The Charlie Kirk Show - March 19, 2025


Will Trump The Peace President Solve Ukraine-Russia?


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Jensen Franklin joins us live from our Faith Forward event in Gainesville, Georgia where we discuss the Russia-Ukrainian peace deal and much more. President Trump did the right thing and called Vladmir Putin on the phone.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, from the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:01.000 Jensen Franklin joins us live here from our Faith Forward event in Gainesville, Georgia.
00:00:07.000 We are here on the ground training pastors and equipping them to better articulate the truth and the gospel from their pulpits.
00:00:16.000 We continue also talking about the Russia-Ukrainian potential peace deal and so much more.
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00:00:34.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:35.000 Here we go.
00:00:36.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:37.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
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00:01:34.000 It's a topic that has really been weighing on me, which is the Mohammedism that is growing in the West. 1.00
00:01:41.000 I don't think Christians and conservatives, I don't think that we are really prepared to confront the rise of cultural Islam, which is the rise of political Islam. 0.97
00:01:50.000 Way too much attention, by the way, goes towards the radical Islamist groups.
00:01:55.000 Not in a bad way.
00:01:56.000 I mean, obviously, the ones that are beheading Christians and the Houthis, and it's terrible.
00:02:01.000 I mean, no one supports that.
00:02:03.000 Well, I'm talking about something completely different.
00:02:05.000 I'm talking about cultural Islam.
00:02:07.000 I'm talking about the slow, subtle suicide of the West.
00:02:11.000 We're going to ask Andrew Sedra, who has been speaking out against Islam in Australia, is Islam compatible with Western civilization?
00:02:21.000 It's a very serious question, and I'm not attacking individual Muslims.
00:02:25.000 Of course, we all know individual Muslims that are good people and they act fine.
00:02:30.000 Is the ideology compatible?
00:02:33.000 Is it oil and vinegar?
00:02:35.000 Are they going to be able to fit together?
00:02:38.000 It's a very simple question.
00:02:39.000 I can say right now, leftism and Western civilization are incompatible.
00:02:43.000 They are incompatible.
00:02:45.000 Leftism and the West cannot coexist.
00:02:47.000 One has to win, either the left or the West.
00:02:50.000 It is very simple.
00:02:52.000 It is a binary.
00:02:53.000 Islam is not the faith of Western civilization. 1.00
00:02:56.000 There is a reason that America was born from a Christian heritage. 0.82
00:03:00.000 It never could have been born from Muslim heritage. 1.00
00:03:03.000 We're going to explore that in a second.
00:03:05.000 Blake did a great job summarizing this.
00:03:07.000 Thank you, Blake, for going through the Russian stuff.
00:03:09.000 It's actually, the call has not yet been translated.
00:03:12.000 Here's what we know.
00:03:13.000 We know first that Putin made Trump wait, of course, obviously.
00:03:16.000 I'm a big strong man because I'm black.
00:03:18.000 Okay, sit down.
00:03:20.000 I mean, whatever.
00:03:21.000 Typical diplomatic nonsense.
00:03:23.000 Honestly, good for president.
00:03:24.000 This is very important, though.
00:03:26.000 This shows the magnanimity of President Trump.
00:03:29.000 You know, he gets shown on television as being impulsive and having no patience.
00:03:34.000 President Trump could have canceled the phone call.
00:03:36.000 Because obviously President Trump is the statesman here.
00:03:39.000 But President Trump understood what Putin was doing.
00:03:41.000 It's an old kind of diplomatic Russian tactic.
00:03:44.000 By the way, he did the same thing to Tucker Carlson.
00:03:46.000 He made Tucker wait two and a half hours for him when he went to go interview him in the Kremlin.
00:03:51.000 Anyway, President Trump did the right thing and probably laughed about it.
00:03:55.000 He said, oh, you know, Vlad thinks he's a real tough guy now.
00:03:58.000 He took the high road.
00:03:59.000 He deserves credit for it.
00:04:00.000 Well done, President Trump.
00:04:01.000 The call lasted more than 90 minutes, so about 45 minutes of discussion if you account for the translation back and forth.
00:04:07.000 Dan Scavino at the White House claimed the call was going well.
00:04:10.000 It was ongoing.
00:04:11.000 A Russian government official said, quote, under the leadership of President Putin and President Trump, the world has become a much safer place today.
