The Charlie Kirk Show - The President Honors Charlie at the State of the Union

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00:01:09.000 All right.

00:01:11.000 So that was the President's State of the Union address.

00:01:13.000 We'll keep the camera on there to watch, but it seems like he is just shaking hands with people and we're having applause, but we'll keep an eye on that.

00:01:22.000 I know we've got Danny here.

00:01:24.000 We've got Cliff with us.

00:01:25.000 We'll see if Jack rejoins us imminently, too.

00:01:29.000 And we'll also, of course, be looking at the chat.

00:01:32.000 I see a lot of positivity.

00:01:34.000 We have Penny.

00:01:35.000 I thoroughly enjoyed this State of the Union.

00:01:38.000 We've got Jill House saying USA, USA.

00:01:42.000 USA got a lot of American flags, a lot of MAGAs, some thank yous, Mr. President.

00:01:48.000 Highland Miss again. 0.91

00:01:50.000 Watch these Dems scoot like rats running from the Orkin Man. 0.95

00:01:55.000 Is that an advertisement or something? 0.97

00:01:56.000 I'm not sure.

00:01:57.000 Orkin Man. 0.79

00:01:58.000 God bless America.

00:02:00.000 God bless President Trump.

00:02:01.000 Only one person thrown out was Al Green.

00:02:03.000 Impressive.

00:02:04.000 I'm not sure if he was thrown out or if he just walked himself out.

00:02:06.000 Did he walk out?

00:02:07.000 It wasn't super clear.

00:02:07.000 I'm not sure.

00:02:09.000 We'll definitely get a screenshot of what happened there.

00:02:13.000 Cliff, we'll get your reaction in a second, but I think.

00:02:16.000 The first thing we want to do, we want to replay the part that is emotionally closest for all of us, and that was when President Trump shouted out Charlie and he got everyone in the House to stand for it because he linked it to a call to end all political violence.

00:02:36.000 I believe that number is 442.

00:02:40.000 I'm very proud to say that during my time in office, both the first four years and in particular this last year, There has been a tremendous renewal in religion, faith, Christianity, and belief in God.

00:02:56.000 Tremendous renewal.

00:03:10.000 This is especially true among young people, and a big part of that had to do with my great friend, Charlie Kirk, a great guy, great man.

00:03:29.000 So last year, Charlie was violently murdered by an assassin and martyred, really, martyred for his beliefs.

00:03:38.000 His wonderful wife, Erica, is with us tonight.

00:03:41.000 Erika, please stand.

00:04:03.000 Thank you, Erika.

00:04:06.000 Been through a lot.

00:04:07.000 In Charlie's memory, we must all come together to reaffirm that America is one nation under God, and we must totally reject political violence of any kind.

00:04:32.000 And we love bringing it back.

00:04:34.000 And it's coming back at levels that nobody actually thought possible.

00:04:38.000 It's really a beautiful thing to see.

00:04:41.000 Cliff, what were you feeling when you saw that?

00:04:44.000 Yeah, I mean, I think it's obviously a beautiful tribute.

00:04:46.000 I love that he was finally able to get them to stand and applaud together on the idea of, you know, hey, let's all say no more political violence.

00:04:54.000 I mean, I think for all of us, that was the one thing, you know, I'm not going to speak for you guys, but, you know, through all the conversations with people in Charlie's orbit, I still think the number one thing that was just so shocking was the response from so many people on the left.

00:05:09.000 And to see Democrats at least acknowledge, hey, Let's take a pause and all agree to no political violence.

00:05:15.000 I just think that was a powerful moment.

00:05:17.000 I'm glad that obviously Erica got the recognition, and to have them chanting Charlie was pretty cool.

00:05:23.000 It was.

00:05:24.000 It was.

00:05:27.000 I think that was my favorite moment in it, but obviously there were a lot of other great moments.

00:05:31.000 The president is very good at the pageantry side of the State of the Union.

00:05:35.000 So we got not one, but two medals of honor that were awarded.

00:05:41.000 He also had the hockey team show up, gave the Medal of Freedom.

00:05:45.000 To the goalie, which that was quite the gesture, I've got to say.

00:05:52.000 Good shout outs throughout.

00:05:54.000 And I think he did a good job.

00:05:57.000 Part of this goal is, of course, political.

00:05:59.000 I think he did a good job of highlighting that Democrats are very loopy on some very important issues.

00:06:05.000 He did that on the border, on illegal immigration generally.

00:06:08.000 If you weren't hearing the president's remarks, you may have also seen I saw Rashida Tlaib had a F ICE button on that was just lovingly displayed there.

00:06:17.000 Throughout the address, we got some nice images of Ilhan Omar glowering really angrily.

00:06:24.000 And he, of course, even highlighted the Somali fraud, which I thought was a long shot on my bingo card, but I did pretty bad on my bingo card overall.

00:06:32.000 But that was one that actually appeared.

00:06:35.000 I did not score a full bingo, which that's okay.

00:06:39.000 You want to have some long shot ones, make it a little bit of a challenge.

00:06:42.000 But how did you do?

00:06:43.000 Yeah, my card was not very good.

00:06:45.000 I think I had five or six total.

00:06:47.000 I kept going for long shots and stuff I was hoping for more so than what would happen.

00:06:53.000 But yeah.

00:06:55.000 I blame Fazio.

00:06:56.000 He gave me a card to use and it performed very poorly.

00:06:59.000 Might have been mine.

00:07:01.000 Throwing Angelo under the bus like that.

00:07:04.000 Got to watch it, Cliff.

00:07:05.000 But Angelo could get you for that one.

00:07:07.000 But yeah, no, I'm looking through just to remind myself of everything.

00:07:12.000 So we did have Democrats.

00:07:14.000 Actually, I think it was Rashida Tlaib again. 1.00

00:07:16.000 She was screeching at Trump during some of the immigration rhetoric.

00:07:20.000 Al Green.

00:07:20.000 Yeah, Al Green, of course, disrupted it.

00:07:23.000 He had a sign.

00:07:24.000 I think it.

00:07:25.000 Do we have that image?

00:07:26.000 I believe it's 440.

00:07:27.000 We do.

00:07:28.000 Throw that up.

00:07:28.000 It is 440, and the sign said, Black people aren't apes, which I guess is about that TikTok.

00:07:31.000 It's about the true social.

00:07:33.000 That's the truth social.

00:07:36.000 That's the truth So that was like taking off on Twitter.

00:07:55.000 But anyway, I just think he does this for every, every, I mean, if you ever like listen to this guy, this is one of those Democrats where you wonder how in the world do these people get elected and it's incumbency protection, et cetera.

00:08:07.000 Like once you get in, you never can get out.

