The Charlie Kirk Show - July 24, 2025


Tulsi Gabbard Speaks on ObamaGate ft. Tulsi Gabbard


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Tulsi Gabbard joins the show and makes some serious news about her accusations that Barack Obama committed treason. We ask her all about it and then we dive deeper into the ObamaGate revelations and we remember a hero, Hulk Hogan.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here live from the Bitcoin.com studio.
00:00:04.000 Tulsi Gabber joins the show and makes some serious news about her accusations that Barack Obama committed treason.
00:00:12.000 We ask her all about it and then we dive deeper into the ObamaGate revelations and we remember a hero, Hulk Hogan.
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00:01:32.000 Let's get straight to our guest, the Director of National Intelligence and great American Patriot, Tulsi Gabbard.
00:01:39.000 Director Gabbard, great to see you.
00:01:40.000 Thank you for taking the time.
00:01:41.000 And let me say on behalf of the audience, thank you for digging and getting to the bottom of what stole so much of the first Trump presidency, the first Trump term, I should say, and for having the guts and the courage to dig deep.
00:01:56.000 Declassifying that House report was so important.
00:01:59.000 And so, Director Gabbard, can you just take a moment here and remind the audience of everything that you have now made public and that you have learned over the past last week?
00:02:09.000 Because it's just been a whirlwind of news.
00:02:10.000 So please take a moment just to take a step back and tell the audience what we have learned, please.
00:02:16.000 Sure, Charlie.
00:02:17.000 Thank you so much.
00:02:18.000 And thanks for your coverage of this really, really important disclosure that has ramifications that are very far-reaching and that speak to the integrity of our Democratic Republic and nothing short of that.
00:02:31.000 I'll try to be brief because we've released a lot of information over the last week, starting with last week, Friday, releasing a whistleblower's report, emails, communications, copies of a president's daily brief, one that was drafted but pulled hours before it was to be released and never published, as well as one that was actually published.
00:02:50.000 We released yesterday, as you mentioned, the House Intelligence Committee Majority Staff Oversight Report that investigated a document that President Obama ordered the intelligence community to put together the January 2017 intelligence community assessment that basically came to the conclusion that Putin, Russia, had tried to influence and impact the outcome of the election in favor of Donald Trump.
00:03:20.000 The real headline here is that the months leading up to the 2016 election, remember this was Donald Trump running against Hillary Clinton.
00:03:32.000 The intelligence community consistently assessed over and over again that Russia had neither the intent nor the capability to impact the outcome of the U.S. election.
00:03:43.000 And that's a really important point here because in early December, after Donald Trump was elected, after he defeated Hillary Clinton in that historic election, President Obama called together a meeting of his National Security Council leadership.
00:03:58.000 This was people like CIA Director John Brennan, then Obama's Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, Susan Rice, Andy McCabe, and many others on his senior cabinet national security team.
00:04:11.000 What came out from that meeting was ultimately, and this is all documented, a direction from President Obama to his team to create an intelligence community assessment that detailed how Moscow meddled in the U.S. election in favor of Donald Trump.
00:04:30.000 The key point here is not if Moscow meddled, it was how.
00:04:35.000 And this is where a lot of the mainstream media right now who are reporting and repeating the Russia hoax lie over and over again for years are refusing to address this key point is the document that the intelligence community created that was published in January of 2017 contradicted the other assessments that the intelligence community provided in the months leading up to the election,
00:04:57.000 including the days leading after the election, by stating very clearly and with high confidence, which is a big deal coming from the intelligence community, that Putin intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump get elected.
00:05:15.000 What we released yesterday in the House Intelligence Oversight staff majority report was a very detailed investigation into that January 2017 assessment that again, CIA Director John Brennan, DNI James Clapper at the time assessed with high confidence the conclusions that were driven in that report.
00:05:38.000 What was revealed yesterday was that they created this knowing that it was false.
00:05:44.000 They used intelligence and sources that were substandard, did not meet basic intelligence community tradecraft analytics standards, and used things that they knew were discredited, like the SEAL dossier.
00:05:57.000 They knew it was discredited.
00:05:59.000 They knew it was a politically manufactured document.
00:06:02.000 James Clapper and John Brennan decided to use it anyway.