00:04:19.000 That's a promising sign, hopefully.
00:04:21.000 While Trump and Putin were on the call, President Zelensky's chief of staff, my goodness, I'm telling you, if there's one reason why this war won't end, it's Zelensky.
00:04:29.000 I'm telling you, this guy is getting in the way of it.
00:04:32.000 I'm losing patience.
00:04:34.000 Anyway, he said, while Trump and Putin were on the call, President Zelensky's chief of staff stated that Ukraine's supposed red lines for peace, saying that Ukraine won't accept a neutral status, won't reduce their armed forces, and won't recognize any Russian gains in Ukraine.
00:04:50.000 Well, okay.
00:04:51.000 But if a good peace deal is on the table, Ukraine rejects it, and then the consequences are on them.
00:04:55.000 Yeah, for the record, I lost patience with Zelensky a long time ago, but then I try to renew my patience, of which that reserve gets depleted every time I look at him again.
00:05:06.000 So the situation is ongoing between Zelensky and Putin and Trump.
00:05:12.000 Understand, President Trump is here as the magnanimous statesman.
00:05:17.000 If he gets this done, it is Nobel Peace Prize territory, and I'm not just saying this hyperbolically.
00:05:22.000 If he gets this deal done, and of course Crimea should be on the table. 0.69
00:05:25.000 Absolutely Crimea should be on the table. 0.91
00:05:28.000 It was given symbolically by Nikita Khrushchev.
00:05:31.000 I believe that's correct.
00:05:33.000 In what, 1954?
00:05:35.000 As a gesture.
00:05:38.000 Basically saying, hey, you know, this is Russian-Ukrainian harmony.
00:05:42.000 We're going to live together.
00:05:43.000 It's symbolic.
00:05:44.000 It was a gesture of 300 years of Russian-Ukraine unity.
00:05:50.000 What's the best example of this?
00:05:53.000 The best example would be if we wrongly gave Mexico Texas something as silly as that.
00:06:00.000 Obviously, Texas is part of America.
00:06:02.000 It has Texans.
00:06:04.000 Blake says it would be even dumber than that.
00:06:07.000 Give me an example.
00:06:08.000 Us giving them Ohio?
00:06:09.000 Or us giving Canada Ohio or something.
00:06:13.000 Maybe that would be dumb.
00:06:16.000 I don't know what Blake means if that's dumber.
00:06:18.000 Anyway, point being, is that...
00:06:21.000 It would be like Michigan giving up the Upper Peninsula to Wisconsin.
00:06:25.000 Okay, got it.
00:06:27.000 That would be pretty dumb.
00:06:29.000 Now, did Biden ever try to de-escalate this conflict?
00:06:32.000 Did Biden ever try to calm down the tensions and the pressures and the angst and the anxiety?
00:06:38.000 Was there ever an attempt for mass de-escalation?
00:06:44.000 No, we saw the opposite.
00:06:45.000 We saw a pressure campaign, in fact, a creation of a pressure cooker.
00:06:50.000 Of armaments and the slow-motion sleepwalking, the barreling towards a potential hot nuclear war.
00:07:00.000 And if I may just speak candidly, I actually feel better tonight about the future of the world, that our countries are talking, that our countries have actually some sort of channel.
00:07:14.000 We have learned that there was no diplomatic backchannel.
00:07:19.000 Between Russia and the United States, Biden cut everything off, which is just so unbelievably stupid.
00:07:26.000 It's so immature.
00:07:27.000 It's so imprudent for anybody to do that under any circumstance.
00:07:32.000 You should always have some way where you can even communicate with the enemy.
00:07:36.000 And then we forced Russia into the Chinese Communist Party orbit. 0.68
00:07:41.000 Speaking of orbit, by the way, those astronauts are coming back.
00:07:43.000 Thank you, Elon Musk.
00:07:44.000 We are going to talk about that.
00:07:45.000 It's an amazing story.
00:07:46.000 It's a monumental story.
00:07:48.000 The Chinese Communist Party is the threat.
00:07:50.000 Our entire foreign policy should be primarily focused on curtailing the rise of the Chinese Communist Party, the ascension of the Maoists.
00:08:01.000 And that's what they are.
