The Charlie Kirk Show - The Gulf of America, Greenland, Mark Zuckerberg, and More

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00:00:02.000 Andrew Colvett in for Charlie, who surprised us all this morning when we woke up and told us he's in Greenland.

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00:00:17.000 Not only was Charlie in Greenland meeting the MAGA faithful in Greenland that love Trump, love America, but Trump then simultaneously held a historic We're opting to include the entire press conference in this podcast because I truly believe it's historic.

00:00:39.000 This is a press conference where he asserts America's strength on the international and domestic stage like we have not seen done in generations.

00:00:48.000 It's truly, truly something to behold.

00:00:51.000 I react to it live in this episode.

00:00:54.000 Then we're joined by Cain from Citizen Free Press to get his live reaction.

00:00:59.000 And then Raheem Kassam helps make sense of the meta news, what's happening internationally with free speech, with the EU, versus Musk, versus Nigel, versus Tommy Robinson.

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00:03:07.000 All right, everybody, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:03:09.000 Andrew Colvin in for Charlie, who surprised me this morning by letting me know he's in Greenland with Don Jr. and other representatives from the Trump administration, incoming Trump administration.

00:03:22.000 But President Trump is speaking right now at a press conference at Mar-a-Lago, so more on Greenland later, more on Facebook later.

00:03:29.000 Let's go ahead and throw back to President Trump.

00:03:31.000 Thank you very much.

00:03:33.000 It's an honor to be with you.

00:03:35.000 Many things are happening that are exciting.

00:03:37.000 Very exciting for our country.

00:03:40.000 And we're honored to welcome one of the most respected business leaders in the Middle East, indeed the world.

00:03:49.000 He's a founder and chairman of DMAQ Properties, Hussein Sejwani.

00:03:56.000 Very respected gentleman.

00:03:58.000 And I'm thrilled to announce today that DMAQ... We'll be investing at least $20 billion over a very short period of time into the United States, and they may go double or even somewhat more than double that amount of money.

00:04:14.000 It's a great thing, and I believe he will say that he's doing it because of the fact that he was very inspired by the election.

00:04:24.000 They wouldn't do it without that election, I can tell you.

00:04:27.000 A lot of people wouldn't.

00:04:28.000 You saw last week where we have somebody who's going to go.

00:04:31.000 From $100 to $200 billion.

00:04:34.000 And we have many other people, and we'll be bringing some of them out.

00:04:37.000 Some of them like to do it somewhat more quietly, and some don't.

00:04:42.000 And they feel so strongly about the country that they want to let people know about it.

00:04:48.000 But it's an honor to have such a great investor investing in our country.

00:04:53.000 The investment will support massive new data centers across the Midwest.

00:04:57.000 The Sunbelt area and also to keep America on the cutting edge of technology and artificial intelligence.

00:05:04.000 He's very big into the data centers, and that's going to be a very hot item in the coming years, as you know, with AI in particular.

00:05:14.000 The first phase of the project will be in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and Indiana, those places.

00:05:25.000 And Hussein, I'd love you to come up and say a few words.

00:05:27.000 Thank you very much.

00:05:28.000 Thank you.

00:05:29.000 Thank you.

00:05:32.000 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:05:33.000 It's been amazing news for me and my family when he was elected in November.

00:05:41.000 We've been waiting four years to increase our investments in U.S. to a very large amount of money.

00:05:48.000 We are a company operating in more than 20 countries around the world.

00:05:52.000 We have delivered more than 45,000 luxury units and another 45,000 in the pipeline.

00:05:59.000 In data center, we are in 10 countries around the world, in Asia, Europe, and Middle East.

00:06:05.000 And we're very, very excited now with his leadership and his open strategy and policy to encourage businesses to come to U.S. For the last four years, we've been waiting for this moment.

00:06:17.000 And we're planning to invest $20 billion.

00:06:20.000 And even more than that, if the opportunity in the market allow us.

00:06:24.000 But at the moment, we're planning $20 billion in data center, catering for the AI, and cloud business for the hyperscalers.

00:06:33.000 Fantastic.

00:06:33.000 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:06:34.000 Thank you very much.

00:06:35.000 So nice.

00:06:39.000 And that man knows what he's doing.

00:06:41.000 He knows.

00:06:45.000 So, Hussein, we're going to work with you and make sure everything goes smoothly.

00:06:49.000 we have powers that haven't really been used in terms of environmental.

00:06:53.000 If you invest over a billion dollars in the United States, we're going to give expedited reviews to everybody because everyone's afraid they're going to come in and get caught in the quagmire, which is very prevalent in the United States, unfortunately.

00:07:08.000 The quagmire of environmental and various other regulations and rules.

00:07:12.000 And I made it a point of telling people if you invest a billion dollars or more And we'll do this for people with far less, too.

00:07:20.000 But we guarantee it.

00:07:23.000 We're going to move them quickly through the environmental process.

00:07:26.000 Sometimes people held up 12, 13, 14, 15 years.

00:07:31.000 I saw it with plants in Louisiana, where I got it approved in literally a week.

00:07:36.000 They were through the review in one week after spending 14 and a half years trying to get it, and they were going nowhere.

00:07:44.000 It was a terrible thing.

00:07:47.000 I've been a victim of that myself over the years.

00:07:50.000 And I think I know all the games and all the tricks that are played.

00:07:53.000 And much of it is just done to stop progress.

00:07:57.000 So we're going to be helping you and everybody else that comes to the United States and wants to invest their money that you don't get tied up for the rest of your life and you can't do anything.

00:08:06.000 This commitment further underscores that many of the greatest business leaders on Earth are seeing a very bright economic future for America.

00:08:15.000 Since the election, as you know, a lot of positive things have happened.

00:08:22.000 We are inheriting a difficult situation from the outgoing administration, and they're trying everything they can to make it more difficult.

00:08:33.000 Inflation is continuing to rage, and interest rates are far too high.

00:08:38.000 And I've been disappointed to see the Biden administration's attempt To block the reforms of the American people and that they voted for.

00:08:48.000 We had a landslide election.

00:08:49.000 We won every swing state.

00:08:51.000 We won the popular vote by millions and millions of people.

00:08:54.000 Nobody even knows how many people.

00:08:57.000 Millions.

00:08:58.000 And they're still counting in some areas.

00:09:00.000 You know they're still counting the vote in some areas.

00:09:03.000 Can you believe this?

00:09:04.000 What a place.

00:09:06.000 What a horrible place.

00:09:07.000 One of the things we're going to do is we've got to fix the election so that we get honest counts and they get done by...

00:09:13.000 10 o'clock in the evening or something thereabouts.

00:09:16.000 They have places where they're still counting votes.

00:09:21.000 President Biden's actions yesterday on offshore drilling, banning offshore drilling, will not stand.

00:09:29.000 I will reverse it immediately.

00:09:31.000 It'll be done immediately.

00:09:33.000 And we will drill baby drill.

00:09:35.000 We're going to be drilling in a lot of other locations.

00:09:38.000 And the energy costs are going to come way down.

00:09:40.000 they'll be brought down to a very low level, and that's going to bring everything else down.

00:09:45.000 That's what caused it to go up, along with the ridiculous spending on the Green News scam, all this money, trillions of dollars.

00:09:53.000 It's like throwing it right out the window, what they're doing.

00:09:55.000 And they're trying to spend so much now, they're just taking money and giving it to anybody that wants it for any project at all, if it's certified under the Green News scam.

00:10:04.000 And they don't work.

00:10:06.000 and it's too expensive.

00:10:10.000 You know, they told me that we're going to do everything possible to make this transition to the new administration very smooth.

00:10:20.000 It's not smooth, because they're doing that.

00:10:22.000 They're playing with the courts, as you know.

00:10:24.000 They've been playing with the courts for four years.

00:10:25.000 Probably got me more votes, because I got the highest number of votes ever gotten by a Republican, by far, actually, by a lot.

00:10:36.000 You know, we had a great election, so I guess it didn't work.

00:10:39.000 But even to this day, they're playing with the courts.

00:10:42.000 They're friendly judges that like to try and make everybody happy on the Democrat side.

00:10:47.000 It's called lawfare.

00:10:48.000 It's called weaponization of justice.

00:10:50.000 And it's happened at a level nobody's ever seen before.

00:10:53.000 So many.

00:10:53.000 I defeated deranged Jack Smith.

00:10:56.000 He's a deranged individual.

00:10:57.000 I guess he's on his way back to The Hague.

00:11:00.000 And we won those cases.

00:11:01.000 Those were the biggest ones.

00:11:04.000 And the press made such a big deal out of him, but we did nothing wrong.

00:11:08.000 We did nothing wrong on anything.

00:11:09.000 And the people saw that.

00:11:10.000 You know, when they vote, when a Republican, it's not easy for a Republican.

00:11:15.000 When the Republican wins the popular vote by millions and wins all seven of the swing states, people said, well, he could win four.

00:11:23.000 We won all seven, and we won them by a lot.

00:11:26.000 That tells you we won.

00:11:27.000 And they've been watching this injustice.

00:11:32.000 I call it the injustice department.

00:11:34.000 What they've done is so bad.

00:11:35.000 The whole world has watched that.

00:11:38.000 And it took work, but it got me a lot of votes because when explained, I mean, we have a judge in New York who's a very crooked judge.

00:11:46.000 I'm under a gag order.

00:11:48.000 I can't even talk about aspects of the case that are the most vital aspects.

00:11:52.000 I'm under a gag.

00:11:53.000 Do you know that I'm the president-elect of the United States of America?

00:11:57.000 I'm a former, very successful president.

00:11:59.000 We had the greatest economy in the history of our country.

00:12:02.000 We had borders that were sealed and beautiful.

00:12:04.000 Everything was good.

00:12:05.000 We had no wars.

00:12:06.000 We defeated ISIS. We had no wars.

00:12:10.000 Now I'm going into a world that's burning with Russia and Ukraine, with Israel. 1.00

00:12:17.000 You took a look at that attack on October 7th, the attack on Israel.

00:12:23.000 With the horrible way they got out.

00:12:25.000 Not the fact that they got out.

00:12:27.000 I would have been out before them.

00:12:28.000 But we would have been out of Afghanistan with dignity and strength as opposed to looking like a bunch of fools with 13 dead and many, many badly, horrifically injured.

00:12:38.000 Nobody ever talks about them.

00:12:40.000 No arms, no legs.

00:12:41.000 Nobody ever talks about them.

00:12:44.000 The way they got out was outrageous, leaving billions of dollars of brand new military equipment that I bought.

00:12:52.000 In the hands of the Afghans and specifically the Taliban. 0.98

00:12:58.000 It's the group.

00:12:59.000 And we were doing very well.

00:13:02.000 We would have been out.

00:13:03.000 We would have been respected.

00:13:05.000 I think it's one of the reasons it was so badly handled, that withdrawal, where people are jumping onto airplanes, falling off the sides of airplanes when they're 3,000 feet in the air.

00:13:15.000 And nobody's ever seen anything like that.

00:13:18.000 The worst.

00:13:19.000 And because of that, I think Russia went and... 0.80

00:13:23.000 When they saw that, they said, these guys are incompetent.

00:13:25.000 They don't know what they're doing.

00:13:27.000 But we know what we're doing now.

00:13:29.000 And that's going to all end.

00:13:31.000 And we have a great military.

00:13:32.000 I defeated ISIS, as you know.

00:13:33.000 We were in no wars.

00:13:34.000 I just finished a couple.

00:13:37.000 And we got also our soldiers guarding Syria and Turkey.

00:13:42.000 We're in the middle.

00:13:43.000 We had 5,000 soldiers.

00:13:45.000 They would have been gobbled up with two armies.

00:13:48.000 We had one army, 300,000.

00:13:50.000 We had another one, 500,000 or 600,000.

00:13:52.000 Looking, getting ready.

00:13:53.000 We had 5,000 people in the middle.

00:13:55.000 I said to a general, how do 5,000 people do in that case?

00:13:58.000 And the general just looked at me and said, not well, sir, not well.

00:14:02.000 And I took them out.

00:14:03.000 And you know what happened?

00:14:04.000 Nothing.

00:14:05.000 I got criticized.

00:14:06.000 I saved 5,000 lives, actually.

00:14:08.000 And we did a great job, and we're going to do an even better job, because now we have a tremendous amount of experience.

00:14:16.000 We have people.

00:14:17.000 That I can rely on.

00:14:19.000 But the 625 million acres, people can't realize.

00:14:24.000 It's like the whole ocean.

00:14:27.000 Take an acre.

00:14:29.000 You know, an acre, you have a house on a half an acre or a quarter of an acre or an acre.

00:14:33.000 If you have an acre, you have a big deal.

00:14:37.000 Now you multiply that by 625 million acres.

00:14:43.000 It's like, feels like the whole ocean.

00:14:48.000 And that's our strength, you know?

00:14:51.000 People can say we manufacture, we don't manufacture.

00:14:54.000 The thing we have, we have oil and gas more than anybody in the world.

00:14:58.000 We're going to have more of it, too.

00:15:00.000 But they took away 625 million acres of offshore drilling.

00:15:07.000 Nobody else does that.

00:15:10.000 And they think they have it, but we'll put it back.

00:15:12.000 I'm going to put it back on day one.

00:15:13.000 I'm going to have it revoked on day one.

00:15:15.000 We'll go immediately.

00:15:15.000 If we need to, I don't think we should have to go to the courts.

00:15:18.000 But if we do have to go to the courts, you know, they try to be sneaky.

00:15:21.000 They go in and they sign.

00:15:22.000 Remember, this is a man that said he wants the transition to be smooth.

00:15:26.000 Well, you don't do the kind of things.

00:15:27.000 You don't have a judge working real hard to try and embarrass you.

00:15:31.000 Because I did nothing wrong.

00:15:32.000 By the way, I did absolutely nothing wrong.

00:15:35.000 If I did something wrong, I wouldn't be standing here right now because I've won all these cases.

00:15:40.000 Nobody's ever won so many cases as I have against the Justice Department.

00:15:45.000 I mean, Jack Smith had cases all over the place.

00:15:47.000 People were being subpoenaed.

00:15:48.000 Lives were being ruined.

00:15:49.000 They were spending everything they had, money.

00:15:51.000 We were helping them out.

00:15:52.000 We had to.

00:15:54.000 They were subpoenaing people that had no idea what they were even talking about.

00:16:00.000 That's a sick group of people.

00:16:02.000 And it was all too...

00:16:03.000 Influence the election.

00:16:05.000 It was all a fight against a political opponent.

00:16:08.000 We've never had that in this country.

00:16:09.000 We have had that in certain countries.

00:16:12.000 We've had that in third-tier countries.

00:16:16.000 We've had that in banana republics, but we've never had that in a place like the United States. 0.90

00:16:22.000 I don't even know if it's been on a small level.

00:16:25.000 I'm sure it has been on a small level, but this was the largest level ever.

00:16:29.000 They brought this moron out of The Hague.

00:16:32.000 He's a mean guy.

00:16:33.000 He's a mean, nasty guy.

00:16:34.000 His picture was perfect.

00:16:35.000 Because you look at his picture, you say, that's a bad guy with his robe, his purple robe.

00:16:41.000 And he executes people.

00:16:42.000 He shouldn't be allowed to execute people because he'll execute everybody.

00:16:45.000 He's a nut job.

00:16:46.000 But we want all of those cases with him.

00:16:50.000 And, I mean, I don't know the judge in Florida, but we had a brilliant judge in Florida that saw right through it.

00:16:58.000 And we won the case.

00:16:59.000 She was a brilliant judge with great courage.

00:17:01.000 You know, the left, as we call them, the radical left, they have a way, they play the ref.

00:17:09.000 And they play it very hard.

00:17:11.000 They play the ref.

00:17:13.000 They go and say horrible things about judges and prosecutors.

00:17:16.000 And some judges and prosecutors say, look, the only way I'm going to get these people off my back is to give victory to them.

