Now that Mike Waltz is out as National Security Advisor, Nate Morris also joins the program who is thinking about running for Senate in Kentucky. The National Security Adviser is one of the first faces the President sees every single morning when it comes from a work context. Every morning, the President receives his daily briefing from the National Security Council which is on White House grounds.
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00:01:35.000And actually, I want to provoke your response today because I'm infinitely curious, actually, of how you think and how you feel about the topic at hand.
00:01:44.000The breaking news, of course, is the National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, is out.
00:01:50.000Now, the National Security Advisor is a non-Senate-confirmed position.
00:01:52.000The National Security Advisor exists as the top national security point of contact between the president and what is called the NSC, the National Security Council.
00:02:01.000The National Security Council partially is housed actually in the White House, but mostly is actually in the Eisenhower Executive Office building, which is technically on White House grounds.
00:02:10.000It's that ugly, monolithic, big building right next to the White House.
00:02:14.000Michael Waltz being the National Security Advisor, he did last longer than Michael Flynn, but of course Michael Flynn was taken out by our own government.
00:02:22.000Now, there's always been, let's just say, upheaval when it comes to the national security position, when it comes to President Trump.
00:02:29.000Famously, he had H.R. McMaster or John Bolton.
00:02:31.000President Trump likes to put people in that role that are sometimes more hawkish, more aggressive than he is, as a way of kind of a negotiating tactic, is that when you walk into a room with John Bolton with Iran, they think, my goodness, that guy's a lunatic.
00:02:43.000Then President Trump can kind of use that as a, let's just say, a leveraging tactic, as a negotiating tool.
00:02:51.000Now, understand, the National Security Advisor is one of the first faces the President sees every single morning when it comes from a work context.
00:02:59.000Every morning, the President receives his daily briefing.
00:03:01.000The person who administers that daily briefing is the National Security Advisor.
00:03:05.000So all night into the early hours of the morning, the National Security Council is compiling, let's just say, five to six bullet points of what the President needs to know.
00:03:17.000The National Security Advisor puts all of that together.
00:03:20.000Goes straight up to the president after he consolidates what is the hub of the National Security Council and presents it to the president.
00:03:27.000Mr. President, here's what's going on.
00:03:28.000Here is your daily, confidential, classified, I should say, presidential briefing.
00:03:33.000That person needs to get along very well with the president.
00:03:35.000That person needs to have a good vibe and a good energy with the president because they spend a lot of time together.
00:03:41.000Now, Mike Waltz, of course, famously added Jeffrey Goldberg to the Signal Chat.
00:03:47.000The Signal Chat, of course, is one thing that was probably one of the more annoying developments of this administration so far.
00:03:55.000Mike Waltz added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, and we never got a really good answer of how that happened.
00:04:00.000One of the excuses was, well, he saved his contacts with Jeffrey Goldberg, and then he wasn't sure who he was adding and why he was there and what was going on.
00:04:09.000We're not exactly completely clear or, let's just say, you know, certain why that happened.
00:04:18.000Now, Mike Waltz, after the attacks that happened in Yemen, the Houthi attacks, he famously sent the knuckle and emoji with the American flag and the flag.
00:04:28.000Now, what is a neoconservative view of foreign policy?
00:04:44.000Well, neoconservatism is actually a...
00:04:46.000Outgrowth of Marxism from the 1940s and 50s, which it is a Trotskyite, Stalinist way of viewing the world, which is that we are going to expand the state to such great lengths, and we're going to bring American values by force to the rest of the world.
00:05:00.000The architects of the Iraq War, the architects of the Vietnam War, and mind you, yesterday was the 50-year anniversary of the fall of Saigon.
00:05:08.000Neoconservatives brought us into Vietnam, and so it is actually very fitting that a neoconservative falls the day after Saigon fell.
00:06:04.000Why are we trusting our intel agencies so quickly?
