Transcript
A (0:00)
Thank you for listening to this Podcast 1 production now available on Apple Podcasts, Podcast 1, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. Hey, everybody. Really interesting conversation with Sarah Carter. We go over the Epstein Bombshell, Ghislaine Maxwell, the bombing in Beirut, and so much more. Please consider supporting our program@charliekirk.com support. That is charliekirk.com support. Email me your questions. Freedom. Charliekirk.com, freedomarlicirk.com, get involved with Turning Point USA, tpusa.com, the nation's largest student movement dedicated to saving America. Sarah Carter is here. Buckle up. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
B (0:40)
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
A (0:46)
Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
C (0:49)
I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point usa.
A (0:59)
We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Hey, everybody. Welcome to this special episode of the Charlie Kirk show that we are cross posting on the amazing Sara Carter Podcast as well. Sarah is a dear friend and also an honorary board member turning point USA. Sarah, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
B (1:25)
It's so great to be on with you, Charlie, and it's great to be a board member of such an incredible organization. And the fact that you guys are growing and growing and growing is. I mean, it's awesome. It's a tribute to you and what you've been able to do.
A (1:38)
Well, thank you. I really appreciate that. And we had a lot of fun the other night on Steve Hilton on Fox News. And that was fun as always. So I turned on my television this morning, and I think Cersei Lannister was in Beirut and decided to blow up the entire city. What is going on in Beirut? And what do you know? You've covered the Middle east extensively. Let's start there.
B (2:01)
Well, I gotta tell you, at first, my first impression, and I saw it, you know, as immediately as it happened, it came across my Twitter feed because I'm constantly following reporters who are in the region. As you know, I live there, Charlie. I grew up in Saudi Arabia. My father worked for an American company there when I was a kid. So I spent a good majority of my life in the region and then later went back and covered Terrorism, both in Iraq and Afghanistan. So the first thing that goes through my mind when I see this explosion, which was so massive, I mean, it looked like it did. You had said before we got on it was like an A bomb or something. It did. It looked like something we had seen in Hiroshima or something. This big mushroom cloud. And then the dark part of the cloud. I thought to myself, this is a huge bomb. And you know, I was. At first, it brought back really terrible memories of when I was in Afghanistan. I believe it was around 2009, there was a bombing of Avid. It was a vehicle borne IED explosive just less than a mile from where I was staying at the Indian Embassy in Kabul. And just this car that was packed with explosives created a bomb that was so strong that we were just under a mile away. And the guest house buckled and I got blown like out of my chair in the backyard. So this was just imagine a bomb that's not even a quarter really of the size of what happened right now in Beirut. Going off, right. And it having that kind of power. And then the decimation afterwards, the death, the people burned, the cars, the vehicles incinerated. So my heart just dropped. And I thought to myself, what could be happening right now in Beirut? Obviously, Beirut has a history. Lebanon has a history. It's a pass through right now for a lot of Iranian and terrorist organizations. There's a lot of great people in Beirut. But remember, Beirut's a hodgepodge of so many different religions and people and anything can happen. We've seen it before there. We saw it with the Beirut bombings in 1983, with the Marine Corps barracks where we lost so many Marines. But right now they're reporting that the bomb, that it's probably not a bomb, that it came from a factory, it looks like a fireworks factory that's near the port. But those are just very early reports that I'm seeing. I saw those reports actually on the New York Times. So we don't know. We don't know if somebody actually planted a bomb near there or if this was just a fire that erupted into a huge explosion. We're gonna have to wait. But what we do know is that hundreds of people have been injured, dozens have been killed. And this is a really tragic situation for the people of Beirut, which actually is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. One of the most beautiful cities in the Middle East. Especially early on in the 1970s. It was the Paris. It was the Paris of the Middle East.
