J.D. Vance gives an amazing speech about what is happening in Germany and the geopolitical implications of such, we break down why Maine still has men winning awards and medals, a shocking story, what we can do to end the lawfare, and a very weak summit from the disinvited crew of the people that used to be involved in the Republican Party. And finally... why is Senator Tom Cotton stopping some of President Trump s nominees? We explore.
00:00:00.000Okay, everybody, it's in the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:01.000J.D. Vance gives an amazing speech about what is happening in Germany and the geopolitical implications of such.
00:00:07.000We break down why Maine still has men winning awards and medals, a shocking story, what we can do to end the lawfare, and a very weak summit from the disinvited crew of the people that used to be involved in the Republican Party.
00:01:05.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:55.000We are doing our summer student event again in Tampa, Florida in July.
00:02:00.000Momentarily, after the conclusion of our time together today, I will be getting into a car and going to the University of South Florida for the kickoff of the American Comeback Tour.
00:02:13.000We mention frequently here on this program how Donald Trump has remade the Republican Party.
00:02:19.000How Donald Trump has kicked some of the...
00:02:22.000Rough edges of the Republican Party out.
00:02:26.000And this is more clear than ever, given President Trump's approach to foreign policy.
00:02:33.000Unafraid to call Zelensky a dictator, which of course he is, saying that I'm going to go visit Russia and Putin should go visit America.
00:03:57.000Alyssa Farah worked for Mike Pence and was a top-level communications director for President Trump and his administration in the first term.
00:04:08.000You got Stephen Richer, who we helped get rid of, by the way, in Maricopa County as Maricopa County recorder.
00:04:15.000You have Harry Dunn, who was one of the January 6th police officers, I believe.
00:04:22.000Mark Cuban, Jared Polis, Chris Christie.
00:04:25.000Remember when Chris Christie used to be...
00:04:26.000I was going to say running around, but that wouldn't be fair.
00:04:31.000I was going to say he used to be running around all of our circles.
00:05:12.000But it's much more interesting than that.
00:05:16.000The one thing that unites every single one of these people, actually two things, is their belief in neoconservative foreign policy, number one.
00:05:26.000And number two is their admiration of the security state.
00:05:31.000The unquestioning gospel that is delivered from the Central Intelligence Agency.
00:08:33.000Hexeth just announced an 8% annual cut at the Department of Defense.
00:08:37.000But let me reiterate, there are so many people in the Republican Party, in the U.S. Senate, that hold these neoconservative, neoliberal views.
00:08:47.000And just so we are clear, what is a neoconservative?
00:08:49.000A neoconservative is a modern-day empire builder.
00:08:53.000They want to invade the world and invite the world.
00:08:56.000Neoconservatism is an outgrowth of Marxist ideology.
00:09:35.000But the point I want to reiterate to all of you is that there are still a lot of senators right now that talk a good game when it comes to President Trump, and they're not always there.
00:11:50.000Extremely thoughtful man who is against the Bush-Junta philosophy, as we have seen articulated in the previous segment about this ridiculous gathering that they're doing.
00:12:03.000Elbridge Colby has been nominated by the president because he earned it to be basically a third in line at the Department of Defense.
00:12:11.000It's called the Undersecretary for Policy.
00:12:30.000And he has written the premier book on the rise of the Chinese Communist Party, on the looming danger, the clear and present danger of the CCP. And for whatever reason, we haven't been able to get a good answer.
00:12:47.000His nomination has been stalled and is being opposed by Senator Tom Cotton.
00:12:55.000Now, thankfully, we're moving in the right direction here.
00:12:58.000Senator Tom Cotton, I've known him for quite a while.
00:13:52.000And so what's really going on here with the Elbridge-Colby-Tom Cotton collision is that it's a philosophical and a worldview schism that is unfolding.
00:14:03.000I've now sent out two tweets, they've been seen millions of times, about 7 or 8 million times, asking the question, why Senator Tom Cotton is getting in Elbridge-Colby's way?
00:14:14.000To become third in line, it's one of Trump's picks.
00:14:17.000We don't know the answer to that question.
00:14:20.000It's probably because Senator Tom Cotton is getting a little worried that the Bill Kristol, George W. Bush, foreign policy regime is coming to an end.
00:15:26.000But now we are talking about the inner workings of these departments.
00:15:30.000And Elbridge's book, which you guys should all check out, The Strategy of Denial, American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict, is one of the most thoughtful pieces of work.
00:15:46.000And the criticism that they have against Elbridge Colby is that Elbridge basically has written that he does not want to go to war against Iran.
00:15:57.000He has been very clear that we should not get into a kinetic bombing campaign, a ground war against Iran.
00:16:05.000And for that, it has resulted in a tension point.
