J.D. Vance (27:41)

Well, this is a unique country. This is a very unique country, and it was founded by some immigrants and some settlers. But just because we were founded by immigrants doesn't mean that 240 years later that we have to have the dumbest immigration policy in the world.

Charlie Kirk (27:55)

As J.D. vance clearly says, we don't have to have the dumbest immigration in the world. We are back, everybody. We are back. Hey, everybody. Charlie Kirk here with New Year's resolutions. Many of us will vow to eat healthier, and that's a good thing. But what about your beloved pets and their nutrition? Naturopathic doctor Dennis Black is on a mission to provide better nutrition for cats and dogs. Because truthfully, it's not what you are feeding your pet, it's what you are not. Which is why he created rough greens and meow greens in the first place. Bring their dead food back to life with live vitamins, minerals, probiotics, enzymes, omega oils, antioxidants, and so much more. All in their tasty formula your dog or cat will love. Improve your pet's coat, digestion and energy and have less vet bills. Let 2025 bring a new year and a new pet. Try it. Get a Jumpstart trial bag, normally $20 free with promo Code Charlie just cover shipping. Resolve to provide what your pet's food has been missing with ruff greens. To get your free Jumpstart trial bag, go to rough greens.com use promo code charlie so good your pet will ask for it by name. Ruffgreens.com Charlie, I have a non sarcastic provocative question. What do they teach in these schools of diplomacy and statecraft? What is it that they actually teach in the Woodrow Wilson School of Diplomacy here in Washington D.C. where we are doing this broadcast? You have George Washington, you have Georgetown, where you have people that study to be to become diplomats. What exactly is taught in these schools? Because President Donald Trump just upended all of the established order and he made fools out of all of them. The experts were losing their mind yesterday. President Donald Trump is trying to start a trade war. They are so short sighted and they're still criticizing it. Well, that was unneeded drama. That was unneeded pandemonium. That was unnecessary upheaval. No, it was a necessary public example. And now all these other countries are gonna have to take their own people. Now, to be honest, I understand the argument. If we were sending Nicaraguans to Colombia, that would not be a morally clear argument. I would get that. I would understand the argument if we were sending Mexicans to Brazil, we're sending people back to their own country, the country they were raised in, the country that they were schooled in, the country they are citizens of, whom? And so for all of the international diplomatic core expert class, what exactly are you experts in? Your experts in appeasement, you're experts in bending the knee? Because they actually do not have any perspective to protect America at all costs. These diplomats, it's not as if they're dumb. It's as if they don't actually want America to succeed. What this does is it suggests that diplomacy is mostly fake. They have fake expertise. That is exactly what I wanted to get at, is that all of this schooling, all of this time in colleges, all of this time where they're, you know, pretending that they're working in the State Department. What really matters is instinct. Very basic rules of interaction. And the most important thing, the will. A common theme here on the Charlie Kirk Show. Do you have the will to do what is necessary? The feminine, toxically feminine perspective is to, well, we don't want to offend people. And I guess Colombia is a country and, well, why don't we just keep their rapists and their criminals and their child sex traffickers, whereas President Trump says, this is stupid. Why are we putting up with this. Don't. We're not going to get ripped off. We're not going to do stupid things. You look out for your own country and your own people and you don't need to be a lifelong State Department diplomat. So for all of these lifelong State Department diplomats, I hope you guys understand that you have no credibility in the eyes of the American people. The same way that we lost such credibility for public health officials during COVID The same way that we lost credibility for people like Fauci and Burke's. The same way that we lost credibility for all of the six feet to stop the spread and wear a mask when you shower. We are now losing credibility for all of our permanent State Department corps diplomatic court, for Anthony Blinken, for even some of the Kissinger stuff. I mean, all of the criteria that has been built for diplomacy has just been upended in the last 24 hours. It has all changed. It is a permanent stark contrast. What they're experts in is deteriorating borders, weakening the currency and allowing a bunch of foreigners into the country. Okay, that doesn't take a lot of skill. What you just saw in amazing display of was President Trump rolling back the great reset. Was President Trump rolling back all of this globalist push that was authored by, that was written by, that was published by the permanent State Department corps. The same people that brought you the Iran deal, the same people that brought you the Russian Ukrainian war, the same people that brought you all of the major conflicts, the Iraq war, the conflict in Libya, the conflict in Syria. Here you have a guy who was once president, a billionaire businessman who broke every single rule of Washington yesterday, threatened tariffs, implemented tariffs, revoked visas, said we're going to put on sanctions. Every established dogma of DC was upended in the last 24 hours and he won. Not just a little bit. A triumphant full capitulation, absolute bend the knee, surrender. He broke all of the rules and it worked. So what does that say about the rules? Maybe these couple thousand professional State Department diplomatic corps that we always kind of bow to, as if they're the ones that keep us safe. They're all frauds. They're all fake. Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here. If pain is affecting your life, I have the perfect New Year's resolution for you. Make 2025 the year of feeling good again. The year of moving better, sleeping better, feeling more alive. And do it with Relief Factor. Relief Factor is a daily supplement that fights pain naturally developed by doctors. It doesn't just mask pain temporarily, helps reduce or eliminate pain. Over a million people have turned to Relief factor and feel the difference it can make in your Life. Give their three week quick start a try. It's only $19.95 less than a dollar a day and it just takes a phone call. One, eight hundred, FOR Relief. That is the number. One, eight hundred, for relief. And you could start feeling better in three weeks or less. 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In fact, the running joke is that I talked to JD Vance more on the show than off the show during the campaign. J.D. vance was on the program all the time. In fact, his very famous cat lady remark, one of which was said on our program, we recognized his gifts early on. I saw the talent and I said, this is the guy. This is the one. Now, I don't have a lot of gifts, but one of the gifts that I do have is spotting talent early. I have a tendency to be able to do that. And I could go through the list of some of the people and you guys know the names. But from Anna Paulina on, a lot of the most talented people in the conservative movement got their start in the kind of turning point ranks. And we liked him early, but he's become so much better since then. Yeah, Blake's reminding me. Including my wife, by the way. I interviewed her for a job and I said, I think I'm gonna move you up in what you're interviewing for. J.D. vance has become such a warrior for our cause. In the past six months, JD Vance sat down for his first lengthy interview with CBS News. Margaret is her name. Now, I wouldn't actually know her name was Margaret if It wasn't for J.D. vance's very infamous I don't care, Margaret exchange and quit. But let me just press pause and say J.D. 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 48th 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 gave an amazing speech at the March for Life. He very quietly was working the phones to, of course, make sure that Pete Hegseth became the secretary of defense. He is loyal, he's smart, he's capable, he's humble. He's phenomenal. And what an upgrade from what we had during that last administration. Here's J.D. vance with Margaret from CBS News. Just trying to think what is the best one to play here? Let's just do the longer one. Let's play CUT to All these immigrants.

