The Charlie Kirk Show - Stay Free — Russell Brand and Dan Bongino on the Attempted Trump Assassination

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.

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00:01:27.000 No, one of the things you were saying just before Dan graced us with his incredible presence, which I'm still basking in somewhat, was that the Republican Party is more united than it's ever been.

00:01:38.000 So there are no obstacles, you know, outside of the kind of nefarious things to which have been alluded and have recently been experienced.

00:01:46.000 Yeah, so the second term is going to be a lot different than the first.

00:01:51.000 the ascendant political power of Trump will contend with the kind of

00:01:57.000 state power, deep state power, blob power, use whatever term you want, once in office.

00:02:02.000 Yeah, so you have to, the second term is going to be a lot different than the first.

00:02:05.000 First of all, personnel is policy and there are some really great people that

00:02:08.000 are going to be going into this government.

00:02:10.000 Secondly, J.D.

00:02:11.000 Vance is going to be a keeping-the-eyes-on-the-federal-government-every-single-day-when-President-Trump-might-be-handling-higher-level-type-of-diplomatic-issues.

00:02:20.000 Look, President Trump's agenda day one is going to be securing the border, ending the war in Ukraine, ending the war in Gaza, and making sure that we have our commitment to Israel.

00:02:27.000 That's like the first week or two.

00:02:30.000 Under the current, though, we need to build a government, put cabinet secretaries in,

00:02:34.000 and also we have a looming list of like 50 or 60 immediate reforms and firings that need

00:02:39.000 to happen. There's a reform called Schedule F that allows you to fire federal employees

00:02:43.000 at will, but there's also a 1960s-era act that allows the President of the United States

00:02:48.000 – it's the President Reassignment Act, I'm getting the name wrong, but it's

00:02:51.000 something of that sort – that essentially allows, if there's duplication in government,

00:02:54.000 the President can merge agencies or officials together. No one knows this exists. Vivek

00:02:58.000 told me about this and I went and did all the research on it. It's amazing. So, for

00:03:01.000 example, if there is duplicative type of work happening in the federal government, in the

00:03:06.000 Department of Education and also maybe in the Department of Interior or Department of

00:03:11.000 You can then merge government agencies together and effectively sunset and end them.

00:03:16.000 Now it'll be challenged in court, but it's pretty clear that the executive branch has far more power than people realize.

00:03:21.000 And there needs to be an immediate message, if President Trump were to win and take office in the first couple weeks, that every bureaucrat is worried that they might be next.

00:03:32.000 That there needs to be volleys and salvos of firings and terminations.

00:03:37.000 And, uh, this needs to- this needs to continue for quite some time.

00:03:40.000 And then, uh, yeah, look, again, it comes down to the human beings that actually execute the policy as well.

00:03:44.000 Do you know that... Thank you very much.

00:03:46.000 That was so beautifully explained, but I'd expect nothing less from you, Charlie.

00:03:48.000 You're an astonishing man.

00:03:50.000 Now listen, we have to leave YouTube right now.

00:03:52.000 So if you're watching us on YouTube, there's a link in the description.

00:03:54.000 Click that.

00:03:55.000 Join us on Rumble.

00:03:56.000 After all, we are Rumble creators.

00:03:57.000 The three of us.

00:03:58.000 And we need you to join us there because, well, Dan, who knows what further illuminations await us from that direction.

00:04:04.000 Charlie could be turning verbal pirouettes at any moment now.

00:04:08.000 And I get the sense that there's information that these two men are not willing to tell me while we're still on a platform like YouTube that regulates in the manner that it does.

00:04:16.000 He's a member of the TNI and is ultimately part of the systems that constrain our freedom.

00:04:21.000 Click the link in the description and join us in that sweet stream of freedom that we call Rumble with some of the best.

00:04:27.000 Now we're here on Rumble.

00:04:28.000 Oh god, I can relax.

00:04:29.000 Wait, now I can talk about the vaccine.

00:04:32.000 No, my favourite one was the third booster.

00:04:35.000 That's when I started to feel very, very powerful indeed.

00:04:37.000 Ban, do you want me to leave you for a minute over there just to sort of deal with some

00:04:41.000 stuff because I can see you're under a lot of pressure.

00:04:42.000 No, no, no, I just, I'm always doing showbiz.