00:17:22.000 They're playing the ref.

00:17:23.000 I think it's illegal what they do.

00:17:25.000 It's almost like talking.

00:17:26.000 It's worse than talking to a judge.

00:17:28.000 But the judge in Florida, Judge Cannon, was brilliant and tough, and she didn't stand for it.

00:17:37.000 And I don't know her.

00:17:39.000 And never met her until the case, and I don't believe I said even one word to her.

00:17:45.000 But she was very, very strong and very, very brilliant.

00:17:49.000 And her opinion was so brilliant that they dropped their appeal.

00:17:51.000 They couldn't beat the appeal.

00:17:53.000 So that's what we're up against.

00:17:55.000 So they say we're going to have a smooth transition.

00:17:58.000 All they do is talk.

00:17:59.000 It's all talk.

00:18:01.000 Everything they do is talk.

00:18:02.000 We're going to have a smooth transition.

00:18:04.000 And then they take 625 million acres and they essentially landmark it so you can't ever drill there again.

00:18:11.000 Well, we're going to be drilling soon.

00:18:13.000 We're going to be opening up ANWR. We're going to be doing all sorts of things that nobody ever thought was even possible.

00:18:20.000 But remember, and just to get off the subject, because I couldn't believe it when I heard it yesterday, I couldn't believe the size of it.

00:18:27.000 I mean, you put down a map and put this up, it's just massive.

00:18:31.000 And remember that that's worth probably, I mean, I've had estimates, $40 to $50 trillion.

00:18:39.000 That's more than our national debt.

00:18:41.000 Essentially, he's thrown it away.

00:18:43.000 He's thrown it away.

00:18:45.000 He's taken 50 trillion dollars.

00:18:49.000 So if we owe 35 trillion, he's taken 50 trillion dollars of value and thrown it right out the window.

00:18:57.000 We can't do that.

00:18:58.000 Nobody can do that.

00:18:59.000 One other thing he did yesterday, which was in many ways worse.

00:19:03.000 It's hard to believe it can be worse.

00:19:05.000 He wants all gas heaters out of your homes.

00:19:12.000 He wants them to be replaced by essentially electric heaters.

00:19:16.000 I don't know what it is with electric.

00:19:17.000 This guy loves electric.

00:19:18.000 We're going to be ending the electric car mandate quickly, by the way.

00:19:21.000 This guy loves electric.

00:19:23.000 And we don't have enough electricity.

00:19:26.000 And then we have AI where we need more.

00:19:27.000 And he wants everybody to have an electric heater instead of a gas heater.

00:19:31.000 Gas heater is much less expensive.

00:19:33.000 The heat is much better.

00:19:35.000 It's a much better heat.

00:19:38.000 As the expression goes, you don't itch.

00:19:41.000 Does anybody have a heater where you go and you're scratching?

00:19:44.000 That's what they want you to have.

00:19:46.000 They don't want you to have gas where you don't have the problems of the electric.

00:19:51.000 And the source is plentiful.

00:19:54.000 They're much cheaper to operate.

00:19:55.000 They're much better.

00:19:56.000 They work much better.

00:19:57.000 They look much better.

00:19:59.000 Sixty percent of homes and apartments have gas heaters.

00:20:03.000 He wants them all removed quickly.

00:20:05.000 These people are crazy.

00:20:07.000 There's something wrong with them.

00:20:08.000 There's something wrong with them.

00:20:10.000 They also want to go back, and they have already started that, to when you buy a faucet, no water comes out, because they want to preserve.

00:20:17.000 Even in areas that have so much water, you don't know what to do.

00:20:20.000 It's called rain.

00:20:20.000 It comes down from heaven.

00:20:24.000 And they want to do...

00:20:26.000 No water comes out of the shower.

00:20:29.000 It goes drip, drip, drip.

00:20:32.000 So what happens, you're in the shower ten times as long, you know.

00:20:36.000 No water comes out of the faucet.

00:20:37.000 You want to wash your hands.

00:20:39.000 They want to go back to even stronger than what they have right now.

00:20:42.000 I, as you know, I ended that policy.

00:20:45.000 You can have all the water you want.

00:20:47.000 It makes no difference.

00:20:49.000 Especially in certain areas, we have so much water, we don't know what to do with it.

00:20:52.000 But these are all things.

00:20:54.000 They want very, very little water to go into your dishwasher.

00:20:58.000 Almost none.

00:20:59.000 And you know what people do?

00:21:00.000 They just keep pressing, pressing, pressing, keep it going.

00:21:03.000 They end up using more water.

00:21:05.000 Likewise, washing machines.

00:21:06.000 They want in your washing machine to have very little water coming out of the washing machine.

00:21:11.000 So when you wash your clothing, you have to wash it four times instead of once.

00:21:15.000 You end up using more water.

00:21:17.000 We're a party of common sense, and things that I'm telling you now is really all about common sense.

00:21:24.000 On January 20th, we'll turn the economy around very quickly.

00:21:28.000 Because right now, when I think of our economy, I think about inflation.

00:21:33.000 That's what we have.

00:21:34.000 We have inflation, I believe, at a level that we never had before.

00:21:38.000 There's never been anything like it.

00:21:40.000 And over the next four years, the United States is going to take off like a rocket ship.

00:21:45.000 But really, it's already doing it.

00:21:47.000 If you take a look, just last month, SoftBank announced the $200 billion.

00:21:53.000 I think it'll be $200.

00:21:54.000 He said between $100.

00:21:56.000 And I said, how about making it $200?

00:21:58.000 And he sort of said yes, but let's say it's 100, but it might be 200. Right, Brian?

00:22:03.000 Dollars United States creating more than 100,000 jobs.

00:22:08.000 Hussein just announced a tremendous investment that he's going to make, and that's money that's in the bank.

00:22:14.000 He's going to come and do it, and he'll do a great job, and he'll build the best centers in the country, I guarantee, because I know the way he bills.

00:22:20.000 Since my election, the stock market has set records.

00:22:23.000 The S&P 500 index has broken above 6,000 points for the first time ever, never even close.

00:22:30.000 In a single month, small business optimism soared 41 points.

00:22:36.000 It's not a 41. It went up 41 points.

00:22:39.000 And that's the largest in the 39-year history of the group that does it.

00:22:46.000 According to Gallup, the American people's confidence in the economy has just surged.

00:22:50.000 To the highest level in history.

00:22:53.000 That's why I have a news conference like that.

00:22:55.000 I take the greatest business leaders in the world.

00:22:57.000 I say, hey, do you want to say you're going to invest the money?

00:22:59.000 They're not looking for news conferences.

00:23:01.000 They're saying, what am I doing here?

00:23:03.000 They go in and they invest money.

00:23:04.000 But it's good to know where the smartest business people in the world are investing, and they're investing in the United States.

00:23:13.000 So we've done this all in two months of not being there.

00:23:16.000 You know, we haven't been there.

00:23:20.000 It's pretty amazing, and we think we're going to do some really great things, really great things.

00:23:26.000 We're being respected again all over the world.

00:23:28.000 The Panama Canal is a disgrace, what took place at the Panama Canal.

00:23:33.000 Jimmy Carter gave it to them for $1, and they were supposed to treat us well.

00:23:37.000 I thought it was a terrible thing to do.

00:23:39.000 It was the most expensive structure ever built in the history of our country, relatively.

00:23:48.000 It would be the equivalent of substantially over a trillion dollars today.

00:23:54.000 We lost 38,000 people.

00:23:57.000 Think of it.

00:23:57.000 38,000 people, they died from malaria.

00:24:00.000 Mosquitoes.

00:24:01.000 They were unable to stop the mosquitoes.

00:24:03.000 They paid people five times more to take the job.

00:24:05.000 Many of those people died.

00:24:07.000 We gave it away for a dollar.

00:24:09.000 But the deal was that...

00:24:11.000 You know, they have to treat us fairly.

00:24:13.000 They don't treat us fairly.

00:24:14.000 They charge more for our ships than they charge for ships of other countries.

00:24:18.000 They charge more for our Navy than they charge for navies of other countries.

00:24:22.000 They laugh at us because they think we're stupid, but we're not stupid anymore.

00:24:28.000 So the Panama Canal is under discussion with them right now.

00:24:32.000 They violated every aspect of the agreement, and they morally violated it also.

00:24:39.000 And they want our help because it's leaking and not in good repair.

00:24:45.000 And they want us to give $3 billion to help fix it.

00:24:48.000 I said, well, why don't you get the money from China?

00:24:51.000 Because China's basically taking it over. 0.99

00:24:53.000 China's at both ends of the Panama Canal.

00:24:56.000 China's running the Panama Canal.

00:24:58.000 And they come to see this Biden, this guy who should never have been allowed even to run for president.

00:25:06.000 Of course, she shouldn't have either, because that never happened.

00:25:09.000 It had to be two people, not one.

00:25:12.000 But they want $3 billion to fix the Panama Canal that's run by China and makes a lot of money, China.

00:25:18.000 One of the most profitable structures ever built, because you have ships lined up back to Florida, frankly, and they just keep going through, and the numbers are staggering, half a million to a million dollars a ship.

00:25:32.000 And they took it away from us.

00:25:35.000 Meaning we gave it to them for a dollar.

00:25:37.000 But not going to happen.

00:25:40.000 What they've done to us, they've overcharged our ships, overcharged our Navy.

00:25:46.000 And then when they need repair money, they come to the United States to put it up.

00:25:50.000 We get nothing.

00:25:51.000 Those days are over.

00:25:53.000 Working with the Republican majorities in Congress will cut taxes, slash regulations, raise wages, and boost incomes at a pace the world has not seen before.

00:26:04.000 And certainly not from our country.

00:26:07.000 We had a big chunk of it for the first three years prior to COVID coming in.

00:26:12.000 In my administration, we had the greatest economy in history.

00:26:15.000 We cut the most regulations in the history of our country.

00:26:19.000 And I did that all in four years.

00:26:21.000 By four times more than any other president cut, we did that in four years.

00:26:27.000 And we were just getting started.

00:26:29.000 We'll impose new tariffs so that the products on our stores will once again be stamped with those beautiful words made in the USA. And we are not treated well, as you know, by Canada.

00:26:43.000 Canada is subsidized to the tune of about $200 billion a year, plus other things.

00:26:51.000 They don't essentially have a military.

00:26:53.000 They have a very small military.

00:26:54.000 They rely on our military.

00:26:57.000 It's all fine, but...

00:26:58.000 You know, they've got to pay for that.

00:27:00.000 It's very unfair.

00:27:01.000 I have so many great friends.

00:27:04.000 One of them is the great one, Wayne Gretzky.

00:27:07.000 I said, run for prime minister.

00:27:08.000 You'll win in a...

00:27:09.000 It'll take two seconds.

00:27:11.000 But he said, well, am I going to run for prime minister or governor?

00:27:14.000 You tell me.

00:27:15.000 I said, I don't know.

00:27:17.000 Let's make it governor. 0.83

00:27:18.000 I like it better.

00:27:19.000 But no, something's going to have to be done.

00:27:21.000 Same thing with Mexico.

00:27:22.000 We have a massive deficit with Mexico.

00:27:25.000 And we help Mexico a lot.

00:27:27.000 They're essentially run by the cartels.

00:27:30.000 And can't let that happen.

00:27:34.000 Mexico's really in trouble.

00:27:36.000 A lot of trouble.

00:27:37.000 Very dangerous place.

00:27:39.000 And we're going to be announcing at a future date pretty soon we're going to change because we do most of the work there and it's ours.

00:27:49.000 We're going to be changing sort of the opposite of Biden where he's...

00:27:53.000 Closing everything up, essentially getting rid of $50 to $60 trillion worth of assets.

00:27:58.000 We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory.

00:28:10.000 The Gulf of America.

00:28:11.000 What a beautiful name.

00:28:12.000 And it's appropriate.

00:28:14.000 It's appropriate.

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00:29:22.000 And Mexico has to stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country.

00:29:27.000 They can stop them.

00:29:28.000 And we're going to put very serious tariffs on Mexico and Canada, because Canada, they come through Canada too, and the drugs that are coming through are at record numbers, record numbers.

00:29:40.000 So we're going to make up for that by putting tariffs on Mexico and Canada.

00:29:45.000 Substantial tariffs.

00:29:48.000 And we want to get along with everybody, but, you know, it takes two to tango.

00:29:55.000 We're approaching the dawn of America's golden age.

00:29:58.000 It's going to be a golden age for America.

00:29:59.000 We have things that nobody else has.

00:30:00.000 We have more natural resources.

00:30:02.000 We have number one.

00:30:05.000 Nobody knew that until I came along.

00:30:07.000 I made us number one.

00:30:08.000 We're number three.

00:30:09.000 I made us number one in a very short period of time in drilling.

00:30:15.000 And you know, you can talk about windmills.

00:30:17.000 They litter our country.

00:30:19.000 They're littered all over our country, like dropping paper, like dropping garbage in a field.

00:30:27.000 And that's what happens to them, because in a period of time, they turn to garbage.

00:30:31.000 Most expensive energy ever.

00:30:33.000 They only work if you get subsidy.

00:30:35.000 The only people that want them are the people that are getting rich off windmills, getting massive subsidies from the U.S. government.

00:30:41.000 And it's the most expensive energy there is.

00:30:43.000 It's many, many times more expensive than clean natural gas.

00:30:48.000 So we're going to try and have a policy where no windmills are being built.

00:30:53.000 You know, off the coast of New Jersey, they want to build like 200 windmills.

00:30:56.000 The people are going crazy.

00:30:57.000 Nobody wants them.

00:30:59.000 And they're very expensive.

00:31:00.000 They don't work without subsidy.

00:31:02.000 You don't want energy that needs subsidy.

00:31:03.000 Energy is a good business.

00:31:04.000 You don't need subsidy.

00:31:06.000 But when you build these massive towers...

00:31:09.000 25 stories tall, 40 stories.

00:31:11.000 They have 170 stories tall.

00:31:13.000 The blades, they take three ships to ship them. 0.93

00:31:17.000 It's crazy.

00:31:18.000 They're dangerous.

00:31:19.000 You see what's happening up in the Massachusetts area with the whales, where they had two whales wash ashore at, I think, a 17-year period.

00:31:29.000 And now they had 14 this season.

00:31:32.000 The windmills are driving the whales crazy, obviously.

00:31:37.000 And they had actually over, I think, 125 or something over a number of years.

00:31:43.000 And we don't want that to happen.

00:31:45.000 It's a disaster.

00:31:46.000 It's amazing the way a true environmentalist would say, oh, we love wind.

00:31:50.000 It sounds good, but that's about where it ends.

00:31:52.000 You know, after 10 years, you have to redo them.

00:31:54.000 And what happens is they don't do that.

00:31:57.000 They let them stand and they rust and they say, because of the environment, I'm not a believer in this, but they say you can because it's a certain fiberglass.

00:32:05.000 That the blades cannot be buried in Earth.

00:32:07.000 That that's an environment.

00:32:09.000 So what do you do with them?

00:32:10.000 What do you do with them?

00:32:11.000 And I don't know if you've ever gone to Palm Springs, California, or any of these places where you have long-term windmills standing.

00:32:18.000 They're a disaster.

00:32:19.000 They're rusting, rotting, closed, falling down.

00:32:22.000 This is as you enter Palm Springs.

00:32:25.000 And they put new ones next to them because nobody wants to take them down, because why should they take them down?

00:32:31.000 It's very expensive to take them down.

00:32:33.000 And you can't do anything with them because the blades, you can't bury them because of the environmental protection.

00:32:38.000 We'll look at that.

00:32:38.000 Doesn't make sense, but that's what they say.

00:32:40.000 So we are at the beginning of a great, beautiful golden age of business.

00:32:47.000 And I think we're also at a golden age of common sense.