00:06:05.000 So here's the bottom line up front.
00:06:07.000 President Obama ordered a manufactured intelligence assessment in order to ultimately enact what would be a years-long coup against Donald Trump using this document that again, did not reflect the intelligence community's overall assessments leading up to the election.
00:06:25.000 And it was used as a foundation to be able to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump's election and everything that came after.
00:06:33.000 Thank you for that summary.
00:06:34.000 And so I want to now just emphasize one point of this.
00:06:38.000 So the entire Russia narrative was on faulty, shoddy intelligence.
00:06:43.000 Is that also included in what some of the skeptics or some of the critics would say?
00:06:48.000 Because they say, well, Bob Mueller found in 2019 and 2019 all these different reports of Russia trying to influence the election.
00:06:56.000 But we're not contesting, though, at least from my understanding, that Russia was trying to sow discord or chaos.
00:07:03.000 I think that's well received and well accepted.
00:07:06.000 What is the contention here is that there is no evidence.
00:07:09.000 In fact, there's evidence to the contrary that Russia was doing any of it to help Donald Trump.
00:07:14.000 And even beyond that, Brennan went on to say that basic, or Adam Schipp went on to say it, Brennan alluded to it, that Trump did it in collusion with the Russian government.
00:07:23.000 Can you speak to this?
00:07:24.000 Because in some ways, the media is being very crafty.
00:07:26.000 So for example, the media would say, well, there's a 2017 intelligence community assessment supported by bipartisan Senate intelligence that says that Russia did interfere with the election.
00:07:35.000 And some people would say that, well, there was a 2019 report that says Russia did interfere with the election.
00:07:39.000 You're actually, you're not debating that.
00:07:42.000 You're not contending that.
00:07:43.000 You're saying, but they were not interfering to help Trump.
00:07:46.000 Can you please elaborate on that and push back on some of the criticism?
00:07:50.000 Yeah, Charlie, thanks.
00:07:51.000 That is the important point here.
00:07:52.000 And I think it should also be of note that this is where the critics of what we revealed are going to.
00:07:58.000 This is where President Obama's team and Senator Warner and other members of Congress are going to that exact point.
00:08:05.000 They're saying, hey, look, nothing to see here.
00:08:08.000 Everybody knows and agrees that Russia tried to meddle in the 2016 election.
00:08:13.000 I don't disagree with that statement.
00:08:15.000 Here's the point of distinction is that there is no credible intelligence that points to Russia or Putin meddling in the 2016 election in order to try to get Donald Trump elected, period.
00:08:31.000 And I think one of the most significant pieces of evidence that was revealed in that report we released yesterday is the fact that Russia claimed to have very, very damaging information, high-level DNC emails relating specifically to Hillary Clinton's physical and mental health and DNC leaders questioning whether or not, if elected, she would even be capable of carrying out the duties of the presidency.
00:08:59.000 Russia had this.
00:09:01.000 If they wanted to swing the election for Donald Trump, they would have released it in September, October of 2016 at a pivotal time to swing momentum into Donald Trump's direction and damage Hillary Clinton's campaign.
00:09:15.000 They did not do that deliberately.
00:09:19.000 They understood that Hillary Clinton would likely be the inevitable president of the United States.
00:09:24.000 They didn't think Trump could win like a lot of other people.
00:09:27.000 And so they were withholding this damaging information about Hillary Clinton and planning to release it in the days or weeks leading up to her expected inauguration in order to once again sow chaos within the United States, to draw into question the stability of our country and what kind of leadership would be in place.
00:09:49.000 This cuts to the core of the problem with the January 2017 President Obama ordered manufactured intelligence document.
00:10:00.000 They willfully omitted this intelligence that existed because it didn't support the false narrative they intentionally built once again, which is the intelligence community says with high confidence that Putin aspired to and helped get Donald Trump elected in 2016.
00:10:19.000 And just on top of that, the information that Russia had on Hillary Clinton, she was on tranquilizers.
00:10:24.000 Could you imagine that as an October surprise?
00:10:26.000 Oh, by the way, the woman that couldn't get into her van on the 9-11 Memorial, remember that there was that video that went viral.
00:10:34.000 She's also on tranquilizers.
00:10:36.000 She was asking the State Department for potential, asking people for donations in return of State Department policy, and Russia didn't use any of it.
