The Charlie Kirk Show - The Very Best of the Past Four Years + Where We Go From Here

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.

00:00:01.000 What a last four years.

00:00:03.000 We take a moment right before President Trump leaves office to remember all the accomplishments, the highlights here on the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:00:12.000 Things are about to change, and unfortunately, not for the better, but it's time to remember how good things have been made thanks to President Trump on trade, immigration, foreign policy, and so much more.

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00:00:33.000 Time for a look back on the last four years.

00:00:35.000 Buckle up, everybody.

00:00:37.000 Here we go.

00:00:38.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:40.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.

00:00:42.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:45.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:49.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:50.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:51.000 His spirit, his love of this country.

00:00:53.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.

00:00:59.000 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.

00:01:08.000 That's why we are here.

00:01:11.000 Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here with Isabelle Brown.

00:01:14.000 Welcome to this show today.

00:01:17.000 Isabel, today is the last day of the Trump presidency.

00:01:20.000 But it's been a great weekend.

00:01:21.000 We are debating whether or not we will air Biden's speech.

00:01:26.000 Probably will.

00:01:27.000 And we'll give you the instant analysis.

00:01:29.000 But I wanted to take today: look, there's a lot happening, obviously.

00:01:32.000 There's a lot of people that are previewing what is Biden going to do.

00:01:36.000 He's going to destroy everything.

00:01:37.000 Okay.

00:01:37.000 So there.

00:01:39.000 That's the end of that segment.

00:01:41.000 We'll get into all the details, his nominations, his blunders, his blusters, all of it.

00:01:48.000 But instead, I want to take a moment to do what I don't think any other show is going to do, Isabel.

00:01:52.000 Probably not today.

00:01:53.000 Which is to appreciate and celebrate the last four years.

00:01:56.000 There's such an important legacy that I think it's important we remember, especially after the events of the last few weeks and the narrative from the media and the left.

00:02:04.000 We can't forget about what was accomplished over the last year.

00:02:07.000 One thing I wish the president would have done the last couple months, at least post-election, even in the midst of all of this, you know, these struggles that he was in to try and figure out what happened in the election, is I wish he would have done a victory tour.

00:02:20.000 A victory tour, not as like, oh, I won the election, but look how much we've accomplished as a country or a celebration tour, whatever it might be called.

00:02:27.000 This is common for presidents to do that.

00:02:29.000 Obama did this back at the end of his term.

00:02:31.000 He did a big event in Chicago because there's a lot to celebrate.

00:02:35.000 And there are some amazing accomplishments in every single arena imaginable.

00:02:41.000 And he has changed international policy, trade policy, immigration policy, the courts.

00:02:48.000 And we want to make sure that we reinforce that legacy in the last full day of the Trump presidency.

00:02:53.000 Absolutely.

00:02:54.000 And really, the face of politics in America and around the world has forever changed now, thanks to this president.

00:03:00.000 I think we're seeing a resurgence of the idea of our founding as a nation that this government was meant to serve the people and not the other way around.

00:03:08.000 We have a big old stack of papers for you guys of accomplishments from the president during his term in office.

00:03:14.000 And we're really excited to unpack what that legacy looks like for you.

00:03:17.000 All right, so let's start at the beginning.

00:03:18.000 Isabelle, where were you when he came down the golden escalator?

00:03:21.000 Oh my gosh, when he came down the golden escalator, I was in college.

00:03:25.000 I was a student watching on TV.

00:03:27.000 And at the time, I was so confused about what this guy stood for, who he was.

00:03:32.000 He was making a really big splash in conservative politics, but I was really excited to just see his momentum grow throughout the primaries and then obviously against Hillary Clinton in the general election, too.

00:03:42.000 I remember where I was.

00:03:44.000 I was at our Young Women's Leadership Summit.

00:03:47.000 Our first ever Young Women's Leadership Summit in the suburbs of Chicago.

00:03:51.000 That was 2015.

00:03:54.000 President Donald Trump declared for the presidency the day after Jeb Bush declared for the presidency.

00:04:02.000 I think he just saw Jeb Bush declare.

00:04:03.000 He's like, screw it.

00:04:04.000 I got to get in.

00:04:05.000 Goes down that golden escalator.

00:04:07.000 And I just want you guys to understand.

00:04:10.000 Do you remember how boring politics was before Trump?

00:04:12.000 So boring.

00:04:13.000 Everything, it was just boring.

00:04:16.000 It was not eventful.

00:04:18.000 And I actually think the left is going to legitimately miss him.

00:04:20.000 In fact, we're already seeing that.

00:04:22.000 Oh, of course.

00:04:22.000 They're already looking for more tossing.

00:04:24.000 Trump legacy project.

00:04:27.000 You know, they're launching all these sorts of different things that Trump's going to be on the back nine in Mar-a-Lago at Trump National.

00:04:33.000 And they're like, he's still the source of our problems.

00:04:36.000 We're going to be like, well, I mean, I only served four years, but it was more than a presidency, though.

00:04:41.000 Right.

00:04:41.000 It was a movement.

00:04:42.000 It was a movement.

00:04:43.000 And for us, Isabel, you know, the five years, oh my gosh, think about this.

00:04:47.000 That's almost six years ago.

00:04:48.000 It's five and a half years ago.

00:04:50.000 He came down that golden escalator.

00:04:52.000 That's insane to me that it's been that long.

00:04:54.000 Has there been a day since that we have not talked about him?

00:04:57.000 No, of course not.

00:04:58.000 He's been the center of not just the national conversation, but the world's conversation.

00:05:02.000 He's been for six years.

00:05:02.000 Every conversation.

00:05:03.000 Every person, I think, has thought about Donald Trump since he came down the golden escalator.

00:05:08.000 Positive, negative.

00:05:09.000 At least once a day.

00:05:10.000 Indifferent.

00:05:11.000 And really what he struck at a moment in American politics where it looked as if you'd have one dynasty up another, against another, right?

00:05:20.000 You would have one Clinton dynasty up against the Bush dynasty.

00:05:24.000 And it was just going to be a matter of they're going to agree on immigration.

00:05:28.000 They're going to agree on trade.

00:05:30.000 They're going to agree on foreign policy.

00:05:31.000 They might disagree on corporate tax cuts.

00:05:33.000 That was really the only thing that separated.

00:05:33.000 That's it.

00:05:35.000 There's a couple other things, I'm sure, you know, maybe school choice policy and stuff.

00:05:38.000 But basically, it was, do you want the Bush or the Clinton way to rule the country, right?

00:05:45.000 Trump came in and said from his opening speech, which our team is pulling, because there are some, we're going to start at the very beginning when he said, everything that you've been told is a lie.

00:05:57.000 And basically, he said, we're getting ripped off.

00:05:59.000 And I'm going to run a campaign on three things that you're not supposed to talk about. 1.00

00:06:04.000 Trade, immigration, and these stupid wars that we're in. 0.98

00:06:08.000 Those three things are the three things that actually Clinton and Bush agreed on. 1.00

00:06:11.000 Think about it.

00:06:12.000 The trade deals we've been doing, the immigration policy that was put in place, and the reckless, endless wars overseas.

00:06:18.000 And so President Donald Trump comes onto the scene.

00:06:22.000 And I think he was first met with mockery more than anything else.

00:06:26.000 Would you agree?

00:06:27.000 Absolutely.

00:06:28.000 He was the definition of a political outsider.

00:06:30.000 And really throughout our lifetime, at least, Charlie, political dynasties were what dominated presidential elections.

00:06:36.000 It was always had a lot of people.

00:06:37.000 You couldn't disrupt them.

00:06:38.000 You can't disrupt the establishment whatsoever on either side of the aisle.

00:06:38.000 Right.

00:06:41.000 And here comes this millionaire from New York City that all of a sudden connected so intimately with people who had felt disenfranchised for so many decades in the American electorate, not just conservatives, but all across the political spectrum.

00:06:54.000 And so then President Trump all of a sudden got mocked and he got taken a little bit more seriously coming into the fall of 2015 when he started to lead in some of these polls.

00:07:04.000 And all of a sudden these debates were coming up and the very famous debate with Megan Kelly and Rosie O'Donnell.

00:07:09.000 I was there.

00:07:11.000 I was there and in Cleveland, Ohio, watching the debate with Trump and Kasich and Christie.

00:07:19.000 Remember all these guys?