00:08:03.000 And insofar that you have this triangulation, the new axis being created, Iran with the Persians, the Chinese Communist Party, and potentially the Russians, you got a big problem.
00:08:15.000 Why would we hand over an element of the axis?
00:08:19.000 And then you got the cartels, which then operate as proxies of all of them to be able to then infect and poison our youth and invade our nation.
00:08:29.000 Remember, Russia was not a primary ally of the United States going into World War II.
00:08:34.000 It was only because of Hitler's megalomania that eventually Russia and Germany got at odds with one another.
00:08:42.000 and eventually we found ourselves allied with The Soviet Union.
00:08:47.000 Which, by the way, was the right thing for us to do.
00:08:51.000 Russia lost millions of people.
00:08:55.000 We do not have to be in perpetual conflict with Russia.
00:08:58.000 You should write that down and commit it to memory.
00:09:00.000 I don't like Russia.
00:09:01.000 I don't think highly of their government.
00:09:04.000 They're not a free society.
00:09:05.000 It's run by a bunch of gangsters and thugs.
00:09:08.000 It's like if the mafia took over a country.
00:09:10.000 That's basically it.
00:09:11.000 They do have some rich culture that is worthy of appreciation.
00:09:14.000 And recognition?
00:09:17.000 Tolstoy's a real thing.
00:09:18.000 Dostoevsky?
00:09:19.000 Real thing.
00:09:20.000 Tchaikovsky?
00:09:21.000 Real thing.
00:09:22.000 War and peace?
00:09:23.000 Real thing.
00:09:24.000 That's real stuff.
00:09:26.000 Real beauty.
00:09:27.000 Real art.
00:09:28.000 Worthy of recognition.
00:09:30.000 Worthy of appreciation.
00:09:31.000 Worthy of study.
00:09:34.000 Both those things can be simultaneously true.
00:09:36.000 But Washington only exists in the binaries.
00:09:39.000 Washington only exists of enemy friend.
00:09:42.000 Good evil.
00:09:43.000 Sometimes it's...
00:09:44.000 Far more nuanced than that.
00:09:45.000 And Russia has always operated in the gray. 0.85
00:09:47.000 By the way, they are a very gray country, just to be honest.
00:09:50.000 They're aesthetically gray.
00:09:51.000 Their mood is gray.
00:09:53.000 They're always depressed.
00:09:54.000 They're drinking themselves to sleep.
00:09:55.000 They're a very gray people. 0.98
00:09:57.000 And kind of more metaphorically and then more literally, they seem to be gray in foreign policy.
00:10:04.000 Sometimes they're a friend.
00:10:05.000 Sometimes they need to be kind of brushed off a little bit.
00:10:10.000 And Andrew says in the chat, they are Europeans after all.
00:10:14.000 I'd love to have Blake's take on that.
00:10:15.000 It's a little bit more complicated.
00:10:16.000 They have a lot of Euro influences, but they're kind of their own thing.
00:10:21.000 They're definitely Eastern Europe, but it's their own identity.
00:10:26.000 Very Slavic. 0.89
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00:11:32.000 We are here live at Free Chapel in Gainesville, Georgia.
00:11:37.000 Pastor Jensen Franklin is with us.
00:11:39.000 Thank you for collaborating with us here and for hosting us to be able to reach pastors and doing this together.
00:11:47.000 You're going to be speaking here tonight.
00:11:48.000 What is the message you're going to be delivering to these pastors?
00:11:50.000 Well, I'm going back and forth on two different messages, but basically I feel like that this is an opportunity.
00:11:59.000 Of crisis, almost.
00:12:01.000 A crisis of opportunity that I feel like when we saw a change in the administration and direction of our nation, that we're not to kick back and sit back and relax now, especially the body of Christ.
00:12:16.000 If we don't recognize, you know...
00:12:19.000 Where we're at and what the opportunities are that are incredible, really.
00:12:24.000 I mean, it's not a negative thing.
00:12:26.000 It's a powerful thing.
00:12:28.000 But I feel like that some people just feel like, well, the election is over.
00:12:32.000 Just unplug, kick back, relax.
00:12:35.000 And what you don't understand is if you kind of need to be like Joshua when he was winning and he said, son, stand still.
00:12:43.000 We won't get this moment back.
00:12:45.000 Not every moment.
00:12:46.000 It's an equal opportunity moment.