00:10:44.000 So Director Gabbard, I want to now talk about one thing that has gone very viral.
00:10:49.000 And I think it would be very helpful for our audience to hear from you on this.
00:10:52.000 And again, what happened here is so dishonest and underhanded, and we are cheering you on.
00:10:55.000 And we have your back 100%.
00:10:58.000 You've used the phrase, a treasonous conspiracy.
00:11:01.000 Those are fighting words.
00:11:03.000 And I could tell you, the people in this audience, they know that and they agree with that.
00:11:03.000 Those are big words.
00:11:07.000 But can you make the case?
00:11:09.000 Can you present the argument to the best bill you can with unclassified information and public information?
00:11:15.000 What makes you believe that this reaches that sort of threshold?
00:11:18.000 Well, we look at our Democratic Republic, Charlie.
00:11:21.000 Our system is built on the foundation of the American people casting their votes for who they want to be in office, to be our president and commander in chief.
00:11:32.000 In this system, there is to be a peaceful transition of power.
00:11:36.000 What we saw play out here was President Trump was elected by the American people in 2016, shocking most people in the United States and apparently even Russia.
00:11:48.000 And Putin didn't think that he would win.
00:11:50.000 Instead of accepting that this is the will of the people, what we saw is President Obama convening his national security team and concocting this contrived, false narrative through the production of this intelligence community assessment in January 2017, with the specific intent of subverting the will of the American people and trying to delegitimize President Trump's election and therefore,
00:12:17.000 everything that he had been charged to do by the American people over the next four years.
00:12:22.000 So yes, this is a treasonous conspiracy that subverts the will of the American people because you look at the action.
00:12:30.000 They manufactured a hoax.
00:12:31.000 They manufactured these lies, published it as though it were true, propagated this through the media to the American people.
00:12:39.000 And then what happened next?
00:12:41.000 The Mueller investigation, years-long Mueller investigation was launched.
00:12:45.000 You had two impeachments coming from Congress.
00:12:48.000 You had a raid on President Trump's home in Mar-a-Lago by the FBI.
00:12:53.000 You had smears and attacks and investigations, not only against President Trump, but against his family, his senior, senior officials within his administration.
00:13:03.000 You even saw the geopolitical impacts of this, where a whole sanctions package was passed against Russia by President Obama, specifically because of the thing that they claimed Russia did, but they actually didn't do in this case.
00:13:18.000 This was a lie that was concocted by President Obama and his senior national security officials.
00:13:24.000 And this January 2017 intelligence community assessment is that foundation for everything that came after.
00:13:31.000 And I just want to point out again, you know, I was in the White House press briefing room yesterday and reporters saying, well, do you believe this or do you believe that?
00:13:40.000 This is not about Tulsi Gabbard's beliefs or opinions or even allegations.
00:13:46.000 Read the intelligence, read the evidence, read the emails from DNI Clapper's executive assistant to leaders within the intelligence community that says per the president's directive and then going on and listing the taskings for this intelligence community assessment.
00:14:03.000 I doubt many of those reporters have actually read the nearly 200 pages themselves like you have, because anyone who is a little bit objective who would read that would draw the same view that you and I have, that the truth is very real and it's irrefutable.
00:14:21.000 President Obama led this treasonous conspiracy with the help of a lot of folks in his national security cabinet and in the intelligence community.
00:14:29.000 Director Gabbard, we have to let you go.
00:14:31.000 I just want to say we're cheering you on in the audience because we remember how nasty, how divisive, how unnecessary all that Russia stuff was.
00:14:39.000 And now our involvement in a Kinetic Hot war against Russia could be probably traced back to Russia Gate. 0.66
00:14:44.000 Keep fighting.
00:14:45.000 Stay brave.
00:14:46.000 Director Gabbard, thank you so much for your time.
00:14:48.000 Thanks for all you do, Charlie.
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00:15:55.000 Okay, so what was the significance of what Director Gabber said?
00:15:58.000 And this is why you need to watch any of the mainstream media outlets with a very trained eye and trained ear.
00:16:05.000 She has never once contended that Russia tried to sow chaos in the 2016 election.
00:16:13.000 Many countries and many of our adversaries, they just try to sow confusion or chaos.