00:06:06.000We've only been in charge for 101 or 102 days.
00:06:09.000We're all of a sudden going to trust the...
00:06:10.000Biden hold of our intel agencies that are telling us Iran is close to a nuclear weapon after they have lied to us at every single corner and every turn.
00:06:19.000The battle is over Iran, and there are people in Washington inside the Pentagon and inside the administration who want to launch military strikes on Iran.
00:06:28.000Often they say it'd be easy, just one strike, in and out.
00:09:54.000I mean, I don't like Iran, but the evidence shows that every single one of these people, the last couple of decades, that is pushing for a conflict with Iran has not just failed miserably, has been one of the greatest catastrophes in American foreign policy ever.
00:10:08.000Thousands of lives needlessly lost of Americans, millions of people displaced, trillions of dollars spent.
00:10:13.000And let's be honest, at this particular moment, we cannot afford this war.
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00:11:57.000Have the people that are clamoring for military strikes, do they have any credibility of the last 20 years?
00:12:04.000Tell me how they've earned any credibility.
00:12:44.000We're firing weapons into the interior of Russia.
00:12:47.000And so if we were to strike Iran or if we were to support Israel to support Iran, It is very tempting to view this like it's just a game of risk.
00:15:03.000We, on the Charlie Kirk Show, we get thousands of messages of young kids on the dark web or whatever they call it that message us on TikTok.
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00:15:16.000The Iranian people are becoming less Islamist.
00:15:19.000If we struck Iran, they would rally around Islam.
00:15:46.000But if you strike Iran, and this is my number one reason why I'm not a neoconservative, is that it's so prideful.
00:15:53.000As if you can map out every single action and have every other predictive element.
00:15:59.000Oh, if we strike and then this will happen and this won't happen.
00:16:02.000No, it turns out that you can't predict the future.
00:16:06.000And when you drop a bunch of bombs on a country and probably murder a bunch of kids and a bunch of women, because you know the Iranian government, they probably have a bunch of schools right next to nuclear sites, so keep that in mind, because they're not dumb.
00:16:17.000They probably built just the way Hamas does, human shields right around these nuclear sites, and you're going to go kill a bunch of their top scientists and a bunch of their infrastructure.
00:16:26.000How do you think they're going to respond?
00:16:28.000They'll respond with an actual declaration of war.
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00:18:55.000I could have been more precise in how I said one of the things prior, is that the American government did nothing to prevent the 9-11 hijackers from Saudi Arabia to gain access into the interior of the United States.
00:19:05.000So I listed that off as one of the failures, which of course is correct, that 9-11 was largely an immigration failure more than anything else.
00:19:12.000It was an intelligence and immigration failure.
00:19:15.000It wasn't a we-did-not-invade-enough-countries failure.
00:19:18.000And so that was just wanted to make sure that was clear.
00:19:20.000I could have said that better in the prior segment.
00:19:23.000Okay, joining us now is Nate Morris, a very successful businessman from Kentucky, and he's been on the program prior.
00:20:01.000And as you've seen, Charlie, we've got so many of these activist judges that are thwarting the rule of law that continue to cause chaos and continue to put these leftist agendas.
00:20:12.000The Senate and the people in Washington, we got to stand up, the people, the patriots that are there, and fight this stuff once and for all.
00:20:21.000Why do you think that Senate Republicans right now, I mean, Mitch McConnell being one of them from the state that you come from, Kentucky, are so unwilling to stand up against this judicial despotism?
00:20:34.000Well, Charlie, look, these are career politicians.
00:20:37.000And we know that career politicians protect the swamp at all costs.
00:20:41.000This is how their cronies, their lobbyists, this is how they make their money.
00:20:45.000They don't want to disrupt anything going on in Washington.
00:20:48.000They've had a good thing going because they've been up there forever.
00:20:52.000And this is something that they want to continue on as they continue to hold office.
00:20:58.000And they don't want anybody from the outside coming in and shaking things up.
