Selena Gomez (10:11)

All my people are getting attacked and children, they don't understand. I'm so sorry. I wish I could do something, but I can't. I don't know what to do. I'll try everything, I promise.

Andrew Colvitt (10:36)

So we don't. We're not going to be cowed by tears anymore. Hollywood celebrities, AOC crying on the border. As we make our cities safer, as we make our community safer, as we remove actual murderers and rapists from the communities of this country, we are not going to be cowed by crying celebrities anymore.

Selena Gomez (10:59)

We.

Andrew Colvitt (10:59)

Where were your tears for Lake and Riley? Where were they for Jocelyn Nungari? Where were they for Rachel Morin? Where were they for the hundred thousand Americans that die every year from fentanyl poisoning? I don't think so. We're going to secure our border. We're going to deport illegals and mission is going forward.

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Andrew Colvitt (12:20)

Breaking news I'm allowed to disclose Charlie's actually traveling with the vice President today. He's with J.D. vance, who is an American hero already. Can't wait to see all the things that JD Accomplishes in his time serving this great country. Right now, I'm joined by Brian Glenn, White House correspondent for real America's Voice. Brian, we have our first White House press briefing today with the new White House press Secretary, Caroline Levitt. Fill us in. What's the mood like there? What, what are the changes we can expect to see? I, I know the, the entire country, especially the political class, is going to be tuned into this event today for sure.

Brian Glenn (13:02)

You know, we just, I just stepped outside to do this hit with you, but I can tell you one thing, the crowd is growing inside that press room as it has been all morning. It seems like there is an elevated buzz around this press conference. Obviously, this is the first time we've had a press conference. We've seen Caroline Levitt in this capacity in this official briefing room. And, and you know what, the meet, there's new media outlets out here that we have, I've never seen before around the White House. So there is certainly a buzz in the air, Andrew. And I can expect this thing also to be filled with a ton of questions. As you would imagine, the media here, they want to kind of be able to scrutinize a lot what President Trump has done. This first, I guess two weeks of his administration. But I will say this a little an addition that I've not seen in there before. They do have these two video screens on either side of where Levitt will be standing. Perhaps they'll use that as kind of a slideshow or maybe something to be able to play some video to back up some of the statements and kind of recap what has happened the last day 10 or whatever day we're on at this point. It's been going so fast, as we know, but that's kind of additional changes that I've noticed inside. But as soon as we're done here, we're going to move inside and be in ready position for this press conference schedule to start at 1:00.

Andrew Colvitt (14:24)

So, Brian, a lot has been made about the seating arrangement that we can expect, right? I mean, in years past we've seen New York Times, what we like to call the regime media, the legacy media outlets seated right up front. There's been a lot of news made about who Karine Jean Pierre would call on, who she would not. Can you, do you have any insight yet about how that the seating arrangement is going to be Our outlets like Real America's Voice, Turning Point usa, we have our own White House correspondent as well in there. Do you have any insight on that yet?

Brian Glenn (14:57)

I don't. I will say this. I think it is business as usual as far as seating goes for this particular press conference. Now as we move forward, I don't know what that would look like. I could imagine after this first initial conference that the seating charts, the seating arrangement, the assignments will be scrambled up a little different, putting a little bit more of maybe your conservative based media towards the front or maybe I should say the ones that are fair and unbalanced right up and front. But to your point, I have not heard any changes for this one. But I can expect that is going to be revised moving forward because this is very much a different administration as we know. I mean, it seems like forever that the previous press secretary really protected Joe Biden from any type of official scrutiny of anything that he did. And of course, they will use this pulpit today, if you will, to absolutely unleash on President Trump a lot of things like immigration, Andrew. It's been highly criticized across most of the mainstream media. So I would expect a fair amount of questions on that subject today. But I do expect some other documentation. I mean, using these video screens, Andrew, is a great idea because instead of turning to the, to the, to the, to the, to the book the binder, I guess Would that would have all these answers. Why not just show a video, why not Show Just a PowerPoint presentation, if you will, about what this last few days have been in terms of the accomplishments, the executive orders, some of the changes that have happened within our government, within our military, these Senate confirmation hearings, all the stuff can be displayed on these monitors and I think it gives a great visual to this whole press conference.