00:16:18.000 Iran does this. 1.00
00:16:19.000 The Chinese Communist Party does this.
00:16:21.000 They'll do this through hacking or social media work.
00:16:26.000 But that's not the same thing as trying to elevate a specific candidate.
00:16:31.000 That is where all the intel agencies and their proxies and their spokespeople and their mockingbird media propagandists peddled a lie.
00:16:42.000 And that sort of nuance was undetectable in the mainstream media for quite some time.
00:16:50.000 When James Comey and Brennan went up, they said, well, you know, Russia, as you know, here's this, and this is what they would do.
00:16:55.000 It's such a sleight of hand.
00:16:57.000 It's a Houdini.
00:16:58.000 It's a magician's trick.
00:17:00.000 They hide the pocket ace so that you can't see it.
00:17:03.000 It is a rhetorical and narrative sleight of hand where they say, well, as you know, we all agree that Russia tried to interfere with the election.
00:17:13.000 And so obviously Donald Trump was benefited by Russia.
00:17:17.000 Smoke and mirrors, those are not the same thing.
00:17:20.000 So what they did is they conflated a singular truth with something that is a complete lie, and then they made the bridge.
00:17:26.000 They say, oh, you know, Donald Trump likes autocratic dictators, so therefore he must like Vladimir Putin.
00:17:32.000 There is this clip that we played yesterday of James Comey and John Brennan.
00:17:35.000 It's kind of this combo clip.
00:17:37.000 It's very important.
00:17:38.000 So listen to this.
00:17:39.000 This is just, again, we could play hundreds of these pieces of tape.
00:17:42.000 This is the rhetorical media smoke and mirrors.
00:17:46.000 Rachel Maddow fell for it.
00:17:47.000 In fact, she was a chief propagandist of it, where they took a kernel of truth and they built a narrative mountain of lies.
00:17:56.000 PlayCut 365.
00:17:57.000 The Russians interfered in our election during the 2016 cycle.
00:18:03.000 It is a high confidence judgment of the entire intelligence community.
00:18:06.000 It was Russia in a very systematic way and tried to interfere in the election and to try to advance the prospects of Donald Trump being elected.
00:18:14.000 Donald Trump knows that the Russians helped him win in 2016.
00:18:19.000 There will always be an air of illegitimacy around the 2016 campaign.
00:18:26.000 Okay, I have to compliment the studio team.
00:18:28.000 That series of clips is the best.
00:18:30.000 That is a 10 out of 10 series of clips.
00:18:33.000 Let me tell you why.
00:18:33.000 Because Comey is actually testifying in a fact pattern that is real.
00:18:38.000 He says, as you know, Russia interfered with the election.
00:18:41.000 So they have that baseline fact pattern, but it wasn't even interference, guys.
00:18:45.000 It was like a bunch of social media trolls and bots.
00:18:48.000 They did not hack voting machines.
00:18:50.000 They did not manipulate stuff.
00:18:51.000 So then you have that baseline Comey.
00:18:53.000 This is why that clip is so important.
00:18:54.000 You transition to Brennan.
00:18:56.000 The first part of Brennan's sentence is correct.
00:18:59.000 He says, well, the Russians interfered at the 2016 election.
00:19:03.000 The second part of the sentence is where you're getting into not just malpractice, but you're getting into some really immoral and dark stuff to help and advance the prospects of Donald Trump becoming president.
00:19:15.000 Not only was there no evidence, there was evidence to the contrary.
00:19:20.000 Remember, John Brennan is the one who forced the inclusion of bad intelligence in the reports per the House report that was declassified.
00:19:27.000 And then you have the final part of the clip.
00:19:30.000 Do you see how the lies bubble up from one kernel of truth when they don't get checked and regulated on cable TV?
00:19:36.000 To then Hillary Clinton tranquilized up saying, well, Donald Trump knows that the Russians helped him back in 2016.
00:19:43.000 Whoa.
00:19:44.000 So we start with Comey saying something true for a change in front of Congress.
00:19:50.000 Then Brennan adds that little subtext thanks to Rachel Maddow and all these other people that built the fable, the legend, the chronicle of Russia collusion, to then Hillary Clinton just completely lie about it.