00:12:48.000 And if you don't seize it, you could miss a generation.
00:12:52.000 And that's why I love what you do.
00:12:54.000 I remember the first time I saw you, you were on a college campus, and I said, who in the world is this guy?
00:13:00.000 Who's bold enough to do that?
00:13:02.000 Who's crazy enough to do that?
00:13:04.000 Who can answer off the cuff the crazy things that people throw at you?
00:13:12.000 And your answers were like, Lightning, you know, I think it was Mark Twain said the difference between a word and the right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
00:13:27.000 And you seem to have lightning when you address a social issue because this Bible, you go back to the basics. 0.96
00:13:35.000 It's all biblical.
00:13:36.000 That's it.
00:13:36.000 So I'm honored and we're honored to have you here.
00:13:39.000 Thank you.
00:13:39.000 And I really appreciate that.
00:13:43.000 Receive the compliment that I'm probably crazy enough to go to these campuses.
00:13:46.000 So I will receive that.
00:13:48.000 And we had a great...
00:13:49.000 You know, our biggest campus event ever was in Athens, Georgia.
00:13:52.000 No way.
00:13:53.000 5,000 students.
00:13:54.000 So not far from here, if I'm not mistaken.
00:13:56.000 Yeah.
00:13:57.000 30 minutes down the road.
00:13:58.000 Amazing.
00:13:58.000 And so...
00:13:59.000 40. So yeah, it's just remarkable what you've built here.
00:14:02.000 And I agree that there is this moment of choosing for the American church right now.
00:14:10.000 And...
00:14:10.000 Pastors in particular, being tasked with their congregations, have to decide how they are going to equip their body and their flock.
00:14:22.000 And some of the pastors that are coming here to this conference are currently not speaking out on the issues.
00:14:28.000 Yeah, and that's why this conference is so important.
00:14:32.000 They're good men, good people, good leaders.
00:14:36.000 Sometimes you need encouragement from others.
00:14:40.000 I even thought about, you know, why did I ever get involved in this side of things?
00:14:46.000 And I was thinking about this the other day, actually, and I thought one after another of leaders in the generation of my generation, the faith leaders stood up.
00:14:58.000 It didn't matter what denomination they were in.
00:15:02.000 It didn't matter whether they were agreeing on every doctrine or every side thing, their flavor or whatever.
00:15:13.000 There were the basic roots of Jesus was born of a virgin.
00:15:18.000 He's God in skin.
00:15:19.000 He carried the cross, my sins, your sins, died and rose again.
00:15:24.000 And His Word is truth.
00:15:26.000 And let's teach this word and stand on it.
00:15:30.000 And there needs to be that.
00:15:34.000 Sometimes in a pastor's life, you need a reaffirming.
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00:15:44.000 And so that's what I'm praying happens here.
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00:15:48.000 I've been praying about this meeting.
00:15:50.000 I don't think it's a small thing.
00:15:52.000 When you can bring together 1,600 pastors from different backgrounds, and you know, it's always this thing of you stay in your camp, and I'll stay in my camp, and you're this denomination, or you're this, and we believe this about that, and when you don't, we got to, at some point, the people being beheaded in Syria, they don't care if you're Baptist or if you're Calvinist.
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00:16:31.000 So why can we not get together and be equipped from some of the greatest speakers in the world?
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00:18:03.000 Pastor, I'm going to read here some breaking news, and I want to kind of tie it into some biblical principles, because blessed are the peacemakers, as it says.
00:18:11.000 President Trump had a call with Vladimir Putin.
00:18:13.000 I'm going to read the entire press release here live on air.
00:18:16.000 It is breaking news.
00:18:17.000 It seems like it's a whole bunch of nothing, but it's actually a very deep and promising development.
00:18:22.000 Today, President Trump and President Putin spoke about the need for peace and a ceasefire in the Ukraine war.
00:18:28.000 Both leaders agreed this conflict needs to end with a lasting peace.
00:18:33.000 They also stressed the need for improved bilateral relations between the United States and Russia.
00:18:38.000 Let me pause.
00:18:38.000 There were no bilateral relations when Joe Biden was president.
00:18:41.000 We were not even talking.
00:18:42.000 Let me continue.
00:18:44.000 The blood and treasure that both Russia and Ukraine have been spending in this war would be better spent on the needs of their people.
