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00:01:09.000All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:02:50.000And it was a very nice thing they did.
00:02:52.000But what it showed me is that we're dealing with the right people.
00:02:55.000It's so funny how he phrases that because the description, even though your mind goes to, you know, it's President Trump.
00:03:04.000So you picture him getting like a giant medallion he could hang in, you know, the Oval Office or something.
00:03:09.000But the implication I got is it could even be, it could be something more abstract, like worth a tremendous amount of money oil and gas related.
00:03:36.000But what was interesting about the way this played out yesterday was that the other legacy media outlets were denying Trump's claim that there is, we're not getting any reports from Iranian sources that there is actually a peace deal in negotiation.
00:03:52.000And then eventually the legacy media was forced to walk back those claims, SOT 21.
00:03:57.000We're now learning from a senior Iranian source that there has been an outreach between the U.S. and Iran.
00:04:03.000The source tells CNN that this was initiated by Washington.
00:04:08.000All right, so CNN's only point of differentiation here is that Washington reached out to Iran first.
00:04:14.000President Trump says, oh, they're desperate for a deal.
00:04:37.000But it remains that it does look like, you know, based on President Trump's earlier warning, he gave them five days or he was going to start striking their energy facilities, their oil and gas infrastructure.
00:04:51.000He says he's got four days left and that they want to make a deal.
00:06:22.000There was also reports potentially that Iran had stockpiles that were not previously known of even more advanced missile stock.
00:06:29.000I have been calling around a lot of sources on this, and I will tell you, just as somebody that's an objective observer of this situation, the tone behind the scenes seems to have lifted.
00:06:42.000I'm hearing a lot more positivity about the potential outcome of this war.
00:06:46.000Speaker Johnson is now saying he thinks Operation Epic Fury is about to get wrapped up this week.
00:07:21.000Whoever in Iran we are currently negotiating with.
00:07:24.000And we don't have the list of the 15 points, but there's reporting from the New York Times, from Al Jazeera, and others on what it probably includes.
00:07:31.000That would include an initial 30-day ceasefire, dismantling of Iran's existing nuclear facilities at Fordeau, Isfahan, Natans.
00:07:41.000A permanent, we're demanding a permanent commitment from Iran to never develop any nuclear capabilities.
00:07:47.000President Trump has said that they've already agreed.
00:07:50.000Trump has said they've already agreed to that.
00:08:04.000Those have constantly been this kind of soar that's caused tensions and problems all over the place.
00:08:10.000I mean, we have, separately from the Iran war, there is a war going on in Lebanon right now that has killed as many, if not more people than the one in Iran.
00:08:17.000And that's because of Hezbollah existing in southern Lebanon.
00:08:23.000And we even agreed, apparently, that we would have U.S. support for electricity generation at a civil nuclear plant if they're really insisting they need some sort of nuclear power.
00:08:34.000So far, Iran's propaganda has said they're rejecting all of this, and instead they have their own five-point plan, which would include that we give them control of the Strait of Hormuz permanently.
00:09:23.000All right, I want to pivot our attention to what's happening with this DHS funding fight because it's all happening upon the backdrop of the Sheridan Gorman killing in Chicago, right?
00:09:35.000So you have DHS to defend and protect the homeland.
00:09:41.000One of those jobs is, yes, deport illegal aliens, deport criminals.
00:10:21.000And so I'm going to give the man his due CUT 12.
00:10:23.000The illegal alien who killed Sheridan Gorman is exactly who Democrats are fighting to protect with their needless shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.
00:10:33.000Their absurd list of demands paints a clear picture.
00:10:37.000Open borders, limited deportations, and violent illegal aliens roaming free.
00:10:44.000Democrats want to return America to the days of the Biden border crisis.
00:10:51.000This week, the House is going to vote once again to fund all of DHS.
00:10:56.000We will vote to end this shutdown, pay the frontline heroes of Border Patrol, TSA, and the Coast Guard, and put the security of our nation first.
00:11:06.000But Democrats will continue to obstruct.
00:11:21.000Now their newest demand is that they want to remove funding from HSI, which is the investigative arm of Homeland Security.
00:11:29.000It's exactly as we said yesterday, which is the problem with talking about so much of the left is when you honestly describe their policies, you sound insane because it is unfathomably deranged and evil.
00:11:42.000But when you're defunding Homeland Security investigations, when you're defunding ICE, the policy intent of this is make it so anyone in the world can come to America and it is impossible for them to be taken out.
