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00:03:53.000He said, this is a very imbalanced fight.
00:03:56.000He was predicting a big walkover, and this guy is about a decade older than his opponent.
00:04:01.000He's near retirement, but he's an American patriot from very near us.
00:04:05.000He's from a small mining town here in Arizona.
00:04:09.000And he got this massive upset over this incredible, I think he was previously undefeated.
00:04:15.000And then he delivered his big speech celebrating America.
00:04:19.000And it was one of those perfect instances.
00:04:22.000We joke sometimes that President Trump has this almost magical luck that events often align in his ways.
00:04:28.000And you could not have scripted all of that better for the White House event, a patriotic, Upset victory in the final fight by a great American patriot who then delivers a big speech, and then the Marine Corps band starts blasting the stars and stripes forever.
00:04:49.000I saw a great post that pointed out the left would only use the White House for these staged events.
00:04:55.000They'd light it up rainbow and they'd have trans people read sad poems there, and they'd say that's the only legitimate use of the White House.
00:06:32.000And here's the thing, Blake to all the haters, to all the black pillars, to all the nihilists, to all the like burn it down people look at that.
00:06:42.000The Delta formation flying over this like $70 million production at the White House.
00:06:48.000You have Staff Sergeant Hannah Davis singing you soprano the whole time.
00:06:54.000And you had the ellipse filled with 80,000 more people for a giant watch party just outside beyond the White House.
00:07:02.000And so the visuals were just incredible.
00:07:05.000But this is what we just want to remind you you do not fight because you know you're going to win.
00:07:12.000Fight because he knew he was going to win.
00:07:14.000He was a 6 1 underdog and he pulled it off.
00:07:17.000We don't fight because we know we're going to win.
00:07:18.000We fight because it's the right thing to do.
00:07:20.000We fight because we need to keep going.
00:07:22.000You do not give up on your team just because they're down.
00:07:26.000You do not give up on your team just because they are down.
00:07:30.000If the Dodger team right now, which is in first place, God bless them, but if they were in last place after winning two World Series, would you give up on them?
00:11:21.000I mean, there's Joe Rogan and Daniel Cormier's commentary over the top of it.
00:11:26.000I mean, it was just, it was a magical, magical night.
00:11:29.000And I actually was kind of bummed they did it on a Sunday, but I guess President Trump's birthday was on the Saturday and there were some other things going on.
00:11:43.000I'm telling you, when I say Justin Gaichi put on the performance of his life and beat the heck out of basically the most dominant lightweight, listen to this.
00:11:52.000Dana White tells what happened to him.
00:13:02.000It was, we mean no exaggeration when we say this is actually one of the greatest sports moments in American history because an American underdog won a big upset with good strategy and good planning, good preparation.
00:13:19.000And he had no business beating that guy.
00:13:22.000That's how, like, and the fact that Dana White and, you know, put him at the top of the card for such a monumental fight and moment in our country for 250.
00:13:57.000And he was incredibly excited for this.
00:14:00.000And it could not have gone any better than I know he would have been hoping.
00:14:04.000Well, and let's go ahead and play CK because he was planning on attending this one, which kind of breaks my heart, but he would have had such a great time.
00:14:37.000I'm going to kind of call him whatever favor I have to be there because UFC fight night on the White House lawn to celebrate the 250th birthday.
00:14:45.000World Cup tickets, that doesn't mean anything.
00:14:47.000Fight night, that's where I'm calling him the favor.
00:15:56.000So this is happening now, which is hilarious because Dana White says there's no way that he's going to do another event at the White House.
00:16:46.000I mean, I think the way that President Trump has been having to do a lot of these kind of pet projects that he knows the Dems are going to lose their brains about is he's having to force.
00:16:56.000Private money or donations and things like that.
00:16:58.000And in this case, I think Dana White just kind of ponied up, right?
00:17:01.000And he was like, don't worry, Mr. President, we got this.
