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Charlie Kirk
This is an i heart podcast.
Blake Neff
The charlie kirk show star starts now you.
Selena Zito
Think that chuck schumer should step aside now and let someone else lead democrats.
Terrence Bates
In the senate i think it would.
Andrew Colvitt
Be better i think it'd be better.
Christopher Rufo
Than the status quo and i hear.
Andrew Colvitt
This from democrats all across massachusetts everywhere.
Charlie Kirk
I go they're hurting their own constituents.
Selena Zito
And yet should chuck schumer go and yet yes chuck schumer should go i'm sorry to say chuck schumer should go i voted for him many times i am ideologically quite aligned with where he is as a as a senator but.
Charlie Kirk
He'S no longer capable of running this caucus he's no longer capable of leading the democratic party what is it the shutdown we have waged a battle on behalf of the american people first of all donald trump and republicans are the ones who shut the government down but you know at the end of the day you didn't get what you want.
Terrence Bates
So it was worth waging this fight.
Charlie Kirk
At the end of the day the.
Mark Halperin
Fight lives on well the country loses a lot of money when they do this and they're not getting much but nobody gets a lot but it's terrible what they really wanted was one and a half trillion dollars for people that came in illegally i think we actually.
Charlie Kirk
Lose leverage in our fight for americans.
Blake Neff
Now that we have capitulated donald trump without any real protections for people's health.
Charlie Kirk
Care or our democracy in the short term funding bill i didn't want can.
Selena Zito
We reform snap benefits so they're used for the people who really need them.
Mark Halperin
It'S meant for people and you know what it does is it really puts the comfort of the country at jeopardy people that need it have to get it i'm all for it people that are able bodied can do a job they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up it's easier that's not the purpose of it i.
Blake Neff
Believe christian charities and churches should step up and feed and to clothe and to be a helping hand not government in fact we used to be a country that we had a lot more private charities going and helping people in need in fact i would make a contention if the government cut all of its social welfare every church would step up to make sure that no kid went hungry in this country and that no kid would die of starvation i.
Selena Zito
Would love if my tax dollars went.
Charlie Kirk
To helping people who needed food that's my argument here i think it does.
Blake Neff
Over over a trillion dollars a year goes to food stamps and snap and medicaid perfect but actually it doesn't help them nearly as much as you think let me tell you why because then we subsidize bad eating habits of the poor so that the working poor is very obese so they go buy coca cola pepsi and frito lays and the church is not involved where the church would then they say hey instead of going to the local grocery store with a bunch of food stamps and snap benefits why don't you come by our church and we'll feed all of you and a much more healthy by our own members and then you can hear the gospel afterwards that's the church in.
Charlie Kirk
Practice if jesus fed people for free.
Christopher Rufo
Taught people for free and healed people.
Andrew Colvitt
For free why don't we do the.
Charlie Kirk
Same churches should last hour we've highlighted for you as some fights broke out in this crowd again we know two people have been detained as emotions are high intentions are high as we saw some of those protesters clashing with people waiting in line to get inside we know the university has added enhanced security measures they've called in a lot of police from berkeley as well as uc berkeley and turning point usa has also.
Christopher Rufo
Hired some of their own independent security to be on campus there are strict.
Charlie Kirk
Policies to actually get inside of zeller bach hall but we know certainly tensions are high outside of zerbach hall it is clear to us which side is winning when your side becomes the violent agitators when you try to win with force and not through reason you have.
Mikey McCoy
Lost and the reality is they would.
Charlie Kirk
Never come in and ask a question they're not trying to win honestly if we are going to have a vibrant society and continue to be the largest economy the most technologically advanced society in the world we must protect free speech and debate we cannot afford to continue people having beliefs persist that are not subject to facts or logic or empirical evidence and anyone who presents empirical evidence to the contrary gets shut down censored and subject to violence on the university campus this has to stop charlie would.
Selena Zito
Have loved this harris this is fantastic look it doesn't matter where you are in this country you can always find people who want to exchange ideas and i think that's what charlie at the.
Charlie Kirk
Core of his message was all about.
Selena Zito
Whether or not you agreed with him that wasn't the point it was about talking to other people getting your voice heard and making a space where conservatives felt comfortable on college campuses everywhere harris.
Charlie Kirk
Every day there's a battle for your.
Blake Neff
Mind raging information coming from every angle.
Charlie Kirk
With the will to deceive fear not you found the place for truth the voice of a generation that still has the will to believe in the greatest country in the history of the world this is the charlie kirk show buckle up here we go all right welcome back to the charlie kirk show it is tuesday november eleventh honored to be with you all stations across the country real america's voice streaming podcast thank you so much for joining us as always i'm joined by blake neff our not so secret weapon i'm andrew colvitt executive producer of this fine show and we have lots to get to yesterday of course was the two month anniversary of charlie kirk's assassination and we had a campus tour event the final one of the this is the turning point tour we rebranded it after charlie's assassination and it was at uc berkeley which is supposed to be the birthplace of the modern free speech movement the birthplace of.
Andrew Colvitt
The free speech movement and like persistent like layer of the worst most like wretched elements the ones that haven't moved.
Charlie Kirk
To portland or seattle yeah charlie visited the campus a few times i was with him on one occasion and we were struck by just this prevailing sense of nihilism and of depression it's a very it's a very i think a dark place but there are great people there and antifa swarmed our event last night it became a massive news story as most of you probably have heard by now and i want to get right into it because we have lila youssef she is part of our cal berkeley tpusa chapter there she's a second year law student and she was stuck in the mob had glass bottle and paint thrown on her and i want to welcome her to the show to give us her firsthand account of what she saw and witnessed layla welcome to the show thank you so much thank you for having me yeah thank you for coming on and making the time i know it was probably a late evening for you all there and an eventful one so why don't you just start by telling us what happened what you saw and we're going to unpack this piece by piece here sure it.
Lila Youssef
Was absolutely a horrible experience with antifa protesters pretty much i finished class around five thirty i walked over from the law school and kind of it was clear that there were two different groups it was the antifa and the violent protesters carrying their signs at that point they had already started mocking charlie kirk's death shouting slurs like nazi fascists anyone walking by wearing a maga hat or anything with the american flag on it i saw people stepping on us flags and so then i ended up joining this line of people to enter when all of a sudden i start hear three loud booms and it sounded as if it was if it as if it was almost a bomb or gunshots going off i later found out it was i believe some car revving or fireworks and then all of a sudden i see a glass bottle being thrown above the crowd at the police officers and all of a sudden the police officers they kind of get into a formation they put their visors on and that's when the glass bottles start get thrown on us and so i at the time was standing with a police officer i was the first person in line in the barricade that at the time was open so i ran through the barricade and i ran through the two lines of police officers and i kind of hid beneath the police officers to be protected from a glass shard and bottle that was almost a few inches from my head yeah and so.
Charlie Kirk
Just so everybody's clear about what actually happened and you know you were so close to it that you probably didn' the tactical formations that were happening so these antifa people and i've got the whole rundown from our team these antifa thugs tried to basically block off the one entrance to the venue and we could show the flyers so this was a coordinated assault on this event the flyers what is the image folks i saw it here just a second ago i want to put this up because i want people to understand it's one hundred and forty one throw it up.
Andrew Colvitt
Berkeley end fascist turning point's youth oriented campaign of incitement to violence yeah so.
Charlie Kirk
What they're doing now is they're claiming that turning point is inciting violence by holding a free speech event in charlie's honor something he died for something he.
Andrew Colvitt
Was murdered for as always our speech is violence their violence is speech yeah.
