J.D. Vance: The Afghanistan withdrawal was a humiliation, and we take some of J.D.'s speech live that I think you're going to love. The war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq were a big mistake. The very least that many of you and many of us were asking for was, can we please not be humiliated? If we do so with duty and honor, and some prestige? What occurred, of course, was Joe Biden saying, "Get out of there as quickly as possible." This was done with no intelligence, no wisdom, and no capacity to listen to critics. We handed the keys to the country back to the Taliban. It was a multi-trillion dollar mistake. And let me repeat it: Basically, there was no reason that we did the Afghan withdrawal for no reason whatsoever. We did not achieve anything whatsoever. There are not less terrorists, there are more terrorists. And we did not do any more of anything for less than $1.5 TRILLION dollars. That's a waste of money, a massive waste of time, and a massive amount of effort, and I think we can all agree that it was a mistake. Charlie and I agree that the War in Afghanistan was a huge mistake, and those of you that served in those two wars are heroes, and you should be supported as heroes. Charlie, you are an incredible guy! Charlie - The Charlie Kirk Show is hosted by the Turning Point USA youth organization. Become a Member today, and get a free giveaway of a Make America Great Again hat and so much more! and when you become a member, you get a FREE giveaway of the Make America GREAT Again hat! - And when you join a Member, you'll get a giveaway of an M.A.U.T.V. hat and a FREE T-shirt, a FREE MAGIC hat and much more. - and a bunch of other goodies! Get involved with T-PUSA, you're gonna love it! CHarliekirk Show: The Charlie's Show: It's gonna be better than the rest of the world's best! CHEERS! CHLARRY KIRK SHOW: CHILLYKIRK IS BACK! CHECK OUT THE CHALLENGE: CHEERIE KREMEYER'S PODCAST: CHARRY'S SONGS: CHOULD'S BONUS EPISODE
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00:01:24.000Three years ago was the beginning of the end of the Biden presidency.
00:01:30.000Joe Biden became president under very suspicious means, a lot of hocus pocus, a lot of nonsense, shenanigans, from the 2020 election of January 6, and all of a sudden, poof, Biden is president.
00:01:43.000But Joe Biden's approval ratings were above 50% during February, March, April, and May of 2021.
00:01:51.000He was all about fighting COVID, all that nonsense, even though he repealed the Keystone XL pipeline, sent his shock troops after Douglas Mackey.
00:01:59.000He declared war on American energy independence.
00:02:04.000Joe Biden was a radical from the first day he became president because Kamala Harris is a radical, and Kamala Harris is working in tandem with him.
00:02:10.000But then something happened three years ago.
00:02:13.000Joe Biden made an ideological decision in the way that he was going to withdraw from Afghanistan.
00:02:17.000Now, to be very consistent, very clear, On this program, we make an argument that actually pulling from Afghanistan the withdrawal was a good thing.
00:02:25.000That getting out of Afghanistan was necessary.
00:02:27.000But the way that it was done was insulting.
00:02:47.000He said he was going to do it on the anniversary of 9-11.
00:02:50.000Now for many of you that remember in vivid detail the war on terror, Afghanistan, more so than even Iraq, was the big stand of the war on terror.
00:03:00.000I think we can all agree the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan were largely big mistakes.
00:03:05.000To be very clear though, those of you that served in those wars, you are heroes.
00:03:09.000You should be supported as heroes, and we thank you for your service.
00:03:12.000This is not about the rank and file that went to go fight for your country.
00:03:15.000This is about the out-of-touch oligarch generals and the people that play war games in D.C.
00:03:21.000that decided to go spend trillions of dollars, thousands of American lives, and ruin hundreds of thousands of lives in the process through PTSD and other horrible, irreversible issues.
00:03:32.000The war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq were a big mistake.
00:03:35.000The very least that many of you and many of us were asking for was, can we please not be humiliated?
00:03:43.000If we're going to end the war in Afghanistan, can we do so with duty and honor and some prestige?
00:03:50.000What occurred, of course, was Joe Biden saying, get out of there as quickly as possible.
00:04:34.000Thank you, Lindsey Graham, who's been a cheerleader for this effort for years.
00:04:39.000The Afghan war is one of the great mistakes in American history.
00:04:42.000It's one of the reasons why we have the posture on this program to be against adventurous foreign policy.
00:04:49.000But the least we could have done is to make sure that we fix this neoconservative debacle and end it correctly.
00:04:56.000That the last chapter as it is written is not done in a way that is humiliating to all of us, humiliating to the service, that puts more soldiers at risk, that potentially allows us to lose more lives on the way out.