Andrew Colvitt (16:53)

I agree. I think we need to be more creative in government. I think this administration is proving how creative you can be and not being fired by the way things have been. So last question here, Brian. I know you got to get back there and prep for this, this briefing. 30 seconds. Give me a sense of how the resistance media, as I like to call them, the tone, the vibe shift, all these things we're hearing. What, what are they feeling like these days?

Brian Glenn (17:20)

Well, I think they sense there is a some additional faces in this room that they have not seen before. I can probably give you a better answer after this press conference of what how perhaps we were, you know, maybe treated a little differently. I have been, I have been warned that, you know, you've got some people that are going to try to make it tough, but I have not experienced that as of yet, Andrew, but I will let you know.

Josh Hammer (17:42)

Awesome.

Andrew Colvitt (17:42)

Well, you keep an eye out for us, Brian, and ask some great questions. We know you will. Thank you, Brian. Glenn.

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Andrew Colvitt (18:52)

Want to welcome Josh Hammer onto the show next? He's a senior editor at large at Newsweek, host of the Josh Hammer Show. Josh, welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show. How you doing, Andrew?

Josh Hammer (19:03)

I'm doing great, my friend. You know, it is morning in America, as a famous man once said about four and a half decades ago. And it's really great to be back on the Charlie Kirk show with you, my good friend, Andrew Colvitt.

Andrew Colvitt (19:13)

Yeah, absolutely. Josh, I'm so glad to have you. I mean, there's just so much to discuss. But, you know, the real impetus for this was your op ed and Newsweek, and I thought it was a really, really fun title for an op ed. First of all, the Cold Civil War is over. We won. Now, Josh, I want you to make your argument here, but I, you know, I just want to say I'm not, you know, I'm not popping champagne just yet. There's a lot of work to do. But I think the premise of your article holds. What? Why do you say we won the Cold Civil War? What is the Cold Civil War? Make your case.

Josh Hammer (19:48)