00:07:20.000 Kasich used to call himself a Republican and Trump stole the show.

00:07:25.000 And Caruz did well and Rand Paul did well.

00:07:28.000 It was all about Trump.

00:07:29.000 Everything was about Trump from that point forward.

00:07:32.000 And I don't think people really knew how to deal with him.

00:07:34.000 No, it was so unexpected.

00:07:36.000 The nicknames on the debate stage for all of the primary debates, this guy who was really not polished when it came to how to deliver his policy ideas, but said it like it was and said what everyone was thinking, but nobody was willing to say, shocked the American political system.

00:07:51.000 That's exactly right.

00:07:52.000 And so then all of a sudden Iowa came around and he didn't win Iowa, but he did well, got second, and then he won New Hampshire, won South Carolina, won Nevada.

00:08:02.000 And I'll never forget Newt Gingrich was on TV and he said, Republicans are now going to have to accept the fact that Donald Trump's about to be your nominee.

00:08:11.000 And you just heard screaming and yelling all over the place.

00:08:13.000 He became the nominee and polls were coming out that he was down 58 points, that he was down.

00:08:20.000 He was going to destroy the Republican Party.

00:08:22.000 Everything was terrible always.

00:08:24.000 And in June and July of 2016, Hillary didn't really take him that seriously.

00:08:30.000 He was still campaigning.

00:08:31.000 He was still talking about trade, immigration, and ending endless wars, those three things.

00:08:37.000 And then the Republican convention happened.

00:08:39.000 Were you there?

00:08:40.000 The Republican convention?

00:08:40.000 I was not, not in 2016.

00:08:42.000 I was there in 16, and it was a convention unlike any other.

00:08:46.000 I can honestly say that.

00:08:48.000 And there was a spirit and there was an energy that just felt like it was a different type of political convention.

00:08:53.000 And then all of a sudden, we kind of roll into the fall of 16 and the debates come up.

00:09:00.000 And so let's get to our first sound here.

00:09:02.000 Let's go back.

00:09:02.000 Let's go to Cut 36.

00:09:04.000 And this was less about what actually the ramifications of this statement would be, because I know a lot of people are disappointed this actually never came to fruition.

00:09:15.000 But it was more of, oh, he just said that, and he's not going to be restrained.

00:09:20.000 Remember this moment?

00:09:20.000 Play Cut 36.

00:09:22.000 It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.

00:09:29.000 Because you'd be in jail.

00:09:30.000 Secretary Clinton.

00:09:37.000 Epic.

00:09:38.000 And that, I mean, from that, I think that was one of the most defining moments ever in debate history.

00:09:43.000 Oh, easily.

00:09:44.000 And remember, everything that Donald Trump had to overcome, the Billy Bush tapes, all of the attacks from within.

00:09:51.000 And Hillary Clinton never took him seriously.

00:09:53.000 She never visited Michigan, never visited Wisconsin, never visited Pennsylvania.

00:09:59.000 And when all of a sudden those states started to pour in, you remember where you were in the night of the election?

00:10:05.000 Oh, I will never forget.

00:10:06.000 We were watching the election from my college apartment thinking, well, at least we'll all be together if we lose.

00:10:11.000 And all of a sudden, these states came pouring in one after another.

00:10:14.000 It was so electrifying.

00:10:16.000 And one after the other, we realized that Trump was going to serve as president of the United States.

00:10:22.000 And we're going to go into that.

00:10:23.000 We're going to go in what defined this presidency.

00:10:25.000 Was it a success?

00:10:26.000 Was it a failure?

00:10:27.000 Was it as chaotic as they say?

00:10:29.000 Or was this a presidency that we should always remember as a success?

00:10:44.000 So we were talking about this as our memories were trying to go through this the best we could.

00:10:50.000 Let's go to Cut 41.

00:10:53.000 Listen to the promises he was making five and a half years ago.

00:10:57.000 Play tape.

00:10:59.000 I am officially running for president of the United States.

00:11:07.000 And we are going to make our country great again.

00:11:14.000 I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.

00:11:20.000 I tell you that.

00:11:26.000 I'll bring back our jobs from China, from Mexico, from Japan, from so many places.

00:11:33.000 I'll bring back our jobs and I'll bring back our money.

00:11:36.000 Sadly, the American dream is dead.

00:11:44.000 Bring it back.

00:11:47.000 But if I get elected president, I will bring it back bigger and better and stronger than ever before.

00:11:58.000 And we will make America great again.

00:12:02.000 Thank you.

00:12:04.000 I would say that more so than any other politician, he stayed focused on his mission from day one all the way through.

00:12:13.000 He did.

00:12:13.000 He didn't get distracted by the name calling or the debates.

00:12:17.000 He had one clear plan, and that was to serve the American people, to build back the things that we had lost throughout our lifetime as big government expanded to realms never before seen in American history.

00:12:29.000 And the idea of an individual American being squashed by politics.

00:12:33.000 Yeah, it's just, and you hear when he's talking about we're going to bring jobs back, we're going to do all of this.

00:12:38.000 That has been a laser focus of his throughout all of these years.

00:12:42.000 And so then he became president, and then the empire struck back.

00:12:47.000 A bit.

00:12:47.000 Yeah, that's a good way to put it, Charlie.

00:12:49.000 And I think they have not stopped this entire four years.

00:12:54.000 There have been promises to impeach this president since before his inauguration four years ago.

00:12:59.000 People on the left, just like his laser focus with serving the American people, have been laser focused on trying to take down this president at every turn, just throwing anything at the wall to see if it will stick.

00:13:11.000 And they've honestly gotten more outlandish as time has gone on.

00:13:14.000 That's exactly right.

00:13:15.000 And so now we have a set of circumstances where the Democrats are about to take over, you know, all power starting tomorrow.

00:13:24.000 And the question is, was this administration and this presidency worth it?

00:13:32.000 Some people are saying he didn't achieve anything.

00:13:37.000 There were no accomplishments, a lot of promises, not a lot of follow through.

00:13:41.000 It's just not true.

00:13:43.000 And as soon as he won in 2016, they spied on his campaign, Crossfire Hurricane.

00:13:49.000 They entrapped Michael Flynn in the early days of it.

00:13:51.000 Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, none of whom have been held accountable, by the way.

00:13:54.000 Correct.

00:13:55.000 And I don't think a Biden Justice Department is going to be quick to indict Peter Strzzok or Lisa Page or Brennan or Clapper or any of those folks.

00:14:04.000 And so none of that will probably ever be brought to justice.

00:14:08.000 And so, but from the minute he became president-elect, they all of a sudden, they immediately started to launch everything they possibly could to undercut him.

00:14:17.000 Instantly.

00:14:18.000 And that was their game plan from day one, present this unified front from the Democrat Party and from the political left to take him down at every possible second.

00:14:26.000 And despite that, President Trump remained focused, focused all throughout his transition, remained focused all throughout the early days of his presidency and even through the toughest parts of his presidency.

00:14:41.000 Being impeached twice, for example.

00:14:43.000 And also the special counsel with Bob Mueller.

00:14:46.000 And with all of that in front of him and all of the difficulty and all of the headwinds, President Trump still had an unprecedented amount of accomplishments.

00:14:55.000 And we're going to go through that list and we're going to go through the sound and also just some of the fun moments.

00:15:01.000 The highlight review.

00:15:02.000 You know when Kanye West came to the Oval Office?

00:15:04.000 I was an intern at the White House.

00:15:06.000 That was my first day of my internship when Kanye West was there.

00:15:09.000 It's wild.

00:15:10.000 And amongst many other moments that I don't think we will ever forget, Chuck and Nancy with Donald Trump in the Oval Office, so many moments.

00:15:19.000 And the underlying theme is a president that did things differently to accomplish things for you and for our country because he said he would.

00:15:27.000 Okay, we were remembering when he won, and it's worth going back because it still will go down as one of the most significant moments in American political history.

00:15:37.000 Let's play a little montage from that.

00:15:38.000 Play tape.

00:15:39.000 Election night in America, the fight for the presidency.

00:15:43.000 Because we don't care.

00:15:44.000 Okay, have Kentucky.

00:15:45.000 Who cares? 1.00

00:15:45.000 Kentucky and Caroline. 1.00

00:15:47.000 Indiana. 1.00

00:15:47.000 Don't care. 1.00

00:15:48.000 Indiana, it's West Virginia, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Mississippi, South Carolina, Alabama, Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming with its vote.