00:08:09.000 He doesn't make sense with anything he says, right?

00:08:13.000 He's just kind of this cartoon character.

00:08:15.000 And it's just surprising to me that the Democrats don't, you know, the leadership step up and say, hey, why don't we not do that this year?

00:08:21.000 Because I just think it makes him look totally out of touch.

00:08:24.000 Yeah, was it last year that he was yelling that he wouldn't leave and they had to like fully escort him out?

00:08:29.000 Man, I can't remember any of this.

00:08:31.000 I thought it was Apple and I called it.

00:08:32.000 Yeah, with his cane.

00:08:33.000 Yeah, that was last year.

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00:10:18.000 Like one other point when you brought up that he went into the Somali thing.

00:10:23.000 I mean, the camera, by the way, kudos to whoever the camera crew is.

00:10:28.000 I don't know who, if it's through the house or if it's the White House, they did a phenomenal job at based on certain points going to the person that even if they weren't named, they would have them in the screen.

00:10:41.000 And I mean, her reaction and sitting next to who was it, Tlaib?

00:10:44.000 I mean, they just look like children screaming at the president.

00:10:48.000 I mean, she just went irate in that moment.

00:10:50.000 Yeah, in fact, we have a clip of her.

00:10:53.000 Let's get the clip of Ilhan Omar getting very upset.

00:10:56.000 That is 443.

00:10:58.000 You should be ashamed of yourself not standing up.

00:11:02.000 You should be ashamed of yourself.

00:11:05.000 That is why I'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities that protect the criminals and enact serious penalties for public officials who block the removal of criminal aliens, in many cases, drug lords.

00:11:20.000 murderers all over our country.

00:11:22.000 They're blocking the removal of these people out of our country and you should be ashamed of yourself.

00:11:40.000 Could you tell what? 0.54

00:11:41.000 Okay, it was apparently she was shouting there, you have killed Americans, you should be ashamed, is what Ilhan Omar was saying. 0.82

00:11:48.000 Yeah, it's interesting coming from her policies, which led in all these illegal immigrants that have killed people with fentanyl. 0.85

00:11:53.000 Oh, yeah, of course.

00:11:54.000 Well, but as we know in Democrat politics, the realest Americans are the people who are not from America. 0.51

00:11:59.000 Like herself.

00:12:00.000 Really, the only people who aren't American are the people who are born in America. 0.57

00:12:04.000 Everyone else is. 1.00

00:12:05.000 If you're from America, you're gutter trash. 1.00

00:12:07.000 Can we at least give some credit to the Democrats that had to sit in the row in front of them, too? 0.99

00:12:13.000 I mean, to have them screaming for the entire time.

00:12:15.000 Those are tough people.

00:12:16.000 Maybe they need to get one of those medals.

00:12:19.000 Yes.

00:12:20.000 They definitely went through a trial by fire there.

00:12:22.000 Looking at more reactions from some of those people.

00:12:25.000 If you have any thoughts, feel free to shoot a dono message, but we might read it anyway.

00:12:29.000 We love to see what your guys' takes are.

00:12:32.000 We've got best part from Ward 36, best part of the State of the Union.

00:12:36.000 The president called out the Democrats to their faces and gave them a big, I can't read that part of it.

00:12:43.000 God bless President Donald J. Trump.

00:12:47.000 Hyland says, yes, the camera crew was great.

00:12:49.000 That was the best part.

00:12:50.000 I was hoping the Ilhan Omar clip would be the part where, as soon as he mentions Somali fraud, they just cut over to Ilhan Omar.

00:12:57.000 They had the camera ISO'd on her.

00:13:00.000 It's like the only time that the State of the Union is like the only time that the cameras in Congress are on par with Sunday Night Football, where they have the camera ready for every eventuality and think they just have impeccable timing.

00:13:13.000 They knew that might come up.

00:13:14.000 They had it ready to go.

00:13:15.000 You can picture the studio go, put it on Ilhan, put it on Omar.

00:13:19.000 Well, this reminds me of when they were having the whole vacated speaker.

00:13:24.000 Matt Gaetz talked about this a lot how it was actually kind of awesome to watch C SPAN for once, because instead of just the shot, you know, a lot of, let me break the secret here, and all the members of Congress will get mad at me, but they typically have the shot where the camera's up high, pointing down, so that people can't see that they're debating in an empty chamber, right?

00:13:42.000 And so this is like the one night, like you said, where the control room is they've got everybody kind of pinpointed and where they want to be.

00:13:49.000 And obviously, once they get, you know, a pre recording of the speech, Then they're probably mapping it out, you know, like a producer would do to figure out where they're going to go.

00:13:56.000 So, I, once again, kudos to the cameramen and the camera crew here.

00:14:01.000 Yeah.

00:14:02.000 And I think that was part of one of the best parts is Trump just calling them out straight to their face multiple times, especially on the transgender issue when they refused to stand for that girl that transitioned, where became a guy and then went back to being a girl. 0.99

00:14:16.000 And he just like looked at them and was like, you guys are crazy people. 0.94

00:14:20.000 That's something that he didn't do last year that I feel like. 0.92

00:14:23.000 Actually, kind of helps just calling them out straight to their face.

00:14:27.000 With the transgender lawmaker right there. 1.00

00:14:29.000 Yeah, and then they showed the dude in the dress or whatever. 0.63

00:14:33.000 Looked pretty sour.

00:14:34.000 Yeah, the best part is that Trump actually said, I put up a video on this, and it was like he actually said to them, I'm going to ask you to stand up if you agree with this.

00:14:46.000 He took a pause, went into his statement, and that way it wasn't just, oh, look, they're not standing.

00:14:51.000 Even though I said something that 90% of Americans agree with, he gave them the opportunity to stand.

00:14:56.000 He kind of set the scene.

00:14:57.000 And I honestly think, guys, I think this is going to be the biggest moment or the biggest message that we have to control the narrative on for the 2026 midterms, which is do you think that the duty of the American government is to first stand with American citizens over illegal immigrants and to have not one Democrat stand up?

00:15:18.000 I just think that's extremely important.

00:15:20.000 Cliff, we have your clip on this from a few minutes ago.

00:15:23.000 So let's put that up 444.

00:15:31.000 The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. 0.61

00:15:37.000 Come on, they all got to stand.

00:15:39.000 They all got to stand. 1.00

00:15:40.000 There's no way they're that stupid. 1.00

00:15:41.000 Oh my gosh. 1.00

00:15:44.000 Are you kidding me?

00:15:48.000 Keep the chant going. 1.00

00:15:51.000 These idiots. 1.00

00:15:54.000 Folks, we might have a chance in 2026. 1.00

00:15:56.000 They have yet to learn.