Charlie Kirk
Exactly the whole upside down bizarro world that is the radical left so what they did is they cordoned everybody they tried to block the one entrance and what happened was we were begging the police our staff was begging the police to get involved to open this up and it wasn't until actual violence started happening that the police finally did something to block these people off and create safe passage and they did sort of a thing that we experienced at ucla a few years back where they played with the qr codes so a lot maybe you could speak into this layla where a lot of people had qr codes and we have to use sometimes we have to work with the universities especially in california for ticketing systems and a lot of people were having issues with that can you explain what was going on there what do you know.
Lila Youssef
About that yeah so pretty much i like many others in the line we had already ticket we had tickets we had qr codes that we believed would work and when we would reach the front of the line we were told that this didn't work because we had only filled out a student interest form or not the correct form we were pretty much all being told different things and i believe it was part of an orchestrated effort to ensure that the hall wasn't completely full that the students were allowed to enter and as you mentioned this was the one entry point so we were kind of left with we're stuck in this line but i can't even leave because i'm going to be attacked by these antifa thugs so we were pretty much cornered you were sitting ducks yes yeah pretty much and the qr codes nobody knows why they weren't working i'm a berkeley law student i mean you'd think that i'd use my berkeley law email to register for this event through turning point through the through the school and somehow it's not working it's for the number of people that i saw not working for it's.
Charlie Kirk
Very odd yeah you almost assume that there was some sort of sabotage going on i mean i mean i'm not trying to speculate wildly but it does feel i mean we've we've run into this before in memphis we had a situation where the actual administration and the school were sabotaging our events so it doesn't surprise me that you would go into a deep blue university and there would be shenanigans at play blake i.
Andrew Colvitt
Just i really it's really incredible to read this flyer they had because it includes the line put it back a few examples it's in tiny text a few examples of kirk and turning point's typical rhetoric should make clear that turning point's actual method for our university community is not about free speech or freedom of debate it is about the intimidation of free speech especially in an academic setting it is about bringing an end to free debate these people they just accuse you of exactly what they do they're really despicable despicable vermin well and.
Charlie Kirk
There was you know fights that broke out and i think we have the.
Andrew Colvitt
Fights that broke out they attacked our.
Charlie Kirk
People they attacked so what happened in this instance is there was a guy out there with a red freedom shirt and it had a cross on the back and he was saying jesus is lord you know whatever and he's getting antagonized by these people and then one of these antifa goons comes up and rips the cross in his chain off of him the guy runs to go get it and then the guy proceeds to physically assault him punch him bloody him the cops in their defense probably didn't know who started it they tackle both of them and they arrest him yeah this is the bird's eye view of this altercation and you can see he rips the chain and then he's running after to go get it and this guy just proceeds to just pound him grab him by the collar and punch him in the face a couple times the guy kept going after him before the cops ended up tackling both of them and putting them both in handcuffs i don't know the status there.
Andrew Colvitt
Was video of them taunting him afterwards.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah and they said you're bleeding white boy you're bleeding so then he racial so the other goons come up and they racially taunt him for being a white guy and the guy that you know that grabbed the chain certainly doesn't he looked dead in the eyes let's put it that way looked dead in the eyes i mean these are really sick people and this was an intimidation campaign i'm gonna keep you layla for just another segment here because we're gonna hit a break but i want to keep hearing about your personal experience because we haven't even talked about what happened inside total triumph the kids stood strong the students stood strong the event went on total packed house all for charlie i'm really proud of you guys you guys showed a lot of bravery last night we're going to keep you for another segment keep discussing this we will be right back relentless in spirit you're listening to the charlie kirk show all right welcome back to the charlie kirk show i want to tell you really quickly about the group that makes our campus tour possible and that is why refi they sponsor turning point's campus tour and they also are great partners of this show we appreciate them greatly they're amazing amazing people amazing patriots and what they do is they help you if you have private student loan debt which totals about three hundred billion dollars in this country about forty five billion of that is labeled as distressed so they refinance distressed or default to private student loans that others will not touch and they work directly with you to create a custom solution they tailor a solution based on your ability to pay your budget your monthly ability and they're not this is not some nameless faceless call center you are going to talk to an actual specialist who's going to review your situation they're going to insure interest rates under six percent ensuring affordability financial relief they don't care what your credit score is and get this they even let you skip a payment every six months up to twelve times without penalty you don't have to ignore that mountain of student loan statements on your kitchen table anymore just call the good folks eight eight eight y refi thirty four eight eight eight yrefi thirty four or log on to yrefi dot com that's yrefy dot com may not be available in all fifty states but it's worth giving a shot i just have to play this right now while we have one minute here play one hundred and seventeen and you know if we have to cut it off early that's fine one hundred seventeen this is an entirely.
Terrence Bates
Imaginary organization there is not an antifa.
Charlie Kirk
Like i don't even know what antifa is there is no group it's not.
Selena Zito
Even like far right groups like the proud boys and oath keepers compared to right wing extremists antifa linked violence is.
Charlie Kirk
Rare and limited it isn't an organization.
Mark Halperin
It is a it is a in.
Charlie Kirk
Many ways mythology it's not like the.
Selena Zito
Proud boys or the oath keepers you know sort of defined terrorist organizations with leadership that led that you know leads violence it's not a highly organized movement.
Christopher Rufo
It'S a moniker it's it's it's it's.
Mark Halperin
Not a unified group like the proud.
Charlie Kirk
Boys are things like antifa are things that are thought up it's all in this guise of going after antifa which is nothing there's no organization called antifa nobody's a member of antifa because it doesn't exist they are just declaring into existence something that doesn't exist there is no antifa organization all right welcome back to the charlie kirk show andrew pull that we've got lila not layla yusuf from uc berkeley that was a little homage to you even though it's the pronunciation is was slightly off close enough so tell us what happened inside once you guys did get inside actually what happened with the ticketing system how'd you ultimately get inside yeah so i got.
Lila Youssef
Inside because one of the turning turning point staff members was very kind and helped me honestly walked me through every single gate because they were being for some reason even when i had a qr code they didn't want to let me in so and even and when i got in i was like kind of surprised because the room wasn't even full yet like i thought i wasn't being allowed in because it was that capacity or something but they were simply just not letting people in for some arbitrary rules but then i did end.
Charlie Kirk
Up getting yeah good and so what happened when you got inside i mean this was i the clips i literally i jumped out of my seat and i started clapping i was so proud of you guys because it was it was like i knew the hell outside i was getting calls from reporters that were stuck outside being like can you get me in can you get me the reporters were freaked out and so i had to connect them with turning point staffers to get them inside the building i know some of the audience members maybe questioned my judgment but listen anybody who stuck out in that melee like you know you can make reporter jokes all you want but nobody deserved to be stuck out there with the chaos and the violence that was happening out there and so we got them inside we made sure they had a safe place to get to what happened inside because it was beautiful it was.
Lila Youssef
Phenomenal honestly i mean i've never been able to wear my maga hat for the past year and a half that i've been at berkeley all berkeley conservative students and i say i speak for pretty much all of us we are ostracized we are canceled so to be able to hear wonderful speakers like rob and frank kind of go into this notion of yes we have conservative values and beliefs but we can't succumb to the pressures that they want us to we can't join their cancel culture we have to love and not hate we have to remain true to our principles and values and kind of doing it through a comedic fashion and just the full two hours even the q and a was wonderful i mean there was this one individual who asked the question in a very rude derogatory manner and rob schneider at the end told him come shake my hand come up and shake my hand and i think that that is symbolic of what us conservatives believe we are able to talk with people that we disagree with and that was this whole message of this entire event.