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00:20:16.000And the president breaking their bots on birthdays and anniversaries.
00:20:20.000And, you know, I mean, I think that should be.
00:20:22.000I know that, you know, they ran for the job and they signed up for the job, but I just want people to understand how much effort got put into this deal and how much work goes into it.
00:20:30.000And then, of course, they have this celebration going on at the same time.
00:20:33.000Andrew, look, for people who've been criticizing, and I don't jump too far ahead here, but for people who've been criticizing, and I've been very critical of this, this is a good day.
00:22:33.000We have to add to newer ranks as they age into the electorate as well.
00:22:37.000And we have to start to change the dynamic that these people don't vote in midterms.
00:22:41.000We have to change the midterm electorate.
00:22:44.000Otherwise, we'll be at the disadvantage that Democrats used to be in.
00:22:47.000If you go back and you look around like 2010 and 2014 when Republicans would have good midterms, the idea that we could carry a midterm by pandering to boomers is not only wrong, but it's disastrous.
00:23:02.000But it's disastrous for the future of the party, the roadmap that the party must follow if they want to remain politically viable, as especially the silent gen, which is almost gone, completely phases out.
00:23:13.000And then Boomer, there's Boomer One, Boomer Two.
00:23:46.000So, Rich, I think with events unfolding right now in the Middle East and at home, we actually have a perfect.
00:23:51.000I want to poke at your understanding as a pollster because last night's UFC event, it was pandering to young men, catering to young men and their interests.
00:24:01.000But also, it is, we'll be frank, it's a superficial event.
00:24:04.000It's not about affordability or national policy.
00:24:10.000And then in the Middle East, we have significant progress on an issue where we know we've talked to young people, young people.
00:24:18.000Did not like the conflict with Iran and they wanted it to end.
00:24:21.000So, how much impact do each of these things have?
00:24:25.000Does a really fun circus event get young men excited, engaged, make them pay more attention, maybe feel more like voting if they're generally in Trump's direction?
00:24:37.000Or should we not look at it too much that way?
00:24:39.000And how does it compare to significant progress on a real material issue that they do voice opinions on, but it's also maybe not something that they're watching on TV regularly?
00:24:49.000I think it was, and that's a great question because I don't want to overstate it, but I think we should look at it as a great affirmation, right?
00:24:56.000It was like a one two punch between what the coalition suffered last year between the Epstein thing and on to Iran was like a one two punch.
00:25:05.000Well, this was a nice little one two shot back in the right direction of something they want to see.
00:25:09.000And we shouldn't say this is the end all be all and be done with it, but it's a great opportunity.
00:25:13.000This is something we can build on, and this is something we can use to pivot and try to circle, you know, turn back.
00:25:20.000In the direction that they want us to turn back on.
00:25:23.000You know, I would also add that never underestimate these circuses, right?
00:25:29.000Because, I mean, this is not just American history, it's human history.
00:25:32.000What did Caesar do and then Caesars who followed him when they wanted to be popular?
00:26:37.000And actually, the people that love their country, you got Joe Rogan, Daniel Cormier, you've got Justin Gaetje, who won the fight, so proud to be American.
00:27:16.000And I think you're so right that, Andrew, politics is so visual, it's vibes based.
00:27:22.000A lot of it is how do we feel that we're doing?
00:27:24.000And one of the big strengths that President Trump That President Trump brings to politics is his kind of that harmony of the heart and the head, that harmony of does he make you feel like America's a winner?
00:27:42.000He does deliver the goods on the border on DEI, but he doesn't do it in this stiff way where you're hiding away and you're letting the left dominate the culture.
00:27:51.000He's going out there and saying, Actually, this is the culture.
00:30:14.000I wanted to have you on the show last week when that Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan piece came out, which I still don't know who their sources are.
00:30:23.000Impeccable because and maybe, yeah, maybe people are alleging there might be a transcript from the situation room, which or a recording or something.