00:15:58.000 You cannot refuse to say that you support American citizens.

00:16:03.000 Over illegals. 0.99

00:16:04.000 You represent we the people, the American citizens.

00:16:08.000 This right here gives us a shot to win big in 2026.

00:16:12.000 Not one Democrat standing up.

00:16:15.000 You can't write this stuff.

00:16:19.000 Man.

00:16:21.000 Hopefully they're ready enough to, like, there's a good way to cut that into an ad.

00:16:25.000 I do feel like that's a good midterm message, but who knows?

00:16:29.000 It's a strange country.

00:16:30.000 We're looking over at the cameras.

00:16:32.000 Abigail Spanberger is delivering the Democrat response.

00:16:36.000 I.

00:16:37.000 I guess it's hard to tell at a glance whether it's pre taped, but my understanding is it usually is, though maybe not in this case.

00:16:43.000 I'm not sure.

00:16:44.000 Especially since she's not in Congress, it doesn't matter as much.

00:16:47.000 But obviously, it's pre written, so it's not really reacting to anything the president specifically did.

00:16:52.000 But we'll see how that gets reviewed. 1.00

00:16:54.000 We don't care about watching that right now because she's lame. 1.00

00:16:58.000 Well, she's the perfect Democrat model. 0.94

00:17:00.000 I mean, it kind of makes sense.

00:17:02.000 Of course, they make her do the speech for them in that she pretended to be a moderate and then went insane as soon as she got into power.

00:17:09.000 And that's their same game plan that they're trying to run out.

00:17:12.000 Zuzu asks, can we get the USA hockey team to run for Congress only if they're over 25?

00:17:12.000 And 26.

00:17:18.000 Otherwise, they are constitutionally ineligible to run for Congress, but I imagine most of them are.

00:17:24.000 They should all be.

00:17:25.000 I assume.

00:17:26.000 But we have Wiser T. God bless Erica, Heart, and Three Prayer Hands.

00:17:26.000 Who knows?

00:17:33.000 We have Virtuously Meet.

00:17:34.000 Please do not put that communist spangler on here. 0.98

00:17:37.000 We will not.

00:17:38.000 You guys can change the channel if you want to listen to weird Virginia commies rattle on about things.

00:17:38.000 We're not doing that.

00:17:45.000 Uh, one quick comment about the awkwardness of some of these USA hockey players, they play for teams in Canada.

00:17:53.000 So they were interviewing, I think one of them just did a Fox interview.

00:17:56.000 I think it's the goalie, I think he plays for Winnipeg.

00:17:58.000 And so he's got to go back to Canada now as this American hero that stole the cup from the Canadians. 0.68

00:18:04.000 I mean, that's going to be a fun trip, man.

00:18:06.000 Yeah, I don't really follow hockey much, but yeah, yeah, only when the playoffs come around.

00:18:11.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:18:12.000 Oh, stars for Charlie says, literally just joined because I've been at church all night.

00:18:16.000 I'm sure I missed a lot.

00:18:17.000 You missed a great shout out to Charlie from the president.

00:18:21.000 You'll want to catch that.

00:18:22.000 You can find that on next, or you'll be able to definitely catch it on our show tomorrow.

00:18:25.000 We'll be playing that plenty of times, I am sure.

00:18:29.000 You missed the president getting Al Green.

00:18:33.000 He kicked himself out.

00:18:35.000 Yeah, he voluntarily walked himself out.

00:18:38.000 I don't know.

00:18:39.000 I guess I'm thinking of other big topics out there.

00:18:39.000 Yeah, you missed.

00:18:43.000 He talked about the economy.

00:18:44.000 He talked about home ownership.

00:18:45.000 I'm kicking myself that I didn't put on my bingo card what I thought he might do, which was both talk about.

00:18:51.000 Helping people afford homes, but without lowering the home prices of anyone who currently owns a home.

00:18:56.000 That is a line the president has used from time to time.

00:18:59.000 It's definitely walking a tightrope on how housing is in this country, which is frankly one reason it does get so expensive.

00:19:07.000 We say we want affordable housing, but if you own a house, not really.

00:19:10.000 No, they don't.

00:19:13.000 So he talked about that.

00:19:14.000 What was that?

00:19:15.000 How about the shots?

00:19:16.000 I mean, is it me or did it feel as if there were more Democrats asleep?

00:19:20.000 And maybe once again, the camera guys were just feeling a little, you know.

00:19:24.000 Yeah, we had a sleep counter going on the office.

00:19:27.000 I think we counted at least three to four people asleep. 0.98

00:19:32.000 We need term limits, folks.

00:19:34.000 You heard it here first.

00:19:35.000 Was Mitch McConnell there?

00:19:37.000 I didn't see him, but he was probably asleep.

00:19:40.000 He's definitely getting rather feeble.

00:19:42.000 Yeah, he's in bed by six o'clock, so I don't think he made it.

00:19:45.000 Yeah, I didn't see him there.

00:19:46.000 Let's see.

00:19:47.000 Let's check on X if Mitch McConnell was.

00:19:52.000 There's just people still missing in action, people are saying.

00:19:56.000 So I guess he wasn't there.

00:19:59.000 And then we had Hank Johnson either asleep or closing his eyes.

00:20:04.000 Yeah.

00:20:05.000 It seems like it was that.

00:20:07.000 Let's see.

00:20:07.000 Oh, I did like him.

00:20:09.000 Angelo predicted that we would get a slam on Nancy Pelosi.

00:20:12.000 And I thought, no way. 1.00

00:20:13.000 Throw that in there. 1.00

00:20:14.000 Nancy's not even the Democrat leader anymore. 1.00

00:20:17.000 She's retiring.

00:20:18.000 How often do you hear about her?

00:20:19.000 But he was right and we were wrong.

00:20:21.000 He threw in that dunk on Nancy Pelosi.

00:20:23.000 And I don't know if she was there either.

00:20:24.000 Was she there?

00:20:25.000 Yeah, she was there.

00:20:26.000 Okay.

00:20:26.000 All right.

00:20:27.000 She was probably pretty intoxicated as usual.

00:20:29.000 But yeah, she was there. 0.98

00:20:32.000 Probably sleeping in some level.

00:20:33.000 Well, you know what was weird?

00:20:35.000 When they went to her, there was this congresswoman next to her who was like.

00:20:39.000 Definitely asleep.

00:20:41.000 And I don't want to say too much about Nancy.

00:20:43.000 We've attacked her enough over the past decade, but she was looking rough.

00:20:47.000 I'll just leave it at that. 0.97

00:20:50.000 It was not great for her.

00:20:51.000 There was no Andrew sighting, though.

00:20:53.000 No Andrew sighting.