00:20:08.000 You see, these lies are laundered through each other, often with unrelated truths.
00:20:14.000 So they cook the books with intel, but they say something that starts to be true.
00:20:20.000 They add a little bit of rhetorical flair on top of it with their very impressive biography.
00:20:26.000 I'm John Brennan, the former CIA director.
00:20:28.000 And then boom, it seeps in and it changes American politics forever.
00:20:33.000 And that's why that piece of tape is so important.
00:20:36.000 From Comey to Brennan to Clinton, you can see the growth, the evolution.
00:20:40.000 You can see how it starts with something correct and grows into something that is a total and complete fabrication.
00:20:48.000 Okay, I want to play this one more time for those of you guys on podcasting.
00:20:51.000 Listen to it.
00:20:52.000 Starts with Comey.
00:20:53.000 Listen very carefully here.
00:20:55.000 Comey starts with, well, we know that Russia interfered.
00:20:57.000 You have to have a trained ear for this stuff.
00:21:00.000 And then Brennan repeats the first part of what Comey says and adds his own little fake rhetorical flair that no intelligence supported.
00:21:09.000 And then Hillary Clinton finishes the second part of Brennan's sentence with her own thing saying Donald Trump knew about it.
00:21:16.000 So it grows and it snowballs into this monstrosity of a falsehood.
00:21:22.000 Play cut 365 again.
00:21:24.000 The Russians interfered in our election during the 2016 cycle.
00:21:30.000 It is a high confidence judgment of the entire intelligence community.
00:21:33.000 It was Russia in a very systematic way and tried to interfere in the election and to try to advance the prospects of Donald Trump being elected.
00:21:41.000 Donald Trump knows that the Russians helped him win in 2016.
00:21:46.000 There will always be an air of illegitimacy around the 2016 campaign.
00:21:53.000 And there you have it.
00:21:54.000 That's how your intel agencies work with orchestration, conspiracy, with collusion, and in harmony.
00:22:03.000 Per the House report, the claim that Trump wanted, the claim that Putin wanted Trump to win was based on one fragment of a sentence.
00:22:12.000 When in reality, there was an overwhelming pile, a overwhelming plethora, an overwhelming amount of evidence to the exact 180 opposite contrary.
00:22:27.000 We're not debating whether or not Russia tried to sow chaos in the 2016 election.
00:22:32.000 What we are now learning is that they were not doing anything to help Donald Trump.
00:22:36.000 In fact, they had information that could have helped Donald Trump, and they did not use it.
00:22:41.000 Instead, they sat on the sidelines.
00:22:44.000 There was no Russian interference on behalf of Trump, let alone Trump knowing about it.
00:22:51.000 We got so far, we were even down the runway saying that Trump was directly communicating with Kremlin assets to help him, to help advance his prospects.
00:23:01.000 The media is so complicit in this.
00:23:03.000 And Hillary Clinton says, well, 2016 will always have this air of illegitimacy.
00:23:09.000 That is pile of BS. 0.89
00:23:12.000 She didn't visit Wisconsin and Michigan.
00:23:14.000 You lost Hillary, and it wasn't because of the Russians. 0.88
00:23:17.000 It's because of you, because you tranquilized yourself too much and refused to leave the woods and go campaign in Waukesha, Wisconsin, or in Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:23:28.000 The ruling class will never take responsibility for their failures.
00:23:32.000 And they found the perfect institution to blame, the perfect enemy, the Russian Federation. 0.92
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00:24:48.000 It's just been a tough couple weeks of just heavy stuff.
00:24:52.000 I mean, you got the Idaho murders happening, and today, unfortunately, it continues.
00:24:58.000 Hulk Hogan has passed away.
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00:25:19.000 Now, mind you, I'm a little bit too young.
00:25:22.000 I'm a little bit on the edge where I wasn't like that into Hulk Hogan.
00:25:26.000 I always liked him.
00:25:27.000 He's fun.
00:25:28.000 He was larger than life.
00:25:29.000 But it was so interesting to see how many of the Trump staffers that are like 36, 37, 38 that I'm very close with, they were freaking out that Hulk Hogan was on property.
00:25:41.000 They were calling in every favor imaginable to go get a picture of Hulk Hogan and to go at selfies of Hulk Hogan.