Charlie Kirk
That'S fantastic i mean the clips were absolutely amazing and you know there's a here's we'll just give people a you know let's just give a taste of inside because it was it was an amazing amazing moment let's play one hundred forty nine this is uc berkeley turning point chapter president he gave a great speech i was very proud of him john paul leon john paul leon there you go one hundred and forty nine it is clear to us which side is winning when your side becomes the violent agitators when you try to win with force and not through reason you have lost and the reality is they would never come in and ask a question they're not trying to win honestly they have already lost the intellectual battle their goal is to disturb the crowd silence those who disagree and destroy any ounce of conservatism that they can get their filthy paws on well said lila why don't you just sum it up we got two minutes left here what has happened in the wake of charlie's assassination on uc berkeley's campus what are you noticing are you seeing more courage are you seeing more attacks the.
Lila Youssef
Floor is yours yeah so at the law school in particular i think the pressure has been heightened because the undergraduate campus is huge i mean it's it's almost forty thousand individuals but the law school is small so each class is about three hundred and fifty people and after the assassination of charlie kirk i had people taking pictures of me because i was i'm somebody who is who is vocally conservative being canceled people saying we shouldn't have just killed charlie kirk we should kill other people that think like him and kind of pushing this narrative forward and so people like john paul for example and myself have have faced a lot of backlash for even even the day i posted that charlie kirk got assassinated the amount of messages i got saying i should die just like him and kind of this general rhetoric within the studi bot student body but also around the community as well this is it's not safe anymore to walk around berkeley as a conservative it's a very dangerous place antifa is prevalent and it's a domestic terror group that needs to be handled with and quite frankly with all their defund the police chance i don't think the police are intervening enough and protecting the students enough the administration certainly isn't so i certainly of course since the assassination of charlie kirk people who before were afraid have been more empowered to speak but that has come with consequences unfortunately at berkeley.
Andrew Colvitt
Yeah we really need to emphasize on that point like antifa is basically like if we had a group that just in the south if we had a group in the south that had a uniform and went around and terrorized people who were trying to hold speeches you know like the klan did back in the day like we'd be able to say this is a domestic terror group and should be targeted accordingly and like when you have these antifa urchins who will harass any conservative event in berkeley that is a domestic intimidation terror group.
Charlie Kirk
I'M gonna keep you lila for two more minutes hang right there we'll be right.
Terrence Bates
Welcome back to this real america's voice news break i'm terrence bates president trump started this veterans day off by honoring the men and women who have served this country in the armed forces real america's voice was there as he laid this wreath at arlington national cemetery the commander in chief also offering up remarks before members of his cabinet as well as the vice president.
Mark Halperin
American flag has always been shielded and protected by a special cast of citizen who has stepped forward to safeguard liberty's cause when danger came when duty called when almighty god asked who had the will and the strength to defend the land of the free each and every american veteran stood up and said here i am send me here i am they've come from every corner of this nation from the cornfields of iowa to the hills and valleys of california from the steel towns of pennsylvania to the vast plains of texas from the banks of the mighty mississippi to the five boroughs of new york city with selfless commitment and unyielding conviction they made themselves america's ramparts and became the shield between our homeland and those would do us harm with everything they had they did one thing above all else they put america first.
Terrence Bates
Meantime house speaker mike johnson is calling lawmakers in his chamber back to washington saying that he'd like to pass a measure to reopen the government as soon as tomorrow all of this comes after eight senate democrats cross the aisle to vote with republicans in order to pass a compromise to end what is now the longest government shutdown in us history the sixty to forty vote sets up a december vote on expiring affordable care act subsidies which is what democrats have been holding out for government agencies by the way would now be funded through january thirtieth plus the snap food benefit program which has been disputed during the current shutdown would be fully funded until september of next year that's a quick check of your headline lines.
Christopher Rufo
Stop watching.
Charlie Kirk
The news and start making some the charlie kirk show all right welcome back to the charlie kirk show i want to tell you really quickly about our friends over at tiktok you see charlie built a thriving community through conversation it's not something that happens immediately doesn't happen overnight it happens over time one connection at a time one post at a time tiktok offers opportunities for the exchange of ideas and through that community not to talk over each other but to talk with each other you'll find creators on tiktok who teach and encourage a carpenter passing on his craft a mom explaining how to make a budget stretch or a gardener showing us how to bring a backyard back to life different stories with the same drive the desire to connect and to understand to find a way forward through respectful dialogue building trust and feeling heard freedom to speak what we know and to hear each other out that's the power of tiktok it gives everyone a seat at the table a place to speak to listen and to remind each other what connection really looks like conversations build connections and connections build communities portions of the charlie kirk show are sponsored in part by tiktok so we have a great guest up next his name is christopher ruffo he needs no introduction for most of you christopher welcome to the show honored to have you and congratulations on your new show rufo and lomaz appreciate it thank you so much yeah this is i mean we have a topic a very clear topic that we're going to get to about bringing together the disparate coalitions on the right however i just want to encourage the show that you're doing with lomas is going to be a must listen to for if you want to hear sort of i would say just really smart dialogue challenging the ideas everything that's going on in x all the chaos maybe just tell us one more give us a few lines about about the show and why you guys are doing it yeah we're doing.
Christopher Rufo
A show called rufo and lomez it's me rufo and my friend jonathan lomas keeperman look we're both creatives i was a documentary filmmaker lomas was an english professor and so we're trying to tackle culture and politics through a different different lens than people are used to in the kind of traditional right wing talk radio format we're trying to take all of the chaos out of the digital sphere we're trying to break it down dissect it analyze it for people and really serve as a trusted responsible guide through the times that we're in and i think that's what the responsibility for all of us is to do right now we have a very chaotic politics we have a lot of infighting on the right and it's time for those of us who have the ability to step up and try to be a really kind of responsible guide much like charlie kirk was for so many people.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah that's well said and a good segue and blake's gonna kind of bring us to your tweet one hundred fourteen you brought this you tweeted this yesterday and i thought it was so important.
Andrew Colvitt
We gotta hear yeah so you just said it's become very clear in retrospect that charlie kirk was holding the right together and that we need jd vance to step into that role which will require settling disputes and laying out the boundaries of the coalition nixon figured out how to do this after being vice president so and then someone said you know vance should have his own podcast which we've had him on a few times and we should hopefully do that again in the future but yeah i think that's for those who aren't aware who are watching there's been a lot of discussion of this online because there's been a lot of arguments within the right over you know for example when tucker interviewed nick fuentes what are the barriers on the israel question on different on foreign policy questions on a lot of stuff what's up for debate what's not up for debate what's beyond the pale and you know charlie was such a coalition builder he was so interested in keeping the focus on get wins against the left don't you know charlie would not have been having a big fight over what the right should believe a week before the elections in virginia and new jersey and i think it's very important to emphasize that and i'm glad you were emphasizing it chris yeah.
Charlie Kirk
And so chris yeah build on why jd why do you see him as uniquely positioned to be that person well.