00:18:51.000 Let me pause.
00:18:52.000 Joe Biden ever refused.
00:18:54.000 He refused to ever count the Russian part of the war as part of a casualty, meaning it was only the Ukrainian side.
00:19:01.000 Both sides are human beings dying in this conflict.
00:19:04.000 Both sides have families.
00:19:05.000 And both sides are needlessly going to war.
00:19:08.000 This conflict never should have started, the White House writes, and should have been ended long ago with sincere and good faith peace efforts.
00:19:16.000 The leaders agreed that the movement to peace will begin with an energy and infrastructure ceasefire, as well as technical negotiations on implementation.
00:19:28.000 Of a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea, which of course is right near Crimea.
00:19:34.000 Crimea is in the Black Sea.
00:19:35.000 A full ceasefire and permanent peace.
00:19:38.000 These negotiations will begin immediately in the Middle East.
00:19:42.000 So essentially, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, wherever.
00:19:45.000 The leaders spoke broadly more about the Middle East as a region of potential cooperation to prevent future conflicts.
00:19:51.000 They further discussed the need to stop proliferation of strategic weapons and will engage with others to ensure the broadest possible application.
00:20:00.000 The two leaders shared the view that Iran should never be in a position to destroy Israel.
00:20:05.000 That's an amazing development.
00:20:07.000 The two leaders agreed that a future with an improved bilateral relationship between the United States and Russia has a huge upside.
00:20:14.000 This includes enormous economic deals and geopolitical stability when peace has been achieved.
00:20:20.000 So we're still processing all this a lot here.
00:20:23.000 Blessed are the peacemakers, Pastor.
00:20:25.000 Oh, there's no doubt about it.
00:20:26.000 And that's what the president did his first administration.
00:20:30.000 No wars.
00:20:32.000 Kept us out of wars.
00:20:34.000 Kept peace in the earth.
00:20:36.000 America was so strong in leadership and militarily that our enemies were afraid.
00:20:43.000 And, you know, that's just a history course.
00:20:47.000 If you just go back in history, that strength can prevent wars from even happening.
00:20:53.000 And the tragedy that we've seen with Russia and Ukraine, I thank God that the president is trying to be a broker of peace. 0.96
00:21:01.000 And like you said, that is one of the beatitudes, is blessed are the peacemakers.
00:21:08.000 And if anybody ever was a peacemaker...
00:21:11.000 It seems like he is gifted to do it because he truly is standing between the two.
00:21:17.000 He won't take...
00:21:18.000 That kind of makes people mad.
00:21:19.000 But I know Russia is an aggressor.
00:21:22.000 We all know Russia is brutal and evil. 0.99
00:21:26.000 But they're also, like you said, they're people.
00:21:28.000 They're human beings.
00:21:29.000 And there's some wonderful people there.
00:21:31.000 And so we need to...
00:21:33.000 There's also some wonderful Christians that have been repressed there.
00:21:35.000 There's no question.
00:21:36.000 No question.
00:21:37.000 And the same in the Ukraine.
00:21:39.000 And I think everybody wants peace.
00:21:41.000 And I'm just praying that he will be able to make it happen because it's critical.
00:21:48.000 It's critical.
00:21:49.000 Amen.
00:21:49.000 And so they mention in here Iran not getting a nuclear weapon.
00:21:53.000 So President Trump solving the Ukrainian-Russia deal I think will be worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize.
00:21:57.000 If he can solve the Israel-Gaza-Hamas problem, that'll be... 0.96
00:22:02.000 I have never in all my years, and I've followed this closely because I'm very passionate about...
00:22:08.000 America's relationship with Israel.
00:22:11.000 And I have never, breaking news right here, I have never heard the president of Russia say that Iran should be stopped from having nuclear weapons.
00:22:26.000 I think that's breaking news.
00:22:28.000 The fact that he's smart enough to broker where he is.
00:22:33.000 in one major war and then grab one of those players that has massive influence over Iran and say You're going to work with me to bring peace to the Middle East.
00:22:45.000 It's brilliant.
00:22:46.000 And it's so beautiful because we know that when America stands with Israel, Genesis 12 and 3, I will bless those that bless Israel.
00:22:55.000 I will curse those that curse Israel.
00:22:57.000 I'm so thankful for the way the president's standing with Israel.