00:32:50.000 because everything I'm saying to you, from a simple water faucet that doesn't allow water to come out appropriately to all of the other elements of what we do and what we're going to do, to take $50 to $60 trillion off our to take $50 to $60 trillion off our country's balance sheet because some man that has no idea what he's doing has no idea.

00:33:15.000 You know it.

00:33:16.000 I know it.

00:33:16.000 The Democrats know it.

00:33:18.000 What they did is a crime by allowing that to happen.

00:33:21.000 And I'll bet you if you asked him today how much acreage...

00:33:27.000 Did you submit?

00:33:29.000 Essentially, did you destroy?

00:33:30.000 You destroyed the economic viability of drilling in the ocean.

00:33:37.000 And with AI coming along and all, you know, a lot of people don't realize that AI is going to be a big thing, but you'll need double the electricity, at least, that we have right now.

00:33:48.000 So right now we produce electricity for many, many different things.

00:33:51.000 AI is a very big deal in terms of the future.

00:33:56.000 China is already building electric facilities, big, bold electric facilities.

00:34:01.000 And you know how they're being fired up?

00:34:03.000 With coal.

00:34:04.000 They're being fired up with coal.

00:34:06.000 And we're going to build bigger and better ones.

00:34:10.000 People like Hussein, that are doing the same thing as he is, I'll bet they don't do it as well, because I know how he does it, but they're doing... 0.94

00:34:19.000 A lot of things.

00:34:20.000 The problem is they can't get their permits because I say build the plant with the building.

00:34:24.000 So with the structure, build the plant because if you go into grid, the grids are old.

00:34:28.000 So they said, that's a great idea.

00:34:30.000 In other words, build your electric facility alongside of your plant.

00:34:34.000 And you could have extra output if you want because once you build it, you can make it larger pretty inexpensively.

00:34:40.000 You could have extra output which you'll sell to the public.

00:34:44.000 But build it with the plant and people are loving that idea.

00:34:47.000 So we're going to have...

00:34:49.000 A lot of fun making America great again.

00:34:51.000 And it's going to happen, I think, very, very quickly.

00:34:54.000 It's already happened.

00:34:55.000 So I would say this, and this has been pretty openly reported by the news.

00:35:00.000 There's never been anything like what's happened in the last...

00:35:03.000 Since we won the election, a couple of months, since we won the election, the whole perception of the whole world is different.

00:35:12.000 People from other countries have called me.

00:35:14.000 They said, thank you.

00:35:16.000 Thank you.

00:35:17.000 The perception of the whole world is different.

00:35:21.000 We're going to have to settle some big problems that are going on right now.

00:35:24.000 We're going to have to settle up with Russia, Ukraine. 0.76

00:35:27.000 That's a disaster.

00:35:28.000 I look at numbers every week.

00:35:29.000 The number of people being killed in that war.

00:35:31.000 People don't know.

00:35:31.000 Mostly soldiers now.

00:35:33.000 But the towns have been obliterated.

00:35:35.000 This was a Biden fiasco that he got us.

00:35:37.000 That should have never happened.

00:35:39.000 If we had a real president, if we had a president that knew what he was doing, Russia would have never, ever gone in.

00:35:46.000 But they did go in, and we have a mess.

00:35:48.000 The cities are all blown up.

00:35:49.000 The people have largely left.

00:35:51.000 And the soldiers are killing each other at levels that haven't been seen since the Second World War.

00:35:57.000 So we'll have to get that one straightened out, too.

00:35:59.000 That's a tough one.

00:36:00.000 Much tougher than it would have been before it started, I can tell you that.

00:36:04.000 A deal could have been made just by an average dealmaker.

00:36:07.000 A deal could have been made on that.

00:36:09.000 So thank you all for coming.

00:36:10.000 We'll take a couple of questions.

00:36:13.000 Go ahead, please.

00:36:16.000 I wanted to touch on the world on fire that you mentioned, but let's start, if we could, with your references to Greenland and the Panama Canal and so forth.

00:36:27.000 Can you assure the world that as you try to get control of these areas, you are not going to use military or economic coercion?

00:36:38.000 No.

00:36:38.000 And can you tell us a little bit about what your plan is?

00:36:41.000 Are you going to negotiate a new treaty?

00:36:44.000 Are you going to ask the Canadians to hold a vote?

00:36:47.000 What is the strategy?

00:36:49.000 I can't assure you.

00:36:50.000 You're talking about Panama and Greenland.

00:36:52.000 No, I can't assure you on either of those two.

00:36:55.000 But I can say this.

00:36:57.000 We need them for economic security.

00:37:00.000 The Panama Canal was built for our military.

00:37:04.000 I'm not going to commit to that now.

00:37:06.000 It might be that you'll have to do something.

00:37:09.000 Look, the Panama Canal is vital to our country.

00:37:13.000 It's being operated by China.

00:37:16.000 China!

00:37:17.000 And we gave the Panama Canal to Panama.

00:37:19.000 We didn't give it to China.

00:37:21.000 And they've abused it.

00:37:22.000 They've abused that gift.

00:37:23.000 It should have never been made, by the way.

00:37:25.000 Giving the Panama Canal is why Jimmy Carter lost the election, in my opinion, more so maybe than the hostages.

00:37:31.000 The hostages were a big deal.

00:37:33.000 But if you remember, and nobody wants to talk about the Panama Canal because, you know, it's inappropriate, I guess, but because it's a bad part of...

00:37:41.000 Of the Carter legacy, but he was a good man.

00:37:45.000 Look, he was a good man.

00:37:46.000 I knew him a little bit, and he was a very fine person, but that was a big mistake.

00:37:50.000 Giving the Panama Canal to Panama was a very big mistake.

00:37:53.000 We lost 38,000 people.

00:37:55.000 It cost us the equivalent of a trillion dollars, maybe more than that, probably the most expensive, they say it was the most expensive structure, if we call it a structure, which I guess you can, ever built.

00:38:09.000 Giving that away was a horrible thing.

00:38:11.000 And I believe that's why Jimmy Carter lost the election, even more so than the hostages.

00:38:15.000 Those two things.

00:38:16.000 If I just follow up on Ukraine and Iran, the two negotiations you'll be heading into.

00:38:22.000 On Ukraine, you said just before it's a lot more complicated now.

00:38:26.000 Much more complicated.

00:38:27.000 Do you believe...

00:38:28.000 Because it would have never started.

00:38:30.000 Right.

00:38:30.000 But it has started.

00:38:31.000 Well, not only started, the cities are largely knocked down.

00:38:35.000 So you've got what you've got.

00:38:37.000 At this point...

00:38:38.000 To hold on to leverage in dealing with President Putin, would you make a commitment to the Ukrainians that you will keep supporting them during the negotiations?

00:38:48.000 Well, I wouldn't tell you if that were the case.

00:38:49.000 And would you make a commitment to provide a security guarantee if they do enter into an armistice or a ceasefire along the lines of the French and the Germans?

00:38:59.000 So, you know, a big part of the problem was Russia for many, many years, long before Putin said you could never have NATO. And

00:39:29.000 it turned out to be a very bad war.

00:39:33.000 And it could escalate.

00:39:34.000 That war could escalate.

00:39:35.000 To be much worse than it is right now.

00:39:40.000 Well, my view is that it was always understood.

00:39:43.000 In fact, I believe that they had a deal and then Biden broke it.

00:39:47.000 They had a deal, which would have been a satisfactory deal to Ukraine and everybody else, but that Biden said, no, you have to be able to join NATO. And that's always been, and nobody knows more about NATO than I, you know, years ago when I first started this, I didn't know too much about NATO, but I got it right anyway.

00:40:03.000 I said they're taking advantage.

00:40:04.000 I'm the one that got, and the Secretary General was here, as you know, two weeks ago, saying that if it weren't for me, NATO wouldn't even exist right now because I raised from countries that weren't paying their bills.

00:40:15.000 At that time, 28 countries, 20 of them were not paying their bills, 21 to be exact.

00:40:22.000 They weren't paying, or they were paying a very small portion.

00:40:27.000 And I raised over $680 billion, that was the number he gave, by saying, If you don't pay, we're not going to protect you.

00:40:35.000 And as soon as I said that, the money came pouring in.

00:40:37.000 But Obama could have said it.

00:40:39.000 Other people could have said it.

00:40:40.000 Bush could have said it.

00:40:41.000 Nobody said it but me.

00:40:43.000 I took a lot of heat.

00:40:44.000 They said, oh, that's a threatening statement.

00:40:46.000 Well, they weren't paying their bills.

00:40:47.000 I said, we're not going to protect you if you're not paying the bills.

00:40:50.000 So, in a true sense, I saved NATO, but NATO's taken advantage of us.

00:40:55.000 And one of the problems that I have, and I've said it openly, I said it to President Zelensky, Europe...

00:41:02.000 is in for a tiny fraction of the money that we're in.

00:41:05.000 Now, whether you like that situation or not, Europe is much more affected than the United States.

00:41:12.000 We have a thing called the ocean in between us, right?

00:41:15.000 Why are we in for billions and billions of dollars more money than Europe?

00:41:21.000 And, you know, they're a similar size, a little smaller, but they're a similar size economy as the United States when you add them up.

00:41:27.000 And yet, Europe is in for a...

00:41:29.000 A small fraction of the number the United States is in.

00:41:33.000 Now, Biden could have called them up during the term.

00:41:35.000 That's what I did.

00:41:36.000 I said, you have to pay your bills.

00:41:38.000 And they all...

00:41:39.000 One stood up.

00:41:40.000 I won't say who.

00:41:40.000 You'll probably have it.

00:41:42.000 Because the papers...

00:41:44.000 The media hated to report on it.

00:41:47.000 But a prime minister stood up from a country.

00:41:50.000 You know, a famous meeting of 28 nations with no press, no anybody in the room.

00:41:54.000 He stood up.

00:41:55.000 He says, does that mean...

00:41:56.000 If we don't pay our bill, and at that point it was 2%, it should be 5%, it should be 5%, not 2%, but at that point it was 2%, but many people didn't pay.

00:42:06.000 Some people didn't pay anything, but many people were away, including Germany.

00:42:10.000 Germany was at less than 1%.

00:42:12.000 Well, I think NATO should have 5%, yeah.

00:42:17.000 Well, you can't do it at 2%.

00:42:18.000 I mean, at 2%, every country, if you're going to have a country in a regular military, you're at 4%.

00:42:23.000 I think they should be, you know, they're in dangerous territory.

00:42:26.000 I think you should be, they can all afford it, but they should be at 5%, not 2%.

00:42:30.000 I'm the one that got them to pay 2%.

00:42:33.000 But a gentleman stood up, a prime minister stood up, and he said to me, sir, could I ask you a question?

00:42:39.000 You're saying we have to pay our bills.

00:42:40.000 If we don't pay our bills, will the United States protect us from Russia? 0.99

00:42:45.000 I said, if you don't pay, you mean you're delinquent?

00:42:47.000 He said, yes.

00:42:48.000 He said, if you're delinquent, we will not protect you.

00:42:51.000 I took a lot of heat.

00:42:53.000 Although it was somewhat closed door, I took a lot of heat from the media.

00:42:57.000 And you know what happened?

00:42:58.000 The money started pouring in.

00:43:00.000 That's why NATO has money.

00:43:01.000 And the Secretary General said it was the most incredible thing he had ever seen in a negotiation.

00:43:09.000 Now, if I would have said, yes, we will, nobody would have...

00:43:11.000 I would have loved to say, yes, we'll protect you even if you don't pay.

00:43:15.000 But that's not the way life works.

00:43:20.000 Two questions related to each other.

00:43:23.000 First, you said on your first day of office you're going to pardon January 6th defendants.

00:43:28.000 Are you planning to pardon those who were charged with violent offenses?

00:43:32.000 Well, we're looking at it, and we have other people in there.

00:43:35.000 And as you see, I guess 24 or 28 people came now from the FBI. That came out very quietly.

00:43:41.000 Nobody reported it, but they had people in some form related to the FBI. They had four or five people that were strongly related to the FBI. We have to find out about that.

00:43:51.000 We have to find out about Hezbollah.

00:43:53.000 We have to find out about who exactly was in that whole thing, because people that did some bad things were not prosecuted.

00:44:00.000 You know, I see it all the time, and you see it too.

00:44:03.000 People that were doing some bad things weren't prosecuted, and people that didn't even walk into the building are in jail right now.

00:44:10.000 So we'll be looking at the whole thing, but I'll be making major pardons.

00:44:13.000 Yes, please.

00:44:16.000 Please.

00:44:17.000 On Jack Smith's report...

00:44:18.000 Good afternoon, Mr. President.

00:44:19.000 It's good to see you again.

00:44:20.000 Two questions about Syria and the ongoing war in Gaza.

00:44:23.000 About Syria, the Pentagon disclosed last month the U.S. has some 2,000 troops in Syria.

00:44:28.000 That's almost double the number initially, we were told, of 900. Will you keep that troop capacity the same upon taking...

00:44:35.000 Well, I won't tell you that because it's part of a military strategy, but I will say it was Turkey.

00:44:40.000 Turkey's been after that... 0.90

00:44:42.000 Country in different names and different forms and shapes for 2,000 years.

00:44:48.000 Those people that went in are from Turkey.

00:44:51.000 And President Erdogan is a friend of mine.

00:44:54.000 He's a guy I like, respect.

00:44:56.000 I think he respects me also.

00:44:58.000 He's the one that didn't go after certain people after I requested that he not.

00:45:02.000 You know who I'm talking about?

00:45:03.000 The Kurds.

00:45:04.000 I don't know how long that's going, because they're natural enemies.

00:45:07.000 They hate each other.

00:45:08.000 But he didn't do that yet.

00:45:11.000 And he didn't do it in the past also.

00:45:13.000 He started, and I said, please don't do that, and he didn't do it.

00:45:18.000 But if you look at what happened with Syria, Russia was weakened, Iran was weakened, and he's a very smart guy.

00:45:28.000 And he sent his people in there through different forms and different names, and they went in and they took over, and that's the way it is.

00:45:36.000 Do you have concerns about HTS taking control?

00:45:38.000 By the way, I have the envoy here.

00:45:42.000 Is that in the back?

00:45:44.000 It is.

00:45:45.000 Standing with my son, Eric, is Steve Woodcoff, who's just got back from the Middle East, and he's done a fantastic job.

00:45:53.000 He's a great dealmaker.

00:45:55.000 I said, what we need there is a dealmaker, because nobody makes a deal.

00:45:58.000 We have people that understand where the rivers are and where the meets and bounds are, but they can't talk.

00:46:05.000 They can't make deals.

00:46:06.000 Steve's done a great job.

00:46:07.000 I just want to thank you, Steve.

00:46:09.000 You've been working endlessly for months, and he's working specifically on the hostages, trying to get them back.

00:46:18.000 Steve, come up for a second.

00:46:19.000 Maybe you might want to say a couple of words.

00:46:22.000 I didn't know Steve was going to be here, actually.

00:46:27.000 He's done a fantastic job, and it's a dangerous job, too, and we appreciate it.

00:46:31.000 He didn't know about this kind of danger in the other deal-making he does.

00:46:34.000 Now he sees a lot of big danger.

00:46:37.000 Come on up, Steve.

00:46:37.000 Mr. President, can I ask you a second part of that?

00:46:40.000 Just one second, please.

00:46:42.000 I'm going to give you a little report on the hostages, if I can.

00:46:44.000 Steve?

00:46:46.000 Thank you very much.

00:46:47.000 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:46:50.000 Wow.

00:46:52.000 Well, I think we're making a lot of progress.

00:46:55.000 And I don't want to say too much because...

00:46:59.000 I think they're doing a really good job back in Doha.

00:47:02.000 I'm leaving tomorrow back to go to Doha.

00:47:06.000 But I think that we've had some really great progress, and I'm really hopeful that by the inaugural, we'll have some good things to announce on behalf of the president.

00:47:17.000 I actually believe that we're working in tandem in a really good way, but it's the president, his reputation, the things that he has said.