00:15:59.000 North Dakota, and South Dakota, Texas, up and down the middle of the country already.

00:16:05.000 Arkansas, Louisiana, the state of Montana, Missouri.

00:16:09.000 It was at 80% an hour ago for Blaine.

00:16:13.000 What is it now?

00:16:13.000 68%.

00:16:15.000 Okay, God damn it. 0.99

00:16:16.000 I'm nervous. 0.99

00:16:17.000 Ohio.

00:16:18.000 Oh, hold, hold.

00:16:19.000 Ohio, John.

00:16:20.000 Idaho.

00:16:20.000 Okay.

00:16:21.000 Yeah, I don't see a last slide here.

00:16:23.000 I don't see it at all.

00:16:24.000 North Carolina. 1.00

00:16:26.000 God damn it. 1.00

00:16:27.000 If we need Florida, are you shinging me? 1.00

00:16:29.000 Florida.

00:16:30.000 It is panic time.

00:16:32.000 Georgia.

00:16:33.000 Donald Trump, now the favorite to win the presidency.

00:16:35.000 Iowa.

00:16:36.000 New York Times now has it at 95% chance.

00:16:41.000 Utah will still win, but in order to do so, she has to win Wisconsin, Wisconsin, God Arizona, Alaska, Pennsylvania, Michigan. 0.63

00:16:51.000 What a nice.

00:16:53.000 How did this?

00:16:54.000 It's just fun to remember that.

00:16:56.000 Shock and awe, President Trump became President Trump.

00:17:00.000 And so then from that moment, they declared a revenge campaign, retaliation at all costs.

00:17:08.000 And the president had incredible perseverance.

00:17:11.000 You know, Isabel, the amount they threw at him, the amount that they tried to obstruct and thwart him was absolutely historic.

00:17:21.000 It took having a fighter in the White House to withstand that.

00:17:25.000 And, you know, we've talked a lot about this in the past, Charlie, but I think for most of our lifetime, conservatives were expected to be very polite and quiet and just respond to things in a very correct manner, pre-scripted, sound very presidential.

00:17:37.000 But this president reinforced to the American people that it's okay to fight back.

00:17:41.000 It's okay to stand up for yourself and what you believe in.

00:17:44.000 And most importantly, go on offense for conservative ideas.

00:17:47.000 And that's what he did.

00:17:48.000 And they launched the Mueller investigation just a couple months after President Trump was sworn in, which occupied a huge part of the news coverage in the early days of the Trump presidency.

00:18:00.000 In fact, almost two years into it.

00:18:02.000 The fight around the wall and shutting down the government was a big moment.

00:18:06.000 Remember this when Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer in the White House, and Donald Trump decided to bring Socratic debate into the Oval Office.

00:18:16.000 Play tape.

00:18:18.000 I don't want to do what you did.

00:18:19.000 20 times you've called for.

00:18:20.000 I will shut down the government if I don't get my woe.

00:18:23.000 None of us have seen it.

00:18:24.000 You want to know something?

00:18:25.000 You've said it.

00:18:25.000 Okay, you want to put that on.

00:18:26.000 You said it.

00:18:27.000 I'll take it.

00:18:27.000 Okay, good.

00:18:28.000 You know what I'll say?

00:18:29.000 Yes.

00:18:30.000 If we don't get what we want one way or the other, whether it's through you, through a military, through anything you want to call, I will shut down the government.

00:18:38.000 Okay, absolutely.

00:18:39.000 And I am proud, and I'll tell you what, I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck, because the people of this country don't want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country.

00:18:52.000 So I will take the mantle.

00:18:54.000 I will be the one to shut it down.

00:18:56.000 I'm not going to blame you for it.

00:18:57.000 The last time you shut it down, it didn't work.

00:18:59.000 I will take the mantle of shutting down.

00:19:01.000 And I'm going to shut it down for border security.

00:19:04.000 You shouldn't shut it down.

00:19:06.000 That's the definition of playing offense.

00:19:09.000 Did you hear him talking?

00:19:10.000 I'll shut it down, Chuck.

00:19:11.000 I've got no problems.

00:19:13.000 I'll shut it down.

00:19:14.000 President Donald Trump also played offense when it came to the courts.

00:19:19.000 Gorsuch Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett successfully put on the United States Supreme Court.

00:19:26.000 Let's start with cut 35.

00:19:28.000 Amy Coney Barrett, the trifecta in one term being added to the United States Supreme Court. 1.00

00:19:32.000 Play cut 35.

00:19:34.000 And that I will well and faithfully discharge.

00:19:38.000 And I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I'm about to enter.

00:19:45.000 The duties of the office on which I am about to enter.

00:19:49.000 So help me, God.

00:19:50.000 So help me, God.

00:19:55.000 There it is.

00:19:56.000 We have a new Supreme Court justice.

00:20:00.000 And there it is.

00:20:01.000 The Supreme Court back in constitutionalist hands.

00:20:04.000 That is going to be hopefully very helpful when Joe Biden tries to do executive amnesty, executive gun control.

00:20:11.000 In fact, there's some rules.

00:20:12.000 They want to do some things with gun control, don't they?

00:20:14.000 Yes, they do.

00:20:15.000 They have plans for day one, and it's certainly the first 100 days after tomorrow as well.

00:20:21.000 Trying to confiscate weapons and do all sorts of different things there.

00:20:25.000 President Donald Trump also changed the geopolitical landscape internationally.

00:20:31.000 He brought peace to the Korean peninsula.

00:20:33.000 President Obama said that North Korea was the biggest problem facing us.

00:20:38.000 Now, President Donald Trump was condemned for this, but he crossed into the DMZ and he was the first president of our lifetime, Isabel, not to start a new war.

00:20:48.000 And we already predicted this.

00:20:50.000 Joe Biden will declare a new war because there's nothing like getting America distracted, like getting us involved in another foreign entanglement like Bush and Clinton did.

00:20:59.000 And Obama.

00:21:00.000 President Donald Trump crossing into the DMZ, CUP 44.

00:21:13.000 I've never expected to meet you at this place.

00:21:18.000 Would you like to reject it for us?

00:21:27.000 I make a step forward.

00:21:28.000 You will be the first U.S. president to cross the board.

00:21:30.000 I'd be so proud to hear that.

00:21:32.000 Okay, let's do it. 0.94

00:21:33.000 Come on.

00:21:37.000 And there it was.

00:21:38.000 What a powerful moment.

00:21:39.000 I still get chills watching that video just to understand the level of leadership we saw from our president to take on what we assumed to be our worst enemy possible and try to negotiate peace.

00:21:51.000 That takes so much more strength than just declaring another war.

00:21:55.000 And I was so proud to see that. 0.99

00:21:59.000 Look, cancel culture is a very big problem.

00:22:02.000 And the fact is, the internet never forgets.

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00:22:10.000 Everything you search for, watch or click online can be tracked by big tech companies.

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00:23:22.000 Peace through strength and the strength that President Donald Trump showed internationally and with foreign leaders was something that allowed him to not have us get into another foreign war where Biden will almost assuredly get us into another foreign entanglement, unfortunately.

00:23:38.000 They tried to impeach him.

00:23:39.000 They tried to attack him every way.

00:23:41.000 Let's go to Cut 32 of President Trump holding up the headline to reporters: Trump acquitted Cut 32.

00:23:48.000 I've done things wrong in my life, I will admit.

00:23:51.000 Not purposely, but I've done things wrong.

00:23:54.000 But this is what the end result is.

00:24:04.000 Trump acquitted.

00:24:06.000 One of the more historic moments of the entire presidency.

00:24:10.000 Another thing was President Donald Trump's willingness to try to grow the Republican Party and the black community.

00:24:16.000 Your first day as an intern, Mr. West came, didn't he?

00:24:19.000 Mr. West was in the Oval Office and everyone was a buzz at the White House.

00:24:23.000 This was one of the more wild moments, and I loved every minute of it.

00:24:27.000 Cut 14, Cut 33.

00:24:29.000 I'm sorry, Kanye West talking to Trump.

00:24:32.000 It's more important than any specific deal, anything that we bring jobs into America and that we provide a transition with mental health and the American education curriculum.

00:24:47.000 And I encourage you to watch it in full because they agreed on a lot.

00:24:50.000 And Kanye ran for president.

00:24:52.000 I don't know how well he did, but that was definitely an amazing moment.

