yeah, it's the marginal members of the coalition.

01:01:54.000 Yeah, they were in wet cement.

01:01:56.000 So let's play this out.

01:01:58.000 The next coming weeks, months ahead, what do we do to shore up the base, get enthusiasm back up, and bring these people back into the fold?

01:02:08.000 Okay, first of all, this is a great question.

01:02:10.000 First of all, you've got to do what I've said, which is you've got to go back and make the case.

01:02:13.000 We really were, there was a legitimate nuclear threat that Iran posed, and they were relentless.

01:02:20.000 Trump should also remind people that one year ago, he wrote Iran a letter that said, no more nuclear development, no more funding of terrorist proxies in the region, no more pursuit of ballistic missiles.

01:02:30.000 And Iran did all three of those things.

01:02:32.000 And our president's word has to mean something.

01:02:34.000 The next thing is that we need to, after we've made that case, that there was legitimate pretext for it, then we need to declare victory and go home, put the mission accomplished banner up and come back and say, we did it.

01:02:44.000 We flipped it.

01:02:45.000 We're not staking around with regime change, ground troops, and whatever is going to be there is going to do better.

01:02:51.000 And then we need to start working on affordability.

01:02:53.000 We need to make sure the Strait of War Moose is open.

01:02:55.000 They're stopping all these tankers that could be getting oil to the West now.

01:02:59.000 But who's still getting their oil?

01:03:00.000 Russia and China.

01:03:01.000 They're still getting their oil.

01:03:02.000 That's, of course, a bad luck.

01:03:03.000 Trump's aware of this.

01:03:04.000 I guarantee you he's thinking about it right now as we're having this conversation.

01:03:07.000 That's got to stop and it's got to never return.

01:03:09.000 And then he needs to go out and make the case that we did make peace in the Middle East.

01:03:13.000 It's over.

01:03:14.000 This was a war we didn't start.

01:03:15.000 It was started against us almost half a century ago.

01:03:18.000 It's the last Middle East war.

01:03:19.000 I love that framing from Blake.

01:03:21.000 And now it's over.

01:03:22.000 And then hopefully the prosperity starts happening.

01:03:25.000 Yeah, I'm reminded back to the campaign days when you would see, you know, I remember there was a local news reporter here in Phoenix, but I think it ended up going national.

01:03:35.000 And it was, you know, a Hispanic voter.

01:03:37.000 And their case for voting for Trump was very simple.

01:03:40.000 Under Trump, there was more money in my wallet.

01:03:43.000 There was just more prosperity.

01:03:45.000 It is almost as simple as that.

01:03:48.000 And I don't know that economically we've gotten to that point yet.

01:03:51.000 I don't know that we've made the case yet.

01:03:53.000 Trump is out in Kentucky.

01:03:55.000 I think he's going to be campaigning against Thomas Massey, but he's also going to be talking about Trump RX today.

01:04:00.000 I mean, you got to let Trump be Trump.

01:04:02.000 That's my thing.

01:04:03.000 You got to let Trump be Trump.

01:04:04.000 But listen, Trump RX, these populist conservative wins, banning stock trading, getting the Save America Act passed.

01:04:11.000 We need to get some wins on the board.

01:04:13.000 And that's the warning to Congress right now.

01:04:16.000 Thune, I don't even know what to do with Thune.

01:04:18.000 I got so frustrated at Thune, I literally tweeted a video of him with just gobbly gook letters because it was like, we don't have the votes.

01:04:25.000 Be a leader.

01:04:26.000 Go get the votes.

01:04:28.000 You know, this is your job to go figure out and find a way.

01:04:31.000 Zero urgency, zero respect for what the base is asking for.

01:04:35.000 And if you do that over and over and over again, you're going to bleed support.

01:04:39.000 You're going to bleed enthusiasm from your most enthusiastic supporters.

01:04:44.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:04:45.000 So we got to keep the enthusiastic people high energy and the new members of the coalition that they really liked that Trump was making things.

01:04:51.000 They were thinking about their bottom line and not getting us into wars.

01:04:55.000 So can we undo this soon?

01:04:57.000 I think so.

01:04:57.000 I think Trump's keenly aware of this.

01:04:59.000 We know gas prices always go up in the summer anyway.

01:05:01.000 We're waiting for a lot of those big beater for bills, tax cut, what's the season that we're talking about with everyone's going to get their tax rebates back?

01:05:10.000 All that.

01:05:11.000 We got to let that happen.

01:05:12.000 We got to let it play out.

01:05:13.000 But there is some urgency here.

01:05:14.000 We do have an element of a ticking clock.

01:05:18.000 Yes.

01:05:18.000 I mean, and Charlie would say this all the time.

01:05:20.000 We have two roads ahead of us.