00:23:01.000 And President Trump is being very smart because you think about it.
00:23:05.000 Russia wants to have some negotiating power over Iran.
00:23:09.000 And if Iran gets a nuclear weapon, they're going to lose some of the leverage that they have over Iran.
00:23:16.000 Russia's not going to get rid of the nuclear weapons.
00:23:17.000 It's not possible.
00:23:18.000 They have more nuclear weapons than we do.
00:23:20.000 And so therefore, Trump knows this.
00:23:22.000 He says, OK, well, one point of agreement we might have.
00:23:25.000 And it's also very good for Israel.
00:23:27.000 Now, I would not go as far to say that Russia is pro-Israel, but they're not anti-Israel.
00:23:31.000 Russia has been a very complicated actor with Israel, but they have donated money in the past.
00:23:36.000 It's been on both sides.
00:23:38.000 They built a church in Hebron, as you might know, like a Russian Orthodox church.
00:23:41.000 And I would say neutral is probably the best way.
00:23:44.000 But it hopefully could invite a broader sentiment that America is here for peace while also standing by our allies such as Israel in the region.
00:23:55.000 Let's talk more broadly about Israel.
00:23:58.000 How should Christians and Americans think about our alliance with the state of Israel?
00:24:03.000 As a Christian, you would have no Bible. 1.00
00:24:08.000 You would have no doctrine.
00:24:10.000 You would have no salvation.
00:24:11.000 Even John 4, Jesus said, salvation is of the Jews. 0.88
00:24:17.000 Meaning that without that Jewish connection, we would not have the tribe of Judah that produced the Messiah, Jesus Christ. 0.68
00:24:28.000 How can we, Paul, the Apostle Paul said, how can the branch say, I don't need the roots anymore?
00:24:34.000 The roots of our Bible, the roots of our faith is the Hebrew faith and the land of Israel and the people of Israel.
00:24:43.000 We are not just called to love the land of Israel, the holy land, the land of miracles, the land where Jerusalem and Calvary and all of that.
00:24:52.000 But we're called to love the Jewish people, and we love the Palestinians.
00:24:57.000 We love people everywhere, but we also know that there must be sovereignty of their land in Israel, and that's why we stand with them.
00:25:07.000 Without a doubt.
00:25:08.000 And they were attacked on October 7th.
00:25:10.000 Every time they're attacked.
00:25:11.000 That moral clarity is critically important.
00:25:14.000 Every time it's...
00:25:15.000 Show me one time when Israel started a war.
00:25:18.000 It's always in a response.
00:25:22.000 I was asked to go to the White House and meet with 23 of the families of the hostages a couple weeks ago.
00:25:31.000 And Charlie, I'll never forget that day, just hearing one story, and they brought posters.
00:25:36.000 It was the sweetest thing.
00:25:37.000 They would bring their son or their brother or whoever.
00:25:40.000 And they would hold that up and they would talk.
00:25:44.000 And it was the most moving stories.
00:25:46.000 We brought two of the families into the church.
00:25:48.000 And before I preached, I interviewed them.
00:25:52.000 And it was powerful, too.
00:25:55.000 You ask, why should we care and why should we connect?
00:25:58.000 The church has to connect with Israel.
00:26:00.000 And here's a great opportunity to do that.
00:26:02.000 We brought them in.
00:26:03.000 And they actually, they were flown over straight from Israel.
00:26:10.000 One of the things the lady said, one of the hostages, her husband was being held.
00:26:15.000 She said, had President Trump not, before he was ever even in office, he started talking about the hostages better be let go.
00:26:23.000 The hostages.
00:26:24.000 Had he not put that pressure, she said, we don't believe we would have gotten our loved ones.
00:26:29.000 And by the way, her husband's been released, the lady that was here.
00:26:32.000 But I wanted to say this.
00:26:34.000 The thing that amazed me is when they came out and they were afraid of how they would be received, they had never been in a Christian church.
00:26:44.000 And the crowd stood to their feet and they were cheering and then we prayed.
00:26:50.000 They were moved to tears and they found out that Christianity is not what they thought it was, that we really honor them and love them and care about them.
00:27:00.000 It's beautiful.
00:27:01.000 And that is the witness we must be to the world.