J.D. Vance (38:22)

Or all these refugees have been properly vetted. In fact, we know that there are cases of people who allegedly were properly vetted and then were literally planning terrorist attacks on our country that happened during the campaign. If you may remember so clearly, not all of these foreign nationals have been 30,000 people in the pipeline, Afghan refugees. My primary concern as the vice president, Margaret, is to look after the American people. And now that we know that we have vetting problems with a lot of these refugee programs, we absolutely cannot unleash thousands of unvetted people into our country. These people are vetted. These people are vetted. Just like the guy who planned a terrorist attack in Oklahoma a few months ago. He was allegedly properly vetted. And many people in the media and the Democratic Party said that he was properly vetted. Clearly, he wasn't. I don't want my children to share a neighborhood with people who are not properly vetted. And because I don't want it for my kids, I'm not going to force any other American citizens kids to do that either.

Charlie Kirk (39:16)

He has a superpower. And I could tell you somebody who does this for a living, who debates all the time. I debate professors, I debate college kids, whoever wants to come up. He has a superpower that I have to work hard towards achieving. And it seems as if he has this natural, he has like that natural Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth swing. It's just you look at it, you say, wow, that is, it's like Wayne Gretzky. When you saw Wayne Gretzky on ice, you're like, okay, he works his tail off, but there's something that he was born with that you can't coach. It's called talent. JD Vance has a superpower where he is able to remain remarkably calm, as if his heart rate is uninterrupted, as if he's on beta blockers. Measured despite hostile incoming, enemy inquisition and fire. Telling you that is next level stuff. He is able to stay cool, calm, collected in almost an effortless way. Watching J.D. vance debate, or because it basically does become a debate, let's be honest, be interviewed by Margaret Brennan is like watching Michael Jordan in Game 6. You just can't teach that. Let's put up a screen on Margaret Brennan. This is the face of liberalism in America. Angry, nasty. She looks pleasant and she got so outclassed by J.D. vance. I mean, she just, it's just a completely different level. It's like a kid on the varsity high school basketball team trying to go up against Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Just like it's not, it's not the same category. It's such a category difference. And Margaret really thought that she got him because she's got a bunch of 26 year old Ivy League educated producers. Ooh, we're gonna own J.D. vance. Say that we're a nation of immigrants. You think that's the first time JD's ever heard that? JD continued with this interview. Let's play cut 13 lowering prices for consumers.