01:05:21.000 We've got Momdaniism or we've got MAGA.

01:05:24.000 And voters are going to be making up their mind in the next couple of, if they haven't already made up their mind.

01:05:31.000 It's got to get them back.

01:05:33.000 I want to get your thoughts here, Alex.

01:05:35.000 The CNN debacle, Abby Phillip saying that, you know, they were actually just attacking Mayor Momdani's house.

01:05:43.000 They wanted to attack the first Muslim mayor, which makes absolutely zero sense.

01:05:47.000 She repeated it multiple times, then corrected it.

01:05:49.000 Was this an innocent mistake or was this gaslighting and lying from the legacy media?

01:05:56.000 I mean, it's hard to know.

01:05:58.000 I mean, I just can't believe they're always giving ISIS the benefit of the doubt.

01:06:01.000 There is this meme that a lot of people are going to remember that I think may have originated with my writer, John Nolte, but a lot of people have echoed it, which is that CNN is ISIS.

01:06:11.000 And it was always sort of a troll.

01:06:12.000 But now they're defending ISIS and they're saying ISIS is coming after the mayor of New York.

01:06:17.000 And they're not.

01:06:18.000 They're coming after guys who are against radical Islam, which is you're allowed to protest off in this country and not have CNN just continue to lie about you, but they can't stop doing it.

01:06:28.000 It's non-stop.

01:06:29.000 They were defending him.

01:06:30.000 And then Abby Phillip goes right out on her show and says that it was actually an attack on Mamdani.

01:06:36.000 And that tweet that they deleted where they acted as though these guys were coincidentally in New York and spontaneously decided they'd put out a nail bomb and try to incinerate civilians.

01:06:47.000 It's just crazy stuff that this is allowed.

01:06:49.000 And I can't help but think Netflix almost bought them.

01:06:52.000 And the only reason why Netflix wasn't able to take them over is because they refused to drop Susan Rice from their board, who is only there for purely political purposes to get Obama-ism into our entertainment.

01:07:03.000 So our media continues to be a huge disgrace.

01:07:05.000 And thankfully, the people mostly see through it.

01:07:08.000 Yeah, well, and then a news story out of CBS confirms what Nick Shirley already told us.

01:07:14.000 Nick Shirley, also the Trump administration, Dr. Oz went, he did a video in Los Angeles, and he says, you know, I'm here in L.A., there's a bunch of hospices.

01:07:22.000 I think he went to Van Nuys in the Valley, and he basically, I don't know if I said that right, but he's like, there's 500 hospices in, you know, a four-block radius or something, and a bunch of them are fraudulent.

01:07:34.000 Governor Gavin Newsom said he was being racist and filed a civil rights complaint, said we needed to investigate Dr. Oz for this.

01:07:40.000 CBS News goes and they go to the exact same location and they say, oh, there's 90 hospices in one building.

01:07:48.000 70 of them have multiple red flags for fraud.

01:07:51.000 Overall, I think about more than half of the hospices in SoCal had red flags for fraud.

01:07:57.000 It's all real.

01:07:58.000 Same thing.

01:07:59.000 We heard about the autism centers.

01:08:01.000 That was a big part of the Minnesota fraud.

01:08:03.000 Wall Street Journal just went and looked at a bunch of Medicaid data that was published and they found one in Indiana.

01:08:09.000 It was a piece-by-piece autism center has collected $29 million in Medicaid billing for 84 patients in one year.

01:08:18.000 That is $340,000 per child in one year.

01:08:22.000 Think about how many taxpayers that is just for one place of fraud.

01:08:26.000 Your entire lifetime of taxes, if you're an average American, was spent to provide one year of autism care to one kid from this center in Indiana.

01:08:34.000 Well, and so people, just so people understand how it works, Medicare is, of course, federally administered, but hospices must be licensed by the state.

01:08:42.000 So it's up to the state of California in this instance to issue the licenses.

01:08:47.000 You know something about California fraud there, Alex.

01:08:50.000 You went to Berkeley.

01:08:51.000 You started with Breitbart out of Los Angeles.

01:08:54.000 So the point is, you now have CBS covering this.

01:08:57.000 Are we seeing a changing of the guard or is this, you know, we just got lucky once?

01:09:04.000 It's hard to know.

01:09:05.000 I think the stuff that's been going on at CBS has clearly been a slight improvement over what was there previously, but I've got a lot of nuances that I'm seeing that are not encouraging me completely that we're going to ever see a complete balance over there.

01:09:17.000 But I'm rooting for it, obviously, because I'd like an informed public.

01:09:21.000 But the thing that's so noteworthy about this particular case, as well as what Nick Shirley found in Minneapolis, is a lot of these blue areas of which one of which I live in in California, there's actually a disincentive to solve problems because to solve a problem like a lot of taxpayer money is getting funded to fake hospices or fake leering centers or there's actually a way to fix the airport or fix the traffic or fix the homelessness or fix the fire prevention.