00:05:09.000That we do it in a way that our equipment does not end up in the hands of our adversaries.
00:05:14.000Joe Biden's approval ratings were unmoved in March, April, May, June, July.
00:05:18.000And then as soon as Afghanistan happened three years ago, his approval ratings went below 50% and they never recovered.
00:05:26.000All that we wanted was to end this war with dignity, honor, and keep our servicemen and women safe, and keep the world safe.
00:05:35.000Joe Biden decided to just pull the plug, and instead of any sort of intelligent withdrawal, we saw one of the most chaotic, just breathtaking moments in American history.
00:07:25.000In the capital of Kabul Taliban fighters were enjoying the fruits of victory
00:07:31.000using the machines at an abandoned gym, driving bumper cars at a fairground and enjoying a
00:07:38.000carousel ride. And now three years later let us not forget by the way 13 Marines who lost their
00:07:45.000lives and Kamala Harris will not even say their names.
00:07:50.00013 Marines who were killed unnecessarily outside of the airport.
00:07:54.00013 Marines that were killed by an incendiary explosive device.
00:07:59.000Joe Biden never said their names, Kamala Harris not say their names.
00:08:01.000Kamala Harris will say the names of Dylan Mulvaney and these trans zealots that visit the White House, but she will not say the names of Marines that sacrificed their life for this country.
00:08:10.000And yesterday, in a humiliation ritual, the Taliban decided to remind you who won the war.
00:08:19.000You know, it was famously said when I grew up, America never really lost a war.
00:10:04.000Flying the helicopters, flying the tanks, selling our very precious information to the Chinese Communist Party.
00:10:11.000And Joe Biden and Kamala Harris made an intentional decision to give all those goods to the Taliban.
00:10:18.000Not only will you lose the war, not only will those of you that lost loved ones in Afghanistan be trolled and insulted, but the enemies then get the weapons on the way out.
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00:13:18.000They're celebrating marching this equipment, the planes, the tanks, the cars, the military vehicles, the weapons, over $100 billion.
00:13:29.000So we are $35 trillion in debt, and then we withdraw from a country after 20 years after achieving nothing, achieving nothing, at the Bagram Air Base that we built, that we controlled, that we surrendered, that we Basically retreated from, and then we have to watch back our equipment be thrown in our face in a humiliation ritual.
00:13:54.000This is what the Kamala Harris presidency will be for you.
00:13:59.000We lost 2,400 men and women in Afghanistan.
00:14:04.000The 13 that were lost unnecessarily need to be read here because they were completely ignored by Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.
00:14:12.000And this is just basically in your face?
00:14:14.000The Taliban is basically sending a message to all of our enemies, to the Chinese Communist Party, to North Korea, to Iran.
00:14:23.000Kamala Harris doesn't know what she's doing.
00:14:25.000She's cackling her way, trying to be president.
00:14:26.000And we do not have a current president, obviously.
00:14:30.000There's not a mention of this from the White House.
00:14:32.000They've never had to explain the fact that we abandoned all this equipment.
00:14:38.000We could have destroyed the equipment on the way out.
00:14:40.000You know that Donald Trump had an Afghan withdrawal plan, and he said, at the very least, we're going to destroy all the equipment on the way out.
00:14:46.000We're not going to allow them to just parade it.
00:14:48.000Yes, you're going to waste $100 billion, but that's a rounding error, unfortunately.
00:14:53.000But at the same time, at least it's not going to be paraded around, given to your enemies, and potentially used against you.
00:14:58.000You know that this will now be sold to arms smugglers, arms dealers, and potentially we are now going to have to fight our own equipment in the Middle East.
00:15:07.000At the bare minimum, heads should have rolled at the military for this.
00:15:11.000You know how many people were fired for this?
00:16:22.000Has anyone at all at the State Department, the Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency, the NSA, the National Security Agency, the FDA, the CDC, the Secret Service, the FBI?
00:16:46.000You climb the ranks through your incompetency.
00:16:49.000And that is the Kamala Harris view of the world.
00:16:53.000And when you are going to make your vote and you're going this weekend to talk to swing voters and talk to Democrats, you should show them just the video I just showed here and say, watch this.
00:17:01.000Watch all of that equipment, our stuff, our blood and sacrifice of our fellow countrymen.
00:17:07.000And then it's just trolled and put on display in a slow motion humiliation ritual.
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00:18:29.000I just want to close the Afghanistan thing very quickly.