00:20:54.000 Yeah, I did have it on there.

00:20:56.000 If we would see Andrew, he was the guest of a congressman there.

00:20:58.000 I'm not sure where he was in there, but they did not incidentally catch him.

00:21:03.000 So that would have gotten me close to a bingo.

00:21:06.000 If I'd gotten that, I would have needed a backhanded compliment.

00:21:09.000 But Trump, he didn't do that.

00:21:10.000 Trump was very positive about all his guys.

00:21:12.000 He was.

00:21:12.000 He appointed JD, the Somali fraud investigator at large for America, which I think will be a rather thankless job, but it is an important one and a good one.

00:21:23.000 And finally, there was a job created that wasn't given to Marco Rubio, who also got a shout out.

00:21:28.000 He said a lot about Marco Rubio.

00:21:30.000 He was really touting the Secretary of State there.

00:21:33.000 And yeah, it was very positive vibes for his admin.

00:21:38.000 Didn't call out Thomas Massey.

00:21:39.000 We didn't see any, I didn't notice any Epstein stuff in terms of people shouting it.

00:21:44.000 Or they had the pins, though.

00:21:46.000 All the democrats had the theater pins, and that's their big message. 1.00

00:21:50.000 But yeah, Massey was next to Nancy Mace.

00:21:53.000 I did catch a couple glimpses of him, but yeah, Trump didn't go into that.

00:21:57.000 Yeah, I'm certainly not surprised he didn't.

00:21:59.000 Uh, he did bring up eight wars, uh, which included it's some someone's it's funny to make up the list like uh Egypt and Ethiopia.

00:22:08.000 Uh, they get to eight through some somewhat creative accounts.

00:22:11.000 Yeah, Blake was like, Some of these aren't even wars.

00:22:13.000 Yeah, well, it's a state of high tension.

00:22:16.000 Yeah, you know, if you're going for the Nobel Peace Prize, you.

00:22:18.000 He was campaigning for that.

00:22:19.000 See, I had that on my bingo board and he never mentioned that.

00:22:21.000 He did not mention that.

00:22:22.000 He did not mention that.

00:22:23.000 And he did not mention Greenland.

00:22:26.000 He did not mention quite a few foreign policy things, which I think is right. 1.00

00:22:30.000 We kind of are thinking he should pivot towards domestic stuff.

00:22:34.000 Yeah.

00:22:34.000 And that is largely what he did.

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00:23:48.000 Which award did he say he would give him?

00:23:50.000 Is it the Presidential Medal of Honor?

00:23:52.000 What award did he say he would give himself if he was able to?

00:23:55.000 I think the Medal of Honor.

00:23:56.000 I think he was saying he would give himself the Medal of Honor if he was able to, if the loophole closed or if the loophole opened or whatever it was.

00:24:03.000 But they told him he can't, and it's for valor in the armed forces.

00:24:08.000 So I think that's just kind of the usual Trump cheekiness.

00:24:12.000 I don't think people got too upset about that.

00:24:15.000 But two Medals of Honor.

00:24:17.000 I think we've awarded one Medal of Honor before, but I don't know that we've done two.

00:24:22.000 Or have we awarded it to someone living?

00:24:23.000 I think they've awarded it to a widow, I believe, perhaps, during the State of the Union.

00:24:29.000 I don't know.

00:24:29.000 I can find out.

00:24:30.000 Yeah, we should check on that.

00:24:31.000 But it's almost like there's almost awards inflation.

00:24:34.000 Like, where do you go from a Medal of Freedom and two Medals of Honor in one State of the Union address?

00:24:40.000 Yeah, and I'll also add this.

00:24:42.000 I do think that the quips and kind of the ability for Trump to handle himself, to obviously go off script at certain points, not in a bad way.

00:24:50.000 I just mean, to work the room.

00:24:53.000 I think the American people, you know, that's a big reason why he's gotten elected, right?

00:24:57.000 Is he's able to connect.

00:24:58.000 He's able to talk.

00:24:59.000 He's able to just kind of free flow in a way that most politicians can't do, right?

00:25:04.000 We learned this at the 2016 debates.

00:25:06.000 You know, it was like, who's this guy who's not a politician that's a TV star?

00:25:10.000 You know, he knows how to really carry himself and work the room.

00:25:14.000 And that connects to the normies.

00:25:15.000 So on a night like tonight, when so many non political people, people that are just trying to pay their mortgage, take their kids to basketball practice, he had that audience tonight.

00:25:24.000 And I think his demeanor really carried well to connect with that crowd.

00:25:28.000 Yes.

00:25:28.000 And some stuff where he might have been amped up.

00:25:32.000 He didn't get as combative as you might have thought.

00:25:37.000 He did mention the Supreme Court on the tariff case, but considering how clearly close to his heart that was and how he was pretty peeved, he basically just said, Oh, you know, it wasn't a ruling I cared for.

00:25:46.000 Like he was disagreeing with it, but it was not hyper aggressive.

00:25:49.000 And then he pivoted to what I think you'd want, which is he's saying, We're still going to get the same trade deals with countries that we're achieving what we wanted with the tariffs.

00:25:59.000 With the tariffs that we imposed in the year past.

00:26:01.000 And we're going to do that.

00:26:03.000 All right.

00:26:03.000 I'm just getting notified.

00:26:04.000 We have Andrew on the phone.

00:26:06.000 Andrew was just in the House chamber.

00:26:08.000 They confiscated his phone from him as he was going in, but he has now recovered it.

00:26:14.000 Andrew, what was it like inside the chamber?

00:26:17.000 Well, hey, guys.

00:26:18.000 Yeah.

00:26:19.000 Thanks, Blake.

00:26:21.000 It's pretty weird, actually.

00:26:23.000 They let the press have all of their devices, and for some reason, you know, the guests that have been invited there don't get them.

00:26:30.000 But inside, it was amazingly electric, honestly.

00:26:34.000 And I was kind of peering right over at the vantage point I had, looking right at Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, constantly throwing out random comments.

00:26:46.000 Most of the time, you couldn't hear them because the chamber was drowning them out.

00:26:50.000 But it was actually, I don't know what it was like on TV, but.

00:26:55.000 Actually, live in the venue, they literally would not shut up.

00:26:58.000 They just kept yammering on and on and on and throwing out references to Alex Freddie and Renee Good.

00:27:08.000 And I kept hearing them say, You're killing American citizens, which I was assuming meant them.

00:27:13.000 But it was just a really raucous crowd inside.

00:27:16.000 I think the two standout moments for me were the U.S. men's hockey team.

00:27:22.000 It was just, I mean, literally the energy and the volume of it was.

00:27:27.000 Extraordinary inside that chamber.