00:24:56.000 And President Donald Trump deserved credit for just the willingness to take a risk.

00:25:01.000 Take a risk and connect with the American people in a language they understand.

00:25:04.000 We like to refer to this president as the pop culture president because he understood what makes our country tick, what we love, what we're passionate about, and he engaged in that too.

00:25:13.000 President Donald Trump was the most pro-life president in American history.

00:25:16.000 Let's go to cut 38 of President Trump at the March for Life.

00:25:20.000 Cut 38.

00:25:21.000 It is my profound honor to be the first president in history to attend the March for Life.

00:25:35.000 We're here for a very simple reason to defend the right of every child, born and unborn, to fulfill their God-given potential.

00:25:48.000 For 47 years, Americans of all backgrounds have traveled from across the country to stand for life.

00:25:56.000 And today, as President of the United States, I am truly proud to stand with you.

00:26:05.000 It's awesome.

00:26:06.000 And the most pro-life president in American history, also the most ridiculed president, obviously, in modern American history, large in part because of that.

00:26:14.000 Then, of course, the China plague came, the China coronavirus came, and President Donald Trump was quick to blame China for it.

00:26:21.000 We have had four years of putting China on defense, which might have bought us some time.

00:26:25.000 Unfortunately, that's going to come to an end. 0.95

00:26:27.000 Let's go to Cut 39.

00:26:29.000 And to fight the China virus, it's the China virus, not the coronavirus.

00:26:34.000 Corona sounds like a place in Italy, a beautiful place.

00:26:37.000 It's corona. 0.88

00:26:38.000 No, it's the China virus.

00:26:40.000 They don't want to say it.

00:26:41.000 You know, the radical left, they don't want to say it.

00:26:44.000 Oh, my gosh.

00:26:45.000 It sounds like a place in Italy.

00:26:46.000 I'm going to miss this man.

00:26:47.000 Me too.

00:26:48.000 I'm going to miss his Trumpisms so much.

00:26:50.000 Politics is going to get so boring and so totalitarian so quickly.

00:26:53.000 Absolutely.

00:26:54.000 We have some more sound here that I want to get.

00:26:56.000 Let's get to, let's see if we have.

00:26:59.000 Oh, yeah, this is a good one.

00:27:00.000 Where President Donald Trump finally made Europe pay as being part of NATO.

00:27:07.000 And this might be a little loud, by the way, those of you on headphones.

00:27:09.000 It's a lot because the Marine ones in the background.

00:27:11.000 Let's go to Cut 31.

00:27:13.000 President Donald Trump saying Germany is delinquent.

00:27:16.000 They have not paid their NATO fees.

00:27:17.000 The United States has been taken advantage of.

00:27:19.000 This has been a common theme, making sure that we are not getting ripped off anymore.

00:27:22.000 Cut 31. 1.00

00:27:24.000 The Germany's delinquent. 0.98

00:27:25.000 They haven't paid their fees.

00:27:26.000 They haven't paid their NATO fees.

00:27:29.000 And they're way off.

00:27:30.000 And they've been off for years.

00:27:32.000 And they have no intention to pay it.

00:27:34.000 And the United States has been taking advantage of on trade and on military and on everything else for many years.

00:27:44.000 And I'm here and I've been scraping it out.

00:27:47.000 Sound familiar to his announcement for the presidency?

00:27:49.000 Where most politicians like Biden and other establishment politicians, they'll say one thing just to get in power and then they kind of lose it.

00:27:57.000 They're like, I said that thing, whatever.

00:27:58.000 Even Obama did that.

00:27:59.000 Obama was all about reforming a corrupt political system.

00:28:02.000 No blue states, no red states, just the United States of America.

00:28:05.000 We all kind of come together.

00:28:07.000 And of course, none of that transpired.

00:28:10.000 President Donald Trump said that we've been getting ripped off.

00:28:13.000 You need a new negotiator.

00:28:15.000 You need a new person to come in.

00:28:17.000 And that is President Donald Trump who will go after these trade deals, change the way we do immigration in this country.

00:28:24.000 And he has said that time and time again.

00:28:26.000 And put America and Americans first, first and foremost.

00:28:29.000 He said it perfectly that America has been taken advantage of for far too long.

00:28:33.000 And we're happy to be generous to the rest of the world, but it can't rip us off in the long run.

00:28:38.000 Amen.

00:28:38.000 And there's something that is usually said at high school graduations where it says, don't be sad it's over.

00:28:44.000 Be happy it happened.

00:28:46.000 I like that.

00:28:46.000 Poetic words for today.

00:28:48.000 That's usually what kids say at high school graduations because we have been so blessed by this, not just the president himself, but his whole team, everything that has been done through all the hard work.

00:28:59.000 And you know so many of those people that worked in the White House, they get in at like 6.30 in the morning and they leave at 9 o'clock at night and they've been working so hard.

00:29:06.000 And we want to appreciate those people because they really went through a lot and it was a harder presidency than ever to serve because of all the pressure.

00:29:14.000 We got an email here.

00:29:14.000 Charlie, doesn't it seem crazy how many troops there are in D.C.?

00:29:18.000 What do you think is going to happen?

00:29:20.000 I feel like the National Guard is there for other reasons.

00:29:24.000 And it goes on from there.

00:29:25.000 Thank you for your question, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:29:28.000 I think the National Guard is there as a reaction to what happened two weeks ago, but also to give that I don't think that the Democrats want the aesthetic of a vibrant, open Washington, D.C.

00:29:41.000 I think they want the aesthetic of, look how awful everything is.

00:29:45.000 It's militarized.

00:29:47.000 We're broken.

00:29:47.000 We're divided.

00:29:48.000 And now we have a new leader and everything from that point forward might be better.

00:29:53.000 I used to live in Washington, D.C.

00:29:54.000 And the reality is right now, everything in like a 30-block radius is completely shut down.

00:29:59.000 You have to provide your address, your utility statements to prove that you're going home if you live downtown, your tax payments to prove that you're going to work if you work downtown.

00:30:08.000 So it seems like the presence of tens of thousands of troops, more so than Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq combined in Washington, D.C. today, is a little bit unnecessary.

00:30:19.000 Incredible.

00:30:19.000 So let's get to the accomplishments.

00:30:21.000 You have some lists here as well.

00:30:23.000 We have a giant stack of papers for you guys full of all of the accomplishments from this president.

00:30:28.000 And the sad reality is the media isn't going to cover most of these things simply because they're not flashy news topics of the day and they don't make the coolest headlines, even though the work that was completed by this administration directly benefited the lives of millions of Americans every single day.

00:30:44.000 Obviously, we know the economy is probably the largest stronghold from this administration and will hopefully end up helping us out for years to come, assuming that the Biden administration doesn't undo everything on day one, which obviously we're expecting a little bit of.

00:30:57.000 We saw record job growth over the last four years, record low unemployment.

00:31:01.000 At one point, there were even more jobs available than people that could fill them, Charlie.

00:31:06.000 We had the greatest economy in American history.

00:31:08.000 And then, of course, we locked down because of the Chinese coronavirus.

00:31:11.000 But we also, wages were going up.

00:31:13.000 Historically, the bottom income earners were Most positively affected.

00:31:19.000 Not to mention the largest middle-class tax cut in American history.

00:31:23.000 The jobless claims hit a 50-year low, as you mentioned.

00:31:26.000 Poverty rates for blacks and Hispanics reached record lows.

00:31:29.000 Income inequality fell for two straight years and by the largest amounts in over a decade.

00:31:33.000 And here's a statistic you probably won't hear in the media, but the bottom 50% of American households saw a 40% increase in net worth.

00:31:42.000 That is amazing of an accomplishment from the Trump administration.

00:31:45.000 And just to know that this administration was fighting so hard for the groups of people that the media said they couldn't care less about is so important to remember.

00:31:53.000 Created 1.2 million manufacturing construction jobs, brought supply chains back to the United States, tax relief for the middle class, peace in the Middle East between Israel, UAE, Bahrain, fair and reciprocal trade, redoing NAFTA to the USMCA that put our country first, which was a promise made and a promise kept.

00:32:12.000 We're finally energy independent, something that Biden plans to change, unleashing America's oil and natural gas potential.

00:32:20.000 It's pretty incredible.

00:32:21.000 Not to mention replenished the national strategic stockpile, ensured American leadership and technology and innovation, advanced women's economic empowerment, investing in America's workers and families.