00:18:31.000The Afghanistan moment, I think that if Donald Trump focuses on this and makes them watch the footage, he should do another press conference.
00:18:47.000I think President Trump should do another press conference with the families that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden still have not mentioned and just have this On a huge screen TV showing the equipment parade.
00:19:00.000I know a lot of people, I've been getting lots of text messages and lots of phone calls of people that are saying, Charlie, this gets my pulse rate spiking.
00:19:09.000People who are not political, people who love their country, who then see our American weaponry Have to be paraded in our face.
00:21:33.000I think this is much bigger than people realize.
00:21:36.000The media has completely whitewashed this.
00:21:38.000I think that if most Americans knew that at the Afghanistan Taliban, after 20 years, almost every swing voter in Pennsylvania has some connection to someone who served in the Afghan war.
00:21:51.000Remember, as I said previously, Afghanistan destroyed Biden's numbers.
00:22:27.000And we were going to keep Bagram because it's one hour away.
00:22:29.000Bagram is this massive air force base that I visited.
00:22:33.000It's a massive base that we're going to keep it because it's one hour, not because of Afghanistan, but because it's one hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons.
00:22:44.000And they were showing it off yesterday, but the fact is that China now controls Bagram.
00:23:59.000And that means the police officer have a few more sickos that they have to take care of
00:24:04.000instead of being in prison where those sex offenders belong.
00:24:08.000If Kamala Harris was so tough on crime, why is she making it easier for sex offenders to get out of prison?
00:24:15.000I think the media should ask her that question.
00:24:16.000Of course, Kamala Harris refuses to answer questions, but this is important stuff.
00:24:21.000I grew up in a family where we didn't have a whole lot of money, and I was raised by a tough-as-nails grandmother who, despite the fact that we didn't always live in the easiest neighborhood, We had something that our country believed every child deserved, whether they were rich or poor, our country believed that every child deserved public safety.
00:24:41.000And as Republicans, we don't think the government should do everything, but the things that it needs to do, it has to do well, and public safety is at the very top of the list.
00:24:52.000How can you have a country, how can you have an American dream, how can you have Poor children who look to the future with optimism and hope if they can't walk down the streets of their neighborhood safely.
00:25:02.000And these police officers fight to make that a reality every single day.
00:25:08.000And Kamala Harris is making their job harder, and Donald Trump is going to make their lives easier.
00:25:12.000That's why we're going to reelect him the 47th president of the United States
00:25:15.000So, let me just offer one final observation here because he has some of these issues are connected
00:25:27.000Some of these problems are obviously linked to one another and talking at the roundtable with the police officers and the sheriffs really drove that point home.
00:25:35.000So I talked to one sheriff who lives about an hour away from downtown Milwaukee.
00:25:39.000And even though he lives an hour away from downtown Milwaukee, he has Mexican drug cartel members who have been doing business selling drugs and harming the citizens of his community.
00:25:52.000When you hear Republicans say every state is a border state, that is not just a slogan.
00:25:57.000That is a sad reflection of the reality that we have drug cartels operating about as far north in this country as we possibly could.
00:26:06.000You hear people talk about arresting illegal immigrants and how the illegal immigrants completely run away, refuse to obey the commands of law enforcement.
00:26:15.000Why do they completely refuse to obey the commands of law enforcement?
00:26:18.000Because they got into this country in the first place under the promise that law enforcement wouldn't stop them and wouldn't enforce the law.
00:26:26.000So the border policies that we have at the southern border They make our communities less safe even as far north as Wisconsin.
00:26:34.000It means Mexican drug cartels operating in our communities.
00:26:40.000I talked to another police officer who talked about we have fentanyl not just in heroin and opioids and even prescription pills or I guess I guess non-prescription pills that are sold on the street.
00:26:51.000We've got heroin and we've got fentanyl, excuse me, we've got fentanyl in our marijuana bags that our teenagers are using.
00:27:00.000And look, I'm the parent of three young kids.
00:27:03.000My wife is here, and I'm thrilled to have her join.
00:27:05.000We've got a seven-year-old, a four-year-old, and a two-year-old.
00:27:07.000We don't have to worry about this yet.
00:27:09.000But I'm certain, because kids are kids, that one day, one of my kids is going to take something or do something that I don't want them to take.
00:27:16.000But I don't want that mistake to ruin their life.
00:27:59.000We know it's not easy to be a police officer.
00:28:01.000We know we're losing a lot of good people from the force.
00:28:04.000Some due to retirement, but some, they're just sick of all the garbage.