Christopher Rufo
Look i mean i think again in retrospect i saw it and you know i remember during the transition period i talked with charlie and he called me and he said hey i need great names for people to staff the department of education i'm down at mar a lago we're trying to pick a great team and that's the moment that i realized that he was someone that that in public had this huge role but also in private he was essential in figuring out how to get good people together that were focused on the mission that were going to deliver results and i think i didn't quite understand that and appreciate that until after he was gone and then there's this sense of a void there's no one that can stitch together the various coalitions into the maga movement into the general right he was really just an incredible leader in that regard and as i'm looking around for other people who could fill his shoes and serve in that same capacity the first person that obviously comes to mind is the sitting vice president of the united states you know jd has great relationships with all the various factions on the right he of course has the bully pulpit of being the vice president that's actually quite helpful to be in a powerful position and he can really gatekeep and unique way kind of offering the access to the white house offering access to you know the office of the vice president and then getting people in line and look the right is facing this question now obviously it's very chaotic many of us wish that we weren't doing it for example right before election but the cat is now out of the bag and i think we need to resolve these questions sooner rather than later and i think the vice president has the authority the credibility and more importantly the relationships to get the job done i could see why he would want to kind of let things maybe resolve naturally but i hope that he steps up and i hope that he can be a galvanizing figure hope he can be a figure that really sets the boundaries and also sets the direction so that all of us can be more effective in our work.
Andrew Colvitt
Yeah i wanna let's let's charlie was of course a big fan of the vice president very hard for him to become vice president and senator before that and so let's go to the man himself this is charlie on jd let's play one hundred fifty eight we recognized.
Blake Neff
His gifts early on i saw the talent and i said this is the guy this is the one jd vance has become such a warrior for our cause in the past six months jd vance is acting and looking like the vice president that donald trump needs the vice president that donald trump deserves and maybe beyond that even the forty eighth president we're a long way from that we shouldn't even think or talk too much openly about that but he's a rock star he's smart he's capable he's humble he's phenomenal and what an upgrade from what we had during that last administration.
Charlie Kirk
Unclear if he's talking about joe biden's or trump one point zero there but but it probably would have remained probably true from charlie's perspective on either but yeah i mean listen chris jd has the built in advantage of not only being the vice president but charlie in death somehow has taken on even more important of a position within the movement symbolically spiritually and of course the words that he spoke out and all these clips we have of course him he was in jd's corner a billion percent i can tell you this from the first time we had him on the show years ago when it was.
Andrew Colvitt
Just talking about he'd always say people would say like charlie you should run for president he's like i don't need.
Charlie Kirk
To jd run for president yeah yeah so that i mean that holds a significance within the conservative movement that charlie was such a huge proponent of his.
Christopher Rufo
Yeah i think that's right and i think again he really set the example if you see how charlie dealt with with kind of right wing racialism right wing conspiracism the gruper movement more broadly he was trying to kind of create good boundaries that would benefit and he understood that sometimes there is addition through subtraction in a political coalition there are certain groups that you want to manage and there are certain groups that you want to manage out because ultimately they detract and the end of my tweet was a reference to richard nixon and if you look at the history of nixon nixon was derailed in his nineteen sixty six nineteen sixty two campaign for california governor by the john birch society which in that time represented a more extreme form of right wing conspiracism they of course were famous for attacking president eisenhower as a communist agent and by the nineteen sixty eight presidential campaign which nixon won and then in seventy two which he won by an overwhelming margin winning forty nine states he learned how to successfully kind of cut through these thorny questions how to create a successful coalition that galvanized huge majorities and also how to edge out some of the kind of negative influences some of the net negatives like you know the john birch society he had this sophisticated strategy of strategic distance without getting sucked into a debate with the birch society and i think that for someone like jd a similar approach could be quite effective look again nixon won forty nine states i think he has he demonstrated one potential model for this that could be very important and of course nixon was you know formerly served as vice president and so that's why i think the historical example might be useful and might offer a plausible way forward yeah i.
Charlie Kirk
Think i think you know there this this is the debate i mean what you've just isolated is the you know and buckley played a big role with you know who who was in who was out i mean it's a it's i can't tell you how many people have sent me the buckley example going back to those days and you know it's it's a it's a really tricky.
Andrew Colvitt
Question it is a tricky one because like for example you could say some of buckley's influence meant that we had like that anti intervention anti immigration faction of the right was was too low for too long and that caused a lot of damage to the movement and.
Charlie Kirk
The country arguably yeah no i think i think you have to get it right and i will say you know i mean let's just name names let's just do it and chris you can you can either choose to engage or not i mean that's a it's kind of what you're talking about the strategy well let's not get sucked down to it but you know sucked down into this sort of like i would say counterproductive infighting and i agree with you that there are opportunities where we need to sort of say hey you know this is a this is a line too far it's a bridge too far but you know a lot of people we've said it on thoughtcrime i think we've said it on this show as well you know a lot of people are asking us to distance ourselves from tucker given everything that's happened and i would say listen one of the last things that we were asked to do or that charlie made very clear to us us was that you know i will not be you know morally blackmailed when it comes to tucker carlson he's my friend i believe in him and you know listen we have a i understand a lot of the pressure that comes with the fallout from that interview i understand a lot of it you know but you know it's there is a relationship there there is a history there with charlie and tucker and so just to say it really clearly that's that's not gonna happen now debates the collision of ideas at amfest trust me we are pursuing every single means and i think it's a worthwhile debate to be having about what is our foreign policy what should it be with regards to how much we spend on foreign nations what you know is there a line between moral and financial support is there a line between boots on the ground certainly i think the movement is consolidated and i would say very united when it comes to boots on the ground but there are really important conversations that deserve to be challenged in a public forum from different perspectives so chris i'll let you just sit there and not weigh in on that one just yet because we gotta hit a break but then we're gonna do another segment with christopher ruffo host of the brand new show rufo and lomez which i am just such a huge fan of both those guys and the debates and the ideas they're gonna be discussing there but first i want to tell you about good ranchers all good ranchers meet is one hundred percent american raised on local farms and ranches and delivered right to your door the quality is incredible it only keeps getting better and better and better so if you tried good ranchers maybe like four years ago when we first started advertising try them again they are their buying power has shot through the roof so they get the very best meat you've got chicken thighs bacon italian sausage you get a free meat gift each month to try something new and you can keep swapping it out you can pause your subscription you're never locked in and here's the deal with the holidays coming right around the corner if you order by december first and use code kirk you will get a hundred dollars off your first three orders that is their best offer ever so you got to order by december first to claim this deal goodranchers dot com that is goodranchers dot com check them out ben and corlee are amazing there amazing amazing christian check it out goodranchers dot com we'll be right back better researchers than the cdc yeah may not be saying much it's the charlie kirk show all right this is more from when charlie was singing jd vance's praises in january january twenty seventh of twenty twenty five so earlier this year one hundred fifty nine getting behind jd.
Blake Neff
Vance in two thousand and what was it twenty one yeah that's right twenty twenty one we endorsed jd vance very early it's kind of like buying bitcoin in twenty thirteen a lot of upside it's a lot of upside people hear him and go wait this guy is great he got vilified so much earlier and it's got even better and everyone around me knows how much i believe in jd vance i mean i went all out twice for him first on the senate thing and then on the.
Charlie Kirk
Vice presidential selection yeah i can personally attest of just how much charlie how much equity he put at political capital he put in to getting jd to be selected as the vice president to getting him to win the primary for the ohio senate race charlie believed in jd vance and my goodness jd vance has been an absolute hero in the aftermath of charlie's assassination he's anything we need need he's right there to help and he means it and it's sincere we'll be right back with chris rufo all right welcome back to the charlie kirk show final segment of the hour final segment with christopher rufo the great christopher rufo blake yeah take us in.
Andrew Colvitt
Yeah let's chris we just want to hear what you have to think about the elephants in the room which is is we're having this big factional debate because it didn't start with it but tucker carlson interviewed nick fuentes some people said that's fine some people said we don't like it but you know whatever it's his show and some people are saying this is beyond the pale and we should condemn it we're having faction fights at heritage site we just wanted you to offer your perspective on that.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah how do we approach it chris.