00:32:32.000 The list goes on and on and on.

00:32:34.000 Joe Biden plans to cancel Keystone XL Pipeline on day one and the Dakona Dakota access pipeline, which would be a gift to Russia and China, which is the point, of course. 0.76

00:32:42.000 Of course, that is what their aim and what their objective is. 0.75

00:32:46.000 And we're going to keep on going through this list, and it's pretty incredible.

00:32:49.000 Canceling the Iran deal, moving the embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing the Golan Heights, redoing NAFTA, no new wars, which is something I wish they would have talked about more in the campaign.

00:32:58.000 Finally, taking illegal immigration seriously, hundreds of miles of the border wall built, 200 circuit court judges and growing, Gorsuch Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, all of that.

00:33:07.000 But, Mr. President, for all of us that have supported, we want to say thank you for everything that you have done these last couple of years.

00:33:14.000 And we know it's been tough.

00:33:15.000 We know that you have been under intense scrutiny.

00:33:18.000 And some of you are watching, you might not be fans of President Trump.

00:33:20.000 You might think he has an unusual style.

00:33:22.000 You don't like all of this.

00:33:23.000 But I could tell you this right now: in six months and nine months, you're going to wish President Trump was still president.

00:33:31.000 In a year from now, you're going to wish that President Trump was still president.

00:33:34.000 His longest-lasting legacy of challenging China, reinvigorating the American worker, changing the Republican Party for better, giving a voice to people that have never been involved in the process before, making the Republican Party one that has the MAGA doctrine.

00:33:49.000 And I think all of us need to say thank you for President Trump for what he has done these last four years for our country.

00:33:55.000 I think we took for granted how much of a fighter we've had in the Oval Office for the last few years.

00:34:00.000 Someone who's willing to go to bat for the American people, not just play political games in Washington.

00:34:05.000 I'm so, so grateful for that as someone who probably would have been invisible to the political establishment, and I'm definitely going to miss that.

00:34:12.000 So we wanted to make sure we saw his last day off properly.

00:34:16.000 We're going to do that as well as we continue to build this out.

00:34:19.000 But Mr. President, thank you for enduring, persevering, for having the back of American students signing the free speech executive order and for never giving up.

00:34:29.000 It's been incredible.

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00:35:35.000 Let's get to some more sound here and let's just get to kind of some of the more news of the day.

00:35:43.000 But we are kind of just looking back on the last four years positively on the impact that it had made on our country and just the amazing amount of accomplishments and success in more ways than one.

00:35:56.000 Let's go to Cut 46 when President Trump at the UN General Assembly called Kim Jong-un Rocketman.

00:36:02.000 Let's go to Cut 46. 0.88

00:36:04.000 The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea. 0.84

00:36:18.000 Rocketman is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime.

00:36:24.000 And I think that was back when Rex Tillerson was still.

00:36:27.000 Yeah, you saw the clip there of him as Secretary of State with Nikki Haley.

00:36:31.000 But let's not forget it was this nickname that led to him visiting the DMZ to begin with in Korea.

00:36:36.000 That's right.

00:36:37.000 Let's now also go to Cut 45, President Trump at the border talking about the 450 miles of wall built under his administration.

00:36:46.000 Cut 45.

00:36:48.000 But unlike those who came before me, I kept my promises.

00:36:52.000 And today we celebrate an extraordinary milestone, the completion of the promised 450 miles of border wall, 450 miles.

00:37:01.000 Nobody realizes how big that is.

00:37:05.000 And so let's understand the significance of the border wall being built.

00:37:11.000 This was something that has been talked about by politicians for so many years and never executed on.

00:37:18.000 This is something that people in both parties had said, oh, yeah, that's a good idea, but they never actually did it.

00:37:25.000 Let's go to CUT 18, which is a Honduran individual who said, I wanted to get to the U.S. because there's a new president.

00:37:31.000 He's going to help all of us.

00:37:32.000 Cut 18.

00:37:33.000 What I want for my people, I just want patience and pass that we can get to the U.S. because they're having a new president, where it's Biden.

00:37:41.000 He's going to help all of us.

00:37:42.000 He's given us 100 days to get to the U.S. There you go.

00:37:47.000 100 days to get to the U.S. and then mass amnesty comes after that.

00:37:51.000 I won't be surprised if and when that happens, but as we can expect from the immigration policies of the left, you better not challenge them or you'll be called the worst names in the book.

00:38:00.000 That's exactly right.

00:38:01.000 Let's, so there's some other clips here that I do want to get to.

00:38:05.000 But before I do, I want to just say that there is going to be a mad dash to try to eliminate and abolish the Trump legacy, try and redefine it for something that it quite honestly isn't.

00:38:18.000 And Isabel, you worked in the White House.

00:38:20.000 You know how hard so many people in the White House worked in more ways than one to try to accomplish these policy objectives, whether it be foreign policy, domestic policy.

00:38:30.000 And it really is an amazing thing how much was done.

00:38:33.000 And it was more than just a president.

00:38:35.000 It was an entire White House team.

00:38:37.000 Right.

00:38:37.000 It was a movement.

00:38:38.000 And it even went beyond the White House.

00:38:40.000 But during my time as an intern there, I was very fortunate to work in the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

00:38:45.000 And I love to tell this story because it tells the significance of the character of this president and the White House.

00:38:50.000 We hosted many events called State Day conferences, where I would call hundreds upon hundreds of people in a day and invite state legislators, mayors, county commissioners, local government officials to come to the White House to hear about all of the resources that were available to them from the federal government down to the local and state government levels and to meet people like the vice president, Kellyanne Conway, and cabinet secretaries.

00:39:12.000 For most of the people that I called, that was the first phone call ever that they had received from the White House, let alone an invitation to come check it out.

00:39:19.000 And to see such bipartisan support for this movement from within this White House, once those individuals made it to Washington, D.C., was so inspiring.

00:39:27.000 This is an administration that's focused on serving the people and the state and local governments from the federal level, not the other way around.

00:39:34.000 Yeah, that's exactly right.

00:39:36.000 And I know from personal experience, a lot of these White House staffers, just friends of mine, I mean, they worked seven days a week.

00:39:43.000 They were under constant press scrutiny.

00:39:45.000 They were always being criticized.

00:39:46.000 They were always being challenged.

00:39:48.000 And they got a lot done, renegotiated our major trade deals, negotiated peace in the Middle East, and just changed the way American politics were done in general.

00:39:57.000 All the while in the midst of a global pandemic, the shutdowns that came alongside of it, the Chinese coronavirus and all of it.

00:40:03.000 They put up with so much over the last four years.

00:40:06.000 And we just want to say thank you to all of the staffers who worked in this administration.

00:40:10.000 It's been so inspiring to see all of your work ethic and the commitment that you have to this country and to the American people.

00:40:16.000 Let's go to Cut 24.

00:40:18.000 Remember, this was how good the economy was thanks to President Donald Trump.

00:40:22.000 Just one year into his presidency, the economy was better than we could have ever imagined.

00:40:26.000 Cut 24.

00:40:28.000 The Trump growth agenda is in place and it is working.

00:40:31.000 That's deregulation and tax cuts.

00:40:34.000 We've got the best growth rate in a decade, well over 3% now.

00:40:39.000 And the result is the Trump stock market rally.

00:40:42.000 As you said, 81 record highs for the Dow Industrials since the election of Donald Trump and over $6 trillion added to the value of all stocks being traded today.

00:40:54.000 And Cut 22 is a Michigan man who says that President Trump's tax cuts helped him upgrade his equipment, his manufacturing equipment.

00:41:01.000 Cut 22.

00:41:02.000 This is the first time we're moving forward to a future, putting, you know, upgrading our equipment.

00:41:08.000 And you talked about your shops bought four to four or six new trucks for last year with the tax cuts from President Trump, four brand new 2018 mixers.

00:41:18.000 We were driving 1999s before that and older.

00:41:21.000 And this year, we were able to purchase two more brand new cement mixers.

00:41:25.000 Interesting.

00:41:26.000 And then Cut 21, when even ABC admitted that President Donald Trump's tax cuts, they lowered taxes not just for high-income earners, but for people in the middle income ladder and the lower income ladder.

00:41:38.000 Cut 21.

00:41:39.000 Now, obviously, the Trump tax cuts lowered, significantly lowered the tax rate for lower income earners.