And let me first say that the fact that the enemy is slayed, at least for the time being, I agree. Does not necessarily mean that it will not one day, God forbid, possibly rise like a phoenix from the ashes to create more chaos and mayhem and to sow the seeds of discourse here in America. So while I am definitely celebrating, I agree that we should not rest on our laurels. It is definitely time to keep the momentum going. But the reason that I picked this very fun title, I'm glad you agree with me, I thought was a very fun title as well, is that what we've seen thus far in the opening week or so of this second Donald Trump administration is the most transformative, cultural paradigm shifting moment that I think we've seen probably in our lifetimes. And basically in the column, Andrew, I take a step back. Barack Obama declared war on America. He declared war on America and instituted our modern American Civil War, our cold civil, roiling cold Civil War. This happened because Barack Obama basically said that he was doing it. He famously said in February 2008 that he sought to fundamentally transform America. And one does not seek to fundamentally transform that which he loves or seeks to conserve. And we saw this time and time again throughout the Obama presidency, whether it came to Obamacare, the largest entitlement since Lyndon Johnson's greatest establishment society, when it came to the issue of beating up on cops, of exacerbating racial relations, of having Eric Holder, his attorney General, use so called disparate impact theory, that was kind of the predecessor to Ibrahim X. Kendian anti racism, whether it was all the foreign policy nonsense with the Iran deal. Barack Obama tried time and time again to declare war on the half America that he infamously called bitter clingers that Hillary Clinton 2016 referred to as deplorables. And that that civil war was stopped for four years by the Donald Trump administration or at least three and a half years or so until George Floyd met Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And we all saw what happened from there, the riots of the summer of 2020 in there. And then we got peak woke the past four years prior to Donald Trump getting back in the Oval Office, the Joe Biden presidency. This is peak woke. Andrew Peak woke. He literally chose a Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, because she was a quote, unquote, woman of color. He literally chose his one justice on the United States Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, because she is a quote, unquote woman of color. Time and time again, as folks like Chris Ruffo have reported, they weaponized all of the various instrumentalities of the American administrative state and executive branch to implement so called DEI to overtly discriminate against white people, against Christians, Jews, Asians, in favor of blacks, Hispanics and so forth there. And just basically everything that we saw over the past four years, this was the, the moment that woke reached. I think its apotheosis, it's been slayed. It's been slayed because Donald Trump, Andrew adopted a mentality to go back to the morning in America line that I was saying a few minutes ago, he adopted an old Reaganite mantra. And what Ronald Reagan famously said when he was asked for his approach to the Cold War and he came into power in 1980, coming off the 1970s, you had differing opinions. In 1970s there was Henry Kissinger and daytimes, there was kind of the Cold War hawks back then. Ronald Reagan famously said that his approach to the Cold War, we win and they lose. People said that he was crazy, that he was a cowboy, he was a warmonger. But that mentality, Andrew, helped win the Cold War. I think Donald Trump has taken that exact same mentality to his second term in office. And I'm not entirely sure what the exact moment was that galvanized him to adopt this Reaganite mantra. I suspect it was probably around the time that Joe Biden, Merrick Garland and so called special counsel Jack Smith started start to incarcerate him, to prosecute him, try to throw him in jail, bankrupt him, ruin him of all his possessions, basically deprive him of his liberty and his livelihood. Maybe it was around the time that Thomas Matthew Crooks in Butler, Pennsylvania, came within millimeters of assassinating him before a global television audience. But at some point, at some point, Donald Trump had kind of His Clarence Thomas, 1991 Anita Hill moments where he looked at all this radicalization around him and said, you know what? This is enough. I am over this. And you know what? To quote Barack Obama, get me my freaking pen. Get me my freaking phone, because this crap ain't gonna fly anymore come day one. And that was what we saw last week, Andrew. We saw all these executive orders. I mean, the DEI executive order alone, just focusing on that one executive order, and there's been so many amazing ones, it's hard to know even where to start. There's been the gender, ideology, birthright citizenship. It's amazing stuff coming out of this White House. But just the DEI executive order, it doesn't just get rid of DEI in the executive branch. It actually goes way past that. It instructs the Attorney General and the Secretary of Education, the whole Cabinet, to enforce Title 6 and to interpret the Supreme Court's affirmative action case, Student for Fair Admissions, so as to effectively ban DEI in any taxpayer support institution in America. This is the kind of stuff that wins culture wars overnight. So again, let's not rest in our laurels. I understand like, you know, constant vigilance, and let's keep our foot on the gas pedal and keep on plowing full speed ahead. But for now, for now, what we have seen is the stuff of legends. Frankly, it kind of reminds me, as I said in the column, I remember when I was a kid learning about how the English took over what was then called New Amsterdam, and then they renamed it New York City from Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch in the 1600s. They famously took it over without firing a single shot because it was just a pure, unmitigated demonstration of force. And the enemy yielded at that demonstration of force. That's very much how I view what happened over this past week.

Andrew Colvitt (25:15)

I think that was extraordinarily well said, Josh. And I want to believe that all of this is going to happen without a single shot. There's a lot of reason to believe that we have now become the dominant force in culture and not just politically, which obviously we control the three branches of government, but culturally, philosophically, ideologically, you can feel the momentum behind more of a traditional Americana, this triumphant Americana, this manifest destiny, whether it be Greenland or Panama or Canada, or just retaking the border. Pete Hegseth saying, yeah, we're going to get operational control of our Southern border, you've got ICE raids. We are. From a PR standpoint, this administration is doing a fantastic job projecting strength to the world. You saw this with Colombia and the little tiff that happened over the weekend, how quickly that was resolved and then, and then, and then and on and on and on it goes. And I, I, I, what I find particularly instructive and encouraging, Josh, is the polling. You've got Harry Anton at CNN going on in front of, you know, Casey Hunt or whatever the host is going like, hey, these numbers are extraordinary. And just, just for our audience's sake, consider this. Donald Trump is the only president in the history of the country that has a higher approval rating at the start of his second term than he ever did in his first term. A majority of all Americans support deportation of all, not some, not the worst first, which obviously Tom Homan, budget constraints, manpower constraint is starting with the worst first. But a majority, a clear majority across like five different polls say that American support deporting all illegals. This is a phenomenal, phenomenal showing. And it shows, Josh, that the, the Main Street America, average America is seeing the changes already are seeing the momentum shift and American malaise is out. America's self constraint is out. And so I do want to be really, really encouraged by this. There's a part of me that just, you know, I think can't get over the trauma of 2020 or 2022 and won't quite believe it. But Josh, do you think this has staying power? Do you think we are at the beginning of an 812 year run?