J.D. Vance (41:22)

We've seen all of these executive orders, which one lowers prices? We have done a lot and there have been a number of executive orders that have caused already jobs to start coming back into our country, which is a core part of lowering prices. More capital investment, more job creation in our economy is one of the things that's going to drive down prices for all consumers, but also raise wages so that people can afford to buy the things that they need. And yes, specifically what executive order is going to help lower prices? All of the stuff that we've done on energy, to explore more energy reserves, to develop more energy resources. The United States of America. One of the main drivers of increased prices under the Biden administration is that we had a massive increase in energy prices. Donald Trump has already taken multiple executive actions. They're going to lower energy prices and I do believe that means consumers are going to see lower prices at the pump and at the grocery store.

Charlie Kirk (42:16)

Margaret has become a meme because in one of the segments JD Vance says, I don't care, Margaret. He is able to be so firm when it comes to the policy positions of the Trump administration. Defend it eloquently and smoothly while also being incredibly likable, appealing. Getting behind J.D. vance in 2000, what was it? 21? Yeah, that's right, 2021. We endorse J.D. vance very early. It's kind of like buying Bitcoin in 2013. 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 J.D. vance. I mean, I went all out twice for him, first on the Senate thing and then on the vice presidential selection. And do you know who deserves the credit here? President Donald Trump deserves the credit for selecting him as the vice president. It was an incredibly risky, unconventional, rule breaking movement. There was so much pressure against that choice and he did it. The establishment was against him, the unit party was against him. And President Trump trusted his instinct. And what a rock star, loyal, talented, number two he has, defending him every single day. With the stock market at record highs, are you confident your portfolio can weather the next big downturn? Market corrections are quick and unforgiving, wiping out hard earned gains in an instant. Smart investors know the key to financial security is diversification. That's why Noble Gold Investments makes it easy for Americans to help hedge market volatility and diversify their investments with gold. Since 2010, central banks have steadily increased their gold reserves. And in 2024, gold prices soared over 25%. Gold is simple. You buy it, you own it, you control it. Over $2 billion in precious metal sales. Noble Gold Investments has helped thousands of investors diversify their portfol with gold IRAs and physical gold. And now when you open a qualified account, Noble Gold will gift you 5 ounce silver America the Beautiful coins as a thank you. Don't wait for the next downturn to catch you off guard. Visit noblegoldinvestments.com today and see how easy it is to incorporate gold into your investment strategy. That is noblegold investments.com noblegoldinvestments.com joining us now is a great man, Senator Rick Scott. Senator, so good to see you again. Senator, we were celebrating together Pete Hegseth's swearing in ceremony at the White House on Saturday. It was great to see you there. Your reaction of Pete Hegseth becoming Secretary of Defense even though it required a tie break. Your reaction, Senator?

Rick Scott (45:14)

Oh, Pete's gonna do a great job. I mean, you know what I like about Pete is he actually fought in a war. He volunteered to do this. He led troops. He knows what it's like to, you know, to be a war fighter. He knows people have lost their lives. He knows people that have been injured. So he's not going to. He's going to, one, make sure that we don't have dei, we have the best people. And number two, he's going to make sure we're not sending people in harm's way. If we don't have a plan to win, we're going to start winning. Instead of doing all these things where we just send our troops all over the world and have no plan, we limit what they can do. Pete's not going to let that happen, so I'm really excited for him.

Charlie Kirk (45:51)

And so the confirmation fights are ongoing. That one was a nail biter. What is the schedule this week for both votes and hearings? What can we expect this week?