00:21:02.000And we've seen this over and over again with the things that Mitch McConnell has consistently done Not only to oppose President Trump, but to continue to cause chaos related to the America First agenda, period.
00:21:15.000And speaking of America First, we did our entire open here about a potential war with Iran or military strikes with Iran.
00:21:22.000How are the people of Kentucky feeling about the nonstop foreign intervention in other countries?
00:21:29.000And do you think that it's a good idea for us to continue to saber-rattle and to get involved in foreign lands when our own country is doing rather poorly?
00:21:37.000Well, Charlie, look, I think this is going to be a critical issue in this Senate race that so many people are talking about.
00:21:44.000Who's going to replace Mitch McConnell?
00:21:46.000And we've had somebody with Mitch McConnell that has continued to back up the truck for Zelensky in Ukraine.
00:21:55.000That we have so many people that are so concerned about these foreign wars and continuing to drive conflict at all costs.
00:22:02.000And I think one of the things as a business guy and an outsider, I've seen this and I'm scratching my head and I'm saying, why do we continue to do this?
00:22:12.000And you've got two other people potentially, well, that are actually in this race and they've continued to have the same position as Mitch McConnell.
00:22:42.000How do we use our economic leverage to get the best deal?
00:22:46.000And I'm so pleased that we're now bringing...
00:22:49.000Russia and Ukraine together over economics, where we can get a deal done, as opposed to continuing to waste all this money, back up the truck to Zelensky and all his cronies, and finally get peace.
00:23:02.000I think that's what the rest of the world wants here.
00:23:12.000To have an outsider actually talk about foreign policy would be very refreshing.
00:23:17.000And the key should always be what is in the United States' national interests, including from the border and from foreign involvement and entanglement.
00:23:26.000The United States Senate is largely composed of neoconservatives, people that want to see more, let's just say, war, more invasion.
00:24:01.000And we know that this is not going to work.
00:24:04.000And I'm so proud of President Trump because his first term was all about cutting off all the nonsense that Obama started with Iran and that ludicrous deal.
00:24:14.000Funding Iran and saying enough is enough.
00:26:00.000And we've had these elites and this ruling class that with the push of a button, they've sent their jobs overseas.
00:26:08.000And so many young men, especially, that I see, they feel left out of this economy.
00:26:14.000And they don't know how to participate.
00:26:16.000They don't know how to get back in the game because they saw their father or their grandfather lose their job generations ago and it hasn't come back.
00:26:23.000And so I think number one is we've got to have...
00:26:27.000A path to the American dream for every Kentuckian and have somebody that's connected at the ground level to say, I've lived it, you know, starting a business with $10,000 on a credit card and taking my company public.
00:26:39.000I've lived the dream and I want every Kentuckian to have access to that dream as well.
00:26:44.000And right now, President Trump is leading that.
00:26:47.000I want to talk about tariffs and trade for a second.
00:26:49.000Let's cue it up here with Stephen Miller.
00:26:51.000Playcut 440, about how President Trump is combining all the forces together to have the best possible trade deals, which involves Kentucky, right?
00:27:03.000Right now, countries from all over the world, because of President Trump's leadership, are desperate and dying to make trade deals with the United States.
00:27:10.000We're going to evaluate each of those deals, and President Trump is personally involved in making sure that these negotiations serve only one interest, which is the interest of the United States of America.
00:27:34.000We're finally using our economic might to get the best deal.
00:27:39.000And it's taken a business leader like President Trump to be able to say, we've got all this leverage.
00:27:45.000And why have we been squandering this leverage and not using our economic might to work out the best deal possible?
00:27:52.000And all these other countries have been ripping off America, ripping off the American worker.
00:27:57.000And it's time we put the American worker first.
00:28:00.000And I think this is what this is all about, Charlie.
00:28:03.000And I can tell you, I'm really proud that the United Auto Workers in particular have really been so supportive of President Trump and what he's doing.