Christopher Rufo
Well you know it's a little it's a very complex question and i have a few parts to the answer you know first off i think like many of us tucker gave so many people on the right a great start a great boost great support i count myself as someone who really is grateful for what tucker has done and so i think you give someone like that more latitude if you're talking about the fuentes interview my own personal preference would have been for tucker to really interrogate fuentes a little bit more challenge his opinion really make it a kind of journalistic and adversarial enterprise however i think that therefore the call to banish tucker to banish kevin roberts from heritage to banish anyone in that orbit is foolish i think it's premature i think it is counterproductive and in my own attempt i've texted with tucker subsequently i've tried to give him him my sense of how to think about the fuentes or groiper phenomenon how to approach it in a way that i think would be more productive we exchanged you know pretty cordial messages and i think that is probably the best strategy moving forward to recognize that tucker does have an important place in the conservative movement and even in places of criticism i think that we can try to debate those ideas we can try to push people in a more productive direction i think this is what charlie did with not just with tucker but with many other people and i am well i think that look there again there's always addition through subtraction with people who are net negatives very counterproductive i think kind of racialist conspiracist factions certainly fall under that but this instinct to denounce to disavow to draw red lines to purge leadership to do that kind of action whether at heritage or now at isi or another institution i think that is not the right way approach right approach and i think we get into an almost inverse of the blm moment where you have dei style struggle sessions at conservative institutions i think that is a very bad idea.
Charlie Kirk
I don't post the black square post the black square chris it's like it feels like our version of post the black square which by the way charlie.
Andrew Colvitt
Raged against just you don't like this aggressive moral coercion that just uses you know how dare you have this conversation how dare you have that thought he.
Charlie Kirk
Was very against that well chris that was well that was really well said and i'm glad to i'm glad to hear that from you because you you know you're you're a smart guy and you've thought deeply about these issues and i would just say you know listen let's put the let's put the groiper phenomenon aside let's put all of that aside i will tell you with a thousand percent certainty because i had dozens of conversations about this the larger critiques the chew the meat spit out the bones kind of critiques about what this country has done when it comes to betraying young men young white men what it's done to break the social compact and to label a lot of these groups as toxic as beyond the pale as not worth fighting for has done such extraordinary damage to our country that some of this backlash it needs to be harnessed and focused and that's what was charlie devoted his life to you heard that with erica kirk in her memorial speech that this was the guy that killed charlie was the one that was the same kind of guy that he was out on these college campuses trying to save and that work must continue we must remember that some of these yes it comes out in gross and vile ways but at the core there is a truth that we must acknowledge and be very very serious about addressing final word to you about fifty seconds chris yeah think about it i.
Christopher Rufo
Mean if you're a young man growing up today you came of age during the COVID lockdowns you came of age during the blm era where you were told that you were inherently and intrinsically evil because of your sex because of your race and so there is a justifiable resentment that has been bubbling up for many years but i think that the best way to address that is through eliminating dei delegitimizing blm ideologies and then kind of tapping into those essential pillars of building our civilization economic opportunity great institutions strong families and offering young men a way that is not nihilistic but a way that's actually gonna make their lives better in the real world if conservatives can't do that we need.
Charlie Kirk
To keep thinking yeah i agree we gotta offer them a better vision christopher ruffo host of the new show rufo and lomez two really great great guys thought leaders in the movement thank you chris we'll have you on again soon thanks gentlemen hour two coming up we'll be right back.
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Charlie Kirk
All right hour two underway here at the charlie kirk show i'm andrew colvitt executive producer with blake neff and we are joined by mark halperin editor in chief of two way and also host of nextup on the megyn kelly network and one of the best political analysts that i know and every time i bring up mark's name around everybody goes he's real good at politics he's real smart guy real smart guy mark halpern welcome to the show my friend good to see you we are real close to officially being done with this shutdown it looks like it passed the senate hurdle which was the big one last evening and now it's onto the house there's probably some procedural delays i'm sure that they're throwing up and then they'll get to the business business boil it all down for us i mean what are we i mean it's like last week all i heard was about a republican civil war conservative civil war and then in one fell swoop you got enough democrats to break ranks and now we've got a democrat civil war please make sense of what's happening well.
Blake Neff
Republican civil war after the election nine or ten months oh no a week ago.
Charlie Kirk
You know there's a rare to.
Blake Neff
Have two tentpole events like that roaring in opposite diametrically opposite points of view i think right now and i talk about this on next up today almost everything that happens can be seen through the prism of the the renegades the the populace versus the establishment you're seeing that in the republican party you're seeing that in the democratic party party and i think the populist wing of the democratic party is super energized by donald trump and the populist wing of the democratic party also has a political death wish because they wanted to continue to try to get donald trump to give up on the shutdown and it was clear to eight senate democrats that he wouldn't so the whole politics of both those stories revolve around trump on the negative side he energizes the democrats on the on the negative side for the for the republicans he energizes the democrats on the negative side for the democrats he causes trump derangement syndrome and democrats on the left who are complaining that some privately are glad the shutdown's over but the ones on the left who wanted to continue the fight just they can't think straight when it comes to.
Charlie Kirk
Political combat with donald trump yeah and i'm fascinated about this dynamic that we see playing out right now you've almost got kind of a ro khanna versus hakeem jeffries dynamic happening with ro khanna saying schumer's got to go you heard this from sonny hostin on the view and others that are saying it's time to go there's a congressman out of massachusetts right the one that was about to get primaried for not wanting his daughter to play trans athletes seth seth moulton yes seth moulton that's right so he's get he's getting you know he's now on the the schumer's got to go i mean this is a really fascinating dynamic because hakeem jeffries sort of at the last moment decided to endorse mamdani yeah and you can just feel hakeem jeffries getting pulled in either direction it's almost like it's it's excruciating to watch on some level and he's trying now he's out attacking the supreme court as corrupt it's a clip i just i just saw it's almost like he's looking for avenues to advance positive lines and to solidify his bona fides as a progressive in this caucus that is increasingly getting controlled by the radical left so actually i have the clip here let's just go ahead and play it mark one hundred seventy one cleaning up the corruption that exists in washington dc in the congress at the supreme court and of course with the trump administration the most corrupt administration in american history so we can actually delay deliver a country of the people by the people and for the people i just want.
Mark Halperin
To be precise you say the supreme.
Charlie Kirk
Court has been corrupt is that what you're saying yeah what i'm saying is that the outrageous behavior by individual justices like clarence thomas and justice alito and the failure to have an ethical code of conduct is corrupt so what i translate this as mark and you tell me if i'm wrong here is that this is him saying okay yeah i said that i endorsed schumer schumer still got my vote of confidence but don't worry progressive wing i endorse mamdani and yes if we get power back we're gonna we're gonna nuke the filibuster and we're gonna pack the court all correct.
Blake Neff
But i'll just say again my preferred prism currently is not progressive versus moderate right it's it's populist versus establishment hakeem jeffries is establishment and you know that for based on his history but you also know it because he's one of the few democrats who's backing schumer he's an establishment figure but he knows the energy in the party is with the populace so he says things like you know he talks about just like ro khanna talks about jeffrey epstein talks about corruption in washington talks about special interests because that's the language of the populace and right now ian schumer are discombobulated because because privately they're for the establishment they're not populous they're not fiery renegades trying to tear the house down they they run the house and so the power structure recognizes that to try to keep power as long as possible you got to talk the language of the populace and that's what he's trying to do but for schumer at least it's not particularly convincing and that's why he's taking so much heat right now because.