00:47:28.000 That are driving this negotiation.

00:47:30.000 And so hopefully it'll all work out and we'll save some lives.

00:47:39.000 I believe we've been on the verge of it.

00:47:42.000 I don't want to discuss sort of what's delayed it.

00:47:45.000 There's no point to be negative in any way.

00:47:49.000 But I think it's the president, his stature, what he said he expects, the red lines he's put out there.

00:47:56.000 That's driving this negotiation.

00:48:00.000 I'm going back probably either this evening or tomorrow night.

00:48:04.000 Are you confident it will be a deal before January 20th, or is that something that's likely to happen?

00:48:09.000 If there's a deal even at all, and we've been hearing this now for the better part of this.

00:48:14.000 I know.

00:48:14.000 I would say...

00:48:16.000 They better be.

00:48:17.000 Right.

00:48:18.000 I would say that the president is exasperated.

00:48:22.000 I don't want to talk for him, but look...

00:48:25.000 I don't know anyone who delegates better than President Trump.

00:48:29.000 He gives us a lot of authority to speak on his behalf, and he exhorts us to speak emphatically.

00:48:36.000 And emphatically means, you better do this, because the alternative...

00:48:41.000 Do you think they're waiting for President Trump to take office?

00:48:44.000 No.

00:48:45.000 I think they heard him loud and clear.

00:48:47.000 Better get done by the inaugural.

00:48:48.000 But when you say, I'll help you take office.

00:48:51.000 All hell must be paid if they don't release the hostages.

00:48:55.000 Do I have to define it for you?

00:48:57.000 All hell will break out.

00:48:58.000 If those hostages aren't back, I don't want to hurt your negotiation.

00:49:03.000 If they're not back by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East. 1.00

00:49:09.000 And it will not be good for Hamas, and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone. 0.66

00:49:13.000 All hell will break out.

00:49:14.000 I don't have to say anymore, but that's what it is.

00:49:16.000 And they should have given them back a long time.

00:49:18.000 They should have never taken them.

00:49:20.000 There should have never been the attack of October 7th.

00:49:23.000 People forget that.

00:49:24.000 But there was.

00:49:25.000 And many people are killed.

00:49:28.000 They're no longer hostages.

00:49:30.000 I have people from Israel and others calling, begging me to get...

00:49:35.000 You know, we had also people there from the United States, just so you know.

00:49:39.000 They're holding some so-called hostages from the U.S. But I've had mothers come to me and fathers crying.

00:49:47.000 Can I get the body of their son back?

00:49:50.000 Can I get the body of their daughter back?

00:49:52.000 That beautiful girl where they threw her in the car, pulled her by her ponytail and threw her in the car like she was a sack of potatoes. 1.00

00:49:58.000 I said, what happened to her?

00:50:00.000 Sir, she's dead.

00:50:02.000 Like a 19, 20-year-old beautiful girl.

00:50:06.000 And the way they treated her.

00:50:08.000 And I just say this very simply.

00:50:11.000 Steve's got a job to do.

00:50:12.000 He's a great guy, great negotiator, great person.

00:50:15.000 They respect him over there already.

00:50:17.000 It's what we needed over there.

00:50:18.000 We have people that know everything about the Middle East, but they can't speak properly.

00:50:22.000 They don't know.

00:50:24.000 He's a great negotiator.

00:50:25.000 That's what I needed.

00:50:26.000 I could have sent that gentleman right over there, Hussein. 0.95

00:50:29.000 He's a great negotiator.

00:50:30.000 They're people.

00:50:31.000 They're rare.

00:50:32.000 Great negotiators are very rare, like a great surgeon.

00:50:37.000 But we have the right person.

00:50:38.000 But I tell this, I don't want to hurt the negotiation.

00:50:41.000 If the deal isn't done before I take office, which is now going to be two weeks.

00:50:47.000 All hell will break out in the Middle East. 1.00

00:50:50.000 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:50:51.000 You've done a great job.

00:50:52.000 Thank you.

00:50:53.000 Mr. President, more than 140 police officers were injured by rioters on January 6th.

00:50:58.000 Will you pardon anyone who attacked a police officer?

00:51:02.000 Well, you know, the only one that was killed was a beautiful young lady named Ashley Babbitt. 0.99

00:51:08.000 She was killed.

00:51:10.000 And there was actually somebody else that was killed, also a MAGA person.

00:51:14.000 But people...

00:51:15.000 Don't give it 100% credibility.

00:51:18.000 I'm going to find out about it.

00:51:20.000 We're going to find out.

00:51:21.000 But Ashley Babbitt was killed.

00:51:22.000 She was shot.

00:51:25.000 She had never been shot.

00:51:27.000 She was shot for no reason whatsoever.

00:51:30.000 In fact, they say that she was trying to hold back the crowd.

00:51:33.000 And the crowd was made up of a lot of different people, so we'll see.

00:51:37.000 But I will tell you this.

00:51:39.000 The person that was killed was Ashley Babbitt.

00:51:42.000 The other thing is...

00:51:44.000 When they talk, you know, there was never charges of insurrection or anything like that.

00:51:48.000 But if there were, this would be the only insurrection in history where people went in as insurrectionists with not one gun.

00:51:58.000 Okay?

00:51:59.000 And let me tell you, the people that you're talking about have a lot of guns in their home for hunting and for shooting and for entertainment, a lot of good reasons.

00:52:07.000 But there wasn't one gun that they found.

00:52:11.000 And why didn't they find the bomber, the pipe bomber?

00:52:14.000 You know, they know who the pipe bomber is.

00:52:15.000 The FBI knows who it is.

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00:53:21.000 The status of the FBI has gone down so far, and the status of the DOJ, or as I call it, the Department of Justice, it's the Department of Justice, being laughed at all over the world.

00:53:34.000 And hopefully with Pam Bondi and with Kash Patel and with other people that we're putting in, that will all come back.

00:53:41.000 Agents of the FBI. But they have hurt, hurt that incredible place.

00:53:48.000 Law enforcement.

00:53:49.000 I mean, you think of the FBI. They raided this house.

00:53:52.000 By the way, they could have told me, could I see this guy?

00:53:56.000 I would have given him my...

00:53:56.000 I actually told them, come in anytime you want.

00:54:00.000 You could see anything.

00:54:02.000 They raided the House, and the case was dismissed.

00:54:06.000 And now I'm in litigation.

00:54:07.000 I'm suing them for doing that.

00:54:10.000 And I feel so badly doing it.

00:54:12.000 I'm the President of the United States, and I'm suing the United States, but I'm suing them for other things, too.

00:54:18.000 The FBI has gone so...

00:54:21.000 Its reputation has been so horribly hurt.

00:54:24.000 Between Comey, who is...

00:54:25.000 And I'm not allowed...

00:54:27.000 Why?

00:54:28.000 Because if I did speak, people would understand the scam.

00:54:31.000 It's a scam.

00:54:33.000 And we have very dishonest judges, and New York judges are very bad.

00:54:37.000 We had one that valued this house at $18 million because it was good for that case.

00:54:41.000 He actually valued it.

00:54:42.000 That chandelier is worth more than $18 million.

00:54:45.000 He valued this house at $18 million.

00:54:49.000 And we have another one who was so nasty, so horrible, such a brute.

00:54:55.000 The most vicious, vile person.

00:54:59.000 These are New York judges.

00:55:00.000 But we've won most of the cases, so we're very happy about that.

00:55:05.000 Please.

00:55:05.000 Back on Greenland.

00:55:07.000 Your position is clear.

00:55:08.000 But have you directed your staff to take any specific actions to drop plans?

00:55:12.000 And can you elaborate again?

00:55:13.000 You didn't rule out military coercion.

00:55:16.000 Well, we need Greenland for...

00:55:18.000 National security purposes.

00:55:20.000 I've been told that for a long time, long before I even ran.

00:55:23.000 I mean, people have been talking about it for a long time.

00:55:25.000 You have approximately 45,000 people there.

00:55:29.000 People really don't even know if Denmark has any legal right to it.

00:55:34.000 But if they do, they should give it up because we need it for national security.

00:55:38.000 That's for the free world.

00:55:39.000 I'm talking about protecting the free world.

00:55:41.000 You look at...

00:55:42.000 You don't even need binoculars.

00:55:43.000 You look outside, you have China ships all over the place.

00:55:48.000 You have Russian ships all over the place.

00:55:51.000 We're not letting that happen.

00:55:52.000 We're not letting it happen.

00:55:54.000 And if Denmark wants to get to a conclusion, but nobody knows if they even have any right title or interest.

00:56:02.000 The people are going to probably vote for independence or to come into the United States.

00:56:06.000 But if they did do that, then I would tariff Denmark at a very high level.

00:56:11.000 Have you asked your staff to draw up plans for acquisition?

00:56:14.000 No, we're not at that stage, but we have people.

00:56:16.000 I haven't even entered office yet.

00:56:18.000 Secondly, sir, Elon Musk has drawn some criticism and a lot of attention for some of his actions and provocative statements about foreign affairs, including in Europe.

00:56:29.000 Your reaction to that, is that appropriate for him?

00:56:31.000 You mean where he likes people that tended to be conservative?

00:56:35.000 I don't know the people.

00:56:36.000 I can say Elon's doing a good job.

00:56:38.000 Very smart guy.

00:56:39.000 I don't know the people you're talking about.

00:56:42.000 I know he said some negative things about a couple of people that are running for office.

00:56:47.000 That's not so unusual.

00:56:48.000 Yes, please.

00:56:50.000 I wanted to ask you about Ukraine and Putin.

00:56:54.000 How soon do you anticipate going to meet with Putin to discuss the Ukraine situation?

00:57:00.000 Well, I can't tell you that, but I know that Putin would like to meet.

00:57:03.000 I don't think it's appropriate that I meet until after the 20th, which I hate, because, you know, every day people are being — many, many young people are being killed, soldiers.

00:57:13.000 You know, the land is very flat.

00:57:16.000 And hundreds of thousands of soldiers from each, many hundreds of thousands from each side are dead.

00:57:22.000 And they're laying in fields all over the place.

00:57:25.000 Nobody to even collect.

00:57:26.000 There's landmines all over.

00:57:28.000 It's a disaster.

00:57:29.000 But it's very flat.

00:57:30.000 It's great.

00:57:31.000 It's farmland.

00:57:32.000 And it's very, very flat.

00:57:33.000 And the only thing that stops a bullet is the human body.

00:57:36.000 And the human body is stopping a lot of bullets.

00:57:41.000 I hope to have...

00:57:44.000 Six months.

00:57:47.000 No, I would think, I hope, long before six months.

00:57:50.000 Look, Russia's losing a lot of young people, and so is Ukraine.

00:57:55.000 And it should have never been started.

00:57:57.000 That's a war that should have never happened.

00:57:58.000 I guarantee you, if I were president, that war would have never happened.

00:58:03.000 What would you like to nominate to replace Michael Barr as vice chair of the bill of board?

00:58:10.000 I'll be announcing somebodies.

00:58:13.000 Mr. President, if you were under the assumption that you're serious about making Canada the 51st state of the United States, the leader of the Conservative Party in Canada said, under no circumstances, he'll never be the 51st state.

00:58:25.000 Maybe he won't win, but maybe he will.

00:58:28.000 Listen, I don't care what he says.

00:58:30.000 You said you were considering military force to acquire Panama and Greenland.

00:58:36.000 Are you also considering military force to annex and acquire Panama?

00:58:40.000 No.

00:58:41.000 Economic force.

00:58:42.000 Because Canada and the United States, that would really be something.

00:58:47.000 You get rid of that artificially drawn line, and you take a look at what that looks like, and it would also be much better for national security.

00:58:55.000 Don't forget, we basically protect Canada.

00:58:57.000 But here's the problem with Canada.

00:59:00.000 So many friends up there.

00:59:03.000 I love the Canadian people.

00:59:04.000 They're great.

00:59:05.000 But we're spending hundreds of billions a year to protect it.

00:59:09.000 We're spending hundreds of billions a year to take care of Canada.

00:59:13.000 We lose in trade deficits.

00:59:16.000 We're losing mass.

00:59:16.000 We don't need their cars.

00:59:17.000 You know, they make 20 percent of our cars.

00:59:19.000 We don't need that.

00:59:20.000 I'd rather make them in Detroit.

00:59:22.000 We don't need the cars.

00:59:23.000 We don't need their lumber.

00:59:24.000 We have massive fields of lumber.

00:59:27.000 We don't need their lumber.

00:59:28.000 We have to unrestrict them because stupid people put, you know, restrictions on.

00:59:33.000 But I can do that with an executive order.

00:59:35.000 We don't need anything they have.

00:59:37.000 We don't need their dairy products. 0.99

00:59:38.000 We have more than they have.

00:59:40.000 We don't need anything.

00:59:41.000 So why are we losing $200 billion a year and more to protect Canada?

00:59:46.000 And I said that to, as I called him, Governor Trudeau.

00:59:50.000 I said, listen, what would happen if we didn't subsidize you?

00:59:55.000 Because we give them a lot of money.

00:59:56.000 We help them.

00:59:57.000 As an example, we're buying icebreakers.

00:59:59.000 And Canada wants to join us in the buying of icebreakers.

01:00:02.000 I said, you know, we don't really...

01:00:04.000 Want to have a partner in the buying of icebreakers?

01:00:07.000 We don't need a partner.

01:00:09.000 No right.

01:00:12.000 Nope.

01:00:13.000 No right.

01:00:14.000 Here's what we have.

01:00:15.000 We have a right not to help them with their financial difficulties because we owe $36 trillion.

01:00:20.000 We're going to start knocking it out pretty fast, but we're going to be able to do it because of energy and other things.

01:00:26.000 But no, no.

01:00:27.000 No right.

01:00:28.000 No, no.

01:00:29.000 No right.

01:00:30.000 But why are we supporting a country?

01:00:34.000 $200 billion plus a year.

01:00:37.000 Our military is at their disposal.

01:00:40.000 All of these other things.

01:00:41.000 They should be a state.

01:00:42.000 That's why I told Trudeau when he came down.

01:00:44.000 I said, what would happen if we didn't do it?

01:00:46.000 He said Canada would dissolve.

01:00:49.000 Canada wouldn't be able to function if we didn't take their 20% of our car market. 0.88

01:00:54.000 You know, we, again, they send us hundreds of thousands of cars.

01:00:58.000 They make a lot of money with that.

01:01:00.000 They send us a lot of other things that we don't need.

01:01:02.000 We don't need their cars.

01:01:03.000 We don't need the other products.

01:01:04.000 We don't need their milk.

01:01:05.000 We got a lot of milk.

01:01:07.000 We got a lot of everything.

01:01:09.000 And we don't need any of it.

01:01:11.000 So I said to him, well, why are we doing it?

01:01:13.000 He said, I don't really know.

01:01:14.000 He was unable to answer the question.

01:01:16.000 But I can answer it.

01:01:17.000 We're doing it because of habit.

01:01:19.000 And we're doing it because we like our neighbors.

01:01:22.000 And we've been good neighbors.

01:01:24.000 But we can't do it forever.

01:01:25.000 And it's a tremendous amount of money.

01:01:27.000 And why should we have a $200 billion deficit?

01:01:31.000 And add on to that many, many other things that we give them in terms of subsidy.

01:01:35.000 And I said, that's okay to have if you're a state.

01:01:39.000 But if you're another country, we don't want to have it. 1.00

01:01:41.000 We're not going to have it with European Union either.

01:01:44.000 European Union, we have a trade deficit of $350 billion.

01:01:49.000 They don't take our cars.

01:01:51.000 They don't take our farm product.

01:01:53.000 They don't take anything.

01:01:55.000 And so...

01:01:56.000 We're not going to have it with them either.

01:01:59.000 Brian, go ahead.

01:02:00.000 Yes.

01:02:00.000 Happy New Year, by the way.

01:02:02.000 Thank you.

01:02:02.000 We have some breaking news.