00:04:45.000 You workaholic, aren't you?

00:04:46.000 I have a FOMO thing, fear of missing out.

00:04:48.000 I do.

00:04:49.000 Charlie, you ever get that on the show?

00:04:50.000 All the time.

00:04:51.000 Like you feel like I'm going to miss a story or an angle?

00:04:52.000 All the time.

00:04:53.000 Well, I mean, there's no news going on right now.

00:04:54.000 I know, I'm always, listen, as a content creator, Russell, here's my biggest fear.

00:04:59.000 My shows are live, live, every day, four hours a day.

00:05:03.000 I'm proudest of the fact, you know, knock on wood or whatever, that despite having a Fox show, a radio show, and a TV show, I can tell you with a straight face, I'm yet to have gotten caught on the air where someone says something, I go, you know what?

00:05:15.000 I just don't know.

00:05:16.000 It could happen.

00:05:17.000 I obviously don't know everything or even close to it, but as a content creator, you damn well, it's your responsibility for the audience to know what everything is, the face act, the save act, all that stuff.

00:05:26.000 So I always have this FOMO, like I'm going to miss out.

00:05:28.000 You know, so did you hear what Trump just said?

00:05:30.000 And if I don't hear it, like, what's the point of listening to me?

00:05:33.000 I screwed you over.

00:05:33.000 So, you know, it's a responsibility, man.

00:05:35.000 How do you, what is driving that in you, Dan?

00:05:37.000 And how do you connect it to the...

00:05:38.000 I'm a little crazy, brother.

00:05:39.000 Yeah, yeah, clearly there's a sort of an energy in both of you.

00:05:42.000 I'm normal and sane.

00:05:43.000 I got the crazy eyes.

00:05:45.000 You're crazy.

00:05:46.000 He's crazy.

00:05:46.000 I'm bringing some rationalism to this conversation.

00:05:48.000 Russell Brand is the sanest person.

00:05:50.000 I'm actually the shortest person on this couch today, too, which is freaking bananas.

00:05:54.000 That never happens.

00:05:55.000 I'm 6'1".

00:05:56.000 And Charlie's like seven feet tall.

00:05:58.000 Charlie's not even the same species as us, I don't think.

00:06:01.000 Charlie's legs are longer than me.

00:06:03.000 Nephilim.

00:06:03.000 We've been over this.

00:06:04.000 Nephilim.

00:06:04.000 He's part of the Nephilim.

00:06:05.000 He's a biblical character.

00:06:07.000 He's literally from scripture.

00:06:08.000 He strode right out of Genesis and into our lives and broken our hearts.

00:06:11.000 That's Charlie Kirk, everyone.

00:06:13.000 You know, like that kind of dedication and devotion that you had in your previous incarnation as working for the security services.

00:06:19.000 Do you feel that level of devotion and dedication as a Rumble creator?

00:06:22.000 There is something that you obsess about making sure that you have the accurate information, the correct information, and the information available immediately.

00:06:30.000 Is it something you're very devoted to?

00:06:32.000 You know, I think I get it from my father.

00:06:34.000 You know, obviously we're, you know, I'm not getting into social psychology, but we're all social models, right?

00:06:40.000 We model what we see around us.

00:06:41.000 You know, you look at old Bandura work and stuff like that.

00:06:44.000 And I grew up around my dad.

00:06:46.000 You know, my father was a plumber and a building inspector, and he worked his way up.

00:06:50.000 He ran the entire buildings department.

00:06:52.000 And he had an apartment out in Long Island, was connected to his house.

00:06:54.000 So when I went out to work in the Secret Service in the Long Island office, he said, hey, you want to rent the apartment?

00:06:59.000 And the driveway was right near the apartment.

00:07:02.000 So, four o'clock in the morning, every morning I'd hear... He had this old Mercury Cougar.

00:07:07.000 And my dad was the boss.

00:07:08.000 He ran like a 20-person department in Town of Smithtown.

00:07:11.000 There was zero reason whatsoever for my father to get to work before nine o'clock.

00:07:15.000 No one else was there.

00:07:16.000 It was just him.

00:07:17.000 But he got there at, I think, 4.35 because it was important to him that everybody knew he was the first guy into work and that he was... He didn't knock anyone else for showing up on time.

00:07:27.000 He was like, hey, you should be here at 4.