00:28:14.000This is my family, the folks that work in the auto plant.
00:28:17.000You know, Kentucky's a big auto state, Charlie.
00:28:29.000That as a matter of national security, we have to make stuff in this country.
00:28:34.000If we get into times of conflict or times of crisis, we've got to have the infrastructure in this country to not only build the things that protect our nation, but also protect our people.
00:28:43.000And I think that's what President Trump has made this all about.
00:28:46.000And I'm 100% behind the president in what he's doing.
00:28:51.000Talk more about your biography, and I know you're thinking about potentially going to the U.S. Senate out of Kentucky, which, boy, do we need someone that has no ties to McConnell whatsoever.
00:29:01.000Tell the audience more about your ambition, potentially, to make sure McConnell no longer rules the state of Kentucky.
00:29:09.000Well, Charlie, I'm so proud that I'm a ninth-generation Kentuckian.
00:29:13.000I was raised by a single mother right here in the Commonwealth.
00:29:17.00019 of my family members worked in an auto plant, as I mentioned.
00:29:20.000I come from a working-class, blue-collar home.
00:29:23.000I was lucky enough to get scholarships to get a great education.
00:29:27.000And I started a business with about $10,000 on a credit card, ended up taking that company public at $2 billion on the New York Stock Exchange in the industry of waste.
00:29:37.000And I think it's time, Charlie, that we take out the garbage in Washington, D.C., time to take out the trash.
00:29:43.000And I think we need someone who's a disruptor.
00:29:51.000But I'm so inspired by my friend J.D. Vance, all the progress that he's making every day to fight for the working person in D.C. And he's got me inspired.
00:30:02.000And that's why I'm taking a look at this race.
00:30:04.000And I think it's time that we have a complete and utter change for Mitch McConnell.
00:30:09.000And the two guys that are in this race right now, they're going to be McConnell 2.0.
00:30:14.000And it's time that we break that cycle of career politicians and send somebody to Washington who can shake things up.
00:31:27.000The Deep State is on defense right now, and nothing will make themselves more important and validated than military strikes with Iran.
00:31:35.000Ask yourself the question, if the Deep State of the American government wants military strikes with Iran, is it a good idea?
00:31:40.000I'm sick to death of neocons, Valerie says.
00:31:42.000A listener from Chicago says, Dear Charlie, the waves of Islam are hitting America and are like landing parties from Iran.
00:31:51.000I agree it's good to be skeptical of intelligence, but at the same time you shouldn't dismiss the threat of Iran out of hand.
00:31:56.000So I don't want to dismiss it, but I will say though that actually striking Iran can cause more problems.
00:32:00.000In fact, remember, a lot of the reasons why we have Islam taking over Europe is because we invaded Iraq and because we struck Syria and we had the Syrian civil war.
00:33:02.000When you strike a country, a strongman dictator can hold on to power more easily because he can rally his domestic population and effectively declare martial law.
00:33:11.000This one says here, Israel must be protected from a nuclear power, Iran.
00:33:14.000It's sad, but how does the United States help Israel against Iran while being on alert on China?
00:33:19.000Okay, I want to respond to that partially.
00:33:21.000I am not discounting Iran being a threat to Israel.
00:33:39.000So enormously catastrophic, we can't even put it into words.
00:33:44.000Love your show, and we agree on these things.
00:33:45.000I've never been compelled to call in, and I love the work that you do, but to hear today try to slant your audience as much as possible the way you're thinking we should not go to Iran is dangerously irresponsible.
00:33:53.000I've not been a neocon, but completely favor over methods to destabilize this government and punish it rather than reward them.
00:34:42.000And so look, if the United States supported Israel, that would be very troubling because, I mean, I'm sorry, if Iran, if Israel struck Iran, let me just put it that way.
00:34:49.000If Israel struck Iran, then are we funding that?