01:02:03.000 You may not be aware of this, but it looks like Cannon has blocked the DOJ from releasing the Smiths report until further court proceedings.

01:02:11.000 Get your thoughts on that.

01:02:12.000 Well, that's a big story.

01:02:13.000 Yeah.

01:02:14.000 So, if I get it right, the fake witch hunt started by the DOJ. Having to do with books and records, and Biden had many more, and he wasn't protected by the Presidential Records Act, I was.

01:02:30.000 But all of that fake stuff that took the lives of people, I mean, literally destroyed people.

01:02:36.000 People are destroyed because of what they did.

01:02:39.000 Destroyed.

01:02:41.000 But we got to be president.

01:02:43.000 But Biden did it for 40 years.

01:02:47.000 He did it when he was a senator.

01:02:49.000 That was illegal.

01:02:49.000 And they ruled it was illegal.

01:02:51.000 How about that?

01:02:52.000 They said, It's illegal, but he's unfit to stand trial.

01:02:56.000 So he can stand and be president of the United States, but the prosecutor found that he's unfit for trial.

01:03:03.000 I was going to use that as a major talking point, but I never got to use it because all of a sudden I had a new candidate who was also sort of unfit to stand trial, right?

01:03:13.000 So what you're saying is that the judge just blocked the...

01:03:18.000 So Cannon was thrown off the case.

01:03:22.000 They dropped their appeal because he had no case.

01:03:25.000 They dropped all of that, the lawsuits against us.

01:03:28.000 They lost the lawsuit.

01:03:30.000 So this is Doreen Jack Smith.

01:03:35.000 So he dropped the lawsuits.

01:03:37.000 He was told to by the DOJ because they had no lawsuit.

01:03:40.000 They lost in court in front of a very strong and a very brilliant judge.

01:03:46.000 They lost in court.

01:03:47.000 And that pertained to other cases in other courts.

01:03:51.000 So he wanted to do a report just before I take office, probably.

01:03:55.000 So he'll do like a 500-page report, and it'll be a fake report, just like the investigation was a fake investigation.

01:04:03.000 And I said, well, wait a minute.

01:04:05.000 This guy was thrown off in disgrace.

01:04:07.000 In disgrace.

01:04:07.000 He's gone back to The Hague or wherever they're going to send him.

01:04:10.000 In disgrace.

01:04:12.000 Because he failed so badly.

01:04:14.000 Because it was a fake case against a political opponent.

01:04:17.000 They thought they were going to use this to beat me.

01:04:21.000 What you're saying is, and I'm just hearing that, that they're not allowed to issue the report.

01:04:26.000 So if they're not allowed to issue the report, that's the way it should be.

01:04:29.000 Because he was thrown off the case in disgrace.

01:04:31.000 Why should he be allowed to write a fake report?

01:04:34.000 It'll only be a fake report.

01:04:35.000 That's great news.

01:04:36.000 Good.

01:04:37.000 And if I can just follow up real quickly, you want to comment?

01:04:40.000 Many Americans are angry that we're sending millions of dollars every month to the Taliban.

01:04:46.000 Do you anticipate?

01:04:47.000 It's not even believable.

01:04:49.000 Billions of dollars, not millions, billions.

01:04:51.000 We pay billions of dollars to, essentially, the Taliban, Afghanistan.

01:04:57.000 And that's given by Biden.

01:04:59.000 That's the same man that took away $50 to $60 trillion worth of value from the United States.

01:05:04.000 Think of it.

01:05:05.000 Probably our most valuable asset.

01:05:06.000 Took away our most valuable asset.

01:05:09.000 This can't be allowed to happen.

01:05:11.000 We are now a nation of common sense.

01:05:15.000 When he does that 625 million acres, this can't be allowed to happen.

01:05:21.000 Thank you for the information.

01:05:23.000 Most other people probably knew about it, but they wouldn't have told me, right?

01:05:26.000 Mr. President, on the campaign trail, you vowed to bring down the prices at grocery stores very fast.

01:05:31.000 Yeah, we won't do it fast.

01:05:32.000 But then you recently told Time Magazine that bringing down prices would be very hard.

01:05:36.000 So what can the American people expect when you get into offices?

01:05:39.000 It's always hard to bring down prices when somebody else has screwed something up like they did before.

01:05:43.000 But we'll bring them down.

01:05:44.000 We'll get them down.

01:05:45.000 Energy is going to bring down prices.

01:05:46.000 We're going to have a lot of energy.

01:05:48.000 And energy is what brought it up.

01:05:50.000 Energy and their bad spending is what brought it up.

01:05:53.000 And energy is going to bring it down.

01:05:54.000 We're going to have prices down.

01:05:56.000 I think you're going to see some pretty drastic price reductions.

01:05:59.000 As an example, food, bacon, ham, apples, everything has gone through the roof.

01:06:07.000 It's one of the reasons I won.

01:06:09.000 So, as you know, as I said, inflation was one of the reasons I won.

01:06:13.000 But I think the biggest reason I won was the fact that they are allowing prisoners to come into our country. 0.92

01:06:19.000 They released their prisoners, their murderers.

01:06:22.000 Thousands of murderers are now walking around the streets of our cities and farmland all over.

01:06:29.000 Murderers.

01:06:29.000 People that have killed.

01:06:30.000 Many.

01:06:31.000 32% have killed more than one person.

01:06:34.000 They released them from their jails, their prisons, and their mental institutions and insane asylums into our country. 0.99

01:06:41.000 I believe that's the reason we got such a large vote.

01:06:44.000 Maybe one or two more questions.

01:06:46.000 Yeah, please.

01:06:47.000 Go ahead.

01:06:48.000 Can we?

01:06:49.000 You go.

01:06:52.000 President Carter is laying in state today in Washington.

01:06:54.000 You had some harsh words for him about the Panama Canal.

01:06:57.000 Is there any disconnect there?

01:06:58.000 Do you feel a little bit bad about doing that on this day?

01:07:00.000 No, look, I liked him as a man.

01:07:02.000 I disagreed with his policy.

01:07:04.000 So, hey, he thought giving away the Panama Canal was a good thing.

01:07:07.000 I think it cost him the election.

01:07:09.000 That and the hostages.

01:07:10.000 I actually think that was a bigger factor because that's a deal that just should not have been made.

01:07:15.000 But, again, this was a question that was asked of me.

01:07:18.000 I didn't bring it up.

01:07:19.000 I didn't want to bring up the Panama Canal.

01:07:21.000 Because of Jimmy Carter's death.

01:07:24.000 But people don't bring it up.

01:07:26.000 But, you know, you and other people have asked me about it.

01:07:28.000 No, it's a deal that I was very strongly against.

01:07:30.000 I was a young guy when this took place.

01:07:33.000 But just why would we spend all of that money, lose 38,000 people to malaria, the mosquito?

01:07:40.000 They were dying.

01:07:41.000 It was horrible what was happening.

01:07:43.000 They paid them four times more than they would make in the United States.

01:07:47.000 But they knew they were going to go over there and die.

01:07:50.000 And they died in the jungles of malaria.

01:07:53.000 There was nothing we could do to stop it.

01:07:55.000 And then we gave it away for $1.

01:08:01.000 On your agenda through Congress, you appeared to open the door in your radio interview yesterday for two-bill approaches.

01:08:06.000 It's still your preference for one big, beautiful bill, as you have said.

01:08:09.000 Well, I like one big, beautiful bill, and I always have, I always will.

01:08:13.000 But if two is more certain, it does go a little bit quicker because you can do the immigration stuff early.

01:08:19.000 Now, you have to understand, for immigration and for the wall, we won the case on the wall.

01:08:23.000 You know, they tried to sell the wall for five cents on the dollar, by the way.

01:08:27.000 In other words, double what we paid for it.

01:08:30.000 So they were going to buy it from this guy for five cents in the dollar.

01:08:34.000 They were making deals.

01:08:35.000 Unfortunately, we had a very smart judge that stopped it cold.

01:08:39.000 I think he called for an investigation, too, and he should.

01:08:43.000 But think of it.

01:08:44.000 They were selling the wall that was exactly the wall that the Border Patrol wanted.

01:08:49.000 That was designed by them.

01:08:51.000 Steel, concrete, rebar.

01:08:54.000 Exactly as they want.

01:08:55.000 Very, very heavy steel.

01:08:56.000 Very powerful steel.

01:08:58.000 Hard to cut.

01:08:59.000 Very, very heavy 7,000-pound concrete, which is a very strong concrete.

01:09:03.000 Everything was top of the line.

01:09:05.000 Very expensive.

01:09:06.000 Would be double what we paid for it then, six years ago.

01:09:10.000 But let me just tell you, they were selling it for 5 cents on the dollar to people, and those people were calling us, asking us to pay them 200 cents, because it's a good deal because we can have it immediately.

01:09:24.000 And you know what immediately is?

01:09:26.000 Just leave it in place.

01:09:28.000 No, no.

01:09:30.000 The papers haven't written that, though.

01:09:33.000 That deal is like all the other things that these people do.

01:09:37.000 These people either hate our country or they're very stupid.

01:09:41.000 And I don't believe they're stupid, because nobody can cheat on elections like they cheat and be stupid.

01:09:47.000 They either hate our country or they're stupid.

01:09:49.000 So remember what I said, because nobody wants to report it.

01:09:52.000 They were selling the wall for five cents on the dollar.

01:09:56.000 And trying to resell it back to us for 200 cents or less, but for 200 cents on the dollar.

01:10:03.000 That's a nice return.

01:10:06.000 I watched their news conference, and I thought it was a very good news conference.

01:10:22.000 Honestly, I think they've come a long way.

01:10:24.000 Meta.

01:10:25.000 Facebook.

01:10:26.000 I think they've come a long way.

01:10:27.000 I watched it.

01:10:28.000 The man was very impressive.

01:10:29.000 I watched it.

01:10:29.000 Actually, I watched it on Fox.

01:10:31.000 I'm not allowed to say that.

01:10:33.000 Say it.

01:10:34.000 Do you think he's directly responding to the threats that you have made to him in the past?

01:10:37.000 Probably.

01:10:39.000 The last time you were here, you were asked a question about the U.S. possibly launching a preemptive strike on Iran.

01:10:48.000 You said you wouldn't answer that question.

01:10:49.000 On who?

01:10:50.000 On Iran. 0.60

01:10:51.000 The U.S. launching a preemptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.

01:10:54.000 And I said, I don't talk about it.

01:10:57.000 It's a military strategy.

01:10:58.000 But it is a legitimate question.

01:11:00.000 Well, it's not really, because only a stupid person would answer it.

01:11:03.000 Look, it's a military strategy, and I'm not answering your questions on military strategy.

01:11:09.000 All right, one more.

01:11:10.000 Brian, go ahead.

01:11:11.000 Could you give us a preview of what you might be talking to leaders of Congress who expected to come here in the next couple of days, and you've got a very supportive Congress behind you?

01:11:21.000 They're great.

01:11:22.000 So we have a wonderful Republican Congress.

01:11:25.000 We have a leader that I have a lot of confidence in.

01:11:28.000 I think he's going to be, hopefully, a great leader, a great speaker.

01:11:32.000 And we have a leader, by the way, in the Senate, I think, has been great.

01:11:35.000 John Thune has been doing a fantastic job.

01:11:38.000 But it goes through the House first.

01:11:39.000 And the question is whether or not we do the two bills, the one bill.

01:11:43.000 And, you know, look, I can live either way.

01:11:45.000 I like the idea of the one big bill, but I can live either way.

01:11:49.000 But they'll be coming down.

01:11:50.000 The senators also will be coming down.

01:11:52.000 And then ultimately we'll be meeting in the White House in a few weeks.

01:11:55.000 But right now this is the winter season.

01:11:57.000 You know, they sort of call this the Winter White House.

01:12:00.000 It was built.

01:12:00.000 I don't know if you know this.

01:12:01.000 Marjorie Merriweather Post and E.F. Hutton built this.

01:12:04.000 It was the greatest of all the estates in our country.

01:12:07.000 And I saved it, and I got a lot of credit for saving it.

01:12:09.000 Most of these big, great houses have been knocked down in Palm Beach.

01:12:13.000 Just about all of them, actually.

01:12:14.000 And, you know, you build ten mansions on one site.

01:12:17.000 But we saved it.

01:12:18.000 But this was built as the Southern White House.

01:12:22.000 And she gave it to the government.

01:12:24.000 And, by the way, Jimmy Carter gave it back.

01:12:27.000 He said it's too expensive for the United States.

01:12:29.000 So I didn't realize that.

01:12:31.000 I was just told...

01:12:33.000 Actually, Jimmy Carter, Nixon was through Watergate.

01:12:36.000 He came down.

01:12:36.000 Nixon came here once, and he thought it was incredible, but he had a thing called Watergate, if anybody remembers that, in his mind, to put it mildly.

01:12:46.000 And Jimmy Carter felt that it was too extravagant for the country.

01:12:51.000 So fortunately for me, he gave it back to the foundation and I bought it from the foundation.

01:12:55.000 On reconciliation, some Republicans say in trade for a massive bill that you and they shared the interest in, they want to see big spending cuts.

01:13:07.000 Do you agree with that?

01:13:08.000 Well, I'm OK with spending cuts.

01:13:09.000 I like spending cuts.

01:13:11.000 I'm on the record for spending cuts.

01:13:12.000 And the debt ceiling was given to us.

01:13:15.000 It shouldn't have been, but it was put in our lap.

01:13:17.000 And what I want in terms of debt ceiling isn't the ceiling.

01:13:21.000 I just don't want to see a default.

01:13:23.000 That's all I want.

01:13:24.000 I never talked about spending more money, necessarily, than all I want to see is no default.

01:13:31.000 Because nobody knows what would happen if there was a default.

01:13:34.000 It could be 1929, and it could be nothing.

01:13:37.000 But that was put into our lap.

01:13:40.000 And it shouldn't have been, but it was.

01:13:42.000 And so we'll handle it.

01:13:43.000 But debt ceiling is not about raising a lot of money.

01:13:46.000 It's really just about extending it.

01:13:48.000 I just want to see an extension.

01:13:52.000 Sir, on immigration.

01:13:55.000 How much can you do by executive order?

01:13:58.000 Are you planning to do on executive order when it comes to immigration?

01:14:01.000 And how much do you want Congress to tackle this issue?

01:14:04.000 And also on day one...

01:14:06.000 Well, I have the safest border in the history of our country by far.

01:14:09.000 You remember the famous chart that I brought down.

01:14:12.000 I love that chart very much for a lot of reasons.

01:14:14.000 But I have the safest border.

01:14:16.000 By far, in the history of our country.

01:14:18.000 And when I took it over, it was a mess.

01:14:20.000 Nothing like it is now.

01:14:21.000 This is ten times worse.

01:14:23.000 I got elected because of the border the first time.

01:14:26.000 And I think I got elected largely because of the border the third time.

01:14:30.000 And the second time, I did equally well.

01:14:32.000 Well, not as well as the last time, but I did very well.

01:14:35.000 And I will say, this was too big to rig.

01:14:37.000 You know the expression?

01:14:38.000 Too big to rig.

01:14:39.000 They couldn't do it.

01:14:40.000 They tried, but they couldn't do it.

01:14:43.000 I didn't get...

01:14:44.000 Very much from Congress at all.

01:14:46.000 I just said that we're being invaded, and I took the money out of the military.

01:14:50.000 Much of the wall, I built over 500 miles of wall.

01:14:53.000 Much of that wall was built through money that I put into the military.

01:14:57.000 We took it out because we couldn't get things from Congress in those days, and we took it out.

01:15:02.000 And that wall was built largely with money coming from the military.

01:15:06.000 So, very simple.

01:15:08.000 I went to the military, I said, our country is being invaded.

01:15:12.000 By very similar, nothing like what's invading our country now.

01:15:16.000 They weren't releasing prisons into our country, and they weren't releasing mental institutions in, but some bad dudes were coming in, right?