00:07:28.000 He wasn't trying to be a showman.

00:07:30.000 He was trying to set an example.

00:07:31.000 And I gotta tell you, man, I never forgot that.

00:07:33.000 And I feel like... I don't know if you feel the same, Russell.

00:07:35.000 I know, Charlie, you do.

00:07:36.000 Like, I don't mean this in an insulting way to us, but we don't have real jobs.

00:07:40.000 Military folks, you know, engineers, railroad workers, UPS drivers, like, they have real jobs.

00:07:45.000 Like, America, the UK, the world works because of them.

00:07:49.000 Not because we talk for a living.

00:07:50.000 It's an important job.

00:07:52.000 I'm glad we can impact people's lives.

00:07:53.000 But it's not a real job.

00:07:55.000 And I say that all the time to my audience.

00:07:56.000 And they're always like, no, no, Dan.

00:07:58.000 I'm like, no, no, no, Dan, nothing.

00:07:59.000 Like, this is not real.

00:08:00.000 What you guys do is real, and I respect that.

00:08:03.000 And if you're gonna give me a fake job like this, where I talk for a living, then you're damn right I'm gonna do the damn thing, the right freakin' way, and not talk a bunch of bullsh...

00:08:11.000 That's my job, man.

00:08:12.000 And, you know, I'm not sitting here digging ditches for a living.

00:08:15.000 There are real people busting their a**.

00:08:16.000 We owe them that.

00:08:17.000 That's a pretty beautiful set of values.

00:08:19.000 I wonder how those values and the constituency that Dan is speaking to and for have, over the last 20 years, somehow been so casually demonized and condemned.

00:08:31.000 I saw it in my country in Brexit and certainly the rise of the MAGA movement has been accompanied with condemnation of an entire class of people as Yes.

00:08:38.000 Racist and various forms of attack.

00:08:42.000 How has that happened?

00:08:43.000 How did America turn on its inhabitants, Charlie, by your reckoning so insidiously and cruelly?

00:08:48.000 And how did they get away with it, continually framing themselves as the protectors of the vulnerable?

00:08:53.000 After the wall fell and we declared victory over the Cold War, the ruling class of this country decided to care much more about corporate profits and their own enrichment and the welfare

00:09:03.000 of the American citizenry.

00:09:04.000 And they got away with it for the first 15 years because we were living on the

00:09:09.000 multi-decade inheritance of winning World War II. And so they decided to open up markets to

00:09:14.000 liberalize everything. We literally had the book by Francis Fukuyama where he said,

00:09:18.000 it's the end of history. He's like, this is it. That was the actual title.

00:09:22.000 Literally.

00:09:22.000 The title was The End of History.

00:09:24.000 Liberalism will take over the entire world.

00:09:27.000 You know, the whole idea of dictatorship or oligarchy or conservative rule is over, and liberalism is the best way of ruling ever, and it will just spread with any sort of restraints.

00:09:39.000 And that was a lie.

00:09:41.000 And it was a lie because they made a series of, again, what was on full display here at the RNC is a refutation of that devil's bargain that occurred In the late 80s and early 90s, which is neoliberalism is built on invade the world, invite the world, and import a bunch of cheap stuff at the expense of your own citizens.

00:09:59.000 And we've lived through the excesses of that because our leaders, the last 20 years especially, have contempt for the people that they are tasked to govern.

00:10:08.000 It's pretty extraordinary that those military endeavours are no longer supported automatically and reflexively by the kind of people that you described.

00:10:17.000 Now, those people have become cynical, full of doubt.

00:10:20.000 The idea, as Charlie described earlier, Dan, that presumably Trump and Vance will ascend into power on an anti-war mandate, that, as Charlie said earlier, is an incredible recalibration.

00:10:32.000 How has this how has this change in temperature been achieved?

00:10:37.000 How has it happened that the Republican Party movement now is the party of anti-war?

00:10:41.000 And what do you imagine is going to happen?

00:10:43.000 Where is all of that power, all of that lobbying clout, all of that manipulation going to go once they no longer

00:10:50.000 have the pathways that were available to them?

00:10:53.000 Isn't it incredible?

00:10:53.000 I mean, you're a guy, comedy, acting, you've been around, people have known you forever.