00:41:47.000 In fact, the Tax Policy Center found that middle income workers, some middle-income workers saw $900 a year in tax savings.

00:41:55.000 So repealing the Trump tax cuts, full-on repeal, that does raise taxes.

00:42:02.000 Yes, it does.

00:42:03.000 And then Cut 23, very short clip, Joe Biden just basically telling us what he's going to do with taxes.

00:42:09.000 That's why I'm going to eliminate the Trump tax cut.

00:42:12.000 All the tax cuts, all the positives we just went through, he plans to get rid of all of them.

00:42:17.000 Cut 25, Kevin McCarthy highlighting the success of the USMCA, and it really is the art of the deal.

00:42:23.000 This is something that didn't get talked about enough, but this is a massive renegotiation of people that talked about this for some time.

00:42:30.000 Obama never did it.

00:42:31.000 Bush never did it.

00:42:32.000 But we have a new trade deal, thanks to President Trump.

00:42:35.000 Cut 25.

00:42:36.000 Now, we've got to give the president a great deal amount of credit here.

00:42:39.000 This is really the art of the deal.

00:42:41.000 If your viewers go back and remember, it's very difficult to get an agreement between these two countries.

00:42:46.000 What did the president do?

00:42:47.000 He shifted, got a negotiation with the president of Mexico right before he leaves office, put Canada in a bind that they had to come to an agreement.

00:42:57.000 And now he just got the Speaker of the House.

00:42:59.000 Do you think he loves to impeach him to agree to this?

00:43:02.000 And that's just one of the amazing portfolio accomplishments.

00:43:07.000 We can go one by one by one.

00:43:08.000 And being energy independent, as we mentioned previously, is such a big deal.

00:43:12.000 And so the question is, how many of these are actually going to continue?

00:43:15.000 Quite a lot.

00:43:16.000 It's going to be very hard for Joe Biden to undo some of these accomplishments.

00:43:20.000 He's not going to undo the USMCA.

00:43:22.000 It's too popular.

00:43:24.000 What he'll do, foreign policy, I think will be some of his, you know, the biggest damage that he'll do, especially when it comes to Iran and renegotiating that.

00:43:32.000 When it comes to the southern border, he's probably almost assuredly going to keep the southern border wide open with zero to any sort of barriers whatsoever, which is just going to be a tragedy for the country.

00:43:43.000 We have to do everything we possibly can to try and pressure senators and congresspeople in the White House to demand border security for our country, especially senators like Mark Kelly, who ran on, oh, I'm not against border security.

00:43:55.000 You know, okay, well, let's put the pressure then on Senator Mark Kelly to see if he actually believes that.

00:44:01.000 And this policy portfolio, I'm telling you right now, Obama did not have a policy portfolio in eight years like President Trump had in four years.

00:44:08.000 And with a Congress for two of those years that was diametrically opposed to him, with a Congress that was against him at every single turn.

00:44:17.000 And even in the first couple of years, a lot of the Republicans that weren't totally on board for his complete and his total agenda.

00:44:22.000 Senator Mitch McConnell has come out and said that President Donald Trump provoked the mob that came to the Capitol building.

00:44:31.000 I think we have that tape.

00:44:32.000 Let's play tape, cut 49.

00:44:34.000 The last time the Senate convened, we had just reclaimed the Capitol from violent criminals who tried to stop Congress from doing our duty.

00:44:44.000 The mob was fed lies.

00:44:47.000 They were provoked by the president and other powerful people.

00:44:52.000 And they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal government, which they did not like.

00:45:01.000 And so Senator Mitch McConnell is blaming President Trump, it looks like solely for what happened at the Capitol.

00:45:08.000 And you can say that you think that President Trump could have chose his words differently and all of that.

00:45:13.000 However, that is not the complete picture of everything we have seen as far as there were people and instigators that were there ahead of time.

00:45:21.000 In fact, just today, there is an instigator that was arrested who seemed to have been planning this starting on January 1st.

00:45:31.000 He was just arrested today, part of a group called Oath Keepers.

00:45:36.000 And he said with conspiracy, not just unlawful entry.

00:45:40.000 I believe that is the first arrest of its kind.

00:45:44.000 And it says that he has been planning this for quite some time to come to the Capitol and try to disrupt, maybe disrupt or whatever.

00:45:53.000 So that would go against this idea that it was just the people that were at the ellipse that marched over to the United States Capitol building.

00:46:03.000 Let's go to this story right here, which I think is really important, which this is going to be the fight that we're going to have to kind of go up against in Congress almost immediately.

00:46:13.000 Joe Biden is set to propose an eight-year citizenship path for illegals in our country.

00:46:18.000 Quote, President-elect Joe Biden plans to unveil a sweeping immigration bill on day one of his administration, hoping to provide an eight-year path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million people living in the United States.

00:46:29.000 It's probably even more than that, by the way, according to a Harvard University study.

00:46:33.000 The story goes on to say, under the legislation, those living in the United States as of January 1st, 2021, without legal status, would have a five-year path to temporary legal status or a green card if they pass background checks, pay taxes, or fulfill other basic requirements.

00:46:49.000 From there, it's a three-year path to naturalization if they decide to pursue citizenship.

00:46:55.000 It says here the bill is not as comprehensive as the last major immigration overhaul when Biden was vice president, but it does appear that some of the roots of the migration from Central America to the United States provides grants for workforce development and English language learning.

00:47:09.000 It goes on to say that Biden and his allies, even some Republicans, have identified immigration as a major issue where the new administration could find common ground.

00:47:17.000 Yeah, common ground to give massive amnesty.

00:47:22.000 The Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and enough other Republican senators to avoid the stalemate that has vexed administrations for both parties for decades.

00:47:29.000 Okay, so both parties want immigration reform for different reasons.

00:47:33.000 The Democrats want it because it's a potential political constituency for them and it gives new voters into the country.

00:47:40.000 Republicans want it because it's cheap labor and more people in the country that might be able to purchase goods and services.

00:47:47.000 It's an expanded consumer market.

00:47:49.000 So both of them want it for different reasons.

00:47:51.000 And you kind of have the Chamber of Commerce wing and the Radical Democrat wing that are able to agree on mass amnesty for the country.

00:47:58.000 And this has to be one of the top sticking points for those of us that care about what really happens in our country moving this point forward, which is that we are not going to allow a mass amnesty bill to go through the United States Congress.

00:48:09.000 We need as many senators as possible to stand up preemptively against this.

00:48:14.000 And you're already starting to see Joe Biden is looking at this as a point of agreement with a lot of Republicans.

00:48:19.000 Importantly, too, Charlie, this bill that will be introduced tomorrow does not include at all any element of border security, which we were touching on earlier, which we've known over the last four years has been a very major point for the Trump administration because of human trafficking, drug trafficking, illegal firearms trafficking, among other problems across our southern border.

00:48:38.000 To completely eliminate any conversation about border security is a direct attempt to overthrow what just happened in the last four years.

00:48:45.000 Yeah, and not all Hispanics, by the way, are necessarily Democrats.

00:48:48.000 Republicans are doing better and better with Hispanic voters.

00:48:51.000 However, we are a nation of laws. 0.99

00:48:53.000 If you want to come into this country, then apply to come in legally.

00:48:57.000 And stricter immigration has been something that is very popular with the American people.

00:49:01.000 And also, it raises wages.

00:49:04.000 It also improves the working conditions of the American workers here.

00:49:08.000 This used to be something that Sherrod Brown and Bernie Sanders used to talk about, which is strict immigration, that it's the massive corporations that want unlimited flows of people into America.

00:49:19.000 They no longer believe that.

00:49:21.000 They have now said that wide open borders is the best possible thing for them in every way, shape, or form, which that kind of kind of policy pivot is something I'd be super interested in kind of analyzing further on another episode of the Charlie Kirk Show.

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00:50:49.000 A lot of people are kind of wondering, where do we go from here?

00:50:53.000 What is next?

00:50:55.000 Well, I gave an entire speech on that this last weekend, so I encourage you to check out the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.

00:51:01.000 But look, first you have to just take kind of a damage report of everything, reassess and understand the Democrats will, in miraculous fashion, screw all of this up, and that people are going to want to come back and have conservatives in charge again.

00:51:15.000 The question is, will we be prepared?

00:51:17.000 Will we be ready or will our will be broken?

00:51:20.000 Will our will be broken?