00:31:26.000It was like, Epstein approval rating drops.
00:31:29.000Tell me about that and can we repair this with young men?
00:31:32.000I've been saying this for a while that, you know, some people, we said there was anger before, but in truth, I think it was more like a disappointment.
00:31:39.000And people tend to project, especially men, project their disappointment as anger and we misinterpret it.
00:31:46.000I think there's a lot that can be repaired.
00:31:49.000And let me just, before even getting back to that specific issue, because if we appreciate why so many of these young men voted for President Trump and Vice President Vance, then you'll understand it better.
00:31:59.000And they really did view them as their last chance.
00:32:02.000Like they are their best hope of repairing what they see as a declining superpower that has squandered their inheritance.
00:32:11.000You know, so the generations before them had a much better shot at the American dream that they feel that they have now.
00:32:17.000And I think Donald Trump has a grace with voters that no other person I've ever polled or I've ever seen or studied in politics has ever been afforded.
00:32:28.000So if the president moved in the direction that they wanted him to move back into, I think the overwhelming majority of them would forgive and forget and move forward because they know what the alternative is.
00:32:44.000The other part with How the Epstein, I'm not getting into how it specifically was rolled out, but I think what people missed at that point is that, and the vice president was right.
00:32:53.000When you take this in concert with what I'm saying, Trump has faced far worse.
00:32:57.000So the rolling out of just dumping it all out there was the right call because the president would have weathered it.
00:33:03.000It's always, and we say this from the Nixon years, and I don't think there's a crime there for the president, but they always say that the cover up is worse than the actual crime.
00:33:13.000Even if there is no crime and people are just going to make stupid allegations that you committed one.
00:33:17.000Based on something they may or may not really understand in an email release, that still means nothing compared to them perceiving that you're trying to cover it up.
00:33:38.000The 18 to 29 women probably disliked this the most for obvious reasons, actually.
00:33:43.000If we go back and look, makes sense, right?
00:33:46.000Women would be a little bit more sensitive to this.
00:33:48.000Uh, and in truth, like the millennial men and the Gen Z men hung on longer than they did, but it just was a lot, it was a lot for them to stomach.
00:33:56.000And I think it was more than just the Epstein thing, you could see it on that graph that you're talking about.
00:34:01.000And by the way, that graph is on Big Data Poll, guys.
00:34:03.000If you want to go check it out, you could see it by event Trump's approval rating by event.
00:34:07.000It really was the oh, wait a minute, what's going on here with that?
00:34:10.000You know, with the Epstein thing, you're not trying to cover this up, are you?
00:34:13.000Then pivoting from that into Iran and away from the domestic served as kind of like it was, you know, a psychic break.
00:34:38.000The fact that Mark Zuckerberg is at the White House UFC Freedom 250 and Meta is a sponsor are indicators that Republicans will win the midterms.
00:34:46.000He goes where the wind blows and has access to more data than anyone from Facebook, IG.
00:34:50.000His data is telling him it's good to be a Republican in 2026.
00:34:54.000I'm sure you have some notes, but it's a fascinating tweet.
00:35:15.000If you study American politics the way that I have and others have, you know, and cephalogy in general, that is a modern phenomenon, which I have argued in a thesis, I believe is the result.
00:35:26.000Of the system being captured by interests the way it hadn't been in the past.
00:35:30.000Now, we've always had interest groups, long history of that.
00:35:32.000But it's basically every party rolls in promising something.
00:35:37.000They can't deliver on the level that they promise it.
00:35:39.000So Americans just wildly gyrate back and forth, hoping to punish the people who didn't deliver.
00:35:45.000And they go between these alternatives.
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00:38:50.000Well, Turning Point Action has endorsed John's candidacy here in Florida 19th.
00:38:55.000John, tell us, you know, I first met you during COVID, and I remember seeing how just passionate and how much work and energy you were putting into just really grassroots stuff.
