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A (0:03)
My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're gonna end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You gotta stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a Point USA College chapter. Go start a Turning Point USA High School chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life. And I encourage you to do the same. Here I am, Lord.
B (0:46)
Use me.
A (0:48)
Buckle up, everybody.
C (0:49)
Here we go.
A (0:56)
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B (1:09)
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 good.
D (1:32)
Very smart guy.
B (1:33)
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. 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.
C (2:15)
Well, Republican civil war after the election, nine or ten months. Oh, no. A week ago. Rare to have two tentpole events like that roaring in. Opposite, opposite, Diametrically opposite points of view. I think right now. And I talked about this on Next Up Today, almost everything that happens can be seen through the prism of the renegades. The populace versus the establishment. You're seeing that in the Republican Party. You're seeing that in the Democratic 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 negative side 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 now, 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 political combat with Donald Trump.