00:11:55.000They'll say, oh, we want the worst offenders to be deported, but they do not believe it.
00:12:00.000You obviously don't want that if you want to defund HSI.
00:12:03.000Yeah, if you're defunding that, if you're going to make it, it's like when they say, we know voter fraud doesn't exist, so we're never ever going to investigate it or indict anyone or look at it.
00:12:15.000Because if these people are showing up at the border and you're going to let them in, and then if they blow off their hearing, you're not going to find them.
00:12:23.000You're not going to have any ICE agents to make the arrest and ship them back.
00:12:26.000You're going to bar agents from even going to courtrooms and prisons to pick up the ones who get caught committing crimes.
00:12:34.000Your position is anyone, especially criminals, has the right to come to the United States and stay here forever.
00:12:39.000Well, what's interesting is we have this clip from none other than Hakeem Jeffries in 2015 talking about playing politics with DHS funding.
00:12:49.000We are here today to do a single job, and that should be to fund fully the Department of Homeland Security.
00:12:57.000Anything else is an abdication of our responsibility.
00:13:02.000Anything else is an act of legislative malpractice simply because of the inability of my friends on the other side of the aisle to satisfy the thirst of the extreme right-wing anti-immigration base of the party.
00:13:19.000And so we're playing political games at a time when the safety and the security of the American people is being threatened.
00:13:26.000Ah, well, that's a far cry from the modern Democrat Party.
00:14:42.000You get to pick and choose which criminals you want to hunt down.
00:14:45.000And we have one more blast from the, it feels like a blast from the past to me, but it really is indicative of the values of the left that persist.
00:14:52.000There is no moderation on the immigration issue from them.
00:14:55.000And this is, so we were talking about Sheridan Gorman.
00:14:58.000She was a student at Loyola in Chicago.
00:15:02.000And this is how her own student newspaper wrote up what had happened.
00:15:06.000They wrote an article about it that had the title, Immigrant Man Charged in Murder of Sheridan Gorman, DHS Involved.
00:15:12.000And they have updated their story and issued a lengthy apology because they say they didn't write about it in a way that reflects their standards and values because they described the man who murdered Sheridan Gorman allegedly as an illegal immigrant.
00:15:28.000Yeah, go to that headline again, that image of it.
00:15:30.000So that language does not align with associated press style, nor does it align with the values of this newspaper.
00:15:52.000How about we deeply regret that an illegal foreigner came to the United States and murdered a woman in a robbery, a woman who did nothing wrong and was basically executed by someone who should have never been here?
00:16:04.000That's a truly offensive, disgusting, gross headline from the student paper.
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00:17:43.000I want to read a tweet here from Bill Melusion.
00:17:47.000He said, breaking acting TSA Administrator Miss Ha Nguyen McNeil testifies that currently TSA is suffering the longest wait lines in agency history with callout rates hitting 40 to 50 percent at some airports and more than 400 employees have quit since the shutdown began.
00:18:06.000There is over $1 billion in paychecks outstanding.
00:18:13.000Well, what's happening here is Democrats are trying to leverage and hold hostage the American people to try to score political points, which is somewhat ironic because I don't know how they're scoring political points with anybody other than the very invaders and proponents of sanctuary cities that they're standing alongside.
00:18:29.000Look, my only gripe is I think Republicans need to do a better job on the Hill of painting the picture that it is Democrats that is causing this issue.
00:18:37.000We've got to go on offense that Democrats are making the lives of the American people miserable.
00:18:44.000I think you saw probably on social media.
00:18:46.000Hopefully you didn't experience it yourself.
00:18:48.000Friends of mine did in Houston that were four and five and six hour waits.
00:18:51.000They missed their flights, spent overnight in the airport.
00:18:54.000This stuff is having a real impact on Americans.
00:18:57.000Meanwhile, Democrats are wanting to saddle up with the very people who are causing the issue.
00:19:01.000So we've got to just keep our foot on the gas.
00:19:04.000I don't really love what I was hearing come out of the Senate about some sort of, you know, well, let's fund DHS all except for ICE.
00:19:11.000Look, Democrats are saying that we shouldn't have ICE out there enforcing the law and removing dangerous aliens.
00:19:18.000And for that, they want to make Americans wait in line and not be able to go travel around the country.