00:16:13.000And you're seeing the ideological rift unfold, and I have been helping lead the X and the Twitter chatter here.
00:16:21.000Again, I hope Senator Cotton does the right thing.
00:16:23.000This is not against him personally, but I can tell you if he does oppose some of these nominees, that the grassroots of Arkansas are not going to like that.
00:16:30.000They're not going to like the fact that President Trump won a declarative mandate election, and he's not able to get his cabinet positions in, and his sub-cabinet positions in, deputies, third in control, fourth in control.
00:16:43.000We have one tweet from Senator Cotton about Ukraine.
00:16:57.000Do so publicly or vocally or else the grassroots won't be happy.
00:17:01.000with president trump making massive strides in his first month in office alone to deliver on campaign promises to make america great again it's clear his administration is committed to driving down costs and unleashing prosperity across our country but big pharma is standing in the way they've raised prices on over 575 brand name drugs in january alone blocked competition and spent millions pushing overpriced meds on hard-working americans now they're pressuring congress
00:17:30.000To implement mandates that will undermine the one real check against drug companies and ban the very market-based incentives that help employers and families save on prescriptions and healthcare costs.
00:17:41.000Even worse, Big Pharma wants to strip American employers of the freedom to choose health benefits that work best for them.
00:17:48.000Their proposals could hand Big Pharma a $32 billion money grab at the expense of American employers and families.
00:17:55.000Conservatives for lower health care costs warns that Big Pharma isn't on our side.
00:17:59.000They fought against solutions to lower drug prices during Trump's first term, opposed Bobby Kennedy's nomination to HHS to make America healthy again, and now they want even more government control over the private health care market, interfering with President Trump's promise to cut prescription drug costs.
00:18:14.000Big Pharma is no friend of the American people.
00:18:16.000Go to pharmawindfall.com to demand fair health care practices, protect the private market and fight big pharma's greed.
00:18:28.000So President Donald Trump signed an executive order saying that men will not compete in female sports, but states are just ignoring it.
00:18:37.000And it's time for the Department of Justice and for the Department of Education to start to enforce this.
00:18:42.000It's a tragic story out of the state of Maine.
00:18:45.000Joining us now is State Rep Laurel Libby, a state representative from District 90, and also Zoe Hutchins from Maine High School Track and Field with a remarkable story here.
00:19:13.000This week on Monday, we just had the Class B state championship meet.
00:19:18.000And at the beginning of the meet, one of my teammates came over to me and she told me that she and the other girl pole vaulters were going to have to compete against a biological male.
00:19:29.000And understandably, she was very upset about this and very distraught and discouraged because she knew and the other girls knew that They wouldn't be able to beat this male.
00:19:42.000And that because he decided to compete in the girls' category, they would automatically be knocked down a spot in the state rankings and he would win the gold.
00:19:56.000So she was very upset about that, understandably.
00:19:59.000And I was very upset about that because no girl should be put in that situation and no male athlete should have the opportunity.
00:20:09.000To step in and compete against women and take away their opportunity to be successful and to win and to have the honor of winning a gold and winning the state championship.
00:20:21.000So that inspired me to respond to Representative Libby's post on Facebook and just stand up for my teammate and for the other pole vaulters and any other female athlete who ever has to face competing against a male.
00:20:54.000So we all know that several weeks ago President Trump issued his executive order demanding that states not allow biological males to participate in We are going to continue to allow biological males to participate in girls' sports.
00:21:20.000And we knew it was only a matter of time before that actually happened after that.
00:21:25.000And that was this Monday, this biological male.
00:21:29.000A boy participated in the pole vaulting at the state championships and won and captured the podium that so many Maine girls have been working so hard to compete in.
00:22:22.000So, I really didn't hear much from the rest of my team other than that one girl who was directly affected and her two pole vaulting coaches.
00:22:35.000They were very upset and agreed that this should never happen.
00:22:39.000As far as the surrounding community, overwhelmingly I have been seeing and hearing support for our side and say that no, this should never happen.
00:22:51.000And of course there are Some outliers and in the minority that are standing up for John or Katie and are congratulating him on beating these girls.
00:23:03.000But from what I've seen and from what I've heard and experienced, by and large, I'm experiencing support for my stance.
00:23:12.000I mean, the side-by-side is remarkable here.
00:23:18.000President Trump has said that he might withhold federal money to Maine if this nonsense happens.
00:23:24.000Are any of your Democrat colleagues or any of, is the governor, anybody worried that this might interrupt federal payments to Maine if they allow this to continue?
00:23:34.000I have not heard that concern from the Democrat leadership.
00:23:38.000And let's be honest, we have a Democrat majority in the House, the Senate, and a Democrat governor.
00:23:45.000I think it's going to come down to that, that President Trump's administration is going to have to take action.