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00:26:26.000 By the way, emphasis on eat your vitamins, which is eat good food.
00:26:31.000 Don't just eat this.
00:26:32.000 He was Maha before Maha. 0.52
00:26:34.000 Have a nice steak.
00:26:36.000 Maybe a little protein, healthy fats.
00:26:38.000 And there you see there, Hulk Hogan went and actively campaigned for President Trump.
00:26:44.000 And the crowds would just go wild.
00:26:46.000 And one of the reasons why the crowds would go so wild is we didn't have many celebrities during the Trump campaign that would kind of go up on stage.
00:26:52.000 We had like five.
00:26:54.000 And Hulk Hogan was like, that's an A-list celebrity.
00:26:56.000 That is a guy that has a name ID in almost every single TV and every single family, every kitchen table across the country.
00:27:04.000 One of my favorite moments, though, and I got to play it, is Cut 417.
00:27:09.000 Hulk Hogan at the RNC endorsing President Donald Trump.
00:27:14.000 I mean, this is as good as it gets.
00:27:15.000 Play Cut 417.
00:27:16.000 What happened last week when they took a shot at my hero and they tried to kill the next president of the United States?
00:27:31.000 Enough was enough.
00:27:34.000 I said, Let Trump Amania run wild, brother. 0.96
00:27:39.000 Let Trumpomania rule again! 1.00
00:27:42.000 Let Trumpomania make America great again! 1.00
00:27:55.000 What a great legacy that he left.
00:27:58.000 That entire career.
00:27:59.000 And let this be a lesson to all the other celebrities out there.
00:28:02.000 Here we are remembering Hulk Hogan, and he's going to be remembered for putting it on the line for his country.
00:28:07.000 He helped galvanize that muscular class that we always talk about.
00:28:11.000 Now, we have no idea how many votes that Hulk Hogan moved, but look, there's Hulk Hogan interviewing with Brett Baer on network TV on Fox News.
00:28:18.000 And it's really promising to see, and it's really encouraging.
00:28:22.000 I never had a chance to meet Hulk Hogan, never had a chance to get to know him.
00:28:25.000 But as we remember his life, he finished well.
00:28:29.000 He would always talk about the country and how much he loved America.
00:28:33.000 And he lived that out.
00:28:35.000 He lived that out in his last months here on earth.
00:28:40.000 So rest in peace to Hulk Hogan, an American legend.
00:28:43.000 Never had a chance to meet you.
00:28:44.000 Watch from afar.
00:28:45.000 I'm going to read the caption of this video that's going viral.
00:28:48.000 Hulk Hogan was a genuine, uniquely American creation, fearlessly original, flawed, but unbowed.
00:28:54.000 He had the courage to stand on his own principles, and he never stopped fighting for his country.
00:29:00.000 An American icon, he will be missed.
00:29:02.000 He stepped up when we needed him.
00:29:04.000 He leaned in.
00:29:06.000 And I know a lot of people are in a stage of mourning because for a lot of young people, he's very youth-centric, he was an icon and a well-deserved one.
00:29:15.000 Because you look at the icons now that people are looking up to.
00:29:18.000 You look at Mickey Minaj or Cardi B or what a much better icon.
00:29:23.000 Eat your vitamins, say your prayers, train.
00:29:28.000 It's a lot better than, well, you can fill in the blanks of all those degenerate rap lyrics.
00:29:33.000 So Hulk Hogan, God bless you, man, and thank you for standing up for America.
00:29:38.000 We will miss you, and we sincerely appreciate the passion for America.
00:29:45.000 I got to put this one up more on screen.
00:29:47.000 This is Donald Trump with Andre the Giant and Hulk Hogan.
00:29:51.000 Andre the Giant did not live very long.
00:29:55.000 I always remember Andre the Giant, by the way, from Princess Bride.
00:29:58.000 That's always, that's the Andre the Giant poll that I always have.
00:30:02.000 That's kind of the most...
00:30:05.000 I should rewatch Princess Bride with my daughter.
00:30:08.000 That would be a blast from the past.
00:30:10.000 We lost Ozzy Osborne and Hulk Hogan in one week.
00:30:13.000 It's basically like Armageddon for a Gen X pop culture this week. 1.00
00:30:16.000 It's not good.