00:39:08.000So, John, tell us about your journey from COVID activists, you know, medical freedom, autonomy, and then.
00:39:17.000To J6, which was a big, huge part of your story, and what happened to you?
00:39:22.000We've all been through so much in the last six, seven years of this period, and my journey has been extraordinary.
00:39:28.000There's a book on the screen behind me that's coming out in about a week that tells the full story.
00:39:32.000But before COVID and any of that, I was just pursuing the American dream with a lot of grit and gusto as an up and coming actor and talent in the media space and entertainment world.
00:39:43.000I really had a heart, actually, for trying to bring Christian values into the culture wars and into the entertainment field.
00:39:51.000But then COVID came crashing down around all of us.
00:39:53.000And really, because of the Judeo Christian values and the good family upbringing that I had, I was able to have just the internal wisdom and intuition to see.
00:40:01.000Immediately, that these were fraudulent schemes, both the COVID tyranny and also the BLM Marxism in the summer of love.
00:40:07.000So I began speaking out against that quite early, which basically burned down my chances of having a career in Hollywood.
00:40:15.000And that led me to start and organize the Beverly Hills Freedom Rally in California at the time, which was so vibrant, I never could have imagined the success.
00:40:24.000President Trump actually tweeted to celebrate that rally, bringing tens of thousands of people into LA during what became the stolen election.
00:40:31.000But because of that Freedom Rally, I became the creative director at America's Frontline Doctors.
00:40:36.000That's how I got to meet you, Andrew, and Charlie, and a lot of folks that really started taking it seriously that we have to fight to save our country and save freedom as we see tyranny in real time happening through these COVID mechanisms and the Marxist takeover of our culture and those sorts of things.
00:40:52.000Well, and then you got obviously a big part of your story is January 6th.
00:41:10.000So, johnstrand.com slash J6 will take you to a video that you can see every minute of my time in the Capitol building, which was just over 45 minutes, but we fast forwarded it.
00:41:20.000So, it only takes 13 minutes to watch.
00:41:22.000The point is, I don't hide or cut things out.
00:41:24.000You watch the whole experience and you have it narrated to understand what was happening while it was there.
00:41:29.000But essentially, as you all know, the 2020 election was rigged, fraudulent, highly untrustworthy.
00:41:35.000And there were people in the government legitimately trying to challenge that and ask for a forensic audit to prove to the American people what the truth was.
00:41:42.000And the fact that that was railroaded over was just a travesty for all of us.
00:41:47.000But Dr. Gold and myself for America's Frontline Doctors, we were scheduled to be in DC as part of a two week speaking tour on the East Coast.
00:41:53.000So we were traveling all over the country.
00:41:55.000DC was just one of those dates for us.
00:41:56.000And on January 5th, we spoke without any issue.
00:41:59.000On January 6th, we tried to do our speech and it went sideways, as we all know.
00:42:04.000But in the course of that process with J6, they splintered my front door with a battering ram 12 days after the event with no warning.
00:42:13.000Disappeared me in jail for four days without a phone call.
00:42:15.000When I got out, I was facing a 20 year felony and four other charges.
00:42:19.000And then they offered me the equivalent of a get out of jail nearly free card, a single misdemeanor plea deal.
00:42:24.000So if I just played along with the Washington, D.C. program and signed their false confession, I could go home and all that be wiped away.
00:42:31.000But I refused that because, Andrew, there is never a right time to do the wrong thing.
00:42:36.000And it was a simple test for me and a simple choice between a lie and the truth and between doing what I know is right and relying on God to take care of me or betraying my fellow Americans.
00:42:47.000By taking that easy way out, I refused to do it.
00:42:49.000That took me through an incredible process of going to trial where I knew I would be fraudulently convicted.
00:42:54.000But because I didn't take that plea from prison, we were granted cert at the Supreme Court.
00:42:59.000And I was vindicated by the United States Supreme Court at the same ruling that vindicated President Trump.