Andrew Colvitt
Nobody'S buying it so about that ascendant populous thing i'd say the biggest biggest populous story on the left is of course zo run mamdani runs for mayor of new york wins so do you think we might do you see that basically this factional struggle is going to just be everyone stares at new york sees what happens with mamdani's government and if it fails quickly will that sap its energy or do you think if he's able to do things that that will draw it'll drive the party further to the left maybe even if it's not that successful it still might drive the party to the left how do you see that playing out you're asking.
Blake Neff
The right question and i've got no idea because it will depend on how he performs but also what his style is how accommodation how much he accommodates picking a police commissioner what kinds of things he talks about how much you know does he arrest netanyahu so i think it's i think it's it's hard to know exactly how this will play out but there's no doubt that he well i shouldn't say no doubt he appears to want to have regular combat with the president which will keep him the in the news i think is how he governs will keep him in the news and then his relationship to the governor's race where kathy hochul was endorsed endorsed mamdani but hasn't been cope you know reverse endorsed so he he will be he will be a part of the storyline how big and and what the variables are i just don't know and i live here and i follow it closely but i think there's so many different ways he can go i will say that his election night speech freaked me out as much as anything thing because it suggested a level of anger and determination to make this an us versus them governance that i think could be quite troubling for a lot of people in this city yeah.
Charlie Kirk
And mark what are you going to be looking for when he assumes office when he gets the keys to the city as it were i mean i'll just tell you my first thing you mentioned the police commissioner you know he tried to moderate his tone when it came to the nypd i think this guy has deep seated distrust within the nypd he's going to tie their hands i mean if you're a police officer and you're forced to go arrest somebody in a street melee good luck if something goes wrong this guy having your back he's gonna villainize you you're part of the established oppressive system that he's targeting he's message towards so those are the things i'm looking for but again new york is of most most cities one of the most resilient in the world these people i mean if you love new york you don't want to leave new york it's there's too much culture there's too much too many restaurants too many like just the the style of life you can't emulate that easily in other american cities what are you looking for one minute mark halperin how.
Blake Neff
Could you not mention that knish look he said he's going to keep on the current police commissioner let's see if he does there's some indication he's not really secured her pledge to do it you mentioned arrests i'm worried about some you know a cop killing somebody accidentally and then he shows up at the scene and does he defend the cop or does he attack the cop this city has seen a huge ratcheting down of the kind of racial tensions we saw several decades ago when there was nonstop these nonstop combustible events i worry about a return to those depending on how he handles it and again his election night speech made it harder for me to tell people to have hope or calm down or let's wait and see i'm certainly amongst those concerned about how hand or handle those kind of high pressure situations yeah i think i.
Charlie Kirk
Think blake's right to sort of look to the you know this these first few tests that are coming out of the mamdani era in new york to see what what direction the the the whole city goes because i mean he is a bellwether for the future of the populous free state stuff free stuff left wing populism that that's bubbling up all across the country one more segment with you mark in just a second i first i want to tell you about the culture and christianity podcast the alan jackson podcast what makes it unique is pastor allen's biblical perspective he takes the truth from the bible and he applies it to the issues we're facing today gender confusion abortion immigration doge the trump white house even issues with within the church itself he doesn't just discuss the problems in every episode he gives practical things you and i can do to make a difference and his guests bring powerful expertise and testimonies each episode will make you recognize the power of your faith and how god can use your life to impact our world today so that's again the culture and christianity podcast you can get it at youtube spotify wherever you get your podcast and be sure to subscribe so you don't miss it it and if you want to find out more about alan jackson you can find out more at pastor alan jack about his ministry at alan jackson dot com charlie alan jackson dot com forward slash charlie more with mark halperin in just a few minutes.
Blake Neff
Making.
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Mark Halperin
Two when somebody makes a statement about he's devoting time to the world well the world is the united states because if the world's in trouble or if the world is ripping us off it's easy to say oh don't worry about the world but the world is turning out to be our biggest customer the world is the world was on fire and we could have been in that fire very easily if you didn't have a president that knew what he was.
Charlie Kirk
Doing so obviously blake mark the word there or the phrase there the world is the united states i think keyed off the america first psyche to be diplomatic though and actually i think what he was trying to say was that if the world's out of control we're gonna have a real hard time finding peace and prosperity here at home you have to put out the fires when they come up i know what he was saying i think people are making too much of it but there is is this this note that we're focusing too much on foreign policy not enough on domestic policy is that what you're seeing in the polling the trends the conversation that you're hearing in your circles.
Blake Neff
Mark the populace of both parties whether it's maga or bernie sanders supporters they're like come home america you know you know it sounds like mitt romney saying corporations are people too and look being commander in chief you've got responsibilities and the president's view of how to make america successful as you said is to be more engaged economically with the world in a way that's advantageous the united states and not turn the back on countries who we can help help themselves and have more allies so i don't i don't i think that the proof will be for so many of the answers to some of these questions for both the establishment of the party party and maga is what will the economy be like at the end of the.
Charlie Kirk
Next year this is the key we have a clip here i think some.
Andrew Colvitt
People have the you know it can sometimes the framing is they're not focused on the domestic sphere enough but it also is possible maybe the domestic sphere is just not super popular right now and let's set that up trump spoke with laura ingram let's play one hundred.
Mark Halperin
Seventy six down on energy we're down on interest rate you know interest rates are down despite the fed fed now the fed if we had a normal person that the fed would have really low interest rates and we will soon have that we'll have somebody are people.
Selena Zito
Saying they're anxious about the economy why.
Mark Halperin
Are they saying that i don't know that they are saying i think polls are fake we have the greatest economy we've ever had we have we will have over twenty trillion dollars come into our economy and it's largely because of my election but it's also largely because.
Charlie Kirk
Of tariffs all right so so mark you are inside the oval office you have the president's ear for thirty minutes and you're giving him messaging advice given this dynamic on the domestic front what is your advice to president trump on how to message this well i'm not.
Blake Neff
In the business of giving messaging advice to any politicians but just looking at the polling and talking to a lot of voters it really doesn't matter how you message it is the economy going to be better next year or not the economy is there's a lot of strong signs not just the stock market there are other strong signs but people are still really uneasy about the economy and it's pretty simple not just for a president who put affordability and the economy front and center but for any president will people before the midterms will people at the end of his presidency say yeah that guy had a theory of the case about how to make our lives better particularly on the economy i don't think it matters how he messages it i mean obviously there's there's there's ways to do it that are worse than others others but that's not people aren't looking for messaging they're looking for their lives to get better and.
Charlie Kirk
More affordable so mark you're basically saying twenty twenty six comes down to maybe some of these redistricting battles but it's the economy stupid and the second follow.
Blake Neff
Up question more than anything else yeah.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah follow up question is the hispanic vote one of the things i'm looking at is we're engineering these maps in texas based on hispanic vote modeled off of twenty twenty four i'm concerned especially with the economy that that's going to have a big outsized impact with the hispanic community the data in polling and.
Blake Neff
On election day last week makes it clear that president trump did not create a realignment moving the hispanic vote or particularly young hispanic men from the democratic column to the republican column what happened was because of biden harris and somewhat because of the president's appeal they shifted away from the democrats and they park temporarily on trump will they will they realign towards republicans like in that texas district or around the country are they up for grabs we don't know because it may have simply been the combination of trump on the ballot and biden harris policies that move them and here's an irony the more the president remakes our culture and makes it less politically correct the harder it is for republicans to win hispanic votes because because they no longer have that to play off of and rebel against mark halperin see.