00:19:24.000Let's make them own it and let's stand up for ICE.
00:19:27.000Let's not try to give them a hall pass and an off-ramp to deal with ICE.
00:19:31.000Yeah, so, you know, you keep hearing from the Democrats that, hey, we've offered these standalone TSA funding bills to get that off the table.
00:19:40.000What do you make of that allegation, that approach that they're taking?
00:19:56.000And so they're leaving all these other things unfunded.
00:19:59.000Thankfully, we had money sitting there in the big, beautiful bill.
00:20:02.000We thought ahead last year had the money that we're able to use for ICE and Border Patrol, but that's leaving TSA and FEMA and Coast Guard, other entities, Secret Service, other things that are left holding the bag.
00:20:14.000So look, my view is the more you keep isolating it down, the more you're giving Democrats the ability to say, yeah, we're going to hold ICE hostage, right?
00:20:23.000We're going to stop enforcement and interior enforcement.
00:20:27.000I think we need to say, wait a minute, our job is to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
00:20:38.000And the Senate ought to just keep forcing the votes on them and make them own it.
00:20:43.000I'm not in favor of whittling it down.
00:20:45.000That being said, whatever we need to do to try to do our job to make sure we keep people safe and get TSA doing their job, I'm willing to have all the conversations we need to.
00:20:56.000The president's trying to make sure we're dealing with RAN, that we're doing our job here, that we're defending the homeland, and Democrats are playing politics with it.
00:21:04.000So we're all trying to figure out how to break them.
00:21:08.000You give them so much leverage, by the way, Chip, if you give them, if you start whittling it down and giving them one other pet project to then debate that.
00:21:16.000So I completely agree with you, Congressman.
00:21:18.000So let's turn our attention to the Save Act.
00:21:20.000You've been one of the leaders on the Save America Act.
00:21:24.000It seems like, you know, I called it failure theater in the Senate.
00:21:28.000I feel like that's where we're still at.
00:21:30.000You've got great patriots like Mike Lee that are fighting with everything they've got.
00:21:35.000And I think he's coming out looking like an absolute rock star here.
00:21:38.000What is your assessment of the progress being made or not being made on the Save America Act?
00:21:43.000Well, I think you were about to say fighting like heck again.
00:21:46.000And, you know, look, yeah, that's, and that's perfect for my good, my good Mormon friend, Mike Lee, who's the only time he gets salty language is when he's around bad influences.
00:21:55.000But Mike is a great American, one of my best friends here.
00:21:59.000He's doing a fantastic job, along with our mutual friend, Cleta Mitchell, who's one of the great minds behind this bill.
00:22:04.000He and I worked together two years ago.
00:22:06.000I think I remember I saw earlier somebody retweeted one of Charlie's tweets from the summer of 24, where he said he agreed with Elon and Elon was an early supporter of the bill we'd introduced to say, guys, we should just guarantee that we know that only American citizens are voting, clean up the voter rolls, ensure we have processes to check citizenship.
00:22:24.000And Charlie was an early supporter and adopter of promoting the SAVE Act.
00:22:29.000We obviously added voter ID, made the Save America Act.
00:22:37.000Right now, if you look at what they're doing, there's a certain element to that.
00:22:40.000But I would say the fact that we've now been on it for eight, nine days in the Senate and we forced them through the weekend and we've got the leader and everybody trying to figure out what to do means we're actually forcing them to do their job.
00:22:52.000Normally, they just kind of shrug it off and go give a press conference.
00:22:56.000So all of the work, all that Scott Pressler is doing, all that you guys are doing, all the effort by Elon and everybody to elevate this and Mike Lee and then us in the House and the president.
00:23:33.000And, you know, maybe people would find this interesting, but, you know, I've heard stories of Elon being presented, some of this data behind the scenes.
00:23:39.000And, you know, Elon's a guy that's used to looking at software.
00:23:48.000And there's a reason why a guy like Elon Musk knows that this is existential to the future of the Republic.
00:23:56.000So I don't have any more details to share than that, other than when a guy like Elon looks at the data and the information and the evidence set and says this is existential, you should probably take his word for that.
00:24:08.000And so, yeah, we got to get this done.
00:24:11.000You know, one other question on this, because I want to pivot to, we'll keep this short, but I know Senator Mike Lee is not in favor of doing this via reconciliation.
00:24:21.000You're not in the Senate, but what's your take on reconciliation, something that Senator Kennedy is pushing versus getting it done, talking filibuster or whatever?