00:10:59.000 You've been surrounded essentially by liberals your entire life who prided themselves on the idea that they were the peaceniks, right?

00:11:07.000 And now they're the war hogs. 0.99

00:11:09.000 You know what, my position on this though, I've ran, I've actually run for, I've run for Office of Laws, but you can go back and watch my campaign commercials and everything else.

00:11:17.000 I've been consistently anti-foreign intervention when there's no actual game plan.

00:11:23.000 I was against the Iraq War, Afghanistan, there were portions of it we had to do after 9-11, but I certainly did not support a long-term footprint.

00:11:30.000 And I'm gonna tell you something that changed me, and I'm not trying to get all choked up, and I'm trying not to be a wussbag, but you know, My uncle served in Vietnam, a war where the message at a minimum was confusing to people.

00:11:44.000 They didn't understand what we were doing.

00:11:46.000 I'm just saying the message to the American people was off, okay?

00:11:50.000 My uncle was supposed to come home.

00:11:52.000 The day he was supposed to come home.

00:11:54.000 We owned a bar, it was called Gibby's Bar on Myrtle Avenue in Queens, New York.

00:11:57.000 They had signs out, Welcome Home Greg.

00:11:59.000 It was the actual day.

00:12:01.000 Two soldiers walk up.

00:12:03.000 It's not Greg.

00:12:04.000 And my grandfather, who was a little bit of a bit actor, and he would do commercials.

00:12:08.000 He was the bar owner.

00:12:09.000 My grandfather was about 500 pounds and 6'7".

00:12:13.000 He was a big guy.

00:12:14.000 So that's why he was an actor.

00:12:15.000 And you'd see him.

00:12:16.000 He used to do Rupert Beer commercials.

00:12:19.000 And my grandmother was upstairs.

00:12:21.000 Now, my uncle who died, my grandmother's first husband had died.

00:12:24.000 That was my uncle's dad.

00:12:25.000 So this was his stepfather.

00:12:27.000 And these two soldiers walk in.

00:12:29.000 And they said, you know, my uncle, my grandfather knows right away.

00:12:33.000 And they said, we're looking for Eileen, Gregory Ambrose's mom.

00:12:38.000 And he said, you're not going up there.

00:12:40.000 I'm going to do it.

00:12:41.000 He didn't let him.

00:12:42.000 He said, no, no, you don't.

00:12:43.000 They said, we have to.

00:12:44.000 He said, I know you got hurt.

00:12:45.000 You're not doing it.

00:12:47.000 And I'm going to tell you something, man.

00:12:48.000 My grandmother was never the same, ever.

00:12:50.000 There was 1968.

00:12:51.000 He was killed.

00:12:52.000 He was shot in the back in Thu Duc, Vietnam, saving his friend.

00:12:55.000 He was given the bronze star with a V cluster.

00:12:57.000 My grandmother was never, Ever the same.

00:13:01.000 My grandmother died, you know, 40 years, 50 years later.

00:13:05.000 She could never, ever have the name Greg mentioned in front of her without breaking down.

00:13:10.000 And Russell, I get it.

00:13:11.000 I don't want to oversimplify war.

00:13:13.000 The human condition is something not easily simplified by one page narratives in a book.

00:13:18.000 However, if I, as a political leader running for office when I did, I'm not anymore, am going to commit your son into combat, or daughter, and they're going to come back in some freaking body bag, then I better damn well have some kind of game plan as to why they died.

00:13:33.000 And I think the Republican Party has always been the party, at least on the economic front, of results.

00:13:38.000 And I think we just applied the same guiding ethos to war.

00:13:41.000 Where's the spreadsheet?

00:13:43.000 What are you doing?

00:13:44.000 We're giving them money exactly for what?

00:13:47.000 What's the game plan?

00:13:48.000 What are we doing in Iraq?

00:13:50.000 And no one can answer these questions and what's our history of success?

00:13:53.000 And if I may, last evening the kicker of JD Vance's entire speech was that we are rejecting abstractions.

00:14:02.000 And think about, oh, we're spreading democracy in Iraq.

00:14:04.000 Go spend more money.

00:14:05.000 Or Zelensky's the new Churchill.

00:14:06.000 Exactly.

00:14:07.000 These are all abstractions.

00:14:08.000 When they come under criticism or scrutiny, they have no backing in any sort of facts.