Rick Scott (46:02)

So the. At this point, Obama had 13 cabinet members confirmed and President Trump has four. We'll have the Treasury Secretary confirmed tonight. And what we're going to be doing is we're going to be doing these all week. We did the right thing by staying over the weekend. Finally, the Democrats relented because they wanted to go home, but we didn't slow down our process. So unfortunately, it's going to take us longer because of the Democrats obstruction. But President Trump has picked great people. We are staying here to get his confirmations done. They can slow it down from a time standpoint, but they can't prevent these nominees from being confirmed.

Charlie Kirk (46:41)

So, Senator, I have been skeptical of Leader Thune on certain things. I will say, though, I think he's moving at a rapid pace and we have to give credit where credit is due. Would you agree, Senator Scott, that Leader Thune has been operating at a very favorable pace, even one that is making the Democrats uncomfortable?

Rick Scott (47:00)

Absolutely. So he's done the right thing. One, he's bringing up bills. All right. That are Republican bills. Right. The first one is Lake and Riley. We actually got some Democrat votes on that this week. We'll be. We have the ICC bill that would have sanctions for people that support the icc, you know, when they went out and indicted Netanyahu. But with regard to nominations, he's doing it as quickly as he can. Thune is doing as quickly as he can with the Democrats obstruction. So maybe they'll eventually relent, but the only way they're going to relent is if we make him stay here. And Leader Thune is doing that. So I'm very appreciative of what he's doing.

Charlie Kirk (47:40)

And, Senator, you deserve a lot of credit. For that, though, of really setting the pace and setting the standard of what we wanted to see and what productivity we wanted to see out of the U.S. senate. So, Senator, I want to now go to a separate topic here, which is talking about the California to Florida disasters. I know that there's a big contrast here between what we're seeing in California. Why is it that Florida is able to have such efficient rapid response to hurricanes and California seems it can't get out of its way when it comes to dealing with natural disasters?

Rick Scott (48:15)

Here's the, here's the difference. In Florida, we know that it's our responsibility to take the lead. So as an example, I had wildfires when I was governor. I had four hurricanes. And we didn't say, oh, let's wait and see if the federal government shows up and see if they'll help us solve this problem. We went and solved the problem on our own, realizing the federal government can provide some financial resources, but they're not going to lead this. They're not going to lead us out of this problem. So if you look at North Carolina and look at California, their governors have thought, oh, the federal government's going to do all this. We don't have to do it. So you look at we, you look at California, I don't know why are they, you know why they have wildfires. One, they didn't have enough water. Whose responsibility is that? The governor's. Number two, the reservoirs were not full. Whose responsibility that? The governor. Right. So what you have to do is one, you have to take responsibility to prevent it. So in Florida, we've had some, we've had some small wildfires, but we actually do prescribed burning in our forests to make sure we don't have a situation where we can get wildfires. And then on top of that, when we do, which he had twice down in the Everglades when I was governor, we went and put them out quickly. We put all resources, state and local resources. We didn't wait for the federal government to show up in California. They think somebody else is going to solve their problems. No one's solving your problem. You got to do this yourself. The federal government can provide you some financial resources, but they don't have a whole bunch of first responders they can send to solve your problem.

Charlie Kirk (49:45)

I think that is so well put. What is your reaction to the president who wants to kind of change up fema, who wants to change the way that FEMA has done? As someone who's dealt with FEMA and been in the weeds, what is the better way that we could run the Federal Emergency Management Authority or agency.

Rick Scott (50:00)

Well, number one, we need to make sure everybody understands the first responsibility is local, then state, then the federal government can provide some resources. So I'll give you an example. When I became governor, I had no idea why it was like this. The Federal government paid 75% and even more for debris pickup in our state when we had a hurricane. I never understood why they did that, but they did. But what that allowed is a whole bunch of fraud. So actually, finally, it took me six years. I finally got a bill to crack down on that. I finally got it passed in December because there was billions of dollars fraud. I probably saved the federal government over a billion dollars of fraud just in one hurricane, Hurricane Irma. So you could take that for each piece of this. The states need to be responsible, the local governments need to be responsible. Quit relying on the federal government to solve all your problems. Otherwise, why do we have governors? Why do we have mayors? So I think what President Trump's in a position say, wait a minute. The federal government can't do everything. They can do some things, but they can't do everything. And the federal government is just on a piggy bank for everything that the local or state government wants done. We have, he knows we have $36 trillion for the debt. We're running 2 trillion dollar deficits. We've got to get our fiscal house in order. And part of it is stop wasting money. So there is a better way to do, you know, after disasters, a better way for the federal government to be a part. Because what they do is, oh, it's just like the bridge in, in Baltimore, the federal government's paying 100% of that. There was a bridge built at the exact same time in Florida. Why don't we have the problem? Because when we built the bridge, we built barriers. So if a ship hit the, hit the edge, it didn't knock down the whole bridge. But they, in, in Baltimore, they didn't want to do that for some reason. And now the federal government somehow became you as a taxpayer in any other state, you're now responsible for that building. 100%. 100%. Building that bridge in Baltimore. That makes no sense to the rest of the country. Why isn't, why isn't Baltimore responsible? Responsible first? Why isn't Maryland responsible first?