00:24:29.000Again, I'm somebody who's always willing to sit down at a table and find a way to succeed and to deliver.
00:24:34.000We did it on the Big Beautiful Bill, right?
00:24:36.000There are a lot of things in there, moving parts.
00:24:38.000I fought hard to get rid of Green New Scam subsidies.
00:24:40.000Side note, by the way, a bunch of leftists from Burbank, California ran a million dollars of ads against me in a Republican primary because they wanted to end my career because I was fighting so hard in the Green New Scam subsidies, which is one of the key things that President Ramo.
00:24:55.000I bring that up because, look, when you go through all of this, I will find a way to get it done.
00:25:00.000If we can do it on reconciliation, great.
00:25:05.000Because last year we got shut down by the rulings of the parliamentarian in the Senate that you can do this kind of thing through it.
00:25:11.000I think Republicans in the Senate are looking for an off-ramp to move down the field and then say they did something when they tie some issue with voter ID or they say, well, we'll only give you a certain amount of funding if you do XYZ.
00:25:24.000None of that will force the recalcitrant blue states to actually do their job of ensuring that only citizens are voting.
00:25:31.000None of it will, I think, clear it up so that we can overturn the ruling that says that states like Arizona can't check voter rolls.
00:25:59.000I think that's sort of a, you know, I don't want to say gaslighting, but I do think that a little bit of it is finding an off-ramp to say, oh, yeah, we'll do that.
00:28:21.000I mean, it's we've seen over and over.
00:28:23.000I was telling Andrew, there's a classic headline.
00:28:26.000I think it was from the New York Times, but I'm not sure, but where the headline was, prison population surge despite fall in crime.
00:28:34.000And I think we were going through another wave that's happened two or three times even in our lifetimes of us reminding ourselves that the best way to stop crime is to put a pretty tiny number of people just behind bars for good, because there are some people who, if they are free, will do crimes.
00:28:56.000Yeah, well, first of all, you know, look, I'm 53 years old.
00:28:59.000I grew up in the 80s and high school, 90s in college.
00:29:02.000I saw DC when it was just an absolute cesspool, you know, and then New York City, obviously, when it was very dangerous.
00:29:08.000And then we actually, you know, through broken glass, through all the different policies that, you know, Mayor Giuliani and others carried out in the DC, we actually started getting this country into a pretty good spot.
00:29:20.000And we were putting criminals in jail and we were going after ways to stop judges who were putting people back out on the street, right?
00:29:27.000So that's what happened when we came in and we had three strikes you're out.
00:29:30.000We had, you know, mandatory sentences in order to step in front of judges who weren't doing their job.
00:29:36.000Well, then, you know, things got pretty good.
00:29:39.000And then you heard, and you just noted it, this is really important.
00:29:42.000You noted about, you know, well, who's in jail?
00:29:44.000You kept hearing people say, well, gosh, 3 million people in jail in the United States, more than any other country.
00:29:49.000Like, well, yeah, that might have something to do with why we're a pretty safe country.
00:29:55.000So what happened was everybody said, well, let's start letting some of these folks out and let's go back to sort of stops on crime policies.
00:30:03.000Now we've got judges putting criminals on the streets.
00:30:05.000Crime Stoppers in Houston said that there have been 220 Houstonians who were murdered by multiple time felons who had been in and out and in and out of jail and being arrested and let free by judges.
00:30:27.000This is one of the reasons I'm running for attorney general.
00:30:29.000I introduced this bill federally to restore three strikes, which have been watered down through various sentencing guidelines, changes over the years.
00:30:37.000And I want to restore a really better model for three strikes in year out that really focuses on felons who engage in dangerous criminal activity.
00:30:49.000Well, what we do is we change the point system so that now it's structured so that if you've got significant felonies and you've engaged in dangerous crimes, then you get a full point.
00:31:00.000And then there's quarter points for other criminal activity, misdemeanors, and other things to try to account for the concerns that people had raised.
00:31:07.000Like, well, we have people who are three strikes because they just sold some pot.
00:31:13.000We're going to minimize that relative to the more dangerous crimes and the, you know, where you're engaging in crimes with a weapon, where you're engaging in dangerous crimes.
00:31:25.000And then we will change the model so that we can have an actual return to a three strikes type policy.