00:43:04.000I was one of only two men released six months before President Trump was back in office.
00:43:07.000And ever since then, God has really put it on my heart to do what I can in my way to take back the nation and step back to the front lines.
00:43:17.000And now we're getting into this space of running for office, which I never would have imagined doing.
00:43:21.000But God has done so many extraordinary things in our country and in my life.
00:43:24.000And there's a moment of incredible opportunity.
00:44:24.000No one's trying to say that on any given day, you just Waltz into the Capitol without going through a metal detector and a security process, et cetera.
00:44:31.000So, we're not trying to make disingenuous arguments about that.
00:44:34.000But January 6th is a very complicated event with a lot of things going on.
00:44:38.000And specifically, people talk about trespassing and that concept.
00:44:42.000Well, an inherent part of trespassing, in fact, the statute I was charged with is entering and remaining.
00:44:48.000Well, entering means that you entered where you knew you shouldn't be.
00:44:51.000And that requires clear signage and advisement of the public.
00:44:55.000So, they're claiming that the whole plaza, Was a restricted area.
00:44:59.000That's literally the public square of our Capitol building, and people eat lunch there every day.
00:45:03.000So, being there where we were scheduled to have a speech on the grounds there, not only wasn't it illegal, I mean, it was insane to suggest that anyone had the expectation that they shouldn't be on the plaza.
00:45:13.000Now, how do we get to the steps and to the door?
00:45:15.000The video I mentioned explains all of that.
00:45:17.000Of course, there's a lot of corrupt elements involved in making that happen.
00:45:40.000We are the outsider, independent, anti establishment, anti corruption candidate.
00:45:45.000Every other person in this race has millions of dollars.
00:45:47.000So we need you to go to JohnStrand.com.
00:45:50.000We need you to donate anything and everything that you possibly can.
00:45:53.000And here's why we're going to send a message to President Trump and his administration that we need the Trump endorsement because we will win this race.
00:46:00.000We will get a patriot in Congress in Byron's seat.
00:46:19.000And like I said, I like some of the other guys in this race, but you are the Turning Point Action Endorsed candidate, and we're proud of you.
00:46:24.000We know that you are going to do a great job.
00:47:30.000You don't interact a ton with Americans.
00:47:32.000But thanks to the World Cup, we are getting Americans do something, or we're getting Europeans and other guests who do something they rarely do.
00:47:41.000They are road tripping across real America.
00:50:11.000He's a soccer fan, came with two of his friends, and they're planning to go to several World Cup games and they're road tripping across the South.
00:50:19.000And he's basically become a celebrity at this point because people are hyped up.
00:50:59.000You know, when they say everything's big in America, they weren't lying.
00:51:04.000And that's actually a South African guy, but yes, same effect.
00:51:07.000Yeah, and that's getting at what I said, though, that no one's breaking your truck.
00:51:10.000Yeah, so he'd have to worry about that in South Africa, but he'd also have to worry about that if he was just visiting LA, which so many people do.
00:52:34.000But he's driving a truck, going to, I think he said he's going to Hooters, which is, you know, not necessarily America's best look either, but it's uniquely American, I will say.
00:52:44.000And that Freddie guy, he found a Bass Pro Shop and he was marveling at that.
00:52:50.000And he's like, They have a shooting range inside this store.
00:53:37.000And TikTok has always strived to build the kind of place that thrives on respectful connection, where curiosity fuels connection and we can share what's on our minds and learn from each other.
00:53:47.000When ideas meet respect, good things happen.
00:53:49.000On TikTok, you can find a mechanic explaining the why behind a problem most of us wouldn't even know how to name, or a father explaining.
00:53:56.000Sharing a lifetime of knowledge with his viewers, viewers who listen, discuss, and then they respond.
00:54:00.000TikTok turns connection into community through small acts of understanding.
00:54:04.000You can feel it in the comments, in the thank you from a stranger halfway across the world.