Charlie Kirk (52:02)

What a wise point. So, Senator, I saw another tweet from you that I want to make sure we mention in our time together here, you are enthusiastically supporting our mutual friend Vivek Ramaswamy. For governor of Ohio. I agree with you on that. Tell us why you think Vivek will make such a great governor.

Rick Scott (52:19)

Well, I've gotten to know him over the last few years. The he what a great guy, successful business guy. I like business people that run for office since that was my background. Here's a guy that was very clear of things he wanted to accomplish to fix this country. I've been working with him with regard to Doge for the last few months, and now I'm excited. I hope he decides to run for governor. We need to have a really good governor. A good friend of mine now is the governor of Indiana, Mike Braun, who did a great job in the US Senate. So governors matter. If you want better jobs, you want better schools, if you want better law enforcement, governors matter. Vivek will behe will do a great job in Ohio and continue to make sure Ohio is a leading state for education, for jobs and for public safety.

Charlie Kirk (53:08)

Senator, I completely agree and I'm behind Vivek Ramaswamy in whatever he does. And so I think he'll make a terrific governor of Ohio. Last point here I want to dialogue with you, Senator, is this Colombian story the last 24 hours. It's a very simple ask. You have to accept the people that were released from your country, which illegally entered our country back into your country. What do you make of President Trump upending all of the traditional diplomatic rules and achieving a major accomplishment and victory for the American people?

Rick Scott (53:42)

Well, there's two new sheriffs in town. One, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, and Donald Trump as president. All right, they clearly have let Petro, the president of Colombia, know that he is not going to play games, Right? So, you know, he prevented the planes from landing with with the illegal immigrants. And so immediately they went to work. I talked to Marco about it a couple times yesterday. They immediately went to work and said, okay, so if that's the plan you're going to have, right, then these are things that are going to happen to you. And he quickly capitulated. He's even going to send the presidential plane to come get illegal immigrants to come here. What they did to Petro is exactly what we need to be doing to every place. Like, here's one thing I don't get. If Mexico is allowing illegal immigrants from other countries to come through their country to come to our border, they should take every illegal immigrant back and they should be the ones that have to send them back to Colombia or where Venezuela or wherever. They're the ones that are allowing this to happen. If not, we should hold Mexico accountable. But any country that allows their citizens to come into our country illegally, you have to, one, take them back. And two, you are responsible for allowing this to happen. And Petro is clearly responsible for what these individuals are doing. He's, he's made sure there's more drugs being produced here. Look, he's, he's a, he's a, he was a cartel member. I mean, the, he was, you know, he, here's a guy that wants more drugs to be sold. And whoever is buddies. Diaz, Canal in Cuba, Maduro in Venezuela, Ortega. So the, the, he is not our friend. The people of Colombia, they're our friend. They want to do business with us. Florida in particular does a lot of business with Columbia. But we can't do business with a president of Colombia that is a terrorist. Which is exactly what he is.

Charlie Kirk (55:37)

No, and that's not an exaggeration. I mean, he is responsible for the death of hundreds of Colombians. He's also a Marxist and deeply unpopular. I don't think he's going to last beyond the. Senator, thank you for your leadership. Looking forward to having you on with some regularity. And again, it was wonderful to celebrate with you at the White House to see Pete Hegseth gets sworn in. Thank you, Senator.

Rick Scott (55:57)

That was great. Bye bye, Charlie. Have a great day.

Charlie Kirk (56:00)

Bye bye. Thank you. Keep up the great work. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk. Com. Thanks so much for listening and God bless. For more on many of these stories.

J.D. Vance (56:11)

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Charlie Kirk (56:13)

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