00:31:31.000So it's basically going after the career criminals in a way that'll restore it because it's been getting watered down by virtue of people saying, well, don't go bust them because, you know, they had one pot sale once.
00:32:19.000You know, my first legal job was actually in the office of attorney general, and I worked in the prosecutor's assistance division, and I worked in what we call the, it's now called the habeas division, which is where we would go to appeals and we'd fight to leave, you know, keep people in jail or to go ahead and execute them through capital punishment.
00:32:35.000And people ask me all the time, it's like, well, what do you think about that?
00:32:38.000You know, what if you get the wrong guy?
00:32:40.000I'm like, okay, look at their rap sheets.
00:32:43.000Like, I'd go through and look at these guys and I'd pull out their rap sheets and they would be this long, right?
00:32:48.000Of just felony, assault, rape, you know, theft, you know, maybe a previous murderer that they've been released on.
00:32:55.000Like these were the worst of the worst.
00:32:58.000And, you know, at that time, the early 2000s, we were doing a pretty good job of keeping them in jail or carrying out capital punishment.
00:33:04.000We moved the other way, even in Texas.
00:33:07.000And as a result, we now have increased crime.
00:33:10.000And I saw that clip before we over the segment change of Charlie talking about, hey, I think D.C. will be a safer place if we get the National Guard in there, if the president gets his way.
00:33:21.000D.C. is a much better place than it was a year ago when we had spiking crime and we had members of Congress, staffers who were getting assaulted, some who are getting shot and killed.
00:33:53.000Yeah, we've seen the pattern of the left, which is, among other things, just if you get rid of the death penalty, they immediately move on to what we've seen in California, where now anyone with a life sentence who's over 50 can get parole for being elderly.
00:34:07.000And so we're seeing these serial child abductors and rapists being released at an age where they could still easily offend again.
00:34:15.000So even in Texas, though, I know the number of executions has gone down over time.
00:34:21.000Can you tell us, do you have any plan to make sure that when someone is sentenced to death for a heinous crime, they will actually face accountability for it?
00:34:29.000Yeah, one of the things you do as attorney general is you're in charge of the capital litigation division, the habeas division, to ensure that bad guys stay in jail or their, you know, the execution is carried out.
00:34:39.000When I was the first assistant attorney general, I went Down and with the attorney general, and we witnessed an execution of a cop killer, met with the families, uh, you know, met with the police officers who all came there.
00:34:51.000And it's important, and people don't understand this is an important part of punishment, and it's it's where it's appropriate, it should be carried out.
00:34:59.000Look, we need bad guys to be in jail, we need the worst offenders to be removed entirely.
00:35:05.000I'm in favor of capital punishment for our worst offenders.
00:35:07.000We need to make sure that we secure our border regardless of who's in the White House.
00:35:11.000That's another reason I'm running for attorney general.
00:35:13.000You can't assume Donald Trump in perpetuity, and all of that stuff added up with cartels, gang members, criminals on the streets, all of the leftists and the Marxists who are carrying out the Arabella Network and the Wren Collective, and all of these groups that are funded, by the way, by our tax dollars, by outside dollars, by George Soros.
00:35:31.000The Office of Attorney General has an enormous amount of power to open their books, and we should open them.
00:35:37.000And we should also open the books of the groups that are pushing Islam.
00:35:41.000Not just CARE, not just the Muslim Brotherhood, but all of the groups that are trying to Islamify Texas.
00:35:46.000As Attorney General, Texas is not going to become an Islamic state.
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00:38:45.000It's kind of that one lone two blue spots in Wyoming.
00:38:49.000You got Jackson and Laramie, College Town.
00:38:51.000So, yeah, I mean, right after the assassination, like a kid in our student newspaper said that it was a duty to shoot conservatives, and like there were the celebrations on campus.
00:39:47.000I remember a couple speeches that Charlie gave in Wyoming, and he was like, You guys think you have it all good here right now?
00:39:53.000But there are forces that will insinuate themselves, often with an arm next to their name, that will dismantle the good things that are going on in the state of Wyoming.
00:40:03.000Yeah, we have a huge rhino problem in the state of Wyoming.
00:42:06.000And I think it's as we said, where we're a little concerned the administration, even where there is an argument to be made, they haven't aggressively made it.
00:42:14.000We've seen these hype videos and stuff, but there was this extended buildup.
00:42:19.000And even in the days before, I don't know that they were coming out and saying, here is the reason Iran is a bigger threat than they were even last summer, let alone years ago.