00:27:30.000 And then the helicopter pilot, you know, getting awarded the Medal of Honor, it was just a really amazing moment.

00:27:39.000 There was not a dry eye in my section where I was.

00:27:43.000 It was truly, truly a special honor to be able to witness in person.

00:27:47.000 It's a much smaller space than people realize on TV.

00:27:50.000 And so you just feel crammed in with this whole room full of huge emotions.

00:27:55.000 And of course, I have to mention when.

00:27:58.000 President Trump honored Erica and Charlie.

00:28:03.000 Our whole section started cheering Charlie, Charlie, chanting his name.

00:28:07.000 And that was a beautiful moment as well.

00:28:09.000 So, really a special night.

00:28:13.000 That sounds great.

00:28:14.000 Blake, I found it was the first time tonight during the speech that the Medal of Honor was awarded during the State of the Union.

00:28:20.000 First time.

00:28:21.000 All right.

00:28:22.000 And they did it twice.

00:28:23.000 Yeah.

00:28:23.000 Yeah, and they did it twice.

00:28:26.000 Quick question.

00:28:26.000 Yeah.

00:28:26.000 No, it was, it was, uh, go ahead.

00:28:29.000 No, anything that surprised you?

00:28:30.000 I mean, obviously being able to experience that, being in the room, anything that like stood out as like you didn't expect?

00:28:36.000 I mean, you mentioned it's smaller than you think or when you watch on TV, but anything that kind of, you know, you weren't expecting?

00:28:41.000 Yeah.

00:28:42.000 I mean, you know, there's a lot of yelling, there's a lot of like whooping and hollering.

00:28:46.000 And, uh, the members down on the floor, you know, they get really into it, you know, and, uh, and you can hear people across the, the, the chamber talking, you know, I, I'm assuming that's by design, you know, when it was built.

00:29:00.000 People needed to be able to hear each other across the room.

00:29:03.000 So it's a very intimate space.

00:29:04.000 Like I was actually on the other end from Erica, but, you know, I felt like I could kind of wave at her and see her and she could wave back.

00:29:12.000 And, you know, it was, you know, I saw Michael Knowles like a couple rows away from me.

00:29:17.000 And it's just very small, it's just very intimate.

00:29:21.000 And so when people are having open conflict and shouting at each other, I mean, it's, it's, it's, you know, intense. 0.53

00:29:28.000 I saw Steve Scalise try and rip out Al Green's, you know, Black People Are Not Apes. 0.90

00:29:34.000 Little troll protest, tried to rip it out of his hands. 0.96

00:29:37.000 I saw the congressman from New York, Malatakis, tell another congressman to shut up. 0.90

00:29:43.000 It's like, I mean, it's really in your face.

00:29:47.000 It's kind of raw politics.

00:29:50.000 And you sort of wonder how often these people are actually around each other because there's a lot of pent up conflict and frustration.

00:29:56.000 You could feel it.

00:29:58.000 It's just palpable inside the room.

00:30:00.000 How long, sort of a dumb question, how early do you have to get there for the State of the Union?

00:30:05.000 Is it a lot of waiting? 0.71

00:30:07.000 Yeah.

00:30:08.000 Actually, so we came in through the Canon building, and then there's a tunnel, and they tell you you have to get in by like 7 30.

00:30:17.000 And then they take your phone away, and then you sit in there for, you know, I don't actually know what the start time was because I couldn't look at a watch.

00:30:24.000 I didn't have my phone, and you're just kind of sitting in there.

00:30:27.000 And then, you know, it's quite a process.

00:30:31.000 But then the vice president filters in, and then the Senate, and then, you know, and then the kind of on and on it goes.

00:30:38.000 But, I mean, you have to get there well in advance.

00:30:40.000 I mean, I was having a conversation with my seatmates, my seat neighbors.

00:30:44.000 You don't know who you're going to sit next to.

00:30:45.000 So, you know, there was a union boss from a steel union boss from Ohio there.

00:30:51.000 And there was an oil guy near me.

00:30:55.000 I saw Congressman Brandon Gill came by and brought me waters.

00:30:59.000 It was just, you know, you're kind of, Abe Homadee said hi, Lauren Boebert.

00:31:05.000 You know, it takes a while to happen.

00:31:07.000 But then, you know, all of a sudden, next thing you know, they're gaveling in and the president enters.

00:31:12.000 So it moves, but it's like you have to get there well in advance.

00:31:15.000 What did you make?

00:31:16.000 We were discussing.

00:31:17.000 What did you make just of the, I guess, the message of the speech?

00:31:20.000 What issues he focused on?

00:31:22.000 Do you think there's anything that was left unsaid?

00:31:25.000 Do you think there's anything that he particularly nailed well?

00:31:27.000 What did you make of that?

00:31:29.000 Yeah, you know what was interesting, Blake, and we talked about this on the show quite a bit, was that he went straight at those Fabrizio polling points, right?

00:31:38.000 He hit the stock ban, stock trading ban in Congress.

00:31:44.000 He mentioned Nancy Pelosi.

00:31:46.000 That's the interesting thing because you kind of spot all these people in the room.

00:31:50.000 So when he brings up transgender ideology stuff, you look right at Congressman McBride.

00:31:58.000 When he mentions Nancy Pelosi, you're able to look right at Nancy.

00:32:01.000 But yeah, so he hit the stock trading ban.

00:32:03.000 He talked about transparency in healthcare.

00:32:06.000 He talked about Trump RX.

00:32:08.000 I mean, he kind of did the Fabrizio talking points.

00:32:11.000 It's interesting that they wove those populist kind of totem items into the speech, and he's messaging on them.

00:32:21.000 I think it's important.

00:32:23.000 It kind of echoes back to that no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security.

00:32:27.000 It's these kind of anchor tentpole items that give kind of normal Americans, mainstream Americans, Street Americans who aren't following this stuff every day, something to kind of be like, oh, well, you know, President Trump helped me and something I can point to.

00:32:40.000 So it was that to me was interesting that he did that.

00:32:44.000 You know, I thought, you know, the other thing I was looking for, Blake, honestly, because you have brought it up on the show so many times, is, you know, how's he going to sell Iran?

00:32:52.000 And I thought he did a very interesting, you know, presentation of that, kind of weaving in the dead protesters, the fact that it's been American policy for, you know, decades that.

00:33:04.000 Iran will not get a nuclear weapon.

00:33:06.000 So I think he did.

00:33:07.000 I think I give him a B on the Iran sale.

00:33:11.000 I'm still not totally there, but I thought he at least did a serviceable job.

00:33:16.000 And I think the messaging war on that front will still need to continue.

00:33:21.000 But I thought it was interesting nonetheless.