00:14:13.000 The slightest criticism.

00:14:15.000 By the way, how do they respond when you criticize?

00:14:16.000 You're a Putin puppet.

00:14:19.000 They cannot have a conversation about any of these things.

00:14:23.000 And neoliberalism is built on weaponized name-calling.

00:14:26.000 Oh, well, you're a protectionist.

00:14:28.000 You're an isolationist.

00:14:29.000 Right.

00:14:30.000 Or you're a racist for not wanting to have mass migration.

00:14:34.000 And so we just kind of back off.

00:14:35.000 And when you have a political order that can fall apart as soon as the name-calling ceases, maybe those ideas are really bad.

00:14:44.000 And they're hurting a lot of people.

00:14:45.000 I'm sorry, Russell.

00:14:46.000 Just to add, Charlie is 100% correct.

00:14:50.000 The mildest of scrutiny, it collapses.

00:14:54.000 You ask him a basic question.

00:14:56.000 Listen, I don't need the... I am not the chief of staff.

00:15:00.000 You know, I'm not the head of military operations at the Pentagon for special forces.

00:15:04.000 I don't need to know surgical strikes.

00:15:07.000 I'm just asking you a basic question.

00:15:08.000 Okay, what does victory look like in Ukraine?

00:15:10.000 Are we taking back Crimea?

00:15:13.000 I'm not really sure.

00:15:14.000 But what happens if we do and Putin launches a tactical nuke because then his power is threatened and he's a maniac and he's not going to leave power without sending a message by dropping a tactical nuke first.

00:15:25.000 And then they go, is that victory now?

00:15:26.000 Because then there's no Crimea because the nuclear war breaks out. 0.59

00:15:29.000 And then they look as you go, Man, I never really thought about that.

00:15:31.000 Well, maybe you should, bro.

00:15:33.000 Before we get more people killed and send a hundred billion more dollars.

00:15:38.000 I mean, can you imagine?

00:15:41.000 Let's make the simplest analogy.

00:15:42.000 You get a script for a movie.

00:15:44.000 They're like, Russell, we have the greatest script ever.

00:15:46.000 Your comedy skills are so amazingly suited for this.

00:15:49.000 And the script is blank.

00:15:51.000 And you're like, well, how am I supposed?

00:15:53.000 Is this a joke?

00:15:54.000 No, no, we'll get it to you later.

00:15:56.000 No, no, bro.

00:15:57.000 I'm not signing a contract with a blank script.

00:15:59.000 That's what they want us to do.

00:16:00.000 Charlie is so right.

00:16:01.000 You ask basic questions.

00:16:02.000 Basic questions, Russell.

00:16:04.000 There's no answer.

00:16:06.000 Don't nearly call me Russia, because I have been called.

00:16:09.000 I've already been called a Putin apologist.

00:16:11.000 We've all been called.

00:16:13.000 They made a little video about me saying it was in Ukrainian, I hasten to add.

00:16:18.000 But what do you think is indicated by that lack of a script and by the lack of an inability to outline a clear agenda?

00:16:23.000 What is revealed by this inability in your view, Dan?

00:16:28.000 This is what, if you ever go to business school, they do SWOT analysis, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats.

00:16:34.000 Modern American politics has solely become about not You know, weaponizing the ability to take advantage of opportunities to make America great, it is shifted almost fully into, let's just mitigate a threat and stay alive.

00:16:50.000 So, in relationship to wars in Ukraine, I can almost guarantee you, Swampy Republicans, because it's a bipartisan show what's going on, and weak Democrats said, well, we don't want to look weak by having Putin invade Ukraine, because it's going to politically hurt me.

00:17:07.000 So let's just marginally do something, whether it works or not, and let's just ride it out to the next election.

00:17:13.000 Never attribute to, you know, incompetence what you can attribute in politics.

00:17:18.000 It's to sheer malice.

00:17:20.000 They just want to stay alive.

00:17:21.000 It is about mitigating threats to power.

00:17:24.000 It's not about actually advancing a cause because they can't tell you what the cause is.

00:17:28.000 Charlie just said it.

00:17:29.000 They don't even have a basic idea.

00:17:31.000 And because they can't admit what the actual cause is.

00:17:33.000 So, I mean, I saw Lindsey Graham here. 0.85

00:17:34.000 I asked, how many Ukrainians have died in the war?