Charlie Kirk
You soon thank you my friend we'll be right back.
Terrence Bates
Welcome back to this real america's voice news break i'm terrence bates president trump started this veterans day off by honoring the men and women who have served this country in the armed forces real america's voice was there as he laid this wreath at arlington national cemetery the commander in chief also offering up remarks before members of his cabinet as well as the vice president.
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American flag has always been shielded and protected by a special cast of citizen who has stepped forward to safeguard liberty's cause when danger came when duty called when almighty god asked who had the will and the strength to defend the land of the free each and every american veteran stood up and said here i am send me here i am they've come from every corner of this nation from the cornfields of iowa to the hills and valleys of california from the steel towns of pennsylvania to the vast plains of texas texas from the banks of the mighty mississippi to the five boroughs of new york city with selfless commitment and unyielding conviction they made themselves america's ramparts and became the shield between our homeland and those who would do us harm with everything they had they did one thing above all else they put america first.
Terrence Bates
Meantime house speaker mike johnson is calling lawmakers in his chamber back to washington saying that he'd like to pass a measure to reopen the government as soon as tomorrow all of this comes after eight senate democrats cross the aisle to vote with republicans in order to pass a compromise to end what is now the longest government shutdown in us history the sixty to forty vote sets up a december vote on expiring affordable care act subsidies which is what democrats have been holding out for government agencies by the way would now be funded through january thirtieth plus the snap food benefit program which has been disputed during the current shutdown would be fully funded until september of next year that's a quick check of your headlines.
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Selena Zito
Welcome hey thanks so much for having.
Charlie Kirk
Me yeah well listen you're somebody that i've wanted to have on the show for a while and i thought this would be a great opportunity i also want to say we're gonna get to it here in this segment that your book new york times bestseller butler number one yes number one and you went in depth on the assassination attempt on trump and that was originally why i wanted to have you on just because obviously the tragedy with charlie it hits very close to home you went in depth with the president you interviewed him you got a lot of behind the scenes details there so please everybody check out butler butler by selena zito so let's get into the first topic up for bids here is is this youth vote tell us about your article what are you finding what are you seeing.
Selena Zito
So what's really interesting to me is throughout the book butler because people think it's only about what happened in butler but it actually takes a look at the heartland and what was happening last year but also what is continuing to happen and that is this youth movement towards faith faith and towards conservative populism and how you know how i kept seeing it over and over again in pennsylvania i wrote about it and i said guys something's going on here right and a lot of these young people i talked to and it's in the book said well they were first inspired by listening to charlie and having their sort of conceived thoughts changed because of the way that he introduced introduced faith into their lives and ultimately it led to also becoming conservative voters and understanding the importance of voting now however since what happened to charlie happened what i have seen you know in particular in western pennsylvania that's where i live i know i'm a washington post washington examiner reporter but i live in the middle of the country and you know i see these young people showing up you can see the pictures there that showing up for these for these revivals and there's a real sort of awakening going on with young people that is getting largely missed by my profession that's very real it's very profound and i even you know not only have i been covering these revivals in western pa but i also see it in my own parish i'm catholic and i see my church going from like okay almost filled to like around the pews and out the door filled so there and these are young people that are attending and so i think it's a very interesting thing that is happening in the country.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah and mikey you went with charlie to just about every single campus stop i mean maybe you missed a few over the last couple of years but we saw this firsthand you saw it firsthand what was it about charlie's message that you could tell was just connecting that moment where the eyes light up and there's just that aha moment with young people yeah there's this great clip.
Mikey McCoy
Of charlie debating a leftist and he's talking about how wall street is purchasing a bunch of the homes and charlie agrees with him that that should not happen and the leftist kind of goes oh i agree with you and so charlie was kind of the only one who was able to capture the energy of this youth populism that you referred to here but this is also a warning sign for us that now with charlie being gone turning point erica under her leadership has done a great job with these events last night at berkeley auburn ole miss and just helping capture that energy but also the future of the political movement and the economic reality of under thirty and so you see dark political radicalization setting in for a lot of these youth i mean three of the biggest assassins in the past twelve months have been gen z and so you saw the yougov poll that says you know political violence is acceptable from eighteen to thirty six year olds and so you kind of see this radicalization of the youth but then you also see it with their economic reaction reality rents are at an all time high first time homebuyers are at forty years old median homebuyers are at sixty one years old of the assets owned in the united states i think we have a photo of this i think it's one hundred seventy four of the assets owned in the united states baby boomers own about fifty percent of it gen z really doesn't even have any stake in the us economy right now and so they're turning to radicalization which is kind of what you saw with zohran mamdani this last week with his his his massive win and you saw actually moderate conservatives and conservatives voting for zohran momdhani at a seven percent rate and a nine percent rate in new york city and this is because they're seeing something that we're not and so i just what do you guys make of this how do you see a solution for young people because i'm the resident gen zer in the studio but i want to hear from you guys.
Charlie Kirk
What you think and selena mikey brings up a good point there there's a temptation to think that we have this on lock now but really a lot of these people are politically homeless they were willing to park their vote with trump if he could deliver the goods and i think that the verdict is.
Selena Zito
Still out on that yeah and that's a constant in american politics right people tend to switch back and forth depending on who is speaking to them and one of the most important aspects in american politics is how do you speak to the voter about place right their rootedness you know that thing that that connective tissue that makes them want to invest and stay where they are right to have that stability you know is it it's eight out of ten young americans live within was it twenty miles of their house hometown like where they grew up so they want to be rooted so who's speaking to that in the in the twenty twenty four election that was what trump spoke to and jd man spoke to they addressed people in their place and they told them your place matters you matter and i think that that is a concept that is not always apparent to to people i think charlie was very good about speaking to place as well but the paul the politic speaks to it sort of captures the imagination in particular if you're young and that's what zo ron did he showed up and he said i see you and i'm going to make everything better he is not going to get half of what he said he's going to get free free child care for all between six months six weeks and and six years old that's not going to happen i don't know who can pay for that that right rent control free public transportation but he showed up with a smile and he said i can do it and that is what you have to pay attention to when you're leading a movement and the conservatives have to say all right new york city isn't really where we would probably win a battle anyways however how do we capture how do we maintain that conversation about places place because when it comes to place it also comes to family it comes to faith it comes to community all those social fabrics that people crave that purpose people crave are part of place yeah and.
Charlie Kirk
You know we had on the right this weekend a debate about fifty year mortgages erupt right you know so trump kind of floats this i'll be honest with you the emails to this show freedomarliekirk dot com they were more positive than i was anticipating a lot of people saw it as like a pragmatic step that was something that they could use if they needed and then you know refinance down to a more traditional thirty year or something like that i was surprised there was still a lot of negative i'm not convinced and it's not the silver bullet right it's not going to the end all be all but when you look at guys like in mikey's position a gen z looking to get ahead you know these guys of ideas we need to start talking about i think we need an economic moonshot for gen z and frankly we need a better phrase than economic moonshot because gen z is probably not even sure what i'm talking about when i say an economic moonshot so mikey floors to you the economics of it all i think is incredibly important here what are people saying in your age bracket.