01:15:25.000 And I said, our country is being invaded.

01:15:28.000 And I took that money largely from the military.

01:15:30.000 I was sued nine times by the Democrats in Congress, and I won all those suits.

01:15:35.000 And we ended up building 571 miles of wall.

01:15:39.000 Once that wall was built...

01:15:41.000 They start going around it.

01:15:42.000 So we're going to add another 200. That would have been up in three weeks.

01:15:46.000 And then we had a very unfortunate election result.

01:15:49.000 And they said, we don't want to put it up.

01:15:52.000 We'll sell it.

01:15:54.000 And they started selling it for five cents on the dollar.

01:15:56.000 So we'll do this again.

01:16:01.000 I just want to thank everybody very much.

01:16:02.000 I'm just telling you, this will be the golden age of America.

01:16:05.000 This is the golden age of America.

01:16:07.000 We're going to have a great country again.

01:16:09.000 We're a country right now under siege.

01:16:11.000 We have so many different problems.

01:16:13.000 And nobody respects us overseas, but now they do.

01:16:16.000 The Italian prime minister, as you know, came here the other night, just flew in and flew out.

01:16:20.000 She wanted to see me.

01:16:24.000 And great respect is being shown when I went to the cathedral in France.

01:16:29.000 Great respect was shown by the prime minister, the president, by everybody.

01:16:34.000 France was...

01:16:35.000 And by the way, I have to say they did a great job in the cathedral.

01:16:38.000 But great respect is being shown to our country again.

01:16:41.000 And we have a great country, but we have to run it properly.

01:16:45.000 It's going to be run properly.

01:16:47.000 We want to get back those hostages for Israel and for us. 1.00

01:16:51.000 You know, we do have people that are hostages being held.

01:16:55.000 And I'll just say it again.

01:16:56.000 If this deal's not done with the people representing our nation, by the time I get to office, all hell is going to break out.

01:17:05.000 Thank you very much.

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01:18:03.000 It looks like President Trump has wrapped up his press conference at Mar-a-Lago Lodz.

01:18:10.000 A lot of news that was made there saying he's going to, that military use forces on the table at the Panama Canal, potentially with Greenland, tariffs, he's going to be wielding those almost as a weapon, an economic weapon against possibly even Denmark, Panama.

01:18:29.000 Canada.

01:18:30.000 A lot of news that came out of that press conference.

01:18:34.000 One of the main topics obviously being Greenland.

01:18:37.000 This morning I woke up to a very early morning message from Charlie saying that he's in Greenland and that I had to host the show, which is, you know...

01:18:49.000 A bit odd, to say the least.

01:18:52.000 You don't expect to get a message like that.

01:18:56.000 But very, very cool stuff coming out of Greenland.

01:18:58.000 Charlie was there with Don Jr. Sergio Gore, who's heading up PPO in the White House.

01:19:03.000 President Trump...

01:19:05.000 Truth about this yesterday, saying that Don Jr. and his representatives were going to be on the ground.

01:19:10.000 If you're watching this right now, you can see images of Charlie actually doing kind of live videos from Greenland and Nuke, I believe, is the town they flew over on Air Force One, landed, met with the people.

01:19:26.000 What I've heard from Charlie directly is the Greenlanders love Trump.

01:19:32.000 They love MAGA. They love Don.

01:19:34.000 They love Charlie.

01:19:34.000 They follow Charlie on TikTok and on Twitter.

01:19:37.000 X. What an amazing, amazing new era that we are all living in.

01:19:42.000 You know, this idea of manifest destiny in the United States, of expansion, of building, of growing, was something that felt like a previous era, bygone era.

01:19:54.000 Something when our pioneers were filling out the Western frontier.

01:19:58.000 And now we have a president that is...

01:20:01.000 We're reversing decades and decades and decades, really a century of stagnation.

01:20:07.000 And he's saying, you know, we shouldn't have given away the Panama Canal for a dollar.

01:20:10.000 In relative dollars in 2025...

01:20:14.000 That's the equivalent of over a trillion dollars and more than 35,000 men died building the canal to malaria.

01:20:22.000 Why did Jimmy Carter do this?

01:20:24.000 We don't know.

01:20:24.000 It was a terrible mistake.

01:20:25.000 And now China is controlling both sides of the Panama Canal and we're getting ripped off.

01:20:31.000 So he wants that back.

01:20:32.000 He's willing to use force to do it.

01:20:34.000 Very unclear.

01:20:35.000 He's not committing to anything.

01:20:38.000 Talking about...

01:20:40.000 The trade deficits that we have with Canada, talking about how he wants to use economic force to get what he wants there.

01:20:46.000 Now, listen, do I think that it is likely that Canada is going to really become a 51st state?

01:20:51.000 I personally don't see that happening, nor am I convinced that I want that to happen.

01:20:55.000 But what I do love is the art of the deal about putting America's national interest ahead.

01:21:05.000 We are the piggy bank, folks.

01:21:11.000 Make no mistake about it.

01:21:12.000 We hold so many cards, both militarily and economically and technologically, and Trump is saying adamantly he is going to be the type of president that uses the force that America has.

01:21:31.000 Economic might of America to leverage our position on the world stage and get this country's national interest put first again, whether that be immigration, whether that be technology, whether that be militarily.

01:21:44.000 This is a new era.

01:21:46.000 We have never seen anything like this.

01:21:48.000 Not even in the first Trump presidency did we see anything like this.

01:21:52.000 This is completely new.

01:21:54.000 You can see that the president is emboldened.

01:21:56.000 You can see it even with the...

01:22:03.000 He doesn't get drawn into things he doesn't want to talk about.

01:22:08.000 And he works them very easily, actually.

01:22:13.000 It's something to behold how this president is able to basically throw off the legacy news media reporters and the pits and the landmines that they are Putting in front of him a truly, truly remarkable show.

01:22:29.000 It's wonderful to see as somebody that, you know, personally, I love this country.

01:22:34.000 I'm going to live and die in this country.

01:22:37.000 My children are going to live and die in this country.

01:22:39.000 And to love it as much as I do, and as much as I know many of you in this audience love it and feel the same as I do, to see a president just To boldly assert our interest and to stop apologizing for this country and stop apologizing for what we stand for and what we've accomplished and the amount of power that we can and should exert for the good of the world but mostly for the good of the American people.

01:23:06.000 It's something to behold.

01:23:07.000 It truly is.

01:23:08.000 And each one of these press conferences that President Trump has and hosts, you can see that this is It's formulating.

01:23:16.000 It's taking shape more and more and more.

01:23:19.000 And I also have to mention this moment that quickly got picked up and went mega viral instantly.

01:23:28.000 And that's that Trump has declared that he is going to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

01:23:39.000 So let me repeat that.

01:23:41.000 He said he's going to change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

01:23:46.000 Absolutely incredible moment there.

01:23:49.000 And, you know, I'm getting messages from Charlie as we're live in the show.

01:23:54.000 He just took off on Trump Force One.

01:23:56.000 They had to do a full-thrust takeoff because it had a bit of a short runway and the cold air, apparently.

01:24:04.000 And he has now just taken off.

01:24:08.000 He's going to be giving us an update on what he experienced on the ground in Greenland.

01:24:13.000 Probably going to be dropping a 20-30 minute podcast.

01:24:15.000 So if you're not signed up or subscribed to the podcast, please do that.

01:24:20.000 You can just go on your podcast app on whatever phone you have.

01:24:24.000 Type in The Charlie Kirk Show.

01:24:25.000 Hit subscribe.

01:24:26.000 We're going to be dropping that tonight.

01:24:27.000 Put that image up.

01:24:29.000 This is the Gulf of America, folks.

01:24:31.000 A new dawn here in this great country of ours.

01:24:35.000 You can feel it building.

01:24:37.000 You can feel it happening.

01:24:39.000 What an amazing, amazing...

01:24:42.000 A tone shift, a vibe shift that you can feel.

01:24:46.000 So I want to hear from you.

01:24:47.000 What do you get out of that press conference that Trump just hosted at Mar-a-Lago?

01:24:52.000 A truly extraordinary...

01:24:54.000 My phone is blowing up right now.

01:24:55.000 Everybody's saying how amazing it was.

01:24:57.000 There was a new verve, a new energy, a new, like I said, swagger, confidence coming out of President Trump this morning.

01:25:06.000 And if you just think about this sort of manifest destiny, This expansion, the vibe shift, if you will, out of this new incoming administration, it's truly historic.

01:25:22.000 It's truly something to behold.

01:25:24.000 And we've never seen anything like it, where he's openly talking about the fact that Canada should become a state of the U.S., get rid of this trade deficit, that we want to take back the Panama Canal, that we want to make an actual aggressive play.

01:25:41.000 To acquire Greenland.

01:25:45.000 This is a patriotic reset.

01:25:48.000 This is a patriotic reset.

01:25:50.000 And we know this because we know these people.

01:25:54.000 Young people are going to look at this.

01:25:55.000 And Trump made historic gains with young voters.

01:25:59.000 They're going to look at this and they're going to probably be a little bit disoriented.

01:26:02.000 It's new.

01:26:03.000 But they're also going to be overwhelmed with a sense of I think it's a

01:26:33.000 sense of rebuilding.

01:26:35.000 Confidence in ourselves as a country.

01:26:37.000 We've had four years of malaise.

01:26:39.000 That comes to an end.

01:26:41.000 President Trump drew the line in the sand.

01:26:43.000 Let's go ahead and play cut 54. Charlie's talking to the people of Greenland, asking them what they think of America.

01:26:49.000 Okay, we're here in Greenland with Don Jr. Everyone wants to be on TikTok.

01:26:54.000 What do you guys think of America?

01:26:55.000 Great.

01:26:56.000 You love America and you love Trump?

01:26:58.000 Yes, of course.

01:26:59.000 The youth of Greenland, Don.

01:27:00.000 We're hearing a lot of it, guys.

01:27:01.000 We're hearing a lot of it.

01:27:02.000 And you guys all watch TikTok, right?

01:27:04.000 I'll follow you.

01:27:05.000 Oh, thank you.

01:27:07.000 Live from Greenland.

01:27:09.000 Live from Greenland.

01:27:11.000 Let's just keep it rolling here.

01:27:13.000 Play Cup 55. Quite a day here in Greenland.

01:27:17.000 Sergio?

01:27:19.000 Here at Trump Force One.

01:27:21.000 Donna's over here. 0.94

01:27:23.000 Friendliest people.

01:27:24.000 They love America.

01:27:25.000 And we'll see what happens.

01:27:27.000 Make Greenland great again.

01:27:30.000 And the sun is setting.

01:27:31.000 It's only 2.30 in the afternoon.

01:27:34.000 The sun is setting.

01:27:35.000 It's just one of those things.

01:27:36.000 And it's very, very cold here.

01:27:38.000 And as we kind of reflect on a great time here in Greenland.

01:27:43.000 Newt, Greenland.

01:27:45.000 More soon.

01:27:46.000 More soon indeed.

01:27:48.000 It's going to be fascinating to see what comes of this.

01:27:51.000 Really, it's a private trip, but it's a diplomatic trip.

01:27:55.000 It sends a signal to the world.

01:27:58.000 Very excited, honored that the host of this show got to be included in such a historic trip and something that could ultimately be radically important for the history of this country.

01:28:11.000 So it's a reset.

01:28:13.000 It's a renaissance, a constitutional reset.

01:28:16.000 But it's an American renaissance all at the same time, and you can feel this happening.

01:28:20.000 And for those of you who don't fully appreciate or understand the importance of Greenland, I just want to lay out a few points for you here.

01:28:29.000 You know, Greenland is an autonomous territory of Denmark, but it's autonomous, and nobody really understands legally if Greenland has any right to Greenland.

01:28:40.000 And Trump has just said in that press conference he is going to use Now, Greenland has said that they are going to vote for pure independence from Denmark.

01:28:54.000 Apparently, the people want that there.

01:28:56.000 There's not a whole lot of people, but the people that are there, as you saw in the video with Charlie, they love America.

01:29:01.000 They love President Trump.

01:29:02.000 They're wearing MAGA hats.

01:29:04.000 They're very excited about it.

01:29:05.000 Now, the United States has had a military presence in Greenland since World War II. Trump is actually not the first president to float buying it.

01:29:15.000 In 1946, Harry Truman proposed buying Greenland, but the idea was never really pursued.

01:29:21.000 President Trump brought this up again in 2019. So he revived the conversation, and Denmark rejected the idea.

01:29:29.000 And we're hearing reports that, you know, Greenland is saying it's not for sale, Denmark is saying it's not for sale.

01:29:34.000 I would say, just hold the phone.

01:29:36.000 Let's see what happens, folks.

01:29:38.000 Let's see what happens.

01:29:40.000 First of all, it's a very strategic location.

01:29:42.000 It's a position in the Arctic, so it's a vital national security concern to the United States.

01:29:49.000 It is a good defense against threats.

01:29:51.000 It can serve as a forward base for air and sea operations in the North Atlantic, and it has key resources.

01:30:00.000 Greenland is extraordinarily rich in minerals like lithium and nickel, which are the key ingredients for an advanced military technology and energy economy.

01:30:11.000 So when we talk about AI and we talk about crypto, these things are going to be key.

01:30:17.000 Greenland has them in spades.

01:30:19.000 Four, preventing Chinese expansion. 0.77

01:30:21.000 This is something President Trump is very clear about and Russian expansion.

01:30:25.000 China is all over Greenland. 0.99

01:30:28.000 They're actually using a company in Greenland to extract rare earth minerals.

01:30:34.000 Currently.

01:30:34.000 So that's happening.

01:30:35.000 To the tune of over $500 billion worth of rare earth minerals.

01:30:38.000 Trump sees that.

01:30:39.000 He doesn't like it.

01:30:40.000 He wants to stop it.

01:30:41.000 He wants to get that for our people.

01:30:44.000 And then fifth is just an economic and military advantage.

01:30:47.000 Control over Greenland would secure trade routes and strengthen America's military presence, keeping China and Russia and other rivals at bay.

01:30:56.000 So it's a huge, huge story developing.

01:30:59.000 There's only 57,000 people in Greenland.

01:31:04.000 Candidly, have a lot to gain from being closer because it's being closer to America.

01:31:09.000 It's a closer territory.

01:31:10.000 We could offer them a lot.

01:31:12.000 They're currently kind of in the middle of a tug-of-war internationally.

01:31:17.000 And, you know, coincidentally, the people of Greenland have a higher GDP per capita than Canada, which is saying something.

01:31:23.000 So Trump has said in this press conference you can see the Russian and Chinese ships off the coast of Greenland.

01:31:29.000 Perhaps the Greenlanders are... 1.00

01:31:32.000 Sick and tired of this.

01:31:33.000 Tired of being in a tug of war internationally.

01:31:36.000 They don't have the means to defend themselves.

01:31:38.000 But if America was involved, they certainly would.

01:31:42.000 What an amazing, amazing day.

01:31:44.000 The dawning of a new era is upon us.

01:31:47.000 And to help make sense of what we have just witnessed and Charlie's trip to Greenland, of course, so much more is the one and only Kane from Citizen Free Press.

01:31:57.000 Kane, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show, my friend.

01:31:59.000 Help us make sense.

01:32:01.000 I mean, what is going through your mind this morning with all of this breaking news?

01:32:06.000 Well, thanks, Andrew.

01:32:08.000 Sorry, I was just on the other line with my travel agent.

01:32:11.000 I was booking a trip to the Gulf of America.

01:32:14.000 I've got, you know, I figure the rush is going to be on, dude.

01:32:20.000 We probably got about seven hours to book trips all along the Texas coast.

01:32:24.000 And, you know, my travel agent, I don't know if your young viewers even know what travel agents are.

01:32:29.000 But somehow this guy knows your schedule.

01:32:32.000 Yeah, and he said you overslept and missed the flight to Greenland.

01:32:37.000 So that's interesting.