00:51:21.000 I sure hope not, Charlie.

00:51:23.000 And the good news is there's a lot of people that we know personally, as well as ourselves, that are going to continue fighting for conservative ideas in this country and attack this more from a cultural perspective rather than political.

00:51:34.000 So starting in the next couple of days, Joe Biden will get sworn in.

00:51:39.000 He will give his speech to the nation all about unity.

00:51:43.000 It was more of kind of a Soviet version of unity, though, which is the absence of opposition.

00:51:48.000 Right, rooted in totalitarianism, not a free society whatsoever.

00:51:53.000 And so the Biden agenda is widely unpopular with the American people.

00:52:00.000 And just let's go into some of the problems that Joe Biden's going to be dealing with.

00:52:05.000 Joe Biden's proposing a $2 trillion package, kind of a Chinese coronavirus relief package.

00:52:13.000 $2 trillion.

00:52:16.000 The economy is in an okay spot, thanks to President Trump, but it should be in a better spot if everyone reopened.

00:52:24.000 You're starting to see Chicago and all of a sudden New York like, oh, maybe these lockdown things don't work.

00:52:28.000 How convenient.

00:52:29.000 However, even with that, there's been massive economic displacement and disruption.

00:52:33.000 Massive.

00:52:35.000 Therefore, Joe Biden is going to be faced with some form of monetary and currency inflation, stagnant economic growth, people displaced from the labor pool, and he's going to have to own the entire thing.

00:52:48.000 So they're going to do this $2 trillion relief bill, which will not be stimulative.

00:52:52.000 We've talked about this many times on our program.

00:52:55.000 The best way to stimulate the economy is just open up the country completely and fully.

00:53:00.000 And Joe Biden is going to have a difficult time navigating this.

00:53:04.000 The Federal Reserve is going to come to him and suggest raising rates, not immediately, but soon, because the money supply has gotten out of control of how many dollars we have created and pushed into the economy.

00:53:15.000 And so his idea of trying to get the economy up and running will be to actually destroy the American economy as we know it.

00:53:25.000 We'll try to just reshape it altogether.

00:53:27.000 Now, that's not going to be widely popular.

00:53:32.000 That's not going to be popular amongst mainstream Americans that don't want a fundamental redefinition of the American economy where, for example, Joe Biden is already just saying, I'm going to abolish student loan debt.

00:53:46.000 This is something I have a lot of problems with.

00:53:49.000 First of all, what about people that didn't go to college at all?

00:53:51.000 Did they get a $10,000 rebate?

00:53:53.000 What about people that worked their way through college?

00:53:55.000 What about people that minimized their school debt?

00:53:58.000 Isabel, you probably did everything you could to minimize how much debt you took.

00:54:03.000 I did.

00:54:03.000 I intentionally chose the school I went to because I could graduate debt-free and pay for grad school debt for that.

00:54:08.000 So debt-free.

00:54:09.000 And so do you get some form of a credit for that?

00:54:11.000 Probably not.

00:54:11.000 That would be great.

00:54:13.000 And so what it does is it actually incentivizes and rewards bad behavior.

00:54:18.000 So Joe Biden says, I want to forgive up to $10,000 or $20,000 in student loan debt.

00:54:24.000 This is not stimulative in any way whatsoever.

00:54:26.000 The money will actually just go to colleges or note holders or the federal government.

00:54:32.000 It's in no way will this create more economic growth in any way, shape, or form.

00:54:38.000 And so Joe Biden's going to have a serious amount of problems because he's going to have a set of realistic challenges and a very corrupt Democrat Party that's going to be demanding certain policy objectives to be put forward that are directly at odds with actually of what actually is going to be good for our country.

00:55:01.000 And so that's going to be one of the major challenges for Joe Biden is will I be able to make the country a better place or at least solve some of these problems while also keeping all these promises I made to all of these special interests, the teacher unions, the pharmaceutical companies, the tech companies.

00:55:22.000 It's going to be a very, very difficult task for him.

00:55:24.000 And so tomorrow he's promising at a State of the Union address that he's going to promise unity.

00:55:29.000 Their definition of unity, again, is the absence of opposition.

00:55:32.000 They want to run us over.

00:55:35.000 And you're starting to see this in a lot of different patterns of language.

00:55:39.000 We played some of this clip yesterday.

00:55:40.000 I want to play it again.

00:55:42.000 Let's go to cut 11 of Alex Stamos saying that it's time to get rid of all those conservative influencers.

00:55:47.000 They're really causing trouble.

00:55:49.000 Cut 11.

00:55:50.000 And second, we have to turn down the capability of these conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences.

00:55:56.000 There are people on YouTube, for example, that have a larger audience than daytime CNN.

00:56:02.000 And they are extremely radical and pushing extremely radical views.

00:56:06.000 And so it's up to the Facebooks and YouTubes in particular to think about whether or not they want to be effectively cable networks for disinformation.

00:56:13.000 And then we're going to have to figure out the OANN and Newsmax problem.

00:56:16.000 You know, these companies have freedom of speech, but I'm not sure we need Verizon, AT ⁇ T, Comcast, and such to be bringing them into tens of millions of homes.

00:56:26.000 As we said before, nothing good happens after you say but.

00:56:30.000 Freedom of speech.

00:56:30.000 With that.

00:56:31.000 Freedom of speech, but this whole kind of competitor news channel thing.

00:56:35.000 This guy was a former chief security officer of Facebook.

00:56:39.000 And he's a current professor at Stanford University.

00:56:43.000 I look at the background.

00:56:44.000 That looks like a Hoover Institution background.

00:56:46.000 I've done a hit from that studio.

00:56:48.000 So he's teaching the next young minds of tech elites at Stanford.

00:56:52.000 It's time to really take disinformation seriously.

00:56:55.000 Now, mind you, the disinformation they want to take seriously is far-right-wing disinformation, which they loop in with mainstream conservatism.

00:57:02.000 However, what about this kind of disinformation?

00:57:05.000 Why is this person allowed on social media? 0.99

00:57:07.000 Let's go to what Hillary Clinton said.

00:57:09.000 Hillary Clinton, this stunning podcast, said that she would love to see President Trump's phone records because she suspects that President Trump was calling his buddy Putin, updating him during the tragic Capitol riot, Cut 26.

00:57:23.000 With a president who disdains democracy and, as you have said numerous times, has other agendas.

00:57:31.000 What they all are, I don't think we yet know.

00:57:33.000 I hope historically we will find out who he's beholden to, who pulls his strings.

00:57:40.000 I would love to see his phone records to see whether he was talking to Putin the day that the insurgents invaded our capital.

00:57:48.000 But we now know that not just him, but his enablers, his accomplices, his cult members have the same disregard for democracy.

00:57:59.000 Do you think we need a 9-11 type commission to investigate and report everything that they can pull together and explain what happened?

00:58:09.000 And she asked the question in Cut 27 is Nancy Pelosi's answer, where she says, yes, we need an investigative body like the 9-11 Commission.

00:58:18.000 I can say President Donald Trump has officially broke Hillary Clinton's brain. 0.83

00:58:22.000 She never used to be this foolish, but it has been done, quite possibly added to the list of accomplishments of the last four years. 0.99

00:58:30.000 Cut 27. 0.98

00:58:31.000 I do.

00:58:32.000 Let me, again, to your point of who is he beholden to, as I've said over and over, as I said to him in that picture with my blue suit as I was leaving.

00:58:41.000 What I was saying to him as I was pointing rudely at him.

00:58:46.000 With you, Mr. President, all roads lead to Putin.

00:58:49.000 I don't know what Putin has on him politically, financially, or personally.

00:58:54.000 But what happened last week was a gift to Putin because Putin wants to undermine democracy in our country and throughout the world.

00:59:02.000 And these people, unbeknownst to them, maybe, are Putin puppets.

00:59:06.000 They were doing Putin's business when they did that at the incitement of an insurrection by the President of the United States.

00:59:14.000 So yes, we should have a 9-11 commission, and there is strong support in the Congress to do that.

00:59:20.000 9-11 style commission to investigate Trump's ties to Putin.

00:59:25.000 I thought that's why we had the Mueller report.

00:59:27.000 Now, this goes to show that they are never going to let go.

00:59:31.000 They will never let go of President Trump intentionally.

00:59:35.000 The reason they will never let go is because their policies are unpopular.

00:59:40.000 They cannot govern.