00:27:05.000 What do you have to say for Christians that I don't even want to say are anti-Israel, but either have never been to Israel, they don't quite understand the significance of it. 0.80
00:27:16.000 You said it beautifully.
00:27:17.000 There would be no salvation.
00:27:18.000 There'd be no Bible.
00:27:19.000 There'd be no Savior.
00:27:20.000 There'd be none of it without the state of Israel. 0.85
00:27:23.000 What has Israel meant for your life the first time you went to Israel?
00:27:26.000 Tell us the story.
00:27:27.000 Tell us the Jensen Franklin story of going to Israel.
00:27:30.000 So I had a friend who wanted me to go with him.
00:27:34.000 He would go all the time.
00:27:35.000 And so me and my wife had just started, just been married and just started in ministry our first year.
00:27:40.000 And we went to Israel on his trip, sat on the bus, went to all the sites.
00:27:47.000 I cannot explain.
00:27:48.000 For me, Charlie, I've done it, I've probably been 30 plus times now taking thousands of people over there.
00:27:57.000 And every time I go, There's some spot somewhere that we go to that it all hits me again, and it makes it so powerful and so fresh.
00:28:11.000 Every person, I'm on a rampage about this, so one of the things we're doing is we're setting aside large amounts of money, and we're going to start a thing where we have a big youth conference down the road, and we have 12,000 teenagers.
00:28:26.000 This is not there.
00:28:27.000 This is not college kids.
00:28:28.000 This is teenagers.
00:28:29.000 And they come to the conference the last week of June.
00:28:32.000 And I want to connect that conference to Israel because when I see the protest, when I see the craziness on the university, we've got to stand up to that. 0.58
00:28:42.000 And so the answer is that you hit it right on the head.
00:28:45.000 If we can get young people just to go to Israel. 1.00
00:28:48.000 And let them be there.
00:28:50.000 It's a game changer.
00:28:50.000 So we're going to start a trip for young people to go to Israel and let them have fun and let them ride jet skis on the Sea of Galilee and let them canoe down the Jordan or whatever.
00:29:04.000 And float in the Dead Sea.
00:29:04.000 Exactly.
00:29:05.000 And have a great time, but at the same time have those moments.
00:29:09.000 That change everything and solidify your faith.
00:29:12.000 Instead of going to spring break and getting messed up for the rest of your life, why don't you go to Israel and solidify what you have been taught and professors can't change your mind when you go to college.
00:29:24.000 I love it.
00:29:24.000 Pastor Franklin, thank you for all you do and thank you for hosting us here at Free Chapel.
00:29:29.000 Any website or anything you want our audience to be aware of?
00:29:32.000 We're just excited you're here.
00:29:34.000 Thank you for what you do and we stand with you.
00:29:36.000 Thank you, my friend.
00:29:37.000 Bless you.
00:29:37.000 Jensen Franklin, everybody.
00:29:38.000 Thank you.
00:29:39.000 Thank you.
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00:30:30.000 I do want to mention the JFK thing.
00:30:32.000 So JFK has not yet been released.
00:30:33.000 We sent out a tweet.
00:30:34.000 We should probably repost this tweet.
00:30:36.000 I believe it was on...
00:30:38.000 This would have been on the 19th of January, I think.
00:30:41.000 We sent out the tweet.
00:30:43.000 Let me think about this.
00:30:43.000 Yeah, it would have been the 19th of January.
00:30:46.000 And we sent out a tweet basically saying, listen, one of two things will happen with the JFK file release.
00:30:53.000 Option A is that we're going to learn that the government was involved in...
00:30:59.000 The assassination of JFK. Or number two, we're going to learn that the government overclassifies everything and there's a bunch of people with job justification titles and we shouldn't have classified these documents in the first place.
00:31:13.000 I can almost guarantee you that there will not be documents that show that the government killed JFK. However, I still believe the government was involved in the assassination of JFK. So, we will...
00:31:26.000 We will...
00:31:28.000 Take a look at that.
00:31:30.000 Okay, so there is a Harvard pollster.
00:31:33.000 I'm just doing this live on air.
00:31:34.000 I'm doing this for the first time, as they would say.
00:31:37.000 There's this guy who's very well respected.
00:31:39.000 His name is J.D.V. Is that right?
00:31:42.000 Not to be confused with J.D. Vance.