Mikey McCoy
Yeah you're right in that new york city isn't a place necessarily that republicans can win but it is a canary in the coal mine with what's happening as this youth populism movement is happening and this is a huge warning sign not just in the midterms but also for the twenty twenty eight presidential election young people are going to start turning to radical candidates if there aren't solutions and i'm talking total economic reality has to change for these people and they're going to start turning to aoc as a presidential candidate candidate i mean i would i think it's more likely that aoc is going to be a candidate for young people than gavin newsom when it comes to the left and i think a lot of young people on the right too would turn to a candidate like that but we can't afford a home we have student loans that are crushing us we have fifty eight percent of college grads graduate college and then for their first year they're unemployed so there's no the job market is shrinking the labor market shrinking there's no jobs for the degrees that they had the student loans are at an all time high credit card debt is at an all time high with crushing apys it's just it's totally killing young people and we're gonna turn to radical solutions even if it is mom donnie smiling and giving us a promise that won't happen and eventually this could destroy our country so the right needs to start asking themselves questions you know fifty year mortgages maybe that's not the best idea for young people in this country and they need to start reaching out to young people i thought it was amazing that jd vance he comes to mind in particular an ole miss he was talking about this stuff but then he also wants to do more of these with young people i feel like he's the only person right now him and erica kirk that are actually going out and engaging young people in the us.
Charlie Kirk
You know it's funny is if you had a fifty year mortgage the medium home buying age is forty so you would be you would be ninety by the time you paid off that mortgage so a little bit disappoint more with selena zito in just a moment i want to tell you about one of our partners here if you owe irs back taxes guess what they can garnish your wages levy your bank accounts they can even seize your retirement take your home if you can get one that is don't let the irs target you call the professionals at tax network usa their tax lawyers and enrolled agents are experts and powerful programs that may even help you eliminate your tax debt altogether tax network usa is a plus rated and has saved over one billion dollars for their clients that's billion with a b in just one phone call you can start the process of stopping the threatening demand letters stopping the aggressive collections and resolving your tax matters once and for all but you got to act now while you still have options for a free consultation call tax network usa today at one eight hundred nine five eight one zero zero zero that's one eight hundred nine five eight one zero zero zero or visit tnusa dot com tnusa dot com more with selena zito when we get back in just a.
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Charlie Kirk
All right welcome back to the charlie kirk show selena zito and mikey mccoy got a quick little segment here but i want to to make sure that you see some of these data points throw up one hundred and nine this is mark mitchell from rasmussen he said trump's approval for voters under thirty was sixty percent in march now it's thirty five percent and momdadi favorability is sixty two percent with a shrug emoji all right let's go one hundred ten this is from melissa chan young women voted eighty one percent for mom donnie in new york city eighty percent for cheryl in new jersey seventy eight percent for spanberg and va pendulum shift from the podcast bros just a year ago to the longhouse and then when you actually do dive into the conservative numbers throw up one hundred forty two this is who's your ideal candidate in twenty twenty eight ages eighteen to twenty nine donald trump junior actually is at twenty eight percent vance is at twenty five percent cruz sixteen desantis at six percent so we're seeing not only some i would say noise in the data but we're also seeing these wild fluctuations that we're going to discuss in the next segment when we welcome back national radio i'm going to throw to you selina to make sense of what we of this wild swing for voters under thirty we're going to welcome back radio in about three seconds and we'll be right there all right history economics the great works of literature did you study these things in school you probably didn't but even if you did it's probably time for a enjoyable refresher course hillsdale college is offering more than forty free online courses charlie took thirty one of them including their newest course on totalitarian novels in this free eight lecture course you'll learn from hillsdale college president the legendary larry arn doctor larry arne as he goes in depth on four novels nineteen eighty four brave new world darkness at noon and that hideous strength even though these novels were written in the nineteen thirties and forties they are highly relevant today they've stood the test of time you gotta check them out read em again if you haven't or if you have before or for the first time with doctor larry arne as your guide so you can check them out right now go to charlieforhillsdale dot com to enroll that's charlie four for hillsdale dot com to enroll there's no cost it's easy to get started that's c h a r l i e for hillsdale dot com so selena i just showed you in the previous little segment that you you saw trump's approval rating with under thirties it was at sixty percent now it's kind of tanking what do we need to do to get this back.
Selena Zito
On track so we are in i always say history doesn't repeat itself but it kind of ran times other people say that too but you know we are in the middle of a really turbulent economic time not very distant different than industrial revolution only this is more like a technological revolution right with ai and how it's disrupting our economy and so we have to look back at what happened then there was great fluctuations elections between democrats and republican wild swings hundreds of seats each every two years between in congress as well as presidents we switch presidents every four years and so what are the lessons learned well a lot of these these men and women that ran back there talked over the people that were feeling that that shift from an ag an ag economy to an industrial economy economy and they didn't address their needs what the republicans what trump needs to do what vance needs to do and i think they're both very good at it is go where the voter is go where the people are and show that empathy about what their concerns are i think that goes a long way i think that's what mondavi did well i always expected him to win new york i also never expected the republicans to win virginia and new jersey so so they were you know slightly flawed candidates as well so i think going to where the voter is going where the economic distress is tell that person tell young people i see you i feel you i hear you i mean when i was twenty five when i was under thirty terrible economic times in pittsburgh all the steel industry died i bought my first home and it was fourteen percent interest rate and i lived you know like paycheck to paycheck maybe not even that well right so i completely understand that what you need to do is talk to that person about that empathy yeah.
Charlie Kirk
Well said and mikey i think we need a big audacious bold visual idea like groundbreaking on like a million homes or something you know but what are your thoughts yeah you were there on the ground when you saw this surge of momentum behind the trump campaign in twenty twenty four yeah i mean young.
Mikey McCoy
People the best and i want to praise president trump here because he's done an excellent job with this already with the two million plus deportations and southern border being secured at ninety nine point nine nine percent but that is the best way that you can help young people economically with housing just all around economically and that's the fastest and easiest way but also i just want to kind of point out that during the election trail the top three tiktok accounts were president trump team trump and charlie kirk and they really knew how to message young people and i feel like that shouldn't stop i feel like we need to continue that messaging to young people and try to aim to be the top one two and three accounts on tiktok for reaching young people and giving them their desire that's what we're.
Charlie Kirk
Going to do with your tiktok that's.
Mikey McCoy
Your job i don't know about that yeah but i just think president trump thank you keep deporting people make more jobs lower the you know make build more homes in our country he's been doing a fantastic job we just need to continue it and continue the messaging for it young people need to know that this is happening but this momentum is continuing under erica kirk's leadership at turning point usa with all these campuses stops and it's really encouraging to see.
Charlie Kirk
Selena we've got like fifteen seconds for you tell us about the book where to get it you know how do we how do we follow you tell.
Selena Zito
Us your coordinates you can follow me on twitter zito selena zito s a l e n a the book is butler number one new york times bestseller it's not just about that day i was only four feet away from the president but it is what's happening on the ground in particular with young people.
Charlie Kirk
People amen selena you're amazing thank you for for joining making the time we'll see you guys tomorrow this is an i heart podcast.
This episode addresses the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, turbulent political developments—including the government shutdown and schisms within both Republican and Democratic parties—and the state of free speech, youth activism, and populism in America. The show features a major focus on the violent protests at a Turning Point USA campus event at UC Berkeley held in honor of Charlie Kirk, with firsthand reporting from student Lila Youssef. Later segments include analysis from political analysts Christopher Rufo and Mark Halperin, and feature discussions on generational political shifts with journalist Selena Zito and Turning Point’s Mikey McCoy.
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This episode combines breaking news analysis, campus activism reporting, nuanced political strategy, and candid debate about generational change in America. The tone remains combative yet reflective, with the contributors honoring Kirk’s memory while grappling with the urgent challenges of coalition-building, ideological boundaries, and real solutions to youth disaffection and populist unrest.