00:42:59.000I just don't think that the case has been made with Iran.
00:43:02.000I think, like, I've been alive for 23 years.
00:43:04.000Our country's been at war in the Middle East all our lives, all my life, and we've just gotten nothing but trillions of dollars in debt, dead soldiers, soldiers that come back with PTSD that ruins homes and families.
00:43:37.000And, like, when we're on campus and we're trying to justify, you know, the administration and defend, you know, Trump, people poke holes in our ideology and they just point out the ideological consistencies.
00:43:47.000And, like, I was tabling two weeks ago talking about Iran and talking about their nuclear program.
00:43:53.000But these guys that were right-wing were saying, well, they're nuclear hedging, just like South Korea and Taiwan and Japan.
00:44:01.000They have a robust nuclear program to deter China, who's a nuclear threat.
00:44:28.000But he also was willing to give President Trump the benefit of the doubt in the sense that he has not gotten us embroiled in foreign conflicts, forever wars, quagmires.
00:44:38.000I would not describe what's going on in Iran as a quagmire.
00:44:42.000And ultimately, this is why we got President Trump elected, is to make tough decisions in tough situations.
00:44:51.000These are impossible decisions where you're between a rock and a hard place where there isn't necessarily an easy answer, right?
00:44:57.000And so peace through strength only works, by the way, if you're willing to use that strength.
00:45:01.000Now, history and time will tell whether or not this was the right choice.
00:45:05.000But you've got to give President Trump some due that he has been the one president in our current modern American history that has not gotten us embroiled in a foreign conflict and a forever war.
00:45:22.000But I think that's a really fair point that it's just it does put you in a position where even guys like Charlie were out there saying he's the peace president, selling President Trump as the peace president.
00:45:32.000And now it's more difficult to defend that.
00:45:33.000And that's a really, really fair point.
00:45:35.000Okay, so how many times a week do you table?
00:45:38.000We table anytime between one and four times a week.
00:46:20.000I would say it more comes from a right-wing side.
00:46:23.000Our campus is definitely majority conservative with the students on campus.
00:46:28.000And so we are actually trying to, I don't know, bring more right-wing kids, but they think that we're pretty moderate turning point on campus, probably a little different from other campuses.
00:46:39.000So we're considered the radicals on those campuses.
00:46:42.000So it's a little odd, but we have some good conversations at tabling.
00:46:47.000Epstein was a big one for a while, but that kind of died off.
00:46:50.000We have a lot of talk about energy in our state.
00:46:53.000That's always a big thing, always being talked about because we're a big coal capital.
00:46:56.000We have a lot of controversy over wind farms and stuff.
00:47:55.000And I think that's a great thing, but how much is that real?
00:47:58.000And like, I don't remember who said it, but I made this proposition that was like, well, we want these like trad wives and stuff, and these young women want to be trad wives.
00:48:07.000But when it comes down to it, they're kind of like just crypto feminists because they want their husbands to have all the responsibility, but no authority in the household or over the family.
00:48:15.000So it's just very odd and trying to like kind of poke holes in the thinking, make people think and ask questions about what they believe.
00:48:21.000And then like the young men, they're just like simps.
00:48:24.000Like they just, and we got to get rid of that.
00:48:56.000You're going to have a life of purpose and of meaning and of productivity.
00:49:01.000And so, yeah, but there's this cultural element that says because of feminism, because women expect, there's a sense at least that a lot of women expect all the money, all the provision without any of the authority, that they're just opting out of this whole vibe.
00:49:18.000So what's the vibe on marriage on campus?
00:49:21.000You know, I think that's probably one of the more controversial things.
00:49:25.000Like in my chapter, is like a lot of the young men question whether it's worth it.
00:49:30.000And the young women, they expect their men in a weird way to be simps.
00:49:35.000And that's where there's a lot of controversy, and that's where you kind of see the factions.
00:49:39.000A lot of the young women expect they're just like, like they're men to worship them, and it's kind of weird.
00:49:45.000Just define simps for our audience over 23.
00:49:49.000Yeah, for the boomers out there, basically simply just like kind of like just worshiping and like you revolve around your girlfriend or your wife.
00:50:01.000Not a lot of, you have all this responsibility and you just kind of do whatever they say.
00:50:05.000And it's not about being the rock of your relationship and being centered in crime.