00:23:52.000And withhold resources, financial resources, in order to ensure that girls in Maine have a fair playing field.
00:23:59.000And it's too bad that it has to come to that, that it would have to come to federal action.
00:24:04.000But I think that's the only thing that will get us resolution here.
00:24:09.000The Maine Principals Association and Democrat leadership are pretty dug in on their position on this, and it's going to take intervention.
00:24:49.000Athlete, the biological male who participated and won the girls' gold medal will go on to participate in the regional meets coming up, taking, again, taking the spot of biological girls, females who've worked so hard but have been denied that first place standing because of this boy taking their place.
00:25:15.000In closing here, and Zoe, thank you for your willingness to speak out about this.
00:25:23.000Your teammates, what are the teammates saying about this and others that have seen this kind of injustice?
00:25:30.000Are they hoping that parents will start to step up and defend biological reality?
00:25:36.000Yeah, so I think that for the most part, none of them have thought about this yet.
00:25:43.000Really directly affected any of us until this week.
00:25:47.000And so I don't really think that most of them are really paying attention or looking when it didn't directly affect them.
00:25:56.000And on my team, at least, it doesn't seem like there's a lot of ready action to step in and make a change other than my teammate who was directly affected and had to compete against him, which is...
00:26:11.000A big reason why I wanted to do this and speak out against this because it is a huge issue and if we don't stand up and speak out now then it's going to continue happening and getting worse and it's going to be more widespread and I don't want any more girls to be affected by this.
00:26:27.000So I want to encourage any other athletes and especially female athletes.
00:26:34.000To stand up and speak out against this and speak up for truth.
00:26:38.000We have to speak up for just the biological reality and truth that males have huge advantages over women and that we need our separate spaces from them to be able to have the chance to succeed and win.
00:26:53.000Because if we give them an inch, they'll take a mile.
00:26:58.000If we continue allowing them to step in, then women will no longer have their own separate spaces, and that's just not okay, and that's not something that I'm willing to let happen.
00:27:08.000I just wish more adults in the room would agree, but the current set of circumstances in Maine, as you well know, is that creepy men should be able to terrorize women at their choosing.
00:27:18.000So thank you both so much, and we'll be watching this story very closely.
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00:32:07.000The world's richest man with the world's most powerful man combining forces to deconstruct the administrative state, to restore us back to a constitutional intent, to secure our border, to restrain the globalists, to fight the woke mind virus.
00:32:25.000You have private citizen Musk and President Trump.
00:32:29.000It is a whole new wrinkle in Trump 2.0 that none of us saw coming even a year ago.
00:32:36.000There were some whispers that Musk might donate.
00:32:41.000And Elon has gone all in to be a phenomenally loyal friend and fighter for President Trump.
00:32:51.000On top of that, Elon Musk tweeted in favor of J.D. Vance, saying that J.D. Vance has been an excellent vice president and that he hopes he'll become the 48th president, preemptively endorsing J.D. Vance for 2028, of which I happen to agree.
00:33:06.000What we are seeing potentially, and I don't want to get too ahead of my skis, but if we do our job, we could be entering a Pax Americana.
00:33:15.000We could be entering a sequence of leaders, democratically elected, within our constitutional republic system, that is not just a four-year reign or an eight-year reign.
00:33:27.000We're talking about the opportunity, and this is why we must stay humble and hungry.
00:34:25.000And what he is deciding to do with his wealth, which you're always going to have wealthy people, is the opposite of what our elites have done the last 30 years.
00:34:34.000Soros used his money to destroy the country.
00:34:37.000We've had elites that have used their money to incinerate the republic.
00:34:41.000He's using his time and his treasure to revitalize it.
00:34:44.000We've been calling for better elites for the last five years.
00:35:12.000Because if you have to go after all these malefactors, then you have to look in a certain sense like you're going after your political enemies because your political enemies did commit serious...
00:35:26.000You have to both be just and appear to be just.
00:35:29.000And I think in one sense, part of what the Trump administration is doing, and I think you're seeing Pam Bondi do, I think you'll see Kash Patel do this, Emile Bove, who's working for Pam Bondi in the DOJ. I think there's a sort of politics of truth where they're going to be very honest, transparent, and forthcoming.
00:35:50.000There has to be a kind of prosecutorial plan laid out about both prosecuting a certain kind of crime as a kind of thematic headliner, but also providing a kind of way out of lawfare, even for our political opponents.
00:36:07.000So detail more of what that plan would look like and some of the pitfalls that might be included in that.
00:36:13.000Yeah, so I think a headliner is perjury.
00:36:19.000One of the things that lawfare needs in order to conspire and malign and attack and slander and destroy one's political opponents using legal mechanisms is sworn testimony.