00:33:23.000 Yeah.

00:33:24.000 It overall, I would say Iran didn't strike me as a very big part of his speech.

00:33:29.000 It was there almost because it had to be.

00:33:31.000 But I feel he could have probably said just about the exact same thing if we weren't on the brink of war with Iran.

00:33:39.000 So.

00:33:40.000 I think you're right.

00:33:41.000 I think there probably will need to be additional messaging if something is about to happen there, as seems quite plausible still.

00:33:50.000 Cliff, you haven't said anything for a while.

00:33:52.000 Any new thoughts?

00:33:53.000 Andrew, how uncomfortable were the seats?

00:33:56.000 Very.

00:33:57.000 Yeah, the seats are built for like 18th century Americans pre fast food.

00:34:03.000 Yeah, I always.

00:34:07.000 I'm pretty sure the gentleman next to me was in his 60s and is probably a hundred centimillionaire oil tycoon from Texas.

00:34:16.000 And I kept bumping into him.

00:34:17.000 My suit was getting in his seat because you're standing up, sitting down, standing up, sitting down.

00:34:22.000 And I was like, You know, felt bad for the guy because I'm pretty sure he hasn't been subjected to such tight spaces in quite some time.

00:34:29.000 But yeah, it's small, it's tiny, and it's hot because you're on the upper balcony.

00:34:33.000 So it's hot up there.

00:34:34.000 I'm told it's much colder and cooler down on the floor.

00:34:37.000 But yeah, it's almost like a sauna up on that top balcony.

00:34:42.000 Did you notice any funny guests that maybe weren't highlighted beforehand?

00:34:48.000 You mentioned Knowles.

00:34:49.000 Say that again?

00:34:50.000 Did you notice any funny guests that were there, like maybe that you didn't expect or just that were a little surprising?

00:34:55.000 No, I mean, listen, there was a lot more cowboy hats up there than I was anticipating.

00:34:59.000 That was one thing I noticed.

00:35:01.000 You know, I just was kind of the most of the time I was honestly just looking down onto the floor to see kind of what the Democrats were doing, you know, to see who was willing to clap.

00:35:13.000 I mean, it's really stunning how rare it is for them to stand, you know, and I think that's an unfortunate reality for our country.

00:35:22.000 So, yeah, I mean, Knowles was kind of the standout.

00:35:26.000 I was pretty focused on my immediate proximity.

00:35:30.000 But, you know, it was just a very interesting perspective to just be looking down, watching them react.

00:35:36.000 And frankly, I just have to say one more time Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tully were very disgraceful in the way they just kept interrupting.

00:35:46.000 And then eventually, you know, they walked out probably five, 10 minutes before the helicopter pilot received the Medal of Honor.

00:35:56.000 So, I mean, it was honestly a relief when they left.

00:35:59.000 But again, it makes me sad as an American to see the ranks on that side of the aisle dwindling as we go here year by year. 0.94

00:36:08.000 Yeah, I mean, that, and I think one of the craziest parts is how they all stayed seated Democrats when Irina's mother was in tears and they were, Trump was just crazy.

00:36:18.000 Yeah, and they were all staying seated. 0.87

00:36:20.000 And I think, was that when he turned to them and said, You guys are crazy, or was that on a separate thing? 0.61

00:36:25.000 Yes. 0.96

00:36:25.000 Yeah, he says, Why can you not stand for that? 0.96

00:36:28.000 I'm pretty sure that's when he had that moment.

00:36:30.000 And, I think that was one of the more powerful politically, that was one of the more powerful moments in the room.

00:36:37.000 And I remember thinking, this is not going to look good for them because Irina was a war refugee. 1.00

00:36:45.000 I thought they were the party that supports refugees.

00:36:47.000 And they can't stand for her parents and for her death, even though she's from Ukraine. 0.97

00:36:55.000 I thought you guys support the war in Ukraine and funding it endlessly.

00:36:58.000 I mean, what are we doing here just because Trump is honoring her?

00:37:01.000 You can't bring yourself to stand up and honor her.

00:37:03.000 It was really, there was around my section, there were people just, you know, drop jawed, kind of mumbling, I can't believe it.

00:37:10.000 I can't believe it.

00:37:11.000 So I knew that that moment hit powerfully at home and on TV.

00:37:17.000 Because in the room, it was definitely an elevated response.

00:37:20.000 I'm actually curious what you guys thought watching it from your perspective, you know, not in the room, what moments played the best on television?

00:37:29.000 That's kind of what I'm curious about right now.

00:37:31.000 Yeah, I think definitely that played the best.

00:37:34.000 And then also just Trump calling them out to their face on when they would refuse to stand or clap.

00:37:41.000 Like we played a clip of Cliff earlier reacting to them just refusing to clap and stand up for our country.

00:37:48.000 Yeah.

00:37:48.000 And Andrew, I'll give you a little more on that.

00:37:51.000 The clip we played is when he literally said to them, I'm going to give you an opportunity to stand to show your support for this statement.

00:37:58.000 And his statement was just, you know, hey, as the American government, our first priority is American citizens.

00:38:05.000 You know, I might be getting a little excited, but that got me pumped up, right?

00:38:05.000 And I just.

00:38:08.000 2026, I can be a pessimist.

00:38:10.000 I can think, hey, we're, you know, we're going to be in trouble.

00:38:12.000 A lot of the numbers don't look great.

00:38:14.000 That was a moment that made me think, you know what?

00:38:17.000 If this is the sentiment of the Democrat leaders, it's an open door for us.

00:38:21.000 Yeah.

00:38:22.000 No, you're right.

00:38:23.000 That was a really powerful.

00:38:24.000 I actually kind of didn't hear it right at first.

00:38:27.000 And then I didn't know what he said because it was a novel way to approach an applause line in the, in the, You know, in that speech.

00:38:37.000 But then I, you know, I saw from the reaction of the members on the floor that, you know, a gauntlet had been thrown and he was leaning into it.

00:38:46.000 And then I leaned over to somebody and I was like, what did he say?

00:38:48.000 You know, and I kind of gathered that it was like a, you know, do you stand with America moment?

00:38:53.000 And that we need, you know, government's compact with its people is that we put them first.

00:38:57.000 And yeah, I think that's a powerful line in the sand and it's something that's going to be brought up again and again and again.

00:39:04.000 Totally agree.

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00:40:06.000 We don't want to go too much longer, but we did want to get the hockey clip because we didn't play it earlier.

00:40:10.000 So, this is Team USA's arrival on the scene 445.

00:40:16.000 You're going to win big.

00:40:18.000 You're going to win bigger than ever.

00:40:20.000 And to prove that point, to prove that point, here with us tonight is a group of winners who just made the entire nation proud the men's gold medal Olympic hockey team.