00:28:08.000But I'd ask you, keep at it for as long as you can.
00:28:12.000Keep doing this important work because there are a lot of us out there who are grateful for it.
00:28:17.000In about six months, your job's going to become a hell of a lot easier.
00:28:19.000God bless you guys, and thank you for having me here in Wisconsin.
00:28:26.000What we'll do here is we'll take a few questions from reporters before we get on our way.
00:28:30.000And what I would ask is, we'll get to the national reporters if we've got time, but if you're a local Wisconsin reporter, either in the Milwaukee area or outside of it, maybe start there, raise your hand, and I'll call on you first.
00:30:28.000Vance taking questions live from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
00:30:31.000Say they know that he just is who he is, right?
00:30:34.000I'd much rather have a political candidate who I disagreed with 25% of the time but was a real human being and was willing to speak off the cuff than to have somebody like Kamala Harris who hides behind a teleprompter and doesn't speak to the American people directly Unless she's got a script in front of her telling her exactly what to say.
00:30:52.000I think the unscripted nature of President Trump is one of the reasons why his campaign gives a pretty good insight into the kind of president that he's going to be.
00:31:00.000Now that said, we are focusing a lot on policy.
00:31:06.000I was in Pennsylvania yesterday talking about veterans issues.
00:31:09.000I was in Michigan the day before talking about how we have to stop the trade and energy policies that ship all of our manufacturing jobs to China.
00:31:17.000When Donald Trump was president, 12,000 American factories opened.
00:31:22.000The previous two terms, 60,000 American factories had closed.
00:31:26.000So we are talking about the policy and we're talking about the issues and we're going to keep on doing that.
00:31:30.000But my only advice to my running mate is be yourself.
00:31:34.000And let people see who you are, and I think he's doing that every day on the campaign trail.
00:31:51.000Well look, I think that Kamala Harris has weaponized the Department of Justice, not just against my running mate, not just against President Trump, but against a whole host of normal Americans for just exercising their First Amendment rights.
00:32:02.000I mean, not maybe the most significant scandal, but certainly a very large scandal, is the Department of Justice went after a pro-life Catholic father of seven for exercising his right to peacefully protest.
00:32:14.000The Department of Justice showed up, the Department of Justice leadership had officers show up
00:32:19.000at this guy's house and treat him like a common thug for exercising his right of First Amendment
00:32:25.000And I think that every single police officer here would agree with me when they say that
00:32:29.000we want a strong Department of Justice that focuses on law enforcement.
00:32:34.000Why don't they focus on shutting down the drug traffickers at the southern border and
00:32:38.000the sex traffickers and let Americans exercise their First Amendment rights?
00:32:42.000That's not what the leadership of the Department of Justice should be focused on, but unfortunately, under Kamala Harris, it has.
00:32:47.000So, I think that we are clearly the party and the movement of law enforcement.
00:32:52.000You talk to the field guys and the FBI, the people who are actually on the ground dealing with the bad guys, and they're as frustrated with their leadership as we are.
00:33:01.000We just want American leadership to empower law enforcement to enforce the laws.
00:33:06.000It's going to make us all safer if we do that.
00:33:22.000In an interview when you were running for Senate in September 2021, you were speaking with Jack Murphy, and you were talking about previous waves of immigration to the United States.
00:33:31.000You said the following, you had this massive wave of primarily Italian, Irish, and German immigration, and that had its problems and that had its consequences.
00:33:40.000You pointed to these problems as being higher crime rates, ethnic enclaves, and inter-ethnic conflict.
00:33:46.000Should the United States have prescribed similar policies to what you're proposing now, including mass deportation, to deal with those issues?
00:33:54.000Well, first of all, I also said there were a lot of benefits to that wave of immigration.
00:33:57.000But has anybody ever seen the movie, Games of New York?
00:34:31.000And in fact, what we did back in the early 20th century is that we recognized,
00:34:37.000and I think that we have to do that today, we recognized that at a certain level,
00:34:40.000America is a welcoming country to immigrants, but can only take so many people.
00:34:44.000We cannot take the entire world into this country.
00:34:47.000And I think that we're at a stage right now where we have to say, we've got to slow those illegal immigration levels to zero.
00:34:54.000We do have to deport some people who have come here illegally, and I think that will promote assimilation and a common American culture that's in the best interest of everybody.
00:35:02.000Look, I'm married to the daughter of South Asian immigrants.
00:35:05.000One of the reasons why I think that we have such a wonderful and successful marriage is because we both very much feel like America is our home, like our children belong here.