00:30:18.000 But yeah, look at that picture.
00:30:19.000 That's Donald Trump with the championship belt with Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant.
00:30:24.000 Of course, sympathies to the family.
00:30:25.000 But, you know, 71, it's on the younger spectrum in today's time.
00:30:31.000 Who knows what all that training and all that grinding of his body did to, you know, did to his life expectancy.
00:30:38.000 But he lived a full life, and I think that we should remember that.
00:30:41.000 I just want to repeat this point.
00:30:42.000 And I did not expect to talk about Hulk Hogan today, but more than happy to.
00:30:47.000 It is so tempting for these older celebrities to sit on the sidelines when their country is in peril.
00:30:55.000 The easy thing is to go speak at the Democrat convention like George Clooney or all these other people.
00:31:00.000 What kind of legacy do you want to leave?
00:31:03.000 And now we're remembering Hulk Hogan in the best possible light.
00:31:07.000 He stepped up when we needed him.
00:31:08.000 He didn't have to go to Trump rallies.
00:31:09.000 He didn't have to go to the RNC.
00:31:10.000 He was well known.
00:31:11.000 He had, quote unquote, plenty to lose.
00:31:13.000 But did he know that he had a year left to live?
00:31:16.000 Because it was about a year ago that he was the RNC, about a year and a week ago.
00:31:20.000 And we remember him now precisely because he did the hard thing.
00:31:24.000 Did you know that Hulk Hogan was also baptized just 18 months ago?
00:31:28.000 He said, quote, total surrender and dedication to Jesus is the greatest day of my life.
00:31:32.000 No worries, no hate, no judgment, only love.
00:31:36.000 We should make that clip go viral.
00:31:38.000 Thank you for our team that forwarded that.
00:31:40.000 Andrew, let's tweet that.
00:31:41.000 So Hulk Hogan always wore a crucifix and gave his life to Jesus in his last 18 months here on planet Earth because this is not our home.
00:31:51.000 Jesus said, the kingdom is not of this world.
00:31:57.000 And so I think we should all remember fondly a man who had a great mantra for young people and passion, phenomenal passion at all times.
00:32:11.000 And he loved the nation.
00:32:12.000 We need more celebrities like Hulk Hogan.
00:32:15.000 Let me say that again.
00:32:16.000 We need more celebrities like Hulk Hogan.
00:32:19.000 Who are the Hulk Hogan equivalents in the year of 2025 that are just coming up that are role models for young men?
00:32:28.000 I hope they can take a page out of Hulk Hogan's book that they can look and see that you should do hard things.
00:32:34.000 You should step up for your country when it matters.
00:32:37.000 And most importantly, you should live with joy, with passion, with purpose, with energy, and give your life to Jesus Christ, the most important thing you can do in your life.
00:32:47.000 Hulk Hogan is in a much better place now.
00:32:51.000 And one day we will see Hulk Hogan again.
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00:33:51.000 Last night, JD Vance gave a phenomenal speech, or at least a phenomenal interview, I should say, with the All-In podcast.
00:33:58.000 Now, if we are honest, not only, it's not only illegal immigration that is causing disruption and decay of the United States. 0.51
00:34:07.000 It's also legal immigration.
00:34:09.000 Yesterday at the Washington, D.C. Summit, AI Summit, President Trump appeared, but also JD Vance.
00:34:14.000 Trump AI czar, David Sachs, reunited with the co-host of his business podcast, All In, and they interviewed JD Vance.
00:34:20.000 In that interview, Vance had a lot to say about how the tech industry and how it approaches immigration.
00:34:25.000 Play Cut 404.
00:34:26.000 You see some big tech companies where they'll lay off 9,000 workers and then they'll apply for a bunch of overseas visas.
00:34:34.000 And I sort of wonder, that doesn't totally make sense to me.
00:34:37.000 The math doesn't mean that that displacement and that math worries me a bit.
00:34:40.000 And what the president has said, he said very clearly, we want the very best and the brightest to make America their home.
00:34:45.000 We want them to build great companies and so forth.
00:34:48.000 But I don't want companies to fire 9,000 American workers and then to go and say we can't find workers here in America.
00:34:56.000 That's a story.
00:34:58.000 What JD is saying is very important.