00:37:44.000What you're basically saying is, yeah, we're going to go after some of our political opponents who perjured themselves and lied in various ways to malign their political enemies.
00:37:52.000But the purpose of this is so that we all go back to not conspiring against one another to slander and gin up faux legal conspiracies of lawfare and attack against our political opponents.
00:38:05.000So, I mean, let's talk about Executive Order 14157, ending the weaponization of the federal government.
00:38:12.000Tell us about that and how it can be used for this purpose.
00:38:17.000So, Bondi has basically put a memo out in response to Trump's executive order ending weaponization, telling DOJ we are going to go after every instance of this and also every instance of its appearance, because that's part of what you have to do.
00:38:36.000You have to both be just and look just and keep good faith.
00:38:42.000The weaponization executive order is going to do is basically wipe the slate clean.
00:38:50.000And I think they chose a really good version of this with Eric Adams, the mayor of New York.
00:38:56.000Because if you want to look like you're trying to be nonpartisan and ending lawfare, what better way to do it than to say, hey, the previous administration went after one of their own, a Democrat, because he turned tail...
00:39:11.000On their political program of bad immigration policy.
00:39:16.000So he's not helping some Trump supporter in some high-profile way.
00:39:22.000He's actually helping a Democrat mayor who's had a very adversarial attitude towards the Trump administration.
00:39:28.000So I thought that choice in following out this executive order was a really smart one because it sends the signal, look, we're not just trying to help our friends.
00:39:39.000We're trying to help everyone get out from under lawfare.
00:39:43.000So I think it's a really great way to move forward.
00:39:49.000But it's both dealing with the perjury question, I think, is a separate one, but also dealing with the weaponizations head-on.
00:39:57.000And Bondi's got tons of things to do on every level, but I do think there's a headliner issue, too.
00:40:04.000So I suppose the other question I have is not just the civilians that...
00:40:09.000But how would you recommend a plan to hold the actual prosecutors themselves that obviously broke conduct or laws like either Letitia James or Alvin Bragg or Jack Smith?
00:40:24.000How do you even launch an investigation into the investigators or prosecute the prosecutors that did not handle evidence correctly and broke customs and rules and laws?
00:40:35.000Is there any precedent for such an investigation?
00:40:42.000And so that's one of the reasons why I think some of the things I've seen so far are to actually release someone from lawfare attacks like Eric Adams.
00:42:29.000Because what you're trying to get to at the end isn't...
00:42:32.000Haha, I've seen all my political enemies be destroyed.
00:42:35.000What you're actually trying to get to is a golden age of justice and peace and good faith, where people tell each other the truth, even when they're political enemies.
00:42:42.000And I know that's a Pollyannish impossibility at the end of the day, but we can tell the difference between a sort of normal version of an imperfect world and the current lawfare absolute lying through their eye teeth all the time and perjuring themselves.
00:42:58.000I mean, we have people, officials, who say...
00:43:00.000Oh, you know, what else was I supposed to do besides perjure myself?
00:43:04.000Like, well, not perjure yourself is the answer, because we have to have a politics of truth and good faith.
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00:44:47.000J.D. Vance, friend of the program, friend of ours here, understands the MAGA faithful better than anybody else.
00:44:53.000Because he lived, his lived experience is that of a MAGA voter.
00:44:58.000This is J.D. Vance, live from CPAC. Let's play cut.
00:45:02.000208. We cannot rebuild Western civilization.
00:45:07.000We cannot rebuild the United States of America or Europe by letting millions and millions of unvetted illegal migrants come into our country.
00:45:22.000Cut 209. Peace is in the interest of the American people, and he's going to fight for it for the remainder of his administration.
00:45:30.000Wherever war breaks out, he's going to be the president of peace.
00:45:34.000Now, he, of course, is a very good negotiator, a very good businessman.
00:45:39.000He recognizes that a lot of these issues are tough.
00:45:42.000It's going to take a smart statesman to figure this stuff out.
00:45:46.000But we've got that in the White House.
00:45:47.000And I really believe that we're on the cusp of peace in Europe for the first time in three years because we have leadership from the Oval Office and we haven't had it in four years in this country.
00:47:02.000So the point that I try to make to our European friends, and I think that they're our friends, I believe that, I know President Trump does, is...
00:47:09.000That friendship is based on shared values.
00:47:12.000You do not have shared values if you're jailing people for saying we should close down our border.
00:47:18.000You don't have shared values if you cancel elections because you don't like the result, and that happened in Romania.
00:47:25.000You do not have shared values if you're so afraid of your own people that you silence them and shut them up.
00:47:34.000Germany needs another Berlin Wall moment.
00:47:40.000You don't even allow an opposition political party to gain strength, AFD. You have secret police going and knocking on doors because a post of a meme.