00:41:11.000 that's the first time I've ever seen them get up and actually not all of them did get up but they beat a fantastic Canadian team in overtime as everybody saw as did the American women who will soon be coming to the White House.

00:41:29.000 That was pretty good.

00:41:31.000 That was pretty good hearing it.

00:41:32.000 Yeah, uh, well, we have Jack.

00:41:35.000 That was really interesting hearing it from the oh, all right.

00:41:38.000 Oh, no, no, hey, what's up, guys?

00:41:41.000 Go ahead, Andrew.

00:41:41.000 What's up, man?

00:41:43.000 Good.

00:41:43.000 I hope you had a fun night there.

00:41:46.000 Look, it looks like you had a great time.

00:41:48.000 That was a good time.

00:41:50.000 It was fantastic.

00:41:51.000 Tons of energy, I will tell you.

00:41:52.000 But that was one of those moments where the gallery erupted in applause as Trump was still talking.

00:41:58.000 So I actually couldn't make out what he was saying.

00:42:01.000 The acoustics in the room are such that you can't hear.

00:42:03.000 You just kind of hear him reference the hockey team, and then everybody starts exploding in applause.

00:42:09.000 So it was actually great to hear kind of how he finished that off and he powered through the applause.

00:42:14.000 I think it made the moment even better for you guys watching it at home and in the studio.

00:42:19.000 Because I couldn't hear any of it, but I just, you know, I knew we were celebrating the hockey team, so I just lost my mind and started shouting and whistling and clapping.

00:42:27.000 So that was a beautiful moment.

00:42:29.000 Now, Andrew, is it true?

00:42:30.000 I had a report from some house interns that you tried to steal one of the gold medals and the hockey team actually knocked one of your teeth out.

00:42:39.000 Is that true?

00:42:41.000 I'm going to have to take a day off from the show tomorrow to get some dental work, but it's a good thing we are in America because we have the best dentist.

00:42:50.000 We have the best dentist.

00:42:52.000 So I'm going to get these puppies fixed up.

00:42:54.000 It's going to be great.

00:42:55.000 It was actually when I bit into the gold, it broke off that way.

00:42:58.000 Oh, okay.

00:43:00.000 You're making sure the capacity.

00:43:01.000 No, I mean, this was so much more than just a speech.

00:43:05.000 This was made for TV.

00:43:07.000 This is what Donald Trump is best at.

00:43:11.000 He leaned into spectacle.

00:43:13.000 He leaned into greatness.

00:43:14.000 You saw the intensity of emotion, the full display of the American people from champions to heroes to families of the fallen, you know, a hero from Camp Mystic.

00:43:27.000 It's just all over the country, so many different things.

00:43:30.000 War heroes.

00:43:31.000 Oh, that was a great moment.

00:43:32.000 There's so many heroes.

00:43:34.000 You look at this, and it's like, if you're some normie, just to finish the point, if you're some normie who's watching this, you're going, I like that team.

00:43:43.000 I like what I see here.

00:43:44.000 I want more of this.

00:43:45.000 I want to be part of that thing.

00:43:47.000 That's the goal.

00:43:47.000 And that's, I think he achieved on all fronts.

00:43:50.000 Totally.

00:43:51.000 I totally agree.

00:43:52.000 It felt like a big family there in the upper gallery, I will tell you.

00:43:56.000 You saw the conflict playing out on the floor, but in the gallery, it was just unanimous.

00:44:02.000 It was absolutely, everybody felt bonded together.

00:44:05.000 I said there were a couple moments that stood out, but really, you just reminded me of all the.

00:44:10.000 It was so packed with personal stories that it's hard to keep track of them all.

00:44:14.000 I'm thinking about the young girl that is learning to walk again.

00:44:19.000 Because she was hit by an illegal driver with a CDL out of California.

00:44:23.000 And man, I got teared up when I saw that story.

00:44:26.000 It was so powerful.

00:44:28.000 You know, when the Venezuelan uncle Enrique, when he got reunited with his niece, I mean, that was powerful.

00:44:36.000 There were just so many little moments that it's hard to really parse through.

00:44:41.000 But you're right, it kind of comes together in this giant mosaic that says, I love this team.

00:44:46.000 These are the people that love this country and are standing with the real people.

00:44:50.000 And I think that message came through loud and clear tonight.

00:44:53.000 Absolutely.

00:44:55.000 It's inspirational.

00:44:56.000 It's just inspirational.

00:44:57.000 And it's America at our best, America at our worst.

00:45:02.000 So many different moments of using that emotion.

00:45:05.000 And you know what you didn't hear Donald Trump say a lot tonight?

00:45:08.000 You didn't hear Donald Trump use the word I a lot.

00:45:12.000 He didn't really talk about himself that much.

00:45:14.000 He barely talked about the work of the cabinet.

00:45:17.000 I think Marco got a shout out, JD, and that's pretty much it.

00:45:23.000 You know, we were expecting, I think, coming in, a lot of people to hear, oh, it's the golden age, everything is good, et cetera.

00:45:29.000 But what he put on was a tour de force.

00:45:32.000 I said on Twitter, and I'm going to stand by this, I really mean it.

00:45:35.000 That speech was not a home run.

00:45:36.000 That was a home run derby.

00:45:39.000 And this State of the Union, it's the best State of the Union I've ever seen.

00:45:43.000 And this was a speech that will make you fall in love with America all over again.

00:45:48.000 And speaking of that, we want, gentlemen, I got to make it to my way over to Statuary Hall.

00:45:55.000 So I got to dash.

00:45:57.000 But really well said, Jack and Blake and Cliff and Danny.

00:46:02.000 Thanks for holding it down and God bless you guys.

00:46:04.000 We'll see you tomorrow morning.

00:46:06.000 We'll see you tomorrow.

00:46:06.000 All right.

00:46:07.000 We want to get one more clip in, I think, before we head out and I'll scan to see if we have any more thoughts from the chat.

00:46:14.000 But let's do the clip of one of the veterans receiving the Medal of Honor.

00:46:18.000 This is the 100-year-old one, 446.

00:47:05.000 That guy was looking pretty good for his age.

00:47:07.000 We got a donation from Rifleman 1007.

00:47:12.000 Only way the hockey team entrance could get better was if they hammered some beers as they did it.

00:47:19.000 It's definitely the Kash Patel strategy. 0.90

00:47:22.000 Probably not the Charlie strategy, but it would be one of them if they'd done it.

00:47:27.000 It would have been entertaining.

00:47:28.000 It would have been memorable.

00:47:29.000 Blake, so I was trying to look this up earlier, you know, just AI, whatever, using Grok.