00:54:09.000TikTok is a place where respect opens the door for discussion, and discussion helps us build something real.
00:54:18.000Mark Halperin, Two Way TV, and so much more.
00:56:02.000They love, I know this went too far when I read in one of the many stories you're referring to, someone said, Oh my God, I thought they're, Fast food was so horrible, but I came here and ate a Burger King hamburger.
00:56:16.000Now, I like Burger King just fine, but it's gone too far when they're lauding the quality of our fast food burgers as some sign of the superiority of American culture.
00:56:25.000Well, maybe guilty of the lily a little bit.
00:56:33.000And there was a gal, I think she must have been English.
00:56:36.000She was eating In N Out for the first time, and she was literally, you know, almost hyperventilating that it was so good, and the animal style fries.
00:58:13.000People pay a premium for the brand, but Apple products are great, except for the iPods don't always work, but everything else is fantastic.
00:59:26.000It's not like France or Belgium where people are a little bit unfriendly.
00:59:30.000And then lastly, although there's this impression that we're jingoistic and isolationist, and those are well earned and somewhat accurate, We're interested in other people.
01:01:03.000Do you think that has an impact on the national vibe?
01:01:06.000I don't think it's a negative thing, but.
01:01:10.000This is just an in real life manifestation of what happens every day all over the world.
01:01:17.000You know, there's obviously a lot of covers in the media first about, you know, Canadians and Europeans didn't like George W. Bush, and now they're like, well, they really don't like Trump.
01:01:26.000But through it all, they love America.
01:01:29.000And I think, look, I'm from the Barack Obama school that a lot of your audience will not like.
01:01:33.000I don't think it's helpful for us or right for us to go around saying, we're the greatest country in the history of the world.
01:01:45.000Just go on our freedom and our liberty.
01:01:46.000We are the greatest country in the history of the world.
01:01:48.000But this cultural imperialism, where it's like Madonna is, you know, just, you know, we have literally a million, like, rock artists who, not literally, not literally, figuratively, so many, who are, like, so big overseas.
01:02:02.000Like, You know, you guys can name one K pop band, right?
01:02:19.000But American cultural imperialism is one of the strongest forces in the world.
01:02:23.000And it's been reinforced by social media.
01:02:26.000So the two things you cite, World Cup and the fight last night, like, these are manifestations of what has existed for decades, which is People around the world, they just love American culture.
01:02:36.000They love our high culture and especially our low culture.
01:02:39.000Yeah, especially our low culture, I would say.
01:02:42.000And low, I take issue with that word, actually.
01:02:45.000It's the real people, it's the grassroots, it's the Americana.
01:02:54.000But I think what Blake is getting at is you go on social media for the last however many months, and there's just a tinge of negativity, of cynicism.
01:03:02.000Not even a tinge, it's kind of like right in your face.
01:03:22.000And UFC is a powerful vehicle for this.
01:03:26.000Can this psychic break that started with Epstein, that started with Midnight Hammer, that started again with the latest Iran strikes, now that we're looking at peace, now that we've got this like 250 celebration, World Cup, it just feels like the vibes are shifting in a good way.
01:05:41.000I had a unique night on election night because I started at the Clinton headquarters.
01:05:45.000And because of the way media assignments work, or not headquarters, but victory party at the Javits Center, because of the way media assignments work and because of the extraordinary security for a presidential candidate, I don't know that anybody else was both in.
01:06:00.000In all these places, in the Clinton Victory Party, the Clinton Hotel, which she never left because she never went to her Victory Party, the Trump Victory Event, and also I was on Colbert.
01:06:14.000So I was going all around Manhattan, whereas most people were in one location because of security and assignments.
01:06:20.000And so I went from Colbert to the Clinton Hotel and then to the Trump Victory Party.
01:06:25.000And because I knew Secret Service and I knew Trump folks, they got me in, even though the building was locked down at that point.