00:17:35.000 He can't tell you.

00:17:37.000 And think about how sick and evil that is.

00:17:38.000 He's the number one cheerleader for Ukrainians to get money, and he can't tell you how many Ukrainians have died. 0.83

00:17:42.000 Like, I said, can you give me a ballpark?

00:17:44.000 10,000?

00:17:45.000 150,000?

00:17:45.000 He's like, I'll have to get, you know, he's like, you know, his staff came in and just like, I didn't film it because I'm not there for sensationalism.

00:17:51.000 I'm not here to, I'm just like, I'm actually interested in a policy question from somebody who, like, kind of has no idea who it's from.

00:17:58.000 Okay, fine.

00:17:58.000 By the way, I got that from Tucker, who goes around and asks that question to everybody.

00:18:01.000 But we must understand that after the wall fell, it all goes back to the wall, we had a decision, which is, are we now going to keep this NATO project alive, and what is the reason for NATO?

00:18:12.000 And Russia wanted to join NATO.

00:18:14.000 Repeatedly wanted to join NATO, and just end this chapter, and we don't have to have this Russian bear adversary. 1.00

00:18:21.000 But NATO is the GAE, the gay, which is the Great American Empire. 1.00

00:18:27.000 And that is why when NATO was in town, it was in America, it's as if this is the neoliberal project is housed within NATO.

00:18:35.000 And so when Putin invaded Ukraine, first of all, he was provoked to invade, provoked by Kamala Harris going to the Munich Security Conference and saying that Ukraine should become a member of NATO.

00:18:46.000 And we have all this weapons and all this armament on the border.

00:18:50.000 What American liberals saw is that they saw a questioning of the outer edges of their empire.

00:18:56.000 Because we as Americans are, we are much closer to mercantilism than we are to anything else, which is we're not actually a nation.

00:19:05.000 We are a deteriorating homeland with outer edges colonies and an oligarchy that makes a bunch of money off of the underclass. 0.80

00:19:12.000 And permanent war is the oxygen of the oligarchy.

00:19:15.000 What's terrifying to me, and obviously I want to hear your perspective on this, is that if we're living through a period of de-dollarisation, where America's economic power is indeed under collapse, then how will they be able to resist, even with this presumed mandate in post-November, The ongoing struggles that are presented by the potential threat of a rise of China or the rise of Russia, if indeed what is playing out really on a geopolitical level is the threat of the BRICS currency and what is the emergence of genuine threats from China and Russia.

00:19:51.000 Do you see that under this administration, on the geopolitical level, to go right from the micro of the anguish and agony of losing a family member in war To the vast potential for the apocalypse, which I think many people are terrified could become a reality under the Biden administration, were it to be granted time to administer it.

00:20:13.000 How do you think that those kind of problems are diffused?

00:20:17.000 Or do you not consider them to be problems that can't be resolved diplomatically, both of you?

00:20:22.000 It's going to take work.

00:20:24.000 You're not going to reverse 40 years of neoliberalism overnight.

00:20:28.000 But President Trump, he has a mandate, hopefully, from the American people coming into November, which is that we're not going to have any more of these adventurous wars.

00:20:38.000 We're going to put the American worker first. 1.00

00:20:40.000 And we still hold all the cards.

00:20:41.000 Here's the thing.

00:20:42.000 BRICS is this, like, fake thing.

00:20:44.000 America's still by far the strongest country.

00:20:46.000 I have a good friend here in the audience.

00:20:48.000 I don't think... I just stepped out.

00:20:49.000 He's, like, the king of American energy.

00:20:50.000 Harold Hamm.

00:20:51.000 Great American, by the way.

00:20:52.000 One of the most valuable and largest American energy companies.

00:20:55.000 We have more... We have two neighbors that are not going to... Well, we are being invaded.

00:21:00.000 But we have largely friendly neighbors.

00:21:03.000 We have an incredible population.

00:21:05.000 It just takes leadership to reverse it.

00:21:07.000 And China has a lot of looming problems.

00:21:09.000 So does Russia, and I don't see it to be an issue at all if President Trump's able to win.

00:21:13.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:21:15.000 Email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:21:17.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - July 20, 2024

Stay Free — Russell Brand and Dan Bongino on the Attempted Trump Assassination

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