Josh Hammer (27:36)

I do, I absolutely do. I think that JD Vance as Vice President United States is kind of the natural heir to the throne. And we'll obviously have that debate, I presume in the year 2028, but God willing, the next four years will go well. And, and J.D. who is literally only 40 years old, is kind of a logical successor there. And that's part of the reasons that Donald Trump tapped J.D. vance in the first place. Right, because he's making a long term play here. Let me look at his cabinet picks. I mean, you mentioned Pete Hegseth. Pete HEGSETH Is what, 44, 45 years old? I mean, so many of these cabinet picks are very, very young people. This is a movement, Andrew. And what's so fascinating is that maga, America first just being on the right of center right now in America, more generally speaking. This is cool. I mean this is kind of the anti establishment mentality the same way that Barack Obama was considered irreverent and back in the 1960s, all the quote unquote, self professed school kids, you know, were burning down college campuses, the Vietnam War, all that stuff. MAGA is basically that today. I mean, this is kind of the middle finger to the establishment. The Democratic Party is a rotting carcass. It is filled with octogenarian septuaginarians, people who are literally two to three decades past their prime. Joe Biden's obviously a perfect encapsulation of that there. And the Republican Party is filled with young up and coming people who have an inherent love of their country. There's and that is being reflected in the popular culture. Look at all the people in these NFL playoffs and the college football playoffs were doing the Trump dance in the end zone after getting a touchdown. Carrie Underwood going acapella at the inaugural address. There were so many cultural moments and these big tech oligarchs, I mean, just on and on.

Andrew Colvitt (29:06)

And I completely agree. There was that New York magazine piece that just came out talking about all the young energy around the inauguration. They tried to make it look racist, but. But MAG is cool, guys. Enjoy it.

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Andrew Colvitt (30:23)

This is breaking news. Charlie's just sitting next to J.D. vance there on Air Force Two, just casually plotting the future blizzard of other executive orders and actions that will take this country back. Our movement is ascendant, folks. The conversation that we were having with Josh, we're gonna bring him back when we have radio rejoin in just a second. There is so much positive momentum happening Right now. And it is impossible to separate the movement that Trump has sparked, the ascendancy of it without also including this entirely new generation of young guns like Charlie Kirk, like James Blair, like Sergio Gore, like J.D. vance, Stephen Miller. There's almost too many to name. Taylor Buttowich. There's so many within this administration. They're staffing it from top to bottom. Obviously, Charlie's not staffing it, but he's, you know, within the larger movement on this show, in this audience. The amount of transformational change that is possible with this new young, vibrant core of leadership that is assuming control both from a media standpoint and an actual power standpoint, the reins of actual power, it's impossible to fully comprehend or appreciate at this juncture. History will write about these days. History will write about these leaders, and they will transform America back to the founders intent not to create some corrupt, muddled Frankenstein that would. That the founders wouldn't even recognize, but they will restore the Americanism, the dynamism of our people in the truest sense of the word. And these are extraordinary days that we live in. These are extraordinary times. Josh, I want to throw this image up. This is from New York, the New York magazine. It's kind of personal for me, actually. Throw up 94 image 94. The cruel kids table is the way the headline reads is a cover piece for New York magazine by Brock Collier, who is a trans journalist from the New York magazine. I know this because Brock also applied for press credentials at the Turning Point Ball, our inaugural Eve ball, and was there on the red carpet. There's pictures of our ball at. In this story. But, you know, the pushback is hilarious about this piece, but I think it's an interesting. Even the journalist in this piece, Josh, admits that we're winning, that we are culturally ascendant, that we are now dominating realms of culture. That would have been hard to fathom just a few years ago. And I, I believe that they've cropped this picture to make it look more racist, like it's only white kids or something. There's. There's a whole bunch of. A whole bunch of that going on here. But it's like, Josh, take, take this picture is just one instance. It's a bunch of young, successful, happy kids drinking a. You know, at a trendy cocktail party. And, you know, I guess if that's like, cruel, celebrating the dawn of a new administration, a new America, you know, I guess, you know, cry harder libs as my, you know, instant reaction. What do you make of this and what does this, tell us.