01:06:31.000And it was just an incredible night to go from.
01:06:35.000The Clinton place where they thought they were going to win until they realized they weren't.
01:06:40.000And then the extreme emotion, positive emotion at the Trump thing was it was an incredible night.
01:06:54.000And I mean, I'll never forget that night.
01:06:56.000I was in Los Angeles at the time, and I think my particular precinct, I looked it up afterwards, it was something like 16% of people that I lived around voted for Trump that night.
01:07:44.000You guys were like, he brought out the old fashions.
01:07:48.000I mean, he was really up against it that night.
01:07:51.000Mark, I want to turn our attention in the last four minutes we have here to the Iran deal.
01:07:56.000I can't tell you enough, speaking to students at Turning Point, how much they want this war to be done with.
01:08:03.000And this is why I sort of fundamentally disagree with your earlier take.
01:08:08.000I think the vibes are basically how the country is getting run now.
01:08:12.000It's based like how elections go is like vibes.
01:08:15.000And if the vibes are good, if gas is cheap, if there's progress being made, if we're not focusing abroad, that could really have fundamental electoral consequences.
01:08:26.000Tell us about the Iran deal, though, and what you think is really going on here.
01:08:30.000And how significant do you think this ultimately could be?
01:08:33.000I'm not against vibes as part of election analysis at all.
01:08:36.000I think vibes is a super important thing.
01:08:39.000It's too soon to say whether this is going to be good.
01:08:44.000All the way through November or sooner, as voters start to think about who they're going to vote for, it almost certainly will bring down the price of gas.
01:08:50.000I've got a theory, a working theory here, and nothing I've seen today, I woke up with the theory, and nothing I've seen today has moved me off of it.
01:08:58.000I think what Trump realized is the economic pressure was not going to work before the midterms, that Iran, they had miscalculated whether Iran would give in because they couldn't sell oil robustly and because they were having overcapacity and they could, they risk ruining their oil infrastructure.
01:09:14.000I think they realized they were about 10 months off in their prediction about that.
01:09:18.000And so that meant there's no economic pressure that will break their back before the midterms.
01:09:22.000He had to bring down gas prices before then.
01:09:25.000So get them to agree to open the strait, drop the blockade, drop Iran's threats against ships, lower gas prices, and then negotiate past the midterms.
01:09:33.000Even though they claim 60 days, between Israel fighting with Hezbollah, between Iranian recalcitrance and the difficulty of negotiating something like this, I think the negotiations will go past the midterms.
01:09:47.000There won't be any more kinetic activity of any significance beyond Israel and Hezbollah.
01:09:51.000And then he can figure it out after the midterms when the pressure is somewhat off.
01:09:56.000To make sure that the war doesn't start back up.
01:09:58.000And maybe at that point, he does start the war back up, or maybe at that point, he strikes a deal with Iran that he wouldn't risk striking now for fear of demoralizing the neocons.
01:10:21.000Anyways, they said, interestingly enough, the nuclear aspect of the deal has been the easiest.
01:10:26.000One of the easier parts, rather, of the negotiations because they basically realize that U.S. intelligence is so adept that they can't start the nuclear program again and without us knowing.
01:10:40.000And secondly, they need our help to get the dust out, anyways, right?
01:10:43.000So, technically, the expertise, the resources to do that.
01:10:48.000So, the point is, I think actually the most interesting part of this deal, you referenced it, is Israel Hezbollah.
01:10:54.000You see, Mark Levin is very skeptical of this deal and some other of the hardliners.
01:11:33.000So, I think the question is going to be in Iran's court.
01:11:35.000When the United States says we can't stop him, and they say you guys got to stop Hezbollah, Iran's going to say, I think it's either going to be everything or nothing.
01:11:46.000Either Iran's going to accept the fact that there'll continue to be conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, or they'll scuttle the deal over it, and that's going to be up to Tehran for the most part.