01:32:40.000 Yeah, Charlie has assured me that there is quite a bit of FOMO going on right now.

01:32:46.000 His phone is, as you can imagine, lighting up like a Christmas tree.

01:32:50.000 Everybody going, where was my invitation, Charlie, to Trump Force One?

01:32:54.000 Yeah, Fox News.

01:32:55.000 Fox News, while you were in the commercial break, just showed the Charlie Kirk Don Jr. selfie on air.

01:33:01.000 They're still doing the segment.

01:33:03.000 So they showed that.

01:33:04.000 So yeah, it's making the rounds.

01:33:07.000 No, it is.

01:33:08.000 And I mean, everybody's texting me even going, you know, can you tell me?

01:33:12.000 I've got all these reporters going, what can you tell me about Charlie's trip to Greenland?

01:33:16.000 Please let us know.

01:33:18.000 Charlie will be doing a kind of, he's going to land back in Florida.

01:33:22.000 Then he's going to be doing a 20 to 30 minute debrief with the audience.

01:33:27.000 So if you're not subscribed to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast, now's the time to do it.

01:33:31.000 He'll break it all down for you.

01:33:32.000 And of course, he'll talk about it on this show tomorrow.

01:33:35.000 But you're not going to want to miss it.

01:33:37.000 It's appointment viewing for me.

01:33:38.000 I'm going to be waiting on bated breath to hear what he has to say.

01:33:41.000 But, Cain, what stood out to me, and I would love your reaction to this, is that the era of apologizing for America is over.

01:33:50.000 Trump is boldly asserting our national interests, both here domestically from a policy standpoint, whether that be...

01:33:57.000 You know, gas heaters, gas stoves, you know, how much water comes out of your faucet.

01:34:03.000 He's pushing back against this domestic tyranny we've all been living under, especially in the last four years.

01:34:08.000 But then he's also doing it abroad, whether it's the Gulf of America, Greenland, Panama, Canada, all of these different storylines about the hostages.

01:34:17.000 You know, this was huge news that he made during this press conference, saying that you have two weeks, Hamas, and if there's not a deal done... 0.68

01:34:24.000 To return the hostages from October 7th, hell will break out in the Middle East. 0.97

01:34:30.000 That's a direct quote.

01:34:31.000 All hell will break out in the Middle East. 1.00

01:34:33.000 Cain, what are you feeling as a proud American?

01:34:38.000 I know you're a patriot.

01:34:39.000 What are the people of Citizen Free Press, what are they saying?

01:34:42.000 What's the reaction?

01:34:44.000 Well, everyone's excited, obviously.

01:34:46.000 There's a daily countdown in the open thread.

01:34:48.000 You mentioned Trump's speech and sort of...

01:34:51.000 You know, taking back the stage, the world stage, and without apology.

01:34:55.000 And it's so obvious that that's happening, Andrew.

01:34:58.000 And it's different from 2017 as well.

01:35:02.000 You know, European leaders, they've lived through Trump once before, and they sort of know what to expect this time.

01:35:11.000 And there's been some remarkable statements that Zelensky...

01:35:14.000 You know...

01:35:39.000 Previously with Trump, as well as since Biden has been in office.

01:35:43.000 So that's never happened.

01:35:45.000 So it's obvious that the landscape is changing.

01:35:48.000 And there are no apologies.

01:35:50.000 You mentioned that.

01:35:52.000 You know, Trump is a little bit trolling.

01:35:55.000 We know he's trolling Canada again with his true social post yesterday about the 51st state.

01:36:01.000 But he does it in a way that makes sense.

01:36:04.000 And it speaks to the sort of make Canada great again audience that we know that is at least 50-60% of the Canadian populace.

01:36:14.000 And it's the same thing with Greenland.

01:36:16.000 You know, I think he's trolling slightly less with Greenland, certainly, and the fact that Greenland has said they want their independence from Denmark and that now Trump, as you mentioned, has said that he'll use tariffs against Denmark if they attempt to intervene in any movement that we make to sort of align Greenland with the U.S., whether that's making them a territory.

01:36:38.000 Or whatever, you know, that final result would be.

01:36:41.000 But it's exciting, dude.

01:36:42.000 It's just absolutely exciting.

01:36:44.000 Everyone's caught the fever.

01:36:45.000 I know you guys are looking forward to inauguration.

01:36:48.000 You know, D.C. is going to be rocking.

01:36:50.000 The last time huge Patriot crowds went to D.C., it was a heck of a lot different four years ago.

01:36:55.000 So it's a super exciting time.

01:36:58.000 And we earned it.

01:36:59.000 You know, that's the last thing, dude.

01:37:01.000 We earned this with hard work and every single day for four years.

01:37:06.000 We didn't know if these days were going to come.

01:37:07.000 And even if they came, we didn't know, for example, if we were going to hold the House and whether Jamie Raskin was going to attempt his Democrat insurrection.

01:37:16.000 So it's really nice just to be able to take deep breaths and remind ourselves that we won.

01:37:21.000 We won all seven swing states.

01:37:23.000 And now our president is back and Europe is taking him seriously.

01:37:28.000 And you know what?

01:37:29.000 It's just a damn good time to be an American, Andrew.

01:37:31.000 It's a damn good time.

01:37:33.000 That's well said, my friend.

01:37:35.000 Well said.

01:37:36.000 It is a damn good time.

01:37:37.000 And you can feel it.

01:37:39.000 You know, it's funny.

01:37:40.000 I mean, Trump is not usually somebody to use sort of flowery language.

01:37:44.000 And when he says a new light is dawning over the world.

01:37:48.000 You know, it feels a little bit out of character.

01:37:51.000 But then I challenge myself to come up with a different way of saying it.

01:37:56.000 And it really does feel like there is a new light dawning over the world.

01:38:01.000 This tyrannical, that we've broken the back of this tyranny.

01:38:05.000 And we haven't even talked about this yet, Cain, on this show.

01:38:09.000 But in the midst of this, you're seeing Mark Zuckerberg from Meta, Facebook.

01:38:16.000 It comes out with this huge, huge announcement this morning.

01:38:21.000 And just to break it down for our audience, since it's new here, he's saying he's getting rid of the fact-checkers, that they have destroyed more trust than they've built, and it's become too politicized.

01:38:31.000 He's moving the content moderation team from California to Texas.

01:38:36.000 He's openly saying he wants to work with the Trump administration to push back.

01:38:42.000 Against the censorship in these other countries because he says that America has the most robust free speech protections and that the last four years have been hard with America's own government pushing for censorship.

01:38:54.000 Biden's administration under the bus while lifting up Trump and saying, we need help to fight back on the world stage.

01:39:01.000 That is a huge, huge development.

01:39:03.000 After putting Joel Kaplan in a big promotion, he's a Republican.

01:39:07.000 Joel and Charlie have a relationship.

01:39:10.000 And Dana White is now on the board of Meta.

01:39:12.000 This is a new day dawning in so many ways.

01:39:16.000 A new light is going out across the world, as Trump says.

01:39:20.000 Cain, help our audience make sense.

01:39:22.000 How big is the meta announcement from Zuckerberg?

01:39:26.000 And I thought the Dana White story was huge, Andrew.

01:39:29.000 That was big yesterday.

01:39:30.000 I made it a red headline.

01:39:31.000 You know, that's a sea change.

01:39:33.000 You and I both know that Zuckerberg has been training with MMA fighters for the last two, three years.

01:39:38.000 That's why he wanted to sort of battle Elon Musk.

01:39:40.000 So I'm not totally surprised by the Dana White thing.

01:39:43.000 But as for the free speech thing, that would be the biggest story of 2025 so far.

01:39:48.000 It was.

01:39:49.000 This morning when I saw it, I was blown away.

01:39:51.000 I think I put four links up to it, including the video from Zuckerberg himself, you know, and everything that you said, that the fact...

01:39:57.000 Fact-checkers are gone, that they're going back to free speech, and they're modeling it after Elon Musk and Twitter with community notes.

01:40:05.000 And he even admitted one of his quotes was, fact-checking has become too politically biased.

01:40:12.000 No one believes it.

01:40:13.000 So it's a huge story.

01:40:15.000 Again, it would be the biggest story of the day if it weren't for Trump just doing 90 minutes and blowing the socks off the national media.

01:40:21.000 What Biden did four of those press conferences and they were all scripted in four years.

01:40:25.000 And Trump has done two of them in 30 days.

01:40:28.000 I can't wait, brother.

01:40:29.000 I cannot wait.

01:40:30.000 We are back.

01:40:31.000 Buckle up. 0.96

01:40:32.000 Buckle up, America, because there's a new sheriff in town. 1.00

01:40:36.000 As Tucker Carlson would say, dad is back.

01:40:39.000 And a lot of these people have been bad.

01:40:42.000 Bad little kids.

01:40:43.000 And they're about to get spanked. 1.00

01:40:47.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here.

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01:41:49.000 Kane, I... I'm just seeing something breaking across the wire here.

01:41:52.000 It says, "EU MPs call for immediate action against Elon Musk.

01:41:58.000 After Musk's promotional tour for the AFD in Germany, the next conflict arises.

01:42:05.000 Platform X is said to be violating EU laws.

01:42:08.000 Brussels MPs want to enforce stricter rules for X." There's a whole debate here going around Elon Musk of whether or not he's exerting influence politically and a billionaire shouldn't be exerting influence politically.

01:42:20.000 But it strikes me as kind of similar, and I think that's garbage, let me just say.

01:42:24.000 I mean, where were they when George Soros was exerting political influence all over the world, especially in the United States?

01:42:30.000 Bill Gates, so many other billionaires do the same.

01:42:33.000 You know, Mark Zuckerberg was saying something similar, saying, you know, I need the U.S. government and President Trump's help to push back against these sanctions and these censorship laws in the rest of the world.

01:42:47.000 What I mean, this is a this is looks like almost the new dividing line, the new fissure globally in the fight for free speech is now developing.

01:42:58.000 In this European bloc that is terrified of the rise of populism.

01:43:04.000 That's correct, and you see it, and that's really what it's about.

01:43:07.000 It's their fear of populism as it spreads.

01:43:11.000 We've seen, first it was Gert Wilders in the Netherlands, and we saw the French government kicked out.

01:43:20.000 We have the German elections coming.

01:43:22.000 We know probably how that's going to turn out.

01:43:25.000 We've seen what's happened in the UK and the rise of the Reform Party.

01:43:28.000 So, and then paying attention to media, as I know you do, you know that these sort of, these free speech attacks and censorship requirements coming out of the EU have, this has really been going on for three or four years.

01:43:42.000 I mean, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, they've all sort of been facing these kind of draconian laws.

01:43:52.000 That free speech and our First Amendment right that our founders gave us, that does not exist in Europe, and it doesn't exist in the UK. I mean, everything that people have seen over the last six months, including what's going on with Tommy Robinson, shows you that there is no free speech in Europe and Great Britain.

01:44:12.000 And so it's nice.

01:44:16.000 Look, here's the thing.

01:44:17.000 Andrew, I think people can change.

01:44:19.000 I think Elon Musk's transformation over the last six years from a pretty much regular voting Democrat all the way to a full embracer of the America First agenda and MAGA, I think it shows that people can change and we need to embrace these people when they want to help us.

01:44:37.000 And I've seen the same thing this morning with Zuckerberg, right?

01:44:40.000 And you've probably seen the same thing.

01:44:42.000 You know, we've seen hints of this change.

01:44:46.000 And yet our base is a little bit skeptical, right?

01:44:49.000 They're like, oh, don't trust the guy.

01:44:51.000 But I want to tell people, look, when you can sort of see this, this is organic, this feels real in Zuckerberg.

01:44:59.000 Sure, he's looking out for his companies, but at the same time...

01:45:02.000 What I mentioned before the break about sort of the MMA training.

01:45:05.000 Let's not lie.

01:45:06.000 All those MMA guys are America First and MAGA, right?

01:45:09.000 And Zuckerberg's been training with them every single day probably for three years.

01:45:13.000 And you're telling me that that sort of doesn't rub off on him?

01:45:16.000 And look, he's gotten probably 30 pounds bigger, all muscle, right?

01:45:20.000 That's more testosterone.

01:45:21.000 Testosterone leads to MAGA. We know that.

01:45:23.000 That's like the transitive property of MAGA geometry.

01:45:27.000 So, yeah, you're right.

01:45:30.000 And they do need, you know, I'm going to admit, yeah, they need Trump's help, especially Zuckerberg.

01:45:35.000 Europe has gone after him hard.

01:45:36.000 And now they're aggressively going after Elon Musk.

01:45:39.000 I've had several stories in the stack over the past week.

01:45:42.000 I've been waiting for them to sort of bring him up on charges.

01:45:45.000 Is it going to be civil?

01:45:46.000 You know, are these going to be civil complaints?

01:45:49.000 Are there going to be actual criminal charges?

01:45:50.000 What are they going to try to do to keep him out?

01:45:53.000 Well, yeah, I completely agree.

01:45:56.000 You know, Kane, it occurs to me that...

01:45:59.000 We've been talking about exporting American democracy and values across the globe, and what do we get for it?

01:46:07.000 We get LGBTQ flags flying at embassies, and we get DEI and CRT being injected worldwide, and we get anti-free speech laws through NATO and censorship in the EU. That time is over.

01:46:22.000 We should be very, very blunt with Europe.

01:46:24.000 If Europe doesn't have free speech laws, they don't have our support.

01:46:30.000 Full stop.

01:46:31.000 You know, if you sanction X Europe, well then fine. 0.56

01:46:35.000 We're going to pull our troops out of Germany and let you defend yourself. 1.00

01:46:38.000 I like it, man.

01:46:40.000 I like it.

01:46:40.000 It's the Trump style that's infecting all of us, right?

01:46:42.000 It means we push back, we fight back.

01:46:44.000 We no longer just take the slap in the face by half-baited presidents named Macron, you know?

01:46:50.000 I like it.

01:46:52.000 And I like threats ahead of time.

01:46:54.000 I like letting them know this is how we are going to respond if you do this to us.

01:46:59.000 So thanks for having me on, Andrew.

01:47:00.000 I look forward to seeing you next time, brother.

01:47:02.000 Absolutely, Cain.

01:47:03.000 Jane, thank you for joining.

01:47:05.000 What a morning, what a story.

01:47:07.000 You combine that with news out of Facebook, Meta, Zuckerberg, changing so much of what he does over at that company with Trump's historic press conference.

01:47:17.000 I'll just say it.

01:47:18.000 I've never seen anything like that.

01:47:20.000 And I've seen all of Trump's press conferences just about.

01:47:24.000 And I've seen a lot of his rallies.

01:47:26.000 What we're seeing is a sea change.

01:47:28.000 To help us make sense of that and also how it affects us internationally, what's going on in Europe right now, is Rahim Kassam, thenationalpulse.com.

01:47:37.000 Rahim, welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show.

01:47:40.000 Thank you for having me, Andrew.

01:47:41.000 It's not like we've talked enough over the last 24 hours, but it's great to see you again.

01:47:46.000 Yeah, absolutely.

01:47:47.000 Raheem and I had a fascinating conversation last night.

01:47:50.000 And so when Charlie surprised me with his trip to Greenland, I said, Raheem, let's continue the conversation on the show.

01:47:59.000 So, Raheem, you are probably one of the...

01:48:04.000 The top experts in the country, both in America but also internationally, when it comes to this topic of free speech.

01:48:11.000 I mean, from your time at Breitbart to your time now at the National Pulse, you fought alongside Nigel Farage with Brexit and now with reform.

01:48:20.000 I mean, you've seen it from both sides of the pond.

01:48:22.000 I want to start with...

01:48:25.000 This news out of Meta, Zuckerberg's big shot across the bow.

01:48:30.000 What do you make of it?

01:48:30.000 Do you trust it?

01:48:31.000 You're also a voice for the bass, the grassroots.

01:48:35.000 A lot of people are skeptical.