Josh Hammer (33:36)

Well, first of all, Andrew, I'm pretty sure they did do exactly that which you said they did, which that they cropped out this photo, they edited it, they photoshop it to make it look just more monolithically white than it is there. But you know, I think a normal American looks at this photo, whether it's been photoshopped or cropped or edited or not, and says, oh wow, these are a bunch of like pretty good looking young people having a great time. They're dressed nicely there, they're clanking their glasses, they're saying cheers there. I'm sorry, I'm not seeing anything wrong with this picture, Andrew. I'm simply just not seeing anything. And I think what kind of the broader point is getting at here? This is a point that I've made actually for a few years now. I think this is part of the left's war on fun. I actually literally call the war on fun. You know, whether it's trying to call you a scold for driving in a gas guzzling pickup truck or an suv, whether, whether they're calling you a bad person for wanting to have numerous kids. You know, that whole be fruitful and multiply thing right there from the book of Genesis. God forbid you actually take God at his word and have three, four or five, you know, God knows how many children who are going to consume oxygen and spit out carbon dioxide. You know, you're a very, you're a very, very bad person. Like they definitely hate that. Andrew, God forbid you actually teach your children about religion, about the Bible, about the things that actually built this country, about the founding fathers, about the Constitutional Convention. You can't have any of that either there. I mean the left has become just these pearl clutching bunch of overtly faux moralistic prima donnas. That's basically what they become there. And they hate looking at anyone who is more successful than them. That obviously gets back to kind of the roots of socialism and Marxism is this whole idea of envy and class envy and individual envy, that's definitely part of this as well there. But they're just fundamentally just a bunch of, just of ragtag. And frankly, Andrew, if I'm just being very blunt for a second here, you know, I was looking at this, at this rally on the eve of the inauguration, the left wing rally there with kind of those pink hats, whatever, the women's marched off there on the National Mall, bunch of ugly people. I mean I'm probably going to get in trouble for saying that there. But like these are just typically, obviously they're exceptions, but a bunch of like very ugly people.

Andrew Colvitt (35:40)

Honestly, Josh, I mean, think about it, you know, and I think Matt Walsh made this point on Twitter. We like Matt a lot and he had a great role to play in, you know, just that his film and so many other things. But what, what reads is left wing now besides like a bunch of purple haired, you know, nose piercing, you know, many obese or at least overweight young people screaming about some injustice that they've invented at a college laboratory. I mean, literally, if, if young kids having fun, if young kids, you know, wearing a flannel and in the country, you know, listening to country music, whatever. I mean, we are the fun movement and this, it's a very fascinating point, Josh, and I'll throw back to you for 30 seconds to react. You know, it seemed like in 2008 this cultural ascendancy of the left promised all of these things but failed to deliver. Instead, it delivered this dystopian puritanical scolding, you know, from the left about these invented injustices. And this movement, I believe, can actually deliver on the promise of lifting everybody and having fun. Final reaction, Josh Hammer.

Josh Hammer (36:52)

Well, you're totally right to take it back to 2008. I mean, that's where I started my cold civil war is over. Op ed too, because it does go back to Barack Obama and his 2008 campaign, Andrew, if the left is going to have any chance of recovering and thank God it's not my problem. I'm a man of the right, obviously. But if the left is going to have any chance of recovering here, Andrew, they have to disavow the entirety of the Barack Obama legacy and his post presidential legacy. They need to go back to the old Democratic Party of Bill Clinton and his predecessors who, whatever their flaws were, they were focused on bread and butter issues, not this woke prep.

Andrew Colvitt (37:23)

I agree. Josh Hammer. Good man. Follow him, follow his stuff. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Talk to you soon.

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