00:59:41.000 Trump is unpopular amongst their base and is able to raise money for them and keep them in power.

00:59:48.000 So again, Trump is going to be golfing at Trump National in Florida next week, and they're going to say that man is the problem.

00:59:54.000 And like, you control everything.

00:59:56.000 You control the House, the Senate, the companies, the universities, our channels of communication, our courts, our civil service, the presidency, the military, the intelligence community.

01:00:08.000 And that guy on the back nine who's just trying to get some son after working his tail off for four years, he's the problem.

01:00:15.000 And it's not lost on me that we were saying that Obama left us with a lot of problems.

01:00:21.000 That's not lost to me.

01:00:21.000 That's a legitimate thing that if you have a different philosophical or political belief.

01:00:25.000 However, we were very quick as conservatives to say, we're in charge, we're going to fix it.

01:00:31.000 And they also, the Democrats, always responded, like, aren't you President Trump?

01:00:35.000 Then just fix it if it's so terrible.

01:00:36.000 And so starting tomorrow, Joe Biden's going to have to own all of it.

01:00:40.000 He's going to have to own the entire policy portfolio, all of it.

01:00:44.000 And there will be no more excuses.

01:00:46.000 And one thing that really bothers me when it comes to people that are taking credit for the vaccine, President Trump did everything he possibly could to get that into development and implement it out as quickly as possible.

01:00:58.000 Just a strange thing.

01:00:59.000 I'm not going to insinuate anything here.

01:01:02.000 I'm just going to kind of go through the video of what I see.

01:01:05.000 But this is a video of some people at the Capitol.

01:01:07.000 Now, Nancy Pelosi says she wants an investigation.

01:01:11.000 Great.

01:01:11.000 Investigate videos like this as well, alongside of it, where people were strangely changing, taking their black stuff off and their red, white, and blue stuff on.

01:01:22.000 Why would somebody do that?

01:01:23.000 Play tape.

01:01:27.000 So what we have here are people that are quickly taking off black clothes and putting on Make America Great Again clothes in the bushes.

01:01:34.000 They seem to have this pretty well choreographed.

01:01:37.000 They're working quickly, aren't they?

01:01:39.000 They sure are and sort of hiding in a tree to make sure that people can't see.

01:01:43.000 This great soul comes up and gets their faces and their identities, I think.

01:01:49.000 But that does not look like a traditional move that if you were all of a sudden quote unquote incited at a cap, you know, at the ellipse, you run over, go to the bushes, take off the black and put on MAGA stuff.

01:02:03.000 And notably, put down the American flag that you're holding in the dirt on the ground, walking all over it while you're changing.

01:02:10.000 Something very suspicious.

01:02:11.000 I do want to address one of these emails.

01:02:13.000 If anyone has sentiments like this, I'm going to paraphrase parts of it.

01:02:17.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:02:18.000 I'm 27 years old and I've had a major depressive disorder and eating disorder since I was 11.

01:02:24.000 A few years ago, I was diagnosed with something.

01:02:26.000 I'm not going to get into that.

01:02:28.000 I've been dealing with suicidal thoughts and having attempted a few times.

01:02:31.000 In November, I kind of had the thought that President Trump had won the election.

01:02:35.000 I'd give life another try because it would feel like God cares.

01:02:39.000 So he exists and wants to help. 0.94

01:02:41.000 Yet now, evil people who want to kill babies and improve a sex work will be in power.

01:02:46.000 What's the point living anymore in this world if it's going to get much worse? 0.55

01:02:49.000 And God doesn't care that there are millions of Americans, people all over.

01:02:52.000 Where is he?

01:02:53.000 I'm tired.

01:02:53.000 I'm scared.

01:02:53.000 I think I'm done.

01:02:54.000 Well, first, Amy, thank you for emailing us.

01:02:54.000 Okay.

01:02:57.000 You're a lot tougher than you might think, believe it or not.

01:03:01.000 And other people need you more than you might even give your own estimation.

01:03:08.000 You're a tough person, and things are about to get tougher.

01:03:11.000 And life has ups, it has downs.

01:03:15.000 And I could tell you right now that the God who has created us and made us in his image has always promised us that things are not always necessarily going to be easy, but they will always be worth it.

01:03:29.000 And so, Amy, my message to you is to first find someone you can talk to about this verbally, keeping things inside around these sorts of thoughts never is a good thing.

01:03:48.000 The second thing is understand that it is not a release, it's not something that will make anyone's life happy or easier.

01:03:57.000 Instead, you will hurt other people by hurting yourself.

01:04:03.000 And I could say that from personal experience of people that have decided to do that.

01:04:07.000 And things will get better.

01:04:08.000 We're going to make sure of it.

01:04:10.000 And one of the promises that we are given in the Bible is when you trust in God and follow his commandments, you will experience persecution, but the battle's already won.

01:04:22.000 And so it might feel as if there's no hope and everything's falling around you, but there is.

01:04:27.000 There's still hope.

01:04:28.000 They're going to try every sort of dark thing they possibly can.

01:04:32.000 But we're going to get through it.

01:04:33.000 So, Amy, thank you for your email.

01:04:34.000 You can email us or me anytime.

01:04:37.000 And so hang in there and focus on the good.

01:04:40.000 Find things that not necessarily make you happy, but have meaning and do those things.

01:04:47.000 And so I want to thank you for your email.

01:04:49.000 And if there's any way we can help you, please let us know.

01:04:52.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:04:54.000 Any thoughts on that, Isabel?

01:04:55.000 Yeah, Amy, I would just like to echo the fact that there are so many people out there who love you unconditionally.

01:05:01.000 I've lost people in my life to suicide, and it's one of the hardest things in the world to grapple with the fact that so often people are struggling so much and you have no idea that they're there.

01:05:11.000 So just remember that you're not alone.

01:05:13.000 There's always people that you can reach out to.

01:05:15.000 And the fact that you reached out to someone today just goes to prove your strength and your ability to weather the storm.

01:05:20.000 So you're never alone.

01:05:21.000 Amen.

01:05:21.000 Well, email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:05:25.000 Here's one right here.

01:05:27.000 Hey, Charlie, I love the show.

01:05:29.000 Why are there so many troops at the Capitol?

01:05:31.000 So martial law has not been declared, but Washington, D.C. has been declared an emergency site because of what happened at the Capitol.

01:05:40.000 And there's a lot of troops.

01:05:42.000 There's tens of thousands of troops right now in Washington, D.C., to try and secure the Capitol for the inauguration.

01:05:51.000 Yeah, more troops are actually in Washington, D.C. today than in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq combined.

01:05:57.000 Incredible.

01:05:58.000 Here is a question here where a lot of students are at, let's say, Wheaton College, which is too bad, pushing back up against Trump.

01:06:09.000 And I'll get into this actually in a podcast.

01:06:12.000 So you guys can always email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:06:16.000 I know Wheaton College very, very well, but basically, it wants even further pushing back against anyone that has any association with Trump at this particular Christian college and this Christian school.

01:06:28.000 Here's Rebecca.

01:06:29.000 She said, Charlie, do you think we'll end up our lives in re-education camps?

01:06:33.000 Us fellow believers need to stick together.

01:06:35.000 Thank you for all you do, listening for all the time, praying for you.

01:06:38.000 Thank you, Becky.

01:06:39.000 Thank you for your prayers.

01:06:39.000 They mean a lot.

01:06:40.000 Will we end up in re-education camps?

01:06:42.000 I hope not.

01:06:43.000 I'm not going to let that happen.

01:06:45.000 I'll tell you that much.

01:06:46.000 But there are people that are suggesting that.

01:06:48.000 They have suggested that we need to, what's the way they word it?

01:06:51.000 They don't say re-education camp.

01:06:52.000 They say reprogram, I think, is the new fantasy word.

01:06:56.000 That's right.

01:06:57.000 We need a massive reprogramming campaign of those Trump supporters in every single way.

01:07:03.000 And so we're not going to let that happen.

01:07:09.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:07:10.000 Email us your questions, freedom, at charliekirk.com.

01:07:13.000 If you want to support us, go to charliekirk.com/slash support.

01:07:16.000 And I encourage you to get involved with Turning Point USA, where we play offense with a sense of urgency to win America's Culture War at tpusa.com.

01:07:23.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:07:25.000 God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - January 20, 2021

The Very Best of the Past Four Years + Where We Go From Here

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