01:48:37.000 I happen to be very hopeful.

01:48:39.000 What do you make of it?

01:48:40.000 Yeah, so, you know, a man from your neck of the woods once said trust but verify, but I'm sort of more the type that is just never trusting.

01:48:49.000 So to answer that question very bluntly, and in the same way that President Trump answered the question earlier on in the press conference about using economic or military force to secure Greenland or Panama.

01:49:02.000 No, I cannot say that I trust this.

01:49:06.000 I cannot say that I trust Mark Zuckerberg.

01:49:08.000 I cannot even say that I trust his new so-called Republican apparatus.

01:49:12.000 But what I will say is that since 2020, we have been deconstructing what this fact-check regime actually looks like inside Facebook, who they use as fact-checkers, right down to who the individual people are who are doing.

01:49:31.000 The so-called fact-checks.

01:49:33.000 And we had a great deal of, well, you know this, Andrew, you know, we at the National Pulse, we don't spend a lot of money on marketing and PR and, you know, going on, you know, Fox News or whatever, pumping up our stories, but we do that quiet, diligent, hard work behind the scenes.

01:49:46.000 And what it led to was one of these fact-checkers, by the name of Lead Stories, actually having to remove some of their staff because we outed them as being Democrat donors, outright Democrat activists.

01:49:59.000 And indeed, Lead Stories themselves had signed to work with the Chinese Communist Party's TikTok app a couple of years ago.

01:50:08.000 So we've been chipping away and chipping away at this for quite some time.

01:50:12.000 And so in counterbalance...

01:50:15.000 To my skepticism, my cynicism, and perhaps my negativity over Mark Zuckerberg, I do think we are starting to make the right inroads, and this is a development that shows you that.

01:50:28.000 The fact-checking regimen at Meta, at Facebook, and by the way, it's not just them, but it's a huge platform that lots of people still use, has been so opaque.

01:50:41.000 It has lacked transparency, and we've tried to shine a light on who these people are and what their so-called fact checks do.

01:50:47.000 I'm delighted that we're moving to a more community-based, like a community note system like X or Twitter has, but let's see how it actually is implemented, because the devil, once again, will be in the detail.

01:51:00.000 Well, and one of the things I want to bring, and I appreciate that skepticism, on some level, one of the things I heard in the Zuckerberg video was that It just feels a little bit too...

01:51:12.000 It's easy for him to sort of move that Titanic.

01:51:17.000 I know it's slow, and he said it's going to take some time, but what happens if the political winds shift again?

01:51:22.000 Is he just going to move it back in a direction that's anti-American?

01:51:27.000 But I will say, and now I want to broaden this conversation to make it...

01:51:32.000 I want to talk about Europe and...

01:51:35.000 It's censorship regime.

01:51:36.000 You know, because one of the things he says in that video is he wants to work with President Trump and that because of America's robust free speech laws, it has made the last few years incredibly difficult for a company like Facebook because he didn't have the backing of the American government.

01:51:52.000 As a matter of fact, they were coercing Facebook and Meta to become more censorious.

01:51:57.000 You see this, it's just breaking right now, is that European MPs are now calling for stricter rules against Elon.

01:52:04.000 They want to go on the attack against Elon because he's exerting force.

01:52:08.000 Now, let's take this abroad.

01:52:09.000 You and I were talking yesterday about Tommy Robinson, somebody I don't know, somebody that you do know.

01:52:15.000 To the outsider, it appears that this is part of this European... 0.78

01:52:20.000 This stricture, this force against free speech in the EU. And I understand that Tommy Robinson is a complicated figure.

01:52:28.000 Sometimes he can be his own worst enemy.

01:52:30.000 But it does, from an outsider's view, seem like he has been restricted and he's getting punished for being a loud and proud Britain.

01:52:38.000 And, you know, what is the free speech culture in the UK right now?

01:52:42.000 We're seeing...

01:52:43.000 Very terrifying videos of people having police come to their homes because they posted something on Facebook, right, that they weren't supposed to about migrants or the like.

01:52:52.000 Explain it to us.

01:52:54.000 And then connect the dots.

01:52:55.000 How does this news from Facebook, how does this apply to the UK? Are we seeing an expansion or is this going to be a World War III transatlantic from a free speech perspective, of course?

01:53:07.000 It's a huge question.

01:53:08.000 And in the very few hours that we've had since the Zuckerberg announcement this morning, these are the type of questions that we're mulling over that we're trying to figure out the answers to.

01:53:17.000 Of course, European members of parliament, the European Commission, all of these bureaucrats, and the entire vast operation that has worked for so long to try and tamp down on people's free speech, they will absolutely be having a freakout right now.

01:53:33.000 There's no doubt about it.

01:53:34.000 I worked in Brussels.

01:53:35.000 I worked in Strasbourg.

01:53:36.000 I know all of these people very well.

01:53:38.000 They will be in a full-on meltdown over the fact that ordinary people might get to say what they think once again, without being tamped down on, without their accounts being deleted, restricted, suspended.

01:53:51.000 All of the things that have happened to me, by the way.

01:53:53.000 The irony is, just last week, I got three strikes in a row on my Facebook page telling me that I'm about to lose it because some fact-checker...

01:54:04.000 It may have been lead stories, may have been another one that they used, disagreed with my framing of a story in some way, shape or form.

01:54:10.000 So I look forward to the end of that regime, but the Brussels apparatus, the Davos apparatus, certainly won't.

01:54:16.000 As it pertains specifically to the United Kingdom, look, if I were in the UK today, I suspect I would already be behind bars for some of the things that I share on social media.

01:54:26.000 It's not a joke.

01:54:27.000 I am not putting my tongue in my cheek when I say that.

01:54:30.000 I'm not exaggerating.

01:54:31.000 I truly believe that to be the case.

01:54:33.000 And whenever I talk to people back home, they tend to agree with me.

01:54:37.000 They say, Rahim, you are one of the most spicy people online.

01:54:39.000 There's absolutely no way the authorities would let you get away with that stuff here.

01:54:43.000 And this applies...

01:54:45.000 But what is at the heart of the things that he posts and the things that he shares is his love for his country and his willing intent to try and shine a light on these Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Muslim grooming and rape gangs, scandals which have been going on for two decades now plus in the United States.

01:55:14.000 But because a comma might be in the wrong place or an I isn't dotted or a T isn't crossed in some of his posts, the authorities use that as a cudgel by which to beat him with.

01:55:26.000 He, as far as they are concerned, is one of those grubby, working-class, deplorable garbage types who shouldn't actually be able to have their say. 1.00

01:55:37.000 There can be arguments about the things that he's done and the way he's gone about them.

01:55:41.000 You have to bear in mind at its core what this is about.

01:55:45.000 To answer your broader question, yeah, look, we have a newly elected Labour left-wing of the Democrats' government in the United Kingdom.

01:55:54.000 They will resist what Mark Zuckerberg is doing, what Donald Trump is bringing back to Washington, D.C., and of course are already resisting what Elon Musk is doing, to the point where yesterday they said they may even sever.

01:56:07.000 The United Kingdom's national security agreements with the United States, if Donald Trump agrees with Elon Musk on this stuff, that is not small beer.

01:56:17.000 That is a fundamental reorientation of the geopolitical order.

01:56:22.000 If Labour want to reorient and tie themselves more up with Brussels and perhaps even more up with Beijing, yes, there may be, as you say, some transatlantic, I don't know.

01:56:35.000 Warfare might be a strong word, but some irreversible friction.

01:56:40.000 Yeah, I mean, I think that's really...

01:56:42.000 I mean, you brought up a number of really good points there, Rahim.

01:56:45.000 I, for one, am personally in the camp that America should be exerting its economic and military...

01:56:51.000 Maybe it's just leverage.

01:56:53.000 I don't mean actual, you know, kinetic warfare here.

01:56:55.000 But, you know, hey, we've got troops stationed all across the world.

01:56:59.000 We help...

01:57:00.000 Defend Europe via NATO. There are levers that we can pull to, you know, instead of exporting the LGBTQ flag at our embassies and ensuring that the censorship regime is alive and well with our transatlantic partners, is to say, hey, you know, instead of that, we're actually going to defend free speech. 0.83

01:57:17.000 And we're going to defend nations that protect the free speech of its countries.

01:57:20.000 Because it occurs to me, Raheem, the Tommy Robinson example, and I do want to understand...

01:57:26.000 From you, more of what the dynamics within reform and Nigel and Tommy and Elon, I think that's an important conversation.

01:57:33.000 I want to do that next segment.

01:57:34.000 But it occurs to me that what's happening with these grooming gangs is directly tied to the free speech conversation that we're having today.

01:57:43.000 Because if it was more robust, the protections for citizens to speak out, I understand there's a social...

01:57:51.000 Aspect of this, right?

01:57:52.000 Where it becomes, you know, the scarlet letter, you know, you're a racist, you're a xenophobe or whatever, that you don't speak out more broadly, right?

01:57:59.000 I mean, there is a social pressure that it's not necessarily legal.

01:58:02.000 So you have to deal with that first.

01:58:03.000 But you can only deal with that if the population feels that it has the ability to speak freely.

01:58:10.000 And the fact that there aren't more free speech protections in the UK has led directly to the fact that...

01:58:17.000 Tens of thousands of young women.

01:58:18.000 I don't know if you have a number.

01:58:20.000 I've heard all kinds of numbers of how many young children have been abused and sexually assaulted and raped in the UK by these gangs.

01:58:27.000 But that is a direct connection.

01:58:29.000 If people had the ability to speak out more profoundly, more boldly, without fear of reprisal, attack, fines, or even imprisonment, little girls would have been saved.

01:58:39.000 They would not have been abused.

01:58:41.000 And so this has a direct impact on the population.

01:58:44.000 Brahim, your thoughts?

01:58:44.000 That's exactly right.

01:58:46.000 That's why we started reporting on it back when I used to run Breitbart's London Bureau, back in 2013 and 2014. You know, I am somebody who most people will realize doesn't actually care about the blowback and the reprisals, bring it on as far as I'm concerned.

01:59:00.000 And when you're right, it's tens of thousands of people who have been targeted with this stuff.

01:59:05.000 Then to stay quiet, to not speak would be the greatest.

01:59:09.000 Yeah, I think you're absolutely right.

01:59:11.000 And by the way, for the audience that maybe isn't read in on this, the actual reports of what's happened to these little girls, it's so chilling.

01:59:20.000 It's so horrible.

01:59:21.000 It's unbelievable.

01:59:22.000 So Raheem, I need your help here.

01:59:25.000 You've got Tommy Robinson, which seems to be sort of a representative of reform.

01:59:29.000 He's this working-class bloke from, you know, just feels like kind of Mother England.

01:59:35.000 He just waves the flag.

01:59:37.000 His heart is so in the right place.

01:59:38.000 He's fighting the grooming gangs.

01:59:40.000 And by the way, these stories were coming out over a decade ago.

01:59:43.000 We're talking like almost 15 years ago.

01:59:44.000 It's taken this long for the lid to be blown off of this story.

01:59:49.000 Anyways, we like reform.

01:59:51.000 We like Nigel.

01:59:52.000 We like Tommy.

01:59:53.000 But there seems to be a rift.

01:59:56.000 And how does reform take it to the next level when you've got Nigel basically going on the record saying, hey, you know, that's a bridge too far with the Tommy thing.

02:00:06.000 And then Elon Musk saying, Nigel doesn't have what it takes.

02:00:08.000 Now, I know you're a big Nigel supporter.

02:00:11.000 You've been with Nigel for a long time.

02:00:12.000 How does reform pick it up and get to the next level and really help make, you know, Britain great again?

02:00:20.000 Yeah, you're asking a question that really goes back decades in political history in the UK now.

02:00:29.000 And a lot of people...

02:00:30.000 I'll disagree with you on one thing.

02:00:32.000 The lid was blown off on this issue years and years ago in the United Kingdom.

02:00:38.000 Rupert Murdoch's The Times newspaper had splashed it on the front pages.

02:00:43.000 It's been in the Daily Mail, the Express.

02:00:44.000 So it's not to say that the media has not covered this.

02:00:48.000 I understand that a lot of Americans and people...

02:00:49.000 People around the world are waking up to this story now.

02:00:52.000 But credit where it's due, the story has been covered.

02:00:57.000 Now, it's been euphemistically covered, not by us.

02:00:59.000 We cover it in the most kind of literal and demonstrative ways possible.

02:01:05.000 The gruesome stories that you mentioned before the break.

02:01:08.000 You know, are part of that wider narrative that has to be told.

02:01:12.000 And so places like the BBC will try and hide it.

02:01:14.000 They will allude to the background of these men.

02:01:17.000 They will just say Asian, whereas what they really mean is Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Muslim men account for the vast, vast, vast, over 90% majority of the perpetrators of these heinous crimes against young girls.

02:01:31.000 But what you're talking about here is this really odd dynamic on the political right in the UK where...

02:01:40.000 You know, you've got kind of the street activist, extremely working class end of things in Tommy Robinson's group, formerly of the English Defence League.

02:01:50.000 That organisation has had lots of running street battles with Antifa, you know, physical fights, brawls, smashing things up, fights with police, you know, almost what, you know, the papers and the middle classes would call, you know, football hooliganism or yobbish behaviour.

02:02:10.000 I don't subscribe to those definitions.

02:02:12.000 I'm just kind of trying to lay the land here.

02:02:15.000 On the flip side of the political right in the UK, you've got Nigel Farage, who is a private school-educated former metals trader in the city of London who has worked since the mid-'90s to extricate Britain from its relationship with the European Union and has focused on mass immigration as a critical topic there.

02:02:36.000 Over the last year, Nigel has taken this party, and it was originally the UK Independence Party, then it became the Brexit Party, and now it's the Reform Party.

02:02:46.000 From being a 5% party in the polls 10 years ago, to beating...

02:02:52.000 The Labour Party and indeed the Conservative Party in national polls today.

02:02:57.000 So Nigel's perspective on this is we did all of this without having to go there.

02:03:02.000 Don't tell me I have to go there and allow us to be besmirched as yobs and hooligans and whatnot.

02:03:09.000 You also have to understand that there is a significant chunk of the British middle class voter.

02:03:17.000 Who are looking for reasons to stop voting for Labour and the Conservative parties.

02:03:21.000 And if you tell them that reform is necessarily linked over here, they just won't do it.

02:03:26.000 So it's a very fine line that has to be tread, a political fine line that has to be tread here to ensure that reform can actually take over from the two legacy establishment parties.

02:03:37.000 And my perspective on it is this.

02:03:38.000 I'm friends with both of those men.

02:03:40.000 I have been for a long time.

02:03:42.000 I talk to them both very frankly about it.

02:03:44.000 I've fallen out with both of them.

02:03:46.000 About talking to the other ones.

02:03:48.000 And we're going to see eye to eye.

02:03:51.000 But what I say is this.

02:03:52.000 The people who have been critical of Nigel over the last couple of days because he doesn't want to be allied with Tommy Robinson, I will say this.

02:04:01.000 This is not the time to be watching a party.

02:04:05.000 The only political movement that could surge and replace the Tories and Labour and trying to drive a wedge through the political right.

02:04:13.000 In fact, the people who are doing that I regard as splitters.

02:04:17.000 I regard as contrary to the greater cause.

02:04:20.000 And I just think this is a fight that the establishment, the EU, Davos and the left absolutely love.

02:04:26.000 And we just all need to pack it in.

02:04:27.000 I would agree with that.

02:04:28.000 I mean, I want to see the UK be great again.

02:04:33.000 We talked about that last night, so I know you agree.

02:04:36.000 Rahim, thank you for making the time today.

02:04:39.000 What a day in history.

02:04:40.000 I'm going to remember this one.

02:04:41.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

02:04:43.000 We'll talk to you soon.

The Charlie Kirk Show - January 07, 2025

The Gulf of America, Greenland, Mark Zuckerberg, and More

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