01:09:48.000 All of that actually is kind of a dunk on your predecessors who are in your same party.

01:09:53.000 And so there actually is disincentive to try to solve problems in deep blue areas because all that does is show that the people who were in charge before who probably endorse you and are probably your friends and are probably helping get donors that they all failed in their tasks.

01:10:06.000 So the Democrats have proven they're willing to elect people with no records or horrible records.

01:10:10.000 So they're basically content to go along and just have this managed decline where blue areas in this country just get more crime ridden, more expensive, less pleasant to live in, but the people in power get to keep their jobs and they get, you know, podcast invites from left-wing influencers.

01:10:25.000 And they're very happy with this.

01:10:27.000 We can't relate to this.

01:10:28.000 It's very strange to us, but it is very real in the state.

01:10:32.000 Well, and you see this in Minneapolis as well, where you import a whole group of voters and you're going to let them get away with the fraud because guess what?

01:10:39.000 They'll vote and block for your party.

01:10:41.000 And this is what they're doing.

01:10:42.000 And they're going to be in California as well.

01:10:43.000 In order to dig out from any of this stuff, you have to offend huge voter blocs because you have to call a spade a spade.

01:10:49.000 Listen, we have a bunch of immigrant crime.

01:10:51.000 They come and they do organized crime and they run the system and they fleece.

01:10:55.000 And not only is there a bunch of immigrant crime, you have to confront the reality, which is it's a lot easier to organize a big fraud ring if you have ethnic affinities with people.

01:11:05.000 A lot of fraud is ethnic affinity fraud, period.

01:11:08.000 It's just everyone who's observed it and investigated it knows this, and you have to be able to say it and prosecute it.

01:11:15.000 And they're terrified of doing this.

01:11:17.000 And I think it's a huge opportunity for the administration.

01:11:21.000 He gave the role to Vice President Vance at the State of the Union.

01:11:25.000 I think if they were to find the right way to highlight these fraud rings, dramatically break them up, dramatically indict people, get some deportations, maybe even denaturalize and deport some people who are involved in this.

01:11:37.000 That is a win that the administration can tout.

01:11:40.000 And it's mostly beating up on blue states because they enable it the most.

01:11:43.000 We need a Doge-like initiative where we go around and we police from this fraud.

01:11:47.000 It's very easy, and we've seen it from both political parties.

01:11:49.000 Democrats are more efficient at this.

01:11:51.000 But how it works is that you get all this government money allocated towards businesses that are sort of private businesses, but they're not.

01:11:58.000 They're just purely funded by governments.

01:12:00.000 They're sort of NGOs or NGO lights.

01:12:02.000 And that's where all the fraud takes place.

01:12:04.000 And that's how these people get loaded up with millions of dollars.

01:12:06.000 It all becomes revolving door.

01:12:08.000 And you see, you know, Gavin Newsom's wife is going around.

01:12:10.000 She's bagging all this cash.

01:12:11.000 She's paying herself millions of dollars out of a charity that's basically about transing the kids.

01:12:16.000 It should be a front page scandal for everyone, but it's a, we're so used to it now.

01:12:20.000 We're getting numb to the scandals.

01:12:21.000 We're getting numb to all the scandals.

01:12:23.000 And that's very dangerous because then people are just going to tune out.

01:12:27.000 Yeah, I think that's a really fair point.

01:12:30.000 It's a fair warning, actually.

01:12:33.000 I mean, you think about what happened with Nick Shirley with the Minneapolis fraud ring, the Learing Centers, that was a huge, huge story.

01:12:39.000 It broke containment.

01:12:40.000 It became a national news story.

01:12:42.000 And then it got bogged down with Renee Goode and Alex Predi when we sent in the surge into Minneapolis.

01:12:50.000 That was a winning issue, though.

01:12:51.000 And if JD Vance wants to contribute, which I know he does, to winning the midterms and winning in 28, then hitting this hard and really putting some wins on the board will go a long way for that domestic policy agenda that we want to see more of.

01:13:06.000 Alex Marlow, check him out.

01:13:08.000 Editor-in-chief of Breitbart, host the Alex Marlowe show.

01:13:10.000 Thank you, my friends.

01:13:11.000 Good to see you again.

01:13:12.000 Thanks, guys.

01:13:12.000 See you soon.

01:13:13.000 Man, I would just love it if hire a thousand new federal prosecutors, go find right-wingers out of law school and just launch them like nukes, just destroy fraud.

01:13:21.000 If you blow up one $20 million fraud, you've paid for that lawyer's entire career.

01:13:25.000 Amen.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - March 11, 2026

Praising God After Losing $5 Million

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