00:34:59.000 The past six months, we've had a lot of focus on illegal immigration, and we should. 1.00
00:35:04.000 Biden betrayed the United States of America and he let in 10 million people minimum, including countless gangsters and criminals, and he gave them all welfare.
00:35:13.000 We need to undo that damage and we need mass deportations and not amnesty.
00:35:17.000 We're going to get to that cut in a second.
00:35:18.000 But first, we need to talk about legal immigration because legal immigration has done significant damage to the homeland and to Americans. 0.66
00:35:28.000 Elon Omar is a legal immigrant.
00:35:30.000 Zoran Momdani is a legal immigrant.
00:35:33.000 Omar Fatah, the Somali socialist running for the mayor of Minneapolis, is the child of legal immigrants.
00:35:39.000 America's massive refugee problem are legal immigrants.
00:35:43.000 But we need to ask ourselves, how many of these refugees ever return home?
00:35:48.000 And if they ever do, how many of these refugees of their children ever improve America? 1.00
00:35:52.000 Every legal immigration, even legal immigration, changes our culture. 1.00
00:35:57.000 It gradually makes America a less cohesive society.
00:36:01.000 It makes parts of America feel like a foreign country or basically a foreign country.
00:36:06.000 In the tech world, the H-1B visa scam has become an infamous tool for driving down wages and driving out American workers.
00:36:15.000 H-1B visa is supposed to be for companies to fill specialist jobs they simply cannot here in America.
00:36:21.000 It's supposed to pay more than American jobs do, but in reality, it's become an infamous tool as replacing Americans. 0.84
00:36:28.000 Sound familiar?
00:36:28.000 Our immigration policies are all about replacing, replacing the demographic profile and replacing the jobs that Americans would otherwise have.
00:36:37.000 Some of the biggest H-1B recipients are companies like Infosys, and they're just IT firms.
00:36:42.000 Plenty of Americans are capable of doing it.
00:36:44.000 Now, if you want another sign that H-1Bs are not being used properly, just look at what countries get them. 0.99
00:36:50.000 We're not hiring talent from all over the world.
00:36:52.000 Instead, the overwhelming share of H-1Bs, about 75%, go to only one country, India.
00:36:58.000 That should be a big red flag.
00:36:59.000 The system has shifted from bringing talented people into America to a reality of probably help as many people from one specific country come into the United States.
00:37:08.000 Right now, H-1Bs are allotted by lottery for any companies that meet bare minimum threshold.
00:37:14.000 If this was really about getting the best of the best, an easy improvement would be to simply auction them off.
00:37:19.000 Whoever is paying the highest salary gets the visa.
00:37:23.000 That means only the most valuable people are getting them.
00:37:26.000 Even if H-1B employees get higher salaries, they're often attractive.
00:37:31.000 They're attractive to employers because their visas are tied to their jobs.
00:37:35.000 As a result, it's a lot harder for them to hop another company or go to another company looking for higher pay.
00:37:41.000 So even if their starting salaries are higher, they can rise lower and they're easier to manage.
00:37:48.000 These are the kind, these are just another kind of examples of the legal immigration scams out there.
00:37:53.000 For example, did you know the federal government has a special visa called the U Visa that is available to people who are victims of crimes in America?
00:38:00.000 It's supposedly so they can help police, but plenty of them just end up sticking around indefinitely.
00:38:05.000 And of course, it's already become a big vector for fraud.
00:38:07.000 Just a few days ago, a police, police in Louisiana, were charged with taking bribes to invent fake crimes that Indians could claim U-Visas and move to America.
00:38:18.000 The essence of all this is very important, which is we are told that H-1B visas make us richer and make us wealthier.
00:38:26.000 When in reality, we're firing American workers, 9,000 of them, and then we're going to go replace them with foreign workers so that you have to then go train your replacement. 0.80
00:38:37.000 It's time for us to end the H-1B visa scam. 0.99
00:38:41.000 Why should major tech companies with trillions of dollars of market cap not pay American workers when they are able to bring in foreigners to replace Americans while they are accomplishing record profits? 0.92
00:38:56.000 When you have record profits, when you are having record productivity, you owe it to the nation that has given you that productivity to hire those workers first, not fire 9,000 of them and hire their foreign replacements.
00:39:10.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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