00:31:46.000 What is his name?
00:31:49.000 Della Volpe?
00:31:50.000 Okay.
00:31:51.000 Gen Z's rightward shift. 0.97
00:31:52.000 What Charlie Kirk understands that Democrats don't.
00:31:56.000 Economic anxiety, institutional distrust, and media savvy inside conservatives Gen Z playbook. 0.79
00:32:02.000 I'm reading this for the first time.
00:32:04.000 Governor Gavin Newsom podcast with Charlie Kirk founder reveals an irrefutable truth.
00:32:08.000 Conservatives are winning the youth messaging war.
00:32:11.000 Though the LA Times called their exchange full-on cringe, Kirk's journey from card table and a debate me sign to political influence offers critical insights into Gen Z's rightward shift.
00:32:22.000 Despite growing backlash to Trump's economic policies and blah blah blah blah.
00:32:25.000 There's a lot to learn.
00:32:27.000 Trump claimed his organization achieved a 13-point youth voting swing in just four years, while this exact number made—it's not dubious.
00:32:32.000 He's a dubious.
00:32:33.000 This guy's totally wrong.
00:32:33.000 It's proven, actually.
00:32:35.000 Republicans have undeniably gained ground with younger voters by building campus infrastructure strategy Democrats have failed to counter.
00:32:43.000 Throughout his conversation, Kirk relied on—arguments relied on significant exaggerations.
00:32:48.000 What am I reading here, guys?
00:32:50.000 Okay.
00:32:51.000 I don't think he's saying I'm right.
00:32:53.000 He's insulting me half the time here.
00:32:56.000 Okay.
00:32:56.000 Okay, Kirk and his allies have masterfully manufactured culture issues.
00:33:00.000 Okay, I don't...
00:33:01.000 We didn't manufacture anything.
00:33:03.000 Okay, quote, Today's conservatives have flipped the script entirely.
00:33:06.000 They now present themselves as the anti-establishment force.
00:33:09.000 Well, we're not presenting ourselves.
00:33:10.000 We are.
00:33:10.000 Again, I don't like the way this is written.
00:33:12.000 Fighting against what they characterize as corrupt.
00:33:15.000 Meanwhile, Democrats have become...
00:33:18.000 Defenders of institutional expertise, supporting public health authorities, election officials, intelligence agencies, and academic consensus.
00:33:24.000 That is absolutely true.
00:33:26.000 The contemporary media ecosystem advantages those willing to engage in long-form unscripted conversations without concern for policy precision.
00:33:35.000 Prioritize emotional resonance over factual accuracy.
00:33:38.000 Okay, whatever.
00:33:39.000 All right, we're done reading this guy's piece.
00:33:41.000 The point being is that they are acknowledging that we have made a significant impact.
00:33:51.000 The battle for Gen Z isn't just about winning the next election.
00:33:54.000 It's about shaping America's political future for decades to come.
00:33:57.000 Kirk's influence demonstrates that the party that best addresses young Americans' anxieties about their economic and social prospects could well secure a generational advantage.
00:34:06.000 The data is clear.
00:34:07.000 Younger voters respond to authenticity, economic opportunity, and genuine engagement with their concerns.
00:34:13.000 They're not looking for celebrity endorsements or rehearsed talking points.
00:34:17.000 They want leaders who understand their lived reality of precarious finances, housing insecurity, and diminished expectations.
00:34:23.000 That, my friend, is exactly right.
00:34:24.000 And despite all the condescension, he's a liberal talking about things in the article, he is acknowledging that we understand exactly how to communicate to this generation.
00:34:35.000 It's true.
00:34:36.000 And by the way, visiting these campuses, I've become pretty...
00:34:41.000 I know how to talk to the next generation pretty well.
00:34:44.000 And there is an authenticity to all this.
00:34:46.000 And we did what worked.
00:34:47.000 And the Democrats don't have a messaging answer.
00:34:49.000 And let me tell you, if the Democrats were to do this on campus, they would get completely roasted.
00:34:54.000 Conservatives would come up to guys like, whatever, Destiny or Sam Seder, and they would make them look like fools, like Sam Seder was.
00:35:01.000 That random YouTube guy made Sam Seder look like a buffoon.
00:35:05.000 And this is a Harvard pollster saying this.
00:35:07.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:35:08.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:11.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.