00:50:10.000Yeah, I mean, listen, this is a huge problem, by the way, for people at home that maybe aren't internalizing this, but the divide between young men and young women about expectations when it comes to a relationship is actually a huge cultural problem.
00:50:23.000And we've got to get to the root of it because women need to start celebrating masculine men, strong men, men that can lead, men that can be productive, fathers and husbands and entrepreneurs.
00:50:36.000And there is an expectation that's placed on young men like yourself that it's sort of all about the boss, babe.
00:50:43.000We've got to like put the woman on the pedestal, treat her like a princess, expect nothing out of her.
00:51:40.000Yeah, and I think that's just kind of when you look at these cultural phenomenons is that usually the men kind of start somewhere and it takes a little bit for the young women to get there too.
00:51:49.000And I think it mostly comes of just both sides not understanding each other is that these young men have become way more right-wing and way Christian really fast over the last five years.
00:51:57.000And so I just think there's a little bit of a divide and I think it'll catch up.
00:52:01.000I think women, like biologically, they do feel attraction to assertive men and confident men, like men on a mission.
00:52:10.000And so you have to hope that if men are shifting in that direction, as you say, that they'll win over women in their wake.
00:52:17.000And Charlie was a big believer in that.
00:56:01.000No, I was just commenting on how it seems like a lot of the people who are part of the golden age of California have kind of left the state for anywhere.
00:56:10.000It's a lefties sometimes leave and go to Canada, places like that.
00:56:14.000And then righties, we go to Florida, we go to Texas, we go to Arizona, we go to places like that.
00:56:18.000So yeah, it's actually very shocking that this is the case, but it also illuminates at a more serious cultural level the fact that the left has for years now, probably were a solid decade.
00:56:30.000You can maybe trace this to the first time Donald Trump was elected in 2016 to when this way they had that psychological break.
00:56:38.000They have no longer care about standards at all.
00:56:42.000They care about representation and identity.
00:56:46.000So if you don't have one of those boxes to check, if you don't have brown skin or you're LGBTQ, three spirit, four spirit, furry, whatever it is that you are, or you don't have some sort of a strange heritage that you can call upon, then you should not be in a position of power in this country.
00:57:04.000And it's not just in places like government.
00:57:06.000It's places like book publishing where they have these sensitivity readers now that are reading books to make sure that the representation is done in the proper way.
00:57:40.000This is essentially what their policies are designed to do, by the way.
00:57:43.000I mean, it's just like every time they get actually very angry, anytime a white person would be a refugee from another country, like they'll move heaven earth.
00:57:51.000It's just 100% obvious in everything they do.
00:57:54.000They just, they don't like white people.
00:57:56.000So we have to play a clip from Charlie asking the question about has any institution been better off because of DEI?
00:59:21.000And that is just so far away from anything our founders stood for.
00:59:25.000Any of you who abide by Judeo Christian principles, there's nothing like that that you could draw off of.
00:59:30.000And people like you and me, guys, like people with conservative values, this is so far afield for us.
00:59:35.000But that's how they think in the city and this state.
00:59:38.000Well, and compare and contrast that now, what's going on in Texas with the Democrat candidate for Senate, James Talrico, who has apologized for being white.
00:59:47.000He's apologized for, you know, the sin.
00:59:52.000He's so in touch with his privilege, right?
00:59:56.000And now he's got this whole like vegan scandal, which is hilarious.
00:59:59.000But it's interesting that you have a canceled debate in California because everybody's white.
01:00:06.000Whereas in Texas, they're very excited that James Talrico's white.
01:00:10.000This is why James Colbert got behind him and didn't want to platform Crockett, right?
01:00:19.000She was not out of central casting for a state like Texas.
01:01:06.000It's all because it is diversity because that is a diversity representation of the left in the state of Texas.
01:01:13.000You wouldn't see a guy like that representing a left-wing position.
01:01:17.000And they use that to get attention, to get donor dollars.
01:01:19.000And to this point, it's been kind of effective.
01:01:22.000Yeah, I mean, it's going to be interesting, too.
01:01:25.000And I keep looking for updates from that race because remember, President Trump on the Republican side of the aisle said he was going to endorse.
01:01:34.000Then he held back because I think he was kind of looking for a deal on the Save America Act, a break the filibuster or whatever.
01:01:41.000But we've endorsed Ken Paxton on this side.