00:47:35.000 I don't think that.

00:47:37.000 I certainly can't remember a Medal of Honor ever being awarded, let alone two, at the State of the Union before.

00:47:45.000 Have you ever heard of that, or do you guys remember anything like that being done before?

00:47:48.000 Yeah, we looked it up, and this was the first time it had ever been done.

00:47:52.000 And he did it twice.

00:47:53.000 I mean, just as a guy who served the military.

00:47:56.000 So, do you understand how hard it is to get a Medal of Honor and the amount of honors bestowed on that?

00:48:01.000 That you need to be in a situation where you probably are supposed to die, where you're probably going to be killed.

00:48:08.000 This is why so many.

00:48:10.000 And you do so and you go above and beyond the call of duty.

00:48:13.000 So you save the lives of others.

00:48:15.000 You finish the mission, even in a situation where you probably could have died or did die.

00:48:20.000 And this is why so many medals of honor are, of course, awarded posthumously.

00:48:24.000 And in addition to that, you need two witnesses to be able to do so.

00:48:28.000 And I had actually heard this story about the Maduro raid.

00:48:32.000 I don't even know if it was all public, but the fact that they did shoot up the leg of the helicopter pilot on the way in, the pilot of the Chinook.

00:48:40.000 So, I mean, the entire mission could have been a failure.

00:48:43.000 Every single soldier could have been killed on the infill, so on the way in.

00:48:49.000 And he refused to allow that to happen.

00:48:51.000 He refused to let down his fellow men.

00:48:54.000 He continued the mission, came home.

00:48:56.000 And look, the Medal of Honor, it's the only award that's worn around the neck.

00:49:01.000 It's the only award that's authorized to be worn in any clothing, so you don't have to have your uniform on.

00:49:06.000 You can wear any suit, et cetera.

00:49:08.000 And one of the things, just on a personal level, I think has always touched me is that no matter what rank you are, If you see someone wearing the Medal of Honor, even if you're, you know, 100 pay grades above them, you are still required to salute the Medal of Honor no matter who wears it because of what they did and what that award stands for.

00:49:31.000 Very nice, very nice.

00:49:33.000 And the mission he did was interesting.

00:49:35.000 He shot down four Soviet MiG fighters in a classified 1952 operation.

00:49:41.000 It's like Top Gun, but in the 50s, basically.

00:49:44.000 Very, very impressive guy, very impressive moment.

00:49:48.000 As usual, like we said, Trump, very aware of the stagecraft.

00:49:53.000 We were joking as he walked out that he had the puff on his hair, but I think everyone forgot about that pretty much the moment he started speaking, which I think is a good measure of how the speech went.

00:50:04.000 Overall, I don't think we have too much to say extra.

00:50:09.000 It was a strong speech.

00:50:11.000 It went well.

00:50:12.000 He hit all of the big topics and seems like the audience really liked it, which is good.

00:50:18.000 Yeah, overall, you got to please them.

00:50:19.000 Yeah, he hit the domestic issues that he needed to hit for the voters and for the midterms.

00:50:24.000 So, yeah, I think he hit all the boxes.

00:50:27.000 Sounds great.

00:50:28.000 Foreign policy, think of it.

00:50:30.000 He didn't bring up foreign policy until about 90 minutes into the speech, only stayed there for a little bit.

00:50:38.000 You know, you could see him making that sort of pitch that Iran is this hostile actor, that they are a hostile force, that, you know, obviously, like we talked about earlier with the Sword of Damocles that's out there.

00:50:51.000 And look, I'm just going to say it.

00:50:53.000 You know, I said going in that the White House would have a challenge of being able to come up with ways to get beyond the Sword of Damocles.

00:51:00.000 Not only did they surpass it, they destroyed it.

00:51:03.000 You know, they were able to create through these moments, through these made for TV moments.

00:51:09.000 A way to get people to focus on the stories through showing the personal, you know, just the individuals who are involved in them.

00:51:20.000 And of course, you know, Erica being there with the mother of Irina Zarutska, I mean, just an incredible moment, you know, regardless of your politics.

00:51:30.000 I don't care who you are.

00:51:31.000 I mean, that's got to make you tear up when you see the two of them together and realize what they both went through in the same period of time.

00:51:38.000 And, you know, I went and looked it up, Charlie's last tweet.

00:51:41.000 Charlie's very last tweet, two hours before that bullet rang out, was about Arena Zarutska.

00:51:48.000 And, you know, he'd been tweeting quite a bit about it that day and in the days prior.

00:51:52.000 So, you know, this was something that was on his mind.

00:51:56.000 And the fact that the two of them came together is phenomenal.

00:51:59.000 You think of the logistics of getting everyone together, let alone getting people from a war zone all the way to the State of the Union.

00:52:06.000 It's just an incredible job by the White House all around.

00:52:10.000 It was.

00:52:12.000 Anything else?

00:52:13.000 Final thoughts, Cliff?

00:52:14.000 No, great home run speech.

00:52:16.000 I thought his temperament was great.

00:52:17.000 I thought he hit on everything he needed to.

00:52:19.000 And look, we've got our marching orders for 2026.

00:52:21.000 I think the narrative's been set.

00:52:23.000 And I think Jack's right to hit on a lot of things that connect with people.

00:52:27.000 And it's going to be up to us.

00:52:29.000 We've got to go out there and do the work.

00:52:30.000 So great night all around.

00:52:32.000 All right.

00:52:33.000 Ann Girl says I loved Speaker Mike Johnson's facial expressions throughout the speech supportive, congenial, and appropriately disapproving at the right moments.

00:52:46.000 Amen.

00:52:47.000 He's very good at that.

00:52:49.000 It was a strong speech.

00:52:50.000 I think I didn't get a bingo, but I'm pretty satisfied despite that.

00:52:54.000 I didn't even come close.

00:52:56.000 And it was strong, and we'll have more to say about it tomorrow.

00:52:59.000 And we'll also find out what the heck the Democrats said, if anything, of note.

00:53:02.000 It's probably just really annoying, but we have to go find that out.

00:53:05.000 So we'll have to go watch it so all of you don't have to.

00:53:10.000 But for all of you who tuned in, thanks for watching.

00:53:12.000 That was a long State of the Union.

00:53:14.000 It's almost midnight.

00:53:15.000 On the East Coast.

00:53:16.000 It's almost 10 p.m. even here in Phoenix.

00:53:18.000 So we need to get our crew, they've had a very long day, so we need to get them some rest so we can do the show tomorrow.

00:53:25.000 Thank you to everyone who tuned in.

00:53:27.000 And we'll see all of you soon.

00:53:33.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - February 25, 2026

The President Honors Charlie at the State of the Union

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