01:01:44.000The dig against Ken is that he can't win a statewide race in a general and a competitive race.
01:01:48.000The guy's done it three times, by the way.
01:01:50.000Last time in, it was, I think he won by 10 points.
01:01:53.000Yeah, it looked like you were about to chime in, Alex.
01:02:12.000He's been one of the leaders fighting against the Silicon Valley Masters of the universe, making sure that they play fairly as they control so much of our information in this country and the flow of information.
01:02:30.000He's seeing that this is an off-year election, that there's a lot of people in the conservative movement who are not super fired up at the moment.
01:02:38.000And he sees a Ken Paxton who's going to motivate base voters more.
01:02:42.000Maybe now he's seeing that as a safer bet in a midterm election.
01:02:46.000And I love that because that gives us a chance here getting Ken Paxton in, who would be a terrific senator if he wins.
01:04:37.000You know, we spend a lot of time on this show talking about culture, about why strong families matter, why values matter, why faith matters.
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01:06:15.000I wouldn't say the Department of War would necessarily say it this way.
01:06:19.000After the Islamic regime snubbed a 15-point peace plan.
01:06:23.000Again, it's difficult to get details out of this.
01:06:25.000I want to focus on the ground portion of this, the ground troops.
01:06:28.000Pentagon Chiefs ordered around 2,000 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East last night to join some 4,500 Marines already en route to the region.
01:06:38.000Now, Alex, you know, President Trump has not used ground forces, really, in either Trump 1.0 or 2.0.
01:06:46.000This would be a massive new wrinkle in the entire calculus of Iran.
01:06:53.000What are you hearing in your reporting?
01:06:56.000And then let's talk about the political ramifications.
01:06:58.000Yeah, I'm trying to connect some dots here, and I don't have any, I think, new hard and fast insight to add, but a couple of things that are important.
01:07:09.000I just walked through this on the latest episode of the Alex Marlowe show, which should be out in a few minutes.
01:07:14.000I go through all the points that Trump has.
01:07:16.000They're all essentially repeats of what he put out last year.
01:07:18.000He's just reestablishing to a little tougher degree the points he laid out in a letter to Iran a year ago where he said no more nuclear enrichment to weapons grade, no more ballistic missile, long-range ballistic missile development, and you can't fund tier proxies.
01:07:33.000And they did all three of those things.
01:09:03.000And I'll tell you, where Trump in the past has built up troops, he ends up using them.
01:09:08.000He built up all of those ships near Venezuela, then he got Maduro.
01:09:12.000He built up all those ships in the Gulf, and then he got Khomeini.
01:09:14.000And now, if he's building up ground truths, don't doubt him.
01:09:17.000He's clearly willing to use them if he's building them up.
01:09:19.000Yeah, the quote from a Trump aide, which they told Axios, Trump has a hand open for a deal, and the other is a fist waiting to punch you in the expletive face.
01:09:43.000And I think Trump, again, I agree with you.
01:09:46.000If he's building up a force, he's probably going to be very prepared to use it.
01:09:51.000And he said there is no line he's not willing to cross in order to get the mission achieved.
01:09:56.000Tell us more about the AP poll because I think that's important for the audience to understand.
01:10:02.000How is this war polling with the base?
01:10:05.000Yeah, and so the deep concern with voters that the Americans are just not feeling the military involvement overall.
01:10:17.000Most Americans are saying the military action against Iran has gone too far already, and that's pre-any boots on the ground.
01:10:24.000The AP is a vested interest in Trump failing, but in general is slightly more responsible than average.
01:10:30.000But this is logical to anyone who's paying attention because anyone who does not like Trump will never support any sort of military involvement with him.
01:10:39.000And as you guys know full well, a lot of people in the new members of the MAGA coalition, people who are part of the more isolationist wing of the MAGA movement, they're not going to like this either.
01:10:50.000So he's really competing for a pretty small swath of the pie in terms of convincing the public this is a good thing.
01:10:56.000And could it lead to a long-standing peace if Trump draws the inside straight?
01:11:03.000But just noting that this is not going over all that great at home, this is a reality.
01:11:10.000Well, we had a chapter president from the University of Wyoming on, and his name's Gabe Saint.
01:11:14.000He said that one of the issues with the Iran war for him and his students when they table on campus is it's ideologically seems inconsistent with the pitch of President Trump as the peace president, right?
01:11:26.000So they are at a disadvantage to defend it.